| View Larger Image | Trading With the Enemy | Audio CDby Tuatara
| List Price: | $11.98 | |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Sony | | Release Date: | June 23, 1998 | | Sales Rank: | 196,693th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Streets of New Delhi
- Track 2: Smugglerõs Cove
- Track 3: Night in the Emerald City
- Track 4: Bender
- Track 5: Negotiation
- Track 6: Fela the Conqueror
- Track 7: Wormwood
- Track 8: Koto Song (The Old Shinjuku Trail)
- Track 9: Espionnage Pomme de Terre
- Track 10: Angel and the Ass
- Track 11: P.C.H.
- Track 12: Afterburner
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
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In 1996 R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, and Luna bassist Justin Harwood united under the moniker Tuatara (a large, lizardlike animal) to create music that had little in common with anything they were doing with their full-time bands. Breaking the Ethers was mystical and resonant, combining swirling Middle Eastern melodies, hip-wiggling Latin percussion, and wafting film music. As innovative as it was, the band's follow-up, Trading with the Enemy, makes the debut seem as mainstream as R.E.M.'s hit "Losing My Religion." This time the group has hooked up with jazz players Steve Berlin (saxophone) and Craig Flory (clarinet) and delivered a multitextured musical hybrid that bounces between straight jazz, funk, film scores, and even Japanese koto music yet somehow flows cohesively from one diverse passage to the next. Influences include soundtrack gurus Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver) and Ennio Morricone, smoky-jazz greats Ben Webster and Stan Getz, and pimp daddies like Isaac Hayes. Trading with the Enemy is a refreshing change of pace from your average rock side project and one that easily lives up to each member's lofty reputation. --Jon Wiederhorn |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 7 reviews)
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Tuatara tickles the senses in a manner all it's own  5 Stars
June 27, 1999
Perhaps, for the most part, there are two types of people who are unable to appreciate tuatara's musical prose: 1) those are are intrumentally inept; and 2) those far too musically adept. But, of course, there really are only two types of people in the world: 1) those who think they can classify other's into two categories; and 2) those who know better. Regardless, tuatara spawns passionate dances one minute only to be followed by intuitive reflections and meditations the next. A must have for the majority of us affectionate with the'fun is just beginning' non-classifiable jazz/world beat fusion bands.
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I was extremely surpirsed i never heard of them before!!! 5 Stars
October 15, 1998
my b.f told me to get this c.d for him, and he insisted on me listening to it as well, i loved it from the first song onwards! i was really surprised that this c.d hasn't been advertised that much! it's great! and its sound is so different, something that we definitely need in the muic industry!!!
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excellent 5 Stars
August 01, 1998
An excellent piece of jazz-cum-rock-cum-latin and whatever have you, this record is both endlessly surprising and still wonderfully coherent. Masterly crafted by a bunch of very talented musicians - you'll only notice they're much more talented than you thought: hear Pearl Jam's Mike Stone playing the piano, Peter Buck on dulcimer, Scott McCaughey on Japanese traditional koto... Made by such an eclectic group of people, this record sounds nevertheless as if made in a jazzman's heaven. Go get it!
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"World Muzak" at its finest!  3 Stars
July 25, 1998
Tuatara should forget about doing music for films (they have expressed some interest in this via interviews). They could make a big wad of cash if they started their own company - a company similar to MUZAK. For starters, Tuatara could market this music as "global elevator music" - music to be played, for example, in all the exotic Sheraton hotel elevators that dot the globe. Tuatara are pioneers. They have created a new market niche for themselves. After all, the locals in Turkenia couldn't play and record like this even if they tried! It takes innovative western entrepreneurs to recognize opportunities like this! I sincerely respect their efforts (there are few bands doing this kind of thing) and I bet you didn't know this: One of Tuatara's members has recorded music on many occasions for MUZAK! I'm sure they pay well, but I hope that this project will put MORE money into the dude's pockets. After all, it doesn't pay to work for the man! I FRIGGIN! ' LOVE THIS COUNTRY. Next time your paycheck gets you down - get busy. DIY! And remember - this music is best heard at low volume, out of a little round ceiling-mounted speaker...
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Groovin' music with a "Mission Impossible" flair  4 Stars
July 17, 1998
Initially heard a couple of tunes on PRI's "World Cafe". The first one titled "The Streets of New Delhi" reminded me of the theme for Mission Impossible. By the second song, "Fela the Conqueror", I was hooked. So I ended up taking a detour and purchasing the CD before getting home. This CD just grooves, blending music of all forms, from traditional jazz to melodic latin vibes to percussion laden african jams into a sometimes funky, sometimes soothing, always intriguing musical delight. It's worth checking out. You'd never imagine Peter Buck of R.E.M. fame being a part of this band.
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