‘Astro-Geo Alignment’ is the first single lifted from the forthcoming Rewilding album "Abandoned Kiva". The album will see release on the 8th of April 2022. More on Rewilding here: https://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/rewilding

Following on from 2020’s mesmerising instrumental album "Rain Patch", Rewilding’s new album, "Abandoned Kiva", traverses exciting new ground for the band. In-keeping with the album’s underlying theme of seeking fresh connections in a world characterised by disconnection, the album introduces vocals by new collaborator Monica Alexandra, while continuing to explore the blurred lines between lo-fi indie-pop, post-rock and film soundtracks.

With Alexandra’s vocals in the mix alongside Jake McFee’s own, "Abandoned Kiva" shares musical DNA with Broadcast’s "Tender Buttons", where haunting voices weave amid dense, dark musical hallways, flickering with the promise of revelation while perpetually dodging out of reach. Single ‘Astro-Geo Alignment’ typifies the album’s charms, as rickety rhythms are held together by hazy guitars, synths and voices, warping the listener’s perception of the music’s temporal and spatial dimensions.

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Rewilding - Astro-Geo Alignment

Track 2 from Abandoned Kiva. 
Released 4/8/22

Full album available here:
rewilding.bandcamp.com

Courtesy of Hidden Shoal Records
hiddenshoal.com

You Melt The World

Aloha Friends, This EP  ‘Extra Ulu’  is the prelude to our next record 'Two Years at Sea.’ These were recorded in Hana, Maui the last couple of years. All tracks written, recorded, performed, mixed, and produced by Rewilding. To download the complete 5-track EP: https://rewildingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/extra-ulu

Tradewinds (extended Version)

'Two Years at Sea,' is the fourth Rewilding record. Release date for 'Two Years at Sea' is December 1, 2023. These songs were recorded between summer 2021 and summer 2023 on a ti farm in Hana, Maui, at Backlit Buddha Studios in Kahului, Maui, and at our new HQ in Omaha, Nebraska.

All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Rewilding. Produced and published by Rewilding Music. https://rewildingmusic.bandcamp.com/

Olivine

© 2014 connected view

recorded at grand canyon national park - north rim, arizona, remastered summer 2016

tracks - 
1. dreams in the escalante
2. abstracted waterfall
3. don't crush the bees
4. sego lily
5. highway zzyzx II
6. claritas, integritas, veritas

album art by June Sanchez 

enjoy

downloads here - connectedview.bandcamp.com/

Prismatic Spring [side B]

The first single from the 10th-anniversary re-release of Chagrin by ambient artist RL/VL. The album will be reissued alongside the rest of his sublime catalogue on the 30th October 2018.

More on RL/VL here: https://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/rlvl/

Chagrin
Presenting an impeccably crafted minimalism and focus married to an ineffable sense of human frailty, Chagrin unfolds like the stories of ageless artefacts buried in the earth, still covered in the dirt that was once their home, brimming with micro-histories and rootless memories. Painstakingly layered from a vast array of analogue synths, tape machines, old cassettes and toys, Chagrin’s beauty lies in the fact that no sound is too small, no detail too elusive. This is ambient electronica of staggering emotive power.

“... whenever his small, melodic textures threaten to disappear they always return calmly, in themes and droves and memorable parts, from two minute intros to extended ponderings… The underlying hook throughout the whole is that you can feel the spare alienation melting off every track, which become warmer and warmer as the thing wisps along at a floe pace… And it never stops evoking, which is how you could tell there was youth in it without even knowing Hamill’s only 18. The imagination’s too wild and unrefined to sleep.” – Resident Advisor

RL/VL was the brainchild of Belfast-based electronic composer Jack Hamill. An acronym for Real Life/Virtual Life, Hamill’s music works at the often fragile boundary between humankind and the world around us. Hailing from the tree-lined suburbs of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jack found the epicentre of his inspiration in a sun-soaked autumn spent in the USA in 2006, and has been excavating his compositions ever since. Jack now records under the moniker Space Dimension Controller, releasing music via Dekmantel, Ninja Tune and R&S Records.

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Chagrin

RL/VL - Kweens

reverb spring

Foreplay (pre-Orgasmo Sonore 2009)

Peter Olof Fransson: All instruments, voices, arrangement etc...

This composition, "Stibnite", was recorded on October 12th-15th, 2018.

Stibnite

Taken from 'Rain Patch', out 10th April 2020. 
More on Rewilding here: https://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/rewilding

Following on from 2017’s self-titled debut album, Rain Patch continues Rewilding’s exploration of the neglected, dusty spaces found between lo-fi indie-pop, post-rock and film soundtracks. While there are the obvious recent touchstones, such as Fridge, Beak and Olivia Tremor Control, and the less obvious, such as the soundtrack to cult 1980s sci-fi movie Liquid Sky, Rain Patch mines a primitive yet mesmerising vein of instrumental music in which process and result are intimately entwined. The songs on Rain Patch are their own ecosystems, requiring the listener to step inside to fully experience their vivid details.

This ecological analogy extends to the process of the album’s creation. In 2017, Jake McFee relocated to Glacier Bay, Alaska, where much of the album was conceived and recorded. Given the limitations of not being able to transport all the studio equipment he used on previous Rewilding music, he wrote and recorded many of the original ideas using small, portable instruments such as hand percussion, glockenspiel, acoustic guitar and mini Korg synths. The summers were spent at Glacier Bay, while winters were spent back in Philadelphia, where he was able to overdub drums and electric guitars. Between 2017 and 2019, the songs evolved into the forms heard on Rain Patch, as McFee reckoned with his experience of witnessing the pristine wilderness of Glacier Bay being transformed by climate change. 

“Further Hidden Shoal loveliness... a set made up of intricately teased melodic miniatures with an affectionate nod to both Fridge and Pram... its dreamily reflective tones are teasingly sculptured in a disarmingly fragile whittling” – The Sunday Experience on Rewilding single ‘High Desert’

Rewilding is the solo project of Philadelphia-based musician and producer Jake McFee (Connected View). Jake began making music with Charlie Fieger and Kyle Pieloch in 1999 in a band called Psychic Violence, influenced by artists like Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Mazzy Star and The Velvet Underground. Psychic Violence broke up in 2000, then reconvened as Connected View in 2008 with a fresh range of diverse new influences, including Ennio Morricone, Stereolab, Broadcast, Boards of Canada, Lali Puna, Pram, Piero Umiliani, Can and Cluster. Jake started Rewilding to creatively invest himself in a musical project in which he could assert sole control over the decision-making. Although his Connected View bandmates Charlie Fieger and Kyle Pieloch both play on the self-titled debut, released by Hidden Shoal in 2017, all of the composition, production, editing and mixing was done by Jake. Rain Patch is Rewilding’s second album, released by Hidden Shoal in 2020.

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Rain Patch

Music Video

Rewilding - Home Shore Highlights

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Prismatic Spring [side B]

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