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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Cuneiform Records JUNE 2023 Newsletter

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CUNEIFORM RECORDS


JUNE 2023 
NEWSLETTER:

New Releases & Concerts 

 

 

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NEW JAZZ RELEASE!!
COMING OUT JUNE 30, 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS:
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION – DAMAGED GOODS
New studio recording by Michael Formanek (bass), Anthony Pirog (guitar) and Mike Pride (drums) [USA]

Three of the most talented players/composers in American jazz join forces during damaged times and create faultless music

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SNEAK SUMMER-OF-2023 PEEKS

COMING OUT JULY 28, 2023 IN DIGITAL FORMAT  
A JAW-DROPPING ARRAY OF WILDLY DIVERSE AVANT PROGRESSIVE RELEASES:

A LIGHT SLEEPER  –  EQUAEVRERPOISE
New recordings by Chicago avant progressive rockers A Light Sleeper (Maria Elena HernandezTraci Huff Matthew Jung Dheeru Pennepalli) [USA]

MILLER TWINS  – EARLY COMPOSITIONS 1973-1976
Recent recordings of the early post-classical/chamber rock compositions by Michigan's Miller Twins (Lawrence & Ben Miller), multi-instrumentalists & composers of Fourth World Quartet and Destroy All Monsters [USA]

PICCHIO DAL POZZO  –  IN CAMPORELLA
A  live recording of improvisational rock / post-jazz music by Italian progressive rock legends Picchio Dal Pozzo [ITALY]

RASCAL REPORTERS  – THE STRAINGE CASE OF STEVE
Avant progressive/ post-rock duo Rascal Reporters (Steve Kretzmer & James Strain) release new tunes for their 1st Cuneiform release, & invite global guests such as
Guy SegersDave NewhouseDario D’AllessandroKimara Sajn on a few tracks  [USA+beyond]
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COMING OUT AUGUST 25, 2023 IN DIGITAL FORMAT: 
CUNEIFORM REISSUES THE ENTIRE HERETIC CATALOG FROM JAPANHIRO KAWAHARA'S UNDERGROUND ELECTRONIC BAND FROM THE 1980'S-1990'S 
(Kawahara's synthesis of synthesizers and guitars, experimental electronics with mysticism was unique of later 20th century Japan. His digital releases on Cuneiform include an album featuring Kawahara with German electronic musician Peter Frohmader )  

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COMING OUT LATE 2023 AND IN 2024 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS
(Listed in alphabetical order. Sound samples to come out in future newsletters)

AHLEUCHATISTAS LIVE 2006 (live recordings by fiery Southern avant-rock/ post-punk guitar/drums duo) [USA]
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CURLEW – (three digital releases of previously unreleased live recordings by Downtown-NY-Sound legends) [USA]
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FRENCH TV  (new studio release by Mike Sary's longstanding fusion/avant-progressive band from Louisville, KY)[USA]
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GHOST RHYTHMSMISSING TIMES (new studio album by young French avant progressive ensemble [FRANCE]
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I.P.A.GRIMSTA (Scandinavian jazz quintet release a 3rd album for Cuneiform)  [NORWAY]
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JACK O'THE CLOCKTHE WARM, DARK CIRCUS
 (Second Cuneiform release by the group Fred Frith called, "One of the most original and compelling groups I know ...amazing compositions …making all the things you've always thought of as difficult sound as effortless and natural as breathing…” [USA]
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JANEL & ANTHONY – EVIL AGE (new studio album by reknowned DC/Silver Spring-based cello/guitar/electronics beyond-genre duo, Janel Leppin & Anthony Pirog) [USA]
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PRESENTTHIS IS NOT THE END  (studio recordings made by Present, composer Roger Trigaux's longstanding band, of music the legendary chamber rock/ avant progressive composer was making for Cuneiform at the time of his 2021 death  [BELGIUM]
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RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL – GALACTIC FURNACE  (new double album by longstanding prolific UK electronic trio) [UK]
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TOMEKA REID QUARTET - (new studio album by composer/cellist Reid's jazz all-star quartet with guitarist Mary Halvorson/ drummer Tomas Fujiwara/ bassist Jason Roebke) [USA]

