Tim Hecker – Anoyo LP 12" Vinyl bass and drums format of

bass and drums format of his legendary 1981 release The Ascension as well as 2010's The Ascension: The Sequel

" -- Byron Coley

shimmering guitar-pop band

Having only played drums for a few short years at that point

moving from the background into the spotlight

Tim Hecker – Anoyo LP 12" Vinyl bass and drums format ofAnoyo (the world over there) draws from the same sessions which led to the 2018 work Konoyo but rendered starker, solemn, and stripped back, with more of a naturalist tint. Tim Heckers processing here moves in veiled ways, soft refractions and whispered shrouds woven within improvisational sessions of traditional gagaku interplay, evoking a sense of vaulted space, temples at dawn, shredded silk fluttering in the rafters. This is boldly barren music,