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Born | September 1977 (age 41–42) |
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Kieran Hebden (born 1977), best known by the stage nameFour Tet, is an English musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist.
Four Tet - Wikipedia. Kieran Hebden. Background information. Also known as. T Recordings. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist. Boomkat Product Review: Recorded over two days in February of this year, this latest album from Four Tet's Kieran Hebden and legendary drummer Steve Reid was committed to tape in New York's Avatar studios, which has previously played host to sessions by artists as diverse as Miles Davis, Steve Reich and Missy Elliot. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: NYC Vijith Assar. Jazz drummer Steve Reid is a fascinating contrast to the rigid grids typical of Four Tet. Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid NYC Label: Domino US Release Date: 2008-11-03 Amazon iTunes. The latest in a string of rather transparently and deliberately Odd Couple duo records, NYC sees Four Tet digital brainiac Kieran Hebden. Listen to Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid Radio featuring songs from NYC free online. Listen to free internet radio, sports, music, news, talk and podcasts. Stream live events, live play-by-play NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football, NCAA basketball, and Premier League matches.
Hebden has remixed tracks by artists including Aphex Twin, Bicep, Explosions in the Sky, Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Ellie Goulding, J Dilla, Lana Del Rey, Manic Street Preachers, Sia, Black Sabbath and Madvillain, and has produced two albums by psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man. Hebden's recent output includes a number of improvisational works with jazz drummerSteve Reid and collaborations under the name 00110100 01010100 (unicode for 4T) with Burial and Thom Yorke.
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Early life[edit]
Kieran Hebden was born in Putney, London, England,[2] to a South African-born Indian mother and a British sociology lecturer father.[3] He attended Elliott School in Putney,[3] where he formed the band Fridge with classmates Adem Ilhan and Sam Jeffers. The band signed a recording contract when Hebden was 15,[3] and released their first album, Ceefax, on Trevor Jackson's Output Recordings label in March 1997. While working with Fridge, Hebden went on to earn a degree in maths and computer studies from Manchester University.[4]
Career[edit]
Hebden's first solo release was the 1997 single 'Double Density', released on the Output label under the artist name 4T Recordings. He began releasing material as Four Tet in 1998 with the 36 minute, 25 second single 'Thirtysixtwentyfive'. Later that year, he released another single, the jazz-influenced 'Misnomer'. 1999's Dialogue, again on Output, was Four Tet's first full-length album release and fused hip hop drum lines with dissonant jazz samples. This was followed by the double A-side single 'Glasshead'/'Calamine', which was to be Four Tet's last release on Output.
In late 1999, Warp Records released Warp 10 + 3: Remixes, a tenth-anniversary compilation of remixes of Warp tracks. Hebden contributed a remix of the opening track of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which was considered to be his break-out release.[5]
In 2001, Four Tet's second album Pause was released on Domino Recording Company and found Hebden using more folk and electronic samples, which was quickly dubbed 'folktronica' by the media and press in an attempt to label the style (often also applied to artists such as Isan and Gravenhurst).[5]Rounds was released in May 2003. Three singles were released from the album: 'She Moves She', 'As Serious as Your Life' and 'My Angel Rocks Back and Forth'. This last single was released as an EP featuring remixes by electronica duo Icarus and Isambard Khroustaliov along with additional Four Tet tracks 'I've Got Viking in Me' and 'All the Chimers'. An accompanying DVD featured all of Four Tet's videos to date. In addition, the closing track 'Everything is Alright' was featured in a U.S. Nike commercial in 2001 and 2002.[6]
At the beginning of 2003, Four Tet opened for Radiohead on their European tour. A remix of the song 'Scatterbrain' from Radiohead's sixth studio album Hail to the Thief was released in November 2003 as a B-side to the single '2 + 2 = 5' and later included on their 2004 EP COM LAG (2plus2isfive). Furthermore, Hebden was among the people thanked by Radiohead in the booklet accompanying their 2007 In Rainbows 'discbox' release.
Hebden performing at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004
A live album named Live in Copenhagen 30th March 2004 was released in April 2004 as a limited edition, available exclusively from the Domino Records website.
In March and April 2005, Four Tet performed two shows of improvisational music, in collaboration with jazz drummerSteve Reid, in Paris and London. He also appears on Steve Reid Ensemble 2005 album Spirit Walk. This collaboration was extended into a series of international tours, and the release of two albums, The Exchange Session Vol. 1 and The Exchange Session Vol. 2 over the course of 2005 and 2006.
His fourth studio album Everything Ecstatic was released on Domino on 23 May 2005. The video for the lead single, 'Smile Around the Face', features actor Mark Heap. On 7 November 2005, Domino released a DVD version of Everything Ecstatic featuring video clips for each track of the album plus a CD with new material, titled Everything Ecstatic Part 2, which was later made available as an individual EP.
