Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/SIGHT/1473754416189708
Vocals https://soundcloud.com/florence-bird
Artwork by Jasper Jones http://www.jasperjones.net

On the hypem @ http://hypem.com/track/24c1h/S+I+G+H+T+-+Solidarity+feat.+Florence+Bird

"SIGHT is the moniker belonging to U.K based new comer Dan Smith.  A little over a week ago he shared his debut track, “Solidarity”, an ultra smooth slow burner that utilizes the sultry vocals of Florence Bird.  It’s definitely a nice change of pace here at IHOS, but it still carries a killer soulful electronic vibe that fits right in.  Let this one sink in deep."

- intlhouseofsound.com

Solidarity feat. Florence Bird

Download it here: https://thephoz.bandcamp.com/track/come-back

Vocals:            https://soundcloud.com/florence-bird
Bass:               https://soundcloud.com/onewhitworth
Photography  http://www.jasperjones.net

Come Back

Download it here: 
https://itunes.apple.com/album/ton-sai-single/id1093457156?l=de&v0=9988&ign-mpt=uo%3D1

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sightaudio?ref=hl

Took a trip to Thailand over December and wanted to put the experience into sound. 

Ton Sai

A little blend of ethnic beats from around the world

Multi Culti Mix

The Train

I remember once when I was about six years old. I was staying over- night with the rest of my family at my grandparents’ home. A rail- way line passed the back of the house within a good one hundred metres behind a strip of forest. As I lay in bed, I could hear the deep regular breathing of sleep from my older brother’s side of the room, and the soft murmuring of the adults’ voices downstairs.
It was very relaxing and I was starting to fall asleep when I heard a low, eerie whistle in the distance. The sound filled me with a deep longing to experience the wonderful, far-off places from where the plaintive sound seemed to come. There was another whistle, closer than the first, and I could make out a low, far-off rumble. It seemed as if the train was coming to meet me and carry me off to some magical land beyond the night.
The adults continued to talk downstairs, oblivious to the energy that the approaching train infused into everything in its wake. Louder and louder the rumbling grew, and then the train proclaimed its presence with a mighty four-part blast from its whistle: two chords of medium length followed by a short toot and ending with a long drawn out blast that seemed to envelop me and soak into my very pores.


This great magical beast had travelled through many towns, cast- ing its spell on anyone receptive to it. Now it was my turn. Once the train had come closest, its sound became a steady, thundering rhythm that coalesced into a mystical portal. With the power of the spell, I stepped through the portal into the train and was carried off to the mysterious world of dreams.

- Rick Verwoerd

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Recordings taken from train carriages in India's southernly state, Kerala and from Rishikesh which is situated in the North bordering the Himalayas.


India's Arteries

This track & the full album available for stream & download: http://sightmusic.bandcamp.com/album/monsoon

Second Track on the album - Recorded from the sounds of the Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat, Mumbai's hand washing slum and largest facility of its kind in the world. 

Track two of my upcoming album 'Monsoon', a culmination of two months of soundscape exploration throughout the west coast and the north of India. 

I started this project in 2015, when I took a two month trip to India. Landing in the most southerly state Kerala and gradually meandering my way up to the north town of Rishikesh 

With open ears I set about recording India's Soundscape. 
In 2016 I began to put the album together. The album reflects my journey and inner thoughts as I transitioned from south to north utilising only sounds found within the country. I have tried to reflect the different sides of the country which I experienced: Chaos, peril, innocence, grace, harmony and romance.

Artwork by http://www.jasperjones.net

On the Hypem
http://hypem.com/track/2hdpc/Sight+-+Bombay

Monsoon

Full Album

Bombay

STE - 008

Back Door

Summer 2015 With Luke & Trav

Music is self produced, mixed and mastered. Tracks are laced with field recordings I've taken from around the world.
Contact & Remix enquiries:
sightmusic101@gmail.com

UK resident Dan Smith is not a musician in the traditional sense. Calling himself a “field recordist”, Smith captures sounds similar to how photographers take snapshots,fabricating his accounts into an mesmeric audio experience. His debut album, released under the recording pseudonym Sight, is a curated travelogue of sonance sculpted with an electronic rationale. Monsoon documents Smith’s two months spent recording organic sounds throughout India. Starting in the most southerly state of Kerala, Smith gradually worked his way along the west coast, finalizing his trek in the bustling polis of Delhi. Along the way, he gathered audio samples that etched out his encounters: local children and buskers, champing camels and chanting holy men, bird songs and temple bells. Travelling to an unfamiliar culture can be a transcendental affair for anyone, too often recalled through shaky photos and cheap tchotchkes. Smith’s music goes beyond memorable keepsakes, expressing emotions and bringing documented events to the present via his meticulous samples and deft studio work.

Opening with the fly-on-the-wall sensations of “Snoring Babas”, the chaotic experience of a train journey is suffused over your listening space. Muffled squawks and sweaty crowds shift in and out of earshot as locomotive machinery builds and interplays with a solitary sitar. Smith’s use of commonplace ambience is particularly engrossing, whether it is a tea kettle whistle on “Liquid Streets” or footsteps in gravel on “Sugarcane”. The patchwork methodology creates a sonic quilt, reminding of the microsampling used on Axel Willner’s The Field project. Each piece is diced and arranged, making it difficult to distinguish in its new aural context. Where Smith deviates from Willner is with his commitment to the origin of the sample, preserving each distinct specimen’s purity as the context evolves.

Another engaging element found on Monsoon is the true global immersion that the album provides for the listener. Sight’s blend of beats and culture on “Bombay” is particularly striking, bringing to mind the jetset vibes produced from electronic gurus Bonobo and Gold Panda. As their work is best suited for the club or crowded venue, Sight’s compositions are an insular earbud trip. “Blackouts” brings a similar setting, but gestures discordantly with a shadowy anxiety. Tones ebb and flow, sketching dark alleys and a sweltering climate, cultivating imagery that races through the listener’s conscious. Whether someone has traveled to India previously or is still long for that adventure, Monsoon brings an immediate rush to a willing headspace, emulating all of the chaos, grace, and romantic notions a once-in-a-lifetime voyage can bring. - Matthew Voracek, Impose Magazine


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