Hidden Shoal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Erik Nilsson
Recollage
Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the reissue of Recollage, Erik Nilsson’s superb debut album. The album will see release
on the 23rd of May 2016.
There is a vibrant playfulness across Recollage’s nine tracks, with each song mapping out its own discrete world. Nilsson
skilfully mixes electronics with live instruments and field recordings, before subjecting the songs to digital manipulation,
creating an uncanny and arresting blend that is often as technically dizzying as it is musically and emotionally engaging.
Glitchy yet exquisitely tuneful, Recollage’s music-box melodies bring to mind Björk’s Vespertine, while its compositional style
is reminiscent of The Books’ cut-up approach to songcraft.
Recollage is clearly a vivid precursor to acclaimed second album Hearing Things (2015), but also its own unique creature.
First released through Luxus-Artica Records in 2011, Recollage has received extra instrumentation, been fully re-mastered,
and also includes the original version of album track ‘Rumore del Roma’.
“Nilsson’s work lands in something of a sweet spot for me as a listener, taking approachable bases, things possessed of an
easy, lilting beauty, and then working them through this filter or that concept, finding workable juxtapositions and pushing
envelopes as he goes” – Hypnagogue on Hearing Things
Erik Nilsson lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Initially inspired by the grunge scene, Erik first picked up his mother’s
old, busted guitar in his early teens and formed rock quartet Banda de Ladrones. Upon hearing Björk some years later,
Erik became fascinated with audio manipulation and spent much of his time in the following years mangling samples on
his digital workstation. Meanwhile, his musical tastes and influences evolved and expanded into folk, jazz, classical and
contemporary experimental music.
Erik’s previous work includes the score for Ahmed – Almost 13, a Norwegian documentary screened at the prestigious
International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam. His music can be heard in Project Power, which chronicles civic
resistance to privatisation in New Brunswick, Canada, and in Are You Still There?, finalist in the 2011 edition of the short film
competition The 24 Hour Film Race. Erik is a regular contributor to the Disquiet Junto Project, an online collective exploring
the creative potential of constraints. He is also singer and guitarist of folk-rock trio Otinget, whose debut album will be
released in 2016.
Hidden Shoal is an Australia-based independent music label and publisher that has earned a reputation for releasing exciting
and engaging new independent music that is not bound by genre or style. Hidden Shoal has been chosen as one of Textura’s
favourite labels and has been dubbed “This generation’s 4AD” by prominent New York radio host DJ Mojo.
For more information:
Erik Nilsson: www.hiddenshoal.com/project/erik-nilsson
Hidden Shoal: www.hiddenshoal.com
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