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Inspired by the past-life regression practice known as “passing the cup of sorrows,” William Basinski’s first new album in six years began with a chance encounter and a deeply moving idea: a sacred exchange between souls that allows understanding and forgiveness after harm in a past life.
Drawn in by a video on the therapy while facing the constant churn of anxiety and cynicism on screen, Basinski turned to the piano. From those testimonies, he shaped music that transforms traumatic memory into something tender, cathartic and present.
Channeling the quiet curiosity and asymmetrical patterns of Morton Feldman, Passing the Cup of Sorrows unfolds as a single 40-minute piece for solitary piano and subtle electronics, haunted by fragments of memory and drifting in a slow, soft-focus glow.
