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6/04/13
17/02/13
2013 video diary no.4
15.2.13 from Telafonica on Vimeo.
a 4th new track, though it doesn't have a title yet.
2/02/13
2013 video diary no.3
1.2.13 from Telafonica on Vimeo.
eliza's first song for our new batch. this one's called 'what remains'.26/01/13
2013 video diary no. 2
'the shape of what's gone'. ellie was sick so couldn't come around and play. we decided to work on something anyway. originally from the pen of rebecca.
20/01/13
2013 video diary - no. 1
18.1.13 from Telafonica on Vimeo.
our first meeting for musical purposes since june of 2012 saw the band begin to create new music with a new process. well, an old process but one we've never previously used. writing songs together, sitting in the same room, playing instruments. after much discussion on how to do that, and trying a bunch of things out, we finished with one chorus for a new song started by blake.10/01/13
January 2013 - Adrian's Inspiration Mixtape by Adrian Elmer on Mixcloud
A bunch of tracks that I think could be useful for ideas of how to go about making music for our new songs. Many are there because I like the way they combine very disjointed things together to make cohesive music. After thinking about it for a few months, the song that does it best is actually very old - Strawberry Fields Forever. It's so familiar that it often just washes over us now. But listen to it. The lyrics are strange and don't fit. The melody is all over the shop. And the music changes completely every 15 seconds, one sound then another then another, noting ever really staying around for long. Yet it all hangs together as possibly my favourite song of all time. That's what I'd most like to achieve. From there, the rest are kind of variations on that theme, or sounds, rhythms that are odd. Some don't work melodically, but are stunning sonically. I like them all.
30/12/12
times for new work
so what times are good for people to get together reasonably regularly to start writing our new things? should we go for once a week/fortnight? or an intensive things sometime in january over a few nights? let me know what you think.
3/12/12
Each Other Now Embrace
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Released December 3, 2012
For Christmas 2008, inspired by heroes like Sufjan Stevens, Perry Como and the Christmas Cocktails Collection, the members of Telafonica decided to make a Christmas compilation for their friends. Splitting off into their various solo guises and different internal collaborations, a handful of tracks were created. Buoyed by the fun and satisfaction of that first collection, they've continued the tradition every year since. In that time, they've given up the pretense of making any real actual Telafonica group tracks, and have also invited some of their friends (and children) to join in the festive fun. Their main goal has been to create Christmas music that the discerning Mariah Carey disliker can enjoy during the end of year season.
Which brings us to 2012. A few new styles, configurations and friends added to the blend means some new artist names and new shades of Christmas. But the same old spirit of making Christmas music that won't make you nauseous, or get stuck in the back of your throat, pervades. We hope you enjoy 'Each Other Now Embrace'. All of the previous years' compilations are also floating around on the world wide web for free download for those who care to look, so go and track them down.
1. Lessons In Time - Be Thou My Vision
2. the onestarband - To The Belly Of A Girl
3. St Jambience - Good King Wenceslas
4. Goldberry - O Little Town Of Bethlehem
5. The ABC Jugband - Do You Hear What I Hear?
6. StephenFox - I Wonder As I Wander
7. Joshua David Lynch - A Seed Is Born
8. The Bells - God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
9. The Vicars - The Little Drummer Boy
10. Los Naranjitos - Mary Had A Baby
6/11/12
sleeping with the fishermen boxset production
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
burning discs, printing, cutting and folding sleeves.
colour coded discs
getting the hands dirty with the sewing machine
the concertina disc booklet
4/11/12
telafonica in spain
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.
24/09/12
new weird australia on real time arts
stu buchanan was recently interviewed by gail priest about new weird australia for a short piece for real time arts. a piece of music from our contribution to the first compilation was used, but the whole thing gives a great overview of the ideas and tactics behind new weird australia.
21/09/12
Heartbeatings For Those With Heartbeats
Heartbeatings For Those With Heartbeats from Telafonica on Vimeo.
HEARTBEATINGS FOR THOSE WITH HEARTBEATS
Track three from the album - Sleeping With The Fishermen.
Music by Telafonica (vimeo.com/telafonica).
