Cuneiform is definitely one of the more adventurous progressive labels around giving voice to some amazing talent that would otherwise never see the light of day. When I asked Steve Feigenbaum for a little history on Cuneiform he told me:
Essentially, Cuneiform exists to present what I think are the most interesting musics in the "avant/new music" categories, with an emphasis on rock bands playing intricate, rehearsal intensive music. You will find a wide range of music here - from 20th century classical music, to jazz/improvised, to fusions of various sorts. You'll also find a large number of rock bands who are rock bands only because of their instrumentation. - Steve Feigenbaum
You'll find their latest releases below.
S.O.S./Looking for the Next One ....double CD $22.99
S.O.S. [John Surman, Mike Osborne and Alan Skidmore] were one of the great but under-documented ensembles in '70s British jazz, consisting of three genuine superstars of the 'Brit-jazz scene.' The group formed in April 1973, and lasted until the end of 1976, toured widely and had a large body of work to draw from, but only released one album during their lifetime. Looking for the Next One, which is made up of previously un-issued studio and live recordings, greatly expands upon their legacy. Although all three men were saxophonists and the band is commonly thought of as a 'saxophone trio', they were much more than that, as this period found John Surman experimenting with synthesizers, sequencers and keyboards, while Alan Skidmore was a very able drummer; anyone expecting three saxes at once at all times will be very surprised when they hear the heavy synthesizer parts, reminiscent of Tangerine Dream, mixed with drums and sax parts; trad jazz this is not! Included in the 16 page booklet are rare, unpublished photos and in-depth liner notes.
Mats-Morgan/Radio Da Da + The Teenage Tapes ....double CD $17.99
Keyboardist/vocalist Mats Oberg and drummer Morgan Agren have been playing together for over 30 years, since Mats was 10 and Morgan was 14! They were 'discovered' at a very young age by Frank Zappa, who invited them to join his band (Zappa's ill health ultimately cancelled these tour plans) and they are musical legends in their native Sweden and beyond, winning Grammy Awards on both sides of the Atlantic and known for their wild and funny musical performances. Mats and Morgan began releasing records in 1996 on their own UAE label. Since 2005, Cuneiform has been releasing the group's new recordings as well as bringing back to print their earlier releases. Radio Da Da was their third album and was originally released in 1998, while The Teenage Tapes is a collection of their earliest recordings together. Both of these albums have been remixed and remastered with bonus material added and neither album has been available before other than by buying them from the musicians at their shows! "They played unbelievable, just unbelievable." - Frank Zappa "Morgan is quite simply one of the most interesting and exciting drummers I've ever heard. Rhythmically advanced and musical too. A rare combination of modern and classic." - Gavin Harrison [King Crimson, Porcupine Tree]
Richard Pinhas/Desolation Row ....CD $15.99
Richard Pinhas, the founder of 70s legends Heldon whose albums are considered some of the earliest releases of 'electronic rock' extant, is one of the most uncompromising artists on the international rock scene, having remained constantly innovative and true to his personal artistic vision for 40 years. He is one of France's best known experimental musicians and is a key figure in the international development of electronic music fused with rock. The styles range from spacey drones to psychedelic guitar rock to lurching, overwhelming mechanical racket. This new album features him in collaboration with well known avant-garde/experimental music names like Lasse Marhaug and Oren Ambarchi, [both of whom have collaborated with Sunn O)))], Noel Akchote and Etienne Jaumet (half of the French duo Zombie Zombie).
Sao Paulo Underground/Beija Flors Velho e Sujo ....CD
$15.99
Sao Paulo Underground/Beija Flors Velho e Sujo ....vinyl LP $25.99
Beija Flors Velho E Sujo is the fourth album by Sao Paulo Underground. The trio formedaround Rob Mazurek (cornet and electronics), a key player in the Chicago post rock/modern jazz scene who spent several years living in the Brazil and developing a music that reflected those experiences. While in Brazil he met the co-founder of the group, Mauricio Takara (drums, cavaquinho [the 'miniature guitar' of Brazil], electronics). Performing as a duo, they soon brought in the group's third member, Guilherme Granado (keyboards, electronics, samplers). Each of the musicians is an example of the new vanguard in music; Rob in contemporary jazz and forward-looking rock and the two Brazilian musicians in updating and modernizing Brazilian musical forms. Sao Paulo Underground embodies a musical mixture of from samba, maracatu, rock and free jazz traditions. The album has a huge, modern sound which launches Brazil's 'Tropicalia' into a new, heavily electronic milieu. This is the second release from Sao Paulo Underground on Cuneiform; their first was one of their biggest sellers of 2011!
Blue Cranes/Swim ....CD $15.99
Blue Cranes/Swim ....vinyl LP $25.99
Blue Cranes are a key player in the Portland, Oregon creative music/DIY scene and are a microcosm of what "post-jazz" has become at the regional level as a result of bands like The Bad Plus, The Claudia Quintet, Happy Apple, Dave Douglas and others. Swim, produced by The Decemberists' bassist Nate Query, highlights the band's song-centered aesthetic. This is the band's fourth full length release, and first to come out on vinyl. The vinyl pressing includes a digital download card and is on blue vinyl. The individual members of the band bring a unique array of experiences to the group, including work with The Decemberists, Laura Veirs, AU, Rebecca Gates, Laura Gibson, Ethan Rose, Black Prairie, and Spoon. Guest performances by violist Eyvind Kang (Bill Frisell, Laura Veirs) and members of tUnE-yArDs, Los Lobos, The Devil Makes Three, Portland Cello Project, Radiation City, and AU. Blue Cranes are: Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone), Joe Cunningham (tenor saxophone), Rebecca Sanborn (keyboards), Keith Brush (bass), and Ji Tanzer (drums) and this the band's fourth full length release.
Guapo/History of the Visitation ....CD + DVD $22.99
The highly praised UK experimental/progressive/noise group Guapo return with their first new album in five years, featuring a quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums; a lineup which includes Cardiacs and Knifeworld member Kavus Torabi. In addition to the new studio album, the CD includes a live DVD of the group from their 2006 and 2007 USA and European tours. This is the only live footage of the band available to the public and features former member Daniel O'Sullivan of Ulver and Sun 0))). Active in one form or another for nearly 20 years, Guapo's sound has evolved from its punk-rock origins to the band's current avant-rock stance, but the energy is always there. The group were recently featured in the "Rock In Opposition" documentary Romantic Warriors II. "Guapo come on like all the hellhounds of Magma, Eskaton and Ruins were after them...on a par with Magma's Kohntarkosz or Univers Zero's Ceux Du Dehors." - Sound Projector
Rob Mazurek Octet/Skull Sessions ....CD $15.99
Leader/cornetist Rob Mazurek has recorded with high profile artists such as Tortoise, Jim O'Rourke, Stereolab, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, as well as his many own projects Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago Underground Duo and more. Skull Sessions combines two of Rob's groups: Sao Paulo Underground and Starlicker and features drummer John Herndon (of Tortoise) and flutist Nicole Mitchell and vibra phonist Jason Adasiewicz (both Downbeat poll winners!).
Curtis Hasselbring/Number Stations ....CD $15.99
Leader/trombonist/composer Curtis Hasselbring has been a member of and/or recorded with Medeski, Martin & Wood, Either/Orchestra, Matt Wilson, Beat Circus, Ghost Train Orchestra, Satoko Fuji, Bobby Previte's Weather Clear and many others. Curtis leads his all-star septet which features all-major players: Mary Halvorson (guitar), Trevor Dunn (bass), Matt Moran (vibes and marimba) and Chris Speed (tenor sax and clarinet), both of The Claudia Quintet, and dual drummers Ches Smith and Satoshi Takeishi. Number Stations is inspired by mysterious shortwave radio stations that seem to exist for the purpose of providing foreign agents (aka 'spies') from a variety of countries coded information. Hasselbring's pieces are highly propulsive while at the same time maintaining a degree of dark humor, ambient spaciousness and highly coordinated ensemble playing. The music has elements of new jazz as well as new rock and has wide appeal.
Dylan Ryan & Sand/Sky Bleached ....CD $15.99
The three musicians who comprise Sand are well known in both the rock/alternative and jazz worlds. Drummer and leader Dylan Ryan is a member of the rock band Cursive and the leader of the 'jazz & beyond' outfit Herculaneum. For this project he recruited fellow Angelenos Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers, Xiu Xiu, Mike Watt, Joshua Redman) on bass and Timothy Young (John Zorn, Fiona Apple, Beck, Mike Patton) on guitar. "I had the idea to write songs for a jazz band that had elements of Black Sabbath, the Cure, Jaco-era Joni Mitchell, and free jazz. I intentionally made the free playing and the composed sections less compartmentalized. The idea is to have a really great sounding rhythm section that can stretch out and make music spontaneously, and naturally together. Sand is a jazz band, but it reflects the different things I grew up on and listen to; It reflects the fact that I am playing jazz, but that I wasn't born in 1945." - Dylan Ryan.
The Kandinsky Effect/Synesthesia ....CD $15.99
The Kandinsky Effect are an accessible, modern jazz group; jazz made for young listeners who are rock or alternative music fans. Active for 5 years, the group has toured extensively, hitting clubs and festivals all across the USA, Canada and Europe. More touring shall commence shortly! This is the group's second release. Founded in Paris in 2007, The Kandinsky Effect is a post-modern jazz trio, searching for new ways to work within the jazz idiom by blending the borders of jazz, rock, electronica, hip-hop and experimental sounds. The group is comprised of young players who have playing experience in many styles of music and bring these experiences to the table.
Heldon/Agneta Nilsson ....CD $15.99
Having been out of print, Cuneiform now brings this Heldon classic back to active dury. Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians and is a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock. This was their fourth album and features Patrick Gauthier, Gerard Prevost, Coco Roussel, Michael Ettori and Alain Bellaiche and ranges from slow building mellotron/electronic drones, to brain searing synth/guitar sonic attacks.
Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown/Varmint ....CD $15.99
Led by vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz [a-dah-shev-its], Varmint is Rolldown's second release. The band, active for over 5 years, features stalwarts from Chicago's vibrant jazz/new music community: Jason Adasiewicz: vibraphone, Josh Berman: cornet, Aram Shelton: alto saxophone & clarinet, Jason Roebke: bass, Frank Rosaly: drums. Their sound combines Blue Note's classic, avant-leaning '60s albums with contemporary drive, swing, energy, and attack. Varmint features six new compositions by Adasiewicz and a tune written by Andrew Hill.
Afuche/Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match ....CD $15.99
Afuche is a young band from Brooklyn who feature guitar, piano, baritone sax, bass, drums and vocals. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences and apply and bend it all into a hybrid, original and progressive contemporary rock music that is most of all fun. Afuche are also a strong live outfit and that's reflected on "Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match," which was recorded live in the studio with minimal textural overdubs to closely reflect their performance abilities. Since forming in 2008, Afuche have played a large number of shows at clubs as well as performing at the CMJ, SXSW and Next To Last festivals.
