{"product_id":"konoyo","title":"Konoyo","description":"\u003cp\u003eExperiential composer \u003cstrong\u003eTim Hecker\u003c\/strong\u003e’s ninth official full-length, \u003cem\u003eKonoyo\u003c\/em\u003e (“the world over here”) was largely recorded during several trips to Japan where he collaborated with members of the gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso, in a temple on the outskirts of Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by conversations with a recently deceased friend about negative space and a sense of music’s increasingly banal density, Hecker found himself drawn towards restraint and elegance, while making music both collectively and alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs with the Icelandic choir he arranged on 2016’s \u003cem\u003eLove Streams\u003c\/em\u003e, the heights of Hecker’s talent emerge in his manipulation of source material, bending and burnishing it into fantastical new forms. Keening strings are stretched into surreal, pixelated mirages; woodwinds warble and dissipate as fractal whispers of spatial haze; sparse gestures of percussion are chopped, isolated, and eroded, like disembodied signals from the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth in texture and intent, \u003cem\u003eKonoyo\u003c\/em\u003e conjures a somber, ceremonial mood, suffused with ritual and regret. Visions flutter and fade; dreams gleam and decay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50471866892619,"sku":"1043276","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471866335563,"sku":"1043275","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4eb6f168-2a51-44b3-be2f-ef16bd482569_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727412288","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/konoyo","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}