CUNEIFORM ARTIST NEWS, TOURS & WEBSITES SPRING / SUMMER 2010
ARTIST NEWS:
JASON ADASIEWICZ’S ROLLDOWN here are a few things that are creeping up
Rolldown Performances august 4th at The Hideout, Chicago august 5th at The Sugar Maple, Milwaukee, WI august 8th at The Hungry Brain, Chicago
I have been invited onto Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. The show will be taped at the end of the summer in New York City. Also, I was nominated by the Jazz Journalist Association for 2010 Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year. My daughter is 8 months old! tomatoes, peppers, carrots, shallots, yellow onions, kale, basil, okra, eggplant, cucumber, and spinach are all in the ground. get in there!
BEAT CIRCUS Performer Magazine May 2010 feature Garrett Frierson interviewed Brian Carpenter and Paran Amirinazari last fall on the band's latest album Boy From Black Mountain, a new direction, and current plans for the next album. The feature was published in this month's edition of Performer Magazine. You can read the article here.
Boy From Black Mountain wins IMA for Best Alt/Country Album Boy From Black Mountain won the 9th Independent Music Award for Best Alt/Country Album. This year's judges included Tom Waits, Ricky Skaggs, Aimee Mann, Judy Collins, and Suzanne Vega. See the winners in other categories here.
What the critics are saying about Boy From Black Mountain Beat Circus' rollicking new album Boy From Black Mountain has been earning great reviews across the land. Boy From Black Mountain is now available in our online STORE. All profits from our online store go directly to the artist!
The Boston Phoenix gives it 3.5/4 stars, raving "Boy From Black Mounain is the prettiest darn dark Americana record in recent memory." PopMatters puts Beat Circus in their 2009 Slipped Discs, writing "For anyone still awed by Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, here was an album that promised a similar journey through innocent speculation and otherworldly magic. Beat Circus has provided one of the highs of the year." The Boston Herald ranks Boy From Black Mountain in their top 10 of 2009. Big Takeover writes, "At once unique and familiar, Beat Circus take American music to exotic places that feel strangely like its roots." Foxy Digitalis writes, "Boy From Black Mountain provides another fine example of a band revitalizing traditional folk music without resorting to any post-something-or-other gimmickry, just great songs and 1 great playing."
Since releasing Boy From Black Mountain to rave reviews last fall, we've been busy. Brian Carpenter has been in the studio recording with his band the Ghost Train Orchestra and recently recorded with Michael Gira's reformed Swans. Paran Amirinazari has been touring with singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm, Gavin McCarthy has been in the studio with his new band Wallcreeper, and Paul Dilley has been on tour with Miss Tess.
BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC Birdsongs of the Mesozoic recently had a pair of performance in collaboration with electronic percussionist Encanti (Ben Cantil). The ensemble played on 5/7 at the Outpost in Cambridge MA and on 5/14 headlined at The Thing In The Spring music festival in Peterborough NH. Their repertoire included updated versions of vintage Birdsongs chestnuts plus select improvisations.Pianist Erik Lindgren swopped his Yamaha electric piano for a Nord Lead synthesizer which he use on the Birds 2009 summer Triassic Tour.
Animator Karen Aqua's newest film "Twist of Fate", with soundtrack by Ken Field and music by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, has been garnering wide acclaim, including awards at the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, the James River Film Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and screenings at film & animation festivals in Telluride, Denver, Ottawa, Argentina, Athens (OH), Annecy (France), Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
CHEER-ACCIDENT ---- CHEER-ACCIDENT have halfway finished recording their second Cuneiform full-length, due out in May 2011.
---- Foreshadowing that release will be their sunny, summertime (yes, vinyl) single, "Barely Breathing," which is due out in midsummer 2010.
---- Look for CHEER-ACCIDENT to play in the following towns in July and August of 2010: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dekalb, Champaign, and Louisville.
---- They have started the process of arranging for a south/southeast tour of The States in November 2010. To help "make this happen," please contact the band at www.CHEER-ACCIDENT.com
COSMOLOGIC Still together after more than a decade, Cosmologic continues to perform their unique blend of original music, most recently on a short Northeast US tour in March 2010 that included great gigs in New York (The Stone), Boston (Johnny D's), and Amherst, MA. They also played several gigs in California earlier in the year, including the Open Gate Series, a longstanding centerpiece of the LA creative music scene curated by renowned drummer Alex Cline, and the Orange County Creative Music Collective series in Santa Ana, CA. The band is gearing up to record another album (their 5th!) in late 2010 and early 2011, and working on a Europe tour for fall of 2011 as well as ongoing gigs on the West Coast. Their new Facebook band page as well as their YouTube videos and myspace page are all linked through the band's main website at www.cosmologic.org. Check it out and stay in touch!
DOCTOR NERVE / NICK DIDKOVSKY 2 Doctor Nerve is hitting the recording studio in late June to record a batch of new tunes.
