Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — The Garden of Forked Paths
The drone works on offer are much like the albums art work of blurred dark forest scapes. we’re presented with 12 smudged, murky and slightly out of focus gloomy drone based tracks created with an assortment of tape recording mediums (Cassette, Micro-Cassette, Reel to Reel tape machine) and a small arsenal of guitar stop boxes used on wide variety of instruments from electric guitar to bowed gong.
The tracks drift from one grimy time-worn, dusk shadowed soundworld to another, which tell of half-lit world of sinister wooden areas, abandoned cars windscreen smeared with blood like substances, distant figures merging into the painful sun set darking skies. As well as the dominate guitar drones, he adds in all manner of forest like crackle, hungry chick calls, low down sighs/ stirrings and other sonic traces that your unsure of their origin, which really trigger ones imagination. With the more recognizable strummed and conventional played guitar tracks book ending both ends of the album, almost as if they lead you into the albums strange half-lit world and back out once more at the end.
An effective and atmospheric debut, package like all of Spekk releasers in a distinctive oversized cd folder/case.