William Basinski - Melancholia

William Basinski ‎– Melancholia

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Untitled 3:25
Untitled 6:50
Untitled 1:54
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Untitled 1:12
Untitled 2:16
Untitled 2:26
Untitled 3:07
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Untitled 1:07
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Untitled 7:09
Untitled 2:00
Untitled 6:03

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Title Label Cat# Country Year
Melancholia (CDr, Album, Ltd) 2062 2062 0301 US 2003
Melancholia (CD, Album, RM) 2062 2062 0301 US 2005
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Review by maedecedeam Mar 11, 2010

referencing Melancholia, CDr, Album, Ltd, 2062 0301

"Melancholia" traces a gentle, eerie path through a selection of aural vignettes that together form a sort of mental scrapbook of musical thoughts.

William Basinski employs a method of music-making that is in time with the memory-evoking style of Boards Of Canada. It unfolds and evaporates in sparse and confounding waves, but with the gentleness of Loscil or Marsen Jules. What might have begun as a cycle of simple piano melodies and incomplete passages becomes transformed by distance and perspective.

Fans of Akira Rabelais' "Eisoptrophobia" should pay particular attention.

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