Tortoise - Touch (CD) Good Luck With Whatever (Colored Vinyl

Tortoise - Touch (CD) Good Luck With Whatever (Colored VinylCOMPACT DISC (CD) With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die

sorting through the kind of trouble we've all known

This project goes to many places and is always on some level about experimentation

Aaron Hemphill from LA (guitar and drum machine) and Nebraskians Pat Nature (bass & synthbox) and drummer Ron Albertson

The prize is freedom

"Quiet Storm

and blasts of tone

each one subtly broadening their sonic and thematic limits

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Wielding only a six and twelve-string guitar and his powerful voice

from playful to raucous and all points between - captured with some of the same gear from Paul's Rude Studio used as far back as 1971 Wings sessions

Making good on the promise of Empty Sky (his first true solo release)

This stereo Blue Note Classic Vinyl edition is all-analog mastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl