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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown-Varmint HQ 180-gram vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) $18.00 Back in stock. A wonderfully recorded, all analog-recording, carefully mastered and published on high-quality vinyl. Whoo-hah! Have at it, vinyl hounds. Led by vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz [a-dah-shev-its], Varmint is Rolldown's second release. A prolific member of Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene, Jason is quickly gaining widespread recognition through his extensive work as a sideman as well as such high-profile honors as his strong showing in DownBeat's 2007, 2008 and 2009 "Critics' Poll – Rising Star" Vibes category. < I first heard Jason when he sent me Rolldown's first album and some live shows by the band, all of which impressed me and we stayed in touch. When I heard Varmint, I knew we had to work together on this one!<br> The band has been active for over 5 years and features stalwarts from Chicago's vibrant jazz/new music community: Jason Adasiewicz: vibraphone Josh Berman: cornet Aram Shelton: alto saxophone & clarinet Jason Roebke: bass Frank Rosaly: drums. Their sound combines Blue Note's classic, avant-leaning '60s albums with contemporary drive, swing, energy, and attack. The music on Varmint is swinging and accessible but also very modern and forward-looking. Recommended if you like: Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Grachan Moncur III as well as other, newer, equally good things that make Stanley Crouch shake his fists skyward and shout aloud, “This isn’t jazz”. "Their second album, Varmint, shows growth exactly where it was needed. The compositions are better developed, the playing more relaxed and fluid, and the record better represents the quintet's onstage spirit...one gets the feeling that the musicians really enjoy taking the various routes that are made open to them by Adasiewicz's compositions.... Smart and playful, Varmint, reminds me of those cartoons where that cwazy wabbit Bugs Bunny alwasy outsmarted Elmer Fudd." (four stars) – Downbeat "Vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz is emerging as one of the most interesting bandleaders and composers in modern creative improvised jazz. ...Adasiewicz has assembled a quintet of astounding musical proportion and depth, playing his tricky music that seems to have no limits of imagination, wit or wisdom." – All Music Guide [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Alvarius B.-Baroque Primitiva CD + 36 page hardbound book $20.00 This is the latest (and one of the best) solo albums by Alan Bishop (guitarist for Sun City Girls). Features a kinda amazing cover that I definitely dreamed about when I was 16, as well as a hardcover book, all at a pretty reasonable price considering how nice this is. "A much-needed CD issue of an LP, released this last February in microquantities. The dastardly minds behind this project, a first spurt from the reactivated Poon Village label, have collaborated on the new package as well. And it is a deluxe eye-swim through various forms of feminine beauty, its 32-page booklet displaying images that look as though they were found in a smoky catacomb carved into the hills of Charlestown. By my count, Baroque Primitiva is the sixth album by Alvarius B. and is, like its predecessors, a deep dive through mysterious waters. The 11 tracks here were recorded at various sessions over the course of several years and range from 'Humor Police' (a track imagining what Syd Barrett might have sounded like had he been a devotee of Rembetika) to a trippily Beatles-damaged version of 'You Only Live Twice' (the sole surviving shard of the aborted Alvarius B. Plays The Bond Songbook project). Baroque Primitiva is the first long-format telegram from Alvarius B. since he lost his mothership (the Sun City Girls, with whom he employed his slave name, Alan Bishop) and it also feels like his most consistently non-acerbic -- perhaps even most beauty-oriented -- work. The songs often have a meditative pace, filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass and keys. Eyvind Kang guests on several tracks, but the bulk of the material was broadcast direct from the naked soul of Alvarius B., which turns out to be a warmer, sweeter place than you might imagine. And while this CD will be available for a tad longer than the 30 seconds the LP lasted, a set as thoroughly gorgeous as this will not linger. Take a deep breath of its magic and go for it. Why deny yourself such bountiful pleasures?" --Byron Coley [Abduction] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Areknames-In Case of Loss $18.00 Third album by this Italian quartet (keyboards/vocals, guitars, bass, drums + guest). I had heard them touted as a strongly VDGG-influenced outfit, and maybe