Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 2xLP

Our Review: When listening to Tim Hecker, it's practically impossible to hear samples, or instruments, or anything really, other than the amazing organic soundworld that Hecker has created. The constituent parts are rendered wholly unrecognizable. They are layers or colors or pieces of the new whole. Hecker's sound is transformative and transcendent, evocative of other times, other places, lost worlds, lost loves and forgotten memories. It does of course have elements of a forgotten past in it's crumbling decayed sound quality, and washed out ethereal ambience. It also manages to be melodic, active, and alive it its own way. For Ravedeath 1972, Tim Hecker took up residence at a church in Iceland, using that building's pipe organ as its main instrument, augmented by synthesizer, piano, feedback. This is not just atmospheric but emotional and infused with a definite pathos. The record opens with a super corrosive bit of blurred ambience. The sound decays and crumbles. The melodies pulse