Hidden Shoal News
New Todd Tobias Single and Video (feat. Chloe March)
We’re excited to present the first single and accompanying music video from Gila Man, the new album by American instrumental soundscaper Todd Tobias. The breezily meditative ‘Pollen Path’ shimmers with acoustic fingerpicking and Chloë March’s celestial voice. Along with it’s accompanying music video by Hidden Shoal’s Cam Merton it provides the perfect intro to Gila Man‘s psychedelic sci-fi western landscape.
‘Pollen Path’ is available as a free download from Todd Tobias’s Bandcamp as well as streaming on SoundCloud. Head to YouTube to watch the accompanying music video. Gila Man is available for CD pre-order via Tiny Room Records (Europe/UK/Australia) and via Todd Tobias (USA). More on Todd Tobias here.
Antonymes Mix Commisioned for BBC Radio Wales
Last saturday night Ian Hazeldine’s (aka Antonymes) mix commissioned for BBC Radio Wales was broadcast on Adam Walton’s show. Adam broadcast an extended show from Festival No.6 in Portmeirion, North Wales.
Check out Adam’s wonderful intro to the mix, entitled Twelve Thoughts (Fifty Four Years),
“Now here on BBC Radio Wales for the next hour we move to a brand new mix from Antonymes AKA Ian M Hazeldine from Hawarden in North Wales. Gladstone country. Ian’s music defies any easy categorisation. It’s experimental, but accessible, contemporary classical without being opaque pretentious and minimal without being whispy and insubstantial. It’s organically textural, but still, honestly, hummable.
Antonymes extensive back catalogue is a reflection of the human psyche and it’s contemplation of all the big themes: love, death, sanity and beauty in all of their complexities, and I can’t recommend that back catalogue highly enough.
I suspect that the next hour celebrating some of the artists that shaped works like Antonymes’ truly remarkable “(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly” album, interweaved with some of Ian’s own music, will be one of the most beautiful, unsettling and transportive that will be broadcast anywhere in the UK in 2016, and I’m deadly serious. I’m not just talking it up for a fact.
So, now, over to you Antonymes…”
Listen, enjoy, share and buy music by these incredible artists via the MixCloud restream.
Joe Sampson, Craig Hallsworth, Todd Tobias on Sonofmarketing Compilations
Our friends at the excellent music zine Sonofmarketing have put together their annual new music compilations and we’re lucky enough to have three of our artists featured! The My Awesome Preview 3.0 compilations for 2016 feature new and forthcoming releases dropping over the next three months.
My Awesome Preview 3.0 Vol. 1 features the first taste of the new Todd Tobias album, Gila Man (18th Oct). The track ‘Pollen Path’ features the gorgeous vocals of Chloe March and drops next week along with it’s accompanying music video. My Awesome Preview 3.0 Vol. 3 features the new single from Joe Sampson, ‘My Love’, from his brilliant soon to be released EP Songs of Delay (12th Sept). My Awesome Preview 3.0 Vol. 3 also includes the soon to be released first single, ‘We’re Too Far Away (My Other Future, My Other Youth)’, from Craig Hallsworth‘s new album What’s The Story With This Hole? (24th Oct).
New Craig Hallsworth Solo Album Out Late October
We’re excited to announce that the inimitable Craig Hallsworth (Tangled Star, The Slow Beings, The Bamboos, The Healers and beyond) will release his debut solo album, What’s The Story With This Hole?, via Hidden Shoal on October 24th. With over 30 years of songwriting experience under his belt, Craig Hallsworth makes What’s The Story With This Hole? feel effortless yet boundless. Recorded and produced with long-time collaborator Al Smith (DrAlienSmith, Bergerk Studios), the album represents the most musically developed and fully realised recording the pair have delivered to date. The first single from the album, ‘We’re Too Far Away (My Other Future, My Other Youth)’, drops on the 13th of September.
