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Tuxedomoon
Tuxedomoon is an experimental music, experimental, post-punk, New wave music, 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 Steven Brown (born Steven Allan Brown on August 23, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois) and Blaine L. Reininger, used electronic violins, guitars, screaming vocals and synthesizers to develop a unique "cabaret no-wave" sound. Bassist Peter Principle (Peter Dachert, 1954–2017) 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, Reininger left the group, and Tuxedomoon relocated to Europe, signing to Crammed Discs and releasing ''Holy Wars (album), Holy Wars'' in 1985. The band separated in the early 1990s, only to reunite later that decade. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crammed Discs
Crammed Discs is an independent record label whose output blends world music, rock, pop, and electronica. Based in Brussels, Belgium, Crammed was founded in 1980 by Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and has since released around 375 albums and 275 singles, working with artists from all over the world (from Western Europe and the US to the Balkans and North & Central Africa, from South America to the Middle East and Japan). Crammed Discs is run by Marc Hollander (A&R) with Hanna Gorjaczkowska (artist development, marketing, distribution & art direction) and Vincent Kenis (producer, director of the Congotronics Series). Marc Hollander and Crammed Discs received the WOMEX award in 2004 at the World Music Expo international music trade fair, for being "one of the seminal players on the world music field". However, the label has always systematically worked with electronic music, indie pop and rock artists, and "doesn't see itself as a ''world music label'': it just happens to enjoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-Mute
''Half-Mute'' is the debut studio album by American post-punk band Tuxedomoon, released on March 15, 1980, by Ralph Records. It was their first long-form record, after two EPs, 1978's '' No Tears'' and 1979's '' Scream with a View''. ''Half-Mute'' was reissued on CD in 1985 by Cramboy, bundled together with ''Scream with a View''. The album's cover art is by Patrick Roques. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Half-Mute'' liner notes. Tuxedomoon * Steven Brown – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, keyboards, synthesizer, drum programming, lead vocals * Peter Dachert (as Peter Principle) – bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer, drum programming * Blaine L. Reininger – violin, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, drum programming, spoken word (A2) Production and additional personnel * Jim Renney – engineering * Patrick Roques – cover art * Tuxedomoon – production, arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Wars (album)
''Holy Wars'' is the fourth studio album by American post-punk band Tuxedomoon, released in 1985 by Cramboy. "In a Manner of Speaking" is probably the band's most known song, after being covered by Martin Gore on his 1989 E.P. ''Counterfeit e.p.'' and by Nouvelle Vague on their 2004 eponymous debut album. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Holy Wars'' liner notes. ;Tuxedomoon * Steven Brown – lead vocals (2, 4–6, 8, 9), organ (1–4, 7–9), synthesizer (1, 3, 7–9), electric piano (1–3), alto saxophone (1, 7, 8), clarinet (4), keyboards (6), soprano saxophone (7), tape (7), piano (9), drum programming (9), clapping (9) * Peter Dachert (as Peter Principle) – bass guitar (1–4, 6–8), tape (2), drum programming (2–4, 6–9), synthesizer (3, 7), guitar (5, 6, 8, 9), cymbal (6), clapping (9) * Luc Van Lieshout – trumpet (1–3, 7–9), harmonica (1, 3, 7–9), organ (4), melodica (6), recorder (6), clapping (9) * Winston Tong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabin In The Sky (Tuxedomoon Album)
''Cabin in the Sky'' is the tenth studio album by American post-punk band Tuxedomoon, released on July 20, 2004 by Cramboy. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Cabin in the Sky'' liner notes. ;Tuxedomoon * Steven Brown – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, piano, vocals * Peter Dachert (as Peter Principle) – bass guitar, electric guitar, drum programming, percussion, backing vocals, recording, mixing * Luc Van Lieshout – trumpet, flugelhorn, harmonica * Blaine L. Reininger – violin, viola, guitar, synthesizer, drum programming, vocals ;Additional musicians * Marc Collin – programming (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12) * DJ Hell – programming (7, 12) * Bruce Geduldig – backing vocals ;Production and additional personnel * Aksak Maboul – additional programming and mixing (8) * Coti – production, recording, mixing * Isabelle Corbisier – photography * Hanna Gorjaczkowska – ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Tong
Winston Tong (born 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an actor, playwright, visual artist, puppeteer, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his vocals in Tuxedomoon and for winning an Obie award in puppetry for ''Bound Feet'' in 1978. Early years Tong was born in the United States to Chinese parents exiled by the Communist revolution. He graduated with a degree in theatre from the California Institute of Arts in 1973. While at CalArts, he studied classical vocals with Marni Nixon.Hall, GinaWinston Tong interview at Fallen Angels Digest In 1969, Tong was commissioned to illustrate ''The Dinosaur Coloring Book'' by Malcolm Whyte, which was first published by Troubador Press and later by Price Stern Sloan. Performance art After graduating from CalArts, Tong established his reputation in the Bay Area with a string of charismatic, left-field performance pieces such as ''Wild Boys'', ''Eliminations'', ''Frankie and Johnnie'' and the award-winning ''Bound Feet'', which was loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Records
