Customer Reviews

Cinemathique

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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.

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.

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.

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. ...