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Tim Hecker - Radio Amor

Label:
Catalog#:
MP119
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
Germany
Released:
25 Mar 2003
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Ambient

Tracklist

1   Song Of The Highwire Shrimper 7:24 X
2   (They Call Me) Jimmy 4:52 X
3   Spectral 8:09 X
4   I'm Transmitting Tonight 5:16 X
5   7000 Miles 5:43 X
6   Shipyards Of La Ceiba 1:56 X
7   Careless Whispers 5:11 X
8   The Star Compass 4:49 X
9   Azure Azure 10:34 X
10   Trade Winds, White Heat 4:22 X

Credits

Artwork By [Design] - Aaron McConomy
Photography - Tim Hecker

Notes

Complete title: "Tim Hecker presents Radio Amor"

EFA cat-# is EFA 23119-2
LC 10521

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Rated 5/5
Review by scoundrel Dec 01, 2004 (edited over 4 years ago)
Warm and melodic, Tim Hecker’s album RADIO AMOR pulses and throb is aching beauty. Though mostly beatless, it engages the listener to drift into a space between the machine and the soul. The opening track, “Song Of The Highwire Shrimper,” sounds like a lonely Morse Code sent from the depths of isolation (with “I'm Transmitting Tonight,” with its reverberating piano chords, as the answer). “(They Call Me) Jimmy” is an electronic sigh, while “Careless Whispers” actually whispers (though not careless at all). “Azure Azure” takes a much harsher tone with distorted electric guitar drones, as if to say you’ve been floating in space long enough, and the final track returns to earth with warm, graceful synth chords. A wonderful journey inward.
Rated 5/5
Review by JeanMarcDekesel May 29, 2004
Radio Amor is an amazing ambient album in which Tim Hecker brings you an infinite soundscape of beautiful noise wherein an always distorted piano sings its song. The stunning thing is that all this noise and distortion manages to be so extremely warm and gentle.
Rated 4/5
Review by JonnieDarko Sep 09, 2003
An epic soundscape this is!!

An adventure in sound!

(In my words)It's as if it's the sound of an old battered radio marooned on a desolate island pining for a partner, churning out a heartfelt collage of sounds & distortions in hope someone will hear it's melancholic waves.
Sad, moving & beautiful all at once...BUY THIS ALBUM!!