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Unless you go back to their '70s influences (everything from dub to fusion to Eno), very little prefigured the arrival of Chicago's Tortoise. They helped create and virtually define what became known as post-rock, venturing beyond pop/rock song-structure and forsaking lyrics altogether in search of a newer, more expansive style. This self-titled debut finds the band embryonic but undeniably accomplished.
The dub influence on Tortoise's largely rhythm-based tracks is at its strongest here, and the interplay of bass, drums, percussion and marimba forms the nucleus of the sound. The Steve Reich and Ennio Morricone-influenced modes the band would later explore are faintly suggested. Instead, the aesthetic balances a spacey propulsiveness with an inexplicable density in a combination that marks TORTOISE as the band's most urgent document.
Recorded at Idful Music Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, from November 29 to December 5, 1993.
Tortoise: Dan Bitney, John Herndon, John McEntire, Douglas McCombs, Bundy K. Brown.
Uncut (9/02) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...TORTOISE still sounds both gripping and, in no small way, revolutionary."
Option (11-12/94, p.151) - "...Tortoise makes music that's strictly for musicians. It's the kind of precise, methodical, endlessly repetitive performance that pays much more attention to sound texture and the interplay between the players than to rhythm, melody or song structure..."
Melody Maker (5/16/00, p.46) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "Chicagoan post-rocker's debut album, and still their best. Out of the weird, spooky, clanking noises come 'proper tunes'. Xylophones have never sounded sexier..." Tortoise Songs | 1. | Magnet Pulls Through |
| 2. | Night Air |
| 3. | Ry Cooder |
| 4. | Onions Wrapped In Rubber |
| 5. | Tin Cans & Twine |
| 6. | Spiderwebbed |
| 7. | His Second Story Island |
| 8. | On Noble |
| 9. | Flyrod |
| 10. | Cornpone Brunch |
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Purchase Tortoise CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Beatles - A Hard Day's Night DVDs (1964)
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A HARD DAY'S NIGHT presents a fictionalized day in the life of the Beatles as they give a performance on a live television show. Filmed just a month after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, this film--the Beatles' first--introduces us to the unique personalities of each member of the band. The film opens with the Fab Four boarding a train mobbed with adoring young fans (mostly women) as they attempt to travel to the television studio in London. The antics of the band during rehearsals and makeup application provide a large part of the comic material in this feature, though there are other moments of pure hilarity. The unscripted vignette featuring a hangover-suffering Ringo is especially funny, particularly when he is arrested and risks having to miss the broadcast. None of this goes unnoticed by the director of the show, played ...
| | Elvis Presley Elvis Christmas CD (2006)
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| | Justin Bieber My World CD (2009) Enhanced CD
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Within a couple years, Canadian teenager Justin Bieber went from covering Usher on YouTube to working with Usher. An internet sensation from ...
| | Transatlantic The Whirlwind CDs (2009)
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| | Tom Waits Glitter And Doom Live CDs (2009) Digipak
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Glitter and Doom Live, a double-disc set, marks Tom Waits' third live effort in his nearly 40-year career, each one summing up his career to the point of its release. The first, Nighthawks at the Diner issued in 1975 on Asylum, is regarded by many as one of the greatest live albums of all time. The second was Big Time, released during his tenure at Island in 1986. The musical performances on disc one of Glitter and Doom Live were culled from Waits' historic sold-out tour of the U.S. and Europe. He compiled and sequenced the set himself, intending to make them sound like a single show. The material leans, understandably, on his recordings with the Anti label. There are stellar performances here, such as "Get Behind the Mule" from The Mule Variations, "Trampled Rose" from Real Gone, and a haunting version of Leadbelly's "Fannin Street" from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, to mention just three of the 17 cuts here. But he goes back to his Island albums too. For instance, there are completely re-visioned readings of "Lucky Day" and "I'll Shoot the Moon" from 1993's Black Rider, and a killer -- though equally revamped -- version of "Singapore" from 1985's Rain Dogs. Musically, the performances are flawless, as is the sound on this set. The killer stage band includes Vincent Henry on woodwinds and harmonica, guitarist Omar Torres, Patrick Warren on piano and keyboards, Casey Waits on drums/percussion, and Seth Ford Young on bass. There is also a guest appearance by Sullivan Waits on sax and clarinet; ...
| | Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here CD (1975) Remastered
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Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California).
