''Konoyo'' is the ninth

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by Canadian

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musician

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, 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

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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

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

Charts

References

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