The Claudia Quintet and Raoul Bjorkenheim/Ecstacy in Europe: November 2014

TWO CUTTING-EDGE JAZZ ENSEMBLES
ON CUNEIFORM
TOUR EUROPE IN NOVEMBER 2014:
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
&
RAOUL BJORKENHEIM’S eCsTaSy

Two of Cuneiform’s most captivating jazz&beyond / post-jazz ensembles – The Claudia Quintet and Raoul Bjorkenheim’s eCsTaSy – are both touring Europe (separately) this November!  Led by drummer/ percussionist/ composer John Hollenbeck and based in NYC, The Claudia Quintet is one of, and perhaps the, most influential young groups in contemporary jazz & beyond-genre music. The all-star ensemble will be doing eight dates and passing through Austria, Slovenia, Germany and Italy from November 3-11. The group eCsTaSy features some of Finland’s top jazz players and is led by guitarist/composer Raoul Bjorkenheim, acclaimed as one of the world’s top post-Hendrix guitarists. Bjorkenheim’s eCsTaSy will be doing five dates around France, from November 8-14^th. Both groups recently released new recordings on Cuneiform (The Claudia Quintet’s September, in 2013; and the Bjorkenheim group’s self-titled eCsTaSy in 2014), and both groups are available for press or radio interview while on tour.

---


[The Claudia Quintet: l/r - Red Wierenga, Matt Moran, John Hollenbeck, Chris Speed, Drew Gress.]

The Claudia Quintet: Nov. 2014 Euro Tour Dates

NOV 3 - WIST – GRAZ, Austria
NOV 4 - KMKC Kompleks – RAVNE, Slovenia
NOV 6 - Gromka – LJUBLJANA, Slovenia
NOV 7 - Jazz Club Ferrara – FERRARA, Italy
NOV 8 - Jazzkeller im Mautnerschloss – BURGHAUSEN, Germany
NOV 9 - Jazz GUT Unterwegs Schwanenburg – HANNOVER, Germany
NOV 10 - Liveclub Telegraph – LEIZIG, Germany
NOV 11 - A-Trane – BERLIN, Germany

Led by composer, drummer and three-time Grammy nominee John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet have quietly but firmly and definitively recast jazz into shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. They are one of the most influential stylists on other musicians in cutting-edge jazz today and the sound of jazz and what jazz can be in the in our time has changed because of their sound and stance.

Hailed by Nate Chinen of the New York Times for their “clockwork intricacy and crisp premeditation ... [striking an] accord between the factions of progressive jazz, classical Minimalism and low-glare experimental rock,” the Claudia Quintet tackles Hollenbeck’s highly demanding works with a wry improvising spirit and a backbone of surging, mesmerizing rhythm.

The Claudia Quintet: Releases on Cuneiform

September [Cuneiform Rune 377, 2013]	What is The Beautiful? [Cuneiform Rune 327, 2011]
Royal Toast [Cuneiform Rune 307, 2010]	For [Cuneiform Rune 247, 2002]
Semi-Formal [Cuneiform Rune 247, 2007]	I, Claudia [Cuneiform Rune 187, 2004]

The Claudia Quintet Cuneiform Artist Page

Meinetwegen by The Claudia Quintet [VIDEO]


---

[Raoul Bjorkenheim / eCsTaSy]

Raoul Bjorkenheim's eCsTaSy: Nov. 2014 Euro Tour Dates

NOV 8 - Festival Emergences, Tours, France
NOV 10 - D’Jazz Nevers Festival,  Nevers, France
NOV 12 - Festival JazzyColors, Paris, France
NOV 13 - Periscope, Lyon, France
NOV 14 - AJMI, Avignon, France

Finnish guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim's energizing, furious playing has been featured with a wide array of well known international artists, including Mats Gustavsson, Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Bill Laswell, Michael Manring, Paul Schütze, Nicky Skopelitis, Jah Wobble and many others.

eCsTaSy is his new electric, ecstatic jazz band, which features some of the younger talents on the Finnish jazz scene and which was designed to be an ensemble that will regularly go out and tour. The group consists of Raoul, Pauli Lyytinen (saxophones), Jori Huhtala (contrabass) and Markku Ounaskari (drums) in a repertory of original compositions painting swirling polyrhythms with a free-tonal palette. With influences ranging from Korean and African music to contemporary chamber music, new jazz and free rock, eCsTaSy's mission is to elevate its audiences with their high energy and dedication to adventurous sound.

