Tag Archives: Dan Bitney

Yet another among the myriad of rings formally connected with Tortoise, the instrumental percussion group Bumps is made up of Dan Bitney, John Herndon, as well as the seemingly constantly dynamic John McEntire. Avant-hip-hop label Rocks Throw took see from the trio’s beat abilities, putting your signature on them and …

Tortoise revolutionized American indie rock and roll within the mid-’90s by using straight down tried-and-true punk and rock and roll & roll affects, emphasizing instead the incorporation of a number of left-field music styles from the prior twenty years, including Krautrock, dub, avant-garde jazz, classical minimalism, ambient and space music, …

The Chicago-based jazz-funk fusion ensemble Isotope 217 featured guitarist Jeff Parker alongside percussionists John Herndon and Dan Bitney, all three better known for his or her work in Tortoise; the roster around the group’s 1997 Thrill Jockey label debut The Unstable Molecule also contains trumpeter Rob Mazurek, bassist Matt Lux, …