teletextile

"Teletextile surrounds the clear, girlish voice of Pamela Martinez with dense, stormy guitar, piano and electronics." - Time Out New York
"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
What happens when a young seamstress grows into a songstress? Just as strings stitch clothes together, they also run along the neck of her violin and inside the body of her piano. “The name of the band comes from an obsession with relating music and art you can touch and feel like fabric,” says Pamela Martinez, Teletextile’s vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. “I like the idea that fabric can surround you, and it can also change shape when you touch it. I think the clothes people wear communicate things about them. I made the word up. It’s like communicating – ‘tele’ and ‘textile’ – a feeling, or something you can feel.”
Originally comprised of Martinez and keyboard/electro-nerd Brian Hamilton, the duo was Brooklyn-bound to find the musicians to complete their idea of what Teletextile could be as a solid band. It was at the very start of 2008 that they found two gifted peers to complete the puzzle: drummer Luke Schneiders and guitarist Dan McCool.
Coming from a punk-hardcore background, McCool sang in River City Rebels and joined the Vans Warped Tour earlier in the decade alongside many of his influences. Having started off with the trumpet at age 7, Dan picked up the guitar, bass and his own voice at 15. “I’ve always tried to mimic the songwriting style of solo artists like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, or Mike Ness. Although Teletextile won’t immediately remind the listener of these people, their influence is in there somewhere,” he says.
It can’t get much more authentic than Luke Schneider’s first word being “music.” Since his early teens, his life quickly became a very interesting story of musical education. Having started drums in high school, Luke has lived and studied music in Nepal and Costa Rica.