Tone – Solidarity
Label: Neurot Recordings
Catalog#: NR039
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 24 Jan 2006
Style: Instrumental Rock, Post-Rock
Quality: FLAC / APE / MP3: 320, V0
Size: 368 MB / 355 / 127, 105 MB
Tone may not be a new band but they are a contemporary one. Based in the tumultuous surroundings of Washington, D.C., Tone has deconstructed the conventions of a band for many years now. Tone began in 1991 by creating compositions with the tools afforded to most bands – drum heads, vibrating strings, and vacuum tubes, exploring what new sounds an instrumental band could produce.
The band has swelled at times to multiple guitars and bass, coupled with double drummers, as well as having collaborated with classically trained string and horn players. Never has the line up defined the character of the band, rather it has afforded them the means to further subvert what a ‘traditional’ line up is supposed to be capable of, and this is in the years before the post rock explosion. As this movement gathered force, many bands for which TONE had laid the foundation would later come to share the stage with them: Mono, Explosions In The Sky, Do Make Say Think, Maserati, and godspeed you ! black emperor.
Tone has produced five albums and countless performances that play with dynamics the way others play with melody and often playing with melody like an eccentric mathematician. The range of sound used by the band has as much to say to composers Arvo Part or Giya Kancheli as it does to sound artists Tarentel or Labradford. These recordings have been proudly released by Dischord, Independent Project, and Neurot Recordings.
From the fall of 2004 thru the spring of 2006, Tone collaborated with Bowen McCauley Dance Company, resulting in numerous performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, a festival appearance in Aachen, Germany, and a set of intense new works.
Tone is a collective that over the years has become confident enough in their voice that they do not need to play to win, they play to keep playing. The idea of the infinite game or never ending conversation has been ever present in this music. Yet, with all of this being said, in the end Tone is a band...an ensemble of people playing what they hear, so that they can hear what they play. The rest of us are just lucky enough to listen in.
Tracklist:
1. Confidence And Progress [6:51]
2. The Unwilling [12:27]
3. Towers [6:11]
4. Sketch [3:29]
5. Evolution [7:23]
6. Moonpony [6:40]
7. Texas [10:42]
Credits:
Guitar — Doug Wandell, Geordie Grindle, Jim Williamson, Norm Veenstra, Steve Willett
Percussion — Andy Myers, Gregg Hudson
Bass — Dennis Kane
Producer, Engineer — J. Robbins
Mastered By — Alan Douches
Artwork By [Design] — Metadog Design Group
Photography — Elena Volkov, Gregg Hudson
Notes:
Tracked / phase / mixed at Inner Ear.
Mastered at West West Side Music.
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