Sigha - Abstractions I-IV
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Matt Oliver at
20/02/2012 10:00:00
Abstraction becomes a two-fold concept for Sigha.
Definition one for 'Something In Between Us'
is of dreaminess and vagueness, a quick blast of digital dry ice with its
creator playing with chillout headswims and visuals of shifting black clouds
with his bare hands. It’s a hope that evaporates with the stark 'Where I Come to Forget', as the
four-tracker’s remainder relates abstractionto a hellish visit to the dentist with James Shaw the surgeon evacuating
optimism down a black hole.
Seemingly missing a kickstart until you realise Sigha is
here to simply lump on half-paced techno, astro-tribal drums and snatches of
space scurriers, it’s all about the suspenseful
positioning of the one with the biggest lazer. The warehouse reaction when this
one drops should be interesting, eight and a half minutes of nip and tuck through
chrome corridors. The archetypal space battlefield is minimalist, but sadistically
cock diesel.
If you’ve had trouble getting your dancing feet going, fluid
inquisition floods throughout 'How to
Disappear' (anyone think Sigha is writing a guide on the best no man’s lands
in the universe?), techno limber in its
loopage and keeping space fears at arm’s length. You know it’s there, but there’s
not too much cause for alarm as it simmers instead of escalating. Nonetheless,
a dark ‘floor driver shot through with an army of rinky-dink effects and tics timed
to the split second, more than capable of making you gulp.
The atmosphere heaving around 'Drown' is such that you know catastrophe is imminent, and would rather
a quick demise than Sigha digging into a deeply embedded techno thunder sounding
like the last tube ride to damnation. As it creaks and tunnels through, gasping
for air and almost withering away in slow agonising motion, it’s a triumph of mixing
bated breath with the Black Death. Cerebral isn’t quite the right word for all
four, but the brain gets as big a workover as the body.