MIXING …
We finished recording our mini-album. We’re pretty excited and we’re hoping to launch this spring!

Check out our new photos in the audio / visual section !
»11.23.04

NEW CD!
We are leaving for a week, from 24 to 30 November, to record our first recording studio as a trio. We will spend the week in a barn in the eastern townships! We hope to finish the work on recording for the new year and we want to do the CD launch in spring 2005. If you have ideas for record companies, send us an email! torngat@hotmail.com

BEATRICE-DESLOGES
We spent the day on Friday November 19 with the wonderful students from
Béatrices-Desloges. We played the show the earliest in our history at 9:30 am! Then, we we led a musical improvisation workshop in the afternoon. It gave us great pleasure to spend the day with these talented and potential-filled students. We hope they have amused as much as we did!

THE TROQUET
Thank you to everyone who came out for our first performance in the Ottawa-Gatineau region! We really enjoyed the evening and we hope to be able to return soon!
11.11.04

TORNGAT AND BOTO LIVE A HULL !
Le Troquet de Hull welcomes torngat and BOTO, the first show of these two groups in the region
of Ottawa.

Saturday November 20, 2004
9:00 p.m., $ 5 at door
41, rue Laval
Hull, Qc.

02.11.04

LIVE AT O PATRO VYS
torngat will present a show this Friday with The Squarewaves at O ​​Patro Vys.

Friday November 5, 2004
9:00 p.m., $ 7 at door
356, ave. Mont-Royal E.
»20.10.04

HALLOWEEN EVENING
torngat and People for Audio invite you to spend Halloween night at the Bread Factory. Evening costume, music, pumpkins and lots of bread!

Saturday October 30, 2004
21:00, $ 6 at the door

BACK IN RIVOLI
We played at the Rivoli in Toronto for the second time. It was the launch
official release of the new Memphis record. (10/29/04)
»18.09.04
POP MONTREAL
On Thursday September 30, torngat will present a show as part of the Pop Montréal festival .

Main Hall, 5390 St-Laurent

9:30 Zombi
10:15 torngat
11:15 Sevens Project / Moment Factory (live soundtrack / mixed film and visuals)

$ 6 in advance / $ 8 at the door tickets available at Atom Heart – 344 Sherbrooke Est.

CD LIVE !!!

torngat will launch their live album on September 30 (recorded live on June 5, 2004 at the Bread Factory).
»08.08.04

LEAVE!
Our last show of the summer was very good. Thanks to all the brave who came despite the rain and the heat! Toronto and Guelph were fantastic (it was the first time we were leaving Montreal!). Many people applauded, we sold one several albums, and we made several friends! A big thank you to Owen who organized this adventure and the Flies that were EXTRAORDINARY live!

We take the month of August to relax. We will replay September 30 for PopMontreal with Sevens Project and we plan to record in November …

Enjoy the rest of the summer!
»24.07.04

BREAD FACTORY IV
torngat will play Friday July 30th with Plants and Animals at Bread Factory
9 p.m., $ 6 at the door. C liquer here for directions.
»0 7 . 07 .04

MINI TOUR – TORONTO / GUELPH / EDEN MILLS
torngat will present three shows in the Toronto area.

Thursday July 8 @ The Rivoli , Toronto
PICASTRO
GLISSANDRO 70
TORNGAT
special guest JOHN WAYNER
9pm, $ 6

Friday July 9 @ Ed Video , Guelph
FLIES
TORNGAT
BAHAI CASSETTE
9pm,? $

Saturday July 10 @ Tantramar Farm , Eden Mills
TORNGAT and several other groups including FINAL FANTASY
all day, $ 10

»03.07.04
TORNGAT LIVE AT CAFE L’UTOPIK
Back to basics … torngat will play at Café L’Utopik (formerly Café Ludik) on Saturday July 3 at 9:00 p.m.
552 Ste-Catherine East. Montreal
FIRST PART: RUST

»11.06.04
TORNGAT AND PEOPLE FOR AUDIO
torngat will play Friday June 18 at Cafe Silencio (3645 Notre-Dame in St-Henri, Linonel-Groulx metro station) with people for Audio. It will be the first show in trio format for torngat outside the Bread Factory and it will be the first performance in Montreal of People for Audio who are natives of the British Columbia! The show starts at 9 p.m. and costs 6ft. For more information

»05.19.04
BREAD FACTORY III torngat will present another show at the Bread Factory with Barefoot from Wolfville (New Scotland). The show will be on June 5 at 9 a.m. $ 6 at the door. C liquer here for directions.

