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CUNEIFORM ARTIST NEWS

January 2009 New Releases p. 2

Artist News:

Beat Circus p. 5

Bill Brovold p. 5

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic p. 6

David Borden / Mother Mallard p. 6

Cheer-Accident p. 7

Cosmologic p. 8

Doctor Nerve / Nick Didkovsky p. 8

Fast ‘N’ Bulbous p. 8

Forgas Band Phenomena p. 9

Peter Frohmader p. 9

Gutbucket p. 10

Richard Leo Johnson p. 10

Mats/Morgan Band p. 11

The Microscopic Septet p. 11

Planeta Imaginario p. 12

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble p. 12

Roswell Rudd p. 13

Roger Trigaux / Present p. 13

Upsilon Acrux p. 13

Volapük p. 13

Cuneiform Artist Tours p. 13

Cuneiform Artist Websites p. 15

5 NEW CUNEIFORM RELEASES (RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 20, 2009)

CHEER-ACCIDENT / FEAR DRAWS MISFORTUNE / CUNEIFORM / Rune 276

Genre: ROCK / POST-ROCK / AVANT-PROGRESSIVE

GUTBUCKET / A MODEST PROPOSAL / CUNEIFORM / Rune 281

Genre: JAZZ / PUNK-JAZZ / ROCK

FAST ‘N’ BULBOUS / WAXED OOP / CUNEIFORM / Rune 277

Genre: ROCK / JAZZ / BLUES-ROCK /

“THERE AIN’T NO LABEL FOR THIS BOTTLE”-DON VAN VLIET

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA / L’AXE DU FOU • AXIS OF MADNESS /

CUNEIFORM / Rune 282

Genre: JAZZ / JAZZ-FUSION / JAZZ-ROCK

UNIVERS ZERO / RELAPS / (Archives 1984 – 1986) / CUNEIFORM / Rune 280

Genre: ROCK / CHAMBER ROCK/ EXPERIMENTAL / NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL

CHEER-ACCIDENT – FEAR DRAWS MISFORTUNE – CUNEIFORM – Rune 276

Genre: ROCK / POST-ROCK / AVANT-PROGRESSIVE

For its first release on Cuneiform, Cheer-Accident created Fear Draws Misfortune, a CD featuring 9 tracks of astonishingly beautiful, lush and captivatingly complex post-rock/art rock. On it, band members Thymme Jones, Jeff Libersher, and Alex Perkolup team up with 15 other musicians and vocalists from the rock/jazz/improv/avant-classical undergrounds of Chicago and beyond (contributing violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt hails from Oakland’s Sleepytime Guerilla Museum). A coherent and cohesive artist statement, the CD interweaves superb musicianship, stunning vocals, and an epic and panoramic range of ideas, styles and studio techniques to create masterwork of creative art rock, that should bring the band attention well beyond Chicago’s shores.

Widely recognized as “Chicago’s ruling experimental collective” [Punk Planet], Cheer-Accident are the elder statesmen of and the provocative catalysts behind Chicago’s fertile and stylistically-diverse music scene – a scene that gave birth to post-rock, math-rock, post-punk and other important late 20th Century indie rock genres. At the helm of the Windy City’s underground since the early 1980s, Cheer-Accident have remained ceaselessly innovative while releasing approximately 15 recordings, playing countless concerts, collaborating with numerous other Chicago players, and creating a weekly Chicago cable TV show since 1993, the Dada-esque Cool Clown Ground. Led by drummer/composer/ vocalist Thymme Jones, Cheer-Accident may well be the most fearless and defiantly independent band of musical provocateurs on America’s so-called ‘independent’ music scene. Mixing and juxtaposing musical elements to create unprecedented combinations, introducing familiar ingredients to unfamiliar contexts, Cheer Accident push, prod and probe at the boundaries of musical conventions, genre form, audience/artist interaction, and, at times, good taste, with a combination of devil-may-care bravura, intellectual seriousness, the iconoclasm of Frank Zappa and unbridled, child-like creativity and naïveté. By “cheer accident”, the results of these daring boundary-bursting experiments are brilliant, and bold.

In a December 2008 cover feature on Cheer-Accident in Signal to Noise, America’s premiere magazine devoted to experimental music, writer Hank Shteamer describes the band’s music as:

“Imagine a confluence of the grandeur of Yes, the range of This Heat, the irreverence of Ween, the poignancy of Elliott Smith and the mischief of Andy Kaufman, and you’ll be getting close to the net effect of Cheer-Accident’s musical output”

“…a band that’s required listening for anyone seeking an education in underground music ” – Punk Planet

GUTBUCKET – A MODEST PROPOSAL – CUNEIFORM – Rune 281

Genre: JAZZ / PUNK-JAZZ / ROCK

Having blown out Carnegie Hall with an orchestra (“a density worthy of... a Led Zeppelin epic,” raved The New York Times), been proclaimed accidental forefathers of the death jazz movement by The London Guardian, and called “clearly out of their minds” by Guitar Player, it is perhaps not surprising that Gutbucket's new album should be about eating babies. A nod to Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical treatise on classist cannibalism, A Modest Proposal is the Brooklyn quartet's fourth album. Slowing down occasionally (as on the opening Head Goes Thud), the band's interests are as far-reaching as ever, peppering songs with cosmic-skonk guitar (Carnivore), double-quartet call-and-response (Side Effects May Include), and string quartet arrangements now re-done for bass clarinet and band (More More Bigger Better Faster with Cheese).

A Modest Proposal solidifies Gutbucket's place at the forefront of a revitalized avant-garde music scene in New York, where sparkling new venues pack in 20-somethings at Steve Reich gigs and Bang on a Can's all-night music marathons draw crowds for 'Stockhausen at Sunrise'. In orbit around the venerable Bang collective--for whom Thomson composed seasonal.disorder, performed at their 2008 People's Commissioning Fund Concert--Gutbucket's downtown pedigree is vast. Founded by Rockwin, saxophonist Ken Thomson, guitarist Ty Citerman, and drummer Paul Chuffo between shifts at Columbia University's vital radio station, WKCR, Gutbucket built their live rep in New York clubs before spreading across east coast college towns ; trips to Europe soon followed, with over a dozen tours in 19 countries.

The group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for punk, and the humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. Though the band might seem rooted in the genre exploding of New York’s downtown (their 2001 debut, InsomniacsDream, was released on the Knitting Factory house imprint), their shift to louder sounds began with their controversially titled Dry Humping the American Dream (released in 2003 in Europe on Enja and domestically in 2004 on Bang on a Can's Cantaloupe). Such releases have brought the band critical acclaim – as have the band’s live shows. While their shows are legendarily frenzied (“Keep all limbs, drinks and small children well clear of manic sax dervish Ken Thomson,” Time Out New York warned), they are also events unto themselves.

“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)

“A classic case of a band that defies categorization.” – The Washington Post

FAST 'N' BULBOUS – WAXED OOP – CUNEIFORM – Rune 277

Genre: ROCK / JAZZ / BLUES-ROCK / “THERE AIN’T NO LABEL FOR THIS BOTTLE”-DON VAN VLIET

Captain Beefheart's music is the quintessential 'outsider art music' of the second half of the 20th century. Fast 'n' Bulbous offer a unique slant on the songbook of one of contemporary music's most idiosyncratic figures.

Fast ‘N’ Bulbous is a Captain Beefheart repertory project led by two innovators of the new music scene: rock guitarist and improvisor Gary Lucas, who was guitarist for Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band in its latter years (1980-82), and composer, jazz saxophonist and improvisor Phillip Johnston, who co-led the renowned Microscopic Septet, widely regarded as one of the best jazz bands of the 1980s. In 2005, Cuneiform released Fast’N’Bulbous’ first-ever CD, Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind, which received a torrent of praise worldwide from both the rock and jazz press – and from both Beefheart fans and those who did not like Beefheart’s music the first time around.

Waxed Oop is Fast 'N' Bulbous’ second album. As on Pork Chop, most of the tunes are orchestrated with a horn section used in lieu of Beefheart's gritty vocals and with improvisation incorporated into the fold. On Waxed Oop, the band energetically revives the spirit and sound of Captain Beefheart’s music, cart wheeling through tunes that are as gutsy as they are cerebral, as drenched with soulful blues as they are filled with abstract sound. To celebrate the releases of Waxed Oop, Fast’N’ Bulbous will tour Europe in March 2009.

Waxed Oop is part of Cuneiform’s “Contemporary Masters” series, featuring groups whose repertory includes the works of such groundbreaking composers/artists/bands as Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, John McLaughlin / Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Frank Zappa. None of these groups are tribute bands attempting to replicate the original material; all treat the Masters’ original music in new, highly original and often enlightening ways.

“Fast ‘N’ Bulbous are no next best thing; They are the big brass band [Captain Beefheart] never had. With bellowing horns arranged by saxophonist Johnson and pinpoint swordplay vbt ex-Magix Band guitarist Gary Lucas, Fast’N’Bulbous ignite the R&B gunpowder inside the tanged surrealism…”

– Rolling Stone

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA – L’AXE DU FOU • AXIS OF MADNESS – CUNEIFORM – Rune 282

Genre: JAZZ / JAZZ-FUSION / JAZZ-ROCK

Composer/drummer Patrick Forgas has been hailed as “the French answer to the Canterbury scene” ever since his debut 1977 release Cocktail (recorded with members of Magma and Zao). Since the late 1990s, as leader of the Forgas Band Phenomena, he has helped ignite interest in Canterbury-infused jazz-rock among a new generation of young French jazz musicians and fans. Besides Forgas, most of the musicians in the Forgas Band Phenomena are in their 20s or 30s, and they enliven his compositions with an energy and verve that make the music sound fresh. For L'Axe du Fou / Axis of Madness, his 4th Forgas Band Phenomena release, Forgas leads an 8 piece instrumental ensemble (dual saxes, trumpet, violin, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums) through epic-length, complex and melodic compositions that mix ambitious progressive rock structures and intense jazz soloing.

L'Axe du Fou / Axis of Madness is the Forgas Band Phenomena’s 4th release, and its second on Cuneiform. In 2005, Cuneiform released Soleil 12; a dynamic fusion of jazz soloing and rock structures, and of music from the 70s and the current day, it received critical acclaim in both the jazz and the progressive rock music press. L'Axe du Fou / Axis of Madness is a studio recording of new material written in the past three years, with the sole exception of the intro to "La Clef", dating from the late 1990s.

