toe

Disambiguation:

# toe (Japanese band) is a Japanese post-rock music group.
# Toe (American band) is an Chicago post-rock music group.
(mostly what is heard in this profile is the japanese group).

About the Japanese band:

toe is an instrumental post-rock band. They formed in 2000.

The members are:
☆ 山嵜廣和 (Guitar)
☆ 美濃隆章 (Guitar)
☆ 山根さとし (Bass)
☆ 柏倉隆史 (Drums)

柏倉隆史 is 木村カエラ's support drummer.


About the American band: http://www.toechicago.com

See also Toe 2000
Personnel: david pavkovic, Yoko Noge, Matt Schneider, Griffin Rodriguez, Jeff Parker, Doug McCombs, George Langford, Tim Kinsella.

Toe began in 1996 when leader David Pavkovic collaborated with Jeff Parker, Doug Mccombs and Yoko Noge to make a record of odd pop music. Toe 2000, the first CD, on Truckstop Records, received international airplay, garnered gobs of shining reviews, and earned a spot for Toe on the Chicago 2018 compilation from German label Clearspot. Variant, the second Toe CD capitalized on Pavkovic's strengths as a composer, drummer, and programmer, and the sheer vocal prowess of Yoko Noge. Upon the release of Variant, Toe enlisted guitarist Matt Schneider and bassist George Langford to play live shows and to work on new material in anticipation of the third Toe CD. The current Toe lineup of David Pavkovic, Yoko Noge, Matt Schneider, and George Langford is presently in deep meditation following the completion of the 2003 European tour.

We have come to expect much of the so-called "uncategorizable" new music coming out of Chicago to be merely elusive or indirect. But indirectness is not something you can accuse Toe leader david pavkovic of. Witness "Absolutism Two," the first track on the reocrd, "Variant." The slamming, overlapping drums crashing in triple meter against Yoko Noge's sneering, Marianne Faithfull-of-the-Forbidden-Zone rant, is nothing if not pointed. Directly at you. This could be punk rock, this could be real-time jungle, this could be Japanese Taiko drums, so...what the hell is it?

Toe is a reminder from the old school of ENO and his ilk that the point of a song, no matter how avant, is in its emotional resonance, not how complicated the time signature is. For all its structural jumpcuts, Toe consistently makes melodic and even pop sense.

"Toe 2000’s Music has grown from the love of finely tuned musical compositions that transport the listener to another plane. More concerned with instrumentation than vocals, they reject the traditional verse and chorus structure and instead opt for a more orchestrated sound." -Impact Press