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"Morning/Evening" is the eighth full-length solo album by British electronic musician Kieran Hebden, released under his alias Four Tet in 2015 by Hebden's own Text Records.
As a child, Hebden had inherited a collection of Hindu devotional music from his late grandfather but did not listen to it until his maternal grandmother died during the making of his 2013 album, Beautiful Rewind. After sampling the voice of Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, Hebden was inspired to make a record with a similar structure to Indian music, particularly the raga mode and decided to break the album into a "Morning Side" and an "Evening Side". Alongside the sampled vocals, Morning/Evening contains complex drum programming, electronic sounds and "manipulation of found audio recordings".
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On Morning Side, the first track of this two-track album, a sample of Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar repeats, as Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden assembles beats and textures beneath Mangeshkar’s voice using Ableton software, complete with time glitches. On Evening Side – which seems to pack in more thematic dawns than Morning Side – a wordless sample repeats elegiacally, as the digital sands shift beneath, eventually morphing into something you might dance to. Producer and DJ Hebden’s bow has many strings, but this low-key treat finds space both for subcontinental rigour – classical Indian ragas are often categorised by times of day – and effortless prettiness.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/05/four-tet-kieran-hebden-morning-evening-album-review
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