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Saturday, June 1, 2019

Cuneiform Records JUNE 2019 Newsletter

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Cuneiform Records
June 2019 Newsletter

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SPRING 2019 NEW CUNEIFORM RELEASES
The Spellcasters Music from the Anacostia Delta
Five Times Surprise Five Times Surprise
Le Rex Escape off the Fire Ants
ARTISTS ON TOUR
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CUNEIFORM RECORDS' SPRING 2019 RELEASES
CUNEIFORM RECORDS Springs into the Season with:

             
 
MUSIC OF THE ANACOSTIA DELTA and FIVE TIMES SURPRISE,
Two Radically Different Albums featuring DC Guitarist ANTHONY PIROG in Quintets with other Stellar American Guitarists (HENRY KAISER, JOEL HARRISON, DAVE CHAPPELL),
and

ESCAPE OF THE FIRE ANTS by the renegade Swiss brass band LE REX.
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Music from the Anacostia Delta is by DC-based The Spellcasters (guitarists Joel Harrison, Anthony Pirog, and Dave Chappell and the late Danny Gatton's rhythm section: John Previti on acoustic & electric bass; and Barry Hart on drums), who celebrate the hybrid rockabilly/jazz/country music of the Anacostia Delta (DC/ northern VA/ southern MD) and the legacy of Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan via Fender Telecasters. Click Soundcloud image below to hear a track, "Rock Candy":
 
Read the Press Release for The Spellcasters' Music from the Anacostia Delta. 
Visit The Spellcaster's Artist Page at Cuneiform Records to hear/read/buy.
    
The Spellcasters [l/r]: Dave Chappell/John Previti/Barry Hart/Joel Harrison/Anthony Pirog

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Five Times Surprise is a monster ‘out’ electric jazz/rock session by Five Times Surprise (Henry Kaiser & Anthony Pirog–six-string guitar; Tracy Silverman–six-string electric violin; Jeff Sipe-drums; Andy West–six-string bass). Read the Press Release
' self-titled album.Five Times Surprise for

Click on Soundcloud image below to hear a track, "You Know You Know":

Visit Five Times Surprise's Artist Page at Cuneiform Records to hear/read/buy

 
 

Five Times Surprise [l-r]: Tracy Silverman/Anthony Pirog/Andy West/ Henry Kaiser/Jeff Sipe
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Cuneiform Records released Escape Of The Fire Ants  by renegade Swiss brass band LE REX in April 2019.  The band's fourth album, it's our second release by the young and highly mobile group who are winning jazz & beyond audiences across Europe & worldwide. Featuring a line up of trombone, tuba, two saxes and drums, the edgy 'jazz' ensemble reinvents brass groove/ jazz/ brass band music with an indie-rock aesthetic.  Read the Press Release for Le Rex's Escape of the Fire Ants.

Click on SoundCloud image to listen to title track "Escape of the Fire Ants"



Le Rex [l/r]: Benedikt Reising–alto sax /Marc Stucki–tenor sax/Andreas Tschopp–trombone/Marc Unternährer–tuba/Rico Baumann–drums

ARTISTS ON TOUR

Please visit the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records for updates.

BILL BROVOLD (OF LARVAL)

 
Guitarist/composer Bill Brovold, leader of NYC's Strange Farm and Detroit's Larval, embraces on a tour of Mexico.


June 6 - Jazz Cafe - Mexico City, Mexico

June 8 - CDMX - Mexico City, Mexico
 

Listen to & buy:
Surviving Death/Alive Why?, Obedience

          


EMPIRICAL


London's Empirical are expanding jazz's reach with their music (embracing the future while respecting the past) and via innovative means ("pop-up jazz lounges" in Tube stations) to introduce jazz to the mainstream public. In 2019, in addition to playing live in the UK, Empirical bring their music for the first time ever to North America, performing at the Rochester and Edmonton jazz festivals, at NYC's Jazz at Lincoln Center, and at art spaces in DC.
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June 2019: First Ever USA/ Canadian Tour
                             
