Hidden Shoal News
Chloe March Featured on BBC6
The stunning single, ‘Winter Deep‘, from the forthcoming re-release of Chloë March‘s Nights Bright Days has just been featured on the BBC6 radio show Tom Robinson Introducing. The episode is available for download for the next 30 days from the BBC6 website plus you can read more about Chloë’s track along with the other featured artists at Tom Robinsons blog.
Nights Bright Days and it’s companion bonus EP drops next week on the 4th of November so be sure to keep your ears and eyes out!
Todd Tobias “Impossible Cities” Out Now!
Good times for lovers of dark, psychedelic instrumental rock – Todd Tobias‘s new album Impossible Cities, and it’s free companion EP Impossible Cities 2, is now available. The album is available digitally and on CD in USA and Canada through Hidden Shoal and Todd Tobias. The CD is also available in Europe and all other territories via the wonderful Tiny Room Records.
“Notably on Smazbaal, the notion of these corrupted hallucinations is inescapable. Paranoia becomes deeply settled, as this near five-minute track creates an uncomfortable nostalgia to classic horror, where nothing is over-processed, and each moment of terror is carefully planned rather than regularly followed. It’s an uncomfortable, sadistic piece, but equally intoxicating at the same time.” – Velvet Independent
Impossible Cities is the latest visionary chapter in Todd Tobias’s ongoing exploration of rock’s darkest and most hypnotic realms. Inspired by the Ital Calvino book Invisible Cities, each track is named after an imaginary city, from the glistening exoticism of ‘Lamura’ via the seething murk of ‘Gorgum Reeth’ and ‘Smazbaal’ to the eerie, shimmering grandeur of ‘Akrova’, Tobias’s latest musical universe is vividly rendered, scary, beautiful and utterly immersive. The album comes with the companion mini-album Impossible Cities 2, which comprises 10 haunting vignettes.
Makee Scoops Featured Track at RTR, Kramies at Froggy Delight
Quick double barreled news blast for you. Kramies‘ campaign to free The Wooden Heart EP continues. Along with being available via Kramies Bandcamp for free download the EP is now also directly downloadable from the lovely French zine Froggy’s Delights.
Now onto some news for Perth-based Makee – his new single has just been chosen as one of RTRFM’s tracks of the week via their Sound Selection feature. Be sure to grab the track, watch the music video and wait for his self-title debut EP to drop on the 19th of November.
Makee ‘bail’ Single and Music Video
We have some sonic and visual delights for you today in the form of the beautiful debut single from Makee and its luscious accompanying music video. ‘bail’ is the first track from Perth-based Makee’s forthcoming self-titled debut EP, out November 19th. Grab the single at Bandcamp, stream it at Soundcloud and check out the video at YouTube and Vimeo.
Makee’s bright-eyed, beat-driven tracks are as danceable as they are atmospheric and build to create a thoroughly rewarding sonic whole. His debut self-titled EP, self-described as “looped samples of atmospheric nostalgia”, stretches luxuriously across seemingly disparate genres. The fog-laden disco of ‘Bail’ is shot through with a beatific vibe; ‘Stez’ surges relentlessly on motorik rhythms; ‘Tone’ burns with ecstatic, sun-blind intensity; ‘Wake’ is infused with Caribou-esque psychedelia; and finale ‘Bord’ takes a leap into the void with the fervour of prime kosmische that’s been mollified by shoegaze.
Enjoy the single and video and keep your ears peeled for the EP in November!
Kramies Interviewed at Pop, Cultures & Co.
Check out this wonderful interview with Kramies at the French mag Pop, Cultures & Co. The interview comes just after the announcement of Kramies’ The Wooden Heart being made available as a free download. Read, listen and enjoy!
