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29th September 2011

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Tim Hecker unveils new fragments of mystery behind his monolithic and massive album Ravedeath, 1972 which is surely one of the most staggering albums this year. (Hear its spectacular opening song The Piano Drop here.) The abrasive sound of synthesizers, droning basses and broken sketches of piano melodies not only materialized his addiction to defragmentation and creative destruction, but also uncovered the soul of music as if you looked into an open scar and saw through the blood and meat your own ivory-white bone. Hecker’s vast drones and surges of noise cut directly into that very bone and split it into two opposites: beauty of the art and morbid ugliness of its form creating an attractive beast. Now Hecker undresses those frightening and oppressive motives out of their noisy draperies on a collection of nine sketches released as Dropped Pianos (out on Kranky on October 10th).

Sketch 5 is the first appetizer and fulfills all the expectations on a noncontinuous nature of sketches which serve as a improvised base for more coherent and fluent expressions. The piano flows through dark areas of few dissonances and several murky shadows. Entirely played in minor key, Sketch 5 nicely captures the grim atmosphere of Hecker’s work, but still, without innumerable electronic manipulations and multi-layered drones sounds somehow more natural and more human. It’s probably caused by the sound of single piano which is unconsciously associated with such emotions and Hecker’s style just underlines these movements. Dropped Pianos is going to be a nice counterpart to a greater story of destruction and undressing of a music. Well done.

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