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Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die LP
1996/2012 Reissue
Los de “Goriri” fueron, al menos para el abajo firmante, los seis minutos y medio más reveladores de 1995. Tortoise, única banda americana (blanca) en “Macro-Dub Infection”, entregaban un remix tajante y brutal de “Gamara”, single para Duophonic y, a su vez, vampírica elongación de “His Second Story Island”, un momento especialmente inquietante de su homónimo álbum de debut. En ese corte –el mejor, por otra parte, de una compilación de referencia– abrazaban el dub como se abraza algo que no se quiere dejar escapar, digitalizando sus continuas citas a King Tubby, Scientist o Lee Perry y despejando las dudas de quienes los reducían a meros estilistas de la era post-Slint.
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die” no solo camina por esa misma senda, hábilmente desbrozada con los injertos incluidos en “Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters” (1995), sino que se interna en un territorio más rico y permeable. La estructura molecular de “A Survey” –tres bajos solapados midiéndose las distancias– o la tensión interna –improvisaciones más o menos controladas con el vibráfono a su libre albedrío– de “Glass Museum” o “The Taut And Tame” abogan por una concepción elástica e “instrumental” del estudio que llega a sublimarse en “Dear Grandma And Grandpa”, una llamada telefónica enmarañada entre fogonazos de graves y apócopes de ambient plástico.
En efecto, lo que ha hecho de Tortoise el emblema del post-rock y, probablemente, uno de los ensembles –por cierto, el ex Slint David Pajo, también en los últimos Stereolab, cubre la baja de Bundy K. Brown– más respetables del planeta es su asombrosa capacidad para hacer reconocibles en la práctica sus presupuestos teóricos, o sea, para lanzar la piedra sin que sea necesario esconder la mano. Y así, mientras “Along The Banks Of Rivers” reivindica desde sus hechuras cinematográficas –fácil imaginar (¡vivir!) una trama a lo Barry Gifford adaptada por John Dahl– la narratividad que, por naturaleza, le está vetada, la soberbia suite inaugural se adivina como una auténtica obra maestra de escultura musical. Simulando las técnicas de mezcla de los DJs, “Djed” es un engranaje perfecto, una concatenación de sonidos en sinalefa que preserva un solo elemento –una insinuación jazzística, una andanada percusiva; un riff, un ritmo– en las transiciones, creando un crescendo continuo de apariencia reptil y efectos devastadores. (Gerardo Sanz, Rockdelux, 1996)
As part of our 20th Anniversary re-issue campaign we are happy to offer Tortoise's landmark second album from 1996 on vinyl once again.
Pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and including all original artwork - a fully artworked inner sleeve and for the first time a download coupon!
Millions Now Living Will Never Die is the second full-length offering from Tortoise. The majority of the material was first conceived during an idyllic 10-day retreat in Northern Vermont, where the group were able to explore their ideas in a setting that fostered introspection and inspiration: the results are clearly evident in the washes of Klangfärben (tone color) and rhythm that permeate the album. The sounds and ideas contained therein can be viewed as a logical extension of those found their first (eponymous) LP on Thrill Jockey where the group outlined an agenda exploring texture, space, and mood. MNLWND, however, offers not only an expansion of those ideas but also the introduction of several new elements into the musical equation. New instrumental textures (marimbas and other mallet percussion on "Djed" (pronounced "jed"); conventional electric guitar on "Glass Museum"; analog synthesis/sequencing and found sound on "Dear Grandma and Grandpa") and structural ideas (the extended formal procedures of "Djed"; the non-narrative song "Along the Banks of Rivers") represent clear developments and redefinition's of the group's sound.
Recording commenced immediately upon returning to Chicago, though due to a variety of reasons, the entire recording and mixing process became elongated. This less hurried approach to album making allowed the group to explore more of the possibilities inherent in the material; the 21-minute "Djed" is ample proof of this. The final version of the track went through approximately 15 different stages of mixing and editing. Like their debut, MNLWND was recorded and mixed by John McEntire (who has also recently produced material by Stereolab, Run On, The Sea and Cake, Trans Am, and Come). The majority of the album was recorded and mixed at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago, with the remainder being realized at the newly established SOMA Electronic Music Studios. MNLWND is the first studio recording to feature the talents of David Pajo, who joined to fill the position vacated by Bundy K. Brown in late 1994.