“Listening to the wonderfully diverse, panoramic Soleil 12, assorted aspects of jazz, rock, classical (19th and early 20th styles), film music come to the fore. …The four lengthy tracks…feature distinct melodies and tight, urgent, almost suite-like arrangement recalling Frank Zappa and Carla Bley, which nonetheless give each player chances to strut their formidable stuff. There’s restraint, ebb and flow. Forgas BF can be as diabolically busy as electric-era Bill Bruford, as groove-y as Brian Auger and soar with easy grace as Jean-Luc Ponty. …This dandy platter proves there’s plenty of possibilities left in the fusion realm. “ – Mark Keresman,

UNIVERS ZERO – RELAPS (Archives 1984 - 1986) – CUNEIFORM – Rune 280

Genre: ROCK / CHAMBER ROCK/ EXPERIMENTAL / NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL

The Belgian band Univers Zero is legendary for its ominous, unsettling and uncompromising musical vision – a sound and stance that Keyboard describes as “Chamber Music for the Apocalypse”. Simultaneously medieval & modern, its distinctive, dark and elegantly beautiful instrumental music fused classical and rock to give birth to an unprecedented and remarkably prescient new musical genre. Today, several decades after Univers Zero first forged its unique “chamber rock”, critics cite its oeuvre as the precursor to the best avant-garde rock and classical music of the present day, from post-rock to the numerous late 20th/early 21st C. classical chamber ensembles integrating rock into their repertoire. When Cuneiform recently released a remastered reissue of the band’s self-titled debut album, critics who heard the band’s music for the first time called it a “revelation”, “..the hidden source for every one of today’s avant-garde rock bands”[Organ].

Back in the 1980s, however, in the band’s second decade of existence, Univers Zero stood very much alone, its music well beyond and outside that time. Featuring rock and classical instrumentation and sophisticated, passionate compositions, its dark and daring instrumental music stood in bold contrast to the artistic and cultural wasteland that characterized much ‘80s rock music. This new Univers Zero CD, called Relaps: Archives 1984-1986, is an archival project that documents the band in live performance during the mid-late 1980s. The band’s 11th CD, it is the only release of live material from the period during which Univers Zero recorded the two studio releases UZED [1984-Cryonic, 1988-Cuneiform], and Heatwave [1987-Cuneiform]. During that time, with Denis at its helm and some of best musicians from Europe’s avant-garde at its instruments, Univers Zero created what was perhaps the boldest, most sonically powerful and above all, most overtly ROCK-oriented music of its lengthy career. The stellar performances and astounding music on Relaps are proof positive that Univers Zero was one of – and perhaps the – most adventurous rock band then playing on the international rock stage. Relaps captures the live band that caught Cuneiform’s ear more than 20 years ago, leading it to sign Univers Zero and release its 6th album, Heatwave, thus beginning a fruitful relationship that continues to the present day.

“…one of the most important groups of the 1980s ..Univers Zero conceptualize the Europe of the late 20th Century... dense, desperate and dark; …above all beautiful and dramatic, strongly marked by the cultural traditions of Europe…Univers Zero may be classified somewhere between Bach and Bartok, Magma and Stravinsky…They represent something new, monumental, and important… a stirring lament over a European continent in physical and cultural decay … a rare, intense, and magnanimous piece of work, and it is absolutely compulsory for everyone who’s...played their Magma records to shreds, and/or who would have wanted there to be a bit more electric bass and drums on Bartok’s string quartets.”

– Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Puls [Norway], Feb 1989

“Univers Zero…forged a genre of music that might appropriately be dubbed post-rock, had the term not been coined 15 years too late. “ – Popmatters [USA]

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ARTIST NEWS:

Beat Circus

January 2009 Tour with Larkin Grimm

We're doing a short tour in January with singer/songwriter Larkin Grimm, who is touring on her new album Parplar on Young God Records. Earlier this year Brian Carpenter and Jordan Voelker recorded on Parplar. Last week Larkin sang on several tracks on the forthcoming Beat Circus album Boy From Black Mountain.

THU 01.15 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs +#

FRI 01.16 Providence, RI - Jake's Bar & Grill +

SAT 01.17 Portland, ME - Space Gallery +~

SUN 01.18 Hamden, CT - The Space +

SAT 01.31 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool ^

+ with Larkin Grimm

~ with Chriss Sutherland (Fire On Fire)

# with La Strada

^ with Nervous Cabaret

Dreamland and "The Ghost Of Emma Jean" rank among Best Of 2008

The critics weigh in on Dreamland...Avant Music News and Scaruffi rank Dreamland among the best of 2008. LimeWire lists "The Ghost Of Emma Jean" in the top ten songs of the year. Stewart Mason of All Music Guide called Dreamland "a wonderfully imaginative record." The New Yorker wrote"an ambitious new Brechtian concept album with rich and tight orchestration." Time Out New York wrote "Dreamland realizes a lushly imaginative American mythology...a surreal melange". Mark Jenkins of the Washington Post wrote"Beat Circus evokes a period so distant that it might seem like a Dreamland, transporting listeners to a world that's alluring and eerie." Dreamland is available NOW at our online STORE and at Cuneiform Records.

Bryce Goggin mixing Boy From Black Mountain

Thanks to all of you who came out to our October shows with Wovenhand. We've finished the majority of voice, strings, and brass overdubs for our forthcoming album Boy From Black Mountain and we're now mixing with esteemed NYC producer and engineer Bryce Goggin (Apples In Stereo, Sean Lennon, Angels of Light, Akron/Family, Larkin Grimm). Special guests include Larkin Grimm (Young God Records), cellist Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons), and multi-instrumentalist Bill Cole (a specialist in non-Western wind instruments such as the Chinese suona). We've posted photos from the recording session here.

Bill Brovold

Bill Brovold and Virgil Moorefield have joined forces to combine their unique views on both composition and improvisation.

