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While all the music is performed and produced by Reininger, featured guests include his Tuxedomoon colleagues Steven Brown and Luc van Lieshout, as well as former Indoor Life member Bob Hoffnar and Reininger’s Greek guitarist, Tilemachos Moussas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn this expansive double set Reininger employs all the tools in his current arsenal, from AI-assisted lyrics to sampler bricolage, to violin and guitar virtuosity, a vast array of computer plug-ins and effects, and a \u003ci class=\"\"\u003etrompe l’oeil\u003c\/i\u003eassortment of 20th century avant-garde compositional methods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci class=\"\"\u003e\"When I’m working,\" \u003c\/i\u003eexplains Blaine,\u003ci class=\"\"\u003e “and a piece begins to reveal itself to me, I always follow where it leads. It becomes clear that it requires a violin, or a guitar, or lyrics. Whether it should be harsh or serene, orchestral, or entirely electronic. So it is with this new collection. Also, in the vocal songs, the subject of mortality has surfaced time and time again, albeit in a lucid manner and without becoming morbid, or fearful. I’m pleased with the results, and grateful to have the means to write every day and present my music to you.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album is produced by Reininger, with mixing and mastering by long-time collaborator Coti K. 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Other guests include Steven Brown and Winston Tong of Tuxedomoon, and Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul. The final mix was supervised by Gareth Jones, famed for his work with Depeche Mode, Einsturzende Neubauten and Wire. The part-instrumental album offers a sequence of bittersweet expatriate vignettes. \"I suppose I should be grateful to the capital of Europe for providing the seed around which so much of my spleen could crystallize for so many years,\" explains Reininger, who hailed from Colorado via San Francisco. \"Brussels provided me with such a rich source of melancholic poetry.\" The 10 core tracks on \u003ci\u003eNight Air\u003c\/i\u003e include popular single \u003ci\u003eMystery and Confusion\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eBirthday Song\u003c\/i\u003e (originally performed by Tuxedomoon), the elegiac \u003ci\u003eAsh and Bone\u003c\/i\u003e, and the exquisite baroque pop of \u003ci\u003eA Café au Lait for Mr XYZPTLK\u003c\/i\u003e. 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