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Tortoise: interview
There are a few worthy places where the 20th century of music could have “ended.” Think about the lineages required to culminate in, say, A Tribe Called Quest’s sweeping blends of funk, jazz, and rap, or the plundered collages of Portishead, The Avalanches, or Handsome Boy Modeling School. But few…
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Tortoise: Touch REVIEW
“Post-rock” might be the vaguest term in music vernacular, though it’s difficult to find another word that best represents the fusion that Tortoise has managed to produce. As interest in free-form jazz and experimentation with rock mingled together in the Chicago underground scenes of the late 80s and 90s, the…
