Trading with the Enemy
{{other uses|Trading with the enemy (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Trading with the Enemy
| type = Studio
| artist = Tuatara
| cover = Tradingwiththeenemy.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1998|06|23}}
| recorded = 1998
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = World music
| length =
| label = Epic{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/1998/10/26/1032542/tuatara|title=Tuatara|work=NPR}}
| producer = Barrett Martin, Justin Harwood{{cite magazine |last1=Rosen |first1=Craig |title=Tuatara expands instrumental reach |magazine=Billboard |date=Apr 25, 1998 |volume=110 |issue=17 |page=14}}
| prev_title = Breaking the Ethers
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Cinemathique
| next_year = 2001
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/trading-with-the-enemy-mw0000039971|title=Trading With the Enemy - Tuatara | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
|rev2 = Windsor Star
|rev2score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite news |last1=Keene |first1=Darrin |title=CD REVIEWS |work=Windsor Star |date=9 July 1998 |page=C9}}
}}
Trading with the Enemy is the second album by the collaborative band Tuatara, released in 1998.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tuatara-mn0000270311/biography|title=Tuatara Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/250377/tuatara-catch-the-potato-spy/|title=Tuatara Catch The Potato Spy|first=Gil|last=Kaufman|website=MTV News}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Steve Berlin and Scott McCaughey were among the new musicians who contributed to the album.{{cite news |last1=Renzhoffer |first1=Martin |title=Tuatara, a band just for the sound of it |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=20 Sep 1998 |page=D1}}
Critical reception
Guitar Player noted that "traces of jazz, afro-pop, and the Starsky & Hutch theme seep through the layers of guitars, saxophones, and vibraphones."{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=Adam |title=Tuatara |journal=Guitar Player |date=Jun 1998 |volume=32 |issue=6 |pages=140–141}} The Windsor Star praised the "Ventures-influenced surf tune ('Afterburner'), a funky tribute to deceased Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti ('Fela the Conqueror') and an idyllic folk tune that is propelled by Buck's mandolin ('Angel and the Ass')."
Track listing
- "The Streets of New Delhi" (Justin Harwood and Barrett Martin) - 5:05
- "Smuggler's Cove" (Martin, Skerik, and Mike Stone) - 5:42
- "Night in the Emerald City" (Harwood and Martin) - 7:32
- "The Bender" (Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 5:13
- "Negotiation" (Steve Berlin, Peter Buck, Harwood, Martin, Scott McCaughey, Skerik, and Stone) - 3:21
- "Fela the Conqueror" (Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 6:11
- "Wormwood" (Berlin, Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 5:34
- "Koto Song (The Old Shinjuku Trail)" (Berlin, Martin, and McCaughey) - 6:34
- "L' Espionnage Pomme de Terre Buck" (Buck, Harwood, Martin, McCaughey, and Skerik) - 6:26
- "Angel and the Ass" (Buck, Harwood, and Martin) - 3:14
- "P.C.H." (Buck, Harwood, and Martin) - 3:24
- "Afterburner" (Harwood, Martin, and Skerik) - 7:49
Personnel
- Steve Berlin
- Peter Buck
- Craig Flory
- Justin Harwood
- Barrett Martin
- Scott McCaughey
- Elizabeth Pupo-Walker
- Skerik
- Mike Stone
In movies
- Tracks "The Bender" and "Afterburner" were used in 2001 Polish comedy-action film "Bulgarski Pościkk" directed by Bartosz Walaszek.