Hidden Shoal News
Markus Mehr Performing at the Brecht Festival – Video
On Monday 29th February, Markus Mehr performed as part og a trio alongside vocalist Isabell Münsch and saxophonist Kay Fischer as part of Augsburg’s Brecht Festival, celebrating the work of famous playwright Bertolt Brecht. Their performance addressed the issue of “coming home”, and is based on material that Brecht wrote during his exile in the USA among other works. We’re excited to be able to share an excerpt of this amazing performance. Check out the video below or head over to Stefanie Sixt’s Vimeo.
Joe Sampson’s “Chansons de Parade” Exclusive Feature at Scene Point Blank
Joe Sampson‘s new album Chansons de Parade is the current featured album at the wonderful Scene Point Blank! Check it out here and stream the album in full.Joe Sampson’s “Chansons de Parade” Out Now!
We’re excited to announce the official release of Joe Sampson‘s stunning new release Chansons de Parade, featuring the single ‘Wealth‘. The album is available now exclusively via BandCamp as a “pay what you want” and will also be available via iTunes, Spotify, Amazon et al later next week. Joe will be launching the album tonight (Dec 1st) with label mate Kramies in support at the Ubisububi Room in Denver
The follow-up to his acclaimed EP Songs of Delay released earlier this year, Chansons de Parade is another exquisitely crafted collection of songs from Joe Sampson, with an uncanny ability to quietly get under your skin. While drawing from the musical spirit of Simon & Garfunkel, Iron & Wine, and Low, the songs on Chansons de Parade sound familial rather than familiar. Combining haunting yet playful lyrical narratives, a mesmerising road-worn baritone vocal, and a delicious melodic sensibility, these nine songs feel like long-term friends from the first listen. The music’s intimacy, gently lilting country slant and spacious, restrained instrumentation add depth and resonance to Sampson’s rustic folk influences.
REW<< Track Featured in "Rancho" Trailer!
The REW<< track ‘Big Fish And The Sirens’ is featured in the wonderful trailer for the forthcoming web series Rancho. The series was written by, and also stars, Jamie H Jung.
Apricot Rail Featured on MAAMF Mixtape
Apricot Rail’s ‘Scarecrow’ is featured on the very last (ever!) MAAMF mixtape! Sad to see the world lose the wonderful Australian blog but what a tape to go out on.
Slow Dancing Society in Ambient Music Guide’s Best of 2016!
Slow Dancing Society‘s stunning release The Wagers Of Love And Their Songs From The Witching Hour has made the best albums of 2016 list at the awesome Ambient Music Guide! Here’s what they had to say about the album,
“This latest collection of emotional post-rock miniatures from Drew Sullivan aka Slow Dancing Society is by turns cinematic, tender and edgy. Sullivan continues to prod and explore the boundaries of his art and The Wagers Of Love finds his music as seductive as ever.” – Ambient Music Guide
Check out the excellent list here and listen to the album here.
Glanko & Daniel Bailey’s “Isometrik Remixes” EP Out Now!
We’re excited to announce the release of Isometrik Remixes, featuring reworkings of Glanko & Daniel Bailey’s atmospheric ambient EP Isometrik. The EP is available now via BandCamp, Spotify, iTunes and the other usual suspects.
On their debut collaboration, Isometrik, Glanko & Daniel Bailey delivered an EP rich with textural counterpoint, full of brooding yet innately melodic pieces that envelope the listener with their intensity and grace. On this beautiful new companion EP we see these tracks brilliantly deconstructed and made new by Marco Caricola, Arc Lab, Davide Cantile, and Glanko and Daniel Bailey themselves. From Arc Lab’s sublime expansive reworking of ‘Consunzione’ to Marco Caricola’s emotive neo-classical take on ‘Adiaphora’ to David Cantile’s minimal and brooding dual takes on ‘Vaucanson’, Glanko & Danely Bailey’s guests bring a sense of reverence for the originals along with ingenuity in their re-incarnation. Glanko’s own re-working of ‘Vaucanson’ is luscious and pensive electronic neo-classicism whilst Daniel Bailey delivers an epic and brooding slow build in the form of 12.15’s Riddle (Outro)’.
New Single from Joe Sampson, Album Out Next Week!
Exciting times my friends as we not only have a brilliant new single from Denver’s Joe Sampson but we also get to announce that the new album it’s peeled from drops next week! ‘Wealth‘ is the opening cut from Sampson’s second release for Hidden Shoal Chansons de Parade, the follow up to his stunning 2016 EP Songs of Delay. Chansons de Parade will see release on the 1st of December.
‘Wealth’ is available as a free download via BandCamp and can be streamed via SoundCloud. Read more about Joe Sampson and check out Songs of Delay here.
Memorybell Interview & Live Performance on BFF.FM
Check out this wonderful re-streamable interview with Grant Outerbridge (aka Memorybell) on the BFF.FM radio show Sounds In The Dark. Along with some fantastic insights into his process and approach you’ll get to hear stunning live renditions of tracks from his sublime 2016 album Obsolete.
Kramies Interview in The Big Takeover!
Check out the latest edition of The Big Takover magazine (made out of actual paper!!) and you’ll find an interview with our very own Kramies nestled between the likes of Lush, Kid Congo Powers and Russian Circles! Dig a bit further and you’ll also find a beautiful review of Joe Sampson‘s recent EP Songs of Delay. Good times!