‘Blue Ceiling’ is the new single, with accompanying music video, by German minimal ambient-electronica maestro Jumpel, taken from his forthcoming fourth album Bloc4 (June 4 2013). On ‘Blue Ceiling’, Joe Dürbeck continues his breathtaking collaboration with Chloë March(who contributed vocals to the 2010 single, ‘Edinburgh’). ‘Blue Ceiling’ has an utterly heartbreaking drift, its pellucid atmosphere like winter sunlight refracting through raindrops on a window pane.

Download ‘Blue Ceiling’ for free from the Hidden Shoal Store, stream it on SoundCloud and watch the beautiful music video for the track on Youtube or Vimeo.

”Jo Durbeck’s music is welcoming and gentle, even as it challenges. Deuxieme Bureau explores the positive sounds that are always there, even in the silence, even in sadness” – Foxy Digitalis

Jumpel’s forthcoming album Bloc4 (June 4 2013) centres around the elevated yet lonely world of a tower block, each track poetically investigating its multi-faceted elements and spaces. The songs were written throughout 2012, with ideas collated, reviewed, developed and remixed. Following the wonderful results of his collaboration with Chloë March on Europa single ‘Edinburgh’, Joe Dürbeck presented the ideas for Bloc4 to March and invited her to select tracks and develop vocal ideas. The results are stunning – and offer a perfect counterbalance to the more melancholic, spacious instrumental pieces.

Jumpel – ‘Blue Ceiling’ from Hidden Shoal Recordings on Vimeo.

It’s just about stock take time here at the Hidden Shoal office and the less CDs we have to count, the better! The Solution? A sale! We have a huge range of awesome CD releases for sale and just to keep with the spirit of giving we’ve applied the same discounts to their digital counterparts.

CDs start at less than $10 with free worldwide shipping and include releases from artists such as Slow Dancing Society, Markus Mehr, Umpire, Boxharp, Salli Lunn, Liam Singer, Rich Bennett, City Of Satellites, Elisa Luu, Wes Willenbring, Down Review, Hotels, Toby Richardson, Iretsu and HC-B. Check the specials section on the front page of the HSR Store and pick up some bargains!

The beautiful people at the equally beautiful 78 Records store in Perth have set up a special Hidden Shoal rack featuring a whole bunch of the latest and back catalogue HSR CDs (local and international). So please head in, have a look, grab yourself some awesome music and marvel at the sweet folks behind the counter. The store also does mail order so if you’re not in Perth then head over to the 78′s website and get your internet on!

To co-incide with the end of the financial year here in Australia we’re taking 20 to 40% off all releases (excludes pre-orders) in the Hidden Shoal Store. You can store some bargain CD’s and digital packages from the likes of Slow Dancing Society, Umpire, Wes Willenbring, Liam Singer and Antonymes to name but a few. All CD releases in the store include world-wide free shipping and an immediate digital album download. All digital releases include permanent download access to your purchased release and a pdf booklet.

The sale is on now until the end of June and we have limited stock of some releases, so get in quick and scoop up some beautiful music. Head to the Hidden Shoal Store to check it all out.