Building Something Beautiful for Me

by Loraine James

Building Something Beautiful for Me cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 October 2022
  • Label: Phantom Limb
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:43
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This project functions as a reimagining of the works of pioneering minimalist composer Julius Eastman, utilizing his original scores as foundational motifs. The production blends James's signature glitchy IDM textures with more formalistic, repetitive piano and string arrangements. It serves as a personal and political dialogue across generations, exploring themes of black queer identity and the preservation of experimental legacies.

Genres

Descriptors: tribute, lgbtq, experimental, electronic, glitchy, dance, piano, minimal, ambient, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Maybe If I (Stay On It) (3:56)
  2. The Perception of Me (Crazy Nigger) (8:34)
  3. Choose To Be Gay (Femenine) (7:09)
  4. Building Something Beautiful For Me (Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc) (2:46)
  5. Enfield, Always (6:08)
  6. My Take (5:08)
  7. Black Excellence (Stay On It) (5:04)
  8. What Now? (Prelude To The Holy Presence Of Joan D'Arc) (4:56)

Credits

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