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previous artist: jeff tweedy		there are 2 titles featuring john twells in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: twenty committee

$18.01

back in stock as of
may 1st, 2012

first in stock on
september 20th, 2011

threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed
electro-acoustic-composition

digitalis vinyl (usa) #digiv016 lp

john twells / matt christensen “coasts” long playing record

the crate
burning bridges together

2010 release ; debut album from the duo of john “xela” twells & zelienople’s matt christensen

digitalis vinyl press release...

digiv016: twells & christensen "coasts" lp

"coasts" has been a long time in the making but now that it's here, the wait will prove worth it. john twells (aka xela) and matt christensen (of zelienople) have been collaborating in various forms for years, but this is their first fully-realized work. the entire album was made with vintage gear and recorded to 8-track during a weekend in chicago in 2008 and finally mixed at twells' seventh door studio outside boston. the resulting record is a spectral odyssey in two parts. darkened passages shift and fall apart while keeping the piercing sun at bay. faint song structures lurk beneath the rolling black waves, but only get an arm above the surface during those rare moments of light.

opening with "the crate," immediately you are immersed inside the belly of the whale as twells’ siren call gets trapped beneath christensen's bleak guitar notes. it all feels held together by the thinnest of threads. rattling tones crawl out from underneath swirls of electronics, like barely-there points of reference in a white out. lines are crossed but blur together and everything ends up sounding like desperate, beautiful collage of sound. it's all a rouse, anyway, as you are tricked into a sense of calm as the dying orchestral zones gently flame out.

"burning bridges together" is your reward for buying in. crunching guitar chords bowl into you at full-force, moving slow but piling on the pressure. christensen belts out the vocals this go round, getting buried underneath endless washes of fuzz-soaked cacaphony. tension rises to the point of no return as they desperately search for a breaking point. things finally settle down and gently fade into oblivion, christensen's guitar providing the final epitaph. in the end, the seamless nature of the collaboration is what really leaves its mark.

vinyl only edition, cut at d+m in berlin and pressed in germany.

$14.51

back in stock as of
april 11th, 2012

first in stock on
february 28th, 2012

threads:
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
modern-psych
electro-acoustic-composition
harsh-noise

type (uk) #type 075 cd

jefre cantu-ledesma “love is a stream” compact disc

stained glass body (5:28)
star garden (1:24)
loving love (4:49)
when i end & you begin (3:15)
body within body (2:28)
where you end & i begin (5:14)
orbiting love (1:05)
white dwarf butterfly (5:21)
womb night (1:05)
river like spine (4:53)
wild moon and sea (5:00)
mirrors death (4:39)

october 2010 release ; ... while it’ll be a while before i’ll be able to get down with another bedroom guitar / line 6 echo modeler bliss-out, i feel like jefre really hit the mark with this one, sending a series of static, held-chord tonalities (likely using a slide on an open-tuned electric) through all manner of coruscating electronics, rendering the “nice” source material into a gained wall of mono-crunch ... exactly the same sort of hopeful, yet soul-destroyed / futile approach as matt “earn” sullivan’s work (which i can always get behind) ; fans of said will want to check this out ...

type press release...

“love is a stream” by jefre cantu-ledesma

shoegazing ambience for the noise generation.

as a member of san francisco legends tarentel and type’s premier astral travellers the alps, jefre cantu-ledesma is hardly a new addition to the label, so it’s hard to believe that ‘love is a stream’ is his first type solo album. previously releasing on arbor, spekk and his own root strata imprint, this latest album marks his journey into the beautifully cacophonous world of dream pop.

shoegaze music has been much maligned in recent years, probably due to its rebirth and subsequent explosion of popularity (which gave rise to hundreds of young bands aping the over twenty-year-old sound). however it was only a fragment of the genre that these bands attempted to re-create, and on ‘love is a stream’ cantu, instead of focusing on tired weeping melancholy ballads, focuses solely on expansive, almost noise-ridden hopefulness. this is the kind of noise we fell in love with when my bloody valentine blew our ear drums performing ‘loveless’, or the kind of harmonic excess we heard on hundredth listen to catherine wheel’s ‘ferment’, but taken into deeper, more abstract realms.

‘love is a stream’ is dedicated to love itself, and the dreamy, shimmering blown-out textures might at first sound like white noise before they ultimately give way to blissful harmony and hidden melody. underneath the grit and growl are hidden guitar parts, synthesizer drones and even vocals (provided by lisa mcgee, john twells and maxwell august croy) that succeed in swelling the dense, tape-saturated songs to heady new heights and belie any influences they might have. on each listen the mind strips away another layer of dust and bones to reveal haunting and deeply moving beauty.

the world might be spiralling into despair, but jefre cantu-ledesma has brought us a record that isn’t afraid to share the love. all that’s left to do is drown in it.

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