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Tortoise – Initial Gesture Protraction (1995) | Track profile | Dork

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Tortoise
A Lazarus Taxon
Initial Gesture Protraction

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Initial Gesture Protraction

Release date: 1995

From A Lazarus Taxon

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"Initial Gesture Protraction" is a track by Tortoise, from the album A Lazarus Taxon , released 1995.

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From A Lazarus Taxon

1995

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Album

A Lazarus Taxon

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1995

—Initial Gesture Protraction
—Madison Area
—A Grape Dope
—Alcohall
—TNT (Remix)
—Tin Cans (the Puerto Rican Remix)
—Autumn Sweater
—Cliff Dweller Society
—Deltitnu
—Didjeridoo
—Elmerson, Lincoln, and Palmieri
—Blackbird
—Cornpone Brunch Watt Remix
—Blue Station
—Cobwebbed
—The Match Incident
—Not Quite East of the Ryan
—Peering
—Vaus
—Wait
—Whitewater
—To Day Retrieval
—The Source of Uncertainty
—Waihopai
—Adverse Camber
—Restless Waters
—Goriri
—Your New Rod

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