"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
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.
'Glider' and its accompanying 'No Place for Us' EP, The Sight Below’s 2008 debut releases on Ghostly International, were well-received in ambient circles and in the music world at large, gaining plaudits from international publications and musicians (including Radiohead’s Thom Yorke). The Sight Below spent the year touring the world, playing a slate of successful shows at DEMF, MUTEK, and SONAR, and collaborating extensively with Simon Scott (ex-member of legendary 'shoegaze' band Slowdive). The Sight Below is currently working on new material with Scott for a future release.
hey rfl, maybe in passion church is place for next year, please tell me too when will you come next year to berlin??? this autumn have you found a gig in berlin? i could search for too!! to find a nice and lovely (no berghain!! :P) place. yours sandra
