FULL ALBUM OUT JANUARY 10, 2025 on all digital platforms
A decade is a long pause… how the world has changed since…
Longtime friends and collaborators, iconic ambient composer William Basinski and sound artist/composer Richard Chartier return to LINE with Aurora Terminalis, their first new work together since 2015’s Divertissement LP (Important Records, US).
From an unexpected sudden burst of sound jaggedly spiraling outward, the tumult fades and shockwaves slide into lulling haze of a melody. Background nuance—nearly imperceptible—and foreground romanticism ripple near each others’ edges. Then, rhythmic and liquid, an erratic drifting over a clouded void… an ‘un-still’ life… a slow tracing.
Aurora Terminalis… a fading gauzy signal for a finality.
Basinski and Chartier have previously released two collaborative works on LINE; Aurora Liminalis (2013) and Untitled 1-3 (2008, an expanded reissue of Untitled originally on Spekk, Japan, 2004), as well as the archival Bandcamp exclusive Something from the Pink House a live improvisation recorded in 2004.
William Basinski’s archival album The Clocktower at the Beach (1979) was released on LINE in 2023.
TRACKS:
1. Aurora Terminalis (excerpt 1) (06:07) [releases Nov 22]
2. Aurora Terminalis (excerpt 2) (06:33) [releases Dec 20]
3. Aurora Terminalis (60:21) [releases Jan 10]
composed & recorded by Basinski & Chartier 2024
William Basinski: Voyetra 8 + loops
Richard Chartier: electronics, field recordings, processing, mixing
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
cover image: detail of ‘Glass Eye’, 2024 by James Elaine (acrylic and house paints, razor cuts on canvas, 62 in x 92 in)
© 2025 LINE
William Basinski published by Musex International (BMI)
Richard Chartier published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd