Cornelius in Chicago
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Venue: Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
Performer: Cornelius
For more than three decades, Cornelius has occupied a singular space in contemporary music. The long-running project of Japanese musician, producer and composer Keigo Oyamada, Cornelius emerged in the early 1990s following the dissolution of Tokyo pop group Flipper's Guitar, before becoming one of the most distinctive and forward-thinking names in modern experimental pop. International breakthrough Fantasma (1997) established Oyamada as a restless sonic architect, stitching together psychedelic pop, electronic music, musique concrète, hip hop and avant-garde composition into something…