Mirages (album)

Mirages is the third full-length album by Tim Hecker. It was released on September 21, 2004 by Alien8 Recordings. It is described on the Alien8 website as “an ambient-death-metal classic in waiting.” The album is composed primarily of heavily distorted and processed guitar. Relatively free of beats, this album moves rhythmically along in a glitch fashion, acquiring rhythm through pulsating or droning bass and some sounds resembling digital malfunction. In addition to sharing similar moods and tones, the tracks bleed into each other, making this a nearly seamless composition. The distortion guitar and feedback elements with delicate underlying melodies may call to mind the textural rock compositions of shoegaze.

Track listing

1. "Acéphale" – 4:57
2. "Neither More Nor Less" – 3:10
3. "Aerial Silver" – 3:37
4. "Celestina" – 4:31
5. "Counter Attack" – 2:13
6. "The Truth Of Accountants" – 2:21
7. "Aerial Light-Pollution Orange" – 3:09
8. "Non Mollare" – 1:10
9. "Kaito" – 3:08
10. "Balkanize-You" – 8:37
11. "Incurably Optimistic!" – 10:40

Production notes

• Recorded in Montreal and Ottawa
• November 2002 – March 2004
• Le Fly Pan Am + Christof Migone play on track 3
• Oren Ambarchi plays guitar on track 9
• David Bryant plays guitar on track 11
• "Kaito" samples the recording of the number station "Magnetic Fields" off the Conet project, which contains a recording by Jean Michel Jarre

External links

• Alien8 Recordings information page for Mirages