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Oxbow

 
Artist: Oxbow
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Similar Artists:

The Jesus Lizard, Caspar Brötzmann

Influenced By:

The Birthday Party, Gone

Followers:

Todd, Strings of Consciousness

Formal Connection With:

White Tornado
  • Disbanded: 1987
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Fuckfest", "Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow", "An Evil Heat

Biography

The provocative San Francisco-based quartet Oxbow formed in the late '80s around vocalist Eugene Robinson, guitarist Niko Wenner, bassist Dan Adams, and drummer Greg Davis. Combining the squall of bands like the Birthday Party with elements of free jazz and musique concrète, the group debuted in 1990 with Fuckfest, followed in 1992 by King of the Jews. The menacing The Balls in the Great Meat Grinder Collection also appeared in 1992, and after 1995's Steve Albini-produced Let Me Be a Woman Oxbow signed to the SST label for 1997's Serenade in Red, which featured guest vocals from Marianne Faithfull. They released a split EP with the Italian band White Tornado in 1999, followed by An Evil Heat in 2002. The compilation Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow arrived in 2006. Wenner has also played with God and Swell. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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Oxbow
Origin San Francisco, California
Genres Noise rock
Avant-garde
Years active 1988–present
Labels Hydra Head Records
Website http://www.theoxbow.com
Members
Dan Adams (bass, keyboards)
Greg Davis (drums, percussion)
Eugene Robinson (vocals)
Niko Wenner (guitars, keyboards)
Former members
Tom Dobrov (drums)

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.

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Members

Current line-up

The first album from Oxbow, Fuckfest, met with international success and created a small but loyal following that has grown ever since.

Discography

Albums

Release Date Title Label
1989 Fuckfest CFY Records/Pathological Records/Hydra Head Records
1991 King of the Jews CFY Records/Pathological Records
1995 Let Me Be a Woman Brinkman Records/Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records
1996/1997 Serenade in Red SST Records/Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records
2002 An Evil Heat Neurot Recordings
2007 The Narcotic Story Hydra Head Records

EPs

1996 Insylum/The Stabbing Hand Crippled Dick Hot Wax Records

Limited Release Picture Disc EP

2009 Songs for the French Hydra Head Records

Limited Release Vinyl EP

Compilations

1992 Balls in the Great Meat Grinder Collection Pathological Records
2006 Love That's Last CD/DVD Hydra Head Records

Live albums

2008 Oxbow presents: Love's Holiday Orchestra Oxbow duo live at Supersonic 2007 (featuring Justin Broadrick and Stephen O'Malley) (12" vinyl only) Capsule
2008 Fuckfest/12 Galaxies Hydra Head Records
2009 Songs for the French (Side "There" live recordings) (12" vinyl only) Hydra Head Records

Splits

1999 Oxbow Meets White Tornado Wallace Records

Music videos

2006 SbarX (video + 5.1 audio mix on Love That's Last DVD, song from An Evil Heat (2002)) Hydra Head Records

DVD

2006 Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic and Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow Hydra Head Records

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)

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References

  1. ^ PopMatters review of Eugene S. Robinson's Fight

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