a r t i s t : The Sight Below
t i t l e : Glider
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Ghostly
g e n r e : Electronic / Ambient / Techno
r l s. d a t e : Jan/2009
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 58,6 MB
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Vertiginous sonic depths, exquisite melancholy, technoid dark
winter music, an under the skin cinematic probe *****
Ghostly (GI78CD)
RIYL: GAS, The Field, Biosphere, Murcof, Growing, My Bloody
Valentine.
With "Glider" the Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri in
disguise - one of the best contemporary post-classical
composers this Earth has seen) has created a work of
vertiginous sonic depth and exquisite melancholy: electronic
moody suggestive music for a dark winterÆs night.
ThereÆs a beating heart buried in the wintry landscape of
"Glider", a warm 4/4 pulse that enervates the albumÆs echoing,
looped drones and pulls the listener swiftly through the snow.
By pinning barely-there electronic beats to his wisps of
guitar melody, the Seattle-based producer Rafael Anton
Irisarri turns ambient music into a hybrid strain of
breathtakingly intimate, small-scale dance music.
ThereÆs a separation of elements in The Sight BelowÆs songs
thatÆs almost meteorological in nature: Tendrils of treated
guitar trail lazy patterns in the sky like the Aurora Borealis
(ôAt First Touchö), flicker in the distance like heat
lightning (ôDourö), or expand and contract like time-lapse
cloud formations (ôLifeÆs Fading Lightö); running along
beneath, nearly obscured by the airborne phenomena, is an
ever-present beat, which ranges from the mud-puddle throb in
ôWithout Motionö to the tiny, insistent high-hats in ôA
Fractured Smile.ö The tracks evolve at a deliberated pace, but
as the tones overlap and the rhythms build, time oozes to a
halt and hangs in blissfully frost-bitten suspended animation.
With Glider, the Sight Below has created a work of vertiginous
sonic depth and exquisite melancholy: techno music for a dark
winterÆs night.
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01-At First Touch [04:53]
02-Dour [04:54]
03-Without Motion [04:38]
04-Life's Fading Light [05:46]
05-Further Away [06:00]
06-The Sunset Passage [03:49]
07-Already There [05:44]
08-A Fractured Smile [05:09]
09-Nowhere [08:19]
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49:12 min