Olaf Rupp - electric guitar
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums
The new Album "The Garden Was Empty" is out on Audiosemantics
and avaiable on Bandcamp
"A thrilling ride from start to end, they create a whole world filled with rackety riffs & rickety rhythms, all to this writer's delight." Vital Weekly
"...klingt überwältigend leger und zugleich bis an den oberen Rand angefüllt mit spontangenialen Ideen." Freistil
"Das
Duo Xenofox liefert mit dem Album „The Garden Was Empty“ einen
hypnotischen und basslastigen Mix aus Hi-Hat-Expressionismus
und entgrenztem Rock." TAZ
"Idylle ist schon lange keine Option mehr, über diese Linie sind die beiden 'Alien Entertainers' längst hinweg" Bad Alchemy
They can make quite a fuss in the china shop. But the aim is not to destroy things - it is about creating spaces, the air and the hidden silence amidst all the rubble that begets something special. A creative furor comes along with just enough ease to make sure that in the end everything fits together well to form a meandering whole. There is an organic wilderness in this music gaining ground so irreverently that if you are able to enjoy a note, a sound, a beat just for what they are: a note, a sound, a beat, then you will have fun to see the wood for the trees.
The cooperation between Olaf Rupp and Rudi Fischerlehner dates
back to the year 2010: in different line ups – above all as a
trio with Matthias Müller under the name RMF – they perform at
many festivals of Jazz and New Music such as Saalfelden,
Ulrichsberg and Elbjazz Hamburg and publish two albums, TAM and
TINGTINGK. In 2014 the two play their first festival appearance
as a duo in Aarhus, Denmark. A recording of the concert is
published as a CD and highly received by the media as “furious”
and as “one of Rupp’s great moments” (Bad Alchemy) with “softly
flowing layers” of “tempo and riot” (freistil).
Barely two years later Rupp and Fischerlehner, now running under the name XENOFOX, present their first studio album HUNDRED BEGINNINGS. A large number of concerts at venues as different as Berlin’s squat bar Schokoladen, German avantgarde institutions in Bielefeld and Schorndorf or the honorable Kaleidophon in Ulrichsberg, Austria were ideal opportunities for the duo to adapt their ears and instincts to each other and to focus and finetune their musical visions. The result is an album of Improvised Music with a very unique character and a very modern sound and concept, which is questioning official historiography and opening up new directions. „This can get quite loud sometimes, has a nice energy“ and „it refers to Rock Music and to Freejazz both at the same time“ (OÖ Nachrichten).
In 2017 they play a trio set with turntablist Joke Lanz at
Alarme Festival Berlin, a recording of the concert gets released
on Oltrarno Records as ALARM. The festival program sees the
improvising trio "influenced by trip hop as well as by punk and
performance art" and Exclaim! magazine states: "this is what
rock and roll should sound like in 2018."
Most recently, Rupp and Fischerlehner released two download
albums as a duo, MACONDO on Farai Records (2020), and CABBAGES
AND KINGS on ScatterArchive (2022).
A new studio album titled THE GARDEN WAS EMPTY has been
announced for February 2023 on Audiosemantics on CD and
download.
2023 Xenofox The Garden Was Empty, Audiosemantics, CD Bandcamp
2018 Xenofox & Joke Lanz Alarm, Oltrarno Raw, CD Bandcamp
2016 Xenofox Hundred
Beginnings, Farai-Records, CD Bandcamp
2015 Olaf Rupp &
Rudi Fischerlehner Live at
Lydfestival Aarhus, Farai-Records and Bad Alchemy, CD Bandcamp
2022 Xenofox Cabbages and Kings, ScatterArchive, digital Bandcamp
2021 Xenofox & Joke Lanz A Proper Cup Of Coffee, Oltrarno Recordings, digital track on compilation, Bandcamp
2020 Xenofox Macondo (EP), Farai-Records, digital Bandcamp
2019 Olaf Rupp & Rudi Fischerlehner Xenokustik, Audiosemantics, digital Bandcamp