Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – In Summer

Disintegration

Moody, eerie, the vacantness of late summer evenings in a small town

Neon Summer

#discover - part 6

Knowhere

post-punk/darkwave/coldwave/synthwave/shoegaze

Aquarium Drunkard :: 2017 Year In Review

there's beauty in everything and everyone, it's just a matter of perspective :) --- (pic: artist's garden at giverny, c.1900 - monet)

afternoons 1

Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance

The Dance No. 1

All I Have

Why Don't We Fall in Love

Música!

Ive Brussel

Pornography

Cold (2005 Remaster)

A Strange Day (2005 Remaster)

Siamese Twins (2005 Remaster)

The Figurehead (2005 Remaster)

Pictures of You (2010 Remaster)

Eu Sou De Jorge

Ogum (Ao Vivo) [feat. Jorge Ben Jor]

Let's Get Lost: The Best Of Chet Baker Sings

I Fall In Love Too Easily

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"

...Of Desire

Night Games

Kani

Kani (Day)

Life & Livin' It

Telephone

From the upcoming album "Halo" out on May 5

Halo

Buy on iTunes

Juana Molina - "Cosoco"

Slow Meadow

Grey Cloud Lullaby

Tropical Drums of Deutschland

Akili Mali

The Singles

I Want More

Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs

Flatlands

Tinseltown Swimming in Blood

Hovvdy - Cranberry
Out on Double Double Whammy February 9th, 2018

Hovvdy - Quitter

Ideas of Aesthetics

Honesty

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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Self-described hummus lover Ian Ewing is back with another soothing release! 

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Ian Ewing - LuvnYou

Dive into the beautiful chillness of Cloudchord & Soul Food Horns's "Morning Crackle" taken of their collaborative LP Koi Pond (out via @chillhopdotcom).

Read our premiere feature at https://www.stereofox.com/premiere-cloudchord-soul-food-horns-morning-crackle/

🐟Pre-save on Spotify » chillhop.ffm.to/koipond.ODL

Discover the first track from the upcoming album by Cloudchord & Soul Food Horns "Koi Pond" released on Chillhop Records on July 11th. Perfect chill summer vibes incoming!

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📷 Artwork by Dylan Wood
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Cloudchord & Soul Food Horns - Morning Crackle [premiere]

Selah

Mantra Part 2

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)

When I Get Home

Down With the Clique

Hifalutin

out beyond

Love Yourself / With My Whole Heart

Love Yourself

With My Whole Heart

On the Echoing Green

Echoing Green

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

I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)

‘Rainbows’ featuring vocalist Barbara Panther is out on the new Bpitch Control label Compilation titled ‘Where the Wind Blows’.

Matthew Herbert protege Barbara Panther and Jahcoozi already collaborated on a track called ‘Barricaded’ on their third album ‘Barefoot Wanderer’ album which also came out on Ellen Allien’s imprint in 2010.

‘Rainbows’ which came out of a studio session last year is less sparse than their last collaborative effort.  Intertwined vocal lines forge a form of post-rock tinged electronic poetry.

Jahcoozi feat. Barbara Panther_ Rainbows

While on a recent tour of the Western United States, London-based The KVB moved heaven and earth to make this wonderfully meditative 3-part episode possible. Working with award-winning documentary filmmaker Alix Lambert (The Mark of Cain), cinematographer Conor Simpson, engineer Griffin Rodriguez and editor Forrest Borie, the episode employs a simple set of colored gels, soft shadows, playful synth melodies, one cranky drum machine, one enormously loud Jazzmaster, and two unflinching performers. Welcome to the bracingly Zen-like inner-world of The KVB.  

BIO
The KVB is the prolific A/V outlet of artists Nicholas Wood and Kat Day. Combining goth-tinged, abstract imagery with a love of shoegaze guitars, minimal synths, reverb-drenched vocals and rigid beats, Nicholas initially started The KVB as a solo project. After frequent collaborations throughout 2011, Kat Day joined permanently on synths and visuals. Fast on the heels of several EPs and limited-edition cassettes, 2012 saw the release of the band's acclaimed first LP, Always Then, soon followed by tours of the UK, EU, and Western US. In early 2013, The KVB released Immaterial Visions via NYC's Cititrax imprint. If your musical tastes veer toward hypnotic minimal wave and snarling post-punk, The KVB will definitely satisfy your darkest Psychocandy-esque cravings.  


COMPONENTS

Video 
• YouTube: http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4EEUwd7e4lP9GLCz-Zo-EQGmsPberDm
• Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/album/2365481

Photos
• Flickr: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjEPXt9k

Music
• SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/goincase/sets/the-kvb-at-room-205


CREDITS

Executive Producer
• Incase: http://goincase.com

Producer
• Arlie Carstens: http://disastercasual.typepad.com

Director
• Alix Lambert: http://pinkghettoproductions.com

Cinematography
• Conor Simpson: http://vimeo.com/likeamaniac

Set Designer
• Tamarra Younis: http://union-of-art.net

Set Assistant
• Katie Risinger: http://facebook.com/katieferne

Editor
• Forrest Borie: http://vimeo.com/forrestborie  

Audio Engineer
• Griffin Rodriguez: http://linkedin.com/pub/griffin-rodriguez/1b/599/2a

Camera
• Alix Lambert: http://pinkghettoproductions.com
• Conor Simpson: http://vimeo.com/likeamaniac

Photos
• Arlie Carstens: http://disastercasual.typepad.com

Performing Artist
• The KVB: http://facebook.com/thekvb1

Label
• Cititrax Records: http://cititrax.com

Room 205 Theme Song
• Cora Foxx: http://corafoxx.com


The KVB - Captives (at Room 205)

Magic Wands - kaleidoscope hearts