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 20th 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