See also <a href="spotify:playlist:4tirvLQU25OzQ0yIbatFFK">Intro</a>, <a href="spotify:playlist:2orSSUp0IEVnbjdmMtjz8p">Pulse</a>, <a href="spotify:playlist:2kcjpiwM4oStFhpZM5Qk0Q">Edge</a>, <a href="spotify:playlist:0T9x12sacdOimJ5XpNisIv">♀Filter</a> 

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Olancha Farewell

02 - Susumu Yokota - Tobiume

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"

Will

Heading Home

No. 2

Anna Mae

Sea Island

Angle of List

When the Detail Lost Its Freedom

Overture (For Other Halfs)

And Their Refinement of the Decline

Dungtitled (In a Major)

The Dead Texan

The Struggle

Hymnal (Remixes)

Margin (Zachary Gray Remix)

Venice

Transit (feat. David Sylvian)

Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

Poa Alpina

Somi

Minism

Celer - Elapsed Paradise (excerpt)

A preview of brand new work by the legendary electronic mystic, mixed by Carlos Niño and forthcoming on the All Saints Records label, presented as two complimentary parts of a whole - the epic double album, Bring On The Sun, and meditative drone work, Sun Gong. 

Pre-order Bring On The Sun: http://www.smarturl.it/bringonthesun
Pre-order Sun Gong: http://www.smarturl.it/sungong

Introspection EXCERPTS

Laraaji - Introspection (Edit)

First track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
http://smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:

Fourth World in the 21st century: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban
https://www.jonhassell.com/

Jon Hassell - Dreaming

Taken from 'Dissolvi' LP by Steve Hauschildt out August 3, 2018

Order 'Dissolvi': https://goo.gl/8CyXf7
Or at the retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/steve-hauschildt-dissolvi

Dissolvi

Steve Hauschildt - Saccade (ft. Julianna Barwick)

After a few hours of absorbing the calm of the lake, you're welcomed back to shore by the sound of rustling leaves echoing along the shoreline as you make your way to the canopy covered campground. The mid-day sun periodically shimmers through the treetops lighting up the forest trail inviting you to go and discover. Find the perfect place to lose yourself along the thousands of miles of pristine Michigan trails. https://www.michigan.org/hiking

ABOUT WINDY & CARL: As composers of Forest Trails, Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren began writing music together in 1993. They have since released numerous LPs and singles with labels such as Kranky Records. Windy & Carl create imaginary film scores – music for the movies in your mind. These days, their time is split working on new music, walking their dogs and running Stormy Records – their 20 year old record store in Dearborn, Michigan. http://www.stormyrecords.com/

More Info: https://www.michigan.org/puresounds 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4IraxSJiP3P7561LUlNTrY 
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/forest-trails-single/1459913776 
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B07QLNYBP9?ref=dm_sh_e998-0bff-dmcp-c905-1aa13&musicTerritory=US&marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER 
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bwusinmexbpbemdrztikabx3g5i&tid=song-Tydfow3rnkt2foqspszgqgs4xdy 

Executive Produced and Mixed by Blair French. Mastered by Eddie Logix.

Pure Sounds of Michigan

Forest Trails

Official Website

Windy & Carl - Forest Trails

Tomorrow's Explorers

36 Orphans Of The Sky (Version)

Virga I

Virga I (ii)

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