Teletextile
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Genre(s): Indie Art Rock
- URL: www.teletextile.com
- Contact: Pamela Martinez
- Email: pamalucha@gmail.com
- Latest Release: Care Package
About the Artist :
The rich sounds of Teletextile grew out of collaboration between Pamela Martinez, a multi-instrumentalist songwriter, and Brian Hamilton, a pianist turned sound designer. When the duo moved from Boston to Brooklyn in 2007, they found the missing pieces to their sonic puzzle in Dan McCool, on cloudy guitar, and Luke Schnieders, on steadfast drums. The Baltimore City Press eloquently described their music as "a perfectly lovely chamber-bliss band [that] soundtracks your finer daydreams."
Baltimore is not the only city dreaming to Teletextile's music. The Boston Globe recently labeled the group The "Dream Team," for the surreal, soporific quality of their 2007 release, care package. The work of Martinez and Hamilton, care package introduced the group's distinctively layered sound, which would evolve when McCool and Schneiders joined the band. The addition of the new members on guitar and drums, plus an increasing rock influence, has added depth to Teletextile's sonic palette. What's more, Hamilton has transformed the band’s live show, by building analog effects that help the band achieve the kind of textures that previously could be created only in the studio. As recent packed shows have reflected, the result is an epic spectrum of sound that gets people moving.
Teletextile is currently working on the follow-up album to care package. Like the old one, the new work will incorporate Martinez on vocals, violin, piano, harp and guitar, but will be a richer product, thanks to McCool and Schneiders' rhythmic foundation. The band’s sound has changed, but the dreamy mood that so enchants Teletextile fans remains. As Martinez describes it: "We juxtapose big sounds and small sounds; we create sounds in layers; one sound will float above another, and then, like a light shining through a piece of lace, it beams down and appears on both sides."
Label: Self Released
Regions Toured: East Coast, Mid Atlantic, Southern US
Career Highlights: Receiving a compliment about our music from one of the mentioned influences.
Influences: Salvador Dali, Jim Henson, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Nick Drake, Broken Social Scene, William Basinski, Michel Gondry, house parties, late night talks, much more.