Sevish Music
microtonal + electronic music + dnb
+ xenharmonic bass + beats
These are the musical noodlings of Sevish. More info.
Sevish, Jacky Ligon and Tony Dubshot make warped harmonies with a homegrown synth! 3 artists, 3 tracks.
"fascinating and enjoyable"
X.J. Scott ~ nonoctave.com
Label release page: VA - Subversio
Buy album: Beatport, junodownload, boomkat, Amazon, digital tunes
Stream: Spotify, Soundcloud
© 2011 Sean Archibald, Jacky Ligon, Anton Coops
Human Astronomy EP comes just as Sevish moves away to the UK midlands. "I always found my little patch of London to be a big source of inspiration. Both the estate I grew up in and the landscape of the inner city are locations which have coloured my music." Human Astronomy features Sevish's last compositions in London; it is a 'good bye, see you again soon' release. It's also a 'next time we meet I'll have so much to show you' release.
The EP expands on the style from Sevish's last album Golden Hour: unique harmonies with personality, microtonal exploration, and big scatterbrained beats.
Label release page: Human Astronomy
Download mp3: zip
This time Sevish touches on dubstep, breakbeat, IDM and beats, but is mainly about the drum & bass as usual. Since last year's LP he has changed his techniques and ideas about music; looking beyond traditional Western tonality to find the new moods you can make with alternative tunings - xenharmonics and microtonality. "Xenharmonic" is set to become a very important style of music in the coming years. Meanwhile, Sevish's promiscuity with different styles of electronic music, and his endless search for beautiful atmospheres and beats, both remain!
"I think I've got all bases covered on Golden Hour... I'm really into my messed up complicated tracks so you'll see plenty of those (Tapestry, Whitey) but I also wanted to bring back some straight-ahead sounding stuff (Mako Haze, Fifteen, Calabi-Yau Manifold) because people really liked that about my earlier music."
"The use of alternative tunings to achieve new emotions required me to retune my synthesisers, no easy feat. Only then is it possible to play the 'notes between the notes'. Few of the rules that apply to the old way of doing music are true in the new way, but the results from this new way of composing are stellar and great to listen to."
Label release page: Golden Hour
Download mp3: zip
Exposure EP. A hypnotic electroacoustic piece followed by some glitches and drum and bass. This three-track work is my personal favourite from the 00's releases.
The first track, Introduction, is a piece in three parts. The first part is an orchestral and synthesised work in a repetitive style. The second part marries glitchy, crushed breaks with a powerful and melodic string theme. The final section is a destroyed and glitched gamelan recording, for a disturbing and psychedelic conclusion.
Followed by the copyleft-music anthem Never... In My Life and a jazzy choppage-fest known as My Girl is Blue.
Download mp3: zip
Crowded Images is Sevish's first full length album. It features 12 delicious tracks composed between 2006 and 2008. "It's got dnb, nu-jazz, breakbeat... it represents my mood during 2008 very well."
Download mp3: zip
Artwork by idiotcat.
Written and recorded at the young age of 14-15, here is Sevish's first project in its original form. The genre of the EP muddles between breakbeat, drum and bass, ambient and synthesised rock with a few experimental sounds.
Sevish EP on the Internet Archive
Download mp3: zip
Sevish is a hobbyist musician and composer-producer of electronic music.
He makes xenharmonic dnb, breakbeat, things like that.
The music is usually instrumental though not very melodic (more focus on harmony and rhythm).
Look for works with the CC (creative commons) logo - it means you can download and make copies of that works legally.
I'm writing a new album. I've been posting little previews and demos to my soundcloud and facebook pages. Work is slow because of uni commitments.
Progress as of 15/Jan/2012: 17 minutes in 6 tracks.
Currently sounds like: Can't put finger on genre, but it's chilled/ambient with weird rhythms and it's bassy. Overall mood seems ambiguous, not too heavy, pleasant but still microtonal. (Will see how this progresses...)
Incomplete track list: The Entity Unmasked, Sniping for Wallies, Lavender Fields.
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