A beautiful and emotional ambient mix

Rafael Anton Irisarri is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, curator and mixed media artist. He is predominantly associated with post-minimalist, drone and ambient music and has been exploring textural electronics for over half a decade.

Irisarri’s recorded output captures an essential vision of floating tones, deep pulsing bass and textured Gaussian curves. His use of ostinato phrases taps into minimalist ideals, whilst his use of atmospheric layers of reverb suggests a more cinematic quality. In all, Irisarri’s work is deeply emotive and epic to the point of being symphonic. Irisarri’s work is published in over a dozen labels around the globe, most notably on the respected Ann Arbor, MI imprint Ghostly International (signed as The Sight Below).

Live, he has performed and presented his audio-visual works at numerous prestigious and award-winning festivals worldwide, including Sónar (Barcelona, ES), MUTEK (Montreal, CA), Movement: DEMF (Detroit, US), Unsound (Krakow, PL), MITO Settembre Musica (Milan, IT), Israel Festival (Jerusalem, IL), S.O.Y. Festival (Nantes, FR), TimeZones (Bari, IT), Node (Modena, IT), EKKO Festival (Bergen, NO), among many others.

Back home in Seattle Irisarri helps organize the Decibel Festival, bringing his expertise in experiential sound and music cultures while fostering exchanges between academic musical traditions, experimental, pop subcultures and art disciplines, cultural fields, scenes and genres. Aside from the festival, he curates and produces individual events around the city, creating a hub for advance sound proposals while engaging in a constant dialogue with fellow artists, producers, critics and audiences.

1. fennesz - vacuum - black sea - touch
2. locust - untitled 1985 - natural composite - apoll
3. grouper - wind and snow - dragging a dead deer up a hill - type
4. lawrence english - galaxies of dust - the colour of autumn - 12k
5. tim hecker - i'm transmitting tonight - radio amour - mille plateaux
6. noveller - st. powers - red rainbow - no fun productions
7. ben frost - we love you michael gira - theory of machines - bedroom communit
8. belong - october language - october language - carpark
9. yagya - fjÛrir - rigning - sending orbs
10. emeralds - science center - does it look like i'm here? - editions mego
11. david bowie - Warszawa - low - rca
12. oneohtrix point never - returnal - returnal - editions mego