Tim Hecker - Love Streams - 2LP

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Tim Hecker - Love Streams - 2LP
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Church organs, sometimes samples of strings, pianos or electroacoustic components, which erupt into a rushing, oceanic sound world: profound, majestic and a bridge between noise, ambient and minimal. »Love Streams« was created at the end of 2015, after Hecker had retired to Los Angeles for a long time or together with Johan Johanssen and Ben Frost to the Icelandic Greenhouse Studio. 

The album is perhaps the most ambitious work in Hecker's fifteen-year career, as well as a consistent development of his key works Radio Amor  Harmony In Ultraviolet  and Virgins, which in the years of their release by both critics and fans in all sorts of leaderboards were chosen. 

Canadian composer Tim Hecker releases his latest album 'Love Streams', and first record for 4AD. 'Love Streams' takes its cues from the avant-classical orchestration and extreme electronic processing of his previous full-length, 2013's 'Virgins', but shaped into more melancholic, ultraviolet hues. Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores (particularly those by Josquin des Prez), transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, the album was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. Like hearing some ancient strain of sacred music corrupted by encryption, Hecker admits to thinking about ideas like "liturgical aesthestics after Yeezus" and the "transcendental voice in the age of auto-tune," during its creation. The 'Love Streams' sessions took place throughout 2014 and 2015 at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland - where parts of both 'Virgins' and 'Ravedeath, 1972' were tracked - with Hecker reuniting with the same crew of collaborators from 'Virgins' (Kara-Lis Coverdale, Grímur Helgason) and bolstered by the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, whose vocal arrangements were scored by Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson. The title of Hecker's new work can be interpreted any number of ways - erotic, technological, spiritual - although his own conception is appropriately vast, calling it "a riff on the ubiquity and nihilism of streaming of all forms of life." Now we stream more than we love. Nowadays music too frequently resembles a product, or white noise. With a career spanning fifteen years, Tim Hecker belongs to a select camp actively resisting this undertow, this reduction in significance

Tracklist
LP 1
1. Obsidian Counterpoint (004:55)
2. Music Of The Air (004:08)
3. Bijie Dream (002:16)
4. Live Leak Instrumental (002:56)
5. Violet Monumental I (004:58)
6. Violet Monumental II (003:13)
LP 2
1. Up Red Bull Creek (002:41)
2. Castrati Stack (004:01)
3. Voice Crack (003:14)
4. Collapse Sonata (004:12)
5. Black Phase (006:15)

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