BIOGRAPHICAL

BIO

Stationed in Montréal, Telefauna has been crafting and performing wild pop songs since 2004, a year marked by their stage debut at the Pop Montréal International Music Festival.  Since then, the fresh-faced four-piece has been received enthusiastically at a plethora of splendid shows, including ones in New York City, Toronto and Quebec City, has been invited to play at festivals like Toronto Harbourfront Festival, Over the Top Festival, Living Room Festival, Montréal Fringe Festival and they’ve played Pop Montréal three times. 

They’ve also self-released a tight little homemade EP entitled Their 1st EP. The disc’s oft-blogged-about stand-out track, Turbulence, has earned Telefauna a special place in the hearts of drive-time radio listeners in the UK and Australia, and its most primitive clap-along, Kettle Song, has made it onto at least one indie record label mogul’s most-played list of 2005.

They’ve shared the stage with like-minded artists such as Coco Rosie, Cadence Weapon, !!! (chk chk chk), Holy Fuck, and Annie, and have toured with They Shoot Horses Don’t They.

They’re currently in the studio recording some new high fidelity goodness. When they’re not making music, Telefauna enjoys knitting, drawing and screenwriting.

QUOTATIONAL

PRESS

“…next up were Telefauna. With banks of synthesizers stretching across the stage and a half-dozen members, it was clear the audience was in for something special. And indeed we were. With freewheeling pop melodies and wide-eyed delivery Telefauna's Elephant-6 style whimsy was endlessly refreshing. Mixing video game bleeps, hip-hop beats, and vocal melodies, the group tapped into something special.”
-Pop Matters

“This is the best of the wonky keyboard quirky art pop that is, uh, popping up all around the city.”
-The Hour

“I see Telefauna performing [Under the Underground Water] in the desert, with tons of unnecessary zoom-ins and candles (in the daytime!). Saharan nobility, they're oddly dressed for winter. Toques and wool coats and mitts. I also see them becoming completely and unbelievably famous in a foreign land for this song, and they just go to live there and perform, and we never see them in Montreal again.”
 -Said the Gramophone

“…ce que la formation ne peut se permettre en terme d’équipment, elle n’hésite pas à le faire en terme d’expérimentation, jouant avec tout ce qui lui tombe sous la main pour atteindre un but bien précis: faire danser. Les membres de Telefauna concoctent des pièces irrésistibles où se superposent couches de claviers, basses qui claquent et mélodies accrocheuses."
-Nightlife

“Warm and cuddly.”
-CBC Radio 3

"The way the lyrics flip between media-saturated near-nonsense rhyming, to deeply sincere but fragmented sentiment, is always enjoyable in a really immediate way. Adam Waito sings so flat-out that the humour/pain precariousness is visceral, but he has the control over his voice and the mic to keep it consistently melodic. I loved Ian Goodman’s punk rock guitar, and Tyler Rauman’s cool subtle and weird glitchy funky sounds. Katherine Peacock is fun when she rocks out on the keys, and killer when she walks around, surprising but tight on beat with sudden slams of the cowbell against the walls..."
-Indyish

"An ambitious pop quartet running Devo and genre-specific pop allusions through lo-fi circuitboards, Telefauna is another entity making castles in the early 20s sandbox, applying a rare eye for technique and craft that isn't obsessive, or half-assed, but made in the same spirit as The Go! Team. ...Telefauna's First EP was self-released late last year, a dynamite stick of a four-song release packed with ideas, hooks and that cleverly knicked production techniques from hip-hop's leading lights. Culturally aware, but not trapped in some nightmarish feedback loop, it was a promising first shot..."
-Goldkixx

-FLUOKIDS REVIEW
-SAID THE GRAMOPHONE REVIEW
-CHART MAGAZINE FEATURE
-RAZORBLADE RUNNER TRACK REVIEW
-GOLDKIXX FEATURE
-THE HOUR EP REVIEW
-MATRIX MAGAZINE EP REVIEW
-POP MATTERS SHOW REVIEW