Box Tortoise
One of the unreleased cuts is a Mike Watt remix intended for Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters. His version of “Cornpone Brunch,” from Tortoise’s self-titled 1994 debut album–which Watt referred to at the time as “the brown thing” because of its unbleached cardboard sleeve–arrived late on a damaged DAT and ended up shelved for a decade, until preparations for A Lazarus Taxon got under way and former Tortoise member Bundy Brown went digging for it. “None us had ever even heard it until about four months ago,” says McCombs. “We got this broken DAT–I don’t remember if it was lost in the mail or if it just took Watt a long time to get it to us. But Bundy hung onto it and respooled the tape into a new frame. So we decided to put it on the box set.”
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Record Time for Plush
Though the sessions are scheduled to continue into the summer, it’s unclear when the disc will reach stores. “From the start we wanted this to be a 2006 release,” says Hayes. “That’s what I’m still hoping for, anyway.”
