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Jan 30, 2015 |
We’re excited to welcome the wonderful Willem Gator (aka Giuseppe Musmeci) to the Hidden Shoal family. Willem Gator creates a unique blend of downtempo beats, fat basslines and a multitude of oriental and orchestral instruments. Musmeci is a self-taught...
Jan 29, 2015 |
We’re excited to present the stunning new 3D animated music video for Involved‘s ‘Radiation Leak’, taken from their 2014 debut Revolving Maze. The video, created by Hidden Shoal’s Cam Merton, is a brooding sci-fi film noir set piece featuring ghostly silhouettes...
Jan 28, 2015 |
Slow Dancing Society has become an institution in the ambient scene, with each successive album holding true to a core sound while gracefully evolving. Drew Sullivan’s releases are neither by-the-book ambient nor exercises in structuralism, rather music that is...
Jan 23, 2015 |
The ever wonderful Ian Hazeldine, aka Antonymes, steps up to the plate and presents the next installment in our MixTape series. Those who follow the work of Hazeldine will know his work under the Antonymes moniker is as much about timing as it is about texture and...
Jan 23, 2015 |
One of our favourite blogs, Misfit City, has just posted a wonderful, sprawling wrap up of 2014. It features some fantastic music (live and recorded), including a healthy dose of love for Hidden Shoal and its artists. Here’s a snippet, “Hidden Shoal...
Jan 21, 2015 |
Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the signing of the awesome French outfit Les Limbes. Born from the ashes of a number of previously active bands from Bordeaux, south west France (Beautiful Lunar Landscape, Nihil, Nucold), Les Limbes build on their heritage and...
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Jan 19, 2015 |
“Todd Tobias, best known for his time and work with Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices, recently released Impossible Cities, and now he offers a tasty new track, “Kur,” for free download. The song trudges at a steady pace with heavy drums and raging guitar while...
Jan 19, 2015 |
“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,...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“This is the fifth solo album from former guitarist for The Unemployed Ministers, Markus Mehr. Across the eight tracks, the German experimental artist covers all manner of strange and confronting sounds while maintaining an underlying ambiance throughout. There...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“North to Augsburg in Germany, and Markus Mehr moved his singular vision on another notch by exploring what you might call the personal soundscapes around each of us. This track is a great example. Machine whirr. Grinding industrial ebb and flo. Lush piano...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“A gorgeous chamber piano miniature with shades of Ryuichi Sakamoto, another singular Hidden Shoal release last year. It’s dreamy (as you might expect with a title like that), rich, luxurious even like the lyric near the end. That piano basically, I...
Jan 15, 2015 |
“Brilliantly coiled and deceptively low key psych folk beast by Todd Tobias and Steve Five from their album Positive Haywires. I particularly love the way this song feels like it’s about to fall apart around the midpoint. It holds its shit together but the...
