Pre-order / pre-load on all other digital platforms on Feb 13. Pre-order now and download an advance excerpt via Bandcamp At times faint, and other times roaring, this sprawling, foggy drone is a tumult of ebb and flow.Ĭomposed from tape loops of original night shift factory recordings and broken 1950s televisions-rescued from the street by his partner, artist James Elaine-in their sparse Haight Street apartment, ‘The Clocktower at the Beach’ is one of Basinski’s earliest and eeriest works. ‘The Clocktower at the Beach’ is a previously unreleased 42-minute archival work composed and recorded in 1979 during his time living in San Francisco. His looping, elegiac works are hypnotic and form a cornerstone of 21st Century avant-garde and ambient music.

William Basinski is an artist that needs no introduction. It’s like a beautiful object that has been unearthed where dirt is an integral part of it and adds more beauty and poignancy as it becomes a trace of time passing.”Ĭomposer William Basinski presents a formative archival work from 1979 on LINE. By adding instrumental grime to the sound, my aim is to evoke a deeper meaning from the musical material of the pieces. (such as hiss / white noise, tape saturation, wow & flutter, glitches). Inspired by hauntology music which relies on the intersections of memories and depicts musically how we are haunted by the past, my process consists of composing evocative pieces smeared by noisy instrumental techniques inspired by audio artifacts from defective recording technologies. My aim is to represent musically a spacewhere time collapses and our past collective memories haunt our minds, like a ghost. “This album is the first volume of instrumental acoustic pieces centered around the idea of a musical representation of the spectrality of memory.

His previous album for LINE, the well-received ‘Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators’ ( LINE_089), was released in 2017 and was on ‘Best of 2017’ lists for Experimedia and Lend Me Your Ears.

After six years, composer Olivier Alary returns to LINE with ‘Apparitions (Vol.1)’, an album exploring the idea of hauntology music for acoustic instruments.

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