Millions Now Living Will Never Die

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Cork Leg Nelson This album is the one that opened my ears to Tortoise. A hipper-than-me roommate got me hooked back in 1996(?!) and I’ve been down ever since. Stoked to have this newer pressing.

hoopboyhandro A sonic landscape of experimental bliss. A perfect album for traveling. Favorite track: Glass Museum.

Nathan Neugebauer Amazing album. The first song alone! Truly an album. Favorite track: Djed.

Ashton Bell I'm no critic but this is very good Favorite track: Glass Museum.

John Cratchley MNLWND was a little longer in gestation, I seem to remember, but the opener (Djed) signalled new ideas and colours (marimba-ish type things) and was of a length more akin to contemporary jazz composition.
Never a band too keen on pigeon-holing, they just took it all in their stride and, I think, so did their audience (it just seemed a natural progression to me)...

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	1.	Djed 20:57
	2.	Glass Museum 05:27
	3.	A Survey 02:52
	4.	The Taut and Tame 05:01
	5.	Dear Grandma and Grandpa 02:49
	6.	Along the Banks of Rivers 05:50

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die is the second full-length offering from Tortoise. The majority of the material was first conceived during an idyllic 10-day retreat in Northern Vermont, where the group were able to explore their ideas in a setting that fostered introspection and inspiration: the results are clearly evident in the washes of Klangfärben (tone color) and rhythm that permeate the album. The sounds and ideas contained therein can be viewed as a logical extension of those found their first (eponymous) LP on Thrill Jockey where the group outlined an agenda exploring texture, space, and mood. MNLWND, however, offers not only an expansion of those ideas but also the introduction of several new elements into the musical equation. New instrumental textures (marimbas and other mallet percussion on "Djed" (pronounced "jed"); conventional electric guitar on "Glass Museum"; analog synthesis/sequencing and found sound on "Dear Grandma and Grandpa") and structural ideas (the extended formal procedures of "Djed"; the non-narrative song "Along the Banks of Rivers") represent clear developments and redefinition's of the group's sound.

Recording commenced immediately upon returning to Chicago, though due to a variety of reasons, the entire recording and mixing process became elongated. This less hurried approach to album making allowed the group to explore more of the possibilities inherent in the material; the 21-minute "Djed" is ample proof of this. The final version of the track went through approximately 15 different stages of mixing and editing. Like their debut, MNLWND was recorded and mixed by John McEntire (also at that time had produced material by Stereolab, Run On, The Sea and Cake, Trans Am, and Come). The majority of the album was recorded and mixed at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago, with the remainder being realized at the newly established SOMA Electronic Music Studios. MNLWND is the first studio recording to feature the talents of David Pajo, who joined to fill the position vacated by Bundy K. Brown in late 1994.

For MNLWD Toroise is
Douglas McCombs
John Herndon
Dan Bitney
John McEntire
Dave Pajo

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released January 30, 1996

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Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout its revered and influential six-album discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. ... more

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