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OUT NOW ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS!
RELEASED APRIL 28, 2023 
SOFT MACHINE  – THE DUTCH LESSON
Previously unreleased live recording by this groundbreaking British band, made during a tour in The Netherlands [UK]

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CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR: LIVE CONCERTS & TOURS  

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mark your calendars:
2024 is CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 40TH ANNIVERSARY!!! 
COMING OUT

JUNE 30, 2023


ON

CUNEIFORM RECORDS:



LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

DAMAGED GOODS


Bio information: LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
Title: : DAMAGED GOODS (Cuneiform Rune 518)
Format: CD / DIGITAL
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
FILE UNDER: JAZZ


Listening to Location Location Location’s debut, “Damaged Goods”,
it would be so easy to get the wrong impression of where Anthony Pirog, Michael Formanek and Mike Pride's session was born ...





listen/share on Soundcloud: "Verdigris" from
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION'S DAMAGED GOODS


Listen to Location, Location, Location’s debut, Damaged Goods, and it’s easy to visualize the three musicians sweating it out in the recording studio, locking in on a groove and just jamming. With, it should be noted, occasional breaks to contemplate the basics, then add subtle overdubs: some bit-crunched guitar here, a marimba there, perhaps a harmonized line or a spacey reverb effect. But essentially live, essentially just three guys in a room, giving their all.
 
But that’s not how it went down at all.
 
Recorded during the darkest days of Covid-19, Damaged Goods is actually the ultimate pandemic project. Not only were guitarist Anthony Pirog, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Mike Pride safely socially distant during the recording project, two of them have not yet met in the flesh.
 
Nonetheless, Location, Location, Location is a band.
 
“I think that’s probably just our personalities, the way that we work, and the way that we wanted to hear it,” explains the Virginia-raised Pirog, who was living in Monterey, California during the sessions. With Pride and Formanek on the East Coast, and getting together not in the cards, the three made Damaged Goods by sending sound files and audio notes back and forth while trusting the others to do their best.
 
“The whole thing was pretty new,” Pirog continues. “I was really excited because I’m a fan of both of their work, both composing and playing. So that was a big thing to deal with in terms of ‘What are you getting from the piece to react to? Are you initiating the piece? How do you supply that and have it be something that people can add sound to?’ 
 
“But when I sat down to record, it wasn’t like I composed my parts. I’d press ‘play’, and I’d react to things as I heard them. So it wasn’t that hard, actually, as long as I didn’t get into pop-overdubbing mode and hyper-fixate on things under the microscope.”
 
It’s obvious that both Formanek and Pride were on the same page. “Improvising like this definitely presents a set of potential challenges,” says the bassist. “But I’ve got to say that in this project I never felt that anything was stifled at all, or disconnected. When I would hear something from Mike or Anthony it just immediately gave me thoughts about what to do. In most cases I’d just dive in there pretty fast. The initial ideas were mostly pretty quick, pretty immediate. So in a weird way it didn’t feel like we weren’t improvising in real time, if that makes any sense. Which was a little surprising to me!”
 
“Everybody listened really deeply, and nobody tried to put a certain personality on it,” Pride says. “We were just experimenting, and then at the end we liked what we had, and we had a record.”
 
A very fine record, it should be mentioned. 


listen / preorder DAMAGED GOODS on Bandcamp


CREDITS:

ANTHONY PIROG: guitar, guitar synth, synthesizers
MICHAEL FORMANEK: bass and electric bass
MIKE PRIDE: drums, marimba, dub

Michael Formanek recorded at Outlier Sound, West Orange, NJ by Michael Formanek.

Mike Pride recorded at Farming Studios, Chester, NY by Mike Pride.

Anthony Pirog recorded at Anthony's Room Studio, Monterey, CA; San Francisco, CA;
and Silver Spring, MD by Anthony Pirog.

