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STATIC TELLER FEAT. BLAINE L. REININGER AND JIMI TENOR Swap Tide
Static Teller is Jørgen Teller's unique solo project. He has a long career as electric guitarist, vocal and electronic musician and released many records solo and with Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs. He collaborated with players like Rhys Chatham, Fast Forward, David (Pere Ubu) Thomas & foreigners, Coal Hook (with Ron Schneiderman (Sunburned)), Lazara Rosell Albear, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva. Teller calls his music minimal rock goes synth'beat’n’poetry. The project was created during Teller’s residency at Rotterdam’s avantgarde studio The Worm in 2014. He “pressed rec” and used the studio's load of old crazy machinery like an ARP 2500, an EMSi and the Publison DHM89... The resulting handfull of suggestive static songs became Teller’s new solo-project. For this new album he has teamed up with Blaine L. Reininger. Blaine is an American post-punk, new-wave and alternative pop singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (particularly violin), writer and performer. He is known for being a member of the group Tuxedomoon since 1977 after co-founding it with Steven Brown and, latterly, for a notable music and theatre career, both as a soloist and contributor to other artists' recordings. The other guest is Jimi Tenor, a Finnish composer and musician. He has done more than 15 solo albums and many collaboration albums where he is the main composer. He first become well known when the Säkhö label released his seminal single 'Take Me Baby'. Full tracklist: 1. Step By Step 2. Monami Monami 3. Not White Book 4. Re-Secrecy 5. Go Mambo Tan 6. Syntagmatos 7. Eternity 8. Reverse Notes 9. Lots Of Charm 10. Bullets. Price: € 19,-/copy incl. worldwide shipping.
Tellers music is, perhaps, a combination of synth-driven beats, not aimed at the dance floor, singing/speaking voices, and with melodic content absent, but also a form of pop music, with many of these pieces being too long to be a pop music piece. You see, this music swings without swinging many ways. Its a strange affair, which sometimes takes inspiration from Tuxedomoon and much more from the musical leftfield. Its a most daring album because it defies any logical categorisation. (Vital Weekly, January 2025)
Swap Tide zeigt ihn mit 10 mit Synthsound umsponnenen, mit harschen Loops rhythmisierten, mit verstimmter Gitarre beschallten, mit Synthbass
geknufften, impulsiv durchschossenen Songs, die er mit wettergegerbtem, vom Leben
lädiertem Timbre – wie Lou Reed auf der letzten Rille – anstimmt. (...) Spätestens bei Go Mambo Tan wird überdeutlich, wie sehr der
1958 geborene Københavner vom Beefheart-Bug gebissen ist und was sehr Gutes draus
macht. (Bad Alchemy, February 2025)
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