Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – In Summer

ALLUde_June 2021

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – On the Echoing Green

Ambient Church - the best of 2017

Medium Well Chilled - 6

Terror & Healing is a string of mind adventures, ten miniatures of possibilities, a bunch of invisible cities and imaginary beings. It’s a contribution to the exploring and unmapping of reality through imaginative research, making the ears like the fingers of the blind, piecing the multitude back into music.

Terror & Healing is Tsembla’s fourth release after the 2013 LP Nouskaa henget (New Images), Fauna (Ikuisuus, 2011) and Tuplafiesta 7” (Vauva, 2009). Tsembla, aka Marja Johansson, is a Swedish-Finnish artist operating out of Turku, Finland. She’s an active worker in the musical activities of her hometown and a member of the Kemialliset Ystävät ensemble. Arranging sounds from manipulated samples, electronics and objects, Tsembla’s music is rich in detail, riding on waves of warped melodies, fluttering rhythms, abstract voices and mutating textures.

Tsembla : Terror & Healing

Animal Negatives

Sokean sormet

The End of Gold

Disputing With Stray Dogs

Purple Arrows

Love Potion

An Absence Surrounded By Presence

Go Fast As Fire, Return Like Smoke

Sinuhe Bebe

Alejandro

Music by Marja Johansson, with:

Emil Johansson (bass 1/2/6/10)

Niko-Matti Ahti (guitars 6/10)

Antti Tolvi (synthesizer 3)

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Cover art by Marja Johansson with hand lettering by Niko Karlsson

Recorded in Turku 2013-2014

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www.tsembla.com

Tsembla - Animal Negatives

Hand In Hand

I’m Following You

Curious In Epidavros

Monstera Deliciosa

Valis

Adaptation Assez Facile

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"

Voidness Remixed

Orphan Fire (Kjofol Remix)

Black Drop (Nebulo Remix)

Razor Fragrance (Naono's 'Bokey' Remix)

Black Drop (Van Hai Remix)

Vinyl available now via HYMN and Vinyl Factory >>

https://thevinylfactory.com/product/to-corpse/

In July 2017, the city of Naples and The Sicilian island of Stromboli hosted I Polpi, a festival of contemporary art presented by Fiorucci Art Trust and curated by Milovan Farronato, in partnership with The Vinyl Factory and spearheaded by Eddie Peake.

Electronic producer Actress, musician Gwilym Gold, interdisciplinary artists Evan Ifekoya and Victoria Sin, poet and writer Holly Pester and the natural sound of the island of Stromboli each created unique compositions to accompany Peake’s performance in five variations, To Corpse, performed live by the composers along with the dancers Valeria D’Antonio, Kieram Corrin Mitchell, Emma Fisher, Sara Lupoli and Francesco Russo across five different locations in Naples and Stromboli.

* Gatefold sleeve and two printed inner sleeves
* Double heavyweight 180-gram clear vinyl
* Limited edition of 500 copies worldwide

Romance Layers Cadenza // To Corpse 2

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)

Track taken from 'Apparitions', the Forest Drive West 2x12" release on Livity Sound released 12th October 2018.

Apparitions

Forest Drive West - Phaze-Shift

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)

On the Echoing Green

Echoing Green

A Year With 13 Moons

Disappear

Pale Flower

Autumn

Tenderness

Dancers at the Spring

In a Copse

The Garden Of Forking Paths

Farewell Transmission From The Holy Ghost

The Faun

A Song of Summer

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

changes

"Shaped by Stories"
Text: Marie S Zwinzscher
Musik & Produktion: Lisa Zwinzscher
Mix: Studio hm20
Mastering: Philipp Ruoff
(c) 2020

An Immersive Theater Installation and Live Action Role-Playing  Game for People who Identify as Women* 

Exvoto 

Medium: Immersive Theater Installation and  Live Action Role-Playing Game 
Concept, Idea: Marie S Zwinzscher 
Artistic Ensemble:  
Camilla Lønbirk, Wanja Neite, Olivia Schøder,  Jos Porath, Marie S Zwinzscher  
Lenght: 2,5 days 
Capacity: 15 participants/weekend 
Ensemble: 5-8 Performer 
Language: German 
Production April to October 2021 

Premiere: (aprox.) 20.-22.August 2021 Shows: August/ September 2021 
Location: Packebusch (Sachsen Anhalt) Documentation: 30 min dokumentary 

Production: VorOrtung - zeitgenössische Kunst  und Kultur im Kontext e.V. 
& Set-Design-Duo MOTHER 
Project-Fotographs: (copyright) VorOrtung e.V. 

Exvoto is a 3-day immersive theater installation  and live action role-playing game for people who  identify as women*. Exvoto is a sacred place, set  in an undefined future, outside of linear time: a  temple of healing and transformation where  women* come together to bare their battle scars.  Battle scars left over generations, even if they are  not visible to the eye. 
In search of a new myth for women* of the 21st  century, a maximum of 15 participants per  weekend will come together in August 2021 for a  3-day event on the site of the former local  recreation center in Packebusch / Saxony-Anhalt.  You take part in workshops, eat and sleep on site  and are involved in the immersive theater play for  about 24 hours. In order to be able to realize the  project, the artists started a crowdfunding  campaign on Startnext. 

The team includes theatremaker, -teacher and  performer Marie S. Zwinzscher (Creative Director/ Performance), artists Jos Porath (production/ dramaturgy), Olivia Schrøder (set design) und  Camilla Lønbirk (set design), among others. All  team members have worked worked for and  collaborated with renowned groups like SIGNA  (Denmark) and Punchdrunk (UK) and institutions  like Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Wiener Festwochen  (Vienna), Volksbühne (Berlin) and the Deutsches  Schauspielhaus (Hamburg). 
 Jos Porath, Camilla Lønbirk, Olivia Schøder, Marie S Zwinzscher  


CONTACT:  
Marie S Zwinzscher  
www.mariezwinzscher.de 
+49(0)1739270984  
exvoto@posteo.de 
www.vorortung.de

Exvoto "Shaped By Stories" (Theatermusik)