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''Ravedeath, 1972'' is Canadian ambient musician Tim Hecker's sixth full-length album, released on February 14, 2011 by Kranky. Musically sparse, and recorded primarily in Frikirkjan Church, Reykjavík. The album's central theme is of the degradation of music itself. Critical response was largely warm, with many reviewers acknowledging the album as Hecker's finest. == Writing, recording and release == The album was written by Hecker during late 2010 in Montreal and Banff, Canada.〔 The majority of the album was recorded in Fríkirkjan Church, Reykjavík, Iceland; the location was discovered as a possible recording venue by Iceland-based producer and musician Ben Frost.〔 Hecker recorded the bulk of the album on July 21, 2010,〔 playing compositions on the pipe organ which were further complemented by guitar and piano.〔 Following this concentrated recording session, he returned to his studio in Montreal and worked for a month, undertaking the mixing and completing the record.〔 The result, as Hecker described it, is "a hybrid of a studio and a live record."〔 The cover depicts MIT students pushing a piano off the roof of a campus building there in 1972 – an act which began a long-running university ritual.〔 Inspired by "digital garbage – like when the Kazakhstan government cracks down on piracy and there's pictures of 10 million DVDs and CDRs being pushed by bulldozers", Hecker found the artwork and developed the cover concept himself, licensing the artwork from the MIT archives and re-photographing the image.〔 The '1972' of the album's title is a reference to the cover artwork – the inaugural piano drop occurred in 1972 – but word 'Ravedeath' has unclear connotations, even to Hecker himself. At a rave in 2010, the word occurred to Hecker, and became "the wrongest and the most right title ever. It had a life of its own after a while."〔 The album was released in CD and double LP format by Kranky Records on February 14, 2011.〔 Hecker subsequently released a companion EP, named ''Dropped Pianos'', later in 2011. It serves as a "starker and colder" counterpoint, utilising "heavy reverb and minor-key tones, () lots of negative space".〔 The EP's cover art is yet another re-photographing of the MIT image used for ''Ravedeath''. While the image has been re-photographed in a different setting, it is unclear whether it was a negative of the image that was re-photographed, or simply a variation that has been inverted.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ravedeath, 1972」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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