William Basinski + Lawrence English – Selva Oscura – CD

Temporary Residence Ltd / 2062

Released by Temporary Residence Ltd, “Selva Oscura” was recorded in Brisbane and Los Angeles simultaneously. The compositions were each created through a process of iteration and rearrangement that inverted the micro and macro characteristics of the raw sonic materials. Dynamics and density were chiseled with restraint and at other times intensely reductionist approaches to create a limitlessly deep, but open sound field – as rich as the suggested place from which its title is drawn.

“Selva Oscura” is dedicated to Paul Clipson, a close friend of both William Basinski and Lawrence English, and whose work celebrated the wonder that is becoming lost in experiences that lie in excess of our everyday understandings.

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