They will be adding a floating third member to keep a power trio concept.

As a guitarist/plus for Rhys Chatham for years (Brovold) and drummer/bassist (Moorefield) for Glenn Branca for many years, then each composing for their own larger ensembles they have run parallel courses.

The Virgil Moorefield Ensemble has wowed people and toured extensively, while Brovold's Larval has introducing many to a whole new sonic experience. Both have written for and been utilizing many of the same musicians for over 20 years. They both have recorded seperately for Cuneiform and Tzadik and after much talk have begun the process of working collaboratively.  Recordings are under way

They hope to tour in the summer and are happy to receive any inquiries, requests or booking proposals about this project.

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

Notes from the Mesozoic

January 2009

"DAWN OF THE CYCADS"

Birdsongs 2-CD retrospective set "Dawn of the Cycads" has been released to resounding critical response. The package includes the group's complete Ace of Hearts recordings circa 1983 - 87 along with unreleased bonus material, as well as a collection of digitized flyers, tour itineraries, "Misinformation Sheets," and dioramas.

"Cycads" has appeared on Best of 2008 lists from Jorge Cravo, Radio Terra Nova (Portugal) and Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever (New York City).

"Epic timeless compositions from Boston supergroup ... This material is so advanced, serious yet playful, techie yet accessible, fast yet slow, dissonant yet harmonic, relaxing yet intense - 23 years later and I still can't describe this band besides saying it's some of the best music ever put to tape." - KZSU, Stanford

"Cluster meets Zappa meets Terry Riley ... Not many prog ensembles have the breadth

to cover those kind of wide bases but BOTM did."

Perfect Sound Forever

"Life without the music of the self-called 'world’s hardest rocking chamber quartet,' Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, would be boring. Among the many fascinating groups that came out of the eighties, few matched the innovation, creativity or sheer bravado... Few bands have successfully straddled modern classical music and rock as well as the Birdsongs of the Mesozoic have done."

Doug Simpson, Audiophile Audition

OTHER NEWS

Ken Field's original score for the Bridgman/Packer Dance piece Under the Skin (Innova Recordings, 2006) was performed recently in Albany & Potsdam (NY) and Munich (Germany). Recipients of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography, Bridgman/Packer have begun work with Field on a new piece based on the Greek story of Cassandra.



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David Borden / Mother Mallard

Mother Mallard's 40th anniversary concerts with new works by David Borden

Johnson Museum of Art

Cornell Campus

Ithaca, NY. 14853

March 28 Saturday  2009

CONCERT

2:00-4:00 p.m.

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., the world's first synthesizer ensemble, will present its fortieth-anniversary concert featuring two world premier performances of music by David Borden. Formed in 1969 in Ithaca with the support of the late Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer, the group is now an exclusively laptop-based ensemble but still features a Moog Voyager, Dr. Moog's last synthesizer design. Sponsored in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts.

The new pieces that will be performed are:

"Remembering Jimmy"  a piece in memory of Jimmy Giuffre who passed away last April.  Jimmy was my first composition teacher and used to let me sit in on rehearsals of his Jimmy Giuffre Three groups.  I got to know Jim Hall, Ralph Pena, and later, Bobby Brookmeyer.  He was always extremely generous and gracious and encouraged my creativity.

The other piece is " Seven Movements for Viola Farber."  This piece involves video projection that changes with each performance, and is intended as a companion piece for the tirbute to Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn that we did in 2007.   Viola was a star performer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for over a decade before she formed her own modern dance company in the late 1960s.  As a keyboardist who earned his living by accompanying dance classes, I started accompanying her when she visited Cornell in the early 1970s.  I instantly fell under her spell and volunteered to accompany her classes whenever I was in New York.  Some of her dancers were also connected with Cornell:  Willi Feuer and later, Jumay Chu.  The video images for this piece are from DVDs and still photos sent to me by Jeff Slayton, her husband and biographer.  In addition some of the moving images are from a film made for television entitled "Brazos River", directed by Robert Rauschenberg courtesy of Anne Livet, President of Livet Reichard Company, Inc.

The second concert will be presented the following evening at:

Barnes Hall 

Cornell Campus

8:00 PM Sunday, March 29th

Free and open to the public

The two NEW pieces will be repeated, but the rest of the program will be slightly different

two YouTube sites with part of Mother Mallard concerts?

Watch:

David Borden Tribute to Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn





Cheer-Accident

upcoming CHEER-ACCIDENT shows:

2/7:  Cactus Club in Milwaukee, WI w/Couch Flambeau

2/8:  The Frequency in Madison, WI w/Guzzlemug

2/13:  Record Release Show at The Hideout in Chicago, IL w/D. Rider and Jessica Fogle

2/20: Maritime Tavern in Appleton, WI w/Sounds Like Braille and Guzzlemug

2/21  The Hexagon in Minneapolis, MN w/Guzzlemug

April and May will be action-packed with shows, both domestically and abroad, as we continue to spread the word on Fear Draws Misfortune (our first Cuneiform release).  We are currently looking to solidify the rest of our European tour in early May.  Any tips on places to play in Germany, France, and Czech Republic in the first two weeks of May will be greatly appreciated (We most likely already have enough feet in the door for Poland).  

Please contact us at CHEER- or cheeraccident.  Thanks for the listen!

Watch Cheer-Accident videos on Youtube!:

Cosmologic

After doing several concerts this fall close to home in Southern California and Mexico, we're now looking forward to our upcoming East Coast tour - especially the chance to hang out at Cuneiform headquarters in the D.C. area!

Feb. 18 - Amherst, MA: Buckley Recital Hall, Faultlines Festival

Feb. 19 - Brooklyn, NY: Infrequent Streams series at Le Grand Dakar

Feb. 20 - Washington, DC: Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center

Feb. 21 - Philadelphia, PA: Venue TBA

We're also finalizing plans for tour in Belgium, the Netherlands and France for October/November 2009. Any presenters in those countries interested in booking us, please email: info@

We have some new videos up on our YouTube Channel:

And our recent Cuneiform release Eyes In The Back Of My Head has been getting great reviews in many languages. For press, mp3s, tour dates, and more, visit us at:





Doctor Nerve

Nick just celebrated his 50th at The Monkey in NYC. Festivities included playing Alice Cooper's "18" with his kids on guitar (Sasha) and drums (Leo), and high school chum Tom Marsan spitting out Alice's vocals, followed by a set of some Zeppelin and Deep Purple with Nick's high school bandmate John Roulat (Forever Einstein and Bone) pounding on the drums and Jesse Krakow (Doctor Nerve, Fast and Bulbous) on bass. Later the band was joined by Mark Stewart (Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Paul Simon, etc) on guitar for some rousing renditions of some classic Rick Derringer and Rolling Stones. Then some blues jamming with Delta Garage band members Tom Marsan and Ross Owens, with John Roulat's son Ian sitting on drums for his NYC premiere performance. The night wrapped up with a set by Doctor Nerve and an enormous carrot cake with a badass image of a Gibson SG expertly illustrated in miscellaneous colored frostings. For photos visit Nick's Facebook page and check out the Photo Album named "Nick's 50th", and say hello while you're there.

Nick continues to transcribe Tony Iommi guitar solos and post video lessons of them on YouTube. This has taken on a life of its own, recently resulting in a commissioned lesson which transcribed over 2 minutes of extreme Iommi guitar spewage. Nick's hand hurts but he's very happy.

More riffs accumulating on Nick's Zoom H2 portable recorder which shall be molded into Nerve tunes. Promise.

Nick's going on tour with Ice Cream Time (ARTE Sax Quartet and Thomas Dimuzio) in March, playing in Muenster (Mar 3), Forli (Mar 7), and Lugano (Mar 8). More dates TBA

As always, visit Nerve on the www and MySpace at and

And visit BONE (Hopper/Roulat/Didkovsky) while you're at it, at

Fast ‘N’ Bulbous

 

Jan 2009 sees the release of Fast 'N' Bulbous long-awaited second Cuneiform CD, Waxed Oop (an impetuous stream bubbled up). A strong departure from their first CD, Waxed Oop ranges from Gary Lucas’ solo National Steel guitar version of “Sure ‘Nuff ‘N’ Yes I Do,” to a full band arrangement of Don van Vliet’s solo sea chantey, “Well.” It also includes the first FnB delving into “Lick My Decals Off, Baby,” and features a bonus track with guest vocalist Robyn Hitchcock.

 

Just prior to the recording, they did a tribute concert to Captain Beefheart at New York’s Knitting Factory, curated by Gary Lucas, which featured little-known video clips and recordings, and readings and reminiscences by many special guests, including Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Suicide's Alan Vega, Kurt Loder, and David Lynch (via video).

 

You can watch a podcast of highlights from the show at:

You can also watch a clip on YouTube, of Gary and Robyn performing “Sure ‘Nuff ‘N’ Yes I Do” at the same event.

 

They will be touring in 2009 to support the new CD (visit website/myspace page for updates)

Mar 10       (Le) Poisson Rouge, NYC

Mar 14       Rotterdam /Lantaren Venster 

Mar 15      Barcelona (venue tba)

Mar 16      Köln /Stadtgarten Köln  stadtgarten.de

Mar 17      Gröningen /Grand Theatre     

Mar 19  Vaux-en-Velin / Festival A Vaulx Jazz -

Mar 22      Vienna /Porgy & Bess      

 

Visit Fast ‘N’ Bulbous online for YouTube videos and audio from the new recording.

 





Forgas Band Phenomena

The new CD "L'Axe du Fou" / "Axis of Madness" has just been released (January, 2009) on Cuneiform Records. The band return to their favourite Parisian stage, Le Triton (), to celebrate its release, on Friday January 30th, 2009. The only other confirmed concert date so far is the Chateau d'Auvers-sur-Oise on April 4, 2009.

In February last year, the FBP recorded a cover version of Christian Vander's "Africa Anteria" (originally on 1971's Uniweria Zekt album) for "Hur", the sequel to Alain Juliac's acclaimed Magma tribute project "Hamtai", which will be available in time for Magma's 40th anniversary concerts in mid-February.

Patrick has already composed three new medium length pieces (10-15 minutes) which will be included in the live reperttoire over the next months.

Obviously the band very much hope to follow up their recent successful Korean debut (footage of which is available on the MySpace page along with substantial mp3 excerpts from the new CD) with other performances abroad and will happily consider any offers to perform at venues and festivals worldwide!

Audio and video excerpts -

More information, press, etc. -

Management / booking contact -

Peter Frohmader

There is a new official homepage:



and for example another one is: 



And regarding YouTube please look at:



Gutbucket

Upcoming tour dates:

NYC CD Release Party - Wednesday, January 28, 8pm doors at Monkeytown (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

In the spirit of celebration, Gutbucket has put together a very special never-been-done-before Gutbucket Orchestra, assembling a cast of incredible musicians from the classical, jazz, and rock worlds to help them realize on stage the layers of multi-instrumental orchestration from the CD itself.

