Label: Three Poplars – 3P10, Three Poplars – Three Poplars 10 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Country: Germany Released: Jun 2003 Genre: Electronic Style: Minimal, Experimental, Ambient
Music suspended in time. Endless, liminal tape loop pieces from NYC musician William Basinski ‘A Red Score In Tile’ composed in 1979 yet released in 2003 and inspired by James Elaine's painting of the same name. Reduced to near nothingness, it consists of a single unresolved phase of smudged, warbling piano notes, time-stretched and near-imperceptibly altered to create a foggy hypnogogic head-space. The anaesthetic effect intensifies each time the loop cycles through, after 10 minutes you’ll forget where it starts and ends. Basinski will eternally by associated with his decaying epic The Disintegration Loops and the strangely serendipitous association to the tragedies of 9/11, yet A Red Score In Tile is the composer’s best demonstration of the profound, hallucinogenic effects of repetition and minimalism, like a 20th Century equivalent of Satie’s insanity-inducing Vexations (NM.NM - with insert)
Tracklist A A Red Score In Tile Pt. 1 25:56 B A Red Score In Tile Pt. 2 21:50
