Hidden Shoal Recordings have announced the official CD release of the album Soundcheck For A Missing Movie by Italian sonic cinematographers HC-B. In each of its eight majestic songs, Soundcheck For A Missing Movie follows HC-B’s finely trained lens across a breathtaking instrumental rock landscape, rich with detail and swimming with emotive currents. In triumphant single ‘Hot Afternoon In The Bulls’ Square’, free-jazz horns squabble and blare like a swarm of bees before the main theme shines through like an exultant fanfare, supported by a thundering bassline. The gorgeous ‘Slow Compensation’ winds sinuous synth lines, violin and a longing male and female vocal through the swaying drums and guitars, mustering a quietly anthemic yet intimate epic. And closer ‘Missing Movie’ brings the house down with a storm of ferocious guitars.
“this is instrumental post-rock with attention-grabbing orchestral construction… HC-B really are something special” – Even In The Future Nothing Works
“HC-B cram as much as possible into Soundcheck’s 50-minute running time and it actually comes as a disappointment when it ends. There’s simply far too much going on in this record that to simply label these Italians as a mere post-rock band would be doing them a great disservice.” – [sic]
Soundcheck For A Missing Movie is now available on CD through Hidden Shoal’s US distributor n5Mailorder and in digital format from the Hidden Shoal Store as well as all good third-party digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc).
Read a full press release here and stay tuned for European tour dates.
HC-B – A Dusty Book, A City of Lights HC-B – A Dusty Book, A City of Lights
The Caribbean’s new single ‘Do You Believe In Dinosaurs? (Scott Solter Remix)‘, taken from the imminently released Scott Solter Re-Populates The Caribbean EP, has been featured on the excellent [sic] site, where it is described as “sheer pop-bliss meets total studio wizardry”.
