we missed the 20th last month due to all the stuff happening with louise. which turned into subject matter for bec for this much, without wishing to be too prescriptive and confining the lyrics to one specific interpretation. musically, it sits somewhere between the twin peaks of underworld and lcd soundsystem. bec also pointed out a vague melodic rip from the flaming lips. there's still plenty of space for room to grow. band.
needless to say it sounds best when played immersively loud. with good bottom end.
Sister Zephyr
She has forgotten herself
This is the time to cry
When the darkness is at the window
When the breathing is slow
And the time hovers over your head
This is the time to cry
When your heart has slipped down to the floor
When the sleeping is over
And you know you can't stay in your bed
This is the time to weep
When the morning moves past you
When light cannot touch you
And the words that you hear don't make sense
This is the time to weep
When the darkness comes back through your door
When the striving is over
And you know you must sleep once again
She has forgotten herself
She holds His eyes and His heart
He still remembers her name
21/10/2010
16/10/2010
video videos
i've been thinking lots about video clips lately because i'd like to have some. sam has completed cover, which i'm greatly looking forward to seeing (we'll organise a premiere at our place with dinner etc). and the belafonte clip is about 3/4 done, just needs a few more drawings to fill out some blank spaces. i also have an idea for a clip for i can hear there's a peace in the dark, which i'm going to sort of steal from steve's horizon shift film - the idea is to film a sunset over the suburbs and then project it upside-down onto our nice suburban house and refilm it. i also found an old thing we did of marcella singing dust - the intention then was to redraw each frame by hand in lead pencil. from memory i did about 10seconds worth and then got subsumed by the enormity of the project. but i still have the edited footage that i was copying, so i'm going to throw some on 8mm scratch film over it or something and put it online somewhere soon.
in that slight vein (redrawing a filmed thing) i came across this the other day, which telafonicans should hopefully find interesting on both an æsthetic/conceptual level and a subject matter level. it's a nice concept where anyone can contibute, so if you actually go to the website, you can watch multiple versions based on different copies different people have contributed. this is the 'director curated version'. the idea is that you go to the site, can be given a random frame which you redraw yourself (digitally, mostly) and then upload so that it joins the database of frames. www.thejohnnycashproject.com
in that slight vein (redrawing a filmed thing) i came across this the other day, which telafonicans should hopefully find interesting on both an æsthetic/conceptual level and a subject matter level. it's a nice concept where anyone can contibute, so if you actually go to the website, you can watch multiple versions based on different copies different people have contributed. this is the 'director curated version'. the idea is that you go to the site, can be given a random frame which you redraw yourself (digitally, mostly) and then upload so that it joins the database of frames. www.thejohnnycashproject.com
14/10/2010
new weird australia
in order to help promo the just like now show, we're going to go onto stu buchanan's new weird australia radio show on thursday the 4th of november. the show goes from 9-11, so it will be in there somewhere. we're going to talk about the gig to promo it and the new ep that markus is releasing on curt for us. we're also going to perform something live. being new weird australia, i was thinking maybe something a bit more freeform and improvised, and longer would be good. maybe the tail end of winter?
who's free and keen? are there any other suggestion of what we might do if tail end of winter is not an option?
who's free and keen? are there any other suggestion of what we might do if tail end of winter is not an option?
12/10/2010
Two Things
When is a band practice not a band practice? When Cherry, Blake and Ellie step into the breach and mind children while Adrian and Bec take Bec's mum to Emergency with a bout of Total Global Amnesia. No, Ladies and Gentlemen, never a dull moment at Telafoniland! So first of all I want to say a big thank you and I love you to C., B. and E. who showed us tremendous love and servanthood on Friday night!
Second, I want to announce that this year's long awaited Telafoni-Christmas CD is about to take shape. The title is going to be "Myrrh is Mine" - a phrase from "We Three Kings" which is going to be the song that AJE and I work on. I chose it because it tells a bigger picture about Christmas and I think it captures the difficult year that many of us have had and are still having.
SO, Ellie, Cherry, Blake, Steve, Dave, Celli and the Bells, it's time to whip out your offering for this year's effort! AND we still need to figure out when this year's Christmas party is going to happen - complete with sing-a-long around the old pianer!
Love to everyone! Looking forward to playing with you on Friday night. Let's hope our rescheduled rehearsal on Thursday will be perfect first go. :)
Second, I want to announce that this year's long awaited Telafoni-Christmas CD is about to take shape. The title is going to be "Myrrh is Mine" - a phrase from "We Three Kings" which is going to be the song that AJE and I work on. I chose it because it tells a bigger picture about Christmas and I think it captures the difficult year that many of us have had and are still having.
