About
The rich sounds of Teletextile grew out of a 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.”
“Brilliant. Like watching two people have sex on stage.” -SPINearth
“Teletextile’s music is riveting from note one - Pamela is a true original.” -Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls
“Teletextile surrounds the clear, girlish voice of Pamela Martinez with dense, stormy guitar, piano and electronics.” - Time Out New York
“Teletextile writes beautiful chamber pop with wonderful theatrics but none of the hokey melodrama.” - The Deli Magazine, nyc
“Teletextile, a perfectly lovely chamber-bliss band from New York, soundtracks your finer daydreams.” - Baltimore City Paper
“[Teletextile] showcases a host of fabulous musicians, while highlighting the incredible vocal and instrumental range of Martinez and Hamilton…["Care Package"] bears grace and magnitude. A composition of oscillating sensations. It is both minimalist and indulgent, dreamy and epic.” - Machinegunfunk
“Teletextile is the product of vocalist and multi-dimensional instrument wrangler Pamela Martinez, whose silken voice glistens across the tiny white ear hairs of my waxy listeners like a fragile airflow that can make a glowing candlelight bend backwards with ease like a mystical Russian contortionist” - Tripwire
“Pamela has a great voice and a warm, comfortable presence.” – The Noise
“Encompassing an extensive array of instrumental talent - ranging from cello, violin, and harp to mallet percussion - the tasteful knack for electronic inflections atop Pamela’s strong control over the piano keys are the prominent compliments to her haunting vocals. On their debut album, Care Package, Teletextile presents ten tracks that emote a sense of isolation and compositionally depict a warm invitation of vulnerability through such bare, lyrical honesty.” -Ideomag
“Her blend of haunting vocals and expressive string arrangements create a theatrical yet intimate atmosphere for one of the best live performances in town.” – CNC Productions
“…hauntingly cheerful and lush sound - capturing your ear before you realize you’ve been trapped.” - Resonator Magazine
“She’s got an innate ability to blend all her varied musical talents together in a unique and uncompromising manner…[Pamela is] the American Bjork” - Boston Phoenix
“Martinez’s voice is smooth and soulful. It tells the story with the sheer melody and inflection of it.” - Pasta Primavera
“This record brings the listener through an aural tunnel of intrigue…” – Performer Magazine
“Curiosity and introspection suit these restless multi-instrumentalists.” - Boston Globe
“[Teletextile] infects the listener with captivating appeal. Martinez’s sensual vocals use a primitive, minimalist approach to get her message across.” - Metronome Magazine
“This Brooklyn quartet plays lush chamber rock and uses lead singer Pamela Martinez’s unique vocals and penchant for clever arrangements to create a sound both timeless and totally different than anything you’ve heard. The band’s minimalist-to-indulgent musical arrangements provide the perfect playground for Martinez’s vocals to regale emotion, whether climbing to an epic peak or snaking softly through layers of piano, violin, guitar, beats, harps and accordians.” - Access: Interzone
“Sweet and sultry” - Shred of WBCN Radio Boston
“Talented weavers of sound.” - Sonic Heart Magazine
