The Garden of Forking Paths

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Text by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

The Garden Of Forking Paths is the first full length solo CD by San Francisco based musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Eschewing the laptop processing of his earlier work as Colophon, the album was 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. In addition to recording at his home studio, various sites found in the near by Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco were used for live outdoor site specific recording.

With its title taken from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the album is overtly concerned with dreams, memory, death, birth, infinity and the possibility of a labyrinth like approach to music making, where songs are not written as much as they slowly emerge out of the process of music making.

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released 01 June 2007
Recorded at:
Sun Place, San Francisco, Fall 05 / spring 06.
Some parts recorded by Tony Cross at The Hokocene, San Francisco and in Battery Towsand, Marin Headlands, Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Performed on:
Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Gong, Shruti Box, Harmonium, Singing Bowl, Cassette, Microcassette, Real Tape Machine, Electronics, Sound Booster and Ride Cymbal.

Tony Cross plays various Percussion, Tape and Electronics on 'Feast of the Pentecost'.

Thank you:
Tony Cross, Paul Clipson, John Davis & Nao

For Josephine - 1918 / 2004

Copyright 2006 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Mastered by: Zengyo
Drawings by: Satoshi Ogawa
Artwork design by: mondii

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