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collectors edition in beautiful hardbound book with press clippings, texts, photos) 2 x CDs $39.00
This is the classic by this all star project including Eno, Bill MacCormick, Simon Phillips, Francis Monkman and the never-heard-from-again Lloyd Watson. One of the great albums of the mid/late 1970s. If you were interested in progressive rock and you are of a certain age, said the man of a certain age, then this was certainly a big part of the soundtrack of your life circa 1976/1977. This is the beautiful, limited edition version that comes in a really nice hardbound book with about 40 pages of photos and etc., includes the classic original album newly remastered and also includes a never-before heard second disc of the band rehearsing on August 23, 1976! The sound on the second disc is good bootleggy - perfectly listenable if you are a fan.
"In 1976, while Roxy Music had temporarily disbanded, 801 (the name of the band was taken from the Eno song "The True Wheel", which appears on his 1974 solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)) got together as a temporary project. The original sextet included Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, Bill MacCormick, Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips and Lloyd Watson, and after a warm up show in Cromer in Norfolk, that line-up played just two gigs - at the Reading Festival (with John Peel acclaiming them 'the musical high point of the weekend') and at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. This memorable concert was subsequently released as '801 Live'. The music consists of more or less mutated selections from albums by Manzanera, Eno, and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me". Released at the height of the punk rock revolution in the UK, the LP nevertheless sold well throughout the world, particularly because it received rave reviews from critics, both for the superb performances by the musicians and for its groundbreaking sound quality." [EG]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=21/EXPRESSION%203R

Neo-Water Resistance $8.00
Raw, squonky and tight trio of guitar, sax and drums. As they say below, think John Zorn, think Minutemen, think Fred Frith, think Boredoms, think of Ahleuchatistas and think of them all mashed together!
"After two years of aging, the three-head monster formed by Manlio Maresca (guitar), Carlo Conti (tenor sax) and Antonio Zitarelli (drums) lays a new stone - or a loud megalith - on the soil of Italian avant blues, shaking it from the bowels. Fifteen new disharmonious and destructuring inquiries on the track of jazz and punk, through the blues streets of New Orleans and the rugged lanes of the Balkans.
In Water Resistance, Neo lead to a new stage of their experimentation, always keeping the distinctive counterpoint between the two voices (sax and guitar) and the melody at the edge of the harmonic structure, with short solo improvisations of jazz nature and unexpected sound excursions. The challenge that Neo seems to confirm in this third album is to attack the essence of sound, destructuring it in paradoxical and unconventional forms, rewriting the traditional blues and effectively experimenting an unconventional blend of jazz, rock and punk that lead them in a few years to major artistic achievements. The project Neo originated in 2001 when two jazz educated musicians, guitarist Manlio Maresca and drummer Antonio Zitarelli, join Fabrizio Giovampietro’s bass to create an instrumental avant-blues trio. The geographic epicenter of the project is the sunny beach of Terracina, a truthful town of southern Lazio, although the trio is harmonically and rhythmically closer to Northern Europe’s contemporary music, except
for the overseas influences of Frank Zappa, Fred Frith, John Zorn or Minuteman. In 2006 the trio takes a new form, replacing the bass with Carlo Conti’s tenor sax, musician of completely jazz extraction from the mainstream background of the capital."  [MegaSound]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=MEGASOUND%20013

Orrenmaa Band-Make My Day $15.00
This just kind of showed up without much fanfare, but this is kind of a surprising thing. This consists of leader Tuppu Orrenmaa (guitar) performing with - are you ready for this - bassist Pekka Pohjola and drummer Billy Cobham. Additionally, the Tower of Power horn section appear on over half the tracks and three different keyboardists guest as well - so there's always at least a quartet playing. And what a quartet! This is hard-cord, balls out, modern fusion. Billy Cobham plays harder than I've heard him play in years, the horns accent the material really well and really tastefully, Pekka sounds great in this context and sounds like himself still, there's some nice keyboard leads and (the unknown) Tuppu Orrenmaa is unknown but he is not untalented - he plays heavy and hard and matches everyone here. Why is this so unknown? I don't know. [To]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TO%203

Puppenhaus-Jazz Macht Spazz $26.00
Back in stock for this completely unknown and previously undocumented but pretty great jazz-rock band! Shocking that they not only never got an album out, but that no one had heard of them before this. They definitely deserved better!
"No progressive rock music fan should be misled by the album title Jazz macht Spazz, a bowdlerization of 'jazz makes fun,' this is progressive jazz-rock at its best. Büdi Siebert (flutes and saxes), Herbert Binder (guitar), Frank Fischer (bass), later with Release Music Orchestra, Thomas Rabenschlag (keyboards) and Bea Maier (drums), later with Zomby Woof and Moira, all well trained on the instruments, played a varied, inventive, melodic and often furious kind of music with lots of Krautrock magic influenced by Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Soft Machine and Weather Report. 5 titles on this CD were recorded at German radio station SWF, 2 titles are live recordings (taped from the soundboard), all in all 77 minutes of great flute and sax playing, furious and lyrical guitar and bass work, hypnotic rhythm patterns and perfect keyboard sounds. Hard to believe that Puppenhaus never recorded an album. Digitally remastered from original master tapes. CD comes with comprehensive booklet, band story by the musicians, many photos and especially with a wonderful cover based on a painting by drummer Bea Maier. Highly recommended." [Long Hair]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/LHC%20076

Hans-Joachim Roedelius-Durch die Wuste $18.00
This was the first solo album by Roedelius, one half of Cluster and one third of Harmonia, two of the most significant Krautrock bands of the 1970s. In my opinion, this album is by far his greatest achievement as a solo artist (he has a zillion solo albums), and it has strong echoes of his work with Cluster and Harmonia. A really good album and highly recommended to Krautrock fans.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius, one of the most prolific musicians of the German avant-garde and a key figure in the birth of Krautrock, synthesizer pop and ambient music. Durch Die Wüste was originally released in 1978 on Sky Records, and fans of German electronica awaited the LP with particular anticipation, as the founding member of Cluster/Kluster/Harmonia had played a major role in the development of synthesizer music. They were in for a shock, however, as Durch Die Wüste turned out to be anything but an electronic album; in the avant-garde landscape of popular music, the record was a beacon of innovation. Initial reaction was rather less auspicious, centering around the question: what did this music have to do with Harmonia and Cluster? Anyone who has listened carefully to Cluster's 1974 effort Zuckerzeit will have come to recognize Roedelius' stamp on this and all subsequent Cluster and Harmonia albums. Just how far Roedelius would develop his own compositional technique and mode of playing would only become obvious when he was set free from the ensemble environment. Listeners at the time were baffled by just how little electronically-generated sounds were a feature of the album. Synthesizers and electronic effects did play a part, but Roedelius integrated them so seamlessly into the arrangement, that one barely noticed them. The rhythm machine was relegated to the status of metronome. In fact, Roedelius' decision to distance himself from electronic music, rigid in structure as it had become, and turn to a new form of musical expression, is what really gave the album its experimental character. Recorded over a 2-year period assisted by engineer Dave Hutchins and Conny Plank, who also contributed his unmistakable guitar and percussion style, and Dieter Moebius, who, in spite of everything, set a few significant markers with the synthesizer. There is a space-y, organic, relatable warmth to this record that absolutely transcends time. This reissue is housed in a digipak including a booklet with liner notes by Asmus Tietchens.
"The debut Roedelius album is an excellent showcase of the producer's talents in producing exquisite instrumental music for reflection. Though these tracks often stray from beatless space music (the opener 'Am Rockzipfel' flits back and forth between electronic hard rock and space), the musical structures employed certainly suggest ambience, from the classical melodies of the title track to the gaseous atmosphere of 'Glaubersalz.'"-All Music Guide [Bureau B]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/BUREAU%20B%20028

Klaus Schulze-La Vie Electronique 3 : 3 x CDs $19.00
In the 1990s, when most of his best known material wasn't generally available, there were 3 huge archival sets of all unreleased material of his work released. This series will take these long out of print archival releases, add yet more unreleased material, and put them into chronological order! This is the third in the series and this set covers his totally classic and possibly greatest period of 1975-1976. This is a gigantic amount of great music at a great price. Highly recommended. [SPV]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=17/SPV%20307872

Klaus Schulze-La Vie Electronique 4 : 3 x CDs $19.00
In the 1990s, when most of his best known material wasn't generally available, there were 3 huge archival sets of all unreleased material of his work released. This series will take these long out of print archival releases, add yet more unreleased material, and put them into chronological order! This is the fourth in the series and this set covers his totally classic and possibly greatest period of 1975-1976. This is a gigantic amount of great music at a great price. Highly recommended. [SPV]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=17/SPV%20306832

Tasavallan Presidentti-Six + Live PAL (all region) DVD $20.00
Quick history: Tasavallan Presidentti were a very early Finnish psychedelic into progressive/heavy fusion. In 2006 the original five players who made their classic album Milky Way Moses reunited: Jukka Tolonen-electric guitar, Juhani Aaltonen-saxes and flute, Frank Robson-vocals and keyboards, Heikki  Virtanen-bass and Vesa Aaltonen-drums. They made a album and this DVD, which was recorded at two performances in November 2006. The material is a mix of old and new material and the old stuff is great and the new stuff's batting average for a 35 year old band is shockingly high and Tolonen remains the unbelievably incredible guitarist he always was! Probably worth it just to see Jukka play. [Presence]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PRESENCE%20007

Third Ear Band-Alchemy/Third Ear Band (aka Elements) (remastered) 2 x CDs $23.00
Really good to see these two albums back in print again! The Third Ear Band were a late 60's/mid 70's quartet who were fixtures at ALL the festivals & who used hand drums, oboe, violin/viola & cello to make a mostly improvised, dark, pagan & medieval-influenced, acoustic music that sounded like no one but themselves. The only thing that comes close to their sound is some small bits of the early Univers Zero records. They called themselves "electric acid raga music", and that's a fine description. This is a newly remastered reisue of their classic first and second albums (they only had 3 albums originally, before their reformation). Definitely on the oddball side of things, I suppose, but I loved them and I still do. So...highly original and highly recommended! [BGO]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=25/BGO%20864

Time Traveller-Chapters I & II $15.00
This is a good, all instrumental, heavy progressive rock/fusion album from Finland that is the creation of Juhani Nisula, who plays all guitars, keyboards and bass, who is helped by the (real) drumming of Esko Takamaki. The keyboards are tasteful and all analog ("Hammond B-3 & M100 organ, mellotron, Moog synthesizer, Arp synthesizer, Oberheim synthesizer, clavinet") and the guitar work soars in a appealing classic rock/70s kinda way on top of the heavy prog backdrop. [Presence]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PRESENCE%20012

Van der Graaf Generator-Live at the Paradiso NTSC (all region) DVD $22.00
Back in stock! (honest! this time they are really here!)
Now here's something exciting! The Trisector trio of Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Peter Hammill performing an almost 2 hour concert with a great set-list in front of a tremendously enthusiastic crowd on April 14, 2007, all captured professionally sonically and visually.
"The Paradiso has been the scene of several epic shows in VdGG's past.
This one's a gem of an addition to the collection. This was our first tour as a trio and by the time we arrived in Amsterdam we were well into our stride, having played nine previous shows. There's a mixture of old, new and rediscovered material here. The emphasis, though, is on looking forward rather than backward."-Peter Hammill
1. Lemmings 2. A Place To Survive 3. Lifetime 4. In The) Black Room 5. Every Bloody Emperor 6. All That Before 7. Gog 8. Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild 9. The Sleepwalkers 10. Man-Erg 11. Scorched Earth [Voiceprint]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=23/VPDVD%2064

Van der Graaf Generator-Live at the Paradiso 2 x CDs $22.00
Back in stock!
Now here's something exciting! The Trisector trio of Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and Peter Hammill performing an almost 2 hour concert with a great set-list in front of a tremendously enthusiastic crowd on April 14, 2007, all captured professionally.
"The Paradiso has been the scene of several epic shows in VdGG's past.
This one's a gem of an addition to the collection. This was our first tour as a trio and by the time we arrived in Amsterdam we were well into our stride, having played nine previous shows. There's a mixture of old, new and rediscovered material here. The emphasis, though, is on looking forward rather than backward."-Peter Hammill
1. Lemmings 2. A Place To Survive 3. Lifetime 4. In The) Black Room 5. Every Bloody Emperor 6. All That Before 7. Gog 8. Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild 9. The Sleepwalkers 10. Man-Erg 11. Scorched Earth [Voiceprint]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=23/VP%20517

VRIL-The Fatal Duckpond $15.00
"After a break of six years, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Lukas Simonis, now with added ingredient Pierre Omer, present the second volume of recordings by the elusive VRIL - a band who revive and update both the great institution of the guitar instrumental and the now sadly neglected practice of collective arrangement, intense rehearsal and live studio performance. Appropriate to the half century that has passed since the birth of the form, these hits dodge about, get bored easily and blend both concentration and complexity with the still indispensable traditional qualities that made the genre great: hummability, crafted sounds, nifty arrangements, ridiculous gimmicks and ensemble playing. 'Neither tribute nor parody, these enigmatic pieces are never more nor less than exactly what they are'.... wrote Lothar Preen in his Melbourne concert review....'but perfectly realised'. With film stills, misleading sleeve-notes and storyboard by the Diogenesian recluse Frank Key." [ReR]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RER%20VRIL2

Gareth Williams-Flaming Tunes $15.00
"When Gareth Williams died on Christmas Eve 2001 at the age of 48, the world lost a huge personality and a unique creative talent, yet little is known of his work outside of the legendary group This Heat. With this first official release on Compact Disc of Williams's solo and collaborative works from 1985, Life and Living Records take the first steps to correcting this imbalance. “Flaming Tunes” was recorded by Gareth Williams and Mary Currie with input from a variety of contributors including fellow This Heat  member Charles Bullen, long term collaborators Martin Harrison, Rick Wilson, Mick Hobbs and others.
After Gareth left This Heat in the early eighties he made the first of several trips to India, an experience which affected him deeply on personal and musical levels. On returning he began a collaboration with Mary Currie, building up songs from fragments and simple arrangements, using whatever instruments they had to hand and the resourceful aesthetic of pushing a cassette portastudio to its maximum. Originally released on cassette in 1985, “Flaming Tunes” has languished in relative obscurity over the years, although bootlegged in its entirety in the 1990's. There has been no official Compact Disc release until now." [Life and Living/ReR]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=LIFE%20AND%20LIVING/RER%20LALR%2006

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Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only):

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
http://eartripmagazine.wordpress.com/reviews-archive-recordings/cd-reviews-issue-one/

HEALING FORCE
http://eartripmagazine.wordpress.com/reviews-archive-recordings/cd-reviews-issue-3/

ISOTOPE
http://eartripmagazine.wordpress.com/reviews-archive-recordings/re-issues-other-issue-3/

LED BIB
http://www.adequacy.net/2009/08/led-bib-–-sensible-shoes/

ED PALERMO BIG BAND
http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=10663&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/aug2009/mosher_forked.html

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You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html
or
http://my.calendars.net/cuneiform/
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JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN (our latest signing! Come out to see them perform tunes from their upcoming release "Varmint"!)
August 21 - Velvet Lounge - 67 E. Cermak Road - Chicago, IL

September 4 - Chicago Jazz Festival - Chicago, IL

BEAT CIRCUS (two shows to celebrate the release of "Boy from Black Mountain" - the full tour will be in February!)
September 11 - Middle East Downstairs - 472-480 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge MA (with O'Death, Larkin Grimm)

September 12 - Knitting Factory - 361 Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn NY (with Mucca Pazz)

CHEER-ACCIDENT
October 24 - The Philadephia Experiment: New Music Festival - The Rotunda - University of Pennsylvnania - 4014 Walnut Street - Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 573-3234 (with CHEER-ACCIDENT (headliner), Fern Knight, The Red Masque and Make A Rising) all ages - FREE but donations for the bands requested.

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
August 27 -  Palmengarten - Frankfurt, Germany

August 28 - Kulturzentrum Gems Singen, Germany

August 29 - Zomer Fiets Tour - Barn Dick - Feerwerd, The Netherlands

September 13 - Jazz Gallery - New York, NYT

October 26 - Cal Arts Workshop - Clovis High School - Clovis, CA 2pm

October 28 - Red Cat - Los Angeles, CA

October 29 - University of Nevada - Reno, NV

October 30 - Williamette University - 900 State Street - Salem, Oregon 97301

November 1 - Earshot Festival - Seattle, WA

December 7 - Towson State University - Towson, MD

December 8 - Philadelphia, PA

March - European tour

DJAM KARET
August 22 - Crescendo Festival - Saint Palais-sur-Mer, France

October 17 – The Immersion Festival - DA Gallery - The dA Center for the Arts - 252-D South Main St. - Pomona CA 91766 (909) 397-9716

ERGO (our latest signing! New CD "Multitude, Solitude" out in September!)
September 26 - Sonic Circuits Festival - Washington, DC

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
September 30 - Sunset Club - Paris, France

December 5 - Theatre de Sens - Sens, France

June - NEARFest - Zoellner Auditorium - Bethlehem, PA

GUAPO
September 18-20 (Guapo meets GMEA) - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

GUTBUCKET
November 10 - Lemoyne College - Syracuse, NY

HAMSTER THEATRE
October 17 - Edgefest - The Firefly Club - 637 South Main Street - Ann Arbor, MI : 9:00 PM

LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
August 28 - The Luminaire - 311 Kilburn High Road - London NW6 7JR, UK

September 8 - Mercury Prize ceremony - London, UK (will be broadcast live on BBC 2 television, bringing honk, clank and skronk into every granny's family room)

October 2 - The Vortex - 11 Gillett Square - London, UK

October 14 - The Queens Theatre - Barnstaple, UK

October 23 - Derby Jazz - Derby, UK

December 10 - Nottingham Jazz - Nottingham, UK

MATS/MORGAN BAND (Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren with former Meshuggah bassist Gustaf Hilem)
August 16 - 20 - Zaapanle - Germany (with Denny Walley)

PHIL MILLER/IN CAHOOTS
November 10 - Vortex Jazz Club - 11 Gillett Street - Dalston, London N16 8AZ, UK (0207) 254 4097

November 11 - Swinburne Hall - Colchester Institute - Colchester, Essex C03 3LL, UK (01206) 712999

MIRIODOR
September 12-13 - FMPM - The Gesù - 1200 De Bleury Street, between St-Catherine Street and René Lévesque Boulevard - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

THE MUFFINS
September 12 - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C - Baltimore, MD

September 18 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

PLANETA IMAGINARIO
October 1 - Sala KGB de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

POSITIVE CATASTROPHE
September 25 - 5th Annual New Languages Festival - McCarren Hall - 98 Bayard St. - Brooklyn, NY 11222

PRESENT
September 19 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
October 31 - Hampshire Jam - Millenium Hall, Liphoo - Hampshire, UK

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
October 3 - Dana Park, Cambridgeport, MA, 4pm (Raindate Sunday October 4th)

WADADA LEO SMITH
August 30 - JazzFestival Leipzig - Leipzig, Germany

September 1 - Sant'Anna Arresi Festival - Sardinia Italy

November 20 - Madrid Jazz Festival - Madrid, Spain

UNIVERS ZERO
September 20 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
October 13 - Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival - Nancy, France

UPSILON ACRUX (their first-ever European tour - and it is shaping up to be a big one):
September 10 - Cairo - Fred-Joseph-Platz 3 - Würzburg, Germany

September 11 - Az Conni - Rudolf-Leonhard-Str. 39 - Dresden Germany

September 14 - Astra Stube - Max-Brauer-Allee 200 - Hamburg, Germany

September 15 - tbc - Hamburg, Germany

September 16 - Klub Adorno - Kattesundet 6 - Copenhagen, Denmark

September 18 - Landbouwbelang - Beisenwal 3 - Maastricht, Netherlands

September 19 - Finzerb - Marché aux Herbes 20 - Mons, Belgium

September 20 - Molodoï - 19 Rue de Ban de la Roche - Strasbourg, France

September 22 - United Club - Corso Vigevano 33 - Torino, Italy

September 23 - Sinister Noise - Via dei Magazzini Generale 4a - Rome, Italy

September 25 - Bloom - Via Curiel 39 - Milano, Italy

September 26 - Le Periscope - 13 Rue Delandine - Lyon, France

September 29 - tbc - Lille, France

September 30 - Le Rigoletto - 337 Rue de Belleville - Paris, France

October 1 - tbc -Chatham, UK

October 2 - tbc - Milton Keynes, UK

October 3 - The Kazimier - 4-5 Worstenholme Square - Liverpool, UK

October 4 - tbc - Winchester, UK

ZEVIOUS (our latest signing! Come out to see them now as they preview music from their fantastic new release "After the Air Raid"!)
August 15 - Danger Danger Gallery - 5013 Baltimore Ave - Philadelphia, PA 19143 (with Make A Rising, Hume)

August 16 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22201 (703) 525-8646 (with DCIC)

August 17 - Triple - 3306 W Broad St. - Richmond, Virginia (804) 359-7777 (with The Wayward)

August 18 - The Hideaway - 235 East Main St - Johnson City, TN 37604

August 19 - BoBo Gallery - 22 Lexington Ave - Asheville, NC (with Shane Perlowin, King Tut)

August 20 - Doc's Gumbo Grille - 1115 Assembly St. - Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 256-4440 (2 sets!)

