Aelita (Tied & Tickled Trio album)


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

Critical reception

'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."
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."
Joe Tacopino of PopMatters described it as a "concept album without any lyrics", and that "within 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."
SLUG Magazine's Andrew Glassett praised the album's overall production and percussion sounds. 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.

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