Painted Life

Artist: Rene Najera
Regular price Regular price $21.26
Format: LP
SKU: 2732226X  |  Barcode: 843563187081

Description

Minnesota-born, L.A.-based musician, mastering engineer, and co-founder of the Jungle Gym label Jared Carrigan records solo and in collaboration under a web of guises: V. Kristoff, Congo River Club House, Freaks of Nature, Easy Rider, Lac Seul, Las Cuevas, M.M.C.J., Scout Island, Twin Lakes. Of these, René Najera is his longest running and most liquid. One decade after the project's 2015 debut (as Jungle Gym's inaugural release, JG01), he presents his first vinyl full-length. Painted Life took shape from the seeds of a 2023 set prepared for a string of shows in Japan. Elements were later remixed, finessed, and expanded by a cast of inner circle collaborators: Leech, Tile Plazas, Precipitation, Maria Minerva. Carrigan calls the album a "memory book" - each track a snapshot of cities and sessions, filtered through a fusion of club smoke, mood house, psychic acid, and sunrise electronica. It's music of movement and discovery, celebratory and semi-improvised, chasing the pure essence of fleeting moments. "Simple or grand, it's all worth capturing."

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Specifications

  • Format
    LP
  • Label
  • Genre
  • Number of Discs
    1
  • Release Date
    8/8/2025

Tracks

  • 1 The Seaons
  • 2 Ancestral Remnant
  • 3 Moonscape
  • 4 International Images
  • 5 Nature's Veil
  • 6 Pictures of Dreams
  • 7 Bad Analogy
  • 8 Balancing a Stone