William Basinski Disintegration Loops Vinyl

Having been held back till last the anticipation surrounding this release could cripple a lesser man.

William basinski disintegration loops vinyl.

They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of. With the back story of their inception now well documented detailed in the liner notes basinski seems to have. William basinski created his ambient and much storied record the disintegration loops by feeding his compositions on loop through a tape head until a myriad sounds were made in its place. 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.

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. For all those wondering where the reissue of basinski s first instalment of the disintegration loops series was your wait is over. Once you heard it you wanted to tell somebody about it. 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.

The record s completion coincided with the 9 11 bombings a sight which is recreated on the record s cover. The disintegration loops is a series of four albums by american avant garde composer william basinski released in 2002 and 2003. All the original recordings on vinyl all the remastered recordings on cd and an orchestral version too. But basinski more than matches the task.

In the early part of the last decade william basinski s the disintegration loops was the sort of music you passed around. The completion of the recording coincided with the 9 11 attacks. 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 disintegration loops by william basinski released 02 september 2014 1.