Beat Circus/Boy From Black Mountain ....CD $15.99
Boy From Black Mountain is the third release from the determinedly eclectic Boston-based ensemble Beat Circus. Beat Circus is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist / singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter. The music bridges a number of disparate genres including experimental music, Americana, cabaret, circus music, Appalachian string music, bluegrass music, old-time music, Southern Gospel, and funereal music. Beat Circus are a powerful live outfit as well and are gaining renown for their compelling shows, gathering great notices in high profile magazines (Time Out, The New Yorker and others) for their regular appearances up and down the northeast corridor. The current edition of the band features a unusual and versatile instrumentation. Brian brought in violinist Paran Amirinazari and violist Jordan Voelker (who also provide background vocals), trombonist Doug LaRosa, and the rockabilly-style rhythm section composed of upright bassist Paul Dilley, guitarist/banjoist Andrew Stern, and drummer Gavin McCarthy. The understatedly beautiful cover artwork and illustrations within the full color booklet are by Carson Ellis, known for her work on albums by The Decemberists. Boy From Black Mountain began shortly after Carpenter's son was diagnosed with autism in late 2006. He began writing songs inspired by the experience of living with his son during the time of diagnosis and treatment. Carpenter further dedicates the album to his father and grandparents, whose lives as watermelon farmers in the rural Bible Belt inspired some of the songs. This is a very artful-yet-accessible album with great lyrics, memorable songs and rich orchestrations. In addition to the songs are a handful of haunting instrumentals which help to frame the overall work of the songs to a larger canvas.
Beat Circus/Dreamland ....CD $14.99
Beat Circus was formed in 2002 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter. Beat Circus delivers Weird American Gothic stories of children, dreams, fatherhood, revenge, redemption, and murder. Dreamland is their second album and is a uniquely fierce record of dark narrative songs and instrumental works, which is loosely based on historical events associated with turn-of-the-century New York and Coney Island. Brian leads a nine piece ensemble with a unique and exciting instrumentation: Brian Carprenter-vocals, pump organ, harmonica, trumpet, Kathe Hosletter-violin, viola, Julia Kent-cello, Alec K. Redfearn-accordion, jawharp, Ronn Caswell-tuba, Curtis Hasselbring-trombone, Brandon Seabrook-tenor banjo, mandolin, slide guitar, Briggan Krauss-saxophones, Matt McLaren-drums and percussion as well as other musical guests. You can hear echoes of Tom Waits, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kurt Weill, Carla Bley, Hans Eisler, Bernard Herrman and much much more here, but what it all combines into could only come from Beat Circus! Included is a really nice 12 page, full color booklet with lots of historical (and creepy) imagery!
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/Dawn of the Cycads: The Complete Ace of Heart's Recordings (1983-1987) ....double CD $19.99
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a side project by half of Boston's famed rock band, Mission Of Burma: Roger Miller and Martin Swope. Miller and Swope joined forces with Rick Scott and Erik Lindgren. Perhaps because of their tie to the ever-popular Burma or perhaps because of their sheer excellence Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic earned international recognition for their innovative sound. The New York Times called them "the world's hardest rocking chamber music quartet." Their unlikely mix of rock, punk, classical, minimalism, and free-form sound appealed to a broad range of musical tastes. As Roger remembers in the liner notes, "If I had to say what I thought was most unique about the band, it was that we actually played rock clubs and basically pulled off this rather unorthodox thing. Well sure, we pissed off some rockers ("Just look at 'em up there, shuffling their papers!"), but that wasn't really our concern. If this odd quartet wasn't about as different as you could get and still play those venues, well at least we put up a pretty good fight." Rick Scott comments, "We were always the square peg in a world of round holes. Our instruments weren't bass, guitar, and drums, but guitar, three keyboards, and drum machine (with turntable, water can, washboard, and clarinet thrown in for good measure!). We played in rock clubs, but read from sheet music. We shared the stage with three-chord rockers, but played music from Brian Eno and Igor Stravinsky, and covered the theme from 'Rocky and Bullwinkle'. It boggles the mind how we got away with it." For the first time ever, all of the band's 3 recordings for Ace of Hearts (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Magnetic Flip and Beat of the Mesozoic) are reissued in their entirety and in the order in which they were originally heard when they were first issued. In the the words of Erik Lindgren, the remastering done here, "sonically makes the 'Sonic Geology' package irrelevant." The package comes with a 20 page booklet of notes and photos and there is a huge wealth of totally cool CDRom material - 175 photos, art files, set-lists, dioramas, letters, documents and more. Additionally, there are two studio tracks and seven live tracks, none of which have ever been heard before, for over 45' of bonus material.
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses/Extreme Spirituals ....CD $14.99
For their 13th album and in their 25th year together, post-punk, art-rock pioneers Birdsongs of the Mesozoic do a 180 degree musical swerve and link up with bass-baritone vocalists Oral Moses, one of the preeminent African-American performers of traditional spirituals. The band demolish all preconceptions about themselves by presenting a program of heavily rearranged, well known African-American spirituals and 19th century art songs. The blend of Birdsongs' cutting-edge instrumentation with the strength and majesty of Moses' voice creates a very unorthodox yet deeply moving sound, which The Noise called, "Totally sublime and deeply moving." This collaboration represents a new experiment from all parties - something of a meeting at the crossroads between two creative parties passing in very different directions. Together they bring these centuries-old songs kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Brown vs. Brown/Odd And Unevens ....CD $15.99
Brown Vs Brown are an intense and stunningly tight 'rehearsal-intensive' avant-garde rock band from Amsterdam, Holland. Formed in 2004 by Dirk Bruinsma (saxes, vocals), Viljam Nybacka (bass), Gerri Jager (drums) and Jeroen Kimman (guitar, banjo), they have played everywhere from jazz clubs to punk dives, releasing their first album in 2007. Brown Vs Brown has developed a musical universe that denies stylistic description. Seemingly contrasting elements clash and recombine: meticulous composition vs. improvisation, complexity vs. raw energy and breakneck stumble rhythms vs. irresistible swing!
Cheer-Accident/Fear Draws Misfortune ....CD $14.99
For over 20 years, Cheer-Accident have been a creative, interesting force in rock music. They constantly strive to surprise their audience and themselves with constant reinvention. Fear Draws Misfortune is their 16th release and arguably their best release and their album which strives the furthest towards a powerful balance between personalized and unique studio techniques and the excitment of a visceral, live, well-honed rock band. Which is saying something. It is a strongly compelling and high-reaching album that uses a wide variety of ideas, styles and studio techniques, resulting in a cohesive and ambitious album of art-rock. The basic band is a trio who between them perform on vocals, keyboards, trumpets guitars, bass and drums, but they are augmented by 15 additional musicians who, each in their own way, bring their own musical gifts to the album. Fear Draws Misfortune reveals a fortuitous intersection between Cuneiform and Cheer-Accident, both of whom have long admired the other and both of whom finally decided to do something about it! This long overdue marriage, which neatly coincides with a timely (and quite lengthy) cover-feature article in December 2008's Signal To Noise magazine, promises to hurl Cheer-Accident into into wider recognition.
Cheer-Accident/No Ifs And Or Dogs ....CD $15.99
Founded in 1981, a touring/performing band since 1984, Cheer-Accident are a band that has always done its utmost to surprise their audience with constant reinvention, yet always doing so with a sharp focus. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, "No Ifs, Ands Or Dogs" is the group's 18th album. It is an album that crosses many stylistic boundaries, from straightforward pop songs to sound collage to art-rock. The album uses a huge variety of studio techniques and 'outside the box' imagination to put all of these disparate elements together in a compellingly cohesive way. The group has always toured heavily, and the band will continue to play regularly in its Chicago hometown (most recently they appeared opening for Tortoise), as well as twice yearly jaunts to the rest of the USA, and their second large-scale European tour will be happening in this spring.
The Claudia Quintet/For ....CD $14.99
Since their founding in the late 1990s, The Claudia Quintet has walked a unique path in contemporary jazz. Unlike most jazz ensembles where the particular musicians may come and go, drummer, composer and leader John Hollenbeck always wanted Claudia to be a 'band' with a sound not only determined by the compositions and the instrumentation, but with the actual players who perform the music. This concept is why Claudia has had an immediately identifiable sound since its inception. The other musicians in the group are able to not only play the intricate compositions that John hands them, but to also improvise within and around these compositions and give them life. Drew Gress-acoustic bass, Matt Moran-vibes, Ted Reichman-accordion and Chris Speed-clarinet and tenor sax all make Claudia the fantastic band that it is. Since Cuneiform started working with Claudia on their second album in 2004, the band has met with tremendous and growing acclaim and success, both for their records and their live shows as they are pursuing a completely singular path in 'jazz' music and while they completely deserve to have an audience for their singular music, it was by no means assured. An astonishing band with a huge range of emotional depth and range and with appeal far beyond strictly 'jazz' listeners. For this, their fourth album, they've released an album of dedications.
The Claudia Quintent/Semi-Formal ....CD $14.99
The Claudia Quintet is proof positive that the pessimists were wrong: jazz is not dead, despite being embalmed by major labels and confined by some musicians to dead ends. In the works of this sensational NY-based, 'jazz and beyond' ensemble, jazz has broken through its rigid shell and been reborn in shimmering and beautifully alluring new form. It lives and breathes in music that melds influences from classical minimalism, new music composition, and progressive and post-rock with an astonishingly fresh jazz sensibility. Whatever one wants to call their music, it has very striking original, unique and attractive qualities. This is a slowly unfolding album; group leader/drummer/composer John Hollenbeck has specifically stated that this album is "...a 'listener's record' - a record that might not make perfect sense when individual tracks are listened to randomly on one's ipod shuffle or on a writer's deadline.... In the end, despite despite cultural pressure to create an instant "hit", I had to listen to my inner voice and go for this - whatever you want to call it - (is it a concept album?)...an album that I hope will cater at the very least to the deep, patient listener." In addition to Hollenbeck, the band has four other superb musicians: Drew Gress (double bass), Matt Moran (vibraphone), Ted Reichman (accordion) and Chris Speed (tenor sax and clarinet). Their previous release, "I, Claudia" was a huge critical and sales success, even reaching the top 15 jazz albums played in the US, according to CMJ, a major industry guide! The Claudia Quintet creates a fresh, distinctive sound while it obliterates barriers between jazz, classical and progressive rock.
The Claudia Quintet +1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Blackmann/What Is The Beautiful? ....CD $15.99
The Claudia Quintet is a brilliant New York band led by drummer and composer John Hollenbeck who recasts jazz in shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. The Claudia Quintet embraces the textural freedom of electronic sounds and improvisation, the structural ambition of contemporary classical music, and most importantly, the joy of bodacious grooves and unapologetically gorgeous melodies. The quintet's one-of-a-kind "jazz and beyond" sound, with massive emotional depth, comes organically from the uncanny interplay of its virtuosos members, all of whom are poll winners and band leaders in their own right: Drew Gress (bass), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion), Chris Speed (tenor sax and clarinet) and guest pianist Matt Mitchell. Claudia are always about doing something new and for their sixth album they have released something utterly unexpected: a vocal album featuring the talents of jazz's biggest male vocal star, Kurt Elling and the great Theo Bleckmann.
Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace/Royal Toast ....CD $15.99
"Royal Toast" is the fifth release by this sensational 'jazz and beyond' ensemble, led by twice Grammy-nominated drummer/composer John Hollenbeck and featuring Drew Gress (bass), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion), Gary Versace (keyboards) and Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet). The Claudia Quintet's visibility could not be greater: The band perform at high profile venues, place very high on CMJ's listings of most played jazz albums with each release and gather huge press interest. This is the band's first album in four years and will be eagerly received by their many fans.