TORNGAT AND ANNE O’CONNELL You say torngat and Anne O’Connell?Come see (and hear) torngat with Sylvain Delisle (bass) at the official launch of Anne O’Connell’s album. The show will start at 8 p.m and will be presented at El Salon (4388 St-Lauren) Friday May 21.

»03.23.04

TORNGAT IN SWITZERLAND ! We will talk about torngat during a program on the Swiss internet radio DBC

3.30 p.m. Tuesday March 23 (9.30 p.m. French time)

We finally produced our first album! It’s a 100% independent album, produced
exclusively by torngat, mixed by torngat and our good friend Erick Jarry “mastered” it,
with a cover designed by Philippe Charbonneau (brother to Mathieu).

We would be delighted to see you at our launch, at Quai des Brumes (4481 St-Denis, corner of Mont-Royal), Wednesday June 4 at 9 p.m.Our disc will NOT be available at your favorite record store because it is produced independently. If you can’t come to the launch and you want a CD, give us your mailing address at torngat@hotmail.com. We will send you a disc
by mail. (at your expense) But it’s always better to see our next show, we’re going to have discs available on the spot.

” French horn, keyboards and drums can hold infinite possibilities, as this Montreal trio aptly demonstrates. Pietro Amato (Bell Orchestre, occasionally Arcade Fire), Mathieu Charbonneau and Julien Poissant also juggle duelling melodicas, percussion and an arsenal of effects to create captivating soundscapes and compositions that unexpectedly flowered into dance beats by the set’s conclusion. Can Montreal fit another spellbinding instrumental band inside the city walls? Absolutely.”
– Michael Barclay, Exclaim!
2004 Pop Montreal Festival review

” Thursday night was the first truly packed schedule of the Pop Montreal Festival. The Black Keys, Death From Above 1979, Billy Talent, Despistado, Q And Not U and Les Georges Leningrad were all competing for my attention. I opted instead for torngat, an instrumental three piece that makes more noise than a small army.

They were the one truly breathtaking discovery of Pop Montreal, appropriately confined to a new venue that sprouted overnight above a burnt out textile warehouse. The band’s reputation preceded them in the form of high praise from one of my friends, and I was stunned by their brand of post-rock-cum- chamber pop. Imagine the most joyous moments of the Rachel’s oeuvre fused with the accessibility of Belle & Sebastian’s most spellbinding melodies. In terms of the excitement in the room and the amazed response of the crowd, it was everything Godspeed You Black Emperor used to be, minus the politics and pretense.”
– Mike Baker, Splendidezine.com
2004 Pop Montreal Festival review

“Finger painting on liquid canvas while dancing to the tune of the greatest ants in your pants you ever had…(I wrote this at torngat’s last show as a quartet. If I would write it now, I would add)…in your head while meditating on the beauty of mischeif and complicity.”
-Carlo A. Verdichio 2004

Torngat Live at the Bread Factory

Track List

1. Fly Stuff
2. (click to download)
3. Bye Bye Sly
4. (click to download)
5. Baldy Walk
6. La Rouge
7. Alberta Song
8. (click to download)

PIETRO AMATO, french horn + electronics
MATHIEU CHARBONNEAU, keyboards + percussion
JULIEN POISSANT, drum kit + trumpet + percussion

All compositions by Torngat
Recorded live June 5th 2004 by Carey Dodge
Mastered by Érick Jarry
Art and design: Julien Poissant

