Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Garden of Forked Paths [Spekk - 2007]

The Garden of forked paths is san-Francisco sound and drone artists’ first full length solo album, though he has released stuff with post-rock/psychedelic project Tarentel and the mainman behind the excellent Root Strata label. 

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.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Garden ...
The Garden of forked paths is san-Francisco sound and drone artists’ first full length solo album, though he has released stuff with post-rock/psychedelic ...
111225   Craze - Craze( Blu- Ray/ DVD)
101225   Paolo Tortora - Waves of Fad...
101225   Baby Blood - Baby Blood(Blu Ray)
091225   The Hellbenders - The Hellben...
091225   Malpertuis - Malpertuis( Blu...
081225   Daiei Gothic Vol 2 - Daiei G...
061225   Split Apex - Thoughts in 3D
051225   Heretic - Breaking Point
051225   Abscess - Though The Cracks O...
051225   Koobaatoo Asparagus - Between...
Latest Articles

The Spectral Sounds of The Projec...
As music obsessives know, what makes a label fascinating is not just the sounds they release. The most intriguing labels offer a conceptual framework and con...
041225   The Spectral Sounds of The Pr...
281025   Michael Hurst Interview - Unb...
071025   Xiphos - The Rise And Fall Of...
030925   Third Window Films - A Label ...
130825   HNW fest- Barcelona- 12th Apr...
250725   Raté interview - Walled-in F...
180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...
280525   The Residents - Visits From T...
090525   Ennaytch - Of walls, abused ...
150425   Dead, Dead Swans interview - ...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2025. Twenty four years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom