''Konoyo'' is the ninth

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by Canadian

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musician

Tim Hecker Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, composer, and sound artist. His work, spanning atmospheric ambient albums such as ''Harmony in Ultraviolet'' (2006), ''Ravedeath, 1972'' (2011) and ''Virgins'' (2013), has been widely cr ...

, 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

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ensemble, Tokyo Gakuso, in Jiunzan Mandala-Temple Kanzouin on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Critical reception

''Konoyo'' received critical acclaim upon its release. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an

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score of 82, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

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 *

– computer, electric guitar, synth, writer, producer *

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– keyboards * Yoshiyuki Izaki - percussion (uchimono) * Takuya Koketsu - woodwind ( ryuteki) * Motonori Miura - woodwind (

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) * Fumiya Otonashi - shō * Jake Viator - transfer * Akihiro Iizuka – engineer *

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– engineer * Toshihiko Kasai – engineer * Teo Schifferli – design, layout * Tobias Spichtig – artwork, photography

References

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