We’re excited to announce that the brilliant new album Binary Rooms from German experimentalist Markus Mehr is now officially available. The album is available in all digital formats and as a limited edition CD. Head here to stream and purchase. Binary Rooms is now also part of the Hidden Shoal licensing catalogue, ready to be paired with suitably complex and engaging film and tv projects.
Mehr’s work has seen a subtle shift in scale across his five studio albums. From the widescreen cosmic vistas of Lava to some of the more intimate moments of his 42-minute single-track opus Off, Mehr has now come to examine the most challenging space yet – that of our everyday lives and the spatial narratives that surround us. Mehr’s music has always possessed a keen sense of and negotiation with scale, and on Binary Rooms he challenges notions of personal space, juxtaposing the human against the industrial, the gentle and intimate against the jolting and harsh. Mehr acts as a fragment hunter, meshing machine-like tones with the discarded elements of humanity; narrative with anti-narrative. On Binary Rooms he manages to create a spatial remix – a striking re-design of aural reality filled with a living, digital biology.
Stream the album track, ‘Buoy’, below and be sure to check out the stunning music video by experimental filmmaker and Markus Mehr collaborator Stefanie Sixt for the track ‘Gymnasium/Swarms’.