The stunning album length film by Mark Solter and Laura Solter to accompany Scott Solter’s re-issued glacial ambient masterpiece One River is now available for streaming at YouTube and Vimeo in its 33+ minutes full HD glory. The film comprises 7 visual movements echoing and expanding upon the 7 movements that make up One River. It truly is a beautiful visual spectacle.

“Twins and Wives” will see a limited edition DVD release in the coming months.The One River album is available now on CD and digitally worldwide, through Hidden Shoal Recordings. Head to the Hidden Shoal Store for all availability details.

Instrumental-pop wizards Apricot Rail are supporting experimental rock geniuses Akron/Family on their ‘Cosmic Birth Tour’ this coming Tuesday at Mojos Bar in Fremantle. Akron/Family are touring on the back of their latest release S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, while Apricot Rail have recently released ‘Surry Hills‘, an enchanting new single ahead of their sophomore album due  next year. Tickets are available here and doors open 8pm. Enjoy!

Excerpt: “Scott Solter’s “One River” is a digital and cd re-release of this US Ambient musician/producers album that was originally released on Tell-All records in 2005. Scott Solter wears many hats also being a remixer (such as Hidden Shoal artists Salli Lunn, The Caribbean and other artists such as Division day and Neon Indian), while working as a producer, mixer, recorder with the likes of Spoon, Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Okkervil River as well as being a member of the Balustrade Ensemble and Boxharp. He also had a release on the Manifold label in 2003 called “The Brief Light”. The label has described this release as “exploring the space between Brian Eno’s seminal Music For Airports and William Basinski’s contemporary classic The Disintegration Loops. The music sighs and aches beautifully, gradually transforming with subtlety and grace, lulling the listener into blissful reverie” and I couldn’t describe it better…. Although the album is made up of 7 tracks and a running time of a little over 33 minutes, it works as whole piece to be taken at once. One word sums it up best and that is “Haunting”.”

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Excerpt: “To describe [Perth] local band Apricot Rail as a post rock band would be doing them an injustice. While sharing the ethos of post rock, their sound is more than just restricted to post rock (which is inevitable with a scene or a sound as becoming a restrictive genre). Described by Rave Magazine as “Imagine the ethereal pop of early Múm, the whimsy of Sigur Rós’ more optimistic moments, and (occasionally) the emotional edge of The Twilight Sad. This is consummate indie post-rock laced with Australiana, and well worth checking out.” They are a multi instrumental sextet and use this to their advantage. “Surry Hills” features both chiming and almost surf like guitars structures, minimal almost hand percussion, flute, shimmering electronics that ebbs and flows with the song changing from being driven by the multiple guitars back to the haunting flute melody. This track is a taster for their future Hidden Shoal album release which is probably going to come out early next year…”

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