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.
Univers Zero/Univers Zero ....CD $14.99
Over 30 years ago, after 3 years of work and rehearsals, a group of seven unknown Belgian musicians gathered in a small basement studio to record their first album, which they released themselves in a tiny edition of 500 copies. The album was untitled, but the catalog number was "1313," which the album later became known by. The power and originality of their creation turned heads and all these years later, this album is rightly considered the beginning of the 'chamber-rock' movement as well as a classic of the genre. With the release of their first album, Univers Zero went on to co-found the hugely influential "Rock in Opposition" movement with four similarly-minded bands. Active until 1987 and then reactivated in the late 1990s, Univers Zero are considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde rock bands of all time. Working in a world-class studio, this album has been re-mixed from the original multi-track tapes and remastered. It has never sounded better. The front cover is restored to be a facsimile of the original issue, and included is a never-released live bonus track in surprisingly excellent sound, a 16 page booklet with many never-before seen photos, as well as a very complete history of the band up to the recording of this album. "It’s stunning how well Univers Zero's 1977 debut holds, musically and sonically, compared to...anything else happening in so-called new music... like storm clouds rolling out of the horizon or mad shadows cast in the night, there's a dusky ecstasy present here.... On top of that, there are hints of Bartok, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane and King Crimson" – CD Review
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.
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
Cosmologic/Eyes in the Back of My Head ....CD $14.99
Cosmologic was founded as a collective quartet in 1999, and still consists of the original four musicians. The group initially incorporated interpretations of music by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and others into their performances, but quickly moved towards playing only original compositions. Central to the group's sound is a commitment to developing challenging and original compositions. With nearly a decade of experience together, Cosmologic continues to extend their repertoire of original music, in an ongoing search for new ideas. The result is a band that pushes the envelope while remaining accessible. This is the fourth album - but the first with wide distribution - by this amazingly assured and swinging 'free-bop' quartet, who have been developing their unique take on modern jazz for a decade and will strongly appeal to fans of: Anthony Braxton's '70s/'80s quartets, John Carter-Bobby Bradford, Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy-Roswell Rudd Quartet, Vandermark 5. Jason Robinson - tenor saxophone, Michael Dessen - trombone, Scott Walton - bass, Nathan Hubbard - drums.
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble/Forked Tongue ....CD $14.99
Formed in 1990, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is an experimental brass band with influences ranging from free jazz to New Orleans second line to contemporary funk. They capture the fun of a street parade band while also expanding its stylistic range. This is their second album. Their first album received considerable public, radio, and press acclaim. This is the only CD ever released to include songs written by both Billy Idol & Ornette Coleman! The band performs 40-50 times per year. Notable appearances have included the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Krewe of Muses Mardi Gras Parade, the Cambridge River Festival, ArtBeat, the Central Square World's Fair, Tonic, First Nights Boston, Providence, & Fall River, the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Berklee Performance Center, and numerous other venues. The Snakes have traveled annually to New Orleans on the Amtrak Crescent train for the past four years, performing on the train along the way.
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
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.
The Stick Men/Insatiable ....CD $14.99
During their heyday in the early 80's, Philadelphia's The Stick Men were one of the most popular and exciting live bands on the mid-Atlantic region. Using the high energy, herky-jerky rhythms and dissonant timbres of the no-wave underground, the Stick Men give it their own highly original slant. This CD includes both of the band's rare vinyl releases, "This is the Master Brew" and "Get On Board," as well as previously unreleased live tracks. As a special bonus, over 20 minutes of live performances - taken from the only video footage in existence - can be accessed using a Mac or PC computer.
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath/Eclipse at Dawn ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Nick Tete')
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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.
Mats-Morgan Band & Morgan Agren/Heat Beats Live & Tourbook 1991-2007 ....CD + DVD $21.99
(excerpt from 'Mats Jingle')
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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)
Beat Circus/Dreamland ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Gyp the Blood')
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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!
Planeta Imaginario/Biomasa ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Optical Delusions of a BiPolar Bear')
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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
Healing Force/Healing Force: The Music of Albert Ayler ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Oh! Love of Life')
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Henry Kaiser-guitar; Mike Keneally-piano, guitar and voice; Vinny Golia-reeds; Aurora Josephson-voice; Joe Morris-guitar and double bass; Damon Smith-double bass; Weasel Walter-drums. Seven major figures from the art-punk, free-jazz, brutal prog, improvisational and modern jazz world come together for a ROCKING tribute to the unfairly ignored, misunderstood and vilified late period works of Albert Ayler. These late period songs have always seemed to me like they may have been some of the most personally spritually resonant for Ayler, but the musicians and the culture of the late 1960s were possibly not able to successfully translate and perform his concept of spirituality, free jazz, boogaloo, nursery rhythms, marching bands, blues and r'n'b, and certainly the free-jazz following public was not ready to accept it. Now, 40 years and many stylistic mash-ups later, perhaps these works can be better enjoyed. "Albert Ayler's later works (Love Cry, New Grass and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe) seem to be generally reviled. Through meditations, dreams, and visions, the players on this project were given the message to once again attempt to send the people of earth a message of love, peace, and spiritual understanding. We selected a representative set of tunes for this material and essentially let it play itself through us. We hope you will be as surprised as we still are by the results of this invocational experiment. We hope you will like this record." - Henry Kaiser, producer and guitarist
Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian/Who Knew Charlie Shoe? ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Uncle Toby's Place')
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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!