In addition to their regular line-up of Ty Citerman (guitar), Adam D Gold (drums), Eric Rockwin (bass), and Ken Thomson (saxophone), the night will feature: Sara Phillips Budde and Alex Hamlin (winds); Eyal Maoz (guitar); Tom Gavin (guitar and bass); Jordan Shapiro (guitar and keys); Greta Gertler (keys); Jody Redhage (cello); Peter Wise (vibes); and live visuals by R. Luke DuBois.

European Tour - March 5 - 20

US Tour - April 3 - 17 (more details on all tours to come)

- Past big shows/festivals played somewhat recently

master class and concert with orchestra (Ken Thomson's piece "Wait Your Turn") at Eastman School of Music, Friday Dec 11

European Tour: September - October 2008 (Germany, Poland, Holland, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland)hilights include:

Freiburger Jazz Festival (Germany) - September 19, 2008

International Music Festival (Zagreb, Croatia) - September 22, 2008

Jazzpower Anniversary Festival (Eindhoven, Netherlands) - September 29, 2008

Amperitiv Festival (Dachau, Germany) - October 3, 2008

- Youtube (and the like) links to live performance footage or other video content

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- Website addresses/news

all web info at

- Myspace addresses/news

gutbucket

- General life news

Gutbucket celebrates its tenth anniversary in February! The band is excited about its fourth album, a Cuneiform debut for the group entitled "A Modest Proposal." The album was recorded in Minneapolis at the Terrarium and then mixed with legendary musician/producer Joel Hamilton at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY.

In other news, bassist Eric Rockwin's daughter Lucy turned a year old in April and guitarist Ty Citerman's daughter Zora was born on May 10. Saxophonist Ken Thomson premiered his new project Slow/Fast at NYC's the Stone on November 1 and will be at San Francisco's Switchboard Music Festival at the end of March and the legendary Spoleto Festival with World/Inferno Friendship Society in May.

Drummer Adam D Gold will be touring Australia in February and mainland Europe at the end of March with Greta Gertler's band.

Richard Leo Johnson

Vernon McAlister is on Face Book!

Richard Leo Johnson is recording his third in the series of albums based on fictional characters, and the inspiration behind their music. “Duval Rey” a blind Creole one man band street musician from New Orleans. Duval had a chance encounter with Vernon McAlister in the late 1950’s and was inspired to compose a mini symphony. Duval’s main instrument is a 4 string tenor banjo which was given to him by his uncle Simon, who used to gig in New Orleans in the 1930’s before his untimely death at the hands of a jealous boyfriend.

Duval said the banjo was possessed by Simon’s spirit and makes an especially sweet sound when a pretty young girl walks by. He recorded the aforementioned body of work at his friend’s run down recording studio in Metairie in 1962. The session resulted in a rustic, heartfelt, impressionistic yet strangely sophisticated musical sojourn. Duval is still alive but suffered a stroke in early 2007 that left him in a coma. He is resting peacefully in a nursing home in New Orleans run by Catholic Nuns.

If all goes well the recording should be done by Spring 2009!

Mats/Morgan Band

On Mars 20, Memorial Concert for Lars Hollmer in Stockholm.

Mats/Morgan Band will performing on June 4 in Trondheim/Norway (For more information, visit: blaest.no) and Zappanale/Germany in mid August. The band has been preparing mixes of live gigs and a new studio album. They are also busy remastering the Mats/Morgan back-catalogue!!!

- morganagren

The Microscopic Septet

 

In Sept 2008 Cuneiform released Lobster Leaps In, the first newly recorded Micros CD since 1998’s Beauty Based On Science. Fresh of a string of one-niters in Europe, the band went into the studio and recorded a set of classic Micros tunes, spanning the 12 years of their original incarnation, from “Almost Right” (number 3 in the Micros book) to more experimental tunes like “The Big Squeeze.” Long-time Micros fans celebrate the first new release in 20 years!

 

They will be re-reuniting and on the road again in Nov 2009.

They will also be doing one special performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC on March 12, 2009, in a unique double bill with One Ring Zero. Are the Micros the One Ring Zero of jazz, or vice versa? 

 

Visit the Micros online for YouTube videos and audio from the new recording.

 





 For those "in the know" we are offering a special Micros/Lobster Leaps In Artist Statement/History page, which tells the tale of how this CD came to be, and features additional mp3s from live recordings from gigs at venues like the (original) Knitting Factory, & the Village Gate. These are exclusively Micros "oddities" and will be changed from time to time.

 Check it out: 

Miriodor

Mmhhhh, smells like some Miriodor’s cooking in the kitchen.

All the ingredients have been mixed; spices added.

 

Miriodor 7th album is ready, ready to be placed in a cuneiform-shaped oven for a very slow cooking (4 months) and will be served in May.

 

7th album, 7 pieces, all of them 7 minutes or more.

 

3 guests (Marie-Chantal Leclair, Pierre Labbé, Maxime St-Pierre playing on about half the pieces).

 

60 minutes of new music.

Mixed by Bernard Falaise and Frédéric Boudreault

Cover by Patrick Laroque

 

We will support this new CD with some shows. Any person interested in helping book some shows, please contact us via our website :

 

 

There’ll also be a long overdue update of our website in the upcoming months.

 

That’s it for now!

Planeta Imaginario

We are currently looking for gigs in france and netherlands in spring.

