Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the signing of the wonderful German outfit, Sankt Otten. Touted by the German music press as the “German Portishead”, Sankt Otten cover a far broader ground than their English trip hop brethren. Traversing the realm of noirish cinematic pop Sankt Otten draw inspiration from such musical inventors as - Morricone, Barry, Talk Talk - and the modern adaptors - Portishead, Bohren und der Club of Gore, David Holmes.

Hidden Shoal Recordings will release Sankt Otten’s masterpiece, “Wir können ja Freunde bleiben” (Let’s Remain Friends) in January 2007 with the first single from the album, “Fremdenzimmer”, to be released December 6th, 2006.

The Canadian magazine, “Grassroots Media” have a feature on Glassacre in their latest issue. Check out the goodness here.

Glassacre Glasacre - Tension Agreement

The stunning new mini album, “It’s Now or Later”, by Craig Hallsworth fronted Australian outfit, Tangled Star is now available as a pre-release in the HSR Store. The title track has been released as the first single from the album and is also available now. The albums will see official release in December where it will be Itunes, eMusic and Sony Connect stores globally.

Tangled Star Tangled Star - It’s Now or Later

The Perth experimental ambient outfit, Moongoat have signed to Hidden Shoal Recordings in anticipation of the release of their first EP later this month. The wonderful self titled EP is at once unsettling and mesmeric and is already a fave around the HSR offices. To be played loud in the dead of night !