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 (uchimono)
• Takuya Koketsu – woodwind (ryuteki)
• Motonori Miura – woodwind (hichiriki)
• Fumiya Otonashi – shō
• Jake Viator – transfer
• Akihiro Iizuka – engineer
• Ben Frost – engineer
• Toshihiko Kasai – engineer
• Teo Schifferli – design, layout
• Tobias Spichtig – artwork, photography

Charts

References