Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – In Summer

V/A - AVI 003 (feat Full Circle & Kris Baha Remix) (Vinyl, 12") (Released October 31, 2023)
Label: Avidya [AVI 003]

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Emotional Response reaches 10 years plus with a first, a label compilation bringing together a series of artists who are friends, family, known, unknown, established or up and coming, who all represent an element, a sound, of the label that can be heard on the monthly NTS show, All Trades.

Presenting a spread of all the labels under the Emotional Recordings banner, the “All Trades” show provides a mixture, a showcase of a sound, from ambient to dub, soul to disco, beatdown to techno, all (un)mixed and merged in an unplanned, freeform style.  

Coming to the idea of bringing that to a compilation, the “Jack Of All, Master Of None” ethos is narrowed to a selection of admired producers today.  Twenty Four artists (over 2 Volumes) from numerous backgrounds, starting with the man who helped the label’s birth way back, helping creating the identiy, logo and early designs, in Paul Byrne aka Apiento.  As well as running the heralded Test Pressing website, he is now a respected producer of deep, melodic techno beats and acid embrace.  His throbbing acid collaboration with Tepper is the perfect start to set the tone of the album.  

Following, Edinburgh DJ, producer and overall (dry) oracle Gavin Sutherland offers the beautifully balearics of his Other Lands project, mixing the motorik with the Durutti, before Sweden’s trio Datasal weld a warm, live analogue mind worming jam.  

Side two sees Belfast’s rising stars Black Bones in full percussive, their love of post punk, dub and hip-hop apparent, a tipping point drama.  The first of three French digidub tracks is presented by Froid Dub, with just three releases capturing wide-ranging fans, Item By Item Dub encapsulates their riddim’n’sound.  To close, the wonderful Howes offers his new project Paperclip Minimiser, the trippy, ambient techno oeuvre that is a rightful ending.

The second half starts with another worthy collaboration, featuring Berlin residents of distinction, Cosmo Vitelli & Die Wilde Jagd joining forces with a suitably spoken word meets krautrock throb.  Tangents explored, welcoming Seattle’s Ann Denio and a quick step, spoken word joy.  Over a near 40-year career, this multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theatre, as well as a songwriter and music improviser, is a delightful addition.  Then, a debut of sorts, Exotic Garden arrives, the new solo project of Peaking Lights’ Aaron Coyles, his self-proclaimed ‘Gothic Dub” instantly appeals, the dark psychedelics stretches the corners of All Trades sound, with more to follow.  

Closing the album are three ‘friends & family’ of the label, starting with the now prolific productions of Belgium’s soFa elsewhere, offering another collaboration, here vocalist Yamila uplights over sweet percussion and latin swing.  Next, acclaimed drummer and percussionist Valentina Magaletti shows why she has become a rightful cause célèbre with her extraordinary Radio77, celebrating her punk and industrial leanings with a rant through the airwaves, before the finale, the warm mediative embrace of Seahawks’ ambient statesman Jon Tye, closing with a beautiful, graceful farewell.

C3. Exotic Gardens - Soundwaves And Dark Caves

In.out.sider is a free multidisciplinary festival that promotes diversity through an eclectic and inclusive programming. With a focus on experimental music, the lineup also includes film screenings, visual arts, workshops, and a broader reflection on the inclusion of marginalized individuals in artistic programs.

Saeko Killy is a Berlin-based DJ and producer who started on the Tokyo scene before finding her place in the orbit of the Sameheads club. Her productions skillfully combine elements of dub, post-punk, and kraut with electronic rhythms.

In.Out.Sider w/ Saeko Killy @ Kiosk Radio 05.10.2024

Physical: Sold Out
Digital: shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/in-summer
Catalog #: GN35
Barro negro cassette, limited to 100

For nearly two decades, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has led an ambitious and exploratory trail through a variety of sounds and genres. As a member of longtime underdogs Tarentel, Cantu-Ledesma broadened the horizons, challenged genre constraints, and pushed the boundaries of the entire post rock genre. Later, Jefre established with several experimental bands (the Alps, Portraits, Moholy-Nagy, etc.) and collaborative projects (Raum, with Grouper). But Jefre has also operated a bit behind the scenes, issuing heady sets of experimental music and film through Root Strata, the label he co-runs with Maxwell August Croy.

