Temporary Residence Ltd.
“September 23rd” is the first release in William Basinski’s new Arcadia Archive series. Recorded in September 1982 in his first loft in the pre-gentrified DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, September 23rd is a recently unearthed early entry in what has become a hugely inspirational and influential catalog.
William Basinski’s musical career spans nearly five decades, and has harnessed an uncanny gift for taking empathetic works of great melancholy and crafting tragic worlds of abyssal depth. The discovery of “September 23rd” provides a beguiling bit of luminescence to Basinski’s provenance and expanding historical legacy.