INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (4471,1,'2011-09-09 07:40:43','2011-09-09 07:40:43','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Letters-From-The-Coast-480px.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4472\" title=\"The Caseworker - &quot;Letters From The Coast&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Letters-From-The-Coast-480px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Caseworker\'s gorgeous forthcoming full length <em>Letters From The Coast</em> is now available for CD pre-order through <a href=\"http://n5mailorder.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&amp;products_id=1530\" target=\"_blank\">n5Mailorder</a>. The CD comes in a 4 panel wallet with stunning illustration by that graphic wonder Stuart Medley. All pre-orders include an immediate mp3 download of the album so head to <a href=\"http://n5mailorder.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&amp;products_id=1530\" target=\"_blank\">n5</a> and be one of the first to soak in what The Underground of Happiness referred to as,\n\n<em>\"a beguiling album of sunburst guitar melodies, sitting on a foundation of drone, with a thin gauze of hazy suspense draped over it.\"</em>\n\nRead the full <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/09/caseworker-letters-from-coast-hidden.html\" target=\"_blank\">album review</a> by Conor O\'Toole over at <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/09/caseworker-letters-from-coast-hidden.html\">The Underground of Happiness</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-national-runner[/soundcloud]','The Caseworker &quot;Letters From The Coast&quot; Pre-Order &amp; Review','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-pre-order-review','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4471',0,'post','',0),(4476,1,'2011-09-09 07:44:54','2011-09-09 07:44:54','Excerpt - \"They’ve produced a beguiling album of sunburst guitar melodies, sitting on a foundation of drone, with a thin gauze of hazy suspense draped over it. We’ve already spoken about the chiming single National runner - written about the Ethiopian long-distance athlete Miruts Yifter and it shares something of his relentless drive. The widescreen feel of Boats is created with banks of ringing, Byrdsian guitars, which combine for a thrilling crescendo. The beautiful Sea years has Eimer’s hushed, low-in the-mix vocal set against a driving bassline (reminiscient of Yo La Tengo a little bit). There’s more than a shade of shoegaze about both Sister song and Little good it did you, with fuzz smears and high-fretted bass. And I love The slow track with its ingenious uplift of trumpet, coming in the wake of a closet bossa nova. Enigmatic but approachable as anything.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/09/caseworker-letters-from-coast-hidden.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Underground Of Happiness</a>','The Caseworker &quot;Letters From The Coast&quot; - The Underground of Happiness','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-the-underground-of-happiness','','','2011-09-09 07:44:54','2011-09-09 07:44:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4476',0,'post','',0),(4483,1,'2011-09-15 14:59:16','2011-09-15 14:59:16','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"UMPIRE - Now We\'re Active\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/active_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />The wonderful crew at <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/competitions/win-gear-from-umpire\" target=\"_blank\">Scene Point Blank</a> in conjunction with Hidden Shoal have another super cool competition running. This time there\'s some awesome <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/competitions/win-hotels-cds\">Umpire</a> goodies up for for grabs including a bunch of Umpire CD\'s, Umpire t-shirts and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=43\">Mukaizake</a> CD\'s (featuring 3 members of Umpire). That\'s a win-win-win! So head to <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/competitions/win-gear-from-umpire\" target=\"_blank\">Scene Point Blank</a>, enter and wait by the mailbox.\n\nAlso don\'t forget to enter the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=35\">Hotels</a> comp also running over at Scene Point Blank. Check it out <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/competitions/win-hotels-cds\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.','Win Umpire Goodies at Scene Point Blank!','','publish','closed','open','','win-umpire-goodies-at-scene-point-blank','','','2016-02-03 16:41:32','2016-02-03 08:41:32','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4483',0,'post','',0),(4491,1,'2011-09-22 02:09:15','2011-09-22 02:09:15','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/coast_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the availability of <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/caseworker_letters\"><em>Letters From The Coast</em></a> by garage-dreampop trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/\">The Caseworker</a>.\n\nOn their third album <em>Letters From The Coast</em> The Caseworker exude the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label - the perfect balance of drone and chime. The band creates an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which they wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.\n\nWith opening track and lead single ‘National Runner’, The Caseworker have an instant pop classic on their hands. The song\'s consummate mix of hypnotic guitars and driving rhythm section are perfectly balanced with Conor Devlin\'s starry-eyed vocal. Elsewhere, bassist Eimer Devlin assumes lead vocal duties for ‘The Slow Track’ and ‘Sea Years’, both reminiscent of prime Yo La Tengo, while standout ‘Boats’ carries the listener away on its buoyant yet melancholic waves of arpeggios and feedback. The album exudes a wonderful sense of timelessness and romanticism - these are songs to attach to memories.\n\n<em>“The Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed” </em>– <strong>Rolling Stone</strong>\n\n<em>Letters From The Coast</em> is out now through <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/caseworker_letters\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> and is available in CD and digital formats featuring stunning illustrated artwork by Stuart Medley. Check out the full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-The_Caseworker-Letters_From_The_Coast.pdf \">here</a>. The single \'National Runner\' is available now as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=176\">free download</a>.<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hSKF46jswRU\" width=\"300\" height=\"25\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>\n</strong>','The Caseworker - Letters From The Coast','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4491',0,'post','',0),(4856,1,'2011-08-27 15:12:11','2011-08-27 15:12:11','\"Purveyor of a soaring brand of indie rock that radiates a sun-bathed relaxation, the Australian four-piece Umpire has put together quite a nice little debut LP here. The most appealing aspect of Umpire’s offerings is the clipped-yet-fluid mid-rangey guitar grooves (equal parts redolent of Modest Mouse and math rock) that form the bedrock for the group’s Panoramic ambitions. The band is so adept at knitting those circulating riffs that it falters in comparison on the quieter moments (largely reserved for the final tracks on the record), where things are noticeably looser and less considered. No matter, for Umpire sticks to its strong suits more often than not on Now We’re Active, resulting in a pleasant, beaming album that’s likely to ease listeners into a contented frame of mind.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/145289-umpire-now-were-active\">PopMatters</a>','Umpire &quot;Now We&#039;re Active&quot; - PopMatters','','publish','closed','open','','umpire-now-were-active-popmatters','','','2011-08-27 15:12:11','2011-08-27 15:12:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4856',0,'post','',0),(4862,1,'2011-08-11 15:20:47','2011-08-11 15:20:47','Excerpt: \"‘Green Light District’ reflects an upbringing on left of centre American radio rock. It’s anthemic but it has a core of misery running through its veins. The second song, ‘Supply Chins’, is propelled by crunchy guitar riffs and FM friendly choruses. It’s an impressive start from Umpire and they very rarely lose momentum after that. The guitar and vocal curveballs on ‘Corner An Owl In An Alcove’ and ‘Jewellery Can Be Disturbing’ are as inventive as their titles suggest and even more compelling... ‘Streamers’ and ‘Milking A Thistle’ sees them invigorated with youthful exuberance, whilst the stark, echo-laden ‘Spotlights’ proves they can perform ballads and still send shivers down the spine. Intelligently the group have learned from experiences in progressive, American radio and post rock to produce a satisfying and complete record. This is proof that mature rock can also thrill.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/review-umpire-now-were-active/\">Leonards Lair</a>','Umpire - &quot;Now We&#039;re Active&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','umpire-now-were-active','','','2011-08-11 15:20:47','2011-08-11 15:20:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4862',0,'post','',0),(4499,1,'2011-09-22 03:50:03','2011-09-22 03:50:03','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hotels\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Hotels/lazy-k-thumbs/Hotels_at_Bumbershoot_-_Jason_Tang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" />Head over to <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/features/interviews/hotels\" target=\"_blank\">Scene Point Blank</a> to read a fantastic interview with Blake Madden of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=35\">Hotels</a>. While you\'re there be sure to enter the <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/competitions/win-hotels-cds\" target=\"_blank\">Hotels competition</a> to be in line to win lots of Hotels goodies!\r\n\r\n<code> </code>','Hotels Interview at Scene Point Blank','','publish','closed','open','','hotels-interview-at-scene-point-blank','','','2016-02-03 15:43:03','2016-02-03 07:43:03','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4499',0,'post','',0),(12417,1,'2015-05-14 11:34:54','2015-05-14 03:34:54','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hotels\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Hotels/lazy-k-thumbs/Hotels_at_Bumbershoot_-_Jason_Tang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" />Head over to <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/features/interviews/hotels\" target=\"_blank\">Scene Point Blank</a> to read a fantastic interview with Blake Madden of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=35\">Hotels</a>. While you\'re there be sure to enter the <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/competitions/win-hotels-cds\" target=\"_blank\">Hotels competition</a> to be in line to win lots of Hotels goodies!\r\n\r\n<code> </code>','Hotels Interview at Scene Point Blank','','inherit','closed','closed','','4499-revision-v1','','','2015-05-14 11:34:54','2015-05-14 03:34:54','',4499,'http://www.hiddenshoal.com/4499-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(4503,1,'2011-09-28 14:57:24','2011-09-28 14:57:24','<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4505\" title=\"We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/WDLBFVL_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to officially announce the upcoming release of <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em>, the new EP by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/antonymes\">Antonymes</a>.\n\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/slow-dancing-society/\"> Slow Dancing Society’s</a> four albums, casting radiant new light on the  stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s  glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical  minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\n\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> is released on 20 October in limited edition CD and digital format. The CD release comes as a limited hand-numbered letterpress edition of 100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith board, custom made by Ian M. Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly mastered by Wil Bolton. CD pre-orders are available on 5 October from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\nStream the first track from the album, \'The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land\', below.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing[/soundcloud]','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society Pre-Orders and Release','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-pre-orders-and-release','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4503',0,'post','',0),(4522,1,'2011-09-29 03:52:33','2011-09-29 03:52:33','<strong> </strong><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Scott Solter - &quot;One River&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/oneriver_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the re-release and <a href=\"#download\"><strong></strong></a>of the glacial ambient masterpiece <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/oneriver\"><em>One River</em></a> by acclaimed US producer <a href=\"http://scottsolter.com/scottsolter/poduction-recording-mixing.htm\">Scott Solter</a>.  First released on Tell-All Records in 2005, <em>One River</em> sees Solter exploring the space between Brian Eno’s seminal <em>Music For Airports</em> and William Basinski’s  contemporary classic <em>The Disintegration Loops</em>. The music sighs and aches beautifully, gradually transforming with subtlety and grace, lulling the listener into blissful reverie. Solter has produced, recorded, mixed and remixed numerous  indie artists, including Spoon, The Mountain Goats,  John Vanderslice, Pattern is Movement, Superchunk,  Okkervil River, Liam Singer, St Vincent, Neon Indian, The Caribbean and Salli Lunn. He is also a member of The Ballustrade Ensemble and Hidden Shoal outfit Boxharp.\n\n<em>“If you can imagine the pure abstraction of middle C, without the intermediation of breath or fingers touching strings or any effort at all, that’s essentially the sound of One River.”</em> – <strong>Dusted</strong>\n\n<em>“a mixture of heavily processed guitars, field recordings, and manipulated voices (provided by Wendy Allen) comparable to Brian Eno. Seven songs run seamlessly together, each inhaling and exhaling tone after tone... landscape imagery comes to mind in every song, making listening to this record not so like hearing a story as taking a journey.”</em> – <strong>Pitchfork</strong>\n\nThe album is available now on CD and digital formats worldwide, distributed through Hidden Shoal in Australia and n5mailorder in the US and internationally. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=53\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream and purchase the album and grab the free download of the first track taken from the album, \'The Great Cold\'. All CD purchases come with an immediate digital download of the album. <em>One River</em> is accompanied by a<strong> </strong>stunning album length film by Mark Solter and Laura Solter entitled <em>Twins and Wives</em>. The film will be available for streaming on <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/hiddenshoal\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> and <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a> on the 30th of September and will see a limited edition DVD release in the coming months.\n\nScott Solter - \'The Great Cold\'\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/scott-solter-the-great-cold[/soundcloud]','Scott Solter&#039;s &quot;One River&quot; Available Now - CD + Digital','','draft','closed','open','','scott-solters-one-river-available-now-cd-digital','','','2014-08-08 02:46:52','2014-08-08 02:46:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4522',0,'post','',0),(4539,1,'2011-09-29 08:09:33','2011-09-29 08:09:33','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https://agora.hiddenshoal.com/images/coast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Good things happening for The Caseworker as their new album \"Letters From The Coast\" scoops BAGel Radio\'s number 1 CMJ rotation add this week and KVMR\'s number 2 CMJ rotation add! The album has just gone out to US college radio so there will be more radio news as it comes to hand.\n\nThe band have also scooped some nice early press and mentions at <a href=\"http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2011/09/caseworkerlettersfromthecoast/\" target=\"_blank\">Noise</a>, <a href=\"http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.blogspot.com/2011/09/hidden-shoal-recent-releases-caseworker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twiceremoved</a>, <a href=\"http://listendammit.com/2011/09/02/caseworker-national-runner/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen Dammit</a>, and <a href=\"http://geekslovetomathsdebate.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Geeks Love To Maths Debate</a>. A bunch more reviews on their way as well. Stay tuned and of course if you haven\'t already - <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\">grab the album</a>!\n\nThe Caseworker - \'National Runner\'\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-national-runner[/soundcloud]','The Caseworker News and Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-news-and-reviews','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4539',0,'post','',0),(4544,1,'2011-09-29 08:12:34','2011-09-29 08:12:34','\"Conor &amp; Eimer Devlin (no relation, originally Irish, but  relocated from these shores some years ago) form the core of this  three-piece. They’ve produced a beguiling album of sunburst guitar  melodies, sitting on a foundation of drone, with a thin gauze of hazy  suspense draped over it.\n\nWe’ve already spoken about the chiming single <em>National Runner</em> written about the Ethiopian long-distance athlete Miruts Yifter and it  shares something of his relentless drive. The widescreen feel of <em>Boats </em>is created with banks of ringing, Byrdsian guitars, which combine for a thrilling crescendo.\n\nThe beautiful <em>Sea Years </em>has Eimer’s hushed, low-in the-mix  vocal set against a driving bassline (reminiscient of Yo La Tengo a  little bit). There’s more than a shade of shoegaze about both <em>Sister Song </em>and <em>Little Good It Did You</em>, with fuzz smears and high-fretted bass. And I love <em>The Slow Track </em>with its ingenious uplift of trumpet, coming in the wake of a closet bossa nova. Enigmatic but approachable as anything.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2011/09/caseworkerlettersfromthecoast/\" target=\"_blank\">Noise</a>','The Caseworker “Letters From The Coast” – Noise','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-noise','','','2011-09-29 08:12:34','2011-09-29 08:12:34','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4544',0,'post','',0),(4546,1,'2011-09-29 08:14:55','2011-09-29 08:14:55','Excerpt: \"The album has that sort of classic indie pop feel, that if you like the  Umpire album you will appreciate [The] Caseworker. It has that balance  of Dissonance and Melody which is shown best on tracks such as “Dormer”,  “Boats”, “Little Good it did for you”. Without being too obvious with  their influences (I detect a little Sonic Youth and the label hint at Yo  La Tengo), the album has that degree of familiarity that makes it an  easy and enjoyable listen.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.blogspot.com/2011/09/hidden-shoal-recent-releases-caseworker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twiceremoved</a>','The Caseworker “Letters From The Coast” – Twiceremoved','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-twiceremoved','','','2011-09-29 08:14:55','2011-09-29 08:14:55','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4546',0,'post','',0),(4548,1,'2011-09-29 08:17:28','2011-09-29 08:17:28','Excerpt: \"...This time, they amp up  the dynamics a bit, resulting in an album that glides by like a sleek  dream. Free song “National Runner” blends icy guitars and plangent bass  to envelop distant, droning vocals, and the sound is hypnotic.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://listendammit.com/2011/09/02/caseworker-national-runner/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen Dammit</a>','The Caseworker “Letters From The Coast” – Listen Dammit','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-listen-dammit','','','2011-09-29 08:17:28','2011-09-29 08:17:28','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4548',0,'post','',0),(4550,1,'2011-09-29 08:19:45','2011-09-29 08:19:45','Excerpt: \"Here’s a great track by a band I’m really glad exists. Remember the ’90s? Well I once went to King Tut’s in Glasgow to see a  great band called Swell. They had a brilliant support band called Half  Film who played half an hour of dreamy slowcore. I listened to both  their full-lengths for years until I discovered Conor and Eimer from the  band were still making music. This time round, it was a bit faster and absolutely drenched in hooks. Bingo.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://geekslovetomathsdebate.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Geeks Love To Maths Debate</a>','The Caseworker &#039;National Runner&#039; – Geeks Love To Maths Debate','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-national-runner-geeks-love-to-maths-debate','','','2011-09-29 08:19:45','2011-09-29 08:19:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4550',0,'post','',0),(4552,1,'2011-09-30 03:21:37','2011-09-30 03:21:37','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/surryhills_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Instrumental-pop wizards <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/apricot-rail/\" target=\"_blank\">Apricot Rail</a><em> </em>are supporting experimental rock geniuses <a href=\"http://akronfamily.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Akron/Family</a> on their \'Cosmic Birth Tour\' this coming Tuesday at <a href=\"http://www.mojosbar.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">Mojos Bar</a> in Fremantle. Akron/Family are touring on the back of their latest release <em>S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT</em>, while Apricot Rail have recently released \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=40&amp;products_id=174\" target=\"_blank\">Surry Hills</a>\', an enchanting new single ahead of their sophomore album due  next year. Tickets are available <a href=\"http://www.heatseeker.com.au/gigs.aspx?id=Akron/Family&amp;tid=2&amp;iid=2050\">here</a> and doors open 8pm. Enjoy!','Apricot Rail Supporting Akron/Family','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-supporting-akronfamily','','','2016-02-03 13:43:08','2016-02-03 05:43:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4552',0,'post','',0),(4557,1,'2011-09-29 23:41:21','2011-09-29 23:41:21','Excerpt: \"... The band is  made up of Conor and Eimer Devlin (Vocals and guitar and bass  respectively) as well as Will Waghorn (Drums) and Monte Vallier  (Guitar). Their fourth album “Letters from the Coast” was released by Hidden Shoal on September 22. Described by the label as “shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label - the perfect balance of drone and chime”.  The album has that sort of classic indie pop feel, that if you like the  Umpire album you will appreciate [The] Caseworker. It has that balance  of Dissonance and Melody which is shown best on tracks such as “Dormer”,  “Boats”, “Little Good it did for you”. Without being too obvious with  their influences (I detect a little Sonic Youth and the label hint at Yo  La Tengo), the album has that degree of familiarity that makes it an  easy and enjoyable listen. The first single “National Runner” has  a bit of a more lo-fi feel than the rest of the album and has already  been picked up by RTRFM.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.blogspot.com/2011/09/hidden-shoal-recent-releases-caseworker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twiceremoved</a>','[The] Caseworker &#039;Letters from the Coast&#039; - Twiceremoved','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-twiceremoved-2','','','2011-09-29 23:41:21','2011-09-29 23:41:21','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4557',0,'post','',0),(4560,1,'2011-09-29 23:47:19','2011-09-29 23:47:19','Excerpt: \"To describe [Perth] local band Apricot Rail as a post rock band would be  doing them an injustice. While sharing the ethos of post rock, their  sound is more than just restricted to post rock (which is inevitable  with a scene or a sound as becoming a restrictive genre). Described by  Rave Magazine as “Imagine the ethereal pop of early Múm, the whimsy  of Sigur Rós’ more optimistic moments, and (occasionally) the emotional  edge of The Twilight Sad. This is consummate indie post-rock laced with  Australiana, and well worth checking out.” They are a multi instrumental sextet and use this to their advantage. “Surry Hills” features both chiming and almost surf like guitars structures, minimal  almost hand percussion, flute, shimmering electronics that ebbs and  flows with the song changing from being driven by the multiple guitars  back to the haunting flute melody. This track is a taster for their  future Hidden Shoal album release which is probably going to come out  early next year...\"\n\n<a href=\"http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.blogspot.com/2011/09/hidden-shoal-recent-releases-caseworker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twiceremoved</a>','Apricot Rail &#039;Surry Hills&#039; - Twiceremoved','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-surry-hills-twiceremoved','','','2011-09-29 23:47:19','2011-09-29 23:47:19','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4560',0,'post','',0),(4563,1,'2011-09-29 23:52:39','2011-09-29 23:52:39','Excerpt: \"Scott Solter’s “One River” is a digital and cd re-release  of this US Ambient musician/producers album that was originally released  on Tell-All records in 2005. Scott Solter wears many hats also being a  remixer (such as Hidden Shoal artists Salli Lunn, The Caribbean and  other artists such as Division day and Neon Indian), while working as a  producer, mixer, recorder with the likes of Spoon, Superchunk, Mountain  Goats, Okkervil River as well as being a member of the Balustrade  Ensemble and Boxharp. He also had a release on the Manifold label in  2003 called “The Brief Light”. The label has described this release as  “exploring the space between Brian Eno’s seminal Music For Airports and  William Basinski’s contemporary classic The Disintegration Loops. The  music sighs and aches beautifully, gradually transforming with subtlety  and grace, lulling the listener into blissful reverie” and I couldn’t  describe it better.... Although the album is made up of 7  tracks and a running time of a little over 33 minutes, it works as whole  piece to be taken at once. One word sums it up best and that is  “Haunting”.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.blogspot.com/2011/09/hidden-shoal-recent-releases-caseworker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twiceremoved</a>','Scott Solter &#039;One River&#039; - Twiceremoved ','','draft','closed','open','','scott-solter-one-river-twiceremoved','','','2014-08-01 02:19:24','2014-08-01 02:19:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4563',0,'post','',0),(4569,1,'2011-09-30 06:30:35','2011-09-30 06:30:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"One River\" src=\"https://agora.hiddenshoal.com/images/oneriver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />The stunning album length film by <a href=\"http://marksolter.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Solter</a> and Laura Solter to  accompany Scott Solter\'s re-issued glacial ambient masterpiece <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\"><em>One  River</em></a> is now available for streaming at <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb99cXnx1-k\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> and <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/29661755\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a> in its 33+ minutes full HD glory. The film comprises 7 visual movements echoing and expanding upon the 7 movements that make up <em>One River</em>. It truly is a beautiful visual spectacle.\n\n\"Twins and Wives\" will see a limited edition DVD release in the coming  months.The <em>One River</em> album is available now on CD and digitally worldwide, through  Hidden Shoal Recordings. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all availability details.\n\n<code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/bb99cXnx1-k\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>','&quot;Twins and Wives: a film for One River&quot; - Available for Streaming Now!','','publish','closed','open','','twins-and-wives-a-film-for-one-river-available-for-streaming-now','','','2011-09-30 06:30:35','2011-09-30 06:30:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4569',0,'post','',0),(4578,1,'2011-10-03 03:19:27','2011-10-03 03:19:27','<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4505\" title=\"We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/WDLBFVL_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />Just a quick update on the upcoming availability of pre-orders for <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em>. Firstly we are very excited to announce that each CD package will include a printed copy of an absolutely beautiful essay on the EP by the wonderful Paul Morley. <em> </em> The CD release comes as a limited  hand-numbered letterpress edition of 100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith  board, custom made by Ian M. Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly  mastered by Wil Bolton. CD Pre-orders will also include an immediate digital download of the EP (15 days ahead of the official release).\n\nNow for some important info - we will be making pre-orders available on the 5th of October and we will be mailing out to the Hidden Shoal subscribers list before the public anouncement. So if you want to make sure you get yourself a copy then make sure you\'re a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/mailng-list/\">subscriber</a>. It\'ll be tight as we have 60 of the available 100 units available via the store. We\'ll give you a heads up on the other 40 after pre-orders have taken place.\n\nIf you have no idea as to what we\'re talking about then read the following and listen to the SoundCloud stream below. <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees <a href=\"../artists/antonymes\">Antonymes</a> reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/slow-dancing-society/\"> Slow Dancing Society’s</a> four albums, casting radiant new light on the  stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s  glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical  minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\n\nStream the first track from the album, \'The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land\', below.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing[/soundcloud]','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society Pre-Order Update','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-pre-order-update','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4578',0,'post','',0),(4582,1,'2011-10-05 11:22:20','2011-10-05 11:22:20','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WDLBFVLCD_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal is very excited to be able to offer pre-orders for the limited edition CD release of the <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">Antonymes</a> meets <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a> EP <em><a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/wdlbfvl\">We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</a>.</em> Do get in quick though as we only have 60 of the available 100 units in our store. The remaining 40 will be available from Norman Records and Stashed Goods in the coming weeks.\n\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s  four albums, casting radiant new light on the  stunning originals.   Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s  glistening   atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical  minimalism,   creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long</span> comes as a limited  hand-numbered letterpress edition of  100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith  board, custom made by Ian M.  Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly  mastered by Wil Bolton. Included  is a printed copy of an essay on the release by acclaimed music writer  Paul Morley. CD pre-orders also include an immediate digital download of the EP. Orders  will start shipping on the 14th of October. The digital release of the EP will be available from the 20th of October.\n\nPre-order and stream the EP <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/wdlbfvl\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing[/soundcloud]\nAntonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - ‘The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land’\n\n<em> </em>','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP - Pre-Order Now!','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-ep-pre-order-now','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4582',0,'post','',0),(4588,1,'2011-10-06 02:15:49','2011-10-06 02:15:49','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/mimatinman_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of single <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=184\">‘Machine Is My Animal (Tin Manzano remix)’</a>, taken from the forthcoming album Remixed by dreampop/shoegaze trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=34\">City Of Satellites</a>, and its stunning accompanying video. <a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/tin-man\" target=\"_blank\">Tin Manzano’s</a> re-working of the title track from City Of Satellites’ debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=129\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Machine Is My Animal</span></a> weaves and loops the original’s guitar hook amid electronic beats and surging, breathy textures. The result is a gorgeously seductive instrumental, in which restraint and space are as alluring as the sounds blooming across the stereo field. The track is accompanied by a gorgeous <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_oe4p73fAA\">music video</a> from Adelaide-based <a href=\"http://www.ssandyby.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Sunkie</a> (director Nima Nabilirad and producer/colourist/editor Daniel Principe). The emotional resonance between sound and vision is completely compelling and the video’s mini-narrative is saturated in the kind of melancholic hope that the song exudes.\n\nThe track is taken from the forthcoming album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Remixed</span>, a digital exclusive released on 27 October. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Remixed </span>sees tracks from City Of Satellites’ debut EP <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Spook</span> and album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Machine Is My Animal</span> receive the remix treatment from Manual, Syntaks, Tim Koch, Slow Dancing Society, Jatun, Tin Manzano and M-13. Download the track for free <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=184\" target=\"_self\">here</a> and watch the video in full HD at <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_oe4p73fAA\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a> and <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/29957393\" target=\"_self\">Vimeo</a>. Check out a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-City_of_Satellites-MIMA_Remix.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n<code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/z_oe4p73fAA\" width=\"490\" height=\"300\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>','City of Satellites Remixed by Tin Manzano - Free Download and Music Video','','publish','closed','open','','city-of-satellites-remix-free-download-and-music-video','','','2016-02-03 13:47:23','2016-02-03 05:47:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4588',0,'post','',0),(4612,1,'2011-10-15 15:00:26','2011-10-15 07:00:26','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Caseworker - &quot;Letters From The Coast&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/coast_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker\'s</a> awesome new album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\"><em>Letters From The Coast</em></a> is recieving deserved love from press and radio following its recent release. The album is charting in the top 30 at both <a href=\"http://kjhk.org/web/2011/10/12/charts-adds-41111/\" target=\"_blank\">KJHK</a> and <a href=\"http://bagelradio2.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bagel Radio</a> and has started to recieve strong airplay across other US college radio. More charting news soon!\n\n<em>Letters From The Coast</em> has also received a bunch of glowing reviews and press over the last few weeks in such fabulous publications and blogs as <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/10/the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\">DOA</a>, <a href=\"http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2011/09/caseworkerlettersfromthecoast/\" target=\"_blank\">Noise</a>, <a href=\"http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/29364/181/\" target=\"_blank\">Rave Magazine</a>, <a href=\"http://groovemine.com/rantsraves_review_the-caseworker_letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\">Groovemine</a> and <a href=\"http://popstereo.blogspot.com/2011/10/caseworker-takes-on-national-runner.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Pop! Stereo</a>.\n\n<em>\"Without leaning too heavily on foot pedals and production, and utilising some highly defined instrumental dynamics, Letters From The Coast has as much resonance and melodic energy as any of the bands and musicians whose work [The] Caseworker draw their influence from, and it succeeds fully as a complete album. Conor Devlin’s guitar playing can stand alongside that of Frank Black and Graham Coxon, also that of Ian McCulloch in its structured and sustained composition, making every note count and blending the country rock vibes and swirling powerchordage into new and kaliedoscopic shapes. Anyone whose album colllection is incomplete without Ocean Rain, Grand Prix and Park Life will find an equally prominent space in it for this twelve track masterpiece.\"</em> - DOA\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">HSR Store</a> to download the single \'National Runner\' for free and to buy the album on CD or in digital format!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-boats[/soundcloud]\n[Th]e Caseworker - \'Boats\'','[The] Caseworker Reviews and Radio Charting','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-reviews-and-radio-charting','','','2016-02-03 16:16:49','2016-02-03 08:16:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4612',0,'post','',0),(4627,1,'2011-10-18 22:30:53','2011-10-18 22:30:53','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Kramies - \'Coal Miners Executive Club\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/coalminers_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"167\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of new single ‘<a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/kramiescoalminers\">Coal Miners Executive Club</a>’ by Dutch-American singer-songwriter <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>, taken from his forthcoming EP <em>The European</em>.\n\nFusing masterful songwriting with electronics and atmospherics, ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ is an emotionally resonant vortex of swooning pop that simply demands repeat listens. Built around an absolutely heartbreaking chord progression on synthesizer, the song is carried skyward as layers and layers of instruments build and build, Kramies’ voice all the while intoning a timeless melody.\n\n‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ is available for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=185\">free download</a> from the <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. It is taken from the forthcoming EP <em>The European</em>, produced by Todd Tobias (Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard) and featuring guitarist David Paolucci. The EP is released on 22 November in digital format as well as a numbered limited edition of 100 CD postcards.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-coal-miners-executive[/soundcloud]','Luscious New Dream Pop from Kramies - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','luscious-new-dream-pop-from-kramies-free-download','','','2016-02-03 15:47:22','2016-02-03 07:47:22','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4627',0,'post','',0),(4650,1,'2011-10-20 02:39:11','2011-10-20 02:39:11','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WDLBFVLCD_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal is very excited to anounce the official release (including digital availability) of the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=186\">Antonymes</a> meets <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a> EP <em><a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/wdlbfvl\">We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</a>.</em>\n\n<em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s  four albums, casting radiant new light on the  stunning originals.   Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s  glistening   atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical  minimalism,   creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\n\nThe EP is now availble in MP3 and lossless formats as well as a limited edition CD package. There is only a handful of the CD packages left in the store after pre-orders so you\'ll need to be quick to secure one if you haven\'t already. The CDs come in a hand-numbered letterpress edition of  100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith  board, custom made by Ian M.  Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly  mastered by Wil Bolton. Included in the physical and digital packages  is a printed copy of an essay on the release by acclaimed music writer  Paul Morley. CD pre-orders also include an immediate digital download of the EP.  If you missed out on the CD through Hidden Shoal there is limited stock available from <a href=\"http://www.normanrecords.com/cd/129403-antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Records</a> and <a href=\"http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/10/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-%e2%80%93-we-don%e2%80%99t-look-back-for-very-long-limited-edition-cd/\" target=\"_blank\"> Stashed Goods</a>.\n\nHead <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">here</a> for Digital and CD purchase as well as a full EP stream.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing[/soundcloud]\nAntonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - ‘The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land’\n\n<code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/U7tLhh8a1lo\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>\n\n<em> </em>','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP - Official Release','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-ep-official-release','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4650',0,'post','',0),(4665,1,'2011-10-21 16:08:23','2011-10-21 16:08:23','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Dislocatia\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/dislocatia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"66\" />Head over to the <a href=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/\">HSR blog</a> to read a wonderful track by track breakdown of Liam Singer\'s 2010 masterpiece <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155\"><em>Dislocatia </em></a>(by the man himself!). If that wasn\'t enough we\'re also giving away copies of the Dislocatia CD for two lucky folks. Read and win <a href=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/\">here</a>!\n\n<code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/dGgJ2CrE3dM\" width=\"425\" height=\"25\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>','Liam Singer CD Giveaway and Album Track by Track','','draft','closed','open','','liam-singer-cd-giveaway-and-album-track-by-track','','','2014-08-01 02:34:08','2014-08-01 02:34:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4665',0,'post','',0),(4677,1,'2011-10-27 00:26:05','2011-10-27 00:26:05','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/lists/uploadimages/remixed_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the sumptious new album<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=187\"> </a><em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=187\">Remixed</a> </em>by Australian/US dreamgaze trio City Of Satellites.\n\n<em>Remixed </em>sees tracks from City Of Satellites’ debut EP <em>The Spook</em> and album <em>Machine Is My Animal</em> receive the remix treatment from Manual, Syntaks, Tim Koch, Slow Dancing Society, Jatun, Tin Manzano and M-13. Tin Manzano’s remix of the title track from <em>Machine Is My Animal</em> is a gorgeously seductive instrumental, where restraint and space are as alluring as the sounds blooming across the stereo field. Syntaks bring their trademark wavering dream-gaze to ‘Victor! Burn City Lights’, resulting in a tantalising, sticky web of melody and beats. M-13’s take on ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ bitcrushes the original to produce an incredibly addictive slice of dreamy electroclash. Slow Dancing Society’s remix of ‘Moon in the Sea’ (from <em>The Spook</em> EP) is as epic and mesmerising as anyone familiar with the SDS catalogue would expect. Tim Koch’s restructuring of ‘BMX’ is masterful, rebuilt from the inside out into stunning avant-pop architecture. Jatun renders ‘Control’ as a fuzzed-out shoegaze surge, before Manual (Jonas Munk) closes the album with his remix of ‘Skeletons’, blurry and sensuous as a half-remembered dream. <strong> </strong>\n\n<em>“one long trip through a colorful cosmic cloud with a dreamy,  mysterious flow and a lush underbelly of celestial sounds... swirling  layers of enveloping orchestral harmonies and shooting stars of guitar  bursts and cymbal crashes that add brilliant flairs of vaporous and  heavenly ambience”</em> – <strong>Delusions of Adequacy on Machine Is My Animal</strong>\n\n<em>Remixed</em> is available as an exclusive digital release through the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=187\">Hidden Shoal Store </a>and all good third party online stores. Also be sure to check out the gorgeous music video for Tin Manzano\'s remix of \'Machine Is My Anmimal\' on <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_oe4p73fAA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> or <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/29957393\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>. City of Satellites other releases can be streamed and purchased <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=34\">here</a>. Read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-City_of_Satellites-Remixed.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/city-of-satellites-moon-in-the[/soundcloud]\n\nCity of Satellites -\'Moon In The Sea (Slow Dancing Society Remix)\'\n\n<strong> </strong>','City of Satellites &quot;Remixed&quot; Album Out Now!','','publish','closed','open','','city-of-satellites-remixed-album-out-now','','','2016-02-03 16:10:48','2016-02-03 08:10:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4677',0,'post','',0),(4696,1,'2011-10-30 03:09:09','2011-10-30 03:09:09','Sad news, Melbourne-based Umpire fans: the band have had to cancel their show at Phoenix Public House on 11/11/11. Fingers crossed for next year!','Umpire No Longer Active in Melbourne on 11/11/11','','publish','closed','open','','umpire-no-longer-active-in-melbourne-on-111111','','','2011-10-30 03:09:09','2011-10-30 03:09:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4696',0,'post','',0),(4699,1,'2011-10-30 03:25:22','2011-10-30 03:25:22','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/frame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Salli Lunn\'s remix album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Frame of Reference</em></a> - which includes remixes by Scott Solter, Manual, and Hidden Shoal\'s very own Markus Mehr and City of Satellites - has received a lot of delicious coverage of late, including Brisbane\'s <a href=\"http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/29496/181/\" target=\"_blank\">Rave Magazine</a> and <a href=\"http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/reviews/albums/salli-lunn-frame-reference\" target=\"_blank\">4ZZZ radio station</a>, the <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/09/salli-lunn-a-frame-of-reference/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a> review site, and the German blog <a href=\"http://www.schallgrenzen.de/song-der-woche-salli-lunn-mirror-girl-scott-solter-remix/\" target=\"_blank\">Schallgrenzen</a>. Head along to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream the album in full, along with the band\'s debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=148\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Heresy and Rite</em></a>, which are both available in CD and mp3 format. Vinyl junkies will also be pleased to hear that <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=179\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Heresy and Rite</em> is now also available on vinyl</a>.','Review Round-up for Salli Lunn Remix Album','','publish','closed','open','','review-round-up-for-salli-lunn-remix-album','','','2011-10-30 03:25:22','2011-10-30 03:25:22','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4699',0,'post','',0),(4702,1,'2011-10-30 03:46:31','2011-10-30 03:46:31','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/coast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />[The] Caseworker\'s superb new album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Letters From The Coast</em></a> and its lead single \'National Runner\' have been receiving glowing reviews left, right and centre: <a href=\"http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/29364/181/\" target=\"_blank\">Rave Magazine</a>, <a href=\"http://groovemine.com/rantsraves_review_the-caseworker_letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\">Groovemine</a>, <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/10/the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>, <a href=\"http://mojophenia.com/2011/10/20/the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\">Mojophenia</a>, <a href=\"http://listendammit.com/2011/09/02/caseworker-national-runner/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen, Dammit</a>, <a href=\"http://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/the-caseworker/letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\">Scene Point Blank</a>, <a href=\"http://kjhk.org/web/2011/10/06/the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\">KJHK</a> and <a href=\"http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2011/09/caseworkerlettersfromthecoast/\" target=\"_blank\">Noise</a>, to mention a few. Plus, there\'s an interview with the band at <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/10/caseworker-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Underground of Happiness blog</a>. There\'ll no doubt be plenty there to convince you to shell out your record-buying dollar, so visit the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab the album in CD or mp3 format.','[The] Caseworker Review Bonanza!','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-review-bonanza','','','2011-10-30 03:46:31','2011-10-30 03:46:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4702',0,'post','',0),(4705,1,'2011-10-30 03:57:12','2011-10-30 03:57:12','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/oneriver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />The reissue of Scott Solter\'s ambient masterpiece <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\" target=\"_blank\"><em>One River</em></a> has received some loving over at the <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2011/09/scott-solter-one-river-hidden-shoal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Underground of Happiness blog</a>, where you can also watch <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb99cXnx1-k\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twins and Wives</em></a>, a film by Laura and Mark Solter to accompany the album. Beautiful stuff.','Scott Solter&#039;s One River on The Underground of Happiness','','publish','closed','open','','scott-solters-one-river-on-the-underground-of-happiness','','','2011-10-30 03:57:12','2011-10-30 03:57:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4705',0,'post','',0),(4708,1,'2011-11-11 00:52:15','2011-11-11 00:52:15','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Kramies - &quot;The European&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/europeancd_01_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the availability of<strong> CD postcard pre-orders</strong> for <em>The European,</em> the forthcoming EP by Colorado based Dutch-American atmos-pop artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>.\n\nProduced by <strong>Todd Tobias</strong> (<strong>Guided By Voices</strong>, <strong>Robert Pollard</strong>, <strong>Circus Devils</strong>),<em> The European</em> sets Kramies’ gorgeous voice and acoustic guitar within a glowing tableau, epic in scope yet delicate in detail. The EP fades into view with ‘Intro’, a simple cyclical pattern of guitar, piano and vocals gradually subsumed by drones and distortion. This leads into the majestic, glacial sway of the title track, guaranteed to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Then, ‘Inventors’ is the album’s dark, shadowy heart, a ballad of subtle intensity.\n\nSingle ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ is an emotionally resonant vortex of swooning pop built around an absolutely heartbreaking chord progression on synthesizer, carried skyward as layers and layers of instruments build and build. And the closing ‘Antiquarian Days’ is a fitting fade towards a sepia horizon, burbling loops and chiming guitars accompanying Kramies’ gentle lament.<em> </em>\n\n<em><img class=\"alignright\" title=\"&quot;The European&quot; CD Postcard\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/europeancd_02_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" />The European</em> EP will be available digitally as well as a<strong> numbered limited edition of 100 cd postcards</strong> with artwork by Australian designer and illustrator <strong>Stuart Medley</strong>. CD Pre-orders are available now through the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=51&products_id=188c\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> ahead of the official release on the 22nd of November. All pre-orders come with an immediate download of the album. The first single from the EP, ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’, is also available for free download <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=185\">here</a>. For more info grab the full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Kramies-The_European.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-coal-miners-executive[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Kramies - \'Coal Miners Executive Club\'</strong>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-inventors[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Kramies - \'Inventors\'</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>','Postcard CD Pre-Orders for Kramies &quot;The European&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','postcard-cd-pre-orders-for-kramies-the-european','','','2016-02-03 15:47:22','2016-02-03 07:47:22','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4708',0,'post','',0),(4724,1,'2011-11-12 12:05:45','2011-11-12 12:05:45','Excerpt: \"It might seem curious for a band to follow up its debut with a record of remixes of songs from that debut, but Salli Lunn are anything but predictable. The Danish noise rockers show on \"A Frame of Reference\" the hidden depth of many of their prior songs, as well as willingness to re-envision them on the fly. There are a couple new songs here too for the nervous. This is no stopgap release, but an extension of Salli Lunn\'s growing confidence. The acoustic techno of \"Parachutes Forever (Markus Mehr Remix)\" is heavy buy warm, to say nothing of daring given their past work. It announces that the band will not play it safe here.... Salli Lunn\'s remixes of early tracks on \"A Frame of Reference\" are often brilliant efforts that re-imagine those songs but retain their essence. The band\'s blend of Krautrock, shoegaze, techno and straight on melodic rock is an addicting stew.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.musicemissions.com/artists/albums/index.php?album_id=14302\" target=\"_blank\">Music Emissions </a>','Salli Lunn &#039;A Frame Of Reference&#039; - Music Emission','','publish','closed','open','','salli-lunn-a-frame-of-reference-music-emission','','','2011-11-12 12:05:45','2011-11-12 12:05:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4724',0,'post','',0),(4726,1,'2011-11-12 12:18:58','2011-11-12 12:18:58','Excerpt: \"Letters from the Coast sees the band exude the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground as if reared by the Flying Nun label: the perfect balance of drone and chime. Perfectly intoxicating.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/10/01/new-album-from-garage-dream-pop-band-the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost At E Minor</a>','[The] Caseworker - &#039;Letters From the Coast&#039; - Lost at E Minor','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-lost-at-e-minor','','','2011-11-12 12:18:58','2011-11-12 12:18:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4726',0,'post','',0),(4729,1,'2011-11-12 12:57:09','2011-11-12 12:57:09','Excerpt: \"They aren’t exactly mysterious, [The] Caseworker, they just spread themselves around a lot. With band members variously inhabiting San Francisco, Switzerland and rural England, they seem less of an actual band and more of an association bound only by their musicality....  What it is, is a mellow, blissed out sequence of West Coast guitar pop, one that references Green On Red and Teenage Fanclub as much as it does the more abrasive Sonic Youth and monochromatic Velvet Underground whom [The] Caseworker acknowledge as influences. Alex Chilton casts his lengthy shadow over the songs here too, and there are inflections in the songwriting that reveal Post Punk influences such as Wire and Television Personalities. After all this, while you might think [The] Caseworker haven’t left any room for their own songwriting, they are significantly more than the sum of their influences and Letters From The Coast is a sun drenched dream haze of verging upon euphoric blissed out jangle pop.... Without leaning too heavily on foot pedals and production, and utilising some highly defined instrumental dynamics, Letters From The Coast has as much resonance and melodic energy as any of the bands and musicians whose work [The] Caseworker draw their influence from, and it succeeds fully as a complete album.... Anyone whose album colllection is incomplete without Ocean Rain, Grand Prix and Park Life will find an equally prominent space in it for this twelve track masterpiece.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/10/the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions Of Adequacy </a>','[The] Caseworker &#039;Letters From The Coast&#039; - DOA','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast-doa','','','2011-11-12 12:57:09','2011-11-12 12:57:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4729',0,'post','',0),(4732,1,'2011-11-12 13:25:26','2011-11-12 13:25:26','Excerpt: ....It\'s the perfect marriage of Sullivan\'s 80\'s era Ambient meet Hazeldine neo classical minimal ambient. To top it off it\'s mastered by Wil Bolton (Hibernate records artists and the owner of the fine \"Time Lapse\" album) and comes in a limited edition of 100 copies that are letter pressed on 700gm GF Smith board designed by Ian himself. The release is/was a pre-order available from the Hidden Shoal store with 60 copies being there and the remaining 40 going to Norman Records and Stashed Goods. 2011 has been a very productive year for Antonymes, this being the third release on Hidden Shoal (the others being \"The Licence to Interpret Dreams\" album and the companion piece \"Lost in waves of Light\") as well as the release on Time Released Sound and the quality has been there through all the releases. Quite an achievement.