Tim Hecker has revealed details of his latest album, and first record for 4AD. The Canadian composer will release Love Streams, on April 8th 2016.
Love Streams takes its cues from the avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing of his previous full-length, 2013’s Virgins, but shaped into more melancholic, ultraviolet hues. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores (particularly those by Josquin des Prez), transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, the album was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. Like hearing some ancient strain of sacred music corrupted by encryption, Hecker admits to thinking about ideas like “liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus” and the “transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune,” during its creation.
The Love Streams sessions took place throughout 2014 and 2015 at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland – where parts of both Virgins and Ravedeath, 1972 were tracked – with Hecker reuniting with the same crew of collaborators from Virgins (Kara-Lis Coverdale, Grímur Helgason) and bolstered by the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, whose vocal arrangements were scored by Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson.
The title of Hecker’s new work can be interpreted any number of ways – erotic, technological, spiritual – although his own conception is appropriately vast, calling it “a riff on the ubiquity and nihilism of streaming of all forms of life.” Now we stream more than we love. Nowadays music too frequently resembles a product, or white noise. With a career spanning fifteen years, Tim Hecker belongs to a select camp actively resisting this undertow, this reduction in significance.
Tim Hecker Love Streams
Obsidian Counterpoint
Music of the Air
Bijie Dream
Live Leak Instrumental
Violet Monumental I
Violet Monumental II
Up Red Bull Creek
Castrati Stack
Voice Crack
Collapse Sonata
Black Phase
Re: Musica Elettronica (topic generico)
Posted: 27 Jan 2016 19:34
by ninarena
Grandissima attesa per Tim Hecker
Intanto sta tornando pure quella dolcina di Jessy Lanza
Re: Musica Elettronica (topic generico)
Posted: 27 Jan 2016 23:47
by ninarena
Decades ho scoperto un disco che ti potrebbe interessare. "Love Over Will" di Alex Smoke (R&S), densa e oscura technofolk che ricorda, per chi c'era, Ʌ - Wire Migraine. Concept interessante, suono all'avanguardia e buone melodie: che volete di più da un album electro? A me sta piacendo un botto
"The album title relates to Thelema, Crowley's religion for the new age, and Fin's artwork has clear links to magical thinking. The use of nudity also has something to say of our attitudes to it. Why should nudity and sexuality be shameful, while someone being graphically murdered is considered OK? The artwork is a response to the album but also chimes perfectly with the age we live in."
Re: Musica Elettronica (topic generico)
Posted: 28 Jan 2016 00:02
by Decades
Si recupera e si ascolta a breve
Re: Musica Elettronica (topic generico)
Posted: 28 Jan 2016 11:24
by AFX
sì roba interessante
Re: Musica Elettronica (topic generico)
Posted: 29 Jan 2016 22:56
by Messer Dino Compagni
Grandissimo Hecker. Il mio preferito nell'ambito ambient\elettronica.
1) Haunt me, Haunt me do it again
2) Ravedeath
3) Virgins
Interessante, mischia davvero tanti dentro, me ne sono accorto anchio!
Mi so recuperato Ultraviolet Music di Deepchord. Ormai è diventato il mio disco notturno del mese; con una certa predisposizione diventa una catarsi senza fine.
Il minutaggio sfida e per una "semplice" serie di brani non l'apprezzo tanto come scelta (Kamasi Whashington's The Epic dejavu). Infatti solo da sottofondo lo metto.