Konoyo

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Konoyo

2018 studio album by Tim Hecker

Konoyo is the ninth studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on September 28, 2018 on Kranky and Sunblind Music. A majority of the album was made from Hecker's visits to Japan, where he worked with a gagaku ensemble, Tokyo Gakuso, in Jiunzan Mandala-Temple Kanzouin on the outskirts of Tokyo.[2]

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Critical reception

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Konoyo received critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 82, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[4]

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Track listing

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All tracks are written by Tim Hecker

Notes

  • All tracks are stylized in sentence case, except for "In Death Valley" and "Across to Anoyo". For example, "This Life" is stylized as "This life".

Personnel

  • Mariel Roberts – cello
  • Tim Hecker – computer, electric guitar, synth, writer, producer
  • Kara-Lis Coverdale – keyboards
  • Yoshiyuki Izaki - percussion (uchimono)
  • Takuya Koketsu - woodwind (ryuteki)
  • Motonori Miura - woodwind (hichiriki)
  • Fumiya Otonashi - shō
  • Jake Viator - transfer
  • Akihiro Iizuka – engineer
  • Ben Frost – engineer
  • Toshihiko Kasai – engineer
  • Teo Schifferli – design, layout
  • Tobias Spichtig – artwork, photography

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