Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of Triangulating Nature , volume 7 in their free sampler album series, released as part of the label's sixth birthday celebrations. The album is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store . Triangulating Nature brings together 12 singles from the last 12 months of Hidden Shoal releases – plus an excerpt from 'Komo', one of the two epic tracks on Markus Mehr 's In . There's the dreamy garage pop [...]
Throughout the month of May 2012, Hidden Shoal Recordings is celebrating its sixth birthday. Later in the month will be the release of the latest free sampler album, Triangulating Nature , which compiles 12 singles released over the last 12 months. Other delicious surprises will be revealed in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more info. Since starting up in Perth, Western Australia in 2006, Hidden Shoal has developed an enviable roster of genre-defying global and local recording artists. With 40+ acts from 10+ different countries, ranging from British ambient artist Antonymes through to American [...]
If you've not already discovered the Hidden Shoal blog we've been running right next door to this very site then come on over and check it out ! Interviews with the likes of Scott Solter, track by track album expositions by Salli Lunn and Jonas Munk, top 5 lists from The Caseworker, featured tracks, cd giveaways and general good times all around. Enjoy!
2011 is almost over and 2012 is knocking on the door like a life insurance salesman at the apocalypse (I'll work on that one). To end the year with some lovin and fantastic music we are having a huge sale over at the Hidden Shoal Store. Over 20 CD & digital releases have been reduced from artists such as Slow Dancing Society, Sankt Otten, City of Satellites, Apricot Rail, Umpire, Wes Willenbring, Hotels, Rich Bennett, Liam Singer and Salli Lunn to name but a few. All CD purchases include free shipping and an immediate mp3 album download and [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the re-release and of the glacial ambient masterpiece One River by acclaimed US producer Scott Solter . First released on Tell-All Records in 2005, One River sees Solter exploring the space between Brian Eno's seminal Music For Airports and William Basinski's contemporary classic The Disintegration Loops . The music sighs and aches beautifully, gradually transforming with subtlety and grace, lulling the listener into blissful reverie. Solter has produced, recorded, mixed and remixed numerous [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of 'Mirror Girl (Scott Solter Remix)' , taken from the forthcoming album A Frame of Reference by Danish spectral noise-rock quartet Salli Lunn. In-demand producer, musician and remixer extraordinaire Scott Solter, well known for working with bands as diverse as Superchunk, St Vincent, Neon Indian, Pattern is Movement and Boxharp , has worked his magic with Salli Lunn's 'Mirror Girl'. Solter's remix pares back the original's spidery postpunk guitars to bring a lurching industrial rhythm section to the fore. [...]
We're pleased to announce that a range of Hidden Shoal CD releases are now available for online purchase by Australian customers directly through the Hidden Shoal store . Even better all CD purchases include an immediate MP3 download of the release and shipping is free! Currently available titles include CD's by Umpire, Wes Willenbring, Slow Dancing Society, Markus Mehr, Liam Singer, Iretsu, Sankt Otten, Salli Lunn, My Majestic Star, Mukaizake, Jumpel, City of Satellites, Boxharp, Apricot Rail and Antonymes with more added soon. Be quick as we're getting very near sold out status for a number of [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings is excited to announce the release of the new freely downloadable single 'Words Make the Master' by Brooklyn-based chamber-pop experimentalist Liam Singer. 'Words Make the Master' contains all the ingredients that make Liam Singer's music so utterly beautiful and unique. Singer's melancholic piano and vocal interweave with the heavenly backing vocals of Boxharp's Wendy Allen. The gently interlocking parts create a deliciously lulling atmosphere for the first half, before the song heightens in intensity and canters towards a rousing [...]
Head over to the wonderful Headphone Commute and check out this exclusive Hidden Shoal mix. The mix features 16 tracks lovingly curated and sequenced from the Hidden Shoal catalogue by the label's manager Cam Merton. Stream, download, enjoy !
To coincide with the label's 5th birthday celebrations, Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of the latest installment in its free downloadable sampler album series. Hydrozoa compiles 18 singles released over the last 18 months and lovingly sequences them into an epic journey. The album is divided into two sides, each a distinct listening experience in its own right - or, if you choose to digest the album in its entirety, it's a graduated ride from the ambient and minimal all the way through to the widescreen and [...]
