Oxbow (band)
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Oxbow is a long-lived Avant-Garde
band out of San Francisco, California notable for a unique sound. Oxbow plays a blend of Noise rock
, Avant-garde jazz
, Musique concrète
(AMG), and Blues
, creating soundscapes caustic, or plangent, with overtones of paranoia, revulsion, exaltation.
The first album from Oxbow, Fuckfest, met with international success and created a small but loyal following that has grown ever since.
The band's 2007 album The Narcotic Story
was named Best Album of 2007 by Rock-A-Rolla magazine.
Limited Release Picture Disc EP
Limited Release Vinyl EP
DVD included in the CD/DVD Compilation Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow.
There are 6 selections included on the DVD:
1. Music For Adults (documentary film)
2. Music For Adults (outtakes)
3. Oxbow (live in Diksmuide, Belgium, Muziekclub 4AD 19 May 2002)
4. Oxbow (live in San Francisco, USA, Great American Music Hall
14 November 2004)
5. SbarX (video + 5.1 audio mix)
6. The Snake &... (5.1 audio mix)
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
band out of San Francisco, California notable for a unique sound. Oxbow plays a blend of Noise rock
Noise rock
Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...
, Avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which ...
, Musique concrète
Musique concrète
Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
(AMG), and Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, creating soundscapes caustic, or plangent, with overtones of paranoia, revulsion, exaltation.
Current line-up
- Dan Adams - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Greg Davis - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration... - Eugene Robinson - vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Niko Wenner - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
The first album from Oxbow, Fuckfest, met with international success and created a small but loyal following that has grown ever since.
The band's 2007 album The Narcotic Story
The Narcotic Story
The Narcotics Story is a 1958 American film directed by Robert W. Larsen.The film is also known as Goofballs and Tea .- Plot summary :- Cast :*Art Gilmore as Narrator...
was named Best Album of 2007 by Rock-A-Rolla magazine.
Albums
| Release Date | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Fuckfest | CFY Records/Pathological Records/Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
| 1991 | King of the Jews | CFY Records/Pathological Records/Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
| 1995 | Let Me Be a Woman | Brinkman Records/Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records |
| 1996/1997 | Serenade in Red | Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records/SST Records SST Records SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment... |
| 2002 | An Evil Heat | Neurot Recordings Neurot Recordings Neurot Recordings is an independent American record label founded by members of Neurosis and Tribes of Neurot. The label was founded to release the side projects of Neurosis and its members. It has since expanded to a fully functioning label, releasing music from artists... |
| 2007 | The Narcotic Story | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
EPs
| 1996 | Insylum/The Stabbing Hand | Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records |
Limited Release Picture Disc EP
| 2009 | Songs for the French | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
Limited Release Vinyl EP
Compilations
| 1992 | Balls in the Great Meat Grinder Collection CD (Compiles the albums King of the Jews and Fuckfest on a single cd, in that order.) | Pathological Records |
| 1997 | Fuckfest\King of the Jews 2CD (Compiles the albums Fuckfest and King of the Jews in a two CD package.) | Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records |
| 2006 | Love That's Last CD/DVD (CD includes new, and previously released songs; DVD includes two live performances, a documentary, two 5.1 surround re-mixes, etc., see "DVD" below.) | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
| 2007 | Remixed & Covered Remixed & Covered Remixed & Covered is a 2007 double album by Xiu Xiu. One disc contains cover versions of the band's songs, whilst the other contains remixes of their originals.-Disc one :#Larsen - "Mousey Toy"#Oxbow - "Saturn"... CD (Two CD package of remixes/covers of the band Xiu Xiu Xiu Xiu Xiu Xiu is an American avant-garde group originally from San Jose, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has been its only constant member since its inception in 2002. His current bandmate is Angela Seo... ; Oxbow acoustic duo perform "Saturn.") |
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Live albums
| 2008 | Oxbow presents: Love's Holiday Orchestra Oxbow duo live at Supersonic 2007 (featuring Justin Broadrick Justin Broadrick Justin Karl Michael Broadrick is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.-Biography:Broadrick was born in the council estates of inner... and Stephen O'Malley Stephen O'Malley Stephen O'Malley is a musician, predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer from Seattle, Washington who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental music groups.... ) (12" vinyl only) |
Capsule Capsule -Anatomy:* an eggshell* Articular capsules - every diarthrodial joint possesses a fibrous or ligamentous capsule, lined with synovial membrane, attached to the adjacent ends of the articulating bones* the sac that encloses the crystalline lens of the eye... |
| 2008 | Fuckfest/12 Galaxies (12 Galaxies: Oxbow acoustic quartet recorded live at 12 Galaxies club, San Francisco, 2008) (limited, hand signed two-cd package) | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
| 2009 | Songs for the French (Side "There" live recordings, Europe, 2008) (12" vinyl only) | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
| 2011 | : : stone & towering edifice : LIVE at the BAM (Oxbow acoustic quartet live at UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, 2010) (CD only) | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
Splits
| 1999 | Oxbow Meets White Tornado | Wallace Records |
| 2011 | Oxbow / Kill Kill Kill (Oxbow song is previously unreleased alternate version of Daughter from 1991 LP, King of the Jews. Mastered 1991/2011 Golden Mastering / Kill Kill Kill song recorded at Paul Terrace, Los Angeles, CA, 2011) (Vinyl 7") |
Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
Music videos
| 2006 | SbarX (video + 5.1 audio mix on Love That's Last DVD, song from An Evil Heat (2002)) | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
DVD
| 2006 | Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow | Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner in 1993... |
DVD included in the CD/DVD Compilation Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow.
There are 6 selections included on the DVD:
1. Music For Adults (documentary film)
2. Music For Adults (outtakes)
3. Oxbow (live in Diksmuide, Belgium, Muziekclub 4AD 19 May 2002)
4. Oxbow (live in San Francisco, USA, Great American Music Hall
Great American Music Hall
The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California. It is located on O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood on the same block as the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater...
14 November 2004)
5. SbarX (video + 5.1 audio mix)
6. The Snake &... (5.1 audio mix)
External links
- Official website
- Official Facebook
- Official MySpace
- [ Allmusic]