New Blaine L. Reininger Album "Wounds and Blessings" Now Available for Pre-order

 

https://www.lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/wounds_and_blessings_twi1255.html

Artist:              BLAINE L. REININGER

Title:                WOUNDS AND BLESSINGS

Format :          2xCD + DL

Cat No:            TWI 1255 CD (28 tracks)

Label:              Les Disques du Crepuscule

Released:         11 November 2021

Barcode:          708 527 210 253

PDP:                 £7.50

 

Wounds and Blessings is a brand new studio double album by Blaine L. Reininger, the Colorado-born composer and founder member of avant-garde music group Tuxedomoon.

 

Wounds and Blessings is a collection of 28 new tracks organised into 4 distinct suites. While all the music is performed and produced by Reininger, featured guests include his Tuxedomoon colleagues Steven Brown and Luc van Lieshout, as well as former Indoor Life member Bob Hoffnar and Reininger’s Greek guitarist, Tilemachos Moussas.

 

On this expansive double set Reininger employs all the tools in his current arsenal, from AI-assisted lyrics to sampler bricolage, to violin and guitar virtuosity, a vast array of computer plug-ins and effects, and a trompe l’oeil assortment of 20^th century avant-garde compositional methods.

 

"When I’m working," explains Blaine, “and a piece begins to reveal itself to me, I always follow where it leads. It becomes clear that it requires a violin, or a guitar, or lyrics. Whether it should be harsh or serene, orchestral, or entirely electronic. So it is with this new collection. Also, in the vocal songs, the subject of mortality has surfaced time and time again, albeit in a lucid manner and without becoming morbid, or fearful. I’m pleased with the results, and grateful to have the means to write every day and present my music to you.’

 

The album is produced by Reininger, with mixing and mastering by long-time collaborator Coti K. Cover portrait and booklet photography by George Geranios.

 

CD tracklist:

 

Disc 1:

 

1. 100 Sad Fingers

2. I Inhabit the Dunes

3. Je Retournerai

4. Magnetic Flux

5. Chemise Grise

6. Trials and Tribulations

7. I Am An Old Poem

8. Goby Life

9. The Days Gone By

10. Roll Off the Edge

11. Duello

12. Silver Pants

13. Occult Simplicities

14. Pleyel Harvest

 

Disc 2

 

1. One of Those Things

2. Begin Your Day, Winny

3. You’re Lucky

4. Slipstream

5. Newbs Descending a Staircase

6. Lockdown Blues

7. Indra’s Dream

8. Die Ferne Klang

9. Sun Package

10. Unbirthday

11. Quarter Teen

12. Cahiers Noirs

13. Harvest Moon

14. Push

 

For further information email info@lesdisquesducrepuscule.com

 

Tuxedomoon Live in Umbria 1989 Now Available on Bandcamp

 

Announcing the release of an extremely rare Tuxedomoon concert from 1989 with the "hybrid lineup" of Brown, Reininger, Principle, van Lieshout and Georgiev. This edition is likely to be the most unexpected of all so far released under the Tuxedomoon Archives imprint.

(Also includes a PDF with full liner notes and official 1989 band photo by Stefan de Batselier.) https://tuxedomoonarchives.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-umbria-1989

“The […] plan was to record the one-off show that Tuxedomoon performed on June 18th, 1989, in Umbertide, Italy, an event promoted by label Materiali Sonori and actually Tuxedomoon’s last concert until 1997. However, for mysterious reasons, the recording that was made proved unreleasable.”*

… until now, that is. This edition is likely to be the most unexpected of all so far released under the Tuxedomoon Archives imprint: it is a live document of the single concert performed by an extremely short-lived line-up.

The band re-gathered after the successful 1988 tour, Bruce Geduldig and Paul Zahl having meanwhile joined the Weathermen on a U.S tour. This became an opportunity to bring back Luc van Lieshout and Ivan Georgiev into the fold, and once again renew the arrangements and repertoire. Contrary to the preceding tour, the set was to incorporate both recent compositions and Blaine solo numbers. James Nice (1992) commented: “The chemistry was successful enough to provoke serious consideration of a long-term reunion that would move beyond re-hashing former glories with new technology”.

