Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist wh… Read Full Bio ↴Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist who composes ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. His recordings heavily utilize field recordings, bowed guitars, strings, and electronics, creating dense clouds of blurry, hypnotic sound that often have a mournful, elegiac quality.
He has performed concerts in collaboration with numerous experimental, electronic, and indie musicians, including Fennesz, Greg Davis, Grouper, and Lawrence English.
Since 2007, he has co-curated numerous experimental music festivals and concerts, including Seattle's Decibel Festival and Substrata, as well as events related to the Ghostly International label. He has created live visuals for Lusine, Solvent, Simon Scott, and several other artists. He also records shoegaze-influenced ambient techno as the Sight Below, and collaborates with dream pop singer/songwriter Benoît Pioulard under the name Orcas.
Irisarri's debut release was the full-length Daydreaming, released by Miasmah in 2007, a haunting album of slow-moving, atmospheric piano works reminiscent of composers such as Harold Budd. The year 2008 saw the release of the Sight Below's No Place for Us EP and Glider full-length, although the project's identity was kept anonymous at the time. Its synthesizer-free combination of steady, minimal techno beats and atmospheric guitars struck a chord with listeners, receiving critical acclaim as well as attention from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, and the Sight Below performed at several music festivals throughout Europe and North America, in addition to touring with Ghostly labelmate Lusine. The Sight Below toured with Slowdive's Simon Scott in 2009, and released the Murmur EP (including remixes by Scott as well as Biosphere and Eluvium). The year 2009 also saw the release of Irisarri's "Hopes and Past Desires" 7" single on the Immune label.
Arriving in 2010, It All Falls Apart, the Sight Below's second album for Ghostly, was a full collaboration between Irisarri and Scott. The album also featured guest vocalist Jesy Fortino (Tiny Vipers) on a cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades." Also in 2010, Irisarri released the Reverie EP on Immune under his own name, followed by the full-length The North Bend on Lawrence English's Room40 label. As the Sight Below, he remixed Pantha du Prince and Biosphere in 2011.
The self-titled debut by Orcas, Irisarri's dream pop collaboration with Benoît Pioulard, was released by Morr Music in 2012.
Room40 released The Unintentional Sea, Irisarri's third full-length under his own name, in 2013.
Orcas' sophomore album, Yearling, appeared on Morr Music in 2014.
On Memorial Day weekend of that year, as Irisarri and his wife were preparing to move from Seattle to New York, all of their belongings were stolen, including over $50,000 worth of musical gear. Ghostly set up an online fundraising campaign for Irisarri that eventually raised over $18,000. This campaign also included an extremely limited vinyl release of Unfurled, an EP featuring the final Sight Below track recorded in Seattle as well as remixes by Markus Guentner, Loscil, Yagya, and others.
In 2015, Irisarri released two EPs under his own name (Will Her Heart Burn Anymore and Unsaid), and Room40 released A Fragile Geography, his darkest, most intense work to date.
Irisarri's collaboration with Argentina-based ambient composer Leandro Fresco, La Equidistancia, was released by A Strangely Isolated Place in 2017.
The solo album The Shameless Years appeared on Umor Rex during the same year.
This was followed by Midnight Colours, which was released by Geographic North in 2018.
He has performed concerts in collaboration with numerous experimental, electronic, and indie musicians, including Fennesz, Greg Davis, Grouper, and Lawrence English.
Since 2007, he has co-curated numerous experimental music festivals and concerts, including Seattle's Decibel Festival and Substrata, as well as events related to the Ghostly International label. He has created live visuals for Lusine, Solvent, Simon Scott, and several other artists. He also records shoegaze-influenced ambient techno as the Sight Below, and collaborates with dream pop singer/songwriter Benoît Pioulard under the name Orcas.
