Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static

Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static
Set Fire to Flames studio album
Publication (s)	April 8, 2003
Label (s)	Alien8 Recordings ALIEN39 , FatCat Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Post rock , musique concrète
Title (number)	17th
running time	88:20
occupation	Drums , percussion , marimba : Bruce Cawdon Cello : Beckie Foon Saw , percussion , music box, tape loops : Bruce Crawdon Guitar , tap loops: David Bryant Tape recorders, old microphones, sound art : Christof Migone Viola : Genevieve Heistek Bass clarinet : Gordon Krieger Bass guitar , double bass , tap loops: Jean-Sebastién Truchy Guitar, tape loops: Mike Moya Guitar, CD player, tape loops: Roger Tellier-Craig Violin , trumpet , glockenspiel : Sophie Trudeau French horn : Thea Pratt
Studio (s)	Country cottage, Ontario , Canada
chronology Sings Reign Rebuilder (2001) Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static -

Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static is a double album by the Canadian post-rock collective Set Fire to Flames . The album is the band's last sign of life to this day. It was recorded for several months in late 2002, and then released by Alien8 Recordings and FatCat Records in 2003.

Overview

The album itself was recorded in an old cabin in rural Ontario , Canada . The atmosphere during the recording was decidedly irrelevant - the sounds of the band members walking around and talking can be clearly heard during the quiet moments in the album. Like their first album, Sings Reign Rebuilder , this album was recorded "in states of little or no sleep, in varying states of intoxication and in physical limitations."

Mike Moya about the album: "We took tents with us, slept in front of the barn, sometimes we recorded something at four o'clock in the morning, sometimes we didn't do anything before evening, we wandered through the countryside."

The album used many different instruments, including guitars, bass guitars, strings, horns, glockenspiels, marimbas, bass clarinets, saws, cymbalons, hurdy-gurdy music boxes, modified electronic devices, and microphones. This album - different from its predecessor - is more about sound than composition, it contains musical emptiness and drones.

Tracklist

Disc one  - telegraphs in negatives

1. Déjà, Comme des Trous de Vent, Comme Reproduit  - 6:43
2. Small Steps Against Inertia / Echo of a Dead End  - 3:01
3. Measure de Mésure  - 4:45
4. Holy Throat Hiss Tracts to the Sedative Hypnotic  - 3:38
5. When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts  - 3:11
6. Kill Fatigue Frequencies  - 1:28
7. In Prelight Isolate  - 3:11 pm
8. Tehran in Seizure / Telegraphs in Negative  - 5:56

Disc Two  - Mouths Trapped in Static

1. Your Guts Are Like Mine  - 2:15
2. Fukt Perkusiv / Something About Bad Drugs, Schizophrenics and Grain Silos ...  - 8:11
3. Sleep Maps  - 11:52
4. Something About Eva Mattes in the Halo of Exploding Street Lamps ...  - 1:47
5. Buzz of Barn Flies Like Faulty Electronics  - 3:39
6. And the Birds Are About to Bust Their Guts with Singing  - 4:52
7. Rites of Spring Reverb  - 3:33
8. Mouths Trapped in Static  - 2:27
9. This Thing Between Us Is a Rickety Bridge of Impossible Crossing / Bonfires for Nobody…  - 5:33

Web links

• Info page about Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static Alien8 Recordings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths Trapped in Static by Set Fire to Flames . In: alien8recordings.com . Alien8 Recordings. Retrieved April 20, 2008.
2. ↑ Interview with Mike Moya. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tinnitus Music Webzine, 2008