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Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States.
The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement.
Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, originally consisting of Steve Brown and Blaine L.
Reininger, used electronic violins, guitars, screaming vocals and synthesizers to develop a unique "cabaret no-wave" sound.
Bassist Peter Principle joined the band and in 1979 they released the single "No Tears", which remains a post-punk cult classic.
That year they signed to Ralph Records and released their first album, Half-Mute.
Eventually Tuxedomoon relocated to Europe.
The band separated in the early 1990s, only to reunite later that decade.
They have remained together since, releasing their latest album, Vapour Trails, in 2007.1980sIn 1980 the band released their first album, Half-Mute, on Ralph Records.
The album is named after film director James Whale.
The band toured Europe in 1980 and moved to New York City.
While in New York, they performed in, and were featured on the soundtrack for the film Downtown 81.
They gained popularity in the Netherlands and Belgium.
They eventually relocated to Brussels.
Trumpet player Luc van Lieshout joined the band.
In 1987, the band performed on the soundtrack for the Wim Wenders film, Wings of Desire.
Tuxedomoon played in Athens, Greece, for the first time on December 1987, selling out the Pallas Theatre twice in one night.1990sIn the early 1990s, the band separated and did not reunite for approximately eight years.
Tuxedomoon reunited to perform at the Next Festival in Tel Aviv.
The band hadn't played together in eight years, when Brown called the members to come together for the concert.
They rehearsed in a studio for 10 days, in Tel Aviv, before the concert.
Brown credits the Next Festival concert as being the key event in reuniting the band.2000sTuxedomoon performed in 2000, playing acoustic and electronic concerts of previously recorded material.Their 2004 album, Cabin in the Sky, would serve as their comeback record.
The majority of the record is instrumental.
Reininger's voice, which was compared to David Bowie's during Tuxedomoon's early career, has been described as evolving into "Tom Waits" and a wolf from Tex Avery's "Baron Brown," by music critic Rod Smith.
Filmmaker Bruce Geduldig performs backup vocals on the album.In 2006 the band released Bardo Hotel' on Crammed Discs.
Recorded in San Francisco, the album is a soundtrack to a film by George Kakanakis, which at the time of the album's release, remained unfinished.
The album and film are named after the book Beat Museum - Bardo Hotel, by Brion Gysin, which is named after the Bardo Hotel in Paris.
The soundtrack and film pulled influence from Gysin's "cut-up" method, which was co-developed with William S.
Burroughs.
The recording features samples of airplane sounds, BART announcements and other found sounds.
New Orleans jazz and opera are two influences for the album's sound.Tuxedomoon released the album Vapour Trails, on Crammed Discs, in 2007.
The album was recorded at Reininger's home.
The band uses instruments like clarinets and flugelhorns along with their standard instrument setup.
In 2007, they also released a CD and DVD boxset of unreleased and rare music and videos.
Various Tuxedomoon members have collaborated with the UK band Cult With No Name, as well as the FuturePlaces medialab for citizenship in 2010, 2011 and 2013.CurrentBand members live in Mexico City, Oporto, Athens, Brussels and New York.
Principle cites the members living on different continents as helping them stay together as a band.
Their publishing house was called Angst Music.LegacyThe band Factrix called Tuxedomoon mentors.Scooter's "My Eyes Are Dry" from their album Mind The Gap is a cover version of "No Tears" with additional sections.Musical styleSteven Brown cites the band's early influences as "Eno, Bowie, John Cage, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Igor Stravinsky and Ennio Morricone".
Later and current influences include Radiohead, Claude Debussy, Miles Davis, Michael Nyman and the Velvet Underground.
Their music finds influence in genres such as punk rock, jazz, funk, tango, and post-punk.Music critic Simon Reynolds wrote that their sound has an "aura of jaded elegance", with a more European style musically versus what their American counterparts were creating at the time of the band's formation.
Seattle Weekly described their music as radiating "a discomfort that hints of existential hives."Lyrically, Tuxedomoon examined society, culture and psychology.
"Holiday for Plywood", on Desire, examined consumerism and paranoia.