William Basinski: Lamentations This is a meditation both on sadness and the way we conjure it through music. Read More
William Basinski: On Time Out of Time The black holes that feature on this album are 30 times the mass of our Sun, but they’re puny next to the universes Basinski conjures. Read More
William Basinski and Lawrence English: Selva Oscura English and Basinski have run the gamut of literary references and the emotional spectrum. Read More
William Basinski: A Shadow in Time A Shadow in Time makes a beautiful funeral procession for David Bowie. Read More
William Basinski: Cascade/The Deluge Cascade lacks the surprise of Basinski's more adventurous sonic juxtapositions and modulations, remaining instead in the original groove and varying most by shifting dynamics. Read More
William Basinski: Melancholia [xrr rating=4.0/5]William Basinski has built a career out of ephemerality, or at least its illusion. Where once he traded in bare repetition, the release of the Disintegration Loops in the wake of 9/11 revitalized his career by focusing on the death of sound, decay and dust cluttering his post-2000 recordings. Melancholia, re-released this year by Temporary Residence Ltd., is perhaps … Read More
Interview: William Basinski "Working with tape loops is interesting is because you’re working with your fingers and a piece of plastic and scissors and scotch tape." Read More
William Basinski: A Red Score in Tile [xrr rating=3.5/5]That A Red Score in Tile took a somewhat circuitous route to reach us today is fairly obvious. Originally recorded in 1979, it was issued in 2004 in Germany and finally reissued via composer William Basinski’s 2062 label. Anyone familiar with Basinski’s work, particularly “Melancholia” or “The Garden of Brokenness,” will know the drill here: a roughly eight-note progression … Read More
William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops [xrr rating=4.5/5]The story of The Disintegration Loops is truly astonishing and key to understanding its significance as a work of art. In the summer of 2001, composer William Basinski decided to digitize a number of old analog tape loops found in a closet, in order to preserve them for his archives. These were tapes he made back in the 1980s … Read More