that's true for the 1st two, but I gotta say, while I totally enjoyed this, I sure don't hear VDGG here. It does have a slightly cool, dark, retro vibe though I don't hear any particular group that they are taking it from, which makes it even more than slightly cool! "Areknames is one of Italy's premier modern-day progressive rock bands. Look no further than their triumphant 3rd album "In Case of Loss" released by Black Widow Records. Areknames are led by composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Michele Epifani, who handles the Hammond organ, piano, mellotron, synths, harpsichord, acoustic and electric guitars as well as the recorder. Their second album "Love Hate Round Trip" was a dark and often agitated album which won the band both awards and a dedicated fanbase. Here they have upped the ante considerably with an album that should become known as their "breakthrough" work, as I have to believe any modern prog fan who hears this is going to be convinced and very pleased. While I've not heard their debut, the sound on the second album was pretty rough and aggressive with abrasive sax and a heavier VDGG vibe (and I mean all of that in a good way.) Here the sound has evolved with the injection of a strain of spacey serenity. There is still plenty of doomy mood and heaviness to be enjoyed, but there is a new sense of melodic confidence which has established itself. Right from the first track I noticed that there was something more refined going on and was reminded instantly of Anekdoten's "A Time of Day" sound more than the VDGG one I was expecting. This music soars on a melancholic breeze rather than being knocked around by turbulent gusts. "beached" is not unlike modern Porcupine Tree in some ways, with infectious groove and building pressures in rhythm and numerous spacey keyboard textures, though the comparison stops there. (The Areknames sound remains in-tact and far less commercial than the Steven Wilson sound.) Somewhat dreary but pleasing vocal melodies ride on top before it closes with e-piano over mellotron and light guitar notes. The album's vast mid section covers a swell of compositional ideas, one right after the other, which at any given moment could remind the listener of Cryme/Foxtrot era Genesis, a raging Deep Purple jam ("a new song"), or the brooding, crashing-waves heaviness of Giant Squid's Metridium Fields, the latter courtesy of the violin/cello presence atop thick, murky prog rock. By the time we get to the 21 minute long epic closer "the very last number," it may be wise to take a breather and listen with fresh ears. This is one of those albums that is so compositionally dense I really recommend listening in sections at first, so that each section is able to be absorbed by fresh ears. The 8-part mammoth Areknames closing suite begins with the sound of child's voices and eerily sparse keys before a tentative, peeking-around-corners bass guitar sneaks up on us. After a cool sax solo the piece builds into an epic jam best described as stormy waters, as a clash between powerful saxophone, guitar, and keyboards. These battles have plenty of time to expand and contract over 20 minutes so this is truly a joy for listeners who enjoy the lengthy instrumental piece. The ending is a delightful bit of harpsichord..."-progarchives. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kevin Ayers-What More Can I Say... $7.00 (special) Special while they last! This is 60% off the regular price! Collated from a number of boxes of home recordings left at Lady June's house after Kevin moved out and they were saved from the rubbish bin by G.F. Fitz-Gerald. While the sound quality is generally suprisingly excellent, this is definitely geared towards folks who are already fans. But if you are a big fan of his 1969-1974 solo works, then this could be of huge interest. "Kevin Ayers listened to this recently discovered collection of his private demo recordings and out-takes, and found them to be a refreshing reminder of a musical innocence, unique to the nineteen seventies. Much more than nuggets from a golden era, these songs remain compellingly personal in their simplicity, and sit alongside sunny instrumentals featuring friends David Bedford, Mike Oldfield, Archie Leggett (1944 – 1997) and Robert Wyatt. Of special note is the fourteen minute private demonstration for the Doctor Dream suite, a stunning 'audio letter' synopsis with acoustic performances and wry commentary. Never has Kevin Ayers' voice and guitar been captured in such natural intimacy. These beautifully recorded reel-to-reel tapes are an indispensable portrait of an artist as a young man. Or to convey the response from manager Tim Shepard, 'This is Kevin's Holy Grail!" What more can we say?'" [Reel Recordings] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Bryan and the Haggards-Pretend It's the End Of the World $12.00 They