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JOIN US IN FRANCE IN SEPTEMBER FOR
ROCK IN OPPOSITION 2015!!
Cuneiform Records is proud to announce that 5 bands associated with the label will be among the 11 groups performing at the 2015 Rock in Opposition (R.I.O.) Festival to be held in France. This three-day festival devoted to artistically-uncompromising rock music celebrates “the incendiary spirit of Rock in Opposition” and will draw audiences from around the world. Featuring some of the most provocative, innovative, and artistically progressive rock music created over the past three decades to the present day, the Rock in Opposition festival aims to “transport the creative flames and anti-corporate-rock aesthetic of the original Rock in Opposition movement into the new millennium.” Aquaserge (France)
Four of these bands – Present (Belgium), Mats & Morgan (Sweden), Happy Family (Japan) & Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores (USA) – have each released numerous recordings on Cuneiform Records. A fifth band, Rêve Général, includes three members of Volapük, a French band who have released several albums on Cuneiform. CUNEIFORM RECORDING ARTISTS AT The five Cuneiform bands & associated groups appearing at
__________________ Performing @ RIO-France on September 18th, 2015 at 11:30 PM If the Rock in Opposition (RIO) movement has a spiritual Godfather, it is Belgian composer/musician Roger Trigaux, leader of Present. Present has been blasting apart the boundaries between rock, classical and jazz music for more than 3 decades. Widely acknowledged as one of the RIO movement's leading lights, this Belgian band was founded and is led by composer /keyboardist/guitarist Roger Trigaux. Back in 1974, Trigaux co-founded Univers Zero with drummer Daniel Denis and recorded on UZ's first two albums. With both Denis and Trigaux at the helm, Univers Zero performed in London in March 1978 at the first-ever Rock In Opposition concert, ensuring their eternal legacy as one of the RiO movement's official founders. In 1979, seeking a change of musicial direction towards a more rock-based sound, Trigaux left UZ to form the band, Present. Present's early lineup for live performances and its first two studio albums included members of fellow Belgian band UZ, including Denis on drums. In 1980, Present released its first recording, Triskaidekaphobie, which included Trigaux's landmark composition, "Promenade au Fond du Canal," a Chamber Rock masterwork that helped pave the way for 21st century post-classical music. In 1985, Cuneiform released Present's 2nd album, Le Poison Qui Rend Fou, beginning the label's longstanding support of Chamber Rock and other Rock in Opposition music. In 2014, Cuneiform reissued deluxe editions of both albums, featuring remastered music and illustrated booklets. With Trigaux always at the helm, Present's lineup evolved over the years from a brief duo lineup with his son Reginald, to a long-standing, full-sized band. For more than a decade, Present has boasted a tightly-honed 6-piece lineup featuring many of the best players on the European avant-progressive/ Rock in Opposition scene. Present's current lineup includes Trigaux and his son Reginald; David Kerman; Keith Maksoud; and two Univers Zero associates, Pierre Chevalier (UZ alumni) and Kurt Budé (UZ member). Despite (or "in Opposition" to) a physical ailment that confines Trigaux to a wheel chair onstage, Present has played in recent years at several of the world's most acclaimed music festivals, including the first-ever RiO-Fest in Japan (2014); Germany's Freakfest; and festivals in France and Belgium. Present's performance at the 2015 RiO-France promises to be not only a festival highlight, but one of the most intense and memorable musical performances on any continent this year. Present recordings on Cuneiform Records:
-  [WATCH Present- Promenade Au Fond d'un Canal] More information about Present on Cuneiform: Present @ CuneiformRecords.com Present on Facebook
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Performing @ RIO-France September 20th 2015 at 2 PM