As a solo artist, Cantu-Ledesma creates deeply emotional sets of drone, noise, tape collage, and field recordings on the likes of Type, Mexican Summer, Digitalis, Students of Decay, and more. 

Jefre now joins Geographic North with In Summer, a cassette that furthers the nostalgia and melancholy portraits of 'A Year with 13 Moons' (2015 Mexican Summer) and 'Songs of Forgiveness' (2014 BARO) for briefer, yet more potent tape loop meditations. 

"Love's Refrain" opens the cassette by plunging into depths of reeling, Cocteau Twins-esque clouds of guitar and patient drum machine. Riddled with static and glorious, hypnotic tape warble, the song perfectly sets the stage for In Summer's emotional arc. "Little Deer Isle" meditates on a series of field recordings and unbelievable calmness.

"In Summer" exists in a rolling simmer of aural infidelity and physical, circumstantial magic. "Blue Nudes (I-IV)" creates a deep and undulating traipse through various vignettes of hope, love, loss, and admiration, while "Prelude" closes things out with a calm, understated but permeating sense of calm optimism.

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - "Love's Refrain"

ME 
(Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

From 'Comme Un Seul Narcisse'
Shelter Press / SP070

https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/comme-un-seul-narcisse

Comme Un Seul Narcisse

ME (Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)

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After the success of the 2 Late 4 Love EP, Roy Of The Ravers returns to Emotional Response with a double LP with a deeper perspective, experimenting in ambient and drone textures, lucid techno travails and acid interludes. 

Recorded between 1997 and 2017, the album was pieced together over the last six months after Roy's archives were first feared lost and then found. Approached by the label to release a follow up with something more introspective and personal, it was discovered that a recent move to a new studio had led to over 20 years of music being misplaced after it was believed they were mistakenly dropped at a local charity store. However, deep in a box of what were thought to be patch cables were in fact the decades worth of hard drives and here presented, is a sample of those lost recordings.

The nature of the music is introspection, eschewing the acid beats and white noise for a personal encounter between man and machine. The orchestral opening of the title track gives way to the submarine beats, pulsing TB303 and gliding hats of Robinson College 10 to set the outlook to come. Even with the scattering A Dim And Distant Past waking lulled senses, the melodies and feel all lead to a pause and reflect rather than jump and shout. 

This is continued with the haunting drives of Bounce Erec and Oriental X0X-Press; the twisted, warped jams of The Weber Traum Boat Pt.3, Ichi and Roland Corp Labs 05; and the beautiful, heartfelt odes in Sade Lost Theme, The Clock House Pt.2 and closer, Nemesis '01. The album's melodic nature hums and shines as CS (6x8) appears as much a centre piece as a alternative consideration to the acid tinged, club bangs of Roy's releases to date. 

A surprise package maybe, but in the rolling, word of mouth phenomena that was Emotinium II, all this and more was sensed and so White Line Sunrise II, spreading across 12 songs of contrasting moods, is a further affirmation that there is something good and worthy of exploration

D3. Nemesis '01

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Emotional Response is delighted to announce Foreign Affairs - a limited edition special remix 7-inch single featuring reworks from Alexis Georgopoulos & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s “Fragments of A Season” album by Woo and Felicia Atkinson.

Last year's "Fragments of A Season" represented a unique chapter in both artist’s canon. Georgopoulos, who released the Arp album “Zebra” in June this year and Cantu-Ledesma, who released “On The Echoing Green” in October 2017 – both on Mexican Summer and to critical acclaim – wanted to stretch out and create a discrete work.  A peripheral listen to “Fragments” revealed a resonant album of delicate, ambient vignettes, suggesting a Balearic take on Vini Reilly, Young Marble Giants and other poetically-minded, minimalistic post-punk era bands.  

The Brothers Ives aka Woo were a major influence on the album's makers and so AG and JCL are thrilled they’ve submitted a beautiful reworking of the album’s “Marine”.  Whereas the original sounded like Marine Girls and The Gist getting together for a nice beach day jam, Woo's rework transforms it into pulsating track of glistening proportions.  Percolating synths, some guitar and clarinet – the true classic, idiosyncratic Woo-ification – creates a woozy, romantic, impossible to categorize slice of Balearic meets dub atmospherics.

