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HECKER, TIM - Mirages

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Alien8recordings ALIENCD47
Release Year: 2004
Note: oversized digipack
Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.50
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Absolut beeindruckend, wie TIM HECKER hier dreckig-digitalen Lärm, sehnsuchtsvolle Melodien und monumentale oder ganz sanfte Drones vermengt, stets ambivalent und im Wechselspiel zwischen diesen Polen..... ein fantastisches Album, das an digitalisierte SLOWDIVE oder harmonischen FENNESZ denken lässt.....
This is really something to loose your emotional mind in, there are yearnful harmonies, but there’s also dirty digital noise, and monumental or smooth drones, the tracks are ambigously drifting between these poles.....a fantastic album !

“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 Montréalers le Fly Pan Am, Christof Migone, David Bryant, as well as his Australian compatriot Oren Ambarchi." [press release]