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Tuxedomoon is an American band formed in San Francisco in 1977 and originally composed of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger, who were quickly joined by Peter Principle.


A band that released a mini-album "No tears" a year later in 1978, a mini-album from which one of the tracks extracted and which bears the name of the mini-album will give them a nice critical success. Mini success that allows them to be much more visible and to be noticed by the label Ralph Records who signs them in the process.


Label with which they released a first full album "Half-mute" in 1980, an album that will in turn be favored by the public and which will remain as the best ranked of all.


Other albums will be released thereafter but the band will never again succeed in achieving a success equivalent to that obtained with "Half-mute".


To discover or rediscover...


 

Discography (among others...) :


70s  Decade :

  • No tears 1978

  • Nite and day 1978

  • Joeboy the electronic ghost 1978

  • Nervous guy 1979

  • Where interest lie 1979


80s  Decade :

  • What use ? 1980

  • 59 to 1 1980

  • 7 years 1980

  • East/Jinx/.../ Music #1 1981

  • Victims of the dance 1981

  • In the name of talent 1981

  • Conquest 1982

  • Queen Christina 1982

  • Time to lose 1982

  • Courante marocaine 1982

  • L'étranger (Gigue existentielle) 1982

  • The cage 1983

  • The waltz 1985

  • In a manner of speaking 1985

  • Atlantis 1986

  • Reeding righting rhytmatic 1986

  • A piano solo 1986

  • You 1987

  • The train (You version) 1987

  • 2000 1987


90s  Decade :

  • Music number two 1991

  • Basso pomade 1991

  • Les odalisques 1991

  • Les six 1997

  • El popo 1997


2000s  Decade :

  • A home away 2004

  • Chinese Mike 2004

  • Misty blue 2004

  • Muchos colores 2007

  • Still small voice 2007

  • Dark temple 2007


2010s  Decade :

  • Dorian 2014

  • Vanity 2014

  • Triumphant procession 2014


 

Tracks :


1978...a first title which immediately sets the trend : this group is not going to do anything like everyone else, both in terms of style and sound...



1978...a trend that is confirmed and amplified with this new title. It is clear that we are dealing with an extraordinary group, for better or for worse...



1978...they show from the start a desire to stand out and produce titles that are different from the masses. After all, too much originality can kill originality...



1979...because they will push originality to the limits of what is bearable throughout their career. Sensitive souls should abstain, as they say...



1979...they're going to put the cursor where other instrumental music makers haven't dared to put it. Quite a bet...



1980...a daring bet and above all a risky bet. After all, that's also the magic of the 80s, everything and anything coexisting in a joyful mess without any real predefined limits...



1980...their music will therefore be aimed mainly at an audience of initiates and that's an understatement. We could even talk about an audience of enlightened people...



1980...afterwards we can't blame them for having their own unique universe. That, in principle, is incontestable...



1981...but there is always a price to pay in these cases. Living on the fringes of the system inevitably leaves you on the side of the road...



1981...a risk that they fully assume and which in no way calls into question their irrepressible desire to do nothing like the others...



1981...on the other hand, it can be a roundabout way to make history. Not necessarily by the genius side of their compositions but by the completely offbeat side...



1982...and that's to be offbeat, it is ! They mix everything, sounds, voices, noises, all without real links most of the time...



1982...it's definitely the kind of music you either love or hate, no in-between. But music is also made for that, that is to say, to please all audiences, even the most extreme...



1982...music is for them a playground that knows no limits or borders. Everything is good to take and especially to mix...



1982...what they will do during this decade of 80 is impossible to reproduce nowadays. Only this blessed era allowed this kind of madness...



1982...no label would follow today on such tortured musical projects. Today it is necessarily profitability and pre-formatting for everyone...



1983...when they want they can still produce almost normal titles. Too bad they didn't make more like that...



1985...day and night with the previous title, it must be noted. Or the art of going from one extreme to another permanently...



1985...we find lyrics on this title but that doesn't mean a return to normality. Let's not get ahead of ourselves...



1986...with each new title we wonder what they are going to invent ? No limits with them, no barriers...



1986...we do what we want and it doesn't matter if the public follows or not. There is necessarily a base of unconditional fans who find what they are looking for and it is especially for this public that the group offers this kind of titles...



1986...we really wonder if we are dealing with the same group ! Normal and inspired composition, all that is missing is lyrics worthy of the name to make this title a real success...



1987... there is improvement, we are not going to lie to ourselves. But we know very well that with them everything can change overnight...



1987...the proof with this new title. You can't change your nature, it always comes back at a gallop, it's clear once again. We won't remake them as they say...



1987...making a normal title is the purest feat for them. While it's exactly the opposite for most other groups...



1991...they explore here a new musical path, one more. This time this exploration will be mainly focused on Classical, a choice that is surprising to say the least...



1991...surprising but not without interest, it must be said. They will truly surprise us until the end, that's for sure...



1991... once again we find them in a place where we didn't expect them at all. Past masters in the art of covering their tracks...



1997...we'll lose sight of them for almost 6 years but here they are again. They won't give up until the end, that's for sure...



1997...the production of titles is slowing down more and more and we can feel that the group is struggling more and more to renew himself...



2004...then we're going to completely lose sight of them for 7 years, absences that are getting longer and longer...



2004...they are away but they always come back again and again. A desire to believe until the end that commands respect without a doubt...



2004...after that it remains to be seen how much longer they will manage to hold on because we can feel that their hearts are not necessarily in it any more...



2007...for now it holds anyway because here comes their new opus. We must still remember that they started the adventure almost 30 years ago, which is not nothing...



2007...an astonishing longevity for a group with such a particular style. Often this kind of group makes one, or even two albums max and then leaves...



2007...they managed to hold out much longer, which shows that they had additional assets compared to the others...



2014...new air hole, one more. They are really taking their time now but they are still producing a minimum...



2014...which is bound to delight the long-time fans who keep asking for more and more. Let's hope for them that it lasts...



2014...so last title or not ? Knowing that they can come back at any time as in the past, it could very well be that we find them again later...


 

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