Track Listing

1. Rainbow Blood
2. Stags, Aircraft, Kings and Secretaries
3. Palimpsest, Pt. 1
4. Chimeras
5. Dungeoneering
6. Palimpsest, Pt. 2
7. Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight
8. Harmony in Blue, Pts. 1-4
9. Radio Spiricom
10. Whitecaps of White Noise, Pt. 1
11. Whitecaps of White Noise, Pt. 2
12. Blood Rainbow
13. Whitecaps of White Noise, Pt. 1
14. Whitecaps of White Noise, Pt. 2
15. Blood Rainbow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36112 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-17
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Harmony in Noise and Melody
Quite simply, one of the best ambient works ever done. Tim Hecker provides a perfect collison between noise and drone, with all-but forgotten melody lurking beneath surface. The culmination of Hecker's previous works, this piece is all dreamscape with a scratchy, hypnotic vision where the contrast between noise and harmony sound as if it is no contrast at all, but inseparable partners on this intensely emotional voyage.

After hearing this CD, I immediately purchased all of Hecker's works. This is definitely the one where he has perfected his craft. Nearly as good, however, would be Mirages, and Haunt Me. If you like this one, be sure to pick up those two as well.

Harmony in Ultraviolet
We all knew that Tim Hecker had it in him--an A-plus after so many A-minuses, an album that fulfills all the promises of the respectively excellent Mirages and Radio Amor. Harmony's unified ambient suite is capable of releasing emotions that you never knew you had, laying the tension on thick and using the beatless format to pulsate, tug and spill over at just the right moments. Beneath the white noise decay and the frightening sound effects (scissors, helicopter blades) lies a deep core of sadness gripped by anxiety, and the unnerving paradox of extreme violence and ultimate serenity. Harmony in Ultraviolet is the soundtrack to the most cathartic 50 minutes of your life, and chronicles the longings of the heart more effectively than any piece of music in recent memory, ambient or otherwise.

KI-LLLL-EEERRRRR
WOW! im so happy to have found this album! Just in time too as the wintry season is almost leaving us and these Harmonies in Ultraviolet really do fit that grey-sky over industrial wasteland vibe travelling from Manhattan down the Jersey Turnpike. While impressed with his previous efforts, I really found something.. lacking in them. Perhaps I had just caught Fennesz earlier and couldn't help a comparison. And this album has its comparisons as well, but what a tremendous production and editing feat this is. Harmony indeed. Standout tracks include 'Chimeras', 'Harmony in Blue I-IV', 'Dungeoneering', and everything in between. This is truly a 'full' album, where perhaps the independent parts won't provoke the same reaction as when it is heard in full. This is my pick for album of the year I just can't stop listening to this!