call themselves "New York‘s Most Decorated Avant-Country Instrumental Merle Haggard Cover Band", and who am I to argue with that designation? "Pretend lt's the End of the World is the debut album by Bryan and the Haggards, but these five musicians have a long history of performing together. Their music, under the leadership of guitarist Jon Lundbom as "Big V Chord," has been hailed as a "unique and exciting brand ofjazz fusion." This same quintet, led by tenor saxophonist Bryan Murray, here explores the music of Merle Haggard as an instrumental avant-country cover band. Guitarist Jon Lundbom was first exposed to the music of Merle Haggard by a friend who described the emotional and transcendental power it had for him. After being quickly won over himself, Lundbom passed his newfound love of this music on to the other members of his band. Murray, even more deeply affected than Lundbom, quickly began transcribing some of the tunes for the quintet to play. "Bryan and the Haggards" came into being as a discrete ensemble during a two-year hiatus for "Big V Chord." In 2007 and 2008, Murray became the de facto leader of the group, organizing rehearsals and performances and arranging the new repertoire. The melodies and harmonies of many of Haggard's compositions have proven themselves to be ideal vehicles for the type of music and improvisation that this quintet enjoys. ln addition to providing an atypical framework for jazz, Bryan and the Haggards have discovered that the music of Merle Haggard transcends genre and among the most important produced in America. Bryan and the Haggards' approach varies from straight-ahead jazz interpretation to total deconstruction, all while relying on the power and simplicity of the source material. This expansive musical landscape includes lyrical saxophone crooning, cascading scales, flourishes of melody, stringent noise, dissonant multiphonics, inconsistent tempi, and strong two-beat grooves, executed by five musicians with 6 years of experience playing together. The ensemble's chemistry and longevity afford them the ability to wander far and wide, always certain that they will be able to find their way home. Personnel: Featuring: Bryan Murray - Tenor Sax, Jon lrabagon - Alto Sax, Jon Lundbom - Guitar, Moppa Elliott - Bass, Danny Flscher - Drums [Hot Cup] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Buon Vecchio Charlie-Buon Vecchio Charlie (mini-lp sleeve) $21.00 Not only was this 'one and done' Italian band's only recording, recorded in 1972 quite good, but it gained the additional allure/intrigue of not being released until it came out in the early 90s for the very first time! "One of the bands mentioned here that had no records released during their lifespan, Buon Vecchio Charlie had an album ready, but it was only recently unearthed....The band was formed in Rome in 1970 with a five-piece line-up featuring, along with Calabrò, Centofanti and Sangiorgio, bass player Walter Bernardi and percussionist Carlo Visca. After some first demos they could record with the new six-piece line-up the tracks for an album in Suono label's (of Opus Avantra fame) recording studio near Venice in 1972, with the help of Venetian Power guitarist Claes Cornelius, also an important session man at the time. Despite the good quality, and the interest shown for the band by many producers, the album never saw the light and was shelved until its first CD release in 1990 in a limited pressing. The LP is very well made, and with a better production it could have been a classic in its style. Dominated by the flute, with strong classical influences, like in the opening Venite giù al fiume it's still an original work, with very interesting moments. The band split after the recording, probably disillusioned by the lack of chances connected to their album release. Almost all the musicians kept playing: guitarist Benson released some solo albums and is still active and popular in the Rome area, keyboardist Centofanti followed his career with singer-songwriter Claudio Baglioni and in Libra, while three of the others, Calabrò, Sangiorgio and Damiani, formed with two other musicians a jazz-rock group called Bauhaus." [AMS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Robert Genco-Beyond the Life (expanded/mini-lp sleeve) $21.00 "Drummer from Calabria, Roberto Genco recorded and privately released his only album, Beyond the life (Oltre la vita) in 1977. With an excellent technical and recording quality, considering it's a private production, the LP is in the jazz-rock style, and contains five long tracks with English lyrics, sung by Genco himself, helped from very good musicians like guitarist Giorgio Cocilovo and sax and flute player Hugo Heredia. A very nice record, sadly little known..."