For all the Sankt Otten fans out there, check out the latest episode of the Notorius Radio Podcast where you can catch a track from one of their previous releases, “Eine kleine Traurigkeit”.

Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the pre-release of the album, “Somewhere Someone Else” by US ambient artist, Wes Willenbring.

“Somewhere Someone Else” is a work of muted radiance. Sounds of piano and guitar wash in and out of recognition, providing a kind of dislocated comfort. The album slowly breathes in and out with an undeniable melancholic warmth, like a sad dream you don’t want to wake from. Traversing some of the post ambient territories of peers such as Windy and Carl, The Dead Texan and Labradford, “Somewhere Someone Else” manages to carve its own unique sonic and emotional landscape. – Press Release Excerpt.

“Somewhere Someone Else” is now available as a pre-release exclusively from the HSR Store. The album will see official release in March 2007 where it will be available from all good digital music stores such as Itunes, eMusic, Sony Connect and Rhapsody. Listen to the album in full here.

Correspondence  Wes Willenbring – Correspondence 

Check out the Hidden Shoal Recordings feature article in the first edition of the wonderful new Australian music magazine, Loop.

The magazine is distributed throughout Australian capital cities but if you can’t get yourself a copy then you can read the HSR feature in PDF format here.