Glider 10, by The Sight Below

Glider 10

by The Sight Below

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nofatclips 2nd listen: it grows and grows on me. Now I need to explore all of his discography!

1st listen: despite not being my genre, I've been drawn to this after casually listening to some tracks on Youtube. Favorite track: Life's Fading Light.

Lost Tribe Sound Just a classic, must-own at this point. This was the first Rafael Anton Irisarri album I ever heard.

Aaron Exquisite, moody ambient techno. I'm late to this one but happy to have discovered it.

brantly I found out about this through the incredible Opium Hum blog a few years back and became obsessed, and when I found out this was being repressed on vinyl I peed myself. It's so ahead of it's time it has never had a chance to look back. If you love Loscil, Kranky Records, Gas or even 'Phaedra' era Tangerine Dream then stop eating your falafel wrap right now and buy this LP. Headphones not required but highly recommended. Stunning minimal ambient techno!

Engelram A reissue of an ambient classic. Wolfgang Voigt/Gas is hiding somewhere. Irisarri before becoming Irisarri.

8BALL9-SOUNDSCAPE PRODUCER This album just flows so pure from track to track.
so beautiful to the ears.
Great work Mr Rai 👌 Favorite track: At First Touch.

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- 2018 Remaster
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1.	At First Touch 04:50	buy track
2.	Without Motion 04:36	buy track
3.	Life's Fading Light 05:37	buy track
4.	The Sunset Passage 03:42	buy track
5.	Already There 05:42	buy track
6.	Further Away 05:40	buy track
7.	Dour 04:36	buy track
8.	A Fractured Smile 05:07	buy track
9.	Nowhere 08:15	buy track

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There's a beating heart buried in the cold landscape of Glider. A warm and steady pulse invigorates each drone resonating overhead, pulling the listener swiftly through the snowy textures below. By underpinning his melodic guitar wisps with murmuring electronic rhythms, New York-via-Seattle artist and curator Rafael Anton Irisarri brought understated dance music into the realm of ambient on his 2008 debut album as The Sight Below. 10 years later, Glider has been remastered and reissued along with a cassette of eight incredible reworks from Irisarri's peers.

There's a separation of elements in these songs that's almost meteorological in nature. The tendrils of treated guitar in "At First Touch" trail loose patterns in the sky like Aurora Borealis, while they flicker like heat lightning in "Dour" and billow like time-lapse cloud formations in "Life's Fading Light." Running along below, nearly obscured by the airborne sounds, is an ever-present beat. Sometimes it's like the mud-puddle throb in "Without Motion," or the tiny, insistent hi-hats in "A Fractured Smile." Each track evolves at a deliberate pace, but as the tones overlap and the rhythms build, time slows until the moment feels all but frozen in suspended animation.

With Glider, The Sight Below created a work of dizzying depth and exquisite melancholy: ambient-techno for dark, brooding nights. This tenth anniversary edition of the album presents an impressive work with new definition and detail, remastered for vinyl at Irisarri's own Black Knoll Studio in upstate New York. Glider 10: Reworks cassette celebrates the music's lasting influence with versions produced by ambient-techno pioneers Biosphere and Yagya, Slowdive's Simon Scott, Pop Ambient veterans Markus Guentner and Leandro Fresco, Swedish techno auteur Acronym, composer Benoît Pioulard, and Spanish drone stalwart Warmth—all of which were expertly mixed and compiled to tape by The Sight Below.

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released December 7, 2018

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