Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static is a double album by the Canadian musical collective, Set Fire to Flames . The album was recorded in the span of several months in late 2002, and was then published by both Alien8 Recordings and FatCat Records in 2003.
Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static Released 8 April 2003 Recorded July – August 2002 Length 88 :20 Label
The album itself was recorded in a barn in rural Ontario , Canada. The recording atmosphere was decidedly informal—the sounds of the band members talking and moving around can be readily heard during the album's quiet moments.[3] Like their first album, Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static was recorded "in states of little or no sleep, in varying levels of intoxication, and in physical confinement."[3]
The release utilizes many different instruments, including guitars , basses , strings, horns, glockenspiel , marimba , bass clarinet , cymbalon, hurdy-gurdy , music boxes, modified electronics, saw, and contact microphones .
Track listing Disc one – Telegraphs in Negative Title 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" 15:11 8. "Tehran in Seizure/Telegraphs in Negative" 5:56
Disc two – Mouths Trapped in Static Title 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
Personnel Beckie Foon : cello Bruce Cawdron: drums , percussion , marimba Christof Migone : gutted two-track motors, contact mics, faulty electronicsDavid Bryant : guitar , tapesFluffy Erskine: saw , percussion, music box , tapes Genevieve Heistek : viola Gordon Krieger: bass clarinet Jean-Sébastien Truchy: electric bass , double bass , music box Mike Moya : guitar, tapesRoger Tellier-Craig: guitar, CD player, tapes Sophie Trudeau : violin , glockenspiel , trumpet Thea Pratt: French horn
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