Curlew/A Beautiful Western Saddle + The Hardwood ....CD + DVD $17.99
Curlew's mid 80's/early 90's heyday featured their classic line-up of George Cartwright (saxes), Tom Cora (cello) (who also played with Holland's well known art-punk band, The Ex), Davey Williams (guitar), Ann Rupel (bass) and Pippin Barnett (drums). Curlew packed the clubs (CBGBs, The Knitting Factory, etc), toured hard, and thrilled audiences and critics alike with their unique, infectious blend of punk-jazz/downtown sound, roadhouse blues and a distinctly Southern esthetic. This re-issue adds never-before-on-DVD concert film The Hardwood, as well as nearly an hour of never-released footage.
Carlo de Rosa's Cross-Fade/Brain Dance ....CD $15.99
The four members of Cross-Fade are all rising or major names on their instruments in jazz. In addition to bandleader, bassist Carlo de Rosa, who recently appeared on The Colbert Report with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the band features pianist Vijay Iyer, who was awarded "the 2010 Musician of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association, saxist Mark Shim, who has recorded three albums for the legendary Blue Note label and the youthful drummer Justin Brown, who has performed with Esperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato, among others. Proficient, creative, clearly an in demand bassist, Carlo de Rosa is earning a reputation of very high standards. As a composer and band-leader of the quartet Cross-Fade, he also has very high standards. Cross-Fade is a band of top-drawer musicians, including jazz's major new piano star, Vijay Iyer. The music constantly moves between the modern, avant-garde and electric jazz worlds, never standing still, but taking the most interesting and attractive elements of these worlds and combining them into a new whole.
Dead Cat Bounce/Chance Episodes ....CD $15.99
With a band name presciently stripped from the headlines, the term "dead cat bounce" denotes a small and brief recovery in the price of a sinking stock (as in "even a dead cat bounces"). Featuring four saxophones plus upright bass and drums, the group has been in existence since 1997 and this is their fourth album. Truly a gem of an ensemble, their music is an original blend of many things from the jazz tradition and the present and ultimately they have the feel of the World Sax Quartet with a rhythm section that swings like Mingus!
Djam Karet/Recollection Harvest ....CD $14.99
With Recollection Harvest, Djam Karet has again succeeded in making a powerful and beautiful album of progressive rock. Recollection Harvest is also a landmark in the band's restless sonic evolution. In the band's own words, "Never content to just sit on our ass, we worked diligently to explore a more melodic and orchestrated vision of high energy progressive rock. Deeply disturbing atmospheres and netherworlds await." Acoustic guitars, generous use of vintage analog synths and mellotrons, and the use of 2 bass players for compositional ideas, are paired along with familiar aspects of the Djam Karet sound: ripping dual lead guitars, a dynamic pounding rhythm section, and electronic treated field recordings and soundscapes. Recollection Harvest is the band's 16th studio recording, and is actually two albums combined on a single CD. The first half, 'Recollection Harvest,' is Djam Karet's most extensive foray into high energy melodic rock underpinned by vintage and modern keyboards. It also shows Djam Karet revisiting its "fusion" roots. The second half of Recollection Harvest, titled "Indian Summer," is a quieter, more introspective and evocative work in which Djam Karet explores a variety of electro/acoustic sounds and moods. The instrumentation ranges from acoustic guitars and bazouki, to hand percussion, modular analog synths, and field recordings from the Middle East.
Ergo/If Not Inertia ....CD $15.99
"If Not Inertia" is the third album from the unique New York based electro-acoustic jazz ensemble, Ergo, again mining areas in sound that no one else in the jazz idiom approaches. After releasing his debut CD in 2002, Brett Sroka (trombone, computer) began exploring beyond his jazz background and became fascinated with electronic music, surrounding himself with computers and software. As he sought to reconcile the six hundred years of technology between trombone and computer, he found the like-minded musicians Sam Harris (piano, Fender Rhodes) and Shawn Baltazor (drums). "If Not Inertia" also features critically acclaimed guitarist Mary Halvorson as special guest on over half of the titles. The music is jazz, certainly, but jazz that owes as much to Autechre and Sigur Ros as to Ellington and Sun Ra. "If Not Inertia" also features a bonus enhanced film "The Making of If Not Inertia," which is viewable on your computer.
Ergo/Multitude Solitude ....CD $15.99
In 2003, trombonist and composer Brett Sroka began exploring beyond his Jazz background and became fascinated with electronic music, surrounding himself with synthesizers and software. Ergo's music is fresh and different - jazz musicians exploring the boundaries of electronic music - and one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. It has been compared to music as diverse as Duke Ellington, Autechre, Sigur Ros, Sun Ra, and King Crimson.
Far Corner/Endangered ....CD $14.99
An instrumental chamber/classical rock quartet, Far Corner combine group improvisation with completely scored works, composed in a contemporary, post-Bartokian style in an extremely assured way. Far Corner's second release, Endangered, sees the group expanding their sonic palette with a variety of instruments outside of their core piano/organ, bass, cello, and drumset. This release features instruments such as violin, spring drum, melodica, trumpet, and a greater variety of keyboard sounds, as well as a handful of home-made instruments. Compositionally, the group continues in a predominantly contemporary classical style, augmented by jazz and heavy rock. A long group composition is included, as well as improvised works, and a greater variety of semi-improvisatory sections are included within composed works. Compared to their first release, these new works embody the individual playing styles of each member, creating more expressive and emotional music with enhanced moods and drama. Each composition stretches further in a variety of stylistic directions, from the heavy and aggressive metal-styled "Creature Council" to the jazz tune "Not From Around Here" to the dark and experimental works "Inhuman" and "Claws." Great care has been taken to make all tracks work together as a whole, taking the listener on one path, with many diverse stops along the way. The title Endangered comes from a variety of concepts. The obvious "endangered species" theme may serve as a symbol for the idea that many elements in today's society which were once held dear have become scarce in favor of money-making commercial endeavors. Adventurous music of all types is one of these elements that is threatened, and Far Corner more than does their part to keep it alive.
Fast 'n' Bulbous/Waxed OOP ....CD $14.99
Captain Beefheart's music is the quintessential 'outsider art music' of the second half of the 20th century. Despite the fact that he retired from music over 25 years ago, his music resonates more strongly than ever as an influence on contemporary music. Fast 'n' Bulbous offer a unique slant on the songbook of one of contemporary music's most idiosyncratic musical figures. The band features seven great, well-regarded musicians drawn from the rock and the jazz worlds: co-leaders guitarist Gary Lucas (who was in the final incarnation of Beefheart's Magic Band) and saxist/arranger Phillip Johnston (of the Microscopic Septet) as well as drummer Richard Dworkin, and baritone saxist Dave Sewelson (both also of the Micros), trombonist Joe Fieldler (Ed Palermo Big Band and Satoko Fujii's big band), bassist Jesse Krakow (of Time of Orchids and Doctor Nerve) and trumpeter Rob Heinke (also of Doctor Nerve). With a strong, creative line-up like this, you know that you will be getting something more than just a 'cover band' and you indeed are. Heartfelt, exciting and it both rocks and swings!
Forgas Band Phenomena/Acte V ....CD + DVD $22.99
French drummer and composer Patrick Forgas has been releasing jazz/rock gems that showcase his compostional and arranging skills for 35 years. "Acte V" is the fifth album by his current band, a 7 piece instrumental ensemble of skillful young musicians, performing on saxes, trumpet, violin, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. The group performs music that combines the most attractive aspects of jazz and rock compositions with inspired solos. The quality of the music and performances is obvious from the first note and we're not the only ones who have noticed; the press has been hugely enthusiastic towards their releases. "Acte V" is a double disc package featuring the group's brand new studio release as well as their first ever DVD release which includes their performance at NEARfest 2010 in front of over 1,000 people!
Forgas Band Phenomena/Axis of Madness (L'Axe du Fou) ....CD $14.99
Drummer and composer Patrick Forgas has been releasing jazz-rock gems that showcase his compositional and and arranging skills for over 30 years. Axis of Madness (L'Axe du Fou) is the fourth album by his current band; a 7-piece instrumental ensemble of skillful young musicians, performing on saxes/flute, trumpet/flugelhorn, violin, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. The group performs music that combines the most attractive aspects of jazz and rock composition with inspired solos. The quality of the music and performances is obvious from the first note. "...tight, urgent, almost suite-like arrangements, vaguely recallilng Frank Zappa and Carla Bley, which nonetheless give each player chances to strut their formidable stuff. There's restraint, ebb and flow at work here." - jazzreview.com "Its combination of singable themes and rock rhythms will appeal to Canterbury devotees specifically - and, indeed, all fans of improvisation within a richly composed context." - All About Jazz
Forgas Band Phenomena/Soleil 12 ....CD $14.99
The Forgas Band Phenomena is led by composer and drummer Patrick Forgas, who has been hailed as "the French answer to the Canterbury scene" since he first burst upon the scene in 1977 with his "Cocktail" album, which featured members of Magma and Zao. Due to bad luck and bad circumstances, he fell out of the music scene for a great number of years, re-emerging with the very wonderful Forgas Band Phenomena about a decade ago. For their third album, and their first for Cuneiform, Patrick leads an 8 piece instrumental ensemble (dual saxes, trumpet, violin, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums) through epic-length, complex and melodic compositions that mix ambitious progressive structures and inspired soloing. In addition to the many Canterbury comparisons, I also hear a lot in common with the band that Frank Zappa led with George Duke & Jean-Luc Ponty; great tunes and arrangements in a fusion style with excellent 'jazz' soloing. Interestingly, two of the pieces are greatly re-arranged versions of the two works that Patrick had originally planned for the never-recorded follow up to Cocktail!
Michael Gibbs & The NDR Bigband/Back In The Day ....CD $15.99
Michael Gibbs & The NDR Bigband's "Back In The Day" is a never before released audiophile recording of this great jazz composer and arranger in a program of original modern jazz plus three specially arranged classics recorded in separate sessions in 1995, 2002 and 2003. The legendary 'Britjazz' composer and arranger Michael Gibbs was born in 1937 in Zimbabwe and was originally a trombonist as well. Gibbs began to concentrate on writing and arranging because performing solos terrified him! Starting in the late '60s, he recorded a series of highly acclaimed and influential albums featuring many of the most prominent British-based jazz players who, like Michael, were beginning to flirt with jazz/rock. Since the '80s, he has mostly done arrangements and orchestrations for major names such as Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Whitney Houston, Peter Gabriel, and Sister Sledge among many others, while too infrequently recording his own music. "Back in the Days" is an all-too rare opportunity to hear Gibbs' music, arranged and conducted by the composer and in front of a well-rehearsed 18 piece band filled with great soloists (Including Gary Burton on vibes!) and ensemble players. The profile and interest in the 60s/70s wave of British Jazz talents has never been higher and Gibbs is one of the major names in the field.