August 21 - The Green Bean - 341 S Elm St - Greensboro, NC 27401 (336) 691-9990

August 22 - Hexagon - 1825 N. Charles St - Baltimore, MD (with Expanding Man, others tba)

September 2 - North Star Bar - 22639 Poplar St (corner of 27th and Poplar) - Philadelphia, PA 19130 (215) 787-0488 (opening for Morglbl)

September 16 - Monkeytown - 58 N. 3rd St - Brooklyn, NY 11211 (with Father Figures, Little Triumph)

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To see Artist News by musicians who have recorded for Cuneiform - provided to us by the musicians themselves and updated every four months, go to:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/artistnews.html

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Rest in Peace:

Rashied Ali (best known as John Coltrane's drummer during the last years of his life, he was a fine musician on his own)

Les Paul (master guitarist and the father of modern recording technology - a huge, huge influence on modern music and the how we hear music)

Mike Seeger (folk singer, musician and folklorist)

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Thank you!

-Coming Soon (or not soon, but eventually, so please be patient!)-
(For updates of new items in stock, watch these mailings or check the NEW ARRIVALS section!) :
REZ ABBASI-Things to Come (with Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa a.o.)
AHLEUCHATISTAS-album #5!
ANGLAGARD-Epilog (reissued by the band and available for the first time in 3-4 years)
BEAT CIRCUS-Boy From Black Mountain
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET with GARY VERSACE (fifth album)
ERGO-Multitude, Solitude (second excellent album from this jazz/electronica trio from NY)
FAR CORNER #3
FUTURE KINGS OF ENGLAND #3
GUAPO-(yippee! a NEW studio album coupled with their NEARFest 2006 performance. FINALLY a documentation of their great current lineup (Dave Smith, Daniel O'Sullivan, James Sedwards and Kavus Torabi)
HOLDSWORTH/PASQUA/HASLIP/WACKERMAN-Blues for Tony (2 x CDs)
NEW YORK ART QUARTET-Old Stufgf (archival release of material from 1965 with John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Finn von Eyben and Louis Moholo. Unbeliveably great sound quality and performances!)
RICHARD PINHAS-Metal/Crystal
PRESENT-Barbara, ma non troppo (new album with DVD of their performance at the 2007 French R.I.O. event and Gouveia Festival)
The ROVA/NELS CLINE SINGERS CELESTIAL SEPTET
SLOCHE-both albums (J'un Oeil and Stadacone) reissued legitimately and from the master tapes on CD for the very first time!)
WADADA LEO SMITH-Spiritual Dimensions (new double CD for Cuneiform - 1 disc with the Golden Quartet and one disc with Organic)
SOFT MACHINE (JUST when you were thinking that there was nothing else that could appear from the vaults, a really amazing archival release from a period hardly touched upon...)
UNIVERS ZERO-Clivage (new CD to be released in early 2010 - and Andy Kirk is back for this album and the band will be a 2 keyboard septet (ala "Heatwave"): Daniel Denis (drums and keyboard), Michel Berckmans (reeds and percussion), Kurt Budé (clarinets and saxes), Martin Lauwers (violin), Pierre Chevalier (keyboards), Andy Kirk (keyboards) and Dimitri Evers (bass).
ZEVIOUS-After the Air Raid (tremendous NYC guitar/bass/drums punk-jazz outfit)

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earth-of- Seattle-then-exhumed four-track cassette that formed the basis of the instrumental 'Cover Your Wounds With the Sky.' For its blanketing sound, Luminous Night draws inspiration from such cinematic sources as Jodorowky's El Topo soundtrack and the scores of Kurosawa's samurai films, but is at the same time music that could only have come from the singular sound world of Six Organs of Admittance. What is it about the man that buries his sound in the ground? He has faith in the earth, for one. When we think of Six Organs of Admittance, we think of a man with six-string ambitions, a rambler with mystic beliefs and dark electric visions. It's a big universe and we're only human, which basically means that we've got spirit and that we're going to die. But until then, we live. Six Organs of Admittance has lived to tell about it on Luminous Night." [Drag City]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/DRAG%20CITY%20409

Slivovitz-Hubris $13.00
"The seven-piece Slivovitz reside in Napoli (Naples), and are devoted to a poly-stylistic mangling whose forebears include Frank Zappa and John Zorn. Much of their core material also arrives from the folkloric knees-ups of the Balkan regions. Despite any avowed influences, the ultimate Slivovitz sound has evolved into a beast which is very much tethered to their own pole. The band take their name from the Slavic plum brandy that's a popular quaff across Central and Eastern European regions. Slivovitz developed a keen appreciation of their namesake tipple during regular gigging trips to Hungary. The band formed in September 2001, releasing their eponymously-titled debut album in 2004.
Slivovitz's Hubris disc, their second, opens with a Middle Eastern shimmy, led by Domenico Angarano's slippery bassline, but moments later, as soon as Pietro Santangelo leads his horn attack, the mood is transplanted to Gypsy territory before exploding into a free jazz cacophony that could have been prompted by Frank Zappa. Such swift alteration of tactics is often the Slivovitz approach, usually within the space of a six minute composition. Santangelo's tenor and alto saxophones can be soothing as well as rippingly percussive, simultaneously inspired by Sonny Rollins and John Zorn. Slivovitz might take their musical foundation from the likes of Zappa, but they are also highly receptive to the ethnographic sounds of the globe. These elements are confidently and knowledgeably handled, as they're fed through the jazz rock mincer. Voices and drums rattle out of the tribal village, but this folkloric authenticity is immediately followed by Hawaiian surf guitars in Senegal. Slivovitz don't quite engage in a fully disorientating cut'n'splice, but their pieces certainly slide through a number of contrasting movements. There's reggae, again given the loopy lilt that Zappa occasionally offered in this style, complete with vibraphone skitters and slithery voices. At other points, there are also traces of Canterbury style jazz-fusion, with strong solos delivered throughout by Santangelo, guitarist Marcello Giannini and violinist Riccardo Villari. Singer Ludovica Manzo steps forward to lead a pair of wedding party scampers, with one of these boasting an incredibly abrasive harmonica solo courtesy of Derek Di Perri. Even towards the album's close, Slivovitz still have a few more stylistic surprises, with funky Brazilian samba rock and coasting Argentinean tango, paying homage, it seems, to Os Mutantes and Astor Piazzolla. Once bubbled up together, this astounding set of influences is distilled into the distinctively impressive Slivovitz sound." [MoonJune]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=MOONJUNE%20026

Various Artists-Slowly...From the South: A Compendium of South African progressive rock 2 x CDs $23.00
"Prog is a four letter word..right? So is 'rock', 'jazz' and 'folk' , these genres combined with classical and blues, are the foundation stones of what music scribes like to call 'progressive music' or 'prog'. From rock's emergence in the 60's as a cultural force to be reckoned with , there have been artists and groups that have sought to push the boundaries of music, to step outside the box and blaze new musical frontiers without a nod to the crass pop commercialism of the 'industry'. Far from the acid drenched musical meanderings of the mid to late 60's San Franciscan psychedelic rock experience, musicians globally, and in particular in the prog crucible of the United Kingdom, were creating challenging new music . Experimenting with abstract time signatures, unpredictable chord changes and incorporating influences from around the globe including Indian, Celtic, Arabic and African sounds, a new, thought provoking genre was born. In the UK, bands like Yes, Gentle Giant, Jade Warrior, Gravy Train, Audience and the like influenced hordes of emerging bands across the world. In the early 70's South Africa was in it's third decade of self inflicted political and cultural isolation. Despite a concerted effort by the then Nationalist government to 'protect the youth' by blocking the flow of progressive cultural ideas via a series of bannings,restrictions and high import tariffs, rock music per se, and all it represented, managed to reach these Southern shores and inseminate a flowering home grown rock revolution….Although some groups simply emulated the sounds of their international counterparts, some South African bands embraced their African roots, drawing on home grown melodic and rhythmic structures, meshing them with European influences and producing a heady variant of progressive music that fits snugly alongside their international compatriots. “Slowly...From the South” showcases the cream of South African prog rock of the last 40 years .Tucked inside you will hear the music of some of South Africa's heavyweight musical sons & daughters, some familiar and others only recognised in name but never heard outside these southern shores, until now. Although it documents predominantly the 70's and 80's it also includes several current artists who are blazing new frontiers in progressive music. This record is the culmination of close to two years of research and planning, tracking down long lost masters, photos and information, at times akin to a Sherlock Holmes investigation. This double cd compilation is unique in it's kind. It is the first indigenous compilation set that showcases the cream of South African musicians who explored both jazz and prog rock genres during the seventies and beyond. A number of the artists also enjoyed international presence with their musical output and the tracks appearing on this CD were taken from sought-after albums that are fetching exorbitant prices on eBay these days”."-Tertius Louw
[Fresh]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=FRESH%20163

Karlheinz Stockhausen-Spiral I, Spirale II, Pole, Wach, Japan, Zykus, Tierkreis, In Freundschaft 2 x CDs $13.00
Great price on 2 CDs of material by one of the most influencial composers of the second half of the 20th century and whose works are very hard to find, as most of his classic recordings are controlled by the family and issued on very expensive private pressings. Here are 8 works performed by Harald Bojé, Christoph Caskel, Peter Eötvös, Tristan Fry, Markus Stockhausen, Margareta Hurholz. [EMI]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/EMI%205099969559822

Strawbs-Dancing to the Devil's Beat $14.00
The Strawbs have been on a roll recently. Their last couple (including this) have been really strong albums which find them still combining folk influences with strong 1970s progressive sounds. Other than the fact that keyboardist John Hawken has been replaced by...Oliver Wakeman, this features familiar faces and has the band running through familiar territory, but in a inspired fashion that will please all their old fans. [Witchwood]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=17/WITCHWOOD%202045

Strawbs-Live at Hampton Court Palace, May 2009 NTSC (all region) DVD
"On May 1st and 2nd 2009, Historic Royal Palaces allowed a concert to take place in front of the magnificent facade of Hampton Court Palace for the very first time. The event was a full length performance of The Six Wives Of Henry VIII by composer Rick Wakeman, his band, choir and orchestra. Rick invited Acoustic Strawbs to warm the audience up - literally! It was quite chilly but, despite frozen fingers, David Cousins, Dave Lambert, and Chas Cronk gave the performance of their lives to 10,000 people over the two nights. DVD includes bonus audio tracks of acoustic Strawbs with Rick Wakeman on piano." [Witchwood]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=17/WITCHWOOD%202046

David Taylor-Red Sea $13.00
"David Taylor is one of the world's greatest virtuosos on the bass trombone—a musician of incredible charisma and eclecticism who has worked with everyone from Gil Evans, Charles Wuorinen, and Frank Sinatra, to Yo-Yo Ma, Barbara Streisand, Duke Ellington and Pierre Boulez. Accompanied by a fabulous band, his Tzadik debut Red Sea is a creative and exciting blend of original music, Hasidic melodies, improvisation and ambient soundscapes. Inspired by the music of the legendary Cantor Pierre Pinchik, this is a moody and dynamic album evoking the ecstasy of cantorial fervor."
David Taylor: tenor trombone, bass trombone, vocals
Warren Smith: percussion
Scott Robinson: saxes, clarinets and multi-reeds
Adam Holzman: piano, synth, toy piano, percussion
Franz Hackl: trumpets [Tzadik]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TZ%208148

McCoy Tyner-Solo: Live from San Francisco $15.00
Solo piano album from a true jazz legend. 11 pieces - both originals and standards. [Half Note]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=17/HALF%20NOTE%20924541

Eberhard Weber-Endless Days $19.00
Back in stock!
"Although a familiar figure on concert stages and recordings with the Jan Garbarek Group, bass innovator Eberhard Weber hasn't released an album under his own name in eight years. "Endless Days", then, is long-awaited. It's also Weber's first recording as leader of a "group" in 12 years and will be hailed as a major event by ECM followers, particularly since the line-up, with bass/reeds/keyboards/drums, carries strong echoes of the halcyon days of Weber's "Colours" band. Seven new compositions by Eberhard, plus a remake of "The Last Stage of a Long Journey".
Eberhard Weber bass
Paul McCandless oboe, english horn, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
Rainer Brüninghaus piano, keyboards
Michael DiPasqua drums, percussion [ECM]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/ECM%201748

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Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only):

BEAT CIRCUS
http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=2144

CHEER-ACCIDENT
http://www.leicesterbangs.co.uk/mar09-26.html
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_July09.htm

FAST 'N' BULBOUS
http://www.leicesterbangs.co.uk/mar09-28.html
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_July09.htm

RICHARD LEO JOHNSON
http://www.leicesterbangs.co.uk/mar09-13.html

LED BIB
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/16/led-bib-gig-review-london
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/cd-reviews/sensible-shoes.html
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/freetime/usic/4532805.Walthamstow_band_Led_Bib_pick_up_a_Mercury_nomination/

MIRIODOR
http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=8081

RICHARD PINHAS and MERZBOW
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/?s=cuneiform
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_July09.htm

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You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html
or
http://my.calendars.net/cuneiform/
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JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN (our latest signing! Come out to see them perform tunes from their upcoming release "Varmint"!)
September 4 - Chicago Jazz Festival - Chicago, IL

BEAT CIRCUS (two shows to celebrate the release of "Boy from Black Mountain" - the full tour will be in February!)
September 11 - Middle East Downstairs - 472-480 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge MA (with O'Death, Larkin Grimm)

September 12 - Knitting Factory - 361 Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn NY (with Mucca Pazz)

CHEER-ACCIDENT
October 24 - The Philadephia Experiment: New Music Festival - The Rotunda - University of Pennsylvnania - 4014 Walnut Street - Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 573-3234 (with CHEER-ACCIDENT (headliner), Fern Knight, The Red Masque and Make A Rising) all ages - FREE but donations for the bands requested.

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
August 27 -  Palmengarten - Frankfurt, Germany

August 28 - Kulturzentrum Gems Singen, Germany

August 29 - Zomer Fiets Tour - Barn Dick - Feerwerd, The Netherlands

September 13 - Jazz Gallery - New York, NYT

October 26 - Cal Arts Workshop - Clovis High School - Clovis, CA 2pm

October 28 - Red Cat - Los Angeles, CA

October 29 - University of Nevada - Reno, NV

October 30 - Williamette University - 900 State Street - Salem, Oregon 97301

November 1 - Earshot Festival - Seattle, WA

December 7 - Towson State University - Towson, MD

December 8 - Philadelphia, PA

March - European tour

DJAM KARET
August 22 - Crescendo Festival - Saint Palais-sur-Mer, France

October 17 – The Immersion Festival - DA Gallery - The dA Center for the Arts - 252-D South Main St. - Pomona CA 91766 (909) 397-9716

ERGO (our latest signing! New CD "Multitude, Solitude" out in September!)
September 26 - Sonic Circuits Festival - Washington, DC

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
September 30 - Sunset Club - Paris, France

December 5 - Theatre de Sens - Sens, France

June - NEARFest - Zoellner Auditorium - Bethlehem, PA

GUAPO
September 18-20 (Guapo meets GMEA) - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

GUTBUCKET
November 10 - Lemoyne College - Syracuse, NY

HAMSTER THEATRE
October 17 - Edgefest - The Firefly Club - 637 South Main Street - Ann Arbor, MI : 9:00 PM

LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
August 28 - The Luminaire - 311 Kilburn High Road - London NW6 7JR, UK

September 8 - Mercury Prize ceremony - London, UK (will be broadcast live on BBC 2 television, bringing honk, clank and skronk into every granny's family room)

October 2 - The Vortex - 11 Gillett Square - London, UK

October 14 - The Queens Theatre - Barnstaple, UK

October 23 - Derby Jazz - Derby, UK

December 10 - Nottingham Jazz - Nottingham, UK

MATS/MORGAN BAND (Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren with former Meshuggah bassist Gustaf Hilem)
August 16 - 20 - Zaapanle - Germany (with Denny Walley)

PHIL MILLER/IN CAHOOTS
November 10 - Vortex Jazz Club - 11 Gillett Street - Dalston, London N16 8AZ, UK (0207) 254 4097

November 11 - Swinburne Hall - Colchester Institute - Colchester, Essex C03 3LL, UK (01206) 712999

MIRIODOR
September 12-13 - FMPM - The Gesù - 1200 De Bleury Street, between St-Catherine Street and René Lévesque Boulevard - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

THE MUFFINS
September 12 - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C - Baltimore, MD

September 18 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

PLANETA IMAGINARIO
October 1 - Sala KGB de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

POSITIVE CATASTROPHE
September 25 - 5th Annual New Languages Festival - McCarren Hall - 98 Bayard St. - Brooklyn, NY 11222

PRESENT
September 19 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
October 31 - Hampshire Jam - Millenium Hall, Liphoo - Hampshire, UK

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
October 3 - Dana Park, Cambridgeport, MA, 4pm (Raindate Sunday October 4th)

WADADA LEO SMITH
August 30 - JazzFestival Leipzig - Leipzig, Germany

September 1 - Sant'Anna Arresi Festival - Sardinia Italy

November 20 - Madrid Jazz Festival - Madrid, Spain

UNIVERS ZERO
September 20 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
October 13 - Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival - Nancy, France

UPSILON ACRUX (their first-ever European tour - and it is shaping up to be a big one):
September 10 - Cairo - Fred-Joseph-Platz 3 - Würzburg, Germany

September 11 - Az Conni - Rudolf-Leonhard-Str. 39 - Dresden Germany

September 14 - Astra Stube - Max-Brauer-Allee 200 - Hamburg, Germany

September 15 - tbc - Hamburg, Germany

September 16 - Klub Adorno - Kattesundet 6 - Copenhagen, Denmark

September 18 - Landbouwbelang - Beisenwal 3 - Maastricht, Netherlands

September 19 - Finzerb - Marché aux Herbes 20 - Mons, Belgium

September 20 - Molodoï - 19 Rue de Ban de la Roche - Strasbourg, France

September 22 - United Club - Corso Vigevano 33 - Torino, Italy

September 23 - Sinister Noise - Via dei Magazzini Generale 4a - Rome, Italy

September 25 - Bloom - Via Curiel 39 - Milano, Italy

September 26 - Le Periscope - 13 Rue Delandine - Lyon, France

September 29 - tbc - Lille, France

September 30 - Le Rigoletto - 337 Rue de Belleville - Paris, France

October 1 - tbc -Chatham, UK

October 2 - tbc - Milton Keynes, UK

October 3 - The Kazimier - 4-5 Worstenholme Square - Liverpool, UK

October 4 - tbc - Winchester, UK

ZEVIOUS (our latest signing! Come out to see them now as they preview music from their fantastic new release "After the Air Raid"!)
August 21 - The Green Bean - 341 S Elm St - Greensboro, NC 27401 (336) 691-9990

August 22 - Hexagon - 1825 N. Charles St - Baltimore, MD (with Expanding Man, others tba)

September 2 - North Star Bar - 22639 Poplar St (corner of 27th and Poplar) - Philadelphia, PA 19130 (215) 787-0488 (opening for Morglbl)

September 16 - Monkeytown - 58 N. 3rd St - Brooklyn, NY 11211 (with Father Figures, Little Triumph)

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To see Artist News by musicians who have recorded for Cuneiform - provided to us by the musicians themselves and updated every four months, go to:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/artistnews.html

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Thank you!

