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News From The Studios!

CIBELLE is putting the finishing touches to her second album, due for release in April 2006. The tracks were recorded mostly in São Paulo and London, and were coproduced by Cibelle, Apollo Nove and Mike Lindsay (from up and coming UK folktronica act Tunng). Final takes and mixes are taking place in Paris with engineer Yann Arnaud.

TARTIT: Crammed are about to start recording the new album by this Tuareg band who live in the Sahara (in northern Mali), and recently took part in the Desert Blues shows alongside Afel Bocoum & Habib Koité. The album will be recorded in the desert by (Congotronics man) Vincent Kenis on his mobile studio, and in collaboration with Michel Winter, who has been looking after the career of Tartit (with his management company Divano, which also takes care of Taraf de Haidouks, Mahala Rai Banda and Konono N°1 among others).

BEBEL GILBERTO has been writing and recording songs for her 3rd album.

TUXEDOMOON are working on a largely instrumental soundtrack album.

THINK OF ONE: the ebullient Belgian combo have just signed a recording agreement with Crammed, and are working on their new album, due out in late March 2006. Entitled « Chuva em pô 2 », the album was recorded with several musicians & vocalists from the Brazilian northeast, including legendary veteran singer Dona Cila do Côco. Their first « Chuva em pô » project had come out on their own, tiny label, yet had managed to obtain a BBC Award for World Music. Think Of One think of themselves as musical explorers, and have previously travelled around the globe to record with Moroccan and Inuit artists.

CONGOTRONICS 3 : watch this space for more news on the recording of the forthcoming volume in the series !

Tuxedomoon mini-Tour

Tuxedomoon will perform at the New Atlantis Festival which takes place in Amsterdam from July 4th to 15th (workshops, conferences and small concerts).

Other summer dates here below:

25/06 HOLLAND - AMSTERDAM - TEST PORTAL FESTIVAL
28/06 ITALY - NAPOLI - RISTOFUSION
30/06 ITALY - MESTRE (Venezia) - PARCO SAN GIULIANO
02/07 GREECE - ATHENS - SYNCH FESTIVAL

Tuxedomoon in Wire Magazine (UK)

Tuxedomoon gig at Colegio Mayor San Juan Evangelista in Madrid
reviewed by John Gill in Wire Magazine (UK)

I don’t remember a Tuxedomoon concert this raw and visceral, not least the full-on Situationist funk of “Luther Blisset” - imagine Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter jamming with A Certain Ratio with some Charles Ives-like intertextuality at work.

Tuxedomoon in Barcelona

Tuxedomoon playing in the Apolo Club next week.

More information on their spanish Tour Dates here.

Tuxedomoon "Seismic Riffs" DVD

Legendary US group Tuxedomoon were scattered to the four corners of the earth, each member developing his unique solo career. When a mysterious man invited them to meet in Cagli, Italy, they embarked on production of Cabin In The Sky, their first official album in fifteen years. Director Merrill Aldighieri documented their journey in 2003/2004 through concert hall and studio as the new album took shape.

The result is “Seismic Riffs”, a 62-minute documentary on the making of “Cabin In The Sky” featuring studio footage, interviews and live performances of Cagli Five-0 / Baron Brown / Diario di un egoista / Luther Blisset / A Home Away as well as new renditions of Tuxedomoon classics such as Desire / Loneliness / Litebulb Overkill / Volo Vivace / The Waltz…

Seismic Riffs was written, shot and edited by Emmy award-winning director Merrill Aldighieri, who had first met Tuxedomoon on-stage at a NYC niteclub called Hurrah. An excerpt from that first collaboration is included in the bonus clips.

Tuxedomoon Tour Dates

17/03/05 Mexico Mexico City Teatro de la Ciudad
19/03/05 USA San Francisco Cafe Du Nord
21/03/05 USA L.A.  Knitting Factory
30/03/05 USA N.Y Knitting Factory
31/03/05 USA N.Y.  Tribeca Grand

06/04/05 Spain Barcelona
07/04/05 Spain Huesca
08/04/05 Spain Madrid
09/04/05 Spain Vallaloid
10/04/05 Spain Murcia
12/04/05 Portugal Farmalicao
13/04/05 Portugal Lisboa