If Tame Impala started a synthesizer company this may excuse Kevin Parker for not releasing much music lately…
Tame Impala Started a Synthesizer Company?
I certainly didn’t have “Kevin Parker of Tame Impala starts synthesizer company” on my 2024 synth bingo card. Did you?
This is what appears to have happened though, with a mysterious new brand called Telepathic Instruments suddenly appearing on Instagram and the world wide web.
Telepathic Mysteries
How do we know Tame Impala started a synthesizer company? The bio on the Instagram page says so: An electronic instruments company founded by @tameimpala and friends. The logo supports this, with a stylized graphic of four piano keys.
This is followed by a link to a website, telepathicinstruments.com. The splash page is all black with white letters asking, “Are you listening?” When you enter the site there’s a field to type in your email address, followed by the message, “We’ll be in touch soon. You’ll know it when you hear it.” Cryptic. I love it.
Telepathic Bitcrushing
Both the site and one of the Instagram posts feature a loop of some unusual music. What sounds like a synthesizer or perhaps organ plays in the background, while the foreground is dominated by a bitcrushed formant filter-type sound. It’s honestly very Aphex Twin and much more experimental than we’ve come to expect from the festival-friendly psychedelia of Tame Impala. Is this the kind of music we should expect to be able to make with Telepathic Instruments instruments?
Tame Impala Started a Synthesizer Company
It’s no secret that Kevin Parker loves synths. His sound has gotten progressively more electronic over the years, evolving away from his early Todd Rundgren-style guitar rock. Kevin has talked about the Sequential Pro-One, Roland JV-1080 and Juno-106 before. Could his new company be working on retro-style synths? Instruments and effects with an ’80s and ’90s flavor would make sense if Tame Impala started a synthesizer company. The freaky music loop on the site and Insta suggests something a little more esoteric though. The less I know the better?
Whatever Kevin and friends decide to give us, I’m sure it will be interesting. And this news almost makes up for the long wait for a new album.
Almost.
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