To coincide with TesseracT touring the U.S. with Gojira in September Kscope will be releasing a 2 disc tour edition of their critically acclaimed studio album “Polaris” on September 16th, 2016.
The new 2016 edition of “Polaris” will be released with a bonus second disc “Errai”, which features four re-worked tracks from “Polaris” – “Survival”, “Cages”, “Tourniquet” and “Seven Names”. The tracks have been re-imagined by the band's long time live producer and sound engineer Aidan O'Brien. He says on being asked to work on the project: “I've been lucky enough to contribute to various bits of TesseracT material since the "Perspective" EP back in 2012, but it was a thrill and an honour to be asked to have a much more involved role in working on reimagining four of the tracks from "Polaris". Being given the chance to offer my interpretations of the songs at the core of these wonderfully nuanced and complex arrangements, as well as the chance to work closely with such talented musicians, was hugely exciting and I'm extremely proud of the results. It's still unmistakably TesseracT, but from an angle I think a lot of people won't have heard before”.
TessaracT vocalist Dan Tompkins comments: “It's been fantastic to re-visit & re-work the vocals to some of the "Polaris" tracks from a different angle and with the benefit of time and space. The normal process of writing TesseracT songs starts with the creation of the music followed by the lyrical content; this time Acle and Aidan have stripped away the music and re-created the songs based around the vocals. As a result this has allowed much more breathing space between both and also highlighted much more detail in the performance”...
The “Polaris Tour Edition” will be released as a 2 CD set, with “Errai” being released as a stand-alone 180g heavyweight clear vinyl with enclosed download code. Pre-order starts on 27th May.
Along with the new song interpretations the cover art of new edition of “Polaris” has been given a 2016 make-over by artist Dan Mumford.
TesseracT released “Polaris” in September of last year via their U.K. label home Kscope and distributed / marketed by Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) in North America. The new LP is the follow up to the highly regarded “Altered State” LP that was released in 2013. “Polaris” is band's third studio album and first for Kscope and eOne.
US Tour Dates 2016:
Sep 21 THE FILMORE - Silver Spring, MD
Sep 22 ELECTRIC FACTORY - Philadelphia, PA
Sep 24 THE ORANGE PEEL - Asheville, NC
Sep 25 TABERNACLE - Atlanta, GA
Sep 26 THE PLAZA LIVE - Orlando, FL
Sep 27 THE RITZ YBOR - Tampa, FL
Sep 29 EMO'S - Austin, TX
Sep 30 HOUSE OF BLUES - Houston, TX
Oct 01 GAS MONKEY LIVE - Dallas, TX
Oct 03 SUNSHINE THEATER - mpe, AZ
Oct 06 THE WILTERN - Los Angeles, CA
Oct 07 THE WARFIELD - San Francisco, CA
Oct 09 VOGUE THEATRE - Vancouver, Canada
Oct 10 ROSELAND THEATER - Portland, OR
Oct 11 SHOWBOX SODO - Seattle, WA
Oct 13 THE COMPLEX - Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 14 GOTHIC THEATRE - Englewood, CO
Oct 16 MYTH - St Paul, MN
Oct 17 TURNER HALL BALLROOM - Milwaukee, WI
Oct 19 THE FILLMORE - Detroit, MI
Oct 20 SOUND ACADEMY - Toronto, Canada
Oct 21 METROPOLIS - Montreal, Canada
Oct 22 THE PALLADIUM - Worcester, MA
Oct 23 TERMINAL 5 - New York, NY
The latest LP was received quite well among critics. Revolver Magazine called the album the “platonic ideal of a TesseracT album, the one where they get everything just right”. Ooutburn Magazine states the band “keeps impressing with every release, going with different ideas and compositions while still keeping their identity”. Metal Injection went as far to say that Polaris “is best defined as a sum of the group's polished production smoothly colliding with an offensive onslaught of vocal and instrumentation virtuosity”.
