instrumental is sampled track 'Home' by Gustavo Santaolalla for "The Last of Us"

neighbor

pre-released on www.other-people.net (issue #62)

William Basinski remixes "Esotro" from Lucrecia Dalt's self-titled EP released on Other People (27/10/2014).



Lucrecia Dalt - Esotro (William Basinski Remix)

"Petrichor" is an EP that acts as a precursor to the themes and sounds of my upcoming album, "Ouroboric". 

"Petrichor" is a synthwave/synthpop EP that you can dance to, fuck to, cry to, ruminate to, etc. 

"Petrichor" is almost entirely produced, mixed, mastered, and written by Everett Linn, a.k.a. ECEL., with the exception of Bryan Richards, a.k.a. Dahbose helping produce the melody and the slowed-and-pitched-down drum sample on the track "Hellraiser".

Insomniac's Lament

Something Wicked

This is the song of an entire house singing the House of Horologue, a name it bears not by birth but by fate, a name I have given it. The song is about a house in mourning. Not simply decayed by time, not merely abandoned, but tainted—forever altered by something heinous that once occurred within its walls. A house where something dreadful took place, something so monstrous that it cast a shadow long enough to outlive its victims and its perpetrator alike. And for that, the house is now seen as cursed. Haunted, even. But who cursed it? Who judged it? We humans move from one place to another as if shelter were a set of clothes to be changed and discarded. But houses do not move. They remain. They endure. I’ve always liked to think of houses as alive. Not in the way we are, perhaps, but alive all the same. Their fireplaces are their hearts. Their creaks and groans, the weary speech of age. Their silence, the language of suffering.

This song nearly fifty minutes long is the sound of such a heart speaking. The heart of the House of Horologue. Speaking not with words, but with the memory of footsteps that never returned, of screams that once pierced its chambers and were never answered. It is a heart that has held in its cavity the cold bodies of the dead, killed not by time, but by a monster a real one, not metaphorical. A man, perhaps, but worse than one. Because of what happened there, the house was condemned by men, spit upon, shunned, spoken of in hushed tones. As if it had been complicit. As if walls could murder. As if stone could seduce evil. No one remembers that the house stood there long before this person came. It stood in peace, quiet and unnoticed. It had sheltered lives. It had held warmth. It had been loved, perhaps not deeply, but honestly. And when the monster left, the house remained. Alone. With nothing but the memory of blood. It remained as it always had. And perhaps that is the tragedy not that it suffered, but that it had no choice but to remain. No escape, no sleep, no death. I believe we all know houses like this. We’ve passed them by. Some of us have lived in them without knowing. We have felt a chill in their hallways and blamed the weather. But it was the sorrow of something that cannot speak, cannot explain, cannot ask for forgiveness it doesn’t owe. This song is for them. For the houses that watched terrible things happen within their walls. For the houses that carry shame that is not theirs. For the ones that still stand, quietly, despite everything.
This is the song of the House of Horologue.

Fireplace in the House of Horologue

Song to My Identical Twin II

Artist: William Basinski 
Title: The Deluge (The Denouement)
Album: The Deluge
Release Date: August 7, 2015

Pre-Order LP: http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr258

Cascade and The Deluge are variations on the latest tape-loop and delay composition from the inimitable William Basinski. Cascade is the CD/Digital variant, and The Deluge is the deluxe 180 gram white vinyl LP companion. In Cascade, a single ancient lilting piano tape loop repeats endlessly carrying one along in its tessellating current. In The Deluge, the same loop is processed through a series of feedback loops of different lengths, creating a spiraling crescendo of overtones that eventually fades away to silence. In the denouement, a series of limpid piano loops leads to an urgent orchestral theme that builds and gradually dies.

© 2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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William Basinski - The Deluge (The Denouement)

A demo master of the first song on the track list of my upcoming full-length debut album, Ouroboric. "From the Outside" is an industrial rock and synthpop song with elements of alternative dance, electro-industrial, neo-psychedelia, noise pop, and synthwave. 

THIS IS NOT THE FINAL VERSION!!!

This version is only meant to sustain as I finalize mixing and mastering for the album.

From the Outside (Demo)

A demo master of the second song on the track list of my upcoming full-length debut, 'Ouroboric'. "Deeper" is an alternative R&B, alternative dance, and synthpop song with elements of industrial rock, neo-psychedelia, noise pop, synth funk, and synthwave.

THIS IS NOT THE FINAL VERSION!!!

This version is only meant to sustain as I finalize mixing and mastering for the album.

Deeper (Demo)

Erosion

Memory that slow river does not weep when it forgets
it simply flows carrying the soul away from its own shore

Song to My Identical Twin II

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