Radio Massacre International/Rain Falls in Grey ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Bettr'r Day-s')
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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
Ahleuchatistas/Even in the Midst... ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'The Bears of Cantabria Shall Sleep No More')
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Leaving audiences slack-jawed in amazement at South by Southwest, punk-rock dives across the USA and jazz festivals in Europe, the Ahleuchatistas and their unique, high-energy, instrumental, technical, undefinable trio music for guitar, bass and drums continue to reach new heights as a performing and a recording unit. If they come to your town, you must see them; there is no one - and I mean no one - who can match them at what they do. Even in the Midst... is their fourth album and the years together playing hundreds and hundreds of shows have created one of the most amazingly tight ensembles that you will ever hear or see. This album widens their sound a little bit; there's plenty of the insane, over-the-top playing that we've come to expect, but there's more room for improvisation here and also for more quiet moments as well. The CD contains an 8 page, full color booklet of Courtney Chappell's beautiful and disturbing artwork. With this album, both in terms of the sonics of the album and the performance itself, the band have made their best recorded statement yet.
Time of Orchids/Namesake Caution ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Gem')
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Time of Orchids is an indefinable avant-rock band that formed in 1999 in New York City. After 3 self-released albums and a release on Tzadik that brought them to a much wider audience, Namesake Caution is their fifth release and their first on Cuneiform. They don't sound like anyone else, but you can definitely hear elements of film scores, Thinking Plague, new wave/no wave, The Beach Boys, Shudder to Think, Yes and The Magic Band, among many others. These disparate influences should give you an idea of just how different this band is from basically anyone else I can think of! They have a unique and jarring slant on music – a wedding of staggered angularity and a sweeping, seductive beauty. This is the band's most dramatic work yet – an album that sparkles with a deceptive pop linearity and ventures maniacally outward from that base. Nicely recorded by Colin Marston (Behold....The Arctopus), this album boasts layer upon layer of rich, orchestrated vocals, strange guitar figures and otherworldly keyboard textures, all draped atop a rhythm section who are rock solid and complex. Weird...stunning...and weird once again, this unlike anything else except Time of Orchids.
Steve Miller & Lol Coxhill/Coxhill Miller-Miller Coxhill & The Story So Far... ...Oh Really? ....double CD $21.99
(excerpt from 'One For You')
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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!
The Claudia Quintet/For ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'August 25th, 2006')
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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.
Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet/Early and Late ....double CD $21.99
(excerpt from 'The Bath')
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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.
Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores/The Blind Spot ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'The Radiator Hymn')
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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.
Upsilon Acrux/Galapagos Momentum ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Hiking Up Feel Good Mountain')
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Upsilon Acrux have been in existence for a decade in various formations, from a duo to an octet. Their current lineup of dual guitars, bass and drums is described by the band themselves as "our favorite version" of the group and it's a polyrhythmic squirly monster. This is Upsilon Acrux's fifth album of aggressive, intricate, athletic, complex and composed post-punk instrumental rock. Galapagos Momentum fuses the animalist attack of punk rock with a daring complexity and unusual instrumental techniques and sonorities. The music that results is very powerful but upon further listening, you'll realize that it features strangely beautiful melodies that unfurl like some anaerobic Martian flower. These guys will turn your brain to paste and you will be happy that they did! "...a refreshing ability to reference artists from Robert Fripp to John Coltrane with crushing irreverence. Maybe the last of the cool guitar bands." - Exclaim!
Cartoon/Sortie ....CD $14.99
Elton Dean/Silent Knowledge ....CD $14.99
Dean Dunmall Levin Rogers Rudd & Tippett/Bladik ....CD $14.99
Hugh Hopper Band/Meccano Pelorus ....CD $14.99
Henry Kaiser/A Bunch Of Guitar Solos ....DVD-NTSC $19.99
The Muffins/Chronometers ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Birdman ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Colours ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Poem about the Hero ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Chronolyse ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Iceland ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/East West ....CD $14.99
Twelve classic albums from the Cuneiform vaults. These titles have been out of print for some years, but are now brought back due to popular demand.
Hugh Hopper/Hopper Tunity Box ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Mobile Mobile')
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"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
Bill Brovold and Larval/Surviving Death; Alive Why? ....double CD $19.99
(excerpt from 'Scottish Blood')
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Larval is a avant/post-rock instrumental band consisting of an ever changing lineup of some of the best musicians in Detroit. Led by composer Bill Brovold, Larval's experimental rock often combines wall-of-sound guitars, bass and drums with saxes and violin, and is very direct and powerful. Founded in 1996, after Bill had spent five years performing with experimental /no wave legend Rhys Chatham, this is Larval's fifth album and the two disc set showcases two side of the band's work. Disc one is their new studio recording, which is an amalgamation of styles and approaches to music, from quiet and limpidly beautiful passages to an aggressive onslaught of screaming horns, guitars and strings, moving from very controlled passages to almost complete chaos and back, all the while following a master plan of intent. The second disc is compiled from 7 years of potent live recordings; here, as anyone who has experienced Larval live knows, the band eschew some of the more quieter moments that are on the studio albums, and just rock loud and hard! "These live recordings reflect the efforts of all 45+ members that have passed through the Larval camp. There were several shows recorded, some on better equipment than others, and some great shows with lousy recording gear. Alive Why? is the result of repeated listening while trying to come up with pieces that had the best energy and were also recorded well enough to make it onto CD." - Bill Brovold.
