Did you see that wonderful picture of snowfall on the Great Pyramids last winter? I guess someone must have shot it from a helicopter. Or maybe it was captured by a surveillance drone. Supposedly the last time it happened was 113 years ago, but that part might be fake news. I know they had cameras back then, but I’m pretty sure not drones or helicopters. Anyway, the scene looks really peaceful from above, like the kind of vision your soul might see on its way up to heaven if you died unexpectedly in a car crash. You’d be all like -- hey! wow! look at the pyramids, they’re covered in snow! -- and suddenly you’d wonder how you got there and why it didn’t feel cold. But before you had time to get worried about it you'd already be in a better place. When your soul is in transit, what do you hear? Is it anything at all like earthly music and does it sound the same today as it did in 1905? If you really knew the answer to those questions you’d have to be dead. Anyway, like I said, it's a really cool picture. You should look it up.
credits
released March 3, 2018
ben recht - baritone guitar
isaac sparks - turntable
originally released in a batch of 100 cassettes on spring break tapes as sbt037.
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Awesome !!!
Best album drone ambient electronic 2017.
Great band higtly recommended .
The vinyl edition is very very beautiful, great job from the label. fabrice lefebvre
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Listening to a Tim Hecker album is rarely ever a time to skip between songs or chose one track in the middle to start things off. Saying that, This Life is a perfect way to begin this audio experience. What I love most about this album though is how Tim seems to be evolving as a musician, patiently honing his skills, and fine tuning his craft. His works improve with each progressive album, while new experiments are woven into the tracks, he still manages to retain his signature sound. Jon Vassa