Nick's going to perform a new duo with Kathleen Supove (Nerve pianist) at Dither Guitar Quartet's CD release party, and will be joining Dither to perform a guitar sextet composed by one of his favorite composers, James Tenney. That's on Saturday, June 12... a ridiculously awesome party in celebration of the release of their debut album on Henceforth Record, at The Invisible Dog gallery in downtown Brooklyn. Faceook invitation at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123910360956224&ref=ts
Nick will perform music for solo tabletop guitar and computer at the MUSIC WITH A VIEW series at teh Flea Theatre on June 6 The Flea Theater 41 White Street (between Church and Broadway--A, C, E to Canal St., #1 train to Franklin) Admission FREE, open seating http://www.theflea.org/
...as always, www.doctornervre.org
ERGO Ergo's latest release "multitude, solitude" has recently been written up in The Village Voice, Jazz Times and All Music Guide. The group added Sam Harris on piano and keyboards in December and has been busy with shows at the New Languages Festival, the Avant Fairfax festival in Virginia and Orion Studios in Baltimore with Algernon, and the New York Slide Workers Union Trombone Festival which was reviewed in the May issue of All About Jazz NY. Footage of the show can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/brettsroka Ergo is currently seeking opportunities in Europe for early 2011 and working on a new recording with possible guest artists. Their next scheduled show is at BAM Cafe on November 12. More information on Ergo can always be found at www.ergoisaband.com and www.myspace.com/ergo and www.facebook.com/ergoisaband
FAR CORNER Far Corner has recording session dates booked for this summer to finish the last half of the third album.
William Kopecky (bass) has been keeping busy, preparing music to record for the Flyin' Ryan Brothers.
Dan Maske (composition, keyboards, additional percussion) recently traveled to Georgia where he played drumset with the Globe Sax Quartet on a work he composed.
Angela Schmidt has been performing with the progressive rock group Julie B Well.
Craig Walkner (percussion) has enjoyed some success playing with Justin Black.
Visit far-corner.com for updated info.
FAST ‘N’ BULBOUS / GARY LUCAS 3
GARY LUCAS SOLO ACOUSTIC @
JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC THEATER 425 LAFAYETTE STREET NYC SATURDAY MAY 15th 9:30PM with accompanying light show by Steve Grise
A Pick in The New Yorker this week: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/gary-lucas-joes-pub
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5147
AND
"AN EVENING WITH GARY LUCAS--SOLO ACOUSTIC" MCCABE'S 3101 PICO BOULEVARD SANTA MONICA CA. SATURDAY JUNE 5th 8PM
with his special guest guitarist Scott Goldman sitting in
NEW GARY LUCAS SOLO ACOUSTIC WEB PAGE
http://garylucas.com/www/soloac
JUST CONFIRMED--
GARY LUCAS WILL PERFORM THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF HIS SPANISH "DRACULA" PROJECT SUNDAY MAY 30th IN THE OPEN AIR OUTSIDE BANFFY CASTLE AFTER SUNDOWN @ THE 9th TRANSYLVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CLUJ NAPOCA, ROMANIA
http://garylucas.com/www/dracula
PLUS-- THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF GARY'S 'CINEFANTASTIQUE' PROJECT ALSO AT THE TRANSYLVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TUESDAY JUNE 2nd 10:30pm ZORKI CLUB CLUJ NAPOCA, ROMANIA
http://garylucas.com/www/cine
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
Thursday May 20th 11pm Gary Lucas' live solo guitar score from his "Sounds of the Surreal" film/music project is featured on John Schaefer's "New Sounds" show, WNYC FM, listen live at http://www.wnyc.org/flashplayer/player.html
Friday May 28th 3:10pm Doral, Florida Gary Lucas' music is featured in a screening of Emmy-award winning film maker Peter Bull's new documentary "Dirty Business" at the 4 DocMiami International Film Festival, http://dirtybusinessthefilm.com/
Wednesday June 2nd 7pm Seattle Film Festival Neptune Theater, Seattle Washington Gary Lucas' music is featured in a screening of documentary film maker Sebastian Doggart's "American Faust" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/american-faust-from-condi_b_393618.html
Thursday June 3rd Seattle Film Festival SIFF Cinema, Seattle Washington Gary Lucas' music is featured in a screening of Sebastian Doggart's "American Faust"
Saturday June 12th 8pm Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown NY Gary Lucas plays his solo guitar score live accompanying a screening of "The Golem" (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) http://garylucas.com/www/golem
Sunday June 20th 8pm Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal Park New Jersey Gary Lucas performs solo acoustic as part of the Songwriters by the Sea series
Friday June 25th 8pm Bowery Poetry Club, NYC Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters w/Ernie Brooks, Billy Ficca, Jason Candler and Joe Hendel, with special guests Dusty Wright and Alexandra Lash http://garylucas.com/www/gods
Sunday June 27th 8pm Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal Park New Jersey Gary Lucas Plays "The Golem" http://garylucas.com/www/golem
Saturday July 3rd 10pm Trash Bar, Willamsburg NYC Gary Lucas performs solo acoustic for DJ Mojo's birthday party http://www.thetrashbar.com
Thursday July 15th 9pm Jazz Cafe, London England Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar perform their celebrated "Rishte" album http://www.myspace.com/worldvillagerishte
Friday July 16th time tba The Tin Angel, Coventry England Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar perform their celebrated "Rishte" album
Check out the new web page devoted to Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar's "Rishte" project: http://garylucas.com/www/ng
Saturday July 24th 8pm Open Air Festival, Sevilla Spain Gary Lucas performs a double bill of two of his music and film projects: "Sounds of the Surreal" 5 and "Monsters from the Id" http://garylucas.com/www/surr http://garylucas.com/www/id
Monday Sept. 13th 9pm The Stone, NYC Gary Lucas conducts a 2 hour "Beefheart Symposium" a lecture/demonstration with archival recordings and clips
Friday Sept. 24th time tba Madame Guitar Festival, Tricesimo Italy Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar perform their celebrated "Rishte" album
Sunday Sept. 26th 8pm Paradiso (main hall), Amsterdam Holland Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar perform their celebrated "Rishte" album
Read a 4 star review of "Rishte" by Mike Barnes from MOJO Magazine: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/mojo0709.jpg
more dates tba
Gary Lucas performs his solo acoustic instrumental "Q & A" in a new YouTube clip courtesy of Dusty Wright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcsQcdNIvs
French chanteuse Melissa Mars performs "Grace" with Gary Lucas onstage at Le Point Ephemere Paris 3/22/10 in a new YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkmYQfNrt8M
Read an interview with Gary in the Boston Phoenix on the occasion of his recent Boston solo acoustic show at The Magic Room: http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/onthedownload/archive/2010/04/02/from-the-magic-band-to-the-magic-room-a-chat-with-gary-lucas.aspx
"Hinay Ma Tov" by Chase the Devil (Gary Lucas and Dean Bowman) is Song of the Day on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125768297
Review of Gary Lucas' recent appearance in Dresden at the 6th Jazz Welten Festival from Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/DNN_review.pdf
Check out 3 new YouTube videos of Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar live at the WOMAD Festival Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 11/09
"Soul Taker" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgjD3UVgwE
"Rishte" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0KtIhq188
"Aksar" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzX8NLZ2BMU
Check out a rave review by David Fricke in Rolling Stone for Gary Lucas and Najma Akhtar's "Rishte" -- #4 on the World Music Charts Europe:
Blues from India Gary Lucas is a modern guitar miracle, an alchemical soloist with monster technique and a rare collaborative touch. He is especially good with master voices; his work with Captain Beefheart and the late Jeff Buckley is a master lesson in aggressive invention and supportive electricity. That empathy is half the pleasure of Lucas' Indo-blues venture. Rishte (World Village), with British-born Indian vocalist Najma Akhtar. The other half is the sharp, soaring way she threads his space-fuzz dynamics and pungent Delta settings on National steel. Akhtar, who sang with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on their 1994 Unledded TV special, sounds perfectly at home in Skip James' "Special Rider 6 Blues," while Lucas makes the Mississippi ghosts dance.
Gary Lucas is praised for his appearance at the recent Cross-Linx Festival in Holland in a review in the Dutch national newspaper De Volkskraant http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/volkskraant1003.jpg
Read a review of Gary's recent solo performance at the Madame Guitar Festival in Italy in the March 2010 issue of Chitarre Magazine http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/Chit_289_090_092.pdf English translation: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/TRADUZIONE.pdf
Check out a clip of Gary Lucas performing solo acoustic at the recent Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg at St. Ann's Warehouse Brooklyn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdg9YADfSNs
Check out two recent interviews with Gary Lucas on Outsight Radio Hours http://www.archive.org/details/GaryLucasInterviewsOnOutsightRadioHours
Gary Lucas' work with UK psychedelic renegades Amorphous Androgynous is praised in MOJO (Feb. 2010) and their collaboration "Opus of the Back Sun" is featured on the covermount CD http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/mojo1001_1.jpg
Review of Gary Lucas' Dec. 11th world premiere of his new live solo score for Spanish "Dracula" (1931, d. George Melford) at the 31st Havana Film Festival from Granma, Cuba's main newspaper: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/gramma0912.jpg
English translation: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/Granma_Dec09.pdf
Interview with Gary Lucas from Diario Del Festival: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/diario0912.jpg
Festival program page devoted to the Spanish "Dracula" project: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/prog0912.jpg
Gary Lucas will perform the US premiere of his new score for the Spanish-language "Dracula" at the 2010 New York Film Festival this fall, by invitation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Just released on Knitting Factory Records, distributed by Sony/Red:
"Chase the Devil" Gary Lucas and Dean Bowman's spiritual roots project
Read a new review from fRoots (UK) http://www.garylucas.com/www/rvw/rvw_10.html#CHASE1
Read a new review from Vintage Guitar magazine: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/GaryLucas_VintageGuitar_6.10.png
Read a new review from Paste Magazine: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/04/gary-lucas-and-dean-bowman-chase-the-devil.html
Read a new review from Gapplegate Guitar and Bass blog: http://gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com/2010/05/gary-lucas-dean-bowman-do-blues-gospel.html
Read a review from Blurt Magazine: http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/1994/
and a review from Yahoo.com's Dave DiMartino: http://new.us.music.yahoo.com/blogs/newthisweek/8045/stars-and-stripes-indefinitely/
Check out a feature on Gary Lucas and Chase the Devil's new album at Fender.com http://www.fender.com/blog/?p=2432
7 also just released on Knitting Factory Records:
"The Edge of Heaven--Gary Lucas Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop" a re-issue with bonus tracks of Gary Lucas' best-selling 2001 album devoted to the music of 30's Shanghai divas Chow Hsuan and Bai Kwong http://www.garylucas.com/epk
New review of "The Edge of Heaven" from Gapplegate Guitar and Bass blog: http://gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com/2010/03/guitarist-gary-lucas-his-2001-chinese.html
New review of Fast 'N' Bulbous' "WAXED OOP" from Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog: http://gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com/2010/05/lucas-johnston-fast-n-bulbous-do.html
New review for Fast 'N' Bulbous in Blurt Magazine: http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/1802/
Check out a review of Gary Lucas' recent performance of "Sounds of the Surreal" at the Malaga Fantasy Film Festival from La Opinion de Malaga: http://garylucas.com/www/rvw/La_Opinion200911.jpg
New web page for Gary Lucas' new silent film/live music project: Gary Lucas Plays "The Unholy Three" http://garylucas.com/www/unholy/
Read a review of Gary Lucas' recent London Jazz Cafe solo show featuring special guest Najma Akhtar from UK music site Fairhearing: http://www.fairhearing.co.uk/?p=657
Check out "She's a Rainbow" and more clips from Gary Lucas' recent performance at the Jazz Cafe London: http://www.youtube.com/user/doomsdayjesus39#p/a/u/2/znJqO64spdU
http://www.garylucas.com
GUTBUCKET
We'll be playing at Orion Sound Studios in Baltimore this Saturday, May 22 at 8:30 - two sets!! Last live date before we hit the studio in Hoboken, NJ May 23 - 26 to record CD #5 (#2 for Cuneiform)...untitled as of yet, but slotted for release in January 2011!
The disc will include material that we premiered in Europe and at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival ("best performance at the festival" according to Ha'aretz http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,1021,209,45360,.aspx) earlier this year during our January/February Europe+Israel Tour.
Then we'll bookend the recording session with a blowout Brooklyn show at Littlefield in the Gowanus neighborhood on Thursday, May 27 (doors 7:30pm).
You can still find out everything at www.gutweb.com www.myspace.com/gutbucket www.twitter.com/gutbucketnyc 8 www.facebook.com/gutbucketnyc
IDEAL BREAD Upcoming shows: - June 6 - a special Live In-Studio appearance at 58NorthSix Media Labs (58northsix.tumblr.com) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ideal Bread will play the entirety of its forthcoming second CD, "Transmit." The performance will be recorded both with audio and video, so here's a chance to be part of our future! We'll be offering special pre-release copies of the CD for sale as well. Refreshing beverages will be available gratis. More info on this ONE-TIME ONLY event can be found at the end of this week at www.joshsinton.com. This show will be co-presented with the School for Improvised Music (www.schoolforimprov.org). Show starts at 8 P.M.
- June 8 - Josh Sinton will appear on Josh Jackson's "The Checkout" on 88.3 WBGO, Newark discussing Ideal Bread, the baritone saxophone and of course Steve Lacy. Sinton has specially selected five of his favorite Lacy tracks for this show and will discuss each one. www.wbgo.org
- June 13 - Ideal Bread plays the Undead JazzFest. At 6:40 p.m. Ideal Bread will take the stage at Kenny's Castaways in SoHo to celebrate the release of its 2nd CD. We only get one short set, so make sure to get there on time. www.undeadjazzfest.com
- August 30 - Ideal Bread appears at Local 269 in the East Village of NYC at 9 P.M. Don't miss the chance to hear us at this vibrant venue!
- Sep. 12 - Ideal Bread appears as part of the Red Hook Jazz Festival. More details later this summer.
Web happenings:
- become a Fan! Just google "Ideal Bread Facebook" and you'll find our Facebook fan page.
- special previews available at myspace! Two Alternate Tracks ("The Breath" and "Cliches") have been posted to www.myspace.com/idealbread. Feel free to listen and download!
- starting this Friday and continuing every Friday throughout the rest of May and all of June, Josh Sinton will publish new material on his website about Ideal Bread and Steve Lacy! New "selfterviews", rare recordings and musings of all kinds. Just go to www.joshsinton.com and click on "Words + Music" to find the latest.
Future bookings Ideal Bread would love to go to the following places during the following times: - Northeast of the U.S. in Fall of 2010 - Southeast of the U.S. in Fall of 2010 - Midwest of the U.S. in early 2011 - Europe (France, Italy, Germany, UK, western Europe, etc.) in Spring and Summer of 2011
Contact Josh Sinton if you have any helpful info in this regard.
LED BIB 9 Led Bib is busy working on new material before we go into the studio this summer for a release on Cuneiform in January 2011. We have a string of dates over the summer/autumn with a few more yet to confirm where we will be playing a mixture of old and new material. We are currently taking bookings for touring to coincide with the album release. We will be touring in the UK in February/March 2011 and in Europe in March/April 2011, please get in touch if you would like to book the band!
Here are the upcoming live gigs:
28 May 2010 Purcell Room Southbank Centre London Book tickets: http://bit.ly/bucaYW
29 May 2009 Bath Festival Bath, UK http://www.bathmusicfest.org.uk/
2 June 2010 Broomhill Art Hotel Barnstaple, UK http://www.broomhillart.co.uk/
4 June 2010 Rough Beats Festival North Yorkshire, UK http://www.roughbeatsfestival.co.uk/ 26 June 2010 United Islands Festival Prague, Czech Republic http://www.unitedislands.cz/en/home.html
27 June 2010 Real Ale Jazz and Blues Festival Lichfield, UK http://www.lichfieldarts.org.uk/rajb.asp
3 July 2010 Mostly Jazz Festival Moseley, Birmingham UK http://www.mostlyjazz.org
9 July 2010 Marlborough Jazz Festival 10 Marlborough, UK http://www.marlboroughjazz.co.uk
11 July 2010 Lounge on the Farm Canterbury, UK http://www.loungeonthefarm.co.uk/
15 July 2010 Gala Theatre (Double bill with Empirical) Durham, UK http://www.galadurham.co.uk
27 November 2010 The Shed Brawby, Malton http://www.theshed.co.uk/
KRAKATOA From Val: my "new" band, The Walking Hellos, just released our first full-length CD, "Because I Wanted To Know", with a release party at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, on a bill with the Wingdale Community Singers and the Golden Palominos 20-year anniversary concert. We will be playing at The Delancey on June 21st, and Joe's Pub on July 7 [both also in NYC]. It's possible that Steve will decide to carry the CD on wayside, not sure. i just sent him a copy yesterday. we have more dates in the works to support the CD, and would be happy to hear of any show/tour date opportunities. websites www.walkinghellos.com and myspace.com/wwalkinghellos. my new-new band, ps xo, is a duo with drummer heather from the walking hellos, and me on [double- neck!] guitar. we have an EP out and will be recording again in june. we're currently setting up a japan tour, probably in november of this year. myspace.com/psxony. same contact as above if wanted.
