Artist : Tim Hecker
Title : Norberg
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2007
Date : 12/27/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Room40
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 20:25 min
Size : 31,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Norberg 20:25
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20:25 min
From Boomkat:
An essential 21 minute outpouring from one of laptop music's brightest stars, Tim Hecker's session from
Sweden's Norberg Festival finds the musician on blistering form, sculpting narratives out of digital noise
and disembodied acousmatic sound. The piece opens like the first warning signs of an oncoming storm,
with something akin to wind buffeting ushering in the familiar granular chimes that so distinctively cut
through Hecker's Radio Amor album. Slowly but steadily a coating of thick, warm noise begins to stick to
everything like a plume of heavy desert dust, and the bells erode away into a vast nebula of hiss and low-
end presence. The next few minutes are pure texture, with little in the way of harmonic or tonal detail
cutting through the mix, instead you're left with a vast grey cloud hovering over you, with some sort of
phantom drone at its core, hidden away. Next, the levels of noise and distortion become fiery, devouring
the previously expansive, feathery soundscape and replacing it with a gnawed-at, more textured sense of
friction. By its end, the piece has returned to its dust bowl origins, leaving only loose threads of hiss floating
on the same ill wind that started the whole thing off. Amazing stuff - ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.
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