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.blogspot.com/2011/10/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society.html\" target=\"_blank\">TwiceRemoved</a>','Antonymes + Slow Dancing Society &#039;We Don&#039;t Look Back for Very Long&#039; - TwiceRemembered ','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-slow-dancing-society-we-dont-look-back-for-very-long-twiceremembered','','','2011-11-12 13:25:26','2011-11-12 13:25:26','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4732',0,'post','',0),(4736,1,'2011-11-22 04:46:05','2011-11-22 04:46:05','[The] Caseworker\'s superb new album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Letters From The Coast</em></a> has received another lovely review, this time over at the very savvy <a href=\"http://theskeletoncrewquarterly.blogspot.com/2011/11/letters-from-coast-caseworker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Skeleton Crew Quarterly</a>. <a href=\"http://theskeletoncrewquarterly.blogspot.com/2011/11/letters-from-coast-caseworker.html\" target=\"_self\">Check out the review</a> and then head to the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream this beautiful thing in full and buy it after you\'ve fallen deeply in love it, just as we did.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-boats[/soundcloud]\n<strong>The Caseworker - \'Boats\'</strong>','[The] Caseworker at Skeleton Crew Quarterly','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-at-skeleton-crew-quarterly','','','2016-02-03 16:16:25','2016-02-03 08:16:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4736',0,'post','',0),(4742,1,'2011-11-22 05:24:27','2011-11-22 05:24:27','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Kramies - &quot;The European&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/europeancd_01_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the official release of <em>The European,</em> the new EP by Colorado based Dutch-American atmos-pop artist <a href=\"../artists/kramies\">Kramies</a>.\n\nProduced by <strong>Todd Tobias</strong> (<strong>Guided By Voices</strong>, <strong>Robert Pollard</strong>, <strong>Circus Devils</strong>),<em> The European</em> sets Kramies’ gorgeous voice and acoustic guitar within a glowing  tableau, epic in scope yet delicate in detail. The EP fades into view  with ‘Intro’, a simple cyclical pattern of guitar, piano and vocals  gradually subsumed by drones and distortion. This leads into the  majestic, glacial sway of the title track, guaranteed to make the hairs  on the back of your neck stand on end. Then, ‘Inventors’ is the album’s  dark, shadowy heart, a ballad of subtle intensity.\n\nSingle ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ is an emotionally resonant vortex  of swooning pop built around an absolutely heartbreaking chord  progression on synthesizer, carried skyward as layers and layers of  instruments build and build. And the closing ‘Antiquarian Days’ is a  fitting fade towards a sepia horizon, burbling loops and chiming guitars  accompanying Kramies’ gentle lament.<em> </em>\n\n<em><img class=\"alignright\" title=\"&quot;The European&quot; CD Postcard\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/europeancd_02_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" />The European</em> EP is  available digitally as well as a<strong> numbered limited edition of 100 cd postcards</strong> with artwork by Australian designer and illustrator <strong>Stuart Medley</strong>. All CD orders  come with an immediate download of the album. The first single from the  EP, ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’, is also available for free download <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=185\">here</a>. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to buy and stream the album in full. For more info grab the full press release <a href=\"../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Kramies-The_European.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-the-european[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Kramies - \'The European\'</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>','Kramies &quot;The European&quot; EP Official Release','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-european-ep-official-release','','','2016-02-03 15:47:22','2016-02-03 07:47:22','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4742',0,'post','',0),(4746,1,'2011-11-22 05:19:40','2011-11-22 05:19:40','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WDLBFVLCD_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" />For those who aren\'t already avid <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a> readers (and why wouldn\'t you be!?!) be sure to head over to their latest edition to read a <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/antonymesmeetsslowdancingsociety.htm\" target=\"_blank\">lovely review</a> of the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=186\">Antonymes</a> meets <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a> EP <em><a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/wdlbfvl\">We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</a>.</em>\n\nFor the uninitiated, <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s  four albums, casting radiant new light on the  stunning originals.   Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s  glistening   atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical  minimalism,   creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.\n\nThe EP is now availble in MP3 and lossless formats and was also released as a limited edition CD package. If you missed out on the CD through Hidden Shoal there may still be limited stock available from <a href=\"http://www.normanrecords.com/cd/129403-antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Records</a> and <a href=\"http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/10/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-%e2%80%93-we-don%e2%80%99t-look-back-for-very-long-limited-edition-cd/\" target=\"_blank\"> Stashed Goods</a>. Head <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">here</a> for digital as well as a full EP stream.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing[/soundcloud]\nAntonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - ‘The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land’\n\n<code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/U7tLhh8a1lo\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>\n\n<em> </em>','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society at Textura','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-at-textura','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4746',0,'post','',0),(4757,1,'2011-11-25 03:52:07','2011-11-25 03:52:07','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Kramies/lazy-k-thumbs/Kramies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"100\" />Last year, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a> was <a href=\"http://www.bigsmilemagazine.com/interview/1110/Kramies\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed by Big Smile magazine</a> on the eve of commencing a tour of Ireland, on which he road-tested songs that would eventually become his new Hidden Shoal EP, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=189\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The European</em></a>. <a href=\"http://www.bigsmilemagazine.com/interview/1205/Kramies-%28Pt.2%29\" target=\"_blank\">The follow-up interview</a> has just been published, in which he talks about how the tour shaped the songs, his signing to Hidden Shoal, plus what\'s next.\n\n<em>The European </em>EP is available now from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> in <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=189\" target=\"_blank\">mp3</a> and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\" target=\"_blank\">limited edition CD postcard</a> formats.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-inventors[/soundcloud]','Kramies Interviews on Big Smile Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-interviews-on-big-smile-magazine','','','2011-11-25 03:52:07','2011-11-25 03:52:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4757',0,'post','',0),(4760,1,'2011-11-25 06:32:18','2011-11-25 06:32:18','<em><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/WDLBFVLCD_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long</em>, the recently released collaboration between Antonymes and Slow Dancing Society, is currently sitting pretty at number 12 on the Asheville FM CMJ Top 30 charts and number 3 on their Classical/Ambient charts along with the likes of Fennesz, Chubby Wolf, Wolves In The Throne Room and Zola Jesus to name a few.\n\nThe EP is now availble in MP3 and lossless formats and was also released  as a limited edition CD package. If you missed out on the CD through  Hidden Shoal there may still be limited stock available from <a href=\"http://www.normanrecords.com/cd/129403-antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Records</a> and <a href=\"http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/10/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-%e2%80%93-we-don%e2%80%99t-look-back-for-very-long-limited-edition-cd/\" target=\"_blank\"> Stashed Goods</a>. Head <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">here</a> for digital as well as a full EP stream.','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP Charting','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-ep-charting','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4760',0,'post','',0),(4762,1,'2011-11-30 02:13:00','2011-11-30 02:13:00','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/oneriver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Scott\'s Solter\'s sublime ambient album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\" target=\"_blank\">One River</a>, </em>recently reissued by Hidden Shoal, has just received glowing reviews over at <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/solter_oneriver.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a> and <a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/scott-solter-one-river-hidden-shoal\" target=\"_blank\">Igloo Magazine</a>.\n\nThe album is available in CD and mp3 formats via the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/scott-solter-the-great-cold[/soundcloud]','Scott Solter&#039;s One River Reviewed on Textura and Igloo','','publish','closed','open','','scott-solters-one-river-reviewed-on-textura-and-igloo','','','2011-11-30 02:13:00','2011-11-30 02:13:00','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4762',0,'post','',0),(4764,1,'2011-11-30 02:31:35','2011-11-30 02:31:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/WDLBFVLCD_03_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />It\'s not even December, yet <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a> have boldly published <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/2011top10s.htm\" target=\"_blank\">their best of 2011 lists</a>, featuring Scott Solter\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\" target=\"_blank\"><em>One River</em></a> among the year\'s best albums, and Antonymes Meets Slow Dancing Society\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=186\" target=\"_blank\"><em>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long</em></a> among the year\'s best EPs. If you\'re not already intimately familar with Textura, <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/pages/info.htm\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe</a> to their montly round-up of the best new ambient/classical/experimental/avant-rock releases for some essential reading.\n\nMany, many thanks to Textura for their support throughout 2011!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing[/soundcloud]','Scott Solter and Antonymes in Textura&#039;s Best of 2011','','publish','closed','open','','scott-solter-and-antonymes-in-texturas-best-of-2011','','','2011-11-30 02:31:35','2011-11-30 02:31:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4764',0,'post','',0),(4767,1,'2011-12-01 04:27:29','2011-12-01 04:27:29','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/remixed_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Lots of lovely US college  radio  action happening for our current round of releases. Here\'s a run down!\n\nCity of Satellites <em>Remixed</em> is one of WRSU top 5 RPM adds and Kramies <em>The European</em> is one of the top 5 Radio 200 adds,  Salli Lunn\'s <em>A Frame of Reference</em> and Kramies\' <em>The European</em> are in Bagel Radio\'s top 5 CMJ adds this week,  The Caseworker\'s <em>Letters From The Coast</em> continues its long term camp in the Bagel CMJ top 30 charts, Salli Lunn\'s <em>A Frame of Reference</em> gets a top 5 CMJ rotation add at KJHK and City of Satellites and Kramies are both charting in the 3WK CMJ top 30. Nice!\n\n<code><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6FV_JeNMJpo\" width=\"425\" height=\"25\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code></code>\n\n<strong>Salli Lunn - \'Parachutes Forever (Markus Mehr Remix)\' </strong>','US Radio Love','','publish','closed','open','','us-radio-love','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4767',0,'post','',0),(4782,1,'2011-12-09 03:21:04','2011-12-09 03:21:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Markus_Mehr/lazy-k-thumbs/Markus_Mehr_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"100\" />German ambient drone maestro <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr</a> will be following up his stunning debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=145\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lava</em></a> with not one, not two, but three Hidden Shoal releases across 2012 and 2013.\n\nThe first part of the triptych, <em>In</em>, will be released on 26 January 2012. It comprises two monumental tracks, \'Komo\' and \'Ostinato\', each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. You can take a sneak peek at what\'s in store by viewing some live footage of Mehr\'s performing \'<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUyhl1-x0T0\" target=\"_blank\">Komo</a>\' live at the Maximilian Museum, Augsburg, with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr\'s track \'<a href=\"http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIYi486n0c\" target=\"_blank\">Cousteau</a>\'.\n\nThe second part, <em>On</em>, released on 21 June 2012, takes a more experimental direction, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr\'s trademark distorted drones. And finally, <em>Off</em>, released on 24 January 2012, includes his most epic piece yet, \'Transit\', which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live, again in collaboration with Sixt.\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\" target=\"_self\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream and buy <em>Lava</em> (CD version comes in custom Amaray packaging) as well as download two free tracks.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-hubble[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - \'Hubble\'</strong>','Markus Mehr Triptych Coming in 2012','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-triptych-coming-in-2012','','','2011-12-09 03:21:04','2011-12-09 03:21:04','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4782',0,'post','',0),(4798,1,'2011-12-09 07:46:34','2011-12-09 07:46:34','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/thecaseworker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"130\" />Head over to <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/12/interview-with-conor-devlin-of-the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a> to read a fantastic <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/12/interview-with-conor-devlin-of-the-caseworker/\" target=\"_blank\">interview</a> with Conor Devlin of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/\">The Caseworker</a>. Conor waxes lyrical about everything musical from Steely Dan to Opeth to The Caseworker. Regular DOA readers will remeber the <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2011/10/the-caseworker-letters-from-the-coast/\" target=\"_blank\">glowing review</a> of The Caseworker\'s stunning 2011 album <em>Letters From The Coast</em>. Speaking of which, after your fill of words you should then head <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\">here</a> to stream the album in full and buy a cd or a bagful of files!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-boats[/soundcloud]\nThe Caseworker - \'Boats\'','Interview with Conor Devlin of [The] Caseworker at DOA','','publish','closed','open','','interview-with-conor-devlin-of-the-caseworker-at-doa','','','2016-02-03 16:16:23','2016-02-03 08:16:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4798',0,'post','',0),(4801,1,'2011-12-12 04:13:26','2011-12-12 04:13:26','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Kramies - &quot;The European&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/europeancd_03_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" />Two lovely reviews for recent Hidden Shoal releases over at Norway\'s <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a>. The first was in <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon186/au186.php\" target=\"_blank\">November\'s edition</a> of the zine for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=34\">City of Satellites</a>\' <em>Remixed,</em>\n\n<em>\"The outcome is stunning... With so many different remixers it is as expected some variations  here, but it still feels like a wholesome album, tied nicely together by  the underlining of City Of Satellites shoegazing dream-pop material... And in some parts, these mixes has not just made the tunes slightly  different, or added another kind of quality, but actually turned the  better part of them into something more, and by that; better.\"</em> - Luna Kafe\n\nThe second review appeared in the just out December edition for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a>\' <em>The European,</em>\n\n<em><em>\"</em>Kramies has with the aid of producer Todd Tobias (Circus Devil, Guided  by Voices) and guitarist David Paolucci, made The European into a  delicate melancholic and poetic  swirl of pop-delight.\"</em> - Luna Kafe\n\nHopefully you own both these releases and are sitting there nodding your head in agreement. If not however then head straight to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> where you can stream <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=187\">Remixed</a> </em>and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\" target=\"_self\"><em>The European</em></a> in full as well as purchase.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/city-of-satellites-moon-in-the[/soundcloud]\n<strong>City of Satellites -\'Moon In The Sea (Slow Dancing Society Remix)\'</strong>','Kramies and City of Satellites Reviewed at Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-and-city-of-satellites-reviewed-at-luna-kafe','','','2016-02-03 15:47:21','2016-02-03 07:47:21','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4801',0,'post','',0),(4811,1,'2011-12-15 23:27:35','2011-12-15 23:27:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Umpire - \'Supply Chins\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/supplychins_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=50&amp;products_id=191\">Supply Chins</a>’, the second single from Perth’s widescreen indie-rock craftsmen <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/umpire/\">Umpire</a>, taken from their brilliant 2011 debut album<em> <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/umpire_music\">Now We’re Active</a></em>.\n\nOn an album crammed to breaking point with hooks, ‘Supply Chins’ has perhaps the catchiest hooks of all. Alternating between a massive fist-pumping chorus and reflective verses, the song builds towards a breathtaking climax punctuated by sumptuous horns, weaving vocals and driving guitars. This is indie-rock at its most unashamedly anthemic.\n\nUmpire combine sprawling indie-rock sounds with reflective melancholy, expertly wielding massive sun-drenched melodies, serpentine guitar parts and soaring vocals to spectacular effect. From singles ‘Green Light District’ and ‘Supply Chins’ through the chiming guitar surge of ‘The Canyon’ to gorgeous finale ‘Cyclones Into Sunshowers’, <em>Now We’re Active</em> is a stunning release, as expansive as it is propulsive, as heartbreaking as it is life-affirming.\n\n\'Supply Chins\' is available now as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=50&amp;products_id=191\">free download</a> from the Hidden Shoal Store where you\'ll also find Umpire\'s amazing debut album <em><a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/umpire_music\">Now We’re Active</a>. </em>For more info read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Umpire-Supply_Chins_Single.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/umpire-supply-chins[/soundcloud]\nUmpire - \'Supply Chins\'\n\n<strong> </strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.info/Umpire-Now_Were_Active_Press_Pack.zip\"></a>','New Umpire Single - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','new-umpire-single-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:41:13','2016-02-03 08:41:13','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4811',0,'post','',0),(4831,1,'2011-12-14 02:50:27','2011-12-14 02:50:27','Just a few quick miscellaneous bits and pieces we\'ve been meaning to pass on. We have recently set up a page on Google+ so if you\'re a G+ user then head over and join the <a href=\"https://plus.google.com/109627546463065745795\">Hidden Shoal circle</a>. We\'ve also been building a <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2BB82525CCBFF47\">HSR Radio playlist</a> (mp3 clips) over at our <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/hiddenshoal\">YouTube Channel</a> which is now clocking in at over 3 hours of music and growing weekly as we continue to add more tracks.\n\nOh and stay tuned as we still have free tracks from Umpire and Antonymes/Slow Dancing Society coming your way before the end of the year!','Hidden Shoal Radio, Google+ and More, More More!','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-radio-google-and-more-more-more','','','2016-02-03 16:41:12','2016-02-03 08:41:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4831',0,'post','',0),(4848,1,'2011-12-19 23:05:03','2011-12-19 23:05:03','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/tcold_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to release ‘<a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/tcold\">The Colour Of Long Days</a>’, an as yet unreleased companion track to the acclaimed 2011 EP <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=49&amp;products_id=186\"><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em></a> by neo-classical/minimal ambient  artist <a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">Antonymes</a>.\n\nIn keeping with the theme of <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em>, ‘The  Colour Of Long Days’ is Antonymes’ reworking of music by fellow Hidden  Shoal artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a>. This time ‘The Red Summer Sun’ from  \"Priest Lake Circa ’88\" is transformed, the original’s shimmering waves  of guitar forming a background against which plaintive piano chords  resonate beautifully. Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to  his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a  completely mesmerising hybrid.\n\n<em>\"seamlessly weds the neo-classical leanings of Antonymes to the luscious atmospheric soundsculpting specialized in by Slow Dancing Society, resulting in close to thirty minutes of ambient-classical splendour\"</em> - <strong>Textura on We Don’t Look Back For Very Long, voted one of their favourite EPs of the year </strong>\n\n<em>\"This album is probably the most heartbreaking set of songs I’ve heard since Bon Iver’s For Emma Forever Ago, or I Am A Bird Now by Antony And The Johnsons. It’s Brian Eno meets a dagger to the heart....a record that deserves album of the year, even four months into 2011.\"</em> - <strong>Delusions of Adequacy on Antonymes’ The Licence To Interpret Dreams</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n‘The  Colour Of Long Days’ is available as a free download from the <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/tcold\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. For all other Antonymes and Slow Dancing Society music (including free downloads, CD\'s and digital releases) head to the <a href=\"javascript:void(0);/*1324304792053*/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society_Single.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-1[/soundcloud]\nAntonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - \'The Colour Of Long Days\'','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - New Track, Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-new-track-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:10:47','2016-02-03 08:10:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4848',0,'post','',0),(4864,1,'2012-01-11 15:31:08','2012-01-11 15:31:08','Excerpt: \"\'Green Light District\' kicks it all off with jangly but epic sweeping guitars-guitars that suddenly take off with abrasive but melodic washes, especially toward the end the vocals soar ala Wings-era McCartney. On \"Supply Chins\", the now moody, distorted guitars rub against regretful but dreamy vocals-a psych pop masterpiece. Likewise, \"Jewellery Can Be Disturbing\" features brash guitars and fragile vocals. From the brilliant pop of  \"Streamers\" to the noisy, memorable Milking a Thistle,\" Umpire display a dizzying command of pop and rock melody, with slightly abstract lyrics that add to the depth of these seemingly simple tracks. The closer, \"Cyclones Into Sunshowers, is a gorgeous and poetic song that is always grounded such that it never threatens to devolve into pathos. This debut by Umpire is mature, catchy and crunchy, with a poise and sense of the dramatic lacking in bands who have been around for years. \"Now We\'re Active\" is a truly active record, by a band that has hit the ground running with a surge of insight and power.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.musicemissions.com/artists/albums/index.php?album_id=14725\">Music Emissions</a>','Umpire &quot;Now We&#039;re Active&quot; - Music Emissions','','publish','closed','open','','umpire-now-were-active-music-emissions','','','2012-01-11 15:31:08','2012-01-11 15:31:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4864',0,'post','',0),(4866,1,'2012-01-11 15:36:42','2012-01-11 15:36:42','\"Lot of fine beards in this strapping Perth band. Taken from their debut album Now We’re Active, Supply Chins is a swinging, shimmering sing-along indie track with a slow blowing explosion of a chorus. It is big and beautiful, optimistic and ambitious, bursting with horns and swinging guitars and a melody that floods your head with light.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beat.com.au/music/umpire-supply-chins\">Beat</a>','Umpire &#039;Supply Chins&#039; - Beat','','publish','closed','open','','umpire-supply-chins-beat','','','2012-01-11 15:36:42','2012-01-11 15:36:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4866',0,'post','',0),(4868,1,'2012-01-26 00:13:28','2012-01-26 00:13:28','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/in_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> by German experimental ambient artist <a href=\"../artists/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>, the first of a triptych that also includes the forthcoming releases <em>On</em> and <em>Off</em>, all released over the next 12 months.\n\nMarkus Mehr follows up his stunning debut album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=145\">Lava</a> </em>with three new releases. <em>In</em> is the first part of the triptych, comprising two monumental tracks,  ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes,  circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. ‘Komo’  gradually emerges from silence, its distant, filtered throb reluctantly  revealing its source material – a heartbreaking string part whose  emotional impact intensifies as the loop clarifies. ‘Ostinato’ is an  altogether darker, gnarlier experience, its string loops chewed into  distorted knots which are highlighted by treated guitars and crafted  electronics.\n\n<em>“In this blissful wanderlust Mehr succeeds in spades creating a  completely engrossing, engaging and all together reliable album full of  the most powerful ambient-drone tracks this year.”</em> – <strong>Tome to the Weather Machine on <em>Lava</em></strong>\n<em>\n“They’re ‘big’ compositions, the sheer scale of the sonic work is rather  awe inspiring, but they never sound antagonistic or uncomfortable… it  sounds like the ebb and flow of space itself – individual snippets of a  grand, repeating, organic process that keeps the universe in balance…”</em> – <strong>No Ripcord on <em>Lava</em></strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> is  available for purchase  now in digital format and for CD pre-order. The CD version of the album comes as a limited edition two panel CD  cardboard sleeve of 100 numbered units with artwork by Stuart Medley. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all availability details and read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr-In.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/markus-mehr/sets/in/[/soundcloud]<strong>\nMarkus Mehr - <em>In</em> (excerpt)</strong>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; Released','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-released','','','2016-02-03 16:00:46','2016-02-03 08:00:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4868',0,'post','',0),(4886,1,'2012-01-26 06:34:17','2012-01-26 06:34:17','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" />Kramies beautiful track \'Antiquarian Days\' is sitting at number 8 in the <a href=\"http://somafm.com/charts/digitalis/\">Soma FM </a>top 30 track by spins chart and number 3 on the Top 30 tracks by Listeners (on demand). Sweet!\n\n\'Antiquarian Days\' is lifted off Kramies gorgeous EP <em>The European </em>which is <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">available now</a> as a limited edition CD postcard as well as all digital formats.','Kramies Charting at Soma FM','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-charting-at-soma-fm','','','2016-02-03 15:47:07','2016-02-03 07:47:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4886',0,'post','',0),(4889,1,'2012-01-26 06:52:49','2012-01-26 06:52:49','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/europeancd_03_LRG.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4895\" title=\"The European\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/europeancd_03_LRG-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>More love for Kramies wonderful new EP <em>The European</em>, this time via a lovely review in PopMatters. Check out the glowing words <a href=\"http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/153241-kramies-the-european/\">here</a>.\n\n<em>The European</em> is <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com/\">available now</a> as a limited edition CD postcard as well as all digital formats.','Kramies Review in PopMatters','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-review-in-popmatters','','','2016-02-03 15:47:07','2016-02-03 07:47:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4889',0,'post','',0),(4891,1,'2012-01-26 06:54:51','2012-01-26 06:54:51','\"Kramies Windt is on to something here. The songwriter’s debut five-track  EP for Hidden Shoal marries wafting synth textures and an acoustic  guitar bedrock to well-honed direct songcraft, making every cut a  keeper.  Kramies’ efforts (aided by longtime collaborators Dave Paolucci  and producer Todd Tobias) are best realized on the title track, where  his journey to stirring-anthem Valhalla finds his voice first recalling  Tim Booth of James before ascending to full-on Bono territory.   Elsewhere, the chilly expanse of “Coal Miners Executive Club” and its  comforting refrain of “We can pace ourselves” swirl inside the head, and  “Antiquarian Days” evokes John Lennon at his most reflective. Unlike  some more well-known peddlers of similar aesthetic pedigree (Coldplay,  I’m looking at you), Mr. Windt’s grand sweeping gestures are never  empty, and his hooks are never cheap. It’s no wonder that with each  subsequent listen, I find myself enjoying <em>The European</em> more and more.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/153241-kramies-the-european/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PopMatters</strong></a>','Kramies &quot;The European&quot; - PopMatters','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-european-popmatters','','','2012-01-26 06:54:51','2012-01-26 06:54:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4891',0,'post','',0),(4898,1,'2012-01-27 02:49:21','2012-01-27 02:49:21','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/salli_lunn.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2040\" title=\"salli_lunn\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/salli_lunn-150x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" /></a>Salli Lunn\'s awesome <em>A Frame of Reference</em> has made a sweet dent in the latest <a href=\"http://kjhk.org/web/2012/01/26/charts-adds-1262012/\">KJHK (Kansas) top 30</a>, sitting pretty at number 8! <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\"><em>A Frame of Reference</em></a> by Danish spectral noise-rock quartet Salli Lunn comprises remixes of songs from their stunning debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=148\"><em>Heresy and Rite</em></a>, plus previously unreleased tracks.\n\nStream it and grab it <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\">here</a>.','Salli Lunn&#039;s &quot;A Frame Of Reference&quot; Charting at KJHK','','publish','closed','open','','salli-lunns-a-frame-of-reference-charting-at-kjhk','','','2012-01-27 02:49:21','2012-01-27 02:49:21','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4898',0,'post','',0),(4902,1,'2012-02-02 15:16:22','2012-02-02 15:16:22','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;In&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Markus Mehr\'s mesmerising new album <em>In</em> has just scooped a lovely review at the excellent new site <a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/01/27/markus-mehr-in/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a>. Check the review out <a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/01/27/markus-mehr-in/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and the album out <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\">here</a>.','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;In&quot; Reviewed at A Closer Listen','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-reviewed-at-a-closer-listen','','','2016-02-03 16:00:46','2016-02-03 08:00:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4902',0,'post','',0),(4905,1,'2012-02-02 15:20:05','2012-02-02 15:20:05','<em>\"One’s enjoyment of this album will likely hinge on one’s regard for  repetition.  When a loop changes timbre yet repeats for 25 minutes, is  this a good thing or bad?  Is the intricate process behind such tweaking  fascinating to the ear, or tedious?  A curious beauty can arise from  the cyclical nature of a morphing sample, a transcendent, trancelike  nudge; or the repetition can fall flat and alienate the listener.   Fortunately the loops on <strong>Markus Mehr</strong>‘s </em><em>In trail lovely  threads, like jellyfish, and each stands up considerably well over the  course of its delivery.  But in the end, it’s not the loops that make  the biggest impact; this is reserved for a seemingly un-Mehr like blast  of noise located at the album’s centre.  This sound is also repeated,  but it shakes up the proceedings in a revelatory fashion.</em>\n\n<em>For nearly 14 minutes, “Komo” emerges from a silent cocoon, gradually  stretching and testing its boundaries with the aforementioned  five-second string motif.  The sound is not unlike that of the recent  Marta Mist production: languid and sweet, like a ballroom serenade.  But  then the guitars and electronics make their entrance, balancing the  barely-audible beginning with an abrasive end.  The string sample is  folded back on itself, stuttered, and echoed.  A philosopher begins to  speak about the “absence of good ideas”.  And then he – or more  precisely, everything within sonic range, is smashed by a cudgel of  sound.  And this violence is actually a </em><em>very good idea,  although it does move the last eight minutes of the 26 minute track  outside of the ambient comfort zone.  It’s a safe bet to say that most  listeners won’t hear this coming, but when they do (if they don’t spill  their drinks), they will likely reassess their preliminary opinions.   Hidden Shoal calls the second track the “darker” one, but the label is  dead wrong; “Komo” is Darth, while “Ostinato” is Luke.</em>\n\n<em>This second track also excels at repetition, but its centre sample is  less obvious, which helps it to blend in a bit better while hiding its  primary appeal.  This time around, the electronics are present from the  beginning, teeming around the strings like hungry beetles.  ”Ostinato”  is more mood than movement, and never achieves the heights of its  predecessor; it operates like a long, slow coda.  The horns of the fifth  minute are the highlight, achieving a Caretaker-like grace.</em>\n\n<em>In is the opening salvo of a Mehr triptych; the next installment, </em><em>On, is scheduled for release in June. </em><em>On‘s tunes are said to be shorter and more dronelike, which bodes well for the release.  After </em><em>Off arrives in 2013, we may look back and understand </em><em>If a bit better, but for now it’s an exercise in repetition that reaches its best heights when its patterns are broken.  <strong>(Richard Allen)</strong>\"</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/01/27/markus-mehr-in/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - A Closer Listen','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-a-closer-listen','','','2012-02-02 15:20:05','2012-02-02 15:20:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4905',0,'post','',0),(4907,1,'2012-02-02 16:01:23','2012-02-02 16:01:23','﻿﻿<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Umpire - &quot;Now We\'re Active&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/active.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Umpire\'s wonderful new single \'Supply Chins\', off their frighteningly awesome 2011 debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=50&amp;products_id=172\"><em>Now We\'re Active</em></a>, had a sweet little write up over at the fantastic Australian zine <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4418025\" target=\"_blank\">Mess + Noise</a>.  Check out the post <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4418025\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and download the track for free <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=50\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=false\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/umpire-supply-chins[/soundcloud]','Mess + Noise Gives Some Umpire Lovin&#039;','','publish','closed','open','','mess-noise-gives-some-umpire-lovin','','','2016-02-03 16:41:12','2016-02-03 08:41:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4907',0,'post','',0),(4916,1,'2012-02-05 23:39:50','2012-02-05 23:39:50','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"City of Satellites - &quot;Remixed&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/remixed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/city-of-satellites/\">City of Satellites</a> wonderful remix album of late last year is still doing great things in the US college radio charts. Last weeks <a href=\"http://www2.gsu.edu/~www885/music.html\" target=\"_blank\">WRAS CMJ charts</a> saw the album grab the number 4 spot amongst some fine company. The albumk features remixes by such wonderful artists as Manual (Jonas Munk), Syntaks, Tim Koch, Jatun, M-13, Tin Manzano and Slow Dancing Society.\n\nIf you\'ve not had the pleasure of wrapping your ears around <em>Remixed</em> yet then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=34&amp;products_id=187\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and preview the album in full.\n\n<code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XiLAOan5jaI\" width=\"425\" height=\"25\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]</code>\n<strong>City of Satellites - \'Skeletons (Manual Remix)\' </strong>','City of Satellites &quot;Remixed&quot; No. 4 on the WRAS Charts','','publish','closed','open','','city-of-satellites-remixed-no-4-on-the-wras-charts','','','2016-02-03 13:47:22','2016-02-03 05:47:22','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4916',0,'post','',0),(4920,1,'2012-02-06 14:56:58','2012-02-06 14:56:58','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Scott Solter &quot;One River&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/oneriver_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />A busy end to 2011 and a sweet but small break over the xmas period means that we have a number of end of year reviews and the like we need to pass on. The first of these catch ups is for Scott Solter\'s sublime re-issue of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\"><em>One River</em></a> which generated much deserved love last year. Amongst the previously reported reviews the album also scooped glowing write-ups in <a href=\"http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-scott-solter-one-river/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog Critics</a>,   <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/solter_oneriver.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a> and <a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2011/12/scott-solter-one-river-hidden-shoal/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyclic Defrost</a>.\n\nStream the album in full and buy it on CD or digital at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=182\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n[soundcloud  params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/scott-solter-the-great-cold[/soundcloud]','Scott Solter &quot;One River&quot; Review Round Up','','publish','closed','open','','scott-solter-one-river-review-round-up','','','2012-02-06 14:56:58','2012-02-06 14:56:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4920',0,'post','',0),(4924,1,'2012-02-06 14:59:26','2012-02-06 14:59:26','\"Though Scott Solter\'s <em>One River </em> isn\'t a  new recording—it was first released in 2005 on Tell-All Records—it\'s as  timeless a recording of ambient music as could be imagined—and  beautiful, too, I might add. Its title is well-chosen, as the recording  unfolds in an uninterrupted, thirty-four-minute flow, despite the  seven-track indexing of its presentation. What separates it from many  another ambient recording is its timbral character, and in particular  the steel guitar-like sound that Solter generates through the heavily  processed treatment of the electric guitar. Its flowing lines  reverberate so powerfully <em>One River </em> begins to sound as if it  was recorded in an immense cathedral setting. A mood of peaceful calm  characterizes the material, as if to suggest the lulling drift of a boat  as it floats downstream, propelled by nothing more than the movements  of the river itself.\n\nSolter has built up an impressive CV as a  producer and for having worked with artists such as Spoon, Pattern is  Movement, Superchunk, Liam Singer, and St Vincent, but it\'s another side  of Solter that\'s showcased on <em>One River</em>, the one that finds  him acting as a member of both The Balustrade Ensemble and Boxharp, the  latter with Wendy Allen (whose manipulated voice briefly appears on <em>One River</em>). Though, as mentioned, <em>One River </em> plays without interruption, distinct shifts in character do assert  themselves as the material moves from one indexed track to the next.  Whereas “Tarn” inaugurates the journey with a becalmed ebb-and-flow of  delicate guitar shadings and soft bell percussion accents, “Antique  Brothers” brings the ethereal breath of Wendy Allen aboard; elsewhere,  cymbal shadings by Solter\'s other guest, Desmond Shea, amplify the  resonating character of “Cypress Road” before “The Palace Wedding”  closes the album on a ever-so-graceful note. <em>One River </em> is like  a single protracted sigh, a lyrical and and beautiful setting that  stands head and shoulders above the standard ambient recording.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/solter_oneriver.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Textura</strong></a>','Scott Solter &quot;One River&quot; - Textura','','draft','closed','open','','scott-solter-one-river-textura','','','2014-08-01 02:19:24','2014-08-01 02:19:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4924',0,'post','',0),(4926,1,'2012-02-06 15:01:57','2012-02-06 15:01:57','\"Scott Solter, one half of Boxharp and prolific recording engineer,  producer, mixer, re-mixer and musician, reissues his 2005 album ‘One  River’. It has aspects of what is con temporarily described as glacial  ambient, in that it is built from monolithic drone scapes that move  slowly and invoke qualities of sparse almost barren climes. As a piece  it comprises guitar processed to bare recognition, tape, cymbals, field  recordings and manipulated voice, although it’s production qualities are  so heavily present that the main instrument would have to be considered  as the recording studio. Solter’s press material would have it that he  is exploring the space between Brian Eno’s ‘Music for Airports’ and  William Basinski’s ‘Disintegration Loops’, although comparisons to some  of the output from Glacial Movements would be equally a descriptive  shortcut.\n\n‘One River’ is a seven track album which presents itself as one long  unfolding with the nominal indexing for motives not quite clear. However  they can be considered as movements with a whole with ‘Tarn’ opening  the affair as a slow build introducing the elements and developing the  recurring motifs into longer cycles. The release to the aspects of lower  bass tones to accompany the higher cyclical drones occurs late in  ‘Tarn’ and is a focal aspect of ‘Ghost Trains’ along with subtle field  recordings of trains and a few guitar flourishes. ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=53&amp;products_id=177\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Cold</a>‘  has an eerier  feel with a haunting choral sound and the drones emptied  of their melodic tones to almost suggest affect less expression or  barren scapes, as the intermittent samples of bird cries sparsely  populate the track. ‘Antique Brothers’ slows down the pace and gives  nuance to the drones creating distinct tonal variations within the  cycles and eliciting a melancholic feel eventually being stripped back  to a low tone and stretched minimal renditions of the cycles. ‘Wave and  Sepia Wire’ moves back towards a brighter aspects of the cycles which  continues through ‘Cypress Road’ building a more solemn sound bespeaking  portent which culminates in ‘The Palace Wedding’ and it’s long pristine  versions of the drone cycles with upwardly moving effects and gleams  shining through in a positive resolve.\n\n‘One River’ has also been made into a video ‘<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb99cXnx1-k&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Twins and Wives</a>: a film for One River’ which is to see limited edition DVD release.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2011/12/scott-solter-one-river-hidden-shoal/\"><strong>Cyclic Defrost</strong></a>','Scott Solter &quot;One River&quot; - Cyclic Defrost','','draft','closed','open','','scott-solter-one-river-cyclic-defrost','','','2014-08-01 02:19:24','2014-08-01 02:19:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4926',0,'post','',0),(4928,1,'2012-02-06 15:19:10','2012-02-06 15:19:10','\"As a producer and mixer, Scott Solter has worked with Superchunk,  Okkervil River, the Mountain Goats, Pattern Is Movement, and the Court  and Spark. <em>One River</em> is a re-release of an ambient album he made in 2005.\n\nAmbient music is by nature intangible, meant to evoke sensations and  feelings rather than the structure and explicitness of most music. I  started listening to <em>One River</em> after visiting the Rothko Chapel  in Houston, and I immediately saw the connection between Rothko’s  monochromatic paintings  and Solter’s washes of sound. Neither is meant  to be appreciated in the same way as traditional art. There is no  subject matter in Rothko’s paintings  just as there is no  verse-bridge-chorus structure in Solter’s piece. Instead, both artists  are concerned with creating emotions in more subtle ways than does  traditional art. What ambient music and abstract art offer is an  opportunity to experience art that isn’t trying to define the  listener/viewer experience. You aren’t distracted by the form, and so  can better experience the sensation that the art evokes in you.\n\n<em>One River</em> is meant to be listened to as one piece, and it  slowly ebbs and flows over its 33-minute running time. There are  processed guitars, synthesizers, and subtle percussive elements. It  pulses and runs like the river it is named after, and the end result  feels natural and organic despite the digital tools used to produce it.   The overall mood is peaceful and reflective. It never veers into new  age cheesiness, and doesn’t contain any unsettling or dissonant moments.  I love Aphex Twin’s <em>Selected Ambient Works Volume 2</em>, but there are several tracks on that collection that are truly unsettling; and I was happy that <em>One River</em> avoids getting creepy.\n\nMark and Laura Solter created a film called <em>Twins and Wives</em> to accompany the re-release. While it is an interesting visualization of the music, I prefer to listen to <em>One River</em> without the visuals. Part of my enjoyment of the album is what images  and feelings it brings up. It taps into an area of the brain that most  music doesn’t touch.\n\nI really enjoy this album, and I’m thankful that Perth-based Hidden  Shoal Recording chose to reissue it. It’s gotten me to explore more  ambient music, and has been a wonderful contrast to the majority of  music that I listen to.<em> One River</em> is an excellent album that fans of ambient music won’t want to miss.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-scott-solter-one-river/\" target=\"_blank\">BlogCritics</a>','Scott Solter &quot;One River&quot; -  BlogCritics','','draft','closed','open','','scott-solter-one-river-blogcritics','','','2014-08-01 02:19:24','2014-08-01 02:19:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4928',0,'post','',0),(4934,1,'2012-02-09 15:07:21','2012-02-09 15:07:21','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/seayears_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the new <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/seayears\">freely downloadable</a> single ‘Sea Years’ by garage-dreampop trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/\">The Caseworker</a>, taken from their acclaimed 2011 album <em>Letters From The Coast</em>.\n\n‘Sea Years’ is the follow-up to first single ‘National Runner’, showcasing another side to the band’s trademark guitar surge. The song’s insistent motorik beat, levitating guitar jangle and Eimer Devlin’s gorgeous airy vocals create a very special blend of dreamy, hypnotic pop minimalism. Light as a feather yet crammed full of gutsy guitar sounds, ‘Sea Years’ is another earworm from The Caseworker. The track is lifted from the band’s third album <em>Letters From The Coast</em>, which sees The Caseworker continue to deliver their own unique sonic magic. The album has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label, creating an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which the band wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.\n\n<em>“a mellow, blissed out sequence of West Coast guitar pop, one that references Green On Red and Teenage Fanclub as much as it does the more abrasive Sonic Youth and monochromatic Velvet Underground whom The Caseworker acknowledge as influences... as much resonance and melodic energy as any of the bands and musicians whose work The Caseworker draw their influence from, and it succeeds fully as a complete album…. Anyone whose album collection is incomplete without Ocean Rain, Grand Prix and Park Life will find an equally prominent space in it for this twelve track masterpiece.”</em> –  <strong>Delusions Of Adequacy</strong>\n\n<em>“The Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed”</em> – <strong>Rolling Stone</strong>\n\nDownload \'Sea Years\' for free from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=194\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and if you haven\'t yet been educated in the ways of The Caseworker\'s brilliant <em>Letters From The Coast</em> you can stream the whole thing <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-sea-years[/soundcloud]','New Hypnotic Pop Magic from The Caseworker - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','new-hypnotic-pop-magic-from-the-caseworker-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:16:24','2016-02-03 08:16:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4934',0,'post','',0),(4941,1,'2012-02-13 04:21:53','2012-02-13 04:21:53','\"Markus Mehr \'s new album \"In \" is the promising first part of a trilogy: it will be followed by \"On\" (june 2012) and \"Off\" (january 2013), so the entire trilogy will take an exact year to complete.\n\n\"In\" features two long tracks, \"Komo\" and\"Ostinato\", about 25 minutes each.\nAt first listen, two albums come to mind that explore a similar compositional process: Gavin Bryars\' \"Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet\" and William Basinski\'s \"Disintegration Loops\".\nBut the comparision fails, because Mehr chooses quite a different approach to \'minimal loops repeating\'.\n\nThe main similarity is the fact that the loop that is used has a distinct symphonic quality: you\'ll find yourself humming along with it gradually, and you\'ll remember it for a long time after.\nBut Gavin Bryars let the phrase unfold itself by just repeating it, and William Basinski dealt with the disintegration of cassette tape recordings by letting the loop \'disintegrate\' too.\n\nCompared to the \'Disintegration Loops\', Markus Mehr reverses the process: he starts from a slow and quiet loop that gradually reveals itself, builds up to a climax, and he\'s not afraid to break with the minimalism dogma by adding distorted accents, dissonant theme variatons, spoken word samples and even a lonely wandering jazz trumpet.\nWith impressive, dramatic effect!\n\nThough \"In\" is a remarkable album that stands alone by itself, it also makes you wonder what the next two parts will sound like!\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2012-01-29/markus-mehr-in\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ambientblog</strong></a>','Markus Mehr  &quot;In&quot; - Ambientblog','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-ambientblog','','','2012-02-13 04:21:53','2012-02-13 04:21:53','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4941',0,'post','',0),(4943,1,'2012-02-13 04:29:51','2012-02-13 04:29:51','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;In&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/in_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Fans of Markus Mehr\'s new work will enjoy the glowing reviews over at <a href=\"http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2012-01-29/markus-mehr-in\" target=\"_blank\">Ambientblog</a> and <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon189/de189.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a>. If you\'ve not yet pre-ordered your limited edition CD copy of <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\">In</a> </em>then you\'re still in luck with a small amount of copies still available for<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\"> pre-order</a>. Alternatively you can <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\">download the album</a> now and soak in its expansive splendour.','Markus Mehr Reviewed in Ambientblog, Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-reviewed-in-ambientblog-luna-kafe','','','2016-02-03 16:00:46','2016-02-03 08:00:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4943',0,'post','',0),(4946,1,'2012-02-13 04:31:42','2012-02-13 04:31:42','\"In is the first of a so-called \'triptych release\' including the forthcoming albums On and Off, scheduled over the next 12 months, by German experimental ambient artist/composer/musician Markus Mehr. Mehr\'s elegance have been presented before, on Lava (2010), an album which made No Ripcord magazine to write: \"...sounds like the ebb and flow of space itself.. ..individual snippets of a grand, repeating, organic process that keeps the universe in balance.\". Nothing less.\n\nIn holds two tracks, or movements, \"Komo\" and \"Ostinato\", each of them clocks in at about 25 minutes (give or take a minute). This is earphones music. Lay down. Listen in. Drift off. \"Komo\" circles and circles, slowly, slowly. It\'s hard to decide if you\'re doing a downward slope and are about to make a slow-motion landing. Or, you\'re in the process of rising, soon to reach the surface from a submerged position. Which is quite cool. This is exploration with a blindfold, where Mehr\'s soundscapes lead you around and about. There\'s also a spoken word fragment, or speech/lecture (of philosophy, about the subconscious) coming in some 17 minutes into \"Komo\", where a man is actually saying \'You are an explorer\': \"... You are an explorer. And you represent our species. And the greatest good you can do, is to bring back a new idea. Because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness...\". I then managed to trace the name of the man, the psychonaut philosopher from the sample. It\'s no doubt Mehr travels the outskirts of the universe - and he dares you to follow. When \"Komo\"\'s starting to explode at 18.35 and outwards, it\'s quite clear Mehr\'s on a maybe-no-return mission. He\'s out there for the truth. Or he\'ll bring back good ideas.\n\nThen it\'s \"Ostinato\". \"In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: \"stubborn\", compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase, which is persistently repeated in the same musical voice. An ostinato is always a succession of equal sounds, wherein each note always has the same weight or stress. The repeating idea may be a rhythmic pattern, part of a tune, or a complete melody in itself.\" (wikipedia.org) \"Ostinato\" is also a slow starter, with static noise gradually sidelined by melodic patterns. It\'s the sound of a wave washing ashore repeatedly. You can just lay back and float back and forth. Imagine yourself in a big, big cradle filled with the softest cloths. This is indeed comfortable for a long time, but all of sudden I feel I\'ve drifted off, giving me this feeling that I\'ve lost control. That the music has taken me too far away. Way, way off, to mid sea. Or mid space? I\'m feeling the nausea rising, as the angst of being left alone in the midst of the big, black, blue flake. Yet, it feels like Mehr\'s guiding you and safeguarding you so that there\'s nothing to worry about. Like a guardian angel.\n\nMarkus Mehr\'s earlier works has been linked (as in related) to the 1970s Kosmische music of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Parts of \"Ostinato\" is sort of cosmic Morricone soundtrack stuff. This is the sound of when grandiose sounds are done within a minimal framework. The result is an expression almost not of this earth.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon189/de189.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Luna Kafe</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-luna-kafe','','','2012-02-13 04:31:42','2012-02-13 04:31:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4946',0,'post','',0),(4950,1,'2012-02-16 13:27:28','2012-02-16 13:27:28','\"<em>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long</em> is Antonymes (a.k.a Ian Hazeldine) going to the slow dance club, as he has reworked and re-titled (not remixed, mind you) 4 tracks by fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society (a.k.a. Drew Sullivan). It starts with \"The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land\", which is an interpretation of \"Be There\", off the album <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon125/uswa125.php\">The Sound of Lights When Dim</a> (2006). \"As If Viewed From A Distance\" is Antonymes take on \"The Time We\'ve Spent\", off <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon137/uswa137.php\">The Slow and Steady Winter</a> (2007). Then follows \"That Moment\", which is based on \"Forever Young\" from <em>Priest Lake Circa \'88</em> (2008). Fourth and final track, \"A Feeling of Being Closer\" is a remake of \"By Your Side\", which appeared on <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon173/uswa173.php\">Under The Sodium Lights</a> (2010).\n\nAntonymes put out <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon179/wa179.php\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</a> last April, and it was a transcendental experience, and a sheer beauty when it comes to quiet, slow floating music. <em>We Don\'t Look Back...</em> was released some two months ago but I was to slow to check it out before a new year came. This EP holds, as his album of last year, delicate ear candy (or rather, head candy?) of the transcendental type. Ambient minimalism of the fragile kind. Slow-floating compositions working as mind-massage. <em>We Don\'t Look Back...