Tuxedomoon

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Tuxedomoon is an American avant-garde and new wave band from San Francisco , California , led by Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown .

Band history

Tuxedomoon was founded in 1977 in San Francisco by two electronic music students from San Francisco City College, Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown (bd. Keyboard ). Soon after it was founded, u. a. Winston Tong added as a singer. The band received their first major attention as the opening act for Devo in 1978. Michael Belfer ( guitar ) and Paul Zahl ( drums ) joined them for the production of their first EP No Tears . After Tong and Belfer left the band for a short time, bassist Peter Principle became a member. 1979 signed Tuxedomoon a contract with Ralph Records, the record label of the Residents . After the release of the two albums Half Mute and Desire , the band moved from America to Europe and, after a few stops, finally found themselves in Brussels , the home of their European record label Crammed Discs . The group was of the opinion that their sound, based on New Wave , but also on jazz , electronic and classical music, would suit a European rather than an American environment.

In 1982 Tuxedomoon released the LP Divine , a composition for Maurice Béjart 's ballet of the same name. To pursue a solo career, founding member Blaine L. Reininger left the band in 1983, but Frankie Lievaart and Luc Van Lieshout (trumpet, harmonica) joined as new members. The following album Holy Wars was the most commercially successful of the band, but singer Winston Tong dropped out shortly after the release and was replaced by the multi-instrumentalist Ivan Georgiev. Ship of Fools was released in 1986 during the world tour for the album Holy Wars , and in 1987 the last studio album You .

After You , Tuxedomoon remained largely inactive during the 1990s but did not officially disband. The albums that came out during this period were collections of single releases from previous years or live recordings. The many members of the band followed their respective solo careers and appeared again and again with new records in different combinations (e.g. Reininger / Brown). Occasionally Brown, Van Lieshout and Principle gave concerts under the name Tuxedomoon. At the beginning of the new millennium, only trumpeter Luc van Lieshout and Bruce Geduldig (visual effects / performance), who joined the Holy Wars tour , were based in Brussels . Steven Brown lived in Mexico , Blaine L. Reininger in Greece and Peter Principle in New York City . Nevertheless, they got together for a new album in 2004 and, now again with founding member Reininger, recorded Cabin in the sky . In 2005 the band went on a world tour and began recording a new album in Athens in the winter of 2005/06 . The release of the album in autumn 2007 under the name Vapor Trails let the band follow a short tour across Europe. Since the Halve Mute Tour 2016, David Haneke has replaced the American video artist Bruce Geduldig.

On July 17, 2017, the band published a message on their homepage that bassist and co-author Peter Principle Dachert passed away unexpectedly at Les Atelier Claus during the preparations for the tour in Brussels.

Discography

  • No Tears (EP) (1978)
  • Scream with a View (EP) (1979)
  • Half Mute (1979)
  • Desire (1981)
  • Divine (1982)
  • Suite En Sous-Sol (1982)
  • Time to Lose (EP) (1982)
  • Holy Wars (1985)
  • Ship of Fools (1986)
  • You (1987)
  • Ten Years in One Night (live) (1989)
  • The Ghost Sonata (1991)
  • Solve et Coagula (1994)
  • Live in St. Petersburg (2002)
  • Soundtracks / Urban Leisure (2002)
  • Cabin in the Sky (2004)
  • Bardo Hotel Soundtrack (2006)
  • Vapor Trails (2007)
  • Liveland: Tuxedomoon In Concert (2012)
  • Pink Narcissus (2014)

Bootlegs

  • Joeboy in Rotterdam (1981)
  • Darkness (1981)
  • Symphony of Fear (1982)
  • Title X (1982)
  • The Silent Age (1982)
  • L'Age Dor (1984)
  • Tuxedomoon (1984)
  • Just a Papermoon (1984)
  • Joeboy in Mexico (1997)
  • Reminiscents (2003)

Web links

Commons : Tuxedomoon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tuxedomoon official site. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .