TELAFONICA

to purchase 'I SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF YOU' visit the 4-4-2 music website or the Bandcamp page . I Saw This And Thought Of You by telafonica ________________________ released march 21, 2009 Between the release of the MORPHEME album and February 2008, the three original members of Telafonica slowly worked up a new batch of recordings with the aim of creating a new album. By the time Marcella and David left for London at the beginning of 2008, these had not yet quite been completed and it was uncertain as to whether they might be released at all. A few tracks were sent to different compilations (see Super Shiny Sydney, Seek and Destroy or Pop Songs For Edith Metzger) while others became individually released e-singles (see 4-4-2 Music e-Single of the Month Club, January 2009). The 7 tracks which finally became I Saw This And Thought Of You were chosen for their cohesion, then polished up with remixing and some final overdubs for release in early 2009. With many of the tr...

my brother-in-law costa sent me a link to this clip - it's pretty great so i thought i might stick it up here. speaking of video clips, bec is working on a story board for a michel gondry inspired thing for the quest for love aboard the belafonte (we watched be kind rewind again on saturday). if anyone has ideas for any other clips, stick them up.

ok what about 'dance in tune'? yep - i'd still love to get whatever you've done to it to put into my computer - i know you said you haven't done much, but you've at least structured it a bit more, which will be the starting point we will work from. if you could possibly get those files to me before saturday, i can load them in and get them ready before we start. would it be easiest to send a usb stick over to your place via jenna to get them? i also have the other song i was talking to you about on sunday. i will e-mail you a copy later tonight. i've now got an actual song for the music, and bec is going to play bass for it when we do it live. i need you to learn some singing and make up some guitar for it. i'm wanting the guitar to be a bit more rock than we've used so far, a bit more direct, a bit more like lava fuzz rather than gentle atmospherics and interjections. anyway, i'll mail it once i've recorded some rough singing. i just ...

Did Telafonica have a good time on Saturday night? Of COURSE we did! We piled into the magical green spacia with two very good friends - Chris Box and Tim Engelbrecht - and had a jolly adventure until 2am. The first delight was the Roxbury Room itself. What a great venue and the toilets were topnotch (unlike the Sly Fox which is missing a couple of doors in the ladies'). Very comfy with red theatrical curtains and a great atmosphere. Delight number two was definitely "We Say Bamboulee". Telafonica&c became instant fans. Even before they played, we loved them when we saw them walk in with their autoharp. Their music is great and they bounce with energy and their joy for playing is very infectious! While Shady Lane were performing some excellent music, Tim and Blake toddled off to the bar to have their first beer. Whatever the after effects may have been, both gentlemen were left with the feeling of having attained a higher level of masculinity. Hurrah. We then trotted...

Hey dudes, have you seen this? Do we know this person?! There should be a link here but when I paste it it just pastes it under the post - why computer why??? Can anyone see the link or explain why it won't paste into my post?! It's a link to deepgoa.wordpress.com reveiw of morpheme, it's quite flattering! I think....

Beginnings with chance happenings, at hand materials, creation from nothing, minimal equipment (inbuilt iMac microphone), field recordings, simple folk guitar, the harmonic backings of his sister(?) Jenna, and heartfelt lyrical content delivered with a naïve intonation is where 17 year old Blake Wassell begins. You may only wonder if before this age he has any knowledge of chance operation speculation, exposure to Steve Reich, the I Ching or even Edmund Husserl to arrive at this point yet I suspect he arrived there without any overt guides. Yet arrived he has with tracks such as Light is Sweet, whose easy and obvious virtue strums it’s lullaby to the ear. Even the youth in the packaging, notation paper, home sewn and printed in a stroke of whimsy is demonstrative of early exploration. It is that Wassell has arrived to areas of music, environmental recordings, the creation of music from found sounds, that reside in high art domain without artifice and combined them with a folk sensibili...

