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The Tone Sharks

Four/Five/Three

By The Tone Sharks

Label: Louie Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Earth (the), Glad to Be, Clouds, 334-lulofbird-shark dinner dinner-iraq-no-now-earth, wake up mark- page keep going-she sells shark sales, naugahyde mumu

The Tone Sharks: Four/Five/Three

by Dan McClenaghan
July 25, 2003

The Tone Sha rks are evolving. Intention, their last outing on drummer Dave Storrs' Louie Records, was a low key, meditative affair, a quartet take on Zen-like improvisation. On Four/Five/ Three the group has taken the evolutionary leap from four to seven players and added an undercurrent of constrained raucousness to their sound. Four/Five/Three adds a ...

Intention

By The Tone Sharks

Label: Louie Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: First Intention; The School; Buoyancy; Bubbling Up; Flittering Sunfish; Lurking; Swimming Noses; Skates; Falling Morsels; Unchallenged; On Out.

The Tone Sharks: Intention

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2002

Sometimes freely improvised music sounds like a marching band falling down an up escalator, and other times its lack of rhythm can be unquestionably painful. Neither of these two obstacles have ever faced the Oregon band known as the Tone Sharks. They ply their craft with an amazing amount of rhythm-based spontaneous creation. The ...

Chunks Of Zen

By The Tone Sharks

Label: Louie Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Chunks Of Zen: Flutter; Call From Down; Ahh; Delayed; Still Unchanged; Two Chunks Of Zen: Echoes Past; Seeking; Tapetum Paradiddledum; Down From Up; Our Numbers Are Dwindling.

The Tone Sharks: Chunks Of Zen

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2000

Space is the place. Space, not as in Sonny Blount’s dissonant rockets, but space as part of improvisation. The Tone Sharks’ fifth release has plenty of space. The quintet addresses spontaneous composition not as an exercise in who can play the loudest (or longest) but sometimes who can contribute the most in the fewest notes. The ...