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Radio Free Clear Light

An ongoing experiment in using musical improvisation as well as other forms of artistic creativity.

01/02/2024

Tome to the Weather Machine's description of Feuerkreis:
"...a beautiful and beguiling piece of electroacoustic music that mutilates the human voice into melodic fragments and smears it across the digital landscape like the refraction of a cracked screen."

Here is the full blog:
https://tometotheweathermachine.com/blog/rfcl-feuerkreis

29/01/2024

"Silence"
A new RFCL video

Yo quería decirles:
Yo solo soy un filosofo y un artista
Pero ya solo había silencio.

I wanted to tell them:
I am only a philosopher and an artist.
But there was only silence.

--

Participants:

Ricardo Flores aka Koyote
Lora Anthony
Xochitl Flores
Lydia Harari
JC Mendizabal

RFCL comparte el sencillo «Feuerkreis» (EE.UU.) 25/01/2024

Coverage for "Feuerkreis" from Music Blog R+
The blog is in Spanish but here's a partial translation:

"this single is a dynamic trip with curves,
hypnotic straight lines
and, of course, rocky side roads
which makes this track a very emotional experience..."

RFCL comparte el sencillo «Feuerkreis» (EE.UU.) El proyecto estadounidense RFCL comparte el sencillo «Feuerkreis», pista que desarrolla la expresividad dentro de la experimentación electrónica, Drone y Ambient, esta pieza construye una atmósfera…

15/01/2024
Feuerkreis 15/01/2024

"Feuerkreis"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/feuerkreis

Electronic music for altered gatherings.

Participants:
Isabel Obrecht
Lydia Harari
Etanna Sack
JC Mendizabal

Feuerkreis Electronic music for altered gatherings. Participants: Isabel Obrecht Lydia Harari Etanna Sack JC Mendizabal

Time And Other Disturbances: Detritus Volume 1 (Detritus - An Interconnected Web) 02/01/2024

"Time and Other Disturbances"
An Interconnected web of scrambled Transmissions.

A new Kindle Book from RFCL

Comprised of roses, moons, and secrets
we send out our black threads into the kaleidoscope of silence.
Coming together, falling apart, many ends and many starts.

Time And Other Disturbances: Detritus Volume 1 (Detritus - An Interconnected Web) An Interconnected web of scrambled Transmissions. Comprised of roses, moons, and secrets we send out our black threads into the kaleidoscope of silence. Coming together, falling apart, many ends and many starts.

Elur 17/12/2023

"Elur"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/elur

A constant ostinato and lightly falling snowflakes.

Participants:
Isabel Obrecht
Lydia Harari
Etanna Sack
JC Mendizabal

Elur A constant ostinato and lightly falling snowflakes. Participants: Isabel Obrecht Lydia Harari Etanna Sack JC Mendizabal

16/12/2023

"Rupture"
A new RFCL video
https://youtu.be/BfWTRV6UEn8

"...an instant
where our lives merged
and then split once again."

Created by RFCL:
Dilcia Giron
Miguel Parada
Lydia Harari
JC Mendizabal

Recidivo 25/10/2023

"Recidivo"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/recidivo

Dark semi-electronic dirge for dark times.

Participants:
Isabel Obrecht
Lydia Harari
Etanna Sack
JC Mendizabal

Recidivo Dark semi electronic dirge for dark times. Participants: Isabel Obrecht Lydia Harari Etanna Sack JC Mendizabal

Istripua 06/10/2023

"Istripua"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/istripua

Experimental electronica - dark ambient drone.

Participants:
Isabel Obrecht
Lydia Harari
Etanna Sack
JC Mendizabal

Istripua Experimental electronica - dark ambient drone. Participants: Isabel Obrecht Lydia Harari Etanna Sack JC Mendizabal

02/10/2023

"Death Will Touch Me"
A new RFCL video
https://youtu.be/J8kQTZH-QuA

La muerte me tocara un dia
marchando hacia mi
con el ritmo de un reloj.

One day, death will touch me,
marching towards me with the rhythm of a clock.

--

Participants:

Xochitl Flores
Ricardo Flores aka Koyote
Lora Anthony
Sharla Sanchez
Lydia Harari
JC Mendizabal

Night Serpent 24/08/2023

"Night Serpent"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/night-serpent

Minimalist Electronica
A bit of a return to classic electronica
(and the style of music RFCL was doing about 8-10 years ago)

Night Serpent Minimalist Electronica A bit of a return to classic electronica (and the style of music RFCL was doing about 8-10 years ago)

Nostos 14/07/2023

"Nostos"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/nostos

Experimental electronica

Participants:
Isabel Obrecht
Lydia Harari
Etanna Sack
JC Mendizabal

Nostos Participants: Isabel Obrecht Lydia Harari Etanna Sack JC Mendizabal

08/07/2023

"Rage" / "Rabia"

Se que estoy en un sueno que se repite, una y otra vez,
Un mantra vacio que eternamente regresa.

I'm in a dream that endlessly repeats.
An empty mantram that returns forever.

--

Participants:

Xochitl Flores
Ricardo Flores aka Koyote
Lora Anthony
Sharla Sanchez
Lydia Harari
JC Mendizabal

Are You Going? (Scarborough 1) 07/06/2023

"Are you going? (Scarborough 1)"
A new RFCL track
https://soundcloud.com/rfcl/are-you-going-scarborough-1

Originally recorded in July 2010
Mixed and re-imagined for 2023

Participants:
Colin Hamilton - acoustic guitar
Mark Goldstein - electric guitar
Thom Tamayo - synth noise
Max Abelev - laptop noiz
Etanna Zack - vocals, noisemakers
Lydia Harari - vocals, noisemakers
JC Mendizabal aka Prospero - mixing, deconstruction, loops

Are You Going? (Scarborough 1) Originally recorded in July 2010 Mixed and re-imagined for 2023 Participants: Colin Hamilton - acoustic guitar Mark Goldstein - electric guitar Thom Tamayo - synth noise Max Abelev - laptop noiz Eta

05/06/2023

my cupped hands hold the remnants of a dream
a series of images

water
some sort of boom
whispers of a cult never seen
they threw flowers over the cliff's edges
we gathered the fragrant petals and brought them home
i had been trying to leave
and then smelling the flowers, was glad i hadn't.

we work towards dreaming together.
webs knotted and then twisted and then a splash of light
and our hands deciding, holding so much color in close contact.
rainbows turned black with so much information.

in the promise of dawn is also the threat of obliteration
it hangs everpresent
mostly ignored.
it is the discordant boom which shakes me
breaks the mirror
reveals the ancient
looming
so heavy in the darkness.
i look to my hands, they hold the remnants of a dream.

01/06/2023

"El Nacimiento" / "Birth"
A new RFCL video

Video created by RFCL:
Dilcia Giron
Miguel Parada
Lydia Harari
JC Mendizabal

Music by RFCL
"Philo 3- Remix"
featuring
Kevin Seal - Saxophone
Serena Di Pinto - noisemakers

Videos (show all)

Silence
Rupture
Death Will Touch Me
Rage / Rabia
El Nacimiento / Birth
I am the Stone / Yo Soy la Piedra
Unconscious Conspiracy
When The Air Is Pure
Under the Moons
Flowing Shadows
Obsidian Dark
Isolation