The Mahavishnu Project/Return to the Emerald Beyond ....double CD $19.99
(excerpt from 'Eternity's Breath')
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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.
Far Corner/Endangered ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Not from Around Here')
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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.
Graham Collier/Hoarded Dreams ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Part 3')
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Graham Collier is one of the best known and most important British jazz composers and over a 40 year career, his list of compositions and commissions has grown to encompass ensembles around the world. He is well-known as an author and educator, having written seven books on jazz. Hoarded Dreams is a previously unreleased long-form composition heard here in a powerful live performance from 1983 by an international all-star band that includes Tomasz Stanko, Conny Bauer, Malcolm Griffiths, Eje Thelin, Ed Speight, Roger Dean, Ted Curson, John Surman, Manfred Schoof, Kenny Wheeler, Art Themen and many others. " I came across the phrase "Hoarded Dreams" in a book...it seemed an ideal title for this commission, [which] is the realisation of the jazz composer's constant dream: to be able to hand-pick a group of star musicians to perform a long composition written with absolutely no outside restrictions. Overall the piece inhabits (as indeed does most of my writing) that area between the purely written and the purely improvised."-Graham Collier. The energy of the ensemble performing the piece in front of a large and enthusiastic audience is very obvious on the recording and there's some great soloing as well as ensemble passages.
Ahleuchatistas/What You Will ....CD $14.99
Third and best yet from this amazing instrumental, post-Beefheart, avant-technical, improv-core, math-metal, art-damage, punk-rock power trio from Asheville, NC. Using the simple and classic skeleton of guitar, bass and drums, these three make powerful music that is undeniably 'rock' but is also undeniably much wider in musical influences than what one would imagine in such rock-based work. For example, the opening song is Remember Rumsfeld at Abu Ghraib; of course we all know what that title is in reference to, but, huge Charles Mingus fan that I am, I also immediately caught the reference to Charles' great work, Remember Rockefeller at Attica, which is not a reference I would expect from a punk band. But then, these guys are the most technically adept 'punk' band you will ever hear; they have chops growing on their chops, so surprises are to be expected! The playing from everyone is beyond powerful and while the term "Beefheartian" gets bandied about way too much, the complexity and directness of the playing here really does bear some comparisons. Their music has been developed over playing tons of shows and the sound on the CD reflects this with a very well recorded, but not so "produced", live feeling sound. If they come to your town, go see them. Having said that, if you can't see them live, this CD comes with 3 short, nicely shot QuickTime movies which you can watch on your Mac or PC, so you can see just what you are missing.
Gregg Bendian's Trio Pianisimo/Change ....CD $14.99
This Mahavishnu Project and Interzone leader Gregg Bendian fronts an adventurous acoustic jazz trio in this, his first solo release in over three years. Bendian made a name as one of the world's most original and versatile drummer/composers on the creative jazz scene both for his virtuosity and his extraordinarily versatile work. He's collaborated with some of the strongest personalities in the new jazz including John Zorn, Ornette Coleman, The Sign of 4 (with Pat Metheny), Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, William Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano. Bendian's new Trio Pianissimo disc, Change, cuts a mean swathe, digging into Bendian originals hewn from a wide range of jazz styles encompassing hard-swinging-odd-time-grooves, lyrical ballads, up-tempo modal blowing, quirky Ornette-inspired tunes and large-scale chamber jazz works worthy of Cecil Taylor. The disc even includes a rarely recorded Thelonius Monk composition, 'Gallop's Gallop', which had previously only appeared on a Gigi Gryce record date from the 1950s that Monk did as a sideman. Bendian is again joined by pianist Steve Hunt (well known for his work with Allan Holdsworth & Stanley Clarke) and John Lockwood (known for his work with George Garzone & The Fringe) whose bass playing is the essence of taste and lyricism. Bendian's drumming is at turns fierce and delicately musical throughout. This is a trio that has honed and developed their rapport over the years and they display a level of response and intimacy rarely heard in jazz these days. Bendian's unique trio continues to present beautiful and creative music proving that, for them at least, jazz is still an open sky.
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.
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.
Graham Collier/Workpoints ....double CD $19.99
Called "A pioneer...a true British jazz original." by The Times, "An inventive and underrated jazz figure" by Jazziz and "Britain's most original jazz talent." by The Financial Times, Graham Collier is one of the best known British jazz composers, and over a 40 year career, his list of compositions and comissions has grown to encompass ensembles around the world. He won a Downbeat scholarship to Berkless School of Music, Boston, studying with Herb Pomeroy and becoming its first British graduate in 1963. Returning to Britain, he formed the first of many line-ups known as Graham Collier Music, which over the years has featured almost every British jazz musician of note. Workpoints consists of two previously unreleased concerts from 'a golden age of British jazz': one from 1968 and one from 1975. The music is composed with lots of room for contributions from the individual players, and in that regard, might be comparable to the work of one of Graham's heroes, Charles Mingus. The album features a huge number of well known jazz musicians, such as: Harry Beckett, Mike Gibbs, Frank Ricotti, Henry Lowther, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, John Surman, Art Themen, Kenny Wheeler and others. Included in the booklet are archival photos, notes and comments from Graham.
Djam Karet/Recollection Harvest ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'The Gypsy and the Hegemon')
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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.
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!
David Greenberger & Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/1001 Real Apes ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Minerals and Moon')
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David and Birdsongs worked on this multi-faceted performance piece for several years, touring large theatres and getting some major press out of it. Obviously it's not a strictly musical work, and the main audience is not intended to be Birdsongs fans, but there is some great music here and the overall effect of David's work with Birdsong's backing is charming and thoughtful. "1001 Real Apes is a spoken word and music collaboration created by David Greenberger and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. It is loaded with quirky stories, reflections, and opinions that Greenberger has culled from The Duplex Planet, his publication of conversations with the elderly. The stream of consciousness stories are alternately funny, moving, wise, silly and inspirational, providing a unique vision into the minds of the characters. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic created the score to Greenberger's monologues...the result combines Greenberger's understated, crisp delivery with gently cadenced original music."
Hamster Theatre/The Public Execution of Mister Personality; Quasi Day Room ....double CD $19.99
(excerpt from 'Litost')
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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.
Richard Leo Johnson/The Legend of Vernon McAlister ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'First Night Alone')
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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.
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!/Upriver ....double SACD/CD $19.99
"Yo Miles! has gone beyond the fundamental with songs that breathe the spirit of Davis to create an atmosphere that resonates with a fire and an essence of their very own. Kaiser and Smith's knowing explorations through Miles' complex electro-funk realm revisits the dread while expanding the beauty."-All About Jazz. Upriver is Yo Miles! second Cuneiform release and was recorded live directly to stereo DSD recorder at the same sessions that produced the award-winning Sky Garden release. "Smith and Kaiser have recovered some of (Miles') radical energy and reapplied it in the context of a new technology that gives this music clarity as well as thudding power...if you want to see where (Miles') example leads us, this is the way to go"-The Wire. Kaiser and Smith have assembled an all-star cast that includes Smith on trumpet; Kaiser, Mike Keneally and Chris Muir on electric guitars; Michael Manring on bass; Steve Smith on drums; Karl Perazzo on percussion; Greg Osby (alto) and John Tchicai (tenor and soprano) on saxophones; and Tom Coster on keyboards. It also features special guests Zakir Hussain on tabla, Dave Creamer on guitar, and the ROVA Sax Quartet. "...a sprawling blowout that should convert open minds...at once dangerous and respectful..."-Denver Post. It is playable in either an SACD player or on any standard CD player. Containing 2 1/2 hours of music, this recording focuses on Davis' improv-fueled works from the early-mid 70's, while also including an original Smith composition and a group improvisation. "This studio production, recorded direct to DSD, offers some of the most immediate and realistic sound of both electronic and acoustic instruments."-Stereophile.
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!
The Microscopic Septet/Seven Men In Neckties: History of the Micros Vol 1 ....double CD $19.99
Active for a dozen years, the Microscopic Septet were widely recognized as "New York's Most Famous Unknown Band." The group started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone sax, piano, bass and drums) that was sonically similar to the sound of the Swing Era. However, they employed these textures to address a widely eclectic range of styles, from free-form music to R&B, rhumbas and ragtime. The result was a brilliant blend of fresh-sounding orchestration and inspired soloing. Beloved in New York, where they generally drew capacity crowds, "The Micros" were one of the most celebrated of the many cutting-edge units associated with experimental music's best-known venue, the Knitting Factory, during the peak years of the "Downtown" music movement in the mid 1980s onward. This beautifully packaged and annotated set includes new cover artwork by Pulitzer-prize winning illustrator Art Spiegelman, new notes by leader Phillip Johnston, lots of great photographs and newly remastered versions of the first two albums by the band: "Take The Z Train" and "Let's Flip!", as well as quite a lot of never-before released material, including the well-known theme to the NPR show Fresh Air. The majority of this set has never appeared on CD and all of it has been unavailable for a number of years.
The Microscopic Septet/Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros Vol 2 ....double CD $19.99
Active for a dozen years, the Microscopic Septet were widely recognized as "New York's Most Famous Unknown Band." The group started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone sax, piano, bass and drums) that was sonically similar to the sound of the Swing Era. However, they employed these textures to address a widely eclectic range of styles, from free-form music to R&B, rhumbas and ragtime. The result was a brilliant blend of fresh-sounding orchestration and inspired soloing. Beloved in New York, where they generally drew capacity crowds, "The Micros" were one of the most celebrated of the many cutting-edge units associated with experimental music's best-known venue, the Knitting Factory, during the peak years of the "Downtown" music movement in the mid 1980s onward. This beautifully packaged and annotated set includes new cover artwork by Pulitzer-prize winning illustrator Art Spiegelman, new notes by leader Phillip Johnston, lots of great photographs and newly remastered versions of the last two albums by the band: "Off Beat Glory" and "Beauty Based on Science (The Visit)," as well as quite a lot of never-before released material, including two tracks with very early member John Zorn. The majority of this set has never appeared on CD and all of it has been unavailable for a number of years.
Harry Miller's Isipingo/Which Way Now ....CD $14.99
Bassist Harry Miller was born in South Africa, but he was the Brit-jazz bassist throughout the 1970s, playing with John Surman, Centipede, Mike Westbrook, Keith Tippett, Mike Osborne, King Crimson, Julie Tippetts, Alan Skidmore and Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, among many others, as well as co-founding the legendary Ogun label, which did so much to document the Brit-jazz scene in the 1970s. Harry's group, Isipingo, which he led for a number of years, could be compared to a smaller-scale, more "swinging" take on the wonderful kwela-influenced jazz of the Brotherhood. The band includes six of the greatest of Britain's jazzers of the mid 70's: Nick Evans-trombone, Mongezi Feza-trumpet, Harry Miller-double bass, Louis Moholo-drums, Mike Osborne-alto sax and Keith Tippett-piano. Which Way Now features over 70 minutes of music from a beautifully recorded radio concert from November 20, 1975; it sounds as if you are in the room right with the band! The package includes a 16 page booklet with a number of stunning, never-before seen photos, as well as extensive liner notes by Francesco Martinelli. Since Isipingo only released one album during their lifetime, this release dramatically extends their legacy and like Cuneiform's important and historical work with the Brotherhood of Breath, brings this important, hugely enjoyable, nearly-forgotten music to a new audience.