-Coming Soon (or not soon, but eventually, so please be patient!)-
(For updates of new items in stock, watch these mailings or check the NEW ARRIVALS section!) :
REZ ABBASI-Things to Come (with Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa a.o.)
AHLEUCHATISTAS-album #5!
ANGLAGARD-Epilog (reissued by the band and available for the first time in 3-4 years)
BEAT CIRCUS-Boy From Black Mountain
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET with GARY VERSACE (fifth album)
ERGO-Multitude, Solitude (second excellent album from this jazz/electronica trio from NY)
FAR CORNER #3
FUTURE KINGS OF ENGLAND #3
GUAPO-(yippee! a NEW studio album coupled with their NEARFest 2006 performance. FINALLY a documentation of their great current lineup (Dave Smith, Daniel O'Sullivan, James Sedwards and Kavus Torabi)
HOLDSWORTH/PASQUA/HASLIP/WACKERMAN-Blues for Tony (2 x CDs)
NEW YORK ART QUARTET-Old Stufgf (archival release of material from 1965 with John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Finn von Eyben and Louis Moholo. Unbeliveably great sound quality and performances!)
RICHARD PINHAS-Metal/Crystal
PRESENT-Barbara, ma non troppo (new album with DVD of their performance at the 2007 French R.I.O. event and Gouveia Festival)
The ROVA/NELS CLINE SINGERS CELESTIAL SEPTET
SLOCHE-both albums (J'un Oeil and Stadacone) reissued legitimately and from the master tapes on CD for the very first time!)
WADADA LEO SMITH-Spiritual Dimensions (new double CD for Cuneiform - 1 disc with the Golden Quartet and one disc with Organic)
SOFT MACHINE (JUST when you were thinking that there was nothing else that could appear from the vaults, a really amazing archival release from a period hardly touched upon...)
UNIVERS ZERO-Clivage (new CD to be released in early 2010 - and Andy Kirk is back for this album and the band will be a 2 keyboard septet (ala "Heatwave"): Daniel Denis (drums and keyboard), Michel Berckmans (reeds and percussion), Kurt Budé (clarinets and saxes), Martin Lauwers (violin), Pierre Chevalier (keyboards), Andy Kirk (keyboards) and Dimitri Evers (bass).
ZEVIOUS-After the Air Raid (tremendous NYC guitar/bass/drums punk-jazz outfit)

songwriter Brian Carpenter. The music bridges a number of disparate genres including experimental music, Americana, cabaret, circus music, Appalachian string music, bluegrass music, old-time music, Southern Gospel, and funereal music. The current edition of the band features a unusual and versatile instrumentation. Brian brought in violinist Paran Amirinazari and violist Jordan Voelker (who also provide background vocals), trombonist Doug LaRosa, and the rockabilly-style rhythm section composed of upright bassist Paul Dilley, guitarist/banjoist Andrew Stern, and drummer Gavin McCarthy.
Boy From Black Mountain began shortly after Carpenter's son was diagnosed with autism in late 2006. He began writing songs inspired by the experience of living with his son during the time of diagnosis and treatment. Carpenter further dedicates the album to his father and grandparents, whose lives as watermelon farmers in the rural Bible Belt inspired some of the songs. This is a very artful-yet-accessible album with great lyrics, memorable songs and rich orchestrations. In addition to the songs are a handful of haunting instrumentals which help to frame the overall work of the songs to a larger canvas.
Beat Circus are a powerful live outfit as well and are gaining renown for their compelling shows, gathering great notices in high profile magazines for their regular appearances up and down the northeast corridor. If they play near you, go see them - it's an amazing SHOW.
"...the band mixes carnivalesque tunes with rock moments. The rich and tight orchestrations feature a Morricone-inspired combination of harmonica, viola, banjo, guitar, tuba, violin, trombone, upright bass, and drums." — The New Yorker
"Boston's circus of malcontents not only has the chops but features a fallen hellfire preacher/band leader (the captivating Brian Carpenter) who simultaneously channels Nick Cave and Johnny Cash." — The Village Voice [Cuneiform]
You can hear a track off of the album here: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/realaudio/February_Train.mp3
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%20294

Ergo-Multitude, Solitude $15.00
Ergo is a trio made up of Carl Maguire on Rhodes electric piano and analog synths and effects, Shawn Baltazor on drums and lead by Brett Sroka on trombone and laptop. They have been playing together since 2003, combining the modern sound of electronica and beyond with jazz and ambient music. The basic building blocks of their sound are beats and electronics, trombone, the Fender Rhodes and drums. The music is very modern and it's also very accessible while remaining something that hold active interest. In the early 2000s, Brett began exploring beyond his jazz background and became fascinated with electronic music, surrounding himself with synthesizers and software. As he sought to reconcile the six hundred years of technology between trombone and computer he also found musicians of similarly elastic and adventurous temperaments. As they continued to play together, an idiosyncratic dynamic began to cohere and Ergo was born. With their debut cd, the band put forth a statement of purpose and were lauded by AllAboutJazz-NY for “Best Debut CD” of 2006. Multitude, Solitude is Ergo’s sophomore CD and brings the band further into it’s own. Ergo's music is fresh and very different - jazz musicians exploring the boundaries of electronic
music - and one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. Their music has been compared to music as diverse as Duke Ellington, Autechre, Sigur Ros, Sun Ra, and King Crimson, but interesting as those comparisons are, they don't really sound like any of them. They just sound like Ergo. Their music is one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination.  They have refined a unique style of unadorned melody and intrepid improvisation with a sensual approach to the post-modern techniques of sampling, synthesis and signal processing.
"...explores the intersections of electronic music, jazz improvisation, and smart rock bands...using these to good effect on this moody and memorable recording." – Cadence
"...timbral sophistication, spacey contours and slinky grooves." – Time Out New York [Cuneiform]
You can hear a track off of the album here: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/realaudio/ergo_she-haunts-me.mp3
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%20289

Wadada Leo Smith-Spiritual Dimensions 2 x CDs $21.00
Spiritual Dimensions is a double album that features two very special groups, both filled with truly great and legendary musicians! Both discs were recorded live to capture the energy and spirit that Smith's shows have. The first disc is by Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet and was recorded at Vision Festival XIII in New York City. The lineup is Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Vijay Iyer on piano and synthesizer, John Lindberg on bass and dual drummers Pheeroan AkLaff  and Don Moye. This disc is mostly acoustic, modern/avant jazz with distinctive electric touches, especially towards the end. It features many of the hallmarks of Smith's work; space, depth, melody and abstraction.  The group performs five of Smith's compositions and while it's very much the work of a group, it's also quite obvious that the trumpeter is the leader, as his very distinctive trumpet work, which ranges from peppery outbursts to subtle smears and whispered interjections, points down the path that the group follow. The second disc is the first-ever release by Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, which is a completely different kind of beast. Recorded at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT., this is a electric group that is most notable for the fact it features four-guitarists! Performing are Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Michael Gregory, Nels Cline, Brandon Ross and Lamar Smith on electric guitars, Okkyung Lee on cello, Skuli Sverrisson on electric bass, John Lindberg on acoustic bass and Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. The band stomp and burn through 4 lengthy tracks (all between 12 and 19 minutes long), all composed by Smith. Although the music is more unmistakably groove-driven than on the first disc, many of the same touchstones appear; Smith's strong style and control remain, although they manifest themselves differently. The easiest comparison between the albums can be drawn by listening to the two different versions of the composition South Central L.A. Kulture, which appears at the last track by the Golden Quintet and as the first track by Organic; its inclusion here is a good example of how Smith’s compositions can mutate to embrace new settings.
"...not only as inventive and adventurous as he was when he was a younger player, but his creativity and ability to direct a band into new territory is actually farther reaching than ever before. This is brilliant work." – All Music Guide [Cuneiform]
You can hear a track off of the album here: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/realaudio/wadadaSouthL.mp3
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%20290-291

Zevious-After the Air Raid $15.00
"The music of Zevious shrewdly juxtaposes order and its opposite: structural intensity pushed to its breaking point in the most appealing way. These boys are brilliant and fearless."–Vijay Iyer
Zevious are a unique electric jazz band for the modern era. This instrumental power trio are equally influenced by the sound of early John McLaughlin/Tony Williams Lifetime, Meshuggah, the 'downtown punk-jazz-harmolodic' school (James Blood Ulmer/Music Revelation Ensemble, Decoding Society, Curlew), Magma, Vijay Iyer and Ben Monder among others. This is NOT your father's jazz band.
Zevious used to be a jazz guitar trio. Their 2007 self-titled debut CD featured a set of knotty jazz compositions and technical soloing that the group performed at jazz clubs. Very quickly thereafter, by the beginning of 2008, the band had broken away from the bonds of tradition and were developing a sound that had been developing and incubating since their first album. Mike ditched the jazz guitar for a Telecaster and DeBlase replaced his upright with an electric bass and they both picked up distortion pedals and cranked them up.  Zevious began combining progressive rock grooves, tech metal, structured group improvisation, and complex song forms with a conventional jazz sound, creating a unique compositional style. Their new sound points towards a focused musical ground where it is apparent that this band can shred. Their songs now wind through peaks and valleys of odd-metered and hard-hitting bass and drum grooves with contrapuntal guitar interjections that morph into unison riffing, with hard-hitting, complex drum workouts and stop-on-a-dime style guitar breaks coupled with subtle, brooding segments. Their second album After the Air Raid is the culmination of nearly two years of hard compositional  and rehearsal labor and is a record with lasting depth. Beautifully and clearly recorded by Colin Marston (of Behold...the Arctopus), the powerful live sound of the band is masterfully presented. [Cuneiform]
You can hear a track off of the album here:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/realaudio/WheresTheCaptain_.mp3
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%20287

and the reprinting of a classic that hasn't been available for some time:

Richard Pinhas-Rhizosphere/Live, Paris 1982 $15.00
Rhizosphere, originally released in 1976, was Pinhas' first solo album. It consists of four solo pieces for synthesizer, plus a extended fifth synthesizer piece which is a duet with Heldon drummer Francois Auguer. I have always found it to be a mesmerizing work, on par with its influences of Terry Riley and Philip Glass, but completely different from them due to the usage of only Moog and ARP synthesizers. For this CD release, an additional 38' was added of a previously unheard, professionally recorded 1982 concert by the Richard Pinhas Band, a short-lived ensemble who were Heldon II in all but name and who featured a great cast who had all previously played in Magma: Clement Bailly (drums), Patrick Gauthier (synthesizer), Bernard Paganotti (bass) and Richard on electronics, synthesizers and guitar. Unlike the trance/hypnotic style of Rhizosphere, this is a pretty mighty, ballsy blast of rock + electronics.
"...accessible and musically adventurous. This is Pinhas' first solo album, coupled with 40 minutes of live performance with Heldon regulars. Rhizosphere features Pinhas soloing over shifting electronic-rhythmic foundations. The live set focuses more on his diabolical guitar work." – Progression [Cuneiform]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%2061

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Zé Eduardo Unit-Live in Capuchos – A Jazzar $17.00
Zé Eduardo, double bass/Jesus Santandreu, tenor saxophone/Bruno Pedroso, drums.
"Telling that Zé Eduardo is one of the top jazz musicians in Portugal isn't enough to report the importance of this bassist, composer, arranger and band leader. He is also the first responsable,  as a teacher and a discoverer of talents, of the existence of several generations of performers in this country and one of the great contributors for the richness of the Portuguese jazz scene. A controversial figure, acting sometimes as the local bad conscience, his musical interventions are, nevertheless, strongly humoristic. That's
specially the case with this CD: we find him playing hilarious jazz versions of some soundtracks of animated television series for children and not-so-young viewers (including "The Simpsons"), and also a
couple of songs of the militant national folk and a movie cover. But joking, here, doesn't mean a less serious investment: the music is solid and inventive. With hard bop at its matrix, the improvised solos
can go to neverland. With Zé Eduardo are the Spanish tenor saxophonist Jesus Santandreu, a follower of the Coltranean ways with a voice of his own, and the versatile drummer Bruno Pedroso, at ease in every context, from "mainstream" to "avant-garde". Have a listen." [Cuneiform]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%20155

Nobuyasu Furuya Trio-Bendowa $17.00
Nobuyasu Furuya, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute/Hernani Faustino, double bass/Gabriel Ferrandini, drums and percussion.
"Born in Japan, but living and playing in Lisabon, Nobuyasu Furuya is agitating the waters of the jazz and improvised music scene in Portugal either with his smashing blow, remembering the washes of sound by
Archie Shepp and Peter Brotzmann, or with an implacable energy control and rigour, the same we find in the Japanese tea cerimonies, bonsai trees and stone gardens. In his youth a cook apprentice in a Zen
budhist temple, Furuya began to play barroque European music, but soon free jazz focused his interest. A composer for dance, theatre and cinema, he also played in noise and ska-core bands. For some time,
this multi-instrumentalist (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and flute) studied the Otoman classical music from Turkey, and this experience influenced his future options. In Furuya's Portuguese trio, we find
double bassist Hernâni Faustino and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini, both of them musicians who play with guts and brain, a not very common combination. The music in “Bendowa” – the title of a 13th century
book writen by Dogen, the monk who founded Soto Zen –  has everything to surprise you. “I play because I have something to say: it can be silence and murmure, or it can be a shout” – says Nobuyasu Furuya." [Clean Feed]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%20159

Pinton/Kullhammar/Zetterberg/Nordeson-Chant $17.00
Alberto Pinton, baritone saxophone and clarinet/Jonas Kullhammar, tenor and baritone saxophone/Torbjörn Zetterberg, double bass/Kjell Nordeson, drums and vibraphone.
"Jazz turns open and flexible again with this quartet. The music follows the historic grammars of bop and the “new thing”, but from there grows a strong appetite for the future.  Energy and form are the most important musical coordinates of the project Chant, and the sense of equilibrium with which the band articulates composed structures and improvisation, inspired by the Fifties and Sixties American jazz, and
very specially by the Blue Note aesthetic, is very much in evidence. This particular association of musicians was proposed by Clean Feed's boss, Pedro Costa, and its first public presentation was a three day series of concerts in Coimbra, Portugal – all the pieces in this album were recorded live there. The musicians involved are some of the best coming from the Swedish scene. Born in Italy, but living in Stockholm, Alberto Pinton is undoubtedly one of the most important baritone saxophonists in the Old Continent. Continuing the steps of Sonny Rollins, Jonas Kullhammar plays the tenor sax  with vigour, a round sound and an ever-ending imagination. The bassist Torbjorn Zetterberg may be Mingusian in style, but he has a very personal vision of the role filled by the double bass. Drummer Kjell Nordeson has many credentials as a free improviser, but he also knows how to swing. With a characteristic European elegancy and a truly American drive, Chant has the particularity of not confusing urgency with simplification. Each idea is explored to the limit and that explorative factor makes wonders." [Clean Feed]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%20156

Charles Rumback-Two Kinds of Art Thieves $17.00
Charles Rumback, drums/Jason Ajemian, bass/Joshua Sclar, tenor saxophone/Greg Ward, alto saxophone.
"A figure of the rich and varied Chicago music scene, Charles Rumback is impossible to overlook. Avant-jazz, post-rock and ambient electronica are the coordinates of projects involving this drummer with a vision; projects such as Colorlist, The Horse's Ha and Fred Longberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra. Now with his first album as a leader, Rumback deals more closely with the jazz tradition. The result is what
happens when a post-modernist musician, a practitioner of different approaches in urban music, focuses his chops in a single language and its vocabulary. We may not recognize the origins of some of these ideas and solutions, which are strange to the jazz format, but they are present and at the service of this musical idiom historically known for its capacity to assimilate every influence. Along with Rumback we find artists of a common thread such as Jason Ajemian, Joshua Sclar and Greg Ward. Ajemian's collaborations with the Chicago Underground Trio, Mandarin Movie and Ken Vandermark's Crisis Ensemble speak for themselves. Saxophonists Joshua Sclar (Westport Art Ensemble) and Greg Ward (Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, People Places & Things) are flexible and eclectic performers fully prepared to answer any challenge. With an ensemble like this a fantastic record would almost be inevitable." [Clean Feed]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%20152

Weightless-A Brush with Dignity $17.00
John Butcher, tenor and soprano saxophones/Alberto Braida, piano/John Edwards, double bass/Fabrizio Spera, drums.
"British artists and intellectuals have an old fascination for the Italian culture, and Italians like the way they, and their history and classical art, are envisioned by English writers, poets, painters and filmmakers. That's, inevitably, the context of this cooperative effort between John Butcher and John Edwards, from one side, and Alberto Braida and Fabrizio Spera, from the other. It demands your full attention, not because it's difficult (it may be, at times, but who
wants real good music to be "easy"?), but because it's intense and needs your open ear, time and disponibility. First of all, the music is totally improvised, even if it seems meticulously composed. No contradiction here: that's what the improvising masters do, and all the four of them are specially gifted in that aspect. Then, you'll notice there's no leader or hierarchical organisation, everything happening through a collective flow, and that's why the credits go to a band name, Weightless. No-one even tries to start an ego-trip: this is a society of equals. Finally, you'll find yourself in a state of bliss, because the resulting music couldn't be more surprising." [Clean Feed]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%20154

+ two restocks:

Evan Parker/John Edwards/Chris Corsano-A Glancing Blow $17.00
Chris Corsano, drums/Evan Parker,tenor sax/John Edwards, bass.
"Gee! An Evan Parker album with a new star of the drum kit, Chris Corsano, and one of the most intriguing bassists to emerge in the last few years, John Edwards? This is a record you can’t miss! “A Glancing Blow” is destined to make history. The instruments are the same of Evan’s “classical” trio with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton, but the approach is quite different. The master saxophonist uses his trademark multiphonics and circular breathing techniques in a surprising, new context that only such resourceful musicians could provide. Although Edwards is now a central figure in the improvised music scene in London, playing with the likes of Phil Minton, Tony Bevan, Eddie Prévost and Lol Coxhill, among many others, he has other musical adventures that have little or nothing to do with the improv philosophy, ranging from the metal-noise-jazz band GOD to the “remixers” project Spring Heel Jack. Corsano established his name as a hardcore free player and an expert in sax-drums duos with the likes of Paul Flaherty. Neo-psychedelic rock and folk fans worship him due to his collaborations with the groups Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, and Vibracathedral Orchestra. And noise freaks applaud his work with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, and Nels Cline of Wilco. Prepare yourself: the music here is rough and raw and it takes no prisoners." [Clean Feed]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%2085

Townhouse Orchestra-Belle Ville 2 x CDs $20.00
Evan Parker, tenor saxophone/Sten Sandell, piano/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, double bass/Paal Nilssen-Love, drums & percussion.
"Something so special as this European project would need to have a future. After a first recording with the joined forces of British legendary saxophonist Evan Parker and the very special Scandinavian rhythm section of Sten Sandell (piano), Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), here is the double CD that confirms the superband status of the Townhouse Orchestra. Not an orchestra, in spite of the name, but a quartet, truth is it sometimes sound as such. The extensive techniques used by the performers multiply the possibilities of each instrument, opening up the perspectives of the music played. Totally improvised, “Belle Ville” is a wonder of energy, commitment and interplay, with two long tracks (one in each disc) of constant surprises. If the individual contributions are astonishing, proving the versatility of the musicians involved, even more magnificent are the collective combinations. No-one tries to overshadow the others, the only rule being the cooperative focus of every moment. Music can't be more democratic and free than this..." [Clean Feed]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=CLEAN%20FEED%20CF%20125

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John Abercrombie-Wait til You See Her $17.00
Latest by the great guitarist and his group. I just saw Abercrombie with John Surman, Jack DeJohnette, Drew Gress and he played fantastic.
"The beauty of working with the same people long-term is it's possible to evolve a cohesive ensemble sound, while still retaining its singular group voice. Guitarist John Abercrombie has been working with violinist Mark Feldman since Open Land (ECM, 1999), but it was when he recruited bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron for Cat 'n' Mouse (ECM, 2002), that his idea of a string-centric, chamber jazz quartet came into being. On subsequent releases, most recently The Third Quartet (ECM, 2007), the quartet became increasingly adept at realizing Abercrombie's forward-thinking traditionalism, where freedom is couched in spare writing, and remarkable in-the-moment spontaneous creation leaves a profound impression of preconceived form from the ether. It's encouraging to find Wait Till You See Her continuing Abercrombie's string-driven quartet although, with young up-and-comer Thomas Morgan replacing Johnson, the group's overall concept remains intact but understandably assumes a slightly different complexion—the result of Morgan's sparer, slightly more muscular Scott LaFaro-like flexibility. The LaFaro reference is key because, as much as Abercrombie has always been influenced by the impressionistic conversational approach of Bill Evans' trio aesthetic (with whom LaFaro played until his untimely death in 1961), Wait Till You See Her's first impression is, despite its unequivocally modernistic bent, one of channeling the late pianist's spirit." [ECM]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/ECM%202100

Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra-Take Off! $18.00
This huge, 20 piece German band, led by Daniel Gatzel who composes all the music, mixes some pop elements with jazz and traditional classical music touches, as well as exotica and beyond. It doesn't necessarily push stylistic envelopes, but it's a gloriously scored and rich sound - how could it NOT be with all these instruments playing live - and this is really nice and a much too rare experience in terms of orchestral color combined with music that I actually care about. Not strictly jazz, definitely not strictly rock or pop and not strictly anything but cool and fun and well done. Great cover art and beautiful/cool comix-style art booklet. Conditionally recommended.
Daniel Glatzel (tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet), Oliver Roth (flute), Laure Mourot (flute, alto flute, piccolo flute), Sebastian Hägele (bassoon), Johannes Schleiermacher (baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone), Aki Sebastian Ruhl (trumpet, flugelhorn), Magnus Schriefl (trumpet, flugelhorn), Gerhard Gschlössl (trombone, sousaphone), Karl Ivar Refseth (vibraphone), Andi Haberl (drums), Anna Viechtl (harp), Kalle Zeier (guitar), Andi Waelti (contrabass), Matthew Lonson (violin), Josa Gerhard (violin), Mokkapan Phongphit (violin), Johannes Pennetzdorfer (viola), Martin Stupka (viola), Charlotte Jacke (cello), Isabelle Klemt (cello). [Alien Transistor]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/ALIEN%20TRANSISTOR%20018

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound-Ekranoplan $16.00
Very good second album by these San Franciscans who manage to genuinely sound like it is 1970/1971 at the Filmore West and it's space rock night. Not quite as good as their amazing 3rd album, When Sweet Sleep Returned, it's still really good and if you were amazed by that one, you'll want this too. Heavy and tasteful and with great sounds, songs and spacejams. What more needs to be said? [Tee Pee]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/TEE%20PEE%20075

Sandy Bull-Vanguard Visionaries $5.00 (special)
An amazing price on some great music by a under-known artist who never reached the acclaim he should have for his unique, adventurous guitarmusic in the mid 1960s.
"Sandy Bull's 1965 LP Inventions remains one of those legendary albums that almost no one has heard. Its impact, however, can be scene in the title of this new compilation spotlighting a great unsung hero of "psychedelic folk." "Blend," the 22-minute opus from 1963 that opens this disc, surely fits that designation, perfectly blending folk, jazz, and Indian influences into what Bull called "new guitar raga." An eclectic virtuoso who switched from acoustic guitar to banjo to Stratocaster to oud (mostly backed solely by jazz drummer/Ornette Coleman crony Billy Higgins), Bull was all over the musical map. Thus the beautiful, soothing bossa nova of "Manha de Carnival" gives way to German classical music, which is supplanted by a cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis." The cream of Bull's first three albums can be found here. When those old records were in stores, it's a good bet Leo Kottke, Mark Knopfler, Richard Thompson, George Harrison, and Jerry Garcia were taking notes."-Bill Holdship
"Sandy Bull took us all by storm in the 1960s. We had never heard anything like it and we loved it. From the guitar tour de force Memphis to the stunning beauty of Manha de Carnival we were enthralled. The blending of Raga and Lebanese music and driving rock was so fresh. The banjo work with its' combining of picking and frailing just rocked banjo players back on their heels. Whether the Beatles got the idea of using Raga here or not, most of the rest of us did! I had the privilege of exchanging E-Mails with him before he died and found him to be a warm and friendly guy...not at all the hermit that '60s rumor had him to be. The album sounds as fresh and new today as it did then...nearly. I just can't imagine a music collection without it."-Tom Sanders [Vanguard]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/VANGUARD%2073159

Camper Van Beethoven-II & III $7.00 (special)
"Admittedly, it's understandable to see why CVB's sense of humor rubbed some people the wrong way. Titling a second album II & III and sprinkling it with songs titled "ZZ Top Goes to Egypt" and "No Kruggerands for David" sounds more like a parody of rock rather than rock itself. That never stopped Pavement, though, and on II & III, CVB sounds as inventive and unexpectedly inspired as before, mashing its influences together into a delightful brew. However, this time the band sounds a touch more straightforward; new member Chris Pederson's drumming sounds stronger, providing a good pace throughout and pumping up the energy on "Down And Out." Wigginess abounds musically and lyrically -- "Cowboys from Hollywood" sounds like an amped-up honky-tonk, and following it with the on-the-level country of "Sad Lovers Waltz" fits whatever master plan there was. Lowery doesn't sing lead as much this time out; he's still the primary singer, but often is accompanied by most of the rest of the band as well. But as always, Segel is the wild card with violin and nutty keyboards ahoy. There's some refreshing iconoclasm at play -- years before Sonic Youth became 'the legendary Sonic Youth,' CVB took that group's "I Love Her All the Time" and transformed its New York art angst into a kick-up-your-heels bit of yee-haw ska. It's worth hearing for Lowery and company's vocal drawls alone. The album concludes with the hilarious "No More Bullsh*t," mixing w**ky solos with repetitive punk-rock slogans and strange comments -"Elvis Presley died! And no one knows why!""-Ned Raggett/All Music Guide [Cooking Vinyl]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/COOKING%20VINYL%20141

Camper Van Beethoven-Telephone Free Landslide Victory $7.00 (special)
"They say "never say never," but it's still extremely unlikely something so goofily low-key, inventive, and fun will ever achieve cult status so quickly again, especially in terms of musical range on display. Not simply a rock group but not anything else, Camper Van Beethoven pulled off a series of entertaining fusions throughout its debut record, as the opening song "Border Ska" indicates by name alone. Eastern European folk, tropical grooves, post-punk atmospherics, country laid-back good times, psych/garage band aesthetics, lyrics about Mao, Greece, and more — a lot of stuff went into the Santa Cruz band's brew, and most of it came up trumps on Telephone. Lowery's lead vocals aren't much like what his more famous work in Cracker would indicate, being more speak-singing through shaggy dog stories (even one about Lassie) of all stripes. Hearing his tale of woe on "Wasted" — "I was a punker, and I had a Mohawk/I was so gnarly and I drove my dad's car" — delivered in a "yeah dude" tone of voice is pretty darn funny. Segel's keyboards and violins color the arrangements with a fun touch, while rhythm team Krummenacher and then recently departed drummer Anthony Guess try out nearly everything at least once. The production is eminently suited for the proceedings, sounding a bit like the thick, fuzzy flow of many Shimmy-Disc releases but with just enough of a crisp edge. When it comes to humor, it's everywhere — for instance, the plaintively sung chorus of "Where the Hell Is Bill?," not to mention the various speculative answers ("Maybe he went to get a Vespa scooter"). Or, of course, the song that kick-started the band's reputation, "Take the Skinheads Bowling," two and a half minutes of chiming, goofy nonsense with references to Jah and incomplete rhymes."-Ned Raggett/All Music Guide [Cooking Vinyl]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/COOKING%20VINYL%20142

George Cartwright-Send Help $8.00  (CDR)
George Cartwright - saxophones and composer
Adam Linz- acoustic bass
Andrew Broder- electric guitar
Alden Ikeda- drums
with Christina Baldwin-pre-recorded voice
Anne Elias – video , text
Recorded at the Walker Art Center’s ‘Dancing In Your Head’ festival honoring Ornette Coleman and at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"Saxophonist George Cartwright's prominence in the development of New York City's downtown scene, and lengthy affiliation with the cutting-edge progressive, jazz-rock unit Curlew, spawn an imprint of musical authenticity. Cartwright surges forward with this 2008, quartet-based effort recorded at The Cedar Cultural Center and The Walker Art Center's festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the Mississippi-born artist takes up residence these days.  Raw, wild and often captivating, the quartet also injects a prominent fun-factor into the program. At times, the musicians slam the door on convention via wily free-jazz/rock vamps and gobs of expressionism. Cartwright and guitarist Andrew Broder tear it up with seething choruses built on stinging licks. But they alter the overall pitch and sense of the dynamic due to angular theme-building maneuvers and melodic undertones.  They generate more than a few firestorms with frenzied and semi-structured phrasings, as the soloists incorporate a touch of avant-rock amid garrulous improvisational movements. On "The March," Broder, using distortion techniques, and Cartwright terrorize the upper registers. Here, they embark upon a search and destroy mission. Then Broder vocalizes on Bob Dylan's "Oxford Town," and Cartwright's "I Want You To Promise," as the quartet occasionally surfaces as a lower decibel spinoff of Sonic Youth, complete with all the quirky deviations.  The band executes high-heat to complement the free-form components while transmitting a singular group-based identity. It's an album that radiates a fluent intersection of concepts. A good time was had by all during the process, which is a persuasive quality that remains a constant throughout."-Glenn Astarita/All About Jazz [Innova]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=INNOVA%20211

George Cartwright-Tenacious Slew $8.00 (CDR)
Recorded at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, this is a welcome
chance to hear more from the great George Cartwright, the leader of Curlew.
George Cartwright – saxophones and composer
Adam Linz- acoustic bass
Chris Parker- piano and keyboards
Alden Ikeda- drums
JT Bates- drums
Anne Elias-text
"The dictionary would tell you that a tenacious slew is just a whole lot of stuff that clings and cloys. (A tenacious stew would be one that was hard to digest, perhaps made by an elderly relative.) George Cartwright’s new Cd though is neither. In fact it goes down rather easily and comes off with only a little scrubbing.   George is still the master of blowing his sax in all directions. Here he’s back at the mouthpiece with other giants of Minnesota’s far-out jazz realm (Adam Linz, Alden Ikeda, JT Bates and Memphusian Chris Parker). They were recorded live at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the energy of that evening is captured well on tape. What didn’t come out at all was Anne Elias’s accompanying video projections (you’ll have to imagine those). She does make a haunting appearance though with some enigmatic poetry that serves to ground the fantastical music that swirls around it. A limited edition of hand-assembled beauty, A Tenacious Slew will grace your shelf and ears for years to come." [Innova]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=INNOVA%20212

Crack the Sky-The Sale $13.00
I have a real soft spot for these guys and their first incarnation (1975-1980 or so) from my days selling records in Gaithersburg, MD at a shop that did a big biz in metal and hard rock. I guess you could say that they combined hard rock with melodic rock, while boasting a pretty fair amount of complexity and off-kilter-ness. And I am happy to say that that these musical hallmarks still seem to be true with this, their first new album in a number of years.
"15 new songs written by Crack The Sky's John Palumbo. All performed, arranged, and recorded by the band, with Joe Macre producing. Many have already become favorites at their live shows including L'Acte de Patriote and American Refugee. "The Sale" is a scathing remark on the American condition as we wobble into the 21st century. Stylistically both progressive and aggressive at times, its lyrics wind through the myriad of homeland difficulties, missteps, and possible outcomes these scenarios seem to indicate. Performances that long time fans have already embraced for their various intricacies and quirks punctuate this long form soundscape across the heartland and its borders." [AC]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=21/AC%2099712

Doctor Nerve-The Monkey Farm (artist-released CDR) $11.00
A very different release for Doctor Nerve. Recorded live May 4, 2001 at Roulette in NYC. The stories are painful and funny simultaneously, although, wimp that I am, I found them more painful than funny. Read the below, so you know what this is!
"The Monkey Farm is Nick Didkovsky's setting for stories written by Charles O'Meara (Forever Einstein, Chris Cutler, Biota). Framed by razor sharp conducted improvisation performed by the legendary and incorruptible band Doctor Nerve, these short, vivid, darkly funny recollections of childhood are read by theatre director Valeria Vasilevski (known for her extreme work with Diamanda Gallas among others). Real-time voice warping software designed by Phil Burk, Robert Marsanyi, and Didkovsky, colors the reading, which at times invokes the spirits of Captain Beefheart, John Cage, and David Sedaris.
Completely true, non-fiction, (ie this stuff really happened to him) stories by Charles O'Meara. Uber-kompositional concept & strategic implementation by Nick Didkovsky. Performed heroically by Doctor Nerve: Greg Anderson - electric bass, Leo Ciesa - drums, Nick Didkovsky - tabletop guitar, conducting, Yves Duboin - soprano sax, Rob Henke - trumpet, Michael Lytle - bass clarinet, Kathleen Supove - laptop, with Valeria Vasilevski - narration." [Punos]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PUNOS%20009

John Fahey-Vanguard Visionaries $5.00 (special)
Stupidly cheap compilation of some of the best of Fahey's short-lived period (three albums in the mid 1960s - his early prime period). This particular collection has some of his most experimental work of that period, including tape collages and simple musique concrete interspersed with his guitar playing. More proof that he was never 'just' a folk guitarist. Every collection of music should have at least one John Fahey album in it - every collection. If yours is lacking one, then this is a very good and very cheap way to fill the gap before inspection time...
"One of acoustic music's true innovators and eccentrics, John Fahey was a crucial figure in expanding the boundaries of the acoustic guitar over the last few decades. His music was so eclectic that it's arguable whether he should be defined as a "folk" artist....His good friend Dr. Demento has noted that Fahey "was the first to demonstrate that the finger-picking techniques of traditional country and blues steel-string guitar could be used to express a world of non-traditional musical ideas -- harmonies and melodies you'd associate with Bartok, Charles Ives, or maybe the music of India." The more meditative aspects of his work foreshadowed new age music, yet Fahey played with a fierce imagination and versatility that outshone any of the guitarists in that category. His idiosyncrasy may have limited him to a cult following, but it also ensured that his work continues to sound fresh."-Richie Unterberger/All Music Guide [Vanguard]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/VANGUARD%2073160

Expose Magazine - #37 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA and Canada ONLY) $7.50
One of their best issues and the photo reproduction is hugely improved.  Excellent interviews and features on : Morgan Agren, Satellite, Peter Hammill, Rob Reed, Jorge Reyes, Jan Schelhaas, Edward Ka-Spel, Chris Squire + reviews and more - 92 pages total.
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=EXPOSE%2037

Fernwood-Sangita $8.00
"Fernwood, an all-acoustic instrumental group, today announces the release of their second album titled “Sangita.” Following on the heels of their widely heralded debut release “Almeria”, this 12-track offering greatly expands upon their previous work. Utilizing an expanded palette of world instruments, Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet) and Todd Montgomery create music that is both familiar and exotic, lush and melodic, warm and inspirational. They create contemporary acoustic music that is beautiful and elegant, with a strong cinematic and pan-cultural feel. By playing traditional World instruments in new and interesting ways, they have created a new hybrid style that is uniquely their own. Guitar Player Magazine described their music as "Wonderfully melodic, expertly layered, masterfully interwoven, luscious yet rootsy.”
Montgomery and Ellett achieve a rich and inviting sound on “Sangita” with the use of a wide-variety of traditional wooden folk instruments such as: Irish and Greek bouzouki, sitar, dilruba, ruan, oud, gobijen, jal tarang, dotara, tenor banjo, harmonium, acoustic guitar, violin, upright bass, and other instruments. Contemporary Americana and Old-World styles are merged and blended together into something new and beautiful. The arrangements and orchestration are sophisticated and dynamic. Produced with what can only be described as a truly golden tone, “Sangita” is a marvelously cohesive offering. On Sangita, the group combines many apparently disparate concepts into a unified whole. They've tried to imbue the music with many seemingly diverse qualities such as: traditional and modern, Americana and World, familiar and exotic, simple and complex, rural and urban, etc, and they've succeeded in this very difficult task. Also, many of the tunes on Sangita are extremely rich and dense, some being performed by as many as 50 instruments, giving Sangita an almost orchestral sound. There is also no compression or other digital effects or manipulations used on the recording (except for reverb) so Sangita has a very fresh, lively and organic sound." [Fernwood]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=FERNWOOD%20002

