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My favorite Tortoise track and a staple for many mixed cd's. File under awesome experimental rock.
For your Sunday evening pleasure...
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Thrill Jockey is celebrating their 15 years in the music business with a box set release of Thrill Jockey artists covering Thrill Jockey songs. The set will be entirely made up of 7" singles and drops on December 4th. The songs will not be released on CD, and the box set will be pressed in a limited edition. Among the many covers is David Byrne covering the new Fiery Furnaces track "Ex-Guru and Tortoise covering a song by Japanese multi-instrumentalist Nobukazu Takemura. ... MORE
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Yeah....not just a clever post. I say Tortoise last night in Ann Arbor...I got some cool video clips, but I am novice enough not to be able to post them on youtube...I'll try. It was a great show...although the median height seemed to be 6'6".....Tall fans those Tortoise Heads. The opener really blew everybody I went with back. David Daniell. and he was quite amazing. It was the first time I have seen ambient(good ambient) music played live. It was wonderful....we dr... MORE
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I made it down to seattle for the Tortoise show this past tuesday. Definitely worth the trek. I have listened Tortoise for a while now but never seen them live. The heavily percussive element of their music was brought to full force in a live setting. Especially notable for me were the dual drumsets. The drummers (Dan Bitney, John McEntire, & John Herndon) who changed throughout the night, sat facing one another and clearly fed off each other. As musicians they are fair... MORE
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Last time we talked to Tortoise they pretended they didn't know who Daniel Lanois was despite booking a future tour with him. Tortoise kick off tanother tour tonight, June 14th in Colombus, Ohio, and are bringing a truckload of openers. Among those joining the neo-experimental jazz band are the likes Hot Chip, Lichens, Make Believe, and Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) with Steve Reid. Tortoise will also make it to Bonnaroo, performing the second night of the festival. Joining... MORE
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Tortoise has announced their early summer schedule! There have been a few updates to the list of cities that Tortoise will stop in, so be sure to look at brainwashed.com for the full schedule. It starts in Ohio, June 14th, the night before their performance at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tenessee on June 15th. They have added Portland and LA to their west coast coverage, as well as Ann Arbor to the middle territory! Sadly, the only Canadian show will be in Toronto. The ... MORE
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I was listening to the iPod Shuffle right now on my way to clean out the cat box, before being waylaid by the inspiration to write about my listening, and one of the tracks from the Tortoise compilation A Lazarus Taxon came on. Tortoise can get on my nerves in high doses. The "songs" blur together. But I really like to listen to them when I'm writing and need a steady groove. And I especially enjoy hearing them at random, as I just did. I have long had a theory about why... MORE
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maybe i'm just slow, but i have recently come across a band that is just fucking brillant. this is the first i've heard of them, but the band Tortoise is beyond me to desribe. Wikipedia describes tortoise as a land-dwelling reptile of the Testudines order. I've been digging the song Seneca on the Standards album for the last couple of days. The dual drumming at the begining of that song is great. the bassist does drum duty occassionally for the double drumming which i real... MORE
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By that I mean, their rep is not nearly sufficient. When I mention Tortoise, I should get reactions along the line of those usually reserved for acts of daring, or innovation, or renown. I should get the same kind of reaction that I'd get if I said that the Kronos Quartet are performing. But I don't; people don't seem to understand that this post-rockin' (though FAR beyond "post-rock" at this point, by the way) band of four white dudes and a black dude are doing something ... MORE
OK, so not that recent, rubbish phone pic, but a fantastic gig! Djed the 20 min opener an obvios highlight + finishing drum battles.
This was support from Chris 'Clarke' Clarke. One of the loudest and heaviest things I've ever heard.
