Name: . . . on reflection
Brand: William Basinski and Janek Schaefer

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TRR372LPC1

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Colour

silver

Colour details

Metallic Silver

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2022-10-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0656605337241

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / silver

TRR372CD

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Extended format: No

2022-04-29

0656605337227

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

William Basinski and Janek Schaefer

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Temporary Residence

New collaboration from William Basinski (The Disintegration Loops), and acclaimed experimental composer, Janek Schaefer. Time and duration are core themes in the work of both William Basinski and Janek Schaefer, and this long-distance collaboration took a suitably long gestation of eight years from start to finish. In that time, our collective perception of time has at times become disorienting. <i>“ . . . on reflection”</i> remodels that instability as an exquisite work of art – one that is unmoored by time or space.

Limitation breeds creativity, revealed as an expression of minimalism and close focus. Deploying a delicate piano passage from their collective archive, Basinski and Schaefer weave and reweave in numerous ways, forging an iridescent flurry of flickering melodies. The sounds of various birds heard from late night windows on tour can occasionally be heard throughout, ricocheting off mirrored facades, reflecting on themselves as they continually reshape their own environments with song.

<i>“ . . . on reflection ”</i> looks backwards, a bustling revelry of positive emotions heard through the aging mirrors of memory. It is a celebratory meditation where sound shimmers through time like the light of the sea’s waves glistening as it folds and unfolds upon itself. Created 2014-2022 between L.A. and London. Mixed at Narnia, Walton-on-Thames. For Harold Budd.

. . . on reflection

Music GB