Artist : Ten and Tracer
Title : Mshia-F-Lehkla
Label :Rope Swing Cities
Format : Digital, MP3, CD-R
Year: 2008


Tracklisting :

1		Horatio Alger Myth (5:08)
2		Heart Complaint (5:02)
3		Basquiat's Shoes (5:47)
4		Self-Awareness as a Sufferer (5:54)
5		Ilona Qlo (4:08)
6		Piano Sales (5:42)
7		Tandarts (4:08)

= download individual tracks.

Notes: Written and Recorded by Jonathan Canupp
January - November 2007

Handmade CDRs by Andrew Howerton, available in shop here as well as at Rope Swing Cities.

Made during the same 'sessions' as L-Msaria B-LGlass.

From the Rope Swing Cities Website:
Rope Swing Cities is giddy like a school girl today. Seriously. If you’re still asking yourself why that is, than you obviously haven’t looked above this text and observed that we are celebrating the arrival of spring with a brand new Ten and Tracer release and CD. It probably all makes sense now.

The music of Ten and Tracer is evocative of nature and the exploration of man’s place inside the constructs around us. With this theme in mind RSC presents Mishia-F-Lehkla, wherein Ten and Tracer continues the new direction in sound that he has been exploring beginning with the sister EP on Archipel. With another beautiful EP out last year on Zymogen, Jonathan Canupp appears to be falling into a new cycle of creation, releasing what we feel is his most interesting and beautiful work to date.

Through percussion patterns that seem to continually change and morph without end, Ten and Tracer manages to build a chaotic precision not found often in any genre of music. The tones and sounds that make up Mishia-F-Lehkla call equally to the rising warmth of a summer morning as to the chilly hush of a winter night. Flowing effortlessly through the songs, these haunting sounds provide an emotionally grounding counterpoint to the subtly aggressive qualities of the underlying drums. Thoughtful and temperate, yet mildly antagonistic, Mishia-F-Lehkla constantly wrestles for balance while taking the listener along on the journey.

The current crop of music from Ten and Tracer shows an artist coming into his own, finding the pathway between his myriad influences and creating his own unique and original take on the world. In addition to the MP3 release, we are offering incredibly, way rad limited edition hand made CD-R copies of Mishia-F-Lehkla in our store. Once you see them we are pretty sure you will be interested in having one, because they are super cool, dude. If you are listening to the EP and thinking to yourself, “I wonder if Ten and Tracer ever managed to get his domain name back from THE MAN,” the answer is that he did, and you can go look at his sweet new site here. Regardless of all that, please enjoy this beautiful release from one of our favorite artists.