Debut Sleeping Me Single Out Now, Free Download Available

April 29, 2009 - PRLog -- The Australian music label Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of the first track taken from American ambient guitarist Sleeping Me’s debut album Cradlesongs.

Sleeping Me’s debut release Cradlesongs is an homage to the bittersweet rise and fall of fortune, the discovery and evasiveness of identity and truth, the acceptance of distance and disappointment, and the poignancy of an ever-elusive yet omnipresent love. This is no more true than for the sublime melancholy that is ‘Legs Like Gravestone’, the first track to be lifted from Cradlesongs. Elegant, hopeful and infused with a sad beauty, ‘Legs Like Gravestone’ plays out like an elegy to fallen greatness as much as a passage back to the amniotic haze - an eternal return.

Textural and meticulously composed, the emotive ambience of Sleeping Me is a quiet reminder of all the beauty and personal strife that is experienced in solitude. Tidal currents of delayed guitar carry the listener across an ocean of reverb, cast adrift beneath a brooding sky. Each track hands an elusive secret to the next, hinted at but never revealed.

Clayton McEvoy grew up in the vast expanse of desert and concrete that is California’s Inland Empire. Though initially deciding to play music for very different reasons (girls and free booze), the discovery of shoegaze and ambient music, followed by an interest in minimalist composition, would become the foundation for more focused experimentation as Sleeping Me. Clayton has also collaborated on the new album by The Refractors (Dynamophone, 2009), and with Jorge Mantas under the name The Beautiful Schizophonic.

‘Legs Like Gravestone’ is available for free download from the Hidden Shoal Store until the release of Cradlesongs on 26th May 2009.

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 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
Label Store: http://agora.hiddenshoal.com
Sleeping Me: http://www.myspace.com/sleepingme

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Hidden Shoal Recordings is an Australia-based music label that has earned a reputation for releasing engaging new music that is not bound by genre or style. The label has been dubbed “This generation’s 4AD” by prominent New York radio host DJ Mojo.