 
A LIGHT SLEEPER

EQUAVERPOISE


Chicago chamber-rock band A Light Sleeper release a new album on Cuneiform Records, the long-standing bastion for beyond-genre, avant-progressive music

listen to the track "Chrysanthemums" 
Bio information: A LIGHT SLEEPER
Title: : EQUAEVERPOISE  (Cuneiform Rune 3366)
Format: DIGITAL
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Release date: JULY 28, 2023
FILE UNDER: CHAMBER ROCK / AVANT PROGRESSIVE /  POST ROCK

CREDITS:
Maria Elena Hernandez - alto and tenor saxophones
Traci Huff - viola
Matthew Jung - drums, keyboard
Dheeru Pennepalli - guitar

“…an exhilarating tension and momentum through the interplay of jazz-like theses and curving post-rock ramparts.” — chirpradio.org

“...strangely melodic, though not in any traditional sense.” — progarchives.com

“…not quite rock, not quite jazz, not quite worth labeling, but most certainly worth hearing.” — smilepolitely.com


STAY TUNED FOR PRE-SALE INFORMATION ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS' BANDCAMP PAGE
MILLER TWINS

EARLY COMPOSITIONS 1973-1976

Recent recordings of previously unrecorded and unheard early compositions by Michigan twins Ben and Laurence Miller,  the multi-instrumentalists and composers of Fourth World Quartet and Destroy All Monsters.

listen to the track "Looking Down at the Ground at This and That"

 
Bio information: MILLER TWINS
Title: : EARLY COMPOSITIONS (Cuneiform Rune 3368)
Format: DIGITAL
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Release date: JULY 28, 2023
FILE UNDER: CHAMBER ROCK / AVANT PROGRESSIVE /  POST CLASSICAL
 
CREDITS:
Ben Miller: alto saxophone, C-tenor saxophone, archtop guitar, bass, voice, maracas
Laurence Miller: Bb clarinet, drums
Mike List: tablas


STAY TUNED FOR PRE-SALE INFORMATION ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS' BANDCAMP PAGE
 
 
PICCHIO DAL POZZO

IN CAMPORELLA


Live recordings from Italian progressive rock legends, Picchio dal Pozzo. 

listen to the tune “Pugni Chiusi"
Bio information: PICCHIO DAL POZZO
Title: : IN CAMPORELLA (Cuneiform Rune 3365)
Format: DIGITAL
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Release date: JULY 28, 2023
FILE UNDER: IMPROVISATIONAL ROCK / AVANT PROGRESSIVE /  POST JAZZ

 
CREDITS:
Aldo de Scalzi: keyboards - sampler - programming
Aldo di Marco: drums - sampler - ‘tools’
Paolo Griguolo: guitars - synthguitar
Claudio Lugo: curved soprano sax - sampler

Picchio dal Pozzo on the origins of In Camporella:
"A few months before the COVID-19 2020 lockdown I received a CD labelled Valdapozzo 05/30/2004, from an unknown sender. Thinking it over, it came to me..., yes! On that day we had performed a unique gig at Valdapozzo, the location where we had recorded the CD  Pic_nic@Valdapozzo just two years before.

The rules of engagement for this gig [at Camporella] were total improvisation based on the audio samples of Demetrio Stratos’ voice and some sequences of the album.”
RASCAL REPORTERS

THE STRAINGE CASE OF STEVE

 
The StraInge Case of Steve is the latest offering from the avant-garde progressive rock duo Rascal Reporters, currently comprised of Steve Kretzmer and James Strain. The album features 16 tracks of eclectic, inventive and adventurous music that showcases the Reporters’ compositional dexterity and idiosyncratic creativity. Featuring a stellar selection of guests on some tracks,The Strainge Case of Steve is their eighth studio album and first release on Cuneiform Records.
 
listen to the track “I Cry Crimes”

Bio information: RASCAL REPORTERS
Title: : THE STRAINGE CASE OF STEVE (Cuneiform Rune 3367)
Format: DIGITAL
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Release date: JULY 28, 2023
FILE UNDER: AVANT PROGRESSIVE /  POST ROCK
 

CREDITS:
Steve Kretzmer: organ
Guy Segers: bass
Dave Newhouse: horns, woodwinds
Dario D’Allessandro: guitars, synths
Kimara Sajn: additional bass
James Strain: drums


STAY TUNED FOR PRE-SALE INFORMATION ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS' BANDCAMP PAGE
! SNEAK PEAKS !

