Hidden Shoal Recordings have announced the digital pre-release of the album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie by Italian sonic cinematographers HC-B. In each of its eight majestic songs, Soundcheck For A Missing Movie follows HC-B’s finely trained lens across a breathtaking instrumental rock landscape, rich with detail and swimming with emotive currents. In triumphant single ‘Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square’, free-jazz horns squabble and blare like a swarm of bees before the main theme shines through like an exultant fanfare, supported by a thundering bassline. The gorgeous ‘Slow Compensation’ winds sinuous synth lines, violin and a longing male and female vocal through the swaying drums and guitars, mustering a quietly anthemic yet intimate epic. And closer ‘Missing Movie’ brings the house down with a storm of ferocious guitars.
“this is instrumental post-rock with attention-grabbing orchestral construction… HC-B really are something special” – Even In The Future Nothing Works
“The music of HC-B frees the imagination, leaving it to roam without the limits imposed by words, seducing with sound frames within which you can figure everything” – Freak Out
Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is now available in digital format from the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc). The album will see its official CD release at the end of March, 2009.
Read a full press release here.
HC-B – Playing With Planes HC-B – Playing With Planes