(new song)

we have 4-5  songs written of our future cd.

we are on the 8th position of the gagliarchives top 100 albums of 2008.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble

Revolutionary News - January 2009

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's 2nd CD Forked Tongue continues to garner great response from the public and press. The disc appeared on Best of 2008 lists in the Village Voice, and in Georgia, Kansas, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Estonia.

Recent performances have included the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the famed NYC club Barbes. In February the group will make its annual pilgrimage to New Orleans to march with the Krewe of Muses in their Mardi Gras Parade. As usual, RSE will travel and perform on board the Amtrak Crescent to NOLA, with a stop in Philadelphia to perform at the World Cafe Live.

"Unlike most modernisations of supposedly 'traditional' concepts, this one has an informing logic that carries it through, and by the time you get to Minor Vee and Under the Skin, both written by saxophonist/leader Ken Field, you're a voodoo convert."

Brian Morton, The Wire (UK)

"A quirky, idiosyncratic band capable of both partying and intellectual discourse...A formidable slew of potent originals...The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble has taken danceable music to both earthy and progressive levels."

Michael Nastos, All Music Guide

"RSE is a gloriously humorous and creative group that makes great music"

Jay Collins, Signal to Noise

"About the most fun I've had musically all year."

Jon Davis, Expose

"Ecco un disco coraggioso e divertente, che non mancher‡ di suscitare interesse in un pubblico a trecentosessanta gradi con la sua energia stradaiola, che si nutre di memoria e innovazione allo stesso tempo."

Enrico Ramunni, Rockerilla (Italy)

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Monday, February 16, 2009 (8pm):

World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Society for Art, Literature, and Music



215-222-1400

Tuesday, February 17, 2009:

Amtrak Crescent train (Philly => New Orleans)



1-800-USA-RAIL

Wednesday night, February 18, 2009 (between midnite & 3am):

Live performance on WWOZ, New Orleans



Thursday, February 19, 2009 (6:30pm):

Krewe of Muses Mardi Gras parade, New Orleans



Thursday, February 19, 2009 (10:30pm):

Tipitina's, 501 Napolean Ave, New Orleans

Papa Mali's 2nd Annual Supernatural Ball, w/ Hot 8 Brass Band, John Mooney, Monk Boudreaux



Friday, February 20, 2009 (1-6pm tbd):

WTUL, New Orleans



• info@

revolutionarysnakeensemble

Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd will be on “A Prairie Home Companion with GARRISON KEILLOR” on Feb. 14.

For more infor see:

Roger Trigaux / Present

RIO 2009 will take place the 18th, 19th and 20th of september 2009. (officially confirmed)

The program is the same as the one planned for April except Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (Clara will have a baby in august).

News soon on RIO web Site

Upsilon Acrux

The album is done, mixed, and mastered and will be out in May! We are currently booking a US tour for June, and a European tour for September. If anyone can help us, please get in touch with us: echoparkcrack@.

 

Volapük

Volapük will play:   February 22nd at the Festival of CHABEUIL "Rencontre entre les Mondes" (near Valence, France)

                          May 1st/3rd at the Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal

                          May  31st at the "Sons Dessus De Sault" Festival (Vaucluse / France)

CUNEIFORM ARTIST TOURS

2009 Tour Dates

BEAT CIRCUS ( - beatcircus)

January 15 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs +

January 16 - Providence, RI - Jake's Bar & Grill +

January 17 - Portland, ME - Space Gallery +

January 18 - Hamden, CT - The Space +

January 31 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool ^

+ with Larkin Grimm ^ with Nervous Cabaret

DAVID BORDEN/MOTHER MALLARD [40th anniversary celebration] ()

March 26, 2009 - Barnes Hall - Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

March 28, 2009 - Johnson Museum - Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

CHEER-ACCIDENT (cheer-)

February 7 - Cactus Club - Milwaukee, Wisconsin w/ Couch Flambeau

February 8 - The Frequency - Madison, Wisconsin w/ Guzzlemug

February 13 - The Hideout - 1354 West Wabansia - Chicago Il 60622 (773) 227-4433

February 20 - TBA - Appleton, WI

February 21 - The Hexagon - Minneapolis, Minnesota w/Guzzlemug

April/May - European tour

COSMOLOGIC ( - cosmologic)

February 18 - Faultlines Jazz Festival - Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA -8:30 pm, all ages, free amherst.edu/faultlines

February 19 - Infrequent Seams at Le Grand Dakar - 285 Grand Avenue (at Clifton Place), Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY - 8pm

all ages, donations - infrequentseams

February 20 - Pyramid Atlantic Center - 8230 Georgia Avenue - Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 608-9101

February 21 - TBA

FAST 'N' BULBOUS (neonmeatedream - fnbfrontpage.htm)

March 10 - 8:30pm - Le Poisson Rouge, NYC--Fast 'N' Bulbous celebrate the release of their new Cuneiform album

"WAXED OOP (An impetuous stream bubbled up)”

with Gary Lucas, Phillip Johnston, Joe Fiedler, Dave Sewelson, Richard Dworkin, Jesse Krakow, and Rob Henke

March 14 - Lantaren Venster - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

March 15 - 9pm - Barcelona, Spain

March 16 - 9pm - Stadtgarden, Koln Germany

March 17 - 9pm - Grand Theatre, Groningen Holland

March 18 - 9pm - Centre Culturel du Charlie Chaplin, Vaux-en-Velin, France

March 22 - 9pm - Porgy and Bess Jazz Club, Vienna Austria

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA ()

January 30, 2009 - Le Triton - Les Lilas, France

April 4, 2009 - Chateau d'Auvers-sur-Oise - rue de Léry BP 21 - 95430, Auvers sur Oise - France

GUTBUCKET ( - gutbucket)

Gutbucket CD release show with very special expanded ensemble and live film projections!

