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Tabloid Press – Orchid
 Wolfgang Tillmans / FRAGILE – Certain Sensitivity (Live at BOFFO 2018)
Sene – Junq Sonorum
Jeff Mills – Hatsumi
Cali Rose – Divinus
Karl Holmqvist – Call Your Girlfriend
Asmara – Soul Dramatique
fabaitos – B2U
Franziska Lantz – Meshe [Global Warming Records]
BOTO – Manco
Wild Daughter – Leckerman
Richard Kennedy – FYEO
Juan Ramos – Iniciado
rRoxymore – DE-Centered
MadAlba – Gonna Do With You



REIF began as a celebration. Our primary goals in curating events was to craft multicultural happenings in which different expressions of thought, identity, play, and experience could intersect within intimate safe spaces. We submitted to chance and embraced uncertainty, trusting that our care and attention to each element would ensure that everyone would have their voice equally heard.

The results moved beyond our dreams– birthing collaborations, conflicts, friendships and zones, as waxed by Hakim Bey in his essay “The temporary autonomous Zone”. For a moment constraints of society seemed to be uplifted.

These happenings led to now create our homonymous sound label, thus giving life to our first release series.

For our first compilation - 01 , we invited artists that were involved with REIF in its early stages and next generation collaborators to contribute a piece of sonic art. These works take form as sonic offerings to REIF, the memories we created, and the future we work to actualize together.

We understand sound as the chosen instrument for political catharsis that our artists explore. Sound in itself encompasses a broad reflection of the times– whatever is happening or changing in the world, we “hear” it. As sound curators, it is our task to crystalize these cathartic sounds and give them new forms, preventing them from being lost or forgotten; buried or silenced.

With the abrupt disruption of society as we knew it, countercultural communities were forced to deal with our spaces for play vanishing, forcing us to imagine new spaces we could migrate - simultaneously reinforcing the need for thought expansion and a reimagined a safe space.





MUSIC VIDEOS:







In the future that is now, we are able to connect across oceans and experience, making way for an expanded form of collaboration. Through today’s Tik Tok dance culture, people can link from all corners of the world; captured here by Kira Lillie and edited by Pasquale (last name) sharing with us this almost religious practice embodied by these young Caymanians.

After meeting Janet, a Cayman Island Silver Thatch weaver and main reference for Kira during her time on the island, she had the opportunity to meet and share space and time with Mary K and Ashley, Janet’s full of life daughters. Centered in this part of the Caribbean we get to peek into the world of these young girls, dancing by themselves or with their girl-friends, sharing a common love for music and movement.

“F-a-b-u-l-o-u-s yes diamonds on my neck cause I’m fabulous. They keep hating on me, I don’t stress. I’m too good for this, I am fabulous”

Singing and dancing provides a pathway for the powerful force within the universe of these young girls colliding with global techno feminism movements, illustrated by MadAlba's (name of song). Within this virtual space we begin to carve alternative ways of relating and sharing as we intersect generations, cultures and rhythms.

« I asked them to show me what they were up to, so the “DJ” stopped the music to put on the girl's favorite song and in the middle of the street, almost perfectly synchronized, they broke out dancing - all together - proud. Goosebumps ran all over my body. The moment the song ended they covered their faces with their hands, back to their shy selfs and ran off…

We danced all together, for hours, pure silly-ness and love. »

Kira Lillie, founder of INCORP, spent almost 6 months on the Grand Cayman island curating an artist residency with a main focus on health and healing.

Kira worked closely with Janet, learning the art of Silver thatch weaving, bush Medicine and local wild fruits and vegetables.

Janet's children and their friends reminded Kira to play with life, laugh and love.











WOLFGANG TILLMANS – CERTAIN SENSITIVITY
(LIVE WITH FRAGILE AT BOFFO 2018)



VIDEO FILMED AND DIRECTED BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS
EDITED BY MICHAEL AMSTAD
VIDEO FEATURING MICHAEL AMSTAD, ANDERS CLAUSEN AND PAUL MOELLER
MUSIC WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY TIM KNAPP & WOLFGANG TILLMANS
LYRICS AND VOCALS BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS
MODULAR SWEEPS BY KYLE COMBS
SYNTH BASS BY TIM KNAPP
GUITAR BY JUAN PABLO ECHEVERRI







FRANZISKA LANTZ — MESHE
[GLOBAL WARMING RECORDS]


Common garden ants on a mission, pursuing their activities with unfaltering pace amidst the battering sound offensive discharging all over them like an electrical storm.

Watch them interact as they crawl forth and back from the underground to the surface, follow invisible paths and explore new territory before returning back to their base. When crossing paths they perform intricate meet and greet rituals, exchanging information and communicating through elemental body language and touch.

In contrast to the steady rhythm of the cyclic ant movement the soundtrack is unleashing a temperamental array of cosmic forces onto the scene, an overload of turbulent energies and built up pressure, fast cutting sounds and spitting sparks are accelerating, crashing and seemingly bouncing off the hardy black armour of the unfazed ant explorers.












JUAN RAMOS - INICIADO

VIDEO BY OMER SHWARTZ


Juan Ramos comes out of the pandemic exploring spaces which stray outside of his normal musical language to create a new series of work which draws on inherited and chosen culture beginning with “Iniciado". The concept is underscored by the ethos of latin pop set against experimental drum programming and expressionist sound design executed to psychedelic effect.

The music video is a collaboration with 3D Artist Omer Schwartz. Using the digital space as a means to recreate ancient ritual the video centers around the cyclical nature of time as observed by late Neolithic culture. The imagery is drawn from centuries of Pagan tradition to act as a means to illustrate and reconnect our subconscious to the powerful and energy giving totems of our ancestors.
 

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