A Lazarus Taxon

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A Lazarus Taxon
Box set by Tortoise
Released August 21, 2006
Recorded 1993-2005
Genre instrumental rock, post-rock
Length 69:05 (CD1)
73:17 (CD2)
37:07 (CD3)
179:29 (total)
Label Thrill Jockey
Professional reviews
Tortoise chronology
The Brave and the Bold
(2006)		 A Lazarus Taxon
(2006)

A Lazarus Taxon is the name of a box set by Chicago post-rock group Tortoise, released in 2006 on the Thrill Jockey label (see 2006 in music).

The set contains three CDs, one DVD and an accompanying 20-page booklet. The CDs contain 33 tracks of rare material from tour, compilation and non-American releases, the band's out of print 1995 album Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters, which compiled remixes by friends of the band including Steve Albini, Rick Brown, Jim O'Rourke and Brad Wood, and other previously unreleased material including a restored remix by the Minutemen's Mike Watt that was delivered too late for inclusion on Rhythms... and subsequently fell victim to a malfunctioning DAT machine. Tortoise bassist Bundy K Brown himself restored the tape, twelve years after it was recorded. [1] The DVD contains most of the band's music videos as well as over two hours of "extensive and rare" live performance footage.[2] The set was compiled by the band themselves.[3]

The set's title is derived from the palaeontological term "lazarus taxon", meaning a taxon (or grouping of organisms) that disappears from the fossil record only to reappear again at a later point, which in turn refers back to the resurrection of Lazarus by Jesus in the New Testament.

The photography used in the artwork was personally selected by the band from the work of retired Swiss police officer Arnold Odermatt, who became noted for his pictures of accident scenes and police training, often returning to accident scenes he had photographed to shoot them again once they were free of people. Tortoise were given permission to use the pictures from Odermatt himself, and from Berlin's Springer & Winckler Galerie, which first unearthed and promoted the artist's work .

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Tortoise except where noted.

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Gamera" – 11:53
  2. "The Source of Uncertainty" – 3:42
  3. "Blackbird" – 5:01
  4. "Sexual For Elizabeth" (S. Annen/D. Bitney/J. Herndon/P. Johnson/J. Marshall/D. McCombs/J. McEntire/J. Parker/Shing02) – 4:49
  5. "To Day Retrieval" – 3:58
  6. "Whitewater" – 5:07
  7. "Didjeridoo" (D. Ellington) – 4:33
  8. "Autumn Sweater" (G. Hubley/I. Kaplan/J. McNew) – 7:07
  9. "Wait" (J. Parker) – 4:27
  10. "A Grape Dope" – 4:12
  11. "Restless Waters" – 3:41
  12. "Vaus" – 5:01
  13. "Blue Station" – 5:34

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Madison Area" – 3:27
  2. "TNT" – 10:03
  3. "Why We Fight" – 4:23
  4. "Elmerson, Lincoln, and Palmieri" – 2:39
  5. "Peering" – 5:11
  6. "Goriri" – 6:40
  7. "As You Said" (I. Curtis/B. Sumner/P. Hook/S. Morris) – 4:21
  8. "CTA" – 5:07
  9. "Deltitnu" – 5:50
  10. "Adverse Camber" – 6:00
  11. "Cliff Dweller Society" (D. Bitney/K. Brown/D. Fliegel/J. Herndon/D. McCombs/J. McEntire) – 15:23
  12. "Waihopai" – 4:13

[edit] Disc three

Tracks 1-7 previously issued as Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters (1995).

  1. "Alcohall" – 4:03
  2. "Your New Rod" – 4:18
  3. "Cobwebbed" – 4:38
  4. "The Match Incident" – 5:31
  5. "Tin Can Puerto Rican Remix" – 4:24
  6. "Not Quite East of the Ryan" – 5:08
  7. "Initial Gesture Protraction" – 4:47
  8. "Cornpone Brunch Watt Remix" – 4:18

[edit] Disc four (DVD)

  1. "Salt The Skies" (video)
  2. "Dear Grandma And Grandpa" (video)
  3. "Glass Museum" (video)
  4. "Seneca" (video)
  5. "Four Day Interval" (video)
  6. "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" (video)
  7. "Monica" (video)
    • Live at Primavera Sound, 2005
  8. "Gamera"/"Glass Museum"/"Reservoir"/"Djed"/"The Equator"/"Vaus"/"Cornpone Brunch"
  9. "Ten Day Interval"/"Othello"
    • Live at Deutsches Jazz Festival, 1999
  10. "Seneca"
  11. "Salt The Skies"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ URB Magazine :: CD Reviews
  2. ^ Thrill Jockey Records
  3. ^ PopMatters Music Interview | A Lazarus Taxon: the Definition of "Tortoise" Continues to Change Before Our Eyes

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