Name: Love Streams
Brand: Tim Hecker

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CAD3614CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-04-08

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Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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0652637361421

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Artist

Tim Hecker

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

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 Yeezusand 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, Gr?mur 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.

Love Streams

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