Konoyo

On the least dense and most inquisitive album of his career, the experimental musician creates a fascinating dialogue between his technology and some of the world’s most ancient instruments.

Hecker has long been a master of realising his distinct artistic vision, and Konoyo is no exception

The ambient icon returns with an album recorded with gagaku musicians

Tim Hecker recorded most of Konoyo in Japan, working with members of the gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso, who play a variety of traditional wind and percussion instruments.

Despite its flaws, Tim Hecker's ninth studio album Konoyo is still more than a worthwhile listen.

With his 2016 release, Love Streams, composer Tim Hecker processed the emanations of an Icelandic choir into diffused beams of refracted obl...

Konoyo in Japanese means "the world over here" and on his ninth studio album straddling the borders of the indescribable, Tim Hecker issues an open invitation to it.

'Konoyo', Tim Hecker’s ninth album, is a balanced, thoughtful record that can feel at points both joyous and suffocating. The affective

Tim Hecker went to find ancient Japan to get radical on his new album 'Konoyo' - influenced by gagaku it hits the sweet spot between tortured and blissful.

Record by record, Tim Hecker has solidified his position as one of the most important experimental, electronic music producers of this generation.

Tim Hecker creates a dense and often abrasive world of sound while making audiences wait for the best parts in our review of 'Konoyo'

Hecker explores another world of sound in collaboration with Japanese group Tokyo Gakuso, using expert sonic daubs

For once, Hecker has not conquered; he has submitted.

Tim Hecker - Konoyo review: It's all too beautiful.

It may be mean to say, but it seems sadness agrees with Tim Hecker. The Canadian has been a mainstay of the global experimental music world almost since the turn of the millennium, sitting somewhere between neo-classical, shoegaze, ambient and abstract noise. His tracks are always delicate, always poised, sometimes veering a little into harsh distortion though rarely if ever enough to scare the horses; and they seem to be at their best when they're at their sparsest and most desolate.