Gösta Berlings Saga-Detta Har Hänt $18.00
Great second album by this Swedish progressive instrumental quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums. The keyboardist leans heavily on his Fender Rhodes, giving this a bit of a jazz-rock sound, but there's plenty of other keyboards too (Moogs, mellotron, Orchestron, Optigan, acoustic piano, pump organ). Somone once said that if Samla Mammas Manna started their life in the 00s, they might have sounded somewhat like this, and that's a pretty good reference point. Excellent.
"This represents the band's evolution since the release of the critically acclaimed debut album Tid är Ljud (2006). Whereas the previous album dealt with the interaction between nature and city, Detta Har Hänt focuses on the latter with eight stories about the languishing welfare state, industrialism and love. The songs range from full-blown epic soundscapes via dissonant darkness to minimalistic powerful grooves without compromising when it comes to the strong melodies the band is known for. The basis for the album was recorded live in the band's own studio Pelikaan, which has preserved a genuinely organic and highly energetic feel to the music. Overdubs have been made with instruments such as Mellotron, Minimoog and pump organ to give even more dimensions to the colorful sounds of Gösta Berlings Saga. In conclusion Detta Har Hänt is a gigantic leap forward in all musical aspects, and should not be missed by anyone interested in new music." [Transubstans]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=07/TRANS%20047

Jon Hassell-Power Spot $11.00
Back in stock!
While I am convinced that Jon Hassell is responsible for a handful of brilliant classics from the late 1970s into the mid 1980s, you might not know that I consider this one-off for ECM to be his single finest work. Now you know. Unconditionally recommended! [ECM]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/ECM%201327

Steve Hillage Band-Live at the Gong Unconvention 2006 $18.00
At the 2006 GongUncon there was a real sense of expectation in the air, as Steve Hillage appeared for the first time playing guitar and fronting a rock band in nearly 30 years! Here is there set in excellent sound. Steve performs a fine set of some of his classics (AftaGlid!, The Salmon Song! Solar Musik Suite!) in professionally recorded sound that just goes over 45' and there are bonus recordings from December 14, 1979 and with Gong in 1974. If you are a fan or Hillage's work or spacerock in general, you want this. [G-Wave]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=25/USD-CD-1564

Knifeworld-Buried Alone: Tales of Crushing Defeat $17.00
Knifeworld is the long worked on solo project by Kavus Torabi, of Cadiacs, Guapo and Monsoon Bassoon. It's a very English, very modernly English progressive release - it's not filled with mellotrons and it doesn't sound like it's from the 70s, but it is full of good songs with great hooks and huge depth in terms of what he does with the song forms. If you like and appreciate Cardiacs, you'll definitely like this; although it doesn't sound anything like Cardiacs, it mines similar ground. Nicely done triple gatefold digi-pack, with Kavus doing his best "Space Ritual" imitation on the inside.
"Keen, pointy and distinctly shiny sharp, Knife World is the latest project of Kavus Torabi, current Cardiacs guitarist, Guapo member and one time of Monsoon Bassooner. As you might expect from someone who has spent a good deal of his time in bands that have drifted around the more esoteric edges of the music scene, Buried Alone… is a rather challenging and thoroughly endearing listen....Part of the appeal of Knife World comes with the ideas that are often thrown out seemingly at random throughout these songs before familiar motifs take the reigns again. It’s a trick employed by Cardiacs songwriter Tim Smith to great effect, and one that Torabi appears equally at home with. It could all seem a little too contrived and angular in lesser hands, but Torabi’s compositional skills are challenging and light of touch..."-thelineofbestfit.com [Believers Roast]
You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/knifeworlduk
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=BRR%20002

Lazuli-Reponse Incongrue a L'ineluctable $18.00
Brand new, self released album by this very eclectic French progressive band. They are a sextet, led by Claude Leonetti who invented and plays a stringed instrument called the Leode. There's also Warr guitar, 2 guitarists, mallet percussion and percussion. There's a lot of the drama that you find in French prog bands (think Ange) but there's a lot of modern King Crimson in them as well.
"Following up the excellent En Avant Doute, Lazuli's new album retains and develops upon their characteristic sound. The compositions are longer and more complex, and the band has drawn on some interesting influences. In particular, On Nous Ment Comme On Respire has a Middle Eastern rhythm to it and uses recorded voices (George Bush, among others) in a way that might remind some of another French band, Demians. Similarly, Toujours Un Gars Sur Un Pont strays into electronic territory with some interesting beats. Meanwhile, songs like Abime and Aimants would have fitted comfortably onto En Avant Doute and are perhaps a sign of the limitations of trying to hold on to such a distinctive sound (although both songs are excellent). Overall, the album has many qualities and is surely Lazuli's most ambitious effort to date..."-progarchives.com [Lazuli]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=19/BZZ%20033

Litmus-Aurora $13.00
This - and probably the best yet - for this great UK spacerock band, who take their cues from Hawkwind's classic early/mid 70s albums, but add a good strong helping of updating and their own originality as well. Suddenly there are a good number of really great spacerock bands out there and Litmus is absolutely one of the best of them. Recommended. [Rise Above]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=19/RISE%20ABOVE%2014755

The Mars Volta-The Bedlam in Goliath $6.00 (special)
The fourth album by this fairly extra-ordinary, complex-rock, post-punk outfit, co-led by Robert Plant-style belter Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist/etc Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. This is possibly their most intense album yet - I saw someone comment online, calling it "The Bedlam in my Headphones" and that's probably a pretty good call! If you want to hear interesting, complex, adventurous, rehearsal-intensive music that is called 'prog' by the critics, but doesn't sound like 'prog' to anyone who only listens to 'old style prog' ("Hey you damn punk kids! Get off my beautiful mellotron-filled lawn!") sells a lot of copies and plays for large numbers of people under 30, you should hear this!
"One of the most brilliant story-based albums I've ever heard.  This entire album is very well written and produced, and exhibits great musicianship without sounding too self-indulgent.The album starts quite abruptly, unlike previous Mars Volta releases.  There is no long-winded intro, it simply kicks you in the teeth as soon as you put the needle down (or press play as the case may be).  Something very impressive about the record is it maintains its sonic momentum throughout, it does not slow down, it keeps you on your toes and pummels you in the face until the very end. It does differ massively from any of the band's previous work and, not only for an avid Volta fan but for anyone new to the band, this record takes a while to get under your skin.  The album makes good use of vocal and guitar effects, and thanks to some incredible drumming is quite heavy.  Although only heavy to an extent, the songs are quite dynamic, something I like a lot. There are a lot of fantastic ideas on this record, some which I feel could have been explored much further however I cannot fault the album simply because of this. I would recommend this album to any progressive rock or experimental music fan without hesitation, even die-hard metal fans I know have embraced it.  I can only describe it as brilliant. A 4.5/5 for sure."-rateyourmusic.com [Universal]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/UNIVERSAL%2010616

Rhys Marsh and the Autumn Ghost-Dulcima $15.00
Some of you picked up Rhys' first album, which was a really strong singer/songwriter album with heavy progressive touches. This is his second and falls much more heavily into the progressive rock category, but it keeps its distinctive sound. Lots of heavy hitters play on this, including members of Anglagard, Wobbler, White Willow and Jaga Jazzist, among others!
"We feel very strongly that this is something out of the ordinary. British singer Rhys Marsh (The Opium Cartel, Mandala, White Willow) has brought together the absolute cream of the crop of Scandinavian prog-rock - musicians from Anekdoten, Änglagård, White Willow and Wobbler, and created an album that goes far beyond his previous progressive folk-rock forays. This is full-blown, modern symphonic progressive rock with a surprisingly hard and dark edge for a former
singer/songwriter. For lack of a better description "Dulcima" sounds to our ears like David Sylvian fronting "Red"-era King Crimson."
"Following on the success of the critically-acclaimed debut album, 'The Fragile State Of Inbetween', Rhys Marsh returns with 'Dulcima', his second Autumn Ghost album in the space of a year. From the provocative saunter of 'In The Afterglow', via the requiem-esque 'Divide In Silence', the snake-charmer's swagger of 'Nine Times Beautiful', and the deceptively-innocent lilt of 'You'll Never Fall', to the full-on prog assault of 'In Dark, In Light', this is a dark affair through-and-through, which, while still retaining much of its predecessor's melancholy, barely surfaces from its intense and often dense soundscape. 'Dulcima' was written and recorded simultaneously, over the course of seven months, in Trondheim, London and New York. The city atmosphere was an important influence in these songs, as they helped to harness the urgency that Marsh wanted to capture. Another important facet of this album is that, like his debut, many of the songs feature elements from the initial demo recordings. It's this spontaneity and energy that further sets 'Dulcima' away from its peers. Alongside his long-standing rhythm section of Jo Fougner Skaansar (double bass) and Takashi Mori (drums), this album also features the heavy-handed help of Mattias Olsson (Änglagård), Ketil Einarsen (Jaga Jazzist), Trude Eidtang (White Willow) and Lars Fredrik Frøislie (Wobbler). 'Dulcima' comes in a beautiful digipak, complete with lyrics" [Termo]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=TERMO%2005

The Observatory-Dark Folke (CD in oversized hardbound book) $20.00
Really magnificently moody fourth album by this great group from Singapore. Their 3rd one, A Far Cry From Here, was a great work, mixing modern influences like Motorpsycho and Radiohead with an original sound, but this one - which is drummerless - is truly their pinnacle of achievement so far! If you are at all interested in modern music that has a lot of the most interesting hallmarks of progressive rock, but that absolutely sounds like it was made in the 00s, you need to hear The Observatory.
"In July 2009, The Observatory release their fourth album to date, Dark Folke, recorded and mixed in Bergen, Norway with their longtime collaborator, Jorgen Traeen, well known producer of bands such as Ultralyd, Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist. The CD album is a hardbound book, designed and drawn by metal/hardcore/underground illustrator and designer, Justin Bartlett aka Vberkvlt, the artist behind the wicked art of SUNN O))), Moss, Aura Noir and more. With a change in musical direction, the math prog rock of The Observatory’s third album A Far Cry From Here has morphed into a fluid mystical beast called Dark Folke.  Most songs have no drums on them. But there is rhythm. Only the type of rhythm associated with an invisible pulse. An implied rhythm." [Observatory]
You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/theobservatoryband
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=OBSERVATORY%2004709

Oresund Space Collective-Good Planets are Hard to Find $18.00
"This is the 5th CD by the all improvised space rock band from the Copenhagen-Malmö region of Scandinavia (Øresund). It was recorded at the Black Tornado Studios in November 2007 and featured new members on drums, percussion, bass, guitar and sitar that had never been in the studio with the band before. The dynamics and vibe was different and KG from the band Siena Root played some amazing sitar on the opening and closing pieces of music on the CD. We think you will find the music has a more progressive and melodic element and is less spacey than our previous releases. The same cool vibe and long journeys await the patient listener. The CD was mixed by Steve Hayes (Secret Saucer) in the USA. Steve also provides on synthesizer solo on Orbital Elevator to replace one that Mogens played when his synthesizer went out of tune. Steve has different ears and different gear so the mix is unique. The band allowed Steve full freedom in the mix process, so he actually becomes more a part of the musical project, so to speak. The CD was mastered to give a nice round but intense rich sound by Henrik Udd, who had mixed and mastered the band's previous 2 albums. The band on this release was: KG- Sitar, Guitar; Tobias- Guitars; Mogens- Hammond and Synthesizers; Jocke and Thomas- Bass; PIB- Drums; Luz- Percussion; Dr. Space- Synthesizers " [Transubstans]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=07/TRANS%20044

Ben Perowsky Quartet-Esopus Opus $14.00
Really nice moody jazz but not just jazz album by this group led by drummer Perowsky and featuring 3/5ths of the Claudia Quintet as his group!
"No matter your scene, there’s a better-than average chance that at some point over the last twenty years drummer Ben Perowsky has dropped into it, invigorating its backbeat with his trademark blend of melodicism and vigor. The breadth of Perowsky’s experiences and influences combine on Esopus Opus, his new CD on Skirl Records. The drummer/bandleader brings together Ted Reichman (accordion and keyboards), Chris Speed (clarinet & tenor sax), and Drew Gress (bass) for a set of vivid originals, classic rock cover tunes, and gorgeous Brazilian compositions. Perowsky is undoubtedly best known for his presence on the modern NY jazz scene, a first call drummer for John Zorn, John Scofield, Dave Douglas and Uri Caine. But there have been numerous other Ben Perowskys – the son of a bebop saxophonist, immersed in the gospel of Elvin and Philly Joe from birth; the ‘80s NYC kid, scrawling graffiti and banging out beats on parked cars for rappers on the nascent hip-hop scene; the high school rock skins-basher emulating John Bonham and Keith Moon; the dance party host who still enjoys pounding out disco beats for the enjoyment of sweating, swaying throngs. That mish-mash of interests first found expression in Lost Tribe, the groundbreaking jazz/rock/hip-hop group that Perowsky founded in the late eighties. But that stylistic range is still present on Esopus Opus, albeit in more subtly integrated form. That fluidity is captured by the album’s title, named for a creek in New York’s Catskill Mountains that feeds into the reservoir providing New York City’s drinking water and ends near Perowsky’s home in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Perowsky’s evolution from a kid rebelling against jazz – essentially, the family business – into one of its most enthusiastic innovators has taken an equally winding path. He first picked up the sticks, he jokes, because “I needed to drown out my father.” But Perowsky’s route to jazz snaked initially away from dad and through hard rock before coming full circle...there’s something of a garage band feel to the quartet on Esopus Opus, the kind of inspired raggedness that comes from their comfort with one another and leads to inspired, rough-hewn spontaneity...Though there is plenty of the melodic prettiness one would expect from the accordion/clarinet
combo – conjuring the ethereal mysticism of George Harrison’s sitar on The Beatles tune “Within You, Without You”, or dancing a Radical Jewish waltz through Brazil on Jacob Do Mandolim’s “Perolas” - Perowsky gives his bandmates plenty of opportunity to get their hands dirty, as on the
juke-joint swagger of “Key Lime”, the Mardi Gras gothic depicition of a vampirized post-Katrina New Orleans on “Murnau on the Bayou”, or the whiplash angularity of the title track. The unique instrumentation of the quartet was inspired by the leader’s desire to play with harmony outside of the over-familiar context of piano or guitar. While his own music led to his choice of musicians, however, the combination triggered one memory that resulted in one of the CD’s most striking pieces. “I saw Hermeto Pascoal play in the bandshell at Central Park once,” Perowsky recalls, “And afterwards we happened to be leaving at the same time, and all of these people were following him as he played accordion and sang, serenading them as he walked out of the park. It was amazing. So then doing his tune ‘Nem Um Tolvez’ with the accordion and tenor just made sense somehow.” The one constant through all of these diverse inspirations is the filter of Ben Perowsky’s imagination, which has consistently found a way to integrate and harmonize those seemingly clashing genres. Esopus Opus offers that unique voice in its latest and most compelling incarnation." [Skirl]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=SKIRL%20011

Eliane Radigue-Triptych $15.00
"Includes liner notes & archival photographs. On the suggestion of Robert Ashley, Douglas Dunn commissioned this piece from Eliane Radigue for choreography. Only the first part of Triptych was staged at the premiere at the Dancehall/Theatre of Nancy on February 27 1978. Recorded in the composer's studio in Paris. After the premiere of Adnos I in San Francisco in 1974, a group of French students introduced Eliane Radigue to Tibetan Buddhism. When she returned to Paris, she began to explore this spirituality in depth, which slowed her musical production up until 1978. Triptych marks her return to composition, and draws its inspiration from 'the spirit of the fundamental elements,' water, air, fire, earth. Eliane Radigue likes to add that this has often been useful to her in her moments of research and transitions. This three-part composition, with its great humility and contemplative simplicity, heralded a new period of work and was the first in a series of masterpieces inspired by Tibetan Buddhism: Adnos II (1980), Adnos III (1981), Songs of Milarepa (1983) -- with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley -- Jetsun Mila (1986), as well as the Trilogy of Death: Kyema (1988), Kailasha (1991) and Koume (1993). Archival images included in the accompanying booklet." [Important]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/IMPORTANT%20260

Eliane Radigue-Vice Versa, etc... 2 x CDs $17.00
"Includes liner notes & archival photographs. 1970 was an important year in Eliane Radigue's musical life since it was the year just before she acquired her ARP 2500 synthesizer. Since 1967, she had been using the feedback as a material; feedback from two tape recorders reworked through intensive studio techniques: slowing down, alteration, superimposition, montage. In 1970, the last year she dedicated to feedback, several milestone pieces saw the light of day: Omnht, a wonderful sound installation for three out-of-phase tape loops and wall-mounted loudspeakers; the theoretical setting of Labyrinthe Sonore (eventually premiered at Mills College in 1998 in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros, Maggie Payne and William Winant, amongst others); Opus 17, one of her first compositions in fixed duration (according to Rhys Chatham, a decisive piece that would change his own compositional career); and Vice-Versa, etc..., which appears to be her very last feedback loop composition. Vice-Versa, etc... was conceived as a sound installation setting similar to S=a=b=a+b. A single magnetic tape can be played at any speed, a stereo tape of which allows three playings: left channel alone, right channel alone, left and right channels together. These different channels can be overlapped/crossed over as much as possible, at any speed. Thus the piece reveals itself in its whole dimension, its infinite grace. In its content, the piece is the most minimal that Eliane Radigue has ever composed. Feedback is horizontally sustained, time is suspended, vibrating with organic and subtle pulsations. The fastest playthrough, in just 2'42", weaves a graceful continuum of uncanny depth, somewhere between the sonority of feedback and a glass harmonica. Played slowly, at 13'41", it takes us into an universe of low frequency vibrations felt as much by the guts, the ribcage and the whole body as by the eardrum: the signature sound of Eliane Radigue. Between these two extremes, many delicate shadings/variations appear simply through speed modulation. What is striking about this work, which may arguably be one of Radigue's most important compositions, is the extraordinary quality of the tones obtained from such a rudimentary material. It is hard to believe that the composer was yet to begin working on her ARP, since the sonorities heard on Vice-Versa, etc... are surprisingly similar to those she would go on to produce with her synthesizer. Vice-Versa, etc... is a minimal work which possesses an infinity of possible variations, a secret object containing the seeds of the oeuvre to come, and a discreet turning point linking the composer's two important working phases, an extremely subtle cross-fade between her feedback loop period to her ARP period. Originally, only ten signed and numbered copies of this little boxset containing a magnetic tape and a handwritten note were released -- needless to say this is a work that has been nearly forgotten! We have decided to reissue this object as a double CD, with the tape played respectively forwards and backwards, at four different speeds, corresponding to the standards of the tape recorders of the time. This will allow dedicated listeners to experiment with simultaneous playback of the work's different versions, recreating the conditions of the original installation. For lazier listeners, a simple playthrough provides complete satisfaction, a listening experience that loses itself in the ineffable and discreet beauty of these four variations." [Important]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/IMPORTANT%20259

Roxy Music-Country Life (remastered) $7.00 (special)
Remastered, HDCD edition of this classic 1974 slice of art rock with all lyrics included at a very tasty price. This is the one with the famous 'two semi-clad, semi-mean/semi-unbelievably sexy-looking girls with too much lipstick' cover. It also has a number of their classics, including "Out of the Blue", one of their greatest pieces. All in all, I'd say this is one of their 2 best albums. [Virgin]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/VIRGIN%20ROXY%204

Sax Ruins-Yawiquo $17.00
"Formed by Tatsuya Yoshida (drums) and Ono Ryoko (alto sax, flute) to perform Ruins' songs in 2006, the duo has only done a few live shows until now. As Sax Ruins, they have restructured the orchestration of Ruins with the involvement of the saxophone with the result sounding like a big band playing progressive Jazz Core." Ono has performed on a number of Acid Mothers Temple albums, while Tatsuya, the founder of Ruins, which was one of the first bands to combine punk energy with rehearsal-intensive complexity, is definitely one of the most innovative drummer/composer/improviser in the Japanese avant-garde music scene. [Ipecac]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/IPECAC%20114

