Fourth Wall

It started life as a remix for a great band from Liverpool who were called Kinetic Fallacy – and still prominently features Hannah Peel (violin) and Emma Welsby (vibraphone), who wrote the original track.

The single is released on Monday 25th February as a digital download on Tru Thoughts records. You can buy direct from the label at their Etch Shop here, or at iTunes and other digital retailers.

Following the single release, the Archipelago tour returns to the UK this month, and we are particularly looking forward to debuting our new audio-visual show in Glasgow and Edinburgh next week. We’ll be playing a bunch of new tracks alongside some old favourites at the following places. For a full list and links to venues see our website.

February
23 ● London ● Koko (Tru Thoughts Night)
28 ● Glasgow ● Oran Mor*

The Flight EP is available to buy now from Tru Thoughts, and on deluxe gatefold 10″ vinyl on Denovali Records. The vinyl version features exclusive “drums” and “no drums” version of Flight, as well as stunning remixes of Footsteps and Dust from Lost Twin and Floex respectively.

Download the Flight Mixtape from Paris DJs here or stream at Mixcloud here.

On Monday 10th September Tru Thoughts are releasing a AA digital single featuring two tracks from the album. Vorka features our long-time guest cellist Su-a Lee playing the musical saw atop a hip-hop breakbeat, while Spoken represents a slightly new direction in our music, and features some acrobatics on the trumpet from Phil Cardwell, who you may have seen play with us at shows this year. We won’t go any further with the descriptions, listen for yourself here. Buy the digital bundle here.

There is also a brand new video to accompany Vorka, direct by Lumen. Check it out:

And to accompany all of this exciting news we will be touring around Europe promoting Archipelago over the next few months. You can see where over at our Dates page. We should have some more dates to add soon.

We are pleased and delighted to announce the second Hidden Orchestra album!
‘Archipelago’ will be released on October 1st…

The artwork used for the cover, as with Night Walks and the Flight EP, is again by Norman Ackroyd – it’s a detail from an etching called ‘Roareim’, and is of the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, on a boat trip last summer on which Norman was joined by Poppy and Joe – it also features in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

The Flight Mixtape went online back in January, and has had a great response across various sites.
Joe made it to celebrate the release of the Flight EP – starting and finishing with different versions of title track Flight, with the mixtape speeding up throughout from 70bpm to 140bpm.

Features the usual eclectic and intricately-woven selection of music, sound effects, acapellas, interviews, and spoken word.

Stream on Mixcloud, or download (320kbps mp3) from Paris DJs (right-click on the ‘download button’ below tracklisting)…

We’re happy to announce a run of summer festival dates. This season will see us travel to some new countries for the first time, notably Egypt, Finland and Sweden. We also return to Croatia (this time for the excellent Soundwave Festival) and the Czech Republic, where we always enjoy going.

We also play our annual Edinburgh Jazz Festival show, and are delighted to invite friend and collaborator Floex over from Prague to join us. This one will be one of the summer highlights for sure. For other UK dates we again link up with our friends at Chai Wallahs for shows at Sunrise, Kendal Calling and Greenman.

We’ll also be announcing a full European tour in the Autumn, keep your ears to the ground!

Out now, the new Hidden Orchestra release ‘Flight EP’ (click to preview the tracks and see the full press release on Soundcloud).

This digital-only release from Tru Thoughts features a new track, Flight, as well as some remixes from the Night Walks album by Floex, Lost Twin, and Maddslinky (and a bonus remix by The Colonel available on the iTunes version).

Flight features Fraser Fifield (sax/whistle) and Su-a Lee (cello) reprising their roles from the album, with the addition of harpist Mary Macmaster on clarsach, and on clarinet Tomáš Dvořák (aka Floex, who also created the stunning remix of “Dust” for this release).

Tru Thoughts’ Etch Shop
iTunes
Amazon

In addition to the digital release, our friends at Denovali Records have produced another deluxe version of the release on vinyl, to complement the popular vinyl version of Night Walks. Consisting of new track Flight with Floex’s remix of Dust as the B-side, there is also a very limited edition version of the vinyl release, with an extra disc featuring “drums-only” and “no-drums” versions of Flight, exclusive to this pressing.
Click here to order direct from Denovali Records.
Vinyl also available from Tru Thoughts’ Etch Shop, and at our live shows.

The dust has only just settled on a hectic season of summer festivals, but this week sees us resume life on the road with a trio of exciting shows in Leipzig, Nottingham and London. In particular the show in London for our friends Soundcrash at the opulent Koko venue is going to be a highlight of the year no doubt, as we are sharing the stage with electronic music legends Luke Vibert and Daedelus. Even better, Daedelus is bringing his new AV show to London for the first time – called Archimedes – it consists of banks of mirrors that reflect light in time with the beats – check it out here.

Please note we are on-stage at 9.30pm for this gig.

Remember to keep checking our dates page to keep up-to-date with our live touring, and we hope to see you at one of these shows over the autumn.