Konoyo

Konoyo is the ninth studio album by Canadian electronic music musician Tim Hecker, released on September 28, 2018 on Kranky and Sunblind Music. A majority of the album was made from Hecker's visits to Japan, where he worked with a gagaku ensemble, Tokyo Gakuso, in Jiunzan Mandala-Temple Kanzouin on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Critical reception
Konoyo received critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 82, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Track listing
Notes
 * All tracks are stylized in sentence case, except for "In Death Valley" and "Across to Anoyo". For example, "This Life" is stylized as "This life".

Personnel

 * Mariel Roberts – cello
 * Tim Hecker – computer, electric guitar, synth, writer, producer
 * Kara-Lis Coverdale – keyboards
 * Yoshiyuki Izaki - percussion (uchimono)
 * Takuya Koketsu - woodwind (ryuteki)
 * Motonori Miura - woodwind (hichiriki)
 * Fumiya Otonashi - shō
 * Jake Viator - transfer
 * Akihiro Iizuka – engineer
 * Ben Frost – engineer
 * Toshihiko Kasai – engineer
 * Teo Schifferli – design, layout
 * Tobias Spichtig – artwork, photography