An album that has continually drawn my attention and sits at #5 in my overall chart.
In 2010, Hecker went to Iceland to record Ravedeath after advice from Australian ambient artist Ben Frost (who had been working on Solaris with Daniel Bjarnason). Hecker recorded most of the album in a day. "I brought in pieces that I had been working on that needed something else to them and improvised a lot and layered over them and transformed them through the organ," Hecker says. "Afterwards, it was just a question of montage and editing decisions. It's a hybrid of a studio and a live record."
A great matchup that at least in my honest opinion shows what this tourney hopes to accomplish. The Golden Morning Breaks was a fine little discovery I probably wouldn't have discovered otherwise, an intimate music-box-style album that reminded me of a more mercurial yet quieter Milk Eyed Meander, mainly in it's ability to create it's own lovely fairy-tale world. Ravedeath 1972, however, is truly in it's own league, the kind of intense experience that paints a vivid time-and-place and has a sense of immediacy that makes it utterly thrilling, and Im glad it and it's opponent are getting a wider audience thanks to this tournament.
Edit: Easily the best poll so far for me. I'm going to listen to both a couple more times. Really hard decision and I don't want to abstain when I enjoy both albums.
Yeah, can't decide here. I may go for Colleen, the album that I know the best of the two, since I only discovered Hecker for this game. But I must say it's a very good album too.
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