The Hummer is the ninth solo album by Canadian musician
Devin Townsend, and his second
ambient album. It was released on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records, on November 15, 2006.
Music
The album chiefly consists of interwoven low frequency sounds, flute,
morse code and ocean sounds, as well as audio samples from sources such as a reading by
Leonard Cohen of part of the
Tibetan Book of the Dead,
Ravi Shankar, and the science fiction film Contact (1997). This is a quiet, reflective work in the vein of
meditative music, and provides a stark
antithesis to the aggressive heavy metal stance adopted by one of Townsend's other projects -
Strapping Young Lad. Townsend describes it as "much more user friendly than the Devlab...still; some people are going to think it's just buzzing and humming noises, so again...it's not for everybody."[1]
The Hummer is the ninth solo album by Canadian musician
Devin Townsend, and his second
ambient album. It was released on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records, on November 15, 2006.
Music
The album chiefly consists of interwoven low frequency sounds, flute,
morse code and ocean sounds, as well as audio samples from sources such as a reading by
Leonard Cohen of part of the
Tibetan Book of the Dead,
Ravi Shankar, and the science fiction film Contact (1997). This is a quiet, reflective work in the vein of
meditative music, and provides a stark
antithesis to the aggressive heavy metal stance adopted by one of Townsend's other projects -
Strapping Young Lad. Townsend describes it as "much more user friendly than the Devlab...still; some people are going to think it's just buzzing and humming noises, so again...it's not for everybody."[1]