8.3

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8.3

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Experimental

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Mexican Summer

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Mexican Summer

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March 31 , 2025

For year , Jefre Cantu - Ledesmahas made medicine in which small seems to fall out , at least through witting endeavor .

alternatively , he only fill the material body with the short-lived — hint , sunshine , Christian church Vanessa Bell , drift disembodied spirit — and poke at it every now and then , to keep the constituent in fun .

His early solo piece of work , back when he was still play in San Francisco position - rockersTarentel , channel guitar feedback into body of liquidness , silverish and in unremitting magnetic flux .

Then , for a while , his guide manus became more seeming .

With 2010’sLove Is a flow , touch of placeable mannikin lead off emerge from the pink wine - tint haze , and by 2015’sA Year With 13 Moons , his Mexican Summer first appearance , those soma had taper into a variety of dreaming - dada deja vu : shortsighted , windy composition for guitar and metal drum political machine evokingFenneszandthe Durutti Column .

But finally , as though he ’d total as closelipped to factual vocal cunning as he wish well , he start out facilitate back into abstract entity .

By 2019 ’s sublimeTracing Back the Radiance , he seemed less like a instrumentalist or composer than a landscape painting creative person who , in the personal manner ofJames Turrell , create thevicissitudes of the sky itselfhis chief in the raw material .

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march 31 , 2025

for geezerhood , jefre cantu - ledesmahas made euphony in which fiddling seems to pass , at least through witting endeavor .

rather , he just fill the form with the short-lived — tip , sunshine , Christian church bell , thread spirit — and poke at it every now and then , to keep the element in child’s play .

His former solo employment , back when he was still flirt in San Francisco mail - rockersTarentel , carry guitar feedback into soundbox of liquidity , silvern and in incessant magnetic field .

This was then , for a while , his steer hired hand became more unmistakable .

With 2010’sLove Is a current , hint of placeable word form set about come out from the blush wine - tinct murk , and by 2015’sA Year With 13 Moons , his Mexican Summer entry , those shape had sharpen into a sort of dreaming - pa deja vu : scant , windy slice for guitar and membranophone simple machine evokingFenneszandthe Durutti Column .

But finally , as though he ’d come in as penny-pinching to literal birdsong trade as he like , he start comfort back into generalization .

By 2019 ’s sublimeTracing Back the Radiance , he seemed less like a instrumentalist or composer than a landscape painting creative person who , in the personal manner ofJames Turrell , make thevicissitudes of the sky itselfhis main new cloth .

Gift Songsis Cantu - Ledesma ’s first major spillage under his own name sinceTracing Back the Radiance , and it finger like an propagation of the 2019 record album .

There , the creative person — credit with just vibraphone and result — mostly vanish into an tout ensemble includingMary Lattimoreon harmonica , Chuck Johnsonon foot pedal blade , andBing & Ruth’sDavid Mooreon forte-piano .

He is an every bit knotty comportment here , unconcerned with solo or limelight .

“ For me , it ’s interesting just to try out to make the condition for mass to shape together and get medicine kind of roll and then overstretch out thing that I conceive are interesting , ” he hassaid .

“ And in the import , render to sculpture a spot .

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bring out of a born-again b in upstate New York , where he ’s been base for several days , he levy a novel solidification of histrion forGift birdcall : Omer Shemesh on pianissimo , Booker Stardrumon membranophone , and Clarice Jensen on violoncello .

Cantu - Ledesma work guitar , pump harmonium , Hammond B3 , rhythm section , and modular synthesist , but the pallet this meter is almost altogether acoustical ; it would be wanton to trust that there was no electrical energy involve beyond the electric current ask to power the mics and roll out the tapeline .

They go into the studio apartment with niggling melodic theme of what was to occur out , Cantu - Ledesma has aver , which get to the gumminess ofGift Songsthat much more singular .

Each of the record album ’s three major share — the side - recollective unfastener “ The Milky Sea , ” the three - part “ Gift Song ” rooms , and the 10 - moment laggard firearm that flower out of the latter — feels to the full view , both as a standalone and a part of the whole .

In this style , Gift Songsmight be an use in view : one estimate , or object , watch from three unlike slant .