</em> is nearly 30 minutes of delicate compositions. Or, should they be called re-composition? Because this is far from being regular \'cover versions\'. Anyway, this is atmospheric stuff, trademark Antonymes. Meaning almost not of this earth. <em>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long</em> is the delicate sound of Antonymes meeting Slow Dancing Society in some secret, stardusted place, and the result is stellar. Nevermind the remade songs; they appear as new compositions. Or \'soulmate songs\'.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon188/wa188.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a>','Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society &quot;We Don&#039;t Look Back For Very Long&quot; - Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-meets-slow-dancing-society-we-dont-look-back-for-very-long-luna-kafe','','','2012-02-16 13:27:28','2012-02-16 13:27:28','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4950',0,'post','',0),(4952,1,'2012-02-16 13:38:23','2012-02-16 13:38:23','\"<strong>Kramies </strong>is a Colorado-based artist who has been releasing music under the supervision of Todd Tobias, the famed producer and collaborator of <strong>Guided By Voices</strong> and other <strong>Robert Pollard</strong> endeavors. The music of Kramies is quite a far cry from anything in the Pollard universe though. For one thing, he stays away from any lo-fi style recording techniques. He is a couple albums deep with Tobias, and just recently, his latest EP was dropped. It goes by the title of <em>The European</em>, (possibly in reference to his apparent Dutch roots), and for the first time listener, it should be known that his sound is pretty expansive for a solo artist. Apart from the acoustic guitar he plays, accompaniment ranges from all sorts of different instruments, so the product on hard copy is much more full than you would expect.\n\nFor such a measly, five song extended play, it feels like you’re strapped in on a long, emotional journey led by Kramies. His music is powerfully melancholy at times. Judging from three fifths of this record, you would take the man for a very musically inclined sad sack. Painting a picture of his sound is quite easy. Halfway through the title track, there’s strong echoes of <strong>Mercury Rev</strong>‘s <em>Deserter’s Songs</em>; particularly a blend of the blissful nature of “Holes” and the decaying harmony of “The Funny Bird.” This combination best describes Kramies’ EP; not to mention that his slightly raspy vocals mirror that of Jonathan Donahue.\n\nKramies doesn’t use standard tuning on his guitar, or at least it does not appear that way to the trained ear. What can safely be said about his guitar work is that his chord structures are rather unconventional, but in a good way. It isn’t something out of left field, but it’s enough to catch your attention, especially when backed by all the majestic production value that surrounds it. All the stops are pulled out, from shimmering and just-the-right-amount-of-atonal keyboards to well-executed, complimentary supporting vocals.\n\nExtended plays are wonderful things. They are small offerings from artists that often end up showcasing the scope of their palette. The most important aspect of <em>The European</em> is its fulfilling of this task. Over five tracks, the listener gets an indelible familiarity with Kramies and where his talents can take him. His record begins humbly with “Intro,” a pacifist’s bleak, acoustic guitar piece, and later builds up to the vastly different “Coal Miners Executive Club;” a song that relies largely on synths. No matter where Kramies ventures, the result is always heartfelt and hard-hitting.\n\nBecause <em>The European</em> is such an immersing experience, there isn’t much that will get stuck in your head or keep you humming on your way to work. This EP is best enjoyed and bears the punchiest impact when listened to as a whole, given its epic and commanding pretension. However, there is nothing outwardly pretentious about this release, it just so happens that Kramies packs a lot of songwriting and grandiose crescendos all into a little extended play. In short, what lies inside this release ends up being a lot more intimidating that you would assume.\n\n<em>The European</em> isn’t your typical sampler of an EP, but Kramies isn’t necessarily your run-of-the-mill solo artist either. His music is one to be tackled with a mind that is willing to be taken on a trip; one that is as instrumentally engaging as it is deeply pensive in regards to its lyrical content. It is also no question that Todd Tobias and Kramies make a great recording team. Tobias does every justice to the ethereal and occasionally gloomy soundscape created by Kramies, producing a truly beautiful and diversified release. This kicks other solo artists like <strong>James Blunt</strong> and <strong>Edwin McCain</strong> to the curb. In fact, it doesn’t even belong in the same league of the likes of those two. He delivers at such a high caliber that exceeds the title of “solo artist,” and leaves it in the dust as nothing more than a misnomer.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://402productions.com/reviews/2011/12/album-reviews-kramies-the-european/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>402 Productions</strong></a>','Kramies  &quot;The European&quot; - 402 Productions','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-the-european-402-productions','','','2012-02-16 13:38:23','2012-02-16 13:38:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4952',0,'post','',0),(4955,1,'2012-02-16 13:45:57','2012-02-16 13:45:57','\"Getting into the zone for The License To Interpret Dreams is difficult at first. Opener A Fragile Acceptance sets the rulebook right away; there are no hooks or choruses to speak of. Just a lone piano, striking as if it were a clock at noon, fading in and out of the patchwork before waves of mournful strings come in and draw you fully into the ocean. The Siren, Hopelessly Lost is just as glacially morose, content to take its sweet time incepting you into this cloudy, mystical world Antonymes has built. But those who are willing to take the plunge with him will be rewarded handsomely with one of the most quietly powerful albums of the year.\n\nFor those unfamiliar with this ambient artist’s mantra, here’s a snippet from his Bandcamp:\n\'Antonymes’ music emerges from the adjustments and erasures where music expresses nothing but itself, from the relationship between continuity and repetition rather than of contract and interplay, from secrecy, from quietness, from pause, from thought, from emptiness, from time, from far off, from itself, from where it is set and where it is setting off to..\'\n\nThe Licence To Interpret Dreams largely reflects this emphasis on empty spaces. Save a few lively moments, Antonymes isn’t so much a party rocker as he is a philosopher—all twelve of these tracks are sparse compositions, deeply detached and yet completely personal. You, the listener, have been plucked from your spot in the bustling chaos of modern life, and all this dude wants is to take a walk with him into the forest of his—and your—mind.\n\nGenerally, the moments where Antonymes tries to step outside this backdrop are where the album suffers. Oradour-Sur-Glane is inches from submerging you completely with its bits of music box melodies floating in a bubbling lake of synths, yet the voice sample utilized here is a rare step into indulgence for Antonymes. As a result, instead of falling completely under his spell, you\'re shocked awake at jilted, startling intervals. Doubt commits a bit more fully to the gimmick, thus coming closer to fooling you into assimilating it with the rest of the landscapes back here, but the voice sample just doesn’t fit in with the isolation at display here; it’s a slab of concrete amidst a forest of trees. The end of the track works the best, when the philosophical snippets aren’t spelled out for you but fade into the background, leaving you to find the stories behind them yourself.\n\nWhen Antonymes lets the music speak for itself, though, this is an absolutely captivating dream. Womb Of The Great Mother begins slowly before gradually building, then whittling itself down until you can almost taste the melancholy. Even the shorter tracks are moving in their own little ways: A Light From The Heavens layers repetitions upon repetitions, the tension cresting until it hits a brutal peak.\n\nTowards the end of your sojourn, you\'re offered a few rays of sun: Endlessly is just as minimalistic as what came before it, but it’s a rare moment of peace in an environment full of angst. The Door Towards The Dream, too, is solemnly uplifting, replete with horns, strings, and a choir section. The sentiment isn’t awash in gaudy Hallmark-card sap, though, and after an album’s worth of deliberation, reaching the end of the tunnel is a worthy reward.\n\nMore and more, it seems like there simply isn’t any way for one to escape the spectacles of daily life. The value of silence—taking a few minutes to think about things, about the world, about yourself, even—has all but been forgotten. Sometimes, you have to tune everything out and find yourself again, though, and when you do so, Antonymes is the guy that’ll lead the way.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=99570912\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AbsolutePunk</strong></a>','Antonymes &quot;The Licence To Interpret Dreams&quot; - AbsolutePunk','','publish','closed','open','','antonymes-the-licence-to-interpret-dreams-absolutepunk','','','2012-02-16 13:45:57','2012-02-16 13:45:57','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=4955',0,'post','',0),(5010,1,'2012-03-08 23:32:06','2012-03-08 23:32:06','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Wes Willenbring\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/wesprofile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of  ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=195\">Consequences of Recklessness</a>’, the first track lifted from American ambient craftsman <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/wes-willenbring/\">Wes Willenbring</a>’s forthcoming third album <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>.\n\n‘Consequences of Recklessness’ is <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>’s shimmering centrepiece, setting icicles of delayed guitar amid an aching tapestry of drones and feedback. It sets the tone for the album as a whole, perhaps Willenbring’s most complex and satisfying release to date.\n\nAs a further progression from his acclaimed debut <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=38\">Somewhere Someone Else</a></em> and his stunning sophomore album<em> <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=125\">Close, But Not Too Clos</a></em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=125\">e</a>, <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em> features a varied and richly hued palette of visceral guitar tones, effects-warped textures and achingly beautiful piano work. Immersive and darkly emotive soundscapes, such as droning opener ‘Dreams and Schemes’ and the 15-minute epic ‘Quaaludes’, are counterbalanced by seductively melodic pieces, such as ‘People Disappear Everyday’ and closing track ‘Ashes’.\n\n<em>“a gorgeous ambient album … a serene, hypnotic and majestic soundscape suitable for daydreaming... hauntingly beautiful atmospheric compositions”</em> – <strong>Delusion Of Adequacy on <em>Close, But Not Too Close</em></strong>\n\n<em>“Absolutely gorgeous. Dreamy dark meandering melancholia for fans of Stars Of The Lid, Eluvium, Dead Texan, Tim Hecker, Godspeed and other purveyors of darkly dramatic, abstract moody minimalism”</em> –<strong> Aquarius Records on <em>Somewhere Someone Else</em></strong>\n\n‘Consequences of Recklessness’ is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=195\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. It is taken from Wes Willenbring’s forthcoming third album <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>, which is released in CD and digital formats on 12 April 2012.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/wes-willenbring-consequences[/soundcloud]','New Wes Willenbring Track - &#039;Consequences of Recklessness&#039;','','draft','closed','open','','new-wes-willenbring-track-consequences-of-recklessness','','','2014-08-01 02:16:00','2014-08-01 02:16:00','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5010',0,'post','',0),(5025,1,'2012-02-29 14:37:17','2012-02-29 14:37:17','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;In&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/in_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Markus Mehr\'s latest opus <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> has been written up over at <a href=\"http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2621862\">AbsolutePunk</a>,\n\n<em>\"Mehr has a steady hand as he defrosts the ice around the core of the track as it melts into warmer shades, other voices waking from their hibernation and calling out to each other. The progression never feels as tightly constructed as it really is, though; the way the layers of the track burrow in and out of each other feels so organic that even when it shifts into a more malevolent gear and machinery takes over, the development isn’t at all jarring but eye-opening.\"</em> - <strong>AbsolutePunk</strong>\n\nCheck out the rest of the review <a href=\"http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2621862\">here</a> and stream and buy the album on CD and Digital <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\">here</a>.','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;In&quot; Reviewed at AbsolutePunk','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-in-reviewed-at-absolutepunk','','','2016-02-03 16:00:46','2016-02-03 08:00:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5025',0,'post','',0),(5027,1,'2012-02-29 14:41:17','2012-02-29 14:41:17','\"Generally, impatient people must have a very difficult time getting ambient music; this much I know because I happen to be a very impatient person. The best ambient artists are capable of grabbing their listeners powerfully, wielding stunning climaxes and quietly moving melodies, often stuck at odds against each other. Too often, though, I slowly ease myself into position, preparing for a revelation, only to wake up from a deep slumber forty minutes later, everything having passed me by while I’m still stuck on the outside wondering what’s behind those impenetrable walls.\n\nThere are some walls I will never scale, but maybe Markus Mehr’s latest work, <em>In</em>, might be a good place to begin. It’s an undeniable beast of an album, and it’s not exactly easily digestible, yet there’s a wonderfully lucid quality to the ambience here that makes the experience compelling—and even a little enlightening.\n\nThe first half is “Komo”, a twenty-six minute behemoth that doesn’t show many signs of life until around halfway through. The first character we’re introduced to is an ominous rumble, starting off distant before closing in on us. Soon enough, a mournful string motif seeps in slowly before slowly swelling up. It’s a solemn beginning, majestic in an almost frigid way. Mehr has a steady hand as he defrosts the ice around the core of the track as it melts into warmer shades, other voices waking from their hibernation and calling out to each other. The progression never feels as tightly constructed as it really is, though; the way the layers of the track burrow in and out of each other feels so organic that even when it shifts into a more malevolent gear and machinery takes over, the development isn’t at all jarring but eye-opening.\n\n“Ostinato” is just as gigantic as its other half, at twenty-three minutes, but it’s a completely different piece of work altogether. In contrast to the thawing glacial beauty of “Komo”, this piece is layered with ominous synths and buzzing static. A lone guitar and a gloomy, dissonant trumpet fanfare can be heard faintly from behind the layers of smoke and ash they’re wrapped in. There’s a distinct vibe that we may be witnessing the aftermath of the ruins explored at the end of the first movement, as if these few instruments are all that remain of the fallout. As the track nears its finish, the war signals begin cutting in desperately, calling out to empty streets, looking for any fellow refugees it can find. The trumpet wails back in equal proportions of sorrow. We’re never told if anybody ever made it out of the destruction alive.\n\n<em>In</em> isn’t quite beautiful, and it isn’t exactly pure. What it is, however, is refreshingly, unflinchingly honest about what it’s trying to say. And for that reason alone, I’d have to say it may be worth hearing Mehr out.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2621862\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AbsolutePunk</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - AbsolutePunk','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-absolutepunk','','','2012-02-29 14:41:17','2012-02-29 14:41:17','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5027',0,'post','',0),(5031,1,'2012-03-02 02:30:35','2012-03-02 02:30:35','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Drew Sullivan\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Slow%20Dancing%20Society/lazy-k-thumbs/Drew_Sullivan_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"100\" />Be sure to tune in to the awesome KZSU (Stanford, CA) on the 5th of March to hear an interview with Drew Sullivan, aka Slow Dancing Society. The interview will air Monday Mar 5th 10:00AM PST and you can stream live via <a href=\"http://kzsulive.stanford.edu\">http://kzsulive.stanford.edu</a> or if you in the area tune in to 90.1FM on your radio. Unmissable!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-be-there[/soundcloud]','Slow Dancing Society Interview on KZSU','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-interview-on-kzsu','','','2016-02-03 16:12:24','2016-02-03 08:12:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5031',0,'post','',0),(5046,1,'2012-03-05 01:45:43','2012-03-05 01:45:43','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Salli Lunn - \'50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix)\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/50kisses_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to  announce the release of single ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=196\">50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix)</a>’ by Danish spectral noise-rock quartet Salli Lunn, taken from their recently released album <em>A Frame of Reference</em>, which comprises remixes of songs from their debut album <em>Heresy and Rite</em>, plus all-new songs.\n\n‘50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix)’ sees the previously unreleased track from the <em>Heresy and Rite</em> sessions reworked by Denmark’s TV-Baby as a driving, lo-fi chase scene. The track hurtles through your brain like a delirious late-night panic attack, rapid-fire beats ricocheting against woolly bass surge, disorientating echoes and electro squiggles. Then, in its closing seconds, a gorgeous coda of chiming interwoven guitars lulls you to a narcotized sleep, the chaos of the preceding minutes a distant dream.\n\n‘50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix)’ is taken from remix album <em>A Frame of Reference</em>, which also includes single ‘Mirror Girl (Scott Solter Remix)’ and remixes of <em>Heresy and Rite</em> tracks by Markus Mehr, City Of Satellites and Manual. Previously unreleased track ‘White Sight’ rounds out the album in fine style.\n\n<em>“The Danish noise rockers show on A Frame of Reference the hidden depth of many of their prior songs, as well as willingness to re-envision them on the fly... This is no stopgap release, but an extension of Salli Lunn’s growing confidence... The band’s blend of Krautrock, shoegaze, techno and straight on melodic rock is an addicting stew.”</em> – <strong>Music Emissions on <em>A Frame of Reference</em></strong>\n\n‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=196\">50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix)</a>’ is available for <strong>free download</strong> from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=196\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\"><em>A Frame of Reference</em> </a>is available as an exclusive digital release through the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=47&amp;products_id=178\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and all good third party online stores. Album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=47\"><em>Heresy and Rite</em></a> is also available worldwide in CD, vinyl and digital formats through <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=47\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/salli-lunn-50-kisses-tv-baby[/soundcloud]\nSalli Lunn - \'50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix)\'','Salli Lunn &#039;50 Kisses (TV-Baby Remix) - New Single, Free Download ','','publish','closed','open','','salli-lunn-50-kisses-tv-baby-remix-new-single-free-download','','','2012-03-05 01:45:43','2012-03-05 01:45:43','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5046',0,'post','',0),(5062,1,'2012-03-05 09:01:14','2012-03-05 09:01:14','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Todd_Tobias.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"177\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of musical experimentalist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/todd-tobias/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Tobias</a> to its roster of artists. After years of producing Guided By Voices and playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album, <em>Medicine Show,</em> a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia.\n\nTodd Tobias and older brother Tim Tobias grew up in Northeast Ohio, USA, where the two played together in a string of bands, culminating in Clouds Forming Crowns and Circus Devils (the latter with Robert Pollard). Todd has been Pollard’s in-house record producer since 2002, beginning with Guided by Voices’ Matador release <em>Universal Truths and Cycles.</em> Todd has also produced many other indie-rock projects over the years, including the latest release from fellow Hidden Shoal Recordings artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> (<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\"><em>The European</em></a> EP).\n\n<em>Medicine Show</em> is released by Hidden Shoal on 26 April, preceded by single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ on 13 March. Read a full press release about the signing <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Signing.pdf\">here</a>.','Hidden Shoal Signs Todd Tobias','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-signs-todd-tobias','','','2016-02-03 16:39:54','2016-02-03 08:39:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5062',0,'post','',0),(5071,1,'2012-03-05 23:05:54','2012-03-05 23:05:54','If you missed the wonderful interview with Drew Sullivan (aka Slow Dancing Society) on KZSU then never fear as the ever wonderful Adam Pearson, KZSU GM and interviewer extraordinaire, has posted a download on <a href=\"http://ghosttrees.wordpress.com/\">his blog</a>.  Go to it!','Slow Dancing Society Interview on KZSU Available for Download','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-interview-on-kzsu-available','','','2016-02-03 16:12:24','2016-02-03 08:12:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5071',0,'post','',0),(5092,1,'2012-03-15 23:22:03','2012-03-15 23:22:03','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Todd Tobias - \'Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/Manatoc_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of new single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ by musical experimentalist and long-time Robert Pollard collaborator <a title=\"Todd Tobias\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/todd-tobias\">Todd Tobias</a>, taken from his forthcoming debut solo album <em>Medicine Show</em>.\n\n‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’ is a multi-part mini-epic that offers a tantalising taste of <em>Medicine Show</em>’s shadowy steampunk dystopia. The track kicks in like a panic attack, a dizzying flurry of organ and toms alternating with lurching guitar. The chaos soon calms, but builds in intensity again as a massive detuned riff pummels your ears into submission. The final coda is an exercise in unwinding as the song’s tight, muscular coils begin to lose their tension. The single comes with a bonus ‘B side’ called ‘Crystal Palace People’ taken from the soon to released bonus EP <em>Night Above Ground</em>. A lilting and intimate electro-folk ballad, ‘Crystal Palace People’ is a glimmering, soft-focus comedown after the A side’s rush - only to become unhinged in its closing moments as the recording is chewed and slurred.\n\n<em>“A psychedelic boat ride that leads to a poorly lit and wicked place, where even the nursery rhymes of youth become foreboding...”</em> - <strong>AllMusic on Circus Devils’ Ringworm Interiors</strong>\n\n‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=197\">Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall</a>’ is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>, packaged with bonus track ‘Crystal Palace People’. <em>Medicine Show</em> is released in CD and digital formats on 26 April. Read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Todd_Tobias_Manatoc_Enters_The_City.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/todd-tobias-manatoc-enters-the[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','New Single From Todd Tobias (Circus Devils, Robert Pollard) - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','new-single-from-todd-tobias-circus-devils-robert-pollard-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:40:32','2016-02-03 08:40:32','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5092',0,'post','',0),(5162,1,'2012-03-21 12:18:50','2012-03-21 12:18:50','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/europeancd_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Kramies beautiful EP <a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-coal-miners-executive\"><em>The European</em></a> continues to get deserved love over at <a title=\"Soma FM\" href=\"http://somafm.com/\">Soma FM</a>. The track \'Antiquarian Days\' is sitting at number 4 on the top 30 by spins and number 5 on the top 30 by listeners Digitalis charts. Check it out <a title=\"Soma FM Charts\" href=\"http://somafm.com/charts/digitalis/\">here</a>.\n\nWe have still have some copies of <em>The European</em> in the beautiful limited edition mini CD postcard format which can order <a title=\"Kramies - &quot;The European&quot;\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\">here</a>, along with digital in all its various formats. Also keep an eye out for the new music video for the Kramies track \'The Inventors\' which will be hitting your retinas in a few weeks.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/kramies-coal-miners-executive[/soundcloud]','Kramies Continues to Chart at Soma FM','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-continues-to-chart-at-soma-fm','','','2016-02-03 15:47:07','2016-02-03 07:47:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5162',0,'post','',0),(5176,1,'2012-03-31 15:13:58','2012-03-31 15:13:58','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Wes Willenbring\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Wes%20Willenbring/lazy-k-thumbs/Wes_Willenbring_4.jpg\" alt=\"Wes Willenbring\" width=\"134\" height=\"100\" />Here\'s some nice news ahead of <a title=\"Wes Willenbring\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=20\">Wes Willenbring\'s</a> forthcoming album <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>. Anyone who caught the <a href=\"http://www.e4.com/skins/series6/music/ep10.html\">final episode of Skins season 6</a> would have heard Willenbring\'s gorgeous track \'As You Fade Away\' featured. The song is lifted from his debut album<a title=\"Wes Willenbring - Somewhere Someone Else\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=38\"><em> Somewhere Someone Else</em></a>.\n\nDon\'t forget to download \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=195\">Consequences of Recklessness</a>\', the free single from <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>, while awaiting album pre-order availability on the 12th of April.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/wes-willenbring-consequences[/soundcloud]','Wes Willenbring Featured on Skins Season 6 Finale','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-featured-on-skins-season-6-finale','','','2014-08-01 02:16:00','2014-08-01 02:16:00','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5176',0,'post','',0),(5181,1,'2012-04-10 16:35:12','2012-04-10 16:35:12','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/se_fosse_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘Se fosse per me’, the new single by Italian ambient electronica artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/elisa-luu/\">Elisa Luu</a>, taken from her forthcoming second album<em>.  </em>Download the track for free <a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/sefosse\">here</a>.<em></em>\n\nBlossoming into life like a field of neon flowers, ‘Se fosse per me’ is all eyes-wide and life-affirming. It imbues its wistful tones with light through buoyant beats and skittering horns, leading into a reflective textured coda. Elisa Luu’s trademark blend of digital manipulation with analogue warmth, chiming tones with immersive drones, is on virtuoso display, whetting the appetite for her upcoming second album <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em>.\n\nThough digitally crafted, Elisa Luu’s music is warm, inviting and uniquely human, betraying a vulnerability and sensitivity that is rarely found in the male-dominated sphere of electronica. With its sighing, lilting qualities, Elisa Luu’s music reawakens a sense of childlike wonder and adventure with every sprawling and sparkling track. This alchemical touch is in full bloom on long-awaited second album <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em>, which takes the glorious blueprint of debut <em>Chromatic Sigh</em> and accentuates the highlights and shadows, making for a deliciously disorientating trip.\n\n<em>“fully-formed music-making that blends melody-based song structures and bold instrumental arrangements into a thoroughly satisfying whole”</em> - <strong> Textura </strong>\n\n<em>“an astonishingly talented artist, crafting immersive and emotive soundfields with ease”</em> - <strong>Luna Kafe</strong>\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=42\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab the track and hear more from Elisa Luu ahead of her sophomore album <em>Un giorno sospeso, </em>out 1st June.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','New Single From Elisa Luu - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','new-single-from-elisa-luu-free-download','','','2016-02-03 15:34:59','2016-02-03 07:34:59','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5181',0,'post','',0),(5192,1,'2012-04-11 23:44:25','2012-04-11 23:44:25','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/wesprofile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"114\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\">cd pre-orders and digital availability</a> for the third album by American ambient craftsman <a title=\"Wes Willenbring\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/wes-willenbring/\">Wes Willenbring</a>, <a title=\"Weapons Reference Manual\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\"><em>Weapons Reference Manual</em></a>.\n\nAs a further progression from his acclaimed debut <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=38\"><em>Somewhere Someone Else</em></a> and his stunning sophomore album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=125\"><em>Close, But Not Too Close</em></a>, <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em> features a varied and richly hued palette of visceral guitar tones, effects-warped textures and achingly beautiful piano work. Immersive and darkly emotive soundscapes, such as droning opener ‘Dreams and Schemes’ and the 15-minute epic ‘Quaaludes’, are counterbalanced by seductively melodic pieces, such as ‘People Disappear Everyday’ and closing track ‘Ashes’. Meanwhile, single ‘Consequences of Recklessness’ is <em>Weapons Reference Manual’s</em> shimmering centrepiece, setting icicles of delayed guitar amid an aching tapestry of drones and feedback. It sets the tone for the album as a whole, perhaps Willenbring’s most complex and satisfying release to date.\n\n<em> “a gorgeous ambient album … a serene, hypnotic and majestic soundscape suitable for daydreaming... hauntingly beautiful atmospheric compositions”</em> – <strong>Delusion Of Adequacy on <em>Close, But Not Too Close</em> </strong>\n\n<em>“Absolutely gorgeous. Dreamy dark meandering melancholia for fans of Stars Of The Lid, Eluvium, Dead Texan, Tim Hecker, Godspeed and other purveyors of darkly dramatic, abstract moody minimalism”</em> – <strong>Aquarius Records on <em>Somewhere Someone Else</em></strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\"><em>Weapons Reference Manual</em></a> is available now for <strong>CD pre-order</strong> and digital download. The CD release comes as a numbered limited edition of 200.  Official CD release and ship date is the 4th of May. Check out the <a title=\"Weapons Reference Manual\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/wes-willenbring-consequences[/soundcloud]','Wes Willenbring&#039;s &quot;Weapon Reference Manual&quot; - CD Pre-Orders and Digital Availability','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbrings-weapon-reference-manual-cd-pre-orders-and-digital-availability','','','2014-08-01 02:15:59','2014-08-01 02:15:59','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5192',0,'post','',0),(5221,1,'2012-04-20 10:14:57','2012-04-20 10:14:57','<p>\"Markus Mehr is certainly leading with his chin by announcing a full-blown trilogy with only one full-length release under his belt. <em>In</em> is the first part, to be followed by <em>On</em> and <em>Off</em> within the year. The German experimental ambient artist marshals the same array of computer, synthesizers, guitars and distortion pedals used on his 2010 debut, <em>Lava</em>, and opens with a muffled grumble that might well be churning magma deep in the volcano.</p>\n<p>As \'Komo\' slowly clarifies in the air, a ravishing string-ensemble loop whirls and dips majestically. It is as romantic and seductive as swaying palms against the blue sky and blue sea of a south Pacific island. The dream idyll is however punctured with a quick, nasty blast of electric guitar, out of which somewhat incongruously emerges the voice of late American counterculture philosopher Terence McKenna. These lumpen guitar blasts proceed to engulf all the scenery. An unnecessarily brutal contrast, it’s not a good choice. In fact, it is a baffling one.</p>\n<p>Savage distortion carries over onto \'Ostinato\' before Mehr’s swaying orchestra shakes off all but a few grains of static caught in its strings and keys. Once again lofty, exalted loops are woven, but the space is now palpably indoors. A piano trill is delicately detourned and a trumpet player practicing over there in the corner provides an idea of the size and acoustics of the “in” Mehr is describing. As the piece wends its way a further twenty minutes, it exercises an increasingly hypnotic pull.</p>\n<p>Mehr’s orchestral looping is not new, but it is executed with great dexterity. His treatment of it, though bold, is not necessarily always pleasing. The deep vinyl rumble crumbling to the repetitive toy-piano coda is a much more judicious use of distortion. As the rest of the trilogy unfolds, his big idea may become more apparent. On its own, <em>In</em> is a partial success.\"</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/markus-mehr-in-hidden-shoal\">Igloo magazine</a></p>\n','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Igloo magazine','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-igloo-magazine','','','2012-04-20 10:14:57','2012-04-20 10:14:57','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5221',0,'post','',0),(5227,1,'2012-04-20 10:19:08','2012-04-20 10:19:08','<p>\"When done right, a build up that starts from next to nothing and turns into an all encompassing monolith of sound and texture is one of the best musical experiences one can go through. Gladly, the music we cover here on The Silent Ballet is brimming with all sorts of build ups using all different kinds of instrumentation from guitars and drums to synths and electronics or just layers of ambience and drones, with all yielding brilliant results. They suck the audience in and make them feel like they’re part of what’s happening - a living, breathing component witnessing the development of a whole new ecosystem around them. With time they become smaller, their existence loses importance, and they become bystanders in a fully fledged world of sound. When done right, it’s highly unlikely that any complaints will surface; most will sit back and take this as an opportunity to feel true awe and wonder, then replay it and feel it all over again. It’s a process of life, one that would take eons to develop in the real world, but in music (or art in general) it’s only a matter of minutes.</p>\n<p>If anything, \'Komo,\' the first half of Markus Mehr’s <em>In</em> is exactly that. It is a process of constant repetition and tension building with each tiny fragment or loop coming in to focus, one by one, little by little, to end up as an emphatically crushing work of art. The intricacy of the sounds and the amount of attention Mehr puts into this track shows on every listen; it never gets boring or old, even though the sum of its components wouldn’t exceed ten or twelve layers. It is minimalism that gives birth to the epic, intelligent music that takes over its listeners and engages them to its very dying moments. The sliced waves of reverb, the aggravated yet despairing speech sample that scorns the banality of present day human beings, and the gigantic noise chords (which I assume are guitar chords processed through an infinite loop of filters and bit crushers) come in to seal the deal and give the track its shock value, something that would pin the listener down under its mighty weight. The little dips in volume in the looping strings add anxiety and translate this uncertainty. \"Komo\" might as well be the first truly epic track of 2012 so far.</p>\n<p>Alas, this doesn’t apply to the second half of the album. \'Ostinato,\' which also clocks in at approximately twenty-five minutes, picks up on its predecessor’s intensity and starts promisingly, but it ends up being too static for its own good. Repetition and experimental music go hand in hand, especially when the music is on the more minimalistic side of the experimental spectrum. It works like a double edged sword; the results are either sheer elation with an almost unbreakable bond created between the music and its receiver that makes one want to listen to the same thing over and over again, or absolute boredom. \'Ostinato\' lies in the grey area between both experiences. One is taken back by its strong, emotionally heavy beginnings, but with time the effect wanes and the track just becomes too long for its own good. It does have its moments of brilliance, though. The introduction of brass instruments at points and the buried clean guitar fiddling in the background would be the clear highlights. The element that doesn’t work, however, is in fact what made \'Komo\' as brilliant as it is: timing. Whereas in the first track one can feel that each and every second of the song is meticulously crafted, the second seems hurried. Leaving the track to loop for ages unattended, even with brief stretches of modification, brings it, and thus the album, down.</p>\n<p><em>In</em>, which is supposedly the first of three themed releases, with the next two to follow in June (<em>On</em>) and January (<em>Off</em>), shows the facet of Mehr’s music that we had witnessed in his debut, <em>Lava</em>: the emphasis on thick layers of sound and repetition, the ability to take the audience’s attention hostage for a period of time only to let go when he feels like it. We see it here at its best thus far, but it still needs work. The upcoming two releases should be even more exciting as they promise to showcase even more experimental sides to his music, and that’s definitely worth waiting for.\"</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://thesilentballet.com/reviews/2012/03/markus-mehr-in\">The Silent Ballet</a></p>\n','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - The Silent Ballet','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-the-silent-ballet','','','2012-04-20 10:19:08','2012-04-20 10:19:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5227',0,'post','',0),(5231,1,'2012-04-20 10:22:14','2012-04-20 10:22:14','<em>\"In</em>, Markus Mehr\'s follow-up to his impressive debut album <em>Lava</em>, is the first part of a triptych whose subsequent parts, respectively <em>On </em> and <em>Off</em>, will be issued in June of this year and January of the next. While the opening third presents two long-form settings, the middle one offers eight and the closer a single forty-nine-minute epic. For now, the opening fifty-minute salvo does just fine at hinting at what experimental directions might be undertaken in the subsequent releases. The production approach Mehr brings to <em>In </em> is much like the one used for <em>Lava</em>, which involved guitars, synths, field recordings, and sampled sounds being processed to generate a humongous mass of sound. In the latest recording, Mehr uses synths, processed guitars, distortion pedals, and computer to create the two settings.\n\n\'Komo\' begins gently enough with strings playing faintly in the distance, the effect ghostly and ethereal and hardly suggestive of the coming storm. As the silken strings incessantly repeat their mournful motif, the material grows hypnotic as it swells in volume and intensity. The music\'s to-and-fro motion evokes a ship\'s gentle movement on relatively calm waters, until the piercing sting of a guitar appears halfway through, portending the imminent move into darker and more turbulent waters where the music starts breaking apart, growing more distorted in the process. A man\'s pontificating drone briefly surfaces before being violently wiped out by a stabbing interjection, the string loops continuing in the background throughout until they too are all but obliterated by the crushing noise hammering away at the forefront.\n\nThe second piece, \'Ostinato,\' immediately establishes itself as a much more raw and grime-infested piece than the other. String loops are again present (if darker and deeper in tone) but this time heard through a scrim of soot and static, and, with the addition of a trumpet, the music takes on a nocturnal, <em>noir</em>-like gloom that complements the sickly see-saw movements of the strings. Electronics also are more prominent, as a textural stutter can be heard skittering across the cellos and guitar fragments at various moments. \'Ostinato\' plays like the queasy sibling to \'Komo,\' an altogether more disease-ridden entity in need of medical attention. All things considered, <em>In </em> makes for a provocative if uneasy listen that makes one wonder how the next chapter will pick up from where this one leaves off.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/mehr_in.htm\">Textura</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Textura','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-textura','','','2012-04-20 10:22:14','2012-04-20 10:22:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5231',0,'post','',0),(5235,1,'2012-04-23 03:59:46','2012-04-23 03:59:46','<p>\"When a musician stretches just two tracks over the course of fifty minutes, the most likely barrier to success is the ability to hold the listener’s interest for such a long period of time. As is often the case with such a concept, the tracks that make up Markus Mehr’s <em>In</em> (save a few snatches of dialogue) are entirely instrumental too.</p>\n<p>‘Komo’ is the first offering and for the initial minute or so it’s so quiet, it would be forgivable to check the volume control to know that it’s playing. However, after five minutes of scene setting, the cinematic string sample and bass rhythms merge together like a huge menacing creature of the sea getting nearer and nearer and becoming louder and louder until it starts to blur and distort. In terms of scope and doomed romance, it makes a fine bedfellow for Paddy McAloon’s ‘I Trawl The MEGAHERTZ’.</p>\n<p>Yet whereas ‘Komo’ possesses a clear elegant beauty, ‘Ostinato’ seems more like an experiment in noise and drone. Soon the layers are stripped back to reveal a core lonely guitar melody and even though the sound is submerged like crashing waves by distant trumpets and warped effects, this track also reveals a serenity amongst the turbulence .</p>\n<p>Far from being an exercise in endurance, <em>In</em> creates an atmosphere which evokes both the danger and the beauty of the sea. <em>In</em> is the first in a triptych of albums from Mehr, soon to be followed by <em>On</em> and <em>Off</em>. One can only hope that these records maximise their impact with similar levels of expert minimalism.\"</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/review-markus-mehr-in/\">Leonard\'s Lair</a></p>\n','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Leonard&#039;s Lair','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-leonards-lair','','','2012-04-23 03:59:46','2012-04-23 03:59:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5235',0,'post','',0),(5239,1,'2012-04-23 04:07:40','2012-04-23 04:07:40','The first of a trilogy of albums to come from German ambient experimentalist Markus Mehr over the next 12 months (via Hidden Shoal Recordings), <em>In</em>, despite its 50-minute running time houses only two tracks.\n\nOpener \'Komo\' begins as a vast, uncluttered soundscape consisting primarily of several looping string sections which emerge and entwine. From around half-way, less organic elements begin to creep in, by way of thick chords of near-pure distortion and skidding beats. The final element to be introduced is a sample of a Terence McKenna quote, which repeats as the track becomes increasingly more industrial in nature, the periods of distortion coming more frequently and with greater intensity before overtaking the track almost entirely.\n\n\'Ostinato\', by comparison, begins with the string loops already distorted and a deep undercurrent of brooding electronic fuzz. Immediately darker, a recurring piano refrain and deep cello line emerge as dominant themes; but from beneath come a range of smaller elements – snippets of music-box chimes, a recurring trumpet solo and glitchy electronic pastiches. These lesser components contribute to an air of impermanence, even decay; like snatches of memory or glimpses of distant prosperity in a foreboding sonic wilderness.\n\nDespite the unshakable ‘man-made’ feel of <em>In</em>, the progression of both tracks – and the album as a whole – feels surprisingly natural. Unforced, entropic even; the sheer scale at play is huge and Mehr manages to traverse it with barely a ripple. The knowledge that this is merely a third of what he has planned makes it all the more compelling.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://reviewedmusic.com/2012/album-review-markus-mehr-in/\">Reviewed Music</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Reviewed Music','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-reviewed-music','','','2012-04-23 04:07:40','2012-04-23 04:07:40','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5239',0,'post','',0),(5242,1,'2012-04-23 04:16:20','2012-04-23 04:16:20','<em>\"In</em>, the new release by Augsburg, Germany’s Markus Mehr, is the artist’s second full length offering from Aussie label Hidden Shoal Recordings and the first in a three-part series – a musical triptych – due to be released over the course of the next year. In this sense, <em>In</em> is both a piece and a part, and succeeds completely in both respects. Comprised of two long-form soundscapes, <em>In</em> not only stands by itself as a remarkably well crafted piece of ambience, but simultaneously sets the stage for deeper, quite likely darker, things to come.\n\nOther reviews have made mention of the length of the pieces, with the tracks \'Komo\' and \'Ostinato\' running roughly 26 and 24 minutes, respectively. Of course, in the ambient world that’s not really unusual. Instead, what stands out about <em>In</em> is not so much the length of the pieces as their depth. There’s something about the music that is not completely linear, as though the movement from the first droning pulse to the final burst of distortion is less significant than the studied exposition of each theme and texture. This strikes me as entirely in keeping with the title of the release. As a listener it becomes impossible to stand passively by – we instead become gradually situated \'in\' the music. And like the anthropologist whose very presence compromises objective observation, the effect is one of seeing both too much and too little, of getting more than one asked for and being poorer for it. It is this immersive experience that makes <em>In</em> both a challenge and a revelation, an accomplishment which speaks powerfully of Mr. Mehr’s daring and engagement with his audience.\n\nWith regard to the tunes themselves, as stated above these are compositions of minutely detailed, classic ambience. Both pieces are reminiscient of Frippertronic soundscaping, with looping motifs receiving various treatments, disruptions and distortions. Yet where soundscapes tend to meander across some vague sonic landscape, the music of <em>In</em> drills down and takes root. String pad phrases are developed with patience and care, only to be intermittently interrupted and finally overcome by staccato bursts of heavy distortion. Spoken word, guitar and piano samples are employed to excellent effect, breaking up the deliberate rhythms of the music and injecting significant tension into otherwise patient grooves. Ultimately, whereas both \'Komo\' and \'Ostinato\' employ repetition to a degree beyond the average soundscape, they are also more musically complete and resonate with their creator’s intent. Mr. Mehr clearly has a point to make, and after several listens, I could probably be forgiven for interpreting the whole release as a reflection on entropy and the seemingly inevitable trend of mechanization within human interaction.\n\nUnlike most of the other releases reviewed here, <em>In</em> is not a free download and can be purchased from the Hidden Shoal Recordings website. Yet however much I like to focus on Creative Commons releases, I believe <em>In</em> is worth an exception as one of the best releases so far this year and one which will absolutely be appreciated by fans of abstract ambient music and soundscapes. I look forward to hearing more from Markus Mehr and eagerly anticipate the forthcoming releases in the triptych.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.petalmusic.org/blog/?p=100\">Petal</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Petal','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-petal','','','2012-04-23 04:16:20','2012-04-23 04:16:20','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5242',0,'post','',0),(5244,1,'2012-04-23 04:42:54','2012-04-23 04:42:54','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Markus_Mehr/lazy-k-thumbs/Markus_Mehr_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"100\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>\'s latest album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a>, the first of a triptych, has been receiving glowing reviews left, right and centre. To keep track of the lovin\', pop along to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/markus-mehr-reviews/\">Markus\'s reviews section</a>, or visit any of the following wonderful music review sites to find out why everyone\'s been getting juiced up: <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon189/de189.php\">Luna Kafe</a>, <a href=\"http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2012-01-29/markus-mehr-in\">Ambient Blog</a>, <a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/01/27/markus-mehr-in/\">A Closer Listen</a>, <a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/markus-mehr-in-hidden-shoal\">Igloo magazine</a>, <a href=\"http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2621862 \">Absolute Punk</a>, <a href=\"http://thesilentballet.com/reviews/2012/03/markus-mehr-in \">The Silent Ballet</a>, <a href=\"http://reviewedmusic.com/2012/album-review-markus-mehr-in/ \">Reviewed Music</a>, <a href=\"http://www.petalmusic.org/blog/?p=100\">Petal</a>, <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/mehr_in.htm \">Textura</a>, and <a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/review-markus-mehr-in/\">Leonard\'s Lair</a>. Wowser!\n\nVisit Soundcloud to hear excerpts from <em>In</em>\'s two epic tracks, \'Komo\' and \'Ostinato\':\n\n<iframe src=\"http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1467890&amp;show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\"></iframe>\n\nAnd, of course, visit the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to purchase the album in CD and digital formats. Part two of the triptych, <em>On</em>, will be released on 21 June, with the final part, <em>Off, </em>coming in January 2013.','Massive Batch of Markus Mehr Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','massive-batch-of-markus-mehr-reviews','','','2016-02-03 16:00:46','2016-02-03 08:00:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5244',0,'post','',0),(5249,1,'2012-05-11 01:37:47','2012-05-11 01:37:47','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kramies1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" align=\"left\" />\'Inventors\', the centrepiece of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\">Kramies</a>\' acclaimed EP <em>The European</em>, now has a gorgeous <a href=\"http://youtu.be/C5865MiACPA\" target=\"_blank\">video clip</a> in which to bathe your visual cortex while your ears are busy blissing out. \'Inventors\' is the dark, shadowy heart of <em>The European</em>, a ballad of subtle intensity. The track is counterbalanced by the snow drenched, dreamlike visuals of the music video, shot by Kevin Ott and  Kramies\' wife Renee Gardner and edited and post produced by Hidden Shoal\'s very own Cam Merton.\n\n<em>“Kramies Windt is on to something here. The songwriter’s debut five-track EP for Hidden Shoal marries wafting synth textures and an acoustic guitar bedrock to well-honed direct songcraft, making every cut a keeper... the chilly expanse of “Coal Miners Executive Club” and its comforting refrain of “We can pace ourselves” swirl inside the head, and “Antiquarian Days” evokes John Lennon at his most reflective... Mr. Windt’s grand sweeping gestures are never empty, and his hooks are never cheap. It’s no wonder that with each subsequent listen, I find myself enjoying <em>The European</em> more and more.”</em> - <strong>PopMatters</strong>\n\n<em>The European</em>, produced by Todd Tobias (Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard), is available now through <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> in digital format as well as a numbered, limited edition of 100 CD postcards.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe width=\"510\" height=\"289\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/C5865MiACPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n\n&nbsp;','Beautiful New Music Video for Kramies &#039;Inventors&#039;','','publish','closed','open','','beautiful-new-music-video-for-kramies-inventors','','','2016-02-03 15:47:07','2016-02-03 07:47:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5249',0,'post','',0),(5252,1,'2012-04-25 23:13:03','2012-04-25 23:13:03','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Medicine-Show-480px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the availability of CD pre-orders and digital downloads for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a>, the debut solo album by musical experimentalist, Guided By Voices producer and long-time Robert Pollard collaborator <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/todd-tobias\">Todd Tobias</a>. All CD orders come with an immediate download of the album as well as an exclusive  bonus download of the previously un-released <em>Night Above Ground</em> EP. <strong></strong>\n\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <em>Medicine Show</em> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\n\n<em>“A psychedelic boat ride that leads to a poorly lit and wicked place, where even the nursery rhymes of youth become foreboding...”</em> - <strong>AllMusic on Circus Devils’ <em>Ringworm Interiors</em></strong>\n\nHead to the<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"> Hidden Shoal Store</a> to preview and order the album ahead of its official release on the 26th of April. The CD comes as a limited numbered edition of 200 in a beautiful Stuart Medley designed, 4 panel gatefold with insert. All CD orders come with an immediate download of the album as well as an exclusive  bonus download of the previously un-released <em>Night Above Ground</em> EP.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/todd-tobias-manatoc-enters-the[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','Medicine Show by Todd Tobias Available for CD Pre-Order &amp; Digital','','publish','closed','open','','medicine-show-by-todd-tobias-available-for-cd-pre-order-digital','','','2016-02-03 16:39:54','2016-02-03 08:39:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5252',0,'post','',0),(5265,1,'2012-04-27 09:20:19','2012-04-27 09:20:19','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/MedicineShow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />\n\nTodd Tobias\'s ultra-awesome new solo album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\" target=\"_blank\">Medicine Show</a></em> has just received a fantastic review over at <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/04/todd-tobias-medicine-show/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a>. What do you mean you don\'t know who Todd Tobias is? He\'s that dude who\'s worked with Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices, and plays in Circus Devils! Sheesh! Get with the program!\n\nHead over to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream the album in full and place your pre-order for the CD, which gives you an immediate download of the album, plus a free download of the bonus EP <em>Night Above Ground. </em>Get to it and we\'ll forgive you for the whole \'Who\'s Todd Tobias?\' thing.','Todd Tobias&#039;s Medicine Show Gets Standing Ovation From Fluid Radio','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobiass-medicine-show-gets-standing-ovation-from-fluid-radio','','','2016-02-03 16:40:34','2016-02-03 08:40:34','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5265',0,'post','',0),(5268,1,'2012-04-27 09:50:41','2012-04-27 09:50:41','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wrm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />\n\nWes Willenbring\'s superb third album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons Reference Manual</a> </em>has just received glowing reviews over at <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/04/wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a> and <a href=\"http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/32493/181/\" target=\"_blank\">Rave magazine</a>. The album can be streamed in full at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>, and is available for pre-order, with CDs shipping on 4 May. Do it!','Wes Willenbring&#039;s Weapons Reference Manual Reviewed','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbrings-weapons-reference-manual-reviewed','','','2014-08-01 02:15:59','2014-08-01 02:15:59','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5268',0,'post','',0),(5270,1,'2012-04-27 09:52:20','2012-04-27 09:52:20','In February 2007, Hidden Shoal Recordings introduced Bay Area recording artist Wes Willenbring. His debut was named Somewhere Someone Else, and was greeted with that particular brand of scattered enthusiasm unique to an obscure release, including a Headphone Commute review stating, “Modern classical hasn’t felt this young in years!” The album certainly had its moments, between the slanting and morose piano scribbling of “Aperture” and the pulsing, insistent “In A Quiet Dark Room.” (The track “As You Fade Away” was featured in a recent episode of Skins).\n\nWillenbring’s sophomore release was Close But Not Too Close (October 2009), and received more widespread acclaim. The composer’s years of piano instruction and technical chops were much more evident here, in the plainly-titled “My Ghostly Fingers” and the loose-stringed “A Half-Hearted Apology.” Hypnagogue wrote, “There’s nothing here that isn’t absolutely inherent, nothing wedged or crammed in where it doesn’t belong.” By May of the following year, Willenbring indulged Fluid readers with an excellent Mixcloud collection, including tracks by Six Organs of Admittance, Vincent Gallo and William Basinksi, among the more standard fare. A subsequent Future Sequence interview revealed him to be a film, literature, and baseball aficionado. He prefers guitar and piano over synthesizer, the latter of which tends toward lateral exploration, but not necessarily much forward progress.