DIGITAL RELEASES

COMING OUT AUGUST 25, 2023


ON

CUNEIFORM RECORDS:


Cneiform is reissuing the entire catalog of Hiro Kawahara’s Heretic catalog, in addition to releasing several unreleased works. Multi-instrumentalist Kawarah's band Heretic was a 1980s and 1990s underground Japanese electronic band featuring synths and guitar.

Cuneiform is releasing all nine Heretic albums, as well as a "digital box" that has all nine albums bundled together.  All of these albums are either previously unreleased or have bonus tracks. 

The albums are: 

Heretic – 1984-1988 (Cuneiform Rune 3373)
Heretic – Yayoi Dream (Cuneiform Rune 3374)
Heretic – Interface (Cuneiform Rune 3375)
Heretic – Drugging For M (Cuneiform Rune 3376)
Heretic – Past In Future (Cuneiform Rune 3377)
Heretic – Escape Sequence (Cuneiform Rune 3378)
Hiro Kawahara and Peter Frohmader (Cuneiform Rune 3379)
Hiro Kawahara / Heretic – Requiem (Cuneiform Rune 3380)
Heretic – Live (Cuneiform Rune 3381)
Hiro Kawahara – Complete Works (Cuneiform Rune 3382)

Listen to previews of some tracks:

listen to "Tripping on Waves" from Heretic's Escape Sequence



listen to "Yayoi Dream" from Heretic's Escape Sequence


listen to "excerpts from Interface part 1" from Heretic's 1984-1988



listen to "9-13" from Hiro Kawahara and Peter Frohmader



listen to "Interface (rehearsal)" from Heretic's Interface
! ! OUT NOW ! !



SOFT MACHINE


THE DUTCH LESSON

on

CUNEIFORM RECORDS:


Bio information: SOFT MACHINE
Title: : THE DUTCH LESSON (Cuneiform Rune 490/491)
Format: DOUBLE CD / DIGITAL
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Release Date:  APRIL 28, 2023
FILE UNDER: ROCK / JAZZ-ROCK
Read: Soft Machine The Dutch Lesson  PRESS RELEASE
 
From their beginnings as a psychedelic rock band in 1966, sharing stages
with Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, to being one of the
originators of electric jazz/rock by early 1969, Britain’s SOFT MACHINE
were restlessly creative. The Dutch Lesson captures them in late October, 1973.


listen/share on Soundcloud: "Chloe and the Pirates" from
SOFT MACHINE'S THE DUTCH LESSON
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listen to / buy Soft Machine's The Dutch Lesson on Bandcamp:



CREDITS:

ROY BABBINGTON: Electric 6-string bass
KARK JENKINS: Soprano sax, baritone sax, oboe, electric piano
JOHN MARSHALL: Drums
MIKE RATLEDGE: Electric piano, organ

Recorded at De Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 26, 1973.


EXPLORE ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY SOFT MACHINE ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/Softmachine.html

CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR

2023 CALENDAR

IMPORTANT COVID REMINDER:
In an evolving (and now endemic) 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 happening worldwide, but we remain aware that emergent variants - as well as severe weather - can unexpectedly affect schedules.

See also the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records.

 

A LIGHT SLEEPER

“…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 :  "Chrysanthemums" from Equaiverpoise

    

 

BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC

“'...fantastically innovative music.'' - Exposé

''Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic has found a common ground among garage band rock, classical, minimalism, UK progressive rock, and it's own favorite noises.'' - The New York Times

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July 19 - David Friend Hall - Berklee College of Music - 1140 Boylston St - Boston, MA 02215 [first gig in SIX years!]

