Jefre Cantu is a San Francisco based artist and musician. He is a founding member of Tarentel; and since 1995, he has recorded and toured in the US, Europe & Japan with the group. While Tarentel was on hiatus, he began recording and releasing music under his own name. His recordings have appeared on a wide variety of labels in the US, Europe and Japan, including Root Strata, the label he founded in 2004. His most recent record 'Love Is A Stream' was released by the TYPE label in the fall of 2010.
Paul Clipson has shown his films internationally in various galleries, festivals and performance venues in Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and Russia, as well as throughout the U.S. and in the Bay Area, including at the Pacific Film Archive, the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, Artists Television Access, The Exploratorium and the San Francisco Art Institute. He works primarily in film, video and works on paper. Since 2003, Clipson has collaborated on film/music performances, documentaries and short films with sound/music artists such as Tarentel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Joshua Churchill, Robert Rich, Jim Haynes and Metal Rouge, projecting largely improvised in-camera edited experimental films employing multiple exposures, dissolves and macro imagery, that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms.
In 2003 a collaboration between Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson was begun. The duo create unique live performances with music and film. They have released a number of DVDr's on Root Strata as well as 'Within Mirrors' a DVD collection of their collaborations. They have performed at the New York Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as well has having their film collaborations screened at a number of international film & music festivals.
Talvihorros is an experimental composer from London, exploring the possibilities of the guitar. His compositions venture into the fields of ambient, modern classical, drone, post-rock and folk but falls into none of the clichés associated with these genres. Old and broken equipment and recording techniques are favoured over new and modern tools.
Both acoustic and electric guitars are layered with organ, synthesizer, mandolin, radio frequencies and various percussion instruments to create dense collages of sound, sometimes melodic, sometimes challenging but always captivating. He has recently released 'Solo Guitar Improvisations II' and will be releasing a full length vinyl entitled 'Descent Into Delta' on Hibernate Records in Autumn 2011.
Talvihorros electric guitar and pedals live set-up will be augmented with a percussionist for his 2011 tour.
Drawing from a palette of processed field recordings, home made synthesizers and distant vocals, Aino Tytti creates shimmering, ethereal drones; fusing interlocking spirals of static and warm distortion into widescreen harmonic backdrops and intricately layered micro structures.
Abandoning conventional tuning scales, sounds are recorded and deconstructed to reveal hidden accents and textures. The results are then layered and expanded using uniquely defined harmonic ratios, realised through custom made synthesizers and digital processing.
Part decaying and arresting, part hypnotic and cerebral, influences from experimentalists such as Popul Vuh, Arvo Part and Throbbing Gristle are smeared alongside contemporary futurists such as Alva Noto and William Basinski. The pop sensibilities of bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth are often recalled.
