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"UR is yet another thrilling ride, a beautiful ride, it is challenging then it is challenging in the most positive of ways, we’re talking flights of a Mahavishnu Orchestra nature, we’re talking beautiful details, undercurrents, counterbalances, we’re talking flow that flows against the flow and flows so well…"
– The Organ (UK)
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April 8 - Binario69 - Via de' Carracci 69/7d - Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Listen to & buy: UR
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"The first time I saw Portland's Blue Cranes live, I walked away trying to compare what I'd seen to anything I'd encountered before. I couldn't do it, and I still can't - the band is a force of nature.... Call it "creative music" or "post-jazz" or whatever you like, but the Blue Cranes sound is steeped in the ideas and concepts of jazz....a beautifully improvised sonic experience." - NPR/A Blog Supreme
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April 5 - Holocene - 1001 SE Morrison St - Portland, OR
Listen to & buy:
Swim
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"...one of the most impressive concerts I saw was the Dragon Drop/Cheer Accident/Free Salamander Exhibit show in Indianapolis. ...Cheer Accident blew me away... The music was innovative and powerful and brave and everything I’d hoped it would be."- Proglodytes
"Cheer-Accident are the quintessential Chicago post-rock band... They've been exploring head-scratching, creatively fucked-up time signatures and sideways guitar shenanigans for 20 years now, leaving a pronounced influence on the Windy City's art-rock scene. Their playful musical approach is a ripe aesthetic of absurdist humor."
– Pitchfork
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April 1 - Cheer-Accident Basement - Chicago, IL [for address / tickets hit the link]
April 21 - Platypus - 4501 Manchester Ave - St Louis, MO 63110
April 22 - The Lodge - 231 Sixth Ave - Dayton, KY 41074
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"The resulting...sessions, collected here for the first time, reveal how the amalgam of volatile styles the brothers ingested during their varous sonic encounters fused together and caught fire...Although The Fourth World Quartet was a short-lived project, this remarkable discovery reveals a group who were knocking over some serious creative barriers."
– Edwin Pouncey / Jazzwise
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THE FOURTH WORLD QUARTET'S FIRST SHOWS IN NEARLY 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!!
September 29 - Zal Gaz Grotto No. 34 - 2070 W Stadium Blvd - Ann Arbor, MI 48103
September 30 - Trisophenes - 1464 Gratiot Ave - Detroit, MI
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"The music here walks a wide loop around Soft Machine and Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, Miles Davis and Miriodor, Van Der Graaf Generator and Art Zoyd. It's impeccably assembled and played, while freely indulging the more insane aspects of progressive rock, avant-garde chamber music, and electric jazz....Despite the musical sophistication and adventure on Live at Yoshiwara, this music is extremely accessible to a wide swathe of listeners. Its release signals the magnificent arrival of Ghost Rhythms on American shores. Get it now." – AllMusic
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May 12 - Pan Piper - 2-4 impasse Lamier - Paris, 75011, France [performing with Andy Emler MegaOctet!]
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"Named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010, Washington D.C. native Joel Harrison has long been recognized as a highly gifted guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist and songwriter. A survey of Harrison’s body of work would be a bit like spinning a globe and stumbling on regions with names like Duke Ellington, Hendrix, The Beatles, John Mclaughlin, and Charles Ives. Wielding a focused lens and an ever-increasing courage to take risks with his art, Harrison has quickly blossomed from mentorships with Joan Tower, Ali Akbar Khan and Charlie Banacos into one of the most respected artists of his generation."
- From Joel's official website
April 16 - with Anthony Pirog - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
April 17 - with Anthony Pirog - U. of VA - Cabel Hall - Charlottesville, VA
April 23 - with Anthony Pirog - Nublu - 151 Avenue C - East Village, NY 10009
Listen to & buy:
Joel Harrison, Mother Stump
Joel Harrison / Lorenzo Feliciati / Cuong Vu / Roy Powell / Dan Weiss, Holy Abyss
The Spellcasters (Joel Harrison/ Anthony Pirog/ Dave Chappell/ John Previte/ Barry Hart), Music from the Anacostia Delta
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A composer and cellist who’s honed a singular synthesis of composition, orchestration and improvisation, Janel Leppin is one of DC's leading avant-music stars. Besides performing as half of the experimental duo Janel and Anthony, which she co-leads with her husband guitarist Anthony Pirog, she leads the seven-piece chamber-jazz Ensemble Volcanic Ash, as well as performing and recording with other jazz, rock, and experimental groups.
"An Absolute Virtuoso - 4 Stars" - Downbeat Magazine
"Leppin is a rarity..ahhh-vant garde at its finest." - Capital Bop
April 2 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
May 18 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
May 27 - with Anthony Pirog and Mike Kuhl - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave - Baltimore, MD 21230 - Opening for Roger Clark Miller [Janel and Anthony and Mike will play a set of music drawn from their releases on Cuneiform as well as some new material]
Listen to & buy:
Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash
Janel & Anthony, Where Is Home
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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. In June 2023, the video series will convert to a quarterly format.
We invite you to visit and follow Cuneiform Record's YouTube Channel to see the videos that Henry regularly presents. The March 1, 2023 video is HENRY KAISER SHOW #24 - The final monthly before the HK series goes quarterly. It covers music by Alan Holdsworth, Randy Newman, Robert Hunter, Obray Ramsey. Plus Improvs. Guests: Anthony Pirog, Andy West, Ed Pettersen, Ramon Goose, Bob Bralove, Jody Stecher, & Bill Walker.
Most recently, in addition to his video series, Kaiser occasionally presents special videos: some focusing on current events and guitar legends, and some providing free guitar lessons, focusing on tunes associated with legendary guitarists. His September 2022 guitar lesson video, focusing on the whole tone scale and Sonny Sharrock, is titled The Whole Tone Scale! Sonny Sharrock’s DICK DOGS lesson with Henry Kaiser.
In March, Henry released a video tribute to guitarist David Lindley (3/21/1944 - 3/3/2023), whom Henry had worked with on numerous projects, including a series of releases for Shanachie featuring the Music of Madagascar. Henry's REQUIEM FOR DAVID LINDLEY is a must-see:
Besides his work as a musician, Kaiser is also a scientific diver and underwater videographer in the U.S. Antarctic program. Several of his Solo Series videos on the Cuneiform channel feature Henry's stunning underwater videography in addition to his guitar playing, as in this stunning video from May 2020: HENRY KAISER : Cuneiform Weekly Solo #2 : Under The Ice Again .
Because all videos are archived on the Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel, you can watch anything in the series at any time.
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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Roger Clark Miller is a guitarist, pianist, bassist, composer, singer, percussionist and occasional cornet player. His career officially began in 1979 when he co-founded the influential post-punk band Mission of Burma on guitar and vocals. He formed Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on piano in 1981, and from 1983-1989 he began his Maximum Electric Piano work. Miller joined the Alloy Orchestra in 1998 - "the best [orchestra] in the world at accompanying silent film" says Roger Ebert – which continues today as The Anvil Orchestra. He is currently working on his new looping-based music "Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble."
Boston Globe: "Less a recital than a musical minefield... Miller is a man in constant motion, a one-man symphony."
May 26 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
May 27 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave - Baltimore, MD 21230
Listen to & buy:
Roger Clark Miller, Eight Dream Interpretations for Electric Guitar Ensemble
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Dawn of the Cycads, The Fossil Record
 
