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Written and produced by Daniel De Los Santos, John Sellekaers and Mathias Delplanque.

Special guests: Ernst Karel (trumpet on 1), Eric Heinroth (synth on 1), Masami Akita (noise on 4).
Mixed and mastered at Metarc, Montreal, 2005.

• CD limited to 500 numbered copies.

• Deluxe digifile sleeve + booklet containing exclusive short stories by Brian Evenson and Mathias Delplanque.

• Cover art by Ray Caesar.

Three sonic trajectories which tie and untie. Three creative entities to orchestrate the whole. John Sellekaers (Xingu Hill, Dead Hollywood Stars), Daniel De Los Santos (Tamarin) and Mathias Delplanque (Lena, Bidlo) open us the door to a universe whose maze conceals a multitude of other doors. Some are half-open, others are closed and many are, at first sight, invisible. As we explore further, we must let those secret doors some time to take shape, to reveal themselves…and it will then be possible to fix our attention on various aspects of the sound labyrinth that is presented to us, to come and go while letting ourselves be carried by the waves and the modulations, which then become our exploratory vehicle and form one body with us in the journey…Indeed, many doors are hidden, but they are awaiting to be discovered, probed…Behind them, fullness or emptiness…

Here, John Sellekaers, Daniel De Los Santos and Mathias Delplanque have concocted a sound fabric which explores the tangents uniting or dissociating ‘lowercase sound’, drone and dark ambient. Where does each of those styles start, where does it end? No one could tell... Nevertheless, Hidden Doors brings its share of answers…in a very personal way: lots of textures, palpable ambiences, subtle drifts. The whole is produced in an elegant and stylish fashion. Mastered by John Sellekaers @ Metarc.

The hallway was slowly going dim around him, flattening out, the door he had come through now an odd square of black, a vertical panel, two dimensional, rather than an entrance. The whole world, he thought fleetingly, was like that for him, there was nothing he could hold on to but this hall and perhaps a few other halls above that and a corpse he may or may not have seen, somewhere above him. But what did above mean?

Brian Evenson's playlist for the novel Electric Flesh by Claro includes the first track of Hidden Doors: Here's another take on Howard's interaction with the electric chair, the slow and quiet way in which the current builds and drones and then is backed away from...

"A four-part masterpiece of quiet drone featuring tiny glitches and patiently crafted variations."
-Sonomu.net.

"The sound slowly develops and unfolds in space, or in the silence, which is cleverly set as a background. Or as empty white canvass on which the painting is to be made. The sounds are used as colors, or rather as subtle nuances, in shapes of tiny noises, pulsating atmospheres, scratchy surfaces... Very nice album with subtle sound designs."
-Vital Weekly.

'"This is something for every fan of drones, microsounds en soundscapes. It’s really beautiful enough to bring tears to your eyes. 9.3/10"
-Gothtronic.

'"For some inexplicable reason I couldn't get their atmospheric sounds out of my system. Must play it again. Have to play it again. So I have. Repeatedly. It's that sort of record."
-Heathen Harvest.

'"La plupart des plages se développent lentement, longuement et envoûtent l'auditeur qui semble glisser au plus profond des ténèbres sans qu'il ne s'en aperçoive (...) Des ambiances minimales très riches en émotions, un travail vraiment soigné et délicat, composé tout en finesse."
-Cold Room.

"Everything the ensemble gets into their fingers (or samplers) is chopped up, hacked apart, spliced, diced and recomposed to form gleeming textures and indefinite, snapping noises. And yet, their music is no wildly randomizing l’art pour l’art, but a rigidly controlled stream of consciousness, which bases on a single root note and evolves through timbral changes, filter modulation and the addition and substraction of thematically related sounds. Despite the interrlatedness of the individual movements, they are each unique in the way they write out the formula in full, rendering Hidden Doors a varied and diverse record."
-Tokafi.