CUNEIFORM ARTIST NEWS, TOURS & WEBSITES WINTER 2010 ARTIST NEWS: Ahleuchatistas: -Shane Perlowin, guitarist from Ahleuchatistas, has released his debut solo album, "The Vacancy in Every Verse", on his own label Open Letter Records (see www.shaneperlowin.com & www.openletterrecords.com). -Longtime bassist Derek Poteat retired from Ahleuchatistas in November 2009, and has been replaced by master bassist, and longtime Perlowin collaborator, Joseph Burkett. -The band has an Eastcoast tour in February, with a date at the Stone in NYC on Feb 17th. -And starting March 31 through most of April they will tour in Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Slovakia. They are currently looking for a few dates to close out the tour in Germany. -Ahleuchatistas is currently composing their most exciting and ambitious album to date, to be titled "Heraclitean"... release date unknown! Beat Circus Boy From Black Mountain has been receiving excellent reviews across the board. The album won the 9th Annual Independent Music Award for Alt/Country Album of the Year. The Boston Phoenix gives the album 3.5/4 stars, raving "Boy From Black Mounain is the prettiest darn dark Americana record in recent memory." PopMatters gave the album 9/10 stars, added it to their Slipped Discs of 1009, writing "For anyone still awed by Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, Boy From Black Mountain 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." And the Boston Herald ranked Boy From Black Mountain in their top 10 of 2009. Bill Brovold’s Larval Bill Brovold is working on new recording with Larval which includes the Brovold Trio of Terror (AKA Mondegreen). The trio is Bill, Thor and Gus Brovold. Larval is: Bill Brovold, Guitars, steel guitar and electronics Toby Summerfield, Guitars, electronics Marko Smith, Drums, percussion Kurt Zimmerman, Violin, Viola Gus Brovold, Saxes, guitar Thor Brovold, Bass, guitar Brown vs Brown Brown vs Brown will do a CD release tour of the “Odds and Unevens” album (Cuneiform Rune 293) coming april. Confirmed shows are so far: Bimhuis, Amsterdam on april 24 and Metelkova Menza, Ljubljana on april 17. Other dates will be announced soon. We are still available for concerts in the period 10-23 of april. In the weekend of 11/12/13 of June we will appear at the Festival des Musiques Innovatrices in St. Etienne. Exact date has to be confirmed. For january 2011 there is a project planned for combined shows with the French band ‘Volapük’. This will take place in the Netherlands and France . The project is planned for the last 10 days of that month. Concerts in Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Tilburg, Utrecht and Avignon. The organisation is in the hands of ‘Trytone Foundation’, Amsterdam. At the moment Brown vs Brown is in the process of writing and rehearsing new material. For upcoming concerts we will perform 8 new compositions commissioned by the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts. For more information: http://www.brownvsbrown.com - http://www.myspace.com/brownvsbrown 1 GUTBUCKET As you may know, gutbucket's on tour in europe this month, having played copenhagen's winter jazz festival last week, a great show at paris' le Triton before then, and other big shows across germany, france and switzerland. We're premiering new, unrecorded music that we hope to record in 2010, and it's gotten great reception. Last stop on the tour is the prestigious tel aviv jazz festival, our middle eastern debut! On the calendar for spring are a handful of shows in nyc, and perhaps some northeast dates. We hope to be on the west coast USA in late 2010 or early '11, so we're interested in finding dates/clubs/bands for that! www.gutweb.com www.myspace.com/gutbucket www.facebook.com/gutbucketnyc www.twitter.com/gutbucketnyc HAMSTER THEATRE Hamster Theatre is performing live at The Laughing Goat's 4-year anniversary celebration! Saturday February 20th 8:30 pm Laughing Goat 1709 Pearl Street Boulder, CO 80302 Can't make it? Here are some youtube clips to help with Hamster withdrawl! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P3fYZT2c5Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRsY3qzIsVE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9hXGdC-pg&feature=related THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT Gregg Bendian/Chad McLoughlin/Neil Alexander/Zach Brock/Peter Brendler Upcoming US Shows: "Performing The Best of The Mahavishnu Orchestra & The John McLaughlin Songbook" Fri. March 5, 2010 (9pm) Toad's Place 300 York Street New Haven, CT 203.624.8623 www.toadsplace.com Sat. March 6, 2010 (7:30pm) Regattabar The Charles Hotel One Bennett Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617.661.5000 FOR TICKETS: 617.395.7757 www.regattabarjazz.com NEWS: 2 The Mahavishnu Project will be featured on the upcoming ESC compilation release, "Mahavishnu Re-Defined: Volume 