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
Konoyo received critical acclaim upon its release. At
Metacritic, which assigns a
Standard score rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an
weighted mean score of 82, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
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Accolades
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| Crack Magazine | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | | |
| Gaffa | Top 30 Albums of 2018 | | |
| The 405 | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | | |
| PopMatters | Top 70 Albums of 2018 | | |
| Top 20 Avant-Garde and Experimental Albums of 2018 | | |
| Sputnikmusic | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | | |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | Top 50 Albums of 2018 | | |
Track listing
Notes
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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
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Mariel Roberts – cello
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Tim Hecker – computer, electric guitar, synth, writer, producer
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Kara-Lis Coverdale – keyboards
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Yoshiyuki Izaki – percussion (uchimono)
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Takuya Koketsu – woodwind (ryuteki)
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Motonori Miura – woodwind (hichiriki)
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Fumiya Otonashi – shō
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Jake Viator – transfer
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Akihiro Iizuka – engineer
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Ben Frost – engineer
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Toshihiko Kasai – engineer
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Teo Schifferli – design, layout
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Tobias Spichtig – artwork, photography
Charts
