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“…not quite rock, not quite jazz, not quite worth labeling, but most certainly worth hearing.” — smilepolitely.com
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August 6 - The Hideout - 1354 West Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL 60642 [album release show!]
Listen to : Equaiverpoise
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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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July 19 - Healer - Indianapolis, IN
July 20 - The Government Center - Pittsburgh, PA
July 21 - The Rotunda - Philadelphia, PA
July 22 - tba - NYC, NY
July 23 - tba - Providence, RI
July 24 - tba - Boston, MA
July 25 - Tubby's - Kingston, NY
July 26 - tba - Cleveland, OH
July 27 - Ziggy's - Ypsilanti, MI
July 28 - Martyrs - Chicago, IL
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London's acclaimed Empirical expand jazz's reach with their music (embracing the future while respecting the past) and via innovative means ("pop-up jazz lounges" in Tube stations & other public outreach) to introduce jazz to the mainstream. 2023 marks this stellar London jazz group's 15th anniversary!
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May 15 - Empirical 15 year anniversary celebration with Jason Rebello - Vortex Jazz Club - 11 Gillett Square - London, N16 8AZ, UK
May 16 - Empirical 15 year anniversary celebration with Jason Rebello and Julian Siegel - Vortex Jazz Club - 11 Gillett Square - London, N16 8AZ, UK
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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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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
May 18 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
May 20 - New Music and Kite Festival - Federal Field [Federal and Park streets -Milton, DE - 3:00 pm performance / free!
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]
June 11 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
August 7 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC
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).
The series converted to a monthly format after lockdowns began to lift in April 2021, and two years later, converted to 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. 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 went 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.
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! Their shows often sell out, so buy your tickets in advance.
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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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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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