Tortoise
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Tortoise is an influential American post-rock band known for its experimental, genre-blending instrumental compositions and pioneering role in the 1990s Chicago music scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tortoise canonical | 9 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
band
ⓘ
musical group ⓘ post-rock band ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990 ⓘ |
| album |
Beacons of Ancestorship
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It’s All Around You ⓘ Millions Now Living Will Never Die! ⓘ
surface form:
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Standards ⓘ TNT ⓘ The Catastrophist ⓘ Tortoise self-link ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Chicago Underground Duo
ⓘ
Gastr del Sol ⓘ Isotope 217 ⓘ Slint ⓘ The Sea and Cake ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago ⓘ |
| characteristic |
primarily instrumental compositions
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use of studio as compositional tool ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| debutAlbum | Tortoise self-link ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| formedIn |
Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
|
| formerMember |
Bundy K. Brown
ⓘ
David Pajo ⓘ |
| genre |
dub
ⓘ
electronic music ⓘ experimental rock ⓘ instrumental rock ⓘ jazz fusion ⓘ krautrock ⓘ minimalism ⓘ post-rock ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | post-rock ⓘ |
| influencedScene | 1990s Chicago independent music scene ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitar ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ vibraphone ⓘ |
| member |
Dan Bitney
ⓘ
Doug McCombs ⓘ Jeff Parker ⓘ John Herndon ⓘ John McEntire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
genre-blending instrumental compositions
ⓘ
pioneering role in the 1990s Chicago post-rock scene ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Millions Now Living Will Never Die!
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surface form:
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
TNT ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Thrill Jockey ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tortoise Description of subject: Tortoise is an influential American post-rock band known for its experimental, genre-blending instrumental compositions and pioneering role in the 1990s Chicago music scene.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.