William Basinski announces archival album, September 23

William Basinski has announced a new album of archival recordings. On September 27, he’ll release September 23 via Temporary Residence. It features pieces recorded in September 1982, and it’s the first in a series of archival recordings he’s calling the Arcadia Archive. September 23 is a solitary, 40-minute piece, and you can hear an excerpt below.

Basinski said in a statement, “The original piano recordings were made on on a piano belonging to my downstairs neighbor, John Epperson – later known more famously as world-renowned drag artist, Lypsinka – at 351 Jay Street aka Casa Degli Artisti, our first loft in New York. It was recoded with a little portable (probably Radio Shack) cassette deck sitting on the piano as I improvised a piece I had been working on since high school. It was pretty terrible, but when I did the John Giorno/William Burroughs cut-up technique, suddenly I had something to put through the Frippertronics loop and feedback loop tape delay system – and boy did I get results. A very prolific time for a young, wacked-out queen in NYC.”

In 2022, William Basinski released “…on reflection,” a collaboration with Janek Schaefer.

William Basinski live dates:

Sep 5 – Chicago, IL @ Plantasia – Garfield Park Conservatory
Sep 13 – San Francisco, CA @ Grace Cathedral*
Sep 20 – Seattle, WA @ Seattle First Baptist Church*
Sep 21 – Portland, OR @ First Congregational UCC Church*
Oct 2 – Vancouver, BC @ Vancouver International Film Festival
Oct 17 – Los Angeles @ The Nimoy: Presented in with Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University
Nov 1 – New York, NY @ Church of the Heavenly Rest*
Nov 2 – Austin, TX @ Levitation 2024 – The Long Center

*Arcadia Archive Tour