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"You put music by Montreal's Tim Hecker on the headphones and go for a walk around your neighborhood, and all of a sudden your other senses are heightened. The colors of the leaves are more vibrant; the stench wafting from an alley dumpster has an extra note of pungency; the sunlight on your face feels a little warmer. His music is designed for immersion, and it has a tendency to transform the space in which it's heard. The first time I listened to last year's Harmony in Ultraviolet I was riding on a bus, sitting in back, feeling the rumble of the engine beneath my seat. The windows had a plastic coating of some kind that gave everything an orange tint. As we idled at the corner, the glass shook and warped and it looked like a huge, brightly-colored earthquake outside, and the music reinforced the idea that the ground would rupture at any moment.
So anyway. I've missed Tim Hecker a bit this year, but he returns with a vinyl-only 10" EP later this month. Atlas consists of two tracks, each in the ten-minute range. Here we have the A-side, "Atlas One", which combines shifting drone, feedback, and plenty of digital crackle with random-sounding clusters of guitar harmonics that sound like they're being played by a gusty wind. Rather than building to a big peak, as he sometimes does, this track feels more like one of his dense travelogues, a steady unspooling of richly-textured tone and color. The pictures to go with it are up to you."
sounds like: glaciers. fuuuuuck, man
2 comments:
Paul, Thank you enormously for providing the mp3's of Atlas. I 1st knew of its existence when I was living in India last year, needless to say I wasn't going to the local record store to buy the vinyl LP. However at home in Philadelphia I absolutely would, I proudly own a record player and hundreds of new and old vinyl Lp's. Alas, I am traveling/living overseas a lot these days, currently I live in Seoul, Korea. Therefore I am sincerely grateful to own these tracks for my MP3 players, I'm a diehard audiophile who feels guilty about free downloads, I promise to buy the vinyl LP when I retire back home, with my trusted turn table.
yeah mister! my policy is that if i see it in a store and have money i buy it. without downloading all the music i have i wouldn't be listening to and eventually supporting any of these artists in the first place.
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