William Basinski

William Basinski – Music For Abandoned Airports: Tegel (EP) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 19:13 minutes | 127 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © William Basinski

deep Arcadia DAT archive dive. 1998. obviously inspired by Brian Eno someone who inspired me greatly at a tender age. Thank you Maestro.

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William Basinski – Lamentations (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:35 minutes | 393 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

The master of the tape loop returns with “Lamentations”, yet another collection of eroded drone for low-light dreamers, captured and constructed from tape loops and studies from Basinski’s archives – dating back to 1979 – Lamentations is over forty years of mournful sighs meticulously crafted into songs. They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of space – and their collective resonance is infinite and eternal.

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William Basinski – A Shadow In Time (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:19 minutes | 340 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2062

Best known for his Disintegration Loops series of albums from the early 00s, New York-based avant-garde composer William Basinski sculpts samples, drones and feedback loops into soundscapes rich in melancholic atmosphere. The two tracks on his 23rd album include a eulogy to David Bowie, For David Robert Jones, that’s rather less literal than Lady Gaga’s Grammys tribute and all the more powerful for it. Its eerily distorted saxophone, a nod to Low, takes six minutes to surface, but then takes centre stage, a mournful motif subtly evolving over the next quarter of an hour. The multilayered title track, meanwhile, is a less immediate drone, but proves hypnotic well within its 17-minute timeframe.

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