Aelita (Tied & Tickled Trio album)

Aelita is an album by the German jazz-electronica band Tied & Tickled Trio, released in 2007.

Aelita
Studio album by
Tied & Tickled Trio
Released2007
GenreElectronica[1]
LabelMorr Music
Tied & Tickled Trio chronology
A.R.C.
(2006)		 Aelita
(2007)		 La Place Demon
(2011)

Critical reception

Pitchfork's Brian Howe wrote that the album "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."[2] A Tiny Mix Tapes review of Aelita also noted that the album "fluctuates too much from moment to moment" and that it generally "falls a little flat."[3] Joe Tacopino of PopMatters described it as a "concept album without any lyrics", and 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."[4] SLUG Magazine's Andrew Glassett praised the album's overall production and percussion sounds.[5] Aelita "completed a movement that led away from their earlier jazz-based sound and towards a more self-consciously futurist form of open-ended electronic improvisation," according to The Wire.[6]

Track listing
  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

References
  1. "Aelita by Tied & Tickled Trio". ITunes. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  2. Howe, Brian (2011-07-20). "Tied & Tickled Trio - 'Aelita' - Review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  3. "Tied and Tickled Trio - 'Aelita' - Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  4. Tacopino, Joe (2011-07-05). "Tied & Tickled Trio: 'Aelita'". PopMatters. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  5. Glassett, Andrew (June 2011). "National CD Reviews". SLUG Magazine. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
  6. "Tied and Tickled Trio: Aelita". The Wire. 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2012.


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