East of the Sun

Tuatara | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fast Horse Recordings
• ASIN: B000P28SW0
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,615 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Change of direction, October 4, 2007

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Hannie (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: East of the Sun (Audio CD)

I really love the previous Tuatara cds - I enjoyed the combination of percussion, horns, guitars and no vocals. But East of the Sun is a real change of direction and includes vocals from some accomplished musicians. At first I was disappointed, but the cd has really grown on me. The tracks featuring Coleman Barks really stand out.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Tuatara, June 27, 2007

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Felix the Cat (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: East of the Sun (Audio CD)

Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Barrett Martin come together to create a different Tuatara release with this beautiful, well produced collaboration of great singers/songwriters and musicians. Songs by vocalists such as Dean Wareham, Gary Louris and Victoria Williams, just to name a few, are interspersed with spoken word poetry by Coleman Barks, the Rumi translator and poet. This is an interesting and thought provoking cd, and I look forward to hearing West of the Moon.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome New Direction For Tuatara!!!!, June 22, 2007

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James Wainright (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: East of the Sun (Audio CD)

I absolutely love this album! It is rooted in classic songwriting and production and features some of the greatest singer-songwriter-poets in America today; i.e. Dean Wareham (Luna), Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Scott McCaughey (REM), Gary Louris and Mark Olson (The Jayhawks), Jessy Greene (Geraldine Fibbers), Victoria Williams, John Wesley Harding and the great Sufi poet Coleman Barks. Even though Tuatara has made instrumental soundtrack music in the past, this new album shows how they can take that musical finesse and add vocals to it with astounding success. It's like a great western film soundtrack with singer-storytellers providing the narrative. Ignore the small-minded pessimists who only understand simplicity, and explore this new direction in the band - it is well worth the journey.