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Beacons Of Ancestorship

TORTOISE Beacons Of Ancestorship (2009 UK 11-track CD album - A characteristic Tortoise album is one that traverses an encyclopaedia of styles and reference points, a document of where musical intersections and dialogue are occurring at a given moment in time. 'Beacons Of Ancestorship' is no different, with nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut-up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. We see these ideas working out in compositions like 'High Class Slim Came Floatin' In', an eight-minute track which playfully references the world of ecstatic rave and dance culture with a curiously ambivalent, multi-part suite overlaid with robotic, machine-sounding melodies that stop and start in several different time signatures before the song's ultimate resolution; and again in 'Yinxianghechengqi', which begins as a straightforward uptempo math-rocker before steadily accelerating into a wall of fuzzy atonal sqwonk. Presented in a 4-panel mini-LP style card picture sleeve)

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Release Date 22nd Jun 2009
Release Year 2009 - 15 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format CD album (CDLP)
Record Label Thrill Jockey
Complete Stock List Go to Tortoise
Product Catalogue No THRILL210CD
Music Genre NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Indie
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

1. High Class Slim Came Floatin' In
2. Prepare Your Coffin
3. Northern Something
4. Gigantes
5. Penumbra
6. Yinxianghechengqi
7. The Fall Of Seven Diamonds Plus One
8. Minors
9. Monument Six One Thousand
10. De Chelly
11. Charteroak Foundation

CD ALBUM  
Recording Artist Tortoise
Product Title Beacons Of Ancestorship
Product Information Tortoise Beacons Of Ancestorship UK CD album (CDLP).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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