TELAFONICA

Free download single available via 4-4-2 Music Walking In Fields by Karoshi Final single from Karoshi's rather excellent (if we do say so ourselves) album, 'Sleepwalker', is the track, 'Walking In Fields'. The single comes with a radio edit and two remixes. One is by everybody's favourite remixer, Loopsnake, who pushes the drum loops and synth sounds through his glitched up electronics wringer. When the track was originally created, Karoshi asked Telafonica's Eliza Magill to write a song for the fledgling music. In the end, a few voice snippets were chopped up as rhythmic texture in the final mix. Here, Telafonica's remix reinstates Eliza's song over a minimalist backdrop. . Go to vimeo.com/36399957 to watch the film for Walking In Fields.

matt and greg from underlapper and peter hollo have a new trio called haunts. last friday night i went to dirty shirlows to see their 2nd ever performance. they did a cover of viceroy. i filmed their whole set and so have their version here for posterity - from what i'm aware, the first time anyone has ever covered a telafonica song.

so i've been working through lots of these ideas for musical places to go that we discussed a few weeks ago. i greatly like the idea of really (like, really because, well we already do a lot anyway, so we'd need to 'really' do it to make it any different!) pushing the mix of electronics and organic. another thing i've been trying to follow is using very random sound generation techniques (the ipad i was given at school has opened up lots of really great possibilities in that regard). and the other thing i've been following is a real minimalism, which goes very contrary to what i normally do, which is pile sound upon sound upon sound. so some of those things you can hear in the remix of karoshi's 'walking in fields' (which i really need to post here - maybe tomorrow) that's just come out. anyway, today i cam across this track from sinead o'connor. she's been in and out of my consciousness for over 20 years now, and i know marcella has us...

a couple of reviews have popped up in the last week or so, one by our old friend, paris, and another from someone i've never heard of, which is nice because it gives a different perspective not swayed by knowing the artists... _____________________________________________ Sydney Morning Herald - Metro - 10.2.12 SLEEPING WITH THE FISHERMEN (4-4-2 Music) ***1/2 For a decade, Sydney quintet Telafonica have steadily been embellishing their electronic foundations with expanding acoustic and vocal palettes, to curiously good effect. Further eluding pigeonholing, this latest heterogenous LP opens with the extended Viceroy , a slowly unfurling piece born of a single, subtly wavering tone, not unlike electrical hum. The vocal that eventually materialises ushers in a gentle, tribal-like rhythm rattling like conches against hollow bones. The rhythm is invigorated for ultra-short follow-up The Unravelling Man , where female vocals playfully jostle for a vantage point to deliver the next...

i got an e-mail from kiri at blacktown arts centre today about a project that is going to be happening there on friday, may 4. basically, an international sound art trio called super critical mass will be doing a piece at the gallery as a launch for a thing called the aurora festival. they are specifically looking for brass players and vocalists, so we can all fit into that in some manner. i've told kiri i'm definitely interested, let me know if any of you are and i can pass that on. it will involve a couple of rehearsals beforehand. at the moment she's just after expressions of interest. so let me know. here's a clip of a piece they did in brisbane last year...

i have some gigs being lined up but need to know everyone's availability. basically, can everyone let me know if there are any fridays or saturdays from april 13 until the end of may that you know you definitely can't be available for? the sooner i can find out the better. thanks heaps.