Tout will be supporting Haiku Salut on the 15th January at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, 2-4 Hoxton Square N1 6NU from 7.30pm onwards. £6 entry. Tout will be onstage at 8pm with full band line-up. Really looking forward to this one. We would also like to thank everyone who came down to see our first  show of the year at the Camden Lock Tavern for Martyn Bonanza's Americana All-Dayer. Further shows to be announced shortly.

We also received this review of Tout Second on our band camp page recently: 

My experience in first listening to this LP by TOUT was simply stunning. It's lazy psychedelic grooves reminded me of some of ENO's work. The production is spot on, clear and with air and space. It's a wonderful album to own on vinyl. (Josie Lewis)

Happy New Year. We are starting the New Year with a small show at the Camden Lock for Martyn Bonanza on the Sunday 10th January. We should be on stage for around 6pm and will be playing as a three piece. There will be further announces of upcoming shows shortly. Last year was another busy year, with the release of Tout Third and lots of shows across London and elsewhere. Tout have also been working on some new tracks and there will be some announcements regarding them soon. To date , there is no release date set.

We ended the year with a terrific, almost sold out show at The Chapel, St Margarets House in Bethnal Green in late November. We played alongside fellow Trestle Record artist Ross Downes. This venue is very special and we hope to play more shows there this year. 

I can also announce that we are having a January sale. For a limited time you can pick up copies of Tout Second on vinyl for only £6 plus postage and packing. There will be more news to follow shortly regarding our plans for the 2016 and upcoming shows.

It's been a while since the last update. We've been busy working on several new tracks, but also taking a break following the release of the latest album. We would like to thank everyone who made it down to album launch show. You can watch an extract from the launch below.

As well as the album launch show, we also had the pleasure of supporting Noura Mint Seymali on the 27th July at the Servant Jazz Quarters. Thank you to everyone that made it possible and came down to show their support.

We will be doing a live session on Bonanza and Son on Resonance 104.4 fm this coming Wednesday at 4.30pm. We are going to be playing a few tracks form our latest album and having a little chat. Tune in. There will be more updates soon as we return to the studio.

Tout Third Review

We had another review for Tout Third from the chaps over at Norman Records. You can purchase the new album from them here.

Can ambient music sound like Chris Isaak? If it can, then it’s Tout’s fault. A band attuning folk roots into a slow and languishing type of post-rock, they end up making melodramatic lounge music, the kind that’s only a bar closing time away from being “Wicked Game”. On ‘Third’, the band continue to move slowly toward instrumental torch songs, placating their slick, open world guitar tones with some ground dirt.

Tout approach roots folk like it’s a familiar friend: it is the stuff that makes them sound as chill as Real Estate, the double bass there to put their compositions in a warm bold font, the violins appearing as a gorgeous buffer, giving the slow, meandering guitar lines some form of dramatic force. On its own, the noodling, meditatively technical guitar is Isaak all over: clean as a whistle, but dustier than a country road, it invokes nostalgia and then makes the nostalgia sad.  Think Loren Connors, too: chords only appear incidentally to a wandering kind of folk jazz that sounds like it’s walked in from a storm -- on “And Risked My Life”, strums on an acoustic guitar join the soloing like a stranger giving Tout directions.

If you’ve heard Tout before, you know and likely cherish the ambiguities of their sound: Tortoise, Rachel’s, and Earth all exist in their music, but so too do the folkies, the primitivists, the romantics. If you think they’re making soundscapes and letting them lie, then listen to the way they sprinkle piano over “For That Damned Stage”. What a manipulative bunch -- Isaak would be proud.

Tout Third Album Launch

A big thank you to everyone who made it down to the Tout Third album launch at Hatch in Homerton on Sunday. We were supported by our good friends and label mates Adam Coney and Nick Siddall and would like to say a big thank you to them and to Robin Dalton who accompanied us on Trumpet and Peter Bennie, who played bass for us. We are currently booking more shows, which will be announced as and when and will be playing the Trestle Records showcase on the 18th July 2015 at the Hackney Picturehouse, Attic.

Tout Third

www.trestlerec.com

Third is the latest album release from the London-based instrumental four piece, Tout, and its most ambitious record to date. Drawing on a range of influences including Neil Young, Dirty Three and Do Make Say Think, Third's ten instrumental tracks evoke sprawling vistas, outback lands, expanse and movement. Emotive viola rides atop country-tinged rhythms and thudding double bass. Distorted guitars occasionally emerge to bring dirt and dissonance to the highly crafted melodies.


On Third, guest contributors on trumpet and double bass expand the band's dynamics to produce a uniquely textured collection. Multi-instrumentalist David Coulter adds to the musical arrangements on Third the rarely heard instruments the jaw harp and bowed saw. The resulting sound is one drawn from a palette of historic folk and country blues re-contextualised in to a contemporary form and the aesthetic is highly atmospheric and suggestive of filmic landscapes.

released 14 June 2015

Nick Downes - Guitar / Percussion / Synth / Piano / Lap Steel / Harmonica
Jonny Fryer - Guitar / Percussion / Synth / Piano / Lap Steel / Tanpura
Jonny McKemey - Drums
Simone Potter - Viola / Cello / Piano
Peter Bennie - Double Bass / Electric Bass
David Coulter - Saw / Jaw Harp
Robin A. Dalton - Trumpet

Recorded in London 2015
Mastered by Nick Siddall
Artwork by Ross Downes

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