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Top recommendations for this show. Garage band HiFi and unpretentious, and the highest art of video and sound. His video pieces are on par with anything we see in the art museums, and the band sound is Eno meets fusion meets punk. The highlight for me was a long meandering piece with ducks flying hard through vast landscapes, sometimes shot out of the sky or flying above traffic. Here are the shows, some of you are in striking distance:

4/23, Portland, OR (Wonder Ballroom)
4/24, Seattle, WA (El Corazon)
4/26, San Francisco, CA (Bimbo's 365)
4/28, Indio, CA (Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)
4/30, Los Angeles, CA (El Rey Theater)
5/3, Boulder, CO (Fox Theater)
5/7, Chicago, IL (Park West)
5/9, Baltimore, MD (Sonar)
5/10, New York, NY (Webster Hall)
5/11, Philadelphia, PA (Theater of Living Arts)

Rage Against the Machine will be at that Coachella show, though that will likely not be a good venue to see Cornelius.

Here is what Jive mag has to say:

Japan's indie-avant genius, Cornelius, will tour the US this spring
in support of his new album, “Sensuous,” his first full-length US
release in five years.

Cornelius travels the musical spectrum providing soundscapes
drenched with warm and wonderful deep grooves, bursts of
frenetic funk, fragmented printer feedback and heavy garage
squall.

Cornelius’ music is rich and ambitious, but it is his dazzling live
show that cements his reputation as a modern, musical pioneer. His
concert set is notorious for featuring dancing apes, laser light shows,
and classical interludes. Throw in a Theremin solo and you've got a
spectacle of epic proportions. No Cornelius tour comes without its
share of surprises.

The Cornelius Group will present to us "The Sensuous Synchronized
Show." This is a hybrid entertainment work where the music, the
performance and the visual image come into existence in a
fully-realized equal relationship.

The Cornelius Group – Sensuous Synchronized Show will feature
multi-instrumentalists Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius), Hirohisa Horie,
Hirotaka Shimizu and Yuko Araki.Cornelius has worked closely with
the show’s audio, visual and lighting directors. Custom Japanese
lighting will showcase a one of a kind illusory experience, a companion
piece to the ethereal, yet mind blowing audio splendor.

It’s a disciplined sound that’s also wildly experimental, bursting with
electronic pulsewaves, wood-grain acoustics, minimalist interludes
and raw guitar freakouts. Sure, you could dance to it, but you could also
throw on the headphones, sit back in your Eames chair and get whisked
away to Cornelius’ multidimensional planet of sound.

- I would love to hear of someone going. -e