Irisarri's debut release was the full-length Daydreaming, released by Miasmah in 2007, a haunting album of slow-moving, atmospheric piano works reminiscent of composers such as Harold Budd. The year 2008 saw the release of the Sight Below's No Place for Us EP and Glider full-length, although the project's identity was kept anonymous at the time. Its synthesizer-free combination of steady, minimal techno beats and atmospheric guitars struck a chord with listeners, receiving critical acclaim as well as attention from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, and the Sight Below performed at several music festivals throughout Europe and North America, in addition to touring with Ghostly labelmate Lusine. The Sight Below toured with Slowdive's Simon Scott in 2009, and released the Murmur EP (including remixes by Scott as well as Biosphere and Eluvium). The year 2009 also saw the release of Irisarri's "Hopes and Past Desires" 7" single on the Immune label.
Arriving in 2010, It All Falls Apart, the Sight Below's second album for Ghostly, was a full collaboration between Irisarri and Scott. The album also featured guest vocalist Jesy Fortino (Tiny Vipers) on a cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades." Also in 2010, Irisarri released the Reverie EP on Immune under his own name, followed by the full-length The North Bend on Lawrence English's Room40 label. As the Sight Below, he remixed Pantha du Prince and Biosphere in 2011.
The self-titled debut by Orcas, Irisarri's dream pop collaboration with Benoît Pioulard, was released by Morr Music in 2012.
Room40 released The Unintentional Sea, Irisarri's third full-length under his own name, in 2013.
Orcas' sophomore album, Yearling, appeared on Morr Music in 2014.
On Memorial Day weekend of that year, as Irisarri and his wife were preparing to move from Seattle to New York, all of their belongings were stolen, including over $50,000 worth of musical gear. Ghostly set up an online fundraising campaign for Irisarri that eventually raised over $18,000. This campaign also included an extremely limited vinyl release of Unfurled, an EP featuring the final Sight Below track recorded in Seattle as well as remixes by Markus Guentner, Loscil, Yagya, and others.
In 2015, Irisarri released two EPs under his own name (Will Her Heart Burn Anymore and Unsaid), and Room40 released A Fragile Geography, his darkest, most intense work to date.
Irisarri's collaboration with Argentina-based ambient composer Leandro Fresco, La Equidistancia, was released by A Strangely Isolated Place in 2017.
The solo album The Shameless Years appeared on Umor Rex during the same year.
This was followed by Midnight Colours, which was released by Geographic North in 2018.
Fractal
Rafael Anton Irisarri Lyrics
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54 I am a number, I am a man Of enzymes and…
Arne もう 言葉は要らない 浴槽 沈む 夜の帷 脆弱な僕等は 失うこともきっと赦されない ねえ 解らないまま 屋上 軋む 擦…
Awesome City Club 枯葉の海を踏み締めるその度に 思い出すミントフレーバー 君の肩 滑る風 Baby 変わりのない僕は身軽に過ごしてるよ た…
Carlos do Complexo Ai, ai, ai, ui, ui Tô chei′ de tesão Vai desce piranha,…
Carlos do Complexo & Menor Do Engenho AiAiAi Ui Ui Tô cheio de tesão Vai desce piranha fala que eu…
Free Air I believe I can fly Cause I have a feeling I…
In-Dreamview When I'm bad, and I'm blue You come so softly spoken When…
Kamada Mi vida es la de un joven normal: trabajo y…
Los Niños Telepaticos Viaje hasta el principio del final, curación Hoy mi sacrific…
Sasha Sokol Te tocaría otra vez Me arrullas entre el bien y el…
まじ娘 Help me! Something is moving around in my brain And it's scr…
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Yikak4
I loved this! Strangely moving. Do you create anything similar?
because88
This is extraordinary to dance to because of the shifting shadows it creates. Do the black/white squares at 2:58 onwards come from any particular place? Have you considered uploading a higher quality version? -- Many thanks.
zqqqzable
When I was working on this... my goal was to show something in movement.. it does have sense... but it is more like your projection, than some objective purpose. Higher quality is good for eye-catching show.. this is how it is - rather blur than sharp rather pulling in than bursting out. Deep-thinking postmodern post-structuralism post-minimal..... but still it is about your heart - there are hundreds meaningful ways how to show or hide yourself... in fact, there are consequences from these...
Saverio_Calestri
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