Karlheinz Stockhausen- Spiral I, Spirale II, Pole, Wach, Japan, Zykus, Tierkreis, In Freundschaft 2 x CDs $13.00
Back in stock!
Great price on 2 CDs of material by one of the most influencial composers of the second half of the 20th century and whose works are very hard to find, as most of his classic recordings are controlled by the family and issued on very expensive private pressings. Here are 8 works performed by Harald Bojé, Christoph Caskel, Peter Eötvös, Tristan Fry, Markus Stockhausen, Margareta Hurholz. [EMI]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=28/EMI%205099969559822

Fredrik Thordendal/Special Defects-Sol Niger Within $18.00
Back in stock!
Thordendal is the guitarist of the noted technical metal band Meshuggah, and this is pretty metallic, but it's also a project released by UAE (Mats/Morgan's label) and features Mats and Morgan as well as other players. So, it's not just metal.
"Where the classic early 1970's German label Ohr meets 1980's thrash sensations Slayer. Have your attention? If not, put this puppy in and the music will do the rest. What Thordendal has done is nothing short of brilliant forward thinking, mixing extreme thrash metal (similar to his band Meshuggah) with the xperimental and avant-garde. In short, Sol Niger Within is one long track broken into 29 movements that spans over 40 minutes. Contained within are brutal staccato metal riffs, symphonic synthesizer runs, scattered jazz drumming, pipe organ and drum jams, altered vocals (both scratchy-evil and distorted low narration, but never death metal), free sax blowing and a lyrical quotient that would make William Burroughs or Aldous Huxley scratch their head. The idea behind the lyrics is that all is God and God is all, and the music fits the nightmarish journey of coming home (so to speak). In fact, the album begins somewhat like a more sophisticated thrash album and ends as wild as any music to come from the psychedelic scene. There really isn't any album that I've heard like it and, given the state of today's progressive genre, that's saying something. An absolute must listen, even for metal-phobes."-Tom Hayes/Gnosis [UAE]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=07/UAE%204

Roger Wootton/Piu-Cut the Air at Mello Club $18.00
"Roger Wootton from the band Comus together with the Swedish band Piu. This CD includes a fantastic lconcert from Mello Club 4th and 5th of December 2008. They performed songs from both First Utterance and To Keep from Crying in absolutely phenomenal versions. The CD also includes 2 songs from Piu´s forthcoming album and a never before performed Comus song! The CD is housed in a nice Digi-pack with detailed story and pictures. I can just tell that the audience was thrilled!" [Mellotronen]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=07/MELLOTRONEN%20030

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There were some WRONG prices listed on our emailing last week about the cheapie Cuneiform titles. They were priced correctly in the store, but just so you know, here are the true prices of these, in case you passed them by because of the wrong pricing:

Blast-A Sophisticated Face $4.00
A brilliant Dutch avant/rock band. This release is an exciting stylistic departure; on this CD the band are essentially a miniature 9 piece orchestra, employing guitar, trumpet, soprano, alto & baritone sax, alto clarinet, violin, cello, cymbalom, bass & percussion. Like a more intense/dissonant version of Art Zoyd circa "Generations Sans Futur.,
"...precise, complex & assured...marvelous.- Facelift.
"...this is the real thing...some of the most amazing & completely insane chamber rock of the day." -Expose. [Cuneiform]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%20125%20CUT

Mujician-Colours Fufilled $4.00
This is one of their most overtly 'jazz' releases, and it swings like mad! "Mujician's music works because the group's four very forceful musical personalities don't get in each other's way. For all their differences, their strengths seem complimentary - Keith Tippett's massive, lumpish piano chords; Paul Dunmall's brutal, rough-hewn sax lines; the gravity of Paul Roger's bass playing; and the stony clarity of Tony Levin's percussion. The album begins and ends with  Dunmall on bagpipes, two powerful performances which underline just how distinctive this group sounds. Elsewhere the music picks up where 1996's excellent Birdman left off, exemplifying the uncompromising charms of the tradition which it extends."-The Wire [Cuneiform]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%20102%20CUT

Mujician-Poem About The Hero $4.00
Nice to welcome back the second album by Mujician after several years of being unavailable! "The second album from Mujician was recorded live earlier this year. In the interim, free jazz has developed a tradition and language which Poem  About The Hero unashamedly refers to. It may not be that radical anymore, but Tippett's ensemble can still surprise you with the ease with which it can slip in and out of different formal confines - from the rich and balladic, through the microtonal and muscular. "-The Wire "Despite the intense free-jazz dialogue and improv, there are several instances of lush melodic content along with moments of quiet solitude. Mujician isn't about an eccentric bunch of free jazzers competing against one another, but a tight cohesive unit with a stake planted firmly in the ground. Highly recommended."-All About Jazz [Cuneiform]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=RUNE%2062%20CUT


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Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only):

BEAT CIRCUS
http://thephoenix.com/Providence/Music/89186-Beat-Circus-Boy-From-Black-Mountain-2009/

BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC
http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-birdsongs-of-the-mesozoic/

LED BIB
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article6815405.ece

http://www.musicomh.com/music/gigs/led-bib_0909.htm

MIRIODOR (great, spot-on review)
http://cdhotlist.btol.com/cddetail.cfm?yy=2009&mm=9

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You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html
or
http://my.calendars.net/cuneiform/
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BEAT CIRCUS (two shows to celebrate the release of "Boy from Black Mountain" - the full tour will be in February!)
September 11 - Middle East Downstairs - 472-480 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge MA (with O'Death, Larkin Grimm)

September 12 - Knitting Factory - 361 Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn NY (with Mucca Pazz)

CHEER-ACCIDENT
October 24 - The Philadephia Experiment: New Music Festival - The Rotunda - University of Pennsylvnania - 4014 Walnut Street - Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 573-3234 (with CHEER-ACCIDENT (headliner), Fern Knight, The Red Masque and Make A Rising) all ages - FREE but donations for the bands requested.

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
August 29 - Zomer Fiets Tour - Barn Dick - Feerwerd, The Netherlands

September 13 - Jazz Gallery - New York, NYT

October 26 - Cal Arts Workshop - Clovis High School - Clovis, CA 2pm

October 28 - Red Cat - Los Angeles, CA

October 29 - University of Nevada - Reno, NV

October 30 - Williamette University - 900 State Street - Salem, Oregon 97301

November 1 - Earshot Festival - Seattle, WA

December 7 - Towson State University - Towson, MD

December 8 - Philadelphia, PA

March - European tour

DJAM KARET
October 17 – The Immersion Festival - DA Gallery - The dA Center for the Arts - 252-D South Main St. - Pomona CA 91766 (909) 397-9716

ERGO
September 24 - Monkeytown - 58 N. 3rd St. - Brooklyn, NY

September 26 - Sonic Circuits Festival - Washington, DC

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
September 30 - Sunset Club - Paris, France

December 5 - Theatre de Sens - Sens, France

June - NEARFest - Zoellner Auditorium - Bethlehem, PA

GUAPO
September 18-20 (Guapo meets GMEA) - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

GUTBUCKET
November 10 - Lemoyne College - Syracuse, NY

HAMSTER THEATRE
October 17 - Edgefest - The Firefly Club - 637 South Main Street - Ann Arbor, MI : 9:00 PM

LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
September 8 - Mercury Prize ceremony - London, UK (will be broadcast live on BBC 2 television. Radio 1 and Radio 2, bringing honk, clank and skronk into every granny's family room)

September 17 - The Boiler Room - Guildford, UK

September 29 - Ronnie Scott's, London

October 1 - BBC Radio 2 - Janice Long - Live session sometime between 11pm-1am

October 14 - The Queens Theatre - Barnstaple, UK

October 22 - The Spin Off @ Bar Santiago - Leeds, UK

October 23 - Derby Jazz - Derby, UK

November 8 - The Croft - Bristol, UK

November 20 - London Jazz Festival - The Vortex - 11 Gillett Square - London, UK

November 22 - The Cluny, Newcastle, UK

November 28 - The Old Market, Hove, UK

December 10 - Nottingham Jazz - Nottingham, UK

February 5 - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall - Rodewald Suite - Liverpool, UK

THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT
October 17 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave.- Baltimore, 21230

THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET
December 5 - 92Y Tribeca - 200 Hudson Street - New York, NY 10013 (212) 601-1000

December 17 - Barbes - 376 9th St- Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 965-9177

PHIL MILLER/IN CAHOOTS
November 10 - Vortex Jazz Club - 11 Gillett Street - Dalston, London N16 8AZ, UK (0207) 254 4097

November 11 - Swinburne Hall - Colchester Institute - Colchester, Essex C03 3LL, UK (01206) 712999

MIRIODOR
September 12-13 - FMPM - The Gesù - 1200 De Bleury Street, between St-Catherine Street and René Lévesque Boulevard - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

THE MUFFINS
September 12 - Orion Sound Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C - Baltimore, MD

September 18 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

ED PALERMO BIG BAND
September 9 - Southpaw - 125 5th Ave. - Brooklyn, NY 11217 (718) 230-0236 - with very special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!

PLANETA IMAGINARIO
October 1 - Sala KGB de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

POSITIVE CATASTROPHE
September 25 - 5th Annual New Languages Festival - McCarren Hall - 98 Bayard St. - Brooklyn, NY 11222

PRESENT
September 19 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France

September 25 - Les Abbattoirs - Bourgouin-Jailleu (Lyon) France

September 26-27 - Freakparade Festival 2009 - Wurzburg, Germany (with Harmonia Ensemble, United Colors of Sodom, Three Friends, Paznerballett, Koenjihyakkei!)

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
October 31 - Hampshire Jam - Millenium Hall, Liphoo - Hampshire, UK

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
October 3 - Dana Park, Cambridgeport, MA, 4pm (Raindate Sunday October 4th)

WADADA LEO SMITH
November 20 - Madrid Jazz Festival - Madrid, Spain

UNIVERS ZERO
September 20 - Rock in Opposition Festival - Maison de la Musique - Cap'Découverte - 81450 Le Garrick (Carmaux), France
October 13 - Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival - Nancy, France

UPSILON ACRUX (their first-ever European tour - and it is shaping up to be a big one):
September 10 - Cairo - Fred-Joseph-Platz 3 - Würzburg, Germany

September 11 - Az Conni - Rudolf-Leonhard-Str. 39 - Dresden Germany

September 14 - Astra Stube - Max-Brauer-Allee 200 - Hamburg, Germany

September 15 - Kuze - Hermann-Elflein-Strasse 10 - Potsdam, Germany

September 16 - Klub Adorno - Kattesundet 6 - Copenhagen, Denmark

September 17 - Poortgebouw - Stieltjesstraat 38 - Rotterdam, Netherlands

September 18 - Landbouwbelang - Beisenwal 3 - Maastricht, Netherlands

September 19 - Finzerb - Marché aux Herbes 20 - Mons, Belgium

September 20 - Molodoï - 19 Rue de Ban de la Roche - Strasbourg, France

September 22 - United Club - Corso Vigevano 33 - Torino, Italy

September 23 - Sinister Noise - Via dei Magazzini Generale 4a - Rome, Italy

September 25 - Bloom - Via Curiel 39 - Milano, Italy

September 26 - Le Periscope - 13 Rue Delandine - Lyon, France

September 29 - L'Ara - 301 Avenue des Nations Unies - Lille, France

September 30 - Le Rigoletto - 337 Rue de Belleville - Paris, France

October 1 - The Tap & Tin - 24 Railway Street - Chatham, UK

October 2 - tbc - Milton Keynes, UK

October 3 - The Kazimier - 4-5 Worstenholme Square - Liverpool, UK

October 4 - tbc - Winchester, UK

October 6 - Barden's Bar - 36 Stoke Newington Road - London, UK -

October 7 - Brudenell Social Club - 33 Queens Road - Leeds, UK -

ZEVIOUS
September 16 - Monkeytown - 58 N. 3rd St - Brooklyn, NY 11211 (with Father Figures, Little Triumph)

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To see Artist News by musicians who have recorded for Cuneiform - provided to us by the musicians themselves and updated every four months, go to:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/artistnews.html

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Rest in Peace:

Chris Connor (jazz singer)

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Thank you!

-Coming Soon (or not soon, but eventually, so please be patient!)-
(For updates of new items in stock, watch these mailings or check the NEW ARRIVALS section!) :
AHLEUCHATISTAS-Of the Body Prone (5th great album)
ANGLAGARD-Epilog (reissued by the band and available for the first time in 3-4 years)
BROWN VS BROWN-Odds and Unevens (2nd terrific album of complex rehearsal-intensive rock from this offshoot of Blast)
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET with GARY VERSACE (fifth album)
FAR CORNER #3
GUAPO-(yippee! a NEW studio album coupled with their NEARFest 2006 performance. FINALLY a documentation of their great current lineup (Dave Smith, Daniel O'Sullivan, James Sedwards and Kavus Torabi)
HOLDSWORTH/PASQUA/HASLIP/WACKERMAN-Blues for Tony (2 x CDs) - available Sept. 16
MAGMA-Emehntett-Re (includes a 60' 'making of' DVD) (here in mid November!)
NEW YORK ART QUARTET-Old Stuff (archival release of material from 1965 with John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Finn von Eyben and Louis Moholo. Unbeliveably great sound quality and performances!)
RICHARD PINHAS-Metal/Crystal
PRESENT-Barbara, ma non troppo (new album with DVD of their performance at the 2007 French R.I.O. event and Gouveia Festival)
The ROVA/NELS CLINE SINGERS CELESTIAL SEPTET
SLOCHE-both albums (J'un Oeil and Stadacone) reissued legitimately and from the master tapes on CD for the very first time!)
SOFT MACHINE (JUST when you were thinking that there was nothing else that could appear from the vaults, a really amazing archival release from a period hardly touched upon...)
UNIVERS ZERO-Clivage (new CD to be released in early 2010 - and Andy Kirk is back for this album and the band will be a 2 keyboard septet (ala "Heatwave"): Daniel Denis (drums and keyboard), Michel Berckmans (reeds and percussion), Kurt Budé (clarinets and saxes), Martin Lauwers (violin), Pierre Chevalier (keyboards), Andy Kirk (keyboards) and Dimitri Evers (bass).

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keyboards, Dave Fowler: drums, Ray Hardy: tenor and soprano Saxophone, Oli Mayne: bass/synth, Jerry Wigens: guitar. Chris Cutler really liked it and had this to say, "If you gravitate, musically, to the more interesting end of the '60s and '70s, here is a five-piece group that might have been doing just what they are doing now then. As far from revivals, copies and prog horrors as you can imagine, Astrakan conjures the experimental end of Miller, Coxhill, Henry Cow, Hatfield et al, without pressure or imitation (they just think in a similar way) lightly drifting between careful close composition and loose extrapolation with rhythmic, harmonic and melodic ideas always to the fore. This is for the most part thoughtful music, not short on ideas, that nudges at the jazz end of the spectrum. Plenty of dynamics and a programme of honest pleasure without pretension."
They list their influences on their mypace page as: Influences from punk to free jazz to avant-garde classical music, ambient electronica, group improvisation, tango, psychedelia, prog rock etc etc etc.
Sounds Like Gong, Soft Machine, Acoustic Ladyland/Polar Bear, Miles, Jaga Jazzist, Peter Thomas Orchestra, Cinematic Orchestra, Mwandishi (Herbie Hancock early 70s band), Frank Zappa, Ozric Tentacles, Return to Forever, Joe Henderson, Girls Aloud.
You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/astrakan
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=ASTRAKAN%2001

Il Balletto Di Bronzo-Ys $12.00
Back in stock!
Ys, the 2nd & last album by IBDB, is one of the most loved 70's Italian progressive rock releases. It is a classical rock classic that has seldom been equaled, with great soaring vocals, terrific, heavy Hammond organ playing, a creepy atmosphere, and excellent backing from the rest of the band. One of the cornerstones of any progressive rock or Italian progressive collection! [Polydor]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/POLYDOR%20523%20693

Adrian Belew-Side Three $7.00 (special)
"'Side Three' is the third in a series of albums that Adrian Belew released between 2004 and 2006. To my ears this one is the best of the three although it seems to get the lowest reviews from Belew fans. Like the other albums this one is short at only a bit more then 30 minutes, but I pretty much like the whole thing. It has the most variety of the three albums with much of it sounding very King Crimson-ish. Belew also throws in electronics, ballads and pop all of which he does very well. This is another good one."-Steve Sly [Sanctuary]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/SANCTUARY%2084777

Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin-Ball & Chain NTSC (all region) DVD/CD $17.00
I dunno. I always thought Big Brother got a bum rap. Were they the best San Francisco band? No. Were they the best musicians of that scene? No. But they were fun and joyous and genuinely psychedelic and whoever it was that dragged Janis away from them by telling her that 'she could do better than them', obviously never heard the inferior albums that she made without them. So: This is quite good (a bit blurry, but still good for being over 40 years old), never-before released or seen since it was first broadcast, black and white footage with great sound from April, 1967, before Janis was a star.
"The performances featured on this DVD were filmed at the studios of KQED TV in April 1967, just weeks before Big Brother & The Holding Company shot to international fame following their blinding set at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 (which featured Joplin's show-stopping performance of 'Ball And Chain', a highlight also of D.A. Pennebaker's famous movie documenting the festival). For many fans this was the period when Janis Joplin was at her best, before the pressure of fame and the ravages of drugs took over. This is the first DVD to release these KQED TV tracks. The songs are interspersed with short interviews with Janis and other band members, all in excellent sound and picture quality for the era. In addition to 'Ball And Chain', which was to appear on the group's second album in the following year, the set features two of the group's hit singles, 'Down On Me' and 'Coo Coo'. This package also includes a bonus audio CD of the tracks." [Charley]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=21/CHF%201057

Tyondai Braxton-Central Market $17.00
Surprising album that at first sounds like it was done completely on the computer, but than you realize that it isn't. A unique work that I need to spend more time with - it just showed up, so I haven't given it the full run it deserves.
"For more than a decade, Tyondai Braxton has fine-tuned his unique approach as 'quite literally' a solo artist. Working by himself on stage and in the studio, he employed guitar, voice, looping and delay pedals plus various found objects to create work that simulates the sound of a large ensemble. His live performances are as technically astonishing as they are sonically mesmerizing. However, on his Warp Records debut and second full-length solo album, Central Market, Braxton takes a radically different course from the 'orchestrated loops' that had become his trademark: For the first time in his solo career, he's composed for a real orchestra. The result is an exhilarating mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation; surprisingly pastoral moments give way to more clangorous passages that will immediately appeal to fans of avant-rock quartet Battles, of which Braxton is a member. There are plenty of ominous, unsettling sounds, particularly in its later tracks, but the sheer ambition of Central Market gives the album an uplifting, almost joyful quality. The spirit of the playing and the inventiveness of the arrangements make the entire experience exciting and fun, a word Braxton often employs when describing the process of bringing Central Market to fruition." [Warp]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/WARP%20184