Raoul Bjorkenheim Related Releases on Cuneiform

Raoul Bjorkenheim's eCsTaSy eCsTaSy [Cuneiform Rune 373, 2014]	Bill Laswell, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Morgan Agren: Blixt Blixt [Cuneiform Rune 335, 2011]
Raoul Bjorkenheim / Krakatau Apocalypso [Cuneiform Rune 156, 2001]	Raoul Bjorkenheim / Krakatau For [Cuneiform Rune 86, 1996]

Raoul Bjorkenheim Cuneiform Artist Page

Raoul Bjorkenheim eCsTaSy perform Acid Rain [VIDEO]

---

www.cuneiformrecords.com
www.twitter.com/cuneiformrecord

www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
www.soundcloud.com/cuneiformrecords
www.youtube.com/CuneiformRecords

Gutbucket Celebrates 15 Years with Residency at The Stone: November 18-23, 2014

NEW YORK PUNK-JAZZERS
– GUTBUCKET –
CELEBRATE THEIR
15th ANNIVERSARY
WITH SIX-NIGHT RESIDENCY
AT THE STONE: NOVEMBER 18-23, 2014



[ Gutbucket - l/r: Pat Swoboda, Ty Citerman, Ken Thomson, Adam D Gold ]

For this residency celebrating their 15th anniversary, Gutbucket will devote multiple sets to recording a live album scheduled for release in 2015 on esteemed avant-music label Cuneiform Records. The album, which will be the ensemble's 6th, will feature a brand new set of material that each of the band's four members has written over the past year. Alongside these exciting new pieces, Gutbucket will showcase a fascinating array of other musics, including collaborations with JACK Quartet and Tigue; a long-awaited revival of Gutbucket's film+live score work; premieres by the new music trio Bearthoven and Tzadik Records quartet Bop Kabbalah; a deep dig into rarities and favorites from Gutbucket's back catalog, a set of Ken Thomson's chamber music; a rare live set of improvisations; and a bonanza chamber group with special guest musicians on the last night. Don't miss this very special week at The Stone!

Gutbucket is Ty Citerman (guitar), Adam D Gold (drums), Pat Swoboda (bass) and Ken Thomson (saxophone).

"New York's premiere jazz/prog/punk band"
- The Boston Globe

Watch this trailer for Gutbucket's Stone Residency:
[Gutbucket: THE STONE Residency November 18-23, 2014 Trailer]

"A no-holds barred approach to the jazz-rock paradigm" - The New York Times


----


GUTBUCKET’S RESIDENCY AT THE STONE
"Gutbucket has forcefully staked out its own musical territory, an exciting land of power-chording rock guitar, squawking sax, and enough time shifts to keep you happily off balance."
- The New Yorker



The Stone, New York City
Located at the corner of
Avenue C and 2^nd Street
http://www.thestonenyc.com
Facebook Event

Each set costs $10.
All admissions are at the door prior to each performance.

PERFORMANCES
[for full info on lineups & more for each night, click here or scroll below]

November 18
8 PM – Gutbucket and strings with JACK Quartet
10 PM – Chamber music of Ken Thomson

November 19
8 PM – Gutbucket and percussion with Tigue
10 PM – Bearthoven

November 20
8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Gutbucket No Ink

November 21
8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Gutbucket movie night:
with “Night Mail” and “The Magic Life of Milarepa”

November 22
8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Bop Kabbalah

November 23
8 PM – Gutbucket live record taping
10 PM – Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra (the finale)

"Like any self-respecting jazz-thrash-rock-latin-noise band from the dark underbelly of New York, Gutbucket have a peerless way...There is something smart, sleek and assured about Gutbucket, and when they begin firing on all cylinders it makes for an exhilarating, intelligently performed racket."
- The Guardian UK

----

GUTBUCKET'S RELEASES ON CUNEIFORM
"Gutbucket work[s] a jagged yet fertile seam between jazz and rock highlighted by on-a-dime twists in tempo, time signature and mood -- often within the same song...an undoubtably wild ride."
- The LA Times

Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond, the 15 year old New York quartet, Gutbucket, is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing teenage skate-punks, a crowd of cosmic indie-psych freaks, on an anarchist German art collective’s house-boat or even teaching master classes in the music departments of schools around the country, but most importantly, their music fits right in.

