<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/briefencounter_MED.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Hidden  Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of ‘The Brief  Encounter’, the second song to be lifted from critically acclaimed album  <em><a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155">Dislocatia</a> </em>by Brooklyn-based chamber-pop experimentalist <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/liam-singer/">Liam Singer</a>.  Swooningly beautiful and instantly memorable, ‘The Brief Encounter’  distils the magic of Liam Singer’s music into two minutes of  transportive storytelling. Featuring the angelic backing vocals of <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/boxharp/">Boxharp</a>’s  Wendy Allen and a children’s choir, the song’s piano line canters along  while Liam’s tremulous vocals dance with an aching violin. By the time  the song’s conclusion has brought you back down to Earth, you’re ready  to take flight again.

‘The Brief Encounter’ is taken from Liam Singer’s latest album <em>Dislocatia</em>, one of Textura’s top albums of 2010. Produced by Scott Solter, <em>Dislocatia </em>is  rich in wondrous, resonant details – a truly beguiling song cycle that  contains multitudes. These fantastical song-stories carry the listener  skyward like a clockwork cloud. It’s rare to find such arresting  compositional talent married not only to an innate sense of melody and  emotion, but also to a keen sense of texture and atmosphere. <em>Dislocatia </em>manages  to merge these elements together and, more importantly, blur any lines  that divide them. Liam Singer’s alchemical compositional process  transforms the songs into a whole that transcends simple descriptors. <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>is out now through <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155">Hidden Shoal Recordings</a>.

<em>“a resplendent song cycle … Dislocatia impresses as a bold and   sumptuous fusion of classical and popular musics with theatrical   flavour”</em> – <strong>Textura </strong>

<em>“a uniquely experimental approach to pop music…. His music has the   stately and cerebral sides of modern composition, not to mention the   beauty and grace, but also an intimacy and directness…. This is very   emotional music that uses all of the tactics at Singer’s disposal, for   greatest impact.… Singer seems determined to find what is around us that   we don’t know about, and to make us feel like we’ve done the same,   participating in an exciting act of discovery”</em> – <strong>PopMatters </strong>

<em>“If the Bedroom Communities roster are the post-romantics, like   Brahms and Rachmoninovs, of 21st century indie-acceptable classical   music, then Liam Singer is the Erik Satie of the group, playing wildly   conceptual music that never quite loses its emotional resonance.”</em> –<strong> Tome To The Weather Machine</strong>

'The Brief Encounter' is available as a free download  from the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=164">Hidden Shoal Store</a>. Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Liam_Singer-The_Brief_Encounter.pdf">here</a>.<em> Dislocatia</em> is available now on CD and in digital formats through Hidden Shoal Recordings, distributed via <a href="http://n5mailorder.com">n5Mailorder</a>. Head to the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=48&amp;products_id=155">Hidden Shoal Store</a> for all availability details.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Liam_Singer/Dislocatia/02_The_Brief_Encounter.mp3">Liam Singer - The Brief Encounter</a> <em>Liam Singer - The Brief Encounter</em>