Stone Tape (CSR267CD), by The Telescopes

Stone Tape (CSR267CD)

by The Telescopes

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jazzberto Great album, mostly has an eerie ancient feel like Lustmord, certainly no insult there I hope. One track is just a bit too abstract for me. I'd love to see the act live if the session is anything to go by. Well done Folks. Favorite track: The Living Things (Session).

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1.	Become The Sun 04:07	buy track
2.	The Speaking Stones 04:33	buy track
3.	The Desert In Your Heart 04:01	buy track
4.	Everything Must Be 08:16	buy track
5.	Silent Water 04:24	buy track
6.	Dead Inside 06:03	buy track
7.	The Living Things (Session) 13:47	buy track

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The 10th album from The Telescopes is full of wall-to-wall psychedelic drones, swaying chants, trance-inducing shoegaze and "suspended-in-space magnificence" (Julian Cope).

Stone Tape is a concept album inspired by "Stone Tape Theory" (or "residual haunting"), theorized by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in 1961. The archaeologist, parapsychologist and explorer developed the idea that inanimate materials can absorb energy from living beings, and that this mental electrical energy, released during emotional or traumatic events, could somehow be “stored” in such materials and “reproduced” under certain conditions. The hypothesis has been known as "Stone Tape Theory" since the cult 1972 TV screenplay "Stone Tape" by Nigel Neale.

Recorded in Powderhorn Minneapolis, The Vicarage, West Yorkshire and The Experimental Health Unit. Originally released on a limited edition LP by Italian publishing house Yard Press in 2017, this CD edition contains a bonus 14-minute version of the track 'The Living Things', recorded in Switzerland in 2018.

Presented in a digipak with new artwork by Stephen Lawrie, with overlay artwork by Brittany Solberg.

Official Video for 'Everything Must Be': youtu.be/Hov6DSScOR4

"Close your eyes for added effect and hit repeat – by the end of round 3 you’ll be hitting the peyote sands of shamanic trance territory" (Louder Than War).

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released September 9, 2019

All songs written and composed by Stephen Lawrie © 2017
Tracks one to six recorded in Powderhorn, Minneapolis; The
Vicarage, West Yorkshire; and The Experimental Health Unit.
Mixed and mastered at The Experimental Health Unit.
Track seven recorded live at Session Studio 603, Vevey,
Switzerland, by Fred Merk, 4 February 2018. Published by Tapete.
Mastered for Cold Spring by Martin Bowes at The Cage.
Layout by Abby Helasdottir with image by Stephen Lawrie.
Thanks to Yard Press.

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