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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 
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Rating: 8 / Available on: Ghostly 12"/digital download
 
 
Following the critically acclaimed debut LP Glider, Seattle recluse The Sight Below returns with a new EP featuring two new tracks and three remixes (by Eluvium, Simon Scott [ex-Slowdive] and Norway's Biosphere - the latter on vinyl only). 
 
For any instrumental music, and particularly ambient electronica, track titles and visuals are almost as important in expressing intention as the sounds themselves. By that token, The Sight Below reveals himself to be a man with a clear musical vision: these tracks do indeed murmur and the accompanying black and white image (of what looks like lichen massively magnified) captures the sense of something natural yet unfamiliar. 
 
As for the music itself, the title track of this EP is closer to a club banger than anything on Glider. Which is not to say that Pete Tong will be playing it anytime soon. But any DJs who have time for Modern Love artists such as Pendle Coven and Echospace could find a place for it in their sets. Drones, crackles and gently throbbing beats are slowly joined by echoing percussive stabs and, later, a hi-hat. Layers build then ebb away.
 
On the other new composition, 'Wishing Me Asleep', ambient swirls and occasional bursts of static overlap in counterpoint to the 4/4 pulse, creating a dreamy yet jarring effect similar to that moment when you jerk awake as you are nodding off on a bus.
 
Eluvium's remix of debut single 'No Place For Us' adds a drumbeat like cardiac arrythmia over the most serene noise. Simon Scott on the other hand dispenses with the drum track of 'At First Sight' in favour of whispering voices and an enormous rumble of guitar interspersed with occasional glints of something precious. A track with all the desolation and beauty of mining gold miles underground. 
 
In turning to key figures of the early 90s shoegazing (Scott) and ambient scenes (Biosphere), The Sight Below is laying down potential markers for his next musical journey. In the meantime, it seems entirely apposite that I am writing these words from a fast train at dawn on a grey morning having had only two hours' sleep. Ideal listening conditions for this darkly enveloping music. 
 
 
Justin Toland

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3841&Itemid=32
8:41 PM 
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 
The Sight Below's Murmur EP (available digitally and on limited 12-inch at www.ghostly.com/releases/murmur-ep) follows in the wintry, twilight-techno wake of last year's Glider full-length. The foggy, minimalist 4/4 throb of Gas meets Monolake's glacial textural glaze on "Murmur," the Sight Below's most overt dance number. "Wishing Me Asleep" glimmers and skips like the Field after downing a few melatonin tablets. Its tranquil pulsations, bulbous kick drums, and distant, Seefeel-like guitar spray dissolve your stress, resulting in an unbeatable beatitude. The rest of the EP consists of remixes by Biosphere, Eluvium, and Simon Scott, all kindred spirits who instill their ethereal spirits into the Sight Below's deep, meditative originals. They embellish a vast, enveloping mist of ambience that's simultaneously forbidding and consoling.

- Dave Segal

full story here: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/data-breaker/Content?oid=2532074
7:21 PM 
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 
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We got a new EP coming out this fall, titled "Murmur."
It'll be available as 12" vinyl + digital download.
The EP will contain 2 new tracks + remixes by Eluvium, Biosphere & Simon Scott.

info here: http://ghostly.com/releases/murmur-ep
8:05 PM 
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 
"...a magical set by The Sight Below playing tracks from his Glider album, dreamily etched from two guitars, pedals and laptops. His shoegazer techno may be more suited for the dark of night, but nonetheless the music prevailed."

Full review here:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1068
1:55 AM 
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Monday, June 15, 2009 
Musicserver.cz did a review of the show with Christopher Willits and The Sight Below in Prague. See links below (sorry, it is all in Czech - Google translate works fairly nicely though):

Review:
http://musicserver.cz/clanek/26243/Christopher-Willits-The-Sight-Below-Palac-Akropolis-Praha-12-6-2009/

Pictures:
http://musicserver.cz/clanek/26242/Christopher-Willits-The-Sight-Below-Palac-Akropolis-Praha-12-6-2009-fotogalerie/
3:16 PM 
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 
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 live on guitars is Simon Scott (ex-member of Slowdive). Simon has an upcoming release on Miasmah this Summer, tentatively titled "Navigare".

If you know any interested promoters in your city or would like to organize a show, please send any requests to valentin@fiverosespress.net or centroclinal@gmail.com.

Stay tuned for more info coming up soon!
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 
http://radiohead.com/deada....irspace

Very flattering and equally surreal...Thanks Thom!
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 

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@ghostly.com.

Thanks for reading, best wishes in 2009!

2:06 AM 
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Monday, December 29, 2008 

Europe: 5ive roses press - valentin@fiverosespress.net

North America & beyond: missy@ghostly.com

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 

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 his no doubt high standards for beautiful squalls of sound. Mindful of both his process and the result, the Sight chose well when he named his debut album Glider, as his music tends to wash over the listener in lush, ambient waves of sound. But it would have perhaps been even more appropriate had he named it Glacier. As his album sound incandescent, gigantic, gorgeous (if a bit cold), slow-moving but seemingly inevitable.

Full text here: http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=99547817

 

5:47 AM 
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