BASINSKI, WILLIAM & RICHARD CHARTIER - Untitled 1-3

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: LINE line_034

Release Year: 2008

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

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Re-issue der vergriffenen SPEKK-CD (KK:002), re-mastered und mit Bonus-Material versehen! Unser damaliger Kommentar: "Zwei lange Collaborations-Stücke der beiden Minimalisten, ultra-meditativ & ruhig & mysteriös verzaubernd, glitzernd feedbackend... Anklänge an TIETCHENS, VIDNA OBMANA, ARCANE DEVICE..
Two very long collaboration pieces, very meditative, quiet, mysterious encharming, glittering feedbacking..... on a new japanese label in a nicely designed cardboard cover.." [Drone Rec.]

"LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. 'Untitled 1' contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. Untitled 2 contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 3-3(reprise)' contain Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 3' mixed by Basinski. 'Untitled 3(reprise)' mixed by Chartier. 'Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling 'The Garden of Brokenness' after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant,like the man!' " [label info]

"...William Basinski, of course, has explored temporal phenomenology before, most notably through his breathtaking documentation of tape decay on the Disintegration Loops series. While Chartier's ultra-minimalism tend towards stasis, his under appreciated Archival 1991 album imparts a similar slow-motion effect upon the listener. Working together, Basinksi and Chartier add a considerable amount to each other's work; and hopefully, they will be working together again as Basinksi provides an emotional center to Chartier's rationalism, and Chartier offers a reductivist edginess to Basinski's ghostly romanticism. For this album, Basinksi and Chartier present glacially slow shifts between extended passages of synthetic drones, occasionally haunted by shadowy whisps and windswept details. There's very little drama and very little activity, just an incredible piece of minimalism that has the ability to stop time.
The repress also features two bonus tracks that enjoy a similar time-stopping quality, centered upon the sounds that Chartier
employed for his installation at the 2006 Bleeding Edge festival, and Basinski's work with the antique Voyetra 8 synthesizer. Each produced a different mix of this source material. Still just as recommended " [Aquarius Records review]

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