Name: Konoyo
Brand: Tim Hecker

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KRANK219CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-09-28

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Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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796441821921

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Tim Hecker

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Kranky

Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Los Angeles, United States and Montreal, Canada. He has gained international recognition for his unique recordings released under his own name. With a background in government work, Hecker's music showcases his innovative approach to electronic soundscapes.

Originally recording under the moniker Jetone, Tim Hecker has since established himself as a prominent figure in the electronic music scene. His atmospheric compositions blend elements of ambient, drone, and experimental genres to create immersive sonic experiences.

With a career spanning over two decades, Tim Hecker continues to push boundaries with his captivating soundscapes. His ability to manipulate and transform sounds into emotive narratives sets him apart as a visionary artist in the realm of electronic music.

Tim Hecker's album Konoyo. Available here on Standard Black Double LP and Standard CD.

Experiential composer Tim Hecker’s ninth official full-length, Konoyo (“the world over here”) was largely recorded during several trips to Japan where he collaborated with members of the gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso, in a temple on the outskirts of Tokyo. Inspired by conversations with a recently deceased friend about negative space and a sense of music’s increasingly banal density, Hecker found himself drawn towards restraint and elegance, while making music both collectively and alone.

As with the Icelandic choir he arranged on 2016’s Love Streams, the heights of Hecker’s talent emerge in his manipulation of source material, bending and burnishing it into fantastical new forms. Keening strings are stretched into surreal, pixelated mirages; woodwinds warble and dissipate as fractal whispers of spatial haze; sparse gestures of percussion are chopped, isolated, and eroded, like disembodied signals from the afterlife. Both in texture and intent, Konoyo conjures a somber, ceremonial mood, suffused with ritual and regret. Visions flutter and fade; dreams gleam and decay.

Konoyo

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