SO, Ellie, Cherry, Blake, Steve, Dave, Celli and the Bells, it's time to whip out your offering for this year's effort! AND we still need to figure out when this year's Christmas party is going to happen - complete with sing-a-long around the old pianer!
Love to everyone! Looking forward to playing with you on Friday night. Let's hope our rescheduled rehearsal on Thursday will be perfect first go. :)
09/10/2010
08/10/2010
snippet
from sam's blog again....
"Hello explorers, after much debate I’ve decided to upload an almost complete version of one of the scenes in Cover.
I think it’s finished.. we’ll see"
"Hello explorers, after much debate I’ve decided to upload an almost complete version of one of the scenes in Cover.
I think it’s finished.. we’ll see"
05/10/2010
27/09/2010
Karoshi / Ah! Pandita split 7"
7" split single from Karoshi and Ah! Pandita can be bought via Bandcamp. When you purchase the 7" vinyl, you also receive the tracks as digital downloads, plus 5 remixes, including one by Telafonica.
Split 7" release from Karoshi and Ah! Pandita, both coming from Canberra, Australia these days. Both sides could be considered dark lullabies, soothing and melodic on the surface with darker currents bubbling below.
The release is only available on glorious 7" vinyl. BUT, once you send your payment, you'll gain access to not just the physical release, but a mountain of digital goodies by way of the two original tracks plus 5 remixes from the likes of Telafonica, Vorad Fils, Loopsnake, StephenFox and Karoshi himself. These push the tracks into new vistas of ambience and abstract beats. These can be downloaded in your choice of MP3, lossless FLAC or any number of file formats to suit all tastes.
A. Karoshi - Sleepwalker feat. PJ Wolf
B. Ah! Pandita - Gone Missing
bonus downloads
3. Ah! Pandita - Gone Missing (Loopsnake's Delicate Mess)
4. Ah! Pandita - Gone Missing (Karoshi Remix)
5. Karoshi - Sleepwalker feat. PJ Wolf (Vorad Fils Remix)
6. Karoshi - Sleepwalker feat. PJ Wolf (StephenFox Remix)
7. Karoshi - Sleepwalker feat. PJ Wolf (Telafonica Remix)
The Telafonica remix basically keeps the structure of the song as is, just flying some of the later backing vocals in as a hook up front. All the original instrumentation has been removed apart from a synth bass line, which has then been processed, bit-crushed, distorted, pitch shifted and layered numerous times to provide the harmonic information, while a new drum beat was created which flits between straight and triplet timing from bar to bar.
24/09/2010
soundclash again
the soundclash grant is open again. which is good news as it means the australia council sees it has benefit. it was originally there as a kind of 'see how it goes' type thing, but it must have had positive feedback.
anyway, we should apply. remembering that you can't apply for money for equipment! and the project is for march of next year on. which might tie in nicely with the timing for a new telafonica album or two. though you can't apply for money for cd pressing. but you can use it for things like vinyl pressing, or maybe packaging (i just got the deluxe edition of underworld's new album and it's truly beautiful). or touring costs. or something else more creative than the stock standard costs. like commissioning a dvd/film for a whole album (like anton cornijn's 'linear' for u2's last album). we've got a couple of months until the deadline in early december, but it would be good to have something definitive and concrete. and a bit ambitious, i think.
anyway, we should apply. remembering that you can't apply for money for equipment! and the project is for march of next year on. which might tie in nicely with the timing for a new telafonica album or two. though you can't apply for money for cd pressing. but you can use it for things like vinyl pressing, or maybe packaging (i just got the deluxe edition of underworld's new album and it's truly beautiful). or touring costs. or something else more creative than the stock standard costs. like commissioning a dvd/film for a whole album (like anton cornijn's 'linear' for u2's last album). we've got a couple of months until the deadline in early december, but it would be good to have something definitive and concrete. and a bit ambitious, i think.
