Todd Tobias “Massabu Evening Entertainments” Reviewed at Music Will Not Save You
A new adventure through unusual soundscapes led Todd Tobias to discover the complexity of aromas and suggestions of a Middle Eastern psychedelic with distinctly imaginary traits. It is an exotic parallel universe that concentrated by the American artist in the thirteen short traces of “Massabu Evening Entertainments”, resulting from a centrifugal of alienating rhythms and vapors, brought by an equally imaginary band that to a classic electric instrumentation, associates vintage organs and instruments of the oriental tradition.
Todd Tobias “Gila Man” Reviewed at Festival Info
The conclusion is therefore that on this album shines diversity. Tobias throws so many elements in the mix, it’s impossible to get bored. Throws it a good dose of fantasy in, then this album is at its best.
Todd Tobias “Gila Man” Reviewed at Music Won’t Save You
[Translated via Google. Read the original here.] “With each new disc, Todd Tobias is a narrative context and a landscaped horizon to fill with their sound visions. In “Gila Man” is not, as in the two previous albums, the conceptual track originated...Todd Tobias “Gila Man” Reviewed at Indebanvan
Gila Man” by Todd Tobias is an almost instrumental album. On some songs the British Chloe March lent her voice, but she does in wordless sounds. The compositions awaken the desire to return to the days of cowboys and Indians. The covering letter calls for creating your own stories, and that is what we will do. You can every few days, expect a chapter of the story that we hear in this music. The wild west of Todd Tobias and the Gila Man calls us.
Todd Tobias “Gila Man” Reviewed at De Subjectivisten
American composer and multi-instrumentalist Todd Tobias perhaps you can already come from bands like Coyotes 4, Clouds Forming Crowns, Circus Devils of Psycho And The Birds. The latter two with Robert Pollard (Guided By Voice). Since 2012 he also makes solo themselves heard and then the storyteller in him upstairs, even though his music mainly instrumental. For his latest work Gila Man has a psychedelic Western adventure in his head. Imaginary soundtrack should there being, with the advantage that he made the film without music and listen to it also as such. The music certainly captures the imagination and is an idiosyncratic blend of neoclassical, krautrock, dark ambient and avant-rock. Now you have some really an idea that you are in a Western, tuimelgras including, but many times you get the impression that you have arrived at a deserted place on another planet. There are no cowboys but those crooks of the Residents that draw their futuristic weapons against Popul Vuh and Cocteau Twins. Villains! The latter association is due to the wonderful wordless vocals of Chloe March. Also Ennio Morricone, David Lynch, Stereolab and Broadcast pass through this surreal scene of battle. Tobias draws from a lot of sources, but manages to create an intriguing and coherent. One time hushed and dreamy, sometimes strange and unreal and at other times abrasive, exciting and obscure. A wonderful adventure.