However, for fairly obscure reasons, it was not meant to be. The new line-up had a Russian tour on their schedule, but this...  more

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released June 26, 2021

Recorded live at Teatro Tenda Umbertide, Umbria
18 June 1989

Performers:
Steven Brown
Ivan Georgiev
Peter Principle
Blaine L. Reininger
Luc van Lieshout

A DAT audience recording from the archives of Steven Brown. Mastered by Anselmo Canha, 2021.

Band photography by Stefan de Batselier. Cover photography and design by Heitor Alvelos.

Project management by Heitor Alvelos.

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"Tuxedomoon Live in San Francisco, 2005" Now available!

 

Now available for acquisition. Tuxedomoon Live in San Francisco, 2005. "a truly historical moment in the saga of Tuxedomoon: the brief reunion with original singer/performer Winston Tong in 2005 " Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. (Also includes a PDF with full liner notes, additional recollections by Blaine L. Reininger, and never-before-seen photos of the gig by Aaron Ross.)

https://tuxedomoonarchives.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-san-francisco-2005

"Tuxedomooning" 17 Track Tribute Album Released

 

Now available for download, "Tuxedomooning", a tribute album. Originally released December 2007 as "Adaptations from the Moon: Tuxedomooning the World", it was a private edition compact disc distributed among Tuxedomoon's Yahoo discussion group, managed by Erik Stein.

 

Bandcamp Friday Upon Us Again

 This Bandcamp Friday, Crammed is offering 35% off these fine recordings. Check it aus, freunde.

35% off cinematic excursions

"Flower Songs" From Steven Brown and Blaine Reininger Now Available from Bandcamp

 

Now available on Bandcamp: "The first concert by Tuxedomoon co founders Blaine Reininger and Steven Brown in Mexico, 1993 in the Sala Nezahualcoyotl, one of Latin America's finest concert halls."

BLR "Songs from the Rain Palace" re-released

Blaine Reininger's 1990 release "Songs from the Rain Palace" has now been re-released by Austrian label, Klanggalerie. 

Copies may be obtained here Songs from the rain palace CD 

 BLAINE L. REININGER Songs From The Rain Palace CD album | gg350 Blaine L. Reininger needs no special introduction. He is an American post-punk, new-wave and alternative pop singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (particularly violin), writer and performer. He is known for being a member of the group Tuxedomoon since 1977 after co-founding it with Steven Brown and, latterly, for a notable music and theatre career, both as a soloist and contributor to other artists' recordings, including The Durutti Column, Snakefinger, Anna Domino, Savage Republic or Paul Haig. After learning the violin and guitar during childhood and studying music theory in San Francisco, Reininger formed the band Tuxedomoon with composer, singer, musician and college-mate Steven Brown and appeared on early albums such as Half Mute, Desire and Suite En Sous-Sol before departing early in 1983 to pursue a solo career. He permanently rejoined Tuxedomoon in 1988 and has subsequently appeared on more recent recordings such as Vapour Trails, issued in 2007 by independent label Crammed Discs. Songs From The Rain Palace was released in 1990 by Les Disques Du Crepuscule in Belgium on CD and cassette. It features amongst other guests Tuxedomoon's Peter Principle. For this re-issue, the album was remastered by Martin Bowes and features 5 bonus tracks - two off compilations that came out at the time and three from Blaine's archive. Full tracklist: 1. My TV 2. Song For J.J. 3. One Way Man 4. Justice 5. Zeb And Lulu 6. Between K-Mart And Paradise 7. Voice Of The Hive 8. Winter In Wien 9. La Tombee De La Nuit 10. Pere Lachaise 11. Spaziergang 12. Grapelli Hook 13. Japanese Dream (Early) 14. Visions In Fire 15. Where Are You 16. Nocturne In 7. Price: € 17,-/copy incl. worldwide shipping.

Tuxedomoon Live at The Boarding House, San Francisco 1979

Now available, Tuxedomoon Live at the Boarding House in 1979. Also includes a bonus PDF with extracts from Tuxedomoon's biography by Isabelle Corbisier and a set of studio portraits by Stefano Paolillo for Damage Magazine. 13 track album

Monte Alban from Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger Now Available!

Now available on Bandcamp, this album of post modern chamber music, recorded in Oaxaca, Mexico by the two founders of tuxedomoon.

Now available, Half Mute Live, from the 2016 tour!

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the release of "Half Mute" we proudly present this live recording from the epic 2016 Half Mute tour for your listening pleasure.