In WATERSHED, Markus Mehr transforms recordings from the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into an unsettling meditation on war, distance, and the responsibility of listening when looking away is always an option.
Tag: Hidden Shoal
Markus Mehr :: Brief Conversations (Hidden Shoal)
Brief Conversations is a near-perfect balance between music and pure sound art, creating a rare work where experimentalism never becomes alienating, and musicality is embraced […]
In Rotation :: Multi-view (May 2018)
In rotation for the past several weeks, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from nine talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2016
While other sites might fight to get 1000s down to 50 or 20, at Igloo HQ we’ve refused to don the hair shirt of reducing […]
Glanko & Daniel Bailey :: Isometrik EP (Hidden Shoal)
Running parallel elements you might encounter alongside Loess and Loscil, each piece opens vivid laid-back sound arrays, textures, tones and trips. Two friends taking different musical […]
Elsewhereness revisited #1 Ramblings of a AMB-man
Elsewhereness Revisited is a new feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambientological meanderings, random bc-combing, cloud-watching, tube-findings, and a companion mix. Vol. #1: Ramblings […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2015
So here it is—from ambient drone to post-rock, jazz and modern classical, from IDM to experimental to post-digital microsound; hallucinatory electronics to experimental soundscapery, candy-color […]
Markus Mehr :: In The Palm of Your Hand (The Remix EP) (Hidden Shoal)
The listener is immersed in a dense, tense, refined and exceptionally moving semi jazzy inflected minimal electronic experience. Bavarian based sound designer and electronic artist […]
Elisa Luu :: Enchanting Gaze (La Bèl / Hidden Shoal)
Six pieces gather wool as Luu daydreams aloud, ideating musics as concrete as an Irish jig danced out the door. Ringing in summer with church bells made […]
SONIC EXPOSURE :: Les Limbes
“We try to make the best and most sincere music we can…” Raw, furious energy Les Limbes is the project of Arnaud Sigonney (guitar/piano), Yoann […]
Chloë March vs. Markus Mehr :: To Set The River On Fire EP (Hidden Shoal)
English dream-pop artist Chloë March has reconstructed a track from the latest album by German experimentalist Markus Mehr, and vice versa. The results are incendiary […]
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