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William Basinski – Melancholia

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$30.00

Originally released a year after the increasingly iconic The Disintegration Loops, a decade later Melancholia still stands as William Basinski’s second-most beloved album. Like many of Basinski’s most soul-stirring works, Melancholia began as a series of short tape loops captured in the early 1980s. Basinski then stored them away for decades, revisiting them at a different time in his life, at which point they took on a stunning new sound all their own – one that many consider to be among the finest of the past decade. “Melancholia is probably the best of Basinski’s records until now, even if this is hard for me to say given my love for each one of his releases. This music is so beautifully delicate and sad in its auto-reflective moods, it stands right there with everything ranging from the usual suspects in the ‘ambient’ field, to a distorted damp ghost of Claude Debussy or Maurice Ravel put into a time machine.” – Touching Extremes

Label: 2062 – 2062 0301
Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
Country: US
Released: 2003

Media Condition: VG+

Sleeve Condition: VG+

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SKU 354390
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