TELAFONICA

the production line has begun. zines for the vinyl copy of 'tales of loss in the stereo field'.

test pressing of 'tales of loss in the stereo field' in translucent yellow. pre-orders still available (though, sadly, only in black for non-test pressings!) http://4-4-2music.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-loss-in-the-stereo-field

photography by Connor Hammond

so, a few months behind the original schedule, but they're finally just about here - the illustrious box sets! burning discs, printing, cutting and folding sleeves. colour coded discs getting the hands dirty with the sewing machine the concertina disc booklet

so, apparently, we're huge in spain. of course, like most of the rest of the world, they seem to have a bit of trouble spelling it correctly.

sam and jos went out filming this morning.

i put a new promo photo up today (the full res version is down the right column). i've been working on a few different ideas over the last few weeks. i have planned to screen print these faces onto the actual collages i made, but i needed to get a promo photo together quickly for someone (i'll tell you all that story later) so i ended up photoshopping it onto scans of the collages (i also plan to do a whole set of the ones like the orange one of myself that you might have seen currently on our loungeroom wall, using these same images). anyway, here it is, let me know if there's anything you particularly don't like, i can always edit... i also uploaded a thing i put together last year using some of miles' photos, but never ended up using it. thought i might as well stick it online, though, since the photos are quite great.

photos courtesy of cherry's camera; smiles courtesy of sufjan stevens

i've been playing around with an idea for some photos - transplanting us onto tiny model figures (made for model train sets etc.). what do people think? (click on the image to see a larger size)

miles has been at it again... see more here.

well, it didn't make it to print in the end, but here it is on the website. please note - the quotes are not verbatim!

firstly, miles is a master with the camera. there's some more shots over at his photoblog. (as an aside, blake, over on miles' page put your mouse on the close-up shot of me and leave it sitting there until the caption comes up) secondly, bec was absent from this gig (many thanks to bec for doing all the babysitting that i was supposed to help with so that telafonica could play this gig), while blake and cherry were at pains to remove themselves from the responsibility of writing up the review, so it has fallen to me... blake commented in the spacia on the way in that it was a rather quiet trip, since bec and eliza are the loud ones (his words, not mine). the roxbury was as red as we remembered and luchi were setting up as we got there. it was their second gig, and the sound guy, who was otherwise great, didn't seem to quite know what to do with a band with so much electronics and no drums! so they took a little while to sort that out, but got there in the end (which also ...

Deja was another one of those Telafonica adventures where you discover that great cultural experiences can (and most often do) happen in the most unexpected places. We love Marrickville. Where else can you play at midnight for an enthusiastically dancing crowd amidst the comforting smells of bonfire and baking bread? Definitely you cannot find anywhere else an MC with a swiss cheese cape, calling himself Dairy Mouse and quipping on current politics, expertly fending off hecklers and conducting a raffle for babybel cheese and homebrand butter. It was Cherry's initiation into the band and she passed with supersonic purple colours. The audience loved her. And they told her so. No jealousy implied. We enjoyed, as always, listening to Alps. Art Rush was..well..interesting. Memorable. The Fuji Collective were big, polished and impressive. Andy Golledge had a nice sound. And we... well we rocked! Well we must have if that means we had fun and and there were people dancing and that they be...

a couple of shots for david (there's a copy in the mail somewhere between here and london as i write) the riso prints came out beautifully - i definitely think we should go with them again for future releases, and possibly play around a bit more with the layering of colours which you can just see a bit of here.

with many many thanks to the wonderful miles martignoni. his blog can be found here and there are more photos on his flickr page .