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Tuatara's new album "Underworld". Includes Mike McCready! Hear the full album stream NOW!! :)
*update!! 
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-listen-exclusive-album-stream-of-tuatara-underworld-20140731-htmlstory.html
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Tuatara's new album "Underworld" to be released August 5th 2014.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Barrett-Martin/635072843173295
Barrett Martin
Hey Folks, I've just finished producing the forthcoming album from Tuatara, the renowned instrumental group which features Pearl Jam/Mad Season guitarist Mike McCready, myself, saxophone virtuoso Skerik, and REM guitarist Peter Buck. Our new double album (!) is titled, “Underworld,” and it has a song in a new short film from underwater filmmaker Drew Alston. Drew is a contributor to Google Ocean, and he uses the Tuatara song “She Dreams Of Snow” for his short film about ocean conservancy. His film, “Save Your Planet Everyday", will debut on June 8th at the Reef Renaissance Film Festival on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, but you can preview it here first!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWnv82S7pw&feature=youtu.be
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-listen-exclusive-album-stream-of-tuatara-underworld-20140731-htmlstory.html
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Tuatara's new album "Underworld" to be released August 5th 2014.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Barrett-Martin/635072843173295
Barrett Martin
Hey Folks, I've just finished producing the forthcoming album from Tuatara, the renowned instrumental group which features Pearl Jam/Mad Season guitarist Mike McCready, myself, saxophone virtuoso Skerik, and REM guitarist Peter Buck. Our new double album (!) is titled, “Underworld,” and it has a song in a new short film from underwater filmmaker Drew Alston. Drew is a contributor to Google Ocean, and he uses the Tuatara song “She Dreams Of Snow” for his short film about ocean conservancy. His film, “Save Your Planet Everyday", will debut on June 8th at the Reef Renaissance Film Festival on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, but you can preview it here first!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWnv82S7pw&feature=youtu.bePost edited by demetrios on
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Never found a vinyl release for that record.
i knew mike was on one of the early records but forgot which song(s). i'm hoping he has more of a presence on this one and is actually part of the band. but i guess we'll see.
also, fyi, a thread on this was already started a few down from this one. http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/233058/new-mccready-project-with-rem-s-peter-buck-barrett-martin#latest
TUATARA - photo by Charles Peterson
Tuatara's New Album Features Peter Buck, Mike McCready; Song Premiere (Listen)
By Jessica Letkemann | June 05, 2014 2:50 PM EDT
Tuatara, the long-running project led by Mad Season/Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin and rounded out by a rotating cast of all-stars that includes R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, returns for its first record in six years, "Underworld." Before the the double-album opus arrives in August on Martin's own label Sunyata Records, Billboard exclusively premieres the track "The Skeleton Getdown."
The mellow, groove-centric song, Martin explains, "was initially inspired by a particular beat, which is loosely built upon John Bonham's 'Crunge' beat… Skerik started riffing that melody over the top of the beat with a baritone sax, and Peter Buck had this great wah wah sound dialed in on his guitar. Scott McCaughey played that funky Wurlitzer piano."
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Martin says "The Skeleton Getdown," "encapsulates the theme for 'Underworld,' which is essentially a 20 song romp through the underworld, complete with a cast of characters that you would find hanging out down there. It’s like Miles Davis' 'On The Corner' or something like that."
For "Underworld," which was mixed by famed Nirvana/Soundgarden producer Jack Endino, not only is the original lineup of Martin, Harwood and Skerik on deck, but so are longtime collaborators Buck (who Martin calls, "the best acoustic guitar player I've ever worked with") and McCready (with whom Martin co-founded Mad Season), who both perform on several songs. Gnarls Barkley's Cedric LeMoyne, DJ Megman and Manuel Oquendo also make guest appearances. Recorded largely in Seattle and Portland beginning in 2013, the process of making the album "started with some electronic collaborations with DJ Megman in New York, and then some drum and bass jams with bassist Cedric LeMoyne out in L.A.," Martin says. "Mike McCready and I recorded some ideas in his home studio, and Skerik did some recording in his."
Tuatara, which was formed by Martin and Buck with saxophonist Skerik and Luna bassist Justin Harwood in 1996 and counts "Underworld" as its seventh album, has always celebrated its focus on instrumental music, even as it explored genres, "ranging from Eastern-tinged meditations to DJ electronic collaborations, to a double-album Spaghetti Western soundtrack," says Martin.
The band's musical adventurousness has also meant it has felt free to move at its own pace. Martin says it's part of the reason "we've been a band for almost 20 years - we let it breathe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara
I've gotta say it's weirding me out that this new 'super band' is named after our little lizard.
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http://www.spin.com/articles/tuatara-peter-buck-snakecharmer-stream-rem/
July 21 2014, 8:50 AM ET
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Chris Martins
To look at the photo above, you'd assume the four fellas of Tuatara to be sensitive about their identities, but the mystery is in the music. The far-out post-rock/jazz-funk group's forthcoming Underworld album is peopled thusly: mastermind/drummer Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees), guitarist Peter Buck (R.E.M.), bassist Justin Harwood (Luna, the Chills), and sax-man Skerik (Critters Buggin, Les Claypool), with none of than Pearl Jam's Mike McCready as the special guest guitarist for the set. The band's been doing their thing since 1996, and that deeply dug groove can be felt in spades on "Snakecharmer" below. As the saxophone climbs and the rhythm section digs, we hear a vibes-fed noir-ish sound not unlike that found on records by Tortoise and Jaga Jazzist. "Fake jazz" legend John Lurie looms large over the proceedings too, but Tuatara blaze their own trail somewhere between exotic earth and outer space.