Torngat

Track List

1. (click to listen)
2. three frozen birds
3. long stick
4. lady grey
5. sadly looking at an immersed dying eider
6. (click to listen)
7. space
8. drop the bomb
9. (click to listen)
10. ukumama
11. backpain
12. sparks like a song
13. hate to say I told you so
14. angels try

PIETRO AMATO, french horn and electronics
MATHIEU CHARBONNEAU, Rhodes and Hammond
SYLVAIN DELISLE, bass and ukulele
JULIEN POISSANT, drums and percussion

All compositions by Torngat
Recorded live in Entrelac (2002) by Érick Jarry and Jean-François Gagnon
Mix: Torngat and Érick Jarry
Production: Torngat and Érick Jarry
Mastering: Érick Jarry
Art and design: Philippe Charbonneau
Release date: June 4 2003

Now available at a Torngat show, CD esotérique, L’Oblique, Les Anges Vagabonds, Cheap Thrills and The Black Tomato (Ottawa). You can also order the album online at www.cheapthrills.ca or directly from torngat.ca (email to: torngat@hotmail.com).

RECAP OF 2005…
Lot’s of good things in 2005… We released our EP, La Rouge, which is our first official release as a trio. We are really happy with it and the reception it has gotten so far. Also, we played more shows in more places than we ever had, and in doing so, we got to meet lots of wonderful bands and lots of wonderful people which has been really great. And towards the end of the year we signed a publishing deal with Third Side Music, who have a great team. Also, we recently started working with Steven from Paquin
Entertainment who will be booking us shows in Canada. So, 2005 was definitely a good year for us. We hope it was as good for you!

BIG PLANS FOR 2006!
Basically, world domination! And to achieve that, more shows, and the recording of our first full length record as a trio! We plan on recording during the whole month of August in the country.

If you have a cottage that we can rent, let us know!
Here’s a couple of shows we have planned: Feb. 18th, Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield, Québec, Ottawa region. $7 at the door March 4th, Sala Rossa with Laura Barrett, Montréal, Québec $10, tickets now on sale at your favorite Montréal record shops.

Check out the Multimedia section for new mp3’s of Fly Stuff (a La Rouge B-side), a very different mix of La Rouge (both mixed by John Philipps) and some new pictures (by Philippe Charbonneau). Oh, and we now have a myspace account.

UPCOMING SHOWS
November 13 th , Sherbrooke, Granada Theatre, with Bell Orchestre
November 14 th , Québec, Le Kashmir, with Bell Orchestre
November 23 rd , Ebar, Guelph, with Burn Rome in a Dream
November 24 th , K-W, UW Gradhouse, with Bocce and London Apartments
November 25 th , Hamilton, Casbah, with Fat Cats
November 26 th , Toronto, The Boat, with Hylozoists

»16.10.05
HALLOWEEN SHOWS!
Friday October 28th in Ottawa at Zaphod’s with J’envoie and Akisakila, 8pm, 7$ Saturday October 29th in Montreal at the Bread Factory with People for Audio and Special Guests. Come Costumed! 9pm, 6$, beer and liquor available at the show. The Bread Factory is located at 617 St-Remi #304, Place St-Henri Metro, for directions, click here

»25.09.05
POP MONTREAL
Torngat will be performing again this year for the Pop Montreal music festival. We are playing on Saturday October 1st at Divan Orange (4234 St-Laurent) as a part of the Mandatory Moustache local showcase. The show
is pay-what-you-can (0-5$) and is between 6pm and 10pm.

9:00pm Torngat
8:00pm Plants and Animals (www.plantsandanimals.ca)
7:00pm Pawa Up First (www.pawaupfirst.com)
6:00pm Winged Head Above Water (no web site, I think)

»08.03.05
EAST COAST SHOWS
Torngat will play in Moncton NB. at the Théâtre de l’Escaouette for the SSNAP Festival on August 11. It will be a night of great music with folk singer Joe Grass and the Acadian group Les Paiens. On the 13 th of August the band will play at the Tap Room in Fredericton with Joe Grass.

