Observing Systems, by Tied & Tickled Trio

Observing Systems

by Tied & Tickled Trio

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brazzo54 Amazing record, sounds awesome. Wide dynamic, warm yet edgy is pure fun listening to it. There are such fantastic arrangements and compositions on this record, that flashes me to the bone. Please do something like that, again!! Thank you for that artful piece of music.

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1.	The Long Tomorrow 07:01	buy track
2.	Radio Sun 1 00:35	buy track
3.	Revolution 04:13	buy track
4.	Radio Sun 2 01:38	buy track
5.	Freakmachine 06:32	buy track
6.	Observing Systems 01:53	buy track
7.	3.4.e 06:18	buy track
8.	Radio Jovian 03:28	buy track
9.	Like Armstrong + Laika 04:06	buy track
10.	Bungalow 05:41	buy track
11.	Radio Sun 3 01:03	buy track
12.	Memory Dub 02:41	buy track
13.	Motorik 06:25	buy track
14.	Ship Monk 01:59	buy track
15.	Henry + The Ghosts 02:33	buy track

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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. Sudddenly, what you hear becomes as important as the blanks in the music. In these regions of ruptures and uncertainities a fantastic vision evolves, which leads the Trio through an intense and continuously inspiring musical past. In these ruptures, music history becomes lively again.

On "Observing Systems" invisible, cosmic waves form into distant, eerie sounds, the ghost of the mighty Albert Ayler appears in an old and dust-infested hotel room and a short visit leads us to the "Vienna Cycle", a group of intellectuals and philosophers in the 1920’s; all these are signals of yet unexplored times and spaces which "Observing Systems" integrates in the sound aesthetics of the "Here and Now". The term "observing systems" was established in the early 1970’s by the cybernetic and system theorist Heinz von Foerster whose research on the principles of self-organization founded the Cybernetics Of Second Order. According to Foerster, the "observing system" in its relation to the "observed system" always remains in the shadow of its own cognition. Therefore the observation of the observation (the process) leads to a new understanding of the term "reality". The "observing system", which observes actively, but at the same time always remains a part of the subjective observation either, ist the perfect metaphor for the modus operandi of the Tied & Tickled Trio. The collective`s self-reflectivity is essential for the transformative modifications of their highly focussed improvisations.
"Organic" is the magical word which serves "Observing Systems" as a theme. Similar to their live album "Electric Avenue Tapes" the Tied & Tickled Trio persues the idea of an "organic" processing. Pieces as "The Long Tomorrow", "Freakmachine" and "3.4.e" were recorded in the studio with a complete big band line-up - and without any digital post-production. This creates a solid groove which gives the album an almost conceptual and Dub-like depth. "Observing Systems" sounds much rawer and more natural; same with the electronically-produced tracks. The three "Radio Sun" interludes refer not only by its title to Sun Ra`s obscure and intuitive Spacejazz experiments ("Radio Sun" is also a scientific project which transforms solar radio waves into music; "Sun Music" so to speak). The song "Radio Jovian" even sounds like the primordial soup of analogue synthesizer music itself, before piano and sax elevate from the buzzing and brooding drone with subtle poignancy.

"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.

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released September 8, 2003

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Tied & Tickled Trio Germany

The Tied & Tickled Trio are Caspar Brandner (Lali Puna, Saroos), Andreas Gerth (Loopspool), Markus and Micha Acher (the Notwist) and Carl Oesterhelt (FSK, Carlo Fashion). Since the 90's they combine jazz and electronics.

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discography

La Place Demon

Apr 2011
Aelita

Jun 2007
Ea1 Ea2

Jun 2006
S/T

Jun 2006
Observing Systems

Sep 2003
Ea1 Ea2 Rmx

Nov 2000

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