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There are some musicians that come at you like a sonic ninja, smacking you hard in the face and then plunging your bloody head into a bucket of ice cold water until you scream for air. Yesterday’s Mi Ami<\/a> being a good case in point. Today, we take the opposite, somewhat more restrained approach, with music that lightly tickles your brain with a duck feather and whispers nocturnal lullabies in your ear.<\/p>\n Seattle’s The Sight Below<\/strong> mines a tradition of ambience, drone, shoegaze and fuzztronica so skillfully developed by the likes of Eno<\/strong>, Kevin Shields<\/strong> and 4AD, and more latterly manicured by Wolfgang Voigt (with GAS<\/strong>), Ulrich Schnauss<\/strong>, Mexico’s Murcof<\/strong> and, adding a belated kick to proceedings, Chile’s Ricardo Tobar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The key here is in the preparation – The Sight Below (who is apparently reluctant to divulge his real name) begins with a clutch of guitars and old-school effects units and delays. Playing with bows or light picks, the output is looped, captured, layered upon layer, and receives a minimal nip and a tuck before the track is closed off. Certainly, there is a sense of minimal post-production editing or re-arrangement – the work is imbued with the kind of tactile, still consideration that is only possible when the instrument is literally in your hands.<\/p>\n This first track below ‘With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)’ is culled from a free 3-track EP on Ghostly<\/a> titled ‘No Place For Us’ – a precursor to his full-length album, Glider<\/a>, released last November and featuring the second mp3, ‘Life’s Fading Light’.<\/p>\n The Sight Below – With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\n The Sight Below – Life’s Fading Light<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\n
![Yesterday’s Mi Ami<\/a> being a good case in point. Today, we take the opposite, somewhat more restrained approach, with music that lightly tickles your brain with a duck feather and whispers nocturnal lullabies in your ear.<\/p>\nSeattle’s The Sight Below<\/strong> mines a tradition of ambience, drone, shoegaze and fuzztronica so skillfully developed by the likes of Eno<\/strong>, Kevin Shields<\/strong> and 4AD, and more latterly manicured by Wolfgang Voigt (with GAS<\/strong>), Ulrich Schnauss<\/strong>, Mexico’s Murcof<\/strong> and, adding a belated kick to proceedings, Chile’s Ricardo Tobar<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThe key here is in the preparation – The Sight Below (who is apparently reluctant to divulge his real name) begins with a clutch of guitars and old-school effects units and delays. Playing with bows or light picks, the output is looped, captured, layered upon layer, and receives a minimal nip and a tuck before the track is closed off. Certainly, there is a sense of minimal post-production editing or re-arrangement – the work is imbued with the kind of tactile, still consideration that is only possible when the instrument is literally in your hands.<\/p>\nThis first track below ‘With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)’ is culled from a free 3-track EP on Ghostly<\/a> titled ‘No Place For Us’ – a precursor to his full-length album, Glider<\/a>, released last November and featuring the second mp3, ‘Life’s Fading Light’.<\/p>\nThe Sight Below – With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\nThe Sight Below – Life’s Fading Light<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\nimg<\/strong> | gadgetgirl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are some musicians that come at you like a sonic ninja, smacking you hard in the face and then plunging your bloody head into a bucket of ice cold water until you scream for air. Yesterday’s Mi Ami being a good case in point. Today, we take the opposite, somewhat more restrained approach, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,6],"tags":[1605,171,393,406],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discontent","category-old-blog-posts","tag-discontent-blog","tag-ghostly","tag-thesightbelow","tag-u-s","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21528,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/21528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/discontentblog.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/f8037b3e-e399-4eb4-afdd-0359ecb63ff41.jpg?p=240\"){kind=link}