-Italianprog.com "1 9 7 7 : w a s t h e y e a r i n w h i c h I t a l i a n p r o g r e s s i v e r o c k w a s c l o s i n g i t s v i t a l c y c l e , t o u g h t h e r e w e r e s t i l l t w o m a s t e r p i e c e s o f i t s k i n d t o b e r e l e a s e d : o n e i s t h e f a m o u s L o c a n d a d e l l e F a t e , w h i l e t h e s e c o n d a n d w a s l e f t f o r t o o l o n g i n t h e v a u l t s , a s i t h a s n e v e r b e e n r e i s s u e d f o r a l m o s t 4 0 y e a r s : w e t a l k o f R o b e r t G e n c o Ô ø Ω s Ô ø Ω B e y o n d t h e l i f e Ô ø Ω . G i v e n t h a t t h e d r u m m e r R o b e r t G e n c o m u s t n o t b e c o n f u s e d w i t h R o b e r t G e n c o o f ' G e n c o P u r o a n d c o , " B e y o n d t h e L i f e i s a w o n d e r f u l p r o g r o c k a l b u m , w h e r e t h e d r u m m e r b l e n d s I t a l i a n p r o g , w i t h a n u l t r a - s o p h i s t i c a t e d j a z z - r o c k . T h e i n f l u e n c e s a r e k a l e i d o s c o p i c , w i t h t h e o p e n i n g t r a c k ( A n g o s c i a ) t h a t r u n s t h r o u g h t h e s t r e e t s o f j a z z p r o g a t i t s b e s t : J a m e s S e n e s e a n d N a p o l i C e n t r a l e , O s a n n a , b u t a l s o P e r i g e o . T h e t i t l e t r a c k " B e y o n d t h e L i f e c o u l d a l m o s t b e d e s c r i b e d a s a t r i b u t e t o t h e P F M , w h i l e " A l l r e c o m p o s e s " i s p r o g r o c k c l o s e t o Y e s a n d G e n e s i s . T h e B - s i d e i s a l o n g s u i t e w h i c h s u m m a r i z e s t h e i n f l u e n c e s c i t e d b e f o r e , b y a d d i n g f l a v o r s o f C h i c k C o r e a , D e d a l u s , C a n z o n i e r e d e l L a z i o , b u t w i t h a n e x t r e m e l y p r o g r e s s i v e d r u m m i n g . A g e m o f r a r e b e a u t y , f i n a l l y r e d i s c o v e r e d ! P a p e r s le e v e p a c k a g e w i t h e x t e n d e d l i n e r n o t e s . W i t h t w o b o n u s t r a c k s ! " [AMS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jerry Hahn-and his Quintet $6.00 (special) Hahn was the guitarist with John Handy's acclaimed group of 1964/65, which was kinda ahead of it's time in it's stretched out pieces and faint electric touches (Hahn's guitar and violinist Michael White's work). Michael White also appears on this 1967 album, as does Noel Jewkes (tenor and flute), Ron McClure (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums). "A fun session with great players -- Hahn, Jack DeJohnette, Mike White, Ron McClure and especially Noel Jewkes. Philip Elwood calls Jewkes one of the very best reed players in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his work here on sax and flute are the real highlights. I know there are relatively unsung musicians all around the world, but players of Jewkes quality should not go unheard."-Mark Hazell [Arhoolie] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ George Haslam-Once Upon a Time in Argentina 2 x CDs $27.00 "This is a double CD package, the 2 discs presenting 2 distinct projects. Disc One, which is actually called "Once Upon a Time in Argentina" is by a quartet including 2 percussionists. This unconventional line-up reflects what I think is the importance of rhythm in the music. In fact the whole continuous story comprises various chapters linked by different rhythms, none of which were pre-planned but were created in the studio by the combination of 2 percussionists of very different styles." Personnel: Juan Carlos Martello, drum kit Jorge Savelon, percussion, Ruben Ferrero, piano, pianica, percussion and voice, George Haslam baritone sax, tarogato. "Disc Two is again a studio recording, this time by a saxophone quartet - "The Walter Thiers Memorial Saxophone Quartet". The history of jazz in Argentina and the place it holds to day is deeply indebted to the work of Walter Thiers. Walter was that rare sort of guy you meet here and there, an absolute fanatic who devoted his life to his love of the music and expressed this by helping the musicians and making things happen. All 4 members of the Quartet have reason to remember him with love and gratitude." The Walter Thiers Memorial Saxophone Quartet" Pablo Ledesma soprano, Sergio Paolucci alto, Daniel Harari tenor and George Haslam baritone [SLAM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jack O' The Clock-Rare Weather (band released CDR) $11.00 This is the group's first album. Fred Frith had this to say about their second album: Jack o’the Clock are an unbelievably great band, Damon Waitkus is an extraordinarily courageous composer, and this is some of the freshest and most surprising music I’ve heard since, well, since their first record. Hallelujah!"