Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – In Summer

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The beginning

The beginning (feat. Alison Skidmore)

Mirage

Animal

The City Rings

Grounds

Venq Tolep

Nata Alma (Club Smash Hit Version)

Paroles :  

I need something to set me free
Something that would stop baby crying
I need an area to go crazy
A bit like a Bubble Shouting

A Bubble Shouting
A Bubble Shouting 
Woooow
A Bubble Shouting
Na Na !

In "prison" mode my world is made
And you show me were is my pain 
I need something to "let off steam"
A bit like a Bubble Shouting

Refrain

Freedom, style ow yeah
reason, violence ow damn
a man die all day 
me I fly, fly, fly 
a Bubble Shouting x3

Bubble Shouting

Instrumental Tourist

Uptown Psychedelia

Tour de France

Prologue (2009 Remaster)

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"

Strands

steve hauschildt 'strands'

Vaporware

Last Night in Cyberia

Untrue

Shell of Light

Plume

Steam

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)

Order here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/alexis-georgopoulos-foreign-affairs-woo-felicia-atkinson/702014-01/

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)

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A Year With 13 Moons

Disappear

Pale Flower

On the Echoing Green

Autumn

Dancers at the Spring

The Garden Of Forking Paths

Farewell Transmission From The Holy Ghost

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:
solidarity2refugees.gr
www.facebook.com/sol2refugeesen

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

Tracing Back the Radiance

Palace of Time

Clarity

Prophecy

Buy/Stream: https://Anjunadeep.lnk.to/JMKSo
Release Date: 2nd August 2019
ANJDEE424D

Renowned for his impeccable quality in the studio and as a tactician during his energetic live sets, the US-born, UK-bred John Monkman returns to Anjunadeep with the dominative ‘Komplex EP'

Strongly endorsed by the likes of Kompakt's Michael Mayer, Maceo Plex and LNOE boss Sasha, John Monkman’s signature powerhouse sound has seen him feature in multiple Beatport top ten charts, and perform in iconic venues from Brazil's Warung to Ibiza's Ushuaia.

Out August 2nd, the three-track ‘Komplex EP’ is a diverse body of work, demonstrating Monkman’s capacity for both nuanced atmospheres and heavier club cuts.

John Monkman  - In Between

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Ahead of his new 'Phoenix / Amargosa' double A-side, Rodriguez Jr. is in the mix for Deep Edition #264.

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Tracklist: 
1. John Monkman ’In Between’ (Anjunadeep)
2. Robag Wruhme ’Nata Alma’ (Club Smash Hit Version] (Pampa)
3. Squire ‘Peacock Ritual’ (mobilee)
4. Rodriguez Jr. ‘Malecón Azul’ (mobilee)
5. Deetron ‘Can’t Love You More’ (Music Man)
6. Agoria ‘Remedy’ feat. Noemie [Cintie Remix] (Virgin / Astralwerks)
7. Rodriguez Jr. ‘Phoenix’ (Anjunadeep)
8. Rodriguez Jr. ‘Mistral / Night Blooming Jasmine’ 
9. Rodriguez Jr. ‘Amargosa’ (Anjunadeep)
10. Antic ‘Inundación’ (Anjunadeep)
11. Laurent Garnier & Chambray ‘Feelin’ Good’ [Radio Slave Revenge Mix] (Rekids)

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The Anjunadeep Edition 264 with Rodriguez Jr.

Chester Raj Anand - Eternal

Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe
Cat. Nr: DN016
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 21 February 2020

Hidden in plain sight, grinning through worry, living in insecurity – modern society has returned to a day-by-day race for survival. To be vulnerable is the new normal; afraid, a bare minimum. Something was bound to emerge from the quiet throngs of the new precariat, and Racine is such a voice, setting to music those modern lives defined by uncertainty.

Quelque Chose Tombe (‘Something Falls’) is a set of compositions that confronts demons both inner and outer head-on. Created during a period of necessary unemployment somewhere in Montreal – caring for one’s health can take precedence over work – the music is both a grotesque dance of the goblins and the gentle opiatic breath of the protectors. It’s a harrowing reflection of the prevalent vampiric hypochondria forcing a generation into fatigue.

The sounds crawling out of Racine speak with their own internal logic. Snippets of fractured tunes creak through perturbed post-digital soundscapes, blurred and fragmented along the way into haunting amorphous instrumentals. The two-part title track is multi-part sonic maze where raven-like pitch bent notes gather, a broken rave theme punctures its way through bass fog, and silence clefts the music in two, ushering in a coda of heartbroken ambience. As the album’s suite progresses, Racine shepherds mutant melodic themes in and out of earshot, like clear thoughts bringing temporary order to a state of emotional panic and withdrawal. A host of other sounds too – voices and birdsong, cybernetically deformed – populate Racine’s scarred productions.

Emerging from Quelque Chose Tombe’s constant darkness however, is a latent sense of hope. Racine is turning modern vulnerability into a strength, creating a singular aesthetic to reflect and confront an uncomfortable present.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Design by Niels Wehrspann

@julienracine