Basic Information
Label: Turtle Down Music
Members: Emily Albright - fiddle/vocals, Nathan Britsch - bass, Pat Buzby - drums, Chris Greene - sax, Ethan Sellers - vocals/keys/guitar, Aaron Weistrop - guitar
Tautologic
Chicago, IL
Rock / Progressive Rock / Jam Band
Bio
Tautologic is an eclectic progressive rock band based in Chicago. The band was formed in 1997 as a vehicle for founding members Ethan Sellers' and Pat Buzby's eclectic musical compositions and off-beat lyrics. The group's richly orchestrated recordings have garnered the band praise for its inventive arrangements, performed by some of Chicago's best musicians.
Tautologic has released two CDs to international critical acclaim and radio airplay, making at least one critic's year-end best-of l...
Press
"Psychle," released in 2007 but only recently denting my radar, is an impressively ambitious example of virtuosic musicianship and deft arrangements navigating myriad sounds and styles without ever loosing that essential melodic thread or propulsive rock drive.
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Tautologic is all the more relevant for lyrics that deal not with lamia, slippermen, tales from topographic oceans and the other stuff or progressive-rock lore, but with Ray Davies-style sociological skewerings of 'burnout roommates and their psychotic crack-whore girlfriends, tube socks, crazy homeless people, indie hipsters, quasi-terroristic rants against totalitarian utility companies and anything else that entertains and/or irritates.'"
Artist Stats
Fans: 2,421
Song Plays: 708
Visits: 611
Video Plays: 303
Widget Hits: 4,120
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Blog
brand-new Tautologic recordings from album-in-progress
Apr 17, 2010 at 04:59 PM
I just uploaded some new recordings to our ReverbNation page as a preview of an in-process recording project we have going at Tautologic, working-titled Empty Steins and Stragglers.
If there's a theme or feeling to the songs recorded so far - Jim's Home Brew, Mowing Molly's Garden, All I Have Is You, and Time To Go - it's that I'm aiming for sort...
