CFCF

Radiance & Submission will be out July 31 via Driftless Recordings. Audio coming soon. Pre-order here.

Radiance and Submission, the newest record by Montreal's CFCF, is a loving transmission from the in-between, a soundtrack of non-time, non-being, non-death. Featuring art by Matsuda Matsuo, its eight songs share a stunning ethereality; they quiver and glow like sunlight beaming through closed eyelids.

Adding acoustic guitar to his trademark warm synths and masterful electronic production, CFCF's Michael Silver has made an album that plays like a dreamtime paean to ECM and Windham Hill's catalogs of meditative folk explorations. Silver's guitar arpeggiates sublimely throughout the record, at times sounding like a choir of otherworldly hammered dulcimers. Fragments of voices, chattering percussion, nature recordings, film samples, and Silver's sparse vocals arise and disappear, calling from somewhere just outside the boundaries of the waking world.

Radiance and Submission is a record that celebrates the ephemeral. It is the sound of eternal flux, the joyous crash from life to death and back again, endlessly returning.

1. In Praise of Shadows 2. Sculptures of Sand 3. A Various Language (From The Same Hill) 4. Tethered In Dark 5. The Ruined Map 6. Blanketed In Snow A Place Returned To 7. La Soufrière 8. Two Mirrors

NIGHT BUS 3

Note: This song was written around the time 'Outside' was off to mastering. That album being so influenced by Peter Gabriel's 'Security' and 'So', I figured I'd try my hand at 'Us'. A little Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac and the Radio Dept. thrown in. A pretty simple love song about hard times and devotion; nature imagery as usual. Like on 'Outside' I guess the goal lyrically was to find some middle ground between cliche and sincerity; I particularly like the "rap" in the middle full of useless old phrases. 

Say

How you feel

If you open up your heart

The wounds begin to heal

Rest

Rest your head

I know your hope has dried up

And you feel there’s nothing left

(chorus)

My love is a waterfall

Nature at your beck and call

A stream flowing endlessly to your arms

My devotion is a hurricane

Windswept in the pouring rain

With no control or fear of its direction

I am yours

(rap)

Wild cats and birds of prey

The chill of night and the light of day

Deep in the roots, below the trees

And the sand below the seven seas

A painful wind in heavy rain

An endless path on rough terrain

I know this journey’s got you down but

You’ve almost made it, don’t give up now

Hear my voice, feel my touch

Memories of our time

Then every branch, every vine

Every doubt in your mind,

Will disappear,

And then you’re here.

(chorus)

My love is a waterfall

Nature at your beck and call

A stream flowing endlessly to your arms

My devotion is a hurricane

Windswept in the pouring rain

With no control or fear of its direction

OUTSIDERS EP

A collection of remixes and b-sides related to the LP Outside from 2013. Some beautiful work here by a collection of artists I truly admire and respect. And a few b-sides which I am really proud of but didn't fit into the arc of Outside.

Tracklist:

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