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 <http://garylucas.com/www/dracula> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonţida_Bánffy_Castle 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.