Passing the Cup of Sorrows — William Basinski Preorder
William Basinski‘s first new album in six years is up for preorder on Temporary Residence Ltd. Passing the Cup of Sorrows is built around a single forty-minute piece for solo piano and subtle electronics. The conceptual starting point is the idea of passing the cup of sorrows in past-life regression therapy — fitting territory for an artist whose work has long circled grief, decay and duration.
The record draws a clear line to Morton Feldman’s approach to asymmetrical patterning, though what Basinski does with it arrives somewhere that feels entirely his own. Slow, eerie, and quietly devastating in a way that his best work tends to be.
It is pressed on New Gamboge coloured vinyl and limited, with a two per customer cap in place. That restriction is there for a reason. Out 23rd October on Temporary Residence Ltd. — order direct from the label if you want it at the right price before it disappears.
