Half-Mute

by Tuxedomoon

Half-Mute cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 March 1980
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:23
  • Community rating: 4.2/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Blaine L. Reininger, Peter Principle

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging from the San Francisco avant-garde scene, Tuxedomoon's debut album is a chillingly surreal, deeply atmospheric collision of synthesizer minimalism and post-punk paranoia. 'Half-Mute' weaves haunting saxophone, screeching violin, and mechanical drum machines to construct a profoundly dark, hypnotic, and wonderfully suspenseful electronic masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, atmospheric, experimental, minimal, saxophone, electronic, dark-humor, synthesizers

Tracklist

  1. Nazca (3:10)
  2. 59 to 1 (4:00)
  3. Fifth Column (2:57)
  4. Tritone (2:50)
  5. Loneliness (3:00)
  6. James Whale (2:44)
  7. What Use (4:03)
  8. Volo Vivace (2:50)
  9. 7 Years (3:12)
  10. Km / Seeding the Clouds (11:43)
  11. Nervous Guy (5:11)
  12. Where Interest Lie (4:07)
  13. (Special Treatment for the) Family Man (5:10)
  14. Midnite Stroll (3:20)

Credits

  • Tuxedomoon - primary artist, producer, written-by, arranged by
  • Patrick Roques - artwork [cover art], design/illustration
  • Peter Principle - bass, guitar, percussion [electronic percussion], synthesizer
  • Jim Renney - engineer
  • Leo Kulka - lacquer cut by
  • Steven Brown - saxophone [saxes], vocals, synthesizer, keyboards, percussion [electronic percussion]
  • Blaine L. Reininger - violin, vocals, synthesizer, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, percussion [electronic percussion]

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