there's some words floating around the world wide web about the new album, if you're interested in hearing what others say...

throwshapes

the band next door

you can also download our recent appearance on stephen ferris' morning show on the ever wonderful fbi radio by clicking here

and lastly, there's some incredible photos by miles martignoni (he makes us look like a real band!) which can be seen at music feeds here or on miles' flickr page here.

eliza's in india and bangladesh for a couple more weeks, bec and i are heading to the beach for a summer holiday and blake is busy finishing off his new lessons in time album, so we'll be a little quiet for a bit, but we'll be back in the new year.

adrian

(there's also maybe half a chance for something in the smh in the near future - it's only hearsay at this stage, but look out and let us know in case we miss anything)

so the launch show has come and gone which, we guess, means the album is now officially available. it's been up on our proper website for a couple of weeks now, but we've been a little tardy in getting it up on the myspace page. but, don't panic, it's here now!

you can buy it by clicking on the little yellow 'add to cart' button below, or go to the one on our myspace profile page, or head over to telafonica.com (you can find out more detailed info about the album there as well) and buy it from there or, of course, get it from our label website. it's remarkably cheap and, if you get it in the next couple of weeks, you will also receive, at no extra cost, a cd copy of the telafonica/side projects christmas ep for 2009.

it's been picked up by fbi radio in sydney as their album packet, so hopefully that means someone else other than ourselves thinks it's not a bad album. it will be available on itunes and napster and all those other types of digital places in the next couple of weeks but, really, the cd version is much better because it comes in a nice riso-printed box which we cut, folded and constructed with our own hands, plus a nice poster inside, also riso-printed.

so, go on, click the button.

we have a brand new release - the details are below...
4-4-2 Music
442-net-012
Telafonica
The Quest For Love Aboard The Belafonte
free download single

4-4-2 Music is proud to release a new single by Sydney indie-electronica band Telafonica. The track 'The Quest For Love Aboard The Belafonte' is from the forthcoming album 'Love On The Second Stair' (release date - Nov 14). A demo of the track was playlisted on Fbi Radio a few months back but it's now in it's glorious completed version, ready for general consumption. The free download single comes with 3 remixes. Actual Russian Brides push the track through abstract 8-bits and bouncing sub-bass. Karoshi redresses the song in his own lush chord arrangements and down-tempo groove while Telafonica themsleves recast their own track as a dark triptych with vocal cutups, abrasive grooves and bit-crushed moodiness.

All four tracks can be downloaded as full resolution .wav files (or mp3, ogg vorbis or flac if you must) absolutely for free. Point your web browser to the 'Music For Free' page at www.4-4-2music.com, or head to www.telafonica.com or directly to http://www.archive.org/details/442-net-012

the latest issue (july 2009) of the world's greatest music magazine, wire, has a brief review of our nothing ventured/an invitation 7" single. it goes something like this...

Lathe cut single by a Sydney based quartet (or trio) whose numbers have a tendency to float of to the UK. The A side is a nicely wound, abstract combination of strings and laptop, a bit in the style of some old Keith Fullerton Whitman performances. But there are soft arcs of moany vocals in spots that give it a very different feel from anything Hrvatski ever did. The flip has a twinkle-pop take on bedroom Kevin Ayers moves. Which is a surprise. And a good one.

Byron Coley



feel free to get your own copy via the button on our myspace page!

wow - two myspace blog entries in two days!

we have a gig next thursday evening, alongside karoshi, no art and luminarsi (see our myspace page for details). so we all got together and made a cd to send in to radio to promo the gig - one track from each artist. our contribution is one of our newer tracks, named 'the quest for love aboard the belafonte'.

the rhythms and chords were created by blake a few months ago, then passed on to eliza to create a melody and lyrics. she also made up some piano bits to go with it. those were recorded and adrian played around with the production to get it to all fit together nicely. rebecca noticed that the snare sound was reminiscent of a typewriter, so her vintage typewriter has now been a feature at telafonica shows, playing the rhythm section of the song, and having also been recorded.

so that's what has been sent in, and the good folk at fbi have deemed the track worthy of playlisting, so listen out for it over the next few weeks. it's not quite the full track - we are still planning some of blake's guitar to be recorded, as well as some extra subtle backing vocals from blake (when he gets his voice back - it's been 4 bloody weeks now!!) - but it's sounding quite good, we think.

and while you're listening to fbi, make sure to catch at least one of their benefit gigs over the month of june. we've appreciated their immense support greatly, as have many many others. the sydney music scene has exploded exponentially since they've been on air and it would be a complete tragedy to lose them. so do your bit to keep them up and running.

Chris Downtown @ Cyclic Defrost posted a review of 'I Saw This And Thought Of You' today...



http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/?p=3197

the wonderful folks at melbourne's 3rrr radio have added selections from 'i saw this and thought of you' to their rrr soundscape. you can stream this in hi or lo resolution from http://www.rrr.org.au/music/soundscape/ for the next week (june 1 to june 8).

our next gig is going to be next friday, may 8, 2009 at mum@the world bar. part of the deal at mum is that we can give them a $5 list on the night, and anyone who comes and is on the list gets in for $5 instead of the usual $10. what's even better is that, of that $5, telafonica receives $5, which we think is a pretty good deal. all we need, though, is people who want to come so we can put them on our list. fairly simple really. so, if you would like to come down to mum next friday night, see us play a live set alongside brand new math (from nz), comic sans (from bris) and virgo rising (from syd, like us) as well as the regular mum djs and a special dj set from alana from the grates, just message us with your full name, and any names of anyone else you'd like to bring along, and we shall very happily put you on our list.

(p.s. we should point out that mum@the world bar, unlike most venues, is not going to just pay us the five dollars each from the people on our list - they are actually paying us a fee - they are one of the few venues to do this for smaller bands like us, and we greatly appreciate them for that and think they should be acknowledged for it!)

the man with the greatest accent on sydney radio, stu buchanan, posted some lovely words about us recently on his excellent blog - discontent.

we've discovered lots of great music via his shows and blog over the years, and so it's a great honour that he's included us on both.

head over to http://discontentblog.com/?p=456 to read exactly what he had to say.

the fine folk at fbi radio here in sydney have seen fit to add one of the tracks from our new release to their playlist. they've chosen 'send away' featuring the voice of our dearly departed siren marcella.

if you're in sydney and surrounds and near a radio, tune in to 94.5 on the fm dial. if you're anywhere else in the big wide world, got to www.fbiradio.com and you can stream them from there.