Aelita
Studio album by
Tied & Tickled Trio
Released1 June 2007 (2007-06-01)
Recorded2007
StudioAlien Research Center (Weilheim in Oberbayern)
Genre
Length43:58
LabelMorr
Tied & Tickled Trio chronology
A.R.C.
(2006)		 Aelita
(2007)		 La Place Demon
(2011)

Aelita is the fifth studio album by German electronic and jazz band Tied & Tickled Trio. It was released on 1 June 2007 by Morr Music.[3]

Composition

Aelita "completed a movement that led away from [Tied & Tickled Trio's] earlier jazz-based sound and towards a more self-consciously futurist form of open-ended electronic improvisation," according to The Wire.[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork5.2/10[5]
PopMatters7/10[2]
Tiny Mix Tapes3/5[1]

Pitchfork's Brian Howe wrote that Aelita "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."[5] Tiny Mix Tapes writer Urban Guerilla noted that the album "fluctuates too much from moment to moment" and generally "falls a little flat."[1] Joe Tacopino of PopMatters described it as "a concept album without any lyrics" and found 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."[2] SLUG Magazine's Andrew Glassett praised the album's overall production and percussion sounds.[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Christoph Brandner, Andreas Gerth and Carl Oesterhelt.

  1. "Aelita 1" – 3:05
  2. "You Said Tomorrow Yesterday" – 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

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[7]

Tied & Tickled Trio

  • Markus Acher
  • Micha Acher
  • Christoph Brandner
  • Andreas Gerth
  • Carl Oesterhelt

Production

Design

References

  1. 1 2 3 Urban Guerilla (30 July 2007). "Tied and Tickled Trio – Aelita". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tacopino, Joe (4 July 2007). "Tied & Tickled Trio: Aelita". PopMatters. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Tied & Tickled Trio: Aelita". Morr Music. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "Tied & Tickled Trio: Aelita". The Wire. 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  5. 1 2 Howe, Brian (20 July 2007). "Tied & Tickled Trio: Aelita". Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  6. ↑ Glassett, Andrew (June 2007). "Tied + Tickled Trio: Aelita". SLUG Magazine. No. 222. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Aelita (liner notes). Tied & Tickled Trio. Morr Music. 2007. MM077CD.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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