Gosta Berlings Saga/Glue Works ....CD $15.99
Gosta Berlings Saga was formed in Stockholm in 2004. Glue Works is the group's third album, their debut release for Cuneiform, and their first release outside of Sweden. The instrumentation is Fender Rhodes and keyboards, guitar, bass and drums with guests on brass and strings. The group are a modern instrumental rock band and their style combines post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound and more, all recorded and combined with unusual and interesting studio techniques. The album was recorded at a studio in an industrial and forgotten part of Stockholm. The studio itself has leaking radiators and poor heating and always - a freshly urinated hallway from the petty thieves in the neighborhood. In other words: the perfect conditions for the recording of a breathtaking album. Engineered, mixed and produced by Mattias Olsson (Anglagard) the band has created a truly all embracing, yet focused and forward thinking album.
Gutbucket/Flock ....CD $15.99
What happens when you take four highly opinionated, strong-willed and creative composer/musicians and put them in a band together? You might have a volatile problem on your hand...or else you have Gutbucket. From the beginning Gutbucket has had no single bandleader; the result has been an expansive yet unified and recognizable group sound. With Flock, the group's fifth release, the twelve year-old Brooklyn-based quartet push their composer-driven, art-rock-tainted chamber jazz into new terrain. The group attacks their jazz with the ferocity usually reserved for punk. Their music is filled with layers of mature arrangements and a full-throttle blend of energy, chops, melody, intricacy and noise. From the beginning, Gutbucket's music challenged New York's downtown norm bringing a completely unique road-tested performance and a sound that tilted much further towards rock than many of its jazz contemporaries. Gutbucket's brand of jazz continues to have its signature biting edge, cunning sense of humor and appreciation for the loud and theatrical. Improvisations are woven seamlessly and sometimes unexpectedly into the band's growing repertoire, and each composer in the group has developed an individual voice that simultaneously supports the collective. Flock cements Gutbucket's sound - still wearing the indie rock influences on its sleeve, but delving deeply into all four members' work as individual composers, assimilating contemporary classical, free jazz, mathy art rock, and more. Audibly, Gutbucket learned from its decade of record-making and has produced its most ambitious disc yet. The band has produced a CD that is hard-hitting yet nuanced, with a new sonic and compositional breadth. Gutbucket's imagination is in full bloom on Flock; the band sounds exactly like itself: immediate, ferocious, ambitious and inviting. During their dozen year ride, Gutbucket has brought its "impressive balance of passionate lyricism and pummeling angularity" (Time Out New York) to festivals, clubs and concert halls in 33 US states and 19 countries. All of this work and energy and power has been harnessed on Flock, the latest in their series of impressive works!
Gutbucket/A Modest Proposal ....CD $14.99
Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond, the decade-old New York quartet Gutbucket is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing teenage skate-punks, a crowd of cosmic indie-psych freaks, on an anarchist German art collective's house-boat or even teaching master classes in the music departments of schools around the country, but most importantly, their music fits right in. A Modest Proposal solidifies Gutbucket's place at the forefront of a revitalized avant-garde music scene in New York, where sparkling new venues pack in 20-somethings at Steve Reich gigs and Bang on a Can's all-night music marathons draw crowds for Stockhausen at Sunrise. The band has spent the past 10 years injecting a shot of exuberance into the minimalist cool of the New York downtown scene. The group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for punk, and the humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. Founded by bassist Eric Rockwin, saxophonist Ken Thomson, guitarist Ty Citerman, and drummer Paul Chuffo, Gutbucket built their all-important live reputation in New York clubs before spreading across east coast college towns. Trips to Europe soon followed, with over a dozen tours in 19 countries taken to date. Joined in 2007 by longtime friend Adam D. Gold on drums following Chuffo's departure, Gold's musical voice was quickly deemed a necessity. A close friend, he's also good for van conversation. Which is good. Because there are miles to go before Gutbucket sleeps!
Hamster Theatre/The Public Execution of Mister Personality; Quasi Day Room ....double CD $19.99
Hamster Theatre straddle the edges of folk music, avant-garde, world music, early 20th century French composers, such as Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel, contemporary composition and many other musical forms, bringing together elements of all these styles while never sounding 'just like' any one of them. Using an instrumentation of accordion, keyboards, trombones, saxophones, clarinets, flutes, guitars, mandolin, bass, drums and percussion, their pieces are always filled with delightful melodies and surprising orchestrations. In addition to the new studio album included here, there is a second disc of the band's stupendous live performance from August, 2002 at The Moore Theatre in Seattle. This CD is a perfect compliment to the studio disc, as it shows the amazing performance that 'the Hamsters' can put on in a live environment; Hugh Hopper called this performance, "Some of the most interesting music and one of the best live shows I've seen for years." Both discs were mixed by noted producer/engineer Bob Drake.
Heldon/Allez Teia ....CD $15.99
Allez Teia, originally released in 1975 was Heldon's second album. It is considered an early, trance-inducing, electronic and acoustic masterpiece. It is the only album in the Heldon cannon to feature acoustic guitar. It features the trademark '70s Heldon/Pinhas instrumental sound: waves of fuzztone, post Frippian guitars, ARP and VCS3 synthesizers, tape loops and mellotron, all building towards a monstrously delirious denouement. Allez Teia is a classic of the progressive rock scene of the '70s, with its searing, instrumental spacemusic, bridging electronics and psychedelic guitar in a legendary fashion. Originally first released on CD in 1992 and out of print for several years, is finally reissued with newly upgraded packaging that closely approximates the original, collectable album release.
Lars Hollmer/Viandra ....CD $14.99
Active in music for over 40 years, Lars Hollmer first got together with his friends to play music in late-'60s Sweden. This band eventually became the legendary "Rock In Opposition" band Samla Mammas Manna. Concurrently towards the end of Samla's original life-span (the band reformed in the '00s and is recording and playing shows again), Lars started a solo career where he emphasized his very personal compositions and his accordion playing, of which he is a master. Lars' solo albums have a great warmth, intimacy, and even innocence to them. Although he makes music that can be abrasive and even purposefully a bit demented, with rough textures, quirky instrumentation, and unusual rhythms and time signatures, Hollmer's compositions are mostly tuneful and easy going, sometimes catchy, and often disarmingly lovely. In addition to Lars' performance on accordions and keyboards, percussion and vocals, also appearing are Michel Berckmans (Univers Zero) on bassoon, English horn and oboe, Santiago Jimenez on violins and Andreas Tengberg on cello, among others. "The music on Viandra was recorded and mixed between 2001 and 2007, amidst all the other projects that sent Hollmer packing up his accordion and rushing to the airport for the next flight out of Stockholm. The music itself is as...strangely -- sometimes as magically -- wonderful as anything Hollmer has recorded in his solo career. Lars dominates on keyboards and accordion...while the strings and Berckmans' double reeds are secondarily the most dominant voices...more striking is the mood that he brings to the 16 compositions here; a sense of reflection sometimes touched with melancholy, a side of him sometimes lost in his collaborative projects with others." - David Lynch/All Music Guide
Lars Hollmer/With Floury Hand (Sketches) ....CD + DVD $21.99
Lars Holllmer (1948-2008) was a Swedish composer, accordionist and keyboardist. He was a founding member of the influential "Rock in Opposition (R.I.O.)" movement with his band Samla Mammas Manna, founded/performed in a number of other bands, toured throughout Europe and the Americas and wrote a song that is a modern-day standard in Sweden (Boeves Psalm). Starting in the mid 80s and concurrent with his band work, he had a solo career where he emphasized his compositions and accordion playing and introduced many beautiful and exciting pieces into the modern accordion repertoire. "With Floury Hands (sketches)" is the final album by Lars Hollmer and was compiled by his son, this is the album Lars was working on before he died. Included is a professionally filmed DVD from a 2005 performance by Lars solo, in duo with bassoonist Michel Berckmans (Univers Zero), and one song with Miriodor, plus 30 minutes of extras. All of the recordings on the CD and DVD are previously unreleased and true gems in the catalogue of the underrated talent of Lars Hollmer.
Hugh Hopper/Hopper Tunity Box ....CD $14.99
"Freshly remastered from the master tapes and issued on CD from the master tapes
for the first time, this was the second solo album by Soft Machine bassist and composer
Hugh Hopper. This was Hugh's second solo album and his first solo album after leaving Soft
Machine. In my fan-boy opinion, it is one of the best records Hugh's ever made and is a
fine and distinctively unusual progressive/fusion album that has all the compositional and
performance twists and oddities that make it distinctly Hugh's. Originally released in
1977 on the Compendium label, it highlights Hugh's quirky compositional sense and
trademarked fuzzbass/looping/lead bass stylings with stunningly great contributions from
Richard Brunton-guitar, Elton Dean-alto sax and saxello, Mark Charig-cornet, Nigel
Morris-drums, Frank Roberts-electric piano, Dave Stewart-organ, pianet, oscillators, Mike
Travis-drums and Gary Windo-bass clarinet and saxes. There were no outtakes or additions
to add to this reissue, but Hugh did contribute new notes that tell the story of the
making of this album and he gave us reproductions of some of the musical scores for the
booklet. An absolutely essential album that I've been pestering Hugh to allow us to
release for well over a decade! This is a lost jazz/rock classic that demands to be
rediscovered 30 years later! The original LP had a skip in the middle of one of Elton's
wonderful solos and the only previous CD version was recorded off of a vinyl record and
had the same skip! This is the first time this album has been released on CD with the care
that it deserves. Don't miss it!" ~ Steve Feigenbaum/Cuneiform Records
"An old Soft Machinist never lets you down. Somehow he's brought with him much of the
flavour of his old band.... [Hopper Tunity Box] belongs up there with Third and
Fourth...." - Melody Maker
Isotope/Golden Section ....CD $14.99
Isotope were one of the major (and earliest) British jazz-rock bands of the 1970s, coming along chronologically only just behind Soft Machine and Nucleus, the two UK pioneer bands in the genre. Isotope was formed by guitarist Gary Boyle in 1972. After about a year, the band signed with a major U.K. management company who got the band signed to a independent label which was owned by a film company and things really took off. By the time of their second and best-known album, Illusion, the band consisted of Gary, ex-Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper keyboardist Laurence Scott and drummer Nigel Morris. This version of the band lasted nearly 2 years and played hundreds of shows. Golden Section is over 65' of all unreleased material, taken from 3 different dates, all from the period when Hugh was a part of the band and lent his strongly distinctive style to the group; from the opening notes of the album, it's readily apparent that Hugh is in the house! More than half the CD is a program recorded by Radio Bremen in Germany for broadcast. During this time, the band included a fifth member, percussionist Aureo de Souza, who played with the group for several months during spring/summer 1975 and added a definite Weather Report-inspired flair, but whose tenure with the group has never before been documented on record or heard! In addition to the music, Golden Section includes a 12 page booklet with exclusive interviews with the musicians, conducted by Aymeric Leroy, that gives an overview of the entire history of the band and tells the full story of the period covered by these recordings. Also included are never-before seen photographs of the group. "We played a lot of gigs with Isotope, touring all the time in the UK and Europe and once in the States. The band had good sponsorship and backing, and jazz-rock was almost desirable for a few months in 1974-75! We were playing at least four or five times a week, all the time. Isotope certainly was good for me from the point of view of doing a lot of music. Since we were gigging so much, I was probably playing with more technical facility than when I was in Soft Machine." - Hugh Hopper
Richard Leo Johnson/The Legend of Vernon McAlister ....CD $14.99
This CD is very low key, very personal and very extraordinary. Best known for his blazing speed and unusual techniques on the acoustic guitar, "Richard Leo Johnson has emerged from the fringe of the Mississippi Delta to become one of the baddest axe slingers in the land."-Jazziz. On this album, Richard has traded in his trademark double-neck acoustic for a well-worn, 1930's National Duolian steel-bodied guitar which he stumbled across. "I pulled it out of the case and was immediately stunned by its playability and tone. Bells, horns, voices and other mysterious qualities emanated from its resonate chamber. Moments later I noticed something etched into the steel body. It was the name Vernon McAlister, apparently the one-time owner of this amazing instrument. Who was Vernon? I could find nothing about him. A myth of sorts emerged, using this wonderful instrument as the nucleus. Every sound on this recording comes directly from the Vernon guitar." Richard was inspired by this unique instrument and its sounds to try something different from any of his other albums. This is a CD of deep beauty and innovation, created with just this one old guitar and some simple electronic and tape effects. As Dean Blackwood (Revenant Records) said about it, it is located in some sort of nether place between the old and the modern.
Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian/Who Knew Charlie Shoe? ....CD $14.99
Richard Leo Johnson's style on the acoustic guitar is marked by emotional depth, complexity and hauntingly unfamiliar harmonies. Percussionist Gregg Bendian is the leader of The Mahavishnu Project and Interzone. They have toured together in the past, opening for King Crimson, among others, but this is their first recording together. This record is an extension of the music and story of Vernon McAlister and his music's influence on the people he encountered, which started on Richard's last record, The Legend of Vernon McAlister. As on that album, Richard has taken on a character's role in order to 'get inside' of the music. Charlie is a self-taught guitarist from Marked Tree, Arkansas who has developed his own way of playing the guitar, after a chance encounter with Vernon. "Junk Fish" was a successful drummer in the 1970s, but was eventually a casuality of the rock and roll lifestyle. He sold his drums, moved to Marked Tree and works in the salvage yard where he and Charlie met. Richard and Gregg work with "junk" percussion, cheap guitars purchased off eBay, field recordings and simple tape effects to make a kaleidoscopic, down-home, psychedelic experience. In a few spots, Gregg's non-standared percussion instruments are reminscent of the Harry Partch instruments, and the music that resembles the imaginary meeting of Harry Partch and John Fahey!
Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet/Early and Late ....double CD $21.99
Until his death in 2004, soprano saxist Steve Lacy worked with trombonist Roswell Rudd as often as circumstances would permit, from their start together in Dixieland-style bands in the 1950s to the more adventurous styles that both master players are known for. This album of all previously unreleased material with great sound presents work spanning a 40-year period. The majority of this album (nearly 2 hours) is taken from concerts from 1999 and 2002 and features the great 'free-bop' quartet they co-led that featured the rhythm section of Lacy's longtime sextet, Jean-Jacques Avenel on bass and John Betsch on drums. This band's repertoire here features a number of compositions by Lacy as well as one each by Roswell, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. Additionally there is over 20' of studio recordings (so far, the only studio recordings ever released!!) by the famous 'School Days' quartet (Lacy, Rudd, Bob Cunningham-bass and Denis Charles-drums) from October, 1962! This album was compiled and produced for us by noted Lacy expert Jason Weiss, who contributes short liner notes and pulled together the best performances from the different shows. An essential, swinging, free-jazz release.
Laswell + Bjorkenheim + Agren/Blixt ....CD $15.99
Bassist Bill Laswell has been a major figure in creative music for 3 decades as a performer as well as a producer. The list of major names in jazz and rock he has worked with is voluminous. His stamp is on literally hundreds of albums; the majority of them characterized by a sound fusing the energy of punk with the bone-rattling rhythms of dub and funk. Guitarist Raoul Björkenheim emerged from Finland in the 1980s with Edward Vesala then recorded two albums for ECM. A major if under-appreciated guitar hero, he has kept an active profile most recently with Scorch Trio, with whom he has released 4 albums. Drummer Morgan Agren was voted the #1 best fusion drummer in the Modern Drummer Readers Poll of 2010! He has worked with keyboardist Mats Oberg as Mats/Morgan for over 30 years (since he was 14 and Mats was 10!) and they have released 8 albums. "Blixt" is the first release by this electric jazz power trio supergroup; think the Jimi Hendrix Experience mixed with outjazz/improvisation.
Led Bib/Bring Your Own ....CD $15.99
Rock? Jazz? The sound of plugged-in instruments falling down the stairs? UK skronk-jazz-rock-punk-whatever quintet, Led Bib release their fifth album, Bring Your Own, and bring all of these influences to the table. Their last album, Sensible Shoes, was a 2009 'Album of the Year' winner with the prestigious Mercury Prize. In the wake of the huge attention lavished on them due to the Mercury, performing to millions on the awards show, did they decide to tone it down? Turn it back a notch? Definitely not. If anything, Bring Your Own contains some of their hardest rocking material to date, mixing the full throated cry of the dual saxes over loudly amplified Fender Rhodes, bass and drums. Led Bib are a huge presence on the UK modern jazz scene, playing large international festivals and venues across Europe, such as London's Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, the North Sea Jazz Festival, Salfaalden Jazz Festival, Wiesen Jazz festival and others across Europe. The touring will re-commence with this new album's release.
Led Bib/Sensible Shoes ....CD $15.99
Sensible Shoes is the third album by this London quintet of dual saxes, keyboards, bass and drums. It is a cataclysmic offering of free-jazz, jazz-rock, avant-skronk, funk-rock, noise-metal and whatever else they can lay their hands on. As the Observer Music Monthly said, "Led Bib sound like they could have coped supporting '61 Sun Ra, '66 Beefheart, and even '69 Led Zep. Led Bib are jazz, though, through and through, crammed with horn and blast, and as much swing as sweat."
The Mahavishnu Project/Return to the Emerald Beyond ....double CD $19.99
Founded in 2001 by drummer and composer Gregg Bendian, The Mahavishnu Project is dedicated to reviving and bringing to today's audiences the excitement and the transcendent experience of visceral intensity of the early days of jazz/rock in general and the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra specifically. The band was formed by Gregg to perpetuate the spirit of live performance in which this music was created by performing this great music live! Return to the Emerald Beyond features an 11 piece band interpreting The Mahavishnu Orchestra's Visions of the Emerald Beyond, one of the most explosive albums in the fusion genre. This is not a sound-alike project; Gregg and the band do not try to recreate the solos of the original players. What they do do is capture the amazing intensity and fire that the Mahavishnu Orchestra exuded, add their own selves to it and allow people to experience it first hand in concert and now on record. The band just slay the material and play it with conviction and belief.
Mats-Morgan/Trends and Other Diseases ....CD $14.99
"Trends and Other Diseases" is a reissue of their debut album, recorded from 1993 to 1995 and originally released only in Sweden. This release has been remastered and includes a 15 minute bonus track. "Trends is our debut CD, and was also the first one we released by ourselves on our own company! It was a great exciting period, cause we had just built our first own studio, (one adat machine and a 24 track Soundcraft board etc). When finally having all the equipment we needed to record, we spent quite some time making this CD. I like the album a lot, it not only reminds me of this exciting period, I like the songs too, and I was also happy with the way the sound came out, especially considering it was the first recording we did by ourselves. Nice guest acts as well, such as; Fredrik Sohngen and Gunnar Persson on oboe and bassoon, vocalists Dilba, Derek Huntsman, Meshuggah Guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, saxophonist Jonas Knutsson etc. And, of course the title of the album is great, and quite appropriate, don't you think?" - Morgan Agren
Mats-Morgan Band/Live ....CD $15.99
Keyboardist/vocalist Mats Oberg and drummer Morgan Agren have been playing together for over 30 years, since Mats was 10 and Morgan was 14! They were 'discovered' at a very young age by Frank Zappa, who invited them to join his band (Zappa's ill health ultimately cancelled these tour plans) and they are musical legends in their native Sweden and beyond, known for their wild and funny musical performances. Since 2005, Cuneiform has been releasing the group's new recordings as well as bringing back to print their earlier, privately released albums. "Live" is their fifth album and the first by the amazing five-piece version of the group. Recorded live in June 1999, they dazzled the audience with their unbelievable chops and musical audacity. Now everyone can hear these performances! Recommended for fans of: Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Meshuggah, Naked City, Return To Forever and Frank Zappa.
Mats-Morgan Band/The Music Or The Money? ....double CD $21.99
Keyboardist/vocalist Mats Oberg and drummer Morgan Agren have been playing together for nearly 30 years. They were 'discovered' at a very young age by Frank Zappa, who invited them to join his band (Zappa's ill health ultimately cancelled these tour plans) and they are musical legends in their native Sweden and beyond, known for their wild and funny musical performances. "The Music or the Money" is their second album and was originally released in 1997. This edition adds over 45 minutes of unreleased material. For fans of: Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Frank Zappa.
Mats-Morgan Band/Thanks For Flying With Us ....CD $14.99
Mats Oberg (keyboards) and Morgan Agren (drums) first began playing together 25 years ago (!!) when Mats was 11 and Morgan was 15. Originally very influenced by Frank Zappa, they actually played with Zappa in 1988, but while some of the Zappa influence remains, they have long since found their own voices. In the mid 90's, they began releasing CDs on Morgan's UAE label, eventually forming a stable band, which has been amazing audiences in Europe and the USA since 2001, and which consists of Mats and Robert Elovsson-keyboards, Jimmy Agren-guitar, Tommy Thordsson-bass and Morgan-drums. All players with superb playing ability, the quintet plays as a well-honed, cohesive unit, with more developed compositions than in earlier works, showing the band arriving at its own voice, with a modern-sounding blend of complexity, composition, chops and beats. Thanks For Flying With Us is their seventh album, their first release outside of Sweden and their first studio work since 1997. This is a great album by an absolutely monster band who await the world's discovery!
Mats-Morgan Band & Morgan Agren/Heat Beats Live & Tourbook 1991-2007 ....CD + DVD $21.99
Mats Oberg (keyboards) and Morgan Agren (drums) have been playing together for over 25 years. They released 6 previous album (as well as assorted side/solo projects) for their own UAE label for a decade before signing with Cuneiform and releasing their very popular "Thanks For Flying With Us" album. Heat Beats is an excellently recorded live album (except for the applause you would never know it was a live recording) which covers two years of work, featuring Mats and Morgan alone, together and with up to 3 additional musicians. The music is their modern blend of composition, improvisation, complexity and hypnotic beats, as well as their sense of humor. Also included in this package is a second disc, which is Morgan Agren's long worked upon and anticipated DVD release, both with Mats and with other musicians as well. "This DVD contains various recordings made during a 16 year span, including live and studio recordings featuring many of my favorite musicians, plus lots of solo drums. I am happy that all of this material is recorded at all. It would have been a waste to set my hair on fire without being able to see it after..." - Morgan Agren "Morgan is quite simply one of the most interesting and exciting drummers I've ever heard. Rhythmically advanced and musical too. A rare combination of modern and classic." - Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree)
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath/Eclipse at Dawn ....CD $14.99
Most folks reading this know the story of Chris and his magnificent, fun and wild big band comprised of fellow South African exiles as well as the cream of the early/mid 70s British jazz scene. During their heyday, they were only able to release two studio albums and all were out of print within a few years and despite the huge acclaim they received during from the period of about 1971-1975, Chris and the Brotherhood were basically forgotten by the time of Chris' death in 1990. Luckily, the band performed many, many concerts and a good number of these concerts were recorded. With the release of Cuneiform's two previous archival albums by Chris and the Brotherhood, starting in 2001, there was a huge acclaim for these releases. Much more importantly, retrospective notice for the band began to happen and Chris and the Brotherhood are now rightly recognized as one of the major bands annd figures of Brit-jazz in the 1970s. Eclipse at Dawn captures the band at an early peak, performing in front of a huge, rapturous crowd at the Berliner Jazztage on November 4, 1971. Recorded by German radio, this is probably the best live recording of the Brotherhood in existence! There is a version of Dollar Brand's composition "Eclipse at Dawn", which the Brotherhood never recorded anywhere else, as well as exciting, wild, & extended versions of many favorities from their first two albums. Included in the 16 page booklet are never-before published photos from the concert and liner notes.
