To promote Wil Bolton’s album Under A Name That Hides Her, Wil’s been interviewed over at Fluid Radio. Also a new video this time filmed by Ian Hazeldine has been released for another track off the album “Barbed”.
April, 2012: Hibernate Sampler Vol 5
Our latest “free download for a tweet sampler” featuring selected tracks from releases October 2011 to April 2012 is now available in our store. If you want a higher bit rate format you can make a donation at the hibernate bandcamp page where you can pick any format you want including lossless.
The sampler features tracks from Bengalfuel, Arev Konn, A-Sun Amissa, Kleefstra / Pruiksma / Kleefstra, Pascal Savy, Quinn Walker, Good Weather for an Airstrike, Listening Mirror, Antonymes, Konntinent & Widesky.
April, 2012: Antonymes: Light Dispersed Through Clouds
April, 2012: Wil Bolton: Passing (from Under a Name That Hides Her)
Taken from the forthcoming LP mastered by Taylor Deupree due late April.
March, 2012: After A Long Dream Of Sleep
Our friends over at Mini50 records just released “After A Long Dream Of Sleep” a compilation album in aid of raising money for Crisis Scotland, an important and valued mental health resource. On the album are many hibernate and rural colours favourites including Antonymes, Talvihorros, Caught in the Wake Forever, David Newyln, Yellow6, M.Ostermeier and Matthew Collings.
The whole record can be downloaded for £6, with individual tracks available for £1.
March, 2012: St John in the Wilderness, Cragg Vale
Many thanks to all those who came to the Wil Bolton / Pimmon / Riverrun / Antonymes show last Sunday 18th, we hope you enjoyed the sounds, sights and of course the tea and biscuits. Our good friend Wendy Cook has written a review which you can read on Fluid Radio and where also you’ll find another video clip but with pimmon.
March, 2012: Wire Tapper 28
In this months Wire Magazine we have a track from Ed Hamilton that features on the excellent Wire Tapper series CD. Right now the track is unreleased and will be on his album “Arabesque” out sometime in the near future. Also on the CD is a track from Mark Harris and another featuring Matteo Uggeri, both whom have seen past releases on Hibernate. All copies of the April 2012 issue will come complete with the exclusive free CD attached to the cover.
As with previous volumes the CD, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Andy Tait and Jennifer Lucy Allan, is packaged in a heavy duty card sleeve designed by The Wire’s art director Ben Weaver, and contains a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in The Wire.
For more info and full track list:
http://thewire.co.uk/issues/338
March, 2012: Interview with Konntinent
Antony Harrison is the London based musician behind Konntinent as well as two other projects, Arev Konn and Paco Sala. Since 2009 he has released work on various labels including Home Normal, Digitalis, Sonic Pieces, Humming Conch, Symbolic Interaction and Sweat Lodge Guru. His work as a sound artist has seen him share live stage with Machinefabriek, Simon Scott, Jasper TX, Ian Hawgood, Danny Norbury, Mira Calix, Boduf Songs, Library Tapes and Talvihorros, in venues such as London’s Cafe Oto and Union Chapel.
His 2009 album Degrees, Integers released on the now defunct Symbolic Interaction was a massive highlight for us back then that we asked him if he would be interested in making an album for hibernate. A year later we met in person at a Home Normal gig in London, a load of alcohol and some sort of rancid salt beef and mustard sandwich fuelled a conversation where an idea for a Konntinent debut vinyl LP on hibernate came to fruit. And finally, titled Kiruna it will be released at the end of March, a limited edition vinyl pressing of 200 each comes with a download code, the first 100 come with CD version of the album. Before that though, here’s a little interview with the man about the album…
Kiruna is the northernmost city in Sweden, and an interesting title for an album… Why that name?
The terminal and absolute blackness of an arctic Kiruna winter made quite an impression on me a couple of years ago. Its a relentless, foreboding kind of perma-night, coupled with a brutal cold. The record was very much inspired by that feeling.
Was there an overall vision when starting out to produce Kiruna with regards to the sound that you wanted to achieve?
The plan: Analog waves of blackness. I wanted something impenetrably relentless and with a juggernaut of momentum. Hayashi Drag Track & Pulserande were the central passages, everything grew from there.
Are there any influences that impacted on the recording of the album?
Musically speaking – Deathprod & Khate. Environmentally speaking, new old synths and the depths of mid-winter.
Can you tell us more about the artwork you chose and why you went for that cover image? Is it interlinked with the music?
The art came much later and so was a very precise decision. I wanted something cold, dark, analog in feel and with a sense of repetitive momentum. And with a lot of black of course. Kiruna itself has a moose meat pizza place – that wouldn’t have worked really – and I’m not environmental nature shots. The music/art parallels are thematic rather than literal.
Already it’s been quite a year for Konntinent what with the Home Normal album and bonus CD, but how about future Konntinent projects, is there anything else in the pipeline and any plans for some tours perhaps?
As it stands, there are no plans. There is no next Konntinent record and I have no specific plan to make one, however I have no plans not to make one either, the project isn’t closed, just not active. I’m currently working on the next Paco Sala record, which is in the very early stages – I guess that will dominate the first half of 2012. Shows, well, I’ll play anywhere thats logistically and financially possible – but again there is nothing planned.
February, 2012: Hidden Landscapes 2
Following on from the success of last year’s Hidden Landscapes compilation, we’ve teamed up with Audio Gourmet once again to present a second edition. This year’s follow up includes an astonishing roster of artists from across the globe, which cross-sections the modern scene. The album is set up to carefully explore this, with guitar based openers from Marsen Jules and Talvihorros onto more modern classical material from Midori Hirano, Danny Norbury, The Frozen Vaults, Rudi Arapahoe and Federico Durand. The second half of the album opens out to more subtle drone works from Quinn Walker, Pawn, Lawrence English, Field Rotation, Pjusk and Offthesky before closing with a hint of noise by Konntinent, Strom Noir and Ian Hawgood.
Compiled by Harry Towell and Bartosz Dziadosz
Mastered by Rudi Arapahoe
Photography by Jonathan Lees
CD released March TBA
