Cuneiform Artist News: Part 4

The fourth and final installment of Cuneiform artist news:

Richard Pinhas

Richard is back to work on his new solo album (for 2009, but with Merzbow, Wolf eyes and Magma musicians participations… They are yet to be recorded, still waiting to record: the drums and the last guitars…..! : ) )

A Richard Pinhas / Merzbow double CD is to be released through Cuneiform records, USA, this September.

Upcoming gigs:
Richard Pinhas Trio (including Antoine Pagonotti and Jerome Schmidt):
31 Juillet 2008 : BERLIN Festival
2 AUGUST: Klangbad Festival Scheer / GERMANY
4 or 5 August: in SLOVENIA (festival) details TBA
123 august CARDIFF, UK

PINHAS/MERZBOW (promoting the “KEIO LINE” CD (Cuneiform))
Between Sept 3 and September 11:
+ BRUXELLES(Belgium)(www.metaphon.be)
+PARIS…With MERZBOW (place: les “Metallos” or La “Maroquinerrie”, or les” voutes”)

In 2009, there will be USA and Canada Tour.

For confirmed details, please visit: http://www.richardpinhas.com – http://www.myspace.com/richardpinhas

Planeta Imaginario

They will be playing June 11 – 18 avo FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE GRANOLLERS (Bar El Mirallet)Granolllers, Barcelona, Spain – 21:00)

They are currently looking for a manager at the moment. They are currently finishing new songs for an upcoming album. They are contacting some studios for the recording sessions and are thinking that October/November as a possible date.
They’re trying to organize a European tour (France, Germany, Austria and Poland.)

Radio Massacre International

Radio Massacre International will be appearing at Nearfest X in Bethlehem, PA on Sunday 22nd June, and are very much looking forward to bringing our British blend of electronic rock to an unsuspecting audience. Preparations have been under way at our usual HQ The Greenhouse in `sunny’ Stockport, Manchester. See our Blog for exclusive fun-filled pics!

We have completed work on our first commissioned film soundtrack, `City 21′ by The Knossus Project. We enjoyed creating in a different way and have arrived at 120 minutes of pieces ranging from a few seconds, to 26 minutes long. We’re assured the film will be very music orientated. It’s due for release in the next three months or so.

Work is also underway on material for a new album for Cuneiform which will hopefully see the light of day early next year.

As always, Radio Massacre International are happy to be offered live work, and would be interested in playing European festivals in 2009.
We’ve never played in Portugal or Spain and we hear the weather’s rather nice there ! We’re of course always looking to return to the USA.

Please visit our website at http://www.radiomassacreinternational.com

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Revolutionary News
May 2008

FORKED TONGUE

Cuneiform Records announces the release of Forked Tongue, the Snake Ensemble’s 2nd CD, and the follow up to 2003’s award-winning debut Year of the Snake. The CD includes a unique treatment of Billy Idol’s 80’s hit White Wedding, along with material by Field, Ornette Coleman, and others. The response has already been amazing. The CD wasn’t even released yet last week, but somehow it ended up on a “Best of 2008 (so far)” list, and we are told that there is a preview of our NYC CD release show (see below) in the May 12th New Yorker magazine. We’re pumped about this disc!

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Friday, May 16, 2008 (2pm):
WNYC Soundcheck (live performance)
93.9fm (NYC)
wnyc.org

Friday, May 16, 2008 (8pm):
Drom, 85 Avenue A (b/w 5th & 6th), NYC, NY
$12
dromnyc.com
212-777-1157

Thursday, May 29, 2008 (9pm):
WGBH Eric in the Evening (interview)
89.7fm (Boston)
wgbh.org

Friday, May 30, 2008 (9pm):
Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire Street (Inman Square), Cambridge, MA 02139
$10
rylesjazz.com
617-876-9330

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 (7:15am)
Harvard University commencement procession

Saturday, July 12th, 2008 (10pm)
Providence (RI) Sound Session parade

Friday, August 15th, 2008 (7pm)
ICA Boston summer dance night on the waterfront
icaboston.org

info@RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org
http://www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org
myspace.com/revolutionarysnakeensemble

Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd’s TROMBONE SHOUT BAND to Premiere at the Rondout Valley High School on May 28, 2008

The band is inspired by a tradition that began in the Black churches of the eastern seaboard where brass bands consisting largely of trombones and percussion were integrated into the regular Sunday services.

These bands play hymns and gospel music and they add an important dimension emotionally and musically to the usual service.

Rudd’s band is a 21st century version of the traditional shout band and will include three trombones, bass, and drums. in the direction of a jazz feel, meaning levitation in the rhythm section, and improvisation.

Allof the material is original in the feeling of New Orleans and Dixieland as well as blues, gospel, and bop.

