Tortoise
Just a few weeks in advance of Halloween, post-jazz/electro-rock luminaries Tortoise will be preparing something special for their home town of Chicago: an aural accompaniment to Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s famous and unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The peerless pioneers will present the score on October 13 as part of this year’s Macy’s Day of Music, a free music marathon that takes place at Chicago’s Symphony Center. The seventeen-year-old outfit will perform at 8 pm CST, just in time for the sun to have fully set (thus welcoming vampiric visitors).

In addition to the five-piece instrumentalists, the ten-hour marathon includes performances by circus-punk marching band Mucca Pazza, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, and a number of other qualified musicians.

The Macy’s Day of Music is the only scheduled appearance of Tortoise in the US. Additional international performances include the Cervantes Jazz Festival in Malaga, Spain on November 4 as well as a celebration of Thrill Jockey’s fifteenth anniversary in London on November 12.

Tortoise + Nosferatu @ Symphony Center
Saturday, October 13, 8:00 pm CST
220 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 294-3000

Tortoise: www.trts.com
Thrill Jockey: www.thrilljockey.com
Symphony Center: www.cso.org

Email This Email This | Permalink | Digg This | StumbleUpon StumbleUpon



Like what you read? Subscribe to ALARM Magazine.

Related Stories

Chicago Afrobeat Project: (A) Move to Silent Unrest
Afrobeat is made to be experienced live. The large bands, spontaneous energy, and multitude of musical influences (fusing funk, R&B, and traditional African...

GG Allin Doc Re-Screened to Celebrate New DVD
GG Allin lives! Like Tupac and Elvis, this particularly infamous punker continues to live on in various forms of multimedia, and he's finally made it to DVD. Th...

Brand Upon the Brain!
Brand Upon the Brain!, an absurdly fictional account of director Guy Maddin’s childhood with an overbearing, manipulative mother and mad scientist father, i...


ALARM Magazine


Preview ALARM issue #31

On Sale Now!

Music News

Features

Music Reviews