CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR
2021 CALENDAR
In an evolving COVID-19 world, these dates are ALL tentative. Please check with venues, close to the concert date, to confirm. We're ecstatic that live concerts are resuming in many locales, and look forward to music venues and concert halls opening worldwide, when health and safety measures allow.
See also the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records.
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“[Desertion Trio] hits the sweet spot between Neil Young's exploratory Crazy Horse jams and a spaghetti western soundtrack." – NPR
Philly's Desertion Trio (Nick Millevoi / Johnny DeBlase / Jason Nazary) celebrate Numbers Maker – their 3rd album and 1st disc on Cuneiform – with a post-pandemic live show in DC, Cuneiform's home town.
August 21 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St NW - Washington DC 20012 [Record Release Show!]
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GHOST RHYTHMS
A remarkable, eclectic and electric "Jazz and beyond" large ensemble, Ghost Rhythms perform across France in 2021, celebrating new discs, including Live in Yoshiwara, their fourth release and their first on Cuneiform.
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The exuberant Swiss jazz/ pop/ beyond group - named after the American triple-Gold Medal winner at the 1904 Summer Olympics - are one of the most active groups on the European festival and club circuit, top-notch live performers ceaselessly honing their skills.
Listen to & buy: Tilt
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Grammy winner Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz, world, and contemporary experimental musics.
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THE HENRY KAISER MONTHLY SOLO SERIES, presented exclusively on the CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel
When Covid pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, Henry Kaiser began curating & presenting a weekly series of pre-recorded music videos exclusively on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel for music lovers isolating at home. These "live" concerts are taped beforehand and not streamed - Henry discusses the process in a Guitar Moderne interview, "The New "Live"". Many videos in the series depict duets and larger bands, despite the program being called the "Henry Kaiser Weekly Solo Series". While many depict new or recent performances, other videos in this series are vintage footage of performances not available elsewhere ( The Valentines' 1994 concert in the Fukuoka Dome).
After lockdowns began to lift In April 2021, the series celebrated its one-year anniversary and converted to a monthly format, which continues. All 52 videos from the Henry Kaiser's Weekly Series and everything in the current Monthly Series are archived & available on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel. We invite you to visit Cuneiform Record's YouTube Channel to see the videos that Henry present on the first of every month. The video posted on July 1, 2021/Monthly Solo #4 is "A Wide Ranging Variety Show".
Listen to & buy:
Albums by Henry Kaiser & Friends on Cuneiform
A Love Supreme Electric [Vinny Golia / John Hanrahan / Henry Kaiser / Wayne Peet / Mike Watt]:
A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme and Meditations
Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Sky Garden & Upriver
Five Times Surprise [Henry Kaiser / Anthony Pirog / Tracy Silverman / Jeff Sipe / Andy West]:
Five Times Surprise
Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell:
The Celestial Squid
Henry Kaiser: Lemon Fish Tweezer;
Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser: Friends & Enemies
Healing Force [Vinny Golia • Aurora Josephson • Henry Kaiser • Mike Keneally • Joe Morris • Damon Smith • Weasel Walter]:
Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler
V.A.: 156 Strings: Nineteen Totally Original Acoustic Guitarists
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"Twenty-first century big-band music doesn’t get more exciting
and impressive than this."
– Jazz Times
An astounding 18 piece jazz ensemble of five woodwind players, four trumpeters, three trombonists, two keyboardists, guitar, violin, bass and drums, led by arranger, composer & saxophonist Ed Palermo, one of America's most singular arrangers who draws on jazz, pop and rock tunes for his top-notch band. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of Frank Zappa, one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century, but no one does it with the ease, skill and originality that Ed and his band do!
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July 31 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY [with Eddy's Chemistry Set (septet band)]
Setember 20 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY [all Iridium shows with the full Ed Palermo Big Band!]
October 18 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY
November 22 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY
December 20 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY
Listen to & buy:
Ed Palermo Big Band albums on Cuneiform:
The Adventures of Zoyd Zundgren;
The Great Un-American Songbook Vols. 1&2;
One Child Left Behind;
Oh No! Not Jazz!!;
Eddy Loves Frank;
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
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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 perform in 2021 in France and beyond in various groupings.
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September 2 – Festival Exhibitronic – Strasbourg, France
Richard Pinhas with Duncan Pinhas
Listen to & buy releases by Richard Pinhas & friends on Cuneiform:
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"Schnellertollermeier marries brutality to avant-garde rock and jazz. A classic power trio from Switzerland, the band plays with punk fury and dazzling technical dexterity to create booming, bone-rattling music that stalks, confronts and astonishes."
– The Wall Street Journal
Brutal-jazz power trio Schnellertollermeier doesn't compromise. Their fresh and uncompromising mix of jazz, punk, rock, sound and free improvised music, combined with great musicianship, interplay and intense energy, has awed audiences at festivals of jazz, rock, pop and experimental music worldwide. In celebration of their new release on Cuneiform, the album 5, they tour Northern Europe this coming Fall 2021.
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October 1 - ISC Club - Neubrückstrasse 10 - Bern, Switzerland
October 2 - Le Singe - Untergasse 21, Biel, Switzerland
October 9 - Guten-Morgen-Eberswalde - Eberswalde, Germany
October 12 - Dexter - Vindegade 65 - Odense C, Denmark
October 14 - Rotondes - Rue de la Rotonde - Luxembourg, Luxembourg
October 15 - LantarenVenster - Otto Reuchlinweg 996 - Rotterdam, Netherlands
October 16 - LOCH - Bergstraße 50 - Wuppertal, Germany
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"...a streamlined trio quickly becoming today's premiere small jazz group"
– Francis Davis, NPR
“Made up of three highly distinctive voices in the world of jazz and avant-garde music, Thumbscrew should probably collapse under the weight of its own star power but Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Mary Halvorson (electric guitar) and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass) are just too aware of the potential of this supertrio to let that happen.”
-Something Else!
Thumbscrew is the all-star collaborative trio of Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass). All of their albums have been released on Cuneiform Records and have received international acclaim. 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 6 - Copenhagen Jazz Festival - Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark
July 7 - Jazzclub Unterfahrt - Munich, Germany
July 8 - Warsaw Summer Jazz Days - Warsaw, Poland
July 9 - GNRation - Braga, Portugal
July 10 - Alcaidaria do Castelo - Castel Branco, Portugal
July - 12 - Levontin 7 - Tel Aviv, Israel
July 13 - Levontin 7 - Tel Aviv, Israel
July 15 - Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz - Vitoria, Spain (Pablo M. Caminero Trio opening)
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