Well sort of….head down to the Swan Basement on the 1st of March to see Chris Mason and his band The Implosion shake their magical thing alongside other Perth marvels, The Imps, The Bloods and King Brown. What does TV have to do with any of this? Check the flyer to see why you’ll be spending next week knitting your Magnum P.I. mustache out of the cat hair scraped from the carpet.
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Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the signing of the American duo Ghost In The Water to its roster of artists.
“a beautiful fusion between technological inspirations and wholesome handmade melodies. Ghost In The Water put a little cloud under your chair and another one behind your head” – City Pages.
The label will release the debut album Tooth by Ghost In The Water on 8th April 2008. The first single from Tooth, ‘Clean Sinks and Folded Laundry’, will be released on 28th February, and will feature the bonus B side, ‘How to Draw a Ghost’, also taken from the album. In a first for the label, Hidden Shoal Recordings will offer all new singles for free download up until their respective album release dates.
Read more about Ghost In The Water here.
Excerpt: “That’s what you call globalisation: two Germans on an Australian label! … in an amazing fashion they manage to conjure up tender ambient electronics and delicate jewels from their machines. They also admit gentle guitars and even a doublebass into the magic. So there is something to be said for that globalisation after all, isn’t there?”
Sankt Otten’s stunning new album Wunden Gibt Es Immer Wieder has just been reviewed on the German music zine Westzeit. If you can speak German, visit the site to read the review in full, or pop along to Sankt Otten’s reviews section for a translated excerpt.