Ralph Records was an independent record label active between 1972 and 1989, best known for being initially run by avant-garde art collective, ''The Residents''. The name coming from the slang phrase for vomiting, "calling Ralph on the porcelain telephone". Ralph was founded in 1972, shortly after the Residents had moved to San Francisco, when they realized that it was the only entity that would be willing to publish their work. They "unincorporated" themselves as the Residents Uninc. and managed the new company under that name. One of the group's members could draw, so they gave the company a graphic design wing called Porno Graphics, a.k.a. Pore-Know Graphics, a.k.a. Poor No Graphics, a.k.a. Porneaugraphics, etc., and the whole operation was run out of their new two-story building at 18 Sycamore St. in the Mission District. The band named its studio El Ralpho, spoofing Sun Ra who had named his El Saturn. Ralph's first release was December 1972's ''Santa Dog'' (RR-1272), a two-disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cockettes
The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus (George Edgerly Harris III) in the fall of 1969. The troupe was formed out of a group of hippie artists, men and women, who were living in Kaliflower, one of the many communes in Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Hibiscus came to live with them because of their preference for dressing outrageously and proposed the idea of putting their lifestyle on the stage. Later in the storefront at 992 Valencia Street, now Artists' Television Access. Their brand of theater was influenced by The Living Theater, John Vaccaro's Play House of the Ridiculous, the films of Jack Smith and the LSD ethos of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The troupe performed all original material, staging musicals with original songs. The first year they parodied American musicals and sang show tunes (or original musical comedies in the same vein). They gained an underground cult following that led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Haneke
David Haneke (born August 13, 1965, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian video designer, director, and camera operator. Life David Haneke is the son of Austrian film director Michael Haneke. He grew up in Vienna, where he graduated from a Waldorf School and studied cello under Professor Wolfgang Ebert from 1974 to 1984. He moved to Amsterdam in 1985 and lived there until 2005. In 1992, he graduated from the Academy of Theater and Dance at Amsterdam University of the Arts (Mime School). Haneke has been living in Switzerland with his wife and two children since 2005. Career The focus of his work is on stage video designs, which are projected onto various surfaces as integral parts of the mise-en-scène of opera, theater, and dance performances. They are composed of pre-recorded, animated, or real-time-generated visual sequences. His visual art covers a broad spectrum, ranging from stage video design and short films to innovative video installations for museum spaces. David Hanek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by punk's energy and DIY ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented with styles like funk, electronic music, jazz, and dance music; the production techniques of dub and disco; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, cinema and literature. These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines. The early post-punk vanguard was represented by groups including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire, Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire, Magazine, Pere Ubu, Joy Division, Talking Heads, Devo, Gang of Four, the Slits, the Cure, and the Fall. The movement was closely related to the development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polymoog
The Polymoog is a hybrid polyphony (instrument), polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980. The Polymoog was based on Frequency divider, divide-down oscillator technology similar to electronic organs and string synthesizers of the time. History The name Polymoog can refer either to the original Polymoog Synthesizer (model 203a) released in 1975, or the largely preset Polymoog Keyboard (model 280a) released in 1978. The Polymoog has a 71-note weighted Pratt & Read Keyboard expression, touch-sensitive Musical keyboard, keyboard divided into three sections with a volume slider for each. It also has a three-band resonant graphic equalizer section, which can be changed to a low/bandpass/high-pass filter. The Moog-designed 24 dB/octave filter section allows modulation modulated from its own envelopes, low frequency oscillation and sample and hold circuit. Ranks and waveforms of all notes are also adjustable combining waveforms, octaves, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body. The pitch is controlled by opening and closing holes in the body to change the effective length of the tube. The holes are closed by leather pads attached to keys operated by the player. Saxophones are made in various sizes and are almost always treated as transposing instruments. Saxophone players are called '' saxophonists''. The saxophone is used in a wide range of musical styles including classical music (such as concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, and occasionally orchestras), military bands, marching bands, jazz (such as big bands and jazz combos), and contemporary music. The saxophone is also used as a solo and melody instrument or as a member of a horn section in som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco City College
City College of San Francisco (CCSF or City College) is a public community college in San Francisco, California. Founded as a junior college in 1935, the college plays an important local role, annually enrolling as many as one in nine San Francisco residents. CCSF is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). Comprising the entire San Francisco Community College District, CCSF is the only community college in San Francisco. The Ocean Avenue campus, bordering the Sunnyside, Westwood Park and Ingleside neighborhoods, is the college's largest location. The college has other campuses in South San Francisco, Financial District, Little Saigon, South of Market, Bayview-Hunters Point, Marina District, North of Panhandle, and Mission District. CCSF offers courses in more than 50 academic programs and over 100 occupational disciplines. There is a wide selection of credit courses that lead to an associate degree, which can be used to meet the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
