Basinski, William / Lawrence English - Selva Oscura
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05-TRR 312 CD
“For over half a decade, William Basinski and Lawrence English have been in regular contact with one another.
During that time their paths have crossed repeatedly in various cities; Zagreb, Los Angeles, Hobart and more, in a
variety situations. It was from these chance encounters - and the strange familiar of lives lived in transit - that their
first collaboration, Selva Oscura, was seeded. Each of the extended pieces on this record maps an acoustic
topography that draws on the concept of drifting into the strange familiar. The works each dwell in an ever shifting, yet
fundamentally constant state of unfolding. As one sound fades away, another is revealed in its place, creating a
sense of an eternal reveal. Selva Oscura was recorded in Brisbane and Los Angeles simultaneously. The
compositions were each created through a process of iteration and rearrangement that inverted the micro and macro
characteristics of the raw sonic materials. Dynamics and density were chiseled with restraint and at other times
intensely reductionist approaches to create a limitlessly deep, but open sound field - as rich as the suggested place
from which its title is drawn.”
- LabelTemporary Residence Ltd.
- UPC656605331225