T TAURI

T-Tauri "Infinite Motion" CD (SAF28)
From the rust of the train tracks came T-Tauri. Thirsting for revelation, refinement, comprehension and revitalization. A molten flow of truth and fiction invaded the minds of Jason Coover, Aaron Warren, and Jason Gream Gaona, just out of High School in Colorado in 1993. They were their own heroes and villains in a drama of suffering and triumph, testing the limits of patience, rage, compassion and admittance. They won and lost battles in the honest spirit of the search, among the cobwebs of questions that could no longer be addressed by a simple life. T-Tauri was alive for six years, two years in Colorado and four in Los Angeles. By the time they were in Los Angeles, the guitar, bass, and drums trio gained a love of sludge. They dove deeper into the pit of despair, away from the surface light of spastic hardcore leaving a trail of honest horror and apparitions of their former selves. These antics were heart pounding with a ravenous lust for expressionist, tragic, tribal terror. They were spiteful but sympathetic. They were testing the sinister and would not be ignored. They survived many U.S. tours and recorded dozens of songs that were available in various degrees. Their first effort, a cassette-only demo, has probably been heard by less than 50 people and was made by hand and four-track by the band in 1995. The next release, a split 7" with the popular Bay Area by way of Colorado outfit the VSS, was probably the most widely available, and saw up to 3000 copies. The following 7" on the obscure home-taping enthusiast label Blackbean & Placenta was limited to 500. Ending Deconstruction, their first full length, was an early release by Gold Standard Laboratories and saw perhaps 1500 vinyl copies. T-Tauri played hundreds of shows, but rarely for an audience of over 50 people, and often for negligible amounts of money. Confronted with numerous adversities, the morale of T-Tauri was always high and the pranks many. Their playful attitude got them through many trials: stealing gas across the country, being poisoned with carbon monoxide, breaking into a motel room in Tampa FL, and having to sell their very blood to continue touring in Louisville, KY. Not to mention repairing the van 1000 times. A quintessential example of this group's hardship is the denial of their entry to the U.K at the beginning and end of their sole attempt at a European tour. T-Tauri was loud, promoting decay within the foundation of tradition and replacing it with raw enthusiasm. Consuming every resource they had in the name of expression and force, the young men went from pure fire to ash itself. A compromise was never reached between T-Tauri and world of music or the world of daily life in general. Financial difficulties, musical obscurity, and reckless experimentation with hard drugs took their toll and necessitated the group's disbandment in 1999. The last recording was self-financed in a desperate attempt to preserve the final work of the band and was never released until now. The band members, ever unsatisfied, felt the pain and pleasure of committing years of their lives to this project; eventually they pursued their inquiries separately. Jason went on sabbatical to Colorado. Aaron moved to New York to study Film & TV then on to play in Black Dice. Gream went to San Diego to study international relations, and played in the Peppermints. T-Tauri lived as part of the confusion of a dimly lit and uncertain world, and offered a fiercely bright light to see by, even if ultimately illuminating successfully only their own path.