TELAFONICA

Playing this gig has totally upstaged New Year's Eve for me. The afternoon and evening spent with Telafonicans and making new friends was it's own celebration of the end of 2011. The room in which we set up was huge and only a small part of the whole complex. Melissa (room manager) and Jimmy (excellent excellent sound guy) were friendly, professional and efficient. One of our bits of electronic stuff had a hissy fit so we dropped it from the band for the evening. We're flexible like that. After sound check we had over four hours to explore the glories of Bondi beach so we toddled off down to the esplanade. Dinner on the imported sands of Bondi beach whilst watching camera crews descend on a misguided swimmer caught outside the flags was excellent. The salt spray was wonderful. I edited out all the concrete and the steel railings and watched the sea, the glorious sea! Blake disappeared down a Hobbit hole. Apparently Adrian, Cherry and Jenna were accosted by some unavoidably ...

on friday, we need to have our setup/soundcheck finished by 6, so we'll probably need to head in fairly early. does everyone want to come in the spacia? our set is from 10:30-11:30 so we need to prepare an hour set (duh!). also means we'll have time to see the sights and have dinner etc. rehearsal is on thursday - any particular times good for everybody. we're free anytime, so a daytime rehearsal might be good if it's ok with everyone else. or the usual evening. let us know. entry for the gig is free, so spam lots of people. facebook event info is at https://www.facebook.com/events/293718860669149/

Glory To God In The Lowest is available for free download. Click here . Glory To God In The Lowest by 4-4-2 Music _________________________________ Released December 9, 2011 The 2011 edition of 4-4-2 Music's Christmas cheer is ready for the holiday season. Starting out with St Jambience using the old Reich-ian phasing technique to get you into the mood - Rudolph on repeat in the shopping mall this ain't!!!! From here, Telafonica's various members head off to their own bedrooms and loungerooms to make contributions that range from intimate folk, to expansive pop, doo-wop to Lowrey organ kiddie-funk, moody atmosphere to electronic minimalism. Download the album for free (or pay something if you like), burn it to disc and print up some artwork to hand out to friends for Christmas. Then go and download the previous 3 editions as well. You'll never need to listen to Mariah Carey again. 1. St. Jambience - Jingle Phase 2. the onestarband - Glory To God In The Lowes...

i found this on the web today - the first review of the album that i'm aware of. i'm always surprised when people call our music eclectic, because it all feels like it's come from the same place to me! but this review seems to pinpoint everything very (scarily) accurately! they've clearly listened well and got it. :) http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/reviews/albums/telafonica-sleeping-fishermen "Telefonica's roiling, boiling little collective of talent: audio, visiual and otherwise (I hear they make a mean paella) leads to quite unexpected things when a new album proper rolls out the door of their little workshop, or you're otherwise blindsided by a stray INXS cover or Christmas album. Indeed, what was once a duo, many years ago, has expanded to such voluminous, even global proportions that their latest release is less of an album and more of a small multimedia library. Don't believe me? The 7 tracks and 49 minutes of music is accompanied by 7 freely downloa...

Free download remix album from Hinterlandt. Available from Bandcamp . Hinterlandt Presents: Through The Motions by Feralmedia Jochen Gutsch, often known as Hinterlandt, asked a while back if we'd like to do a remix for a project he had underway. The idea was that he'd give us a few short samples and we'd make a track out of it. The samples all came from a track called 'Motion' though nobody other than Jochen had heard it or knew how it sounded. All artists were given the same set of samples. The Telafonica remix went into krautrock territory, with an 303 line thrown in for good measure. The drum sounds all came straight from Blake's trusty Yamaha PSR-150 keyboard. Then some of the synth samples were plastered with liberal distortion. And so they went kosmiche.

well, the spacia doesn't actually bend, but i always liked the alliteration of 'bendy bus' so i thought i'd put that in the title. our set-up time on friday evening is 5:30 and our sound check is at 6. so the spacia will probably leave our place at about 4:45ish, i would imagine. if anyone needs a lift, be here then. ellie - i told joe you probably won't be there for set up, but maybe for soundcheck. however, it' not a huge problem if you can't do any. what times are you likely to be able to do (the gate being at ryde)?

purchase 'SLEEPING WITH THE FISHERMEN' by clicking the link in the Bandcamp player below. Sleeping With The Fishermen by telafonica _______________________ released december 1, 2011 Telafonica's 'Sleeping With The Fishermen' is a sprawling project with this album as its centrepiece. Over 7 tracks and 49 minutes, the Sydney based 5-piece continues their electronic and acoustic explorations, meshing traditional songs with wide-screen production, improvisation and experimentalism. The tracks draw inspiration from the overground, underground and all points in between, from Sufjan Stevens to Animal Collective, Feist to LCD Soundsystem, My Cat Is An Alien to Tamaru. Thrown into the Telafonica blender, those sounds emerge at the other end as abstract pop. They range from the 15 minute album bookends, 'Viceroy' and 'The Tail End Of Winter' which explore building atmospheres and groove based soundscapes, to 'The Unravelling Man's 90 second bla...