i just got sent an e-mail about a review that's just gone up for the christmas ep. you can see the actual thing here . it goes like this: ++++++++++ Australian record- and Netlabel 4-4-2 Music released a wonderful compilation in December 2008 I only stumbled about now. As the weather in Northern Germany is exactly like it normally is on Christmas Eve 'round here, maybe a review makes sense. "A Whale in the Manger" brings together six artists and their interpretation of Christmas carols. Actually, this compilation is only four songs and one musical collective: Sydney-based Telafonica start with their version of "Angels We Have Heard On High". Absolutely intriguing, the band contrasts their coldish Trip Hop / Electronica sound with the heavenly "Gloria, in excelsis Deo" hookline of the traditional carol. Wonderful voices (Magill/ Elmer), wonderful trumpets. Second is Telafonica songstress Eliza Magill. Her version of "Joy to the World" is ...

we've been pointed in the direction of a new grant that the australia council has. it's called soundclash. we've been toying around with ideas of what we might be able to do to present to them in an application. having a set project/s in mind, i think, will probably be important for the proposal process (so i've been told...). blake has got an idea for a specific music making thing which he's putting together. i've also been thinking, especially on reading through the requirements ( http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grants/soundclash_-_music ) that something which is kind of forward thinking in its use of technologies might be a good thing as well, something to set us apart from asking for money for the traditional things. i think that is very much in the spirit of this particular grant. i've been thinking that something to do with emerging technologies, particularly in terms of distribution models for recordings, would be a good thing to get t...

oh, will the puns ever end? photos courtesy of matt curley (mc halloween) .

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/soundquality/stories/2009/2496082.htm a couple of familiar names in the playlist. the show goes to air at 11:20pm this friday night, and can then be streamed for 4 weeks after that from http://www.abc.net.au/rn/soundquality/default.htm .

Well, I don't know if we're any more "Ween Keen" than we were yesterday but Telafonica had a lot of fun playing "So Many People in the Neighbourhood" and "Voodoo Lady" at the Gaelic Theatre in the wee-est hours of this morning. We trekked on in with the added pleasure of having Cherry along (who has now mastered the art of opening a bottle of Chinotto with her car keys only to be disappointed by the taste) at 11 pm. All the Mardi Gras crowd was exiting the city and Telafonica stepped into the void. It was a small Ween Keen crowd and it was the end of a marathon and we totally did not fit the rock heavy bill of all the other bands. However, DJ Halloween said that we were the best dressed band - Adrian in his Jackson Pollock suit, Ellie in her red dress and viking hat, me in my fairy costume and wings and Blake in his lovely blue cricket cap. We had a lot of fun - I have to say that I am exceedingly proud of Adrian's very excellent reconstru...

"One thing about any definition of a golden age, for me, is that it is the point where the desires of the creator are greater than the technology which is available. There comes a moment when the technology gets closer and closer to the imagination/creativity of the writer. In the end if you're not careful it overtakes and suddenly, serendipity, which before was from your own sweat and blood, comes by and says, "If I press one of these 397 buttons on this synthesizer maybe I'll get something out of it." Now at that moment, the machinery is driving the creativity and the creativity is not driving the machinery. Maybe thats where the golden age stops…."   -David Cain (BBC Radiophonic Composer 1967-73)

since nobody ended up writing anything about the last show at the sando, i figured i'd jump in and write out somthing for last night's spectrum show here. first, the set list so i remember it when i get around to filling out apra forms: an invitation but i lose myself the quest for love aboard the belafonte for the manifesto dub this is the new thing nothing ventured the separation i thought it was a fairly bizarre bill for us to be included on. i quite enjoyed the other two bands, but i don't know that everything really went together. i particularly enjoyed marquee who's shoegaze stuff reminded me very much of what i used to do in my youth. i was impressed by their drummer, who avoided the temptation that drummers in that type of band fall into of covering the music with a wash of cymbal white noise. when they do that, you can't hear the intricacies of what the guitars are doing, because it all happens in the same part of the sound spectrum. but he only used ...

I've finally thought of a new and improved title for the Cinnamon Sugar song! Hooray. Now, I know you're all sitting next to me at the moment, but I thought I should make it official for our fans. The new title is... THE QUEST FOR LOVE ABOARD THE BELAFONTE. We can call it Belafonte for short. The most excellent new name was obviously inspired by the completely super film The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Please watch it and supprt Wes Anderson if you haven't yet seen it. For our Telafonica fan club members, please be advised that the official Telafonica uniform will include little red beanies. Topless for women, speedos for men.