Tim Hecker - Konoyo (LP)

Add to Cart

Experimental 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.

- LP