Tuatara - Breaking the Ethers
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Artist: TuataraEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-04-01
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Breaking the Ethers/Serengeti
- Dark State of Mind
- Saturday Night Church
- Dreamscape
- Desert Sky
- Goodnight la Habana
- Smoke Rings
- Getaway
- Eastern Star
- Burning the Keys
- Land of Apples
- Breaking the Ethers/Serengeti (Reprise)
Music reviews of Breaking the Ethers
Music Review: Skip It
Rating: 1 Stars
I own 3 discs by this band, Breaking the Ethers, Trading with the Enemy, and the one with Coleman Barks. The latter 2 I bought for next to nothing in bargain bins, and in my opinion that is the way to buy anything by this band.
I love esoteric music: jazz, rock, world fusion and everything in between, but Tuatara bores the h___ out of me like no other band. What you typically find on their cds are one or two high quality tracks and a whole lot of marginal material.
This one has one great track: the actually steamy, although poorly titled "Dark State of Mind". Actually it's Skerik's impassioned saxophone playing that makes the song. Unfortunately his role on the later releases I have seems to be pretty marginal.
In general you get lots of percussion instruments, very simple and uninteresting musical themes that basically go nowhere. The second side of this PLODS ALONG like no other cd I've ever heard. All of the tempos are slow and muddy. I get no creative inspiration from this what-so-ever. The band sounds stoned...and I don't mean that in a good way. It could be because the main proponents of the band, Barrett Martin & Justin Harwood are the drummer and bassist respectively. Peter Buck shows up sporadically on a cut here and there, but there is nothing that stands out in terms of his contributions to this band. Perhaps you could say his guitarwork on P.C.H. on Trading is a little bit interesting.
On Trading with the Enemy, there are 2 great cuts "Night in the Emerald City", and possibly "Koto Song". On "Night" it's the jazz solos by the horn players (who aren't part of the band) that make the tune work. It's a nice smooth number, capturing a very nice relaxed jazz hipster feeling, and could even by a (smooth) jazz classic.
The cd with the orange cover and Coleman Barks I find unlistenable (and I love Barks' book on the poet Rumi). To me, Tuatara is a side project (I would hope) for the musicians involved and even for them, it seems to warrant little attention. I'm not sure who they think is going to listen to this and like it. I was surprised to see a few positive reviews of their stuff. My bet is that when those reviewers start to listen to more music in this style, their feelings about this band will diminish pretty quickly.
I know they play samples of their stuff on NPR between stories, and those sound bites sound intriguing, but believe me overall their work is otherwise mundane and at the very least uninspiring (if not downright uninspired!) except for the few tracks mentioned above! To me this sounds like "we had to create some PRODUCT, we didn't have too much time, but we are all well known musicians, and well...here it is! You'll probably like it, (we hope!)"
Description of Breaking the Ethers
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 BatemanGeneral CDs
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