Happy Family @ CuneiformRecords.com: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/happyfamily.html Happy Family on the Web: https://www.facebook.com/HappyFamily.music ____________________ Mats/ Morgan Band (Sweden) Performing @ RIO-France September 19th 2015 at 9:00 PM Keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren have worked together for nearly 3/4s of their lives. Both were childhood prodigies in Sweden who met in 1981 and have since grown into adults recognized as absolute masters of their respective instruments. Their musical collaboration has steadily evolved over the past 30+ years from early duo experiments, to Zappa cover band, to actually meeting and performing with Frank Zappa and his band, to a quintet lineup of their own band, to a keyboard/bass/drums trio, and now, to their current formation as a quartet. Their music has also greatly changed over the years, becoming ever-more accessible and contemporary, with Mats & Morgan adding elements from electronica to their roots in jazz/rock, complex rock, and avant-garde music. Their sound playfully blends these electronic influences with jazz fusion with the soulful grooves of Earth, Wind and Fire, avant-garde atonalities, the melodicism of Stevie Wonder and the complexity and humor of Zappa and Hermeto Pascoal. While some Zappa influence from their early days remains, Mats/Morgan have long since found their own voices, in which humor and restraint are interwoven in these superb players' virtuosity. Since forming the Mats/Morgan Band in 2001, Mats/Morgan have evolved into a force on the international concert circuit, a well-honed, cohesive progressive jazz/rock unit reknown for amazing audiences in Europe, Asia and the USA. Cuneiform saw their live performance at the 2004 Les Tritonales Festival in Paris, and signed them to the label. Thanks for Flying with Us, their first Cuneiform release, came out in 2005 to international acclaim. n the mid 90's, Mats/Morgan began releasing CDs on Morgan's own label, Ultimate Audio Entertainment. In addition to releasing all of Mats/Morgan's subsequent new recordings, in 2008 Cuneiform began reissuing remixed/remastered editions of the early Mats/Morgan albums first released on Morgan's label. Cuneiform's new release of [schack tati], in 2014, is the first Mats/Morgan album recorded in Morgan's newly-built studio in Sweden. Mats/Morgan have performed live at festivals worldwide, and each time they've entertained and thrilled audiences with their joyous musical chemistry, born of a lifetime of musical collaboration and friendship. Mats/Morgan recordings on Cuneiform Records:
 [WATCH Mats/ Morgan Band- The Chicken] For more information about Mats/Morgan on Cuneiform: Mats/ Morgan @ CuneiformRecords.com Morgan Agren's official website http://www.morganagren.com ____________________ Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores (USA) Performing @ RIO-France September 20th 2015 at 2:00 PM
For more info on Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores at Cuneiform: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/redfearn.html Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores's Official sites: http://www.aleckredfearn.com/ https://www.facebook.com/aleckredfearnandtheeyesores “From harsh nightmare riddles, to sweetly swooning tranced-out droning somnambulant reveries, psychedelic folk, prog-rock, old-time country, acidic cabaret, dark circus music, and sinister dream fragments … well worth investigating” –Dream Magazine _____________ associated groups: Rêve Général [includes members of Volapük] (France) Performing @ RIO-France September 19th at 2:00 PM
7 musicians, 5 nationalities (Japan, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Turkey) 2 violins, 2 cellos, 2 guitars, 1 drum set. Current Lineup: This wonderful Volapük bio is from the website for RiO-France: "Volapük toured everywhere in the world for17 years (1993 to 2010) : Poland, Italy, Czech Repubic, Argentine, Holland, Ouzbékistan, Canada, New Zeland, etc… In France like everywhere else, Volapük played in the most innovative festivals (Victoriaville, Banlieues Bleues, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Macao, Isole Che Parlano in Sardinia, Burgos in Spain, etc…). Volapük played on the most diverse and strange stages, from squats to sheep folds in the highest mountains of Provence. Volapük has been mentionned to «Les Victoires de la Musique» for the music of the choreography by Maguy Marin, "Aujourd'hui Peut-Être".In 2007, Volapük changed radically its way to do music. From totally written stuff, they started a totally new adventure, experimenting a totally improved set. Impossible perspectives like in a Cornelis Escher painting. Volapük found a new way to improvise in a band, in a collective process. Volapük's basic idea is to let always everything open and possible. Since 2010, Volapük was asleeped. With Rêve Général this is the end of the night, and we can dream awaked again !" Volapük Releases on Cuneiform Records:
Watch Volapuk live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxM_XnENNuU Volapuk on Cuneiform: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/volapuk.html ____________________
RIO-France 2015 PRESS CONTACT INFORMATION: http://www.rocktime.org/rio/index.php |
"Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal"
