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About Me


There’s a beating heart buried in the wintry landscape of Glider, a warm 4/4 pulse that enervates the album’s 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 turns ambient music into a hybrid strain of breathtakingly intimate, small-scale dance music.
There’s a separation of elements in The Sight Below’s songs that’s almost meteorological in nature: Tendrils of treated guitar trail lazy patterns in the sky like the Aurora Borealis (“At First Touch”), flicker in the distance like heat lightning (“Dour”), or expand and contract like time-lapse cloud formations (“Life’s Fading Light”); running along beneath, nearly obscured by the airborne phenomena, is an ever-present beat, which ranges from the mud-puddle throb in “Without Motion” to the tiny, insistent high-hats in “A Fractured Smile.” 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 winter’s night.

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Member Since: 11/02/2008
Band Members: BOOKINGS (EU):
5ive roses press
[email protected]

BOOKINGS (North America & beyond):
[email protected]
Influences:
Sounds Like: "These expansive instrumental epics start out icy, but melt easily enough with proper application of the human ear." - Wired

"Loop stations, delay pedals, reverb boxes and E-bows abstract guitars toward tranced-out ambiguity...aloof embrace and sense of eternal return" - Pitchfork's Forkcast

"Beautiful squalls of sound" - CMJ

"An ongoing deceptive blur of stationary sound...magnificently aloof, spun with haunting, flickering washes" - Popmatters (7/10 rating)

"Frostbitten and serene, Glider melds deep 4/4 pulses with vivid treated guitarscapes that evoke seasonal transitions, things that fall, crumble and get iced-over every year only to hold warmth, within, until all passes over for green again." - Resident Advisor

"Pushing and pulling heavily affected guitar and keyboard swirls over unwavering kicks, this Seattle artist creates evocative sounds that allow slight touches of brightness to poke through their heavy waves of gloom." - URB Magazine

"Sunny music this is not, but it's easy to picture the reclusive, unnamed producer behind the album hard at work in drizzly Seattle." - XLR8R

"Meditations on suspended momentum and the opacity of perception. Weaving a dense latticework of mournful guitar drones atop an insistent 4/4 pulse, the album moves between majestic pop ambient epics and, in its quieter moments, blurred waves of sonic sublimation." - Big Shot Magazine
Record Label: Ghostly International
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

DEMF, MUTEK, SONAR + EU TOUR DATES

The Sight Below is slated to perform at Movement [aka DEMF], MUTEK, and Sónar Festival.The Sight Below will continue touring afterward, playing selected dates in Europe throughout June & July. Joining...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:11:00 GMT

At first touch on Thom Yorke's Top 10 playlist

http://radiohead.com/deada....irspaceVery flattering and equally surreal...Thanks Thom!
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:13:00 GMT

US TOUR :: FEB 2009 :: THE SIGHT BELOW + LUSINE

Hello, We are working on a US tour for LUSINE and THE SIGHT BELOW from Feb 13 thru Feb 28, 2009. If you know any interested promoters or would like to arrange a show in your city, please contact missy...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Booking contacts

Europe: 5ive roses press - [email protected] North America & beyond: [email protected]
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:31:00 GMT

CMJ review

The Seattle-based producer known as The Sight Below feeds stacks of guitars (some lightly plucked, some E-bowed) through a series of delay boxes, and digitally manipulates them until they've reached h...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:49:00 GMT

The Sight Below featured in Big Shot Magazine

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Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:39:00 GMT

Glider available now!

Hello, My first full-length album, Glider, is available now at iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Beatport, and several other online stores. You can also order Glider (with an extra bonus track) at the Ghostly s...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:26:00 GMT

Delusions of Adequacy review

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Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:00 GMT

"Glider" released today!!

w/ The Ghostly Store Exclusive Track:   Ushering in the coming season's chill is The Sight Below's Glider LP, a full album of the reclusive Seattle-based producer's exquisite ambient works, his ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:51:00 GMT

All Music Guide review (4/5 stars)

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Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:47:00 GMT