\n\nSo he has our attention, and the third album — named Weapons Reference Manual — is set for an April 12 pre-order.\n\nTwo cuts stand out immediately: the advance track “Consequences of Recklessness,” and the 15-minute, three-act drone presentation “Quaaludes.” The former hints at dulcimer prowess, warm, possibly eastern drone hardware, even the hoarse call of a wind instrument, although all three of the sound elements are likely guitar. Willenbring reports that his compositions begin with melody, and the ethic shows here: a three-note siren heard through the distance of processing. “Quaaludes” opens with a bow to the narcotic idealism of early hard rock: a sludgy, distorted guitar, minimal and dissonant, with cavernous echoes. The repetition becomes entrancing, if not downright obsessive-compulsive. The first ten minutes go by quickly: the accumulation of feedback is unrushed, even exhilarating, if on a more rational level. And at the moment where the reiteration becomes too much, the tumultuous sleep begins dissolving into light. Or overdose, depending on how you interpret the narrative.\n\nIt is difficult to pick a favorite out of Willenbring’s catalog: the vastness of Somewhere Someone Else, the intricacies of Close But Not Too Close, or the meeting of both that he offers with Weapons Reference Manual. The Andalusian guitar and light manufacturing rumble of “People Disappear Every Day” favors Close, while the slowly rousing, crystalline guitars and telegraphed production of “Scene Missing” more favors Somewhere. There is a lot to like about the smeared ink, low-throttle guitar distortion and shimmering, time-lapse sustain of Weapons, but more than this, it is an invitation to get to know his discography as a whole.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/04/wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio </a>','Wes Willenbring &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; - Fluid Radio','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual-fluid-radio','','','2014-08-01 02:23:24','2014-08-01 02:23:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5270',0,'post','',0),(5272,1,'2012-04-27 09:57:26','2012-04-27 09:57:26','Thankfully, San Franciscan ambient musician Wes Willenbring doesn’t produce the kind of limply ethereal sounds you once meditated to that time you were trying to be more spiritual. On this, his third release, Willenbring wrests his raw guitar work together with distorting effects and chilling piano to create a record that’s more ‘layered aural dreamscape’ than ‘soundtrack to Ikea catalogue’. Tracks like \'People Disappear Everyday\' wax and wane, with deeply immersive silences and striking instrumental work that jolts you back to consciousness. Short, achingly melancholic numbers pepper the highlight tracks. Most are just long enough to lose yourself in, although Quaaludes presents 15 minutes of humming guitar, melting uneasily into a hypnotic composition of warped effects. These soundscapes are tightly constructed yet fluid enough that Weapons Resource Manual feels like a choose-your-own-adventure record; there’s undeniable emotion behind the dramatic scores and haunting static interludes, but what it evokes is up to you.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/32493/181/\" target=\"_blank\">Rave magazine </a>','Wes Willenbring &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; - Rave magazine','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual-rave-magazine','','','2014-08-01 02:23:24','2014-08-01 02:23:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5272',0,'post','',0),(5278,1,'2012-05-08 14:58:50','2012-05-08 14:58:50','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MarkusMehrOn.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5280\" title=\"MarkusMehrOn\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MarkusMehrOn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>\'s new album <em>On</em> is coming next month - and it\'s a blinder. To whet your appetite, video artist <a href=\"http://www.sixt-sense.de/\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanie Sixt</a> has created a <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfMLHZZomw\">sublime trailer </a>featuring excerpts of several of <em>On</em>\'s tracks, including upcoming single \'Flaming Youth\'.<em></em>\n\n<em>On </em>is the second album in a triptych that began with the acclaimed recent release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a>, and ends with next January\'s <em>Off</em>. <em>On </em>is released on 21 June, preceded by \'Flaming Youth\' on 18 May, 2012. Check out all Markus Mehr releases, including free downloads, at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/PcfMLHZZomw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"></iframe>','Video Trailer for Markus Mehr&#039;s New Album &quot;On&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','video-trailer-for-markus-mehrs-new-album-on','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5278',0,'post','',0),(9769,1,'2014-07-18 09:05:06','2014-07-18 09:05:06','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"on\" background_color=\"#050505\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"css\"][et_pb_column type=\"3_4\" specialty_columns=\"3\"][et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_column_inner type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]<h1>Antonymes</h1><p><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-6978\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Antonymes_1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Antonymes\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" /></a><em>“sound sketches of enormous, if fragile, beauty”</em> –<strong> The Silent Ballet </strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Antonymes/108567235841143?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8763\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/Antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8766\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"SoundCloud\" href=\"https://soundcloud.com/antonymes\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SoundCloud.png\" alt=\"SoundCloud\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a>  <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http://www.antonymes.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8767\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Website.png\" alt=\"Website\" width=\"26\" height=\"20\" /></a> </strong></p>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider\" color=\"#ffffff\" show_divider=\"off\" /][et_pb_tabs admin_label=\"Artist Tabs\"][et_pb_tab title=\"Discography\"]\r\n<h3>Discography</h3>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long (with Slow Dancing Society)</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 274px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4290771882/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=none/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/we-dont-look-back-for-very-long\">We Don\'t Look Back For Very Long by Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society</a></iframe><br />\r\nOctober 2011</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long </em>sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>Lost In Waves of Light</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3184595053/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light\">Lost In Waves Of Light by Antonymes</a></iframe><br />\r\nMay 2011</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p>Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span>, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today. Antonymes new album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow.</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<h4>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</h4>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 600px; height: 550px;\" src=\"http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1679006704/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/the-licence-to-interpret-dreams\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams by Antonymes</a></iframe><br />\r\nApril 2011</p>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Licence To Interpret Dreams</span> is the Hidden Shoal debut release by neo-classical/minimal ambient artist Antonymes. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow. The album’s scope is immediately apparent on breathtaking opener ‘The Slow Beginnings of a ‘A Fragile Acceptance’, where faint piano notes are overwhelmed by an aching surge of cellos, and the timeless, lingering chord progression of ‘The Siren, Hopelessly Lost’. Single ‘Endlessly’ weaves traces of nature with unearthly, oscillating tones before giving way to a strident piano theme. On ‘Doubt’, Jan Van Den Broek delivers the words of Paul Morley, cradled against a bed of melancholic piano, violin and cello, leaving an indelible emotional mark. ‘A Light From The Heavens’ almost feels like a natural conclusion to the album, with its sense of reflective yearning, but it is followed by the devastating metaphysical breakdown of ‘On Arrival at the Strange Museum’, a cavernous piece that calls out like some giant magnetic spirit.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Bio\"]\r\n<h3>Biography</h3>\r\n<p>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.</p>\r\n<p>Debut mini-album <em>Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future</em> was released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, <em>31: Before The Light Fails</em>, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes’ fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by labels Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet. The album <em>The Licence To Interpet Dreams</em> was released by Hidden Shoal to widespread critical acclaim in early 2011.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"News\"]\r\n<h3>News</h3>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-news content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Reviews\"]\r\n<h2>Reviews</h2>\r\n[catlist name=antonymes-reviews content=yes pagination=no title_tag=h4 title_class=lcp_title][/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Press Releases\"]\r\n<h3>Press Releases</h3>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – <em>We Don’t Look Back For Very Long</em> </a> <a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_meets_Slow_Dancing_Society.pdf\">EP </a></p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Lost_In_Waves_Of_Light.pdf\">Lost In Waves Of Light</a></em></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\"><em>The Licence To Interpret Dreams</em> Album</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes-Endlessly.pdf\">‘Endlessly’ Single</a></p>\r\n<p><a href=\"../../publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Antonymes_Signing.pdf\">Antonymes Signing</a></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Gallery\"]\r\n<h3>Artist Photos</h3>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n[gallery ids=\"8222,8221,8220,8219\"]\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Video\"]\r\n<h3>Music Videos</h3>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U7tLhh8a1lo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/4senhm9eiTY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=\"Licensing\"]\r\n<h3>Licensing</h3>\r\n<p>Antonymes\' music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/\">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.</p>\r\n[/et_pb_tab][/et_pb_tabs][/et_pb_column_inner][/et_pb_row_inner][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_4\"][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=\"Sidebar\" orientation=\"left\" area=\"sidebar-1\" background_layout=\"light\" module_id=\"shoalsidebar\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section]','Antonymes','','inherit','closed','open','','8572-revision-v1','','','2014-07-18 09:05:06','2014-07-18 09:05:06','',8572,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/8572-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5292,1,'2012-05-04 05:15:28','2012-05-04 05:15:28','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/HSR_Logo_only_colour1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"91\" align=\"left\" />Throughout the month of May 2012, <a href=\"http://music.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> is celebrating its sixth birthday. Later in the month will be the release of the latest free sampler album, <em>Triangulating Nature</em>, which compiles 12 singles released over the last 12 months. Other delicious surprises will be revealed in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more info.\n\nSince starting up in Perth, Western Australia in 2006, Hidden Shoal has developed an enviable roster of genre-defying global and local recording artists. With 40+ acts from 10+ different countries, ranging from British ambient artist Antonymes through to American musical experimentalist Todd Tobias and beyond, the committed team at Hidden Shoal continues to play an integral role in promoting exciting new independent music.\n\nCome <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/mailng-list/\">join us</a> and keep an eye on the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for lots of cool special birthday deals!','Hidden Shoal Turns Six!','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-turns-six','','','2016-02-03 16:42:16','2016-02-03 08:42:16','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5292',0,'post','',0),(5306,1,'2012-05-04 10:01:14','2012-05-04 10:01:14','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/wesprofile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"114\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\">the official release</a> of the third album by American ambient craftsman <a title=\"Wes Willenbring\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/wes-willenbring/\">Wes Willenbring</a>, <a title=\"Weapons Reference Manual\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\"><em>Weapons Reference Manual</em></a>.\n\nAs a further progression from his acclaimed debut <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=38\"><em>Somewhere Someone Else</em></a> and his stunning sophomore album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=125\"><em>Close, But Not Too Close</em></a>, <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em> features a varied and richly hued palette of visceral guitar tones, effects-warped textures and achingly beautiful piano work. Immersive and darkly emotive soundscapes, such as droning opener ‘Dreams and Schemes’ and the 15-minute epic ‘Quaaludes’, are counterbalanced by seductively melodic pieces, such as ‘People Disappear Everyday’ and closing track ‘Ashes’. Meanwhile, single ‘Consequences of Recklessness’ is <em>Weapons Reference Manual’s</em> shimmering centrepiece, setting icicles of delayed guitar amid an aching tapestry of drones and feedback. It sets the tone for the album as a whole, perhaps Willenbring’s most complex and satisfying release to date.\n\n<em> “a gorgeous ambient album … a serene, hypnotic and majestic soundscape suitable for daydreaming... hauntingly beautiful atmospheric compositions”</em> – <strong>Delusion Of Adequacy on <em>Close, But Not Too Close</em> </strong>\n\n<em>“Absolutely gorgeous. Dreamy dark meandering melancholia for fans of Stars Of The Lid, Eluvium, Dead Texan, Tim Hecker, Godspeed and other purveyors of darkly dramatic, abstract moody minimalism”</em> – <strong>Aquarius Records on <em>Somewhere Someone Else</em></strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\"><em>Weapons Reference Manual</em></a> is available now on CD and digital download. The CD release comes as a numbered limited edition of 200. There are still CD units left after the initial pre-orders but be quick as numbers are limited. Check out the <a title=\"Weapons Reference Manual\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/wes-willenbring-consequences[/soundcloud]','Wes Willenbring&#039;s &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; Official Release','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbrings-weapons-reference-manual-official-release','','','2014-08-01 02:15:59','2014-08-01 02:15:59','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5306',0,'post','',0),(5327,1,'2012-05-16 05:41:55','2012-05-16 05:41:55','The name Todd Tobias probably isn’t a name familiar to you unless you are a very keen fan of prolific Indie mavericks Guided By Voices. Since 2002, when he produced GBV’s <em>Universal Truths And Cycles</em> album Tobias has assisted the band in pursuing their single mindedly idiosyncratic visions, and while they perhaps exist on the boundaries of obscurity GBV have, over the years, made some very listenable music. I need to declare an interest of sorts here: almost nine years ago I heard “Cheyenne”, the single released from the <em>Universal Truths And Cycles</em> album and few tracks I’ve ever heard affected me quite as profoundly as that particular song did right then, with its nerve jangling guitar riff and Robert Pollards eloquently tortured vocal. As soon as I found out who the band were and where the song had originated from I immediately rushed to my nearest megastore and demanded a copy of what was, had anyone asked me, album of the year 2003.\n\nSo when I received the press release for <em>Medicine Show</em> I will admit to feeling slightly nostalgic in recalling an overcast Sunday evening all of nine years ago when one of the greatest guitar riffs I ever heard crackled out of a now long lost analogue radio, bringing with it an air of medium wave mystery and introducing me to the work of some of the US indie world’s quite genuine mavericks. Just one of those moments, but only certain bands can really create those moments, and now in 2012, the producer of <em>Universal Truths…</em> and everything GBV has done since – Todd Tobias – presents us with an album of instrumentals that are as disturbingly captivating and downright twisted as anything Guided By Voices ever released.\n\nA theme of sorts runs through <em>Medicine Show</em>: there is, according to my interpretation of the track titles, a story to tell, involving characters with names such as Clubfoot and Manatoc whose shadowy confrontations are left to the listeners imagination, and Todd Tobias provides more than ample musical backdrop to the images of primitive technologies that the track titles convey. Starting with “Night Of The Clubfoot” Tobias presents us some of the trademark twisted chord changes that anyone familiar with GBV will recognise instantly while the instrumentation holds the subtlest hints of foreboding and hidden challenge. Next track “Manatoc Is Born”, a sequence of keyboard glissandos that are suddenly broken apart by some thunderous effects that go some way towards conjuring a very different world to the one most of us inhabit, a pre-human wilderness of shambling creatures living lives of remorseless brutality. If this is starting to make <em>Medicine Show</em> resemble the soundtrack of some xBox dinosaur game then take it from me, it’d make for a good one if that was ever released. As the album progresses the music reveals a constantly building tension that can only end in some catastrophe or other, and track titles such as “Pre-Dawn Visitation” and “Shadows With Teeth” really do start to resemble the chapters of a fantasy novel.\n\nIf I’ve any actual criticism it’s that the album really could use some acoustic instrumentation to bring some added contrasts to Tobias’s almost entirely electronic soundscapes. Call an album <em>Medicine Show</em> and some music buffs might expect something very different to this 15 track exercise in edgy atmospherics and controlled noise, but it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2012/05/todd-tobias-medicine-show/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>','Todd Tobias &quot;Medicine Show&quot; - Delusions of Adequacy','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobias-medicine-show-delusions-of-adequacy','','','2012-05-16 05:41:55','2012-05-16 05:41:55','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5327',0,'post','',0),(5329,1,'2012-05-16 06:03:42','2012-05-16 06:03:42','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/MedicineShow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Todd Tobias\'s debut solo album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a> has just received a cracking review over at <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2012/05/todd-tobias-medicine-show/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>. Pop along to <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/\" target=\"_blank\">DoA</a> to read the review, or visit Todd\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/todd-tobias-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\">review section</a> in his artist profile on the Hidden Shoal site. While you\'re at it, you can stream the album in full at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Get to it.','Todd Tobias Review on Delusions of Adequacy','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobias-review-on-delusions-of-adequacy','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5329',0,'post','',0),(5336,1,'2012-05-18 02:53:48','2012-05-18 02:53:48','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Markus_Mehr_5-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"153\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘<a href=\"http://hsrlink.me/f_y\">Flaming Youth</a>’, the new single by German experimental ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>, taken from his forthcoming album <em>On</em>.\n\n‘Flaming Youth’ tentatively fizzes into life as though fragments of static are being received from the heavens. As the static begins to clear, a gorgeous sleepy-eyed loop surfaces, bleeding through like a blissful, mesmerising surge of mangled lounge-jazz. ‘Flaming Youth’ continues Mehr’s ongoing exploration of texture versus melody, taken from his new album <em>On</em>, the second album in an ambitious triptych that began with the acclaimed <em>In</em> and will be completed by the forthcoming <em>Off</em>. On’s eight diverse tracks employ samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones.\n\n<em>“one of the best releases so far this year and one which will absolutely be appreciated by fans of abstract ambient music and soundscapes” </em>–<strong> Petal on In</strong>\n\n<em>“In this blissful wanderlust Mehr succeeds in spades creating a completely engrossing, engaging and all together reliable album full of the most powerful ambient-drone tracks this year” </em>–<strong> Tome to the Weather Machine on Lava</strong>\n\n<em>On</em> is preceded by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a>, the first part of the triptych, comprising two monumental tracks, ‘Komo’ and ‘Ostinato’, each of which clocks in at around 25 minutes, circling around and building upon hypnotic instrumental motifs. <em>Off</em>, released on 24 January 2013, includes the most epic piece yet, ‘Transit’, which clocks in at 49 minutes and will be performed live in collaboration with video artist Stefanie Sixt, who created the video to Mehr’s single ‘Cousteau’.\n\n‘Flaming Youth’ is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. It is taken from the forthcoming album <em>On</em>, available from 21 June 2012.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-flaming-youth[/soundcloud]','New Track From Markus Mehr&#039;s Forthcoming Album &quot;On&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','new-track-from-markus-mehrs-forthcoming-album-on','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5336',0,'post','',0),(5362,1,'2012-05-24 15:25:20','2012-05-24 15:25:20','<img src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Medicine-Show-480px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" align=\"left\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the official CD release of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a>, the debut solo album by musical experimentalist, Guided By Voices producer and long-time Robert Pollard collaborator <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/todd-tobias\">Todd Tobias</a>. All CD orders come with an immediate download of the album as well as an exclusive bonus download of the previously un-released <em>Night Above Ground</em> EP. <strong></strong>\n\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’, <em>Medicine Show</em> plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\n\n<em>\"Call an album Medicine Show and some music buffs might expect something very different to this 15 track exercise in edgy atmospherics and controlled noise, but it’s tribute to Todd Tobias’s skill as a producer and arranger that the pace never slackens and that he’s quite effectively produced the audio equivalent of a graphic novel, one that will keep you listening right up until its cataclysmic final moments.\"</em> - <strong>DOA</strong>\n\nHead to the<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"> Hidden Shoal Store</a> to purchase the album on CD or in digital format. The CD comes as a limited numbered edition of 200 in a beautiful Stuart Medley designed, 4 panel gatefold with insert. All CD orders come with an immediate download of the album as well as an exclusive bonus download of the previously un-released <em>Night Above Ground</em> EP. Pre-orders have been extremely popular so remaining stock is limited.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/todd-tobias-manatoc-enters-the[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','Todd Tobias &quot;Medicine Show&quot; Out Now!','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobias-medicine-show-out-now','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5362',0,'post','',0),(5374,1,'2012-05-30 03:08:11','2012-05-30 03:08:11','<em><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/Triangulating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=12&amp;products_id=203\" target=\"_blank\">Triangulating Nature</a></em>, volume 7 in our free sampler album series, released to coincide with our sixth birthday celebrations, has just received a lovely review on the German music blog <a href=\"http://derdigitaleflaneur.blogspot.de/2012/05/hidden-shoal-recordings-triangulating.html\" target=\"_blank\">Der Digitale Flaneur</a>. It\'s in German, obviously, so to save you the hassle of feeding it through a translator, a pick of the phrases used in the review would be \"addiction guaranteed\" and \"an enchanting kaleidoscope of sounds and styles\". <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=12&amp;products_id=203\" target=\"_blank\">What are you waiting for?!</a>','Triangulating Nature on Der Digitale Flaneur','','publish','closed','open','','triangulating-nature-on-der-digitale-flaneur','','','2012-05-30 03:08:11','2012-05-30 03:08:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5374',0,'post','',0),(5377,1,'2012-06-01 10:51:52','2012-06-01 10:51:52','The black and gray cover of Wes Willenbring’s new album, predisposes us for an encounter with an artist whose uncompromising vision may become either overbearing or revealing of greater truths that can only be deciphered through music.  Not any music can do that of course, as not everyone is willing to push the boundary of sound, or use the experience of living in a post-industrial world as a source of inspiration to make something truly original, but most importantly esoteric.\n\nWillenbring with <em>Weapons Reference Manual </em>makes a convincing argument for the fact that the transition into a post-industrial world hasn’t transformed the essentials of the human condition, as the grayness that remains at the heart of human civilization is still the main factor that guides our every move.  Experimenting with tones, drones, mechanic background noise, distorted drums and guitar, he builds dark atmospheres which embrace the listeners and present them with a sense of danger.  His music evolves like a being born in the darkness, moving like dark clouds, preparing us for a storm that may or may not come, but will surely affect our vision of the world (whether it will be for the better or the worse, remains to be seen and depends on our perspective the same way the Mayan prophesies of an impending doom or the dawn of an era of enlightenment, are interpreted depending on what each one of us wants to believe).\n\nLike a soundtrack to William Blake’s trip from normality to a fictional city named Machine at the end of the world in Jim Jarmusch’s <em>Dead Man, </em>Willenbring’s music tells us the story of a long train trip with no end in sight, the monotonous sound of the train’s engines becoming a part of life, in a way that we couldn’t have imagined before.  While all that sounds depressing, it surely isn’t.  The correct word is detached, as Willenbring has abandoned the emotional touches of his previous works, and seems to observe the story he’s writing from a distance.\n\nHis work is meticulous, serious, at times hypnotic, but also capable of keeping the listener wide awake.  This isn’t an album about the world’s beauty, but about recklessness, people disappearing every day, and dreams that will never be realized.  It’s  a wake-up call and meditation music for those willing to deep deeper into the most uncomfortable thoughts of our collective consciousness.\n\n<a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/05/27/wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a>','Wes Willenbring &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; - A Closer Listen','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual-a-closer-listen','','','2014-08-01 02:23:24','2014-08-01 02:23:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5377',0,'post','',0),(5379,1,'2012-06-01 10:53:19','2012-06-01 10:53:19','Presented in a dark industrial grey cover, <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>, Wes Willenbring\'s third recording for Hidden Shoal, arrives with a clear sense of foreboding, a mood reinforced on aural grounds by the oily pool of black grime that floods its guitar-fueled dronescape “Dreams and Schemes.” It\'s a provocative and challenging opener by the now-San Francisco-based Willenbring, a way of stating that anyone climbing aboard will do so on his terms and no one else\'s. It\'s a stance borne out of artistic conviction, however, not defiance or arrogance—the sound of Willenbring following his instincts where they naturally lead. It\'s interesting to hear where his muse takes him on the seven-track, forty-minute outing: the epic, fifteen-minute meditation “Quaaludes,” for example, is powered by distortion-laden electric guitar playing of the kind we associate with Fear Falls Burning and thisquietarmy, while “Scene Missing” plunges us into a seven-minute black pit of vaporous soundscaping that invites comparison to Deathprod.\n\nLight-dark conflict appears to be the album\'s primary theme; it\'s certainly one Willenbring returns to throughout. On a number of occasions, scattered moments of illumination arise, bringing with them some tentative glimmer of hope, until they\'re slowly subsumed by darkness. Though the gentle strum of an acoustic guitar suggests “People Disappear Every Day” might offer some degree of peacefulness, it\'s gradually overwhelmed by a swelling mass of granular fuzz that recasts the piece as a drone-like reprise of the opener. In similar manner, the jittery guitar figure that introduces “Consequences of Recklessness” is slowly buried under a growing field of metallic tones, while the pretty arpeggios with which “The Worst Part of You is the Best Thing You Have” begins gradually lose their definition. Arriving as they do after the amorphous sludge of “Quaaludes,” the piano chords of “Ashes” almost startle when they resonate so clearly. In toto, <em>Weapons Reference Manual </em> presents a grittier and rawer side of Willenbring than has been heard before, and the move isn\'t unwelcome. His decision to offset the soothing sweetness so typical of of ambient music with the corrosive effects of effects-heavy guitarscaping proves to be an effective strategy on this latest chapter in his still-evolving story.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/willenbring_weaponsreference.htm\" target=\"_blank\">textura</a>','Wes Willenbring &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; - textura','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual-textura','','','2014-08-01 02:23:24','2014-08-01 02:23:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5379',0,'post','',0),(5381,1,'2012-06-01 11:11:00','2012-06-01 11:11:00','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/wrm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Wes Willenbring\'s stunning new album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=20&amp;products_id=199\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons Reference Manual</a> </em>has recently received glowing reviews from <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/willenbring_weaponsreference.htm\" target=\"_blank\">textura</a> and <a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/05/27/wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a>. It\'s also been charting on a stack of US and Canadian radio stations, including <a href=\"http://www.ashevillefm.org/news/05/2012/asheville-fm-charts-for-the-week-ending-05052012\" target=\"_blank\">Asheville FM</a>, <a href=\"http://chuo.fm/?p=2019\" target=\"_blank\">Chuo FM</a>, <a href=\"http://cjsw.com/music/charts/2012-05-21/\" target=\"_blank\">CJSW</a>, <a href=\"http://wcbnmd.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/wcbn-fm-chart-may-14-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">WCBN</a>, <a href=\"http://kdvs.org/thirty\" target=\"_blank\">KDVS</a> and <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?session=&amp;action=viewChart\" target=\"_blank\">KZSU</a>. Thanks to all those stations, and their acronyms, for their support!','Reviews and Radio Play for New Wes Willenbring Album','','draft','closed','open','','reviews-and-radio-play-for-new-wes-willenbring-album','','','2014-08-01 02:15:59','2014-08-01 02:15:59','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5381',0,'post','',0),(5405,1,'2012-06-07 01:46:10','2012-06-07 01:46:10','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/sospeso_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the pre-release of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a>, the new amazing new album by ambient electronica artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/elisa-luu/\">Elisa Luu</a>. The album is now available for immediate<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"> digital download and CD pre-order</a>.\n\nAs evidenced on recently released single ‘Se Fosse Per Me’, <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em> is dense with chiming tones, buoyant beats, skittering horns and immersive drones. From the shimmering, levitating tones of ‘Flussigirl’ to the rattling, dark drone-beat of ‘Il Tempo Di Capire’, Elisa Luu’s brilliant marriage of texture and composition is on virtuoso display.\n\nElisa Luu’s alchemical touch is in full bloom on this, her long-awaited second album for Hidden Shoal. Her uniquely crafted compositions carry a warmth and vulnerability that belies their digitally manipulated textures. The album takes the glorious blueprint of debut <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=117\"><em>Chromatic Sigh</em></a> and accentuates the highlights and shadows, making for a deliciously disorientating trip.\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">Un Giorno Sospeso</a>  </em>is available now for immediate digital download and CD pre-order from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. The CD comes as a limited edition, 4 panel wallet with stunning illustration and design by Stuart Medley. CD pre-orders come with an immediate download of the album. <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em> will be officially released on the 6th July, 2012.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me[/soundcloud]','New Elisa Luu Album - Digital Availability and CD Pre-Orders!','','publish','closed','open','','new-elisa-luu-album-digital-availability-and-cd-pre-orders','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5405',0,'post','',0),(5414,1,'2012-06-07 04:50:32','2012-06-07 04:50:32','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/sospeso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Elisa Luu\'s new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a>, now available as a digital download and to pre-order on CD from the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>, has just received a glowing review over at the excellent <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/06/elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a>. The album\'s lead single, \'Se Fosse Per Me\', which is available for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=198\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a>, has also just been reviewed over at the equally excellent <a href=\"http://lunakafe.com/moon193/it193.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a> and <a href=\"http://thedadada.com/2012/05/30/the-new-05-30-12/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dadada</a>.','Elisa Luu Reviewed on Fluid Radio, The Dadada and Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-reviewed-on-fluid-radio-the-dadada-and-luna-kafe','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5414',0,'post','',0),(5418,1,'2012-06-07 04:53:33','2012-06-07 04:53:33','Excerpt: \"an ethereal amalgamation of electronic music, freewheeling psychedelia, and modernistic elements.  It’s a superb composition with a wavelike structure and evolving melodies.  Fans of Eno and Steve Reich will probably like Elisa Luu.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://thedadada.com/2012/05/30/the-new-05-30-12/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dadada</a>','Elisa Luu &quot;Se Fosse Per Me&quot; - The Dadada','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me-the-dadada','','','2012-06-07 04:53:33','2012-06-07 04:53:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5418',0,'post','',0),(5420,1,'2012-06-07 04:55:49','2012-06-07 04:55:49','Excerpt: \"Luu creates spellbinding compositions; this time a warm whirlwind melody with suggestive lazy-beat rhythms, topped with a delicate garnish, and glazed with precise instrumentation. An indeed fine blend of analogue-digital. She\'s one of a few female electronica artist competing the entire male armadas of the genre. Elisa Luu\'s sure got some Midas touch. She\'s a Queen Midas.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://lunakafe.com/moon193/it193.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a>','Elisa Luu &quot;Se Fosse Per Me&quot; - Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me-luna-kafe','','','2012-06-07 04:55:49','2012-06-07 04:55:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5420',0,'post','',0),(5423,1,'2012-06-07 04:59:47','2012-06-07 04:59:47','Excerpt: \"Hidden Shoal Recordings continues to consolidate its reputation for unearthing consistently exciting, engaging and intriguing material with the forthcoming release of <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em> by Elisa Luu... The eight tracks on <em>Un Giorno Sospreso</em> have a grand electronic air, counterbalanced by skittering textural flairs and enigmatic organic tones. The melodic base is solid, and there are reassuring hooks for the listener to grab onto if they require them. The approach to many of the tracks is quite dynamic; many of the pieces steer away from their introductions, developing into different beasts from what you expect from the first impression. Previous album <em>Chromatic Sigh</em> (whilst excellent) followed more of an ambient template, with the new record displaying a stronger emphasis on structure... Perhaps the most intriguing part of the recording is the way that Luu has balanced what are (in places) quite haunting and abrasive tonal elements, yet maintained an overall aspect of optimism and whimsy. Balancing light and dark evenly, tracks like closer “Noi” are clean, engaging and direct. This mix is reflected in some cracking bright retro cover art, a hallucinatory metropolitan Saul Bass adventure.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/06/elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a>','Elisa Luu &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; - Fluid Radio','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso-fluid-radio','','','2012-06-07 04:59:47','2012-06-07 04:59:47','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5423',0,'post','',0),(5427,1,'2012-06-20 14:18:22','2012-06-20 14:18:22','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;On&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/markuson_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce CD pre-orders and digital availability of the new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=205\"><em>On</em></a> by German experimental ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>. The album forms the second part of a triptych that also includes recent release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> and the forthcoming <em>Off</em>.\n\n<em>On </em>is a continuation of the experimental direction of Markus Mehr’s previous releases, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. This approach is apparent right from opener ‘Gonna Make You Mine’, as scything slashes of sound leap from the speakers. Single ‘Flaming Youth’ counterbalances fragments of static against a gorgeous sleepy-eyed loop of mangled lounge-jazz. A track as expansive and moving as ‘Duck Became Swan’ is followed by brief rhythmic piece ‘Olympia’. This tightrope walk between dizzying samples and exacting digital manipulation is walked with aplomb throughout <em>On</em>’s adventurous and thrilling 45-minute runtime.\n\n<em> “In this blissful wanderlust Mehr succeeds in spades creating a completely engrossing, engaging and all together reliable album full of the most powerful ambient-drone tracks this year”</em> – <strong>Tome to the Weather Machine on <em>Lava</em></strong>\n\n<em>“one of the best releases so far this year and one which will absolutely be appreciated by fans of abstract ambient music and soundscapes”</em> – <strong>Petal on <em>In</em></strong>\n\n<em>On</em> is available now <strong>digitally </strong>and for <strong>CD pre-order</strong>. The CD version of the release comes as a limited edition (pressing of 200) numbered, 4 panel wallet CD designed by Stuart Medley with an immediate album download. The album sees its official release on the 17th of July. Head to the <strong><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\">Hidden Shoal Store</a></strong> for all orders and release details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-on-album-teaser[/soundcloud]','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;On&quot; CD Pre-Order and Digital Availability','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-on-cd-pre-order-and-digital-availability','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5427',0,'post','',0),(5435,1,'2012-06-21 05:57:41','2012-06-21 05:57:41','Excerpt: \"German-born Mehr is an ambient architect not afraid to spell out both his ideas and his visualizations onto a larger-scale than most ambient artists of a similar field... this track deserves far more than just financial credit, it deserves some vocal credit too. \'Komo\', spanning a total of 26-minutes is a slow-burner etheral admiration of both progression and placement. Slowly creeping up from the silent confines of its initial build-up, the track unveils itself - a sweeping of droned violins and string arrangements alike sweep across in a repetition that is both soothing yet intriguingly unsettling. The source of this discomfort soon manifests in what begins as a bubbling of electric fuzz, buzzing and sizzling its way through the thinning of instrumentation that itself begins to collapse, break away...only to resurrect itself. But it\'s the electronics that take over here - the creepier vibes felt previous, now in full swing as the shock-like buzzes intensify into monstrous raws of electronic muster. A track - and an artist - not for the faint-hearted...\"\n\n<a href=\"http://musicreviewdatabase.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/track-review-markus-mehr-komo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Music Review Database</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Komo&quot; - Music Review Database','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-komo-music-review-database','','','2012-06-21 05:57:41','2012-06-21 05:57:41','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5435',0,'post','',0),(5438,1,'2012-06-21 06:09:27','2012-06-21 06:09:27','I don’t personally know Wes Willenbring, but something tells me he’s not very optimistic. His latest release, <em>Weapons Reference Manual</em>, gives off the vibe of something once menacing that time has turned sad, like a rusted scrap of Soviet-era metal. Even the vaguely flamenco-esque guitar that opens “People Disappear Every Day” is subsumed by creeping drones of unrelenting static. There’s a strange comfort to the resignation this music implies, a familiarity with the Pyrrhic spoils of modern warfare that depresses and troubles the listener in its own right. Think Neo giving a sign of relief as he watches The Matrix be switched back on. It’s defeatist and realistic, at once accepting and mournful of death and other tragedies. This might explain the rather bleak track titles; in addition to the aforementioned “People Disappear Every Day,” we’re treated to such delights as “Consequences of Recklessness,” “The Worst Part of You is the Best Thing You Have,” and disquieting final track “Ashes.” There is no life after death, Willenbring seems to posit; our modern tools of oppression and combat (the titular “weapons,” I presume) have made sure of that. The question then becomes: how much life do we really get to experience *before* death?\n\nTo the San Francisco-based artist’s credit, <em>Weapons Reference Manual </em>is not a painfully harsh or even jarring piece of work. Its noisy drones seem to be following some long-established ritual and thus don’t feel the need to jolt the listener into submission. Case in point: that flamenco guitar returns on “Consequences of Recklessness,” using the song’s entire three and a half minutes to teeter on the edge of some great, implacable anxiety. This time around, it survives the invading drones for most of the song; in the end, however, it succumbs to an assaulting wall of feedback. Willenbring’s ability to weave such narratives into the often monolithic tapestry of drone music is what makes <em>Weapons </em>such a special release. This is not life-affirming work, but it feels necessary all the same. This is life-<em>reflecting </em>work, and the images it conjures are of our own creation.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=34258\" target=\"_blank\">Foxy Digitalis</a>','Wes Willenbring &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; - Foxy Digitalis','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual-foxy-digitalis','','','2014-08-01 02:23:24','2014-08-01 02:23:24','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5438',0,'post','',0),(5453,1,'2012-06-27 05:09:25','2012-06-27 05:09:25','<em>On</em> is Mr. Mehr\'s third record working under his own name; it is filled with immaculately constructed instrumentals, appointed with imaginative instrumentation and illuminating samples, that are as soothing as they are transporting. While much non-\"pop\" electronic music is rooted firmly in repetition, Mehr impresses with his ability to proffer a different approach to his craft with each song here. Lead single \"Flaming Youth\" doesn\'t develop dramatically, with its buzzing stereo entrance and a locked-groove horn sample instead steadily exhaling and inhaling across seven minutes. The intro evokes the summertime sounds of a busy bug zapper, before settling into a lush and beautiful motif that recalls the Canadian-metropolitan beauty of certain Broken Social Scene instrumentals. The real gems of <em>On</em> are the one-two punch at the close of the record. The aptly titled \"Monks On The Beach\" presents an ethereal chant smothered with static and multiple tracks of childish conversation tied together with a subtle, distorted bass guitar pulse. The song builds to the massive finale \"Tunnels,\" itself a gradually swelling behemoth. Chirping phasing sounds give way to a persistent three-chord piano figure that suddenly yields to a series of gargantuan distorted piano slams. With each strike Mehr subtly tweaks the fuzz with flanges and clipping until the tempo climaxes and the song implodes. Like a lot of the best artists within this genre attracting wider audiences (Fennesz, Eluvium and the great William Basinski to name a few), Mehr is able to infuse his art with cool effortlessness and power sufficient to hold a mirror to the listener\'s soul with a series of patient epiphanies.\n\n<a href=\"http://jbreitling.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/todays-hotness-markus-mehr-joey-fourr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clicky Clicky Music</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Clicky Clicky Music','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-clicky-clicky-music','','','2012-06-27 05:09:25','2012-06-27 05:09:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5453',0,'post','',0),(5455,1,'2012-06-27 05:14:16','2012-06-27 05:14:16','Welcome into the world of music manipulator, producer and long-time Robert Pollard collaborator Todd Tobias. <em>Medicine Show</em> is his solo debut of 16 instrumental tracks that will be very familiar and exciting to all the Circus Devils fans out there, perplexing to non-believers and absolutely intriguing for everyone else that gives this record a chance. Right from the beginning you should understand that the instrumental offerings on <em>Medicine Show</em> are not perfect for date night or just hanging out by the fire but work better when you turn them up, drink some beer and simply absorb all of their odd and spectacular nuances. Circus Devils fans will easily recognize the territory on <em>Medicine Show</em> but it is interesting how these songs take a different life of their own without the driving force of Pollard\'s vocals delivering them. The album is a true testament to the individual talent of Tobias as it puts his skill sets on full display.<em> Medicine Show</em> has the vibe of an intense book that you can\'t put down and contains new surprises around every corner. There are spaced out tracks like \"Manatoc Is Born\" which float along like a piece out of <em>Close Encounters</em> until the almost scary animal like noises abruptly interrupt the flow giving it one of the more unique listens on the record. The heavy beat clap along rhythm in \"The Children Follow\" is instantly addicting and will have you penning your own lyrics to the catchy track while the short stand up tall march of \"Asmodaeus And The Unlucky Traveler\" will quickly make you take notice. These little pieces keep <em>Medicine Show</em> vibrant while other songs such as the rocking \"Clubfoot\'s Return\" posses an intensity that shake your speakers. Clearly, <em>Medicine Show</em> is not your typical instrumental record as Todd Tobias presents a solid piece of work that relies heavily on a cool murky groove, has plenty of time and space manipulation and builds a new age sound for a different generation. If you want original - <em>Medicine Show</em> is for you; if you want an instrumental record to crank next time you shoot some pool - <em>Medicine Show</em> is for you; if you dig the Circus Devils - <em>Medicine Show</em> is for you too; if you want an instrumental record to play for your girlfriend - I heard Yanni just released a new live record!\n\n<a href=\"http://thefirenote.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/todd-tobias-medicine-show.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Fire Note</a>','Todd Tobias &quot;Medicine Show&quot; - The Fire Note','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobias-medicine-show-the-fire-note','','','2012-06-27 05:14:16','2012-06-27 05:14:16','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5455',0,'post','',0),(5460,1,'2012-06-29 12:25:16','2012-06-29 12:25:16','Excerpt (translated from the Italian): \"While her bright debut <em>Chromatic Sigh</em> (2009) had all the contours of startling revelation, in the three years since that disc, the Roman artist has refined the familiar juxtaposition and manipulation of sounds... <em>Un Giorno Sospeso </em>develops the colourful electro-acoustic layers of composition, creating a universe of tones and microsounds in constant motion... Among the many interlocking compositions, Elisa returns to surface traces of jazz, accentuating the warmth of environmental sounds, as if suspended in a dream... Whatever the nuances that draw the listener, what\'s most striking is how sensitive Elisa Luu is to detail, creating an emotionally rich balance between a dream state and measured, rhythmic dynamism.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2012_elisaluu_ungiornosospeso.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ondarock</a>','Elisa Luu &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; - Ondarock','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso-ondarock','','','2012-06-29 12:25:16','2012-06-29 12:25:16','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5460',0,'post','',0),(5463,1,'2012-06-29 12:31:06','2012-06-29 12:31:06','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/sospeso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Elisa Luu\'s stunning new album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\" target=\"_blank\">Un Giorno Sospeso</a> </em>has just received a glowing review on <a href=\"http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2012_elisaluu_ungiornosospeso.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ondarock </a>and the <a href=\"http://musicwontsaveyou.com/2012/06/27/elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso/\" target=\"_blank\">Music Won\'t Save You</a> blog. Unless you speak Italian you\'ll need to pop along to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/elisa-luu-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\">Elisa\'s reviews section</a> to read a translated excerpt.\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\" target=\"_blank\">Un Giorno Sospeso</a> </em>is available in CD and mp3 formats from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','New Elisa Luu Album Reviewed on Ondarock and Music Won&#039;t Save You','','publish','closed','open','','new-elisa-luu-album-reviewed-on-ondarock-and-music-wont-save-you','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5463',0,'post','',0),(5466,1,'2012-06-29 12:45:18','2012-06-29 12:45:18','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/markuson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Markus Mehr\'s new album <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On</em></a>, part two in an ambitious and beautifully realised trilogy, has just received a superb review at <a href=\"http://jbreitling.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/todays-hotness-markus-mehr-joey-fourr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clicky Clicky Music blog</a>. <a href=\"http://musicreviewdatabase.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/track-review-markus-mehr-komo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Music Review Database</a> has also covered \'Komo\', the first track of the first part of the trilogy, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In</em></a>. Pop along to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/markus-mehr-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus\'s reviews section</a> to read these and many more reviews of his acclaimed releases.\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\">In</a> </em>and <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=205\" target=\"_blank\">On</a> </em>are both available in CD and mp3 format from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>, along with debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=145\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lava</em></a>. The third and final part in the trilogy, <em>Off</em>,  is released January 2013.','Markus Mehr Album Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-album-reviews','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5466',0,'post','',0),(5476,1,'2012-07-04 04:19:00','2012-07-04 04:19:00','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Slow Dancing Society - \'I\'ll Leave a Light On\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/lighton_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’, the new single by US post-ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Dancing Society</a>, taken from his forthcoming fifth album <em>Laterna Magica</em>.\n\nBuilt around chiming, delayed guitars but never succumbing to their delicious momentum, ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ sees Slow Dancing Society evolving once more, masterfully adjusting his tonal palette to create a gleaming musical universe. Like a trance breakdown that threatens to build into a booming pay-off but never does, ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ leaves the listener perpetually gazing into an undersea abyss, suspended agog.\n\n‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ is taken from the forthcoming fifth Slow Dancing Society album <em>Laterna Magica</em>. Underpinned by his gorgeous trademark guitar drift and warm synth wash, yet sparingly propelled by throbbing electronic undercurrents, the tracks on <em>Laterna Magica</em> demonstrate another key progression in the Slow Dancing Society discography, which is becoming one of the essential bodies of work in contemporary ambient music.\n\n<strong></strong>‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=13&amp;products_id=206\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. It is taken from Slow Dancing Society’s forthcoming fifth album <em>Laterna Magica</em>, which will be available from 15 August.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-ill-leave[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','New Slow Dancing Society Single - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','new-slow-dancing-society-single-free-download-2','','','2016-02-03 16:11:36','2016-02-03 08:11:36','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5476',0,'post','',0),(5491,1,'2012-07-04 15:16:38','2012-07-04 15:16:38','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/markuson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Markus Mehr fans rejoice! The forthcoming full length <em>On  </em>is only a few weeks away from its official release and is also currently available for <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\">digital download and cd pre-order</a>. While you wait for this truly sublime album to officially land you not only have a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=202\">free single</a> to enjoy but we\'ve also just put  a new cut from the album up on <a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-only-for-a-while\">SoundCloud</a> for your delectation. \'<a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-only-for-a-while\">Only For A While</a>\' is a huge, levitating gaseous giant of a track and yet another example of Mehr\'s mastery of texture and emotional resonance.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-only-for-a-while[/soundcloud]','New Markus Mehr Track on SoundCloud','','publish','closed','open','','new-markus-mehr-track-on-soundcloud','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5491',0,'post','',0),(5500,1,'2012-07-06 02:06:23','2012-07-06 02:06:23','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/sospeso_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official release of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a>, the stunning new album by ambient electronica artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/elisa-luu/\">Elisa Luu</a>. The album is available as a limited edition CD and <a>digital download</a>.\n\nAs evidenced on recently released single ‘Se Fosse Per Me’, <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em> is dense with chiming tones, buoyant beats, skittering horns and immersive drones. From the shimmering, levitating tones of ‘Flussigirl’ to the rattling, dark drone-beat of ‘Il Tempo Di Capire’, Elisa Luu’s brilliant marriage of texture and composition is on virtuoso display.\n\n<em>\"It\'s an album of constant surprises and left turns—pleasingly so—where one never knows what direction the next piece will take. That\'s a bit of a risky strategy as it can result in an album lacking in unity and cohesiveness, but Luciani manages to walk that tightrope skillfully enough that no such impression results. Instead, one comes away from Un Giorno Sospeso taken by both her imaginative command and her compositional and arranging prowess.\"</em> - <strong>Textura on <em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></strong>\n\nElisa Luu’s alchemical touch is in full bloom on this, her long-awaited second album for Hidden Shoal. Her uniquely crafted compositions carry a warmth and vulnerability that belies their digitally manipulated textures. The album takes the glorious blueprint of debut <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=117\"><em>Chromatic Sigh</em></a> and accentuates the highlights and shadows, making for a deliciously disorientating trip.\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">Un Giorno Sospeso</a> </em>is available now for immediate digital download and CD mail order from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. The CD comes as a limited edition (200), 4 panel wallet with stunning illustration and design by Stuart Medley. CD orders also come with an immediate download of the album. <em></em>All those who pre-ordered will get their units shipped out today! Get in quick while CD stock lasts.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me[/soundcloud]','Elisa Luu&#039;s Stunning &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; Is Now Officially Available!','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luus-stunning-un-giorno-sospeso-is-now-officially-available','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5500',0,'post','',0),(5519,1,'2012-07-10 08:55:05','2012-07-10 08:55:05','Excerpt: \"Markus Mehr creates hypnotic experimental ambient music. Musical compositions that come in waves; swirling, twisting and turning quite slowly. Often pleasing, but also with noise parts that tickle and prick your skin and ears. Here are layers of sound, and a sonic web is binding and building. Sometimes it\'s like a slo-motion maelstrom. Or a monsoon. With its moist and dry phases. All the way through it\'s an album with a glow and a nerve. Mehr\'s a man with a mission, and it\'s hard to be bored in his company, even though he flirts with repetition and monotony. <em>On</em> holds 8 tracks, samples, field recordings, sonic escapades, and dizzying drones. Opener \"I\'m Gonna Make You Love Me\" is a rhythmic feast, and a noisemaking teaser. Single choice \"Flaming Youth\" is a true sweet hypnotizer. The 9-minute-long \"Duck Became Swan\" is a centre-piece and a key track, sort of sounding like a soundtrack (imagine moving images) to some ugly duckling turning into a swan beauty, while \"Monks On The Beach\" actually sounds like... monks on a beach. The closing \"Tunnels\" is another 9 minute-plus piece of spellbinding music. Like going though underwater tunnels, or caves. Some midway through the big waves come smashing, threatening you, but in the end there\'s only the mild sea breeze. Bliss and brilliance.<em> On</em> is quite a turn-on, and you\'d better turn it on. Now it\'s just time to sit back and wait for <em>Off</em> for the complete works.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon194/de194.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Luna Kafe','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-luna-kafe','','','2012-07-10 08:55:05','2012-07-10 08:55:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5519',0,'post','',0),(5521,1,'2012-07-10 10:54:42','2012-07-10 10:54:42','Markus Mehr’s music is hard to pin down. It crosses through multiple genres, equally comfortable with industrial noise, lilting ambience and electronica-style sampling. <em>On</em> is also the second part in a triptych of albums (the previous one titled <em>In</em>, the next to be called <em>Off</em>) which, apart from their titles and artwork, have little obvious connection. Most pairs/triplets of albums would be expected to have some unified theme, a narrative connecting each instalment, but Mehr seems perfectly happy to leave this undefined, a puzzle to be solved by the listener or a space for them to fill for themselves. <em>On</em> pulls in the listener with its indefinability, taking enough twists to leave full comprehension just out of reach but without veering into obscurity.\n\nThe first curveball comes in the form of the very first track. “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” powers through its two minutes with the spiky rhythms of German electronic music (Mehr himself hails from the country) and the rattling abrasiveness of Merzbow. Perhaps the greatest surprise is that this isn’t even the most aggressive track on the album. That honour goes to “Olympia” with its similarly destructive beat, peppered by frenetic samples of what might be a silent movie score, cut to such miniscule length that they appear mostly as single bursts of noise rather than layered orchestration. An undercurrent of possible violence runs throughout the album, the threat of a sudden explosion of self-destruction. But apart from the two tracks already mentioned, it never manifests itself through anything more than some stuttered rhythms and distorted drones. The majority of <em>On</em> is in fact quite lovely. Lead ‘single’ “Flaming Youth” takes a loop of lounge music horns and turns it into the calming pleasantness that lounge music always intends to be but almost never is. The repetition is hypnotic and the static background lulls the mind into a fuzzed, isolated comfort.\n\nRepetition is also key to the album’s centre-piece, “Duck Became Swan”, a piece that reveals a lot about Mehr as a musician, and perhaps about the theme of his triptych too. The title seems to refer to Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Ugly Duckling”, where an ‘ugly’ duckling overcomes its self-consciousness when it discovers that it is in fact a beautiful swan. Appropriately, the track begins with distorted noise and unnerving synth sweeps. Then a trumpet melody emerges which, apart from a segment in the middle, becomes the theme for the whole piece. This trumpet part takes on different moods, not because of any change in pitch or tempo, but purely from repetition. Initially it sounds like it heralds a triumphant rise to finale, but that doesn’t happen. Slowly the focus shifts to the last two notes and the steep drop between them, then the melody disappears. When it returns it continues for so long that it seems the only possibility is for it to drag itself out of the surrounding haze, to suddenly realise its true magnificence (like the ugly duckling alluded to in the title). There is no ecstatic finale, but by virtue of constancy the remaining string scrapes and buzzes of distortion are transformed into something surprisingly elegant. This exploration of the line between ugly and beautiful goes a long way towards unifying On and filling in the thematic uncertainty of Mehr’s album cycle. In some places Mehr juxtaposes the two, in others he uses sounds that immediately seem to be one to create a piece that turns out to be other. In also featured two long-form pieces, one smooth, one harsh, that shared many compositional similarities; what Off holds remains to be seen.\n\nMehr’s persistently unexpected uses of samples is another of the album’s strengths. Whether it’s the chants of “Monks on the Beach”, lightly pitch-shifted and mixed with an indistinct but animated speech sample, or the interjection of eastern melody into the middle of “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”, they add splashes of colour to an already well varied palette and Mehr is accomplished at twisting them to the purposes of his tracks rather than simply dropping them in wholesale. Their timing is chosen carefully, the slow solemnity of “Monks on the Beach” is welcome after the assault of “Olympia”; the sudden contrast is only in keeping with the rest of On.\n\nTowards the end of the album another link with In appears. The thunderous chords and surging melody that close “Tunnels” echo those at the end of “Komo” (the first track of In). If this is any indication – and the statement that Off will include ‘the most epic piece yet’ suggests that it might be – then Mehr is heading for a rousing finale to his triptych. Hopefully he has the panache to pull it off.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/07/markus-mehr-on/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Fluid Radio','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-fluid-radio','','','2012-07-10 10:54:42','2012-07-10 10:54:42','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5521',0,'post','',0),(5524,1,'2012-07-11 14:05:01','2012-07-11 14:05:01','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/sospeso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Following on from a number of glowing reviews (more to come!), Elisa Luu\'s amazing new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a> has been chosen as the <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/FadeToYellowKOOP\">Fade To Yellow</a> radio show\'s  Record of the Week. Tune in to this fantastic show from 9-10pm (CST), Tuesdays nights on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/FadeToYellowKOOP\">Koop Radio</a>.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a> is available now as a limited edition CD and in digital format. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details and to stream the album in full.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me[/soundcloud]','Elisa Luu&#039;s &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; is Fade To Yellow&#039;s Record of the Week','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luus-un-giorno-sospeso-is-fade-to-yellows-record-of-the-week','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5524',0,'post','',0),(5528,1,'2012-07-13 08:34:43','2012-07-13 08:34:43','It’s a discordant and perhaps even disorienting series of sounds that open <em>On</em>, a combination of grinding industrial rhythms, sampled keyboard orchestrations, what I think is a Japanese Koto, shouted and unintelligible voices – as introductions go, “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” is at the very least effective, and as <a href=\"http://www.markusmehr.de\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr</a> is a both skilled and highly regarded electronic composer, an announcement of sorts: prepare for a shuddering, near chaotic, kaleidoscopic experience as Mehr challenges our and his own preconceptions of what “electronica” is, what it represents and of what his instrumentation can achieve.\n\nA musician with a background in assorted rock outfits who chose to turn his abilities to experimental electronics, Mehr is giving very little away as far as his influences and inspirations, and aside from the fact that he lives in and has performed around half of his live performances to date in the southern German city of Augsburg. He is one of those performers twho would prefer his music expressed what he wants us to know, and if I were to write that he combines the innovative approach to keyboard and other sounds of Hauschka with the urban influenced rhythmic aptitudes of Tarwater and the minimalistic To Roccoco Rot, then that only reveals what I suppose are possible direct influences from some of his contemporaries. Doubtlessly, Markus Mehr is aware of these and others, but reading reviews for info I find his work compared to artists such as Eluvium and William Basinski of whom I have never heard anything of. I don’t, at least nowadays, hear albums such as this very often.\n\nWhat I’ve found out about Markus Mehr I mostly found on other review sites. Mehr played in several rock bands until deciding to take his music in an electronic direction and it’s perhaps this background which provides <em>On</em> with its definition and focus and which stops its more effusive passages drifting into aural indulgences. Utilising synths, samplers, tape and field recordings, Mehr’s more developed sound collages are deceptively ambient. Underneath the sampled film soundtracks and waves of tone generation, there’s a perceptible depth and even solidity around which Mehr creates his soundscapes, and he knows to vary the tempos of his tracks in parallel with the soundlayers. So, given that <em>On</em> is the second part of a trilogy of albums – first part <em>In</em> was released earlier this year and <em>Off</em> is expected in early 2013 – Markus Mehr very clearly has much to bring to us and after the abrasively disjointed opening, the seven tracks that make up the rest of the album take more subdued, reflective paths.\n\n“Flaming Youth”, “Tunnels” and notably “Only For A While” are compositions that Mehr would probably wish to extend into much longer pieces as he has done with the first part of the trilogy, which consists of only two tracks. Mehr’s instruments produce vast waves of sound, repeated and interspersed with only limited interjections from his array of sound effects and these are displays of controlled instrumental power that some listeners might compare to Tangerine Dream although again that only reveals a part of Mehr’s ability to separate his choral and orchestral samples from their origins and while many electronic performers make a point of bringing their technology actually into their work, for the most part Mehr is only letting us hear what he wants us to, with the machinery kept purposefully in the background. “Duck Became Swan” and “Olympia” move away from the more involved ambient form, faster and using more varied soundbites and with the latter track perhaps a nod in the direction of Tarwater, while “Monks On The Beach” was, if its title is entirely literal, recorded on a hot summer seaside afternoon where a monastery choir found itself interviewed for a TV news item, while singing, and its the one track on the album where Mehr’s juxtaposition of competing sounds is purposefully revealed as exactly that.\n\nWithin its own boundaries, experimental music of this kind needs a defined skill to maintain its momentum. Markus Mehr certainly possesses that and <em>On</em> is a display of both his technical initiative and ability to conduct his material into a form that’s at some distance removed from its sources. Mehr creates soundscapes of epic grandeur, intersperses them with bursts of pure noise, then adds touches of absurdist humor to further complicate his already intricate creations. In what can sometimes appear as a musical form that’s somehow limited by its own ProTools, imaginations such as those of Markus Mehr are always required.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2012/07/markus-mehr-on-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Delusions of Adequacy','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-delusions-of-adequacy','','','2012-07-13 08:34:43','2012-07-13 08:34:43','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5528',0,'post','',0),(5530,1,'2012-07-13 08:36:14','2012-07-13 08:36:14','<em>On</em>, the second installment of a triptych of albums by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, stretches for a sense of monumental form as is suggested by the audacity of envisaging such a series. After only a cursory listening it is hard not to agree; after longer listenings the very scope of the achievement of this album becomes clearer. It opens with the bombastic ‘I will make you love me’, waves of chopped up industrial noise thumping slow beats interwoven with static and string electronic trills moving through the air broken by an interlude of an eastern string section. Then a quiet track, ‘Flaming Youth’, breaks the mood and builds into a static melancholy with horns and a wide palette of discrete noise. ‘Barcelona Waltz’ moves very quickly from the quiet to a dense tapestry of effected vocals static, drone and synth washes with highlighted melodic phrases and breaks of environmental sound.\n\n‘Only for a While’ begins as an isolationist ambient piece full of long drones that tend towards choral effect, the equal of recent work by <em>Bvdub </em>or <em>Netherworld</em>, or any of similar works on the <em>Glacial Movements</em> label. If not for a brief burbling glitch mid track its epic nature is constant and the second half introduces dystopic elements that cut into the sense of its formation as a monument. ‘Duck became a Swan’ is attacks of noise wide spectrum, controlled and layered, high pitch drones and a lone trumpet rendering a mournful melodic element, disjunctive strings and a low in the mix downbeat drum phrase. The combination of all the elements working against each other in full spectrum dominance makes it a highlight of the album. Then there is ‘Olympia’ a schizoid brief assault of interjected noise thrills against cut up beat making a minute of inspired madness. ‘Monks on the Beach’ has the general elements of ambient collage, monk chants, found sounds, field recordings, discrete rhythmic touches all seamlessly woven together. ‘Tunnels’ completes the album with piano tinkling, rounds of melody, static interjections, water samples and assorted instrumental embellishments along with moments of sharp attacks on the silence before closure.\n\nHidden Shoal have quite a gem in Mehr’s work, its vision of melding jazz, electronicia, noise, drone, ambient and experimental elements into a work that grows with their fusing into a work that resembles something monumental and classical in inclination. Anyone who enjoys William Basinski or Christian Fennesz will find this a welcome addition to their collection.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2012/07/markus-mehr-on-hidden-shoal/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyclic Defrost</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Cyclic Defrost','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-cyclic-defrost','','','2012-07-13 08:36:14','2012-07-13 08:36:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5530',0,'post','',0),(5533,1,'2012-07-13 09:08:19','2012-07-13 09:08:19','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/markuson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr</a>\'s magnificent new album <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On</em></a> has just received another round of glowing reviews, with plaudits from <a href=\"http://www.lunakafe.com/moon194/de194.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luna Kafe</a>, <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/07/markus-mehr-on/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a>, <a href=\"http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2012/07/markus-mehr-on-hidden-shoal/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyclic Defrost</a> and <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2012/07/markus-mehr-on-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>. Visit <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/markus-mehr-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr\'s reviews section</a> to read these reviews and more.\n\nMarkus\'s three albums to date - <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On</em></a>, <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\">In</a> </em>and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=145\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lava</em></a> - are all available in CD and mp3 format from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>, with <em>Off </em>due for release in January 2013.','New Batch of Glowing Reviews of Markus Mehr&#039;s ON','','publish','closed','open','','new-batch-of-glowing-reviews-of-markus-mehrs-on','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5533',0,'post','',0),(5541,1,'2012-07-16 05:02:50','2012-07-16 05:02:50','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/sospeso_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Elisa Luu\'s stunning sophomore album for Hidden Shoal, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a>, has been receiving loads of deserved love of late and it doesn\'t take more than one <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">listen</a> to know why. This week the love continues thanks to the ever awesome <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">RTRFM</a> (Perth, Western Australia) where the album is the station wide feature album all this week. Not only will local and <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/listen\" target=\"_blank\">online listeners</a> get to hear the album played across the station all week, but they will also have a chance to win copies of the limited edition CD, featuring beautiful artwork by our very own Dr Stuart Medley.\n\nTo coincide with the feature we\'re offering 10% off the album in the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\" target=\"_blank\">HSR Store</a> for this week only. Go!\n\n<em>\"The saddest moment is when the album ends, because of how short and fleeting it is — you want to stay in it forever. These missives from the consciousness of Elisa Luu embrace you in codes, like having a conversation with a dear friend, and what they say more than anything else is that she appreciates you — she seems to have a feeling for who you are and who you could be, and it’s encouraging. You could make a film or a slideshow of your life or your art to go with it and no matter what, this soundscape would pull your story toward cool, disciplined discoveries. (9/10)\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.ssgmusic.com/elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso/#\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SSG Music</strong></a>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-il-tempo-di-capire[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','Elisa Luu&#039;s &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; is this week&#039;s RTRFM Feature Album','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luus-un-giorno-sospeso-is-this-weeks-rtrfm-feature-album','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5541',0,'post','',0),(5543,1,'2012-07-18 02:50:55','2012-07-18 02:50:55','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;On&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/markuson_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official CD release of the new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=205\"><em>On</em></a> by German experimental ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>. The album forms the second part of a triptych that also includes recent release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> and the forthcoming <em>Off</em>.\n\n<em>On </em>is a continuation of the experimental direction of Markus Mehr’s previous releases, with eight diverse tracks employing samples, field recordings and slathers of Mehr’s trademark distorted drones. This approach is apparent right from opener ‘Gonna Make You Mine’, as scything slashes of sound leap from the speakers. Single ‘Flaming Youth’ counterbalances fragments of static against a gorgeous sleepy-eyed loop of mangled lounge-jazz. A track as expansive and moving as ‘Duck Became Swan’ is followed by brief rhythmic piece ‘Olympia’. This tightrope walk between dizzying samples and exacting digital manipulation is walked with aplomb throughout <em>On</em>’s adventurous and thrilling 45-minute runtime.\n\n<em> “ ... prepare for a shuddering, near chaotic, kaleidoscopic experience as Mehr challenges our and his own preconceptions of what “electronica” is, what it represents and of what his instrumentation can achieve.... Mehr creates soundscapes of epic grandeur, intersperses them with bursts of pure noise, then adds touches of absurdist humor to further complicate his already intricate creations.”</em> – <strong>DOA reviewing<em> ON</em><em></em></strong>\n\n<em>“...with <em>On</em>, Germany’s <strong>Markus Mehr </strong>is <em>really </em>on ~ in fact, this is the best thing we’ve ever heard from him. ”</em> – <strong>A Closer Listen reviewing<em> ON</em><em></em></strong>\n\n<em>On</em> is available now on CD and in MP3 and FLAC digital formats. The CD version of the release comes as a limited edition (pressing of 200) numbered, 4 panel wallet CD designed by Stuart Medley with an immediate album download.  Head to the <strong><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\">Hidden Shoal Store</a></strong> for all orders and a full album stream.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-on-album-teaser[/soundcloud]','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Official CD Release','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-official-cd-release','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5543',0,'post','',0),(5550,1,'2012-07-18 15:46:08','2012-07-18 15:46:08','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/MedicineShow_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Todd Tobias\'s supremely adventurous and utterly wonderful full length <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a> is making its presence felt across US and Canadian college radio. Along with healthy rotation across a bunch of stations and previous chart entries, the album is holding down the number 1 spot on the <a href=\"http://cjsw.com/\">CJSW</a> Experimental Chart and is sitting pretty at number 4 on the <a href=\"http://www.ashevillefm.org/\">Asheville FM</a> Top 30 Chart.\n\nOrder the limited edition CD and digital album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/todd-tobias-manatoc-enters-the[/soundcloud]','Todd Tobias Rides The Charts!','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobias-rides-the-charts','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5550',0,'post','',0),(5561,1,'2012-07-19 07:23:28','2012-07-19 07:23:28','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/MedicineShow_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of the haunting new <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fuyIu4V26Y\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/todd-tobias\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Tobias</a> track \'Pre-Dawn Visitation\', created by video artist and Hidden Shoal manager Cam Merton. The track is taken from Todd\'s debut solo album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a>, recently released through Hidden Shoal Recordings.<strong></strong>\n\nAfter years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard\'s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised, <em>Medicine Show</em> is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive. From the dark GBV-esque groove of \'Night of the Club Foot\', through the gaseous synths of \'Pre-Dawn Visitation\', evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single \'Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall\', Medicine Show plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.\n\nCheck out the music video on <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fuyIu4V26Y\">YouTube</a> or <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/45235544\">Vimeo</a> and listen to <em>Medicine Show</em> in it\'s entirety <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\">here</a>.\n\n<iframe width=\"510\" height=\"287\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/5fuyIu4V26Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>','New Todd Tobias Music Video - &#039;Pre-Dawn Visitation&#039;','','publish','closed','open','','new-todd-tobias-music-video-pre-dawn-visitation','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5561',0,'post','',0),(9772,1,'2014-07-20 02:54:43','2014-07-20 02:54:43','<a href=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Markus_Mehr_6.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-224\" title=\"Markus Mehr\" src=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Markus_Mehr_6-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"245\" /></a>We asked Markus Mehr if he\'d be so kind as to make a mixtape for us of his favourite tunes. What we got was this wonderfully eclectic mix below that has been on high rotation in the Hidden Shoal office since it arrived. There\'s something incredibly satisfying hearing Taylor Deupree follow up the Beach Boys - if only this could happen live! There\'s also something almost revealing when listening to the mix and pondering on Mehr\'s latest masterpiece <em>On</em>. The complexity and variety of elements that, almost despite themselves, make a greater whole than the sum of their parts.\r\n\r\nEnjoy the mix, read Markus\'s liner notes below and don’t forget to check out  <em>On</em> and Mehr\'s previous albums <em>In</em> and <em>Lava</em> over at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\r\n<div><object width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"//www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fhiddenshoal%2Fmarkus-mehr-mixtape%2F&embed_uuid=528786ad-469e-479d-9232-1dfe25b679d2&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"//www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fhiddenshoal%2Fmarkus-mehr-mixtape%2F&embed_uuid=528786ad-469e-479d-9232-1dfe25b679d2&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"></embed></object><div style=\"clear:both; height:3px;\"></div><p style=\"display:block; font-size:12px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin:0; padding: 3px 4px; color:#02a0c7;\"><a href=\"http://www.mixcloud.com/hiddenshoal/markus-mehr-mixtape/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;\">Markus Mehr MixTape</a><span> by </span><a href=\"http://www.mixcloud.com/hiddenshoal/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a><span> on </span><a href=\"http://www.mixcloud.com/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;\"> Mixcloud</a></p><div style=\"clear:both; height:3px;\"></div></div>\r\n<strong>1. B-52s – 52 Girls</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This track is from the yellow album – one of my few desert island discs.</p>\r\n<strong>2. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Nostalgia</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I overlooked this one at first, but it’s a grower.</p>\r\n<strong>3. Stephan Mathieu – Hidden Name</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A very reeellaaaxed track, like Stephan himself. Nice guy, brilliant artist.</p>\r\n<strong>4. Beach Boys – Pet Sounds</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I´m the proud owner of all the Beach Boys albums on vinyl! I would consider myself a fan...</p>\r\n<strong>5. Taylor Deupree – Worn</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Super track, never seen this guy live – have to.</p>\r\n<strong>6. Dean Taylor – Fire And Rain</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Oh, how I love 70s American crooner shit. This one is very touching.</p>\r\n<strong>7. Aki Omnda – Dance</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Didn\'t know this guy, but a friend gave me a tape with this one on. The fact I’ve put this one on this mixtape is sign of how much I like it.</p>\r\n<strong>8. Deaf Center – New Beginning</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I also discovered this very late. ‚New Beginning’ is from the album <em>Owl Splinters</em> – I highly recommend this CD for lovers of music with a darker feel.</p>\r\n<strong>9. Gerald Fiebig –  6:39 Über Halberstadt</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A fellow from my hometown. We will perform together soon.</p>\r\n<strong>10. Four Tet – Jupiter</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A mixtape without this track is not a mixtape!</p>\r\n<strong>11. Hatchback – White Diamond</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I first heard this track in a record store in New York, asked the owner of the shop what it was, and bought it.</p>\r\n<strong>12. Space – Magic Fly</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I´m a bit addicted to good disco shit of the 70s too. This is one of my all-time favourites</p>\r\n<strong>13. Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Crazy stuff.</p>\r\n<strong>14. Tom Hessler – Glass Kreisel</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One of my closest friends, so I´m biased. He’s actually quite a popular songwriter with really good German lyrics. ‚Glass Kreisel’ shows his passion for the dance terrain.</p>\r\n<strong>15. Nilsson – One</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When it comes down to songcraft, this is one of the best songs ever written.</p>\r\n<strong>16. Philip Jeck &amp; Janek Schaefer - <em>Song for Europe</em></strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two heroes of mine.</p>\r\n<strong>17. Danijel Zambo – Im Verschneiten Walde</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Again, a buddy from my hometown –check him out! This guy is a genius.</p>\r\n<strong>18. Aun – Protection</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You’ve got to see him on stage. This is killer.</p>\r\n<strong>19. Ben Frost – Killshot</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The title says it all! The whole album blew me away.</p>\r\n<strong>20. Pioneers of HiFi – Zeitforscher</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A project of mine... Forgive my indulgence!</p>\r\n<strong>21. Andy Williams – Too Late</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As I said before, I´m really into this crooner stuff. Andy Williams was the King of Mount Schmaltz.</p>\r\n<strong>22. Chant Des Derwishes De Turquie – Unknown</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Bought this record in a weird record store out of curiosity. Musically we´ve got something in common.</p>\r\n<strong>23. Philip Jeck – Pilot Dark Blue Night</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My hero.</p>\r\n<strong>24. Jerome Faria – Untitled</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Very interesting stuff. I only know this one track, but I will check out more.</p>\r\n<strong>25. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Castalia</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Huge fan – nothing more to say.</p>\r\n<strong>26. Nils Frahm – Peter</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The show pony of Erased Tapes – for good reason. I love his approach to classical music.</p>\r\n<strong>27.  KTL – Wicked Way </strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The goods when it comes to drone music.</p>\r\n<strong>28. DJ Shadow  – Six Days</strong>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It closes how it began, with the genius touch of Miles Davis. Good party stuff.</p>','Markus Mehr MixTape (MMM!)','','inherit','closed','open','','9771-revision-v1','','','2014-07-20 02:54:43','2014-07-20 02:54:43','',9771,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/9771-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5622,1,'2012-07-27 03:57:22','2012-07-27 03:57:22','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gilded-Var-41.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5626\" title=\"Gilded Var 4\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gilded-Var-41-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"117\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\">Gilded</a> to its roster of artists. Gilded operates around the intersections of melody and texture, movement and pause. The project brings together the similar but distinct musical directions of West Australian experimental musicians Matt Rösner and Adam Trainer, forging a new approach to composition and sound creation that is based as much around rhythm and repetition as it is around drone and abstraction.\n\nThe title of Gilded\'s debut album <em>Terrane</em> comes from a geological formation that has become dislocated from its original position and sutured onto a new landscape. It retains its own distinctive form and contrasts against those around it, whilst also finding a new place, a new home. The album was conceived during two consecutive autumns in Western Australia. The compositions that make up this record strike at the heart of how it feels to be in a period of transition, of watching a subtle change, a shift in texture. There are moments of quietude and reflection – held together by the austere and alternately punctuated by shifts toward the uplifting and revelatory. One thing is certain: change is inevitable. We leave traces and will not return.\n\n<em>\"Australian sound artist Matt Rösner has generated music with a language all its own\" - </em><strong>The Weekend Australian on Matt Rösner’s <em>Alluvial</em></strong>\n\n<em>\"the interplay of experimentation shades the corners of Trainer’s world\" - </em><strong>Cyclic Defrost on Adam Trainer’s Twice <em>Worn</em></strong>\n\nMatt Rösner is arguably one of Western Australia\'s most renowned experimental musicians. Based in Myalup in the South West, Matt has released music on labels as diverse as Room40, 12K, Apestaartje, Meupe and Miatera, with a musical focus on guitar and field recordings. Adam Trainer was a founding member of Perth post-rock outfit Radarmaker, and has also played in experimental projects such as Polaroid Ghost and the Ghost of 29 Megacycles. In solo guise he has released music on labels such as hellosQuare, New Weird Australia, Phantom Channel and Feral Media. Adam\'s solo work has sought to locate textural nuance alongside dislocated melody.\n\n<em>Terrane</em> is released by Hidden Shoal on 8 October, preceded by single ‘Cluttered Room’ on 31 August. Read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Gilded_Signing.pdf\">here</a>.','Hidden Shoal Signs Gilded (Matt Rösner &amp; Adam Trainer)','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-signs-gilded-matt-rosner-adam-trainer','','','2016-02-03 15:37:52','2016-02-03 07:37:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5622',0,'post','',0),(5628,1,'2012-07-27 11:18:06','2012-07-27 11:18:06','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Markus_Mehr/lazy-k-thumbs/Markus_Mehr_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"100\" />Hidden Shoal\'s very own <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr</a> has compiled a delicious imaginary mixtape for the fantastic  <a href=\"http://warmer-climes.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/warmer-mixtapes-591-by-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Warmer Climes website</a>. Markus\'s mix features artists as diverse as The B-52s, Lawrence English and Bon Iver, and there\'s a little write-up about each song. Definitely worth a visit!\n\nMarkus Mehr\'s latest album <em><a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\">On</a> </em>is available from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','Markus Mehr Mixtape on Warmer Climes','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-mixtape-on-warmer-climes','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5628',0,'post','',0),(5641,1,'2012-08-02 05:42:27','2012-08-02 05:42:27','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Laterna-Magica-1000px.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5644\" title=\"Laterna-Magica-1000px\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Laterna-Magica-1000px-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" /></a>Slow Dancing Society fans should be getting very excited about now as the Washington producers fifth album, <em>Laterna Magica</em>, is almost upon us. We have had to slip the previously mentioned dates back a little but we promise the new dates are unwavering! The album will be available for CD pre-order on the 24th of August (all cd pre-orders come with an immediate download of the album) and the album will see its official release on the 18th of September. Our very own Dr Stuart Medley has produced some absolutely gorgeous illustrated artwork across the 4 panel cd wallet.\n\nIn the lead up to the official release date we are running specials in the Hidden Shoal Store on all previous <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society releases</a> so be sure to head over and get yourself some delicious immersion.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-ill-leave[/soundcloud]','Slow Dancing Society - New Album Dates and Specials','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-new-album-dates-and-specials','','','2016-02-03 16:11:37','2016-02-03 08:11:37','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5641',0,'post','',0),(5662,1,'2012-08-08 10:28:09','2012-08-08 10:28:09','<em>On</em>, the second installment in a three part ambient triptych by Augsburg’s Markus Mehr, became available in June and I confess to downloading it promptly with the full intent of producing an immediate, very possibly glowing review. I realize I can’t say much at this point for my turnaround time, but the release is in fact excellent and if a month and a half isn’t too late to do some good for Mr. Mehr then I highly recommend heading over to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a> and acquiring a copy of this very moving, painstakingly detailed release.\n\nTruth be told, part of the delay in writing this review stems directly from the intensity and quality of the music. When artists request a review, I generally warn them that it can be a slow process because I have to listen to a release several times before I begin to feel like I’ve heard it well enough to write about it. With <em>On</em>, I’ve definitely heard it and have had something to say since my first listen way back on the drop date, but even at this point I don’t feel that I’ve met my “well enough” criteria. That is, the music is so layered and guards its secrets so well that even after many listens I question whether anything I write can do justice to the music or give anyone any idea of the experience of listening to it. The best I can really do is just say once more: Grab this release. It’s fantastic.\n\nEven so, I’m gong to take a stab at this. By comparison with its predecessor, <em>In</em>, <em>On</em> is much less focused on soundscaping. Instead, each of its eight tunes fall squarely within pop-song length and likewise accomplish a rock/pop like sense of drive, direction and focus. The presence of vision and unity provided by an overarching concept are still there, however, and although each tune is unique and can stand well on its own within any ambient noise playlist or radio stream, the individual songs also profit from the depth of concept and the rich contrast between the release’s many themes and textures. The timing of the samples and the variety of textures interposed with sometimes graceful, sometimes frenetic melodies is exquisite and reveals a sense of composition and purpose that is extreme for ambient music and reflects one of the truly outstanding qualities of the overall piece. For the greatest emotional range and best sense of what I’m trying to get at here, I recommend <em>Flaming Youth</em>, <em>Only for a While</em> and <em>Tunnels</em> as the standout tracks for a first listen. But keep in mind, three tunes is just a taste and <em>On</em> is a bona fide feast. Multiple and even subsequent listens of the whole release will prove highly rewarding.\n\nOne thing I have not done, which I’ve left as my treat for accomplishing this review, has been to listen to <em>In</em> and <em>On</em> together, in sequence. Though I feel it could have added a lot to this review, the reason I haven’t done so is because then it would probably have taken another two months to get my thoughts together and by then the final piece in the triptych would be out. We already know the title of the pending final release to be <em>Off</em>, with the full title set of the triptych describing an outward movement. But from what to where? What central point has been abandoned? What chaos are we headed towards? That may indeed be the question Mr. Mehr is asking, but I think there’s an answer in the music, too. Compared to what I recall from <em>In</em>, there’s something organic and bazaar like about <em>On</em> that makes me think of leaving home, of seeking diversity as well as adversity simply for the growth potential that accompanies any experience of the unknown. It’s not all dark in the moment, and it’s not all quaint in retrospect. There, I did it. Take that one sentence for the review and then go download Markus Mehr’s <em>On</em>.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.petalmusic.org/blog/?p=111\" target=\"_blank\">Petal</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Petal','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-petal','','','2012-08-08 10:28:09','2012-08-08 10:28:09','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5662',0,'post','',0),(5664,1,'2012-08-08 10:32:10','2012-08-08 10:32:10','<em>On</em> is the second in a triptych of releases from ambient specialist Markus Mehr. Whereas the first, <em>In</em>, concentrated on two lengthy pieces clocking in at about twenty five minutes each, <em>On</em> contains a mammoth eight tracks but stylistically it’s an almost seamless follow-up from Mehr.\n\nThe most startling factor about <em>On</em> is its choice of song titles. ‘I’m Gonna Make You Love Me’ may leave the audience fearing the thought of a 1980s soul crooner being brought in on guest vocals, rather than the fairly abrasive selection of glitchy beats which arrives instead. Taking a relatively delicate approach, ‘Flaming Youth’ hardly classifies as easy listening but its harshness is negated with a sample which has a touch of Bacharach and David about it.\n\nThereafter the hard and the soft layers of music become a common theme. To the untrained ear, ‘Barcelona Waltz’ may sound like a noise but – rather like listening to records by The Jesus And Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine – peel back the layers and there is melody and beauty to behold. Only at one point does the album lose its flow when the cartoon-like antics of ‘Olympia’ come to the fore but by the time of the dramatic finale, ‘Tunnels’ (pumelling rhythms duelling against elegant piano keys), Mehr’s weird sense of order is restored.\n\n<em>On</em> is the aural equivalent of the sinking of <em>The Titanic</em> as a once mighty vessel fights valiantly to stay afloat whilst chaos ensues around it. Happily though, Celine Dion does not feature this time and if the final part of the trilogy maintains the standard of the first two, the final destination should be well worth a visit.\n\n<a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/review-markus-mehr-on/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard\'s Lair</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Leonard&#039;s Lair','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-leonards-lair','','','2012-08-08 10:32:10','2012-08-08 10:32:10','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5664',0,'post','',0),(5667,1,'2012-08-08 10:41:41','2012-08-08 10:41:41','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/markuson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Markus Mehr\'s latest album <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On</em></a>, which is part two in an ambitious but ridiculously awesome trilogy, has just received some foaming reviews over at the <a href=\"http://www.petalmusic.org/blog/?p=111\" target=\"_blank\">Petal</a> and <a href=\"http://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/review-markus-mehr-on/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard\'s Lair</a> music blogs. Pop along to the blogs to read the reviews, or you can scoot over to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/markus-mehr-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus\'s reviews section</a> to read these and more.\n\n<a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On</em></a>, part one of the trilogy <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In</em></a>, and debut album <em><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=145\" target=\"_blank\">Lava</a> </em>are all available in CD and digital format from the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','New Reviews of Markus Mehr&#039;s On','','publish','closed','open','','new-reviews-of-markus-mehrs-on','','','2016-02-03 16:00:45','2016-02-03 08:00:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5667',0,'post','',0),(5670,1,'2012-08-09 03:53:12','2012-08-09 03:53:12','Excerpt (translated from the German): \"Although Markus Mehr was hitherto completely unknown to me, he is likely to cause a sensation when the Augsburg musician\'s ascent continues after <em>In</em>, the first in a trilogy that intoxicates the senses... <em>In</em>, due to its mantra-like compositions, demands time and dedication. \'Ostinato\' comprises both synthetic and organic sounds, creating a symbiosis with a light Mediterranean touch from the use of guitar and trumpet lines. \'Komo\' is a classically-inspired ambient collage with industrial voice samples. Overall, a very rounded and varied opus that stands out... <em>In</em> is the successful start of a promising trilogy. Give it a try - it gets my highest recommendation!\"\n\n<a href=\"http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/markus-mehr-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">kulturterrorismus</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - kulturterrorismus','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-kulturterrorismus','','','2012-08-09 03:53:12','2012-08-09 03:53:12','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5670',0,'post','',0),(5672,1,'2012-08-09 04:06:05','2012-08-09 04:06:05','Excerpt (translated from the German): \"Once \'Komo\' carefully and slowly swells, a contemplative devotional mood spreads in the room, as if in a slightly shopworn Hollywood film, placing a veil of softly drawn desaturated colours...  everything is beautiful and yet seems unreal at the same time - here you have a microcosm of Markus Mehr\'s <em>In</em>... which introduces a triptych - in an extremely coherent and impressive manner. The music comprises the slow development of drones and sounds through the constant repetition of certain motifs. The two tracks slowly, continually change, so at the end they are completely different from when they began. \'Komo\' begins peacefully before long, distorted, slightly glitchy and sampled strings enter the picture... \'Ostinato\' reveals an approach that is even slower and more mysterious than its predecessor, in which the eternal ramparts of the sea are approached with repetitious short, elegiac piano melodies, filled with melancholy... There\'s a lightness of touch to <em>In</em> that\'s stunning. The constituent parts are not incredibly diverse, but have been selected wisely, creating a stylistic accuracy that is all the more impressive. The atmosphere asks a question whose answer is not entirely clear... I\'m looking forward to parts two and three and recommend <em>In</em> strongly!\"\n\n<a href=\"http://noeasylistening.de/noise/markus-mehr-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">No Easy Listening</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - No Easy Listening','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-no-easy-listening','','','2012-08-09 04:06:05','2012-08-09 04:06:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5672',0,'post','',0),(5675,1,'2012-08-09 04:12:49','2012-08-09 04:12:49','<em>In </em>comprises just two pieces that together span over 50 minutes. It begins with quiet electronic sounds, creating a rather depressing mood, then proceeds into a meditative space. It\'s experimental, too, with looped melodies, synthesizers and alien sounds, creating an interesting listening experience if the listener enjoys following sonic paths.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.der-hoerspiegel.de/portal/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=45:electroebm&amp;id=3530:in&amp;Itemid=41\" target=\"_blank\">Der Horspiegel</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; - Der Horspiegel','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-der-horspiegel','','','2012-08-09 04:12:49','2012-08-09 04:12:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5675',0,'post','',0),(5678,1,'2012-08-09 04:24:34','2012-08-09 04:24:34','\"a cornucopia of samples, field recordings and distorted drones, and is highly recommended to fans of William Basinski, Tim Hecker and Fennesz.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.myoldkentuckyblog.com/?p=31021\" target=\"_blank\">My Old Kentucky Blog</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - My Old Kentucky Blog','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-my-old-kentucky-blog','','','2012-08-09 04:24:34','2012-08-09 04:24:34','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5678',0,'post','',0),(5681,1,'2012-08-09 04:29:52','2012-08-09 04:29:52','Woah, what happened here?  After the two long, ambient, loop-based tracks of <em>In </em>(the first part of a triptych, reviewed here earlier this year), we expected more of the same.  But with <em>On</em>, Germany’s Markus Mehr is <em>really </em>on ~ in fact, this is the best thing we’ve ever heard from him.  And while <em>In </em>hinted at drone without toppling over, <em>On </em>can only be categorized as experimental.  It’s certainly not ambient.\n\nBoom-be-boom, saw-saw: this is how the opening piece, \'I’m Gonna Make You Love Me\', begins.  It’s an industrial track.  No, wait, here come some strings.  It’s modern composition.  Is that a sitar?  Sorry again, this is world music.  Boom-be-boom, saw-saw.  Damn.\n\n\'Komo\' (the opening track of <em>In</em>) included a dialogue sample bemoaning the lack of new ideas.  The new ideas are right here, embedded in every track.  By new, we don’t always mean <em>completely </em>new – some new ideas are juxtapositions of old ideas, and the lounge flavor of single \'Flaming Youth\' is a throwback to the early days of Air.  That is, until buzzes and pings take over the mid-section.  Mehr’s plunderphonics are completely unexpected, and entirely welcome.  It’s hard to get a handle on exactly what kind of album this is, because the artist crunches ideas from so many sources.\n\nThe album does include its ambient <em>moments</em>.  \'Only for a While\' offers melancholic lines and sweet flourishes, exuding the requisite shimmer.  But just as the listener starts to relax, the second round of the lounge v. blast battle begins.  By the time the album’s centerpiece, \'Duck Became Swan\', ends, the listener becomes convinced that what at first seemed ugly is instead beautiful: the trick of the fairy tale and the musician.\n\nBy shortening the length of uninterrupted loops, Mehr improves upon the techniques used on his previous album; and by including shorter pieces (three are under three minutes) and expanding his sonic palette (cartoon samples, monks), he offers listeners a new set of  sounds to enjoy.  The third part of the triptych, <em>Off</em>, isn’t due until 2013, but is said to be a single, 49-minute piece; we’ve got half a year to speculate as to its sound.  Our hope is that Mehr will continue to push forward in this fashion, leaving his comfort zone in his rear view mirror as he speeds up the Autobahn.\n\n<a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/07/14/markus-mehr-on/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - A Closer Listen','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-a-closer-listen','','','2012-08-09 04:29:52','2012-08-09 04:29:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5681',0,'post','',0),(5683,1,'2012-08-09 04:33:35','2012-08-09 04:33:35','Markus Mehr has history with The Underground of Happiness. I interviewed him a couple of years ago, over the phone from his home in Augsburg, at the time of his <em>Lava </em>album, a brilliant, subterranean slow burn of drones, clicks and screeches. His main instrument is guitar, something which is not at all obvious from the sounds he makes. Since <em>Lava</em>, Mehr has embarked on something of a landmark project, a triptych of albums, which are at least semi-conceptual. <em>On </em>is the 2nd in the sequence, following <em>In</em>, with <em>Off </em>still to come later this year. <em>In </em>featured two pieces of over 20 minutes each, while <em>Off </em>will consist of a single track. <em>On </em>is something of a departure in the series, comprising eight tracks over about 45 minutes, but still, you might get the impression that this is music requiring some commitment. However, whatever you give to Markus Mehr, you get back so much in return. The magnificent \'Flaming Youth\', for example, is like walking through a room full of machine saws, buzzing and flaring (with no little structure and melody, by the way), before progressing on to a club chillout area where a slow-motion jazz group play a beautiful blissed out loop at funeral pace, under a warm umbrella of static. It\'s like some twilight netherworld dreamt up by David Lynch, and very much like his creations, even though you may be disorientated, and even a little afraid, you won\'t want to leave. And the majestic \'Duck Became Swan\' continues with the jazz loop theme, gradually submerging the tune under waves of drone and fuzz... Take some time for a wonderful magic carpet ride.\n\n<a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/elisa-luu-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Underground of Happiness</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - The Underground of Happiness','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-the-underground-of-happiness','','','2012-08-09 04:33:35','2012-08-09 04:33:35','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5683',0,'post','',0),(5685,1,'2012-08-09 04:40:13','2012-08-09 04:40:13','The first two parts of a planned triptych (the third, <em>Off</em>, will release in January 2013), Markus Mehr’s <em>In</em> and <em>Out</em> are studies in extreme contrast. Effective, listen-worthy contrast. <em>In </em>is the comparatively quieter of the two, made up of two long tracks. \'Komo\' is built on a simple string phrase that patiently repeats itself while Mehr folds in new layers and levels. On top of that, it’s subjected to Mehr’s sonic surgery. The sound drops out or muffles, gets cut up and reordered. There is a stretch around the 16-minute mark that is pure, unexpected fun–more so in headphones. The timing is perfect–right when you think you’re just in the midst of some minimalist, unchanging construct, it changes. Often, I will say, in quite unexpected ways. Until the very end–which is unbelievably potent–Mehr keeps that base phrasing absolutely consistent. This track gets better each time I listen. The depth is delightful to explore. “Ostinato” rises slowly, as “Komo” does, but from the start it’s roughened up by a crackle of static. Melancholic strings come up beneath it and, as before, the sound builds up across time, developing into the same sort of base phrasing from the previous track. Again, the phrase stands staunchly against Mehr’s sound-additions. The trick here comes when Mehr begins sliding a totally different tune, on brass, under the developed flow. But it comes and goes like something you half-hear when you’re almost asleep. The static returns at the end–a nice touch.\n\n<em>On</em> differs from <em>In </em>in two basic ways. First, it storms straight in on an industrial-grade grind with \'I’m Gonna Make You Love Me.\' A big hit of percussion and raw distortion greet you, ushering you into Mehr’s mix of field recordings, drones and treatment. Visitors coming from <em>In</em> understand right away that this is a different place. Second, the tracks are quicker, their impact landing sooner and the moment passing in completion within a few minutes. Thus, Mehr packs a lot into those frames, and it’s broadly varied. A jazz-trumpet loop hides under the slow drones in \'Flaming Youth,\' its smoothness contrasting perfectly with the clicks and buzzes around it; another works as the base of \'Duck Becomes Swan,\' holding its own against clashing and crashing metallics and buzzsaw hums; rapid-fire clips of Greek folk music trip through the disorienting \'Olympia\'; Gregorian chant and field recordings of conversation intertwine in \'Monks on the Beach.\' One of the things I enjoy about Mehr is how he infuses his work with unexpected things that border on a sense of humor. \'Only for A While\' stands out against the tracks before it by coming in on quiet synth-strings, a simple ambient flow. You get about four minutes of that before a quick burble of sound momentarily corrupts the the flow, as if to say, “You didn’t think it was going to be that simple, did you?” With few extra augmentations, the flow then continues on its way. <em>On</em> is in some ways a more complex listen than <em>In</em>, although both have much to say and certainly enough sonic elements to say it well. Mehr rides the edge of experimental music without falling into a too-abstract space. His explorations are tethered by identifiable structures, but the farthest reaches of his intentions pack enough allure and interest to bring you to them and hold you there. <em>In </em>and <em>On</em> together leave me anticipating how Mehr will complete his triptych. Time will tell.\n\n<a href=\"http://hypnagogue.net/2012/07/29/markus-mehr-in-on/\" target=\"_blank\">Hypnagogue</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;In&quot; and &quot;On&quot; - Hypnagogue','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-in-and-on-hypnagogue','','','2012-08-09 04:40:13','2012-08-09 04:40:13','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5685',0,'post','',0),(5687,1,'2012-08-09 06:02:32','2012-08-09 06:02:32','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Kramies/lazy-k-thumbs/Kramies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"100\" />There\'s a cracking interview with Hidden Shoal\'s very own <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies//\" target=\"_blank\">Kramies</a> in the new issue of <a href=\"http://thefacetsmag.com/ \" target=\"_blank\">The Facets magazine</a>, which you can read online <a href=\"http://thefacetsmag.com/magazine/augsep2012/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. Simply go to page 57 to read an insightful piece about Kramies\' 20-year music-making journey. Kramies\' <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The European </em>EP</a> is available in digital and limited edition CD format from the <a href=\"http://agora.hiddenshoal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','Kramies Interview in The Facets Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-interview-in-the-facets-magazine','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5687',0,'post','',0),(5703,1,'2012-08-17 04:49:43','2012-08-17 04:49:43','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Terrane-1000px.