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September 23rd
Ambient · 2024 · 13 tracks · 1h 20m

September 23rd

William Basinski

A forty-minute tape-loop epic built from a 1970s high school piano improvisation. Dusty, hypnotic, and beautifully decayed.

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A warbled cassette tape spins a high school piano melody into forty minutes of slow, dusty decay. You are left sitting in a quiet room, watching old sunlight fade across the floorboards.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 1h 20m
01
September 23rd (excerpt 1)
3:30
02
September 23rd (excerpt 2)
2:31
03
September 23rd (excerpt 3)
1:32
04
September 23rd (excerpt 4)
5:03
05
September 23rd (excerpt 5)
4:08
06
September 23rd (excerpt 6)
3:43
07
September 23rd (excerpt 7)
2:15
08
September 23rd (excerpt 8)
4:13
09
September 23rd (excerpt 9)
3:00
10
September 23rd (excerpt 10)
3:11
11
September 23rd (excerpt 11)
5:16
12
September 23rd (excerpt 12)
1:49
13
September 23rd
40:11
Moments Worth Waiting For
01September 23rd (excerpt 1)The opening track, 'September 23rd (excerpt 1)', introduces the central piano motif through a dense, rhythmic flutter of tape-head feedback.

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