tuxedomoon
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Eclectic American art-rock ensemble Tuxedomoon comprises core members Steven Brown, Blaine L. Reininger, Peter Principle and Luc van Lieshout.


SOUNDTRACKS/URBAN LEISURE SUITE (LTMCD 2331) £10
A collection of Tuxedomoon material recorded for films and stage performances, some previously unreleased on any format. The film soundtracks are Plan Delta (1986) and Fields of Honour (1983), as well as the legendary Urban Leisure Suite from the San Francisco performance of the same name in 1980. The CD also includes full BRT orchestrations of three tracks from the celebrated Ghost Sonata (1982). Digital remaster, full sleevenotes. Full tracklist: Fanfare, No-One Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Driving to Verdun, Urban Leisure Pts 1-4, The Bridge, Celebration Futur de la Divine, Nimrod, Lop Lop's People, Burning Trumpet, Music #2, Licorice Stick Ostinato, Basso Pomade.

Reviews: "Maintains its tension very well. With its spiralling electronica, austere strings, wailing guitars and mournful saxes, you imagine it's going to collapse under the weight of its own portentiousness, but it's forever shape-shifting and stimulating" (Uncut, 9/02); "Magnificently packaged Cold Wave mists and biting electronic particles. Remarkable" (Les Inrockuptibles, 9/02); "Tracks range from a sophisticated, urban and modern Martin Denny-like soundtrack feel to a surprisingly 'post-rock-like' downtempo mood music. Timeless, necessary and enlightening" (OtherMusic.com, 10/02); "Impressionistic in ways both broodingly martial and woozily arch, layered onomatopoeic orchestrals and absurdist horns vie with minimalist piano and primitive electronics" (Glasgow Herald, 6/02); "The Ghost Sonata is intense, dramatic, chilling - as ambient as a knife in your back" (Select, 3/91); "Ghost Sonata is a tiny masterpiece of sorts, and captures Tuxedomoon's rarified, quixotic melancholy at its peak" (Q Magazine, 5/91)


UMBRELLAS IN THE SUN LTMDVD 2400 £12
Tuxedomoon perform live versions (1980) of Jinx and Litebulb Overkill on this definitive two hour compilation DVD, which also features rare archive clips from Antena, A Certain Ratio, Josef K, Cabaret Voltaire, Marine, Section 25, The Names, Durutti Column, New Order, Crispy Ambulance, Minny Pops, Malaria!, Berntholer, Tuxedomoon, Thick Pigeon, Paul Haig, Kalima, Stockholm Monsters, Quando Quango and Swamp Children. For more details of this DVD click here.


THE NIGHT WATCH LTMCD 2326 £10
This LTM label sampler features two exclusive Tuxedomoon tracks: Shelved Dreams, and I Was an Apple in the House of Orange. For further details click here.

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