Like their moniker suggests, Tortoise wield a thick exterior of styles while the essence ... more
of their sound smoothly beats on. They brazenly titled their latest endeavourTNT, as if to signal a break from their former shell. But don't be deceived by explosive associations, for the acronym is meant to stand for "Tough-N-Tender". The album displays a tenacious level of technical proficiency and creative divergence from five Chicago guys doing what they love. Tortoise avoids the experimental minimalism displayed on earlier releases in favour of a more accessible and upbeat turn of the collective dial. Rooted in jazz structures, the dripping electronic treatments on most of the tracks further distinguish the sound. Because the thematic expressions jive with unassuming clarity, no vocal or lyrical elements are needed nor occur. While darker sides of psychedelic guitar emerge, the loungy low-end sections evoke intrepid fantasies of isolation on the swankiest of desert islands. --Lucas Hilbert
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Standards is Tortoise's 6th album.
It was released in 2000-2001, under Warp Records (instead of the usual Thrill Jockey label). In my opinion, Standards manages to converge their 1994 album Tortoise, Rhythms Resolutions and Clusters (1995), Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996), TNT (1998) and their In The Fishtank Ep (1999) into a perfect whole, and thus producing one of their best releases.
In other words, Standards is the perfect Tortoise album.
Tortoise's style seems to fit somewhere in between post-rock, the industrial scene, jazz, electronica and dub. But there again, like most avant-guard music, the outcome of all these influences converge into a whole new style.
I have always considered Standards, along with all other Tortoise albums, as being heavily jazz orientated.
Standards has a running time of 44 minutes approx ...
Advantages: Cute pets, not as hard to look after as made out to be!! Disadvantages: Becareful around other pets!
Hey,
i have two tortoises,
but there only small and because of there species won't get much bigger!
Tortoises are made out to be really hard to look after but there really not!!
If you have a dog it's not a really good idea to have tortoises unless you know your dog is unable to get near them!
Tortoises are really cute!!
Even though tortoises are made out to only eat lettuce there really not allowed it (well not much a little shouldn't hurt)
but they do eat other salads!!
If you give your tortoise carrot make sure it's grated because there not allowed chunks of it!!!
Becareful what differant sexes you put together because they may fight!!
Hope this info has helped!!!
Have fun looking after your tortoises!! ...
Advantages: Great people ,great food. Disadvantages: Restricted range of dates.
I’ve recently come back from a year travelling and one of the highlights of my trip was the two week trip I took from San Francisco to New York on the Green Tortoise.
The company was formed in the 1960s when there were lots of little illegal hippy companies offering trips round the US. The Green Tortoise went legal and now has a network of buses doing trips in the US and Central America. Trips range from an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park to 15 days in Costa Rica and Panama. The company is a bit of a folk legend in the US - everywhere you stop, people come to say hello and tell you tales about their trips on the bus 30 years ago.
If you’re looking to get off the tourist trail and don’t mind making your own dinner, then the Green Tortoise is a great way to travel.
The buses are all old Greyhound coaches about ...
lula153 05.09.2001
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Tortoise: Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, David Pajo, Jeff Parker. Additional personnel: Julie Liu (violin); Popahna Brandes (cello); Caitlin Horsmon (bassoon); Rob Mazurek (cornet); Sara P. Smith (trombone). Recorded between November 1996 & November 1997. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. Electronics permeate all twelve tracks here, adding textural shadings that seemed like foreign turf for the band when it first came together as an all-star crew of Chicago indie multi-instrumentalists in the early '90s. Cluster, Mouse On Mars and drum 'n' bass now hold equal footing on Tortoise's soundstage, beautifying the peripheral space while the quintet (Dave Pajo plays on the album, but is no longer a full-time member) improvises over, riffs on, and generally recontextualizes various jazzy, "out" musical styles of the last thirty years. Generally, TNT's compositions flow out of the Ennio Morricone vibe that has always been present in their work. Lush, southwestern-desert guitar lines build the axis. The inevitable vibes provide both rhythmic undertow and curt, melodic counterpoint. Electronic studio trickery brightens the various sonic corners. Tortoise also has an instinct for transforming some of these beautiful abstractions into catchy head-nodders. Case in point: "In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men," where acoustic guitar and House-lite beat create the kind of '70s dance groove you wouldn't think "serious" musicians knew anything about.
Album Reviews
The Wire (1/99, p.27) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [1998]" The Wire (3/98, p.60) - "...builds up discreetly in layers and mostly build in no apparent direction....music that refutes the idea that music could be for anything....one of the most gently perplexing records ever made. It doesn't explain what the fuss is for, but it certainly gets you wondering about it." Musician (5/98, pp.89-90) - "...Deeper, denser, and more ethereal than 1996's MILLION NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE, TNT continues the band's Ennio Morricone-meets-Can hallucination stew, perfecting their wistful melodies and fusion drumming into dreamy epic soundtracks..." Vibe (4/98, p.148) - "...With walking bass lines and reverberating snare drums, Tortoise bring the noise throughout the album..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
TNT
2.
Swung From The Gutters
3.
Ten Day Interval
4.
I Set My Face To The Hillside
5.
Equator
6.
Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work
7.
Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls
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Four Day Interval
9.
In Sarah Mencken Christ And Beethoven There Were Women And M
10.
Almost Always Is Never Enough
11.
Jetty
12.
Everglade
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