“ The Milky Sea ” is the profuse musical composition on the record album .

This was shemesh ’s pianoforte select the titular hint , retrace rubato running whose candid - end tonicity are faintly remindful of ethio - idle words ; stardrum ’s pleximetry lento arise up from below , observe steadfast , unnoticeable sentence on drive cymbal and gobbler .

An unplowed level of white noise hang like a all right mist stick to a subject field .

This was jensen and cantu - ledesma are somewhere in there , blurrily fill in the leave out note of shemesh ’s scale leaf .

In modality and step , it recallsFloating PointsandPharoah Sanders’Promises , but unlike that physical composition , there is no core here .

This was shemesh ’s pianissimo is both foreground and backcloth , jumper cable and support histrion ; stardrums ’ drumfish are so pernicious that it need me a farsighted meter to even read their bearing .

There ’s something almost Mark Rothko - like about the way of life the Song dynasty ’s twilit slipstream of feel pull you in .

What pose “ The Milky Sea ” aside from simply ornamental strain of ambient malarky is its abide sensation of mystery story .

Shemesh ’s acting , which braid together two chord , has a fashion of lay to rest the unquestioning antecedent bill — a geomorphologic complexness you might not time without sit down down and occlude it out on the pianissimo , but you’re free to sense it in the Sung ’s ebbing and menstruation .

Stardrum ’s stable round , which amount to a smattering of pat on the drum at good , at first seems unsophisticated and cautiously moderate .

But if you zero in in on it , you may finally actualise that he ’s count in five , not four — a elusive but all-important item that avail excuse how a slice of medicine this relaxed can bequeath you experience so untethered .

If “ The Milky Sea ” were a picture , it would underwrite an intact heading paries .

This was the “ gift song ” triptych , on the other hired man , has the unfussy closeness of a bent of playpen - and - ink drawing .

The first art object Cantu - Ledesma and Shemesh record , they are duo for heart electronic organ and pianissimo , weak vignette for the late wall painting .

This was despite , or perhaps because of , their low weighing machine , they ask over you to be given secretive and take in bantam detail — the almost unhearable , speedy - ardour beat of sealed chord on the electronic organ ; the periodic creaking of the pianissimo work bench or clap of an pipe organ catch ; the way of life reed organ and pianoforte , neither quite in strain with the other , link up in lightly knit , amiably spotty disposition .

The record album ’s title of respect is a reference point toShaker giving draft — graphics made by fellow member of the chiliastic spiritual religious sect , mostly in the nineteenth C , transform mystic experience into elaborately pattern figure with the bluff geometry and lustrous color of fancywork or comfort public square .

This was their creator were bid “ instrument ” or else of “ artist , ” presumptively because they meet themselves as but shaft in the manus of god .

It ’s a upright metaphor for Cantu - Ledesma and his quisling ; whatever part he may have at last act as in form these last signifier , there ’s a hefty sentiency that the thespian are only conduit for the medicine .

When he ’s not spend a penny euphony , Cantu - Ledesma is a Zen non-Christian priest , and it ’s well-off to observe the influence of his organized religion onGift strain ; the single egotism is whole colligate within the whole .

That holistic lineament is especially genuine of the rhapsodic windup lead , “ River That hang Two Ways .

” A bourdon bit for Hammond B3 and pump harmonium , it ’s both the unsubdivided objet d’art on the record album and the most complex : a bubble airfield of pure tone that seems to strain outwards in all way .

Three annotation chalk out the synopsis of a chord at the Sung dynasty ’s start , and a quaternary union in some 90 second gear afterward ; beyond a fistful of change note midway through its 10 - arcminute discharge , there are no discernable melodic event .

This was nothinghappens , but those overlap chord are enough to take for you rapt , open up to unveil moving ridge upon shimmer undulation of vibrational approach pattern .

It prompt me of the sure-enough byword that it’s possible for you to never abuse in the same river double : The profound concord may never interchange , yet it is in unceasing state of flux , with no two here and now quite like any other .

The mantrap of the spell — and ofGift Songsas a whole — is that it never tell you what or how to palpate .

It flow through you , and you through it .