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The American instrumental band Tortoise from Chicago shaped the term post-rock in the mid-1990s. In the spring of 2026 the group will come to Tour Germany. The occasion is the new album “Touch”, which has been announced for October 24th. It is the band’s first studio album after a nine -year break. The single “Oganesson” can already be heard.
Due to the band members, who lived in Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago, “Touch” was said to be included between the three cities accordingly. Most recently, the band had heard in 2016 with the album “The Catastrophist”.
In October, the band, which is made up of five artists today, initially on tour in the USA. In the spring of 2026 there will be a tour through Europe, including with seven stops in Germany, which are presented by the Rolling Stone.
Tortoise Live in Germany
- 01/22/2026 Karlsruhe, Tollhaus
- 01/26/2026 Frankfurt, Zoom
- 01/27/2026 Cologne, canteen
- 29.01.2026 Berlin, Great broadcast room of the RBB
- 01/30/2026 Dresden, Beatpol
- 04.04.2026 Hamburg, Kampnagel
- 04/12/2026 Munich, Technikum
Here you can get tickets
There are tickets here In the official pre -sale.
New album Touch on October 24th – the setlist
- Vexations
- Layered Presence
- Works and Days
- Elka
- Promenade à deux
- Axial Seamount
- A Title Comes
- Rated OG
- Oganesson
- Night gang
Listen into “Oganesson” here
Post-rock pioneers of the 90s: This is tortoise
When the four gentlemen John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John Mcentire and Dave Pajo published their second album “TNT” six years after the band was founded, the music world had not yet been heard. Post-Rock was the new term, the flagship of which the group and its purely instrumental low frequency sound became.
Tortoise stands for moderate pace and a sound bath of various instruments – two basses, three drums, vibraphone and marimbas. In the following years, tortoise navigated between rhythm and jazz sounds and tended into more electronic elements.