Bleep

Jiyeon Kim channels William Basinski on new Tapeworm offering Long Decay And New Earth. The comparison does not just arise from the sense of pensive, moth-eaten beauty that Kim’s music shares with Basinski. Rather, the methods with which Kim composed Long Decay And New Earth - re-recording, dubbing, looping and degrading audio from her own performances and rehearsals via tape players - clearly owe a debt to Basinski’s seminal series The Disintegration Loops.