William Basinski - The Deluge [Full Album]

Companion release to Cascade. 2015.
1. The Deluge [20min 07sec]
2. The Deluge (The Denouement) [6min 29sec]
3. Cascade [11min 23sec]

[@bobjob7924]

Man, Basinski really likes that one piano loop. It's ok, I really like it too.

[@stickyeyelids]

"The uncertainty of the future made them turn their heads towards the past. They saw themselves lost in the paradise of the deluge."
-- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
This piece of music was the perfect accompaniment for reading this beautiful book, ended up looping it on repeat the until the final page.

[@michaelgreen6587]

La incertidumbre del futuro les hizo volver el corazón hacia el pasado. Se vieron a sí mismos en el paraíso perdido del diluvio…

[@umcarainteressante]

LOVE this album's cover...

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Majestic fadeout at 24:00. It's like a receding golden age, echoing down the corridors of time. Nice.

[@Gy0952]

This is like dreaming a dream in a windy/rainy afternoon...

[@septillionsuns]

I enjoy this version more than Cascade. Much more, in fact.

[@user-vi4hw5qs3y]

a piece to always remember

[@panagiotiskolofotias4069]

ade re gamhmene

[@user-vi4hw5qs3y]

to kolofotias einai paratsoukli ?

[@noisenik]

Everything will vanish into oblivion/ and the shriek of a monkey,/ the creamy flow of sap/ from the wounded bark of a rubber tree,/ the splash of water against the moving keel,/ will be more memorable than our long embraces./ "Un bel morir..." - (from the Spanish) "Los Trabajos Perdidos" by Alvaro Muntis ("friend" and chronicler of Maqroll, el gaviero, sailor upon the deluge)

[@baran_revolutionaer]

perfect for studying

[@michaelpuleston3496]

totally hypnotic

[@themadw0manintheattik]

Beautiful

[@IanPaiva15OFFICIAL]

Beautiful.

[@richardmccrorie5814]

Love the delay and echo reverb casting long shadows of the piano loop. I have long wondered whether a full length piece of music exists from which Cascade and Deluge is looped from?🤔

[@youtubeisevil]

the beginning of The Denouement is like:
BUUM
BLEP
BOOM
BLEP
BOOOOM
BLEP
BOOM
BLEP

[@diversaoemdobro]

lindo lindo lindo lindo

[@mf_1073]

wow I slept on this

[@teddydog6229]

So I've asked before and may as well ask again since I have a couple days off - In all my reading about William Basinski he is first and foremost referred to as a guitarist. I honestly don't care because I think this man could make a good album with a kazoo. But nowhere on this gorgeous album or any others I've heard have I detected anything that sounds like a guitar. I would love to hear something guitar based by him so would a good Samaritan please point the way.

[@lucidboi5334]

Where can I read about him in detail? Are there any books or was it purely just online reading?

[@damianb2374]

@@lucidboi5334 I doubt the original poster is really interested somehow, either in your request or in music. Internet people are like that.

[@lucidboi5334]

@@damianb2374 :(((( 100 gec moment...

[@atomiccritter6492]

I would love someone to make a full album with a kazoo - its a horrible noise...maybe all instrumental sounds are made from samples of using the kazoo in some way

[@wids]

@@atomiccritter6492 boy what the hell boy

[@9Promiscuous]

♥️

[@tomaszchmielnicki8676]

20:07 I need a 40 minutes long version of this part.

[@FUTABA-kg]

Check "Variation I" from the album "Variations a Movement in Chrome Primitive"(Disc 1 Track 1).
It doesn't last 40 minutes but the same melody repeats for about 14 minutes.

[@tomaszchmielnicki8676]

Thank you, I didn't know about that track. Also, 40 minutes was a reference to "Cascade".

[@sweetsoul3145]

ua-cam.com/video/V5s-KLGVcTI/v-deo.html

[@theconfessor3177]

[@finden3362]

Bruh that orchestra two...
Sample?

[@sidDkid87]