Konoyo
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.Accolades
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
- Takuya Koketsu – woodwind
- Motonori Miura – woodwind
- Fumiya Otonashi – shō
- Jake Viator – transfer
- Akihiro Iizuka – engineer
- Ben Frost – engineer
- Toshihiko Kasai – engineer
- Teo Schifferli – design, layout
- Tobias Spichtig – artwork, photography
Charts