Maps
Release date: May 3 2007
Available online at:
RCD MUSIC (CANADA)
FRIEND OF MINE RECORDS (JAPAN)
Also available in these stores:
DAYDREAM NATION (GUELPH)
END HITS (OTTAWA)
Track Listing:
1. Panic Attack
2. Echoes of the Unmoved Mover
3. Silence is Consent
4. Cast Shadows on Clouds
5. October 4, 1957 (Prologue)
6. Satellites
7. Tunturia
8. These are the Words
9. Robots Building Robots Building a Nation
10. Lost in the Hidden Forest
Silent Ballet Compilation 4
Release Date: June 18 2007
Released by: The Silent Ballet / Lost Children Netlabel
Featured track: Cast Shadows on Clouds
Available online at The Silent Ballet
Babyboom Sampler 003 / Japan 001
Release Date: March 11 2008
Released by: BabyBoom Records
Featured track: Panic Attack
Available online at BabyBoom Records
Press
"A remarkable debut from a group of musicians with enormous potential. Tunturia: a band with a conscience, a band with big ideas, a band so effortlessly epic that it should be a criminal offence to ignore them."
- AngryApe 8.25/10 Read More...
"Its songs give an impression of epic scale...This album stands head and shoulders above anything that has been released in a fair while, in the post-rock genre."
- The Silent Ballet 9/10 Read More...
"Maps is an avalanche of melodie and emotions, an instrumental tornado...an uninterrupted flow of feelings and notes, a rare talent in conjugating aesthetic beauty and descriptive violence."
- Kronic Read More... (ITALIAN)
"Their sound is icy and empty, painting a picture of a desolate and barren landscape."
- Pretentious Prattle"...their debut album sounds truly fresh and amazing."
- Post-Rock.cz 4.5/5 Read More... (CZECH)
"...a building intensity that powers you right along."
- Black Sweater, White Cat"...a band that blurs the lines between pyschadelic, progressive rock and the experimental genius of ambient."
- WGTS Read More...
"I've said it before, but Canadian bands are masters of post-rock, and Tunturia is no exception."
- The Sound 7.5/10 Read More... (SWEDISH)
"...epic sounding...cinematic, uplifting, and sometimes thundering aspirations"
- London Free Press Upcoming Shows
Biography
Like the desolate yet majestic plains of the arctic north, Tunturia’s sound is at times both harsh and beautiful combining elements of post-rock, ambient soundscapes and experimental noise. Formed in late 2005 the band quickly became a vehicle through which it’s members were able to explore concepts and ideas through music. Intricate without being technical, grand in scope without the pretension, lush without losing intensity, the band forged ahead writing new material that at times teetered between the edges of progressive and hauntingly minimal. Armed with an array of guitar pedals, synth pads and thousands of audio samples Tunturia recorded their debut album in the summer of 2006 in an ambitious studio tour-de-force. The result is Maps, a 10 song album exploring the idea of various world regions traversing the globe both culturally and geographically. As ambitious as this record may seem, it marks only the first phase in the band’s ongoing evolution.
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