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.
The Muffins/Loveletter #2 ....CD $14.99
Based in the Washington D.C. area, the Muffins' origins go back to the early 1970's. In 1977-78, the Muffins recorded and released their first record, Manna/Mirage. Their reputation was further helped by their participation on the Gravity lp, the first solo release by noted guitarist/composer Fred Frith after the dissolution of the band Henry Cow. In late 1980, they went into the studio with Fred Frith as producer to record <185>. Six months later, the Muffins disbanded. Since their demise, The Muffins have been generally acknowledged as one of the finest U.S. proponents of progressive/new music. In a very surprising occurrence, all four of the original members of the band reformed in 1998, releasing Bandwidth in 2002 and Double Negative in 2004. Loveletter #2 is a limited edition album release of improvisations and 'sculpted improvisations' by the four members of The Muffins with saxophonists Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, of the Sun Ra Arkestra on the entire release. The sound is very different from what many people would expect from them and highlights their improvisational prowess.
Mujician/The Journey ....CD $14.99
Mujician's 1st release, The Journey, is now back in print after being unavailable for several years. "The Journey is in the fine tradition of the Art Ensemble, Roland Kirk, or Mingus at his most out; solid intuitive, organic improvisation with all concerned leanding their ears. A-" – Montreal Mirror.
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
NDIO/Airback ....CD $14.99
NDIO was formed from the ashes of the Holland-based Hugh Hopper Band. Some time after the Hopper Band disbanded, saxophonist Frank van der Kooij, a key member from the start, asked Hopper to join a project under his leadership. Frank also invited two other Hopper Band alumni to join: British trombonist Robert Jarvis, and drummer Pieter Bast. Three other Dutch musicians rounded out the ensemble: guitarist Niels Brouwer, keyboardist Paul Maassen. Airback is NDIO's 1st CD release. The music is a fluid and 'airy' fusion of jazz with elements of rock, folk, ambient, classical music and sampling. While most of the compositions are by van der Kooij, one is by Jarvis and two are by Hopper. The Netherlands has recently been recognized as a seedbed for some of the best and most adventurous jazz in recent years. Airback shows that young Dutch jazz musicians are also producing some of the world's best jazz/rock fusion as well. Yet another musical development in which Hopper has played an integral role and the band's music, even though led by Frank, strongly bears Hugh's musical imprint.
NeBeLNeST/ZePTO ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Pillars of Birth')
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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.
The Ed Palermo Big Band/Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Sleep Dirt')
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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/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.
Present/A Great Inhumane Adventure ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Alone')
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Present is a Belgian band formed and led by guitarist/composer Roger Trigaux. In 1974, Trigaux and drummer Daniel Denis co-founded Univers Zero. Trigaux performed with Univers Zero for five years, performing on their first two album and touring throughout Europe. In 1979, seeking a change of musicial direction towards a more rock-based sound, Roger left Univers Zero and formed Present. In 1998, when Cuneiform released the band's fifth album, Certitudes, the band came to the USA for the very first time and undertook a huge, full US tour, logging in 10,000 miles and 5 weeks of concerts. Professionally recorded on 24 track on the final date of the tour, after 40 days of touring, the band were a tight, hard-rocking, road-tested machine and A Great Inhumane Adenture is a stunning and hot performance. "No matter how great their record is, little could have prepared us for experiencing Belgium's Present live. The churned out mind-numbingly complex and shifting songs that always seemed to be driving towards some sort of awesome denouement. If they ever come around again, see them even if you have to kill to do it." - Atlanta Press
Radio Massacre International/Emissaries ....double CD $15.99
Radio Massacre International is a British trio of Steve Dinsdale (keyboards, electronics), Duncan Goddard (keyboards, electronics) and Gary Houghton (guitar, keyboards). These three musicians have worked together in various configurations since the early 1980's and formed R.M.I. in 1993. They released their first album in 1995 and since that time have released over a dozen CDs, all on small UK labels which are highly prized by collectors when they can be found. Appealing to fans of classic era work by Ashra/Manuel Gottsching, Heldon, Pink Floyd, Popol Vuh, Steve Roach, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, Radio Massacre International are considered one of the greats of the current spacemusic/electronic music scene. Emissaries is intended to introduce the band to the music world at large outside of the electronic music cognoscenti. This deluxe 2 CD set features a new studio album, a live album recorded at radio station WXPN in Philadelphia during their 2004 USA performances and a stunning cover by cartoonist Matt Howarth. Additionally, the studio album is a CD+ release which provides the buyer with a beautiful electronic comic (in .pdf format), which is viewable on any computer! "If you like Berlin school 1970's electronics...this is a feast of scorching sequencerrs and synthesizers, laced with searing guitars over lots of cool outer space drifting." - Expose
Ray Russell/Goodbye Svengali ....CD $14.99
"Like contemporaries Sonny Sharrock and Terje Rypdal, Russell makes it sound as if the guitar is not enough, as if he's reaching for something wilder, something that can't be contained within the 6 string cage"-Jim O'Rourke. Guitarist Ray Russell has been a professional musician since he was 15 and he joined the John Barry Seven (famous for their James Bond soundtracks). Not hugely known to the general public, for over four decades he has worked with artists as diverse as Nucleus, Gil Evans, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, Bill Fay, Jack Bruce, Michael Gibbs, Tina Turner, Bryan Ferry and many, many others. His wide-ranging solo career got into gear during the late 60s and can be viewed as a simultaneous and wilder variant of the same path towards electric jazz that Miles Davis and others took during this time, releasing a number of very collectable and ahead of their time albums, and becoming one of the earliest truly 'out' guitarists of the late 60s in the process. Goodbye Svengali is influenced by and dedicated to visionary jazz arranger Gil Evans, and includes one of Gil's final recordings. It is an album that mixes dark fusion, lyrical guitar pieces and icy soundscapes. Ray's playing style can be compared to such great players as Sonny and Terje, as Jim noted, but also to John McLaughlin, John Abercrombie and Jeff Beck! Includes performances by noted U.K. fusion/rock players such as Mo Foster, Gary Husband, Tony Hymas, Simon Phillips and others.