MATS/MORGAN BAND Upcoming tour dates Mats/Morgan Band 28+29 MAY: le triton france (http://www.letriton.com/index.html) 17 JULY: Nefertiti/Gothenburg (http://nefertiti.se) 22 JULY Fasching/Stockholm (http://fasching.se)
Morgan Ågren solodrums 2-3-4 JULY: France (details here: myspace.com/morganagren)
Also, not confirmed yet but, Morgan might play and record with legendary bassist and producer BILL LASWELL in NY August- September 2010.
BOOKING: Mats/Morgan Band are always available!! 11 Setup: Mats (keyboards) Morgan (drums) Gustaf Hielm (bass, x Meshuggah) For more info, mail MORGAN ÅGREN HERE: [email protected]
Past big show: Performed Frank Zappa's "Greggery Peccary" with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway.
VIDEOS!! VIC FIRTH ARTIST SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW http://www.vicfirth.com/artists/video/morgan_agren/morgan_agren_intHQ.html
MONTREAL DRUMFEST 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2hRQEZ3rBQ
MORGAN PLAYS THE SWEDISH ARCHIPELAGO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXzmW-4Z6ms
MORGAN WITH MEHSUGGAH LEAD GUITARIST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5YEqmIIdj8
MORGAN TOURBO OK DVD trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXWJgT1Kio
LULLABY FOR LOST SOULS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxsBqN6xXeo
MORGAN WITH FLESHQUARTET CA 1990 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1wpo0nR2g4
FOOTCAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12WjQ1uKTM
SABIAN DRUMFEST 1999 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPfMp96e6yQ
Upcoming projects/recordings Morgan have recorded 5 hours of drums for MESHUGGAH lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendals new solo CD. Following up the his successful debut CD SOL NIGER WITHIN.
There’s a new bigger and better homepage here: www.morganagren.com & Facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=599956602&ref=profile
AND ALSO VERY EXCITING….
Morgan was just voted as the best drummer in the world in the category "fusion" in the Modern Drummer magazine readers poll! This will be officially announced on May 25th!
12
Microscopic Septet
The Microscopic Septet have just finished recording their new CD “Friday The 13th: The Micros Play Monk” at Systems II Recording, with Jon Rosenberg engineering. It will be released in September 2010 on Cuneiform Records, with liner notes by jazz critic Peter Keepnews, and a cover by New Yorker cover artist Barry Blitt.
The record includes 5 Monk arrangements from “back in the day” and 7 brand new arrangements that have just been written by Micros co-leaders Joel Forrester and Phillip Johnston. The band is wailin’ and we’re very excited about this new release.
In order to promote the fundraising for this session, we recorded some video interviews with Joel Forrester, talking about his relationship with Thelonious Monk, the Baroness Pannonica von Koenigswater, and the gestation of the Micros, and playing a couple of Monk tunes. You can see them here:
Joel Forrester talks about his relationship with Thelonious Monk 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7A3j5ciOtM
Joel Forrester Plays Thelonious Monk's "Panonica" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPqYzpmL9SA
Joel Forrester talks about Baroness Nica von Koenigswarter and Thelonious Monk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPrWbkTzmx0
Joel Forrester talks about how he met Phillip Johnston http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUIdg6bXVc4
Joel Forrester plays Thelonious Monk's "Well You Needn't" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgaO74MwKQI
The Micros will be doing select dates in the US and Europe in Oct/Nov 2010.
Interested parties can contact [email protected]
THE MUFFINS The Muffins currently have 2 CDS in progress, one called PALINDROME, and another potential edition of the LOVELETTER series. Some of this music was performed by THE MUFFINS at the RIO 2009 Festival in France that was held in September 2009. We're putting the finishing touches on "Palindrome". All of the recording is finished, just putting the trombone parts in the right places (lots of horns on this one!). The main mixing is finished. Cover art is being worked on by Chester Hawkins. THE MUFFINS are hoping to play more festivals in the USA & Europe during the next year.
Links to videos and other information can be located at: www.paulsears.net www.themuffins.org
Contact: [email protected]
ED PALERMO BIG BAND Upcoming shows: ED PALERMO BG BAND AT IRIDIUM, WEDNESDAY JUNE 23. SHOWS 8+10 PM. PLAYING THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA.
ED PALERMO BG BAND AT ECHO LAKE PARK, MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25. 7:30 TIL 10 PM. PLAYING THE MUSIC OF PAUL BUTTERFIELD AND MIKE BLOOMFIELD.
PICCHIO DAL POZZO we're on the road again. 4 contacts www.picchiodalpozzo.com
RICHARD PINHAS Richard PINHAS(with Jerome Schmidt and/or without VJ Milosh)
14 SUMMER 2010
PARIS (France), festival VISION'R, 21 MAI SAN FRANCISCO (USA), 21 GRAND, June 12 - ISTAMBUL, (Turquia), July 8 (USA), Resonance Fest AMSTERDAM, (Holland), JULY 12, University of Amsterdam SAJETA-TORUN,(Slovenia), Music fest, july 28 MONTPELIER,(France), TBC, end of August WASHINGTON D.C(USA), september 24, SONIC festival with MERZBOW...?) MAASTRICHT,(Holland), 6 october (only conference) MARSEILLE, ( France), October 20, Pop philosophie festival we are working on some others propositions: Montreal NYC China for 2012.
PLANETA IMAGINARIO upcoming gigs: MAY 21 BOCA NORD, BARCELONA 22 ORTOSONICO,GUISSAGO,PAVIA ITALY 25 KSET CLUB, ZAGREB CROACIA 26 PTICA CLUB, BELGRADO SERBIA 27 SALA MILOS, THESSALONIKA GRECIA 30 AYLAIA, ATENAS GRECIA 31 VESA JAZZ CLUB, TIRANA ALBANIA
Planeta Imaginario is going to record our 3 cd on the 20 of June in Bob Drake’s studio.
POSITIVE CATASTROPHE
Abraham Gomez-Delgado and Positive Catastrophe have received a 2010 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development Grant from Chamber Music America, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Revolutionary News - May 2010 After a busy winter and spring, RSE relaxes this summer with some small & large group improvisational gigs close to home:
Wednesday, May 5th, Bloc 11, Union Square, Somerville, MA, w/ Philly-based Dirk Quinn and his Trio, 7pm Saturday, July 3rd, Plough & Stars, Cambridge, MA, 10pm Sunday, July 4th, Hyannis (MA) 4th of July parade, 4pm, RSE Quartet Thursday, July 15th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA, 9pm-midnite Wednesday, August 4th, Boston City Hall Plaza arcade, noon, RSE Quartet Thursday, August 5th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA, 9pm-midnite 15 Wednesday, August 11th, Titus Sparrow Park summer concert series, Boston, MA, 6:30pm Tuesday, August 24th, Plough & Stars, Cambridge, MA, 10pm Thursday, August 26th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA, 9pm-midnite http://www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org
OTHER NEWS
Ken Field's original music for "Double Expose" & "Under the Skin", dance works by Guggenheim & NEA grantees Bridgman/Packer Dance, will be performed in September & October in Austin, TX, and St. Paul, MN. http://bridgmanpacker.org
Field performed recently with the Armenian/American jazz ensemble Musaner in Milan, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland. http://lucentmusic.com/musaner
www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org • [email protected] facebook.com/RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble • twitter.com/revsnakeens
WADADA LEO SMITH 1) My Brooklyn Public Library date for Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet has been change to October 28, 2010. This performance will be the world premiere of the music composed while a 2009/2010 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Dred Scott- 1857, September Eleventh - 2001, Democracy, Buzzsaw: The Myth of the Free Press, and People of the Shahada
2) Chamber Music America has awarded me a 2010 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development grant. To compose Ten Freedom Summers, a three-movement work for Golden Quartet inspired by the activity of the civil rights movement from 1954-1964. The three movements suite will be “Brown v. Board of Education”- 1954, “Little Rock Nine”- 1957, and “Freedom Summer”-1964. Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Yang The 2nd album "Machines" goes well. It is available on Wayside Music : http://www.waysidemusic.com , Musea : www.musearecords.com , some online stores and on the site of the band : http://yanggroup.fr (see reviews there too) They’ve just been performing in Madrid with the spanish band Kotebel, and play on june 18th at Les Instants Chavirés, 7 rue Richard Lenoir, Montreuil (Paris). New videos from GoProg Fest in Portugal are available on http://yanggroup.fr and on http://www.youtube.com/yanggroup. They are currently looking for gigs and festivals around the world. And they are now on Twitter : http://twitter.com/yangmachines All photos, videos and news on http://yanggroup.fr http://wwwmyspace.com/yanggroup http://www.youtube.com/yanggroup http://twitter.com/yangmachines
16
2010 Tour Dates JASON ADASIEWICZ’S ROLLDOWN august 4th at The Hideout, Chicago august 5th at The Sugar Maple, Milwaukee, WI august 8th at The Hungry Brain, Chicago
BROWN VS BROWN (www.brownvsbrown.com - www.myspace.com/brownvsbrown) June 13 - 20th Musiques Innovatrices Festival - St. Etienne, France
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET (www.johnhollenbeck.com - www.myspace.com/theclaudiaquintet) June 27 - Bang on a Can Marathon - NYC, NY June 28 - 45 Bleecker - 45 Bleecker Street, NYC, NY (212) 260 8252 - http://www.45bleecker.com/ June 29 - 45 Bleecker - 45 Bleecker Street, NYC, NY (212) 260 8252 - http://www.45bleecker.com/ June 30 - 45 Bleecker - 45 Bleecker Street, NYC, NY (212) 260 8252 - http://www.45bleecker.com/ July 17 - Bimhuis - Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 23 - Pori, Finland July 24 - San Sebastian, Spain November 14 - AMR - Geneva, Switzerland November 16 - Caen, France
ERGO (www.ergoisaband.com - www.myspace.com/ergo) November 12 (8:30pm) - BAM Cafe - 30 Lafayette Avenue - Brooklyn, NY - www.bam.org - FREE
FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA (http://forgasbp.online.fr/) June 19 - NEARFest - Zoellner Auditorium - Bethlehem, PA - www.nearfest.com
GUTBUCKET (www.gutweb.com - www.myspace.com/gutbucket) May 22 - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C - Baltimore, MD 21230 May 27 - LIttlefield - Brooklyn, NY
LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!] (www.ledbib.com - www.myspace.com/ledbib) May 28 - Purcell Room at Southbank Centre - London, UK May 29 - Bath Festival - Bath, UK June 2 - Broomhill Art Hotel - Barnstaple, UK June 4 - Rough Beats Festival - North Yorkshire, UK - http://www.roughbeatsfestival.co.uk/ June 26 - United Islands Festival - Prague, Czech Republic - http://www.unitedislands.cz/en/home.html June 27 - Real Ale Jazz and Blues Festival - Lichfield, UK July 3 - Mostly Jazz Festival - Moseley, UK July 9 - Marlborough Jazz Festival - Marlborough, UK July 11 - Lounge on the Farm, Canterbury, UK - http://www.loungeonthefarm.co.uk/ July 15 - Gala Theatre - Durham, UK - http://www.galadurham.co.uk - Double bill with Empirical November 27 - The Shed - Brawby, Malton - http://www.theshed.co.uk/
MIRIODOR (www.miriodor.com) May 20 - Jonquière (province of Quebec). This show is a production of the Festival de musique de création de Jonquière. (joined by two reed players on this occasion, Marie-Chantal Leclair and Pierre Labbé.) September 19 - Rock in Opposition Festival 2010 - Cap Decouverte - 81450 Le Garric (Carmaux) France
ED PALERMO BIG BAND (www.palermobigband.com) June 23 (8:00pm & 10:00pm) - Iridium Jazz Club - NYC,NY – Playing the music of Frank Zappa August 25 (7:30pm) - Echo Lake Park - Mountainside, NJ – Playing the music of Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield
RICHARD PINHAS (www.richard-pinhas.com - www.myspace.com/richardpinhas) May 21 - Vision'R Festival - Concert d'ouverture de la 5ème édition du Festival VJ Vision'R., 21 mai 2010 : Salle Olympe de Gouges, 15 rue Merlin Paris 11ème. Ouverture à 19h30, concerts à partir de 20h. R.Pinhas, J.Schmidt et VJ Milosh : concert à 21h30. (+2 autres groupes). - http://vision-r.org June 12 - 21 Grands - 416 25th St., Oakland, CA 94612 - (510) 444-7263 - http://www.21grand.org/ - w/ Barry Cleveland Group July 8 - Resonance Fest - Istanbul, Turkey July 12 - AMSTERDAM(Holland), organized by the "Center of Humanities of Utrecht"...with our own VJ MILOSH July 28 - Sajeta Festival - Slovenia September 24 - TBA - USA October 6 - Maastricht(Holland) Pinhas will give a conference only about music organized by "Jan Eyck Academy" 17 October 20 - Marseille (France), at the "POP PHILOSOPHIE FESTIVA” with our own VJ MILOSH
PLANETA IMAGINARIO (www.myspace.com/planetaimaginario) May 21 - Centre Civic Boca Nord - C/ Agudells 37-45, Barcelona, Barcelona 08032 - Cost: 5 euros - http://www.myspace.com/jaguatiricafusion May 22 - Club Ortosonico, Giussago (Pavia), Italy May 25 - Kset Club - CROACIA. Zagreb - www.kset.org May 27 - Mylos - Tesalonica, Greece May 30 - Avlea Club - Athens, Greece
POSITIVE CATASTROPHE (www.myspace.com/positivecat) [Positive Catastrophe will be making its European debut this May!] Oct 23-Nov 7 - PosCat is also currently planning a more extended European tour for the fall. Please contact the band for more information or booking interest.
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (http://www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org) Wednesday, May 5th, Bloc 11, Union Square, Somerville, MA, w/ Philly-based Dirk Quinn and his Trio, 7pm Saturday, July 3rd, Plough & Stars, Cambridge, MA, 10pm Sunday, July 4th, Hyannis (MA) 4th of July parade, 4pm, RSE Quartet Thursday, July 15th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA, 9pm-midnite Wednesday, August 4th, Boston City Hall Plaza arcade, noon, RSE Quartet Thursday, August 5th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA, 9pm-midnite Wednesday, August 11th, Titus Sparrow Park summer concert series, Boston, MA, 6:30pm Tuesday, August 24th, Plough & Stars, Cambridge, MA, 10pm Thursday, August 26th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA, 9pm-midnite
WADADA LEO SMITH (www.wadadaleosmith.com) July 23 - San Sebastian Festival, Spain WLS’s Golden Quartet: Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet / Vijay Iyer, Piano, Fender Rhodes and Synthesizer / John Lindberg, Bass / Pheeroan AkLaff, Drums August 28 - King's Road Park Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA - SASSAS will present a concert of the music of Wadada Leo Smith: New composition for string quartet and guitar commissioned by SASSAS and other works for string quartet and solo music for guitar. Performed by the Formalist Quartet: Ashley Walter, Mark Menzies, Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl / Stuart Fox, Guitar October 3 - Angel City Jazz Festival: Los Angeles, CA November 4 - Brooklyn Public Library: Brooklyn, NY November 13 - New Music Center - St. Louis, MO November 20 - Library of Congress - Washington, DC
VOLAPUK September 3 - Villeneuve lez Avignon - Avignon, France : 20th anniversary of Inouï Productions
YANG June 18 (8:30pm) - Les Instants Chavirés - 7, rue Richard Lenoir, Montreuil (Paris), Ile-de-France 93100 – France - Cost:12€
ZEVIOUS (www.zevious.com - www.myspace.com/zevioustrio) August 13 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave. - Brooklyn, NY 11211 (with Dysrhythmia, With Eyes Abstract, Johnny Butler)