January 28 - Monkeytown - 58 N 3rd St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn - 8pm - 718.384.1369 -

March 2009 - European tour (more info as we get it)

April 5 - The Beeline Festival - The Broad Institute - M.I.T. - Boston, MA

April 11 or 18 (TBD) - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave. - Baltimore, MD 21230

HAMSTER THEATRE ()

Februrary 21 - The Laughing Goat - 1709 Pearl St. - Boulder, CO (303) 440-4628

LED BIB [our latest signing, album out in May, 2009!] ( - ledbib)

April 1, 2009 - The Forge - Camden, London, UK

MATS/MORGAN BAND ( - matsmorganband)

[Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren with former Meshuggah bassist Gustaf Hilem]

March 20 - Memorial concert for Lars Hollmer in Stockholm, Sweden

June 4 - BLAEST - TMV kaia 17 / 7014, Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway - blaest.no

THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET ( - themicroscopicseptet)

March 12 - Le Poisson Rouge - 158 Bleecker St - New York, NY 10012 (212) 228-4854 (with One Ring Zero) - this may be the ONLY show by the Micros in 2009! Don't miss it!

THE MUFFINS ()

September 2009 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Albi, France -

The ED PALERMO Big Band ()

February 6, 7:30 pm - Dix Hills Performing Arts Center - Five Towns College, 305 North Service Road, Dix Hills, NY 11746-5857 - Box Office 631.656.2148 - Tickets $20 - w/ special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!

June 3 - Iridium - NYC, NY (record release show)

POSITIVE CATASTROPHE [our latest signing - CD out in May!] (positivecat)

May 8 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson St. - NYC, NY (two sets - at 9:00 and 10:30)

May 9 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson St. - NYC, NY (two sets - at 9:00 and 10:30)

PRESENT (present/)

September 2009 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Albi, France -

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE ( - revolutionarysnakeensemble)

February 16 - Penn Station, NYC, 1pm (approx), prior to 2:15pm departure on Amtrak

February 16 - World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, 8pm, co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Society for Art, Literature, & Music

February 17 - Amtrak Crescent train (Phili => New Orleans)

February 18 between midnite & 3am: Live broadcast on WWOZ, New Orleans

February 19 - Krewe of Muses, Mardi Gras parade, New Orleans, 6:30pm

February 19 - Papa Mali's 2nd Annual Supernatural Ball, Tipitina's Uptown, 501 Napoleon Ave, NOLA, 10pm, w/ Hot 8, John Mooney, Monk Boudreaux

March 12 - Clear Conscience Cafe, 581 Mass Ave, Central Sq, Cambridge, MA, 8-10pm, free

April 24 - Miller Street Studios, 11 Miller St, Somerville, MA, 6-10pm

October 10 - Roswell Museum & Art Center, annual street fair, Roswell, NM

UNIVERS ZERO (univers- - universzero)

January 30, 2009 - Centre Culturel "LE WAUX-HALL" - Place Albert Ier - 1400 Nivelles, Belgium - (32 67 882277) - nivelles.be

March 17, 2009 - Cafe Cairo - Wurzburg, Germany

March 19, 2009 - Posthof - Linz, Austria

March 20, 2009 - Palac Akropolis - Prague, Czech Republic

March 21, 2009 - Kazzwelten - Dresden, Germany

March 22, 2009 - Firlej - Wroclaw, Poland

September 2009 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Albi, France -

Volapük

February 22 - Festival de Chabeuil - Chabeuil/Drôme - France

May 1st/3rd - Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal

May 31 - Festival Sons Dessus Dessous - Vaucluse - France

Please visit the artists’ websites or for any show updates.

For more info on these artists, please visit or email: joyce@

Cuneiform Artist Websites

Ahleuchatistas





Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores







Beat Circus





Birdsongs of the Mesozoic





Raoul Björkenheim





Blast



Bone



David Borden



Boud Deun







George Cartwright



Cheer-Accident





Graham Collier



Cosmologic





Lol Coxhill



Deus Ex Machina



Djam Karet





Doctor Nerve







Paul Dunmall



Forrest Fang



Far Corner





Fast ‘N’ Bulbous





Forever Einstein



Forgas Band Phenomena



Fred Frith



Peter Frohmader







Guapo







Gutbucket





Hamster Theatre







Happy the Man



Hugh Hopper



Richard Leo Johnson







Henry Kaiser



Larval



Machine and the Synergetic Nuts



The Mahavishnu Project





Mats/Morgan Band



  

Merzbow



Phil Miller (In Cahoots)



Miriodor



Virgil Moorefield



NeBeLNeST





Philharmonie





Richard Pinhas





Planeta Imaginario



 

Present



Proto-Kaw







Radio Massacre International



Revolutionary Snake Ensemble



revolutionarysnakeensemble

Rich Woodson’s Ellipsis





Ray Russell





Wadada Leo Smith



John Surman



The Claudia Quintet





The Danubians





The Ed Palermo Big Band



The Microscopic Septet







The Muffins



Thinking Plague





Time of Orchids





U Totem



Univers Zero



University of Errors





Upsilon Acrux



Yang







Zaar



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