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Tim Hecker
Virgins
Black Refraction

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Black Refraction

Release date: 14th October 2013

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About This Track

"Black Refraction" is a track by Tim Hecker, from the album Virgins, released 14th October 2013.

About the Artist

Tim Hecker

Tim Hecker

Track details

From Virgins

2013

Album

Release year

2013

—Live Room
—Incense at Abu Ghraib
—Live Room Out
—Prism
—Stab Variation
—Stigmata I
—Stigmata II
—Virginal II
—Radiance
—Virginal I
—Amps, Drugs, Harmonium
—Black Refraction

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Tim Hecker — Heaven Will Come
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Tim Hecker — A sodium codec haze
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Tim Hecker — Skeleton Dance VIII
Tim Hecker — Dream Of The Nightmare X
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Tim Hecker — Fukfunk
Tim Hecker — Sputtertones
Tim Hecker — Sadstrings
Tim Hecker — Huntington
Tim Hecker — Fresh
Tim Hecker — Flowers No. 4
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Credited: Beli Remour, Ben Frost, Black Saloon Studios, KaOs23, kranky Records, Mandy Parnell, meat computer, Paper Bag Records, Randall Dunn, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Warp Music