The New York Times has called their music "A no-holds barred approach to the jazz-rock paradigm".

"Prodigiously talented…finds the quartet painting in bold, dark strokes of color with moments of glistening light."
- JazzTimes

www.gutweb.com - www.facebook.com/gutbucketnyc
www.twitter.com/gutbucketnyc - www.cuneiformrecords.com

Flock [Rune 321, 2011] Ty Citerman (guitar), Adam D Gold (drums), Eric Rockwin (bass), Ken Thomson (alto saxophone) "4 9 8" @SOUNDCLOUD / @BANDCAMP / @YOUTUBE PURCHASE LINKS // ITUNES - AMAZON BANDCAMP - WAYSIDE MUSIC

A Modest Proposal [Rune 281, 2009] Ty Citerman (guitar), Adam D Gold (drums), Eric Rockwin (bass), Ken Thomson (alto saxophone) "Head Goes Thud" @SOUNDCLOUD / @BANDCAMP / @YOUTUBE PURCHASE LINKS // ITUNES - AMAZON BANDCAMP - WAYSIDE MUSIC

----

GUTBUCKET’S RESIDENCY AT THE STONE:
FULL SET DETAILS

"It's that right balance of composition and improvisation on music that packs a wallop which makes Gutbucket the thinking man's punk rock band of choice."
- Something Else!

11/18 Tuesday
8 pm
Gutbucket + strings with JACK Quartet
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone), Chris Otto (violin) Ari Streisfeld (violin) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)

10 pm
Chamber music of Ken Thomson
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (bass clarinet) Ashley Bathgate (cello) Karl Larson (piano) Beth Meyers (viola) JACK Quartet: Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld (violins) John Pickford Richards (viola) Kevin McFarland (cello)
Featuring the bass clarinet quintet "Perpetual" from his 2013 Cantaloupe Music release THAW, the NY Premiere of "restless" for cello and piano, and more.


11/19 Wednesday
8 pm
Gutbucket + percussion with Tigue
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone) Matt Evans, Amy Garapic, Carson Moody (percussion)
A new collaboration with the dynamic percussion trio Tigue (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) featuring music by Gutbucket and Tigue.

10 pm
Bearthoven
Matt Evans (drums, percussion) Karl Larson (piano) Pat Swoboda (acoustic bass)
Cutting edge new music trio Bearthoven premieres new music by members of Gutbucket and others.


11/20 Thursday
8 pm
Gutbucket live record taping
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone)
Gutbucket 2015 live record taping plus music from 2011 CD "Flock".

10 pm
Gutbucket No Ink
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (saxophone) Kaoru Watanabe (flute, fue), Stephanie Richards (trumpet) James Ilgenfritz (bass) Lukas Ligeti (drums) Eyal Maoz (guitar)
A special set of improvisations.


11/21 Friday
8 pm
Gutbucket live record taping
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone)
Gutbucket 2015 live record taping plus music from 2009 CD "A Modest Proposal".

10 pm
Gutbucket movie night with "Night Mail" and "The Magic Life of Milarepa"
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone)
Reprising two rarely heard Gutbucket live scores -- Ken Thomson's score for the film "Night Mail," commissioned by the True/False Film Festival, an early documentary about the overnight express mail train connecting Scotland and the UK featuring text by W.H. Auden. Plus, Ty Citerman and Eric Rockwin's score to the "Magic Life of Milarepa," commissioned by the Rubin Museum of Art, featuring panel projections of the Eva Van Dam comic book of the same name.


11/22 Saturday
8 pm
Gutbucket live record taping
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone)
Gutbucket 2015 live record taping plus music from 2006 CD "Sludge Test".

10 pm
Bop Kabbalah
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Ken Thomson (bass clarinet) Ben Holmes (trumpet)
Guitarist Ty Citerman's quartet of original Jewish music for Tzadik Records.


11/23 Sunday
8 pm
Gutbucket live record taping
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone)
Gutbucket 2015 live record taping plus music from 2001 CD "InsomniacsDream" and 2004 CD "Dry Humping the American Dream".

10 pm
Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra (the finale)
Ty Citerman (guitar) Adam D Gold (drums) Pat Swoboda (bass) Ken Thomson (alto saxophone) Todd Reynolds (violin) Ashley Bathgate (cello) Peter Hess, Mike McGinnis (woodwinds), Greta Gertler (keyboards) and Yoshie Fruchter (guitar)!

