Where I live there is not a lot of live music performed that floats my boat. There are some dub nights, and a monthly event hosted by Rephlex Records (which has something to do with Richard D. James), but do they really count? Well they Count, that's for sure.
I've gushed about Tim Hecker way way too much here on MOG. He's my favourite musician. I find his deconstructions of musical elements to be moving and deeply inspirational. Like I've written elsewhere, it sounds like either remembering or forgetting, or some kind of recorded stream of that process happening in someone or even in a landscape, like an architecture remembering its future. But this...
2. Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering (from "Harmony in Ultraviolet")A rotating, cyclical machine sound, full of life but cold as death. This is the sound that power pylons make on cold winter nights, as they sing to each other songs about high-frequency oscillation and its effects upon snowflakes. Industrial yard lights spire up into the frozen sky, shimmering a quiet hymn to the groaning aurora borea...
Here we go, the end of the album reviews! Now that it's April I feel embarrassingly late posting this, but I'm glad I got it all done.I'll upload my top 10 favouring songs of 2006 in separate tracks, each with an mp3 embed!1. Tim Hecker - Harmony in UltravioletWhat more about this album can I say than I already have? Well, a lot actually - and that's a testament to how incredible this album rea...
I've gushed about Tim Hecker way way too much here on MOG. He's my favourite musician. I find his deconstructions of musical elements to be moving and deeply inspirational. Like I've written elsewhere, it sounds like either remembering or forgetting, or some kind of recorded stream of that process happening in someone or even in a landscape, like an architecture remembering its future. But this...
Here we go, the end of the album reviews! Now that it's April I feel embarrassingly late posting this, but I'm glad I got it all done.I'll upload my top 10 favouring songs of 2006 in separate tracks, each with an mp3 embed!1. Tim Hecker - Harmony in UltravioletWhat more about this album can I say than I already have? Well, a lot actually - and that's a testament to how incredible this album rea...
I would like to gush about one of my favourite genres of new music, and one of my favourite artists that operates around the genre. The "genre" in question is deconstructionist electronic, and the artist is Tim Hecker, who I would have no problem in calling the best and most important musician in Canada.This genre is actually pretty small but I feel very influential - the two other big daddies ...
2. Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering (from "Harmony in Ultraviolet")A rotating, cyclical machine sound, full of life but cold as death. This is the sound that power pylons make on cold winter nights, as they sing to each other songs about high-frequency oscillation and its effects upon snowflakes. Industrial yard lights spire up into the frozen sky, shimmering a quiet hymn to the groaning aurora borea...