Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Given birth to and raised in Tx, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma delved into abstract music around once he was learning sculpture and visual arts in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in the mid-’90s. Developing an ambient method of the spacy indie rock and roll and slowcore of that time period, Cantu-Ledesma co-founded the extremely influential instrumental take action Tarentel aswell as dealing with experimental rock and roll trio the Alps and operating the well-respected drone/ambient label Main Strata. Prolific in cooperation, Cantu-Ledesma created use Grouper’s Liz Harris inside a duo known as Raum aswell much like filmmaker Paul Clipson and in Alexis Georgopoulos’ ARP task. For a short while he worked single beneath the name Colophon, aswell as releasing music under his personal name. A far more standard solo debut arrived this year 2010 using the wonderfully damaged shoegaze shades of Love Is definitely a Stream, released on Type Information. Some copies from the record included the friend EP Love Is definitely a Dream, offering collaborations between Cantu-Ledesma and Type creator John Twells’ Xela task. Following many years’ well worth of limited cassette and vinyl fabric releases, an effective follow-up arrived in 2015 having a Yr with 13 Moons. Called after a Fassbinder film, the assortment of dreamy acoustic guitar textures, modular synth sound, and faraway drum-machine rhythms was come up with throughout a residency in the Headlands Middle for the Arts in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region. The album premiered early that yr on Mexican Summer months. In 2016, Shelter Press released Comme el Seul Narcisse, a collaborative LP by Cantu-Ledesma and Félicia Atkinson (aka Je Suis le Petit Chevalier), and Geographic North released Cantu-Ledesma’s single cassette In Summer months. Also that calendar year, Czech label Pre-Echo released vinyl fabric editions of Music of Remembrance and Music of Forgiveness, two previously cassette-only albums from 2014.