GUTBUCKET VIDEOS

"It's a squealing, shrieking, head-banging and punk-inflected free-for-all that manages to suss out moments of real melody and beauty."
- Alarm Press








----------

www.cuneiformrecords.com
www.twitter.com/cuneiformrecord
www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords
www.soundcloud.com/cuneiformrecords
www.youtube.com/CuneiformRecords

For Your Consideration for the 2014 Grammy Awards: Cuneiform Artists / Releases / Tunes

– 57th GRAMMY Awards Season –

Cuneiform Records

presents

Artists / Releases / Tunes

For Your Consideration

for the 2014

Grammy Awards

***

The Ed Palermo Big Band Oh No! Not Jazz!! "Why Is the Doctor Barking?" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube

Oh No! Not Jazz!! consists of two discs by the Ed Palermo Big Band, one of the most masterful and entertaining large jazz ensembles. The first disc features Ed Palermo's distinctive, big band interpretations of the music of Frank Zappa and includes one of Zappa's most loved works, "Inca Roads," with vocals by guest Napoleon Murphy Brock. Disc 2 features Palermo's own compositions, including "The Dog Breath Variations". "In arranging Zappa's tunes for big band, Ed Palermo has thrown new light on his legacy while retaining the composer's original melodic and harmonic designs." - The Washington Post

For Your Consideration: - Large Jazz Ensemble Album - The Ed Palermo Big Band Oh No! Not Jazz!! - Instrumental Composition - "Why Is the Doctor Barking?" - Arrangement, Instrumental - "The Dog Breath Variations" - Arrangement, Instruments & Vocals - "Inca Roads" - Recording Package - The Ed Palermo Big Band Oh No! Not Jazz!!

“Like Zappa, and Duke Ellington before, Palermo’s main instrument is his band. And with him at the helm is manages to capture perfectly the spirit of Zappa’s music while stamping its own authority on the adventurous arrangements with its exuberant, joyous ensemble playing and in the quality of the solos. Ed Palermo, with impeccable olfactory taste, has done both big band jazz and Zappa’s music a huge service. If you didn’t like big band jazz before, then the riotous, swinging celebration...may well be the record that converts you. If you didn’t get Frank Zappa’s music, then this...may make you consider his vast musical legacy in a whole new light.” - All About Jazz

***

The Microscopic Septet Manhattan Moonrise "Let's Coolerate One" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "...these fellas still sound inspired. Joyously performed by seasoned veterans, Manhattan Moonrise fits seamlessly into the Micros' oeuvre, an effort as singularly engaging as the Septet's earliest recordings." -Point of Departure	Led Bib The People in Your Neighbourhood "New Teles" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "One of the UK's most adventurous groups" -Jazzwise "You'll be hard pressed to keep the lid on this explosive tour de force of ensemble intelligence" -The Independent[UK]
For Your Consideration: - Jazz Instrumental Album - The Microscopic Septet Manhattan Moonrise - Instrumental Composition [for "Star Turn" composed by Joel Forrester]	For Your Consideration: - Jazz Instrumental Album Led Bib The People in Your Neighbourhood - Engineer, Non-Classical - [for Richard Woodcraft, engineer; Mandy Parnell, mastering engineer]

***

Thumbscrew: Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek & Tomas Fujiwara Thumbscrew "Cheap Knock Off" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "...Thumbscrew is also a clever metaphor for this particular power trio's personal playbook. ...the three players explore open, undulating grooves through a frequent tightening and loosening of their interplay along serpentine lines. ...a team mindset pervades throughout the album. ...Halvorson's discography continues to grouw...her trio sessions...feature her best by combining space for fertile communications with comparatively lean contexts fior detailed soloing. Thumbscrew fits that favorable bill in both respects, boasting an excellent studio sound in the bargain." -Dusted

Ideal Bread Beating the Teens: Songs of Steve Lacy "Crops" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @Youtube "This is an ambitious and impressive recording. Two CD's dedicated to the compositions of Steve Lacy...The results are beautiful and brilliant. Even if you aren't familiar with the work of Steve Lacy you'll be entranced by the music encapsulated over the course of these CD's. The music breathes, is given ample space and continuously tittilates. ...Mr. Lacy would be extremely proud." -Free Jazz Blog