CUNEIFORM ARTIST WEBSITES
Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown www.jasonadasiewicz.com
Ahleuchatistas http://www.ahleuchatistas.com/ http://www.myspace.com/ahleuchatistas
Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores http://www.aleckredfearn.com http://www.myspace.com/aleckredfearnandtheeyesores http://aleckredfearn.blogspot.com
Algernon www.algernonmusic.com www.myspace.com/algernonmusic
18
Beat Circus http://www.beatcircus.net http://www.myspace.com/beatcircus
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic http://www.birdsongsofthemesozoic.com http://www.myspace.com/birdsongsofthemesozoic
Raoul Björkenheim http://www.raoulbjorkenheim.com http://www.musicfinland.com/bjorkenheim
Blast http://www.blast4tet.nl
Bone http://www.doctornerve.org/bone/
David Borden http://www.mothermallard.com
Boud Deun http://www.persingermusic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/bouddeun http://www.myspace.com/presterjohn
Brown vs Brown www.brownvsbrown.com www.myspace.com/brownvsbrown
George Cartwright http://www.georgecartwright.com
Cheer-Accident http://www.cheer-accident.com http://www.myspace.com/cheeraccident
Graham Collier http://www.jazzcontinuum.com
Cosmologic http://www.cosmologic.org http://www.myspace.com/cosmologic
Lol Coxhill http://www.lolcoxhill.com/
Deus Ex Machina http://www.derepublica.com/
Djam Karet http://www.djamkaret.com/ http://www.myspace.com/djamkaret
Doctor Nerve http://www.doctornerve.org http://www.punosmusic.com http://www.algomusic.com
Paul Dunmall 19 http://www.mindyourownmusic.co.uk
Ergo www.ergoisaband.com
Forrest Fang http://www.forrestfang.com
Far Corner http://www.far-corner.com http://www.myspace.com/farcornerband
Fast ‘N’ Bulbous http://www.phillipjohnston.com/fnbband.htm http://www.myspace.com/neonmeatedream
Forever Einstein http://www.forevereinstein.com/
Forgas Band Phenomena http://forgasbp.online.fr
Fred Frith http://www.fredfrith.com
Peter Frohmader http://www.peterfrohmader.de http://www.nekropolis.de http://www.nekropolis-23.de
Guapo http://www.guapo.co.uk http://guaponews.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/guapoband
Gutbucket http://www.gutbucket.com http://www.myspace.com/gutbucket
Hamster Theatre http://www.hamstertheatre.com http://www.generalrubric.com/hamster/main.html http://www.myspace.com/hamstertheatre
Happy the Man http://www.happytheman.com
Hugh Hopper http://www.burningshed.com/hopper/
Ideal Bread http://joshsinton.com http://www.myspace.com/idealbread
Richard Leo Johnson http://www.richardleojohnson.com http://www.rlj3.com http://www.charlie-shoe.com
Henry Kaiser http://www.henrykaiser.net 20
Larval http://www.myspace.com/billbrovold
Machine and the Synergetic Nuts http://www.myspace.com/msnuts
The Mahavishnu Project http://www.mahavishnuproject.com http://www.greggbendian.com
Mats/Morgan Band http://www.morganagren.com http://www.myspace.com/matsmorganband
Merzbow http://merzbow.net/
Phil Miller (In Cahoots) http://www.philmiller-incahoots.co.uk/
Miriodor http://www.miriodor.com
Virgil Moorefield http://www.virgilmoorefield.com/
NeBeLNeST http://www.nebelnest.com http://www.myspace.com/nebelnest
New York Art Quartet http://www.johntchicai.com/rub_nyaq/page_ny.html
Ed Palermo Big Band www.palermobigband.com
Philharmonie http://laspada.perso.cegetel.net/ http://laspada.perso.cegetel.net/philharmonie/philharmonie1eng.html
Richard Pinhas http://www.richard-pinhas.com http://www.myspace.com/RichardPinhas
Planeta Imaginario http://www.planetaimaginario.eu/ http://www.myspace.com/planetaimaginario
Present http://www.totalzoo.com/present/
Proto-Kaw http://www.proto-kaw.net http://www.protokaw.com http://www.numavox.com
Radio Massacre International http://www.radiomassacreinternational.com/
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble 21 www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org myspace.com/revolutionarysnakeensemble
Rich Woodson’s Ellipsis http://richwoodson.com/ http://www.myspace.com/richwoodsonsellipsis
Ray Russell http://www.rayrussell.co.uk/ http://www.myspace.com/rayrussell
Wadada Leo Smith http://music.calarts.edu/~wls/
John Surman http://www.johnsurman.com
The Claudia Quintet http://www.johnhollenbeck.com http://www.myspace.com/theclaudiaquintet
The Danubians http://www.amydenio.com http://www.myspace.com/deniomusic
The Ed Palermo Big Band http://www.palermobigband.com
The Microscopic Septet http://www.microscopicseptet.com http://www.phillipjohnston.com/micros.htm http://www.myspace.com/themicroscopicseptet
The Muffins http://www.themuffins.org
Thinking Plague http://www.thinkingplague.org/ http://www.myspace.com/thinkingplaguemusic
Time of Orchids http://www.timeoforchids.com http://www.myspace.com/timeoforchids
U Totem http://www.rotarytotem.com
Univers Zero http://www.univers-zero.com/
University of Errors http://www.universityoferrors.com/ http://www.myspace.com/universityoferrors
Upsilon Acrux http://www.myspace.com/upsilonacrux
Yang http://yanggroup.fr http://www.myspace.com/yanggroup
22 Zaar http://www.zaarweb.com
Zevious www.zevious.com
23