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01. Tied & Tickled Trio - The Long Tomorrow
02. Tied & Tickled Trio - Radio Sun 1
03. Tied & Tickled Trio - Revolution
04. Tied & Tickled Trio - Radio Sun 2
05. Tied & Tickled Trio - Freakmachine
06. Tied & Tickled Trio - Observing Systems
07. Tied & Tickled Trio - 3.4.E
08. Tied & Tickled Trio - Radio Jovian
09. Tied & Tickled Trio - Like Armstrong + Laika
10. Tied & Tickled Trio - Bungalow
11. Tied & Tickled Trio - Radio Sun 3
12. Tied & Tickled Trio - Memory Dub
13. Tied & Tickled Trio - Motorik
14. Tied & Tickled Trio - Ship Monk
15. Tied & Tickled Trio - Henry + The Ghosts
ARTIST
TITLE
Observing Systems
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MORR 039CD MORR 039CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/24/2006

2003 release. With their third studio album Observing Systems, the Tied & Tickled Trio has delivered their most complex self-portrait of a freely-operating music collective. Altogether, the 15 pieces on Observing Systems, some of them not more than highly elaborate and articulate "ideas," form a very tight system itself -- based on musical references, different modi operandi and scientific research -- which reaches less and less for an unconditional formal unity. With Observing Systems, the Tied & Tickled Trio does refine the idea of "space," both sonic and spiritual, in which experiences and emotions echo, in a new and ultimately refreshing purity. Suddenly, what you hear becomes as important as the blanks in the music. In these regions of ruptures and uncertainties, a fantastic vision evolves, which leads the Trio through an intense and continuously inspiring musical past. In these ruptures, music history becomes lively again. Observing Systems is music without a center. As in the architectural concepts of "Tensegrity" by Buckminster Fuller, each track represents one component in this self-suspending, durable construction, a structure whose strength increases with lightness rather than the heaviness of its components: the album as a whole.