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Embracing a bit of ADD, the record demonstrates tel.jim.jesus's range of ability. With its short track lengths and varying moods, the record never loses the listener's interest and at the same time maintains cohesiveness throughout. A Point Too Far to Astronaut reads like a Douglas Adams novel. The most remote destination imaginable is really only as distant as you want it to be.

One third of the restiform bodies trio and regular producer for sole, telephonejimjesus began work on a solo record with an MPC2000, an Akai S20, bass and guitar, various drum machines, synths and effects boxes. He also started compiling songs for what he initially thought would be a self-released project. Over the course of two years, he added new tracks and guests, reworked and edited old pieces; by the time it was burned on a CDR and heard by the anticon family, it was clear that it had to be released on the label.

• One third of restiform bodies and a frequent collaborator with anticon's sole
  
• Guest appearances by passage (restiform bodies) and the pedestrian
  

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  War Toy
  Bathroom Mirror
  I'm Not OK
  N=1 Trial
  Failure to Fly
  Untitled Private Landscape
  Guessing Tubes
  The Ouroboros Tongue
  Struck by Falling Object
  A Blindness Falls, pt. A
  A Blindness Falls, pt. B
  Blue in the Face
  Convertible Stingray
  Little Boy One Eye
  Sometimes
  Two Clasping What They Dream is One Another

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  Telephone Jim Jesus "A Point Too Far to Astronaut"

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"Did You Hear?" begins loose and free, warm fuzzy tones and effected acoustic guitar intermittently trading spaces with loping darkness. As the album earns its momentum, Chadwick pulls bloops and bleeps down from the atmosphere and welds them to the song body. The opener gets heavier, louder, then boils over in upbeat acoustics and controlled squelch. Alias contributes to "Birdstatic," which lays a blanket of orchestral synth over a rapid, wooden-block beat, guitar that plays like harpsichord and whizzing bottle-rocket blasts, while "Ugly Knees" weaves rattling, hollow guitar tremolo with big break-beats, stuttering snares and Dictaphone epiphanies from Pedestrian and Doseone. Anywhere's curious, soma-like acceptance of melancholy as something beautiful and invigorating continues through the slowly unfurling "Featherfall" (featuring electric cello from Subtle's Alex Kort) and the windy, ominous "Leather & Glue."

But with "A Mouth of Fingers," an intricately layered crystalline head-nodder featuring Ped and Bomarr, Anywhere takes a turn to the aggressively exuberant. And "Suicide Wings" offers a big, bouncing, dirty musique concrete reworking of "Birdstatic" before breaking itself over a classic Anticon banger reverently dubbed "Dice Raw." Here Pedestrian spits stylized venom over TJJ's electronic bump (a seamless mix of old school and Eno) and Why? singsong-raps the wistful refrain: "What's your life like?/Man, mine ain't real/Every time I wake up/like, 'Run that reel.'" That velocity continues with the hugely gorgeous "Hit By Numbers" (featuring Bomarr)-- with its brilliant kaleidoscope of high-register synth shards, Tubeway Army-conjuring bass synth and clackety percussion-and peaks with "Faces All Melted" (featuring Bomarr and Odd Nosdam), where TJJ chops acoustics like the Books, manipulates texture like Chris Adams (Hood, Bracken), and bends mood like Cornelius.

Finally, the eight-minute dusty swirl of "The Castle by the Freeway" thrusts us back into orbit. And hurling through electrical buzz, we're left to contemplate Anywhere Out of the Everything, an album ultimately borderless, but so perfectly defined by one man's path and the many avenues he's explored both in and out of the world.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Did You Hear?
Birdstatic
Ugly Knees
Featherfall
Leather & Glue
A Mouth Of Fingers
Suicide Wings (Birdstatic Remix)
Dice Raw
Hit By Numbers
Faces All Melted

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