Teimo is the second solo album from German Ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 music producer, Thomas Köner

Thomas Köner

Thomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...

. Köner has fully developed his unique drone style here and despite the fact that tracks are rather short for ambient music, they really show it off. It is also the record which made Köner known in electronic scene and together with next album, "Permafrost" (which were later re-issued in 1996 on one disc by Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...

 - Teimo & Permafrost) is considered by many critics and fans as his best work.

Andenes

Andenes

is a town and former municipality in Vesterålen district in Nordland county, Norway.Andenes was separated from Dverberg January 1, 1924. It was merged with Dverberg and Bjørnskinn to create the new municipality of Andøy January 1, 1964....

 is a place in Norway.

"Nieve" means "snow" in Spanish.

Penitentes

Penitentes

thumb|Penitentes are the name of the caps of the [[nazarenos]]; literally those doing penance for their sins.Penitentes, or nieves penitentes , are a snow formation found at high altitudes. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow or ice closely spaced with the blades oriented...

 are some kind of snow formation, found only at high altitudes.

"Schluss" means "closure, conclusion" in German.

"Ruska" is a Finnish word for autumn leaf color

Autumn leaf color

Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, one or many colors that range from red to yellow...

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Track listing

1. "Ilira" - 3:25
2. "Andenes" - 10:06
3. "Teimo" - 5:14
4. "Nieve Penitentes 1" - 3:04
5. "Nieve Penitentes 2" - 4:43
6. "Nieve Penitentes 3" - 4:27
7. "Teimo (Schluss)" - 4:22
8. "Ruska" - 3:40