Basinski and his neighbors were watching the smoke and fires from their roof. Delving deeper than most, william basinski returns with the elegant sadness of his new album, a shadow in time. William basinskiwilliam basinski watermusic ii 2003. Basinski, william the disintegration loops iv used drive. Pitchfork named the disintegration loops iiv the 30th best album of 2004 and the 196th best album of the 2000s. Once you heard it, you wanted to tell somebody about it. Cascade cascade and the deluge are variations on the latest tapeloop and delay composition from the inimitable william basinski. For those who missed out on the nowlegendary, highly soughtafter and highly soldout box sets, we are now offering the four volumes of the disintegration loops suite as separate, individually packaged albums. The disintegration loops download freesoftprofiles. Over one million legal mp3 tracks available at juno download. Best known for his disintegration loops series of albums from the early 00s, new yorkbased avantgarde composer william basinski sculpts samples, drones and feedback loops into soundscapes rich in melancholic atmosphere.
Download william basinski songs, singles and albums on mp3. I can only imagine the sheer profundity that would have. Click download file button or copy basinski loops url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. Experimental composer, sound sculptor, and video artist globally renowned for his 911 elegy the disintegration loops. His craft does involve plenty of deep instrumentation and symphonious arrangements, but hes been experimenting with tape loops and reeltoreels for over three decades. What really prevents the record from coming into its own is the complete refusal to progress.
William basinski albums, songs, and news pitchfork. Find william basinski discography, albums and singles on allmusic allmusic. Basinski adds a melodic commentary at the synthesizer and turns them into symphonies that evolve in a predictable but highly emotional manner. The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avantgarde composer william basinski released. He continued with this painstakingly slow transfer process of his archived work through september 10. From its 20year gestation period to its infamously fateful completion, the disintegration loops is one of. William basinski s gorgeous 2003 album reborn on a remastered edition. Melancholia is probably the best basinski s record until now, even if this is hard for me to say given my love for each one of his releases. William basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 25 years in nyc. He has become one of the most recognized sound artists and ambient composers ac. The disintegration loops by william basinski, released 02 september 2014 1. Various million sellers the sixties album download. Basinski says he knew that he was gay from an early age. The deluge by william basinski, released 07 august 2015 1.
Everyone from indie kids to headbangers navigated norways fastgrowing festival, which featured not only local. William basinski the disintegration loops ii 02 dp 3. Xld william basinskithe disintegration loops the disintegration loops live01 dlp 1. In cascade, a single ancient lilting piano tape loop repeats. In next page click regular or free download and wait certain amount of time usually around 30 seconds until download.
The music is arranged perfecty, there is no other way to explain it, you just have to listen. Although william basinski s work is often tagged as neoclassical, the veteran producer is very much an electronic musician. Basinski finds himself tooling around with starry distorted keyboard arrays with underlying deep synths that enforce the cover and titles reference to the ocean. The chicago rapper juice wrlds new album deathrace for love is on. William basinski was born in 1958 in houston, texas. William is playing the get together record fair at the geffen contemporary at moca november 16th. Cascade is the cddigital variant, and the deluge is the deluxe 180 gram white vinyl lp companion. On the morning of september 11, 2001, the world trade center was attacked and destroyed by terrorists. William basinski the disintegration loops ii part1 rar. William basinski the disintegration loops box set 20022012.
Across 15 short form pieces, his beautifully sparse and solemn piano figures become seductive silhouettes and haunting. He began playing the disintegration loops on loudspeakers. The opening 20 minute section on this reissue from william basinksi opens with one of the most heartbreaking tracts of music weve heard for many years. How to download basinski watermusic ii files to my device. His father was a scientist contracted to nasa, which caused the family to move often. William basinski the disintegration loops 20022003.
William basinski the disintegration loops iv 2003 03 dp 1. William basinski the disintegration loops trevor music annex. He is a relentless experimentalist, obsessed with reeltoreel tape decks, splicing tape, and spindling it. William basinski a shadow in time 2017 qobuz flac 24. He is best known for his multivolume work the disintegration loops. William basinski the disintegration loops album download. Download the disintegration loops remastered by william basinski at juno download.
All genres balearicdowntempo bass breakbeat disconudisco dj tools drum and bass dubstep deep dubstep dirty dubsteptrapgrime edm electro euro dancepop dance footworkjuke. Credit allows you to download with unlimited speed. If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading. This is the first part of william basinski s now celebrated disintegration loops, elegant pastoral loops made from looping disintegrating old tape stock the recordings had originally been recorded onto. He was raised in a catholic family, and states that he had his first really mystical, wonderful, magical musical experiences as an infant at houstons st. William basinski the disintegration loops box set 2002. The four volumes of the disintegration loops musex, 20022003 are just that. This album to me is the most important piece of ambient art ever created. All albums by william basinski available to download and stream in high quality. From 57 mb william basinski the disintegration loops ii. William basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been. Contrarily to his continuing projects such as disintegration loops and water music, this is a sort of a sketch album, made of short pieces all created with tape loops and some synthetic wave here and there.
I first came across the name william basinski, and his disintegration loops, a couple of years ago, but only very recently bought this box set, having heard the loops many times and struggling to understand whether this is divine music, or pretentious nonsense masquerading as profound art. William basinskis albums stream online music albums. Constructed from his signature swirling, endlessly ambient tape loops, a shadow in time is possibly the most affecting work he has composed since the first chapter of the disintegration loops slowly weaved its way into our collective psyche. William basinski the disintegration loops 20022003we. The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avantgarde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003. The recordings consist of tape loops that gradually deteriorated each time they passed the tape head, the unexpected result of basinski s attempt. The music was recorded from a series of ambient music fragments played in tape loops that gradually deteriorated each time they passed the tape head. William basinski album the disintegration loops is a good music album, the disintegration loops release at jan 01, 2002, song365 provider the album download and. Rightly considered one of his finest works, melancholia employs similar techniques used on his now legendary the disintegration loops to another stash of short tape loops he created in the early 80s.
The four volumes of william basinskis ambient masterpiece have been gathered into a gorgeous and impressive 9xlp, 5xcd box set. This is the thirteenth album of basinski s discography, and perhaps the most powerful on its conception execution, perhaps because it creates or renembers a unexistent memory in the listeners head, but mainly because of this rasping sound that follows every song, with only pauses in the end of each, as if it were a switched on fan in some lonely place, delimiting a atmosphere realized for. Basinksi watched the fall of the twin towers from his roof whilst the disintegration loops played in the background. Buy the disintegration loops by william basinski on bleep. Mp3 download when you buy an album or a song, you can also download it on android. Find william basinski discography, albums and singles on allmusic. William basinski is a musician, composer, auteur who has worked in experimental media for over twenty years in nyc, expanding the boundaries of the aural landscape. His epic 4disc masterwork, the disintegration loops, received international. He has become one of the most recognized sound artists and ambient composers across the globe, in large part for his careerdefining work the disintegration. In the early part of the last decade, william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. A classically trained clarinetist, he studied jazz saxophone and composition at north texas state university in the late 70s. His entire catalog is available for digital download through itunes, n. The effect is mesmerizing and opens new avenues to minimalism.
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