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William Basinski – Nocturnes

Label: 2062
Catalog#: 2062.1201
Release date: 16-05-2013
Source: CD
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 157 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Tracklist:
1. Nocturnes (41:33)
2. The Trails of Tears (28:03)

William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 30 years in NYC and most recently, California. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic 4-disc masterwork, The Disintegration Loops received international critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork. The Temporary Residence Ltd. deluxe LP box-set reissue from 2012 was awarded Best New Reissue with a rare, perfect score of 10 on Pitchfork. Installations and films made in collaboration with artist-filmmaker, James Elaine have been presented in festivals and museums internationally, and his concerts are presented to sold-out crowds around the world. Most recently, Basinski was chosen by Music Director, Antony Hegarty, to create music for the new Robert Wilson opera, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic which had its world premiere at the Manchester International Festival in July 2011 and toured Europe in 2012 and North America in 2013. Orchestral transcriptions of The Disintegration Loops by Maxim Moston (most recently heard on David Bowie’s new album) have been performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Queen Elizabeth Hall and will tour Europe with various orchestras in 2013. Like his best and most iconic works, the magic of Basinski’s new album, Nocturnes, is in the glacial, inevitable decay of something beautiful. Tape loops of prepared piano composed and recorded more than 30 years ago reflecting, refracting, and disintegrating into a haunting sentimental haze, like losing a vivid memory to the natural deterioration of time. Nocturnes is two sprawling new works, begun in 1979 and completed in 2012. It is Basinski’s first new studio release in nearly four years.