Tim Hecker: Mirages on CD
Mirages
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
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- Label:
- Alien8
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2002
- UPC/EAN:
- 0777078911476
- Release date:
- 18.10.2004
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| CD | EUR 22.99* |
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Tim Hecker's latest full-length, MIRAGES, is a lesson of darkness, a midnight whisper revealing its true essence to the listener: an ambient-death-metal classic in waiting. Taking inspiration from Italian partigiani and the counter-attack of the anti-Vichyists, Hecker has issued a salvo against all tourists of melancholy; from trustafarian pseudo-leftists to the Ikea nihilists of the boboist rive droite. While some artists seem eager to explore new-age or "organic" solutions to electronic music, Hecker solves the Rubik's cube and penetrates the liquid magma, revealing the truths of dirty sodium light pollution, love on the rocks, and tooth hunting in the garden of evil. With its motifs of eroticism and torture, militancy, and ecstatic pain, Mirages also points backwards towards the Viking penchant for fighting and feasting. Don't be mistaken by insufficient musical descriptors: it is also surprisingly tender, like the fresh skin of a new lover. Indeed, Hecker demonstrates a penchant for the romantic by drawing in a den of noteworthy interlocutors into this work, including fellow Montr_alers le Fly Pan Am, Christof Migone, David Bryant, as well as his Australian compatriot Oren Ambarchi. Having already released a half-dozen recordings under a variety of guises, Hecker's Miragesis the follow-up and succession to the critically acclaimedRadio Amor (2003), released on the once esteemed and currently defunct Mille Plateaux label. Hecker is thrilled at returning to Alien8 Recordings, which also released his somewhat more sentimental Haunt, Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again (2001). We hope you find, as we do, Mirages further erodes the vapid predispositions of electronic music, uncovering a terrain where dissonance and melody coincide in a near-bohemian unison. Hecker has indeed developed a unique approach to music in an increasingly overcrowded and generic field. This is a challenging work, which reconciles a highly experimental approach to song craft that is at once beautiful and unnerving. As Mr. Hecker explains: "Mir...
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Tracklisting
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Acephale
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2 Neither More Nor Less
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3 Aerial Silver
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4 Celestina
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5 Counter Attack
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6 The Truth Of Accountants
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7 Aerial Light-Pollution Orange
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8 Non Mollare
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9 Kaito
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10 Balkanize-You
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11 Incurably Optimistic!
