Hidden Shoal News
Alpha Hall Sign to Hidden Shoal, Debut Album Coming September
We’re very excited to announce the signing of Australian band Alpha Hall to the Hidden Shoal family. Their stunning debut album Omens will see release in September with the first single out in a few weeks. Watch this space!
“mesmerising, with dusky vocals, purring violin, and a rich melodic and rhythmic interplay that erupts into emotional climaxes that ambush and satisfy in equal measures” – Doug Wallen, The Big Issue
Alpha Hall traverse a unique sonic landscape, somewhere between The National’s brooding songcraft and Dirty Three’s violin-streaked majesty. Their cinematic debut album, Omens, conveys many shades of light and dark, veering from delicate and introspective to unnerving and expansive. It captures a band able to convey not only the rugged beauty of their surroundings in regional Australia, but also the complex nature of our tempestuous, globalised times.
Formed in 2016 by Bozhin Petrovski (vox, guitars) and Adam Menegazzo (violin), with Sy Young (drums) and Perry Lane (bass), Alpha Hall have created a formidable sound in a short time. Based in regional Victoria, Alpha Hall take their name from an early gold rush cinema – apt for a band seeking to bridge the past with the present. Written and recorded in Talbot during late 2017 and completed in early 2018 with friend Heath McCurdy (Epicure, Mark With The Sea) in Ballarat, their debut album, Omens, captures something purposeful and persuasive, far from the city lights and hipster sprawl of Melbourne’s musical hub.
Lunar Landscape ‘Siren’s Calling’ Single – Out Now!
Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of ‘Siren’s Calling’, the stunning new single by Lunar Landscape. The track is lifted from the band’s forthcoming debut The Infinite Pleasure of Being which sees release through Hidden Shoal on September 12th 2018. The single is available now to stream via SoundCloud and Youtube and to download via Bandcamp.
Striking a hypnotic balance between the muscular surge of shoegaze and the ethereal ambience of dream-pop, ‘Siren’s Calling’ casts a spell that’s difficult to shake. Bringing together Bends-era Radiohead’s majestic arpeggios and the stately grandeur of prime Pink Floyd, Lunar Landscape have mustered a haunting, epic track that conveys the emotive scope of forthcoming debut album The Infinite Pleasure of Being.
Expanding on the progressive shoegaze of previous incarnation Beautiful Lunar Landscape and the instrumental rock of sister project Les Limbes, the album is a definitive statement from principal songwriter Arnaud Sigonney (piano, keyboards, guitar, vocals). Back in 2007, Hidden Shoal released Sigonney’s previous band Beautiful Lunar Landscape’s stunning debut EP Alone in this Dark Romantic Night, which received widespread critical acclaim. He then took a break from music, before returning with instrumental rock band Les Limbes in 2015. The songs that comprise the debut album by new project Lunar Landscape have been written throughout Arnaud’s musical life. The Infinite Pleasure of Being was recorded by Marco Gomes at Studio Carat with a new band in 2016, featuring Les Limbe’s Yoann Roy (bass), Franck Lantignac (drums), Line Senium (piano) and Marine Hebard (vocals).
Lunar Landscape‘s music is available for licensing (film, tv, web, games and more) via Hidden Shoal. Read more about Hidden Shoal’s music licensing services here.
New Single from Todd Tobias & Chloe March – ‘Lallulow’
We’re incredibly excited to present ‘Lallulow’, the first single from Amialluma, a collaborative album by Todd Tobias and Chloe March. The track is available to stream via SoundCloud and to download via both artist’s Bandcamp pages. See Todd Tobias and Chloe March‘s profile page for more info and links. Amialluma will see release through Hidden Shoal on the 4th of September 2018.
After a number of stunning track collaborations on Todd Tobias’s 2015 album Gila Man, Chloe March and Todd Tobias have joined forces on their new full-length, Amialluma. Following on from Tobias’s recent album Massabu Evening Entertainments and March’s own Blood-Red Spark, this new album brings both artists’ distinct musical sensibilities together to create a bewitching brew. Dwelling in a mysterious hinterland somewhere between Cocteau Twins’ seminal Victorialand and The Caretaker’s Persistent Repetition of Phrases, Amialluma dances between the earthly and heavenly. Chloe March’s celestial voice shines a light through Todd Tobias’s dark, fantastical soundscapes, resulting in a sublime, uncanny experience that enraptures and unsettles in equal measure.
The tracks from Amialluma along with the solo work’s of Todd Tobias and Chloe March are available for licensing (film, tv, web, games and beyond). More info here.
Connected View “Energy Negative House” Out Now!
We’re excited to announce the release of Negative Energy House, the new EP by US-based experimental instrumental pop outfit Connected View. The EP is available now via the Connected View Bandcamp.