Soft Machine/Grides ....CD + DVD (NTSC All Region) $19.99
(excerpt from 'Facelift')
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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/Middle Earth Masters ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Hope for Happiness')
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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/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
Univers Zero/Live ....CD $14.99
(excerpt from 'Xenantaya')
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Univers Zero occupy a special place in the new music pantheon. They practically invented the 'chamber-rock" style and their albums are classics of their kind, with an instantly recognizable sound. Group leader Daniel Denis had long insisted that he wasn't interested in having a performing band, so it was a thrill and a shock when he put together a stable band version of UZ for the 00's. This edition of the band is the most perfectly realized version of Univers Zero for live performance, which is something that Daniel obviously agrees with, as he had resisted a live album until now. Consisting of six tremendous players: Daniel Denis-drums, Michael Berckmans-bassoon, English horn and oboe, Martin Lauwers-violin, Peter Van Den Berghe-piano and keyboards, Kurt Bude-clarinet and saxophone and Eric Plantain-bass, the band has finally managed to fufill Daniel's vision of marrying a rock band with the majesty and power of classical instrumentation. This is an utterly fantastic sounding recording which includes some significant re-arrangements of a number of great works, which bring out new aspects of these pieces! "I must say the live UZ is freakin' great. Congrats. For me, it's their best album since Ceux. Truly an excellent recording too."-Dave Kerman
Zaar/Zaar ....CD $14.99
This is the debut album by a quartet of musicians who know exactly what they want to do and who already have a totally distinctive ensemble sound! Guitarist Yan Hazera and drummer Michael Hazera are alumni of the great band Sotos, who spent 8 years honing their sound. After Sotos disbanded, they wanted to persue a similar musical vein, utilizing elements of chamber rock, zeuhl, improvisation, Rock In Opposition structured complexity and even French folk traditions. They found an excellent bassist and then gave themselves the unique edge of adding a vielle a roue (hurdy gurdy) player. The vielle a roue dates back to medieval times and has several strings which vibrate by turning a crank attached to a resined wheel. You play a melody by pressing keys on the instrument, while the other strings drone. It's a marvelous instrument and it sounds like nothing else; in this context, it often sounds like a cross between a Mike Ratledge-style electric organ, a cellist and bagpipes! This album includes two lengthy pieces, with several shorter works as well, giving the album a nice balance. While you can certainly hear echoes of Sotos on this album, I think that Zaar have already moved further than Sotos and have the possibility to appeal to a greater number of listeners. Excellently recorded by Bob Drake, who captured the rich overtones of these four instruments - not an easy feat! A band with a unique voice who are in the great French tradition of excellence in 'left-field' rock.
