I think, to him, it was a collection of sounds that created the vignette. “The stuff that interests him, historically, from a recordist’s perspective. “I think that says a lot about what I know about his personality,” McCombs says of Chicago’s famously reluctant producer. The Big Black/Shellac guitarist took the Tortoise invitation to indulge his interest in the Foley arts exiting a car, entering a house/apartment, turning on the TV, pouring a beverage, and eventually fading the music into the track. Steve Albini’s “The Match Incident” is one track that is guaranteed to confuse or intrigue listeners. To me, it had a better sonic quality than the original version, even though I love the original version too.” He made the bass quite a bit deeper, and he did some typical dub-type stuff to it. It had a nicer sonic quality it was more dubby. I think the thing about that one, in particular, was that it resonated with me better than the original. He did put ‘The Trolley Song’ in there he sang a little ditty in it as he would be known to do occasionally. “The Brad Wood remix, he did a song of ours called ‘Tin Cans & Twine’, and the surprising thing about that was that he didn’t really change the form or the content of the song very much at all. The amount of variety that boomeranged back to the band suited McCombs just fine. McEntire’s “Alcohall” has the old-school ramshackle quality of early ’80s dub, while Rick Brown of 75 Dollar Bill drags “Your New Rod” along in the land of low rumbles. Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters is just as difficult to define as Tortoise’s debut album – maybe even more so. We sat down and made a little list of, Who amongst our friends would we ask to do this thing? And that’s what it ended up being.” Everyone on that album, the remix version, all of those participants are pretty close friends. We just thought it would be interesting to see how someone else would interpret the stuff we had done. We were taking the idea of the remix and applying it to what we were doing, which wasn’t really common at that time. “So we were taking that from dance music, even though we were aware we weren’t really making dance music. So when we ended up what resulted in the first LP, we were aware that any of that material could have gone other directions. We would try to figure out ways to make it interesting. We would put the kernel of the idea on tape and start overdubbing and trying to figure out what would make it. So that first record was compiled from some really skeletal, embryonic ideas. We just had this idea that we’d play music together without a super-defined idea of what the music would be. “So the idea of what our group was going to be was still pretty nebulous. “The first Tortoise album, when we were making it, we weren’t recording it as rehearsed songs,” says McCombs. What prompted such a then-outlandish idea? Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters is the result of Tortoise and various friends twisting the tracks of their eponymous debut in a wide variety of ways. “Thrill Jockey goes back and looks for things that haven’t been on vinyl for a while and makes a decision to repress a bunch of stuff all the time,” McCombs assured us. In celebration of Thrill Jockey‘s 30th anniversary, label owner Bettina Richards has selected numerous out-of-print releases to reissue for 2022, including the 1995 Tortoise remix EP Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters. But through it all, the post-rock statesmen Tortoise is probably his most high-profile project. He’s even been known to lend a hand to McEntire’s other band, the Sea and Cake when they needed a bass player.
McCombs has played bass for a variety of bands in and around the Chicago area, including Brokeback, Pullman, and Eleventh Dream Day. “When we made the first Tortoise record, anything beyond the bass and drums was us spitballing in the studio.” “We were two bass players and two drummers, and one of our drummers had just acquired a vibraphone, and one of our drummers had an interest in analog synthesizers,” McCombs explained to PopMatters over the phone one day.
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Brown put their full trust in the process, creating the music as they moved along. Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, Dan Bitney, John McEntire, and Bunky K. The instrumental rock band Tortoise had only been around for four years but was about to record their first full-length album.
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