Telescopes auditory illusions8/24/2023 Despite being composed on already dated analogue synths, the songs here appear multi-dimensional there are no rules, no restrictions and no guiding paths to follow. On #4 Lawrie plays with the building bricks of sound: constructing, deconstructing, rearranging and re-rearranging. I've really enjoyed working on all the projects the label has taken on, all I know is I want to keep it like that, enjoyable and inspiring. I had much more time to dedicate to the label at the beginning, but as things got busier with The Telescopes I didn't have the time to dedicate myself to it in the same way, so it's on hold for now until I decide what to do with it next. It saw light of day on Antenna Records, a label founded by Lawrie himself, which released some six albums by various acts over the next decade.Īntenna is a label I set up to help other artists, it was never my intention to have a Telescopes release on there but that's how it transpired. Hopefully that can rectified in the future. It was the era of the CD and #4 remains one of the few Telescopes' albums not to be released on vinyl. Everything and anything was used to create the right sounds, with Lawrie credited as utilising an "old leather sofa played with mallets" and a "metal dustbin lid with soft mallets." Other musicians involved in the project added "wire brush on cheese grater" and "hand-held battery operated fan." Three years had passed since Third Wave and Lawrie’s need to experiment was no less prominent with the ten tracks on #4 all treading on the boundaries of musical expression. Two albums were recorded in this way before he gained the confidence to let go entirely and record two purely improvised works. If Third Wave was The Telescopes’ electronic album, they didn’t linger in that territory for long and the next album #4 set off in another new direction, being the first in which Stephen Lawrie used improvisation as well as pre-written material.
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