On 27 September 2018, Rafael Anton Irisarri was a guest on Solid Steel. Rafael Anton Irisarri has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 29 episodes and was first played on 9 August 2015.

Originally based in Seattle, Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American artist who composes ambient, drone, and post-minimalist music. His recordings heavily utilize field recordings, bowed guitars, strings, and electronics, creating dense clouds of blurry, hypnotic sound that often have a mournful, elegiac quality.

He has performed concerts in collaboration with numerous experimental, electronic, and indie musicians, including Fennesz, Greg Davis, Grouper, and Lawrence English.

Since 2007, he has co-curated…