2". In some rather special news, The Mahavishnu Project will perform the complete orchestral work, "Apocalypse" with The Dresden Sinfonik in November of 2010. The band is currently looking to book other European shows to coincide with this historic performance. This is the first full performance of John McLaughlin's most ambitious project since the 1974 recording. www.mahavishnuproject.com www.esc-records.de Miriodor 2009 has been a good year for Miriodor with two releases: Avanti! (Cuneiform Records) and Live in 89 (ProgQuébec). We expect 2010 to be a good year as well! We got a grant from Quebec government to work on the scenic/visual aspect of our show, which we'll keepus busy in the upcoming months. We should see some results of this work when we'll play in Jonquière (province of Quebec) on May 20th, 2010. This show is a production of the Festival des Musiques de création de Jonquière. We should be joined by two reed players on this occasion, Marie-Chantal Leclair and Pierre Labbé. In September, we will have the great honor of participating to the Rock in Opposition Festival, in Carmaux (France). We'll be playing on Sept. 19th. We are currently working on booking additional shows around this date. If there's anyone interested in booking us or if you have some contacts, now is the time to act. Last time Miriodor played in France was 20 years ago! So, we're looking to take full advantage of this crossing of the ocean! Miriodor is also developping web experiences on the usual site so you're encourage to reach them and leave some feedbacks. www.miriodor.com www.myspace.com/miriospace Richard Pinhas Previous concerts:Concerts confirmed in 2010: Amsterdam(Holland) July 14, ISTAMBUL '(Turquia) 22 April-Un iversity,MARSEILLE (France),October 15: festival "Pop Philosophie" and TBS, Washington DC(SONIC festival), September. Other dates to come+ new CD "METAL/CRYSTAL",CUNEIFORM records,USA(september 2010)including participation of WOLF EYES, MERZBOW, Antoine PAGANOTI, JEROME SCHMIDt,Duncan PINHAS-79 minutes of very special music!, etc....plus conference in Maastricht, HOLLAnd, october6-8 october, UTrecht university! We are also looking for dates(concerts): in JUne 2010 around(250 miles maximum) LAS VEGAS and in september, AFTER the D.C sonic Festival, seeking for dates in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston...What else:ask: [email protected] 0662364808 or [email protected] We will be 2 for june concerts...aqt least 3 or 4 for september,after the sonic D.C festival! Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Revolutionary News - January 2010 Due to unfortunate circumstances beyond our control, the group's trip on Amtrak to New Orleans to march with the Krewe of Orpheus in their Mardi Gras parade was canceled at the last minute. We hope and expect to restart this annual band tradition for Mardi Gras 2011, and will keep everyone posted, especially all of our fans who expressed interest in traveling to New Orleans with us this year. Instead, RSE leader and saxophonist Ken Field will represent RSE as a special guest at Papa Mali's 3rd Annual Supernatural Ball, Wednesday February 10th at the legendary Tipitina's Uptown in New Orleans. Other upcoming performances include: Saturday, Feb 6th, Fenn School, Concord, MA Tuesday, Feb 16th, Mardi Gras party at New England Seafoods, Methuen, MA Sunday Feb 21st, Children's Museum, Boston, MA Tuesday Feb 23rd, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA 3 Thursday, Feb 25th, RSE Quartet, Zabota, Lynn, MA Tuesday, Apr 20th, Ken Field Trio plays the music of RSE, Stork Club, Boston, MA OTHER NEWS Ken Field's newly commissioned original music for "Double Expose", a dance work by Guggenheim & NEA grantees Bridgman/Packer Dance, will premier at the Baryshnikov Center for the Arts in NYC March 25-28, 2010. www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org • [email protected] facebook.com/RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble • twitter.com/revsnakeens Volapük Volapük is working on it's 5th album. We will start to record next june in Avignon, and we hope everything will be ready next fall. Volapük will play the September 3rd in Villeneuve lez Avignon for the 20th anniversary of Inouï Productions and is invited to play to the next RIO Festival in Carmaux (Sep. 17-19 /2010) In January 2011 Volapük will tour in Holland with Brown vs Brown and possibly in France. Yang Yang have just released their new and 2nd album : Machines. Self produced but available on Wayside Music : http://www.waysidemusic.com , Musea : www.musearecords.com , Cosmos Music : www.cosmosmusic.fr , some other small online stores and on the site of the band : http://yanggroup.fr . They’ve performed in a new festival in Portugal, Go Prog Fest in October 2009 (a cousin of Gouveia Art Rock Festival) and are currently looking for other gigs and festivals in Europe and else.