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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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September 15 - Public Brewing - Kenosha, WI [with The Mercury Tree]
September 16 - Reggies - Chicago, IL [with The Mercury Tree]
March 13 - tba - Chicago, IL [opening for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum]
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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).
Over time, the series converted to monthly and currently, a quarterly release schedule. All 52 videos from the Henry Kaiser's Weekly Series, the entire two year Monthly Series and all current quarterly videos are archived & available on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel.
We invite you to visit and follow Cuneiform Record's YouTube Channel to see the videos that Henry regularly presents. A must see: the SUMMER 2023 video is HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY #2, featuring Henry's awesome guitar work along with performances with friends.
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.
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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Consisting of two saxophonists, trombone, tuba and drums, the Swiss band Le Rex is street smart & road-tested, ferociously grooving & lyrically charged: a new millennium jazz brass band powered by indie rock energy & attitude.
October 20 - Heitere Fahne - Dorfstrasse 24, - Berne, Switzerland
December 21 - BeJazz - Könizstrasse 161 - Liebefeld, Switzerland
February 22 - Dekadenz- Obere Schutzengelgasse 3a, Brixen, Italy
Listen to & buy:
Escape of the Fire Ants, Wild Man
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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 recently released new solo looping-based music on Cuneiform - 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."
Roger C. Miller featured with The Anvil Orchestra:
September 6 - [featured with THE ANVIL ORCHESTRA] - Coolidge Corner Theater - Brookline, MA
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! Their shows often sell out, so buy your tickets well in advance.
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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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One of France's major experimental musicians and a key figure in the development of electronic rock via his group Heldon and solo projects, guitarist and electronic musician Richard Pinhas tours Mexico in Fall 2023. Check back for venue updates.
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September 30 - FestivAlterNativo 2023 - Centro Historico - Corral de Comedias - Venustiano Carranza 39 - Centro Historico, Mexico
October 5 - Casa del Lago - Bosque de Chapultepec, Ciudad de Mexico - Mexico City, Mexico
October 14 - Rhino Records - 5458 Moreno St - Montclair, CA
October 18 - 220 Arts - 2220 Beverly Blvd - Los Angeles, CA 90057 [with Upsilon Acrux]
Listen to & buy releases by Richard Pinhas & friends on Cuneiform:
Richard Pinhas: Process and Reality, Desolation Row, Metatron, Metal/Crystal, Tranzition, 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
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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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Anthony Pirog [featured with THE MESSTHETICS]:
September 8 - Black Cat - 1811 14th St, NW - Washington, DC
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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2022 MacArthur Award winning cellist Tomeka Reid's all-star Quartet (Jason Roebke-bass,Tomas Fujiwara-drums, 2019 MacArthur Award recipient Mary Halvorson-guitar, Reid-cello) plays new material while also celebrating Old New, its second release and first on Cuneiform Records. Both accessible and adventurous, Old New became a critically acclaimed 2019 jazz favorite, reviewed in numerous publications and featured on Best of Year lists worldwide!
October 19-21 - Edgefest 2023 - Ann Arbor, MI
Listen to & buy:
Old New
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Acknowledged as a National Treasure by DownBeat Magazine, American composer/ trumpeter/ improvisor Wadada Leo Smith is one of the world's premiere Creative musicians. Recipient of numerous awards, he was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Ten Freedom Summers. The Brooklyn College shows feature works from Ten Freedom Summers spiritual sequel.
September 8 - Don Buchwald Theater - Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road - Brooklyn, NY
September 9 - Don Buchwald Theater - Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road - Brooklyn, NY
September 10 - Don Buchwald Theater - Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road - Brooklyn, NY
September 11 - Don Buchwald Theater - Brooklyn College - 2900 Campus Road - Brooklyn, NY
Listen to & buy:
WADADA LEO SMITH RECORDINGS
ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS:
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