July 9th, Ottawa, at Irene’s Pub with As the Poets Affirm

Our next show in Montreal will be Tuesday June 14th at Le Divan Orange (4234 St-Laurent) with Plants and Animals and The White Noise Ensemble. This show is a part of the Mandatory Moustache local series.
8:30, 5$

JUSQU’AUX OREILLES FESTIVAL
On August 21 st , Torngat will play at the Jusqu’aux oreilles Festival (CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO!) held at Christ Church Cathedral, 635 St-Catherine West (McGill metro) in downtown Montreal. It’s the first time this contemporary music festival has a band on its lineup. It is an all ages show, at 7:30 pm, with a $5 suggested contribution. A big thanks to Patti Schmidt and Scott Tresham.
»06.16.05
ONTARIO, MINI-TOUR FOR THE MINI ALBUM
June 22nd, St-Catharines, at the Merchant Ale House with Pay Dirt
June 23rd, Guelph, at the Ebar with Picastro
June 24th, Brantford, at the Fordplant with Anglers Arms and more…
June 25th, Toronto, at the Music Gallery with Final Fantasy
June 26th, Hamilton, at the Casbah with Anglers Arms and more…

»05.02.05

CD LAUNCH
Our EP is done! We will be releasing La Rouge Saturday May 21st at O Patro Vys (356 Mont-Royal East). Special guests The 6 Cats Horn Trio will open the evening at 9pm followed by yours truly!
10$ for the show. 15$ for the show and a record.
MINI-TOUR FOR THE MINI ALBUM
June 4th, Québec, at the Galerie Rouje with Patrick Watson
June 22nd, St-Catharines, at the Merchant Ale House with Pay Dirt
June 23rd, Guelph, at the Ebar with Picastro
June 24th, Brantford, at the Fordplant with Anglers Arms and more…
June 25th, Toronto, at the Music Gallery with Final Fantasy
June 26th, Hamilton, at the Casbah with Anglers Arms and more…
»01.06.05

MIXING
We are done recording our EP and now we’re busy with mixing. We are really excited and we hope you can get your hands on the recording this Spring at our cd launch party.

Check out our new pictures in the audio/visual section!
»11.23.04

NEW CD!

We will be spending a week (Nov. 24th – Nov. 30th) recording our new EP in a barn in the Eastern Townships. This will be the first studio recording of torngat without Sylvain! We hope it will be done by the new year and released by Spring 2005. If you have any ideas for labels,
please le us know! torngat@hotmail.com

BÉATRICE-DESLOGES
We spent the day Friday November 19th with the wonderful students of Béatrice-Desloges in Orléans (Ottawa region). We played our earliest show ever at 9:30am and animated a musical improvisation workshop in the afternoon. It was a pleasure for us to spend the day with such great young musicians that were filled with so much potential. We hope they had as much fun as we did!

LE TROQUET

Thanks to all who made it out to Le Troquet for our first show in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. We had a blast playing for you and we hope to come back soon!
»11.11.04

TORNGAT AND BOTO LIVE IN HULL
torngat and BOTO will play their first show in the Ottawa region, come and rock out with us at
the Troquet!

Saturday November 20th 2004
9pm, $5 at the door
41 rue Laval,
Hull, Qc.
»11.02.04

LIVE AT O PATRO VYS
torngat will open up the night for The Squarewaves at O Patro Vys this Friday.

Friday November 5th 2004
9pm, $7 at the door
356 ave. du Mont-Royal E.
»10.20.04

HALLOWEEN PARTY
Come and celebrate Halloween with torngat and People for Audio at the Bread Factory. Wear a costume, listen to music, eat pumpkins and bread!

Saturday October 30th 2004
9pm, $6 at the door

BACK AT THE RIVOLI
We played again at the Rivoli in Toronto for Memphis’ cd release party…it was great!
(10/29/04)
»09.18.04

POP MONTREAL
torngat will be performing for the Pop Montreal festival Thursday September 30th.

