ace020: tarentel "live edits: italy/switzerland" CD $13
Over the course of numerous dates in Italy, Tarentel (a trio on this tour of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Danny Grody, & Jim Redd) improvised every set they played with often stunning results. This is not your grandfather's Tarentel. "Live Edits: Italy/Switzerland" is full of pounding tribal drums and walls of mixer feedback, floating guitar trips and walls of noise. This is a whole new world scattered across burned-out pages; a place to hide and get lost in for ages. These pieces are a tug-of-war between beauty and tension. Tarentel rarely sound better than this.

This is the second in a series of ongoing "live" releases from Tarentel, though they are, as the band says, "live" in the same spirit that Werner Herzog makes "documentaries."

Limited to 500 copies.

audio sample (track 2, live in geneva)

tracklist:
eight tracks, all untitled.
track 1 recorded in lugano, switzerland
tracks 2 & 6 in geneva, switzerland
track 3 in genova, italy
track 4 in bern, switzerland
tracks 5 & 8 in massa carrara, italy
track 7 in perugia, italy

Praise for Tarentel:
"The imagination sees something different with each listen." - Pitchfork

"You may have to back away from it before you can pull yourself close enough to get into its cracks. You might want to just put it on in the background while you're working on something else—that way in can surprise you with spare beautiful moments like "Warm Glass." But regardless of how you choose to wrap your head around it, Ghetto Beats is a broad, sprawling work that both deserves and will reward your time and energy." - Reveille

"[W]hen the group does lock in, they hit on a juicy synergy that's hard to surpass." - Almost Cool