Tim Hecker reveals video for “Castrati Stack”

Tim Hecker reveals "Castrati Stack" video, the track comes off his LP 'Love Streams', out April 8, via Paper Bag./4AD

Tim Hecker’s forthcoming album, Love Streams, will be released on April 8th on Paper Bag Records. Today, the electronic composer reveals the lead track; a song entitled “Castrati Stack.” Tim Hecker will also hit the road with Love Streams for a string of live dates, starting April 7th at the Union in Los Angeles, CA.

“Inspired by notions of 15th century choral scores transposed to an artificial intelligence-era language of digital resonance and bright synths, Love Streams was assembled gradually, with layers of studio-tracked keyboards, choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix, then molded and disfigured through complex programming. ‘Castrati Stack’ continues to showcase Hecker’s remarkable ability to find balance between raucous dissonance and a meditative lament that has long marked his works”.

Along with the album release of the song, comes a video from Brett Stabler, watch the footage via the link below.

The Love Streams sessions took place throughout 2014 and 2015 at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland – where parts of both previous albums Virgins and Ravedeath, 1972 were tracked – with Hecker reuniting with the same crew of collaborators from Virgins (Kara-Lis Coverdale, Grímur Helgason) and bolstered by the Icelandic Choir Ensemble, whose vocal arrangements were scored by Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson.

April 7 – LOS ANGELES, CA, Union
April 14 – NEW YORK, NY, Warsaw
April 15 – CHICAGO, MI, Empty Bottle
May 5 – LONDON, St. John’s Church
May 7 – KREMS, Donau Festival
May 9 – BRAGA, Gnration
May 10 – LISBON, Teatro Maria Matos
May 12 – BERLIN, Berghain
May 13 – DEN HAAG, Korzo Theatre
May 14 – GENEVA, La Gravière
May 15 – GLASGOW, St. Lukes
May 16 – MANCHESTER, Manchester Academy
May 19-21 – DURHAM, NC, Moog Festival
June 11 – TORONTO, ON, Unsound Toronto at Luminato Festival

Tim Hecker Love Streams
Obsidian
Counterpoint
Music of the Air
Bijie Dream
Live Leak Instrumental
Violet Monumental I
Violet Monumental II
Up Red Bull Creek
Castrati Stack
Voice Crack
Collapse Sonata
Black Phas

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