-Fred Frith. Now you can hear that first one, although I do suggest you start with "How are We Doing and Who Will Tell Us?" "Jack O’ The Clock brings a quietly giddy sort of energy to the possibilities that spring up where American folk songwriting meets experimental music. The group's sound, a jangly mix of concert-hall agility, acoustic rock drive, and junk shop scouring, is characterized by innovative arrangements for combinations of instruments you are not likely to have heard elsewhere–psaltery, banjo, and bassoon, over a bed of electric bass and bundt pans, for example–made possible by the varied musical experience and multi-instrumentalism of its five members, who have played everything from new music to art metal to fingerstyle folk to free improvisation, sometimes in the same concert. This is primarily, however, a band entranced by and dedicated to songs, which it crafts with resolute attention to voice, melody, and storytelling. You cannot be in a hurry if you want to digest this music: each song demands a certain amount of time and attention to burn its particular place and mood into the listener's mind, though it is not particularly unsmiling or difficult music to listen to. These songs are embodiments of the small, magisterial, inane, inspired, and pedestrian voices of everyday people and headlines bubbling up from a deep sleep. Bits of unwritten myth. Your weird neighbors and internalized relatives talking back at you. Jack O' The Clock's recordings go beyond the group's live sound to incorporate on-location percussion, found sounds, clandestinely taped monologues, citynoise, and all manner of insects and birds, as well as a handful of guest musicians and singers. The production of "Rare Weather" predates the group's current lineup, featuring founding members Damon Waitkus, Emily Packard, Nicci Reisnour and Jordan Glenn, with guest vocals by Marty McGinn, Shauna Jones, and Kris Drickey, trombone by Andy Strain, clarinets by Jon Russell, and Arp Odyssey by Dave McNally." [JOTC] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Labyrinto Di Specchi-Hanblecheya $18.00 "'Porcupine Tree meets Pholas Dactylus?' Well, that's how their label Lizard Records describes them! Labirinto di Specchi (Labyrinth of Mirrors) is a band from Siena who've been around since about 2005. "Hanblecheya" is their proper full-length debut released on Lizard Records. The band consists of regulars Gabriele Marroni, Filippo Menconi, Andrea Valerio, Raffaele Crezzini, and Michele Sanchini, and the liner notes list many collaborators as well. One of those collabs is none other than Paolo Carelli, vocalist of the legendary Pholas Dactylus band of the RPI heyday. Lizard's Loris Furlan apparently arranged to connect them with Carelli. Just as Museo Rosenbach's Lupo Galifi brought experience and musical wisdom to this year's sensation Il Tempio Delle Clessidre, Carelli is great in his role with Labirinto. He told a web reviewer that he was moved to work with the band, saying "They are all students, very young, and in their eyes I saw a light, a desire to create." "Hanblecheya" is a word which refers to the desire for an Indian vision quest, a ritual of enlightenment, if I understand correctly. It's a fitting theme for the enticing music found within this adventurous album. The album is not easy to pigeonhole and it incorporates a wide range of audio delights. I suppose one can start by calling it a mixture of modern electronic and psych-rock, with lesser elements of post-rock, folk, fusion, avant, relaxing ambient textures, and even raga in one or two spots. These diverse morsels are then merged with the classical element of the strings, the lovely sad melodies of the piano, and the dramatic recitational vocal style of Carelli, these latter elements fitting well under the stylistic genes of the RPI. They don't exactly mimic any one band I could name, but I will say that they make me think of Battiato, Il Babau & I Maledetti Cretini, Mappe Nootiche, Il Paese dei Balocchi, and Djam Karet to name a few. The album unfolds like a low altitude flight, traveling great distances over changing landscapes. Tribal hand percussions behind soft piano and spacey, echoing guitar chords and phased effects. Acoustic guitars teaming with haunting cello, beautiful crescendos of strings, guitars, and a dynamic rhythm section. Dramatic vocal narrations over avant-garde sections building to great tension. Emotional releases from fiery guitar solos easing back to tranquil piano playing. It's a turbulent and often stormy feeling, even menacing at times, but finding respite when you need it. And it's not all serious. There are some playful moments as well. There is one track which borrows heavily from the great rock themes of Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand." Whether this was intentional or not I have no idea, but I do know it's pretty damn cool and Zep fans will spot it right away. The album also sports a 19 minute epic track called "Follia" which will not disappoint the headphones/dark room set."