http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6438792&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fdiscography.rssWilliam Basinski started working away at his singular sound in 1978, but it was nearly a quarter of a century before the world began to notice. Trained as a jazz saxophonist, he turned toward tape composition in the late '70s, applying lessons learned from Steve Reich and Terry Riley to a series of ambient sketches pieced together using reel-to-reel technology. His 1983 composition <I>Shortwave Music</I>, a collage made from snippets of shortwave radio broadcasts, marked his debut release in 1998, when Carsten Nicolai picked it up for his Raster-Noton label. Basinski's breakout moment came with the first volume of <I>The Disintegration Loops</I>, an exhumation of reel-to-reel archives in which the crumbling magnetic tape became an integral part of the project's corroded, dissipating sound world. His recordings, prolific since then, don't vary much: you can expect plangent acoustic samples stretched to the point of disintegration; his "melodies" are but a blurry wash of mantra-like loops. But this is no aural wallpaper. His music has the melancholic feel of grave rubbings, with traces of the distant past lingering in the very ink and cloth. - Philip SherburneMinimal/Glitchen720Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:02:05 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.6438792&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fdiscography.rss William Basinski started working away at his singular sound in 1978, but it was nearly a quarter of a century before the world began to notice. Trained as a jazz saxophonist, he turned toward tape composition in the late '70s, applying lessons learned from Steve Reich and Terry Riley to a series of ambient sketches pieced together using reel-to-reel technology. His 1983 composition <I>Shortwave Music</I>, a collage made from snippets of shortwave radio broadcasts, marked his debut release in 1998, when Carsten Nicolai picked it up for his Raster-Noton label. Basinski's breakout moment came with the first volume of <I>The Disintegration Loops</I>, an exhumation of reel-to-reel archives in which the crumbling magnetic tape became an integral part of the project's corroded, dissipating sound world. His recordings, prolific since then, don't vary much: you can expect plangent acoustic samples stretched to the point of disintegration; his "melodies" are but a blurry wash of mantra-like loops. But this is no aural wallpaper. His music has the melancholic feel of grave rubbings, with traces of the distant past lingering in the very ink and cloth. - Philip Sherburne http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.14327794&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fdiscography.rss Minimal/Glitch Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 William Basinski Discography on Rhapsody Online alb.14327794 alb.14327794 William Basinski art.6438792 1.99 (Non Titled) alb.14327794 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/0/2/0/3/1733020_170x170.jpg 2009-06-12 00:00:00.0 2009-06-12 00:00:00.0 true false main-release http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.14327794&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.14327794&variant=data&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fdiscography.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=alb.27998398&variant=play&rws=%2Fwilliam-basinski%2Fdiscography.rss Minimal/Glitch Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 William Basinski Discography on Rhapsody Online alb.27998398 alb.27998398 William Basinski 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