If “Marine” is all midday sun, intoxicating and potently optimistic, Atkinson’s remake represents the literal and figurative flip, bringing out the overcast dreaminess to “Cleo”.  Sounding like an outtake from a Rohmer film, or perhaps Cocteau Twins and Broadcast having a picnic in Biarritz, the version veers between abstraction, celluloid ambiguity and suggested narrative.  Atkinson’s reworking adds poetry of the tune (quite literally!) with her soft vocal under-gliding to perfection.  Representing a temporary idyll, a meeting point where cobblestone streets lead to the sea.   At nightfall, a discotheque heard in the distance.  The morning mist burns off.  Only such memories remain. 

Digital version includes bonus remix by NY-based house producer Image Man (1080p).

B. Cleo (Felicia Atkinson Remix)

A. Marine (Woo Version)

Track from the remix compilation album CRXSSINGS, a fundraiser for refugee organisation City Plaza in Athens, Greece.

Here is the list or contributors:

Shelly Knots x Jan St. Werner
Ipek Gorgun x Mira Calix
Aaron Dilloway x Lucrecia Dalt
Laura Luna Castillo x Leyland James Kirby
France Jobin x Anne Guthrie
Mads Emil Nielsen x Jan Jelinek
Alessandro Bosetti x Yannis Kyriakides
Seth Graham x Yves De Mey
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma x Le Révélateur
Mark Fell x Jim O'rourke
Christina Vantzou x Jasmine Guffond
Kreng x Celer
Bjarni Gunnarsson x BJ Nilsen
Jerusalem In My Heart x Black To Comm
Klara Lewis x Lawrence English
Gabriel Saloman x Machinefabriek
Koen Holtkamp x Chuck Johnson

Download at: crxssings.bandcamp.com/releases

All the funds generated by the sales of this album will be donated directly to City Plaza Hotel, a squatted refuge located in the heart of Athens, Greece, organized for and by migrants from Africa and Asia. These funds will support their struggle to provide material needs for those fleeing economic, environmental, political and military disasters in their home countries. At City Plaza Hotel residents work together in ways that center their own agency, dignity and solidarity with each other.

This compilation in no way claims to represent the voices of refugees and migrants, nor does it represent the scores of incredible musicians from the Middle East, North Africa or Central America whose communities are being disrupted by mass migration. Rather, the artists participating in this compilation recognize that their lives and art have benefitted from the relative ease with which they are able to move across borders, performing for international audiences and developing relationships across cultures. Some of the artists involved are the children of immigrants, or have their own experiences of migration and relocation. All of them share a belief in a basic freedom of movement and stand in solidarity with those migrants and refugees who are struggling to make a better life for their families and themselves.

More info:
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www.facebook.com/sol2refugeesen

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma x Le Révélateur - In Summer (Out Remix)

Tracing Back the Radiance

Palace of Time

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A new philosophy as time enters a radical history of our evolution. Being and nothingness in one, creatures of habit, the angels of nature, we can herald a new humanity.

DJN4 enters in homage. Optimus Yarnspinner. Edification through music bends, but does not break the untameable lost voices. This dissolution of ego, where culture exemplifies the principle of innovation through excess, the nocturnal brain sees only what it seeks. 

The order of time is more than a conspiracy of the people, this enforced interlude does not mean culture's end. Our culture, music's culture, acts as a genome, a graffiti of society. 

The psy, the rave, the sounds, the species, the food of the gods. Alpha Juno, Cyclon 303, mutable instruments and ideas collated, N4's modern mysticism to harness the Earth as a being of sound. This occult features an anarchism, offering us a collective immortality, allowing us, showing us, how to be more humane. 

Across eight tracks, our DJ weaves a journey to the inner and outer digi sphere, a two-year search, in to steppas, out of dub, evoking legitimate synthesis and sensibility. Look beyond Zamonia. The lost Chord. An alien dreamtime. Tales of Z.

A2. DJN4 - Volzotan's Phogarr

Kristy P aka Kristy Pemberton!
London Girl, not a dj, just playing records, sometimes at the wrong speed, but always with love, defying genres, never categorised. Half of label owner Sonorous Chamber also part of the PIDR collective.

A. Marine (Woo Version)

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