His score for the TV series ‘The North Water’ is a high point in an already impressive career. Canadian ambient maestro Tim Hecker extols the joys of the cello, outlines the perils of the soundtrack composer, and explains why he prefers to make music in the winter

Want to read more?

Sign up to Electronic Sound Premium to gain access to every post, video, special offers, and more. 100%, all you can eat, no commitment, cancel any time.


Sign Up Now

Already a premium member? Log in here

0 Shares:
You May Also Like
Read More

Gogo Penguin: Unelectronic Sound

With just three instruments between them, how is that Manchester’s Gogo Penguin sound so familiar? We lift the lid on their jazz-like exterior and find out how they do live electronica… with no electronics
Read More

Acid Klaus: Klaus Encounter

Co-founder of The Moonlandingz, Eccentronic Research Council and International Teachers Of Pop, Sheffield’s prolific producer and “cultural agitator” Adrian Flanagan is back with a new album under his latest alias, Acid Klaus
Read More

Robin Scott : The M Factor

It’s 46 years since Robin Scott slipped into the sharp suits of his M alter ego and stormed the charts worldwide with ‘Pop Muzik’. Now, for the first time since 1982, he has revived that singular initial for his new album
Read More

Harald Grosskopf: Tempel Pilot

Having been part of Ash Ra Tempel and its Ashra reincarnation, as well as Wallenstein and the legendary Cosmic Jokers, Harald Grosskopf is krautrock royalty. His scintillating 1986 solo release, ‘Oceanheart’, is now being reissued and given a contemporary rework by the man himself
Read More

Field Music: Cafe Society

The new Field Music offering, ‘Limits Of Language’, finds brothers Peter and David Brewis in a nostalgic mood. Overdosing on Marmite in their favourite Wearside cafe, they look back on the vanished eateries and melancholy early Septembers of their youth
Read More

Scanner: Bop Til You Eavesdrop

His voyeuristic 1995 ‘Mass Observation’ album broke all the rules and put Scanner on electronica’s top table. Some two decades down the line he’s still pushing at the edges. Robin Rimbaud talks life, the universe and almost everything…