Hebden has also remixed, under the Four Tet name, tracks by a wide range of artists including Tegan And Sara, Madvillain, Andrew Bird, Bloc Party, Super Furry Animals, Beth Orton, Badly Drawn Boy, CYNE, The Notwist, Boom Bip, Battles, Kings of Convenience, Lars Horntveth, Bonobo, Rothko, The xx, Thom Yorke and Radiohead. On 25 September 2006, Domino Records released Remixes, a two-disc compilation of Four Tet remixes. The first disc contains twelve Four Tet remixes selected by Hebden, with the second disc comprising every official remix to date (both by Hebden himself and by other artists) of Four Tet tracks, many of which had previously been available on vinyl only.[7] A new EP, Ringer, was released on 21 April 2008.
Hebden performing at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain in 2008
In 2008, Hebden collaborated with composer David Arnold to write 'Crawl, End Crawl', the song used for the end credits of the film Quantum of Solace.[8]
In 2009, Hebden worked on a secret collaboration with former schoolmate Burial. The two track 12' was released with a plain black cover with no liner notes or details contained on the vinyl, other than the artists' names and the track titles: 'Moth' and 'Wolf Cub'. The release was universally critically acclaimed.
In November 2009, details of the fifth full-length Four Tet album were released. Heavily influenced by a stint DJing at the Plastic People club in Shoreditch[9] and entitled There Is Love in You, it was released on 25 January 2010.[10] The album was preceded by a limited edition release of the 12' single 'Love Cry'.
In 2010, Hebden collaborated with Laurie Anderson playing keyboards on the song Only an Expert from her Homeland album.
In 2011, Hebden released a split 12' with Burial and Thom Yorke, entitled 'Ego'/'Mirror'. He began to release music under the alias Percussions, following a track he produced on his Fabriclive mix CD.[11] He was chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England.[12]
In 2012 Hebden collaborated again with Burial on the track 'Nova'.
The sixth full-length Four Tet album, Pink, consisting of eight tracks, six of them already released as singles, was released on 20 August 2012 through Hebden's own record label, Text Records. Hebden followed up Pink with 0181 on 15 January 2013. 0181 is a collection of unreleased material from 1997-2001, collected as one track and released online. Uncharted 2 pc download completo. A vinyl version was also released on the Text Records label.
Hebden released the seventh Four Tet album, Beautiful Rewind, in October 2013,[13] and his eighth album, Morning/Evening in July 2015.[14] In October 2015, Hebden released a remix of Eric Prydz's 'Opus' under his Four Tet pseudonym.[15]
Hebden undertook a month-long residency as Four Tet for online radio station NTS Radio in May 2014. He has been an occasional DJ for NTS, playing in February, June and November 2015, and again alongside fellow DJ and producer Floating Points in June and October 2016, and March 2017.
On 28 November 2017, Hebden was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Production, Non-Classical, for his remix of The xx's 'Violent Noise'. [16]
On 1 March 2019, Hebden released Only Human, his first new track since his last album, New Energy, [17], the track was named 'Best New Music' by Pitchfork, shortly after release. [18] A month after, on 17 April 2019, Hebden released another new single, Teenage Birdsong. [19] Hebden stated in a tweet, that 'he's working on more tracks,' saying that 'there will be a new album,' no release date has been specified. [20]
On August 29, 2019, Hebden had released a collection of three brand new songs as part of an EP called 'Anna Painting'. The project was made in collaboration with painter Anna Liber Lewis, which features artwork by Liber Lewis in the release. This release follows his last two singles on the label, 'Teenage Birdsong' and 'Dreamer', as of now.
Discography[edit]
Albums (as Four Tet)[edit]
- Dialogue (Output Recordings, May 1999)
- Pause (Domino Records, 28 May 2001)
- Rounds (Domino Records, 5 May 2003) – UK #60[21]
- Everything Ecstatic (Domino Records, 23 May 2005) – UK #59[21]
- There Is Love in You (Domino Records, 25 January 2010) – UK #35,[22] US #157
- Pink (Text Records, 20 August 2012) – UK #74[22]
- Beautiful Rewind (Text Records, October 2013)
- Morning/Evening (Text Records, June 2015) – UK #48[22]
- New Energy (Text Records, September 2017) – UK #48[22]
Mix albums[edit]
Steve Reid Obituary
- Late Night Tales: Four Tet (Azuli Records, 4 October 2004) (DJ mix album compiled by Hebden)
- DJ-Kicks: Four Tet (Studio !K7, 26 June 2006) (mix album in the DJ-Kicks series)
- FabricLive.59 (Fabric Records, September 2011) (mix album in the Fabric discography series)
Albums (as Kieran Hebden)[edit]
- The Exchange Session Vol. 1 (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 27 February 2006)
- The Exchange Session Vol. 2 (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 22 May 2006)
- Tongues (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 19 March 2007)
- NYC (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 4 November 2008)
References[edit]
- ^ abSherburne, Phillip (4 March 2019). ''Only Human' by Four Tet Review'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ ab'Kieran Hebden (born 1978, Putney, London), best known by the stage name Four Tet, is a post-rock and electronic musician'. Soundcloud.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^ abcJohn Lewis (13 July 2008). 'Close-up: Kieran Hebden'. The Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
- ^Muggs, Joe. 'Make It Funky, Make It Folky.' The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 28 May 2005, www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3642767/Make-it-funky-make-it-folky.html.
