Photos, reviews and tweets from the closing show of the 2009 London Jazz Festival featuring a unique on stage collaboration between elder statesmen of German electronica, Cluster, and Chicago jazzy post-rock pioneers Tortoise.
Live Photographs
All Photography – Minh Le
Cluster
Tortoise
Reviews
The Chicago-based post-rock veterans make their entrance and the two bands collaborate to produce a powerful improvised soundscape of noise. The result sounds like aliens communicating with each other through megaphones.
– David Tshulak, Drowned in Sound
Chins may have been stroked this evening, but a fair few minds will have been blown at the same time.
– Daniel Marner, The Line of Best Fit
No matter what instruments they happened to be playing at any given moment, Tortoise rocked tightly, at volume, and with no little skill.
– mapsadaisical
It’s all there in this track, the twin drum driving groove, the square-on-the-beat arpeggiations, all topped off with a gorgeously fat moog lead line.
– Ade Stevenson, The Ring Modulator
leon_chew: KrAut-rock electronic pioneers CLUSTER playing a stormer at the RFH right now. And they’re not the headline, Tortoise still to come….
grahamsie: Tortoise blew me away tonight. Gig of the year! And will see them again at ATP10. Can’t wait.
MikeWinship: Tortoise sooooo good. Definitely going to watch them again at ATP. Gotta love 2 drummers + instrument swapping etc. Marimbas + vibes FTW
agentgav: Back from a magical #Tortoise gig at the Royal Festival Hall: my 2yr old’s first proper gig: and somehow we were in the Royal Box…
eleventhvolume: Best (of three) Tortoise gigs I’ve seen by a country mile.
adrianstevenson: Just so so so bloody brilliant! Tortoise, you have my soul. I wanna do that too! #ljf
rob_hyde: Tortoise all look like Wire mag editorial staff. But are incredible nonetheless.
noel_lyons: Good grief – how good are Tortoise! Jaw has dropped at the general wickedness.
OurLostInfantry: I chuffing love tortoise. potential gig of the year tonight. Wow. Tx
oh_henry: Tortoise – STILL one of the best live bands on the planet.
Filed under: Electronic, Jazz, Rock & Pop, Post show | Tagged: Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius |
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Great gig, and ta for the tweet ref. I’ve stuck a link to my review of the gig off my name above. Lovely photos too!
Cheers Ade – great write up. I’ve added it above. Anyone with reviews of Southbank Centre shows do tweet us @southbankcentre when you send them live and we’ll link to them where possible.
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