William Basinski
92982
Catalog#: 2062.0901

CD 60 min. 4 tracks. Release date: late march 2009

01 92982.1 
02 92982.2
03 92982.4
04 92982.3

Something from a long time ago...in Brooklyn, 351 jay street...A fruitful
evening in the studio... Home at last after a day of work at the answering
service...answering phones for calvin klein, bianca jagger, steve rubell, and
all the other somebody people...in our space station: home in my studio
experimenting live. James is in the adjacent studio painting masterpieces.
Roger is in the front, gluing old shoes on canvas and painting them orange...
I'm clicking the old norelcos back and forth between channels...all the windows
are open. The sound is spreading all over downtown brooklyn mixing with the
helicopters, sirens, pot smoke and fireworks...

It's crunchy, it's distorted...it's basinski archive circa 1982. The third
track some of you may recognize: a shorter version was included as variation #8
on Variations: A movement in chrome primitive. So, this night in the studio
spawned a direction I would follow for some time. As I love this document of
that night, I thought you might like to put what came later into context, so
I'm releasing this archival recording. The last track is a newly recorded
reprise of the first track that I recorded with the original loop in February
2009 in Los Angeles. -- William Basinski, March, 2009