Aelita (Tied & Tickled Trio album)

Aelita is the fifth studio album by German electronic and jazz band Tied & Tickled Trio. It was released on 1 June 2007 by Morr Music.

Composition
Aelita "completed a movement that led away from [Tied & Tickled Trio's] earlier jazz-based sound and towards a more self-consciously futurist form of open-ended electronic improvisation," according to The Wire.

Critical reception
Pitchfork's Brian Howe wrote that Aelita "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." Tiny Mix Tapes writer Urban Guerilla noted that the album "fluctuates too much from moment to moment" and generally "falls a little flat." Joe Tacopino of PopMatters described it as "a concept album without any lyrics" and found that "within [the jazz] 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.

Track listing
All tracks are written by Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Christoph Brandner, Andreas Gerth and Carl Oesterhelt.


 * 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

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Tied & Tickled Trio
 * Markus Acher
 * Micha Acher
 * Christoph Brandner
 * Andreas Gerth
 * Carl Oesterhelt

Production
 * Steve Rooke – mastering
 * Martin Schulze – recording
 * Oliver Zülch – mixing

Design
 * Andreas Gerth – artwork
 * Daidō Moriyama – photography
 * Christopher Wool – photography