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5704\" title=\"Gilded - &quot;Terrane&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Terrane-1000px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We\'re all excitedly gearing up for the upcoming release of <em>Terrane</em>, the new album by West Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\">Gilded</a>. To whet your appetite before we drop the first single and announce CD pre-orders we\'ve prepared an album teaser for your delectation. You can hop over to <a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/gilded-terrane-album-teaser\">SoundCloud </a>or <a href=\"http://youtu.be/436it9vJ3CY\">YouTube</a> and get a small taste of what is a truly beautiful album.\n\nFor the uninitiated, Gilded brings together the similar but distinct musical directions of West Australian experimental musicians Matt Rösner and Adam Trainer. The pair have released work separately on labels such as 12K, Room40, hellosQuare, New Weird Australia, and Feral Media. <em>Terrane</em> will be officially released on the 8th of October with CD pre-orders on the 25th of September. The first single from the album, \'Cluttered Room\' will be available as a free download on the 31st of August. Be sure to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/mailng-list/\">subscribe</a> the Hidden Shoal email list to be the first to get the single download and CD pre-order details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/gilded-terrane-album-teaser[/soundcloud]','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; Album Teaser','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-album-teaser','','','2016-02-03 15:37:52','2016-02-03 07:37:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5703',0,'post','',0),(5706,1,'2012-08-21 05:16:34','2012-08-21 05:16:34','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/sospeso_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Current Hidden Shoal releases are doing good things in the US college radio charts at the moment. Here\'s a small taste - Elisa Luu\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a> has entered the <a href=\"More charting news! Elisa Luu\'s stunning &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; has entered the KDVS top 30 chart at number 16!  http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me\" target=\"_blank\">KDVS Top 30</a> at number 16, Todd Tobias\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a> is at number 8 on the <a href=\"http://cjsw.com/music/charts/2012-08-20/\" target=\"_blank\">CJSW</a> Experimental Chart, Wizards of Time\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=55&amp;products_id=207\"><em>Will The Soft Curse Plague On?</em></a> is number 23 on the<a href=\"http://kspc.org/?p=1640\" target=\"_blank\"> KPSC Top 30</a> and is also charting over at <a href=\"http://wknc.org/blog/post/21213/wkncs-charts-and-top-5-adds-aug-13th/\" target=\"_blank\">WKNC</a> and Markus Mehr\'s <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a> has been added to rotation at a number of stations (and getting lots of spins on <a href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/soundlab/\" target=\"_blank\">Triple J\'s SoundLab</a>).\n\nMore charting news soon!','Hidden Shoal Releases In The Charts!','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-releases-in-the-charts','','','2016-02-03 16:39:54','2016-02-03 08:39:54','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5706',0,'post','',0),(5712,1,'2012-08-22 09:23:21','2012-08-22 09:23:21','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Markus_Mehr/lazy-k-thumbs/Markus_Mehr_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" />If you\'re lucky enough to be in the beautiful city of Stockholm this weekend, then you must get along to the <a href=\"http://stockholmfringe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Stoff (Fringe) Festival</a>. <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr</a> is playing on Friday night, with Stefanie Sixt on visuals. This will be Markus and Stefanie\'s third time playing there - it\'s going to be tremendous!','Markus Mehr Live in Stockholm This Weekend!','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-live-in-stockholm-this-weekend','','','2016-02-03 15:52:07','2016-02-03 07:52:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5712',0,'post','',0),(5714,1,'2012-08-22 09:32:14','2012-08-22 09:32:14','Excerpt (translated from the German): \"After <em>In, </em>the impressive start to the trilogy, <em>On</em>, the middle section, has appeared, composed of slight dissonance, breathtaking drones and diverse field recordings, together creating a brilliant soundtrack to the listener\'s own cinema of the imagination... Based in Augsburg, Markus invites the listener on a journey through his own emotional world, vividly rendered in experimental sound art... The majority of the compositions comprise distorted guitar drones, synthesizer, effects and field recordings. Overall, this is a very entertaining work, veering between comforting and bewildering... After the pure exhilaration of <em>In,</em> <em>On</em> is an inspiring middle part to the trilogy, which receives my highest recommendation!\"\n\n<a href=\"http://kulturterrorismus.de/rezensionen/markus-mehr-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kulturterrorismus</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Kulturterrorismus','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-kulturterrorismus','','','2012-08-22 09:32:14','2012-08-22 09:32:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5714',0,'post','',0),(5718,1,'2012-08-24 03:01:28','2012-08-24 03:01:28','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Slow Dancing Society - &quot;Laterna Magica&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/laterna_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the availability of <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\" target=\"_blank\">CD pre-orders</a> for the new Slow Dancing Society album <em>Laterna Magica.</em> CD pre-orders include an immediate digital download of the album in MP3 or FLAC formats.\n\nSlow Dancing Society’s fifth album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Laterna Magica</span> demonstrates another key progression in the Slow Dancing Society discography, which is becoming one of the essential bodies of work in contemporary ambient music. The tracks are underpinned by gorgeous guitar drift and warm synth wash, sparingly propelled by throbbing electronic undercurrents. From the soft-focus exhalation of ‘A Few Moments’, via the gleaming musical universe of recently released single ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’, through to the hypnotic pulse and drifting melancholic piano of finale ‘Tomorrow’s Another Day’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Laterna Magica</span> is a definitive Slow Dancing Society release.\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">“Like the glow of sunlight filtered through the slowly undulating waves of blue crystalline water, Under The Sodium Lights is less an auditory adventure and more a rich and imaginative musical daydream.”</span> – <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Delusions of Adequacy on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Under The Sodium Lights</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">“a complexity of sound that allows it to stand out from traditionally ambient music… It is easy to get dissolved in this album, to let yourself fall into meditation as the music plays… an aural delight”</span> – T<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">he Silent Ballet on </span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Priest Lake Circa ’88</span>\n\n<em>Laterna Magica</em> is available now for CD pre-order (inc. immediate MP3 or FLAC download). The CD comes as a beautiful 4 panel wallet with stunning artwork by Stuart Medley. Pre-order shipping and official release (inc digital)  is set for 18th September. Head to the <strong><a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Hidden Shoal Store</a></strong> for all orders, release details and a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=13&amp;products_id=206\">free track download</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-theres-a[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Slow Dancing Society - \'There\'s A Place For Us\'</strong>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; CD Pre-Orders','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-cd-pre-orders','','','2016-02-03 16:11:36','2016-02-03 08:11:36','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5718',0,'post','',0),(5728,1,'2012-08-31 00:35:01','2012-08-31 00:35:01','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gilded - \'Cluttered Room\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/clutteredroom_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘Cluttered Room’, the new <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=56&amp;products_id=209\">freely downloadable</a> single by Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilded</a>, taken from their debut album <em>Terrane</em>, to be released on 8 October (CD pre-orders on 25 September). Buoyant and sun-dappled, ‘Cluttered Room’ takes a handful of gleaming musical elements - ride cymbal, banjo, bass, melodica, acoustic guitar - and builds them into a wonderfully considered and thoroughly melodic structure. Akin to the most accessible tracks by acclaimed Swedish trio Tape, Gilded’s debut single is an inviting entry point into their detailed and emotionally resonant soundworld.\n\nThe title of Gilded\'s debut album <em>Terrane</em> comes from a geological formation that has become dislocated from its original position and sutured onto a new landscape. It retains its own distinctive form and contrasts against those around it, whilst also finding a new place, a new home. The compositions that make up this record strike at the heart of how it feels to be in a period of transition, of watching a subtle change, a shift in texture. There are moments of quietude and reflection – held together by the austere and alternately punctuated by shifts toward the uplifting and revelatory. <em>Terrane</em> deftly operates around the intersections of melody and texture, movement and pause.\n\nGilded will be supporting the release of <em>Terrane </em>with a national tour in October:\n\nPerth - Sunday October 7 @ the Bird w/Benoit Pioulard, Chris and Stina &amp; Cycle~440 + Kynan Tan\nCanberra - Saturday October 20 @ The Street Theatre w/Mornings\nMelbourne - Sunday October 21 @ The Gasometer w/Regional Curse &amp; Infinite Decimals\nSydney - Friday October 26 @ 107 Projects w/Seaworthy, Pimmon &amp; Raven\nBrisbane - Saturday October 27 @ Brisbane Powerhouse for Restrung: Sounds Unbound\n\nGrab the single from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=56&amp;products_id=209\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and read a full press release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Gilded-Cluttered_Room.pdf\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/gilded-cluttered-room[/soundcloud]\n\n<strong>Gilded - \'Cluttered Room\'</strong>','Gilded Single Release - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-single-release-free-download','','','2016-02-03 15:37:52','2016-02-03 07:37:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5728',0,'post','',0),(5754,1,'2012-09-04 02:51:38','2012-09-04 02:51:38','<p dir=\"ltr\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/half-film.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"115\" />Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the forthcoming reissue of the two acclaimed studio albums by <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/\" target=\"_blank\">Half Film</a> - the slowcore trio fronted by [The] Caseworker\'s Conor and Eimer Devlin - who made dark waves in the US indie circuit in the latter part of the \'90s. <em>East of Monument </em>and <em>The Road to the Crater </em>are released on 18 October, preceded by the release of single \'Machines, Hawks and the Perfect Equation\' on 6 September.</p>\n<em>\"Low-key underground guitar atmos that\'s very moody indeed... Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young\" - Melody Maker on Half Film\'s second album, The Road to the Crater</em>\n\nThe history of Half Film began in 1995 when guitarist/vocalist Conor Devlin and bassist Eimer Devlin moved to San Francisco from the UK, based on their love of two bands from that city: Swell and American Music Club. There they were introduced to Jason Lakis. All three members of the band learned how to play their respective instruments together, with Half Film’s sound and songs developing from that inexperience.\n\nThe trio recorded a demo in 1997, which was picked up by Buzz Records in Chicago. <em>East of Monument,</em> their debut album, was recorded in San Francisco over a weekend and released in spring 1998. Second album <em>The Road to the Crater</em> was laid to tape with Jim Putnam (of the Radar Bros) in LA, followed by a six-week European tour with Swell. After Conor and Eimer took a three-month break in Spain in February 2000, all three members decided to call it a day. And that was that.\n\nSingle ‘Machines, Hawks and the Perfect Equation’ is released for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store on 6 September. <em>East of Monument </em>and<em> The Road to the Crater</em> are released as a double CD and in digital formats on 31 October, with CD pre-orders available on 18 October.\n\n&nbsp;','Hidden Shoal to Reissue Albums by Half Film','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-to-reissue-albums-by-half-film','','','2016-02-03 15:40:02','2016-02-03 07:40:02','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5754',0,'post','',0),(5779,1,'2012-09-01 06:42:14','2012-09-01 06:42:14','<em>\"Half Film is striking in its simplicity. Its sound -- characterized by Devlin\'s mechanical, arpeggiated guitar, Hedderman\'s keen melodic sense, and Lakis\' understated, often brushed drumming -- has been called hypnotic by more than one observer. Atop it all is Devlin\'s Irish-accented baritone (both he and Hedderman hail from Dublin), and expressionist lyrics. The band\'s newly released sophomore album, The Road to the Crater, is remarkable more for creating space -- and the sense of it -- than for filling it up. It\'s Half Film\'s ability to conjure what (Monte) Vallier calls \"a mood\" that has endeared the band to fans throughout the U.S. and Europe.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/309119/\">S<strong>F Weekly</strong></a>','Half Film - SF Weekly','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-sf-weekly','','','2012-09-01 06:42:14','2012-09-01 06:42:14','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5779',0,'post','',0),(5783,1,'2012-09-01 06:47:29','2012-09-01 06:47:29','<em>\"Low-key underground guitar atmos that\'s very moody indeed... Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young... 4/5.\"</em> - <strong>Melody Maker</strong>','Half Film &quot;Road To The Crater&quot; - Melody Maker','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-road-to-the-crater-melody-maker','','','2012-09-01 06:47:29','2012-09-01 06:47:29','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5783',0,'post','',0),(5786,1,'2012-09-01 06:53:17','2012-09-01 06:53:17','<em>\"...filled with late-night bedroom ambiance and melodies that reveal themselves like a meticulous unfurled scroll....a fine drive...\"</em> - <strong>Alternative Press</strong>','Half Film &quot;Road To The Crater&quot; - Alternative Press','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-road-to-the-crater-alternative-press','','','2012-09-01 06:53:17','2012-09-01 06:53:17','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5786',0,'post','',0),(5815,1,'2012-09-05 23:31:04','2012-09-05 23:31:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/machines_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of free single ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=210\" target=\"_blank\">Machines, Hawks and the Perfect Equation</a>’ by San Franciscan slowcore trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/\" target=\"_blank\">Half Film</a>. The track is lifted from their soon to be reissued sophomore album of 2000, <em>The Road to the Crater.</em> Hidden Shoal is lovingly reissuing Half Film\'s two acclaimed albums – <em> East of Monument </em>(1998) and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> (2000)<em> </em>– as a double CD package on 31 October 2012.\n\n‘Machines...’ distills the Half Film aesthetic into four minutes of shadowy, see-sawing guitar splendour. The song’s slowburn never yields an easy payoff, the tension becoming its own reward, as the insistent, nagging riff roils beautifully, occasionally flaring into strummed chords before coiling back inside its brittle shell.\n\n<em>\"Low-key underground guitar atmos that\'s very moody indeed... Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young\" </em>- <strong>Melody Maker on Half Film\'s second album, <em>The Road to the Crater</em></strong>\n\nThe history of Half Film began in 1995 when guitarist/vocalist Conor Devlin and bassist Eimer Devlin (now of [The] Caseworker) moved to San Francisco from the UK, based on their love of two bands from that city: Swell and American Music Club. There they were introduced to Jason Lakis. The trio recorded a demo in 1997, which was picked up by Buzz Records in Chicago. <em>East of Monument</em>, their debut album, was recorded in San Francisco over a weekend and released in spring 1998. Second album <em>The Road to the Crater</em> was laid to tape with Jim Putnam (of the Radar Bros) in LA, followed by a six-week European tour with Swell. After Conor and Eimer took a three-month break in Spain in February 2000, all three members decided to call it a day. And that was that.\n\n‘Machines, Hawks and the Perfect Equation’ is available for<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=210\" target=\"_blank\"> free download from the Hidden Shoal Store</a>. <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> are released as a double CD and in digital formats on 31 October, with CD pre-orders available on 18 October.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/half-film-machines-hawks-and[/soundcloud]','New Single From Slowcore Marvels Half Film - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','new-single-from-slowcore-marvels-half-film-free-download','','','2016-02-03 15:40:01','2016-02-03 07:40:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5815',0,'post','',0),(5828,1,'2012-09-12 05:22:23','2012-09-12 05:22:23','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/sospeso_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Elisa Luu\'s stunning new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a> continues to impress in the US as it takes its place in the Top 30 and specialty charts at a range of US college radio stations. Here\'s a sample from the last few weeks  - 9 on the WCBN Top 30 chart, 4 on the CJSW Experimental Chart, 3 on the Ashville FM Experimental chart and 25 on their Top30, 27 on the KDVS Top 30 charts, 10 on the CFRU Electronic chart, 8 on the CHUO Electronic chart. We\'ll post more as we hunt them down!\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\"><em>Un Giorno Sospeso</em></a> is available now as a limited edition CD (with immediate FLAC or MP3 download) as well in most digital formats including lossless. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=42\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details including the freely downloadable single \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=198\">Se fosse per me...</a>\'.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/elisa-luu-se-fosse-per-me[/soundcloud]','Elisa Luu Rocking The US College Radio Charts!','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-rocking-the-us-college-radio-charts','','','2016-02-03 15:34:58','2016-02-03 07:34:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5828',0,'post','',0),(5831,1,'2012-09-14 12:24:51','2012-09-14 12:24:51','The cover art gets you started — standing in a tall building, looking at the city through huge windows as the sun lies low on the horizon, the moment stretching out. Elisa Luu\'s music has this sense of intimacy and discovery about it, something like swimming underwater with a school of porpoises, but with a deep intelligence that’s never sentimental or sanctimonious. There are definitely no pan flutes or whale songs in Luu’s ambient creations, as they are composed of synthetic, impossible-to-identify electronic gestures. Her tool kit of curious, tactile sounds continually catch you off guard; you’re always trying to figure out what they are and if they’re going to hurt you.\n\nOpening tune “Flussigirl” flirts with a high pitched tone that could have more meaning to a dog’s ear than a human’s, until it flowers into a bouncing network of color, little trills and side modulations inside bigger patterns. The result is instantly mesmerizing. A brassy, spastic riff in the middle of “Se fosse per me” (“If it were not for me”) that sounds something like a shuffling herd of trumpets comes out of nowhere, magically conjuring a New Orleans jazz band for a giddy, groovy moment, then diffuses rapidly. She is no monk of the avant-garde — the songs clearly have groove, defining artful, philosophical spaces while retaining style and humor.\n\nIt’s easy to think about being submerged, soft waves undulating around and through you — but it’s almost certainly more exciting than this, as if the magnetic language of the marine fauna and all the world’s telecommunications were audible to you, vibrating through the watery medium. At the same time, there is a narrative journey through each space, the skilled hand of the artist guiding you through the unknown.\n\nStylistically, a certain love of repetitive figures suggests the influence of Steve Reich, but this is only one strategy among many for Luu — overall her vibe is much more than just about repetition, also about the spaces between tones, optimizing the tension and friction therein. “Prima di…” has a whole buildup that feels like having a deep emotional connection to the sound of a plane taking off, or else some kind of industrial HVAC machinery. “Qui” lingers in the space between slowly sawing violins, accentuating friction and noise, but with a soft, subtonal weave that segues into an almost Neil Young-ish take on electric strings.\n\nIn many places, she isn’t afraid to apply some sexy drum rhythms that put the album into a comfortable zone that could be played in mixed company. Her thoughtfulness is not lost in these instances — the beats are never cop-outs, and never break the continuity of the music’s character — they seem more like a shot of espresso between meditations on modern art paintings.\n\nThe saddest moment is when the album ends, because of how short and fleeting it is — you want to stay in it forever. These missives from the consciousness of Elisa Luu embrace you in codes, like having a conversation with a dear friend, and what they say more than anything else is that she <em>appreciates</em> you — she seems to have a feeling for who you are and who you could be, and it’s encouraging. You could make a film or a slideshow of your life or your art to go with it and no matter what, this soundscape would pull your story toward cool, disciplined discoveries. 9/10\n\n<a href=\"http://www.ssgmusic.com/elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso/\" target=\"_blank\">SSG Music</a>','Elisa Luu &quot;Un Giorno Sospeso&quot; - SSG Music','','publish','closed','open','','elisa-luu-un-giorno-sospeso-ssg-music','','','2012-09-14 12:24:51','2012-09-14 12:24:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5831',0,'post','',0),(5838,1,'2012-09-18 02:24:46','2012-09-18 02:24:46','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Drew Sullivan\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/bio/sds_store.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"177\" />The excellent <a href=\"http://www.fadetoyellow.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fade To Yellow</a> radio show hosted by Tam Laird on <a href=\"http://www.koop.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Koop 91.7FM</a> will be featuring an interview with Drew Sullivan (aka <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a>) this Tuesday night (18th Sept). The show airs 9-10pm Central time (USA) and if you miss it live you can catch up on the interview at the <a href=\"http://www.fadetoyellow.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fade To Yellow</a> blog.\n\nSlow Dancing Society\'s stunning 5th album <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\"><em>Laterna Magica</em></a> drops officially today!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-theres-a[/soundcloud]','Slow Dancing Society Radio Interview on Fade To Yellow','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-radio-interview-on-fade-to-yellow','','','2016-02-03 16:12:25','2016-02-03 08:12:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5838',0,'post','',0),(5841,1,'2012-09-18 05:21:54','2012-09-18 05:21:54','<p><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Slow Dancing Society - &quot;Laterna Magica&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/laterna_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the official release of the new Slow Dancing Society album <em><a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Laterna Magica</a>.</em> The album is available for immediate purchase on CD and in digital formats from the <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and all good online stores such as iTunes, eMusic and Amazon. CD orders through Hidden Shoal include an immediate digital download of the album in MP3 or FLAC formats.</p>\n<p>Slow Dancing Society’s fifth album <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Laterna Magica</span> demonstrates another key progression in the Slow Dancing Society discography, which is becoming one of the essential bodies of work in contemporary ambient music. The tracks are underpinned by gorgeous guitar drift and warm synth wash, sparingly propelled by throbbing electronic undercurrents. From the soft-focus exhalation of ‘A Few Moments’, via the gleaming musical universe of recently released single ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’, through to the hypnotic pulse and drifting melancholic piano of finale ‘Tomorrow’s Another Day’, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Laterna Magica</span> is a definitive Slow Dancing Society release.</p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">“Like the glow of sunlight filtered through the slowly undulating waves of blue crystalline water, Under The Sodium Lights is less an auditory adventure and more a rich and imaginative musical daydream.”</span> – <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Delusions of Adequacy on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Under The Sodium Lights</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">“a complexity of sound that allows it to stand out from traditionally ambient music… It is easy to get dissolved in this album, to let yourself fall into meditation as the music plays… an aural delight”</span> – T<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">he Silent Ballet on </span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Priest Lake Circa ’88</span></p>\n<p><em></em>Head to the <strong><a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Hidden Shoal Store</a></strong> for all release details and a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=13&amp;products_id=206\">free track download</a>.</p>\n<p>[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-ill-leave[/soundcloud]<br />\n<strong>Slow Dancing Society - \'There\'s A Place For Us\'</strong></p>\n','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; Official Release','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magic-official-release','','','2016-02-03 16:11:36','2016-02-03 08:11:36','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5841',0,'post','',0),(5848,1,'2012-09-21 04:08:52','2012-09-21 04:08:52','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gilded\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gilded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" />Gilded</a>\'s sublime debut album <em>Terrane</em> has been getting some glowing press leading up to its release. Check out this <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4518405\" target=\"_blank\">lovely write up</a> on the single \'Cluttered Room\' at Mess &amp; Noise and then read this <a href=\"http://thethousands.com.au/perth/hear/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">beautiful review</a> of the album at The Thousands.\n\n<em>\"Terrane studies closely the absorbing power of such immersive, tactile textures, but the melodies are as striking, more akin to incidental forces of nature breaking through natural ambience than mere musical phrases. Anyway, enough words, there’s nothing that sounds quite like Gilded.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://thethousands.com.au/perth/hear/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">The Thousands</a>\n\nDon\'t forget to <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=56&amp;products_id=209\">download the free single</a> \'Cluttered Room\' and check back to the <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> on the 25th of September to pre-order your copy of the limited edition CD (including an immediate download of the album). Check <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/archive/gilded-single-release-free-download/\">this post</a> for the upcoming Perth launch and East Coast tour details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/gilded-cluttered-room[/soundcloud]\n\n&nbsp;','Gilded Press &amp; Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-press-reviews','','','2016-02-03 15:37:52','2016-02-03 07:37:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5848',0,'post','',0),(5851,1,'2012-09-21 04:11:44','2012-09-21 04:11:44','<em>\"Blissfully summoning thoughts of Yo La Tengo’s incidental music for Hal Hartley’s early films, <strong>Gilded</strong>’s ‘Cluttered Room’ is the first single from the Western Australia duo’s forthcoming first album Terrane. Gilded is the work of Matt Rösner – who’s released music on many different labels with a focus on guitar and field recordings – and Adam Trainer, a founding member of Perth post-rock outfit Radarmaker and part of Polaroid Ghost and the Ghost of 29 Megacycles as well as a solo artist.\"</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/4518405\"><strong>Mess &amp; Noise</strong></a>','Gilded &#039;Cluttered Room&#039; - Mess &amp; Noise','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-cluttered-room-mess-noise','','','2012-09-21 04:11:44','2012-09-21 04:11:44','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5851',0,'post','',0),(5853,1,'2012-09-21 04:13:48','2012-09-21 04:13:48','<em>\"Homophones, hey? Fun stuff. A pane you can see through, but you won’t if you can’t see pain through. Lean on a cane if you’re not able, but if you’re Abel, don’t lean on Cain. Terrain is anything you can stand on, but terrane is different from anything else you’ll ever stand on.</em>\n\n<em>For an instrumental record, Adam Trainer and Matt Rosner have chosen their words carefully; though Terrane is filled with recognisable elements (a peak there, a gully there, a sine wave drifting with its eyes shut down a creek) what they’ve formed is completely new. “Road Movie” is typical of proceedings; it crackles dustily – think Morricone fooling around (sombrely) with the foley dept. guys – in a fashion that’s fascinating after one minute and all-consuming after four.</em>\n\n<em>Terrane studies closely the absorbing power of such immersive, tactile textures, but the melodies are as striking, more akin to incidental forces of nature breaking through natural ambience than mere musical phrases. Anyway, enough words, there’s nothing that sounds quite like Gilded.\"</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://thethousands.com.au/perth/hear/gilded-terrane/\"><strong>The Thousands</strong></a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; - The Thousands','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-the-thousands','','','2012-09-21 04:13:48','2012-09-21 04:13:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5853',0,'post','',0),(5858,1,'2012-09-24 23:30:04','2012-09-24 23:30:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gilded - &quot;Terrane&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/terrane_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the availability of <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\" target=\"_blank\">CD pre-orders</a> for <em>Terrane</em>, the debut album by Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilded</a>. All CD pre-orders come with an immediate download in FLAC or Mp3 format and will ship on the official release date of 8th October. To co-incide with this we are also excited to present the beautiful <a href=\"http://youtu.be/S145puK6OZc\" target=\"_blank\">music video</a> for the Gilded track \'Road Movie\', produced by Hidden Shoal\'s Cam Merton.\n\nGilded brings together the similar but distinct musical directions of West Australian experimental musicians Matt Rösner and Adam Trainer, forging a new approach to composition and sound creation that is based as much around rhythm and repetition as it is around drone and abstraction. The pair have released work seperately on labels such as 12K, Room40, hellosQuare, New Weird Australia, and Feral Media.\n\n<em>\"There are worlds in here, in this record. Microscopic examinations of simple figures and patterns, that could fill whole sides; a focus and determination that wraps everything up in 45 minutes. Beautiful, simple, deep, Terrane is simply one of the best albums you’ll hear this year. Highly recommended!\"</em> – <strong>Fluid Radio</strong> <strong>on <em>Terrane</em></strong>\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/gilded/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all CD pre-order details, to stream the album in full and to download the first single from the album \'Cluttered Room\'. The music video for \'Road Movie\' is available for streaming and embedding on <a href=\"http://youtu.be/S145puK6OZc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> and <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal/gilded-road-movie\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>. You can read a full press release for the album release <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Gilded_Terrane.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n<iframe width=\"495\" height=\"278\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/S145puK6OZc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; CD Pre-Orders and Music Video','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-cd-pre-orders-and-music-video','','','2016-02-03 15:37:52','2016-02-03 07:37:52','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5858',0,'post','',0),(5869,1,'2012-09-26 15:07:41','2012-09-26 15:07:41','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Markus_Mehr_6-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Markus Mehr\" width=\"115\" height=\"176\" />We recently asked Markus Mehr if he’d be so kind as to make a <a href=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/markus-mehr-mixtape-mmm/\">mixtape</a> for us of his favourite tunes. What we got was a wonderfully eclectic mix below that has been on high rotation in the Hidden Shoal office since it arrived. There’s something incredibly satisfying hearing Taylor Deupree, The Beach Boys, Philip Jeck and Andy Williams share the sound stage. If only this could happen live!\n\nCheck it all out over at the <a href=\"http://blog.hiddenshoal.com/\">Hidden Shoal blog</a> then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream Mehr\'s stunning releases <em>Lava</em>,<em> In</em> and<em> On</em> .','Markus Mehr MixTape!','','publish','closed','open','','5869','','','2016-02-03 15:52:07','2016-02-03 07:52:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5869',0,'post','',0),(5877,1,'2012-09-28 06:26:24','2012-09-28 06:26:24','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/terrane_MED.jpg\" alt=\"Gilded - Terrane\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Gilded\'s  stunning forthcoming debut <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\"><em>Terrane</em></a> has already been drumming up some amazing reviews and getting heavy doses of Australian radio love. The album has just been glowingly <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/09/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed at Fluid Radio</a> where it was lauded as <em>\"one of the best albums you\'ll hear this year\"</em>. <a href=\"http://thethousands.com.au/perth/hear/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">The Thousands</a> were full of praise in their <a href=\"http://thethousands.com.au/perth/hear/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">recent review</a> saying, \"<em>there’s nothing that sounds quite like Gilded.</em>\" The track \'Moth Food\' was chosen as Dave Cutbush\'s track of the day on RTRFM\'s <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/shows/otl\" target=\"_blank\">Out To Lunch</a> program and <em>Terran</em>e recently landed in <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/ospreyradio\" target=\"_blank\">Osprey Radio</a>\'s Top 30 in early anticipation of its US college radio campaign starting next week.\n\nThe new <a href=\"http://youtu.be/S145puK6OZc\" target=\"_blank\">music video for \'Road Movie\'</a>, produced by Hidden Shoal\'s very own Cam Merton, has been featured on such sites as <a href=\"http://www.baeblemusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Baeble Music</a>, <a href=\"http://www.messandnoise.com/tv/4519766\" target=\"_blank\">Mess &amp; Noise</a> and <a href=\"http://www.thevine.com.au/music/news/new-oz-music-collarbones-something-for-kate-new-war-pvt-aleks-and-the-ramps-hilltop-hoods/\" target=\"_blank\">The Vine</a> with more features on the way.\n\nYou can pre-order <em>Terrane</em> now on CD over at the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and get an immediate mp3 or FLAC download of the album with your order.\n\n<em>\n</em>','Glowing Gilded Reviews and Features!','','publish','closed','open','','glowing-gilded-reviews-and-features','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5877',0,'post','',0),(5890,1,'2012-10-02 06:34:38','2012-10-02 06:34:38','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/half-film.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"115\" />Just a quick one to share some deserved love at <a href=\"http://somelostsomefound.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/slowcore-greats-half-film.html\">Some Lost, Some Found</a> for the upcoming <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/\">Half Film</a> album re-issues,\n\n<em>\"I missed Half Film by just a hair when I arrived in the greater Bay Area in 2000, but they had left a lasting effect on countless moody guitar acts that could be described as the “SlowCore” scene. I picked up their final 7 inch released on AIP Records in 2000, but was never able to acquire their earlier material in a physical format. Thanks to Hidden Shoal Records, now a whole new generation of depressed-sounding bands can see what Half Film was all about...This is highly recommended stuff for anyone who has a Red House Painters or Low record sitting on their shelf. The fact that these guys don’t have the same fan base as those bands shocks me to no end.\" - </em><strong>Some Lost, Some Found</strong>\n\nWe are damn excited to be able to bring these two amazing albums back into the world and can\'t wait to share them with both a new audience and also re-connect with Half Film\'s existing fans. The double CD will contain both albums in the one package and will be available for pre-order on the 18th of October with an official release date of October 31st. Don\'t forget to download the free single, \'Machines, Hawks and the Perfect Equation\' from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=210\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> while you wait.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/half-film-machines-hawks-and[/soundcloud]','Half Film Love','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-love','','','2016-02-03 15:40:01','2016-02-03 07:40:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5890',0,'post','',0),(5893,1,'2012-10-02 06:36:37','2012-10-02 06:36:37','<em>\"I missed Half Film by just a hair when I arrived in the greater Bay Area in 2000, but they had left a lasting effect on countless moody guitar acts that could be described as the “SlowCore” scene. I picked up their final 7 inch released on AIP Records in 2000, but was never able to acquire their earlier material in a physical format. Thanks to Hidden Shoal Records, now a whole new generation of depressed-sounding bands can see what Half Film was all about...This is highly recommended stuff for anyone who has a Red House Painters or Low record sitting on their shelf. The fact that these guys don’t have the same fan base as those bands shocks me to no end.\" - </em><a href=\"http://somelostsomefound.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/slowcore-greats-half-film.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Some Lost, Some Found</strong></a>','Half Film Re-Issues - Some Lost, Some Found','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-re-issues-some-lost-some-found','','','2012-10-02 06:36:37','2012-10-02 06:36:37','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5893',0,'post','',0),(5896,1,'2012-10-05 12:13:31','2012-10-05 12:13:31','Arguably the track that brings Mehr\'s <em>On </em> into clearest focus is the penultimate one, “Monks On The Beach,” less for the irreverence of its title than for the conceptual MO evidenced by its construction—specifically the idea of pairing Gregorian Chant with animated, field-recorded conversations in a single piece. In contrast to its predecessor, <em>In</em>, the first part of Mehr\'s <em>In-On-Off </em> triptych, <em>On </em> doesn\'t present two long-form compositions but instead eight experimental constructions of more modest length (<em>Off</em>, featuring a single, forty-nine-minute epic, is scheduled for early 2013 release). As he did on <em>In </em> (and on his debut album <em>Lava</em>), Mehr again uses synths, processed guitars, distortion pedals, and computer to generate the latest chapter\'s dramatic set-pieces.\n\nThe approach is hardly unique to “Monks On The Beach,” however. The opening salvo “I\'m Gonna Make You Love Me” adopts much the same approach in juxtaposing grime-laden convulsions and orchestral string samples, as does the subsequent “Flaming Youth” when it offsets belches of static noise with crackle-drenched loops of string-laced lounge music. Harpsichord tinkles and other smothered musical elements wash ashore during the piece\'s seven minute running time, before “Barcelona Waltz” lumbers into being with its own noise-encrusted agenda.\n\nSome moments of remarkable beauty occur, most memorably during the orchestrally rich settings “Only For A While” and “Tunnels,” while the cut-up collage-styled character of the recording is most blatantly displayed during the brief rhythmic stutters of “Olympia.” It\'s telling that a major reason why “Only For A While” is so effective is that it largely hews to a single style throughout; “Tunnels,” on the other hand, makes a strong impression in the way it loops piano and harp fragments into a lulling dreamscape (in its first half). Having eight separate pieces at his disposal affords Mehr the latitude to easily and abruptly shift gears in both style and mood, and consequently the samples-heavy <em>On </em> covers a wide range of experimental ground in its heady forty-five minutes. It\'ll be interesting to hear how <em>Off </em> picks up where <em>On </em> leaves off.\n\n<a href=\"http://textura.org/reviews/mehr_on.htm\" target=\"_blank\">textura</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - textura','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-textura','','','2012-10-05 12:13:31','2012-10-05 12:13:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5896',0,'post','',0),(5900,1,'2012-10-07 00:03:06','2012-10-07 00:03:06','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gilded.jpg\" alt=\"Gilded\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" />Tune in to Triple J\'s awesome Sound Lab show this Sunday night to hear an interview with <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/gilded/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilded</a>. The boys will be phoning in almost directly after they step off stage from their album launch in Perth. How\'s that for post neo-classical rock n roll! Listen in from 11pm AEST or re-stream it next week if you miss it. All details can be found on <a href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/soundlab/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sound Lab website</a>.','Gilded Interview on Triple J&#039;s Sound Lab','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-interview-on-triple-js-sound-lab','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5900',0,'post','',0),(5902,1,'2012-10-08 04:00:28','2012-10-08 04:00:28','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;On&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/markuson_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Markus Mehr\'s latest opus <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a> has just received a wonderful review in the latest <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/mehr_on.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a>. This comes ahead of the release of a new single and music video from the album this week. More on that very soon.\n\n<em>\"Some moments of remarkable beauty occur, most memorably during the orchestrally rich settings “Only For A While” and “Tunnels,” while the cut-up collage-styled character of the recording is most blatantly displayed during the brief rhythmic stutters of “Olympia.”... Having eight separate pieces at his disposal affords Mehr the latitude to easily and abruptly shift gears in both style and mood, and consequently the samples-heavy On covers a wide range of experimental ground in its heady forty-five minutes. It’ll be interesting to hear how Off picks up where On leaves off.\"</em> - <strong>Textura</strong>\n\nHead over to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream the album in full and listen to more Mehr!\n\n&nbsp;','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;On&quot; Reviewed in Latest Textura','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-on-reviewed-in-latest-textura','','','2016-02-03 15:52:07','2016-02-03 07:52:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5902',0,'post','',0),(5905,1,'2012-10-08 04:17:32','2012-10-08 04:17:32','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gilded - &quot;Terrane&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/terrane_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the official release of <em>Terrane</em>, the debut album by Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilded</a>. The album is now available for <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\">purchase on CD and digitally</a>.\n\nGilded brings together the similar but distinct musical directions of West Australian experimental musicians Matt Rösner and Adam Trainer, forging a new approach to composition and sound creation that is based as much around rhythm and repetition as it is around drone and abstraction. The pair have released work seperately on labels such as 12K, Room40, hellosQuare, New Weird Australia, and Feral Media.\n\n<em>\"There are worlds in here, in this record. Microscopic examinations of simple figures and patterns, that could fill whole sides; a focus and determination that wraps everything up in 45 minutes. Beautiful, simple, deep, Terrane is simply one of the best albums you’ll hear this year. Highly recommended!\"</em> – <strong>Fluid Radio</strong> <strong>on <em>Terrane</em></strong>\n\n<em>\"Terrane is a work of adeptly inspired craftsmanship that’s very nearly breathtaking in its evolving forms, ambient without being soporific, containing an evocative and far from melancholic energy at its core...Hidden Shoal never disappoint in their releases but Terrane is a remarkable work even by their established and finely honed standards. \" -</em> <strong>DOA on</strong><em><strong> Terrane</strong></em>\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/gilded/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all CD and digital orders, to stream the album in full and to download the first single from the album \'Cluttered Room\'. All CD orders through Hidden Shoal include an immediate download of the album in FLAC or Mp3. The album is also available from iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Bandcamp and other reputable online stores.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/S145puK6OZc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"495\" height=\"278\"></iframe>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; Official Release and Digital Availability','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-official-release-and-digital-availability','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5905',0,'post','',0),(5929,1,'2012-10-12 02:07:08','2012-10-12 02:07:08','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - \'Duck Became Swan\'\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Duck-Became-Swan_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to present ‘<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=212\" target=\"_blank\">Duck Became Swan</a>’,  the second single by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr, taken from his latest album <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a>, along with its accompanying <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/49295610\" target=\"_blank\">video</a> by the brilliant German video artist <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/sixtsense\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanie Sixt</a>. The track is available for <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=212\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a> and the video can be streamed on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/49295610\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a> and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGRCY37hMm4\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a>.\n\n‘Duck Became Swan’ is perhaps one of the most expansive and moving pieces on Markus Mehr’s new album <em>On</em>. Across nine mesmerising minutes, the track masterfully mutates between two wildly different musical environments. The heavy distortion that intermittently tears through at the opening of the track gradually gives way to a heartstoppingly beautiful orchestral refrain and open-ended guitar figure, before being subsumed again into fizzing, electric chaos. ‘Duck Became Swan’ continues Mehr’s ongoing exploration of texture versus melody.\n\n<em>“a cornucopia of samples, field recordings and distorted drones, and is highly recommended to fans of William Basinski, Tim Hecker and Fennesz.”</em> – My Old Kentucky Blog on <em>ON</em>\n\nThe accompanying video, created by visual artist <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/sixtsense\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanie Sixt</a>, is like a hypnotic animated re-imagining of the cover of Joy Division’s <em>Unknown Pleasures</em>, an electric monochrome dream/nightmare that vibrates with life in synch with the track’s ecstatic convulsions.\n\n\'Duck Became Swan\' is available for free download from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=212\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. <em>On</em> is also available on <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\" target=\"_blank\">CD and digital</a> formats through Hidden Shoal.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/49295610?title=1&amp;byline=1&amp;portrait=1&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href=\"http://vimeo.com/49295610\">DUCK BECAME SWAN</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/sixtsense\">stefanie sixt, sixt sense</a> on <a href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.</p>','New Markus Mehr Single and Music Video!','','publish','closed','open','','new-markus-mehr-single-and-music-video','','','2016-02-03 15:52:07','2016-02-03 07:52:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5929',0,'post','',0),(5936,1,'2012-10-12 03:41:35','2012-10-12 03:41:35','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/bio/sds_store.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Sullivan\" width=\"136\" height=\"182\" />Slow Dancing Society</a>\'s fifth, and dare we say his best, album <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\"><em>Laterna Magica</em></a> has been drumming up some wonderful press since its release with more on its way soon. Check out a few glowing reviews for the album at <a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/hidden-shoal-3view\" target=\"_blank\">Igloo Magazine</a>, <a href=\"http://nowlikephotographs.com/2012/09/10/slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica/\" target=\"_blank\">NowLikePhotographs</a>, <a href=\"http://musicreviewdatabase.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/a-conversation-with-slow-dancing-society_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Music Review Database</a>. In related news, the album is one of the <a href=\"http://darla.com/?fuseaction=item_feature.darla_item_feature_top_50\" target=\"_blank\">Darla</a> top 20 sellers!\n\n<a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\"><em>Laterna Magica</em></a> has also started to make an impact on US college radio and has just charted at <a href=\"http://www.wcbn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">WCBN</a> and is beginning to receive rotations at a number of key US college stations. Speaking of radio, if you missed the wonderful interview with Drew Sullivan (aka Slow Dancing Society) on the Fade To Yellow show on Koop radio recently then you can re-stream it <a href=\"http://fadetoyellow.com/interviews/slow-dancing-society-interview-september-2012/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nYou can stream this beautiful thing in its entirety at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> as well as download a free single and buy the CD and digital versions. Slow Dancing Society fans should also check out the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=specials\">sale we currently have on</a> as all previous SDS releases (CD + Digital)  are included in the discounts. Good times!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-ill-leave[/soundcloud]','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; Reviews','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-reviews','','','2016-02-03 16:11:36','2016-02-03 08:11:36','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5936',0,'post','',0),(5938,1,'2012-10-12 03:52:48','2012-10-12 03:52:48','\"Imagine, if you will, the following scenario: you wake up, get dressed, go to work, finish work, travel back home, do various chorus at home and finally, after the last corner of the room has been dusted and hovered you sit down to relax. One might watch some television. Someone else might read a book or solve a puzzle. Me? I listen to Ambient music.\n<div>It’s not that I am unable to stomach different kinds music. Quite the contrary. I love my <em>Mumford &amp; Sons</em>’s and <em>Katy Perry</em>’s as much as the next man/woman. But something about this music keeps me captivated and interested. I don’t know if it’s the warm, soothing calmness of the sounds, or the soft rhythmic textures? Or perhaps the minimalistic yet immersive layering? All I know is that I find that I’ve got difficulty in finding the emotional atmosphere anywhere else than this particular genre. I find new releases on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis and every release becomes a new obsession. Some of them stick, some of them don’t.</div>\n<div>But the music of Spokane, Washington based Drew Sullivan, better known as Slow Dancing Society, certainly stuck with me in a way very few other artists can. I came across his first release \"<em>The Sound ofLights When Dim\"</em> by accident. If I recall correctly I found it while stumbling the web on the prowl for new music and when I listened to the album it just got to me. I could actively listen to it and find a new hook or melody in a song with every repeated listen, or I could just leave it in the background. It made my everyday sweep of the internet a lot more comfortable. It didn’t take me too long to check out his other albums as well and before I knew it he was in my top 4 on Last.FM and he remains there to this day.</div>\n<div>And now, in 2012, 2 years after the release of the exquisite <em>\"Under the Sodium Lights\"</em> (which was an amazingly deep drone album which lost a lot of the rhythm, but none of the beautiful layers and edited guitar that I came to know and love) he now comes with <em>\"Laterna Magica</em>.\"</div>\n<div></div>\n<div>Brian Eno once said that ambient music is about,<em> “creating an ambience, a sense of place that complements and alters your environment”</em>. Sullivan understands this very well. The first wave of music that hits your ears surrounds you with a warm, nostalgic feeling. A feeling that almost feels like a memory. It’s not an inherently happy memory, and it’s not a sad one either. It’s a memory of a time where you felt completely at ease. It gives your head some space to ponder over important and unimportant things. I agree that that sounds a little bit like I’m close to be admitted into a psychiatric ward but I don’t know how else to explain it. This album is sonic melancholy.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div>The single,\"I’ll Leave A Light On\", conjures up a feeling of content loneliness. It sounds less like a track on a CD and more like a musical aid to a movie that has never been made. Soft layers of acoustic guitar with sparse piano complement the rich synth textures underneath. This track is also the go-to example if you want to know what his CD is all about. The other tracks on the album follow the same path, layering synthesized rhythmic elements with live acoustic instruments, and <em>Laterna Magica </em>eloquently delivers an album that is sonically vaguely reminiscent of Guitar Based Ambient gods <em>Hammock </em>and the lesser known <em>Kwajbasket</em> without ever sounding like it’s borrowing from them. I have always (wrongly) viewed this particular style of Ambient music as interchangeable, an opinion quickly changed after discovering SDS and it’s certainly an opinion that will not return after listening to <em>Laterna Magica</em>. If you are looking for a soundtrack to your day off, or a soothing sleeping aid this is the album to look for.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div>All in all it’s a well-rounded release, full of little interesting segments that leaves you wanting for more. I will be looking forward to more SDS in the future. But for now this reviewer is more then happy to be stuck with <em>Laterna Magica </em>for a while.\n~Chris</div>\n<div>8.9\"</div>\n-<a href=\"http://musicreviewdatabase.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/a-conversation-with-slow-dancing-society_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Music Review Database</a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; - Music Review Database','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-music-review-database','','','2012-10-12 03:52:48','2012-10-12 03:52:48','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5938',0,'post','',0),(5940,1,'2012-10-12 03:54:57','2012-10-12 03:54:57','\"Over six years and four previous albums, Slow Dancing Society, aka Drew Sullivan, has pretty much become a household name in ambient music and a stalwart of the Hidden Shoal label. <em>Laterna Magica</em> sees the artist continuing in much the same vein as before, and continuing to reap the rewards.\n\nA lot of genres meet in Slow Dancing Society’s music. Opener “A Few Moments” initially recalls Stars of the Lid’s crystalline, skyscraping ambience. Shimmering notes stretch out, punctuated by hammers of piano ringing out like bells. But even here there comes a pulsating bass line, albeit briefly, for a moment injecting tension and motion that might be more at home in minimal electronica. Such percussive elements appear more often on <em>Laterna Magica </em>than on previous albums, introducing a number of tracks and adding gentle rhythms to elongated strings and synths of “After the Twilight Takes Us”, “” and others. In most cases they do not disturb the album’s stratospheric quality, with reverb and delay making the clicks and pops just as ephemeral as the other sounds. Later though, “Pieces of Your Presence” is much more earthbound, comprised mainly of a low, rich stutter and a rhythm that this time seems to anchor rather than join the push skywards. The surrounding winds of ambience seem to try and lift the piece but never quite manage it.