Zulu Records
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TIM HECKER - Radio Amor Word has it that this recording is a tribute to an itinerant shrimp fisher Hecker met while in the Caribbean. While the veracity of this claim must be accepted on faith, we figure, Hecker has done much to win our confidence so far. For example, his last two recordings, Haunt Me and My Love is Rotten to the Core, are amazing: lush, intelligent and musical, they stand well above the work of many of his peers. Apparently Mille Plateaux has also been won over by young Hecker's many talents, since Radio Amor is on this coveted German imprint, not Hecker's usual Canadian Alien8/Subtractif residence (although Mille Plateaux's sister label, Force Inc., was behind Hecker's Jetone recording, so our German pals didn't come on entirely cold). The press push for Radio Amor says that it fits somewhere between Fennesz's Endless Summer and Oval's Diskont 94, and this comparison is indeed apt, but Hecker has a clear voice and irreverent humor of his own, not content to simply travel the well-worn path. Celebrate the digital-smart sound of Young Canada. CD 19.98 /2LP 22.98 SALE |