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We were discussing asking Georgia to do something, but not that track in particular. Then we realized it would totally work.‚Äù Throughout, the songs transcend expectations as often as they delight the eardrums. Tortoise, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Doug McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker, has always thrived on sudden bursts of inspiration. And for The Catastrophist, the spark came in 2010 when the group was commissioned by the City of Chicago to compose a suite of music rooted in its ties to the area‚Äôs noted jazz and improvised music communities. Tortoise then performed those five loose themes at a handful of concerts, and ‚Äúwhen we finally got around to talking about a new record, the obvious solution to begin with was to take those pieces and see what else we could do with them,‚Äù says McEntire, at whose Soma Studios the band recorded the new album. ‚ÄúIt turned out that for them to work for Tortoise, they needed a bit more of a rethink in terms of structure. They‚Äôre all pretty different in the sense that at first they were just heads and solos. Now, they‚Äôre orchestrated and complex.‚Äù As ever, Tortoise has conjured sounds on The Catastrophist that aren‚Äôt being purveyed anywhere else in music today. There‚Äôs a deeply intuitive interplay between the group members that comes only from two decades of experimentation, revision and improvisation. And at a time when our brains are constantly bombarded by myriad distractions, The Catastrophist reminds us that there‚Äôs something much greater out there. 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