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Tim Hecker - In The Fog II

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tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 (2011)

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Tim Hecker in regards to the album art and concept behind Ravedeath, 1972: 

"When I finished this album and it was time to do the artwork, I became obsessed with digital garbage, like when the Kazakhstan government cracks down on piracy and there's pictures of 10 million DVDs and CDRs being pushed by bulldozers. I kept thinking of these mountains of digital garbage.  So while searching for stuff like that on Google I came across pictures of destroyed pianos. I discovered that MIT students started this ritual in the 70s where they throw a piano off a building."

 "...In my mind, there's some connection between the computerized engineering that led to the codification of MP3s and music's denigration as an object and thus a viable means of economic survival." 

 What began as a mere model for album art became a concept for one of the best albums of Hecker's career -- that as we've entered the digital age and music has become further divorced from tangible, physical media, the more apparently disposable it has become.  The title of the central "Hatred of Music" suite says it all -- in 2012, what was once treated as high art in the analog domain has since been reduced to the status of transient, temporary relationships and one-night stands in the form of incorporeal, digital ephemera.

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This is the full album recording of RaveDeath that was recorded in a church in reykjavik. The dark ambient sounds of organs that reflect through the church truly create something special that makes you feel the pace and size of the sound reflecting the space. 

Pitchfork review the album in an article stating ‘For one, it seems that the organ sounds Hecker captured back in that Rejkjavik church represent a certain purity of sound and that the digital noise battering it throughout act as the enemy, the corrosive effect. There's an ongoing struggle between the two that's mirrored in the menacing song titles and gripping cover art. It's important, then, that the album closes with "In the Air III", a track that features almost no interference whatsoever, just the plinking organ by itself.’ - BY Joe Colly - http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15124-ravedeath-1972/

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkZVWXK5jM)

6. "Hatred of Music I" 22:12

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In the Air I — Tim Hecker Album: Ravedeath, 1972 Last.fm | Spotify | YouTube | iTunes

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