Aelita (Tied & Tickled Trio album)
Aelita | ||||
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Studio album by Tied & Tickled Trio | ||||
Released | 2007 | |||
Genre | Electronica[1] | |||
Label | Morr Music | |||
Tied & Tickled Trio chronology | ||||
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Aelita is an album by the German jazz-electronica band Tied & Tickled Trio, released in 2007.
Critical reception
Pitchfork's Brian Howe wrote that the album "is perfect for art gallery openings, dinner parties, and scoring silent sci-fi films. But beyond its utility as a backdrop, it's an awfully cold, blank, and directionless void to trawl alone."[2] A Tiny Mix Tapes review of Aelita also noted that the album "fluctuates too much from moment to moment" and that it generally "falls a little flat."[3] Joe Tacopino of PopMatters described it as a "concept album without any lyrics", and that "within [the jazz] genre, which has not fully embraced the era of Pro Tools, The Tied and Tickled Trio has constructed a compelling argument to meld these two worlds together."[4] SLUG Magazine's Andrew Glassett praised the album's overall production and percussion sounds.[5] Aelita "completed a movement that led away from their earlier jazz-based sound and towards a more self-consciously futurist form of open-ended electronic improvisation," according to The Wire.[6]
Track listing
- "Aelita 1" – 3:05
- "You Said Tomorrow Yesterday" – 8:22
- "Tamaghis" – 7:33
- "Aelita 2" – 1:32
- "A Rocket Debris Cloud Drifts" – 7:48
- "Chlebnikov" – 4:15
- "Other Voices Other Rooms" – 8:19
- "Aelita 3" – 3:04
References
- ↑ "Aelita by Tied & Tickled Trio". ITunes. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ↑ Howe, Brian (2011-07-20). "Tied & Tickled Trio - 'Aelita' - Review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ↑ "Tied and Tickled Trio - 'Aelita' - Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ↑ Tacopino, Joe (2011-07-05). "Tied & Tickled Trio: 'Aelita'". PopMatters. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ↑ Glassett, Andrew (June 2011). "National CD Reviews". SLUG Magazine. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ↑ "Tied and Tickled Trio: Aelita". The Wire. 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2012.