The Sight Below Exclusive
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It gives me great pleasure to announce an exclusive mix selection from the one and only The Sight Below…
The reclusive Seattle-based artist known as The Sight Below stays away from the spotlight—instead, he expresses himself through melancholic, slow-moving musical forms.The music of The Sight Below conjures half-remembered dreams and soft-focus sentiments with elegiac beauty; his video art works similarly, blurring snippets of film until they’re recognizable only as organic objects: black-and-white amoebas milling about, or a sunset rendered in grayscale.
All of The Sight Below’s songs are performed live: The artist runs E-bowed, slide, and lightly picked guitars through a series of loopers, 12-bit reverb boxes, and delay units, kneading and distending the notes until they drone like bees in a tunnel or keen like an orchestra of singing saws.
The resulting swirl is pinned to propulsive, achingly subtle electronic percussion, which
guides the listener through the gloom towards the music’s hopeful center. The resulting ambient works seem as effortless as natural phenomena; in fact, they’re carefully played, head-nodding hymns to the artist’s solitary life. – Ghostly
Track List:
The Caretaker – Lacunar Amnesia
Cluster & Eno – Schöne Hände
Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Crimson Ways
This Mortal Coil – Another Day
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Odio Et Amo
GAS – Königsforst 5
Harold Budd & Brian Eno – The Chill Air
Slowdive – Avalyn I
Full information on the artists recent album ‘It All Falls Apart’ can be found here
www.myspace.com/thesightbelow
www.ghostly.com
Saw him play live recently at the Triple Door here in Seattle – did a nice version of Fur Alina…with a trio (drums, guitar/laptop, piano) and managed not to muck it up. An impressive feat for a composition that is, imho, THE perfect solo piano piece. Really nice show…really talented musician.
avalyn gets me every time
[...] Seattle-based musicians, The Sight Below, assembled this lovely mix of subtle melancholy for Fluid Radio. [...]
Its “Odi Et Amo”. Another great mix from Rafael!