<img class="alignleft" title="Antonymes" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/antonymes.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="165" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of neo-classical/minimal ambient artist <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/antonymes/">Antonymes</a> to its roster of artists. The label will release the new Antonymes album <em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> on April 21st preceded by the track ‘Endlessly’ along with its stunning video accompaniment on March 10th.

The music of Antonymes emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient and the pace and persistence of minimalism; from the serenity and austerity of Morton Feldman and the profound prettiness of Harold Budd; from the relationship between continuity and repetition; from secrecy, quietness and pause; from thought, from emptiness; from where it is set and where it is setting off to. At the same time definite and a ghostly impression, Antonymes floats free of fixed points while anxiously staying in sight of genres, movements, scenes, connections, contexts and innovations that have piled up and broken down around it.

<em>“sound sketches of enormous, if fragile, beauty”</em> – <strong>The Silent Ballet</strong>

Antonymes is designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M. Hazeldine, making music from the wilds of North Wales, a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place of mountains, streams, woods, villages and obscure wilderness. To quote North Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.” His music begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention combine over time, until a shape appears. This shape is taken into the computer, where it is twisted, gently, and given more detail, until it is fully formed. Composition takes form through patience, probing, occasional accidents, spontaneity and a form of focused daydreaming. Antonymes previous work has seen release on labels such as Cathedral Transmissions, Soundcolours, Dezordr, and Audio Gourmet.

Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf">here</a> and head to the <a href="http://antonymes.co.uk/" target="_blank">Antonymes website</a> for more info.