Cantu-Ledesma, Jefre / A Year With Thirteen Moons
Album: A Year With Thirteen Moons   Collection:General
Artist:Cantu-Ledesma, Jefre   Added:Feb 2015
Label:Mexican Summer  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2015-02-13 Pull Date: 2015-04-17 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Apr 19 Apr 12 Apr 5 Mar 29 Mar 22 Mar 15 Mar 8 Mar 1
Airplays: 1 3 4 2 2 2 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 06, 2021: Rebroadcast: Music Casserole
The Last Time I Saw Your Face
4. Aug 23, 2016: Magnetized Toner
At The End Of Spring
2. Feb 27, 2021: Rebroadcast: Music Casserole
The Last Time I Saw Your Face
5. Jul 05, 2016: Magnetized Toner
Interiors / Pale Flower
3. Aug 20, 2020: Stranded at Settembrini's
The Spree
6. Jul 03, 2016: Life Aquatic
The Last Time I Saw Your Face

Album Review
DJ Muscat
Reviewed 2015-02-13
Genre: shoegaze, noise, ambient, fassbinder

From the press: "Using a friend’s reel to reel tape player, Cantu employed electric guitar, modular synthesizer, drum machine and concrète sounds from his surroundings at the Headlands, recorded while walking to the studio, cooking in the kitchen, talking with friends, the ocean, films he was watching, driving in a car. Everything was record stereo to tape. There is only one track with overdubs – otherwise each take is a true document of an entirely live take.”

Basically, it’s an amazing album from a consistent artist full of shoegazey/ambient goodness. Play play play.

Others: Fennesz, Infinite Body, Belong, Yellow Swans

Favorites: 1, 8, 15, 3, 2, 6, 7, 14, 10, 11. FCCs: None

1.(8:40) **** Bright shoegaze + super drowned out drum machine. Impossibly beautiful track.
2.(4:52) ** Pensive minimal intro. Distorted textures. More languid gorgeous noise.
3.(2:02) ** Pitter patter beat plus reverb heavy guitar.
4.(0:49) Bleating little interlude…good lead-in to next track
5.(1:35) * Bassy drone. I feel like this is what lava in musical form would sound like. Nice whacked out bird samples
6.(2:06) ** Prominent drum machine...glowing uplifting ambient.
7.(2:36) ** Blissed out. Do I hear a little vocal sample hidden in there? Cool stuff. Strange second half, but still great.
8.(2:14) *** Sounds like a Captured Tracks band slathered in distortion.
9.(1:18) Shimmering. Thudding beat.
10.(1:43) Pulsating. Spacious. Darker vibe.
11.(2:36) Quiet, softer.
12.(2:06) Noisy bursts…more drifting ambience.
13.(1:30) More of an industrial feel…then squelching textures and more samples
14.(1:42) ** Grassy fields and afternoons in the summer.
15.(2:50) *** Gaping ambient…just massive. Wonderful track.
16.(1:06) Stormy, noisy. Mangled little experiment…strange yet oddly appropriate conclusion to this quietly ambitious album.

Track Listing
1. The Last Time I Saw Your Face   9. The Spree
2. Love After Love   10. Early Autumn
3. Disappear   11. A Portrait Of You At Nico's Grave, Grunewald, Berlin (For Bill K.)
4. Mirror Of Past & Future   12. Remembering
5. Interiors   13. Görlitzer Park
6. Pale Flower   14. Along The Isar
7. The Twins / Shadows   15. At The End Of Spring
8. Agate Beach   16. Remains