Main Hall, 5390 St-Laurent

9:30 Zombi
10:15 torngat
11:15 Sevens Project/Moment Factory (live soundtrack/mixed film and visuals)

$6 advance / $8 doors tickets available

LIVE CD!!!
torngat will also be releasing their new live cd at the Pop Montreal show (recorded live at the bread factory June 5th).
»08.8.04

SUMMER BREAK!
Our last show of the summer was lots of fun. Thanks to all the courageous people who came out despite the crazy rain and heat… Our small Toronto/Guelph tour went great (it was our first time out of town!). Lot’s of people clapped, we sold a few records and we made a bunch of new friends! All this thanks to Owen and les mouches who were simply FANTASTIC live!

We will be taking the month of August off. After our vacation, we will be performing September 30th for PopMontreal with Sevens Project and planning for our recording session in november…

Enjoy the rest of the summer!
»07.24.04

BREAD FACTORY IV torngat will be performing with Plants and Animals at the Bread Factory.
9pm, 6$ at the door. click here for a map.
»07.07.04

MINI TOUR DATES – TORONTO/GUELPH/EDEN MILLS
torngat will be hitting Canada’s big apple this Thursday with a 3 gig mini tour. Here are the dates and times:

Thursday July 8th @ The Rivoli, Toronto
PICASTRO
GLISSANDRO 70
TORNGAT
special guest JOHN WAYNER
9pm, 6$

Friday July 9th @ Ed Video, Guelph
LES MOUCHES
TORNGAT
BAHAI CASSETTE
9pm, ?$

Saturday July 10th @ Tantramar Farm, Eden Mills
TORNGAT with several other bands including FINAL FANTASY
all day, 10$

TORNGAT LIVE AT CAFE L’UTOPIK
torngat will be performing at Café L’Utopik (formely known as Café Ludik) Saturday July 3rd at 9pm. 552 Ste-Catherine E. Montréal OPENING ACT: RUST
»05.19.04

TORNGAT AND PEOPLE FOR AUDIO
torngat will be performing with People for Audio at Cafe Silencio (3645 Notre-Dame in St-Henri, Linonel-Groulx metro) on Friday June 18th. This will be torngat’s first full performance as a trio outside of the bread factory, and People for Audio’s first performance in Montreal since moving here from their native BC! The show starts at 9pm and is 6bucks.

BREAD FACTORY III
torngat will be playing another show at the Bread Factory. This time with BareFoot from Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The show will be held on June 5, starts at 9pm and is 6$ at the door.
Click here for a map.

TORNGAT AND ANNE O’CONNELL
What do torngat and Anne O’Connell have in common? Come and check out torngat with Sylvain Delisle (on bass) for Anne’s cd release party. torngat and Sylvain are featured on Anne’s cd as the backing band. The show/party is on friday May 21st, starts at 8pm and will be held at El Salon (4388 St-Laurent).

TORNGAT IN SWITZERLAND!
Online swiss radio DBC (dbc-radio.net) will be broadcasting a show with a section highlighting torngat. The show will air on Tuesday March 23rd at 3:30pm (9:30pm French time).

TORNGAT LIVE WITH JEAN DEROME
Torngat will be performing live with Jean Derome at the Va-et-Vient (3706 Notre Dame west). The show starts at 9pm and is 5$.
»12.07.03

TORNGAT LIVE AT THE BREAD FACTORY
click here.
»10.29.03

10 WEEKS ON CISM
Torngat has now been on CISM’s (89.3fm) top 40 chart for 10 consecutive weeks. Thanks to all the DJs and to all our listeners. www.cism.qc.ca
»10.09.03

TORNGAT LIVE AT SALA ROSA
New Groove form Torngat’s new album appears on Sang9, a compilation distributed by Dame/Ambiances Magnétiques. There will be a festival at Sala Rosa to launch this compilation. Torngat will play on Thursday November 13th 2003, preceeded by Mélanie Auclair, Bobok, Dickie’s Nodan L. and Malarafe. For more information.

TORNGAT MUSIC ONLINE!