Master Sound releases are 24-karat gold CDs remastered from first-generation masters. This process utilizes 20-bit technology and Sony's "Super Bit Mapping" system.
The breakthrough success of DARK SIDE OF THE MOON made WISH YOU WERE HERE a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters with more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities.
The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett.
The 20-minute-plus "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart ...
| | Swing This, Baby!, Vol. 2 CD (1999) Import
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| | Papa John Creach Papa Blues CD (1992)
Tortoise songs
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| | Rocky Winslow Simple Complications CD (2001) (Import)
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$16.55
Rocky Winslow is hardly the first improviser to embrace more than one type of jazz on an album. On some albums, musicians have divided their time between straight-ahead and non-straight-ahead jazz -- the listener might hear five bop offerings and five fusion offerings, or perhaps a CD that is half smooth jazz and half post-bop. But Rocky Winslow finds an unusual way to acknowledge electric and acoustic jazz forms on Simple Complications, his first album as a leader. After providing seven post-bop or hard bop performances and keeping things acoustic for about 50 minutes, the big-toned trumpeter/flugelhornist makes a totally unexpected detour into amplified fusion with the 13-minute title track. Winslow leads you to believe that Simple Complications is going to be an entirely straight-ahead album -- then, out of nowhere, he pleasantly surprises you by ending the CD on an aggressive jazz-rock note. Just when listeners have Winslow pegged as a straight-ahead player, his album takes an electric turn. Those first seven selections (which range from Woody Shaw's "Organ Grinder" to four Winslow originals) are, to be sure, very straight-ahead -- and very mindful of the post-bop and hard bop that came out in the '60s. Possessing a big, fat tone, Winslow obviously owes a lot to Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and Lee Morgan (all of whom were greatly influenced by Clifford Brown). Winslow has also learned a thing or two from Miles Davis, but most of his inspiration as a soloist comes from the Hubbard/Shaw/Morgan school of '60s trumpet playing. He is no innovator, and Simple Complications is far from cutting edge. Nonetheless, Winslow brings a lot of chops and enthusiasm to this decent, if derivative, debut. ~ Alex Henderson
Lon Bronson All-Stars includes: Lon Bronson (trumpet); Jay Rasmussen (tenor saxophone); Gary Hypes (baritone saxophone); Tom DeLibero, Rocky Winslow (trumpet); Neil Maxa (trombone); Doug Wright (synthesizer); ...
| | Symphonic Music Of Creed CD (2001)
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| | Romantic Love Songs Vol 4 CD (2005)
$7.09 | | Pink Swords Shut Up & Take It! CD (2006)
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Any band that's gonna name itself the Pink Swords is likely to be pretty short on subtlety, and the Texas five-piece's second album, Shut Up & Take It!, doesn't go by half measures -- this is fast, raw, and raunchy punk rock that's long on guitar firepower and short on the whole emotional sensitivity thing. Then again, with titles like "Drop Dead," "Crybaby," and "Tough Shit," you probably could have figured that out on your own. If you're looking for a slab of post-Dwarves smash-it-up, Shut Up & Take It! will fill the bill, though Dana Fehr's production lets the band down just a bit -- the playing is tight, the guitars are cranked, and Pits M. Gaffer's vocals offer up plenty of snarl, but this never sounds quite as loud or dirty as it needs to, and the drums really need more ka-boom to make the most of stuff like "Ode to Mama," "No Rock n' Roll," and "F.U.W.S." The Pink Swords are good enough at what they do, but they also aren't offering anything all that ...
| | Black Oak Arkansas Definitive Rock Collection CDs (2006)
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| | Jane Monheit Lovers The Dreamers & Me CD (2008) (Import) Import; Reissued
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