With restrained repetition, Basinski’s work reminds us that life is a series of perpetual cycles.
Created from damaged and decaying fragments of tape that an old roommate’s cat has partially chewed, Basinski initially reassembled them expecting to hear very little. Instead, what he discovered would end up becoming what is arguably his finest work since ‘The Disintegration Tapes’.
William Basinski has created yet another outstanding work of art with A Shadow in Time, an audio sculpture of serenity and bliss to begin 2017 and put what was a saddening year for music to bed.
For the listener who welcomes the space to ponder those contradictory feelings, A Shadow In Time gives you ample room to explore.
Like scattered others through the annals of music history ... Basinski brings to his craft an understanding that music structures time just as much as time structures music. Among his most entrancing work.
With pleasing inevitability, A Shadow In Time does not disappoint.
The multilayered title track, meanwhile, is a less immediate drone, but proves hypnotic well within its 17-minute timeframe.
His new album A Shadow in Time contains some of his strongest work since The Disintegration Loops introduced the world to the artist.
William Basinski returns with one of his most accessible and compositionally satisfying sets of drones yet.
William Basinski is a legendary producer, known for his Disintegration Loops series, which was a project composed of aging tape loops, and A Shadow in Time is composed the same way, in a much more accessible 43 minutes. The album is made up of two pieces, both slightly over 20 minutes each, and both following the same chord progression and repeating loops. The first, "For David Robert Jones", which is a David Bowie tribute, is a very meditative ambient piece, consisting of beautiful ... read more
A really good blanket to put around my senses when I need. Still beautifully put together and accessible as music and not just as "elevator music".
1 | For David Robert Jones 20:19 | 85 |
2 | A Shadow in Time 23:03 | 80 |
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