| Product Summary | | Label: Thrill Jockey | | UPC: 00790377015225 | | Release Date: 8/22/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202830541 | | Item#: M32TLV | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Gamera ~ Tortoise |  | | 2. Source Of Uncertainty, The ~ Tortoise | | | 3. Blackbird ~ Tortoise | | | 4. Sexual For Elizabeth ~ Tortoise | | | 5. To Day Retrieval ~ Tortoise | | | 6. Whitewater ~ Tortoise | | | 7. Didjeridoo ~ Tortoise | | | 8. Autumn Sweater ~ Tortoise | | | 9. Wait ~ Tortoise | | | 10. Grape Dope, A ~ Tortoise | | | 11. Restless Waters ~ Tortoise | | | 12. Vaus ~ Tortoise | | | 13. Blue Station ~ Tortoise | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Madison Area ~ Tortoise | | | 2. TNT - (Takemura remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 3. Why We Fight ~ Tortoise | | | 4. Emerson, Lincoln, And Palmieri ~ Tortoise | | | 5. Peering ~ Tortoise | | | 6. Goriri ~ Tortoise | | | 7. As You Said ~ Tortoise | | | 8. CTA ~ Tortoise | | | 9. Deltitnu ~ Tortoise | | | 10. Adverse Camber ~ Tortoise | | | 11. Cliff Dweller Society ~ Tortoise | | | 12. Waihopai ~ Tortoise | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Alcohall (On Noble) - (remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 2. Your New Rod (Flyrod) - (Rick Brown remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 3. Cobwebbed (Spiderwebbed) - (Casey Rice remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 4. Match Incident, The (Ry Cooder) - (Steve Albini remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 5. Tin Cans - (Puerto Rican mix, Brad Wood remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 6. Not Quite East Of The Ryan (Spiderwebbed) - (BKB remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 7. Initiial Gesture Protraction (His Second Story Island) - (Jim O'Rourke remix) ~ Tortoise | | | 8. Conrpone Brunch - (Watt remix) ~ Tortoise | |
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Tortoise: Dan Bitney, David Pajo, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, John McEntire, Jeff Parker, Bundy K. Brown. | | Additional personnel: Kira Roessler, Mike Watt . | | With their impeccable musical sophistication, daunting technical chops, and skill at synthesizing disparate styles in innovative ways, it's easy to tag Tortoise as the reigning kings of the so-called post-rock sound. Each of their five studio albums (discounting their one-off, Will Oldham-assisted covers record) is an evolutionary step forward in the band's instrumental amalgam of jazz, electronica, film music, and other styles tangential to conventional rock. But a concentrated listen to Tortoise's 2006 box set, A LAZARUS TAXON, will give any listener--even those well acquainted with band's discography--a renewed appreciation for the scope of their achievement. | | | | Comprising three CD's and a DVD, A LAZARUS TAXON rejects a recap of the band's primary releases, focusing instead on singles, EP tracks, and remixes, including the out-of-print release RHYTHMS, RESOLUTIONS, AND CLUSTERS. As a good deal of this material was previously unreleased, the set is a treasure trove for Tortoise fans. The DVD contains videos, short films, and concert footage that emphasize the telepathic nature of the group's taut, improvisation-based interplay. In all, the set testifies to Tortoise's impressive standing as creators of some of the most intriguing, adventurous, and durable "rock" music of the '90s and 2000s. |
| | Artist Overview | | During the early 1990s, Tortoise helped to lay the foundation for what's come to be known as "post rock." Part of an incestuous Chicago scene bent on using rock instruments and formats without adhering to traditional song structure, Tortoise incorporates dub, electronica, moody atmospherics, and prog-rock leanings in the service of their forward-looking style. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/22/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 70152 | | Label : Thrill Jockey | | Number of Discs : 3 | | Studio/Live : Mixed | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00790377015225 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (p.120)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "If they haven't filtered it through dub, hip hop, avant electronica or space-jazz, then it probably wasn't worth knowingly nodding along to it in the first place."Uncut (p.101)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t delineates the sheer eclectic range of their work, in which elements like hip hop, Gamelan, dub, rock, ambient, folk, musique concrete and lounge are melded with effortless languor." Magnet (p.89)
- "Sequenced with attention to flow rather than chronology, the first two discs of A LAZARUS TAXON gather every little non-album scrap in the discography...." |
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