# The Hummer

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This article is about the 2006 album. For the Australian labor union newspaper, see [The Australian Worker](/source/The_Australian_Worker). For other uses, see [Hummer (disambiguation)](/source/Hummer_(disambiguation)).

***The Hummer*** is the ninth solo album by Canadian musician [Devin Townsend](/source/Devin_Townsend), and his second [ambient](/source/Ambient_music) 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](/source/Morse_code) and ocean sounds, as well as audio samples from sources such as a reading by [Leonard Cohen](/source/Leonard_Cohen) of part of the [Tibetan Book of the Dead](/source/Bardo_Thodol), [Ravi Shankar](/source/Ravi_Shankar), and the science fiction film *[Contact](/source/Contact_(1997_American_film))* (1997). This is a quiet, reflective work in the vein of [meditative](/source/Meditation) music, and provides a stark [antithesis](/source/Antithesis) to the aggressive heavy metal stance adopted by one of Townsend's other projects - [Strapping Young Lad](/source/Strapping_Young_Lad). Townsend describes it as "much more user friendly than the *[Devlab](/source/Devlab_(album))*...still; some people are going to think it's just buzzing and humming noises, so again...it's not for everybody."[1]

## Personnel

- [Devin Townsend](/source/Devin_Townsend) – music
- Jeff Feinstein – flute
- Konrad Palkiewicz – artwork and layout

## References

1. Townsend, Devin (September 5, 2006). "[*The Hummer*](http://www.hevydevyforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=5966)" *Hevydevy Forums*. Retrieved April 19, 2009.

## External links

- [HevyDevy homepage](http://www.hevydevy.com)

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