For Your Consideration: - Jazz Instrumental Album - Thumbscrew - Improvised Jazz Solo - [by Mary Halvorson on "Still...Doesn't Swing"]

For Your Consideration: - Arrangement, Instrumental - [for "Crops"] - Improvised Jazz Solo - [by Kirk Nuffe on "Paris Rip-off"]

***

Robert Wyatt '68 "Rivmic Melodies" [excerpt] @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube The long-lost tapes made by Robert Wyatt while staying in 1968 at the Jimi Hendrix Experience house, following the Soft Machine/ Hendrix Experience tour! "The missing links in my life's work, no less!" -Robert Wyatt "By far one of the year's best releases...the album captures Wyatt laying down trackjs that would later make up much of Soft Machine's classic 2nd & 3rd albums, all in high fidelity, all marvelously creative, adventurous, humor-filled and, all things considered, stunningly ahead of their time." -Rolling Stone

Present Le Poison Qui Rend Fou "Ersatz" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube Le Poison Qui Rend Fou is a remastered, expanded reissue of the second release by the Belgian band Present, one of the leading lights of the Rock In Opposition (R.I.O.) / avant-progressive / Chamber Rock movement. Featuring some of the most significant, boundary-defying compositions of late 20th century rock and classical music, Le Poison Qui Rend Fou is an essential historical document that reveals this music to be the precursor of 21st century genre defying musics, post-classical or post-rock. "...a great place to hear nearly all the material from Present's early years in one package, with all the tracks digitally restored and remastered by Udi Koomran, and a CD booklet including vintage photographs and historical liner notes written by Aymeric Leroy and Renato de Moraes." -All Music

For Your Consideration: - Album Notes - Robert Wyatt, '68 - Historical Album - Robert Wyatt, '68

For Your Consideration: - Album Notes - Present, Le Poison Qui Rend Fou - Historical Album - Present, Le Poison Qui Rend Fou

***

Chrome Hoof Chrome Black Gold "When The Lightning Strikes" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "Chrome Hoof has been together for a decade not, and they're unclassifiable: an 11-piece, robe-wearing, virtuoso experimental rock orchestra qwho turn ona sixpence from prog rock to stomping disco-funk, or from synth-pop to Sabbath-style proto-metal." -Time Out London

Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi Tikkun "Washington, D.C. - T4V1" [excerpt] @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "On Tikkun, Ambarchi complements Pinhas' cosmic delay trails with both his own searing guitar performance...When Ambarchi gets behind the kit, the session blasts open into a molten rock rhythm, anchored by steady ride cymbal splashes and tom patternsm over which Pinhas ascends higher and higher into intersteller space." -TinyMixTapes

For Your Consideration: - Alternative Music Album Chrome Hoof Chrome Black Gold

For Your Consideration: - Alternative Music Album - Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi Tikkun

***

Pixel We Are All Small Pixels "Space" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "...this band has something new to say musically and produces tunes that are toe-tappingly, wantonly catchy. Ellen Andrea Wang's voice is a new colour on European jazz's vocal palette and, based on this album, is deserving of display on a bigger canvas." -London Jazz News "This accessible young band, true to jazz but with a fresh approach, renews my conviction that new artists exist who, with a little exposure, could help jazz reach a wider audience." –The Absolute Sound

Joel Harrison Mother Stump "John The Revelator" @SoundCloud / @Bandcamp / @YouTube "'It's a lot of history that I'm trying to make new again.' That's Joel Harrison's stated approach to the wide-ranging covers that grace most of his new album. ...Mother Stump is...one of those covers records that reveals to the audience the broad array of influences who shaped Harrison, but it doesn't demand to be regarded as such, either. That's because Harrison had so successfully worked these songs into his own image, it's easy to forget that he didn't write 'em." -Something Else!

For Your Consideration: - Best New Artist - Pixel We Are All Small Pixels - Jazz Vocal Album - Pixel We Are All Small Pixels - Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals - ["Be Mine" arranged by Ellen Andrea Wang]

For Your Consideration: - American Album - Joel Harrison, Mother Stump - American Roots Performance - ["I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know"] - Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella - Joel Harrison "Suzanne" Mother Stump

For more information about Cuneiform, the talented artists that it represents,

and the adventurous recordings it's released over three decades,

please visit:

www.cuneiformrecords.com/

www.youtube.com/CuneiformRecords

www.facebook.com/cuneiformrecords

www.twitter.com/cuneiformrecord