<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/markus-mehr.jpg" alt="" width="170" height="117" align="left" />Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the new single from Germany's post-ambient master <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/markus-mehr/">Markus Mehr</a>. Much  like Mehr's first single ‘<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;amp;cPath=46&amp;amp;products_id=140">Hubble</a>’ evoked the ink-black expanses of  outer space, second single ‘Cousteau’ (also taken from debut <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=46&amp;products_id=145"><em>Lava</em></a>)  casts its searchlight beneath the ocean. The track’s slow, majestic  burn is a thing to behold, and further proof of Mehr’s mastery of  dynamic drone. Bubbles of fizzy static gradually fade into view before a  haunting backwards melody is introduced and then subsumed by liquiform  particles and aching synths. The track builds in pressure until the  elements fall away, leaving the backwards melody to sing anew before the  process begins again, with a renewed feeling of heartbreaking  intensity. The track’s black-hole magnetism grows as it pulls in all  around it, with the resultant build erupting into giant, arcing,  electric tendrils.

<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> <a href="http://tometotheweathermachine.blogspot.com/2010/08/markus-mehr.html" target="_blank">Tome to the Weather Machine</a></strong>

Mehr’s oft collaborator, visual artist <a href="http://www.sixt-sense.de/">Stefanie Sixt (Sixt Sense)</a>,  has created an incredibly rich and layered widescreen visual  accompaniment to ‘Cousteau’. Sixt’s work traverses film, performance and  animation, and has won her several key visual arts awards in Germany.

‘Cousteau’ is taken from Markus Mehr's debut album <a href="http://tinyurl.com/27klgo8"><em>Lava</em></a> out now through Hidden Shoal. The track is available for free download from the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/24dq8s4">Hidden Shoal Store</a>.<strong> </strong>Watch the 'Cousteau' music video on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIYi486n0c">YouTube</a> or <a href="http://vimeo.com/16390343">Vimeo</a>. Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr_Cousteau.pdf">here</a>.
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