Kramies “The Wooden Heart” Available As Free Download
One year and a few days ago we released the stunning EP The Wooden Heart by the inimitable Kramies in collaboration with the wonderful Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) and production genius from Todd Tobias. The EP gained critical success and rave reviews following its release and still to this day manages to find new fans in the press and in the music listening public. To celebrate the anniversary of the release of The Wooden Heart Kramies is giving the EP away as a free download via Bandcamp. If you have not yet fallen to its charms then there is no excuse not to now. If we need to coerce you with some press then how about,
“It’s rare to find dream-pop that resolves with such assured optimism, in which you can sense experience shifting into its proper place… Kramies seems to have mastered the talent of simply breathing it into shape” – Misfit City
Download The Wooden Heart here and check out more about Kramies and his releases here.
Kryshe’s “Growing” Album Joins the Hidden Shoal Catalogue
Before his stunning new mini-album In Between, Christian Grothe, aka Kryshe, released the gorgeous album Growing. Hidden Shoal is excited to now have this beautiful work join its publishing catalogue. Growing is a 40 minute live improvisation in 3 sections, recorded in the Summer of 2013. As demonstrated on In Between, Grothe has a sublime understanding of space and tone. Growing is a delicate, hovering soundworld, pulsing with life yet never leaving a trace of its creator’s presence.
The album, along with In Between, is available via Kryshe’s Bandcamp with all tracks available for licensing (master & sync cleared). Don’t hesitate to contact us with any licensing enquiries.
Makee Signs to Hidden Shoal
A fantastic announcement to end the week – Perth based artist Daniel Cavalli, aka Makee, has signed to Hidden Shoal. His self-titled debut EP will be released on the 19th of November with a single and music video dropping next week (23 Oct). Makee’s new EP will also join our licensing and publishing catalogue. We see many a visual sync for these wonderful tracks!
Makee’s bright-eyed, beat-driven tracks, as danceable as they are atmospheric, build to create a thoroughly rewarding sonic whole. His debut self-titled EP, self-described as “looped samples of atmospheric nostalgia”, spreads itself across beatific disco, ecstatic electronica, and shoegazing kosmische. The EP follows on from Makee’s first foray through Hidden Shoal, the wonderful remix of [The] Caseworker’s ‘Hold On To The Road’.
Read more at Makee’s artist profile and keep your ears and eyes out next week for the new single and video.
New Elisa Luu Single & Forthcoming EP
We’re excited to share the beautiful new single ‘Shebeen’ from Italian ambient electronica artist Elisa Luu. The track is lifted from the forthcoming EP Enchanting Gaze which will be released through La bel netlabel in collaboration with Hidden Shoal on the 3rd of November. Grab the free download of ‘Shebeen’ here.
On Enchanting Gaze, Elisa Luu’s shimmering tones and deftly handled rhythms are manipulated into breathtaking new shapes. On tracks such as ‘Bro’, expansive synths paint wondrous starscapes, while the gritty ‘B.P.M.’ chases beats and growing drones through dark city streets. Enchanting Gaze manages to beautifully balance its cosmic/terrestrial duality throughout its six tracks, making it a wonderful progression in the Elisa Luu discography.
Markus Mehr’s “Binary Rooms” Now Available
We’re excited to announce that the brilliant new album Binary Rooms from German experimentalist Markus Mehr is now officially available. The album is available in all digital formats and as a limited edition CD. Head here to stream and purchase. Binary Rooms is now also part of the Hidden Shoal licensing catalogue, ready to be paired with suitably complex and engaging film and tv projects.
Mehr’s work has seen a subtle shift in scale across his five studio albums. From the widescreen cosmic vistas of Lava to some of the more intimate moments of his 42-minute single-track opus Off, Mehr has now come to examine the most challenging space yet – that of our everyday lives and the spatial narratives that surround us. Mehr’s music has always possessed a keen sense of and negotiation with scale, and on Binary Rooms he challenges notions of personal space, juxtaposing the human against the industrial, the gentle and intimate against the jolting and harsh. Mehr acts as a fragment hunter, meshing machine-like tones with the discarded elements of humanity; narrative with anti-narrative. On Binary Rooms he manages to create a spatial remix – a striking re-design of aural reality filled with a living, digital biology.
Stream the album track, ‘Buoy’, below and be sure to check out the stunning music video by experimental filmmaker and Markus Mehr collaborator Stefanie Sixt for the track ‘Gymnasium/Swarms’.
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