The TROMBONE SHOUT BAND is Roswell Rudd, Steve Swell and Deborah Weisz on trombones; Henry Grimes on bass and violin; Bob Stewart on tuba; Barry Altschul on drums in performance with the Rondout Valley Vocal and Instrumental Jazz Ensembles led respectively by Jill Gartman and Randy Loder as well as soloists from the community featuring Renee Bailey on vocals; David Winograd on tuba; Matthew Finck*on guitar; Eric Goldberg on bassoon , and Greg Glassman* on trumpet.

Concert will be held at Rondout Valley High School Auditorium
Wednesday, May 28
7:00 PM
Open to the public – No admission charge.
The high school is located at 122 Kyserike Road, Accord, NY 12404

This project is supported by “The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.”

For more information contact:

Verna Gillis/SOUNDSCAPE
845 626 4038
soundscape@rcn.com
http://www.roswellrudd.com

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June 12th -Bolzano, Italy – Roswell Rudd Quartet with Lafayette harirs on piano; Brad Jones on bass; Sunny Kim on vocals
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July 27 – Spiegeltent – Bard College – Annondale-ob-Hudson – Roswell Rudd Duo with Lafayette harris

Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet will be performing at this year’s Vision Festival!
Details:
June 13, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Clemente Soto Velez
http://www.csvcenter.com
107 Suffolk St. (at Rivington St.)
New York, NY 10002
http://www.visionfestival.org
Advance Tickets:
http://www.BrownPaperTickets.com
1-800-838-3006

The Vision Fest line-up for Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet:
Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet
Vijay Iyer – piano
John Lindberg – bass
Famoudou Don Moye – drums
Pheeroan akLaff – drums

Thinking Plague

Thinking Plague recently completed a successful mini-tour around Europe in March-April 2008, featuring Science Group mastermind Stevan Tickmayer on keys and Hughscore/Caveman Shoestore keyboardist/singer Elaine DiFalco as “guest” vocalist and sometime pianist. The band performed with Elaine in Paris, Wurzburg (Germany), Geneva (with What’s Wrong With Us) and Milan (with Yugen), concluding with the Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal, where Deborah Perry resumed her role as lead vocalist with Elaine as back-up and co-vocalist.

Here are photos by Claude Wacker (www.docker.ch) from Gouveia, featuring both Deborah and Elaine, as well as the “Bear Dog”…. Actually it was Bob Drake, who made anonymous “cameo” urso-canine appearances at 3 of the shows, including the festival. He reprised his own drum parts from Lycanthrope and Love (In This Life – 1989), while remaining totally “in character”. It was humorous, strange and very impressive.

A few folks have posted some brief videos on You Tube – from the shows in Paris, Wurzburg and Gouveia (search “Thinking Plague”): http://www.youtube.com/

TP soundman and pal, Udi Koomran, recounts his experience of the mini-tour on his excellent blog.
http://udi-koomran.blogspot.com/2008/04/thinking-plague-live-in-europe.html

Having rehearsed a “live” ensemble for this Europe junket, TP hopes to do some ‘domestic’ shows in the relatively near future. Keep an eye on http://www.thinkingplague.org and the Cuneiform website. Inquiries are welcome at tplague@aol.com

Meanwhile, Mike Johnson is continuing work on the next Plague CD.

University of Errors

Udi Koomran reports:
“We organized a GREAT [U. of Errors] show here in Tel Aviv
Photos Asaf Carmeli
http://picasaweb.google.com/ukoomran/UniversityOfErrorsInTelAviv/photo#s5198467724716123314
The show was titled by band members as maybe their best one yet
I did the live sound and recorded the audio and Kfir Ripshtos filmed it
http://rapidshare.com/files/113799092/Daevid_Allen_and_university_of_errors_live_in_Israel_2008.wmv.html”

Univers Zero

September 14 РFMPM РSalle Pierre Mercure of the Centre Pierre P̩ladeau (on the campus of the University of Montreal) 300 De Maisonneuve Blvd. East, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3X6

November 14 and 15 – Le Triton – 11 bis, rue du Coq Français – 93260 Les Lilas (Paris) France (Métro: Mairie des Lilas) / tél : (33) 01 49 72 83 13 – these shows will be filmed and will be made into a live DVD (!!) that will be packaged with Univers Zero’s next studio album (their triumphant 10th studio album), “Clivage”. – http://www.letriton.com/

Yang

Yang has completed the recording of their next album “MACHINES”, some mixing adjustments still remain to be done, but the main work is over. Release is planned for end 2008.

Some titles on : http://www.myspace.com/yanggroup
(2 concert videos on this site and 2 on : http://fr.youtube.com/user/Yanggroup)

The first concert of the new repertoire will take place at the Sezamo, in Nice on May 29th.

The band is looking for dates in Europe and USA for end 2008/2009.