You can now download 3 tracks from the Torngat album. Please see the recordings section.
»07.27.03

TORNGAT LIVE
The last summer show for Torngat will be held at Sergent Recruteur, Saturday August 2nd at 9pm. The show is free and will feature some brand new songs…

RADIO INTERVIEW
Torngat will be live on the air for an interview with the kind people from “un triolet parmi tant d’autres”, an urban music show on CISM (89.3fm), Thursday July 31st at 10pm.
» 07.03.03

Sorry about the lack of updates, we have been busy recuperating our energy since our cd launch
party!

UPCOMING SHOWS
Torngat will be performing 2 electric shows in Montreal this summer.Torngat and guests (to be confirmed) live at Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent) July 11th 9pm . Torngat live at Sergeant Recruteur (4650 St-Laurent) August 2nd 9pm

In the meantime, Torngat is playing acoustic (accordion, double bass, horn, melodica and percussion) in the old port (mostly on nights when there are fireworks).

TORNGAT IN RECORD SHOPS!
You can now find the Torngat cd in the racks of a few independent Montreal record stores. Cheap Thrills, CD Esoterik, Les Anges Vagabond and L’Oblique are each selling our records for us.

DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC TO COME
You will soon be able to download a few tracks from our album. Plus we will be putting some goodies that aren’t on the record (live and unreleased tracks and studio jams!) for you to
enjoy.

TORNGAT MEETS JEAN VANIER AND L’ARCHE
Torngat is proud to have participated at the Jean Vanier “Workers for Peace” retreat in Ottawa the weekend of June 27th – 29th by playing a show at their Saturday night party. Jean Vanier is the founder of L’Arche – a non-profit organisation that has communities around the world which welcome developmentally disabled adults and kids into their homes.

Thanks to every one of you who was able to come to our launch party. We were very pleased to see so many of you there.

Please send us any comments, suggestions, complaints regarding anything (your favorite bar you would like Torngat to play in, what you like best/don’t like about our music or a specific show, what you think of our web site, our cd’s or our posters…but no comments about our shoes, please) at torngat@hotmail.com. We would love to hear what you think.
» 05.27.03

Une version française de torngat.ca est à venir. Veuillez patientez svp.

» 05.27.03

We have finally finished our first album! It is 100% independant, produced exclusively by torngat, mixed by torngat with our good friend Erick Jarry, mastered by Erick Jarry, with artwork by Philippe Charbonneau (Mathieu’s brother).

We would be thrilled if you could make it to our cd launch party which will be held at Quai des Brumes (4481 St-Denis, corner of Mont-Royal) Wednesday June 4th, 9pm. There is a 3$ cover charge but it’s free if you buy the cd.

The cd’s will NOT be available at your local record shop as they are independantly produced. However, if you can’t make it to the launch but you would still like a record, send us an email at torngat@hotmail.com and include your address, we will send out your copies after the lauch (you pay the shipping upon arrival).

OR you can just come to our next show and pick up a copy (no shipping cost!).

we thank you for your continuing support hope to see you at the party!
torngat

» 05.26.03

Torngat.ca has been officialy launched! Check back soon for new features and more updates.

1. La Rouge (8.1mb) 2. Fly Stuff (6.7mb)	La Rouge B-sides mixage par John Philipps
1. Alberta Song (10.6mb)	La Rouge
1. Hide and Seek (6.5mb) 2. Finger Painting (5mb) 3. Surf (5mb)	torngat live at the Bread Factory Saturday June 5th 2004 recorded by Carey Dodge
1. 32mm (5mb) 2. sans titre (4.3mb)	torngat with Jean Derome live at Va-et-Vient Tuesday January 27th 2004
1. improvisation (11mb)	torngat live at the SAT festival Radical Liberté Thursday March 6th 2003
1. 32mm (4.3mb) 2. Resurfacing (1.6mb) 3. New Groove (3mb)	torngat album Recorded live in Entrelac (2002) by Érick Jarry and Jean-François Gagnon

VISUAL

In the quest for the perfect cymbal, many Jazz drummer have noted that Tony Williams’ ride in the Miles (60’s) era was the best sounding cymbal ever recorded. It is now seen as THE sound for a Jazz cymbal. In my efforts to capture this sound, I (with great help from cymbalholic members such as: Patrick Wiseman and Mike Skiba…thanks guys!) took the initiative of asking Istanbul Agop to produce a ride that was similar to the revered Tony Williams sound.

