
Stone Tape
- Publisher
- Yard Press
- Year
- 2017
- Specifications
- Vinyl LP
160 gram
33 rpm
Insert included
500 copies
Photograph by Achille Filipponi
A concept album by The Telescopes released by the publishing house Yard Press, inaugurating a series of record productions curated by Giandomenico Carpentieri in which artists develop an experimental concept album designed specially for the publisher. It is inspired by the Stone Tape Theory formulated by Thomas Charles Lethbridge in 1961: the idea that inanimate materials can absorb energy from living beings, and that this energy, released during emotional or traumatic events, could be stored in such materials and reproduced under certain conditions. The six songs were written, produced, arranged and played by Stephen Lawrie, founder of the band.