TELAFONICA

i think we should all get registered at lastfm and stick our weekly listening habits down the side of this blog. i know i'd be interested in seeing what everyone else is listening to. i put one for myself on our myspace page ages ago, but it would be good to get more diversity! anyone, anyone....

i've been thinking through ideas for our live performance, and have thought of what i'd like to try. having painters/artists on stage as we perform requires that we have a reasonable amount of light on stage in order for them to be able to work. just having light on stage, though, tends to remove any sort of atmosphere as it spills out and makes everything just, well, bright. last year we almost got to the stage of using dave's ink photos on screensaver mode, but my computer needed an adapter to run into a projector so we couldn't do it in the end. i quite like those images though, and that has had me thinking for some time. while lying in bed this morning (yay for long weekends) i had visions of what might be nice to try. there are some burodestruct images in a book i have of black ink in water. i've attached some images below which are the sort of thing (though not the ones in my book). i envisaged a continuous film which looks like it's one take, but ...

hmmm...bookers, bar managers - a very grey area indeed. we got to paddy maguires and were told by the dj (a very nice guy and the only one not slimy enough to want to avoid the issues) that the pub was closing early because of good friday and that the pub management had forgotten to pass that information on to the booker. he had been there about half an hour before we arrived which is when he had found out this from the management. no-one was there to inform us - no booker, no management etc - just the dj. so we rang the booker to find out what the deal was - he was expecting an earful for reasons i'll outline below. anyway, i asked him why we couldn't shorten our sets and be finished by closing at 10 - he said to talk to the bar manager and find out if that was possible. so i went to the bar manager and talked with him - he basically just stonewalled me saying they didn't have staff of to run the bar etc (it was to be in a separate room). no apologies for any inconve...

purchase MORPHEME by clicking on the link in the Bandcamp player below. Morpheme by telafonica ________________________ released april 16, 2005 MORPHEME is telafonica's debut full length album, released in april, 2005. it contains 11 tracks and comes with hand silkscreened and stamped artwork, created by furnitureclub it features the vocals of marcella, added to adrian's voice, and explores some of the melancholy tones of deephouse, triphop and abstractpop. ________________________ 1. a distorted beginning (mp3) 2. your hands (mp3) 3. dust 4. go to b.ed (mp3) 5. request 6. sounding it out (mp3) 7. painter 8. for the manifesto of some world view 9. one and one 10. st valentine (mp3) 11. music for rest

i thought i'd write down the setlist for friday so that it's recorded for when i need to make apra claims. you'll notice that i've changed the last track from '89' to 'your hands'. i thought, since we're doing a gig on good friday, it was a good song to finish with. it also felt a bit more in character with the rest of the set than '89' did. blake - i'll give you an mp3 but don't worry too much about it - there's some singing you can do if you want but it's not essential so there's no need to panic about learning anything. one and one gem for the manifesto of some world view blending the edges send away this is the new thing smells like rain your hands

to purchase 'PRESSED INTO OXYGEN' visit the 4-4-2 music website or click here - ________________________ released november, 2004 in late 2001 david fed his p.c. audio outputs into telafonica's ancient mixing desk, and got long time friend, stephen fox, to do the same with his p.c.. for about half an hour, adrian manned the desk with a cheap fostex effects processor as david and stephen fed random noises created and manipulated in a variety of different audio programs through the system. adrian then had to leave, but david and stephen continued, creating over two hours of improvised soundscapes, recorded through the desk onto hi-fi vhs video tape. the initial two hour's worth of recording became the soundtrack to a graphic book david had created as part of his visual arts degree. following this, adrian took the recordings, transferred them to his own hard drive, and began to edit them down to the 52 1/2 minutes which make up this album. stephen has since gone...

i had an idea whilst standing in the shower this morning. i figured the actual telafonica website probably doesn't get too much traffic through it these days and, compared with how the blog thing is set out, seems a little clunky now in this day and age of web 2.0, where you have to go through a few menus to get to things. so i was wondering how to maybe get more of the content from there onto the blog, and had the idea that if, for example, i created a post for a release, that post could then be forever accessed via a link to that specific post, so even when it rolls of the main page of the blog, if we linked from the sidebar, via the little pictures of all our releases that are already there, then all the content for each release is always just one layer below the main blog page and quite easily accessable. i figure this is a good idea and would then free up telafonica.com for the possible art based site. or, if that's not going to happen, we could even just redirect tela...

'dos' is currently out of print. however, 4-4-2 music has released the e.p. as a free download via bandcamp (click to go there) . you can download it as mp3, flac, ogg vorbis, aac etc. or stream the entire release here. Everything Is Green (Except The Way I Feel) by telafonica _______________________ released september, 2001 'dos' is the debut release from telafonica. it contains 13 tracks spread over 2 discs. disc 1 contains mostly uptempo tracks with electro, breaks and bigbeat leanings. 1. everything is green except the way i feel://://:// the opening track has an electro feel with vocodered vocals. originally inspired by les rhythmes digitales' living by numbers mix of cornershop's sleep on the left side and later developed following a night dancing to a great electro set by gemma at club kooky when it was at the old club 77. the aim was to have a solid, driving bottom end with little bouncing synths floating across the stereo, seemingly separated from the...

bec is out all day this saturday - would it be possible to shift our final rehearsal to a bit later on saturday - say 5ish? i've made up a bunch of promo cds to send to fbi, they feature a track each from underlapper, sui zhen and telafonica. i put this is the new thing on for our track. i'm thinking of making it a regular thing for gigs - sending off one track each promos. also gives me another reason to get the new things finished and mastered.

steve and ellie - is saturday afternoon ok for a rehearsal for you?

anyone want to come to this with me on thursday night?

rehearsal went quite well on saturday, i thought. when it really gets exciting is when 4 voices are going at once - this is the new thing and smells like rain in particular. it was a bit messy and untogether, but for a first rehearsal with 5 people doing things, was much better than i had anticipated it would be. i finally got around to re-recording my vocals on requited love and smells like rain. i'll e-mail some mp3s to canada. i think they're good. requited love is definitely right (aside from the odd flat/sharp note which i will edit easily). i think smells like rain is probably right, though there's a chance i might have been a little too animated in this particular recording. the last time we discussed it we were liking the distance and nonchalance caused by the style of delivery - i'm just slightly worried that that has been lost a little bit, though i think the actual performance of this recording sounds reasonably good. it's also in tune, as are the...

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