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Konoyo – Tim Hecker

Konoyo – Tim Hecker
Konoyo – Tim Hecker
Konoyo – Tim Hecker
Konoyo – Tim Hecker
Konoyo – Tim Hecker
$33.95
  • Availability: In Stock
  • Label: Kranky
  • Model: Disque vinyle, double - Vinyl, double LP
  • Release: 2018
  • MPN: KRANK 219

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.

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.

Tracklist

  -A /This Life/In Death Valley/
  -B /Is A Rose Petal Of The Dying Crimson Light/Keyed Out/
  -C /In Mother Earth Phase/A Sodium Codec Haze/
  -D /Across To Anoyo/