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Mirages Studio album by Tim Hecker Released September 21, 2004 Recorded November 2002 – March 2004 Genre Ambient / Glitch Length 47:41 Label Alien8 Professional reviews The reviews parameter has been deprecated. Please move reviews into the “Reception” section of the article. See Moving reviews into article space.
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- Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) 10/11/2004
- Stylus (B-) 10/5/2004
Tim Hecker chronology Radio Amor
(2004)Mirages
(2004)Mort Aux Vaches
(2005)Mirages is the third full-length album by Tim Hecker. It was released on September 21, 2004 by Alien8 Recordings. It is described on the Alien8 website as “an ambient-death-metal classic in waiting.” The album is composed primarily of heavily distorted and processed guitar. Relatively free of beats, this album moves rhythmically along in a glitch fashion, acquiring rhythm through pulsating or droning bass and some sounds resembling digital malfunction. In addition to sharing similar moods and tones, the tracks bleed into each other, making this a nearly seamless composition. The distortion guitar and feedback elements with delicate underlying melodies may call to mind the textural rock compositions of shoegaze.
Track listing
- "Acéphale" – 4:57
- "Neither More Nor Less" – 3:10
- "Aerial Silver" – 3:37
- "Celestina" – 4:31
- "Counter Attack" – 2:13
- "The Truth Of Accountants" – 2:21
- "Aerial Light-Pollution Orange" – 3:09
- "Non Mollare" – 1:10
- "Kaito" – 3:08
- "Balkanize-You" – 8:37
- "Incurably Optimistic!" – 10:40
Production notes
- Recorded in Montreal and Ottawa
- November 2002 – March 2004
- Le Fly Pan Am + Christof Migone play on track 3
- Oren Ambarchi plays guitar on track 9
- David Bryant plays guitar on track 11
- "Kaito" samples the recording of the number station "Magnetic Fields" off the Conet project, which contains a recording by Jean Michel Jarre
External links
Tim Hecker Studio albums Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again · Radio Amor · Mirages · Harmony in Ultraviolet · An Imaginary Country · Ravedeath, 1972EPs Trade Winds, White Noise · My Love Is Rotten to the Core · Radio Marti / Radio Havana · Mort Aux Vaches · Pareidolia · Norberg · Atlas · Apondalifa
Categories:- 2004 albums
- Tim Hecker albums
- Alien8 Recordings albums
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