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Spring is the beginning--when this years green appears through last year's brown. The notion of rebirth, recyling, and remaking. In the digital medium, the idea of remixing is less a separate process than simply how music is often made. The decision between what is a remix and what is a new composition can be entirely arbritary. Ryan Francesconi wanted to explore this decision by inviting some of his favorite musicians to remix a song from one of his RF releases. The result is this compilation.
The smell of spring ticked my senses months ago, but the lingering effects are still there. Rain-soaked streets erase the bitter memories of a forlorn winter, and give hope for the coming summer. Each new flower that blooms is like another skeleton released from the closet, set free into an unknowing world. Around every corner is something unexpected, and each surprise opens doors to new possibilities of excitement, love, and life. So many things begin in spring for a reason. - Excerpted from a review of RF, Falls by Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
The CD features remixes from He Can Jog, Familiar Trees, .Tape., Sora, Greg Davis, FilFla, Sawako, Midori Hirano, RdL, and RF did a new remix as well.
Familiar Trees (Time Release Records) (Fabiola Sanchez and Ken Negrete) make subtle catchy chamber-pop which captures the enthusiasm of childhood discovery and the thoughtfulness of being. www.timereleaserecords.com
.Tape. (Spa.RK, Nature Bliss) (pronounced dot tape dot) is the alias of Spanish musician Daniel Romero. A mixture of toy-pop, low- budget bedroom songwriting, post-folk landscapes and electronic lullabies. www.ambulatore.com/.tape.
He Can Jog (Fork Series, AudioBulb) is midwestern electronic musician Erik Schoster who routinely brews up a lovely amalgam of clicks and scrapes that leave you humming his melodies. RF asked Erik what he sampled to make the beat. the answer. Crushed Cheetos. www.hecanjog.com
Sora (Plop) (Japanese for "sky") is the alias of Kyoto musician Takeshi Kurosawa. Music box melodies, xylophones, tinkling pianos, combine with jazz and bossa nova. homepage.mac.com/s_ra
Greg Davis. (Autumn, Kranky) Gorgeous drones meet sharp attacks, evoking the natural world and the mechanised. Grit and fluidity, a perfectly realised meeting of found sound and ramshackle instrumentation. www.autumnrecords.com
FilFla is another new alias from the Tokyo based musician Keiichi Sugimoto, who is also known as Fourcolor with his beautiful outputs from Plop, 12K, Apestaartje, and Cubic Music. www.cubicmusic.com
Sawako (12k, and/oar) is a Japanese sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. Once through the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. www.troncolon.com
Midori Hirano (Noble) is pianist and computer musican based in Kyoto. Her debut CD will be released from Noble in September 2006. www.midorihirano.com
RdL (Spekk) is a collaberation of Mondii and Naph from Tokyo. Their folk-inspired remix is based around a recording Ryan Francesconi made of his mother singing to his niece. www.spekk.net
