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This reissue has been remastered by Seigen Ono's Saidera Mastering studio in Tokyo and boasts the original artwork plus a four-page insert with new liner notes by Andy Beta. When the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence hit the cinema in Summer 1983, it was a worldwide instant success, due in no small parts to its renowned director, Nagisa Oshima, and to its superb cast including David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The latter, fresh from his success with Yellow Magic Orchestra and a thriving nascent solo career, was also enrolled to compose the score of the film. The soundtrack was released at the same time as the film in summer 1983. 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The duo offers a series of reflections on the zeitgeist of our present moment, the spirit of our age: the isolation and loneliness that continues to echo in the wake of the pandemic; the fractures that mar our political discourse; the uncertainty that has stamped itself on the future of democracy. The vast geography of America and the absence of a common ground, a shared political vision, have contributed to the affective landscape of contemporary American life—of what it feels like to live in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing instrumental voices and textures drawn from the traditional American forms of folk, country, bluegrass and blues, and informed with a modern sense of ambience and space, the sound is both contemporary and deeply rooted. With New World, Lonely Ride, Grigoni and Pan American join countless American artists who have drawn upon this landscape—physical and affective—giving it a voice and shape, listening to its character. 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A sister album to Prati Bagnati would be Giusto Pio’s breathtaking Motore Immobile, likewise graced with the maestro’s gentle hand around the same time. Lovisoni and Messina are both central figures within the Italian avant-garde. Part of a generation of artists who contributed to a radical rethinking of musical practices and composition, they reveal Minimalism as it’s rarely known: delicate melodies, subtle harmonic interplay, incorporating diverse creative traditions and slowly giving way to an ever-expanding open space. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo’s meditative title track, inspired by René Daumal’s surrealist novel Le Mont Analogue, features Messina on synthesizer and Michele Fedrigotti’s impressionistic piano, while on Lovisoni’s “Hula Om” and “Amon Ra,” solo harp, crystal glasses and Juri Camisasca’s radiant vocal drones further ascend into the stratosphere. 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More on that later. First, some background. Born raised in Texas, Ledesma's formative artistic years were spent studying painting sculpture in San Francisco. He began playing releasing music in 1996 and has developed a steady relationship as a collaborator – he's released notable collaborations with Liz Harris (aka Grouper) as Raum, with Alexis Georgopoulos in his Arp project and with their ensemble The Alps, as well as filmmaker Paul Clipson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLedesma also founded the influential label, Root Strata, who have released music by Oneohtrix Point Never, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Grouper, and continue to release new and archival works. A Year With 13 Moons, a nod to a Rainer Werner Fassbinder film, was recorded at the Headlands Center for the Arts, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco – where he and Clipson were artist in residence. It was a time of major transition. As he describes it, \"the time at the Headlands was a real gift – of space, time and being cared for. This allowed me to create music in a way I never had before, on a day–in, day–out basis for hours on end. I stopped caring about end results and fell in love with the process. I learned how to let the music create itself in a way, to lead me rather than trying to force it down a path. I would start each session with a simple rhythm, or sound or a guitar riff see where that led - it was cathartic, freeing and ultimately really transformed my approach to music making. In the end I was left with literally hours hours of recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Year With 13 Moons was culled from these and formed while traveling the week after I left the residence. 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It works dramatically well as an opening statement, and also as a summary of what he's been doing in recent years. Second track, \"In and Out of Love\", on the other hand seems to represents where Cantu might be going. Notably, this is one of the earliest recordings where drums feature. The pitched down Linn Drum adding a touch of Michael Mann to the shoegazy proceedings. Though its title is borrowed from Fassbinder, the influence of other filmmakers – among them, Alain Resnais, Chantal Akerman and Chris Marker – played notable roles during the making of the album. Cantu explains. \"Their use of personal and collective memory as a narrative was a big influence on the editing of the LP, and Marker in particular showed me that seemingly desperate elements (i.e. pop-like structures and melodies vs noise) can cohesively form a whole.