TORTOISE RECORD RELEASE EVENT & CONCERT UNDER THE STARS
Tortoise, the stalwart five-piece Pitchfork described as “weirdly beautiful and impossible to pin down,” kick off a series of special concerts in support of Touch, their first new LP in nine years. Originally formed in Chicago, IL, the birthplace of “post-rock,” bandmembers John Herndon and Jeff Parker are now firmly embedded in the Los Angeles music scene and consistent contributors to the music community, fostering new partnerships and collaborations at the crossroads of jazz, rock, punk, and thoughtful experimentation – while Dan Bitney and Douglas McCombs live in Chicago and John McEntire resides in Portland, OR. Be the first to hear Touch performed live on our outdoor East West Bank Plaza and purchase physical copies of the record before they are officially released Sunday, October 19.
Parker collaborator Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer will also perform. The local duo of synthesist and violist, respectively, have spent years refining a masterful interplay of acoustic and electronic sounds, both in live performance and across three albums for International Anthem, most recently Different Rooms (2025). Drawing from their roots in Chicago’s improvisational and experimental music scene, their performances can be delightfully disorienting, with arrangements being constructed and deconstructed in real time both improvisationally and via the duo’s extensive penchant for live sampling.
Alejandro (Ale) Cohen, Music Director at KCRW, will be spinning vinyl from the station’s library of Los Angeles bands to open the event. L.A. Intersections highlights the organic and historically significant music and spoken word scenes that have emerged in Los Angeles since the 1960s and the role these art forms play in the creative environment of L.A. that influences visual artists. The Broad collection includes work by nearly 50 Los Angeles artists. Among them are Mark Bradford, whose works can recall the energetic and often frenzied topology of a city map; Ed Ruscha, whose painted words and phrases have a vernacular, familiar tone, but an unfamiliar reference; and Doug Aitken who attempts, in his own words, to register “a twilight of perception where ideas and iconography flicker and reinvent themselves.” These threads share similarities with the architectural repetition, structured improvisation, and non-linear narrative of Tortoise and Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honor.
Photo by Todd Weaver
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