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Billy’s is my favorite music in the world. His whole catalog is immortal. He just released a new piece called September 23rd. It is a loop based ambient work comprised of a piano melody cut up from the early 80s that has been treated and processed. I always say Basinski’s music is the most helpful artwork I have ever known. I must have listened to his records for tens of thousands of hours. I am playing it before my concerts.
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William Basinski's Disintegration Loops marked an important stepping stone in the experimental music scenes history.
Recorded on tape in the 1980's the artist found that as he recorded the loops began to decay. After revisiting and digitizing its recording in 2001 days later he watched the 9/11 attacks from his apartment where he recorded footage with a camera from his roof with the decaying loops playing in the background
The results were a exploration in life cycles, tragedy, grief, decay, and more
Jan 22, 2024
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been listening to and falling asleep to this piece of drone music for the better part of 10 years. i first discovered this piece of music while watching the comedy by tim heidecker. i was even lucky enough to see an orchestration of d|p 1.1 live. a truly astonishing piece of art.
Jan 26, 2024
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Can't pick favourites so I'm letting myself choose a bunch :) Sue me
Mogwai Fear Satan, Mogwai —A quarter of an hour of post-rock with a beautiful, beautiful build.
It Never Entered My Mind, Miles Davis Quintet — Feels a bit cheaty because it's jazz and there definitely are lyrics inspiring the lead melody.. still wonderful for pensive late-night walks.
Earth Moon Transit, Duster — if you haven't sat back and spent time with this album, what are you doing? Clear an evening and put it on repeat. Yes, technically it has lyrics. Personally I barely hear them.
Prologue, Kamasi Washington — Such powerful energy on the closing track of last year's album.
Blade Runner Blues, Vangelis — the song that made me fall in love with synthesisers.
Jan 6, 2025
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She recorded this song by George Harrison and improvised new lyrics. She addresses the state of the world in a heartbreaking way. The recording just shakes with feeling. I saw Nina Simone the first time she came back to NYC at Carnegie Hall in about 1992 and it was only half sold. I clung to the balcony rails and cried for 2 hours.
Dec 26, 2024
Buffy is a remarkable song writer and activist. To me she is one the great American song writers of the last century, and she identifies the crisis of capitalism and the cruelty of these structures we are all beholden to in such a visceral way; her artwork is singular. I will always be grateful to her for her vision and her generosity as an artist.
Dec 26, 2024
In 2016, I was privileged to visit the Martu in Parnngurr, a remote West Australian Indigenous Community located 370kms East of Newman, on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. The Martu I met changed the way I thought about life. One elder there, Nola Taylor, told me that after we die we ”Go Back to Country”. She seemed to be suggesting that we remained in the world in some form, and that we do not leave upon death, challenging ideas I had learned as a child that our goal as humans was to escape the cycle of creation. That desire for escape from Nature seems dysphoric to me now.
Dec 26, 2024