Hidden Shoal News
Umpire No Longer Active in Melbourne on 11/11/11
Sad news, Melbourne-based Umpire fans: the band have had to cancel their show at Phoenix Public House on 11/11/11. Fingers crossed for next year!
City of Satellites "Remixed" Album Out Now!
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the sumptious new album Remixed by Australian/US dreamgaze trio City Of Satellites.
Remixed sees tracks from City Of Satellites’ debut EP The Spook and album Machine Is My Animal receive the remix treatment from Manual, Syntaks, Tim Koch, Slow Dancing Society, Jatun, Tin Manzano and M-13. Tin Manzano’s remix of the title track from Machine Is My Animal is a gorgeously seductive instrumental, where restraint and space are as alluring as the sounds blooming across the stereo field. Syntaks bring their trademark wavering dream-gaze to ‘Victor! Burn City Lights’, resulting in a tantalising, sticky web of melody and beats. M-13’s take on ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ bitcrushes the original to produce an incredibly addictive slice of dreamy electroclash. Slow Dancing Society’s remix of ‘Moon in the Sea’ (from The Spook EP) is as epic and mesmerising as anyone familiar with the SDS catalogue would expect. Tim Koch’s restructuring of ‘BMX’ is masterful, rebuilt from the inside out into stunning avant-pop architecture. Jatun renders ‘Control’ as a fuzzed-out shoegaze surge, before Manual (Jonas Munk) closes the album with his remix of ‘Skeletons’, blurry and sensuous as a half-remembered dream.
“one long trip through a colorful cosmic cloud with a dreamy, mysterious flow and a lush underbelly of celestial sounds… swirling layers of enveloping orchestral harmonies and shooting stars of guitar bursts and cymbal crashes that add brilliant flairs of vaporous and heavenly ambience” – Delusions of Adequacy on Machine Is My Animal
Remixed is available as an exclusive digital release through the Hidden Shoal Store and all good third party online stores. Also be sure to check out the gorgeous music video for Tin Manzano’s remix of ‘Machine Is My Anmimal’ on YouTube or Vimeo. City of Satellites other releases can be streamed and purchased here. Read a full press release here.
City of Satellites -‘Moon In The Sea (Slow Dancing Society Remix)’
Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP – Official Release
Hidden Shoal is very excited to anounce the official release (including digital availability) of the Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP We Don’t Look Back For Very Long.
We Don’t Look Back For Very Long sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.
The EP is now availble in MP3 and lossless formats as well as a limited edition CD package. There is only a handful of the CD packages left in the store after pre-orders so you’ll need to be quick to secure one if you haven’t already. The CDs come in a hand-numbered letterpress edition of 100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith board, custom made by Ian M. Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly mastered by Wil Bolton. Included in the physical and digital packages is a printed copy of an essay on the release by acclaimed music writer Paul Morley. CD pre-orders also include an immediate digital download of the EP. If you missed out on the CD through Hidden Shoal there is limited stock available from Norman Records and Stashed Goods.
Head here for Digital and CD purchase as well as a full EP stream.
Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – ‘The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land’
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Luscious New Dream Pop from Kramies – Free Download!
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of new single ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ by Dutch-American singer-songwriter Kramies, taken from his forthcoming EP The European.
Fusing masterful songwriting with electronics and atmospherics, ‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ is an emotionally resonant vortex of swooning pop that simply demands repeat listens. Built around an absolutely heartbreaking chord progression on synthesizer, the song is carried skyward as layers and layers of instruments build and build, Kramies’ voice all the while intoning a timeless melody.
‘Coal Miners Executive Club’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store. It is taken from the forthcoming EP The European, produced by Todd Tobias (Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard) and featuring guitarist David Paolucci. The EP is released on 22 November in digital format as well as a numbered limited edition of 100 CD postcards.
[The] Caseworker Reviews and Radio Charting
[The] Caseworker’s awesome new album Letters From The Coast is recieving deserved love from press and radio following its recent release. The album is charting in the top 30 at both KJHK and Bagel Radio and has started to recieve strong airplay across other US college radio. More charting news soon!
Letters From The Coast has also received a bunch of glowing reviews and press over the last few weeks in such fabulous publications and blogs as DOA, Noise, Rave Magazine, Groovemine and The Pop! Stereo.
“Without leaning too heavily on foot pedals and production, and utilising some highly defined instrumental dynamics, Letters From The Coast has as much resonance and melodic energy as any of the bands and musicians whose work [The] Caseworker draw their influence from, and it succeeds fully as a complete album. Conor Devlin’s guitar playing can stand alongside that of Frank Black and Graham Coxon, also that of Ian McCulloch in its structured and sustained composition, making every note count and blending the country rock vibes and swirling powerchordage into new and kaliedoscopic shapes. Anyone whose album colllection is incomplete without Ocean Rain, Grand Prix and Park Life will find an equally prominent space in it for this twelve track masterpiece.” – DOA
Head to the HSR Store to download the single ‘National Runner’ for free and to buy the album on CD or in digital format!