BY Michael Molenda
July 28, 2014
Guitar Player presents an exclusive premiere of "At The Crossroads," the latest track to be released from Tuatara's upcoming album, Underworld.
This track features a guest appearance by Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, and Underworld also features guest spots by REM's Peter Buck, Gnarls Barkley bassist Cedric LeMoyne, and DJ Megman.
Tuatara founder Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Walking Papers) oversees a revolving cast of players for the instrumental band—which is one reason the group has released seven albums in its 18-year existence. Some albums took six years to complete (as was the case with Underworld), while others appeared in just six months.
"Tuatara is more of a musical idea than a consistently working band," says Martin, "even though the same musicians always show up when it’s time to make a new record."
Formed in 1996 in a Seattle recording studio, Tuatara's original "lineup" included Peter Buck (REM), Justin Harwood (Luna), Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), and jazz saxophonist Skerik.
"The music sounded like a film that had never been made," says Martin.
Since then, Tuatara's guest lineup has evolved to include players such as DJ Logic, DJ Spooky, Michael Franti, Mark Eitzel, John Wesley Harding, Gary Louris and Mark Olson of the Jayhawks, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Scott McCaughey, Victoria Williams, Jessy Greene, and renowned Sufi poet Coleman Barks.
Underworld, which will be released August 5 on Martin's Sunyata Records label, presents "electronic moods, slinky, urban beats, hypnotic bass and guitar, and shimmering lines of vibraphone, marimba, and bronze gamelans."
Pre Order album here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/underworld/id879708021
Tuatara – “Even Demons Fall In Love” (Feat. Peter Buck) (Stereogum Premiere)
Aug 1st '14 by Chris DeVille @ 9:44am
We’ve been posting songs all summer by Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin’s instrumental collective Tuatara, the band that recorded NPR’s All Songs Considered theme song among other accomplishments. Here’s another one. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, who shows up throughout Tuatara’s forthcoming Underworld, guests on “Even Demons Fall In Love,” a moody jazz fusion number that interpolates “My Favorite Things.” Underworld, Tuatara’s first album in six years, was mixed by grunge-era Seattle scene fixture Jack Endino, and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready also guests throughout. It’s wild to think these jazz-fusion dudes are the same people who were helping to define the sound of underground rock 25-30 years ago, but times change and so does taste. Listen below.
Premiere: Barrett Martin’s Tuatara Project Unveils ‘El Brujo’ Feat. Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready
Martin’s shamanic-jazz project recruits Mike McCready of Pearl Jam for a hypnotic new track.
Crave is highly excited to premiere the new Tuatara song “El Brujo,” from the group’s upcoming record Underworld, featuring Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready. The instrumental powerhouse – think of it as shamanic jazz – returns on August 5th (pre-order here) with the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s The Here and The Gone with Coleman Barks, with the 20-song, double-album set produced by band drummer/founder Barrett Martin (Mad Season/Screaming Trees/Walking Papers) and mixed by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden).
Barrett shared some insight on the track with Crave: “When I was living in New Mexico, I fell in love with Flamenco, because that’s a place where Flamenco is still formally taught,” he explained. “I had made a record with Ottmar Leibert in Santa Fe around that same period of time and experimenting with the Flamenco cajon (the box drum) and the palmas (synchronized hand clapping) ever since.
“I wanted to write a Tuatara song that had that same rhythmic flavor, but didn’t sound exactly like a Flamenco song. So I took the basic rhythm track of ‘El Brujo’ over to Mike’s studio and he set his guitar delay to the same tempo as my hand claps. He then recorded these really cool guitar licks as a kind of call and response to Skerik’s baritone sax melody, and that become our musical conversation, which is quite similar to the conversation between a Flamenco singer and the dancer. It worked out much better than I had hoped for, because sometimes these kinds of experiments don’t work. But in this case, it worked perfectly.”
We couldn’t agree more. Listen to the otherworldly sounds of “El Brujo” below, exclusively on Crave:
Led by Martin, Tuatara formed in 1996 with the intention to make music “that sounded like a film that had never been made.” The result was 1997’s gorgeously captivating debut, Breaking The Ethers, followed by ‘98’s Trading With The Enemy, 2001’s Cinemathique, ‘03’s The Loading Program, ‘06’s East of the Sun, West of the Moon and ‘08’s The Here and The Gone with Coleman Barks.
The band has featured a revolving cast of players on each album, including Michael Franti, John Wesley Harding, Gary Louris and Mark Olson of the Jayhawks, Steve Berlin from Los Lobos, Scott McCaughey, Victoria Williams, Jessy Greene, Sufi poet Coleman Barks and many more.
Moving forward into new frontiers of otherworldly shamanic sounds, Underworld features original members Barrett Martin, Luna’s Justin Harwood and tenor sax legend Skerik with special guest appearances by Peter Buck of REM and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. Gnarls Barkley bassist Cedric LeMoyne and New York DJ Megman also make appearances.
The new Tuatara double album "Underworld" is finally out tomorrow as a CD and digital download, available worldwide on Sunyata Records. But you can hear the entire 20 song album today, streaming at the Los Angeles Times. Thank you Chris Barton and everyone at Pop & Hiss!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-listen-exclusive-album-stream-of-tuatara-underworld-20140731-htmlstory.html
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