Regina Carter-I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey $6.00 (special)
A great album, but you must remember that I *like* Granny music. If you have an appreciation for 'the great American songbook, this is a as good as anything released in that vein in the past decade!
"Dedicated to her mother, who passed away in 2005, I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey finds jazz violinist Regina Carter showcasing the American popular songs her mother loved. Centered around Carter's supple violin chops, the album also features pianist and fellow Detroiter Xavier Davis, bassist Matthew Parrish, and drummer Alvester Garnett. This is a gorgeously arranged and swinging affair that not only includes such straight-ahead numbers as "There's a Small Hotel" and "A-Tisket, a-Tasket," but also finds Carter delving headlong into '30s swing and some of the classical influences of her last album, Paganini: After a Dream. To these ends, Edvard Grieg's "Anitra's Dance" is a superbly executed bit of angular post-bop that brings to mind Wynton Marsalis' Black Codes (From the Underground) with its orchestral mix of counterpuntal rhythms and swing. Similarly engaging is the propulsive gypsy jazz standard "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön," which perfectly suits the guest vocals of Dee Dee Bridgewater. Other tracks, like the softly melodic "Sentimental Journey" and the slowed-down "St. Louis Blues," defy simple conventions without ever straying from jazz tradition. Ultimately, Carter has crafted a deeply intimate, soulful, and lovingly burnished tribute to her mother."-Matt Collar/All Music Guide [Verve]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/VERVE%2050962

Cluster & Eno-Cluster & Eno $16.00
Nice to have this classic spacey/ambient album generally available again. This was the first collaboration, recorded when Eno's star was at its zenith, between him and the great German electronic duo. I remember my first record store job, around 1978, when this nice housewife-type lady came in. She was looking for something 'pretty' to do chores to and said she didn't mind if there wasn't singing on it. I said to her, "I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but *I* think it's pretty" and played this for her. She loved it and bought it immediately and actually came into the store at least once more, to tell me what a great record it was to do the dishes to! Buy it and change your dish-washing experience too!
"Brian Eno's first collaboration with Cluster, the best of this album's instrumental pieces are too emotionally rich to waste as mere background music, evoking feelings of hesitancy and regret that rescue the music from mere vapid prettiness."-All Music Guide
"Overall, the music on Cluster and Eno seems to reflect perceptions of -- and connections with -- nature: water and sky; landscape and countryside. Most importantly, this somewhat unassuming record offers a warm look back into a brave new era, when analog sythesizers and human pop musicians got together to explore the manifold and fecund possibilities of their interactions."-Dusted  [Bureau B]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/BUREAU%20B%20029

Various Artists-Cuba Classics 3: Diablo al Infierno $6.00 (special)
Great, wide-ranging collection of music from Cuba. This casts a huge net across what we think of as Cuban or Latin music, some of it being what you would expect and much of it being hugely suprising.
"Part of Luaka Bop's Cuba Classics series, Vol. 3, Diablo al Infierno! is a compilation showcasing the diversity of Cuban music, both old and new. As a prime example, the title track itself is from a Cuban speed metal outfit, Zeus. Also included are classic acts like the supergroup Irakere performing their first real hit, and dancehall greats Los Van Van, performing their first great comeback hit. Other highlights of the album include some real obscurities among Cuban music. Far removed from Havana are Los Blues, a light reggae group from Santiago. Also comes Grupo Vocal Sampling, a collection of college-age kids performing fully a cappella. Light singer/songwriter stylings come from Carlos Varela in a recording of his song "William Tell" direct from the Karl Marx Theater. The spread of styles here is amazing. The recording can be somewhat lacking at points, sometimes due to the age of the tracks, and sometimes due to low quality equipment in general. Despite the sound quality, though, the musical quality is definitely worth getting hold of the album. If nothing else, just check out Zeus and see how much Metallica influence you can note in one listening session."Adam Greenberg/All Music Guide [Luaka Bop]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/LUAKA%20BOP%201992

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius-After The Heat $16.00
Hmmmm...Eno, Moebius & Roedelius...that would make this.... The second of two releases by Cluster and Eno, released in 1978, this follows onward from their classic first album. Nice to have this classic spacey/ambient album generally available again. This was recorded when Eno's star was at its zenith.
"Originally released in 1978 on Sky Records, After The Heat was the second collaborative release by Brian Eno with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Produced once again by Conny Plank, After The Heat is a suite of micro-managed organic and electronic instrumentation that features recited and sung vocals by Eno on 3 tracks. As Asmus Tietchens writes in the liner notes: "Cluster & Eno can, with the benefit of hindsight and without overstating its case, be seen as the first ambient album to have been produced in Germany. The second LP, After The Heat, is, however, a completely different story. Whilst Cluster & Eno bears the hallmark of a Cluster composition guided by Eno's ambient concept, After The Heat is more of an Eno album bearing stylistic characteristics of Cluster music." Sweet, slow-moving and airy, with a modern classical/prog appeal."
"After The Heat represents peak work for both parties involved. My very first exposure to Cluster and still my favorite, I knew soon upon hearing it that I had found a very special album. Going on many years now, that opinion has not diminished. Though recorded decades ago, it is astounding how modern and anticipatory After The Heat still sounds. Definitely to be heard by all progressive fans, and almost certainly to be enjoyed."-Ground And Sky [Bureau B]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/BUREAU%20B%20030

Exivious-Exivious $15.00
Very good, very progressive rock-oriented, instrumental technical metal album featuring dual guitars, bass and drums. Similar in some ways to Gordian Knot. Very well played and very good. Recommended.
"So I finally get to tell the tale of Exivious....
Many years ago I was in touch with a Dutch guitarist named Tymon Kruidenier who was working on a new progressive metal band called Exivious. The music was extremely reminiscent of Cynic. At that point in time he was looking for a vocalist. We kicked around a possible collaboration but it never bore fruit. Ultimately Tymon shelved Exivious. Many years later, Cynic reformed and Mr. Kruidenier became the new guitarist, more or less as the replacement for Jason Gobel. With the success of the Cynic reunion, Exivious was resurrected. It would be difficult to think of Exivious as anything other than the instrumental sister band to Cynic. The influences are incredibly strong but the band tends to play up the fusion aspect more. The compositions have that technicality that will send your brain spinning and this quartet has the chops to pull it. Paul Masvidal contributes a guest solo driving the Cynic connection home. Overall its a band stands on its own and will probably top many year end "best of" lists. A brilliant disc - I hope these guys play live. Highest recommendation."-Ken Golden [Exivious]
You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/exivious
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=19/EXIVIOUS%20001

Far East Family Band-Nipponjin $18.00
"Regarded by many as the first Japanese progressive rock group, the Far East Family Band featured the keyboardist and future new age composer, Kitaro. A keyboard-dominated space rock band, the Far East Family Band played extended compositions that brought comparisons to Tangerine Dream and early Pink Floyd. Nipponjin (1975), the band's second album under their new name (the trio changed their name from Far Out to Far East Family Band following the release of Nihonjin which appeared on the Denon label in 1973), featured re-recorded material from the previous The Cave Down To Earth (1974) as well as Nihonjin and was produced by Tangerine Dream's Klaus Schultz. The band's synthesizer-drenched sound had much to do with Kitaro and Schultz meeting during a trip to Europe. One of Japan's earliest prog bands, Far East Family Band became hugely popular in Japan and also achieved considerable attention in Europe. The group went on to release two further albums, Parallel World (1976) and Tenkujin (1977), but it is Kitaro who enjoyed lasting fame for his legendary Silk Road albums. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only in a unique card wallet."
No.14 on Julian Cope's list of top Japanese albums - but don't hold that against it.
"If you've heard of the Far East Family band you already know about them; and if you've stumbled onto them out of the blue, get ready for a treat. If you like Pink Floyd, this band is for you. One of the early Japanese progressive bands, the Far East band played major outdoor concerts at the foot of Mt. Fuji and were heavily influenced by Pink Floyd, and attracted sizable european attention. This particular album was produced by Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream fame and is actually a remake of an earlier album, "The Cave Down to the Earth." Although the rhythm section is only adequate, the guitars and keyboard work is superb. Lead guitarist Hirohito Fukushima has gotten his Gilmour chops down expertly. "Nipponjin" and "Timeless" have some excellant leads and Fukushima utilizes his pedal effects throughout. Fumio Miyashta, the keybord player, duels beautifully with Fukushima on "The Cave" and his Hammond work even has a touch of all things The Ventures. A great intro to the beginnings of Japanese progressive and a great progressive gem in itself."-Adam Palermo [Phoenix]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/PHOENIX%203009

Gentle Giant-Free Hand/Interview $24.00
These two classic and great albums are now out of print in the USA. This 2-on-1 is the only way to currently buy them!
After In A Glass House, Giant and their record label made a concerted effort to 'break the band' in the USA, and the band toured here constantly. Signing with Capitol, they released 3 great studio albums that gave the band a slightly more rockified and accessible face, without losing a whit of the complexity of their earlier work. Free Hand was their seventh album and was the middle one of that trio and it is one of many extremely fine works in their catalog. It rocks like hell and incredibly cleverly too! Interview was their ninth album and was the last one of that trio (a live album separated it from the other two) and it is one of many extremely fine works in their catalog. It's their last consistantly great album, and it includes the funniest and most rhythmically complex 'reggae' song you will ever hear. Highly recommended. [BGO]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/BGO%20421

Kandahar-In the Court of Catherina Squeezer $12.00
First time ever on CD for this 1975 progressive rock/oddball title from Belgium, and made off of the master tapes by Sony, who now owns the catalog of "Dwarf Records", the original label that produced this. This was the band's second album and their last until their much later  reformation (about which the less said, the better, so I am told).
Karel Bogard - keyboards, Jeff de Visscher - guitars, sitar, vocals, Jacky Eddyn - sax, flute, Jean-Pierre Claeys - bass, vocals, Etienne Delarye - drums, percussion, cello, vocals.
"This group, hailing from Ghent (in Western part of Belgium), played some rather adventurous rock music and formed in 73, and were a cross of jazz-rock with Canterbury influences and sometimes a touch of Zeuhl. They released on their own private label Dwarf two albums, which were quite in the avant-garde progressive rock of the time (sounding a bit like a cross of Placebo, Pazop and Cos), before going broke."-Hughes Chantraine, Belgium, progarchives.com
"If Supersister had any Belgian cousins, they would have been Kandahar. Not that their sound was identical, but both groups had a strong, prevalent sense of humour. "The Wakin' Piles" on Long Lived The Sliced Ham was a strong-hitting pastiche on Magma. Kandahar favoured a versatile jazz-rock with changing textures from track to track. One track would be sub-tropical ethno-jazz with congas and guiro, the next chamber rock or maybe Genesis-influenced symphonic rock. Their more mannered, rhythmical, brassy jazz-rock facets were related to Marc Moulin's Placebo. In fact, Kandahar were one of the most interesting groups from Belgium."-Scented Gardens of the Mind [Sony]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/SONY%207507912

Kandahar-Long Live the Sliced Ham $12.00
First time ever on CD for this 1974 progressive rock/oddball title from Belgium, and made off of the master tapes by Sony, who now owns the catalog of "Dwarf Records", the original label that produced this. This was the band's debut.
Karel Bogard - keyboards, Jeff de Visscher - guitars, sitar, vocals, Jacky Eddyn - sax, flute, Jean-Pierre Claeys - bass, vocals, Etienne Delarye - drums, percussion, cello, vocals.
"This group, hailing from Ghent (in Western part of Belgium), played some rather adventurous rock music and formed in 73, and were a cross of jazz-rock with Canterbury influences and sometimes a touch of Zeuhl. They released on their own private label Dwarf two albums, which were quite in the avant-garde progressive rock of the time (sounding a bit like a cross of Placebo, Pazop and Cos), before going broke."-Hughes Chantraine, Belgium, progarchives.com
"If Supersister had any Belgian cousins, they would have been Kandahar. Not that their sound was identical, but both groups had a strong, prevalent sense of humour. "The Wakin' Piles" on Long Lived The Sliced Ham was a strong-hitting pastiche on Magma. Kandahar favoured a versatile jazz-rock with changing textures from track to track. One track would be sub-tropical ethno-jazz with congas and guiro, the next chamber rock or maybe Genesis-influenced symphonic rock. Their more mannered, rhythmical, brassy jazz-rock facets were related to Marc Moulin's Placebo. In fact, Kandahar were one of the most interesting groups from Belgium."-Scented Gardens of the Mind [Sony]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/SONY%207507902

Karuna Khyal-Alomoni 1985 $18.00
Karuna Khyal's album Alomoni 1985, originally released on Voice Records around 1976, is widely acknowledged as years ahead of its time, preceding other Japanese underground experimental outfits such as Fush*tsusha and White Heaven by almost 20 years. The band's musical influences are, if anything, more Germanic than Japanese, with long, hypnotic free-form rock passages, a heavy use of tape loops, electronics, environmental sounds, distortion and backwards tapes underpinning some manic harmonica-playing on some gut-wrenching blues dirges. Can, Faust and Guru Guru clearly had an influence on the band, as did Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Not much is known about the band's line-up, although it is widely thought there was some crossover in personnel with Brast Burn, another significant outfit of the same era which exerted such influence over newer participants in the Japanese psych scene as well as Nurse With Wound. At No.19 in Julian Cope's Japrocksampler publication, this is a true hidden treasure buried deep in time -- unearthed and digitally-remastered by Phoenix Records. Package includes a replica of the original full-color insert in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in a unique card wallet.
No. 19 on Julian Cope's list of top Japanese albums.
"...[a] foray into the outer reaches of sound perched near the zenith of radical innovation."-Alternative Press
"Captain Beefheart, Faust and Guru Guru have a considerable degree of influence on this leftfield ritual of sonic mayhem."-All Music Guide
"...thoroughly corrupted rock and roll, steeped in ragtag R&B and crisscrossed by croaked vocal mantras and deliriously dizzy slide guitar."-Motion
"Alomony 1985 could be considered one of the most noteable avant-rock albums of all time."-Oppropbrium [Phoenix]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/PHOENIX%203024

Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble-Mutations CDEP $17.00
Back in stock! Shot out of here pretty fast last time.
Second release (and note that while they call it an EP, it's almost 40' long) by a band that combine very modern electronica with jazz and progressive elements to come up with something new, fresh and unusual. This is more electronic/drone music here and less jazz than their previous album, but there's still a lot of interesting mixtures going on here.
"A bridge between their first album on Planet Mu and the forthcoming second one on Ad Noiseam, the "Mutations EP" is The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble's coming of age. Profound and organic but dark and impressive, it is a perfect rendition of the ensemble's live shows and the proof that there is still something fresh to be done at the meeting point of post-rock, jazz and drones. A deeply emotional and original trip."
Jason Kohnen - Bass/Upright, Piano.
Gideon Kiers - Sequencing, Drums.
Hilary Jeffrey - Trombone, Oscillators, Rhodes.
Charlotte Cegarra - Vocals, FX, Piano, Xylophone, Flute.
Eelco Bosman - Guitar.
Nina Hitz - Cello.
Sarah Anderson - Violin.
You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/tkde [Ad Noisem]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/ADN%20105

Knight Area-Realm of Shadows $14.00
"Realm Of Shadows is the third album from the Dutch masters of symphonic rock. Knight Area creates harder edged progressive rock in the vein of Arena, Marillion, and Dream Theater. This latest effort is a conceptual work about a metaphysical journey that finds their music and themes taking a decidedly darker turn. Knight Area was founded in 2004 after Gerben Klazinga recorded the first album The Sun Also Rises. This album was a project of Gerben, who wrote all the music, with many musicians participating in the recordings of the album. It was a worldwide success and as a consequence Gerben formed a band to play live. Their second album, Under A New Sign, was released in 2007 after the band successfully played European and American stages including a performance at Nearfest. The album was a real band effort receiving superb reviews worldwide. A subsequent tour found the band performing in the UK, Germany, and Canada." [Laser's Edge]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=19/LE%201054

Phil Manzanera/801-801 Live (expanded/remastered/collectors edition in beautiful hardbound book with press clippings, texts, photos) 2 x CDs $40.00
Back in stock - finally - and yes, it's really nice.
This is the classic by this all star project including Eno, Bill MacCormick, Simon Phillips, Francis Monkman and the never-heard-from-again Lloyd Watson. One of the great albums of the mid/late 1970s. If you were interested in progressive rock and you are of a certain age, said the man of a certain age, then this was certainly a big part of the soundtrack of your life circa 1976/1977. This is the beautiful, limited edition version that comes in a really nice hardbound book with about 40 pages of photos and etc., includes the classic original album newly remastered and also includes a never-before heard second disc of the band rehearsing on August 23, 1976! The sound on the second disc is good bootleggy - perfectly listenable if you are a fan.
"In 1976, while Roxy Music had temporarily disbanded, 801 (the name of the band was taken from the Eno song "The True Wheel", which appears on his 1974 solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)) got together as a temporary project. The original sextet included Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, Bill MacCormick, Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips and Lloyd Watson, and after a warm up show in Cromer in Norfolk, that line-up played just two gigs - at the Reading Festival (with John Peel acclaiming them 'the musical high point of the weekend') and at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. This memorable concert was subsequently released as '801 Live'. The music consists of more or less mutated selections from albums by Manzanera, Eno, and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me". Released at the height of the punk rock revolution in the UK, the LP nevertheless sold well throughout the world, particularly because it received rave reviews from critics, both for the superb performances by the musicians and for its groundbreaking sound quality." [EG]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=21/EXPRESSION%203R

Various Artists-Music from Latvia $6.00 (special)
Uncle Steve is once more trying to expand the horizons of some of his little charges... This is an excellent 14 track album of traditional music from Latvia, from the former Soviet Union. "The songs collected here, played on traditional zither, bagpipes and whistles...relate stories of village life before collectivization." Bagpipes and anti-collectivization! What more could anyone ask for! [Cooking Vinyl]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/COOKING%20VINYL%20022

MX-80-We're an American Band $8.00 (special)
"We're An American Band -- MX-80's first studio album in over a decade -- is both hilariously depressing and morosely upbeat. The ground-breaking Bay Area quartet, known for its searing guitar work -- by founder Bruce Anderson -- and deadpan commentary of vocalist Rich Stim, has managed to combine the worst of the digital and analog worlds to create a masterwork that mixes Satan, Howard Hughes and current theories on brain transplants. In a bit of musical cannibalism, We're an American Band, includes samples from the cinematic tapestries of O-Type, the musical side excursion guided by MX founders Dale Sophiea and Anderson. Claimed as an inspiration by many underground stars, MX-80's 30 year career is crowned by this tract on the modern American, living up to its moniker as the 'the most arty Heavy Metal band in the world.'" [Family Vineyard]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/FV%20030

Plastic People of the Universe-Egon Bundy's Happy Hearts Club Banned (remastered/first complete version) $25.00
Reissue of the most famous (and probably the best as well) album by this classic, TRULY underground rock band from Czechoslovakia, who were destroyed by the state but who actually won in the end when they reformed to play specifically at the request of newly-elected president Vaclav Havel. This includes some rare photos and a good history of the band and album and this is the first time that the entire master tapes have been used (previous versions have either had songs shortened (as on the original album version) or had songs substituted). Recorded in 1974-75, this was the album whose tapes were smuggled out of the country shortly afterward & released on vinyl with a huge booklet of photos & documentation in 1978. In addition to it's notoriety, it's also a really good album, capturing the vibe of a band genuinely underground & having to fight for their lives and for their art. Primitive and great; if you don't own this, you should. [Kissing Spell]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/KISSING%20SPELL%20803

