Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Tim Hecker Title: Radio Amor Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Alien8 Recording Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 1/23/2007 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Experimental Music, Dance Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 777078916624 |
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 | Tim Hecker Radio Amor Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop
"Radio Amor is a brilliant soundtrack for daydreaming, and Tim Hecker's effective variations on a few central ideas once again show a gifted composer at work." - PITCHFORKMEDIA It was January 1996 on the coast of Hondur... more » |
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Album Description "Radio Amor is a brilliant soundtrack for daydreaming, and Tim Hecker's effective variations on a few central ideas once again show a gifted composer at work." - PITCHFORKMEDIA It was January 1996 on the coast of Honduras. The musician in question was looking to catch a ride with a local vessel to the neighboring islands. There was one shrimping vessel in port that day, and its captain Jimmy was willing to take disheveled hippies on board. This album is dedicated to the idea of Jimmy the high-wire shrimper--misplaced nautical charts, trade winds, shortwave miscommunication, midnight whispers, amorxxx. Alien8 Recordings is reissuing Radio Amor, originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2002, in order to maintain the availability of one of their label's most important artists. The recording has been out of print for two years, out of the grasp of Hecker's growing legions of admirers. And currently, Hecker is still basking in the universally glowing reception of this year's Harmony in Ultraviolet on Kranky (Score 8.7/Pitchfork's Best New Music). Radio Amor is a key release in Hecker's discography, bridging the output between 2001's Haunt Me and 2004's Mirages. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsAs good as haunt me haunt me do it again jonathan crossley | UK | 02/10/2004 (4 out of 5 stars) "Hecker's talent for grainy textural detail and beatless "push" is as much evident here as on his first album. If you're a fan of Oval, Microstoria, or Eno's Apollo or Shutov Assembly albums; or if you like Godspeedyoublackemperor's drone pieces then you'll probably enjoy this." Perfect. J. Street | Brooklyn, NY | 01/07/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "The second the first track opens, I sigh, breathe more deeply, and sink into his world. I can't get enough of Tim Hecker's music. It's not for everyone, being experimental and without beat or note-driven direction, but if you like interesting music that you can chill out to or probably even meditate to, this is awesome. I'm a massage therapist and I have one client who won't listen to anything else." Totally gorgeous Aquarius Records | San Francisco | 01/20/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "As commonplace as glitched electronica is these days (even rock bands are now 'glitching things up' to sound more avant garde), a handful of these abstractionists have dedicated themselves to understanding the parameters of their tools and attempting to improve upon that which has come before. For several years now, this elite has included Fennesz and Stephan Mathieu, with Ekkehard Ehlers often exhibiting glimmers of similar electronic brilliance; however, Canadian electron wrangler Tim Hecker has come into his own with an equally strong aesthetic and a series of amazing releases. Outside his microhouse moniker Jetone, Hecker has released three records to date under his own name, beginning with the exceptional Fennesz worship of "Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again" and the shellshocked obliteration of Van Halen (quite literally!) on "My Love Is Rotten To The Core", however, "Radio Amor," Hecker's third album, may be even his best yet. Through an immensely rich set of reverb and granular synthesis patches, Tim Hecker has rendered the digital blip into a blissed out field of electric drones and warm, white noise. Throughout "Radio Amor," Hecker has ripped apart clustered notes from a piano and suspended them in the ether of an electricity, and occasionally the warm buzzings of analogue distortion emerge from the rippling, digitized vibrations. Half melodies, algorithmic ping-pong tones, and hard disc skips are all bathed with a radiant luster of electrified golds and coppers. Totally gorgeous."
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