Phil Miller/Cutting Both Ways ....CD $15.99
Phil Miller started composing & playing guitar in 1968. His first group was Delivery, with whom he cut a record in 1971. In late 1971, Phil helped to found Matching Mole with drummer & vocalist Robert Wyatt, who had just left Soft Machine. They recorded 2 LPs. After the break-up of Matching Mole, Phil joined forces with Dave Stewart, Richard Sinclair & Pip Pyle to form Hatfield & The North, cutting two LPs for Virgin in the mid 70's. Hatfield & The North later evolved into National Health, with whom Phil recorded 3 albums. Starting in 1981, Phil began preparing material for a solo career that began with 1988's Cutting Both Ways. This is a Cuneiform classic now back in print!
Phil Miller/Digging In ....CD $14.99
Guitarist Phil Miller started his career as a member of Delivery. After Delivery's demise, he ended up with Robert Wyatt who had just left Soft Machine in Matching Mole. Matching Mole ended prematurely due to Robert's paralyzing accident, and Phil found himself playing with some other ex-Delivery people for a band that eventually metamorphosed into Hatfield and the North. After two critically acclaimed and large selling albums with Hatfield, Phil continued on after their break up with 3 of the 4 members in National Health. When National Health came to an end, Phil began assembling his own band, In Cahoots in the early 1980's. Since that time, Phil has released 9 albums under his or In Cahoot's name. Originally released in 1991, this was Phil's third solo album and features musicians who have played with Gong, Mike Oldfield, John Surman and many, many others. For fans of: Hatfield and the North, National Health, Picchio dal Pozzo, Soft Machine, Frank Zappa.
Phil Miller & In Cahoots/All That ....CD $15.99
Special reprinting of the album by the supergroup of English jazz and rock players, led by guitarist Phil Miller (Hatfield and the North, National Health, Matching Mole) with Elton Dean (Soft Machine, Carla Bley Band, Brotherhood of Breath), Pete Lemer (Mike Oldfield, Gong, Gilgamesh, Spontaneous Music Ensemble), Fred Baker (Brotherhood of Breath, John Stevens) and Mark Fletcher (Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Soft Machine Legacy). Phil's mature writing and the crack ensemble deliver a high-energy rocked-up jazz or jazzed-up rock, filled with intriguing twists and fantastic solos.
Steve Miller & Lol Coxhill/Coxhill Miller-Miller Coxhill & The Story So Far... ...Oh Really? ....double CD $21.99
Out-of print on vinyl for over 25 years, this is the first CD release of the two album collaborations (Coxhill/Miller Miller/Coxhill and "The Story So Far..." "Oh Really?") between saxist Lol Coxhill and pianist Steve Miller, who first worked together in Delivery and continued their partnership for several years afterwards. These albums are quite fondly remembered by those luckily enough to own them for their unique personality and low-key approach to improvisation and composition and feature guests such as Phil Miller, Richard Sinclair, Pip Pyle, Archie Legget, Laurie Allan and Robert Wyatt. Produced, remastered and with liner notes by Michael King, the material is presented in the absolute best possible sonics. Also included is the last known interview with Steve to help shed light on his career and some great, rare photos to include in the huge, 20 page booklet. In addition to the albums there is almost an hour of previously unreleased and unheard material. Of particular interest is 20' of material by the proto-Hatfield and the North lineup of Delivery: Steve Miller, Lol Coxhill, Phil Miller, Pip Pyle, Richard Sinclair and Roy Babbington, as well as four short, terrific solo tracks by Steve and a 25' live improvisation by Steve, Lol, Richard Sinclair and Laurie Allan from December, 1974!
Miriodor/Avanti! ....CD $15.99
Over a 30 year career, Miriodor have produced music that is intricate, tuneful , challenging and filled with both fire and humor. Their albums are enjoyable and captivating new-music gems. As Goldmine magazine said, "Occupying a realm somewhat between the chamber rock of Univers Zero and the spry fusion of vintage Jean-Luc Ponty...Miriodor mostly just sounds like Miriodor...unique and forward looking."
Miriodor/Parade + Live at NEARfest ....double CD $19.99
Miriodor have been making adventurous, memorable and truly entertaining instrumental rock music for 25 years, performing on guitars, keyboards, violin, saxophones, bass and drums. As Goldmine said, "Occupying a realm somewhat between the chamber rock of Univers Zero and the spry fusion of vintage Jean-Luc Ponty, with hints of Van Der Graaf Generator and Soft Machine along the way, Miriodor mostly just sounds like Miriodor...unique and forward looking." Featuring guest performances by accordionist/keyboardist Lars Hollmer (of Samla Mammas Manna), Parade is the band's sixth album and is their most impressive and inspired album yet! In addition to Miriodor's new studio work, this album includes a second disc which features the band's complete, now legendary performance at NEARFest 2002, which was seen by a sold-out audience of 1,850 and which caused Sea Of Tranquility to comment, "Miriodor proved that complex music can still have melody and finesse. Miriodor was without a doubt one of the highlights of the festival..." This CD is the band's first ever live release.
Mujician/There's No Going Back Now ....CD $14.99
For almost two decades, this British free-jazz quartet has been working and refining their dynamic take on improvised jazz with the same quartet of musicians, all of whom are long-time mainstays on the English and European free-jazz scene: Paul Dunmall-saxes, Tony Levin-drums, Paul Rogers-7 string A.L.L. double bass and Keith Tippett-piano. On this, their sixth album, they do what they have always done, which is to dig in and to investigate the music and where the music takes them, which in this case is a single, 45' long piece! "Working within the instrumental parameters of the standard post-bop combo - piano, bass, drums and saxophones - the band situates itself in a space midway between what could be called Brit-Improv and American energy music...their sound is, if anything, more exhilarating than it has ever been." - Jazz Weekly "...the band has been together for many years, producing tasty, adventurous music that pushes the barriers of convention, but never sacrifices high standards. Each of these four musicians is a significant soloist, yet the totality of their balanced, collective sound is due to a certain synergy among them as they create sculptures of an almost transcendent nature... Grandstanding is discarded in favor of a more nuanced approach. Sometimes it even rises to the level of magnificence. The quartet forges a distinct sound, radical yet accessible, unconventional but comforting." - All Music Guide
NeBeLNeST/ZePTO ....CD $14.99
NeBeLNeST are one of the most adventurous and energetic young bands to emerge on the international post-rock / avant-progressive scene in recent years. The young French band is noted for its dark symphonic rock music influenced by King Crimson, Pulsar & Shylock, laced with psychedelia and improvisation, and played with a riveting level of energy and intensity that 70's bands never even considered! Nova Express, their second CD, is produced by Bob Drake of the 5uu's and Thinking Plague, and has recorded solo and other CDs for the ReR label. Drake's distinctive production techniques are a perfect match for NeBeLNeST, emphasizing and augmenting the wide dynamic range of the band's dark, mesmerizing sound.
Ed Palermo Big Band/Eddy Loves Frank ....CD $15.99
Ed Palermo has led his big band for 30 years. Ed's interpretations of the music of Frank Zappa was heard by an audience in the millions, when he brought his band to the National Public Radio (NPR) studios in Washington, DC to record a segment that aired on NPR's Weekend Edition show in late 2006. "In arranging Zappa's tunes for big band, Ed Palermo has thrown new light on his legacy while retaining the composer's original melodic and harmonic designs. The arrangements also leave plenty of room for the band's gifted soloists...." - The Washington Post
The Ed Palermo Big Band/Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance ....CD $14.99
Ed Palermo is an alto sax player and arranger; he has had a big band for twenty-five years, which is an impressive feat in itself, and has had his band performing the music of Frank Zappa for over a decade. Years and years of playing these pieces in front of enthusiastic crowds at a number of venues in New York City and beyond have honed the band's skills with this difficult material to where they can glide through these charts as if they were butter. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of this great 20th century American composer, but no one does it with this ease, skill and originality. Ed is not afraid to turn a piece into a salsa number or to take what was a one minute miniature and to develop it out into a six minute work. The band is a 15 piece ensemble of 6 woodwind players, two trumpeters, three trombonists, two keyboardists, bass and drums, plus a few guests. All of these musicians are NYC professionals, and they have been playing this music for years with Ed, because, like Ed, they recognize and appreciate the genius inherent in the huge body of Zappa's work, and they want to keep this great music alive and in front of the public. "[Palermo's] wisely chosen to emphasize Zappa's early and mid-career work, as that's the music which is more fluid and graceful--and more apt to swing....reveals the lighthearted playfulness and rhythmic intelligence at the core of Zappa's best work..." - Downbeat. "In arranging Zappa's tunes for big band, Ed Palermo has thrown new light on his legacy while retaining the composer's original melodic and harmonic designs. The arrangements also leave plenty of room for the band's gifted soloists..." - The Washington Post.
Richard Pinhas/L'Ethique ....CD $15.99
L'Ethique was Richard's fifth solo album, originally released in 1982. It was his final solo album before his musical retirement in the 1980s and it's one of his great 'classic period' works. This recording features a great cast of musicians who had all previously played in Magma: Clement Bailly (drums), Patrick Gauthier (synthesizer, also of Heldon and Weidorje), Bernard Paganotti (bass, also of Weidorje) and Richard on the big Moog and guitar. L'Ethique has been unavailable on CD for several years. There is huge interest in analog electronics and the early days of synthesis, Richard's career in general and the music of Magma.
Richard Pinhas/Metal-Crystal ....double CD $17.99
Richard Pinhas is a key figure in the international development of electronic rock music and remains today one of France's leading experimental musicians. He is recognized as the father of an entire musical movement in France (analogous to Tangerine Dream's role in Germany) for his pioneering work in the 1970s with his band Heldon, which fused electronics, "diabolical guitar work" and rock to create a pioneering, aggressive music that was a precursor to industrial music and techno. All of his early recordings have been reissued by Cuneiform. Pinhas' early work has been sampled by U.N.K.L.E., Pete Namlook/Bill Laswell, and other artists. Joining Richard on "Metal/Crystal" are two other well-known provocateurs of new music; Michigan's Wolf Eyes - electronics (Sub Pop recording artists) and Japan's Merzbow - electronics (the originator of Japanese noise music). Also appearing are members of Magma and Heldon. "Metal/Crystal" is two full length CDs of radical music!