The Fourth World Quartet, 1975
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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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Don't miss seeing the ED PALERMO BIG BAND live!
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April 29 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
June 24 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
August 26 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
October 28 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
December 23 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
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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"[Palo Colorado Dream] covers a sprawling musical terrain–avant jazz, atmospheric soundscapes, earthy Americana, math-rock...with an arsenal of effects hardware and studio production techniques..."
– JazzTimes
"One of jazz’s most reliable conduits to a living, breathing audience is electric-guitar heroism, and Anthony Pirog, from Washington...seems poised to become a hero of the instrument."
– The New York Times
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April 16 - with Joel Harrison - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
April 17 - with Joel Harrison - U. of VA - Cabel Hall - Charlottesville, VA
April 23 - with Joel Harrison - Nublu - 151 Avenue C - East Village, NY 10009
May 27 - with Janel Leppin and Mike Kuhl - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave - Baltimore, MD 21230 - Opening for Roger Clark Miller [Janel and Anthony and Mike will play a set of music drawn from their releases on Cuneiform as well as some new material]
Listen to & buy:
Anthony Pirog:
Pocket Poem; Palo Colorado Dream
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Janel & Anthony, Where Is Home
in other groupings:
Five Times Surprise
The Spellcasters, Music from the Anacostia Delta
Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash
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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 21 - Awakenings Festival - Lea Hall Pavillion - Sandy Lane, Rugely, Staffs - WS15 2LB, UK
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"The Best Music of 2015: A Banner Year for the Bold: …here are a dozen albums released in 2015 that I savored repeatedly for their musicality, clarity of statement and courage. …“X” by 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
Schnellertollermeier's clear-cut approach burns itself into one's memory; audiences who have seen the trio (bassist Andi Schnellmann/ guitarist ManuelTroller /
percussionist David Meier) live describe their music as “stunning”, “minimalist”, “brutal”, “decisive”, “monumental”, “angry”, “controlled”, “captivating” or “radical”. Simply fantastic.
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June 22 - Roadburn Festival - Paradox - Tillburg, The Netherlands
June 24 - Kultiläum '23 - Kulturwerk 118 - Sappeurstrasse 6, Sursee, Switzerland
June 25 - Perronnord - Rosenbergstrasse 48 - St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Thumbscrew is the all-star collaborative trio of Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass). Thumbscrew's critically acclaimed albums, all on Cuneiform Records, have appeared on Best of Year lists worldwide. Thumbscrew perform frequently at festivals and served numerous residencies at art centers and prominent venues in the US and abroad. I September 2022, in celebration of their 10th Anniversary, Thumbscrew will release their 7th album on Cuneiform Records: Multicolored Midnight.
“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!
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April 29 - Weinberg Center For The Arts - 20 West Patrick Street - Frederick, MD, 21701
Listen to & buy:
Multicolored Midnight //
Never Is Enough //
The Anthony Braxton Project //
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Ours // Theirs //
 
Convallaria // Thumbscrew //
 
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