Various Artists-The Roots of Captain Beefheart $11.00
Kind of a funny concept, but, y'know, they mostly got it right and the price is certainly right on this compilation.
"18 Mississippi delta blues, free form jazz and brooding swamp boogie songs that inspired the legendary artist including Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk & more. A respected artist, an experimental musician, a former collaborator with Frank Zappa, a man inspired by free jazz and the blues and a huge influence on the punk and various new wave scenes that followed, Captain Beefheart is legendary for his ability to mix and match sounds and musical styles and make them into something wholly unique. This collection gathers a cross section of music that inspired the man to reach yet further out during the late '60s. Other artists include Tommy Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Sunnyland Slim, Ornette Coleman, The Nutmegs, The Turbans and Cecil Taylor." [Snapper]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=05/SNAPPER%20076

Howard Rumsey/Lighthouse All-Stars-Sunday Jazz a la Lighthouse $5.00 (special)
Stupidly cheap version with original and new liner notes, of this minor gem of early 1950s west coast 'cool jazz'.
"For quite a few years in the 1950s, it was a tradition at the Lighthouse for music to be presented on Sundays from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m. The Lighthouse All-Stars formed the core of the all-star group, but quite often other notable players would sit in. This CD reissue presents live performances from one such Sunday. In addition to the usual bandmembers of the time (trumpeter Shorty Rogers, trombonist Milt Bernhart, Bob Cooper and Jimmy Giuffre on tenors, pianist Frank Patchen, bassist Howard Rumsey, and drummer Shelly Manne), trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, pianist Hampton Hawes, and Carlos Vidal on conga have opportunities to be heard. The music is straight-ahead, generally cool-toned, but with plenty of heat; "Viva Zapata" is a Latin romp. Virtually everyone is featured..."-Scott Yanow/All Music Guide [OLPA]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/OLPA%2030

Django Reinhardt-Oiseaux des Iles 3 x CDs $7.00
Hugely tasty and stupid, stupid, stupid cheap (3 CDs = 3 stupids) collection of some of Django's best known recordings from his prime period in the 30s and 40s with the legendary Quintet of the Hot Club of France as well as other ensembles. Full personnel and dates are included for each track. This set is just a few minutes shy of 3 hours of glorious music, sonically quite good for what it is and you can hear the music that frightened the Nazis and is considered the first truely European variant/contribution to the jazz cannon. [Trilogie]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/TRILOGIE%205939

Archie Shepp Quartet-Recorded Live at the Treatro Alfieri, Volume One PAL (all region) DVD $9.00 (special)
Great price on this very hard to find DVD (and when you can find it, it goes for $30.00 and up!) This features Archie Shepp, saxophone, Siegfried Kessler, piano, Cameron Brown, bass, Clifford Jarvis, drums. This was recorded at the Teatro Alfieri, Torino, Italy on October 14, 1977.
A Message From Trane 28.14 (Calvin Massey)
Lush Life 16.23 (Billy Strayhorn)
The Scene Is Clean 15.21 (Tadd Dameron) [TDK]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/TDK%20JASQ%201

Archie Shepp Quartet-Recorded Live at the Treatro Alfieri, Volume Two PAL (all region) DVD $9.00 (special)
Great price on this very hard to find DVD (and when you can find it, it goes for $30.00 and up!) This features Archie Shepp, saxophone, Siegfried Kessler, piano, Cameron Brown, bass, Clifford Jarvis, drums. This was recorded at the Teatro Alfieri, Torino, Italy on October 14, 1977.
Things Have Got to Change 20:21 (Calvin Massey)
Sophisticated Lady 11:54 (Duke Ellington)
Steam 11:28 (Archie Shepp)
Invitation 15: 48 (Bronislaw Kaper)
Sonny's Back 7:47 (Grachan Moncur III) [TDK]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=02/TDK%20JASQ%202

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound-Part of my Past (remastered) 2 x CDs $13.00
Back in stock and still at a great price.
Simon Dupree was not a person. Simon Dupree was the 3 Shulman brothers (Derek, Phil, Ray) before they formed Gentle Giant. They started as a soul act and turned into a psychedelic band. This is the definitive anthology of their work. It includes their singles (including the UK Top 10 "Kites" and "we Are the Moles" under the pseudonym the Moles) and their album "Without Reservation" in both mono and stereo. In addition there Are 16 previously unheard recordings, some of which were for a proposed second album. It is funny to hear this - it's recognizably Derek singing, but it sure isn't recognizably Gentle Giant! Still, the psych stuff is pretty good psych pop and this is a lot of music for a small price.
"If you've ever wondered what Gentle Giant was up to BEFORE Gentle Giant, this 2 disc CD reveals all. Derek's voice is here in all it's glory, the instruments are all here, violin, trumpet, saxophone, keys, guitars, drums, percussion, even vibes and marimba as well as Mellotron, and the orchestrations and arrangements are tasty and well thought out. No, you're not going to hear any songs that are much like Gentle Giant, but what is here is VERY good. They run the gamut from calypso and Motown to The Beatles and even Chicago! Just as you'd expect from Gentle Giant, they always seem to find a way to do things a little differently than their peers. The strangest thing about this music, is every time I listen to it, I like it better! Sound familiar? Highly Recommended for Gentle Giant fans."-Mark J. Dye [EMI]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/EMI%20593727

The Soft Machine-The Soft Machine (expanded/2009 remaster) $20.00
Newly issued remasters overseen by Mark Powell with nice booklets by Phil Smee. There was even a couple of photos I hadn't seen before, but I must note that SOMEONE involved in the project stole the previously unpublished photos that we specifically contracted and paid Mark Ellidge for when we did our Middle Earth Masters release. These aren't public domain photos. Now THAT'S a class job, guys!
ANYWAY: This is the 1st album that cememted the band's underground reputation in 1968. The Soft Machine, their debut, was recorded by the trio of Mike Ratledge-Hammond organ maximus, Kevin Ayers-bass and vocals and Robert Wyatt-drums and vocals. Recorded at the end of their first US tour supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience in spring, 1968, it's a psychedelic classic with some nice avant-garde touches. Remastered and maybe it sounds a little better or maybe it doesn't, but it's basically their live set captured in the studio and it rocks and howls. The bonus is their debut single, "Love Makes Sweet Music/Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'" appearing on CD for the very first time, afaik. [Polydor]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/POLYDOR%20532%200505

The Soft Machine-Volume Two (2009 remaster) $20.00
Newly issued remasters overseen by Mark Powell with nice booklets by Phil Smee. There was even a couple of photos I hadn't seen before. The Soft Machine's amazing 2nd album was light years ahead of its time for early '69. A fine combination of Robert Wyatt's melodicism, voice & great dumming mixed with the heady compositions of either Hugh Hopper and his fuzz bass or Mike Ratledge and his distinctive screaming organ tones. Remastered and maybe it sounds a little better or maybe it doesn't. This was never a great sounding album, but it's more than adequate sonically for 1969 and simply unbelievable musically. Do you need this remaster if you already own this album? I dunno. Probably not unless you are a fanatic. But you NEED this album if you don't already own it - that's for certain. [Polydor]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/POLYDOR%20532%200506

Sun Ra-The Solar-Myth Approach (Volume 2) mini-lp sleeve/remastered $9.00 (special)
Digitally remastered, mini-lp sleeve reissue of BYG/Actuel 41, released in a limited edition of 1500 copies at a special price.
"Recorded between 1970-1971, The Solar Myth Approach, Vol. 2 is comprised of solo keyboard explorations by Sun Ra, couched in between two free-form workouts by his whole Arkestra. Kicking off the set is the first band workout "The Utter Nots," which, amidst a relentless Afro-percussion backdrop, features a loose mix of fiery and mild statements by most of Ra's main soloists (alto saxophonist Marshall Allan, oboe player James Jackson, tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, et al.). The more frenetic of the two Arkestra features, "Strange Worlds," alternates between full band outbursts and cryptic keyboard and vocal interludes. The highpoints of the album, though, are Ra's wonderfully strange excursions at the keys. Evoking a child's outer-space play land, Ra produces a dizzying whirl of celestial noises on the Moog synthesizer for "Scene 1, Take 1" while switching the keyboard to harpsichord mode for a hauntingly beautiful meditation of baroque proportions on "Pyramids." The final solo finds Ra running amok over both the piano keyboard and the strings inside, producing a ghostly haze of sound. Balancing out the momentous proceedings are two brief and whimsical numbers, "Ancient Ethiopia" and "Outer Spaceways, Inc.," the last of which includes a pleasant vocal request to join Sun Ra and the Arkestra on a journey to world beyond, an invitation implied throughout the disc."-Stephen Cook/All Music Guide [Sunspots]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/SUNSPOTS%20520

Robin Trower/Jack Bruce-Seven Moons Live NTSC (all region) DVD $22.00
Not long ago, I was very pleasantly surprised to see that Trower and Bruce had reunited to make a really great new album, Seven Moons. I saw Trower shortly after the album came out with his regular touring band and it was a really terrific show, but I do remember wishing I had seen Jack too. Well, they didn't do a real 'tour' together, but they did play a small number of shows in Europe and this splendid DVD was shot in the Netherlands on 2/28/09. Just like the album they were touring on, it features both of them in great form - Jack sounds totally great vocally and on bass, Robin sounds like Robin (meaning that he still has that great Jimi Hendrix-y sound and he's still a king of the wah-wah pedal) and I thinki that Robin's work compares to his very best work ever. So, two co-leaders who started in the 60s, and never really lost their sound or their greatness and who do they have as their third key member? Why the great Gary Husband (drummer for Allan Holdsworth, Ray Russell, John McLaughlin and many others). No real surprises, but totally on-form work from these rock music legends. They play nearly the entire Seven Moons album, as well as a bunch of Cream tunes. They look like (because they *are*) old men (especially Jack), but they play like real monsters here. If you think this is something you will like, you will love this. [Ruf]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=21/RUF%203018

Mike Westbrook Orchestra-Citadel/Room 315 $12.00 (special)
A great album available for $6.00 (33%) off the usual price, while these copies last!
When I went to London in 1977, I saw the Mike Westbrook Brass Band play on the street and they were amazing. I came back from that trip a huge fan and tried to find as much as I could by this great British composer and musician who was so little known outside of the UK. I finally tracked this great, richly orchestrated, big-band jazz/rock work from 1975 down in the late 70's, paid too much for it, and loved it, although it was a typically lousy mid-70s RCA pressing. Now here it is with excellent sound, digitally remastered from the original stereo masters, with photographs of the sessions and new liner notes! What more could you ask for? What a band: Mike Westbrook-electric piano, John Surman, Mike Page, Alan Wakeman, John Holbrooke, John Warren (reeds), Nigel Carter, Derek Healey, Henry Lowther, Kenny Wheeler (trumpets), Malcolm Griffiths, Paul Rutherford, Geoff Perkins, Alf Reece (trombones), Dave McRae (piano/electric piano), Brian Godding (guitar), Chris Lawrence (bass), Alan Jackson (drums) and John Mitchell (percussion). One of his great ones and one that will appeal to folks outside of jazz fans, as this spills into jazz-rock, what with Dave McRae and Brian Godding playing their asses off! Phew! They don't make 'em like this anymore, because they can't afford to... [BGO]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/BGO%20713

Mike Westbrook-London Bridge is Broken Down 2 x CDs $12.00
A great album available for $10.00 (over 40%) off the usual price, while these copies last!
Originally released 20 years ago and then immediately deleted, I've had this for years and am very happy to be able to offer it. Recorded live directly to digital stereo, this features a small orchestra performing alongside Mike's fantastic 'orchestra' (Kate & Mike Westbrook, Chris Biscoe, Graham Russell, Brian Godding (who pulls off some unbelievably tasteful guitarwork on this), Peter Whyman, Paul Nieman, Steve Cook and Tony Marsh). Someone threw a lot of money at this project and it shows! Highly recommended! [BGO]
http://www.waysidemusic.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=15/BGO%20788

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Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only):

FAST 'N' BULBOUS (this is an audio interview with Gary Lucas)
http://musicsojourn.com/POD/Alt/OS/topics/f/FastNBulbous.htm

UPSILON ACRUX
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34217

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You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at:
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/tours.html
or
http://my.calendars.net/cuneiform/
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AHLEUCHATISTAS
October 2 - Le Brise Glace - Annecy, France

October 3 - Grnd zero - Lyon, France

October 5 - Le Palais Bar - Paris, France

October 6 - La Taverne - La Louviere, Belgium

October 7 - Le Grand Wazoo - Amiens, France

October 8 - CC.MATADERO - Huesca, Spain

October 9 - Centre Civic Nord - Barcelona, Spain

October 10 - Arrebato - Zaragoza, Spain

October 11 - The Rincon Pio Sound - Don Benito, Spain

October 13 - El Ralo - Salamanca, Spain

October 14 - La Faena - Madrid, Spain

BEAT CIRCUS
October 24 - Middle East Upstairs - 472 Massachusetts Ave - Cambridge MA (with Blood Warrior)

October 25 - Glasslands Gallery - 289 Kent Ave - Brooklyn NY (with Peter and the Wolf and Blood Warrior)

November 12 - Union Hall - 702 Union Street - Brooklyn NY (with Blood Warrior, Larkin Grimm)

CHEER-ACCIDENT
October 24 - The Philadephia Experiment: New Music Festival - The Rotunda - University of Pennsylvnania - 4014 Walnut Street - Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 573-3234 (with CHEER-ACCIDENT (headliner), Fern Knight, The Red Masque and Make A Rising) all ages - FREE but donations for the bands requested.

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
October 26 - Cal Arts Workshop - Clovis High School - Clovis, CA 2pm

October 28 - Red Cat - Los Angeles, CA

October 29 - University of Nevada - Reno, NV

October 30 - Williamette University - 900 State Street - Salem, Oregon 97301

November 1 - Earshot Festival - Seattle, WA

December 7 - Towson State University - Towson, MD

December 8 - Philadelphia, PA

March - European tour

DJAM KARET
October 17 – The Immersion Festival - DA Gallery - The dA Center for the Arts - 252-D South Main St. - Pomona CA 91766 (909) 397-9716

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
December 5 - Theatre de Sens - Sens, France

June - NEARFest - Zoellner Auditorium - Bethlehem, PA

GUTBUCKET
November 10 - Lemoyne College - Syracuse, NY

HAMSTER THEATRE
October 17 - Edgefest - Kerrytown Concert House - 415 North Fourth Avenue - Ann Arbor - Michigan 48104 (734) 769-2999 : 9:00 PM

LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
October 14 - The Queens Theatre - Barnstaple, UK

October 22 - The Spin Off @ Bar Santiago - Leeds, UK

October 23 - Derby Jazz - Derby, UK

November 8 - The Croft - Bristol, UK

November 20 - London Jazz Festival - The Vortex - 11 Gillett Square - London, UK

November 22 - The Cluny, Newcastle, UK

November 28 - The Old Market, Hove, UK

December 10 - Nottingham Jazz - Nottingham, UK

December 12 - Champions Bar - 51 Norwich Avenue West - Bournemouth BH2, UK (01202) 757 000

February 5 - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall - Rodewald Suite - Liverpool, UK

THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT
October 17 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave.- Baltimore, 21230

THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET
December 5 - 92Y Tribeca - 200 Hudson Street - New York, NY 10013 (212) 601-1000

December 17 - Barbes - 376 9th St- Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 965-9177

PHIL MILLER/IN CAHOOTS
November 10 - Vortex Jazz Club - 11 Gillett Street - Dalston, London N16 8AZ, UK (0207) 254 4097

November 11 - Swinburne Hall - Colchester Institute - Colchester, Essex C03 3LL, UK (01206) 712999

PLANETA IMAGINARIO
October 23 - Sala Lago - Camino de las Hormigueras 175, Nave 11, 28031 Madrid, Spain (with October Equus)

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
October 31 - Hampshire Jam - Millenium Hall, Liphoo - Hampshire, UK

April 17 - The Gatherings - St. Mary's Hamilton Village (on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania) - 3916 Locust Walk (east of 40th & Locust) - Philadelphia, PA

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
October 3 - Dana Park, Cambridgeport, MA, 4pm (Raindate Sunday October 4th)

WADADA LEO SMITH
November 20 - Madrid Jazz Festival - Madrid, Spain

UNIVERS ZERO
October 13 - Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival - Nancy, France

UPSILON ACRUX
September 30 - Le Rigoletto - 337 Rue de Belleville - Paris, France

October 1 - The Tap & Tin - 24 Railway Street - Chatham, UK

October 2 - tbc - Milton Keynes, UK

October 3 - The Kazimier - 4-5 Worstenholme Square - Liverpool, UK

October 4 - tbc - Winchester, UK

October 6 - Barden's Bar - 36 Stoke Newington Road - London, UK -

October 7 - Brudenell Social Club - 33 Queens Road - Leeds, UK -

ZEVIOUS
November 21 - Danger Danger Gallery - 5013 Baltimore Ave - Philadelphia, PA 19143 (with Kevin Hufnagel, Gun Muffs, others...)

December 10 - Tea Lounge - 837 Union St. - Brooklyn, NY 11215 (with Scurvy)

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To see Artist News by musicians who have recorded for Cuneiform - provided to us by the musicians themselves and updated every four months, go to:
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Rest in Peace:

Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary)

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Thank you!

-Coming Soon (or not soon, but eventually, so please be patient!)-
(For updates of new items in stock, watch these mailings or check the NEW ARRIVALS section!) :
ANGLAGARD-Epilog (reissued by the band and available for the first time in 3-4 years)
BROWN VS BROWN-Odds and Unevens (2nd terrific album of complex rehearsal-intensive rock from this offshoot of Blast)
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET with GARY VERSACE (fifth album)
DISTINGUISHED PANEL OF EXPERTS-Trans-Indulgent (new group with Mike Sary (French TV), Shawn Persinger (Boud Deun), Guy LeBlanc and Chris Vincent.
FAR CORNER #3
GUAPO-(yippee! a NEW studio album coupled with their NEARFest 2006 performance. FINALLY a documentation of their great current lineup (Dave Smith, Daniel O'Sullivan, James Sedwards and Kavus Torabi)
MAGMA-Emehntett-Re (includes a 60' 'making of' DVD) (here in mid November!)
NEW YORK ART QUARTET-Old Stuff (archival release of material from 1965 with John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Finn von Eyben and Louis Moholo. Unbeliveably great sound quality and performances!)
RICHARD PINHAS-Metal/Crystal
PRESENT-Barbara, ma non troppo (new album with DVD of their performance at the 2007 French R.I.O. event and Gouveia Festival)
The ROVA/NELS CLINE SINGERS CELESTIAL SEPTET
SLOCHE-both albums (J'un Oeil and Stadacone) reissued legitimately and from the master tapes on CD for the very first time!)
SOFT MACHINE-Live Hamburg, Germany, May 17, 1973 DVD/CD (for the first time ever and never seen - not even in poor quality - this is the Softs just after Hugh left, (Babbington, Jenkins, Marshall, Ratledge) but in a special performance with guests Art Themen (sax) and Gary Boyle (guitar) on the second half of the show. Stunningly beautiful color DVD and superb stereo sound.)
UNIVERS ZERO-Clivage (new CD to be released in January 2010 and their first studio release to be recorded since the band reformed as a performing outfit - and it SHOWS in a completely positive way. - Andy Kirk is back for this album as a guest and contributes his fine piece "Warrior" and more: Daniel Denis (drums and keyboard), Michel Berckmans (reeds and percussion), Kurt Budé (clarinets and saxes), Martin Lauwers (violin), Pierre Chevalier (keyboards), Andy Kirk (keyboards) and Dimitri Evers (bass).

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