June 22Rochester Jazz Festival - Rochester, NY

June 23Rhizome - 6950 Maple St, NW - Washington, DC

June 25 - Dizzy's Club - Jazz At Lincoln Center - NYC, NY

June 26Dizzy's Club - Jazz At Lincoln Center - NYC, NY

June 28 - Edmonton Jazz Festival - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Fall 2019: UK Tour

October 4 - Wakefield Jazz Club - Wakefield, UK

October 5 - Stapleford Granary - Cambridge, UK

December 12 - Bonington Theatre - Nottingham, UK
 

 
Listen to & buy:
Connection

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA

 A truly phenomenal jazz-rock / electric jazz/ Canterbury-inspired jazz-fusion group based in France, Forgas Band Phenomena is led by composer/ multi-instrumentalist Patrick Forgas, a respected fixture on the European music scene for more than 4 decades. Celebrates a NEW Cuneiform release, L’Oreille Électrique, the band performs this summer in Italy.
 
June 8 - La Casa di Alex - Milan, Italy


Listen to & buy: L’Oreille Électrique, Soleil 12L'Axe du FouActe V

     

     

GHOST RHYTHMS

The fourth release by this large, electric and eclectic French 'jazz and beyond band' and their first on Cuneiform
July 9 - Disquairies - Paris, France

October 11 - Moutier - Thorigny, France

October 18 - Sunset - Paris, France [CD Release Show]


Stay tuned for an upcoming GHOST RHYTHMS release on Cuneiform Records in October 2019!
     

THE GREAT HARRY HILLMAN

The exuberant Swiss jazz/ pop/ beyond quartet - named after the American triple-Gold Medal winner at the 1904 Summer Olympics - continue to celebrate their Cuneiform release, Tilt,  by touring the Northern European jazz festival and club circuit. 
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June 26Orpheum - Graz, Austrial
June 27Porgy and Bess - Wien, Austria


Listen to & buy: Tilt

LE REX

Just released on Cuneiform Records (April 2019!), Escape of the Fire Ants announces the arrival of Swiss band Le Rex as an international force: street smart & road-tested, ferociously grooving & lyrically charged, a new millennium jazz brass band powered by indie rock energy & attitude.
 
November 30 - Wendland Jazz Festival - Gedelitz, Germany
December 1 - B-Flat - Berlin, Germany
December 12 - Theater Tuchlaube - Aarau, Switzerland


Listen to & buy:
Escape of the Fire AntsWild Man

    


THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND


Performing regularly at The Iridium and The Falcon, the Big Apple's beloved Ed Palermo Big Band, led by jazz composer/ arranger/ saxophonist Ed Palermo, hones its chops before the entire band travels overseas to perform at Germany's legendary Zappanale, the world's premiere festival devoted to the musical legacy of Frank Zappa.
 
June 10The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY
June 15The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
July 15The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY
July 19 - 21Zappanale #30 - Bad Doberan, Germany [a very rare chance to see the EPBB outside of the New York/New Jersey area]
August 7 - Montclair Social Club - 499 Bloomfield Ave  - Montclair, NJ

August 12The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY

August 17The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542

September 6The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY
October 19The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
October 21 - The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY

November 18 - The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY

December 9 - The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY
December 21The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
December 31The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542


RICHARD PINHAS
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One of France's major experimental musicians and a key figure in the development of electronic rock, guitarist and electronic musician Richard Pinhas will tour Japan in September 2019


September 5 -  Nine Spices - Tokyo (Shinjuku City)  - Japan  (with trio PINHAS/MERZBOW/YOSHIDA)

September 6-24 - Venues TBA 2019 Japan Tour: Morioka, Sendai, Utsunomiya, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Tokushima, Takamatsu, Matsuyama, Hiroshima, Hofu, Oita, Hakata


Listen to & buy releases by Richard Pinhas & friends on Cuneiform:

Richard Pinhas: Process and Reality, Desolation Row, MetatronMetal/CrystalTranzition, Event & Repetitions

               

Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland: Mu 


Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi: Tikkun
 

 Richard Pinhas & Merzbow:  Keio Line, Rhizome, Paris 2008
         

Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya: Welcome in the Void
  

Schizotrope (Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec): The Life & Death of Marie Zorn


RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL

UK electronic ensemble Radio Massacre International bring "Berlin School electronics" into the 21st  century and onto the live stage. The longstanding improvisational synth & electronics trio has released dozens of recordings - including 3 on Cuneiform – and mesmerized festival audiences worldwide.
 

