Rafael Anton Irisarri

Musician

Forlisteners into ambient, drone, post-minimalist soundscapes and studio-crafted textures.
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Ambient Contemporary Electronic

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The Profile

American composer, producer, and mastering engineer known for immersive ambient and drone works; active since the mid-2000s, runs Black Knoll Studio in New York and also records as The Sight Below.

Composer and producer based in New York; active since 2007; genres include ambient, drone, and post-minimalism; operates Black Knoll Studio; also known as The Sight Below.

Four reviews chart Irisarri’s path from the nebulous debut Daydreaming to the dystopian Midnight Colours and the sculpted ambience of Sirimiri. Themes of crisis, melancholy, and memory recur. Production details—tape recording, continuous mixes—underline a meticulous studio touch. Overall tone: warmly positive and evocative.

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❝ It’s on these bases that the album “Midnight Colours” (Geographic North) was conceived and defined as the soundtrack of the “Doomsday Clock,” a work with inevitably dramatic character and tones that convey more than fear instead a deep melancholy...

❝ The album is titled “Sirimiri” (a Basque word meaning “drizzle”) and was completely written, produced, mixed, and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios in New York.

❝ Rafael Anton Irisarri is a traveler lost in the mists of memories, in the most fragile emotions, a photographer of evanescent memories of sounds at the moment of awakening, passing by leaving only a faded, elusive impression.

❝ With this debut album, Rafael Anton Irisarri immerses us in a substance of nebulous and pearly luminescence, fostering the condition evoked by the title...