William Basinski - Hymns Of Oblivion

Not much detail yet except for this link : http://www.mmlxii.com/music/hymns/hymns.html

 

Given that his last album was one of the best he's ever put out, I'm excited to hear the new material.

*overjoyed*

wtf is that video in link? Is that him screaming?

That is a terrible cover, but I'm quite looking forward to hearing this.

LOL at the cover

  On 12/29/2010 at 12:03 AM, Capsaicin said:

That is a terrible cover, but I'm quite looking forward to hearing this.

what a horrible cover. theres no way

Well, that may not be the cover. Let's hope for something a little more in keeping with his music.

fucking lol at that cover

Jeez Louise, that really better not be the cover of the album - it's a visual disaster on about 15 levels, all it's missing is a lens flare effect and you'd have a full house of bad effects. The album probably sounds lovely though .... unless of course that video in the link ( http://www.mmlxii.com/music/hymns/hymns2.html) is taken from the album in which case, oooooh boy - someone's lost it ..... though ... can't .... stop ... watching .... it .....

 

EDIT: Holy fuck, Basinski's just brought out a sax - shit just got real

Holy shit. Didn't see that video.

 

What on earth is that all about? Surely it must be some of kind of joke?

 

Something tells me it's not.

Edited December 29, 2010 by fumi

wtf

i'm guessing that's a Basinski performance from the 80's or at most early 90's

 

 

those were different times, when lots of things were acceptable

 

 

 

 

i'm not really into that faux glamrock style of singing, but i'm surprised to hear the sax (and I just noticed the saxophone earring in that picture)

 

 

still curious to hear the album

Edited December 29, 2010 by triachus

It looks and sounds like a deleted song from the film Labyrinth. I wonder if the album will be based on the two decade (or whenever it was recorded) tape loop heard in the background of the track (that's my hope anyway !)

Yeah, i like the tape loop. I hope he goes with that. Otherwise it's looking like a disaster of epic proportions.

I want to know what I'm missing out on here. I can't seem to play or even successfully download the mov. Could someone please zip and dump it on dropbox or something?

Right click and save link as on the following -

http://www.mmlxii.com/music/hymns/hymns.mov

Yeah, I can't seem to stop it just instantly downloading some naffed up file.

  On 12/29/2010 at 3:20 PM, fumi said:

Otherwise it's looking like a disaster of epic proportions.

I agree, but let's still remember that this guy is churning out material at a pretty decent pace (or at least has been), so it's probably just a stop before the next release. Would be probably reasonable enough to assume that he might put out something else this year as well? If it's in the same vein though, oh well.

either way i'm buying this shit as soon as it comes out.

 

i would be basinski's lover

 

true story

  On 12/29/2010 at 10:48 PM, ieafs said:

  On 12/29/2010 at 6:04 PM, 40days said:

  On 12/29/2010 at 3:20 PM, fumi said:

Otherwise it's looking like a disaster of epic proportions.

I agree, but let's still remember that this guy is churning out material at a pretty decent pace (or at least has been), so it's probably just a stop before the next release. Would be probably reasonable enough to assume that he might put out something else this year as well? If it's in the same vein though, oh well.

you mean something new from 1985?

doesn't really matter when it was recorded does it

  On 12/31/2010 at 1:00 AM, ieafs said:

well it just seems like he had a 1 year burst of inspiration and has been dry since... for longer than ive been alive

  On 12/29/2010 at 5:05 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Yeah, I can't seem to stop it just instantly downloading some naffed up file.

 

still need it? http://www.mediafire.com/?v31x87gt07osz47 :)

 

 

this is.. interesting. i wasnt expecting to like it, but i didn't mind it.

Sorry I really should've updated my sob story with another post. It must have been the computer I was using, 'cause shirtless on my throne using another I got to witness that absolute treat in all its glory, but thanks though! Archiving it to discreetly dump into friend's porn folders.

  On 12/31/2010 at 1:56 AM, ieafs said:

silent night was done in 2006 or soemthing, but everything else has been sourced from 80s material right? so the rest of his time is spent designing those sleeves maybe

 

He's relentlessly recording loads of material to failing hard drives that we will have the technology to retrieve in a lossy format in twenty years.