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@blessed-and-blushing - Blue Memory Box [AD002]

"Blue memory box" is an EP filled with blurry memories from imaginary pop of the 2000's. The range of genres heard in the EP recall pop, pop-rock, dance and ambient music.

I was specifically inspired by artists from this decade because it's music that I heard when I was a child and then a teenager. It's also music that created a special bond between me and someone I was in love with. Created during a heartbreak, I wanted to encapsulate music that was the soundtrack of beautiful moments in love with this person.

It was made with the generative adversarial network (GAN) called Jukebox AI and some cuts. It's a powerful tool that can generate music from its database. It's possible to specify musical genres or the names of famous artists to give a direction to it and it's also possible to feed the database with the artists you want to.

The multiple voices singing are the result of a mix of the voices in the immense database of AI. There are some cuts and loops that I've made to transform the pop music generated into the ambient. The lo-fi grain is inherent to the process but matched perfectly with the idea to make it sounds like it's coming from the past, a past that will forever keep a warm place in my heart."

Blue Memory Box

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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.

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