Richard Pinhas/Metatron ....double CD $19.99
Metatron is over 2 hours of spacey and flowing music that isn't afraid to rock out completely as well, by French electronic rock pioneer Richard Pinhas (on guitar and electronics), with Jerome Schmidt on laptop, drummer Antoine Paganotti (Magma) and ex-Heldon members Didier Batard (bass), Patrick Gauthier (minimoog) and Alain Renaud (guitar), as well as Chuck Oken, Jr. (Djam Karet) on synths and Philipe Simon on violin on one track each. While a lot of this is definitely comparable to Tranzition, his great last album, there really is a lot more rock involved this time around, as there are drums on the great majority of tracks. In addition to all the great music, there is a QuickTime video with footage from Richard and Jerome's 2004 North American tour.
Richard Pinhas/Rhizosphere-Live Paris 1982 ....CD $15.99
Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. He is a key figure in the international development of electronic rock music. His band, Heldon, fused electronics and rock to create a pioneering, aggressive music that was a precursor to the industrial music and techno to come. Rhizosphere, originally released in 1977, was Pinhas' first solo album.
Richard Pinhas & Merzbow/Keio Line ....double CD $19.99
Richard and Merzbow are both among the best-known figures in electronic rock music today. Merzbow is probably the single best-known artist in noise music today. While Richard's work wouldn't be considered to be in the 'noise' arena, many of the artists in the field have expressed great interest in his pioneering use of synthesizers and electronics in rock and contemporary music from the 1970s until the present. Despite coming from very different backgrounds, they had long expressed admiration for each others work. Given all of this, it is probably not surprising that the most important electronic musicians of France and Japan should finally collaborate together! During Richard's second tour of Japan in the fall of 2007, he performed with Merzbow in what Richard called, "an incredible concert." A week later, at the end of this tour, they booked two days in the studio to work together again, this time on a recording. All material was recorded completely live by the two musicians, with extensive work done in the mix and re-mix stage. Keio Line (the name refers to the name of the train Richard and Masami would take from downtown Tokyo to the recording studio) is a two CD set that is violent, soothing, hypnotic, noisy and trance-inducing. All aboard the Keio Line!
Richard Pinhas & Merzbow/Rhizome ....CD $15.99
"Rhizome" is the second recorded collaboration by two of the best-known figures in contemporary experimental electronic music. Both active since the 1970s, Merzbow and Richard Pinhas are two of the most uncompromising artists on the international Rock scene, having remained true to their personal artistic visions and constantly innovative throughout their careers. Merzbow is widely recognized as "...the most important artist in noise music" [All Music Guide]. Richard Pinhas is one of France's major experimental musicians; he is a key figure in the international development of electronic Rock music. They met for the 1st time in a Tokyo studio in 2007 when they worked together to create "Keio Line." They both enjoyed the experience enough that they have continued to regularly collaborate, despite the 6,000 miles that separates them, appearing together most recently on Pinhas's 2010 release "Metal/Crystal," along with other collaborators. Richard and Merzbow will be appearing together at the 27th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Canada, right at the time this album is being released, as well as performing additional dates in the USA. The initial pressing of "Rhizome" is a very special package. In addition to the new album, the first pressing also includes a bonus DVD of the duo's performance at the 10th annual Sonic Circuits Festival in 2010, and additionally includes a free download coupon for a live concert from Paris, France from 2008! These additional items will not be available after the initial pressings are gone!
Planeta Imaginario/Biomasa ....CD $14.99
Planeta Imaginario are a terrific eight piece jazz/rock band who have been in existence since 1999. This is their second album and the first to be released outside of their native Spain. The band features keyboards (Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, piano and synthesizer), trombone, two saxists on alto and tenor, trumpet, guitar, fretless bass and drums. This is a band who know how to write a great tune and how to arrange that tune in a way to bring out all it has to offer and how to leave room for the individual musicians to contribute to it, both in terms of ensemble work and in their solos! They have a distinctive and attractive Mediterranean sound; you certainly can hear echoes of other jazz/rock bands in their work (Chick Corea's Spanish-tinged fusion works, Gilgamesh, Hatfield and the North and Musica Urbana come easiest to mind), but they really don't sound like anyone else and this is a very exciting release from a great band that we think will be receiving a lot of attention as soon as people hear this album! "Fine arrangements...of interesting and intelligent compositions, excellently played - these are fine musicians ... impressive..." - Chris Cutler
Planeta Imaginario/Optical Delusions ....CD $15.99
Planeta Imaginario (Imaginary Planet) are a creative and extraordinary 6 piece (+ guests) jazz-rock band that have emerged from the Catalan region of Spain. They touch on four decades of jazz and rock. Their music - jazz-rock fusion interlaced with psychedelia and progressive rock - blends disparate musical influences, many of which are taken from the English Canterbury school (Soft Machine, National Health, Gilgamesh, Hatfield and the North) with strong jazz elements as well as with a definite Mediterranean-influenced feel into a fantastically creative, imaginative, evocative and uplifting musical brew. Optical Delusions grafts a real jazz reed and brass section onto a progressive-rock based rhythm section of multi-keyboards (Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes piano, synths), bass & drums. Like a meeting of Hatfield and the North/Soft Machine with Steve Coleman/Charles Lloyd. For fans of: Steve Coleman, Chick Corea's Spanish-tinged fusion works, Gilgamesh, Hatfield and the North, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorious, Soft Machine, Weather Report and Frank Zappa.
Radio Massacre International/Rain Falls in Grey ....CD $14.99
Radio Massacre International is a British trio of Steve Dinsdale (keyboards, electronics, drums), Duncan Goddard (keyboards, electronics, bass) and Gary Houghton (guitar, synthesizers). These three musicians have worked together in various configurations since they were 16 year old students in the 70's and formed R.M.I. in 1993. Their second Cuneiform release (and the band's 27th overall) is something quite different from the band's previous work. Best known for electronic space music for keyboards, electronics and guitars, here Radio Massacre have expanded greatly upon their usual sound and also use conventional rock instrumentation to create a sincere and moving tribute to Syd Barrett, and in doing so, manage to capture some of the psychedelic magic of 1967-1968. This album features a really striking cover by Daevid Allen, which is also a hommage to Syd. "This album is our way of saying goodbye and thanks to a genuine one-off. His passing had an unexpectedly profound effect, despite the fact that he hadn't been near a guitar in more than 30 years. It forced us to consider what an enormous influence he was, despite his space-age ascendancy and equally rapid burnout. He picked up a zippo lighter, invented glissando guitar and incorporated non-musical sounds into the context of the new psychedelic movement that had hardly had time to leave the conformity of Rhythm & Blues behind. His creation was a particularly English take on what we now call 'rock'...and for those of us engaged in experimental or space rock, the debt is enormous."-R.M.I
Radio Massacre International/Time & Motion ....double CD $17.99
Radio Massacre International is the British trio of Steve Dinsdale (electronics, percussion) Duncan Goddard (electronics, bass) and Gary Houghton (guitar, electronics). These three musicians formed R.M.I. in 1993. They have released a daunting number of CDs, all on tiny UK labels, as well as two previous, highly acclaimed albums for Cuneiform. They take their musical cues from the classic 1970s "Berlin electronic sound" of Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra and Tangerine Dream. This is over 2 1/2 hours of music for a single CD price.
Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores/The Blind Spot ....CD $14.99
This marvelous large ensemble from Providence, Rhode Island has been in existence for a decade now, bringing their very original music to audiences in the US and Europe. The Blind Spot is their 6th release and their second for Cuneiform and it's also surprisingly different from The Quiet Room. It includes a few shorter songs but the main focus of the album is a very ambitious work entitled "I am the Resurrection and the Light," which is a song cycle for a large ensemble featuring a number of different players: appearing are accordion, violin, viola, French horn, guitar, alto sax, bassoon, contrabass, drums, 'loops, processing and other eletronic mayhem' and layers and layers of vocals from up to 4 vocalists (Alec and 3 female voices). This song cycle is a eulogy and meditation about drug addiction and death from drug addiction and related causes. A compelling, powerful, demanding and ultimately beautiful and moving work.
Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores/Sister Death ....CD $15.99
Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores have been making uniquely rewarding music for over a decade. Sister Death is their 7th album, their most widely accessible and features striking artwork! The group's unmistakable sound is the result of Alec's songs, which have poignant melodies and lyrics filled with doom-laden imagery. These songs are performed by a band who use unusual instrumentation (male and female vocals, accordion, double bass, French horn, organ, drums, electronics) in interesting and creative ways. The group will be touring the US and Europe in support of this release. "A gorgeous amalgam of 20th Century Americana, cabaret and theater music, Eastern European folk, noise rock and minimalism." - Signal To Noise; "The sad, haunted songs of Alec K. Redfearn bloom into mini epics in the hands of the Eyesores" - Time Out New York; "Lyrics are artful and evocative...arrangements are graceful throughout.... They offer experimental future folk with elements of real dirt and sweat - and a touch of mania. Highly recommended." - All Music Guide
Wadada Leo Smith/Spiritual Dimensions ....double CD $21.99
Spiritual Dimensions is a double album that features two very special groups filled with truly great musicians! The first disc is by his Golden Quintet. This disc is a modern/avant jazz release that has some distinctive electric touches and features many of the hallmarks of Wadada's work; space, depth, melody and abstraction: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet; Vijay Iyer - piano, synthesizer; John Lindberg - bass; Pheeroan AkLaff - drums; Don Moye - drums. The second disc is the first-ever release of Wadada's Organic group and is a completely different creature. It's a fully electric, four guitar, creative, bad-ass beast with slinky grooves, but the same hallmarks run through this set as well: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet; Nels Cline - guitar; Michael Gregory - guitar; Brandon Ross - guitar; Lamar Smith - guitar; Okkyung Lee - cello; John Lindberg - double bass; Skuli Sverrisson - electric bass; Pheeroan AkLaff - drums.
Wadada Leo Smith/Ten Freedom Summers ....4 CD Set $26.99
Lauded as "one of the most vital musicians on the planet," by Coda, and "one of the most imaginative and explorative composers in creative music," by John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith is one of the most visionary, boldly original and artistically important figures in contemporary American jazz and free music, and one of the most distinctive trumpet players of our time. Spread out over four discs,"Ten Freedom Summers" is based on the civil rights movement in the USA and Wadada Leo Smith has been working on it on and off for over 30 years. It features performances by his Golden Quartet/Quintet and a small chamber ensemble, including Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, Pheeroan Ak-Laaf, Susie Ibarra and others. Wadada's previous albums on Cuneiform have been extremely strong sellers and have received huge critical acclaim and strong radio play and "Ten Freedom Summers" is not only a truly remarkable recording, it is Wadada's 'piece de resistance' of his musical accomplishments. Having recently turned 70 and more active now than anytime in his career, with "Ten Freedom Summers," Wadada Leo Smith continues to point forward in his work.
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet/Tabligh ....CD $14.99
This is the third album by Wadada's all-star Golden Quartet, which features: Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, Vijay Iyer - piano, Fender Rhodes & synthesizer, John Lindberg - bass, Shannon Jackson - drums. Recorded live, the sound on Tabligh veers from a sound akin to early electric jazz ala "In A Silent Way" and especially 'the lost quintet' of Miles in late 1969/early 1970, to both more sparse and modern jazz fare, all of it informed by the distinctive personalities of these four players and their leader's musical concepts. Wadada Leo Smith is a well-respected trumpeter and composer working in avant-garde jazz and improvisation. He was an early member of Chicago's legendary AACM, joining in 1967 and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton in the late 60s. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell, for whom he recorded a number of albums considered classics of their kind. He is currently a professor of Music at the California Institute of the Arts, and is the director of the MFA program in African American Improvisation. Smith has studied a variety of music cultures (African, Japanese, Indonesian, European and American) and has developed a music theory, and a notation system to fully express this music which he calls "Ankhrasmation." He has been a major force in contemporary jazz for over 40 years and performs frequently throughout the world. Cuneiform first worked with Wadada when they released the two "Yo Miles" albums, of which he was co-leader, and they both enjoyed working together so much that Cuneiform decided to work together again on one of his own works.