Joe Sampson and Nathaniel Rateliff Perform ‘Songbird’ (Video)
It’s a little less than three weeks until Joe Sampson‘s beautiful new EP drops and we’ve shared the first single, ‘My Love‘, from Songs of Delay and now it’s time to share some more! This time it’s an extra special treat as we have a fantastic, intimate video of Joe performing the lead track, ‘Songbird’, with the imminently talented Nathaniel Rateliff (who also provides vocals on the recorded version). Nathaniel should need no introduction but in case you’ve been living in a cupboard these last few years, he fronts the chart busting outfit Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats.
Check out the video for ‘Songbird’ over at YouTube ahead of the release of Joe Sampson’s Songs of Delay on the 12th of September.
Memorybell’s “Obsolete” Live Album Launch
Memorybell‘s stunning Obsolete will be officially launched next week (1st September) at Syntax Physic Opera, Denver, Colorado. Anyone in or near Denver must get down to this. Head to the event’s Facebook page for more detail.
Here’s the official word from Syntax,
Classically-trained pianist Grant Outerbridge of the late, great Denver band The Very Hush Hush performs Memorybell’s debut album “Obsolete’ in it’s entirety. Helicopter Copter’s sublime “Whisper Down the Lane” will be screened beforehand. It will be an evening of ambient instrumentalism, great food and drinks, and made all the better if you come help celebrate.
Read more about Memorybell and stream/buy Obsolete here.
New Slow Dancing Society Album Out Now!
Hidden Shoal is excited to announce the official release of The Wagers Of Love And Their Songs From The Witching Hour, the stunning new album from American atmospherist Slow Dancing Society.
On his seventh full-length release as Slow Dancing Society, Drew Sullivan’s sound continues to evolve. This 19-track epic meshes the warm, rich SDS sound with a new set of textures, bringing these musical snapshots into vivid definition. Trumpet and saxophone nestle amidst lyrical guitar lines, pulsing rhythms and expansive synths, creating an immersive and melancholy listen, tempered with rays of hope.
Sullivan’s work is as cinematic as ever, yet here he’s scoring a more personal film. Profoundly influenced by Sullivan’s experience of becoming a father for the first time, the album took shape around the creation of single ‘The Color of Despair’. The track distilled his anxieties about his new life and responsibilities, and became ground zero for the album’s sound and production, with many other songs on the album evolving out of its instrumentation and feel. The ambient lyricism present here is a testament to the narrative possibilities of instrumental music, resulting in a strikingly complete-sounding album.
The Wagers Of Love And Their Songs From The Witching Hour is available now via iTunes and BandCamp. The first single from the album, ‘The Color of Despair’ is also available as a stream and free download. The full Slow Dancing Society catalogue is also available for licensing across film, tv, games and compilation so please contact us if you’re working on a project and you need that luscious, warm SDS sound then please do contact us.
Antonymes Wins Award For “Breathless” Soundtrack
The utterly beautiful short film Breathless, featuring the music of our very own Antonymes, recently won the award for Best Background Music at the Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival! Breathless also took out the award for Best Cinematography at the festival so congrats to the team all round. We’re excited to share the film with you once the film has finished the festival circuit.
In the meantime be sure to check out Antonymes latest works here.
Antonymes Featured on New Le café abstrait Compilation
The gorgeous Antonyme‘s track ‘La fin de tout’ has been featured on the new Le café abstrait, curated by Raphaël Marionneau. Volume 11 in the Le café abstrait series is available digitally via iTunes and in digital and CD formats via Amazon.
‘La fin de tout’ is originally lifted from Antonymes’ debut album, Beauty Becomes The Enemy Of The Future. Be sure to check it out along with the rest of Antonymes’s amazing catalogue of works. All works are also available for licensing (film, tv, games, compilation) so please do contact us if you have any projects you’d like to talk to us about.
Kramies Covers Jane’s Addiction on New French Comp
The ever wonderful Kramies has contributed a fantastic, haunting cover version of Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Summertime Rolls’ to the latest volume of French webzine À Découvrir Absolument’s series of compilations. The original, from 1988’s Nothing Shocking, was already a pretty sparse and spacious track, lending itself beautifully to Kramies’ beatless, weightless interpretation for voice, acoustic guitar and synth.
Check out the compilation here and stream the track on YouTube.
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