Australian Music Label Hidden Shoal Recordings Signs Liam Singer

May 25, 2010 - PRLog -- Brooklyn, New York; Perth, Western Australia. Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the signing of Brooklyn-based chamber-pop experimentalist Liam Singer.

In Liam Singer’s music, the prosaic and the magical are two sides of the same dusty coin. These fantastical song-stories carry the listener skyward like a clockwork cloud. Produced by Scott Solter, and featuring vocals from Boxharp’s Wendy Allen, upcoming album Dislocatia is a beguiling song cycle, rich in wondrous resonant details.

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Liam Singer studied piano as a child, and at 14 began recording songs on the accordion, synthesizer and theremin. In the early 2000s, Singer studied music composition at Kenyon College in Ohio, with harpsichord as his primary instrument. During his time at Kenyon he played in several bands and co-founded a 20-piece kazoo orchestra.

Returning to Portland after college, Singer recorded his first album, The Empty Heart of the Chameleon, and played keyboards for The Scientifics (now Eliot Rose) and Nate Ashley. After touring with The Scientifics he settled in San Francisco. Scott Solter recorded Singer’s second album, Our Secret Lies Beneath The Creek (Tell-All). While living in SF, Singer sometimes performed with the Kallikak Family, and contributed piano to the Balustrade Ensemble album Capsules.

After moving to New York, Singer wrote most of the songs on his new album Dislocatia (Hidden Shoal, October 2010), which was recorded in North Carolina with Scott Solter. Singer is currently playing keyboards for a band called Devil Be Gone, the project of Rob Hampton (ex-Band Of Horses), occasionally plays piano at Alexander Turnquist’s live shows, and is a touring keyboardist with Slow Six. His keyboards feature on Boxharp’s Loam Arcane and The Green releases, and the occasional soundtrack of friend’s movies...  

Dislocatia is released in October 2010 through Hidden Shoal Recordings, preceded by a single in August.

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 10 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
Liam Singer: http://www.myspace.com/liamsinger

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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.