Tarentel is a
post-rock band which formed in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
in 1995. Initially, the band consisted of Danny Grody and
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. The line-up altered over the years and has included John Hughes, Trevor Montgomery, Patricia Kavanaugh, Kenseth Thibideau,
Jeffrey Rosenberg
Lavender Diamond is an American, Los Angeles-based band, fronted by singer Becky Stark.
History
While living in Providence, Rhode Island, Stark began performing as Lavender Diamond in a play that she and puppeteer Xander Marro wrote, created a ...
, Jim Redd, Tony Cross, Steve Dye and others.
Tarentel began as a post-rock band, making extended, LP-side length instrumental pieces. Over the course of three full-length albums and a number of singles and EPs, Tarentel has gradually shifted its style to a looser, more
improvisational
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form that incorporates genres such as
noise
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and
drone
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* Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
* Unmanned aerial vehicle
* Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft
* Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone
Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:
...
as well as having a strong
psychedelic element.
Tarentel member, Paul Clipson, projects original Super-8 film compositions that accompany each live performance by the band. He died in February 2018.
The band has been inactive at least since their most recent release in 2009.
Discography
Studio albums
* ''From Bone to Satellite'' (1999) (limited to 1000 copies)
* ''The Order of Things'' (2001) (vinyl limited to 500 copies)
* ''Mort aux Vaches'' (2002) (limited to 1000 copies)
* ''We Move Through Weather'' (2004)
EPs
* ''Tarentel'' (1998)
* ''Travels in Constants vol. 3'' (1999) (limited to 1000 copies) (part of the
Travels in Constants
Travels in Constants is a limited edition collection of 25 EPs issued by American record label Temporary Residence Limited. The label issued one CD from each artist involved in the project, which ran from 1999 until 2015. A large number of the a ...
series)
* ''When We Almost Killed Ourselves'' (1999) (limited to 200 copies)
* ''Looking for Things / Searching for Things'' (2000) (limited to 500 copies)
* ''Two Sides of Myself'' (2000) (limited to 500 copies)
* ''Carol Whiskey 9'' (2000) (limited to 250 copies) (split with
Rothko
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)
* ''Sets and Rises / Rises and Sets'' (2000) (limited to 500 copies) (split with Lilienthal)
* ''Fear of Bridges'' (2002) (limited. to 700 copies)
* ''Latency'' (2003) (limited to 100 copies)
* ''Paper White'' (2005)
* ''Big Black Square'' (2005)
* ''Ghost Weight'' (2005)
* ''Paper White / Big Black Square'' (2005)
* ''Home Ruckus'' (2005) (limited to 500 copies)
* ''Home Ruckus: Double-Sided Air'' (2007) (limited to 500 copies)
* ''Home Ruckus: Bottled Smoke'' (2007) (limited to 100 copies)
* ''Ghetto Beats On the Surface of the Sun'' (2007)
* ''You Can't Hide Your Love Forever Vol. 3: Space Junk'' (2009) (limited to 300 copies, part of the You Can't Hide Your Love Forever 7-inch subscription series)
Compilations
* ''Ephemera , Singles 99-00'' (2002)
Live albums
* ''Live Edits: Natoma'' CD (2006) (limited to 500 copies)
* ''Ghetto Beats On the Surface of the Sun'' (2006) (limited to 500 copies of each)
* ''Live Edits: Italy & Switzerland'' (2008) (limited to 500 copies)
DVDs
* ''Over Water'' (2009) (DVD-r collaboration with filmmaker Paul Clipson, three shorts of Super8 film and music mostly culled from live performances in Italy & Switzerland in 2005, limited to 100 copies)
References
External links
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American post-rock groups
Temporary Residence Limited artists
Musical groups from San Francisco