- ^ abBeta, Andy (13 May 2013). 'Interviews: Four Tet'. Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 3 November 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^'CDNX : Four Tet'. Cdnx.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^'Pitchfork: Four Tet to Release Remix LP'. 25 May 2007. Archived from the original on 25 May 2007.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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- ^'Music Feature – Four Tet and the London Underground'. Totally Dublin. 26 February 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2010.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^'There Is Love In You'. Four Tet official website. 5 November 2009. Archived from the original on 9 November 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2009.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^'Four Tet releases new album as Percussions'. Factmag. 13 January 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^'Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles/Caribou/Les Savy Fav - All Tomorrow's Parties'. Atpfestival.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2017.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^FACT. 'Four Tet announces new album, Beautiful Rewind - FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music'. Factmag.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^Goble, Corban (7 May 2015). 'Four Tet Announces New Album Morning/Evening'. Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^'Four Tet remix Eric Prydz's 'Opus' - listen | NME.COM'. NME.COM. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/60th-grammy-awards-full-nominees-list#ProductionArchived 28 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Non-Classical
- ^https://www.thefader.com/2019/03/01/four-tet-new-single-only-human-2019-kieran-hebden
- ^https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/four-tet-only-human/
- ^https://pitchfork.com/news/four-tet-releases-new-song-teenage-birdsong-listen/
- ^https://twitter.com/FourTet/status/1121471304257945600
- ^ abRoberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 210. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
- ^ abcd'Four Tet'. Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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External links[edit]
- Kieran Hebden at AllMusic
- Kieran Hebden discography at Discogs
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Tet&oldid=914286424'
Sometimes it all comes down to sprawl; at others, it all comes down to the ordered chaos of crowded spaces. New York City has made a human and technological science of both: the seemingly endless numbers and diversity of its people operating in very defined, contained spaces. The fourth collaboration between vanguard jazz über drummer Steve Reid and Four Tet mastermind Kieran Hebden is entitled NYC for a reason. Over six tracks -- all named for geographical locations within the city -- and 42 minutes, this pair manages their most ambitious, rhythmically and texturally dense offering yet which maneuvers through a think, layered sonic soup that makes sense, even as it aurally reveals the poetry in motion of colors, dynamics, and how a lack of space can be expanded upon to reach into the world itself.
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Previous offerings by the duo tried to reflect the nature of improvisation and the stretched dynamics of texture, but that is not the case here -- intentionally at least. Reid, a New York native who lives in Europe, has always been a proponent of circular rhythm. In his manner of drumming, no matter how expansive the harmonic palette, or how free the improvisation, the listener can always find her way back inside. This is underscored on NYC. Beginning with 'Lyman Place,' Reid's drums find a forceful, seemingly monotonous beat that's heavy on low tuned tom- toms and ride cymbal. There are other elements as well, but they're added for polyrhythmic structure. Hebden adorns the drums with all manner of feedback, blips, beeps, squeals, and ambiences to open up and extend the reach of the drums. The sharp yet funky electric guitar riff whose sample provides its own rhythmic pulse on '1st & 1st' is equal parts J.B.'s and Malian groove-think Lobi Traoré. It offers a window for Reid to allow the circular rhythms to wind themselves out. It's all call-and-response with sound (oscillators, analog synths, industrial sounds) coming in from all directions and kicking the dimension of the tune -- especially with some fine single-beat muted chord drone in the form of another guitar sample as a steadfast handle to glue it together. '25th Street' begins with a keyboard vamp, made up of a single chord for Reid to hang his drums on. It places the listener dead center of a seismic rhythmic orgy where hand drums get layered against the kit, and shimmering sonics hang on the fringes. This is dance music for the nuclear age, rooted in the primitive yet projecting into the sprawling unknown future. The final track begins with a sampled kora pulse. Its tones become overtones before Reid even enters and he dances all around them with a series of complex runs on his kit before opening up his attack from the inside and coming at the string sounds from underneath. His rolls become the assault, but they are transformed into a fingerpopping backdrop in this hymn of ambience. Sampled, repetitive clocks ticking in metronymic extremis add tension and sustenance. Keyboards slowly wind around the rhythmic instruments creating a new beat conscious breath of their own.
NYC is all rhythm. It makes a solid, inarguable case that rhythm is harmony, melody, dynamic, texture, and tension, all rolled into one inseparable being. NYC is a perfect sound mirror of the city itself. It's a beautifully architected series of tone poems that soothes and provokes both thought and physical movement after the initial shock wears off.
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1 | Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid | 07:05 | ||
2 | Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid | 06:16 | ||
3 | Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid | 06:28 | ||
4 | Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid | 09:23 | ||
5 | Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid | 05:46 | ||
6 | Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid | 07:14 |