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BASINSKI, WILLIAM

Album Format Label & Cat. Number Description Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
Shortwavemusic CD 2062.0701 Wiederveröffentlichung der Raster-Noton LP von 1997, mit Bonustrack! Sanfte Äther-Melodien in endlosen Kurz-Echo Räumen, Musik die ausfranst in einem Meer von seltsamen Effekt-Sounds.. / re-release of LP from 1997 with bonus-track (+ 14 min.), comes in squared clear case with cardboard sheath. BACK IN STOCK 2007 €16.00
The River do-CD 2062.0702 re-issue of Raster-Noton release (2002) with early recordings from 1983 (!), new design; US-import, re-press of 2013 2008 €24.00
Vivian & Ondine CD 2062.0902 music for the birth of 'two beautiful girls', a one-tracker of 45+ minutes created from old tape loops.. - *The power of a simple loop, played over and over, in various states of decay, hearing the sounds literally crumble before your very ears, like getting a glimpse inside music, behind the notes, within the chords, observing the magnetic particles as they drop like flakes of soot after a fire, music transformed into inert object, and the glorious sound of that transition, from light to dark, life to death, sound to silence.* [Aquarius Rec.] - BACK IN STOCK ! 2009 €16.00
A Red Score in Tile CD 2°62 1301 re-issue of long deleted LP from 2003, with a tape composition made in 1979 (!) showing perfectly BASINSKIs ability to create 'dying loops', a perfectly blend atmosphere of nostalgia & decay... a one-tracker of 45+ minutes; BACK IN STOCK 2013 €16.00
Variations: a Movement in Chrome Primitive do-CD 2°62 1302 re-issue of epic album from 2004, using fragile piano figures in endless repetition, evoking a feeling of timelessness and slow decay.. 2013 €24.50
The Disintegration Loops IV CD Temporary Residence Limited TRR226 Teil IV der hypnotischen alten tape-loops, die in endlos-symphonischer Wiederholung wie nostalgische Erinnerungen an vergangene Zeiten wirken...sehr ruhig & meditativ." [Drone Rec.] - Muzak like melodies crumble into barely melodic throbbing pulses, swathed in reverb, allowing the already obscured snatches of music, to fade into wispy smears of sound. So beautiful.” [Aquarius Records] re-issue of album from 2003, re-mastered 2014 €15.00
Cascade CD 2062 the master of "dying tape loops" with two new pieces, based on piano sounds... (the second piece comes as download)____ "I wanted Cascade to become this crystalline organism like a star or a liquid crystal spaceship, a jellyfish traveling through the galaxy" [W. Basinski] 2015 €14.50
92982 CD 2062 0901 re-issue of CD from 2009 with 4 long tracks, based on recordings dating back to 1982 => atmospheric drones of decay and nostalgia... *It is an extremely plastic and pliant piece of music, an eternally empty vessel that gets filled up from listen to listen.* [Pitchfork] BACK IN STOCK! 2016 €16.00
A Shadow in Time LP Temporary Residence Lim. TRR278LP two long new pieces, the title track is dedicated to DAVID ROBERT JONES (aka DAVID BOWIE), the pieces have been created with synths, tenor saxophone, tape loops and electronics => very rich & multi-layered, subharmonic ambient drones and waves full of ringing overtunes, surely among his best material! The limited vinyl version contains a special mix, only available on this format 2017 €25.00
A Shadow in Time CD 2062 - 2062.1701 two long new pieces, the title track is dedicated to DAVID ROBERT JONES (aka DAVID BOWIE), the pieces have been created with synths, tenor saxophone, tape loops and electronics => very rich & multi-layered, subharmonic ambient drones and waves full of ringing overtunes, surely among his best material! The CD version has an extented mix (6 min. longer) of the title track 2017 €14.00
On Time out of Time CD Temporary Residence Lim. TRR311 two pieces commissioned for installations in Berlin 2017: "These works utilize, among other things, exclusive source recordings from the interferometers of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) capturing the sounds of the merging of two distant massive black holes, 1.3 billion years ago." - the CD feat. different material/mixes than the vinyl version 2019 €14.00
On Time out of Time LP Temporary Residence Lim. TRR311 two pieces commissioned for installations in Berlin 2017: "These works utilize, among other things, exclusive source recordings from the interferometers of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) capturing the sounds of the merging of two distant massive black holes, 1.3 billion years ago." - the lim vinyl version feat.. different material/mixes than CD version 2019 €25.00
Lamentations CD Temporary Residence TRR343 12 new tracks, constructed from tape loops and studies from his archives, 1979-2020 - "on his new album he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty - more than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, there is an ominous grief throughout the album, and that sense of loss lingers like an emotional vapor." 2020 €14.50
Lamentations (black vinyl) do-LP Temporary Residence TRR343 12 new tracks, constructed from tape loops and studies from his archives, 1979-2020 - "on his new album he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty - more than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, there is an ominous grief throughout the album, and that sense of loss lingers like an emotional vapor." - BLACK vinyl ed. with DL card 2020 €29.50
Melancholia (opaque red orange vinyl) LP Temporary Residence Limited TRR236 re-mastered re-issue of this favoured BASINSKI work from 2003, fading tape-loops creating a timeless beauty... comes w. gatefold-cover and on red-orange "opaque" vinyl; * Like many of Basinski's most soul-stirring works, Melancholia began as a series of short tape loops captured in the early 1980s. Basinski then stored them away for decades, revisiting them at a different time in his life, at which point they took on a stunning new sound all their own..* 2023 €29.50