Aelita (album)

Aelita
Studio album by Tied & Tickled Trio
Released 2007
Genre Electronica[1]
Label Morr Music
Tied & Tickled Trio chronology
A.R.C.
(2006)		 Aelita
(2007)		 La Place Demon
(2011)

Aelita is an album by the German jazz-electronica band Tied & Tickled Trio, released in 2007.

Contents

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

  1. "Aelita 1" – 3:05
  2. "You Said Tomorrow Yesterdy" – 8:22
  3. "Tamaghis" – 7:33
  4. "Aelita 2" – 1:32
  5. "A Rocket Debris Cloud Drifts" – 7:48
  6. "Chlebnikov" – 4:15
  7. "Other Voices Other Rooms" – 8:19
  8. "Aelita 3" – 3:04

References

  1. ^ "Aelita by Tied & Tickled Trio". ITunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aelita-1/id219751069?i=219751070&ign-mpt=uo%3D4. Retrieved 2 January 2012. 
  2. ^ Howe, Brian (2011-07-20). "Tied & Tickled Trio - 'Aelita' - Review". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10434-aelita/. Retrieved 2011-12-27. 
  3. ^ "Tied and Tickled Trio - 'Aelita' - Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/tied-and-tickled-trio-aelita. Retrieved 2011-12-27. 
  4. ^ Tacopino, Joe (2011-07-05). "Tied & Tickled Trio: 'Aelita'". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/tied-tickled-trio-aelita. Retrieved 2011-12-27. 
  5. ^ Glassett, Andrew (2011-06). "National CD Reviews". SLUG Magazine. http://www.slugmag.com/ncdr.php?issue=222. Retrieved 2011-12-27. 
  6. ^ "Tied and Tickled Trio: Aelita". The Wire. 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=lvo4AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Aelita%22+tied+tickled&dq=%22Aelita%22+tied+tickled&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9SsBT_-iE8Pt0gHdg-2_Ag&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA. Retrieved 2 January 2012. 

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