Live at Au Topsi Pohl, photo by Cristina Marx

XENOFOX   en/de

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

"Idylle ist schon lange keine Option mehr, über diese Linie sind die beiden 'Alien Entertainers' längst hinweg"
Bad Alchemy

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