Besties with Marc Riley, and recently playing the BBC Radio 6 Festival in Bristol, Teleman are getting their name known far and wide at present. If smooth synths, cool vibes and an electronic beat are your bag you’d do worse than come check ‘em out live at Open this month, where they’ll be playing tracks from their new album Brilliant Sanity plus a few other fave numbers. I had a chat with Tom Sanders, vocalist and guitar player for Teleman, about Germany, songwriting and being in a band with his bro.
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eleman’s sound is much more pared back than Pete and the Pirates, who two of you used to be
in, and has perhaps more of a mature sound. Do you approach songwriting in the same way as you always have? Yeah pretty much, I've just got better at self- editing and knowing when to stop working on a song, and when one is worth pursuing. I'm increasingly learning to be more focused on what's important in the song, and what's just dead wood, so it can be stripped back to just the bits that are doing what they need to do. Your new album Brilliant Sanity is out next month – how does it differ from Breakfast? I think we'd been longing to record together in a very live way ever since we formed as a band and I'd say that's the most marked difference between the two albums. Breakfast was mainly built up as a series of overdubs with very little live performance which can be a really lovely way to work; you can experiment on a greater level with many different takes, more control and endless options. But I think you also lose some of the 'music' when you work like this too much. When four people who really know each other well get into a little room and really play the crap out of a song, its another level of satisfaction. Tis is what we did as much as possible on Brilliant
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“It’s nothing like the Gallagher brothers.”
Sanity. Tis gave us a much more spontaneous feeling record. I heard that it didn’t take too long to write and record this album; was that a deliberate move? Yes and no. We had a limited time booked in with our producer Dan Carey who was due to start another project immediately afterwards, which is often the way. So we really made the time we had together count, and worked very intensively. Tis was great for us as it added a real energy to the process. But as a band we tend to work quite slow and steady on our own, really making sure things are right, experimenting a lot with sounds and techniques, so it was great to have someone like Dan on board to help us focus all that into a limited time frame. What’s the song from the new album that you are most excited about sharing with people live?
Probably our new single Dusseldorf. It's just such a fun song to play, and we've had really great reactions from it so far. You’ve had an awful lot of support from Marc Riley. What has his encouragement meant to you? Tat's hard to quantify but its great to feel that support behind you form someone like Marc. On a personal level, I love listening to his show so I feel hugely honoured to have our music played on it too! Tere’s a definite Krautrock feel to some of your sounds, and in fact your latest wicked single is called Dusseldorf. Do you feel an affinity with German music? Yes! And with Germany as a country. We share a very similar climate and a love of good beer and sausages. People often talk about our music feeling Krauty... I guess a couple of the songs do, but in general none of us are hugely into Krautrock. It’s probably just a love of simple repetitive drums and sublime synth sounds. What’s the best thing about being in Teleman in 2016? Te fact that we are touring again. We really start to miss playing live, and we have such a great tour and summer of festivals coming up. Until you get out there and play the songs live to people, you haven't completed the holy trinity of writing, recording and performing. Is working with your brother in the band a curse or a blessing? Ah, it’s fine. It’s a good time for us to hang out actually. It’s nothing like the Gallagher brothers.
Lizz Page
INFORMATION Teleman play Open on 11th April. Tickets available from
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