Hidden Shoal News
Mehr and Sixt Play the International Film Festival Rotterdam
The sublime audio-visual live experience that is Markus Mehr and Stefanie Sixt will deliver their magic at this years International Film Festival Rotterdam. They will perform as part of the Mind The Gap Nights put on in conjunction with the wonderful Gonzo Circus Magazine. Mehr and Sixt perform Friday 23rd January at the WORM venue in Rotterdam.
Check out all the details here for the show and be sure to check out Mehr’s most recent release Binary Rooms here.
Slow Dancing Society & Kryshe in Igloo’s Best of 2014 List
Kryshe’s stunning In Between EP and Slow Dancing Society’s The Cogent Sea album and The Dusk Recital EP have landed in Igloo Magazine’s Best of 2014 list. All three releases received glowing reviews at Igloo during 2014 thanks to the wonderful Nocturnal Ghost. Check out the list and review links here and listen to more Kryshe here and more Slow dancing Society here.
Slow Dancing Society in Ambient Music Guide Best of 2014
Slow Dancing Society‘s stunning release of last year, The Cogent Sea, has scooped a place in Ambient Music Guide’s Best of 2014 list! In a year packed with a tonne of brilliant releases in the genre, it’s lovely to see Drew Sullivian (aka Slow Dancing Society) once again receiving plaudits for his masterful work. Here’s a taste of what Ambient Music Guide had to say about the album,
“Another outstanding hybrid of electronica and ambient rock from one from the best modern exponents of a style that some also might call (ahem) shoegaze or (cough) post-rock. This is American composer Drew Sullivan’s sixth release as Slow Dancing Society, once again coming to us from Australian-based indie label Hidden Shoal Recordings. I’ve been a fan of his beautiful melancholy since his debut album The Sound Of Lights When Dim (2006). Not content to just create a chilled-out mood – which he does very well – his best music also tugs on an emotional level with remarkable depth.” – Ambient Music Guide
Listen to The Cogent Sea and check our more Slow Dancing Society releases here.
Hidden Shoal Artists in Underground of Happiness Best of 2014
The Underground of Happiness radio show and blog is a firm favourite here at Hidden Shoal so it’s always an honour to get some love and kudos from it’s host, the lovely Conor O’Toole. And what nicer kudos to receive than seeing four Hidden Shoal artists in their best of 2014 lists. Brother Earth, Chloe March, Elisa Luu and Markus Mehr all made The Underground of Happiness best of lists this year along with a range of other wonderful artists. Check out Chloe’s, Elisa’s and Markus’s mentions here and then Brother Earth’s here.
Free YouTube Music Licensing
Hidden Shoal is very excited to announce our free YouTube music licensing initiative. Tracks from the Hidden Shoal Publishing catalogue are now available for free use within personal YouTube videos. We openly encourage you to utilise our wonderful catalogue in your YouTube works, whether it be your latest experimental short film, an audio only video/playlist or god forbid, a cat video. We’ve got a page that covers the details and also provides a small sample of downloadable tracks to get you started. So what are you waiting for?
And as always if you’re looking for music for film, tv and commercial/budgeted web projects then be sure to contact us so we can help you sync some beautiful tracks to your beautiful moving image works.
Hidden Shoal is Luna Kafe’s 2nd Favourite Label of 2014!
Hidden Shoal has just been honoured at the wonderful Norwegian zine Luna Kafé. The label has scooped the number 2 spot on Luna Kafé’s list of top 10 indie labels of 2014! Thanks to Håvard Oppøyen and the lovely Luna Kafé team for their ongoing support of great independent music. Here’s the list so you can see the esteemed company we’re ruffling feathers with,
01. Dead Oceans (US)
02. Hidden Shoal Recordings (AU)
03. Jagjaguwar (US)
04. Domino Recording Company (UK)
05. Matador Records (US)
06. Merge Records (US)
07. HUBROmusic! (NO)
08. Kvitnu (UA)
09. Jansen Plateproduksjon (NO)
10. Karaoke Kalk (DE)
Bubbling under: Secretly Canadian (US), Propeller Recordings (NO), Nexsound (UA), Drag City Records (US), FatCat Records (UK), WOODSIST RECORDS (US).
Debut Umpire and Mukaizake Releases Join the Hidden Shoal Catalogue
We’re very excited to announce that the stunning debut releases by Perth bands Mukaizake and Umpire – originally released in 2003 and 2009 respectively – have now joined our publishing catalogue. Umpire’s self-titled EP and Mukaizake’s Mapping the Static are each such accomplished debuts – and round out both outfits’ discographies for Hidden Shoal. Fans of both bands will know of the shared membership, and having all four releases by the two outfits together sets up wonderful trajectories and crossovers between them. These releases are mathy, rocky, languid and melodically rich.
Check out Umpire’s debut EP and album here, and do the same for both Mukaizake albums here. The tracks from all four releases are available for licensing (master & sync cleared) for film, tv, web, games and more. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any licensing enquiries.
Antonymes CD & Digital Sale
Time to fill in the missing blanks of your Antonymes discography people! There is a CD & Digital sale on now across his entire catalogue over at Bandcamp. There is limited CD stock for a number of releases so it’s first come, first served.
In case you missed other recent Antonymes news, his entire back catalogue recently joined the Hidden Shoal publishing catalogue for film, tv and other licensing. His track ‘301210’ was also recently included in Spotify’s official “Most Beautiful Songs In The World” playlist which also featured artists such as Camera Obscura, Fennesz, Goldfrapp, Bon Iver, Talk Talk, A Winged Victory For The Sullen.
New Slow Dancing Society EP – “The Dusk Recital”
Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the release of the new EP The Dusk Recital by US ambient artist Slow Dancing Society. The Dusk Recital was borne out of the sessions for Slow Dancing Society’s beautiful last album The Cogent Sea and is, in part, an instrumental homage to the mainstream dream-pop of the 90s. Cavernous drums, minimal guitar licks a la Roxy Music, and smooth saxophone lines feature prominently across these six tracks, all enveloped in the unmistakable Slow Dancing Society sound and feel. This is Drew Sullivan at his most playful, offering us a glimpse into some of the guilty pleasures he acknowledges as influences, while also delivering a deliciously smooth and immersive listening experience.
“a strong sense of connection to and continuity from the previous Slow Dancing Society releases yet also offers subtle modifications in the project’s enticing sound. That he’s been able to effect such a change in such an organic manner on this latest effort suggests there’s still room for other advances in the future, too” – Textura on The Cogent Sea
Stream and purchase the digital only EP at Bandcamp and check out the Slow Dancing Society discography, music videos and more here.
Todd Tobias “Impossible Cities” European Launch Party
The wonderful Tiny Room Records are presenting the European release party for Todd Tobias‘s brilliant new album Impossible Cities. The night includes a screening of Todd’s wildly surreal full length experimental feature film I Razor. If you are anywhere in or near the Netherlands this weekend then you know what to do! Check out all the details here.
If you’ve not yet had the pleasure of strapping your ears onto Impossible Cities and its companion EP Impossible Cities 2 then head to Todd’s artist profile to hear and read more.