Steven Brown - Brown Plays Tenco and Live 1988 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Half Out is Steven's third 'proper' solo album, recorded in 1991 for Belgian indie Les Disques du Crepuscule. Backed by a crack ensemble band including fellow Tuxedo moon members Blaine L. Reininger, Luc Van Lieshout and Ivan Georgiev, this eclectic yet dazzling set covers the waterfront from skewed swing careworn confessional and modern chamber music. Long unavailable, Half Out has now been digitally remastered with four bonus tracks, three of them previously unreleased. LTM. 2005.

Crammed's legendary MADE TO MEASURE Series of New Music was described at the time as the aural equivalent of a collection of art books. Charting a map of some of the most interesting instrumental music of the era, thirty-five albums came out between 1983 and 1995, including works by artists such as Hector Zazou, John Lurie (his soundtracks for the Jim Jarmusch films), Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Zelwer, Steven Brown, Peter Principle, Harold Budd, Brion Gysin, David Cunningham, Benjamin Lew, Ramuntcho Matta, Karl Biscuit, Daniel Schell, Aksak Maboul, Minimal Compact and more. The loose idea behind the title of the series was this is music which has been or could have been Inchmade to measureInch as a soundtrack for other media (film, theatre, dance, video). Several years ago the tag discreetly started reactivating the Made To Measure series, and released several new albums on MTM. MTM 1 features 15 works by Minimal Compact, Benjamin Lew, Aksak Maboul and Tuxedomoon. Remastered vinyl reissue.

Steven Brown, TuxedoMoon co-founder and charismatic singer, songwriter, composer and musician returns with an enchanting new album, once again drawing from his favourite literary, cinematic and political sources, as well as from his life in Oaxaca, Mexico, to create a mysterious and inviting world. In This Very World alternates between songs featuring Brown's inimitable vocal presence and evocative, stripped-down instrumental pieces built around horns and piano, alluding to minimalist jazz and neoclassical forms. The album includes covers of a Shostakovich composition and David Bowie's InchPanic in Detroit.Inch It further establishes Steven Brown's solo stature as a powerful, poetic songwriter and iconic vocalist-somewhere, in broad strokes, between Tom Waits, John Cale, Paolo Conte, Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld and, instrumentally, Alabaster DePlume.