Through extensive research and listening, we were able to determine the specific caracteristics that produce the Tony Williams. Obviously, it is firstly Williams’ masterful technique and feel that makes this cymbal sound gorgeous. Nonetheless, it is secondly the craftsmanship of the old K. Zildjian Istanbul factory that is at the base of his sound. This old K sound is what we have attempted to capture. With the supreme talent of the cymbal makers at the Agop factory and the input of my fellow drummer fiends, I beleive that the product that we have here comes very close to the recorded sound of Williams’ ride.

There were two batches of these rides made. Only two were made of the first batch. This first batch was the original and Istanbul made the ride according to the document I wrote. Here are pictures of the original ride:

The original prototype is much heavier than the second batch. This ride weights at around 2680g. But because of its bowed profile and thinner edges it crashes very nicely. Notice how the lathing gets thinner at about 3″ from the edge?

Its bowed profile is responsible for the controlled wash. This ride never gets out of control. It always has the prominent woody stick tone with the dark wash underneath. Unless you shoulder crash it, it never opens up to the point of being overly loud and washy. Once crashed though, this ride opens up to a nice trashy splash sound. But because of its bowed profile, the crash quickly diminishes.

Hear and compare the original ride with the original Tony Williams Nefertiti ride (courtesy of Patrick Wiseman)

ride crash

The second batch was made considerably different. Much of the sonic qualities of the original Tony Williams ride was retained. The only difference is that it is lathed like an Agop Jazz ride. The profile is still bowed with a slight edge upwards edge flange. The bell is not as big and thick. These were also made much thinner.

Notice how the edge flanges a bit upwards?

The hammering is also a bit less heavy than the original. These rides have a darker and more shimery sound. They are reminisent of the old K sound we all love. Check out the clips on the main page and hear for yourself!

»01.06.05: Mixing …
» 11.23.04: EP and others!
»11.11.04: torngat and BOTO in Hull
» 11.02.04: torngat and The Squarewaves
»10.20.04: torngat and People for Audio
» 09.18.04: Pop Montreal / CD live
»07.24.04: Bread Factory IV
» 07.07. 04: Toronto
»06.11.04: torngat live
» 05.19.04: Bread Factory III
»05.19.04: Anne O’Connell launch

Welcome to the news page, where you can hear straight from the band what is upcoming in the land of Torngat.

Coming soon: news of shows, plans and thoughts the band thinks are worth publishing.
Please check back.

In the meantime, La Petite Nicole is out now on CD, LP and digital formats.
You can get it from Alien8.

Download the one-sheet for You Could Be

English – Torngat_YouCoulBe.pdf

Français – Torngat_YouCouldBe.pdf

Download Torngat Stage Plot

1 You Could Be
2 Bordeaux Boredom
3 Minute By Minute
4 Many Faces, Many Places
5 Mouton Noir
6 Gemini One
7 Suite a) Steps To A Lively Dance
8 Suite b) Chorale
9 Suite c) L’Océan, La Nuit
10 A Super Hero Anthem
11 Celebrating New
12 Hammond Song: Being A Torngat

BUY CD FROM ALIEN8 RECORDINGS

Torngat – La Rouge
Released 05/05

1 Nouvelle France
2 Bell Duet
3 Alberta Song
4 La Rouge
5 Bye Bye Sly

BUY CD FROM ALIEN8 RECORDINGS

Torngat – s/t
Released 06/03

1 32mm
2 Three Frozen Birds
3 Long Stick
4 Lady Grey
5 Sadly Looking At An Immersed Dying Eider
6 Resurfacing
7 Space
8 Drop The Bomb
9 New Groove
10 Ukumama
11 Backpain
12 Sparks Like AS