20/09/2010
15/09/2010
14/09/2010
has something gone wrong around here?
no posts for far too long. it really must be a hiatus.
we have a gig in a few weeks time and if we'd like to get some new things ready, as blake said, we should have a few rehearsals. any preferences for times? i'm free most nights except every second wednesday (this week being one of those), and the next 2 fridays.
i have booked the red rattler theatre for sunday, november 7. telafonica, lessons in time (?), karoshi, st jambience will be playing, and hopefully andy rantzen will do something in some guise, as might andrew maxam/loopsnake. i've also been talking with marcus whale and we're thinking it might be a good opportunity to launch the 3" cd-r ep on his curt label at the event. i'm reviving the 'just like now' moniker for the thing.
the tibet benefit thing looks like it will include telafonica, that's on saturday, november 27.
we have a gig in a few weeks time and if we'd like to get some new things ready, as blake said, we should have a few rehearsals. any preferences for times? i'm free most nights except every second wednesday (this week being one of those), and the next 2 fridays.
i have booked the red rattler theatre for sunday, november 7. telafonica, lessons in time (?), karoshi, st jambience will be playing, and hopefully andy rantzen will do something in some guise, as might andrew maxam/loopsnake. i've also been talking with marcus whale and we're thinking it might be a good opportunity to launch the 3" cd-r ep on his curt label at the event. i'm reviving the 'just like now' moniker for the thing.
the tibet benefit thing looks like it will include telafonica, that's on saturday, november 27.
30/08/2010
the bon scotts
would we be interested in supporting the bon scotts. they're coming up from melbourne to launch their album at a venue called raval and the booker, leyne (ween keen/landsdowne/etc organiser) has asked us if we'd like to play. it's on friday, october 15.
bon scotts here.
bon scotts here.
23/08/2010
ask me
ask me
the liquid fact
the literary fact
the literal fact
fact fact
the liquid real
the literary real
the literal real
real real
is not truth
the liquid truth
the literary truth
the literal truth
it's just not
and that's the way it is
not a simple head
but a simple heart
the liquid fact
the literary fact
the literal fact
fact fact
the liquid real
the literary real
the literal real
real real
is not truth
the liquid truth
the literary truth
the literal truth
it's just not
and that's the way it is
not a simple head
but a simple heart
22/08/2010
august 20th, 2010
another month, another couple of tracks.
bec and i did this one. i had heard a dj on fbi radio the night before playing some old-school house/acid bits, and that's where the music started - very simple and minimal with tiny bits of syncopation to make it swing. bec then gave me some words, and it immediately started to veer into territory reminiscent of some band we saw a few weeks ago. bec's had a dead throat for a few days and couldn't contribute the required female vocals, so i dragged imojjen out to the studio at quarter to nine to fill in...
the next piece is blake's. i do know it features the samples i made of his old yamaha keyboard. i don't know if it's telafonica or lessons in time, we'll have to wait for blake's input...
bec and i did this one. i had heard a dj on fbi radio the night before playing some old-school house/acid bits, and that's where the music started - very simple and minimal with tiny bits of syncopation to make it swing. bec then gave me some words, and it immediately started to veer into territory reminiscent of some band we saw a few weeks ago. bec's had a dead throat for a few days and couldn't contribute the required female vocals, so i dragged imojjen out to the studio at quarter to nine to fill in...
the next piece is blake's. i do know it features the samples i made of his old yamaha keyboard. i don't know if it's telafonica or lessons in time, we'll have to wait for blake's input...
20/08/2010
4-4-2 music mixtape vol. 1
4-4-2 Music Mixtape Vol. 1
442-mix-001
August 2010
23mins 25secs
Download mp3 version here (31mb)
Download .wav version here (237mb)
Download flac version here (115mb)
Download ogg vorbis version here (15mb)
Download artwork jpg here (809kb)
A layered mix of demos, sketches and otherwise unreleased pieces of music. All music by Telafonica. Mixed by Telafonica.
Tracks (in vague order):
Elec 25.12
Near Foregone Conclusions
Does It Know
The Thickness Of White
Circumvent The Obvious
I Heard A Ring So I Buried
Home Song
Simple
10/08/2010
demo mixtapes
i had an idea which i pitched to clan analogue. the response there has been a bit lukewarm, but it might get up and running. the idea was that people could upload bits of music in progress and then, every month or so, someone can come along and pick out different bits and make a 20-30 minute mixtape from any of the bits they's like to stick together. i was imagining that, because they were work in progress and might be reasonably minimal, they could be layered quite extensively to build up the sound. one of the places the idea came from is the oneofour collective, which some of the guys from seekae and ghoul, amongst others, are a part of. anyway, as i said, there's been a little bit of a response at clan analogue, so i'll probably get something up and running, but whether or not it progresses there is another story. however, after doing that, i figured that telafonica actually has lots of bits of music lying around in different stages of completion - some that may never go further, others that have already had lots more work done to them. but i thought we could use that idea just using our own bits of music. so i've done one to start it off, and i'll upload it soon. but i thought it might be nice, if we do it semi-regularly, to actually name the series and then just have each one as a volume.
so....the question is, does anyone have a name they think might work for the idea?
so....the question is, does anyone have a name they think might work for the idea?
06/08/2010
parramatta sun article
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!
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