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic/Heart's Reflection ....double CD $21.99
Wadada's previous two albums on Cuneiform have been extremely strong sellers and have received huge critical acclaim and strong radio play. In 2010, Wadada Leo Smith was featured on the cover of the very widely read English magazine The Wire and the US publication Jazziz! The very beautiful artwork featured in the package is actually Wadada's musical scores that were used for the album!
Soft Machine/NDR Jazz Workshop- Hamburg Germany 1973 ....CD + DVD $21.99
Soft Machine were one of the very first groups to fuse jazz with rock in the late 60s and were hugely appreciated in Europe for their unique sound. This previously unreleased show was recorded for Germany's famous NDR Jazz Workshop series featuring the line-up of Mike Ratledge, Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington and John Marshall with Art Themen and Gary Boyle. This long sought-after performance has never been seen since its original broadcast in 1973 and is the highest quality video document that exists of the group, featuring clear and beautiful visuals and superb live stereo sound!
Soft Machine/Grides ....CD + DVD (NTSC All Region) $19.99
Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge and Robert Wyatt - Soft Machine were one of first and one of the greatest jazz/rock bands of all time. Their importance was especially great in Europe, where they influenced several generations of bands, and their influences can still be heard to this day in bands like Jaga Jazzist and beyond. Grides presents the band recorded live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on October 25, 1970, in a high-quality, previously unreleased recording, just a few months after the release of Third and at the peak of their popularity. It showcases them in transition between releases, with the band performing 3 of the four works from Third, as well as some of the earliest recordings of material from the upcomming Fourth, including some very different arrangements to what would eventually end up on that release. In addition, it features the earliest recording of Elton's Neo-Caliban Grides, which has a fairly lengthy composed section that was never heard again. Also included in this set is the first-ever DVD release by Soft Machine! It was recorded at the TV studios of Radio Bremen on the same date (March 23, 1971) as the radio session that Cuneiform released as Virtually, but is a completely different performance. This was the band's final European tour with Robert Wyatt and is a 20 minute set, professionally recorded by a multicamera crew. The audio and video quality is excellent for the time period (over 35 years old now!), as we worked from the original videotape master in the archives of Radio Bremen.
Soft Machine/Live At Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 ....import double CD + CD-Rom $28.99
"Born of the Beat Generation & Beat music, sacrificed on the clichéd tracks of jazz-fusion, the music in between by the classic quartet of keyboardist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean, bass guitarist Hugh Hopper and drummer Robert Wyatt is mercurial genius manifest. That the recordings made of Britain's Soft Machine remain as rewarding and inspirational today as the moment of their making, qualifies the group's international stature as the most expressively intelligent of rock music's progressive epoch. Still and all, a creative apex where the music attained a "whole greater than its sum parts," occurred on the evening of February 28th, 1971 at the Henie Onstad Art Centre in Oslo, Norway. Here, the group was afforded a rare crucible for their collective creativity by virtue of an intimate concert space, accurate amplification, and an appreciative audience. Also in Henie Onstad for his own art exhibition was Soft Machine's friend Mark Boyle, who projected his sensory films during this concert. Thankfully, the performance was professionally recorded using classical ambient technique, and safely archived until the Henie Onstad Art Centre, and the musicians, granted Reel Recordings the honor and responsibility to present this magnificent recording for CD release. The results sound as demonstrably the finest stereo recording of Soft Machine ever captured on tape. To celebrate and contextualize this 2CD release, a CD-ROM including extensive notes and concert photographs is included, in addition to an extensive essay; The Soft Machine Sound: An Electronic Acoustic Experience Examined, chapters on Mark Boyle's light shows by Sebastian Boyle, a transcript of the Soft Machine's 1970 experimental BBC Radiophonic Workshop session, and numerous photographs of Mark Boyle's art exhibition and Soft Machine's concert at Henie Onstad Art Centre. Live At Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 is not simply another fascinating addition to a series of archival Soft Machine releases; it stands as nothing less than a gift." This is not actually a Cuneiform release, but is made available to us via our friends at Cuneiform.
Soft Machine/Middle Earth Masters ....CD $14.99
Soft Machine were one of England's original and best psychedelic bands, emerging out of the same "UFO Club" London scene at the same time as Pink Floyd. While the band would always undergo constant personnel and stylistic change, their best known lineup in their psychedelic days was the trio of Kevin Ayers-bass, guitar, vocals, Mike Ratledge-organ and Robert Wyatt-drums, vocals. They played many shows and built an audience in "swinging London" and beyond. A link with Jimi Hendrix's management culminated in the Softs touring the USA with the Jimi Hendrix Experience two different times in 1968, playing over 60 shows as their opening act and recording their first album while in the USA during their touring, after which the band collapsed and disbanded...temporarily. Middle Earth Masters captures the 1967-era Soft Machine trio in full concert glory, recorded live at London's legendary Middle Earth club. The performance is unbelievably freaky for 1967, with songs that feature unusual structures linked by wild solos and improvisations. Those of you who know and love the first Soft Machine album will be amazed at how much more insane and insanely loud the band actually were and also surprised to hear that Mike Ratledge was doing the crazy solo fuzz organ parts (ala the opening of Facelift) in 1967. Includes rare, previously unissued photographs and a short essay by Michael King about these tapes and his work to make them sound as good as possible. IMPORTANT: The source tapes for this CD were recorded using semi-pro equipment under difficult conditions, at extreme volume in a concrete basement. Considering their age, their rarity, and the techinical limitations of sound reinforcement of 40 years ago, we feel that the music presented is very enjoyable, but these recordings are not anywhere near present-day standards!
John Surman/Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop-April '69 ....CD + DVD $21.99
For nearly 45 years, John Surman has been one of England's best known modern jazz musicians. His career began in the late '60s as both a sideman and a leader with such notable greats as John McLaughlin, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Terje Rypdal, Mike Westbrook, Barre Phillips, Albert Mangelsdorff, Chick Corea and many others. He began working with the ECM label in the late 1970s where he has released a string of fine work that continues to this day. Every period of his career is filled with highlights, which is why Cuneiform is exceedingly proud to release for the first time ever this amazing document of the late '60s 'Brit-jazz' scene. The NDR Jazz Workshop was a weekly show featuring all manner of jazzmen of the day. The taping of this NDR show was around the same time as Surman was recording his second album as a leader, How Many Clouds Can You See, so this is a unique chance to get an expanded view of his formative work as a leader and also at the early work of his musical compatriots who appear with him here. For this occasion, Surman led a ten-piece ensemble featuring the cream of modern British jazz players: John Surman - soprano and baritone sax, Kenny Wheeler - trumpet and flugelhorn, Alan Skidmore - tenor sax and flute, Ronnie Scott - tenor sax, Mike Osborne - alto sax, Malcolm Griffiths - trombone, Harry Miller - bass and Alan Jackson - drums, as well as two Austrian musicians, Fritz Pauer - piano and Erich Kleinschuster - trombone. Released on Flashpoint for the very first time are five great peformances, including two excellent Surman compositions that he never recorded elsewhere. High quality audio recordings from these musicians from this period are quite rare and video footage is basically non-existent. Captured in crisp, clear black and white footage and in excellent mono sound, this release is a rare and hugely important document that will blow the minds of Brit-jazz fans and will open the ears, eyes and minds of those who don't know the great and distinctive work of these fine musicians!
John Surman/Way Back When ....CD $14.99
A truly stupendous archival find, with broad appeal to both jazz and fusion fans. This never before released album was recorded on October 7th, 1969 by John Surman and British jazz superstars. It is a mix between the vibrancy of late 60's uk jazz and spacey early electric jazz/rock ala "In A Silent Way"; listening to this album, you can hear that the fusion explosion is on the cusp of happening. Soprano/baritone saxophonist John Surman is one of the UK's best known jazzmen, having released 8 albums under his own name between 1968 - 1974 for mainstream labels such as Deram and Island. He was a member of John McLaughlin's final UK-based group, recording John's famous first solo album, Extrapolation with him in 1969, six months before recording Way Back When. Since the late 1970's, he has mostly recorded for the ECM label, recording dozens of albums as either the leader or as a sideman. "In mid-October, 1969, I left the UK to meet up with bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Stu Martin to begin working with them as "The Trio". Before I left however, a few close friends and I held a sort of 'farewell' session in Tangerine Studios in London. On hand were drummer John Marshall, electric pianist John Taylor and Brian Odgers on bass guitar - later Mike Osborne appeared with his alto and joined us. Shortly after I left England, the studios closed down and, although a few test pressings were made, the original tapes got lost in the general confusion. Much to my surprise the masters had survived and were uncovered in 2003...what you are hearing accurately reflects the sound of the sixties...it offers genuine insight into some of the musical directions that were being explored at the end of that swinging decade in the UK." - John Surman
Thinking Plague/Decline And Fall ....CD $15.99
Denver-based rock experimentalists Thinking Plague have released a small number of hugely praised, much loved albums in their nearly 30 years of existence. Despite the large number of years between albums, the personnel and signature sound of the ensemble remain and their releases are always easily identifiable. Working slowly and steadfastly, the group has released a handful of brilliant, art-rock classics. "Decline and Fall" is the 6th and latest of them. "Thinking Plague lays down some of the most rhythmically complex, texturally inventive, and melodically challenging popular music of the last 30 years, and somehow makes it all sound easy and natural." - All Music Guide
Univers Zero/Clivages ....CD $15.99
A founding member of the original "Rock In Opposition" [R.I.O.] movement, & the inventors of "chamber rock," Univers Zero are considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde rock bands of the last 30 years. Univers Zero are are rightly famous for their perfect balance between classical and rock influences. Clivages is their first new studio album in over five years. They have spent the last five years performing at prestigious rock and new music festivals throughout Europe and North America and ever-widening their audience.
Univers Zero/Heresie (Rmxs) ....CD $15.99
"Heresie" was the second album released by Belgium's legendary avant-garde rock band Univers Zero, co-founders of the highly influencial "Rock in Opposition" (R.I.O.) movement. Originally released in 1979, it has been considered a high water mark of new music composition, performance, and dark, sinister intensity for over 30 years and has never been out of print. Using a distinctive lineup of bassoon/oboe, violin/viola, harmonium/piano/guitar, bass and drums, the group mixed the complexity of rock's outermost experimenters with classical instrumentation and a deeply gothic and creepy vibe. This new issue of "Heresie" has been completely remixed and remastered from the original multi-track tapes. It features a brand new digi-pack cover, as well as a 16 page booklet with a history of the band during this period, as well as vintage photographs. Additionally there is a never-before heard track added. This eagerly awaited upgrade to one of their most appreciated works will find a ready audience with their fans.
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Schizotrope (Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec)/The Life and Death of Marie Zorn ....CD
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