we're going to be playing at the album launch for karoshi's new album. it will be on saturday, march 12, so write it on your brand new 2011 calenders.
secondly, chris hearn (alps) has invited us up to newcastle on march the 11th (yep, the night before - we can call it a tour). he's starting up a new monthly thing there called 'intellectronica' where a variety of electronic bands play from 8:30, but before that, there's a workshop on whatever topic can be covered by presenters from the bands that are playing. he's asked me to be part of a workshop on running an online label. karoshi will also be playing on the night, an official newcastle launch show for his album. who is in?
29/12/2010
25/12/2010
24/12/2010
some side project videos
some nicely shot acoustic videos made on the afternoon that lessons in time played at the gate. one lessons in time track, plus a cameo by the band during a paper scissors track.
myrrh is mine
Myrrh Is Mine is available for free download. Click here.
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Released December 8, 2010
The third annual installment of the extended Telafonica family Christmas compilation gets bigger this year, with Telafonica adding a new member (Cherry), Marcella phoning in a contribution from London, and an all new contributor who's not even in Telafonica, but is our good friend - Matt Wakeling of St Jambience fame. So, for the first time, it's officially become a '4-4-2 Music Compilation' instead of a Telafonica compilation. which just makes it even better.
Imojjen Elmer makes her first ever appearance as a music writer, with a little thing she whipped up in music lessons at school during the year. Lessons In Time plays the first of two very different readings of Silent Night, with StephenFox playing the other. LIT features backing vocals from Blake's mum and Jack Saltmiras from The Middle East. Marcella makes it two new Telafonica tracks for the year with her haunting 'Little Heart'. Eliza turns out one of the most ancient and beautiful of all carols, 'Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel' and almost everyone in Telafonica contributes to 'We Three Kings' (last minute schedule clashes ruling out some backing vocalists). Goldberry, otherwise known as Cherry, surprises everyone with her engineering skills and the melancholic beauty of 'I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day'. Lastly, Bec joins up with Imojjen and Æowyn for a partial rendition of U2's 'Yahweh', rounding out the best of the three Christmas compilations so far.
13/12/2010
scheduling
sam's currently in the filming stages of a video clip for 'i can hear there's a peace in the dark' and will need to film us at some stage in the next few weeks. what are everyone's absence/presence plans over the next few weeks? we're aiming to have the video clip ready mid january. bec and i are unavailable until december 24.
09/12/2010
the internet loves sam.
a few good blogs have started picking up on the cover video with some nice words being said...
polaroids of androids
who the hell?
polaroids of androids
who the hell?
08/12/2010
cover loving
the ever wonderful everything is chemical blog has posted the cover video clip this week. eliza, you'll be delighted to know it comes in the same post as a coldplay christmas clip. i'm sure he was being ironic posting that one.
http://everythingischemical.blogspot.com/2010/12/cool-video-funtime-210-x4-christmas.html
http://everythingischemical.blogspot.com/2010/12/cool-video-funtime-210-x4-christmas.html
06/12/2010
grant grant grant.
application for ozco grant for funds to make a film for the entire sleeping with the enemy album now lodged. if only the hours spent getting an application together could be spent on actually doing the work!
the christmas compilation is almost done as well - just working out some logistics to get cherry on there somehow within the maddening end of school year rush.
the christmas compilation is almost done as well - just working out some logistics to get cherry on there somehow within the maddening end of school year rush.
30/11/2010
the gaelic
the guy who books the gaelic club sent an e-mail the other day asking if we'd be interested in playing at a midweek thing they have there during jan/feb. rattlesnakes and romance played there a few weeks ago (the booker asked both telafonica and lessons in time at the time, but it wasn't a good time) and isaac says it was reasonably good, the only drawback being not much of a walk in crowd, so you actually have to draw your own (along with the other bands). :)
would we be interested? it's on wednesday nights. if so, what dates are good?
would we be interested? it's on wednesday nights. if so, what dates are good?
23/11/2010
Dust Video
Dust from Telafonica on Vimeo.
Initially begun back in 2005, the original footage of Marcella was shot and edited with the intention that each frame would then be hand drawn in lead pencil, rephotographed, and put together as the final film clip, when the track was originally released as a single from the album, 'Morpheme'. About 10 seconds worth of frames were hand drawn before it became apparent that the task was way beyond the time and energy we had to put into it! So the film was put into the back of everyone's minds.
A few months ago, I got a new laptop and began transferring files across from my old one. I rediscovered the black and white film of Marcella singing and thought she looked great and that it was about time to use the footage so it wasn't wasted forever. So it was combined with some old hand drawn and scratched 8mm film that has been used in various guises in Telafonica's live projections for many many years to make a simple video clip. The song is now about 5 years old, so it's really just going to function as a nice curio, rather than for any real promotional value but, anyway, here it is.
