An "electronic musician" has a go on a pipe organ...

[KB7DQH]

Here's another exciting new record announcement for February – Canadian ambient/electronic sound artist Tim Hecker will release Ravedeath, 1972 in February through Kranky.

Here's what the press release had to say:

Recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland and using a pipe organ as the primary sound source, this new piece is essentially a live recording. In reality, it exists in a nether world between captured live performance and meticulous studio work, melding the two approaches to sonic artifice as a unity...It is an almost physical presence that the listener feels as much as hears. This work is a significant contribution to Hecker's oeuvre, one which spans over ten years of musical production. Ravedeath is an enigmatic document of beauty and force.

And quoted from...http://popheadwound.blogspot.com/2010/11/tim-hecker-announces-new-album.html


Sounds like an interesting project...

Eric
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[NonPlayingAnorak]

Well, if it sounds like Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal's side-project which involved an organ, I'll pass.

[KB7DQH]

Given this album has been "out for awhile" and various folks have had a listen and reviewed it...
I have yet to see one review online that didn't recommend it.

But here is a quote from one reviewer I found most interesting...

As an invention that predates our modern understanding of sound waves and the notation and tuning systems in use today, the pipe organ is impressive to say the least. Get a church organist to hit the right combination of keys and those stories of creation and apocalypse will need no further explanation, as air shuddering through the towering metal flues and finely honed reeds summons up a chorus of a hundred angelic trumpets or the groans of the eternally damned.

Today, however, most of us prefer our revelations to come coded at 192 kbps, whispered divinely into our ear canals as we go about our business in a world whose everyday activities would have a medieval organ-builder whimpering and gibbering about witchcraft. But if you could pop a pair of headphones on him before he turned on his heel and fled, that distant ancestor of Bob Moog might find something familiar in much of today's ambient and drone music: namely, the shifting, complex textures, the slow, hypnotic pulses and the love of a good fire-and-brimstone climax.

Montreal-based sonic architect Tim Hecker must understand this, having drawn much of the sounds from which Ravedeath, 1972 is composed from a session with an old pipe organ, recorded, along with guitar and piano in an Icelandic church, with fellow musician Ben Frost helping out with performance and engineering.

The rest of the review can be found herehttp://drownedinsound.com/releases/16037/reviews/4142225?ticker

Eric
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