New Album NESTS OF WAVES AND WIRE due out in April in the US and May in Europe on Southern Records. EU and US tour dates soon.
Influences
Witch, Beach House, Fairport Convention, Band of Horses, Menomena, Silian Rail, Battles, Low Red Land, Wu Tang Clan, Joanna Newsom, Los Radioheados, Espers, Grizzly Bear, Deer Tick, Young People, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Shellac, Russian Circles, John Frusciante, Kings Of Leon, Celebration, Fleetwood Mac, Lavender Diamond, Paper Airplanes, Deerhoof, Explosions In The Sky, Animal Collective, The Golden Bears, D Numbers, Pit er Pat, Earthless, Heartless Bastards, Blonde Redhead, The Champs, This American Life, Department of Eagles, 4-7 Year Olds, Metallica, Des Ark, etc., etc......
Sounds Like
"Tartufi knows what they're doing... The San Francisco duo uses complex song structures to build what can only be described as sonic collages, employing unusual instrumentation and dynamic shifts to achieve a rolling-river feel to the songs. Each song on the disc takes its time in establishing the mood (there's only one song under five minutes), and there's a sense of continuity between the songs... Even better, the individual songs are strong examples of craftsmanship... Us Upon Buildings Upon Us is a success.You might not be able to dance to it, but you'll enjoy it nonetheless."
-Brandon Nolta, Boise Weekly (Boise, ID)
T A R T U F I Purchase US UPON BUILDINGS UPON US !!!! TARTUFI is Brian Gorman and Lynne Angel. They are friends. They are brother and sister. They are musical husband and wife. They are tar and feather. They are thunder and lightning. They are Salt N Pepa (sans Spinderella).
"Part aggressive, experimental-noise rock, part delicate and lovely melody and completely awesome, Tartufi's live show is a marvel."
-Sarah Wengert, The Reader (Omaha, NE)
"Tartufi blew my mind. They're a band out of San Francisco and I wasn't sure what to expect. Sure, I had the album in advance, but I wasn't confident that Lynne and Brian could pull off this complicated sound live, I mean it's just TWO people. I was wrong. It was delightful to look around (Club) Dada that night and find that I wasn't the only one whose jaw was on the ground. I never knew I liked 'math rock' until that night. It's one thing to be musically and technically precise, its entirely another to be those things and phenomenally gifted to boot."
-Amanda Newman (Club Owner / Promoter), Dallas Nightlife Blog (Dallas TX)
"Tartufi VOTED BEST INDIE BAND of 2007 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian based on their superb '06 release, Us Upon Buildings Upon Us, the duo of Lynne Angel and Brian Gorman hew a rich, fractured world out of looped guitars, keys and voices, shape-shifting time sigs, and crashing percussion. They can go from Slint-inspired explosions or Built to Spill epic to Joan of Arc-like baroque or Breeders chug in a measure or two, the shifts revealing unassailable logic as they unfurl. Nine out of 10 buzz bands don't deserve it; Tartufi does."-A. Schacht, Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)
"Tartufi write songs like they're folding towels fresh from the dryer. Traveling the seam between coo and caw, the duo churn out lush and layered soundscapes that billow with cerebral grace, prog-perfect texture, and a deliciously abstract abrasion that our readers adore."
-TARTUFI Voted Best Indie Band 2007 -SF Bay Guardian
"Armed with a drummer, a guitarist, and a series of loop pedals, this SF duo keeps it hectic, building voice upon voice, guitar upon guitar, and noise upon noise, all the while pulling you in with a sinister hook or a sensuous harmony of sounds. This duo approaches their show and their recordings (often produced by Citay and Fucking Champs' Tim Green) with relentless energy... Tartufi found that their power is in the minimalist construct of two making sound that's anything but minimal."
-Andre Perry, CokeMachineGlow.com
"San Francsico duo Tartufi has evolved from lush, odd pop to songs so elaborate and awash in drama that they could be part of some heavily encrypted rock opera. The Band's most recent album, 2006's Us Upon Buildings Upon Us, is divided into chapters, and varies endlessly within them, working in West African grooves and fanciful piano and xylophone amid tempo-shifting guitar rock. It's an exhausting, dense listen, and Tartufi has the good sense to sprinkle the path with delights, earing repeat spins in the process." -The Onion, A.V. Bay Area
A pre Supersonic Festival podcast on Brumcast to give you all a taster of things to come – part 1 of the playlist includes Tweak Bird, Zu, Diagonal, Corrupted and Head of David
Supersonic are delighted to confirm that SUNN O))) have been confirmed for this year’s festival in Birmingham. The show will be the first SUNN O))) performance in the UK since the release of Monoliths and Dimensions and the ONLY European performance this summer.
SUNN O))) will be playing material from GrimmRobe demos exclusively. Expect pure, raw, uninhibited invocations featuring O)))’s core members: Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and accompanied by 2 Les Paul guitars, 4 Sunn fullstacks and 4 Ampeg bass stacks. No guests, no vocals, no keyboards. We hope you will join us!
They join: Army Of Flying Robots / Atomized / Drum Eyes / Kylie Minoise / PCM / Scorn / Taint / Venetian Snares / Dialed In - Bobby Previte vs VJ Benton-C Bainbridge / Corrupted / Diaganol / Flower/Corsano Duo / Growing / Iron Lung / Kim Hiorthoy / Light Trap / Marnie Stern / Master Musicians Of Bukkake / Monotonix / Nisenenmondai / Remember Remember / Rose Kemp / Skullflower / Tartufi / The Accused / Thought Forms / Thorr’s Hammer / Tweak Bird / Zu / 65 Days Of Static / Arbouretum / Caribou / Chris Herbert / Earthless / Goblin / Head Of David / Jarboe / Khyam Allami / Nancy Wallace / Pontiak / Pram / Pre / Theo / The Memory Band / zZz
Thanks so much for the friendship ! It's a pleasure to discover your universe ! It's amazing to produce this amount of sound with only two musicians. It's rich and joyful. I'm fall in love of your songs. No doubt I will buy your CD soon.
Thanks for blowin through town and blasting out that wack dance party that was going on next door. HA! Great to see you guys play again and best wishes on the rest of your tour... =)
