Tim Hecker's new long player 'Ravedeath, 1972', was recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland, using a pipe organ as primary instrument, it finds him adding a dimension of subtle choral splendour to his work, juxtaposing the sacred and profane by twisting the devotional melodies of the organ through the filters of ambient electronica.
The optimisitically titled 'Hatred of Music I' is a perfect piece
of melodic abstraction and indicative of Hecker's work on this
album, there's an assured lightness of touch in its creation of
depth through layer-after-layer of sound, noise and rhythm, without
becoming overwhelming or losing anything in the density. Hecker
work's at a place where melody drifts across white noise, like
gothic spires rising out of fog, his last LP was called 'An
Imaginary Country' and 'Ravedeath' still finds him challenging
hacks to come up with more and more innovative ways of capturing
his soundscapes in words without resorting to describing the whole
geography of the countries that his music conjures in your
imagination.
