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The Australian music label Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Perth based compelled acoustic space makers Fall Electric.
Fall Electric is a storm of acoustic music revolving around the songs of former adamsaidgalore mainman Andrew Ryan. Andrew’s steel string guitar claps as sharp as lightning. Tristen Parr can be seen regularly playing with Schvendes, his cello playing with Fall Electric is the gusts of a breeze keen and powerful enough to flip young ladies off their feet. Pete Guazzelli’s drumming is the rain… pelting in perfect continuous increments… at times in buckets and at others like a sun shower. Having incorporated a range of different musicians in the studio, the band brought in fourth member Stina Thomas to help realise their recorded sound live. Stina, an artist in her own right uses her Micro-Korg to weave glimmering, sometimes dirty electronics through the mix creating a ribbon of continuity between the plucked and bowed strings of the guitar and cello then wrapping it around the kick drum to tie the whole band together.
If you need a reference point, Fall Electric’s music is for fans of the Dirty Three, Will Oldham, Neil Young, Mum, mice parade, do make say think, Tom Waits and other stuff that values melody and texture as much as songcraft. Lyrically Fall Electric’s songs focus on riddled philosophic inquiries, ironies within romance, the nature of admitting human weakness, and other enjoyably unsolvable topics.
“They’re the kind of musicians who together are capable of mesmerizing audiences into complete silence” - Drum Perth
“Like watching a Bull Fight, Fall Electric are able to stir the audience with frenetic pace and danger and leave them with a sense of calm and relief. Ole!” - Xpress Magazine
Hidden Shoal Recordings will release the band’s brilliant debut album Measure and Step on November 11th 2008 with the first single due out early October. The album was recorded with Casey Rice who has worked with the likes of The Dirty Three, Liz Fair, Tortoise, Stereolab and Grand Salvo.
Fall Electric’s Measure and Step will follow on from what has been a wonderful year of releases for Hidden Shoal Recordings. The band join label mates such as The Slow Beings (Australia), Ghost in the Water (USA), Iretsu (USA), Sankt Otten (Germany) whose 2008 releases have been wowing fans, radio and critics alike in Australia and the US.
Hidden Shoal Recordings is an Australia-based independent music label that has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging new independent music that is not bound by genre or style. Hidden Shoal Recordings was recently chosen as one of the top ten favourite labels of 2007 by Textura magazine and has been dubbed “This generation’s 4AD” by prominent New York radio host DJ Mojo.
Label Site: http://music.hiddenshoal.com
Fall Electric: http://www.myspace.com/
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