“As though pulled from some rarely seen and certainly forgotten, straight to VHS sci-fi cult classic soundtrack, ‘lizard’ prowls with playful impishness ducking between the narrowing corridors that divide the worlds of the Stranger Things community and Zombi, its mooching mutant funk gouging tripping imagined wastelands of dystopic future worlds.” – The Sunday Experience
Following on from their stunning Hidden Shoal debut release Chun Pop, Connected View’s Energy Negative House finds them at their playful best, weaving rugged analogue tones with playful percussion, aching synth lines and growling bass. Recorded during the course of a single inspired evening, the jumping off point for the tracks was the drum loop from Chun Pop’s ‘Energy Positive House’, which was then reworked to create opening track ‘Empty Surroundings’, effectively becoming a continuation, but shadowy inverse or negative, of the album’s sun-dappled positivity. Reminiscent of Tortoise at their most obtuse, or Dialogue-era Four Tet, Energy Negative House is simultaneously playful and malevolent – a party played out in a maze of warped mirrors.
Connected View’s music is available for licensing (film, tv, web, games and beyond). More info here.
Fantastic Interview With Liminal Drifter on RTRFM
Check out this wonderful interview with our very own Dr Simon Order (aka Liminal Drifter) on Perth’s best radio station RTRFM. Listen to Simon wax lyrical on his sumptuous new album The Dreams along with his own actual dreams. It’s therapeutic and informative all at the same time!
Liminal Drifter Top NACC College Radio Adds!
Liminal Drifter‘s brilliant new album The Dreams has just landed in the top 30 NACC college radio add chart this week at number 17! Even better it sat at number 2 in the Electronic adds chart! Go Drifter!
Christopher Sky Joins The Hidden Shoal Family
We’re very excited to welcome the wonderful Christopher Sky to the Hidden Shoal family. Sky brings with him the gorgeous By The Ocean album, released early 2018 and which now forms part of the Hidden Shoal licensing catalogue. His stunning forthcoming album Vastness will see digital release through hidden Shoal and vinyl release via Aagoo Records on the 9th of November.
Christopher Sky is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Los Angeles. His first EP, Cotton Dream, featuring contributions from Paul Espinoza on guitar, was released in 2011 through his own label, Sejatski Ltd. This was followed by Audio Memory, with a stronger emphasis on guitar-based loops and sound design.
After taking some time off to focus on his Let’s Drive to Alaska project – releasing In the Fifth House in 2016 – Sky returned in 2018 with By the Ocean, his first solo work in seven years, featuring five brand new songs, plus remixes by Mirror, Jubilant Ecstasy Dream and HEARTMIND. Two-track EP Orpheus and Eurydice, an ode to the classic tale of love and loss, was released on Valentine’s Day 2018.
Christopher Sky’s music is available for licensing (film, tv, web, games and beyond). More info here.
Liminal Drifter “The Dreams” – RTRFM Feature Album!
Liminal Drifter‘s stunning new album The Dreams continues it’s dream run (I am so very sorry) this week as it scoops RTRFM Feature Album status. Listen in all week to the station to hear choice cuts from the album and to also be in with a chance to win yourself a copy.
Don’t forget that Liminal Drifter’s cinematic vibes are available for licensing (film, tv, web, games and beyond). More info here.
Wonderful Interview with Liminal Drifter in X-Press
Check out this fantastic interview with Dr Simon Order (aka Liminal Drifter) in the latest X-Press. Order digs deep into his process for latest album The Dreams, his love of the bass guitar and Daddy liminal day-care!Liminal Drifter “The Dreams” Out Now!
It has landed! Liminal Drifter‘s stunning third album, The Dreams, is now available for your delectation. The album has already started charting abroad ahead of it’s official college radio campaign and Liminal Drifter is sure to be a chart fave once again when the push gets in full swing. The album is available now in digital and CD formats (featuring the absolutely luscious artwork of Stu Medley) via Bandcamp and in digital formats via the usual online suspects (Spotify, iTunes et al).
Following his acclaimed debut album, Troubled Mystic, and its remix companion, Night Train Vacancies, this new collection displays Simon Order’s ongoing mastery of melodic, transportive electronica. Befitting its title, The Dreams has a hypnotic feel, its pristine sonics rendered uncanny by subliminal details. Track titles such as ‘Beach Fair’, ‘Angels of the Sea’ and ‘Fish Don’t Have Arms or Legs’ offer suggestions of the aquatic vibe of the release, with sonar pings and synth pads washing in and out as samples of submerged voices nag at the subconscious. Whether it’s the driving bassline of ‘Stranger Things’, the dream-pop guitars and skanking piano on ‘Man is Part of Nature’, or the thick synth arpeggiation on the closing track ‘Time Lapse’, The Dreams takes great care to offer up waves of lush dreamtronica.
Liminal Drifter’s music is available for licensing (film, tv, web, games and beyond). More info here.