Olaf Rupp - electric guitar
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums
Actually, it's just guitar and drums, but it sounds like a whole world. This is mainly due to the complex polyphony, with which the two, without much electronics constantly move on several levels at once. You don't have to follow every path to its end and yet new synapses connect here. These complex layers join even the simplest structures into a hypnotic overall sound.
Over the last 30 years, Olaf Rupp consistently has acquired a more and more spectralistic irreverence: for him everything is sound. This makes the fingerboard become a huge pool of sound, as it is not only open to electronic musicians, from whom this conception of material originates. Rudi Fischerlehner's form-language circles like a polymetric vortex around a center without sticking to it. On the contrary, these elliptically asymptotic drum loops keep shooting new things into orbit.
Xenofox has existed since 2014 and is documented on numerous releases, most recently on the album "The Garden Was Empty". Concert invitations have taken the band to A L'Arme Festival Berlin, Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Lydfestival Aarhus and the Free Music Forum in Vienna, among others.
Videos: Youtube-Playlist
Current Album "The Garden Was Empty": Bandcamp
"... one of the best duos that the combination of these two
instruments currently has to offer if it comes to improvised
music."
freejazzblog
"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
Xenofox & Joke Lanz
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