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Harmony in Ultraviolet
2006 studio album by Tim Hecker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harmony in Ultraviolet is the fourth studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on October 16, 2006, on Kranky.[1]
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Artwork
The album's front cover art is a photograph of a memorial in Bologna, Italy commemorating people from the area who were killed in the Italian resistance movement.[2] In an interview with Hecker, he said that the memorial was chosen for "the basis of its visceral qualities, but also how it fits with the music on a bunch of levels".[3]
Reception
The album was generally praised by critics, with Pitchfork writer Mark Richardson saying "Harmony in Ultraviolet is sensual body music of a very particular kind, and it's the sort of record that asks a lot. But if you trust it and go along, it knows exactly where to lay its hands."[5] For AllMusic, the album's individual parts were described as "work[ing] together to form an idea that's greater than its individual elements: a sense of exploration and sadness and understanding of the infiniteness and uncertainty and expanse of the world."[4]
Harmony in Ultraviolet would be ranked in two Pitchfork lists: "The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time" at ninth[9] and "Top 50 Albums of 2006" at fourteenth.[10] Writers for independent magazine Treblezine put the album in its "10 Essential Ambient Albums"[11] and its list of the twenty best Kranky albums.[12]
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Track listing
All tracks are written by Tim Hecker.
References
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