Ahleuchatistas/Even in the Midst... ....CD $14.99
Ahleuchatistas/What You Will ....CD $14.99
Ahvak/Ahvak ....CD $14.99
Daevid Allen & University of Errors/Jet Propelled Photographs ....CD $14.99
Arkham/Arkham ....CD $14.99
Beat Circus/Dreamland ....CD $14.99
Gregg Bendian's Trio Pianisimo/Change ....CD $14.99
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/Dancing on A'A ....CD $14.99
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/Faultline ....CD $14.99
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/The Iridium Controversy ....CD $14.99
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/Petrophonics ....CD $14.99
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses/Extreme Spirituals ....CD $14.99
Raoul Bjorkenheim/Apocalypso ....CD $14.99
Raoul Bjorkenheim & Krakatau/Ritual ....CD $14.99
Blast/A Sophisticated Face ....CD $14.99
Blast/Stringy Rugs ....CD $14.99
Bone/Uses Wrist Grab ....CD $14.99
David Borden/The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint 1-4 ....CD $14.99
David Borden/The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint 5-8 ....CD $14.99
David Borden/The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint 9-12 ....CD $14.99
David Borden/Places, Times & People ....CD $14.99
Boud Deun/Astronomy Made Easy ....CD $14.99
Brotherhood of Breath/Bremen to Bridgewater ....CD $19.99
Bill Brovold and Larval/Surviving Death; Alive Why? ....double CD $19.99
George Cartwright/The Memphis Years ....CD $14.99
Guigou Chenevier/Rumours of the City ....CD $14.99
The Claudia Quintet/For ....CD $14.99
The Claudia Quintet/I Claudia ....CD $14.99
The Claudia Quintent/Semi-Formal ....CD $14.99
Graham Collier/Hoarded Dreams ....CD $14.99
Graham Collier/Workpoints ....double CD $19.99
Cosmologic/Eyes in the Back of My Head ....CD $14.99
Robert Creely, Chris Massey, Steve Swallow, David CasT, David Torn/Have We Told You All
You'd Thought To Know? ....CD $14.99
Curlew/"Bee" ....CD $14.99
Curlew/Fabulous Drop ....CD $14.99
Curlew/Live In Berlin ....CD $14.99
Curlew/Meet the Curlews ....CD $14.99
Curlew/Mercury ....CD $14.99
Curlew/North America ....CD $14.99
Curlew/Paradise ....CD $14.99
Elton Dean/Just Us ....CD $14.99
Elton Dean/Silent Knowledge ....CD $14.99
Dean Dunmall Levin Rogers Rudd & Tippett/Bladik ....CD $14.99
Delivery/Fools Meeting ....CD $14.99
Deus Ex Machina/Cinque ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/Burning the Hard City ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/The Devouring ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/Live at Orion ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/New Dark Age ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/A Night For Baku ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/Recollection Harvest ....CD $14.99
Djam Karet/Suspension and Displacement ....CD $14.99
Doctor Nerve/Armed Observation-Out To Bomb ....CD $14.99
Doctor Nerve/Did Sprinting Die? ....CD $14.99
Doctor Nerve/Skin ....CD $14.99
Paul Dunmall Moksha Big Band/I Wish You Peace ....CD $14.99
Paul Dunmall Octet/Bebop Starburst ....CD $14.99
Paul Dunmall Octet/The Great Divide ....CD $14.99
5uu's-Point Of Views ....CD $14.99
Forrest Fang/Folklore ....CD $14.99
Far Corner/Endangered ....CD $14.99
Far Corner/Far Corner ....CD $14.99
Fast 'n' Bulbous/Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind ....CD $14.99
Forever Einstein/Artificial Horizon ....CD $14.99
Forever Einstein/Down with Gravity ....CD $14.99
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Forever Einstein/Racket Science ....CD $14.99
Forgas Band Phenomena/Soleil 12 ....CD $14.99
Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser/Friends & Enemies ....double CD $19.99
Peter Frohmader/Cycle Of Eternity ....CD $14.99
Peter Frohmader, Richard Pinhas/Fossil Culture ....CD $14.99
Gilgamesh/Arriving Twice ....CD $14.99
David Greenberger & Birdsongs of the Mesozoic/1001 Real Apes ....CD $14.99
Guapo/Five Suns ....CD $14.99
Hamster Theatre/The Public Execution of Mister Personality; Quasi Day Room ....double CD
$19.99
Happy Family/Happy Family ....CD $14.99
Happy Family/Toscco ....CD $14.99
Happy the Man/Beginnings ....CD $14.99
Happy the Man/Death's Crown ....CD $14.99
Happy the Man/Live ....CD $14.99
Happy the Man/3rd-Better Late ....CD $14.99
Healing Force/Healing Force: The Music of Albert Ayler ....CD $14.99
Heldon/Interface ....CD $14.99
Heldon/Stand By ....CD $14.99
Lars Hollmer/Viandra ....CD $14.99
Hugh Hopper/1984 ....CD $14.99
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Hugh Hopper Band/Carousel ....CD $14.99
Hugh Hopper Band/Meccano Pelorus ....CD $14.99
Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen/Two Rainbows Daily ....CD $14.99
The Hosemobile/What Can & Can't Go On ....CD $14.99
Richard Leo Johnson/The Legend of Vernon McAlister ....CD $14.99
Richard Leo Johnson & Gregg Bendian/Who Knew Charlie Shoe? ....CD $14.99
The Richard Leo Johnson Trio/Poetry of Appliance ....CD $14.99
Henry Kaiser/A Bunch Of Guitar Solos ....DVD-NTSC $19.99
Henry Kaiser/Lemon Fish Tweezer ....CD $14.99
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!/Upriver ....double SACD/CD $19.99
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Yo Miles!/Sky Gardens ....double SACD/CD $19.99
Kansas/Proto-Kaw - Early Recordings From Kansas 1971-73 ....CD $14.99
Dave Kerman & 5uu's/Abandonship ....CD $14.99
Dave Kerman, 5UU's/Regarding Purgatories ....CD $14.99
Kombinat M/Hybrid Beat ....CD $14.99
Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd Quartet/Early and Late ....double CD $19.99
Larval/Obedience ....CD $14.99
Machine and the Synergetic Nuts/Leap Second Neutral ....CD $14.99
The Mahavishnu Project/Phase 2 ....double CD $19.99
The Mahavishnu Project/Return to the Emerald Beyond ....double CD $19.99
Matching Mole/March ....CD $14.99
Matching Mole/Smoke Signals ....CD $14.99
Mats-Morgan/Trends and Other Diseases ....CD $14.99
Mats-Morgan Band/Thanks For Flying With Us ....CD $14.99
Mats-Morgan Band & Morgan Agren/Heat Beats Live & Tourbook 1991-2007 ....CD + DVD
$21.99
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath/Eclipse at Dawn ....CD $14.99
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath/Travelling Somewhere ....CD $14.99
The Microscopic Septet/Seven Men In Neckties: History of the Micros Vol 1 ....double CD
$19.99
The Microscopic Septet/Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros Vol 2 ....double CD
$19.99
Piero Milesi/Modi ....CD $14.99
Piero Milesi/Nuclear Observatory Of Mr. Nanof ....CD $14.99
Piero Milesi/Within Himself ....CD $14.99
Piero Milesi & Daniel Bacalov/Camera Astratta ....CD $14.99
Harry Miller's Isipingo/Which Way Now ....CD $14.99
Phil Miller/Cutting Both Ways ....CD $14.99
Phil Miller/Digging In ....CD $14.99
Steve Miller & Lol Coxhill/Coxhill Miller-Miller Coxhill & The Story So Far...
