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[caption id="attachment_12876" align="alignleft" width="273" caption="Tortoise"][/caption] Despite nearly two decades of activity, Chicago's Tortoise continue to sustain an awkward yet alluring sense of mystery. Consequently, for many it has become all too easy to define Tortoise by well-merged collective influences (Miles Davis, Can, Kraftwerk, Neu!, John Fahey, Ennio Morricone, Gang Of Four, Augustus Pablo, Brian Eno, Tom Verlaine, Talking Heads, etc.), the multiple side-projects entwined in the group's extended family-tree (Brokeback, Chicago Underground Quartet, Isotope 217, Pullman, Directions, A Grape Dope, The Sea & Cake, ad infinitum) and the artists that have been directly/indirectly inspired by the ensemble's experimental explorations (Mogwai, Fridge, Four Tet, ...
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