-progarchives.com You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ K. Leimer-Music for Land and Water (expanded/remaster) $11.00 "Remastered by Greg Davis from the installation tapes made during the 1983 performance, this archival recording of a day-long open air concert in Seattle’s Seward Park was originally issued on cassette and has been sought and shared by collectors of early Northwest ambient/electronic works for nearly 30 years. Remastered with a bonus track from the performance tapes." "It would be a big mistake to pass off Kerry Leimer’s 1983 tape ‘Music For Land And Water’ as simply ‘new age’. Certainly in its slow-burning beauty and near blissful mood there are similarities between Leimer’s work and the then-popular new age movement, but ‘Music For Land And Water’ is far more complex than you might expect. The music is stated as having been ‘produced specifically for performance and installation’, and this was achieved by a system of looping tape players shifting naturally with the music itself. This system is not unlike that which Eno pioneered on his early ambient records, and here works with Leimer’s compositions in perfect harmony. The sense of slowly-evolving, floating calm is made all the more enjoyable by the saturated tape sounds (now gloriously remastered by Autumn boss Greg Davis) and while Eno might be the primary reference point, I can even hear the sickly drum machines and synth work of early electro pop in ‘Go Slowly’. A clear highlight is the utterly gorgeous ‘Very Tired’, which pitches molasses-slow synthesizer pads against echoing guitar and electric piano, giving an early blueprint for Harold Budd, and more recently Rameses III. Utterly gorgeous and somehow out-of-time entirely, ‘Music For Land And Water’ is an unmissable vault discovery. Don’t sleep on this one, sleep alongside it."—Boomkat [Autumn] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord-Accomplish Jazz $9.00 "Pure jazz with rock attitude...Yes, Big Five Chord do accomplish jazz; a very new jazz." - Mark Corroto, 'All About Jazz' "Lundbom doesn't fit the boxes that music is so conveniently placed in. His music is just as free as it's funky. It's both old-fashioned and ultramodern, avant-garde and mainstream. Simply put, it's good music, which invites active participation. Accomplished jazz indeed." - Jakob Baekgaard, 'All About Jazz' After a three year hiatus during which the band developed its alter-ego "Bryan and the Haggards," Big V Chord are back! Bouncing wildly between genres, their music walks a line between structural adherence and free improvisation, infusing Lundbom's music with a healthy dose of intense, virtuosic improvisation and an uncanny ability to hold its center. The new album features four original compositions by Lundbom, running the gamut from the soft, slippery, and romantic notes of “Phoenetics” to the brash, rocky, and dissonant tones of “Baluba, Baluba.” “Accomplish Jazz” also features a cover “of The Christian Life,” originally recorded by the Louvin Brothers on 1960's “Satan is Real.” Jon considers himself a composer as much as a guitarist, channelling the compositions and improvisational structures of Eric Dolphy, John Cage, and John Zorn as much as the guitar playing of Derek Bailey, Marc Ducret, Nels Cline, and John Scofield." Featuring Jon Lundbom (guitar), Jon Irabagon (alto saxophone), Bryan Murray (tenor saxophone), Moppa Elliott (bass), Danny Fischer (drums). [Hot Cup] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord-Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! $12.00 "Hardbop + Zeppelin + Schoenberg" - Dave Madden, SLUG Magazine "Forward-thinking, boundary-stretching jazz" - Eric Snider, Creative Loafing "Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! s marks Lundbom's second album for Hot Cup (following 2009's “Accomplish Jazz”) and fourth album overall. Over the past eight years of performance and three previous recordings, Big Five Chord has built a vibrant following for their riotous mix of jazz, rock, and improvised music. Lundbom's guitar playing – often harsh and aggressive, even sometimes brutal – demonstrates a palpable dedication to and distinctly unique take on melody, phrasing, and structure. Ever more, Lundbom seems to be arriving at a singular, idiosyncratic voice saying something new and meaningful on the instrument. In the press, Lundbom's playing is often compared to such luminaries as Marc Ducret, Derek Bailey, John Scofield, and a young John MacLaughlin (“Extrapolation”)." Featuring Jon Lundbom (guitar), Jon Irabagon (alto saxophone), Bryan Murray (tenor saxophone), Moppa Elliott (bass), and Danny Fischer (drums) with Matt Kanelos (keyboards) [Hot Cup] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magma-Mythes et Legendes, Volume One NTSC (all region) DVD $18.00 Back in stock! While they last, we have perfect, new copies for $14.00 off the regular price. What's the difference between these copies and the copies