\" Cantu was interested in ways of \"conveying memory in music without being sentimental - somehow translating the fog of images, people and places that (he'd) experienced in the last two years into a body of work that could still be ambiguous leave space for the listener to enter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs such, 13 Moons succeeds. Incisive editing allows hypnotic guitar and drum performances to be interrupted by Modular synth squalls and otherworldly textures –– combining overdriven guitars, avant-garde composition (a la Xenakis) with the informal approach of underground tape weirdos (like Robert Turman, K. Leimer) into a lovely brocade of harmony and dissonance. Tracks like \"Shadows\", \"Early Autumn\" and \"The Isar\" bring these avant gardisms to the fore, conjuring early experiments in industrial sound. \"A portrait of you at Nico's grave, Grunewald, Berlin (For B.K.)\" might represent the album's loneliest moment, the air moving in hovering cloud formations. It would be perfect to soundtrack a Werner Herzog film. \"Body of Moonlight\" allows hope, a disappearing presence in the latter stages of 13 Moons, to resurface. It's a feeling Ledesma is very good at. That sense of something very intense at hand, and that fracturing sense of looking down at yourself. It's a feeling nearly impossible to describe. Then again, if words can't convey something, sometimes sound is better. 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Over twelve elegant, empathetic songs, Beste wades into parallel yet opposing dimensions of family devotion and global responsibility in an age of moral uncertainty. Beste’s stunning compositions illuminate a graceful and deliberate approach to piano, accented by brave vocal collaborations, spoken word, and a holistic fusion of electronic and acoustic instrumentation. Under a Familiar Sun represents an evolutionary leap for The Vernon Spring, rippling into an ethereal unknown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrowing up in North London, Beste was shaped by early exposure to soul, jazz, and avant-garde music via his father’s eclectic record collection. These influences sparked a path of sonic exploration, and a transformative piano lesson at age eleven set Beste in a pivotal direction, instilling a passion for improvisation that shaped his musical trajectory. By his mid-teens, Beste's dedication and talent placed him in Amy Winehouse’s orbit, whom he accompanied as her live pianist for the majority of her ascendent career. While writing and releasing music with the boundary pushing alt-soul outfit Hejira through his twenties, Beste helped form the Lima Limo collective and label, which offered a supportive community and inspiring creative foundation. By 2019, he began making solo music as The Vernon Spring, developing a distinctive voice that coalesced his jazz background with contemporary electronic production, and self-releasing his debut album A Plane Over Woods in 2021 and a follow up EP Earth, On A Good Day in 2022, both organically finding a devoted audience. Under a Familiar Sun offers both a distillation and amplification of The Vernon Spring's artistic vision. At its core, the album is dedicated to Beste's partner and three sons, but the tracks stretch beyond familial threads, contemplating moral and existential uncertainties. This tension is established early in the album with \"The Breadline,\" which initiates a conceptual invitation for listeners, and features poetry from writer Max Porter whose words invoke a vital call: “We might unsound this curse … Lend me your spirit. In Pieces.” Beste and Porter’s collaboration, which emerged from email exchanges about the disconnect between personal experience and the suffering of others, addresses the moral voids in contemporary political leadership. Throughout the record, Beste oscillates between intimate and universal themes, building sonic spaces where intersecting realities resonate far beyond the music itself. Each track traces a vivid outline of devotional presence, weaving sparse yet evocative lyricism and incantatory melodies that reveal the album’s core magic. Under a Familiar Sun opens a portal for connectedness to self, other, and a broader consciousness. “The album is a love letter to my nuclear family,\" he says, \"but I'm also asking how that love relates to the wider world. Art does not have to be political to open up a politicism. This is a hopeful record.”The album resides in Beste's world of breathtaking piano work which has shaped collaborations with artists including MF DOOM, Kendrick Lamar producer Sounwave, and Joy Crookes, but stretches to unheard sound fields with co-production by Iko Niche. Working alongside Niche set an adventurous tone for the artist, pushing the project into surprising sonic terrain. 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Meandering melodies, from the deceptively simple to the tonally and structurally complex, slowly evolve and fall from view, the harp, piano, and bass forming an airy, liminal non-place, through which Lee's cello and unplaceable memories freely drift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finer Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51934898159932,"sku":"FSLP-500","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/files\/41_MabiptYL._UX716_FMwebp_QL85.webp?v=1753119280"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/collections\/Screenshot_2025-03-13_at_10.05.48_PM_323550a7-b2c2-4c3f-a13c-ebe346f814d4.png?v=1750086801","url":"https:\/\/finersounds.com\/collections\/ambient-modern-composition-new-age-vinyl.oembed?page=5","provider":"Finer Sounds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}