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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 [...]

As part of our 5th birthday celebrations, we'll be looking back at the history of Hidden Shoal, year by year, casting some light on artists and releases that may have been overlooked. For one week, all releases covered below will be available from the Hidden Shoal Store with a 30% discount. Flavoursome! In 2009, Hidden Shoal continued to release stunning music from around the world, including debut Hidden Shoal albums from Hotels, HC-B, Tarcutta, Sleeping Me, City Of Satellites and Elisa Luu, sophomore albums from Jumpel and Wes Willenbring, a third album from Sankt [...]

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 !

As part of our 5th birthday celebrations , during the month of May we'll be looking back at the history of Hidden Shoal, year by year, casting some light on artists and releases that may have been overlooked. For one week, all releases covered below will be available from the Hidden Shoal Store with a 40% discount. Flavoursome! In 2007, Hidden Shoal pushed onward with a ridiculously full release schedule and tons of new signings. The label continued its expansion internationally with 2007 seeing releases from a diverse and beautiful spectrum [...]

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 [...]

We've just started playing with 8tracks in the hope of getting regular mixes published for your listening pleasure. We'll test the platform out a little more and if it feels good then expect more of these to come. Here's something gentle and exploratory to start the show.

We're thrilled to see Markus Mehr 's Lava featured on Headphone Commute 's ' best of 2010 ', and also pleasantly surprised to see Wes Willenbring 's album from 2009, Close, But Not Too Close , featured on their round-up as part of ' 2009's 20 Overlooked Albums ' list. Great to see Wes and Markus rubbing shoulders with some really great artists and labels two years in a row! Thanks to the marvellous Headphone Commute site for the inclusions. Markus Mehr [...]

A special mix by Wes Willenbring will be featured on the always excellent Fluid Radio on the 8th of May (just a few sleeps!). As always the schedule at Fluid is full of amazing music so be to sure the check out all details for this month here . Meanwhile Willenbring's latest masterpiece Close, But Not To Close continues to receive US radio love. This time WVKR 's wonderful ambient radio show Secret Music has the album in at number 4 on their current top 20 [...]

Wes Willenbring caught the attention of San Francisco's KUSF radio last week, making it to no. 6 on their experimental playlist with his latest release, Close, But Not Too Close . Take a listen below. Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Wes Willenbring - Oh Most

Excerpt: "SF sound sculptor and dreamdronedrift composer Wes Willenbring… is an accomplished pianist and guitarist, and those instruments form the basis of these songs, in some places that's obvious, but in others, the piano and the guitar, or any semblance of either, are blurred, or smeared, or pixelated into hazy clouds of sound, of softly shifting streaks of crystalline shimmer, the guitar often transformed into a buried pulse, the piano into soft focus flurries of barely there melody, at its most diffused and abstract, this is total bleary eyed starlight pop ambience, the sort of hushed orchestral drift that would [...]

Good news for the people of San Francisco! Through an ongoing and exclusive partnership with Aquarius Records , we're happy to announce that you can now buy Sankt Otten's Morgen Wieder Lustig and Wes Willenbring's Close, But Not Too Close there, in all their glory! Two truly beautiful albums. Take some time off and have a listen. Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Sankt Otten - Lustig, lustig, demain encore lustig [...]

Wes Willenbring's beautiful sophomore album Close, But Not Too Close received a stellar review on Igloo Magazine , his intimate minimalist style deservedly winning over their hearts. Take a read here . Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Wes Willenbring - Oh Most

Wes Willenbring's spellbinding sophomore album Close, But Not Too Close has entered the KZSU Top Ten Chart at number 10 and has scooped the top spot on the station's Classical/Experimental Chart! Check out the charts here and check out Close, But Not Too Close here .

Check out the latest installment of DOA's excellent Artists on Albums feature where you'll find out very own Wes Willenbring waxing lyrical about Vince Gallo's stunning album When . Willenbring's recent full length Close, But Not Too Close is out now through Hidden Shoal Recordings. Preview in full and purchase at the Hidden Shoal Store .

Check out the latest edition of the wonderful Inside The Label show at New York's awesome Breakthru Radio (home of the mighty DJ Mojo!). The show features an hour of tracks selected from across the Hidden Shoal catalogue. Lurvly!

More praise for Wes Willenbring 's Close, But Not Too Close being one of Hypnagogue 's Highly Recommended albums last week. Read the full review here . Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Wes Willenbring - Oh Most

Excerpt: 'The discs are loaded with layered, thoughtful pieces rich in instrumentation and heavy on a narrative sensibility.... with pieces that wander and shuffle through bleak and melancholic landscapes like they need a little space to sort things out. Everything is played with a deliberate grace that allows each instrument's contribution be fully felt, notes slipping perfectly into place at exactly the right time. Willenbring's approach skirts the edge of minimalism in that there's nothing here that isn't absolutely inherent, nothing wedged or crammed in where it doesn't belong. The notes fall like rain, the backgrounds shift and float like [...]

Yet another Hidden Shoal release has made it into Ondarock 's editor's 'Best albums of 20092 - this time our Wes Willenbring makes the list with his second release ' Close, But Not Too Close '. Take a peak here . Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Wes Willenbring - Oh Most

Wes Willenbring's stunning sophomore album Close, But Not Too Close has reviewed a glowing review on Textura . Take a read here . Wes Willenbring - Oh Most Wes Willenbring - Oh Most

Excerpt: "Track titles such as "The Anti-Social Aesthetic" and "I'm Looking Forward to Your Funeral" suggest his music might be so hermetic it's designed to ward off listeners' advances, but in fact Willenbring leaves the door open just enough to allow visitors in to share his world. His is an unassuming and rather muted style; he's not the kind of composer who bludgeons the listener with abrasive extremes but rather lures him/her in with the seductive understatement of fully-rounded and plaintive meditations." Textura