October 12Awakenings - Lea Hall Pavilion, Sandy Lane - Rugeley, Staffs - UK
 

Listen to & buy:
Time & Motion, Rain Falls in Grey, Emissaries
   
 


TOMEKA REID QUARTET

The second release – and first on Cuneiform Records – by cellist Tomeka Reid 's quartet


October 30 - November 5 : Midwest Tour - Dates Soon

Stay tuned for an upcoming TOMEKA REID QUARTET release on Cuneiform Records
in October 2019!

   
 


WADADA LEO SMITH

Recognized by DownBeat Magazine as a "National Treasure," composer/ improvisor/ trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith is one of the most renown musicians in American Creative Music. Releasing countless albums that top critics' polls, Smith has won numerous music awards, including being winner of the Jazz Journalist Association's 2017 Musician of the Year Award and DownBeat 2017 Critics Poll awards for Trumpeter of the Year, Jazz Artist of the Year & Jazz Album of the Year. 
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November 2 - Jazz At Lincoln Center - 10 Columbus Circle - NYC, NY
 

Listen to & buy: 
America's National Parks
(DownBeat's 2017 Album of the Year Award)



Ten Freedom Summers
(finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music)



& additional Wadada Leo Smith albums on Cuneiform:
Tabligh, Heart’s Reflections, Spiritual Dimensions, Sky Garden, Upriver 

            


SOFT MACHINE

UK's legendary Soft Machine 
[l-r: Roy Babbington, John Marshall, John Etheridge, Theo Travis] follow up their marathon global tour with an extensive series of concerts in their UK homeland.
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June 22 - Gulbenkian Theatre - Canterbury, UK
August 4 - TBA - Porretta Terme, Italy
September 13 - Lowestoft Jazz Festival - Lowestoft Beach, UK
October 5 - Apollo - Scarborough, UK
October 6 - Spa Zephyr Lounge - Leamington, UK
October 10 - The Crescent - York, UK
October 11 - Green Hotel - Kinross, UK
October 16 - Robin 2 - Wolverhampton, UK
October 17 - Band On The Wall - Manchester, UK
October 19 - Saffron Hall - Saffron Walden, UK
October 22 - The Stables - Milton Keynes, UK
October 24 - Bonington Theatre - Nottingham, UK
October 26 - Empire Shepherds Bush - London, UK
October 27 - Academy - Sheffield, UK
October 30 - Earl Haig Club - Cardiff, UK
November 9 - Storey's Field Centre - Cambridge, UK
November 10 - Warwick Arts Centre - Coventry, UK


Listen to & buy 
SOFT MACHINE  ALBUMS+DVDS on CUNEIFORM RECORDS:

NDR Jazz Workshop,  Middle Earth Masters,  Switzerland 1974,
  Virtually,  Spaced,  Backwards,  Grides,  Live in Paris,  Noisette


        

         

         


THUMBSCREW


Thumbscrew is the all-star collaborative trio of Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass). Their two new albums on Cuneiform – Ours and Theirs  placed on numerous Best Albums of 2018 lists worldwide, including the 2018 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll, Popmatters' Best Jazz of 2018, Bandcamp's Best Jazz Albums of 2018 and many more. Brilliant live performers, they've performed at festivals and served numerous residencies at art centers and prominent venues in the US and abroad.
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July 18SFJazz Center - 201 Franklin St - San Francisco, CA 94102
July 19SFJazz Center - 201 Franklin St - San Francisco, CA 94102


Listen to & buy: 
OursTheirs,
ConvallariaThumbscrew


    

    
To set up press and radio interviews with Cuneiform Artists while on tour, please contact:

promo@cuneiformrecords.com
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