Faceless Kiss / Blut Mond 7″ – Alone Together #6 – Pre-order now

From the label:
Jefre’s guitar beams directly down from Souvlaki Space Station and arrives gorgeously mangled via modular synthesizer.  Romantically haloed chorus guitar floats widescreen across relentless static drum machines until the sky splits open in the final movement, spilling burning guitar fragments over everything.  This same pink-out bliss was explored on his ‘Love Is A Stream’ LP on Type Records, only here it’s simultaneously more unapologetically pop and more aggressive.  The B-side, ‘Blut Mond’ is a bass-heavy covert floater – night sky music.  Fittingly enough the closing statement of the first round of our Alone Together series is the one that wants to draw you close and to fall gently asleep with you.  Sound is bliss.  Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is of course a member of Tarental and The Alps, a regular collaborator with experimental film maker Paul Clipson and founder of the esteemed Root Strata label.  Edition of 300, mastered by Pete Swanson.

Available for pre-order HERE.  All pre-orders ship with special gifts…

 

GROUPER W/ JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA – CIRCULAR VEIL

GROUPER W/ JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA
CIRCULAR VEIL

Circular Veil is the fourth in an ongoing ambient tape collages series by Grouper /Liz Harris. Accompanied by myself, this is a new durational performance which sees Harris create a customised sonic/visual environment designed to lull participants into a sort of waking sleep – a collective dreaming room in which audience and performers may experience this paradox collectively.

2 dates:

Sat 4 Feb Berlin, CTM Festival @ HAU2 (7 Hour Performance)
Tue 7 Feb Cologne, Alte Feuerwache (4 Hour Performance)

VISITING THIS WORLD – NEW LP EDITION FOR EN/OF

‘Visiting This World’ is a new 12″ LP for the Berlin based EN/Of label which specializes in an ongoing series of musician / visual artist collaboration LP’s. My contribution is in collaboration with Dutch artist Daan Van Golden. The edition is released in conjunction with a current  retrospective of EN/Of editions at the De Hallen Museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands, which is also currently exhibiting a retrospective of the work of Van Golden. I will give a free performance in the gallery on thursday 23 February, which will also be the official release date of the LP, which is in an edition of 100.

The Sea Within The Sea by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

SEPTEMBER 14th – LONDON – CAFE OTO

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson at Cafe OTO from Paul Clipson on Vimeo.

SEPTEMBER, 2011

 

AUGUST, 2011

September/October tour dates have been added to Live. All dates will include Paul Clipson projecting Super8 Films.

Current Recordings:
“Like Mirage” by Moholy-Nagy (myself , Danny Paul Grody and Trevor Montgomery)  will be out in October on Temporary Residence. You can hear a couple of the tracks here.

Isidore Ducasse (myself & Trevor Montgomery) is an LP out now on Blackest Rainbow. Music can be heard here.

Josephine is a collaborative project between myself & Tony Cross. Our first cassette, “You are perfect today” will be out on foxy digitalis sometime in the near future.

Future Recordings:

Liz Harris (Grouper) and I are currently working on an LP inspired by the art of Vija Celmins. It will be released on a new San Francisco based organization Glass, house.

I’ve started work on my follow up record to “Love is a Stream”, tentatively titled ‘Devotion’,  and hope to have it completed this Fall/ Winter.

June 4, 2011 – LIVING ROOM AT SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art commissioned me to write a score for ‘Living Room‘, an all day event on June 4th 2011 from 11:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The event is free to the public. A small edition of 300 CD-Rs have been produced (with covers printed by Portland’s Stumptown Printers) and will be given away at the event.

May 5th 2011 – Shining Skull Breath LP

Students of Decay have done a lovely job of reissuing this CD-R from 2007 on LP in an edition of 500, 100 of which come on white vinyl. Two extra songs recorded at the same time have been added to the original sequence. A few spots in the US & UK currently have this for sale. More info in Current Releases.

MARCH 5th, 2011 – La Casa Encendid, Madrid

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson will be performing at Festival PLAY in
in Madrid, Spain at La Casa Encendida. Also performing is “Cipher Screen” by Greg Pope  & Lee Patterson.

February 10th, 2011 – San Francisco