\n\nThis sort of variety and motion has always been one of Slow Dancing Society’s strengths. Although there are tracks that clearly stick out from the whole album – such as “I’ll Leave a Light On” with its active melodies and aggressive forward momentum – <em>Laterna Magica</em> is still just about unified by its general soaring tone and the instrumental sounds used are generally the same, even if they are used in several different ways. And so clear, defined guitar work reminiscent of mid-2000s post-rock pared down and stretched out (it is nice to be reminded that ambience doesn’t always have to equal mountains of effects and abstract washes) sits beside the aforementioned “Pieces of Your Presence” thanks to the echoing percussion and synth shimmers that accompany them both.\n\nAn apparent obsession with light is also continued here. <em>Laterna Magica</em> means ‘magic lantern’, making it the third Slow Dancing Society album to reference light in its title (The others being <em>The Sound of Lights When Dim</em> and <em>Under the Sodium Lights</em>), not to mention numerous individual tracks. Sullivan’s music is well suited to the theme. With slick production leaving so few rough edges it sounds almost otherworldly its smooth sonic planes gleaming at every touch of sunlight in a way that would make latter-day Hammock proud. If <em>Laterna Magica</em> seems to be flying through the sky so often, it is the sun that is the goal, reaching for that brightest of lights. The album isn’t always fierce or as openly cheery as the metaphor allows, but it is warm and a note of hope, or even expectation of ‘something better’ (through a magic lantern perhaps) is always present.\n\nIt’s a testament to the strength of Slow Dancing Society’s sound that it’s still going strong after five albums with very little modification. Relying on individuality, some subtle shifts in focus and a varied musical palette Sullivan keeps his output fresh and highly listenable without the relentless pursuit of progress. <em>Laterna Magica</em> is accessible and engaging, and if Sullivan continues to make music like that then there should be little need to change the formula.\n\nMatt Gilley\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://nowlikephotographs.com/2012/09/10/slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica/\" target=\"_blank\">NowLikePhotographs</a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; - NowLikePhotographs','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-nowlikephotographs','','','2012-10-12 03:54:57','2012-10-12 03:54:57','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5940',0,'post','',0),(5943,1,'2012-10-12 03:57:45','2012-10-12 03:57:45','\"Slow Dancing Society, on the other hand, may be the most loveable of Hidden Shoals’ roster. Built around chiming, delayed guitars, Drew Sullivan´s music glows and radiates more wattage than most ambient. Sulllivan has a consistent, very personal address. His previous effort Under the Sodium Lights was one great big, dreamily seductive love letter. Lanterna Magica is an album of specific farewells, if the fact that half the ten tracks contain personal pronouns in their titles is any indication. It is light, almost Californian romance for “A Few Moments,” marred by the unfortunate idea of frankensteining a hermaphroditic spoken-word stanza at the very end. But that small flaw is easily outshone by magical moments like “Gardens and Graves” and “I’ll See You in Time,” wispy things that graze up against a kind of ambient folk. Unprepossessing, only waved at with effects, Sullivan’s Laterna Magica is far easier to embrace than the more challenging Mehr, but that doesn’t make it any less well-crafted. Although the label chose “I’ll Leave a Light On” as lead-in single, I would have gone with “A Slow Parade of Wind.” And even though it is an emotionally-based album, Sullivan takes time for a genuine think-piece with “There’s a Place for Us.” \"\n\n-<a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/hidden-shoal-3view\" target=\"_blank\">Igloo Magazine</a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; - Igloo Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-igloo-magazine','','','2012-10-12 03:57:45','2012-10-12 03:57:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5943',0,'post','',0),(5946,1,'2012-10-12 04:00:21','2012-10-12 04:00:21','\"This is the second installment in a trilogy slated for completion in January. While <strong>In</strong> opened with a fog lifting to reveal a romantic vista, <strong>On</strong> bursts out of the gate like a bolting horse pulling a cart with a broken back wheel. “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” is a promise to the listener Mehr intends to work hard to keep. Only two minutes long and bold and abrasive as it is, it´s immediately apparent that there is much more going on than first meets the ear, that the arrangement is full of delicate particulars behind the bashing. “Flaming Youth” deposits us in an easy-listening Bacharachian paradise, just as “Komo” did on <strong>In</strong>, while “Barcelona Waltz” obscures a really sweet song with thick curtains of static, only pulled aside once or twice. Mehr often returns to string orchestra samples to construct the lushest of his loops, and “Only for a While” is the loveliest of these. On the following track, Mehr casts lightening bolts of electricity, before more trumpet-led lounge music loops in and out of earshot. As the record heads toward its conclusion, the dust-up with Greek folk music is just annoying and I think we’ve all heard enough Gregorian chanting to last us a lifetime, even if this choir of monks is surrounded by happy-go-lucky beachgoers. The album too ends with a piano coda, whose blissful self-indulgence he can’t help but torture with occasional, and brutal, shocks. This reviewer found Mehr’s ambient-noise schizophrenia on <strong>In</strong> only partly successful. While <strong>On</strong> feels more symmetrical and logically integrated, it too requires the most engaged and open-minded listener to elicit unconditional love.\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/hidden-shoal-3view\" target=\"_blank\">Igloo Magazine</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Igloo Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-igloo-magazine','','','2012-10-12 04:00:21','2012-10-12 04:00:21','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5946',0,'post','',0),(5948,1,'2012-10-12 04:01:44','2012-10-12 04:01:44','\"On his third album for the label, Wes Willenbring’s classic melancholy breaks no new ground but shows off an admirably stark personal vision and straightforward, coherent execution. The electric guitar is his weapon of preference though once, an acoustic ditto adds something of an Iberian flavour to otherwise uncharted terrain. ”Dreams and Schemes” is a saw-toothed fog, a trembling drone. “Scene Missing” is an attractive nothingness determined to achieve a state of enrapt somethingness. Pulsars travel through a rust belt on “Consequences of Recklessness,” corroding their bright, elongated rays. The longest piece is the shortest on ideas; at fifteen minutes, “Quaaludes” takes ages to get going, four notes banged out of the guitar which lead up to nothing much more than an empty, gaping hole in which to echo. Not that it isn´t pleasant, probably much more so if you are comfortably numb while listening, but it lacks the heft of all the other, much shorter tracks, which Willenbring endows with so much moxie. He closes with a gentle piano farewell.\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/hidden-shoal-3view\" target=\"_blank\">Igloo Magazine</a>','Wes Willenbring &quot;Weapons Reference Manual&quot; - Igloo Magazine','','draft','closed','open','','wes-willenbring-weapons-reference-manual-igloo-magazine','','','2014-08-01 02:23:23','2014-08-01 02:23:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5948',0,'post','',0),(5950,1,'2012-10-12 04:07:38','2012-10-12 04:07:38','A lovely little Hidden Shoal three way over at Igloo Magazine as they review the latest releases by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=20\">Wes Willenbring</a> and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Slow Dancing Society</a>. Check the reviews in full <a href=\"http://igloomag.com/reviews/hidden-shoal-3view\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and head to the <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to stream the releases in full.','Hidden Shoal 3View at Igloo Magazine','','publish','closed','open','','hidden-shoal-3view-at-igloo-magazine','','','2016-02-03 16:11:03','2016-02-03 08:11:03','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5950',0,'post','',0),(5960,1,'2012-10-12 09:18:31','2012-10-12 09:18:31','Excerpt (translated from the German): \"On his new album <em>On, </em>Markus Mehr proves that he is a master of a variety of electronic styles. The sounds are so varied, from quiet, undulating movements to unclassifiable industrial sounds. The eight instrumental pieces come with their own dynamics and often rouse the listener back from feeling relaxed... An album of sonic experiments, beautiful melodies and creativity.\"\n\n<a href=\"http://www.der-hoerspiegel.de/portal/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;catid=45:electroebm&amp;id=4058:on&amp;Itemid=41\" target=\"_blank\">Der Horspeigel</a>','Markus Mehr &quot;On&quot; - Der Horspeigel','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-on-der-horspeigel','','','2012-10-12 09:18:31','2012-10-12 09:18:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5960',0,'post','',0),(5962,1,'2012-10-12 09:11:20','2012-10-12 09:11:20','Another glowing review has rolled in for Slow Dancing Society\'s 5th opus, <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Laterna Magica</em></a>. Check out the review at the always excellent <a href=\"Another lovely review for Slow Dancing Society\'s stunning new album &quot;Laterna Magica&quot;, this time at A Closer Listen:  http://acloserlisten.com/2012/10/12/slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a> and listen to the album <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-theres-a[/soundcloud]','Slow Dancing Society Reviewed at A Closer Listen','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-reviewed-at-a-closer-listen','','','2016-02-03 16:12:43','2016-02-03 08:12:43','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5962',0,'post','',0),(5964,1,'2012-10-12 09:13:11','2012-10-12 09:13:11','\"I’m crossing a bridge on a cloudy morning.  It looks like it might rain.  People are running, God knows from what or where to, a slow dancing society unfolds in plain sight every second, and the music of <strong>Drew Sullivan</strong> seems to be made to draw our attention to the beauty or ugliness (which is equally fascinating and educational) of this world.  Ambient music has in many cases been used as the soundtrack to sunsets, strange color formations in the sky and other obscure moments of abstract beauty that seem to occur more often than we are capable of noticing them.  For an artist such as <strong>Slow Dancing Society</strong><strong>, </strong>originating from the land of rain (the state of Washington), the anticipation of a shower every time the sun is hidden becomes an inspiration, and leads to a more stoic approach to life and art, as well as a greater appreciation of the times we tend to describe as good (a metaphor for which can be the times when the sun is shining).\n\nSullivan, has developed into a shaman of sound, whose ambient (mostly guitar) music that has in some cases drawn comparisons to Hammock, has begun to deviate towards a quieter, more personal approach.  <em>Laterna Magica </em>is a more esoteric work than its predecessors, even if the differences from albums such as <em>The Slow and Steady Winter </em>or <em>The Sounds of Lights When Dim </em>may not be noticed at first.  The music seems to be getting more abstract, and the emotional outbreaks of tracks such as the lovely “February Sun” from the fabulous <em>The Slow and Steady Winter, </em>less frequent.  The melodies seem to be frozen in time, telling us stories of love, pain or loss in slow-motion, and emphasizing their universalness.  Faint hints of a beat here and there serve as a reminder that we are parts of an enormous machine, and we must be aware at all times of the dangers surrounding us.  Droney atmospheric sounds led by a minimal guitar or piano however soon deliver us to the dreamlike state, that reveals the true meaning of our existence, which cannot be described in words.\n\nRevisiting the first paragraph, I realize that I am describing a personal experience, whose meaning became clearer to me while listening to this album, and may have nothing to do with the artist’s vision.  But the ability to make its listeners project and find meaning in their own experience is in itself a victory and music such as this can certainly have that effect. <strong>(John Kontos)</strong>\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2012/10/12/slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Closer Listen</strong></a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; - A Closer Listen','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-a-closer-listen','','','2012-10-12 09:13:11','2012-10-12 09:13:11','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5964',0,'post','',0),(5969,1,'2012-10-12 09:21:05','2012-10-12 09:21:05','Sometimes I’m unsure exactly where to start with writing about an album. On other occasions, the band/musicians make things if not exactly easy then perhaps at least partially apparent, signposting their music through identifiable types of genre and style, and allowing music writers to spend fewer hours attempting to categorize what they’re listening to. But if ever a music label chose its name well, that label is Hidden Shoal. Based in the Australian city of Perth, it’s a name that invokes ideas about the unseen, about the less than obvious, and if you expect that their output contains much in the way of Ambient and Post-Rock recordings then you are quite right, and the consistent brilliance of these is perhaps matched only by the actual obscurity of many of the labels artistes.\n\nGilded won’t find themselves on magazine covers and top 40 listings. Some would argue that they don’t actually belong there, but has anyone ever wondered what would happen if Ambient Post-Rock were suddenly the, for want of a more accurate phrase, new Rock N Roll? In this alternate cultural scenario Gilded might find themselves lauded as the originators, as the quite remarkable talents they actually are in more formats than just the Indie Webzine one. <em>Terrane</em> is a work of adeptly inspired craftsmanship that’s very nearly breathtaking in its evolving forms, ambient without being soporific, containing an evocative and far from melancholic energy at its core and which, as I think I’ve already commented when reviewing other Hidden Shoal releases, not enough people will get to hear.\n\nI’ll avoid falling back on some of the guesswork regarding influences that I often use when reviewing albums such as this. Matt Rosner and Adam Trainer definitely possess an interesting album collection between them, and first track “Velor” does contain one or two hints as to where their own music takes its cues from. I’ll leave it to other listeners to decide what these are though, from its opening duet of piano and sustained cello the track metamorphoses into an extended improvisation that extends the opening motifs around as far as the track length (and none of tracks here are much over seven minutes) allows for, and as the cello playing develops away from looped notes and into detuned atonality the rhythmic backing increases in its intensities. Gilded show an element of restraint in their musicality that prevents their slipping too far into the self indulgence that Post Rock is often criticised for, and next track “String And Stone” displays this skill to near mesmeric effect. A metronomic shower of percussive meteors, its melody and rhythm fit seamlessly and incessantly together and it’s one track on <em>Terrane</em> that I for one would appreciate hearing in an extended form. “Dew Cloud” takes a more classically informed approach, perhaps it started life as a sonata until Gilded decided to add cymbals and reverberating effects to its purposefully performed tempo and as the track develops away from this Gilded wilfully deconstruct the opening passage into a near chaotic percussion event and the element of subtlety that this is done with only adds to its destructive grandeur.\n\nMuch like Camera’s <em>Radiate!</em> album which I reviewed here a month or so ago, Gilded seem somehow constrained by the limitations of their studio enviroment and also like Camera there’s a constant tension at play throughout their music, even in its quieter moments. Fifth track “Tyne” shows Gilded both aware of and able to develop these conflicting aspects, a simultaneously assertive and claustrophobic piece that only gains in its momentum as it progresses and that again could work very effectively at a greater length. ‘Cluttered Room’ is the absolute standout track of the album for me though. Whatever the reason, it was the first track from ‘<em>Terrane</em> that I actually heard and it is really is something that both Trainer and Rosner can think themselves justifiably proud of. Taking a folk based rhythm and employing their practiced style of repetition, it’s an ambient sea shanty given a darkly elegiac twist that perhaps shows where Gilded might develop their music into – this is after all only their first album – and its refrain contains a resonance that had me and probably also you, should you hear it, flicking the music player back to the start of the album with enthusiastic rapidity.\n\nHidden Shoal never disappoint in their releases but <em>Terrane</em> is a remarkable work even by their established and finely honed standards. Gilded are, as I mentioned in the opening to this review, unlikely to find themselves a very wide audience but music such as this both needs and deserves more attention than it’ll probably receive, and certainly those that do hear it will think themselves fortunate that music of this quality found its way onto their stereos.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2012/10/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; - Delusions of Adequacy','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-delusions-of-adequacy','','','2012-10-12 09:21:05','2012-10-12 09:21:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5969',0,'post','',0),(5972,1,'2012-10-12 09:25:38','2012-10-12 09:25:38','Piano. Bowed metal. Percussion. Repetition. Space. Texture…\n\nThese are our basic ingredients; our oil, salt, pepper, spice, flour, water. We can draw on one tradition, or another – personal, geographic, familial. Our tools, our skillets, griddles, pans; these are our experience, our context, and our time. Whatever the combination, we try to make something.\n\nTrying to work out what that is, why that record is good, why this one is a disappointment, why this one we will play again and again, depends on so much, can be such a personal decision, that in the end, the best thing to do is listen as much as possible – to the actual music, the disc in your hand, the ringing in your ears.\n\nFloor tom. Banjo. Guitar. Detail. Depth. Quiet.\n\nThere is so much music out there. So much being made from these simple elements – what separates the merely pleasant from the stunning? The wallpaper from the focus point? This album, the first as Gilded from Matt Rösner and Adam Trainer is beautifully produced, mixed, balanced, mastered – one of the best I’ve heard this year – every detail shines through clearly. But this isn’t the reason I’ll return to it again and again. It cleverly juxtaposes the abstract curl of noise and bowed scrapes against stately piano chords, but this in itself is not wholly remarkable.\n\nIt is the clear eyed way these elements are put to work – to the service of restraint, understatement, yes, but quiet drama too – a narrative drive, a forward momentum – this is not ambient music in the Eno ‘tinting’ sense – its far too involving, far too surprising.\n\nThe unexpected entrance of hushed vocals in Expand/Contract gives the whole album shape. An arc where the gradual accumulation of texture moves from the opening tumbling piano figures to the frayed accordion drones of Moth Food, providing a suitably ear-cleaning coda, yet Terrane never goes for the easy crescendo, the mass of stacked instruments. Instead, new arrivals form part of a holding pattern of repeated gestures, the picked banjo of String and Stone simply mirroring the low cymbal and high percussive bell, dancing round a two note bass centre.\n\nRinging. Echoing. Noise.\n\nThe grasp of holding dynamics on display here is I think, almost unparalleled in this area – the close notes and rattles of Dew Cloud at times recall Adrian Klumpes’ excellent Be Still record, but here they are anchored to a hidden, implied rhythmic grid that ties much of these passages to process and systems based art, rather than expressionist washes.\n\nBrevity. Rhythm. Listening.\n\nThere are worlds in here, in this record. Microscopic examinations of simple figures and patterns, that could fill whole sides; a focus and determination that wraps everything up in 45 minutes. Beautiful, simple, deep, Terrane is simply one of the best albums you’ll hear this year. Highly recommended!\n\n<a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/09/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; - Fluid Radio','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-fluid-radio','','','2012-10-12 09:25:38','2012-10-12 09:25:38','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5972',0,'post','',0),(5974,1,'2012-10-12 09:27:17','2012-10-12 09:27:17','I’m no geologist, but thanks to a bit of search-engine scholarship I can now tell you that a “terrane” is a land-mass phenomenon where a tectonic plate breaks off and fuses with another, leaving a fault-line where the two bits of Earth-crust have “sutured.” The metaphorical inference to be made here – that collaborators Adam Trainer and Matt Rosner’s respective approaches/oeuvres are comparable to tectonic plates, monolithic, timeless, and joined at last – might seem a touch self-important if not for a few facts. (A) Adam and Matt are well-known to be top dudes, tirelessly honing their crafts for years with no time for chest-puffing; (B) their approaches/oevres actually DO feel somehow monolithic and timeless, detached from the mundanities of modern life, alluding to something more cosmic or ancient, and © well, it’s just a darned album title isn’t it, and it would be a bit rough to draw assumptions about the fellers’ personalities thereupon.\n\nFor a more rigorous glimpse into the inner workings of the Trainer/Rosner collective consciousness, cue up their debut long-player. You will be handsomely rewarded. “Terrane” is one of the most simultaneously accessible and uncompromising experimental records to come out of Perth – perhaps ever. The pair’s shared penchant for slow-burn textural development, distant gestural melody and ambient drifting is adapted and forged into a record that is remarkably concise and consistently engaging – you might even call it muscular.\n\nOpener “Velar” is all glassy piano, sparse percussion and ghostly bow strokes, but immediately “String and Stone” reworks similar textures into decisive 4/4, a quiet, sanguine momentum – dance music for sunbeams. “Tyne,” similarly, relies on repetition, and nods towards Trainer’s pop and post-rock roots. Other tracks – like “Road Movie,” “Straight Crest,” and “Moth Food,” allow more for these textures to float, unbridled by tempo, foregrounding the freeform interplay of campfire crackle and dawntime drone. Yet never does the record drag; my indie-pop-adoring teenage sister likes it; no less is it bound to please the most avid aficionados of experimental soundscaping. Gilded have achieved that special alchemy – transcending “genre” with a record that will appeal to many, sacrificing none of its unique, esoteric quality in the process.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.coolperthnights.com/articles/music%20writer/489\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Perth Nights</a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; - Cool Perth Nights','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-cool-perth-nights','','','2012-10-12 09:27:17','2012-10-12 09:27:17','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5974',0,'post','',0),(5976,1,'2012-10-12 09:46:06','2012-10-12 09:46:06','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/gilded/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/terrane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Gilded</a>\'s stunning debut album <em><a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane&amp;zenid=05f54c2c2770f3955eb290a4c2d64eac\" target=\"_blank\">Terrane</a> </em>has been garnering a plethora of plaudits all over the shop lately. Well, when I say \'shop\' I mean \'Internet\'. And more specifically, websites <a href=\"http://www.adequacy.net/2012/10/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">Delusions of Adequacy</a>, <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/09/gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a> and <a href=\"http://www.coolperthnights.com/articles/music%20writer/489\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Perth Nights</a>. There\'s also a rather excellent track-by-track article on <a href=\"http://messandnoise.com/articles/4524121\" target=\"_blank\">Mess+Noise</a>. And, if that wasn\'t enough, Gilded recently launched the album in Perth and are coming to other Australian cities later in the month. How good is that? Super-good. Tour dates as follows:\n\nSaturday 20 October @ The Street Theatre, Canberra\nSunday 21 October @ Gasometer, Melbourne\nFriday 26 October @ 107 Projects, Sydney\nSaturday 27 October @ Powerhouse, Brisbane','Gilded Reviews, Track by Track and Tour','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-reviews-track-by-track-and-tour','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5976',0,'post','',0),(5978,1,'2012-10-17 14:54:08','2012-10-17 14:54:08','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film CD Reissues\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/half_film_re-issues_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\" target=\"_blank\">CD pre-orders</a> for the reissue of two late 90\'s slowcore masterpieces <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> by San Franciscan trio<strong> <a style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/\" target=\"_blank\">Half Film</a></strong>. Both albums will be released as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\" target=\"_blank\">specially priced double CD</a> and singley in digital format. All CD pre-orders come with an immediate download of both albums. The albums will see official release on 31st of October.\n\nBefore releasing music on Hidden Shoal as <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworke</a>r, Conor and Eimer Devlin, along with drummer Jason Lakis, made up slowcore trio Half Film. Their two acclaimed albums - <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> - are now lovingly reissued by Hidden Shoal. With a sound mapped out so definitively, it’s difficult not to immerse yourself completely in this music’s shadowy topography.\n\n<em>“Low-key underground guitar atmos that’s very moody indeed... Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young - 4/5”</em> - <strong>Melody Maker on Half Film’s second album, <em>The Road to the Crater</em></strong>\n\nRight from <em>East of Monument</em>’s languid opener ‘Weather Patterns’, it’s clear there’s a deliberate, measured and deeply rewarding melodic map unfolding, akin to classic releases by Codeine and Low. This aesthetic is explored, refined and distilled across the two records, and by the time <em>The Road to the Crater</em>’s finale ‘Themselves’ has played out, the special pocket of indie-rock that Half Film inhabited completely in the late ’90s has been revealed anew.\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to pre-order your copy now and stream both albums in full.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/half-film-coated[/soundcloud]\nHalf Film - \'Coated\'','Pre-Orders Available for Slowcore Masters Half Film Double CD Reissue','','publish','closed','open','','pre-orders-available-for-slowcore-masters-half-film-double-cd-reissue','','','2016-02-03 15:40:01','2016-02-03 07:40:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5978',0,'post','',0),(5995,1,'2012-10-31 04:03:07','2012-10-31 04:03:07','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gilded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" />After the incredibly successful  release of their debut album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\"><em>Terrane</em> </a>and an equally successful east coast tour, Gilded have been doing nothing but good both here in Australia and also internationally. Proving that Tame Impala aren\'t the only band from Perth that can make waves on the US charts, Gilded have managed to enter the WDCE charts at number 20, number 21 at KZSU, number 33 at WCBN charts, number 30 at CKUT and have been added to rotation at WXYC and Soma FM. And thats just the new chart info we have with more to add in the next few weeks as the album gets deeper into college radio.\n\nThe band have also racked up a number of fantastic interviews of late thanks to some lovely Australian radio and press folks. Here\'s some links for your reading and listening pleasure - <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/interviews/all/2012/10/04/gilded-adam-trainer-matt-rosner/9211/\" target=\"_blank\">Drum Media interview</a>, <a href=\"http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/soundlab/playlists/s3605603.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Triple J interview</a>, <a href=\"http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/podcasts/music/gilded-interview\" target=\"_blank\">4ZZZ interview</a>, <a href=\"http://thedrift.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/playlist-152/\" target=\"_blank\">RRR interview</a>.\n\nIf you have not yet soaked in the pleasures that <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\"><em>Terrane</em> </a>has to offer then be sure to head to the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and grab one of the limited edition CDs or an Mp3 or FLAC package. CD stock is getting low so get in before it becomes another one of your coulda, woulda, shouldas.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/gilded-cluttered-room[/soundcloud]','Gilded Interview and Chart Round Up','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-interview-and-chart-round-up','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5995',0,'post','',0),(5997,1,'2012-10-23 07:55:53','2012-10-23 07:55:53','<a href=\"http://www.kbrpradio.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Slow Dancing SOciety - &quot;Laterna Magica&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/laterna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />KBRP</a> (Arizona) loving for Hidden Shoal as <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\">Gilded</a> get a CMJ rotation add , <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Slow Dancing Society</a> sit at 22 on the Top 30 and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=42&amp;products_id=204\">Elisa Luu</a> sits at number 4 and <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Slow Dancing Society</a> number 7 on the Electronic Chart. Go team!','More US Radio Love for Team Shoal!','','publish','closed','open','','more-us-radio-love-for-team-shoal','','','2016-02-03 16:11:20','2016-02-03 08:11:20','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=5997',0,'post','',0),(9777,1,'2014-07-20 02:58:41','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Caseworker\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/thecaseworker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"171\" />Ahead of the release of his band\'s stunning third album <em>Letters From The Coast</em>, Conor Devlin from <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a> throws down some musical love via the joy of vinyl. But before you get distracted by this wonderful read, be sure to grab your free download of the bands latest single \'<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=176\">National Runner</a>\' and also head to <a href=\"http://n5mailorder.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&amp;products_id=1530\">n5mailorder</a> to pre-order the album on CD (with immediate digital album download) before its release next week. Enjoy!\r\n\r\nCam\r\n\r\n-----\r\n\r\nWe’ve been moving around for the last few years so all our records were abandoned to a damp storage facility out near San Francisco airport. All our music listening was done via an ipod….I’m talking about the <em>dock</em>. The dock provides an approximation of a record you like. We convinced ourselves it was okay (“it’s so much handier!”, “oh I agree!”), but it’s <em>not</em> okay and the weak sound quality burrowed deep into our souls and made us question records we love. Now that we’re finally settled in Lausanne, we got a new turntable, a tuner donated by our friend Duncan from ‘round the corner and speakers that were way too expensive from the nice man at ABC HiFi on Rue des Echelettes. Then we bought some records to listen to, properly, and remembered that there’s really nothing like it. It was great to re-learn and appreciate the process of listening to music in that familiar way again after three years of <em>docks</em>. Getting up to flip it over. Marvelling at the artwork. Feeling the warmth of the sound in the room. And of course sticking your hand up the other side of the gatefold in case they’d hidden something in there. There’s two great record stores in Lausanne – Disc a Brac and Belair Records. Both are stocked really well with new and old vinyl. Belair even has a Guru Guru vinyl section: their own tab and everything! Really impressive. We’ve spent the last couple of weekends buying records around town. Some highlights:\r\n\r\nFirst up was <strong>Low</strong>, who’ve returned from a four year hiatus this year and released “C’mon” on Sub Pop. I’ve run hot and cold over the years with Low, but they always seem to be there if I want to come back.  As I listened to this new one, I began to think that the Neil Youngish “Witches” might be one of my favourite Low songs of all time. But then “Especially Me” got completely under my skin after a few listens.  (To these ears) it’s another one of Low’s deadly accurate takes on a disintegrating relationship, which, considering they’ve been partners since high school and are happily married with two kids and seem to live a very tranquil church-going life up by the Great Lakes… is a very odd thing indeed. Or perhaps not.  Anyway, this is Mimi Parker’s tour-de-force, with glorious keening harmonies on the chorus. As she sings “cause if we knew where we belong, there\'d be no doubt where we\'re from; but as it stands, we don\'t have a clue, especially me and probably you”. It’s the ‘don’t have a clue’ that grips, the total helplessness in her delivery. Fantastic stuff.\r\n\r\n<strong>Gateway I</strong> – I found this in the Salvation Army store. Mint condition, and only one franc. I bought it because Dave Holland plays bass on it and I dig him. It’s 70’s avant garde jazzy fusion stuff but it’s a really warm listen for a lazy afternoon and God does it <em>sound</em> amazing. There’s double bass, electric guitar and drums and…..that’s all there is on it. So each instrument sounds crystal clear and right in the room with you. There’s also a tonne of “studio-air” 70’s vibes on there. It was released in ‘75 and it’s a great record to test speakers with and I mean that in the nicest possible way.\r\n\r\nThen there’s the new <strong>Iron Maiden</strong> record: ‘The Final Frontier’. Yeah yeah, Up The Irons and all that. 35 years, 15 studio albums, and, hilariously enough, this is one of their best. The first one I bought was ‘Number of the Beast’ back in ‘83 for 2 pounds second hand, and this time we spent 45 goddamn francs on the brand new double vinyl gatefold picture disc edition. It looks fucking awesome and sounds massive. The walls shook, the dog left the room etc. Three songs are about ten minutes long so it takes a lot of time to get familiar with them; you have to work at it. Hard concentration. The lyrics are printed on the inner sleeves and the thank you lists are still really long. Bruce Dickinson remains at full air raid siren level and you wonder how he crams all those words into ‘The Alchemist’…speaking of which, McBrain does this great tom-roll down the kit behind Dickinson’s vocals just before the second chorus. If you’re a Maiden fan you know what I’m talking about and you know it’s Heaven.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bill Callahan</strong>’s “Apocalypse”. What’s left to say? I remember seeing him (when he was still going by the name of Smog) at the Kilowatt in San Francisco in 1995 on the ‘Wild Love’ tour, just after Cindy Dall had joined. Her sister climbed up to add backing vocals to one song which soon disintegrated into a giggling impromptu ‘Happy Birthday’ to their father who was in the crowd. Meanwhile, Bill stood at the back, facing the wall and playing random distorted chords on an out of tune Flying V. The drummer stared into his unplayed ride cymbal. I was never sure if the whole show was an elaborate art-joke on the bewildered crowd, but I guess that was Smog: you never knew what you were going to get. This time around we get his third record since dropping the ‘Smog’ tag and it’s flawless. Easily as good as ‘Red Apple Falls’ or ‘Knock Knock’, if you’re looking for a Smog quality check. You’ve probably heard the clumping ‘America!’ by now, his bizarre love song to the USA, but there’s also “Free’s” strange combination of flute and whistling, the menace of “Drover”, and the sheer random beauty of Universal Applicant’s lyrics – “I found the bee’s nest in the buffalo’s chest” and “without work’s calving increments, or love’s coltish punch, what would I be? An animaless isthmus, beyond the sea”. Who the hell writes lyrics like that? They’re incredible. Bill Callahan is a genius, and I think I can say this with some authority after 18 years of listening (and staying to the end of that Kilowatt show.) Seven songs, and the vinyl is a lovely thing.\r\n\r\nThis one’s a year old but still worth mentioning: <strong>Black Mountain</strong>’s ‘Wilderness Heart’ on Jagjaguwar.  It’s a good confident step up from ‘In The Future’ - they sound more swinging, the songs are better, the production is thick with low end and there’s cool shades of Sandy Denny era Fairport Convention creeping into their Sabbath-plays-Zeppelin thing. It all works, and you get the sense they’re really enjoying this. Every Black Mountain song sort of reminds of you some old classic rock song but, at the same time, you can never name it. It’s weird. Is that a Bad Company chord change? A Zep riff? A BOC vocal? No, it’s all Black Mountain!\r\n\r\nSo it’s nice to have the vinyl bug again, even if we are paying astronomical amounts for the imports here in Switzerland. But Disc-A-Brac does the buy-10-vinyl-albums-get-one-free thing, so we’ll be busy earning that privilege again and again over the next few months……','Conor Devlin (The Caseworker) - Getting Back To Vinyl','','draft','closed','open','','','','','2014-07-20 02:58:41','2014-07-20 02:58:41','',0,'http://hiddenshoalpublishing.onesmallcloud.com/?p=9777',0,'post','',0),(6016,1,'2012-10-31 01:42:33','2012-10-31 01:42:33','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film CD Reissues\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/half_film_re-issues_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\" target=\"_blank\">CD</a> and <a href=\"http://agora.hiddehttp://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/nshoal.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\">digital</a> availability for the reissue of two late 90\'s slowcore masterpieces <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> by San Franciscan trio<strong> <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/half-film/\" target=\"_blank\">Half Film</a></strong>. Both albums are available together as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\" target=\"_blank\">specially priced double CD</a> and singley in digital formats. All CD orders come with an immediate download of both albums.\n\nBefore releasing music on Hidden Shoal as <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a>, Conor and Eimer Devlin, along with drummer Jason Lakis, made up slowcore trio Half Film. Their two acclaimed albums - <em>East of Monument</em> and <em>The Road to the Crater</em> - are now lovingly reissued by Hidden Shoal. With a sound mapped out so definitively, it’s difficult not to immerse yourself completely in this music’s shadowy topography.\n\n<em>“Low-key underground guitar atmos that’s very moody indeed... Stark like Joy Division and darkly melodic like Neil Young - 4/5”</em> - <strong>Melody Maker on Half Film’s second album, <em>The Road to the Crater</em></strong>\n\nRight from <em>East of Monument</em>’s languid opener ‘Weather Patterns’, it’s clear there’s a deliberate, measured and deeply rewarding melodic map unfolding, akin to classic releases by Codeine and Low. This aesthetic is explored, refined and distilled across the two records, and by the time <em>The Road to the Crater</em>’s finale ‘Themselves’ has played out, the special pocket of indie-rock that Half Film inhabited completely in the late ’90s has been revealed anew.\n\nHead to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab your copy now and stream both albums in full. To get you in the mood the track \'Machines, Hawks And The Perfect Equation\' is also available fro <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=210\">free download</a>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/half-film-machines-hawks-and[/soundcloud]\nHalf Film - \'Machines, Hawks And The Perfect Equation\'','Half Film Reissues Out Now on CD and Digital!','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-reissues-out-now-on-cd-and-digital','','','2016-02-03 15:40:01','2016-02-03 07:40:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6016',0,'post','',0),(6022,1,'2012-10-30 15:56:25','2012-10-30 15:56:25','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=53\">Scott Solter</a> and <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=44\">Stray Ghost</a> fans rejoice as fantastic new releases by both artists have recently been released.  Stray Ghost\'s stunning new album<em> <a href=\"http://timereleasedsound.com/releases/stray-ghost/\" target=\"_blank\">Those Who Know Darkness See The Light</a></em> has just been released on the excellent Time Released Sound label and Scott Solter\'s <a href=\"http://music.erikfriedlander.com/album/no-compass-solter-resets-friedlander\" target=\"_blank\"><em>No Compass</em></a> sees an ingenious reworking of tracks from Erik Friedlander\'s <em>Broken Arm Trio</em> album.\n\nTwo very special artists and two very special releases that deserve your attention.','New Scott Solter and Stray Ghost Releases','','publish','closed','open','','new-scott-solter-and-stray-ghost-releases','','','2012-10-30 15:56:25','2012-10-30 15:56:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6022',0,'post','',0),(6028,1,'2012-10-31 03:30:31','2012-10-31 03:30:31','\"Two old hands, post-rock deconstructor Adam Trainer and ambient guru Matt Rosner, have come together to form something new as Gilded. Whilst clearly not setting out to reinvent the wheel of experimental music, the merging of their two sympathetic skill sets – Trainer’s versatility as a musician and Rosner’s perceptive ear for texture and detail – have staked out a previously undefined sector of the map.\n\nTrainer has described this record as having a “summer” vibe to it, and many parts of it certainly radiate warmth; an atmosphere augmented by closely-observed field recordings of insects clicking in the pulsating heat. The science of applying such supplementary sound effects is done in a delicate way that accents, rather than distracts from, the vital essence of the many carefully arranged instruments. Although, on Expand/Contract the groaning of the steel beams of a warehouse structure warping as the temperature changes arguably take centre stage over the chiming piano and vapour trail of barely-there vocals.\n\nAs complex as the final product is, there’s never any clutter. The value of silence, or at least near silence, is not forgotten as each element is allowed ample space in which to breathe. As a whole, Terrane is finely balanced and reveals something new with each listen. What’s most impressive though, is that despite the long gestation and complex configuration of elements, the music always sounds fresh. Recorded over two summers, one might have expected the odd, overly studio-processed flat spot. That never happens on a journey into sound that ripples with life at every turn.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/reviews/album/2012/10/11/gilded-terrane-christopher-james/\" target=\"_blank\">Drum Media</a>','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; - Drum Media','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-drum-media','','','2012-10-31 03:30:31','2012-10-31 03:30:31','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6028',0,'post','',0),(6038,1,'2012-10-31 15:26:51','2012-10-31 15:26:51','A delicious mix of circling guitars, walls of hazy noise, mesmeric drums and stratospheric melodies. Feel like a genre classification? How about post-indie-shoegaze-dream-rock.\n<ol>\n	<li>Mukaizake - \'My Friend Flicker\'</li>\n	<li>Salli Lunn - \'The First Cause\'</li>\n	<li>HC-B - \'Black\'</li>\n	<li>Todd Tobias - \'Manatoc Enters The City/The Long Fall\'</li>\n	<li>Tarcutta - \'You Gotta Crawl Before You Walk Before You Waltz\'</li>\n	<li>Apricot Rail - \'The Parachute Failure\'</li>\n	<li>Dilatazione - \'Solo In Una Strada Affollata\'</li>\n	<li>My Majestic Star - \'And Having A Reason Why\'</li>\n	<li>Bury The Sound - \'What Would One Become\'</li>\n</ol>\n<address>An exclusive Hidden Shoal Recordings mix.</address>You can listen to the full releases these tracks are taken from at the Hidden Shoal Store - <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\" rel=\"nofollow external\" target=\"_blank\">http://store.hiddenshoal.com</a>','Spinning Tops','','publish','closed','open','','spinning-tops-podcast','','','2012-10-31 15:26:51','2012-10-31 15:26:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6038',0,'post','',0),(6050,1,'2012-11-05 06:33:15','2012-11-05 06:33:15','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film Reissues\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/half_film_re-issues_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/\">Half Film</a>\'s beautiful double album reissue, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\"><em>East of Monument</em>/<em>Road To The Crater</em></a>, is this week\'s <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/shows/drivetime\" target=\"_blank\">RTRFM Drivetime</a> feature album. Not only will you be hearing tracks off the albums all week on RTRFM but Perth listeners will also be able to win a copy every day on the <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/shows/drivetime\" target=\"_blank\">Drivetime</a> program.\n\nThese two late 90′s slowcore masterpieces  are available together as a <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\" target=\"_blank\">specially priced double CD</a> and singley in digital formats from the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. All CD orders come with an immediate download of both albums.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/half-film-coated[/soundcloud]','Half Film Reissues are This Week&#039;s RTRFM Drivetime Feature Albums!','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-reissues-are-this-weeks-rtrfm-drivetime-feature-albums','','','2016-02-03 15:40:01','2016-02-03 07:40:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6050',0,'post','',0),(6053,1,'2012-11-06 04:36:29','2012-11-06 04:36:29','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Slow Dancing Society\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/bio/sds_store.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" />With a five release discography that just keeps outshining itself, it\'s no wonder Slow Dancing Society\'s fifth album continues <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\"><em>Laterna Magica</em></a> in getting some deserved love. The album has just landed in the prestigious <a href=\"http://www.echoes.org/Top25-2012-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Echoes Top 25</a>, is number 14 in the latest <a href=\"http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?session=&amp;action=viewChart\" target=\"_blank\">KZSU Top 30 chart</a> and also just scooped a beautiful review on the latest <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/slowdancingsociety_laternamagica.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura magazine</a>.\n\n\"...fifty more minutes of the lustrous ambient music that has performed a slow dazzle on listeners since the project\'s 2006 inception.\" - <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/slowdancingsociety_laternamagica.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Textura</a>\n\nIf you haven\'t already fallen under Slow Dancing Society\'s charm then check out the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">entire discography</a> at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> including a bunch of free downloads and some current super CD specials.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-ill-leave[/soundcloud]','Slow Dancing Society Textura Review,  Echoes Top 25, KZSU Top 30','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-textura-review-echoes-top-25-kzsu-top-30','','','2016-02-03 16:12:44','2016-02-03 08:12:44','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6053',0,'post','',0),(6058,1,'2012-11-06 03:38:05','2012-11-06 03:38:05','Music for slowly unfolding yourself to. It\'s the radio station you find in that moment just after twilight ends but before night begins. If you\'re feeling the need to tag things then you could write these on with an impermanent marker - ambient, neo-classical, experimental, ambient folk, electronic.\n<ol>\n	<li>Sleeping Me - \'Legs Like Gravestone\'</li>\n	<li>Markus Mehr - \'Only For A While\'</li>\n	<li>Antonymes - \'The Siren, Hopelessly Lost\'</li>\n	<li>Elisa Luu - \'Noi\'</li>\n	<li>Todd Tobias - \'Pre Dawn Visitation\'</li>\n	<li>Wes Willenbring - \'Consequences Of Recklessness\'</li>\n	<li>Cheekbone - \'Yesterday\'</li>\n	<li>Scott Solter - \'The Great Cold\'</li>\n	<li>Slow Dancing Society - \'I\'ll Leave A Light On\'</li>\n	<li>Rich Bennett - \'Green Memories\'</li>\n	<li>RL/VL - \'Kweens\'</li>\n	<li>Boxharp - \'The Moon\'s The North Wind\'s Cookie\'</li>\n	<li>Moongoat - \'Anoint My Lips With Powder\'</li>\n	<li>Liam Singer - \'Stinson Beach\'</li>\n	<li>Stray Ghost - \'Part 4\'</li>\n	<li>Jumpel - \'The Sea/Friends\'</li>\n	<li>Enargeia - \'Shopping Mall Musak For Aliens\'</li>\n</ol>\n<address>An exclusive Hidden Shoal Recordings mix.</address>You can listen to the full releases these tracks are taken from at the Hidden Shoal Store - <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\" rel=\"nofollow external\" target=\"_blank\">http://store.hiddenshoal.com</a>\n\n&nbsp;','Low Light Music','','publish','closed','open','','low-light-music','','','2012-11-06 03:38:05','2012-11-06 03:38:05','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6058',0,'post','',0),(6066,1,'2012-11-06 04:30:58','2012-11-06 04:30:58','\"Any artist five albums into a particular project might start getting restless and be tempted to change things up. But often doing so betrays the fundamental integrity of said project and the move ends up being a diminishment rather than enhancement. In that regard, it\'s pleasing to discover that Drew Sullivan hasn\'t dramatically altered his Slow Dancing Society sound on <em>Laterna Magica </em> but instead given us fifty more minutes of the lustrous ambient music that has performed a slow dazzle on listeners since the project\'s 2006 inception. Track titles alone (e.g., “After the Twilight Takes Us,” “I\'ll See You in Time”) indicate that the Washington-based soundsculptor\'s music is still powerfully suffused with nostalgia and longing, and the album\'s refined material bears that out in forceful manner.\n\nIt\'s uniformly slow-moving, naturally, which allows the listener to all the more easily savour the soothing effects of the electric guitar and piano textures and crystalline synthesizer washes that inhabit a typical Slow Dancing Society setting. With the music breathing so unhurriedly, the listener finds his/her own inner state gradually attuning itself to the album\'s languorous electronic rhythms. An entrancing swirl of piano, synthesizer, and guitar patterns, “I\'ll See You in Time” is representative of the album\'s style. No small number of lovely touches emerge, such as the chiming guitar figures that grace “Gardens &amp; Graves” and “A Slow Parade of Wind” and imbue them with such a wistful quality.\n\nThere are passages where the music swells to an intense pitch, in particular during the tropical haze of “There\'s a Place For Us” and the at-times ominous “I\'ll Leave a Light On,” and “Pieces of Your Presence” exudes an uncharacteristic urgency in its sequencer-like patterns. A speaking voice also surfaces in a few tracks to ensure that the album doesn\'t flirt too much with homogeneity, but, generally speaking, Sullivan stays the course and hews closely to his carefully calibrated Slow Dancing Society style. In simplest terms, <em>Laterna Magica</em> makes for a nuanced addition to Sullivan\'s slow-building body of work.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.textura.org/reviews/slowdancingsociety_laternamagica.htm\">Textura</a>','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Laterna Magica&quot; - Textura','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica-textura','','','2012-11-06 04:30:58','2012-11-06 04:30:58','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6066',0,'post','',0),(6075,1,'2012-11-08 04:46:11','2012-11-08 04:46:11','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Todd Tobias - &quot;Night Above Ground&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Night-Above-Ground_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the new freely available EP <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=217\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Night Above Ground</em></a> by musical experimentalist and long-time <strong>Robert Pollard</strong> collaborator <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>, a companion release to acclaimed debut album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\"><em>Medicine Show</em></a>.\n\n<em>“very familiar and exciting to all the Circus Devils fans out there, perplexing to non-believers and absolutely intriguing for everyone else that gives this record a chance”</em> -<strong> The Fire Note on <em>Medicine Show</em></strong>\n\nAfter years of <strong>producing Guided By Voices</strong>, playing in <strong>Circus Devils</strong> with <strong>Robert Pollard</strong>, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own, first with the recent release of debut album <em>Medicine Show</em>, and now with the independent release of the freely available companion EP <em>Night Above Ground</em>. In contrast to the full-length album’s serpentine construction and intense atmosphere, <em>Night Above Ground</em> is more airy, accessible and playful, bursting into vivid life with the crowd chatter and tumbling noisescapes of ‘Invocation’. Immersive, hypnotic tracks such as ‘Wandering Giant’ and ‘Crystal Palace People’ alternate with brief, impressionistic pieces such as ‘Workshop of Spears’ and ‘Ashes and Cream’. The EP’s 17 minutes flow past your third eye like a <strong>Dali-esque dream</strong>.\n\nThe <em>Night Above Ground</em> EP is available in digital format as a free download from the <a style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. <a style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=54&amp;products_id=200\" target=\"_blank\">Medicine Show</a> is also out now through Hidden Shoal in limited edition CD and digital formats.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/todd-tobias-crystal-palace[/soundcloud]\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><br style=\"font-size: 16px;\" /></strong></span>','Todd Tobias EP &quot;Night Above Ground&quot; - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','todd-tobias-ep-night-above-ground-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6075',0,'post','',0),(6083,1,'2012-11-13 03:52:04','2012-11-13 03:52:04','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/terrane.jpg\" alt=\"Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot;\" width=\"49\" height=\"49\" />Check out this wonderful <a href=\"http://lifeisnoise.com/2012/10/23/1000-word-reviews-gilded-terrane/\" target=\"_blank\">pictorial review</a> of Gilded\'s <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\" target=\"_blank\">Terrane</a> thanks to the talents of Tristan Fidler and the fine folks at Life is Noise.','Gilded &quot;Terrane&quot; Review at Life Is Noise','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-terrane-review-at-life-is-noise','','','2016-02-03 15:37:51','2016-02-03 07:37:51','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6083',0,'post','',0),(6092,1,'2012-11-19 05:33:01','2012-11-19 05:33:01','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/galleries/Markus_Mehr/lazy-k-thumbs/Markus_Mehr_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" />The unstoppable aural and visua force that is <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a> and <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/sixtsense\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanie Sixt</a> will bring their mesmerising, all enveloping live show to the <a href=\"http://www.timezones.it/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Timezones Festival </a>in Italy this week alongside the likes of Greg Haines, Oval and Mathew Herbert to name but a few. Audiences will have two chances to catch the duo perform - on the 22 November at 8pm at the <a href=\"http://www.doppelgaenger.it/en/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Doppelgaenger Art Gallery</a> and on 23 November at 9pm for the Cage Memorial Session at  <a href=\"http://www.teatroforma.org/?p=1036\" target=\"_blank\">Teatro Forma</a>.\n\nGet in the mood with Sefanie Sixt\'s stunning music video for Markus Mehr\'s latest single \'Duck Became Swan\'. You can download the track for free <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">here</a>.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/dGRCY37hMm4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\"></iframe>','Markus Mehr &amp; Stefanie Sixt Performing At Timezones Festival in Italy','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-stefanie-sixt-performing-at-timezones-festival-in-italy','','','2016-02-03 15:52:07','2016-02-03 07:52:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6092',0,'post','',0),(6112,1,'2012-11-28 23:08:24','2012-11-28 23:08:24','<em></em><strong></strong><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hold On To The Road (Makee Remix)\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/large/Caseworker-Road-remix_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"257\" />\n\nHidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the availability of the Makee remix of ‘Hold On To The Road’ from garage-dreampop trio <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-caseworker/\">[The] Caseworker</a>, the original version of which is taken from their acclaimed 2011 album <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Letters From The Coast</em></a>. The track is available now as a <strong><a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=218\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a></strong> through Hidden Shoal.\n\nMakee (Perth artist Daniel Cavalli) has taken the hesitant shuffle of ‘Hold On To The Road’ and reimagined it as an infectious driving groove. The wonderful sense of space evident in [The] Caseworker’s music is still present, but it’s beautifully aligned with Makee’s propulsive beatwork.\n\nThe original version of the track is lifted from the band’s third album <em>Letters From The Coast, </em>which sees [The] Caseworker continue to deliver their own unique sonic magic. The album has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label, creating an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which the band wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.\n\n<em>\"[The] Caseworker extract darkness from inside whispery, ambient pop… completely enraptured and awesomely dazed\"</em> – <strong>Rolling Stone</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_3026.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-6114 alignleft\" title=\"IMG_3026\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_3026-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Makee\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" /></a>Makee (Daniel Cavalli) is a tunemaker from Perth, Western Australia. When he\'s not in his studio he likes playing drums and haunting dancefloors. Makee’s remix of [The] Caseworker came about via a collaborative remix project between Hidden Shoal Recordings and the excellent <a href=\"http://www.murdoch.edu.au/Courses/Sound/\" target=\"_blank\">Sound course</a> at Perth’s <a href=\"http://www.murdoch.edu.au/\" target=\"_blank\">Murdoch University</a>. A big thanks to  Simon Order for all his efforts in helping make this happen.