Wes Willenbring

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Wes Willenbring learned piano at an early age and eventually turned to the guitar as his primary instrument. An interest in recording techniques and the aesthetics of sound soon led to a disturbingly large collection of recording equipment and endless nights of experimentation. After years of writing and recording music both solo and collaboratively in Chicago he now calls San Francisco his home.

His three albums for Hidden Shoal Recordings, Somewhere Someone Else (March 2007), Close, But Not Too Close (October 2009) and Weapons Reference Manual (April 2012) are works of muted radiance. Sounds of piano and guitar wash in and out of recognition, providing a kind of dislocated comfort. The albums slowly breathe in and out with an undeniable melancholic warmth, like a sad dream you don’t want to wake from.
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  • a_bleeding_star

    ~ I Truly Recommend Anyone On this Page to Give His Latest Artistic Creation A Listen > [http://weswillenbring.bandcamp.com/album/weapons-reference-manual} < This Is Indeed Quite One of the BEST Artistic Masterpieces of {MMXII} ...Maudit Oui

    11 days ago
  • a_bleeding_star

    {...His Entire Discography is a Delicacy to My Nocturnal Senses...Indeed...Very Impressive...}

    March 2011
  • agrophobia

    I fell in love with Close, But Not Too Close specially with I'm Looking Forward to Your Funeral track <3

    February 2011
  • BleSsArion

    superrrrrrrrr

    September 2010
  • redizork

    new album is bautiful <3

    December 2009
  • patman2769

    I actually take back what I said about the production, BTW. I didn't follow the cardinal rule of 'if you boost any frequencies in the EQ, the preamp setting has to go down by at least the amount of your highest boost'.

    September 2009
  • hauskupa

    nice atmosphere... listening and liking this stuff

    January 2009
  • skerzo

    ...Though this is an ideal case to use a custom EQ setting in iTunes - you can then set just these tunes to use the setting when you play them - just to take some of the sludge out of the mids...

    June 2008
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Hidden Shoal Free Label Sampler Album Vol 7

22 May 2012 | from music.hiddenshoal.com

Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the release of Triangulating Nature, volume 7 in their free sampler album series, released as part of the label’s sixth birthday celebrations. The …

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