Announcing the release of "The Hamburg Sessions" by Tuxedomoon co-founder Blaine L. Reininger and William Lee Self. This album marks the first studio release by Blaine Reininger since 2007's "Glossolalia" and his first album of songs since 1999's "The More I Learn the Less I Know".
This year, Reininger and Self will tour their new
album with a hot new band. We want to invite you to get involved.
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The Hamburg Sessions
I first met
William Lee Self somewhere in the uncharted darkness of the 1980’s in Brussels.
I don’t remember the exact circumstances. One day the mists of my perception
cleared for a moment and he was just there. I persisted in addressing him in
German long after he explained to me that he was an American from Georgia who
only lived in Germany and even after he asked me to stop it. Thus began a
friendship which has persisted to the present day.
In about
1985 we began the first in a series of musical collaborations when he came
onboard the HO model train of my solo career for a series of dates in Northern
Europe. A couple years later I was similarly engaged to aid and abet the tours
of his band Montana Blue. Much fun was had. Many laughs were laughed.
In the
summer of 2009, at Lee’s invitation and with the encouragement of my wife Maria
we joined Lee and Birgit in their aviary on Hamburg’s beautiful inner city lake
the Alster for the beginning of the sessions which have resulted in this record
here in your hands (or hovering before you in a 3d virtual iteration, if that is
the way things will go).
For both Mr. Self and
my
self, this body of work has marked a most fulfilling return to songwriting and
recording. We were both pleased to see that the hornED beast which compels us to
toil on into the silent night crafting tunes to an end not immediately obvious
still dwells within us both, though he has lately taken to wearing tweed jackets
and sports a walking stick.
And thus and
so, dear reader, we submit to you these, our Hamburg Sessions.
BLR
Athens,
Greece 2012