 
Listen to/ buy Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on Cuneiform

Dawn of the Cycads, The Complete Ace of Heart's Recordings (1983-1987)


The Fossil Record 1980-87 //  Dancing on A'A
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Pyroclastics // Faultline
     

The Iridium Controversy //  2001 Live Birds,
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Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses
Extreme Spirituals
    

CHEER–ACCIDENT

"...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 - July 22 - C’Mon Everybody! - NYC, NY [early start: 7:00 pm]

July 23 - tba - Providence, RI

July 24 - State Park - Boston, MA

July 25 - Tubby's - Kingston, NY

July 26 - tba - Cleveland, OH

July 27 - Ziggy's - Ypsilanti, MI

July 28 - Martyrs - Chicago, IL
 
Listen to & buy 
Chicago XXPutting Off Death
       
No Ifs, Ands or DogsFear Draws Misfortune 
   

"Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser..."
– Time Out New York

THE FOURTH WORLD QUARTET

"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

 
Listen to & buy:  1975  //  GRAND BLAND VAPID RAPIDS

    
 

JANEL LEPPIN

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



June 25 - 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

HENRY KAISER

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 - T
he 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

ROGER CLARK MILLER

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 solo:
June 23:  The Wild Detectives, 314 W Eighth St, Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX
[Roger C. Miller performs "Unplugged" songs as part of the Oak Cliff Film Festival

Roger C. Miller featured with The Anvil Orchestra:
June 24: Texas Theatre (Downstairs), 231 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208
[The Anvil Orchestra performs to the silent dinosaur film "The Lost World" at the Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas, TX]



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

THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND

"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

               

 

RICHARD PINHAS

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 the U.S.A. and Mexico in Fall 2023. Check back for venue updates.

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September 8 - tba - Pittsburgh, PA

September 10 - tba - Minneapolis, MN

September 12 - tba - Grand Rapids, MI

September 13 - tba - Detroit, MI

September 14 - tba - Buffalo, NY

Sepember 15 - tba - Philadelphia, PA

September 21 - tba - Cleveland, OH

September 23 - tba - Gainesville, FL

October 6 - tba - Los Angeles, CA

October 12 - tba - Mexico City, Mexico



Listen to & buy releases by Richard Pinhas & friends on Cuneiform:

Richard Pinhas: Process and RealityDesolation RowMetatronMetal/CrystalTranzitionEvent & Repetitions

                    


Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi: Tikkun
 

 Richard Pinhas & Merzbow:  Keio LineRhizomeParis 2008
   
      

Richard Pinhas & Yoshida TatsuyaWelcome in the Void
  

Schizotrope (Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec)The Life & Death of Marie Zorn

 

ANTHONY PIROG

"[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

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL

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
 

Listen to & buy:
Time & Motion, Rain Falls in GreyEmissaries
     

RAY RUSSELL

"Like contemporaries Sonny Sharrock and Terje Rypdal, Russell makes it sound as if the guitar is not enough, as if he's reaching for something wilder, something that can't be contained within the 6 string cage" - Jim O'Rourke

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June 16 -  Kino-Teatr - St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0EQ - UK

June 29 -  The Eastbourne Jazz & Blues Festival - Western Lawns, Eastbourne, UK


Listen to & buy:
Ray Russell:
Fluid Architecture // Secret Asylum  // Goodbye Svengali
     




Ray Russell & Henry Kaiser:
The Celestial Squid

      
“Russell isn’t merely a fine jazz player, but a truly original music thinker and an improvisational force to be reckoned with.” 
– AllMusic Guide

SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER

"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 24 - Kultiläum '23 - Kulturwerk 118 - Sappeurstrasse 6, Sursee, Switzerland

June 25 - Perronnord - Rosenbergstrasse 48 - St. Gallen, Switzerland

July 1 - Fusion Festival - Rechlin-Lärz Airfield - Am Flugpl. - Lärz, Germany

August 10 - Rock Altitude Festival - Piscine du Communal - Rte du Communal 3 - Le Locle, Switzerland
 



Listen to & buy:
5 //  Rights //  X
     
      
  
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