William Basinski Disintegration Loops Vinyl

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.

William basinski disintegration loops vinyl.

The disintegration loops by william basinski released 02 september 2014 1. For all those wondering where the reissue of basinski s first instalment of the disintegration loops series was your wait is over. The record s completion coincided with the 9 11 bombings a sight which is recreated on the record s cover. Limited edition box set of 2000 copies containing all four historic volumes of the disintegration loops plus a pair of live orchestral performances from the metropolitan museum of art and the 54th venice biennale both previously unreleased issued to mark the 10 year anniversary of the original release and its induction into the 9 11.

Dlp 2 1 for those who missed out on the now legendary highly sought after and highly sold out box sets we are now offering the four volumes of the disintegration loops suite as separate individually packaged albums. In the early part of the last decade william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. But basinski more than matches the task. The completion of the recording coincided with the 9 11 attacks.

They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of. All the original recordings on vinyl all the remastered recordings on cd and an orchestral version too. The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avant garde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003. Wow so this really is something i m sure you are familiar with william basinski s by now legendary the disintegration loops but have you experienced it five cds one dvd and a 150 page book in a super fancy boxset courtesy of temporary residence yeah just what i thought.

Having been held back till last the anticipation surrounding this release could cripple a lesser man. The recordings consist of tape loops that gradually deteriorated each time they passed the tape head the unexpected result of basinski s attempt to transfer his earlier recordings to digital format. 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. The audio was remastered in 2012 from the original master tapes and the artwork is.