"Tortoise makes music of elaborate detail, rarely settling for a broad stroke when a sharp inflection might suffice. Most of the songs… came with the complex interior movements of a timepiece."
The New York Times
Tortoise are a group that resists easy metaphors and analogies. Twenty years after founding, the band's signature and singularly inimitable sound remains truly original - a fluid intersection of jazz, krautrock, techno, rock, and classical minimalism, with no part overwhelming or dominating the whole. Setting them apart is their boundless intellectual curiosity, their unmistakable compositional voice, and their synthesis of seemingly contradictory sound worlds far from their doorstep. Tortoise have whole-heartedly embraced the spirit of invention so prevalent in jazz, that's seen the band's music propelled into ever more explorative directions well into their third decade.
Brian Chase and Seth Misterka are a sax / drums duo based out of Brooklyn, New York. Living and working in a community where genres and contradictory styles exist side by side, the music of the Misterka/Chase duo is dedicated to finding the middle road between the accessible and experimental. The duo brings together US drummer Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and long-time collaborator saxophonist Seth Misterka. It is a mystical, minimal music described as 'The New Ambient Cool Free Jazz'.
Presented in association with RRR
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The Forum Fri 7 May at 8.30pm
$68 / $63 conc
Early Bird Special Offer: 20% discount for ticket purchases of three or more separate Modern Masters concerts. Dan Bitney (bass, guitar, percussion, vibes, marimba, keyboards, baritone saxophone), John Herndon (drums, vibes, keyboards, sequencing), Douglas McCombs (bass, bass 6, guitar, lap steel), John McIntire (drums, modular synthesiser, ring modular guitar, electric harpsichord, keyboards), Jeff Parker (guitar, bass)
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