Colophon (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma)
Love Loops
*Early album from Tarentel/The Alps member Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - finally released on digital formats* Originally released via Temporary Residence in 2003, Love Loops has come to be regarded as something of a classic. It's the work of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, best known for his membership in Tarantel and The Alps, though here he's in hushed mode, recording small sketched recordings and lovingly processing them into shape. This is so much more than some meandering lo-fi collection of odds and ends, however: at the beginning of the album Cantu-Ledesma draws together fragmented miniatures, in which rustic acoustic guitar pieces switch abruptly into field recorded sketches or crackling, glitch-laden ambient passages. After a few minutes of this shifting, strangely inconsistent sequence the bigger picture starts to reveal itself, and Love Loops starts making a lot of sense. Like a series of polaroids, each track helps build up a sense of melancholic mood and atmosphere, from the complex environmental sounds and loose-fitting drone-folk melodies of 'Ikebana' to the piano elegy of 'Sunset In Your Mother's Garden', each track seems to find a different way of saying the same thing. Notably, this Flau reissue expands upon the wonderful original album to the tune of a further three bonus tracks, including the blissful twelve-minute organ drift of 'Texas Heart'. Love Loops turns out to have been something of a lost gem, only now resurfacing from obscurity and making a welcome return to wider circulation. Gorgeous.
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*Early album from Tarentel/The Alps member Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - finally released on digital formats* Originally released via Temporary Residence in 2003, Love Loops has come to be regarded as something of a classic. It's the work of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, best known for his membership in Tarantel and The Alps, though here he's in hushed mode, recording small sketched recordings and lovingly processing them into shape. This is so much more than some meandering lo-fi collection of odds and ends, however: at the beginning of the album Cantu-Ledesma draws together fragmented miniatures, in which rustic acoustic guitar pieces switch abruptly into field recorded sketches or crackling, glitch-laden ambient passages. After a few minutes of this shifting, strangely inconsistent sequence the bigger picture starts to reveal itself, and Love Loops starts making a lot of sense. Like a series of polaroids, each track helps build up a sense of melancholic mood and atmosphere, from the complex environmental sounds and loose-fitting drone-folk melodies of 'Ikebana' to the piano elegy of 'Sunset In Your Mother's Garden', each track seems to find a different way of saying the same thing. Notably, this Flau reissue expands upon the wonderful original album to the tune of a further three bonus tracks, including the blissful twelve-minute organ drift of 'Texas Heart'. Love Loops turns out to have been something of a lost gem, only now resurfacing from obscurity and making a welcome return to wider circulation. Gorgeous.
*Early album from Tarentel/The Alps member Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - finally released on digital formats* Originally released via Temporary Residence in 2003, Love Loops has come to be regarded as something of a classic. It's the work of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, best known for his membership in Tarantel and The Alps, though here he's in hushed mode, recording small sketched recordings and lovingly processing them into shape. This is so much more than some meandering lo-fi collection of odds and ends, however: at the beginning of the album Cantu-Ledesma draws together fragmented miniatures, in which rustic acoustic guitar pieces switch abruptly into field recorded sketches or crackling, glitch-laden ambient passages. After a few minutes of this shifting, strangely inconsistent sequence the bigger picture starts to reveal itself, and Love Loops starts making a lot of sense. Like a series of polaroids, each track helps build up a sense of melancholic mood and atmosphere, from the complex environmental sounds and loose-fitting drone-folk melodies of 'Ikebana' to the piano elegy of 'Sunset In Your Mother's Garden', each track seems to find a different way of saying the same thing. Notably, this Flau reissue expands upon the wonderful original album to the tune of a further three bonus tracks, including the blissful twelve-minute organ drift of 'Texas Heart'. Love Loops turns out to have been something of a lost gem, only now resurfacing from obscurity and making a welcome return to wider circulation. Gorgeous.