Even though these tracks were created for different projects, Shards doesn’t feel like a mere compilation. Instead, it plays like a carefully curated journey through Hecker’s brooding, textural world.
Tag: Tim Hecker
Japanese ambient music :: Minimal environment and zen-inspired sonic sculptures
Through multiple evolutions along decades, with a refined combination of harmonies, a deep sense of space, a phenomenology of time and bright sonic manipulations based on acoustic timbres, Japanese artists invite the listener to enlightened and intuitive inner promenades.
Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals :: Cast Down And Hunted (Moving Furniture)
Overall, Cast Down And Hunted is a powerful release where I doubt I’ll ever play the B-side again; because it’s THAT powerful! But that A-Side might well end up on a ‘best of’ year list.
Tim Hecker unveils “Keyed Out,” announces Ensemble dates
Alongside the release of Konoyo on September 27, 2018, Hecker has announced a number of European and US tour dates for 2019 alongside the Konoyo Ensemble—starting in […]
Belong :: October Language (Spectrum Spools)
9 years on, Spectrum Spools presents a pristine vinyl cut with reimagined album art, physical copies including a download card and three rare tracks from […]
Day For Night 2017 :: December 15-17 (Houston, TX) – Visual Archive
Day For Night delivered its most ambitious festival yet, with a well-curated three-day program of music and cutting-edge visual art installations. Held at the site that […]
Elsewhereness revisited #7 stuff made of dreams which are
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging, tube-d, cloud-ed, and camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited #7. Ambient/folk-gaze maven, […]
VISUAL ARCHIVE—Moogfest 2016 :: May 19-22 (Durham, NC)
Delivering much more than just performances, Moogfest is also a full-fledged technology conference, with dozens of panels and talks covering topics like instrument design philosophy, […]
DECIBEL FESTIVAL 2015 :: In-depth coverage & visual archive
At this event the music itself matters, and audiences would rather hear Autechre’s complex and aggressive IDM in a blacked-out club than cringe at Steve […]
Big Ears Festival 2014 :: Visual archive
A world-class event showcasing a range of exceptional musicians across the related realms of avant-garde, modern classical composition, drone, electronic music, and noise. Big Ears […]
DENOVALI SWINGFEST 2013 :: 27 tracks free download festival sampler
In early October, Denovali Records will host their Experimental Music Festival called DENOVALI SWINGFEST for the 6th time in Essen (Germany). The festival will happen on October […]
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