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.
Critical reception
The review aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave Konoyo a weighted average score of 7.7 out of 10 from nineteen critic scores.
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Track listing
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
Charts Chart (2018) Peak position
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