Hidden Shoal News
Three Hidden Shoal Releases Get Top CMJ Adds at KBRP
Tangled Star’s Let’s Adjourn To The Garden, Jumpel’s Bloc4 and the Todd Tobias, Robert Pollard and Circus Devils soundtrack album I Razor have all been top 5 CMJ adds at Arizona’s wonderful independent radio station KBRP! I Razor was recently the top CMJ add to rotation and is now charting in the top 30 and Let’s Adjourn To The Garden was last week’s top CMJ add to rotation.
"I Razor" (feat. Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias, Circus Devils) Charting at CJSW
The epic I Razor soundtrack album featuring Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias and Circus Devils is charting in the CJSW Experimental Top 10! If you haven’t yet lost yourself in the surreal, dark mystery of this amazing album and film then head over to the Hidden Shoal Store and get educated in it’s ways.
Jason Lytle and Kramies Talk About “The Wooden Heart” EP
Jason Lytle and Kramies give us a sneak peek into their working process for the new Kramies EP. The forthcoming EP, The Wooden Heart, by dream pop craftsman Kramies features a collaboration with and co-production from the wonderful Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) along with the magic touch of Todd Tobias (Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard), also taking on co-production duties.
The Wooden Heart sees the light of day on the 17th October with the first single dropping September 5th. In the meanwhile, be sure to check out Kramies fantastic 2011 EP The European.
"I Razor" Top 10 Charting at Asheville FM, Number 1 on Experimental Chart!
Great news for the brilliant soundtrack to I Razor, featuring work by Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias and Circus Devils. The album is currently sitting at number 10 in the Asheville FM Top 30 and number 1 in their Experimental chart!
Tangled Star Feature at Mess and Noise
Head over to Mess and Noise and check out a fantastic track by track expose of Tangled Star‘s latest album Let’s Adjourn To The Garden. Those of you who are familiar with Craig Hallsworth’s work with band’s like Tangled Star, The Slow Beings, Outstation and The Healers will know that his lyrical excursions are both playful and intelligent. His musings on these tracks further verify his place as a thinking mans rocksmith. He makes music that is not only melodically exciting but through his twisting wordplay, also cerebrally so!
If you’ve not yet managed to get your ears around Let’s Adjourn To The Garden you can stream each track within the Mess and Noise feature and then head to the Hidden Shoal Store to buy yourself a copy.
Glowing Review for Jumpel's "Bloc4" at Textura
Following on from the attention received from Textura for Liam Singer’s Arc Iris, another Hidden Shoal artist is also making waves at the site. Jumpel’s stunning release Bloc 4 has just received a glowing review and was chosen as one of their releases of the month,
“On this album, Jumpel’s secret weapon is—aside from his own artful scene painting—vocalist Chloë March (with whom Dürbeck collaborated on “Edinburgh” from the Europa single), whose humanizing presence elevates every song on which she appears. Her sensual vocalizing acts as a dramatic counterpoint to Dürbeck’s instrumental designs, which by comparison epitomize cool control…Sans vocals, Jumpel’s music plays like some distinctive merger of ambient, post-rock, and krautrock, with piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and electronics woven with great care and circumspection into polished miniatures. Melody abounds but it’s deployed subtly and acts more as part of the overall fabric than as a focal point. Stated more generally, Dürbeck emphasizes intimacy and understatement in the album’s fifteen meticulous constructions. On a commercial level, such an approach likely lessens his chances of making a huge splash, but artistically it pays off handsomely.” – Textura
Check out Bloc4 and grab the first two singles from the album for free at the Hidden Shoal Store.
Markus Mehr "Live in Bari" – Free Download & Stream!
Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the new freely downloadable album Live in Bari by German experimental ambient artist Markus Mehr. Live in Bari is a triumphant rendition of Mehr’s critically acclaimed album Off, performed live with video artist Stefanie Sixt. The 45-minute piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful yet often punishing soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples from Mehr’s preceding albums, linking them into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.
“They’re ‘big’ compositions, the sheer scale of the sonic work is rather awe inspiring, but they never sound antagonistic or uncomfortable… it sounds like the ebb and flow of space itself – individual snippets of a grand, repeating, organic process that keeps the universe in balance…” – No Ripcord
Live in Bari was recorded at Timezones festival in Bari, Italy in November 2012. The four-day festival involved collaboration between Markus Mehr, Alessandra Celletti, Andrea Mangia, Massimo Carrieri, Salah addin Roberto Re David, James Brooks and Charles Hayward in the rehearsal and performance of John Cage’s ‘Musicircus’. Off was performed live at the Doppelgaenger Gallery to a rapturous reception.
You can download the album for free in MP3 and FLAC formats from the Hidden Shoal Store and Bandcamp and also stream the album in full over at SoundCloud.
Antonymes Track Featured in State Library of Victoria Video
Antonymes‘ stunning track ‘The Door Towards The Dream’, from the universally acclaimed 2011 album The Licence To Interpret Dreams, is featured in a video created by the State Library of Victoria to illustrate the evolution of the Library site. Visit the State Library of Victoria’s website to view the video and learn more about the Library’s collections and events, and visit the Hidden Shoal Store to stream and purchase releases by Antonymes and other Hidden Shoal artists.
Tangled Star's "Let's Adjourn To The Garden" Featured at 2ser
Tangled Star’s fantastic new album Let’s Adjourn To The Garden continues to garner radio love. This time the excellent 2ser (Sydney) has chosen the album and one of this week’s picks,
“Speaking of craft, there’s no more immaculately dealt out in the guitar stakes this week than from Tangled Star. Leader Craig Hallsworth knows his way around a tune with this set of sparkling power-pop, set with a country twang and cosmic touch.” – 2ser
Head to the Hidden Shoal Store to grab yourself a copy of the album in CD and Digital formats.
Tangled Star – ‘99% OK’
Jumpel's "Bloc4" Is This Week's RTRFM Feature Album
We’re very excited to announce that the sumptuous 4th album by German producer Jumpel is a Feature Album on RTRFM all this week. Tracks from Bloc4 will be played on RTRFM’s new music show Out To Lunch each day this week and the station will also be giving away a copy of the limited edition CD every day for a bunch of lucky listeners.
Be sure to listen in via radio or stream and head to the Hidden Shoal Store to grab yourself the first two singles from the album for free and a copy of the album in limited edition CD or digital formats.
Jumpel – ‘Flight’