...Oh Really? ....double CD $19.99
Miriodor/Elastic Juggling ....CD $14.99
Miriodor/Mekano ....CD $14.99
Miriodor/Parade + Live at NEARfest ....double CD $19.99
Miriodor/Rencontres ....CD $14.99
Virgil Moorefield/Distractions... ....CD $14.99
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co./1970-1973 ....CD $14.99
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company/Like A Duck To Water ....CD $14.99
The Muffins/Bandwidth ....CD $14.99
The Muffins/Chronometers ....CD $14.99
The Muffins/Double Negative ....CD $14.99
The Muffins/Loveletter #2 ....CD $14.99
The Muffins/ Manna/Mirage ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Birdman ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Colours ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Poem about the Hero ....CD $14.99
Mujician/Spacetime ....CD $14.99
Mujician/There's No Going Back Now ....CD $14.99
National Health/Playtime ....CD $14.99
NDIO/Airback ....CD $14.99
NeBeLNeST/Nova Express ....CD $14.99
NeBeLNeST/ZePTO ....CD $14.99
Nucleus/Live In Bremen ....double CD $19.99
Otolithen/S. O. D. ....CD $14.99
The Ed Palermo Big Band/Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance ....CD $14.99
PFS/279 ....CD $14.99
Philharmonie/Les Elephants Carillonneurs ....CD $14.99
Philharmonie/Nord ....CD $14.99
Philharmonie/Raqe ....CD $14.99
Picchio dal Pozzo/Camere Zimmer Rooms ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Chronolyse ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Event and Repetitions ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Iceland ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Metatron ....double CD $19.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/Agneta Nilsson ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/Allez Teia ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/Chronolyse ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/East West ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/Electronic Guerilla + It's Always Rock n Roll....double CD
$21.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/L'Ethique ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas & Heldon/Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale ....CD $14.99
Richard Pinhas/Tranzition ....CD $14.99
Planeta Imaginario/Biomasa ....CD $14.99
Present/Certitudes ....CD $14.99
Present/A Great Inhumane Adventure ....CD $14.99
Present-Triskaidekaphobie/Le Poison... ....CD $14.99
Pip Pyle's Bash/Belle Illusion ....CD $14.99
Radio Massacre International/Emissaries ....double CD $15.99
Radio Massacre International/Rain Falls in Grey ....CD $14.99
Rattlemouth/Fist Full of Iffy ....CD $14.99
Rattlemouth/Walking A Full Moon Dog ....CD $14.99
Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores/The Blind Spot ....CD $14.99
Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores/The Quiet Room ....CD $14.99
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble/Forked Tongue ....CD $14.99
Ray Russell/Goodbye Svengali ....CD $14.99
Schizotrope (Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec)/The Life and Death of Marie Zorn ....CD
$14.99
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet/Tabligh ....CD $14.99
Soft Machine/Backwards ....CD $14.99
Soft Machine/Grides ....CD + DVD (NTSC All Region) $19.99
Soft Machine/Live in Paris ....double CD $19.99
Soft Machine/Middle Earth Masters ....CD $14.99
Soft Machine/Noisette ....CD $14.99
Soft Machine/Spaced ....CD $14.99
Soft Machine/Virtually ....CD $14.99
Sotos/Platypus ....CD $14.99
The Stick Men/Insatiable ....CD $14.99
John Surman/Way Back When ....CD $14.99
Thinking Plague/Early Plague Years ....CD $14.99
Thinking Plague/A History of Madness ....CD $14.99
Thinking Plague/In Extremis ....CD $14.99
Steve Tibbetts/Steve Tibbetts ....CD $14.99
Time of Orchids/Namesake Caution ....CD $14.99
U Totem/U Totem ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/1313 ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Ceux De Duhors ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Crawling Wind ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/The Hard Quest ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Heatwave ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Heresie ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Implosion ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Live ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Rhythmix ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/Univers Zero ....CD $14.99
Univers Zero/UZED ....CD $14.99
Upsilon Acrux/Galapagos Momentum ....CD $14.99
Various Artists/156 Strings ....CD $14.99
Various Artists/Transforms: The Nerve Events Project ....CD $14.99
Various Artists/Unsettled Scores ....double CD $21.99
Volapuk/Polyglot ....CD $14.99
Volapuk/Slang! ....CD $14.99
Von Zamla/1983 ....CD $14.99
C.W. Vrtacek/Silent Heaven ....CD $14.99
Gary Windo/Anglo America ....CD $14.99
Gary Windo/His Master's Bones ....CD $14.99
Rich Woodson's Ellipsis/Control and Resistance ....CD $14.99
Robert Wyatt/Solar Flares Burn for You ....CD $14.99
Yang/A Complex Nature ....CD $14.99
Zaar/Zaar ....CD $14.99
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