[Th]e Caseworker – ‘Boats’
City of Satellites Remixed by Tin Manzano – Free Download and Music Video
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of single ‘Machine Is My Animal (Tin Manzano remix)’, taken from the forthcoming album Remixed by dreampop/shoegaze trio City Of Satellites, and its stunning accompanying video. Tin Manzano’s re-working of the title track from City Of Satellites’ debut album Machine Is My Animal weaves and loops the original’s guitar hook amid electronic beats and surging, breathy textures. The result is a gorgeously seductive instrumental, in which restraint and space are as alluring as the sounds blooming across the stereo field. The track is accompanied by a gorgeous music video from Adelaide-based Studio Sunkie (director Nima Nabilirad and producer/colourist/editor Daniel Principe). The emotional resonance between sound and vision is completely compelling and the video’s mini-narrative is saturated in the kind of melancholic hope that the song exudes.
The track is taken from the forthcoming album Remixed, a digital exclusive released on 27 October. Remixed sees tracks from City Of Satellites’ debut EP The Spook and album Machine Is My Animal receive the remix treatment from Manual, Syntaks, Tim Koch, Slow Dancing Society, Jatun, Tin Manzano and M-13. Download the track for free here and watch the video in full HD at Youtube and Vimeo. Check out a full press release here.
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Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP – Pre-Order Now!
Hidden Shoal is very excited to be able to offer pre-orders for the limited edition CD release of the Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society EP We Don’t Look Back For Very Long. Do get in quick though as we only have 60 of the available 100 units in our store. The remaining 40 will be available from Norman Records and Stashed Goods in the coming weeks.
We Don’t Look Back For Very Long sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.
We Don’t Look Back For Very Long comes as a limited hand-numbered letterpress edition of 100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith board, custom made by Ian M. Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly mastered by Wil Bolton. Included is a printed copy of an essay on the release by acclaimed music writer Paul Morley. CD pre-orders also include an immediate digital download of the EP. Orders will start shipping on the 14th of October. The digital release of the EP will be available from the 20th of October.
Pre-order and stream the EP here.
Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society – ‘The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land’
Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society Pre-Order Update
Just a quick update on the upcoming availability of pre-orders for We Don’t Look Back For Very Long. Firstly we are very excited to announce that each CD package will include a printed copy of an absolutely beautiful essay on the EP by the wonderful Paul Morley. The CD release comes as a limited hand-numbered letterpress edition of 100 on beautiful 700gsm GF Smith board, custom made by Ian M. Hazeldine (AKA Antonymes) and expertly mastered by Wil Bolton. CD Pre-orders will also include an immediate digital download of the EP (15 days ahead of the official release).
Now for some important info – we will be making pre-orders available on the 5th of October and we will be mailing out to the Hidden Shoal subscribers list before the public anouncement. So if you want to make sure you get yourself a copy then make sure you’re a subscriber. It’ll be tight as we have 60 of the available 100 units available via the store. We’ll give you a heads up on the other 40 after pre-orders have taken place.
If you have no idea as to what we’re talking about then read the following and listen to the SoundCloud stream below. We Don’t Look Back For Very Long sees Antonymes reworking a track from each of fellow Hidden Shoal artist Slow Dancing Society’s four albums, casting radiant new light on the stunning originals. Across almost 30 minutes, Antonymes marries SDS’s glistening atmospheres to his own trademark ambient neo-classical minimalism, creating a completely mesmerising hybrid.
Stream the first track from the album, ‘The Grey Sea And The Long Black Land’, below.
"Twins and Wives: a film for One River" – Available for Streaming Now!
The stunning album length film by Mark Solter and Laura Solter to accompany Scott Solter’s re-issued glacial ambient masterpiece One River is now available for streaming at YouTube and Vimeo in its 33+ minutes full HD glory. The film comprises 7 visual movements echoing and expanding upon the 7 movements that make up One River. It truly is a beautiful visual spectacle.
“Twins and Wives” will see a limited edition DVD release in the coming months.The One River album is available now on CD and digitally worldwide, through Hidden Shoal Recordings. Head to the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability details.
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Apricot Rail Supporting Akron/Family
Instrumental-pop wizards Apricot Rail are supporting experimental rock geniuses Akron/Family on their ‘Cosmic Birth Tour’ this coming Tuesday at Mojos Bar in Fremantle. Akron/Family are touring on the back of their latest release S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, while Apricot Rail have recently released ‘Surry Hills‘, an enchanting new single ahead of their sophomore album due next year. Tickets are available here and doors open 8pm. Enjoy!