René Najera

René Najera

Inner Arrangements

100% Silk

Extended play companion to René Najera’s recent Painted Life LP, cut from similar cloth but dyed a different shade of sky. From deep current downtempo and strings-of-life steppers to cloud-watcher breaks and tape-hazed disco, the collection captures Jared Carrigan’s project at its most elusive and elliptical. Music of mirrored streets and eroded coasts, flexing free and lean under sinking suns. Tokyo affiliate Precipitation lends a mix to “Conscious Living,” while Estonian ex-pat Maria Minerva played party host for the 18-minute hardware odyssey “Live At Maria’s,” but otherwise Inner Arrangements is a solo side quest, soaring and sidewinding through star maps of the mind.

René Najera

Painted Life

100% Silk

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.”