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.
Passage
Rafael Anton Irisarri Lyrics
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Alkemyst I wait in silence... Fire burns inside my empty soul Pain …
B.Toriyama a.k.a. fmtr Pressed and stressed amongst the rest of the fools Yes, I…
Bilocate As I Follow My Dreams As I hear the sound of…
Biosphere: Nature Sounds & Music If ever I go I know you'll be waiting Feeling animal with…
Consecration Of course, there is no Heaven or hell here They…
Elusive Stranded, And you have left the shores and me Stranded, A…
Enamored Step within my blackened mind wither in the prison of…
Ephel Duath I've a thousand ways to ruin all, But I'm walking to…
Exitmusic Just stop this conversation I'm up but I'm shaking a lonely…
GENR8 Body & Soul the trial has just begun i know it you're my destiny the fin…
H. Garden I followed a sign, a pattern that bends On the roads…
Humanity's Last Breath Cut out the tongue Communicate with divinity Eyes roll back…
Krenak At night, i walk on a road An effigy of my…
Logh We learn our way From watching the sun. We find…
Mariko Takahashi passage 人の心は 近くて遠くて 過ぎてくもの long way 通過した駅 愛があった日々 余韻ゆれて まだ 見…
Max Fry If I'm gonna fall for you I'll need some piece of…
MiseryFields Relentless To see it all before you Stretched as thin as it…
Native Construct I am marched to the gallows, for I've done so…
Oppressor Burning as I breathe eternity Watching as my soul absorbs t…
Papadosio I realize, it wasn't right If you're the string I was the…
Raccoon City Police Department i was born in the middle of the see, i…
Satanic Planet "God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will b…
Semiomime Je pense au jeune homme imprudent Qui prend entre six mois…
Sopico Igo c'est mérité, si j'suis dans l'périmètre Sous les regard…
still haze If I'm gonna fall for you I'll need some piece of…
Still Life Decay A faceless ghost haunting sleep Sinking eyes roll back and …
The Awakening The river bleeds Into a thousand streams Sometimes the path’…
The Future's Dust Never dream you're drawing nearer, or conclude you're closer…
U-KISS 柔らかい風に 触れるように 君だけを今 僕は好きになる 想いすべて 包み込んで 心が今 羽根を広げてゆく Lalala …
Vienna Teng I died in a car crash two days ago Was unrecognizable When…
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山崎まさよし あこがれの場所までまだ遠く 長くわだちが続いてる ときおり吹く砂まじりの風に 細い影が揺さぶられる あの日の友の呼び声が…
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