# Jefre Cantu-Ledesma · Composer, Producer, Multi-instrumentalist · OBRA

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## Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

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# Jefre  Cantu-Ledesma

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is an American ambient and experimental musician based in New York State, born and raised in Texas and shaped by years in San Francisco's experimental music underground. He co-founded the influential drone and ambient label Root Strata, was a founding member of the post-rock outfit Tarentel, and has released solo records on Type Records and Mexican Summer — one of Brooklyn's most respected independent labels. For over twenty years his work has explored the liminal space between sound and silence, blending guitar, modular synthesizer, and acoustic instrumentation into sublimely minimal compositions. His 2025 album Gift Songs on Mexican Summer is perhaps his most realized statement — five transcendent compositions rooted in spiritual practice, drawing from Shaker gift drawings and the natural world, released to widespread critical acclaim and named Album of the Month by multiple platforms. He has collaborated with Grouper (as Raum), Oneohtrix Point Never, and Félicia Atkinson, and his Root Strata label has been a foundational platform for American experimental music.

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JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA Portrait · 2016–PRESENT

▸ VERIFIED STREAMS 8.025.781 TOTAL · 8.0M

17 DAYS · Total

Releases 8

Years active 2016–PRESENT

This week  · ▲ 0.1% · 1K/day

Streams this week +7.660 8.0M TOTAL

Best day +1.3M Jul 25

Spotify +8K 100% OF TOTAL · 7D

YouTube — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

SoundCloud — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

FASTEST GROWING
Gift Song II ▲ 1.2%  Joy ▲ 0.2%  Echoing Green ▲ 0.1%

Trending this week  · 5 climbing

Last records broken  · 2 milestones

Milestones  · 1 milestone

8.0M CATALOG · streams
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Sep 2026

Top tracks  · Ranked by streams · 8

Collaborators  · 1 artists

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

8 tracks · 8.0M

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## OBRA BY JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA

8 RELEASES

ROLE

### 2025

3 releases

### 2020

1 release

### 2019

1 release

### 2018

1 release

### 2017

1 release

### 2016

1 release

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Bio

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is an American ambient and experimental musician based in New York State, born and raised in Texas and shaped by years in San Francisco's experimental music underground. He co-founded the influential drone and ambient label Root Strata, was a founding member of the post-rock outfit Tarentel, and has released solo records on Type Records and Mexican Summer — one of Brooklyn's most respected independent labels. For over twenty years his work has explored the liminal space between sound and silence, blending guitar, modular synthesizer, and acoustic instrumentation into sublimely minimal compositions. His 2025 album Gift Songs on Mexican Summer is perhaps his most realized statement — five transcendent compositions rooted in spiritual practice, drawing from Shaker gift drawings and the natural world, released to widespread critical acclaim and named Album of the Month by multiple platforms. He has collaborated with Grouper (as Raum), Oneohtrix Point Never, and Félicia Atkinson, and his Root Strata label has been a foundational platform for American experimental music.

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