Back in late July, we clued you in on the Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz kick off event featuring Tortoise performing alongside some of Chicago’s top jazz musicians. Luckily for us, a brief video is now available thanks to youtuber JA77BO. The 2:48 clip gives us a sample of the sweet jazz-meets-post-rock sounds that hovered over Millennium Park the evening of Thursday, July 29, and will no doubt leave us salivating for more. Enjoy:
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Sam Prekop, guitarist, bassist and vocalist for Chicago’s The Sea And Cake, is releasing a new solo effort on September 7 titled Old Punch Card.
According to a press release from local imprint Thrill Jockey, Old Punch Card is not only a departure from Prekop’s previous solo material but from his main band The Sea And Cake as well. The album is said to be influenced by early electronic music as well as avant garde compositions as it’s composed entirely of modular synthesizers with no vocals, no beats and only one instance of guitar.
If this sounds like something right up your alley, good news! Download the Old Punch Card track “The Silhouettes” right here. The song is definitely composed entirely of synthesizers with whirling blips and buzzes, but it is highly melodic, which is very promising for the rest of the album.
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Three is-it-football-season-yet reasons to dodge some Decepticons to spend a beautiful evening at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park…
1. I love Tortoise for many reasons, one of them being that they love their hometown. Either they’re playing incredible shows in Chicago like the one last February at Lincoln Hall or they’re playing with other incredible musicians such as when John McEntire joined Broken Social Scene at Pitchfork Music Festival. Well, tonight is no different as the band joins some of Chicago’s top jazz players including cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, multi-reedist from 8 Bold Souls Ed Wilkerson Jr., sax player Greg Ward, flautist Nicole Mitchell and pianist Jim Baker to kick off the Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz series.
By Richard Giraldi \ 1 commentTortoise stopped by Amoeba Records on July 9, in Hollywood, CA, for an intimate in-store performance. Captured in high definition the entire set is available in the multi-cam video below providing a close up look at what they do. Included in the over 40 minute set are “High Class Slim Came Floating In,” “Minors,” “The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One,” Yinxianghechengqi,” “Charteroak Foundation,” and “Prepare Your Coffin” all from 2009’s Beacons of Ancestorship as well as “Monica” from 2001’s Standards, “In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men” from 1998’s TNT and off the 1997 EP Wow & Flutter “Swung From The Gutters.” Enjoy:
By Andrew Kahn \ commentsWe previously tipped you off to the fact that Beck has enlisted Thurston Moore and Chicago post-rock heroes Tortoise to join him for his next Record Club project. Well, word came out two weeks back that it was Yanni’s Live At The Acropolis that would be rerecorded this time around. And while the first video lacked Tortoise, they’re extremely prominent in this new video featuring a noisy, nearly free-jazz take on Live At The Acropolis’s track two “Keys To Imagination“. Have at it Beck and friends:
Record Club: Yanni “Keys To Imagination” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
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Chicago Tribune’s “Cheap Eater”, aka food writer Kevin Pang, took to his Twitter account today to release the first details on a new live compilation bootleg from The Metro.
According to Pang’s tweets, a press release states that the 10-track compilation will be titled, The Official Bootleg Series Vol 1, and will be released on July 22 and could also be available at Pitchfork Music Festival on July 16 – 18 in Union Park for a nice price of $20. Additionally, Pang tweets that all the proceeds from the album will benefit Rock For Kids.
There’s no information up on the Metro’s website yet, but it should be coming soon. For now, check out tracklist that Pang released over twitter (the dates form which these performances come has not been revealed yet, but I’m sure you can make some educated guesses) after the jump.
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