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Tortoise
Also Playing: Prefuse 73
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Fri Oct 2
8 pm
Tortoise and Prefuse 73 at Cedar Cultural Center
Despite their disdain for the label, the members of Tortoise will always be enshrined as founding fathers of post-rock. Formed in Chicago in 1990, Tortoise’s calling card has always been a tendency to incorporate the more hypnotic sounds of krautrock, dub, jazz, and studio trickery into the American indie underground in which it was forged. Millions Now Living Will Never Die, from 1996, was the apotheosis of the band’s studio wizardry and experimental tendencies—the album that came to define a term as woefully indefinite as “post-rock.” Since then, Tortoise has continued to evolve, playing here behind its crisp, cerebral new album Beacons Of Ancestorship.
Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
Despite their disdain for the label, the members of Tortoise will always be enshrined as founding fathers of post-rock. Formed in Chicago in 1990, Tortoise’s calling card has always been a tendency to incorporate the more hypnotic sounds of krautrock, dub, jazz, and studio trickery into the American indie underground in which it was forged. Millions Now Living Will Never Die, from 1996, was the apotheosis of the band’s studio wizardry and experimental tendencies—the album that came to define a term as woefully indefinite as “post-rock.” Since then, Tortoise has continued to evolve, playing here behind its crisp, cerebral new album Beacons Of Ancestorship.
Updated 02/03/2010
