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"Trtl Soup : E to the Eye Pie Equals One Review"

Rating 3.5/5

Alex Minicozzi of New Jersey may have an unhealthy turtle obsession — anyone doubting this need only to glance at the album cover of E to the Eye Pie Equals One: a crayon-colored illustration of a turtle hovering over a toilet seat, shitting (or birthing) baby terrapins. Other than studying turtles, Minicozzi seems intent on pledging loyalty to and maintaining devotion towards a DIY-style of music-making. Almost always working by his lonesome, Minicozzi subscribes to the bedroom messy mishap school of rock — reminiscent of early Why? material. The similarities between Trtl Soup and Why? are plentiful — there is even a Dictaphone recording of a family singing "Happy Birthday."

The art of imperfect recordings has long been perfected, but the charm of a bedroom aesthetic prevails if done correctly (and by correctly, we mean unintentionally incorrectly — without pretense). The formula is easy to adhere to for this type of music, seeing as how anything goes. (This notion is exemplified by Minicozzi’s singing. It’s bad singing of the "not even going to try to be in tune" variety.) This approach widens the field and thereby decreases your chance of leaving a deep-denting mark. Trtl Soup may not have achieved that just yet, but they are on the right track.

"Grandmaster Fascist" crawls with a melody like the demented offspring of "Lean On Me." "Conversations With My Fat" is a heart-to-heart with the gut — the gut that has betrayed its owner. "Acid Bowels" sounds like church when the music coordinator is forced to put an organ arrangement to a non-song selection of words — a halted tempo, crammed to measures, with no rhyming. The epic "Turtle Soup" is a slipshod conglomeration with multiple shifts. The story can be either a light form of entertainment or a nuisance, depending on how accepting you’re feeling. This brand of music is left to the listener to either celebrate or lampoon. It can go either way. Regardless, it’s funny to hear someone throw in a word like the Dahl-coined vermicious to describe a turtle’s grin.

1. Wall Street Wants His Bottle
2. Ben Seaver
3. Ely (Nevada)
4. Grandmaster Fascist
5. Conversations With My Fat
6. Belly Talkers
7. Halitosis
8. Acid Bowels
9. Turtle Soup
by Chadwicked - Tiny Mix Tapes


"trtl soup: E to the Eye Pie Equals One Review"

Artist: Trtl Soup
Album: E to the Eye Pie Equals One
Label: Boathouse Records
Similar to: Animal Collective, xiu xiu, The Books, Why?, Deerhoof

Rating: 9.1

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

The world of music these days considerably expands every second, amplifying inadmissible and more often than not, certain vapid indie bands we’re accustomed to. That’s why it’s so crucial for one to clench onto the real gifts that are seldom brought to our attention. If we discover that one unique band whom are modestly and passionately creating their own distinct sound, we’re left feeling fruitful in our endeavours and hopeful in our quest to exterminate the bad and revel in the good. This is exactly how I felt with my first introduction to Trtl Soup.

E to the Eye Pie Equals One, is lavished with inexhaustible layers of arousing chaos, it’s a collection of casual experimentation, and amalgamates infectious dance-like beats. This only haphazardly defines New Jerseys, Trtl Soup.

It begins with comical voice samples of ‘Wall Street Wants His Bottle.’ Upon listening to this song, I can relate the sensation closely with the inexplicable joy of the first puff from a newly lit cigarette, fulfilling a ravenous desire to consume each unpredictable moment.

In hindsight, that simile rings truer than ever expected throughout the entire album. Given the overall feel and structure of ETHEPEO, the height of the album reaches at track #6 with, ‘Belly Talkers,’ and is best described [in conjuction with this analogy], at the point of an almost exhausted cigarette, when the smoker languorously inhales the nicotine drenched stick as it swiftly intensifies inside their gut, feeling a peculiar, distinct sensation.

‘Turtle Soup,’ as it appears on track #9, is the longest song on the album and is essentially the smoke that lingers, with it’s humourous sampling and bass hiccups, it ultimately leaves the listener [and perhaps the smoker], feeling revitalized and yearning for more. Alex M. delivers 6 other unforeseeable glimpses of randomized vocal samples, handclaps, and snappy beats throughout the duration of ETHEPEO.

The album cover itself, at the swift glance of the eye, gives a slight curious temptation into what we’re supposed to expect with Trtl Soup. The album, lined in green and brown pencil crayon, shows a smug turtle with his pants down, as he squeezes cascading fecies in the form of several baby turtles out of his ass, as illustrated on the front and back cover. This, dare I say, is almost absurd imagery if one really thinks about it but yet it is strangely clever and invigorating.

In my opinion, ‘E to the Eye Pie Equals One’, will simultaneously and undoubtedly remain one of the best albums released in 2006. Take this gift from Alex M, and let old music habits die. You’ll soon discover the unabated genius of Trtl Soup within this carefully-crafted high-powered manifesto.
www.trtlsoup.com

J. Abel - www.powpowpow.com


"Boneventure Arts and Media Festival 2"

"
But my friends, we're only postponing the inevitable. How do I describe the Trtl Soup set? Why don't we begin with the San Damiano Room. Its a deconsecrated Catholic chapel complete with the oblibatory iconography. Medieval in style and structure, wide-open, drafty with crazy acoustics. That is crazy for everyone but Trtl Soup. Those boys were born to defile our holy sites. Or maybe its more accurate to say they were born to instill those spaces with a new sense of the possibilities. Understand that what Alex Minicozzi and his pals are up to is
creating some really challenging noisescapes--found sounds, computerized clicks and clacks, looped percussion tracks and wailing guitar and bass that melt down into collages of sound. And the SD was like a long lost member of the group. The atmospherics were so crazed that at one point the band sounded as if they were behind me. Now I'd heard the CD, I knew what was coming, but for the uninitiated it had to have been totally freaky. Except that--and here's the kicker--underneath that bold-as-hell experimentation lurked a dance band! I saw an audience transformed. The beats would surge and recede only to kick into extended grooves. A couple of songs into the set people were up and moving. It was powerful, weird, and very very cool."

Dr. Mark Huddle
St. Bonaventure University - Trotsky's Cranuim


"Portuguese Blogging"

I go macdaddies & flybitches.. Epá.. we uncover here an interesting band. They tripped in us in the Myspace and we stayed more than convinced with the song of them. All they call itself TRTL SOUP and by the seen they like noise and narcotic melodies for will build some epic (or not) psicadélicos discordant but compelling, this always without will leave of look some míudos it enjoy with sound, that is what the bands must to look. - Unknown


Discography

Debut LP Release: E to the Eye Pie Equals One: Said release has received national radio play as it was picked up for a radio and press promotions campaign with Advanced Alternative Media starting at the beginning of 2007. Advanced Alternative Media is said to be one of the largest names in college radio promotions based out of NYC.

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The music of trtl soup is really more or less riding on a roller coaster, more of a sim-coaster, through the musical part of the brain of a young man from rural northwest New Jersey. Songs are written and recorded in bedrooms and dorm rooms using a growing arsenal of classical, electronics, and home made sound producing machines. Once these monsters are assembled, they are brought to life, literally, in a live show that most people find to be very pleasing and quite different. Energy, enjoyment and vigor are the best adjectives to describe what comes across on the faces of these "musicians" . Influences for this would range from Ween to Brainiac to Why? to Tom Waits to Beck to unknowingly the Residents.