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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
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MORR 039LP MORR 039LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/6/2013

2018 repress; originally released in 2003. 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.