Inspired by the field recordings, sound materials and memories i gathered during a 2 month stay in Costa Rica.
This record hosts the feelings and textures we all weathered while working out there; predominately rain, animals, laughter, electricity and exhaustion.

All of those materials were gathered, brought back home to Colorado, and processed through a four track tape machine. The album was made with tape loops, micro-cassettes, field recordings, synths, VHS tapes, sequencers, $2 thrift store microphones, and a continued state of mental fatigue and inescapable exhaustion.

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released December 4, 2024

All recording + mixing done by Jacob Juno
Additional instrumentation provided by:

Elias Conejo + Jarret Luttrull

Vocals and Insight provided by:

Elias Conejo
Pablo Conejo
Grant Cedebaca
Paula Devita
Jason Fallas
Diego Lobo
Wenn Barrantes
Sydney Helmling

special thanks to:
those inherited by The Art Department
Limey’s
and forever,
The Art Department

15 physical copies of: music for airplanes i, ii album, recorded on 90 minute recycled tapes.
Everything that went into this album, including instruments, tape decks, printer + paper, film camera, packaging, etc, was recycled and saved from either a thrift store or online used equipment sites. Nothing was purchased new for this release, in a small effort to reverse the carbon footprint that is inherent with traveling nationally for work.
The artwork is printed on single sided, thick resume paper, numbered and signed. The images used for the J-card cover art were taken with a Canon A1 film camera on the way home from a backpacking trip. All of the tapes used in the recording and dubbing process were donated from a kind family that had recorded hundreds of hours of audiobooks for their mother that had passed. The tape decks were bought used and self-restored and modded to accommodate the tapeloop process.
This release is far from a professional label release, but has all the love that an independent artist, repurposing used equipment in their free time can offer.
Having a hand in every step of the tape making process, from recording the music, to sourcing the materials, to dubbing the tapes, was an incredible labor of love, and will be the first of many tape runs to come in the future.

Multi-sensory, interactive art installation for 2023 Imagine Music Festival on the beach of Doe Bay on the San Juan Islands in Washington state. 
We constructed a driftwood cathedral made up of washed up wood from the local area, and filled it to the brim with flowers and produce grown from the island. We also installed touch sensitive vegetables that triggered field recordings and ambient music made by Kyle Finn and myself.
This was not only an art installation for the enjoyment of everyone who was around to experience it, but was the backdrop of a television show's season finale that we filmed over the course of the weekend.
None of this would have been possible without the creative and passionately empowering minds of Jennifer Jordon, Kyle Finn, Katie Lila, Michael Murphy  and many many others.
The lights and the sound (all engineered by Kyle Finn, have been taken down but the alter will remain until the power of nature deems it unsafe.

Several field recordings i have taken over the last year, alongside some tapeloop recordings made their way into the installation themself, and you could hear a harmony of sounds if you lingered inside the structure and had an urge to explore the environment. 

I've been kindly getting asked for years, and I finally gave in and am officially releasing the first Disintegration Loop tape release.

49 minutes of my favorite and most listened to homemade tape loops over the last 4 years. Loops made from film scores, vinyl rips, synths, guitars, microcassettes and found recordings.
Laser engraved, translucent pink tapes housed in a burgundy shell.

Only 50 copies available for purchase.

Purchase here or here 

(releases October 6th)
 

This album was made over the course of 72 hours while on a creative art bender with Paul Juno. Each track was recorded from the original soundtrack and gameplay, tape looped, and ran through multiple effect pedals. All artwork, promo material, and dubbing was also done within this three day window. This is the soundtrack to those who dedicated years of their life to this game, only to be left with the ever-fading memories of their arguably worthless efforts and excitements.

Album art painting and sculptures all created by Paul Juno 

Everquest went live and launched in March of 1999. 24+ years later this game is still live and populated with fans to this day. This year they will release their 30th expansion.

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One day these live servers will cease to exist, and this will become a much more relevant eulogy.  For now, soak in its surprisingly long existence. 

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