Film created by Adrian Elmer for Boom Blip Blip (boomblipblip.com)
Starring the letter boxes of Toongabbie
HEARTBEATINGS FOR THOSE WITH HEARTBEATS
Track three from the album - Sleeping With The Fishermen.
Music by Telafonica (vimeo.com/telafonica).
Film created by Adrian Elmer for Boom Blip Blip (boomblipblip.com)
Starring the letter boxes of Toongabbie
19/09/12
a new project
so, i've had 3 months to think about what we might do for our next project. bec and i, and blake and bec and i, had a few assorted conversations before that as well, to kind of give a vague idea of what people might be interested in doing. so, in summary...
bec liked all the remixing idea for the last album and was thinking of ways to incorporate lots of people again, but in a different way. one suggestion she had was to get a whole bunch of people to make source material for us, which we can then incorporate into our own production. so, i guess, readymade samples. keep that thought in one hand. blake suggested he like the idea of abstract, freeform music. keep that thought in the other hand.
i've been thinking that i'd like our live set up to be more portable and possibly more electronic, though still with lots of playing rather than singing to backing tracks. so utilising ipod/phones/pads etc. so that's lead me to want to try the idea of using new instruments, electronic ones, to play our music - samples and things not running locked into each other - i guess like we've been doing with heartbeatings and to me and things like that recently. just without all the bulky bits of gear. we don't have any gigs booked and i'm not seeking any at the moment, and blake is not keen on doing them anyway, so the gig aspect is not really a concern at the moment, but has led to ideas for how to go about stuff. stick that on one foot.
another thought is that it would be nice to work on new things in completely the opposite way to what we've normally done. normally, the production might start the process with songs later being fitted into the sounds created or, at least, be done simultaneous to the songwriting. i thought it would be nice to come to a new project with a collection of already formed songs. they'd be written on simple instruments - guitar, piano, whatever - but only have lyrics, melody and (maybe) chord structure - no actual preconceived sound arrangements, riffs etc etc. we then deconstruct those in the process of producing new music for them. that's the other foot.
i've also been attracted to the idea of really pushing the limits of the contrasts between great pop songs and out there production. we do that already, and i think it's possibly the thing that may set us apart - so let's see how far we can take it. i've been listening to lots of things with very disjointed production and other things with great songs, but the two don't often go together.
sooo.....my initial idea is to spend a few months writing the best pop songs we can, without any concern for musical arrangements. then, when we have a collection of these, we see what we can do production wise to push them. we get a bunch of people to give us random pieces of music they've created, then we chop those up and 'play' them collaboratively, alongside our own playing. in a room. together. freeform. which will involve using technology in ways we haven't really done before which will, hopefully, push us into new ways of creating and sounding. but the songs survive in that process.
yep, long winded, but it's been a few months. feel free to tear the ideas apart or add to them. please.
bec liked all the remixing idea for the last album and was thinking of ways to incorporate lots of people again, but in a different way. one suggestion she had was to get a whole bunch of people to make source material for us, which we can then incorporate into our own production. so, i guess, readymade samples. keep that thought in one hand. blake suggested he like the idea of abstract, freeform music. keep that thought in the other hand.
i've been thinking that i'd like our live set up to be more portable and possibly more electronic, though still with lots of playing rather than singing to backing tracks. so utilising ipod/phones/pads etc. so that's lead me to want to try the idea of using new instruments, electronic ones, to play our music - samples and things not running locked into each other - i guess like we've been doing with heartbeatings and to me and things like that recently. just without all the bulky bits of gear. we don't have any gigs booked and i'm not seeking any at the moment, and blake is not keen on doing them anyway, so the gig aspect is not really a concern at the moment, but has led to ideas for how to go about stuff. stick that on one foot.
another thought is that it would be nice to work on new things in completely the opposite way to what we've normally done. normally, the production might start the process with songs later being fitted into the sounds created or, at least, be done simultaneous to the songwriting. i thought it would be nice to come to a new project with a collection of already formed songs. they'd be written on simple instruments - guitar, piano, whatever - but only have lyrics, melody and (maybe) chord structure - no actual preconceived sound arrangements, riffs etc etc. we then deconstruct those in the process of producing new music for them. that's the other foot.