Adrian
November 2010
20/11/2010
20th november 2010 - she's coming home
a bit of a strange one musically this month, in that i can't really pinpoint who i was trying to rip off! i kind of had a vague idea of making a lo-fi, psychedelic kind of groove thing (pocahaunted, sun araw, caught ship (who i've listened to a bit this week) etc) but, by the time it took shape, there wasn't much lo-fi and everything seems to get telafonicanised. which is ok, i guess. there were a few melodic things, like the last line, which was always the intention of bec's lyrics, referencing the beatles' 'she's leaving home'. the first vocal idea was a fairly monotone ian curtis type of thing, but that didn't work too well amidst the repetitive music. normally i need to de-melodicise my songs (david, marcella and bec have all independently suggested i do so at different times over the years), but this time, at bec's suggestion, it was decided it needed more melody, to counter the music. so i actually used the first little bit of melody from 'she's leaving home' as the starting point ("wednesday morning at..."). although being set against a minor key it probably isn't immediately obvious. but there it is.
As Adrian has just stated, I wanted to write a song that countered the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home". I wanted a prodigal song where home is a good place. I wrote it in phrases that kinda float and join with each other in different ways depending on how you say it/sing it. As usual, I wrote a complete whole and then Adrian said to write more so I had to undo some seams and "let it out" a bit more but I think it still works as a narrative arc. Was fun!
She's Coming Home
Wheels on the tarmac
Steaming horizon
The height and the distance
Once she was Wednesday
And choosing was leaving
The depth and the weight
And the distance between
The emptiness rising
Like endless destruction
Despair and the silence
The vanishing vision
The darkness consuming
Like cancer and coffee
Blame spreading out
Like blood in the water
The emptiness rising
And bringing her under
The mess and the media
Tedious beating
Of heart, mind and radio
In through the window
The ache of blank solitude
Squalor and servitude
The inner corrosive
The rust and the rubbish
Of madness and memory
Tedium timeless
The breathing monotonous
Breathing and absence
Of one Other breathing
The waiting for nothing
The lonely control
The choice and the keeping
The space and prediction
Of residence distant
Flat plain kilometres
Every direction
Every perspective
Is loss and the absence
Of goodness and grace
Grim face of honesty
Honesty speaking
Speaking her name
In the unlikely place
The sun and the exit
The exit quite open
The slope and the landslide
Of prodigal hearts
Wheels on the tarmac
Steaming horizon
The height and the distance
Now she is Sunday
And choosing returning
The high and the free
And the distance behind
She's coming home
As Adrian has just stated, I wanted to write a song that countered the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home". I wanted a prodigal song where home is a good place. I wrote it in phrases that kinda float and join with each other in different ways depending on how you say it/sing it. As usual, I wrote a complete whole and then Adrian said to write more so I had to undo some seams and "let it out" a bit more but I think it still works as a narrative arc. Was fun!
She's Coming Home
Wheels on the tarmac
Steaming horizon
The height and the distance
Once she was Wednesday
And choosing was leaving
The depth and the weight
And the distance between
The emptiness rising
Like endless destruction
Despair and the silence
The vanishing vision
The darkness consuming
Like cancer and coffee
Blame spreading out
Like blood in the water
The emptiness rising
And bringing her under
The mess and the media
Tedious beating
Of heart, mind and radio
In through the window
The ache of blank solitude
Squalor and servitude
The inner corrosive
The rust and the rubbish
Of madness and memory
Tedium timeless
The breathing monotonous
Breathing and absence
Of one Other breathing
The waiting for nothing
The lonely control
The choice and the keeping
The space and prediction
Of residence distant
Flat plain kilometres
Every direction
Every perspective
Is loss and the absence
Of goodness and grace
Grim face of honesty
Honesty speaking
Speaking her name
In the unlikely place
The sun and the exit
The exit quite open
The slope and the landslide
Of prodigal hearts
Wheels on the tarmac
Steaming horizon
The height and the distance
Now she is Sunday
And choosing returning
The high and the free
And the distance behind
She's coming home
19/11/2010
mars hill & st jambience
matt has organised another midweek show at mars hill café and has asked telafonica along for the ride. it's on wednesday, jan 5. who's around and happy to play?
18/11/2010
On This Day - 2010 - 4-4-2 Music Sampler
Free download only compilation available here via Bandcamp
On This Day is a collection of tracks which have been released on the 4-4-2 Music label over the past year, a snapshot of the label’s life in 2010. Featuring artists from around the globe, the music you find on this download compilation reflects the diversity to which the label is attracted, from abstract pop and electronica, to
lush atmospheres and sound improvisations.
10/11/2010
09/11/2010
08/11/2010
31/10/2010
Myrrh is Mine
Okay, the cover is well under way! Time to get your carols together Telafonicans! If you cannot record at home, book yourself into AJE's high tech studio!
24/10/2010
track requests
any requests for our set on november 7th. it would be good if we could have a set list worked out before thursday's practice so that i can go through and make sure the tracks all work on the new computer. we have a 30 minute set to fill, and don't have any particular æsthetic to fit into (like we did with the last show), so can do whatever we like, really.
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