\n\nDownload the remix for free at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=218\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=52&amp;products_id=218\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. To co-incide with the release of the Makee remix,<em> </em>Hidden Shoal have made<em> Letters From The Coast</em> available for a special price through the <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/letters-from-the-coast\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. The album is available on CD and in digital formats.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/the-caseworker-hold-on-to-the[/soundcloud]\n<strong>[The] Caseworker - \'Hold On To The Road (Makee Remix)\'</strong>','[The] Caseworker Remixed by Makee - Free Download','','publish','closed','open','','the-caseworker-remixed-by-makee-free-download','','','2016-02-03 16:16:25','2016-02-03 08:16:25','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6112',0,'post','',0),(6138,1,'2012-11-30 06:17:23','2012-11-30 06:17:23','Triangulating Nature is volume 7 in Hidden Shoal\'s free sampler album series, released as part of the label’s sixth birthday celebrations. Enjoy this streaming mix of the album or head to the Hidden Shoal Store to download the album for free - <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\" rel=\"nofollow external\" target=\"_blank\">http://store.hiddenshoal.com</a>\n\nThe album brings together 14 singles from the last 12 months of Hidden Shoal releases – plus an excerpt from ‘Komo’, one of the two epic tracks on Markus Mehr’s In. There’s the dreamy garage pop of [The] Caseworker; the intimate electronica of Elisa Luu; remixes of tracks by City of Satellites and Salli Lunn; glacial ambient from Scott Solter; the technicolour art-rock of recent signings Wizards of Time – and everything in between. If you need a kaleidoscopic window into what Hidden Shoal has been up to for the last year, look no further.\n<ol>\n	<li>[The] Caseworker - National Runner</li>\n	<li>Wizards Of Time - Little\'s Jingle</li>\n	<li>Umpire - Supply Chins</li>\n	<li>Apricot Rail - Surry Hills</li>\n	<li>City Of Satellites - Machine Is My Animal (Tinmanzo Remix)</li>\n	<li>Liam Singer - The Brief Encounter</li>\n	<li>Antonymes Meets Slow Dancing Society - The Colour Of Long Days</li>\n	<li>Wes Willenbring - Consequences Of Recklessness</li>\n	<li>Salli Lunn - Mirror Girl (Scott Solter Remix)</li>\n	<li>Elisa Luu - Se Fosse Per Me</li>\n	<li>Todd Tobias - Manatoc Enters The City/The Long Fall</li>\n	<li>Markus Mehr - Komo (Excerpt)</li>\n	<li>Kramies - Coal Miners Executive Club</li>\n	<li>Scott Solter - The Great Cold</li>\n</ol>\n<address>An exclusive Hidden Shoal Recordings mix.</address>You can listen to the full releases these tracks are taken from at the Hidden Shoal Store - <a href=\"http://store.hiddenshoal.com\" rel=\"nofollow external\" target=\"_blank\">http://store.hiddenshoal.com</a>','Triangulating Nature','','publish','closed','open','','triangulating-nature','','','2012-11-30 06:17:23','2012-11-30 06:17:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6138',0,'post','',0),(6142,1,'2012-12-03 06:18:33','2012-12-03 06:18:33','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Laterna Magica\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/laterna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" />Slow Dancing Society</a>\'s sublime 5th album <em><a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\">Laterna Magica</a> </em>has found itself in the <a title=\"Echoes Top 25\" href=\"http://www.echoes.org/Top25-2012-11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Echoes Top 25</a> for the 2nd month in a row. The album has been getting heavy rotation on Echoes and the 130 stations the show is re-broadcast on. If you\'ve not had the pleasure of soaking in the beauty of what may be the best Slow Dancing Society release yet then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> where you can stream the album in full and download the first single for free.\n\nYou can expect a new single from the album to be out soon along with some very special remixes bundled with it. More on that soon!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/slow-dancing-society-theres-a[/soundcloud]\nSlow Dancing Society - \'There\'s a Place For Us\'','Slow Dancing Society in the Echoes Top 25 Again','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-in-the-echoes-top-25-again','','','2016-02-03 16:11:56','2016-02-03 08:11:56','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6142',0,'post','',0),(6145,1,'2012-12-04 14:39:07','2012-12-04 14:39:07','Check out this wonderful live acoustic version of <a title=\"Kramies\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/kramies/\">Kramies</a> stunning track \'Antiquarian Days\'. Recorded at Todd Tobias Studios in May 2012, the track also features the inimitable talents of David Paolucci on guitar.\n\nYou can find the original version of \'Antiquarian Days\' on Kramies beautiful EP <a title=\"The European\" href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=51&amp;products_id=188\"><em>The European</em></a> available through Hidden Shoal Recordings in digital and limited edition postcard CD format.\n\n&nbsp;<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/TdmV4aOSmxE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>','Kramies &#039;Antiquarian Days&#039; Unplugged!','','publish','closed','open','','kramies-antiquarian-days-unplugged','','','2016-02-03 15:47:06','2016-02-03 07:47:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6145',0,'post','',0),(6163,1,'2012-12-07 11:01:14','2012-12-07 11:01:14','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Half Film\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/half_film_re-issues_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />The sublime slowcore of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/half-film/\">Half Film</a> has made a big impact on Arizona\'s <a href=\"http://www.kbrpradio.com/\" target=\"_blank\">KBRP</a>. The double album re-issue of the bands  two late 90\'s/00\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\">debut and sophomore releases</a> are sitting at number 2 on the KBRP CMJ chart.\n\nIf you\'ve not yet fallen to the charm of <em>East of Monument</em> and<em> The Road To The Crater</em> then head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=57&amp;products_id=213\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and stream both albums in full to understand why you must own them. The CD release comes as a specially priced double CD with both albums in a double gatefold.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]http://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/half-film-machines-hawks-and[/soundcloud]','Half Film At Number 2 in the KBRP CMJ Chart!!!','','publish','closed','open','','half-film-at-number-2-in-the-kbrp-cmj-chart','','','2016-02-03 15:40:01','2016-02-03 07:40:01','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6163',0,'post','',0),(6170,1,'2012-12-14 05:31:19','2012-12-14 05:31:19','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Scott Solter\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Scott_Solter_profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"155\" />Scott Solter\'s production work on albums by artists such as The Mountain Goats, Superchunk, John Vanderslice, Spoon, <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=55&amp;products_id=207\">Wizards of Time</a> and Pattern is Movement is something to behold and his unique approach and uncompromising attitude towards sound and process is inspirational. Of course Hidden Shoal followers will also know his work as a founding member of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=45\">Boxharp</a> as well as his recently re-issued solo work <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=53\"><em>One River</em></a>. Intrigued? Want to know more? Check out this wonderful interview with producer extraordinaire and musical wunderkind Scott Solter over at the fabulous <a href=\"http://trustmeimascientist.com/2012/12/03/a-point-of-departure-with-producer-scott-solter/\" target=\"_blank\">Trust Me I\'m A Scientist</a> zine.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/boxharp-rainbirds[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Boxharp - \'Rainbirds\'</strong>','Scott Solter Interview at Trust Me I&#039;m A Scientist','','publish','closed','open','','scott-solter-interview-at-trust-me-im-a-scientist','','','2012-12-14 05:31:19','2012-12-14 05:31:19','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6170',0,'post','',0),(6176,1,'2012-12-21 02:58:34','2012-12-21 02:58:34','It\'s that time of year when certain folks are making a list and checking it twice (let me have that one). The writers over at <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluid Radio</a> are publishing some very fine end of year lists, with Gilded\'s <a href=\"http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane\"><em>Terrane</em></a> making <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/12/ten-from-john/\" target=\"_blank\"> John Boursnell\'s Top Ten</a> and Markus Mehr\'s <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> making <a href=\"http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/12/ten-from-charlie/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Sage Top Ten</a>. Congrats to Markus, Matt and Adam and much thanks to Fluid Radio for all their support of new innovative music.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/gilded-terrane-album-teaser[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Gilded - <em>Terrane</em> Album Teaser</strong>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/markus-mehr/sets/in[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - <em>IN</em> Album Teaser</strong>\n\n&nbsp;','Gilded and Markus Mehr in Fuild Radio&#039;s Top 10 of 2012','','publish','closed','open','','gilded-and-markus-mehr-in-fuild-radios-top-10-of-2012','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6176',0,'post','',0),(6185,1,'2012-12-30 15:09:06','2012-12-30 15:09:06','The wonderful ambient blog <a href=\"http://hypnagogue.net/2012/12/14/slow-dancing-society-laterna-magica/\" target=\"_blank\">Hypnagogue</a> has a great review of<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/\" target=\"_blank\"> Slow Dancing Society\'s</a> fifth release, <em>Lanterna Magica</em>. Here\'s an excerpt:\n\n\"<em>Sullivan’s cool pizzicato playing, like rain drops on guitar strings, forms the base of several tracks. “A Few Moments”  finds it gracefully sharing space with gossamer pads, light touches of piano, and echoing rimshot-style percussion .... There’s a distinct soul-baring quality at work, like Sullivan is confiding in you in a somewhat hesitant way–he has to get what’s inside out, but it comes in deliberately spaced moments.\"\n</em>\n\nAs always, <a href=\"http://slowdancingsociety.bandcamp.com/album/laterna-magica\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lanterna Magica</em></a> and the rest of <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society/&amp;zenid=2e7a07e6331a6c75b4d49ce4b784917b\" target=\"_blank\">Slow Dancing Society\'s catalog</a> is available at the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.','Slow Dancing Society &quot;Lanterna Magica&quot; Review at Hypnagogue','','publish','closed','open','','slow-dancing-society-lanterna-magica-review-at-hypnagogue','','','2012-12-30 15:09:06','2012-12-30 15:09:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6185',0,'post','',0),(6197,1,'2013-01-09 15:42:53','2013-01-09 15:42:53','<div>\n\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6201\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;Off&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OFF-Front-Cover-1400px-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"153\" />We\'re incredibly excited to be able to share a sneak preview of  <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>\'s forthcoming full length album <em>Off</em>. The album is the third and final part of a trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed releases <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> and <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a>. The album will be available from the 24th of January, 2013. To whet your appetite we have a streaming excerpt from the album on <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud</a> (also embedded below) and <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HutzAwvmsY4\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a>.\n\n<em>Off</em> is not only the culmination of Markus Mehr\'s trilogy, but it may also be the culmination of his career\'s work thus far. The single-track album begins in silence, as a thrumming loop gradually emerges. From there, a beautiful piano refrain is introduced, noise ebbs and flows, threatening to engulf the piece, while field recordings and swooningly transportive synth patterns drift into focus. During its 42-minute runtime, the piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful soundworld that\'s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples in the preceding albums, linking the three albums into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - <em>Off</em> (Excerpt)</strong>\n\n</div>','Sneak Preview of Markus Mehr&#039;s Forthcoming New Album','','publish','closed','open','','sneak-preview-of-markus-mehrs-forthcoming-new-album','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6197',0,'post','',0),(6206,1,'2013-01-10 23:46:39','2013-01-10 23:46:39','Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the new single ‘<a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/basket-press-single\">Basket Press</a>’ by Perth-based multi-instrumental ambient rock sextet <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/apricot-rail/\" target=\"_blank\">Apricot Rail</a>, taken from their forthcoming sophomore album <em>Quarrels</em>.\n\n‘Basket Press’ opens Apricot Rail’s long-awaited sophomore album <em>Quarrels </em>in fine style. Led by the band’s unmistakably chiming guitars and overlaid with gorgeous woodwinds, the song’s melodic weave soon builds into a triumphant final chapter. The track is a wonderful introduction to Quarrels’ glowing slow burn with its multi-part song structures and beautiful unfurling melodies.\n\nAfter the success of their debut album, ideas for new Apricot Rail songs, including recent single ‘Surry Hills’, were formulated during the band’s extended break late in 2009, after which the songs were road-tested live. The new songs that make up <em>Quarrels</em> maintain a minimalist, restrained and rustic feel typical of Apricot Rail’s debut album, while incorporating a wider palette of instruments and a more expansive feel.\n\nThe track is available now as a <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/basket-press-single\" target=\"_blank\">free download</a> through Hidden Shoal. <em>Quarrels</em> is set to drop on 25 February 2013 with the Perth album launch taking place on 23 February at the Rosemount.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-basket-press[/soundcloud]','New Apricot Rail Single - Free Download!','','publish','closed','open','','new-apricot-rail-single-free-download-2','','','2016-02-03 13:43:08','2016-02-03 05:43:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6206',0,'post','',0),(6213,1,'2013-01-11 01:59:32','2013-01-11 01:59:32','<img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6214\" title=\"Apricot Rail - &quot;Quarrels&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Quarrels_1400px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Following on from the release of Apricot Rail\'s beautiful new freely downloadable single ‘<a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/basket-press-single\">Basket Press</a>’, Hidden Shoal are very excited to be able to present an album trailer/teaser for the band\'s forthcoming sophomore album <em>Quarrels</em>. <em>Quarrels</em> is set to drop on 25 February 2013 with the Perth album launch taking place on 23 February at the Rosemount.\n\nThe trailer is available on <a href=\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0wU8UQBoo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube</a> and <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-quarrels-album\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud</a> for your delectation.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Km0wU8UQBoo?list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"></iframe>','Apricot Rail &quot;Quarrels&quot; Album Teaser','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-quarrels-album-teaser','','','2016-02-03 13:43:08','2016-02-03 05:43:08','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6213',0,'post','',0),(6234,1,'2013-01-22 05:35:49','2013-01-22 05:35:49','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Tarcutta\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/tarcutta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"99\" />Check out this beautiful new music video for the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/tarcutta/\">Tarcutta</a> track \"Evan And Luna Take On The Coca-Cola Teen Queens\' Conspiracy And Kick Its Arse\". The track comes from Tarcutta\'s stunning <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=39&amp;products_id=110\">2009 self-titled album</a>. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=39&amp;products_id=110\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to grab a copy.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/Td_IpyhYa08?list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"></iframe>','New Tarcutta Music Video!','','publish','closed','open','','6234','','','2013-01-22 05:35:49','2013-01-22 05:35:49','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6234',0,'post','',0),(6241,1,'2013-01-23 23:43:14','2013-01-23 23:43:14','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/off_MED1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6245\" title=\"Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/off_MED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce digital and cd pre-order availability for the new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\"><em>Off</em></a> by German experimental ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>. <em>Off </em>is the third and final part of a trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed releases <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> and <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a>. The album is available from the Hidden Shoal Store in digital format (MP3 &amp; FLAC) and pre-orders are available for the special limited edition CD release. The CD release is limited to an edition of 50 units.\n\n<em>Off</em> is not only the culmination of Markus Mehr’s trilogy, but it may also be the culmination of his career’s work thus far. The single-track album begins in silence, as a thrumming loop gradually emerges. From there, a beautiful piano refrain is introduced, noise ebbs and flows, threatening to engulf the piece, while field recordings and swooningly transportive synth patterns drift into focus. During its 42-minute runtime, the piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples in the preceding albums, linking the three albums into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.\n\n<em>\" It feels like emerging from a tunnel only to find that I am driving into the path of a tornado. As it builds up into a storm of guitar feedback and reverb, I have forgotten about where the piece has begun, entranced instead by a tonal shift into some kind of hellish union of choir voices and endless noise...  Markus Mehr has crafted a sharply clever piece of music. It a evokes a presence that is rarely found; a balance between the ugly and the pretty where both can exist at once. I continue to be impressed by what Mehr is capable of.</em>\" –  <strong>Brainwashed reviewing <em>Off</em></strong>\n\n<em>“... prepare for a shuddering, near chaotic, kaleidoscopic experience as Mehr challenges our and his own preconceptions of what “electronica” is, what it represents and of what his instrumentation can achieve.”</em> – <strong>Delusions of Adequacy reviewing <em>On</em></strong>\n\n<em>“It is a process of constant repetition and tension building with each tiny fragment or loop coming in to focus, one by one, little by little, to end up as an emphatically crushing work of art... It is minimalism that gives birth to the epic, intelligent music that takes over its listeners and engages them to its very dying moments.”</em> – <strong>The Silent Ballet reviewing <em>In</em></strong>\n\n<em>Off</em> is available now in digital formats (MP3 &amp; Flac) through the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Pre-orders are also available for the limited edition CD release of the album which features custom packaging and is limited to 50 units only. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - \"Off\" (Excerpt)</strong>','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot; - Digital and CD Pre-orders Now Available','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-off-digital-and-cd-pre-orders-now-available','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6241',0,'post','',0),(6258,1,'2013-01-30 01:51:50','2013-01-30 01:51:50','<img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/apricot-rail.jpg\" alt=\"Apricot Rail\" width=\"180\" height=\"122\" />Check this beautiful new <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBYJ6sdcvLo&amp;list=PLC331131EC8DC434C&amp;index=1\">music video</a> for the Apricot Rail track \'Surry Hills\'. The song is lifted from <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\">Apricot Rail</a>\'s forthcoming sophomore album <em>Quarrels</em>. The music video comes to us via the wonderful <a href=\"http://www.peacockvisuals.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Peacock</a> and was edited from footage taken from his currently in production documentary concerning communities in Cambodia and features work by Australian artist <a href=\"http://www.kylehughesodgers.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Hughes Odgers</a>. Be sure to check out Chad\'s other projects <a href=\"http://www.peacockvisuals.com\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n<em>Quarrels</em> will see release on the 25th of February 2013 with CD pre-orders available on the 11th of February. The album launch takes place at the Rosemount in Perth on 23 February. While you wait you can grab Apricot Rail\'s new single \'Basket Press\' as well as \'Surry Hills\' for free download from the <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.\n\n<iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/hBYJ6sdcvLo?list=PLC331131EC8DC434C\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"></iframe>','New Apricot Rail Music Video','','publish','closed','open','','new-apricot-rail-music-video','','','2016-02-03 13:43:07','2016-02-03 05:43:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6258',0,'post','',0),(6265,1,'2013-02-07 09:48:54','2013-02-07 09:48:54','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/off_MED1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6245\" title=\"Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/off_MED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce digital and cd availability of the new album <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\"><em>Off</em></a> by German experimental ambient artist <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Markus Mehr</a>. <em>Off </em>is the third and final part of a trilogy that includes the critically acclaimed releases <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=193\"><em>In</em></a> and <a href=\"http://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/album/on\"><em>On</em></a>. The album is available from the Hidden Shoal Store in digital format (MP3 &amp; FLAC) and as a special limited edition CD release. The CD release is limited to an edition of 50 units.\n\n<em>Off</em> is not only the culmination of Markus Mehr’s trilogy, but it may also be the culmination of his career’s work thus far. The single-track album begins in silence, as a thrumming loop gradually emerges. From there, a beautiful piano refrain is introduced, noise ebbs and flows, threatening to engulf the piece, while field recordings and swooningly transportive synth patterns drift into focus. During its 42-minute runtime, the piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples in the preceding albums, linking the three albums into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.\n\n<em>\" It feels like emerging from a tunnel only to find that I am driving into the path of a tornado. As it builds up into a storm of guitar feedback and reverb, I have forgotten about where the piece has begun, entranced instead by a tonal shift into some kind of hellish union of choir voices and endless noise... Markus Mehr has crafted a sharply clever piece of music. It a evokes a presence that is rarely found; a balance between the ugly and the pretty where both can exist at once. I continue to be impressed by what Mehr is capable of.</em>\" – <strong><a href=\"http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9549:markus-mehr-qoffq&amp;catid=13:albums-and-singles&amp;Itemid=133\" target=\"_blank\">Brainwashed</a> reviewing <em>Off</em></strong>\n\n<em>“... The single, 42 minute long form piece mixes new samples and loops with numerous textures reconizable from the preceding releases, all woven together in a concoction that is by turns dazzlingly bright, hauntingly deep and wholly engaging...There is a mind boggling breadth of ideas and moments captured in the piece, and yet no thought or melodic impulse receives less than full consideration. Indeed, it is this deep attention to detail which amazed me on my first listen to In, and which now bears full fruit in Off.\" – </em><a href=\"http://petalmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/off-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Petal Music</strong></a><strong> reviewing <em>Off</em></strong><a href=\"http://petalmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/off-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>\n</em></strong></a>\n\n<em>Off</em> is available now in digital and limited edition CD formats through the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.The limited edition CD release of the album features custom packaging and is limited to 50 units only.  Due to a printing issue outside of our control, CD orders will not ship until the 11th of Feb. Our apologies and thanks for your patience. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all details.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr - \"Off\" (Excerpt)</strong>','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot; Officially Released','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-off-official-release','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6265',0,'post','',0),(6274,1,'2013-02-12 04:29:46','2013-02-12 04:29:46','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Quarrels\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Quarrels_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Apricot Rail\'s much anticipated sophomore album <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\"><em>Quarrels</em></a> is now available for CD pre-order from the <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. All pre-orders come with an immediate FLAC or Mp3 download of the album and a beautiful extended digital booklet is also available for download.\n\nAlmost four years after the release of their acclaimed self-titled debut album, Perth-based multi-instrumental pop sextet Apricot Rail return with their sophomore album <em>Quarrels</em>, which features the singles ‘Basket Press’ and ‘Surry Hills’. A foray into more experimental territory, <em>Quarrels</em> features lusher, denser instrumentation, is rich in ideas yet toys with new levels of restraint. The band’s trademark harmonic guitar passages and syncopation sit beneath languid brass and woodwind, balanced by glitchy electronica, dramatic crescendos and opium-infused oriental explorations; slow, meandering waltzes give way to moments of ethereal lightness and beauty. This music transcends fads and trends to appeal to anyone drawn to beautiful, supple songcraft.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-running-with-an[/soundcloud]\nApricot Rail - \'Running With an Egg on a Spoon\'','Apricot Rail&#039;s &quot;Quarrels&quot; Available for CD Pre-Order!','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-quarrels-available-for-cd-pre-order','','','2016-02-03 13:43:07','2016-02-03 05:43:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6274',0,'post','',0),(6284,1,'2013-02-15 06:05:46','2013-02-15 06:05:46','\"Markus Mehr is often compared to and grouped in with ambient composers like Tim Hecker and Fennesz for his use of timbre, bass, and unusual sound sources. But his collected works—In, On, Lava, Hubble, and now, Off—display an artistry and forethought that are more unique than he gets credit for. He recognizes the power and emotion that can be conjured from a focused process and an immaculately dense sound. But he came to that conclusion independently, not as an imitator.\n\nOff builds in intensity slowly over the course of its 42 minutes. Mostly, this consists of a steady drone of white noise and menacing bass rumbles. Above that, there are piano chords, hissing synths and non-sequitur electronic noise scattered around. I am always drawn to the contrasts of light and dark that seem inherent; the frigid atmospheres and distant whirrs, where subtle textures leave me unsettled and the pleasant moments stay grounded by their dissonant counterparts.\"\n\nAt the halfway mark, Mehr abandons a cacophony of wind and buzzing that has built up, leaving the piano and whirling drones alone for a few brief seconds. It feels like emerging from a tunnel only to find that I am driving into the path of a tornado. As it builds up into a storm of guitar feedback and reverb, I have forgotten about where the piece has begun, entranced instead by a tonal shift into some kind of hellish union of choir voices and endless noise. This slips in and out of focus as Off continues to evolve, often resolving nicely but easily tempted to return to a strange abyss.\n\nMarkus Mehr has crafted a sharply clever piece of music. It a evokes a presence that is rarely found; a balance between the ugly and the pretty where both can exist at once. I continue to be impressed by what Mehr is capable of.\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9549:markus-mehr-qoffq&amp;catid=13:albums-and-singles&amp;Itemid=133\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brainwashed</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; - Reviewed by Brainwashed','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-brainwashed','','','2013-02-15 06:05:46','2013-02-15 06:05:46','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6284',0,'post','',0),(6287,1,'2013-02-15 06:24:40','2013-02-15 06:24:40','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Markus Mehr - &quot;Off&quot;\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/off_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />If you\'ve heard this album then you will immediately understand why Markus Mehr\'s third and final installment in his year long tryptych has been attracting such glowing reviews. <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\"><em>Off</em></a> has recently been covered by <a href=\"http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=9549:markus-mehr-qoffq&amp;catid=13:albums-and-singles&amp;Itemid=133\" target=\"_blank\">Brainwashed</a>, <a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2013/02/09/markus-mehr-off/\" target=\"_blank\">A Closer Listen</a> and <a href=\"http://petalmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/off-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Petal Music</a> with each reviewer providing a beautifully written insight into what is an amazing album.\n\n<em>\"There is a mind boggling breadth of ideas and moments captured in the piece, and yet no thought or melodic impulse receives less than full consideration. Indeed, it is this deep attention to detail which amazed me on my first listen to In, and which now bears full fruit in Off.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://petalmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/off-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Petal Music</strong></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=220\"><em>Off</em></a> is available in digital (MP3 + FLAC) formats and as a very limited edition CD. Head to the <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/\">Hidden Shoal Store</a> to check it out along with Mehr\'s previous releases including the other two components of the triptych <em>In</em> and <em>On</em>.\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/markus-mehr-off-excerpt[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Markus Mehr -</strong> <em>Off</em> (excerpt)','Glowing Reviews for Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot;','','publish','closed','open','','glowing-review-for-markus-mehrs-off','','','2016-02-03 15:52:06','2016-02-03 07:52:06','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6287',0,'post','',0),(6291,1,'2013-02-15 06:27:30','2013-02-15 06:27:30','\"<em>Off</em>, the final installment in <a href=\"http://markusmehr.de/\" target=\"_blank\">Markus Mehr\'s</a> ambient noise triptych which also includes the luminous releases <em>In</em> and <em>On</em>, dropped last week at Australia-based <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>. The single, 42 minute long form piece mixes new samples and loops with numerous textures reconizable from the preceding releases, all woven together in a concoction that is by turns dazzlingly bright, hauntingly deep and wholly engaging.\n<div lang=\"zxx\"></div>\n<div lang=\"zxx\">On a first listen, it is the composition and pacing that really stand out. Brief melodic intervals are linked by passages of deep, trance like and multi-textured drones.Choral samples become interlaced with distorted guitar, glitch plays counterpoint to piano and evocative synth passages evolve almost spontaneously, as if the composer is allowing us a time out to pause, catch our breaths and reflect on what has come before and how we might deal with all that is to come. There is a mind boggling breadth of ideas and moments captured in the piece, and yet no thought or melodic impulse receives less than full consideration. Indeed, it is this deep attention to detail which amazed me on my first listen to <em>In</em>, and which now bears full fruit in <em>Off</em>.</div>\n<div lang=\"zxx\"></div>\n<div lang=\"zxx\">I have immensely enjoyed all of the releases in the triptych but <em>Off</em> is in my opinion the strongest and most complete of the three, and is well worth the wait of almost a year since <em>In</em> was released. I look forward to future listens and to finally getting to hear the complete triptych from start to finish. I\'ve wondered much at the preposition titles, with the implied movement away from a focal point or gravitational center. Hopefully I\'ll have the opportunity to comment further on it after a few more listens. For now I simply want to get this review out quickly while there is still time to do some good for Mr. Mehr by encourgaging fans of ambient, experimental and noise music to drop by Hidden Shoals and get their hands on <em>In</em>, <em>On</em>, and (if no other), <em>Off</em>.\"</div>\n<div lang=\"zxx\"></div>\n<div lang=\"zxx\">- <strong><a href=\"http://petalmusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/off-markus-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Petal Music</a></strong></div>','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot; - Reviewed at Petal Music','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-off-reviewed-at-petal-music','','','2013-02-15 06:27:30','2013-02-15 06:27:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6291',0,'post','',0),(6293,1,'2013-02-15 06:29:20','2013-02-15 06:29:20','\"<strong>Marcus Mehr</strong>‘s <em>Off </em>is the concluding element in an ambitious trilogy.  <em>In </em>and <em>On</em>, reviewed here in 2012, are vastly different in style, but set the stage for a grand finale.  Now that all three pieces have been released, listeners can see how and where they relate to each other.  <em>In </em>is comprised of two pieces, each dominated by repetitive string-based tape loops; the classical reverie is shattered by abrasion at the end of the first.  <em>On </em>is a series of tracks that begins with abrasion and ends with a minor piano phrase.  This phrase finds its echo in the “chorus” of <em>Off</em>, a single 42-minute track that unfolds in movements and gathers strength as it proceeds.\n\n<em>Off </em>is never silent, although in its ivory moments it seeks a momentary placidity.  The vast drones that surround the piece whip like winds, attempting to dislodge any idea of constancy.  And yet, as the pure notes battle the massicated, unbowed purity wins.  This battle has been unfolding over the course of all three albums, but only on <em>Off </em>is a soft resolution achieved.  The taming of dark tones implies that the artist – and by extension, the listener – has come full circle, only to find that the center has moved.  Starting again from <em>In</em>, one can no longer hear it in the same way.  <em>In </em>was complete, and then it wasn’t, and now its reduced arc operates as an extended prelude.\n\nPerhaps the best facet of <em>Off </em>is the way the ground – represented by the distorted waves of sound – keeps shifting.  While <em>In </em>played with repetition and <em>On </em>with variety, <em>Off </em>splits the difference.  The mid-piece entrance of a choir solidifies the deal.  When order and chaos battle, religion is usually in the middle somewhere.  The slow samples add a sense of comfort, even in the midst of some broken sounds (dropped instruments, keys?) and what seems like backward masking in the 23rd minute.  If associations are made with the 23rd Psalm, they are likely unintentional; however, the decision to make the piece <em>exactly </em>42 minutes long is likely purposeful.  Those familiar with The Pixies likely know the refrain, “If the Devil is six and God is seven …” Six times seven, or 42, implies <em>war.  </em>\n\nMehr is best in his darkest moments, and this clash between light and darkness is his best work to date.  When the apocalyptic horses pass (28:05), the listener knows that the end is near.  But if the world doesn’t end, this composer will have plenty of time to begin anew.  <strong>(Richard Allen)</strong>\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://acloserlisten.com/2013/02/09/markus-mehr-off/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Closer Listen</strong></a>','Markus Mehr&#039;s &quot;Off&quot; - Reviewed by A Closer Listen','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehrs-off-reviewed-by-a-closer-listen','','','2013-02-15 06:29:20','2013-02-15 06:29:20','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6293',0,'post','',0),(6296,1,'2013-02-15 06:32:23','2013-02-15 06:32:23','\"Damn, but latter-day post-rock bands can be <em>dour</em>. Something renders so many of them dry, or scrunched up into a kind of passive-aggressive melodrama. Too many of them belong to the post-Mogwai/Explosions In The Sky faction – increasingly hackneyed building blocks of minimal, stilted guitar arpeggios, building to a fuzzed-up tumble of noise via a gradual crescendo. I’ve heard it too often now. It’s like watching the same slow-motion fireworks every night – every time, the same chilly histrionics.\n\nPerth sextet Apricot Rail, trailing this new single for their second album ‘Quarrels’, manage to avoid that disappointment. As ever, they bring some of the original post-rock enchantment back as well as plenty of enchantment of their own. Admittedly, on a first hearing Basket Press is more conventionally post-rocky than their previous outing (2011′s ‘Surry Hills’ EP, in which whirring warmth and a sun-dappled shuffling of approaches gave their music the vivid craft of a beautiful set of handmade holiday postcards). The band have even returned to those pluck/build/fuzz/hallucinate ingredients I’ve just been savaging, and there’s less of the generous instrument-swapping that’s freshened their approach in the past.\n\nIn spite of this, Apricot Rail manage to avoid drabness and predictability. Basket Press is a five-minute garland of distinct and graceful stages. Part summery harvest-time music, part rippling classical suite, part affectionate conversation, it’s bound together with a palpable friendliness. First there’s a lone guitar sketching out slow American-folk arpeggios with a touch of echo (the chords, save for one crucial falling note, reworking the floating Pink Floyd melancholia of Us And Them). Then, as woodwind player Mayuka airs a fuzzy flute trail of sustained notes, there are three. Guitarists Ambrose, Jack and Justin strum, curl and gently chisel out firmer chords over a cosy fuss of drums, as if they were rounding off a carved scroll. From this, a move to that on-the-one post-rock downstrum – then, as two guitars mix a light picking of melody with pinging counter harmonics, Mayuka’s flute wakes into a twining, rising counterpoint. Bass and drums move in via a low dotting – a patter, and a dialogue.\n\nAll along, the feeling is of a mutual binding, of teamwork, all six musicians facing inwards to share the exchange. The music slips through phases like breathing, like the momentum of thoughts; like assured working hands shifting their grip on a gardening hoe. A rare and understated joy wells through it, passing hints. In many respects, all of this is moving to a similar pulse as that mid-’70s sweep of world-folk and chamber-jazz melanged into being by Paul McCandless, Ralph Towner and their colleagues in Oregon. As the lowest-pitched guitar stirs a new folkier rhythm into the band circle, Mayuka responds with sweet McCandless-esque clarinet curves. Upping the ante, a detailed guitar study – a Mediterranean sparkle – works its way in over rising supportive drums. Another guitar, sitting in the mid-register, embroiders sweet minimal rosettes of lazy cycling notes.\n\nEventually the band builds through a mass of roaring pedalwork and noise into the kind of land-sliding, sleeting mass of guitar-descend which we’re used to as that conclusive Mogwai-tradition flourish. This time, though: it’s been prepared for. Rather than the expected ragged glory of a ruined Sysiphus-bound downwards into gravity’s clutches, it’s a payoff – a burst of energy from what the musicians have put into the song and stored there.\n\nFor the curious – a basket press is a wine-making device, one used for over a thousand years. I can see the connection. Harvest arrives.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://misfitcity.org/2013/01/22/review-apricot-rail-basket-press-single-2013-a-five-minute-garland/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Misfit City</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket press&#039; Single - Reviewed at Misfit City','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-at-misfit-city','','','2013-02-15 06:32:23','2013-02-15 06:32:23','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6296',0,'post','',0),(6299,1,'2013-02-15 09:55:30','2013-02-15 09:55:30','\"New stuff from Perth’s Apricot Rail is always a good thing, particularly when it sounds like this. “Basket Press”, the first single from the second Apricot Rail record, <em>Quarrels</em>, is a typically restrained track that starts whisper-quiet and builds to something a lot more.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://lifeisnoise.com/2013/01/14/apricot-rail-basket-press/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Life is Noise</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed at Life is Noise','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-at-life-is-noise','','','2013-02-15 09:55:30','2013-02-15 09:55:30','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6299',0,'post','',0),(6301,1,'2013-02-15 09:58:21','2013-02-15 09:58:21','\"The Perth-based six piece shift between pretty melodies and different textures… when was the last time you heard woodwinds on a post rock tune!? The “soft, soft, oh my gawd crescendo” moments are avoided in place of a more reflective listening experience. Thumbs up.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/instrumental/apricot-rail-basket-press/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sounds Better with Reverb</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed at Sounds Better with Reverb','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-at-sounds-better-with-reverb','','','2013-02-15 09:58:21','2013-02-15 09:58:21','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6301',0,'post','',0),(6303,1,'2013-02-15 10:00:13','2013-02-15 10:00:13','\" Perth six-piece <strong>Apricot Rail</strong> do the instrumental thing right on ‘Basket Press’, the first single from second album <em>Quarrels</em>. It might show signs of post-rock in its build and classical or folk in its gentle woodwinds, while the guitars recall the more placid side of Sonic Youth, but it’s engaging in a way all its own. Songs for the album came during a hiatus in late 2009, following the band’s self-titled debut. \"\n\n- <a href=\"http://messandnoise.com/articles/4553405\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mess + Noise</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed at Mess + Noise','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-at-mess-noise','','','2013-02-15 10:00:13','2013-02-15 10:00:13','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6303',0,'post','',0),(6305,1,'2013-02-15 10:02:20','2013-02-15 10:02:20','\"It\'s not easy pulling off this kind of instrumental post-rock, but these guys do it with aplomb. A consistently great act. \"\n\n- <a href=\"http://www.triplejunearthed.com/apricotrail\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dom Alessio, Triple J</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed by Dom Alessio at Triple','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-by-dom-alessio-at-triple','','','2013-02-15 10:02:20','2013-02-15 10:02:20','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6305',0,'post','',0),(6308,1,'2013-02-15 10:20:29','2013-02-15 10:20:29','\"Post-rock is a dirty word(s) in some quarters these days but something as unself-conscious and beautifully light as this tune could be capable of redeeming the genre. A guitar-flute duet (in a certain light), it has a lovely, fluttering, chiming quality that’s quite alien to most guitar instrumentals.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com/2013/02/apricot-rail-basket-press-from-album.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Underground of Happiness</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed by The Underground of Happiness','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-by-the-underground-of-happiness','','','2013-02-15 10:20:29','2013-02-15 10:20:29','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6308',0,'post','',0),(6311,1,'2013-02-15 10:27:33','2013-02-15 10:27:33','\"We\'ll start this session off with the wonderfully talented pop/post rock outfit Apricot Rail from Perth, Australia.  This band has a new album coming on February 25.  This will be one of our anticipated releases.  I\'ve been loving what I\'ve been hearing from the album\'s first single, <em>Basket Press</em> and can\'t wait to hear more.  Apricot Rail blend pop stylings with stretched post-rock atmospherics and ambiance to create a unique style that is easy to get into.  What I love so far is that they are not afraid to use true melody as a way to make the music move and breathe.  While there is ample ambient and atmosphere to pique the senses, the melodies carry the music to greater heights. \"\n\n- <a href=\"http://thinkmuzik.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/new-music-from-apricot-rail-and-gliss.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Think Muzik</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed by Think Muzik','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-by-think-muzik','','','2013-02-15 10:27:33','2013-02-15 10:27:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6311',0,'post','',0),(6313,1,'2013-02-15 10:29:20','2013-02-15 10:29:20','\"<em>Basket Press </em>is the new single from Australian sextet Apricot Rail, preceding their latest album, “Quarrels” set to be released on 25th Feb on Hidden Shoal Recordings. It’s rare to find an instrumental band that are just this uplifting. As much as I will always love droney post-rock, Apricot Rail sweep in like a breath of fresh air, rustling through the countryside with leaves and flowers dancing in the breeze. <em>Basket Press </em>is the perfect antidote to a stressful day. Go lie down, get some headphones and imagine diving into a cool lake, or something. I’ve got a feeling “Quarrels” may become my first album of the year.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://sunkensounds.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sunken Sounds</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &#039;Basket Press&#039; Single - Reviewed by Sunken Sounds','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-basket-press-single-reviewed-by-sunken-sounds','','','2013-02-15 10:29:20','2013-02-15 10:29:20','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6313',0,'post','',0),(6316,1,'2013-02-16 08:38:33','2013-02-16 08:38:33','\"After almost four years, post-rock sextet Apricot Rail have put twelve more tracks to record. Fronted by Ambrose Nock, Rail’s eponymous debut back in 2008 hurled like a bolt into an explosion of acclaim; the afterglow of which gradually dimmed into an Apricot Rail pressure phosphene of support gigs and occasional recurrences on the Perth live circuit. But in the right-here-right-now,<em> Quarrels</em> is a stunning record; it is Rail’s abrupt and brilliant re-entry into the id of contemporary alternative music.\n\nThe album is largely instrumental, and breaking it down commits a fundamental error in prying Mayuka Juber’s woodwind from Jack Quirk’s glockenspiel and the unifying fabric of Nock’s guitar. <em>Quarrel</em>’s first single <em>Surry Hills</em> provides solid ground for an introduction to the record: although superficially indistinct from the album with its cascading arpeggio (a guitar with reverb perhaps, although digital production makes it all a guess), operating as part of a larger whole its place becomes clear. <em>Ibis Snowstorm </em>is concise but immaculate, at only 2:36, it’s a shorter track, but with the precision and subtlety of a mosquito-bite. <em>Third Ballroom</em> counterpoints<em> Ibis</em>, resulting in a rural, melancholic grandeur. <em>Eked</em> is gossamer and sparse as a paddock at 5am, <em>Dore Strac</em>h is a spiralling, whirling conclusion.\n\nEtherial and compelling are not adjectives applied to this record with the intention they’ll be bubble-wrapped alongside a styrofoam press release for Yet Another Up And Coming Band That Actually Isn’t: Quarrels envelopes the listener like a rain curtain, with Rail’s six individual parts contracting into a tourniquet with exactly the kind of apparent, balmy temperance that actually masks rigid and almost brilliant perfectionism. Simply and quietly, this is an incredible album.\"\n\n- <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/reviews/album/2013/02/14/apricot-rail-quarrels-callum-twigger/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Drum Media, Callum Twigger</strong></a>','Apricot Rail&#039;s &quot;Quarrels&quot; - Reviewed by Drum Media (Album of the Week)','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rails-quarrels-reviewed-by-drum-media-album-of-the-week','','','2013-02-16 08:38:33','2013-02-16 08:38:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6316',0,'post','',0),(6319,1,'2013-02-18 14:29:08','2013-02-18 14:29:08','<a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/apricot-rail/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/apricot-rail.jpg\" alt=\"Apricot Rail\" width=\"180\" height=\"122\" />Apricot Rail</a>\'s stunning new release <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Quarrels </em></a>has been garnering lots of deserved love of late. First single from the album \'Basket Press\' has scooped a bunch of wonderful reviews which you can check out <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/cat/reviews/apricot-rail-reviews/\">here</a>, whilst the album has just been named as Drum Media\'s album of the week along with a stunning <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/reviews/album/2013/02/14/apricot-rail-quarrels-callum-twigger/\" target=\"_blank\">review</a>,\n\n<em>\"Quarrels envelopes the listener like a rain curtain, with Rail’s six individual parts contracting into a tourniquet with exactly the kind of apparent, balmy temperance that actually masks rigid and almost brilliant perfectionism. Simply and quietly, this is an incredible album.\"</em> - <a href=\"http://themusic.com.au/reviews/album/2013/02/14/apricot-rail-quarrels-callum-twigger/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Drum Media</strong></a>\n\n<em>Quarrels </em>is also one of this week\'s RTRFM feature albums so be sure to <a href=\"http://www.rtrfm.com.au/\" target=\"_blank\">listen in</a> as you can win yourself one of 5 copies of the album!\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-running-with-an[/soundcloud]\n<strong>Apricot Rail <a>- \'Running With an Egg on a Spoon\'</a></strong>','Apricot Rail - Reviews, Album of the Week and RTRFM Feature Album!','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-reviews-album-of-the-week-and-rtrfm-feature-album','','','2016-02-03 13:43:07','2016-02-03 05:43:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6319',0,'post','',0),(6324,1,'2013-02-21 12:28:17','2013-02-21 12:28:17','<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6333\" title=\"I Razor\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IRazor_CD-cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" />Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the upcoming release of <em>I Razor</em>, the soundtrack album for the no-budget experimental feature film directed by <a href=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/todd-tobias/\">Todd Tobias</a>.<em> </em>The <em>I Razor </em>soundtrack, to be released by Hidden Shoal in May 2013, comprises work by Todd Tobias and Circus Devils featuring  vocals from Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices) as well as instrumental versions of some of the bands existing songs. The album is a cinematic feast within itself, uncompromising, redemptive and always engaging.\n\nTo get you in the mood we have a music video (<a href=\"http://youtu.be/WIA2VpZJ8eo\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube</a>, <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/hiddenshoal/backtobed\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo</a>) to share for album track  \'Let\'s Go Back to Bed\' by Todd Tobias and the Circus Devils. The video features footage from the film and provides a window into the visual and sonic landscape that is <em>I Razor</em>.  The video precedes the first official single to be released off the album, \'All The Good Ones Are Gone\' by Circus Devils, available on 14 March as a free download.\n\n&nbsp;\n<iframe width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WIA2VpZJ8eo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>','New Todd Tobias + Circus Devils Album and Music Video!','','publish','closed','open','','new-todd-tobias-circus-devils-album-and-music-video','','','2016-02-03 16:40:33','2016-02-03 08:40:33','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6324',0,'post','',0),(6345,1,'2013-02-26 05:23:46','2013-02-26 05:23:46','<img class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Quarrels\" src=\"http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Quarrels_MED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />Apricot Rail\'s much anticipated sophomore album <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\"><em>Quarrels</em></a> is now officially available which means digital packages (MP3 + FLAC) and CD  packages (Inc immediate album download) are now live in the <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. A beautiful extended digital booklet is also available for <a href=\"https://apricotrail.bandcamp.com/album/quarrels\">download</a> for those who have already purchased, those who are about to and even those who are just plain curious.\n\nAlmost four years after the release of their acclaimed self-titled debut album, Perth-based multi-instrumental pop sextet Apricot Rail return with their sophomore album <em>Quarrels</em>, which features the singles ‘Basket Press’ and ‘Surry Hills’. A foray into more experimental territory, <em>Quarrels</em> features lusher, denser instrumentation, is rich in ideas yet toys with new levels of restraint. The band’s trademark harmonic guitar passages and syncopation sit beneath languid brass and woodwind, balanced by glitchy electronica, dramatic crescendos and opium-infused oriental explorations; slow, meandering waltzes give way to moments of ethereal lightness and beauty. This music transcends fads and trends to appeal to anyone drawn to beautiful, supple songcraft.\n\n<em>\"Quarrels envelopes the listener like a rain curtain, with Rail’s six individual parts contracting into a tourniquet with exactly the kind of apparent, balmy temperance that actually masks rigid and almost brilliant perfectionism. Simply and quietly, this is an incredible album.\"</em> - <strong>Drum Media</strong>\n\n[soundcloud params=\"auto_play=false&amp;show_comments=true\"]https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/apricot-rail-running-with-an[/soundcloud]\nApricot Rail - \'Running With an Egg on a Spoon\'','Apricot Rail &quot;Quarrels&quot; Now Officially Available - Digital and CD','','publish','closed','open','','apricot-rail-quarrels-now-officially-available-digital-and-cd','','','2016-02-03 13:43:07','2016-02-03 05:43:07','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6345',0,'post','',0),(6347,1,'2013-02-26 14:29:45','2013-02-26 14:29:45','\"Years ago, I had a college professor who described the effect of words in poetry as taking one palmful of rose petals, which have their own scent, and one palmful of some other flower petals, rubbing them together and then opening your hands again to discover the new scent that been made. I thought of this while listening to <em>Off</em>, the third piece of a triptych from experimental composer Markus Mehr, because the equation is somewhat the same. In one hand, Mehr holds simple and lovely piano melodies and string phrases; in the other, loudly hissing walls of sharply stippled white noise and random spatters of electronic chatter. These two elements are ground together, rubbed vigorously, and set free to fly in a new, engaging, and quite stunning new form that at once challenges the listener while celebrating a clearly well-considered balance. <em>Off</em> is a single 42-minute piece of constantly shifting character. The sounds clash and clatter, the air clears for a moment to allow the piano to speak, the wall of sound re-erupts and thickens, a sacred chorus chants its way through some storm-wracked hymnal, tense harshness vies with moments of clearing-skies beauty to return your breath back to you, and the whole time you are fully and hopelessly engaged. The contrast that’s hitting you squarely in the face, this overt pairing of clarity and corruption, of coarseness and calm, is hypnotic. Beyond the piano I wouldn’t even venture to guess what or how much of what Mehr has brought in to form his sounds. There is the electronic, there is the acoustic, there is the howling. And it all co-exists in this maelstrom of intent. Clearly, many of the sources at work are repurposed from <em>Off</em>‘s predecessors, <em>In</em> and <em>On</em> (read those reviews <a href=\"http://hypnagogue.net/2012/07/29/markus-mehr-in-on\">here</a>), each of which were their own experiments. <em>Off</em>, then, represents in part the alchemy of all the disparate elements in one place. Where <em>In</em> was quiet and built to noise, and <em>On</em> started out roughly and pared back to calm, <em>Off</em>insistently puts them together from the start, then modulates the relationship along a constantly sliding scale.\n\nListening to <em>Off</em> is a challenge, but it’s an incredibly rewarding one. The balance is tricky, because the opposite ends of this equation are the <em>far</em> ends, but Mehr makes its work perfectly. You are pummeled with the unyielding intrusion of blatantly non-musical noise, and you are salved with the reassuring solidity of the piano, and somehow it makes sense. Yes, it requires an open approach to music. If you like it pat and simple, this won’t work for you. And maybe it’s not supposed to. The triptych as a whole has been slim on easy access points, but that’s also a hallmark of Mehr’s work–he’s not easy to listen to. He is, however, well worth the effort, and <em>Off</em> is perhaps Mehr at his most stunning.\"\n\n-<a href=\"http://hypnagogue.net/2013/02/20/markus-mehr-off-2/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hypangogue</strong></a>','Markus Mehr &quot;Off&quot; - Reviewed by Hypangogue','','publish','closed','open','','markus-mehr-off-reviewed-by-hypangogue','','','2013-02-26 14:29:45','2013-02-26 14:29:45','',0,'http://music.hiddenshoal.com/?p=6347',0,'post','',0),