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Los de “Goriri” fueron, al menos para el abajo firmante, los seis minutos y medio más reveladores de 1995. Tortoise, única banda americana (blanca) en “Macro-Dub Infection”, entregaban un remix tajante y brutal de “Gamara”, single para Duophonic y, a su vez, vampírica elongación de “His Second Story Island”, un momento especialmente inquietante de su homónimo álbum de debut. En ese corte –el mejor, por otra parte, de una compilación de referencia– abrazaban el dub como se abraza algo que no se quiere dejar escapar, digitalizando sus continuas citas a King Tubby, Scientist o Lee Perry y despejando las dudas de quienes los reducían a meros estilistas de la era post-Slint.
“Millions Now Living Will Never Die” no solo camina por esa misma senda, hábilmente desbrozada con los injertos incluidos en “Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters” (1995), sino que se interna en un territorio más rico y permeable. La estructura molecular de “A Survey” –tres bajos solapados midiéndose las distancias– o la tensión interna –improvisaciones más o menos controladas con el vibráfono a su libre albedrío– de “Glass Museum” o “The Taut And Tame” abogan por una concepción elástica e “instrumental” del estudio que llega a sublimarse en “Dear Grandma And Grandpa”, una llamada telefónica enmarañada entre fogonazos de graves y apócopes de ambient plástico.
En efecto, lo que ha hecho de Tortoise el emblema del post-rock y, probablemente, uno de los ensembles –por cierto, el ex Slint David Pajo, también en los últimos Stereolab, cubre la baja de Bundy K. Brown– más respetables del planeta es su asombrosa capacidad para hacer reconocibles en la práctica sus presupuestos teóricos, o sea, para lanzar la piedra sin que sea necesario esconder la mano. Y así, mientras “Along The Banks Of Rivers” reivindica desde sus hechuras cinematográficas –fácil imaginar (¡vivir!) una trama a lo Barry Gifford adaptada por John Dahl– la narratividad que, por naturaleza, le está vetada, la soberbia suite inaugural se adivina como una auténtica obra maestra de escultura musical. Simulando las técnicas de mezcla de los DJs, “Djed” es un engranaje perfecto, una concatenación de sonidos en sinalefa que preserva un solo elemento –una insinuación jazzística, una andanada percusiva; un riff, un ritmo– en las transiciones, creando un crescendo continuo de apariencia reptil y efectos devastadores. (Gerardo Sanz, Rockdelux, 1996)
As part of our 20th Anniversary re-issue campaign we are happy to offer Tortoise's landmark second album from 1996 on vinyl once again.
Pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and including all original artwork - a fully artworked inner sleeve and for the first time a download coupon!
Millions Now Living Will Never Die is the second full-length offering from Tortoise. The majority of the material was first conceived during an idyllic 10-day retreat in Northern Vermont, where the group were able to explore their ideas in a setting that fostered introspection and inspiration: the results are clearly evident in the washes of Klangfärben (tone color) and rhythm that permeate the album. The sounds and ideas contained therein can be viewed as a logical extension of those found their first (eponymous) LP on Thrill Jockey where the group outlined an agenda exploring texture, space, and mood. MNLWND, however, offers not only an expansion of those ideas but also the introduction of several new elements into the musical equation. New instrumental textures (marimbas and other mallet percussion on "Djed" (pronounced "jed"); conventional electric guitar on "Glass Museum"; analog synthesis/sequencing and found sound on "Dear Grandma and Grandpa") and structural ideas (the extended formal procedures of "Djed"; the non-narrative song "Along the Banks of Rivers") represent clear developments and redefinition's of the group's sound.
Recording commenced immediately upon returning to Chicago, though due to a variety of reasons, the entire recording and mixing process became elongated. This less hurried approach to album making allowed the group to explore more of the possibilities inherent in the material; the 21-minute "Djed" is ample proof of this. The final version of the track went through approximately 15 different stages of mixing and editing. Like their debut, MNLWND was recorded and mixed by John McEntire (who has also recently produced material by Stereolab, Run On, The Sea and Cake, Trans Am, and Come). The majority of the album was recorded and mixed at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago, with the remainder being realized at the newly established SOMA Electronic Music Studios. MNLWND is the first studio recording to feature the talents of David Pajo, who joined to fill the position vacated by Bundy K. Brown in late 1994.
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