L'attività di diffusione e promozione di musiche d'arte e d'avanguardia presso il mitico centro culturale indipendente Dom a Mosca non è mai cessata nel corso dei suoi molti anni di attività, sempre senza alcuna sovvenzione statale, e anzi ha accresciuto il ritmo con il compimento, proprio nei giorni scorsi, della maggiore età. Una succinta e preziosa documentazione degli eventi si rinnova periodicamente alla pagina YT del centro: tra i concerti attualmente in visione spiccano le riprese, spesso integrali, di Konk Pack, Elliott Sharp, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Brötzmann in trio con John Edwards e Steve Noble, Larry Ochs con Mark Dresser e Vladimir Tarasov, Otomo Yoshihide in solo e in duo con Paal Nilssen-Love, John Butcher con Martin Blume e Wilbert de Joode e, tra i più recenti, Fred Frith in duo con Lotte Anker.

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Elliott Sharp suona Thelonious Monk (Monkulations): due distinti concerti di pochi giorni fa documentati su YT, al PointCulture di Charleroi (Belgio) e alla Galerie Maerz di Linz (Austria).

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Quattro nuove pubblicazioni segnano la primavera 2017 per Cuneiform Records, due di gruppi ormai veterani, due di gruppi accolti invece per la prima volta nei ranghi della coraggiosa e tenace etichetta di Silver Spring (Stati Uniti): Bubblemath, Edit Peptide; Cheer-Accident, Putting Off Death; The Great Harry Hillman, Tilt; Miriodor, Signal 9.

Based in the Washington D.C. area since its founding in 1984, Cuneiform Records is widely recognized as an international force in the world of avant-garde and truly progressive, cutting-edge music. This independent record label has charted an adventurous course, avoiding music’s oft-travelled mainstream and resisting confinement within any single musical genre. Instead, Cuneiform has focused on the nascent edges of a variety of genres. It is especially renown for championing music that transcends traditional, rigidly-defined 20th Century musical styles, championing pioneering composers and genre-defying music that organically fused elements from various styles to form vibrant new hybrids. Repeatedly, Cuneiform has released music that’s either influenced or served as precursors to modern music’s most intriguing new forms. For instance, much of the radical, genre-defiant music that Cuneiform released in the 1980s and 1990s to the confoundment of rock, jazz and classical music critics alike – music such as Curlew’s foot-tapping, genre-morphing jazz/pop/blues/rock, and Present and Univers Zero’s startling Chamber Rock – would in later years be recognized as precursors (forming the metamorphic bedrock) for post-jazz and post-classical genre-defying hybrids that now define 21st century music.

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