Throughout the month of May 2011, Hidden Shoal Recordings is celebrating its fifth birthday. The celebrations kick off on Friday 6 May with the release of its latest free sampler album, Hydrozoa , which compiles 18 singles released over the last 18 months. Other delicious surprises will be revealed in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more info. Since starting up in Perth, Western Australia in 2006, Hidden Shoal has developed an enviable roster of genre-defying global and local recording artists. With 40+ acts from 10+ different countries ranging [...]
Excerpt: "Boxharp is singer/songwriter Wendy Allen and producer/engineer Scott Solter. It is also a dulcimer style harp that frequently appears in the band's intriguing mix of modern beats, Celtic/Appalachian folk, and antique musical renderings. Like other artists that have married unusual musical genres, such as Afro Celt Sound System's West African-Celtic melange, Boxharp deftly mixes ghostly vocals with warm, ambient tones. Wendy and Scott meander through Burl Ives, poet Vachel Lindsay, and dive back to 1733 for the Leatherwing Bat (also known as The Bird's Courting Song). The ghost of Sandy Denny also seems to flit [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of 'The Brief Encounter', the second song to be lifted from critically acclaimed album Dislocatia by Brooklyn-based chamber-pop experimentalist Liam Singer . Swooningly beautiful and instantly memorable, 'The Brief Encounter' distils the magic of Liam Singer's music into two minutes of transportive storytelling. Featuring the angelic backing vocals of Boxharp 's Wendy Allen and a children's choir, the song's piano line canters along while Liam's tremulous vocals dance with an aching violin. By the time [...]
Boxharp 's undeniably stunning full length The Green has been chosen as one of the years best by the US radio broadcast (its so much more than a show) Echoes . Echoes is regarded as an institution in radio bringing together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, avant-garde to rock. The Green took up number 18 on Echoes Top 25 of 2010 keeping company which artists such as Hammock, The Album Leaf, Robert Rich, Jonsi and Manual. Check out [...]
Boxharp's The Green recently soaked up the number 42 spot on the KZSU Charts. Grab the album on CD or digital via the HSR Store here , and while you're at it take a listen to the gorgeous title track below. Boxharp - The Green Boxharp - The Green
More video magic for Boxharp as filmmakers Mark Solter and Laura Solter team up for another beautiful video accompaniment to a track from Boxharp's Loam Arcane EP. This time around its the dizzying astral acid electronic pop that is 'FanFin' that gets the Solter + Solter visual treatment. Mark Solter (brother of Boxharp's Scott Solter) also created the recently released music video for Boxharp's
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bardo Pond : "Don't Know About You" [mp3] from Bardo Pond (out January 11th) search for more Bardo Pond posts at Largehearted Boy Black Whales : "Rattle Your Bones" [mp3] from [...]
More video magic for Boxharp as filmmakers Mark Solter and Laura Solter team up for another beautiful video accompaniment to a track from Boxharp's Loam Arcane EP. This time around its the dizzying astral acid electronic pop that is 'FanFin' that gets the Solter + Solter visual treatment. Mark Solter (brother of Boxharp's Scott Solter) also created the recently released music video for Boxharp's ' Rainbirds ' . The hallucinogenic pop of 'FanFin' ricochets with disorientating beats and refracted vocal melodies as if some [...]
The Solter brothers ride again! Hidden Shoal is excited to share this stunning new music video by Mark Solter for Scott Solter 's remix of The Caribbean 's 'Populations'. In 2009 American folk-pop deconstructionists The Caribbean teamed up with engineer, producer, mixologist (Superchunk, Spoon, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats) and one half of Boxharp Scott Solter to bring you Scott Solter Re-Populates The Caribbean , released through Hidden Shoal. The EP comprises five tracks from The Caribbean's 2007 Hometapes record Populations , which were sent to Solter to deconstruct, [...]
Following on from their wonderful interview on Echoes , Boxharp's The Green has just been placed at 12 on the Echoes Top 25 chart for October . Also for those who missed out on catching the interview we'll be putting up for you to re-stream courtesy of the lovely John Diliberto and Echoes. Link coming soon! Check out Boxharp's Loam Arcane EP and The Green at the Hidden Shoal Store (full albums streams). Boxharp - The Postcard Boxharp [...]
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