Downriver by Sequences

Found in the tangled underbrush of both city and countryside, Downriver drifts through psychogeographic territory inspired by the work and writings of Iain Sinclair. Just as Sinclair’s novels — London Orbital, Downriver, Radon Daughters — move from the physical to the metaphysical, from the tangible to the imagined, this album draws the listener into liminal spaces. Slowly shifting drones, fractured textures, and faintly echoed voices bleed in as if from another dimension, carrying a sense of decayed grandeur. These are landscapes akin to Sinclair’s neglected warehouses, disused monuments and hidden corners, places where centuries of history rest beneath the surface.

Captured in single takes, the tracks extend from a kind of undirected physical wandering — open-ended and impossible to map — where sound emerges in the cracks of the everyday and the boundaries of time and place loosen. The result is a patchwork of distortions, hidden details and sudden ruptures, a sonic equivalent of drifting through forgotten territory.

Downriver is by Sequences, the Antwerp-based project of Niels Geybels, who also runs the label Audio Visual Atmosphere — an apt name for the immersive, texture-rich music it releases. Here, Geybels continues his exploration of tone, memory and environment, creating work that exists between sound art and environmental music, in the places where histories collide and the present moment begins to fray.

"The searing rise of sonic scapes portraying the imperturbable depth and infinitude of winter.

Sultry feedback saturated static lays foundations for the purest hints of tonal harmony to shine through - they meander and wallow in a glorious middle ground that jostles constantly amidst the furrow of feedback and dirt."

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