This Is Sevish

Gleam

Formless Shadows

I Won't Forget

Hexdeep

Dedicated to my friend and muse, @loworbitsatellite

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Satellight

Photon

Buy the album: https://mandrasigma.bandcamp.com/album/hold-it-close

‘Hold It Close’ is an overview of my journey as a music producer. It touches on the pitfalls, ambitions, and promises that you make to yourself throughout the pursuit of being a musician.

As I began writing with a feeling and an atmosphere, I started thinking, “What am I going through while making this? What do I want to talk about? What do I need to talk about? Who else is affected by the same things?”

This album is my answer to these questions.

Thanks to: my ever-supportive friends, family, mentors, and the one reading this :)

Full greetz can be found in my liner notes.

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released October 6, 2022

Music, Lyrics, Art: mandrasigma

Album Mastering: aivi & surasshu

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PRODUCED BY
INFLORESCE RECORDS 

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Rotation

scraps: disc3

Zero Nothings

Mist

Dedicated to the wonderful event "Satellite" at Club Union in Osaka, every other month.

Download this EP for free at 
https://niphlexrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/satellite-ep

02. Corazon De Bass

From Rhythm and Xen by Sevish [2015]
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Droplet

lux I / birds with Bach

_music_ 'Sarabande' from J.S. Bach's Partita in e minor BWV830

lux I / birds and Bach

Traum eines Weltraumreisenden, die Reise zum Pluto

Pluto

The first in a series of tinier bundles of miscellaneous instrumentals, finished in 2025, called Instruminis 01: Spooking My Whole Dang Creepers.

This Mundane, Textured Wall

Download Harmony Hacker: https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-hacker
Track 1: Orbital

Ok my new album 'Harmony Hacker' is out! Here's a track in the Bohlen-Pierce scale. Bohlen-Pierce is one of the wackiest microtonal tunings discovered.

Harmony Hacker

Orbital

Ask Yourself

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.

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