i've also been attracted to the idea of really pushing the limits of the contrasts between great pop songs and out there production. we do that already, and i think it's possibly the thing that may set us apart - so let's see how far we can take it. i've been listening to lots of things with very disjointed production and other things with great songs, but the two don't often go together.
sooo.....my initial idea is to spend a few months writing the best pop songs we can, without any concern for musical arrangements. then, when we have a collection of these, we see what we can do production wise to push them. we get a bunch of people to give us random pieces of music they've created, then we chop those up and 'play' them collaboratively, alongside our own playing. in a room. together. freeform. which will involve using technology in ways we haven't really done before which will, hopefully, push us into new ways of creating and sounding. but the songs survive in that process.
yep, long winded, but it's been a few months. feel free to tear the ideas apart or add to them. please.
27/08/12
Each Other Now Embrace - 2012 Christmas CD
Hey Telafonicans across the world,
Now that we're back from walkabouts, my mind has naturally turned to Christmas. The title for this year's CD is going to be EACH OTHER NOW EMBRACE, a line from "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen". I thought it was a good one for this year with Blake, Adrian and me "embracing" other cultures and Ellie and Benjamin getting married. So crank up your creative craniums and choose a song to sing. The Bells have already decided to do "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" so you might want to leave that one out. Actually, when you decide what you are going to do, why not write it down in a comment below to let us all know!
Will post the artwork for the CD for further inspiration when I get around to it.
Love you heaps!
Bec
24/08/12
o||o album launch
so, hello. with all performers back in the country i figured it's time to get the old website ticking along again.
are we interested in a gig supporting o||o at their album launch at red rattler on sept 29? their new album is pretty excellent (read my review here). i need to let them know reasonably soon, so let me know.
7/06/12
Headspace
Severed Heads tribute album to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Clan Analogue. Head over here for details on how to get a copy.
To mark its twentieth anniversary, Clan Analogue are proud to release the new compilation album Headspace uniquely celebrating the heritage of this Australian electronic music and arts collective. Headspace is a tribute album to the legendary Severed Heads, with Clan Analogue’s artists reinterpreting their favourite tracks from this seminal Australian electronic music act.
22/04/12
dirty shirlows set/rehearsal
so, with our next show a couple of weeks away, i thought i might float the idea of working out a set and having a rehearsal some time. we have 45 minutes to fill. i'd like to do viceroy and ask some of the other performers on the night to join us for vocalising. i wouldn't mind doing sister zephyr either, and blake told me this evening that he likes cover. any other requests?
when is a good time to rehearse? mondays are out and tuesdays are out for me. wednesdays are out for bec, but we're both generally free thursdays and fridays. how about everyone else?
when is a good time to rehearse? mondays are out and tuesdays are out for me. wednesdays are out for bec, but we're both generally free thursdays and fridays. how about everyone else?
2/04/12
To Me Remixes
To Me Remixes is available for free (or pay what you like) download via Bandcamp.
'To Me', the 6th track from Telafonica's 'Sleeping With The Fishermen' album, becomes the 6th track to receive the full reworking treatment. Lunar Module keeps the vocal arrangement intact, but splices it onto a piece of nu-nu-wave synth-pop heaven. Limetipe goes all electronic moody, throwing out pretty much everything but a few little blips to create an enigmatic opus. Underlapper cast Telafonica in their own image, twisting the pop into dark moods highly reminiscent of their most recent album - Softly Harboured. Lessons In Time creates a whole new version, literalising the sounds of sleeping in dust with dirt on his brain (and, yes, Lessons In Time's Blake is also in Telafonica, but he didn't have much input into the original version, so chose this track as it was the one his Lessons In Time could most easily approach from the outside).
If you would like to create your own remix of To Me, the original stems can be downloaded for free at www.archive.org/details/telafonica-to-me. download these, create your own remix and send it to contact@4-4-2music.com. We will post all remixes on another Bandcamp page and split any pay what you like earnings 50/50.
Buy It Now price is set with a minimum of $0, so you can download for free (just enter '0' as the price). If you would like to make a donation of any sort, just enter the amount you'd like to donate, and we shall be very grateful.
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