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01. Felicia Atkinson And Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - And The Flower Have Time For Me
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ARTIST
ATKINSON AND JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA, FELICIA
TITLE
Limpid as the Solitudes
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SHELTER PRESS
CATALOG #
SHELTER 101LP
SHELTER 101LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
11/16/2018
Felicia Atkinson
and
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
's
Limpid As The Solitudes
cuts through sound-making techniques to enter a new zone of sonic revelations. The record recalls the turn-of-the-century Mille Plateaux glitch era, the warmth of
La Monte Young
's drones, acousmatic non-space recordings made by GRM artists, 4AD's floor-gazing guitar sound, and blissfully diverse field recordings. But, one could equally equate it with entirely different recording sources.
Limpid As The Solitudes
has a widescreen sound that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Warm, comforting and also unsettling in unpredictable ways. Deliberate yet exploratory, it's a record composed of opposites and contrasts, following historical guidelines yet also throwing them out of the window. To describe the album as ambient would indicate passive engagement with the sound; leave it to play in the background and one could miss a lot of the joy. Atkinson and Cantu-Ledesma describe the record as a series of postcards - things and sounds that happen vertically as a slow ascension, vessels communicating in dreams. In this collaborative recording, there is a feeling of "becoming" - a concrete sound turns into a electronic sound that turns into a spiral-like melody which then furls/unfurls at the same time. The album title as well as track titles, are all verses stolen from
Sylvia Plath
's poems, Atkinson notes, "like dropped pearls from a lost collar." Trying further to capture the record's poetic impulses, it reflects "Empathy to objects and nature's elements, meteorological states, seasons that answer to your heart, granular etchings carved and sustained to create a blurred sentimental landscape. The finale is more optimistic than Plath's poetry. Love and lyricism win, the music soaring from deep water to interstellar galaxies." The cover is another key, an image by
Julien Carreyn
of a young woman wearing destroyed jeans, playing with bubble wrap. The image is intended to give the viewer an eerie 1990's feeling that echoes the recording and films by
Hal Hartley
or
Wong Kar Wai
. Be sure to come back to this record more than once; it's then that it's power will work. Recall the sound of a lover, a garden once walked through, an echo of a record once loved. To be appreciated, "Limpid As The Solitudes" requires immersion as if in a hot spring, letting the sounds float and alter perceptions and memories. Mastered and cut by
Helmut Erler
at D+M. Printed photographs by Julien Carreyn on glossy inner and outer sleeve.
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