Tuxedomoon – Michael’s Theme

7″ + book, Stampa Alternativa, 1988

You must have come across these – Italian books of dubious origin but unquestionable enthusiasm, usually coupling collected lyrics and an interview – in Italian and English – with a 7″ of live rarities and chat (later a CD along similar lines).

This one dedicated to San Francisco (and latterly Belgian) sophisticates Tuxedomoon is particularly pretty, with its embossed white-on-white cover, and the disc is worth a listen too. The a-side is a cover of a Nino Rota film theme, and the interview is a wide-ranging collage taking in all the key Tuxedomoon mavens and rocking’ Billy Burroughs too.

a. Michael’s Theme (1:45)
b. Interview (4:24)

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UVOII – Sound of Heaven

CD, Fax, 1994

Ooh look, aren’t we clever… a cunning link between the Escape album and the Tuxedomoon rarity posted below….

Namely, ‘Moon member Blaine L Reininger’s idiosyncratic ambient album for Namlook’s Fax label from ’94. In collaboration with Amir (Dr Atmo) Abadi, Ingo Schnorrenberg and Michael Pagenstedt, this dreamy swamp meanders through typical chillout drifters with occasional interjections of Beat poetry in an almost Tom Waits style.

Released December 1994, in a single edition of 1000 copies, never reissued. See what you think…

01. Soundtrack of my Dreams (20:58)
02. God’s Picture in the Internet (20:12)
03. Enanariyo (15:34)
04. The Bodhi Tree (5:06)

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