Hidden Shoal News
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’.
Love for Chloe March’s ‘Winter Deep’
Ahead of the re-release of Chloë March‘s stunning full length Nights Bright Days, the first single lifted from the album has been getting love out there across the interweb. ‘Winter Deep’ just scored a place on the latest Fresh Faves list at BBC’s Tom Robinsons’s Fresh On The Net blog. The track also got song of the day at the Guthoerenistwichtig blog as well as a lovely write up over at The Modern Folk Music of America. Here’s a taste,
“Subtle and understated is a good thing although it often takes a few listens to let the music seep in and reveal itself. Which is exactly what Chloe March‘s Winter Deep does. It got a shimmery timeless quality and is possibly not one for death metal fans on a sugar rush. However, it does sound rather like the perfect accompaniment to a cup of cocoa on a chilly winter’s night.” – Fresh on the Net
Grab your free download of the single at Bandcamp or stream the track below via SoundCloud. Nights Bright Days drops on the 4th of November and comes with a bonus EP of previously un-released tracks.
Lövmark’s Remix of Antonymes ‘Doubt’ Featured Track at RTRFM
The beautiful remix by Lövmark of Antonymes ‘Doubt’ taken from the just released EP Deconstruction Manual is one this week’s featured tracks over at the ever wonderful RTRFM. Read more about the EP including free download info here.
Kryshe Review at Music Won’t Save You
Kryshe‘s stunning new mini-album In Between has just scooped a glowing review over at Italy’s Music Won’t Save You. Here’s a taste, even if poorly translated from the original Italian,
“The five songs from “In Between” keep faith to the message evoked through it’s title, by distilling the environmental vision of Grothe, firmly anchored to the classics of the genre but updated by its considerable highly imaginative capacity, through which the German artist draws sonic postcards on resonating piano notes…” – Music Won’t Save You
Read more about Kryshe and stream and download In Between here.
New Chloe March Single – Stream + Download + Video
We have a stunning new single and accompanying music video for you from the forthcoming re-release of Nights Bright Days by Chloë March. ‘Winter Deep’ is a shimmering waltz that opens the album with weightless grace and is a perfect introduction to the delicate and intoxicating music within.
Four years in the making and originally self-released in 2013, Nights Bright Days is a cycle of songs as dreams, imbued with imagery of darkness and light, night and day. The album embraces elements of jazz, classical, folk and dream-pop, and features guest musicians on bass clarinet, soprano sax, French horn and guitar. The Hidden Shoal re-release also includes a bonus digital EP with six previously un-released tracks and will drop on the 4th of November.
Head to BandCamp to grab a free download of ‘Winter Deep’, stream it at SoundCloud and check out the music video at Youtube and Vimeo. read more about Chloë March here.
Wonderful Review of Kryshe’s “In Between” at Igloo Magazine
Kryshe‘s beautiful new EP In Between has just scooped a fantastic review at the always excellent Igloo Magazine. Here’s a tast of what they had to say,
“The music conjures up nocturnal urban panorama, but at the same time you feel like you’re in the studio with Grothe. He shifts so effortlessly from ethereal and hopeful to melancholic and contemplative, and the other way round, interweaving all into dynamic wholes full of sweet wistfulness and tension.” – Igloo Magazine
If you’ve not yet experienced In Between then you’re in for a treat. Head to Kryshe’s Bandcamp to stream and purchase.
Glowing Brother Earth Reviews
We’ve just had some fantastic reviews land for Brother Earth‘s sublime new album Positive Haywires. Tomatrax and Velvet Independent have both weighed in on the albums goodness and Luna Kafe recently loved up the single ‘Out Like a Lion’. Here’s a taste,
“This is a very brave release with a large range of ideas crammed into one album, however it is pulled off with dynamic flair. On top of the wierd and wonderful twists and turns is a beautiful journey with vivid soundscapes and a breathtaking spacey atmosphere!” – Tomatrax
” I – the listener – feel like a little lamb, eyeballing the big lion circling me while I’m standing in the middle of the green grass field. I’m terrified, yet I can’t wait to see what happens next. Strange feeling. Yes. It’s intense, spine-chilling, creepy, but, yet I simply have to know what’s up next… Cool, right? Cool song” – Luna Kafe
Head to Brother Earth’s Bandcamp and get yourself a copy of this wild and wonderful album.
“Deconstruction Manual” – Hidden Shoal Remix EP featuring Antonymes and Slow Dancing Society
Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of the new EP Deconstruction Manual featuring remixes of Hidden Shoal artists by Murdoch University Sound students. The EP is available as a free download via Hidden Shoal’s Bandcamp. Download the full press release here.
On Deconstruction Manual, three students of Perth’s Murdoch University have taken the work of Hidden Shoal artists and subjected it to deconstruction, manipulation and glorious reinterpretation. The project is an ongoing collaboration between Hidden Shoal and the Murdoch University Sound Program, and the three remixes collected on this EP represent some of the diverse, innovative work produced by students of the course. Dr Simon Order, Chair of the Murdoch Sound Program, says of the project “Remix is such a powerful activity which fires up the imagination. These fabulous tracks bear witness to the creative energy of Murdoch Sound students.”
Skybreaker’s remix of Slow Dancing Society’s ‘I’ll Leave A Light On’ throws the original into an industrial thresher, transforming its calming piano and nylon-string guitar into a juddering nightmare of synths and snarl. Karl Ockelford’s ‘Greylands’ renders source audio from Antonymes, Boxharp, Gilded and Salli Lunn into an expansive, glowering horizon of drones, strings and distortion. Finally, Lövmark’s reworking of Antonymes’ ‘Doubt’ immerses Jan Van Den Broek’s monologue within patient, melodically rich minimal electronica.
Skybreaker is the moniker of Hadyn Lander, a versatile multi-instrumentalist and game designer whose influences range wildly from ’60s jazz-rock to modern electronica. Karl Ockelford is a musician and visual artist who has been working in and around the Perth experimental music scene for the past 15 years as part of Sub Ordnance and Abe Sada, and also releases music under the moniker Reluctant Carnivore. Lövmark is an electronic music producer hailing from Northern Sweden, now based in Fremantle, whose influences range from heavy metal to down-tempo bass music.
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