HSR Sign Sankt Otten
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.
