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Tim Hecker Virgins

Kranky | Item No: 338270
Vinyl 2LP | 2013 / US – Original | New
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Item Description
Received an 8.3 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork
Virgins was recorded during three periods in 2012, mostly in Reykjavik, Montreal and Seattle, using ensembles in live performance. The sound palette of this work is wider, almost 'percussive' and tighter sounding than previous works. While this album remains committed to a painterly form of musical abstraction, it is also a record of restrained composition recorded live primarily in intimate studio rooms. This record employs woodwinds, piano and synthesizers towards an effort at doing what digital music does not do naturally—making music that is out of time, out of tune and out of phase. This follow-up to his Juno-awarded Ravedeath, 1972 album exchanges gristled distortion and cavernous sound in favour of a close, airy, more defined palette. At times it points to the theological aspirations of early minimalist music. But it is not 'fake church music' for a secular age, rather something like an attempt at the sound of frankincense in slow-motion, or of a pulsing, flickering fluorescence in the grotto. Some pieces go off the rails before forming into anything, others eschew crescendo compositional structures or bombastic density while going sideways instead. It points to the ongoing development of TIM HECKER’s work. It suggests illusory memories of drughazed jams or communal music performance that may have never been performed or been heard. These are mp3s that give confusing accounts either of sound's glowing physicality or of its prismatic evasiveness. It is an offering of music into the void, a gift of digital filler between distractions. Yet hopefully it also stands as a document of the enduring faith in the narcotic, enigmatic function of music as long-form expression. Mixed by VALGEIR SIGuROSSON and Tim Hecker. Additional assistance by RANDALL DUNN and BEN FROST. Mastered by MANDY PARNELL at Black Saloon Studios in London, UK. No Export to Europe/UK or Japan.
Item Details
Item No: 338270
Artist: Tim Hecker
Title: Virgins
Label: Kranky
Catalog No: KRK183
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Electronic & Dance
Style: Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield
Available since: 2013-11-04
Condition: New
Price: $ 25.43
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Prism
A2 Virginal I
A3 Radiance
B1 Live Room
B2 Live Room Out
B3 Virginal II
C1 Black Refraction
C2 Incense at Abu Ghraib
C3 Amps, Drugs, Harmonium
D1 Stigmata I
D2 Stigmata II
D3 Stab Variation
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