Weblinks:
tesseractband.co.uk
www.facebook.com/tesseractband
The new 2016 edition of “Polaris” will be released with a bonus second disc “Errai”, which features four re-worked tracks from “Polaris” – “Survival”, “Cages”, “Tourniquet” and “Seven Names”. The tracks have been re-imagined by the band's long time live producer and sound engineer Aidan O'Brien. He says on being asked to work on the project: “I've been lucky enough to contribute to various bits of TesseracT material since the "Perspective" EP back in 2012, but it was a thrill and an honour to be asked to have a much more involved role in working on reimagining four of the tracks from "Polaris". Being given the chance to offer my interpretations of the songs at the core of these wonderfully nuanced and complex arrangements, as well as the chance to work closely with such talented musicians, was hugely exciting and I'm extremely proud of the results. It's still unmistakably TesseracT, but from an angle I think a lot of people won't have heard before”.
TessaracT vocalist Dan Tompkins comments: “It's been fantastic to re-visit & re-work the vocals to some of the "Polaris" tracks from a different angle and with the benefit of time and space. The normal process of writing TesseracT songs starts with the creation of the music followed by the lyrical content; this time Acle and Aidan have stripped away the music and re-created the songs based around the vocals. As a result this has allowed much more breathing space between both and also highlighted much more detail in the performance”...
The “Polaris Tour Edition” will be released as a 2 CD set, with “Errai” being released as a stand-alone 180g heavyweight clear vinyl with enclosed download code. Pre-order starts on 27th May.
Along with the new song interpretations the cover art of new edition of “Polaris” has been given a 2016 make-over by artist Dan Mumford.
TesseracT released “Polaris” in September of last year via their U.K. label home Kscope and distributed / marketed by Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) in North America. The new LP is the follow up to the highly regarded “Altered State” LP that was released in 2013. “Polaris” is band's third studio album and first for Kscope and eOne.
US Tour Dates 2016:
Sep 21 THE FILMORE - Silver Spring, MD
Sep 22 ELECTRIC FACTORY - Philadelphia, PA
Sep 24 THE ORANGE PEEL - Asheville, NC
Sep 25 TABERNACLE - Atlanta, GA
Sep 26 THE PLAZA LIVE - Orlando, FL
Sep 27 THE RITZ YBOR - Tampa, FL
Sep 29 EMO'S - Austin, TX
Sep 30 HOUSE OF BLUES - Houston, TX
Oct 01 GAS MONKEY LIVE - Dallas, TX
Oct 03 SUNSHINE THEATER - mpe, AZ
Oct 06 THE WILTERN - Los Angeles, CA
Oct 07 THE WARFIELD - San Francisco, CA
Oct 09 VOGUE THEATRE - Vancouver, Canada
Oct 10 ROSELAND THEATER - Portland, OR
Oct 11 SHOWBOX SODO - Seattle, WA
Oct 13 THE COMPLEX - Salt Lake City, UT
Oct 14 GOTHIC THEATRE - Englewood, CO
Oct 16 MYTH - St Paul, MN
Oct 17 TURNER HALL BALLROOM - Milwaukee, WI
Oct 19 THE FILLMORE - Detroit, MI
Oct 20 SOUND ACADEMY - Toronto, Canada
Oct 21 METROPOLIS - Montreal, Canada
Oct 22 THE PALLADIUM - Worcester, MA
Oct 23 TERMINAL 5 - New York, NY
The latest LP was received quite well among critics. Revolver Magazine called the album the “platonic ideal of a TesseracT album, the one where they get everything just right”. Ooutburn Magazine states the band “keeps impressing with every release, going with different ideas and compositions while still keeping their identity”. Metal Injection went as far to say that Polaris “is best defined as a sum of the group's polished production smoothly colliding with an offensive onslaught of vocal and instrumentation virtuosity”.
Weblinks:
tesseractband.co.uk
www.facebook.com/tesseractband