2011, Kranky
VINYL FORMAT. Recorded over the period
of mostly one day & assisted by Ben
Frost in Reykjavik, Iceland & using a
pipe organ as the primary sound source,
this new piece exists in a nether world
between captured live performance &
meticulous studio work, melding the two
approaches to sonic artifice as a unity.
The album is partly an attempt to
confront a pervasive negativity
surrounding music. Historical rituals of
destroying pianos, mountains of pirated
CDRs pushed by bulldozers in Eastern
Europe, or the melancholy of the digital
music era began as sideline motifs which
quickly informed the work on this
record. Despite that the context is wide
open in such a form of musical
abstraction, the substance of these
immersive compositions showcases
Hecker's continued mastery of organizing
sound into a visceral near entity.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Piano Drop |
| 2 | In the Fog, Pt. 1 |
| 3 | In the Fog, Pt. 2 |
| 4 | In the Fog, Pt. 3 |
| 5 | No Drums |
| 6 | Hatred of Music, Pt. 1 |
| 7 | Hatred of Music, Pt. 2 |
| 8 | Analog Paralysis, 1978 |
| 9 | Studio Suicide, 1980 |
| 10 | In the Air, Pt. 1 |
| 11 | In the Air, Pt. 2 |
| 12 | In the Air, Pt. 3 |
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