TELEPLASMISTE – OF NATURE & ELECTRICITY LP

Teleplasmiste is the long-running musical project of SAP's Mark Pilkington and Michael J York, of The Witching Tale, The Utopia Strong, Current 93 & others. We're thrilled to present their third full-length, five track album, Of Nature and Electricity, released via State51.

The vinyl album is limited to 300 copies: it's cut on 180g 'Cenote Green' vinyl and comes with a stamped and numbered riso print, drawn from the album's artwork, printed in the state51 Atelier. The First 50 pre-orders will also receive an acetate printed cover insert.

You can buy it direct from the label here, or listen to, and download it, digitally from Bandcamp and most other digital music suppliers. 

The artwork for the album is from a one off 19th century collection of vividly-inked automated drawings made using a device called a pendulograph, described in a 1881 publication by. Rev. John Andrew: The Pendulograph: a series of Bi-Pendulum Writings of the Twenty Ratios of the Musical System; or Sound Seen in the Silence. 

You can see some of the images in this beautiful video for the track 'Magic In the Space Age', by Louise Mason, here: 

About the album

Of Nature And Electricity is as forward-thinking as Teleplasmiste have ever been. “It’s some of the most complex music we’ve ever made,” says Pilkington. Its five tracks, only one of which is less than eight minutes in length, are all vast in scope. The collage-like approach to composition for this album has resulted in something disparate and dramatic, music that embraces intense swings in momentum and turns them to their advantage. “It was great to find ways to make a piece metamorphose into something completely different. Mike’s particularly good at joining things together that you don’t imagine would work,” Pilkington says. For all their new record’s wild waves of machine-generated noise, the band also weave in plenty of organic material. Three of the four tracks, York points out, “have got stuff recorded with a microphone on them.” On the meditative closer ‘Into Words And Out Of Them Again’, says Pilkington, “we noticed how present the air passing from Mike’s mouth into the pipe he’s playing was. You can hear it rasping and whistling. It just gives it a really vivid, organic presence, that can be lacking with some of your ‘music untouched by human hands’.” The LP’s title, Of Nature And Electricity, also neatly sums up the band’s entire ethos.

It’s the way Teleplasmiste find harmony between those two opposites that makes their music so engaging, using the power of analogue synthesis to tap into the ineffable, but simultaneously injecting enough nature and humanity to make it emotionally accessible – a cosmic canvas for that act of expressive exchange, which can be entirely different depending on the listener. They’re immensely proud of this new album – a chance to go bolder and make their music even more experimental:. “It’s a step further out from what we’ve done before,” says Pilkington. “It’s some of the most far out music we’ve ever made.”

What people have said about Teleplasmiste:

“They plunge the listener through a psychic wall into what seems like infinite space.”  The Quietus

“Operating at the highest possible level. Outer Space, in fact.”  The Wire

“Spacey, in all the good ways. Inner Spacey. And Psychedelick as the day is looooooooooooong. You can’t tell where it’s from, this lilting music, but it’s definitely not here…”  Freq

Buy Teleplasmiste: Of Nature & Electricity