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Tuatara (Performer)
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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Fast Horse | | Release Date: | December 24, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 89,692th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: The Melting Sun
- Track 2: Love Is A Calculated Risk
- Track 3: Pimpin' For The Muse
- Track 4: Tumbleweeds
- Track 5: A Thin Gray Pickpocket
- Track 6: Action Thriller
- Track 7: Falling Pianos
- Track 8: The Hangover
- Track 9: In The Passing Lane
- Track 10: Walking In A Dead Man's Shoes
- Track 11: Farewell To The Hero
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 4 reviews)
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This Is The Classic by James Wainright (Seattle)  5 Stars
January 29, 2008
Yep, this is the one. Their best instrumental CD so far. I like the fact that they change directions with each album, sometimes with vocals, sometimes without. But for the pure instrumental, soundscape, cinematic experience, this is the masterpiece.
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Fantastic 5 Stars
February 23, 2003
One of the best albums I've heard in a long time. Falling Pianos and The Hangover are my favorite tracks, but there's not a bad song in the bunch.
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I can't stop playing it!! by Phil Thenstedt (Renton, WA United States) 5 Stars
August 04, 2002
I totally dig on Breaking the Ethers but wasn't too hot on Trading with the Enemy. This new one is more complex...like a good spy movie you never know where it's gonna take you. Great Stuff (IMO), and at least as good as the 1st one! I recommend it highly...too bad Peter Buck didn't do more of this type of music and less of that *other* stuff. I wish there was more Skerik here, but there is a great bunch of musicians who play on this.
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B-o-r-i-n-g by William Merrill (San Antonio, TX United States)  3 Stars
May 02, 2002
It was Peter Buck's involvement in the loose instrumental collective called Tuatara that first got me interested in them. I have the first two Tuatara CDs and thought they were moderately good. However, the new one, Cinemathique, is a real snooze. It's got a quasi-jazz flavor - the previous 2 discs rocked more - but this stuff is mostly like watered-down lounge jazz. There's one track, "The Hangover," that sounds like the instrumental jam/break from some lost '70s song by the Chicago Transit Authority (not necessarily a good thing). Then there's the closing cut, a weak attempt at being avant garde. I can't imagine this disc appealing much to anyone. ...
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Breaking the Ethers
by Tuatara
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck is the selling point for this Seattle-based neo-beat instrumental quartet. The real stars here, though, are Critters Buggin' horn man Skerik and Screaming Trees/latter-day R.E.M. percussionist Barrett Martin. The well-integrated melange of bebop jazz, rock, world music, and lounge-y TV themes makes for a hugely entertaining listen.--Jeff Bateman
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| Trading With the Enemy
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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...
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| East of the Sun
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Tuatara, the ongoing side-project formed by REM's Peter Buck and drummer/composer Barrett Martin, finally releases its magnum opus double album, East Of The Sun/West Of The Moon. The 2-disc album is a collection of 29 original songs. With seven full-length releases under their belt, Tuatara has evolved from an all-instrumental soundtrack project, to a revolving ensemble of singers, poets, and instrumentalists. In addition to Tuatara's famed rhythm section, EOTS/WOTM features such luminaries as...
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