a r t i s t : Tim Hecker
t i t l e : Harmony in Ultraviolet
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Kranky
c a t : Krank102
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2006
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 73,9 MB
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Harmony in Ultraviolet is Tim Hecker's sixth album. It is a
continuation of Hecker's interest in spectral communications,
noise, impressionist musics, thresholds of listening
pleasure/pain, and the limits of digital composition. This
album is a significant development of his song-craft,
challenging the usefulness of descriptors such as ambient,
drone, metal, noise and even electronic music. If references
are necessary it could be described as a sonata for the
elements, songs of crackling embers, tidal pools, spruce
skylines and autumn winds. Gerhard Richter's abstract
paintings are also a fair orientation. Materially speaking, it
is a record of whirring drones, whispering fissures, dense
disintegrating chords, late-night noise and truth-telling
harmonics. Yet this record follows no overarching process, no
underlying narrative. It is both a homage for the Italian
partigiani and also not at all. It is songs about ghost
writing and midnight whispers but then again it isn't. In many
ways this album can be viewed as a work of total destruction,
embracing indeterminacy as an aesthetic ideal.
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01-Rainbow Blood [01:53]
02-Stags, Aircraft, Kings and Secretaries [04:31]
03-Palimpsest I [00:36]
04-Chimeras [03:14]
05-Dungeoneering [05:25]
06-Palimpsest II [00:39]
07-Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight [03:11]
08-Harmony in Blue I [01:32]
09-Harmony in Blue II [01:53]
10-Harmony in Blue III [02:41]
11-Harmony in Blue IIII [02:03]
12-Radio Spiricom [04:52]
13-Whitecaps of White Noise I [07:30]
14-Whitecaps of White Noise II [05:57]
15-Blood Rainbow [04:07]
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