Tuxedomoon

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Tuxedomoon is a new experimental, post-punk wave band from San Francisco, California, USA. The band was formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Drawing influence from punk and electronic music, the group, originally consisted of Steven Brown (born Steven Allan Brown on August 23, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois) and Blaine L. Reininger, using electronic violins, guitars, screaming vocals and synthesizers to develop a " cabaret without wave "is unique. The Bassist Peter's ( Peter Dachert , 1954-2017) joined the band and in 1979 they released the single "No Tears", which remained a classic post-punk cult. That year they signed a contract with Ralph Records and released their first album, Half-Mute . Eventually Reininger left the group and Tuxedomoon moved to Europe, signed to Crammed Discs and released Holy Wars in 1985. The band split up in the early 1990s, just to reunite the decade. They have all been together since releasing their album "Cabin in the Sky" in 2004.

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History

In 1977, Tuxedomoon was formed from The Angels of Light, a collective artist and commune, the group in which Steven Brown was involved. She met Blaine L. Reininger in an electronic music class at San Francisco City College. Brown works with Tommy Tadlock, from the Angel of Light, to make the final project of the class. Tadlock will become Tuxedomoon's manager. Reininger and Brown began playing music together at Tadlock's home. Reininger plays an electronic violin and guitar. Tadlock is aided by sound and audio. He also created instruments for the band, including "Mountain Treatment", which is a pyramid made of plywood that holds all the effects of the Reininger pedal.

They started playing music together in the mid-1970s, when punk rock became popular in the underground music scene. "The only rule is a tacit understanding that anything that sounds like everyone else is taboo," Brown told the band aimed at creating music that sounded like no other before. The vocals screamed and were inspired by punk rock, and the band used their instruments, including saxophone and polymoog synthesizer. This band has no drummer. Bassist Peter Principle, performance artist Winston Tong and Bruce Geduldig, the filmmaker, joined the band during the concert. The band created new performances for each concert, creating theater performances and described as "theater electronics cabaret". The band often performs with Pere Ubu, The Residents, Devo, and Cabaret Voltaire.

In 1979 they released EP No Tears with the single "No Tears". The title-song is described as "one of the best electro-punk hymns of all time". That year they also signed a contract with Ralph Records and released their debut album, Half-Mute , in 1980.

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Careers

1980s

In 1980 the band released their first album, Half-Mute , on Ralph Records. The band toured Europe in 1980 and moved to New York City. While in New York, they performed on, and featured on the soundtrack for the movie Downtown 81 . They are gaining popularity in the Netherlands and Belgium. They eventually moved to Brussels. After spending several months in Rotterdam, playing in Arena, Hal 4 and back in 1988 to Lantaren/Venster, where they contributed to the movie Bob Visser Delta Plan . The trumpeter Luc van Lieshout joined the band. In 1987, the band performed on the soundtrack for the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire. Tuxedomoon played in Athens, Greece, for the first time in December 1987, selling Pallas Theater twice in one night.

1990s

In the early 1990s, the band split up and did not reunite for about eight years. Tuxedomoon reunited to perform at the Next Festival in Tel Aviv. The band did not play together in eight years, when Brown called the members to come together for a concert. They trained in the studio for 10 days, in Tel Aviv, before the concert. Brown credits the Next Festival concert as a key event in reuniting the band.

2000s

Tuxedomoon performed in 2000, playing acoustic and electronic concerts from previously recorded material.

Their 2004 album Cabin in the Sky will serve as their comeback record. Most recordings are instrumental. Reininger's voice, compared to David Bowie during Tuxedomoon's early career, has been described as evolving into "Tom Waits" and the wolf from Tex Avery's "Baron Brown" by music critic Rod Smith. Filmmaker Bruce Geduldig did backup vocals on the album.

In 2006 the band released Bardo Hotel on Crammed Discs. Recorded in San Francisco, this album is the soundtrack for the movie by George Kakanakis, who at the time of album release, remains unfinished. The album and movie are named after the book Beat Museum - Bardo Hotel by Brion Gysin, named after the Bardo Hotel in Paris. The soundtrack and the film drew influences from Gysin's "cut-up" method, developed jointly with William S. Burroughs. This recording displays instances of airplane noise, BART announcements, and other sounds found. New Orleans jazz and opera are two influences for the sound of the album.

Tuxedomoon released the album Vapor Trails at Crammed Discs in 2007. The album was recorded at Reininger's home. The band uses instruments such as clarinets and flugelhorn along with their standard instrument settings. In 2007, they also released unreleased and rare CDs and DVDs of music and video. Various members of Tuxolasoon have worked extensively with UK Cult With No Name bands, and as a group Tuxedomoon collaborated to produce a soundtrack album alongside "Blue Velvet Revisited". Members have also joined FuturePlaces medialab for citizenship in 2010, 2011 and 2013, their participation is documented in the Bandcamp audio release.

The Box , a 10-vinyl box set containing 9 of Tuxedomoon's main albums, as well as previously unreleased material albums, came out in November 2015.

Current

Geduldig (born Bruce Frederick Geduldig on 7 March 1953 in California) died on March 7, 2016, in Sacramento, California, he was 63 years old. David Haneke has taken over Geduldig's duties at Tuxedomoon for their 2016 tour.

Peter Principle Dachert died on July 17, 2017, at the age of 63, in Brussels.

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Legacy

Factrix band called mentor Tuxedomoon.

The "My Eyes Are Dry" scooter from their album Mind The Gap is a cover version of "No Tears" with additional sections.

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Music styles

Steven Brown cites the band's early influences as "Eno, Bowie, John Cage, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Igor Stravinsky and Ennio Morricone". Recent influences and currents include Radiohead, Claude Debussy, Miles Davis, Michael Nyman and Velvet Underground. Their music finds influences in genres such as punk rock, jazz, funk, tango, and post-punk.

Music critic Simon Reynolds writes that their voices have "aura of colored elegance", with a more European style of music compared to what was created by their American counterparts at the time of band formation. Seattle Weekly describes their music as radiating "an inconvenience that hints of existential hive."

Lyrically, Tuxedomoon examines society, culture and psychology. "Holiday for Plywood", at Desire , examines consumerism and paranoia.

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Discography

• Half-Mute (1980)
• Desire (1981)
• Divine (1982)
• Holy War (1985)
• Ship Fools (1986)
• you (1987)
• The Ghost Sonata (1991)
• Joeboy in Mexico (1997)
• Cabin in the Sky (2004)
• Vapor Trails (2007)
• Pink Narcissus (2014)
• Blue Velvet Revisited with Cult With No Name (2015)

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References

• Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. New York: Penguin (2006). ISBN: 0143036726

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External links

• Official website

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