<a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/a-smooth-sea-never-made-a-skilful-sailor"><img class="alignleft" alt="" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/smoothsea_MED.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>Hidden Shoal is excited to bring you <a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/a-smooth-sea-never-made-a-skilful-sailor"><em>A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilful Sailor</em></a>, the new EP by Australian experimental/ambient duo <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/gilded/">Gilded</a>. Following on from the release of their critically acclaimed debut album <a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/terrane"><em>Terrane</em></a> and its accompanying national tour, Gilded’s new EP <em>A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilful Sailor</em> brings together three previously unreleased and essential new tracks.

‘38 Degrees (Live at The Bird)’ is a beautiful live improvised guitar-based work, rich in textural details, contrasting markedly with the more piano-focused pieces on Terrane. Shoeb Ahmad (of Canberra outfit <a href="http://www.spartakmusic.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Spartak</a>) remixes 2012 single ‘Cluttered Room’, dissecting the bassline, banjo and melodica and tethering them to an itchy breakbeat, surrounding the mix with an otherworldly vocal. Hidden Shoal’s very own <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/">perth</a> also take on ‘Cluttered Room’ in their own inimitable style, creating an ebbing electro-acoustic micro-environment set adrift in clouds of reverb.

<em>A Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilful Sailor</em> is available for free download from the <a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/a-smooth-sea-never-made-a-skilful-sailor">Hidden Shoal Store</a> and can be streamed over at <a href="https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/sets/gilded-a-smooth-sea-never-made" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a>. Be sure to check out the wonderful work of <a href="http://www.spartakmusic.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Shoeb Ahmad/Spartak</a> and <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/perth/">perth</a> while you're at it.

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