Tuxedmoon with Cult With No Name Track On HBO Series

We are proud to announce that the HBO series "The New Pope" with Jude Law and John Malkovitch features "Lumberton", a track from our joint CD called "Blue Velvet Revisited" Mazel Tov.

Tuxedomoon Live in London, 1982 Now Available

Recorded live at The Venue, London, 9 March 1982

This recording captures the early stages of an important transition in the band: the classic repertoire matured and consolidated, with new pieces tentatively brought in, performed live before their studio counterparts have been recorded.

Tuxedomoon Live at the Palms San Francisco 1978, now available for download

Now available for download, Tuxedomoon Live at the Palms, 1978, a document of Tuxedomoon in its early days at an iconic San Francisco club, featuring some titles which never made it to vinyl and many that did.

https://tuxedomoonarchives.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-palms-1978

Anniversary of Peter's Passing

Today we mark the departure of our bandmate and friend, Peter.

Learning to Breathe with Bruce Geduldig now available

Now available, "Learning to Breathe", a collection of work from the late Bruce Geduldig together with Luc van Lieshout and other collaborators.

Tuxedomoon Live in Eindhoven, 1980 Now Available

This fine recording of our second show in Europe (just after Brussels) now available. This is the show we brought into the studio to record "Desire".

Tuxedomoon Live In Los Angeles, 2005 Now Available

Now available for download:

In 2005, Tuxedomoon returned to San Francisco to see what effect a return to a place so charged with memories would have on our creative process. Some of those results can be heard on the album called “Bardo Hotel”. While there, we played several shows, a couple in San Francisco, one in Mexico City, and one at the now defunct Los Angeles franchise of New York’s Knitting Factory.

https://tuxedomoonarchives.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-los-angeles-2005

NOW AVAILABLE TO ACQUIRE: TUXEDOMOON LIVE IN ST. PETERSBURG, NOVEMBER 27, 2000

“The St Petersburg gig, on November 27th, 2000, rested on the initiative of a long time fan, installation artist and designer Oleg Kuptsov, along with Gleb Palamodov and Sergey Vasiljev. All three had been dreaming for many years to see Tuxedomoon playing in their home town. Oleg Kuptsov: “This gig was my first experience of the kind as I’m not a concert promoter. When friends from the Materiali Sonori label told me that the band was going to make a tour of some European cities in November 2000, I sent an email to Steven Brown to propose a date in St Petersburg. He was quite enthusiast about the idea.

When the band finally showed up on November 26th at St Petersburg’s airport, after months of preparation, I almost couldn’t believe it. To my view their show at the State Music Theater was truly amazing, powerful and extremely well received by the audience. It sounded like fresh contemporary music although these were pieces that they composed more than 20 years ago.””

(Extract from Isabelle Corbisier’s Tuxedomoon biography, “Music for Vagabonds”, 2008; used by permission of the author) 

Recorded live at State Music Theatre, St Petersburg, 27 November 2000

Performers:

Steven Brown

Peter Principle

Blaine L. Reininger

Tour manager: Carlos Becerra

Originally released by Neo Acustica, 2002

Band leisure photo by Oleg Kuptsov

Project management by Heitor Alvelos

tuxedomoonarchives.bandcamp.com

In loving memory of Oleg Kuptsov

"The Valencia Street Rehearsals" by Tuxedomoon Now Available!

Around 1978 Tuxedomoon shared a rehearsal space at Valencia Street, not far from the Deaf Club. The place would see the birth of many classics in their early form, but would also produce a wealth of jams and compositions that would never see the light of day…

… until now, that is. Thanks to the diligence of Peter Principle, some of these loose rehearsals were recorded on tape, duly digitised around 2015.

Blaine: “I would put this in the basement at 16th and Valencia. Our shared space with Noh Mercy and home of our manager Adrian Craig and Esmerelda Kay of Noh Mercy and angels of light. [Only the Strong Survive] only ever got played at Mark Shause’s Halloween party. The head of surgery at USF hospital who later performed surgery on me on the floor of our apartment to remove a calcified growth from my arm. I still bear the scar. [...This version of Crash includes] the line that [Michael Belfer] played forwards. In the sessions it wasn’t working so we turned the tape over and I played forward keyboards with the backwards track. Then we added the drums. This gave us the backwards guitar on the Half Mute version”

The band agrees it’s a magical piece of sound, evocative and nostalgic, fresh and hardly ever boring. You can hear the excitement of exploring “strange new toys”, as well as the mutual acquaintance between the musicians’ individual ideas and styles, gradually becoming something larger than the sum of its parts…

... in other words, gradually becoming Tuxedomoon.

Heitor Alvelos, September 2018

	1.	Only The Strong Survive 03:52
	2.	Victims Of Hope 05:31
	3.	Impressionist Flesh 07:09
	4.	Keep Me Hangin' On 02:08
	5.	Crash 03:43
	6.	No Tears (blues) 17:56
	7.	Miracle Throne 01:48
	8.	Only The Strong Survive (reprise) 04:30

Recorded at Valencia Street basement rehearsal rooms, San Francisco, circa 1978

Performers:

Michael Belfer

Steven Brown

Peter Principle

Blaine L. Reininger

Transferred from analogue tapes by Peter Principle, 2015

Edited and sequenced by Heitor Alvelos, 2018

Mastered by Anselmo Canha, 2018

Cover photo by Richard Alden Peterson

Cover design based on original “No Tears” layout by Winston Tong

Project management and design by Heitor Alvelos

tuxedomoonarchives.bandcamp.com

"Tuxedomoon Live in Hamburg, 1988" Now Available for Download

This recording from the 1987-88 "Reunion Tour"of tuxedomoon, features the band in a tight and polished formation, including drummer Paul Zahl, for one of its most rock manifestations.

Recorded live at The Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, 29 February 1988 

Performers: 
Steven Brown 
Bruce Geduldig 
Peter Principle 
Blaine L. Reininger 
Paul Zahl 

Live sound by Luc Gerlo 
FM tape originally shared with Peter Principle 
Mastered by Anselmo Canha, 2018 

Tracks 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 are previously unavailable as official recordings from this particular tour; they may double as an appendix to the 1989 double-LP “Ten Years In One Night”, largely based on recordings from the same tour. 

Promo photograph by Danny Willems 
Concert photography by Hans-Peter Habicht 
Project management, cover photograph and design by Heitor Alvelos