''The Hummer'' is the ninth solo album by Canadian musician
Devin Townsend, and his second
ambient
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Music and sound
* Ambience (sound recording), also known as atmospheres or backgrounds
* Ambient music, a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere
* ''Ambient'' (album), by Moby
* ...
album. It was released on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records, on November 15, 2006.
Music
The album chiefly consists of interwoven low frequency sounds, flute,
morse code
Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of ...
and ocean sounds, as well as audio samples from sources such as a reading by
Leonard Cohen of part of the
Tibetan Book of the Dead
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,
Ravi Shankar, and the science fiction film ''
Contact
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* Contact (geology), a common geological feature
* Contact lens or contact, a lens placed on the eye
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* ...
'' (1997). This is a quiet, reflective work in the vein of
meditative music, and provides a stark
antithesis
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to the aggressive heavy metal stance adopted by one of Townsend's other projects -
Strapping Young Lad. Townsend describes it as "much more user friendly than the ''
Devlab''...still; some people are going to think it's just buzzing and humming noises, so again...it's not for everybody."
[Townsend, Devin (September 5, 2006).]
''The Hummer''
''Hevydevy Forums''. Retrieved April 19, 2009.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Devin Townsend – music
* Jeff Feinstein - flute
* Konrad Palkiewicz - artwork and layout
References
External links
HevyDevy homepage
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2006 albums
Devin Townsend albums
Albums produced by Devin Townsend