Tonight, for the 25th season of Time Zones, at the Kursaal in Bari on the scene to There will be a Italian date Tortoise. One of the key bands of the last American music, the Tortoise born in one of the most important musical workshops in the United States: Chicago. It 'just in the basement of the "Windy City" of Illinois that were laid the foundations for a new type of rock, dropped almost completely from its traditional track and aimed at a frantic search of all possible contamination with other genres, jazz the first place. It was formed as a new scene, as influential in contemporary music as secluded, populated by bands of that image without "strong" typical of the tradition of rock.
but were still far from the limelight, the Tortoise are now - like it or not - the flagship of this movement. Led the sound engineer and bassist Doug McCombs John McEntire, the Chicago post-rockers produce an elusive music that escapes definition. It 's a stunning blend of dub, ambient and psychedelic music, which draws largely from the cauldron of the nineties American alternative rock (especially the slo-core of Slint), but also by German kraut-rock (Neu!, Faust , Can), the Canterbury-sound of the 70s, from electric jazz and minimalism. Among music critics there are those who call it "post-rock", some "avant-rock." Some definitions have fetched more imaginative. As the "Sunday Times" that he described as "Eclectic, jazzy-avantgarde-postpunk-friendly rasta". The British music magazine Melody Maker wrote: "The American rock has stagnated in the concept of song as a story as autobiographical confession or pseudo-literary portrait. This is the music of Tortoise is going against." Another distinctive feature of the group is the balance in the mix samples and music played really. On the other hand, the Tortoise is not only skilled assemblers sounds prepackaged, but also good musicians, some of education strictly jazz, all inclined to the interchangeability of roles.
Upcoming events with Time Zones:Friday November 19 Rene 'Aubry
Ensemble Saturday, November 20 On The Edge Of Town Story "
is certainly one of those gifts that we would find under the tree, but it's a completely different texture and consistency than the above products.
importance of Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce is realizing an album of rare beauty that gloomy presages the arrival in Nebraska
a few years later, both the whole rock of the era - you can read it anywhere, so I limit myself to just tell you what you will find in the box:
3 DVD for more than 6 hours of video footage and unreleased video and two hours of music made during the period 1976-1978 in a deluxe package. Then there's the full box set containing three CDs: one with the version remastered 2010 Darkness On The Edge Of Town in 1978 and two in its original lineup with 21 new songs. Among the unreleased tracks, the rock version of
Because the Night, Fire, and Rendezvous, Someday (We'll Be Together), Is not Good Enough for You,
The Brokenhearted
In The Promise 'also included historical material: a notebook of 80 pages with reproductions of original notes by Springsteen, written during the recording sessions with alternative text to those published, song ideas, details and pictures recording personal notes never seen before. 
Ecco le tracklist: Disco 1: Badlands; Adam Raised A Cain; Something In The Night; Candy's Room; Racing In The Street; The Promise Land; Factory; Streets Of Fire; Prove It All Night; Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Disco 2: Racing In The Street ('78); Gotta Get That Feeling: Outside Looking In; Someday (We'll Be Together); One Way Street; Because The Night; Wrong Side Of The Street; The Brokenhearted; Rendezvous; Candy's Boy. Disco 3: Save My Love; Ain't Good Enough For You; Fire; English Eyes; It's A Shame; Come On (Let's Go Tonight); Talk To Me; The Little Things (My Baby Does); Breakaway; The Promise, City Of Night / The Way.
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