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"Blaine L. Reininger needs no special introduction. He is an American post-punk, new-wave and alternative pop singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (particularly violin), writer and performer. He is known for being a member of the group Tuxedomoon since 1977 after co-founding it with Steven Brown and, latterly, for a notable music and theatre career, both as a soloist and contributor to other artists' recordings, including The Durutti Column, Snakefinger, Anna Domino, Savage Republic or Paul Haig. After learning the violin and guitar during childhood and studying music theory in San Francisco, Reininger formed the band Tuxedomoon with composer, singer, musician and college-mate Steven Brown and appeared on early albums such as Half Mute, Desire and Suite En Sous-Sol before departing early in 1983 to pursue a solo career. He permanently rejoined Tuxedomoon in 1988 and has subsequently appeared on more recent recordings such as Vapour Trails, issued in 2007 by independent label Crammed Discs. In 2015 Reininger's friend Albrecht Hirche shot his first feature film, a raod movie entitled Mädchen in Koffer. Blaine contributed the soundtrack which is surprisingly song based and put it on his Bandcamp page in 2018. Klanggalerie are now very happy to present you the first CD version of this music. In addition to the score, we have chosen another 9 tracks from Blaine's vast archive to make this a full-length album."
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This is the debut release from the brand-new Stilll side-label, Off. Blaine L. Reininger is an American composer and performer born in 1953 in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1977, he started the legendary American cult band Tuxedomoon together with Steven Brown in San Francisco. Over the course of the next 26 years, many artistic collaborations took place and many CDs were recorded. These collaborations, while mostly musical in nature, often moved into other fields such as dance, theatre, and film. Since 1998, Reininger has been living in Athens, Greece, where Glossolalia was born. "Glos·so·la·li·a from Gk. glossa 'tongue, language' + lalia 'a speaking,' from lalein 'to speak, prattle,' of echoic origin. 1. Fabricated and nonmeaningful speech, especially such speech associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes. 2. the gift of tongues." Glossolalia is Blaine's first solo album since 1999, and probably his best-ever so far. Close your eyes and travel through old black and white Italian and Greek movies from the '60s, or cross the ocean and feel the colors and the heat from Mexico. Glossololia is a mixture of all the places and people that Blaine has encountered in the last 10 years. It is full of poetry and faith in the world -- a musical journey that is magic for the ears.
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