we are selling for $32.00? $14.00 (bada-bing!). In May, 2005, Magma took over the Parisian club "Le Triton" for four weeks with an ambitious, over the top project; a retrospective of 35 years of Magma music, showcasing some of their best known pieces from 1970 to the present. The four sold-out weeks were a major success. This is the first of a series of four DVDs which capture the best of these performances for the world beyond Le Triton to enjoy them. The band here includes the current line-up of Magma (Christian Vander, Stella Vander, James Mac Gaw, Emmanuel Borghi, Philippe Bussonnet, Isabelle Feuillebois, Antoine Paganotti, Himiko Paganotti), special guest Klaus Blasquiz (vocals) and a 3-piece saxophone section. The emphasis here is on the period 1970-1972 (Kobaia, 1001 Degrees Centigrade & the earliest versions of MDK). Tracks are: Malaria, Stoah, "Iss" Lansei Doai, Aurae, Kobaia, Theusz Hamtaahk 1st movement, Sowiloi, KMX B12. Total time is over two hours and this is beyond unbelievably wonderful. Highly recommended. [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magma-Mythes et Legends, Volume Two NTSC (all region) DVD $34.00 Back in stock! While they last, we have perfect, new copies for $14.00 off the regular price. What's the difference between these copies and the copies we are selling for $32.00? $14.00 (bada-bing!). In May, 2005, Magma took over the wonderful Parisian club "Le Triton" for four weeks with an ambitious, over the top project; a retrospective of 35 years of Magma music, showcasing some of their best known pieces from 1970 to the present. The four sold-out weeks were a major success. This is the second of a series of four DVDs which capture the best of these performances for the world beyond Le Triton to enjoy them. The band here includes the current line-up of Magma (Christian Vander, Stella Vander, James Mac Gaw, Emmanuel Borghi, Philippe Bussonnet, Isabelle Feuillebois, Antoine Paganotti, Himiko Paganotti) with guest Klaus Blasquiz on vocals and very special guest - yes, really! - Jannick Top (bass). The emphasis here is on the very great and intense period 1973-1974. Tracks are: Wurdah Itah (almost 50'!), Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh, Suite for violincelle, Quadrivium, De Futura. Total time is just under two hours and this is beyond unbelievably wonderful. Highly recommended. [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Charlie Mariano-Mirror $6.00 (special) This reissues a 1972 'electric jazz' album by saxist Mariano, who even by this early date had already left his bebop roots far behind and was exploring current musics, as well as being a pace-setter in terms of incorporating 'ethnic music' influences and instrumentation into his work. "Charlie Mariano was a soprano sax player who worked with Mingus on his avant-big band assault, The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady in 1963. By the 70s, the wall between rock and jazz came down, and when Mariano was not working with German fusion bugs Embryo, he made albums like Mirror. This is rocked up jazz played with electric pianos, which Mariano sails over in Coltranian loops. Don't come expecting the avant funk fusion Miles was working at this time, but this is no mellow CTI trip either. Mirror is not merely jazz with electric keyboards. The improvisation impulse of the music is surely outi of jazz, but the interplay and variations in textures--listen to how the drummer uses his cymbals--is straight from art rock. None of which matters much, other than to describe. These musicians surely were not thinking of genre names when they were cooking along this great music, and the best move you can make is to hear it"-William Nicolas [Wounded Bird] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Motorpsycho-Roadwork Vol. 4: Intrepid Skronk $18.00 "This is the latest installment in Motorpsycho's ongoing series of live documents, Roadwork. It was recorded across Europe over a three-year period spanning 2008-2010, and is the first live record released featuring the Snah/Bent/Kenneth line-up of the band. As finding a complete show fit for release proved difficult, and modern technology makes it real easy to fake a chronology that would work well from a listener's point of view, Roadwork Vol. 4: Intrepid Skronk is a collection of moments from the last several tours Motorpsycho's undertaken since Kenneth Kapstad joined on drums in 2007, and features material from all phases of their career. The previous installment in this series, Vol 3.: The Four Norsemen Of The Apocalypse, released as part of the Haircuts DVD in 2007, was a recording of the Snah/Bent/Geb/Baard line-up of the band recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in 2003. It documented a band disintegrating from ceaseless touring and ever-increasing differences of ambition: flaming out, but still bravely trying to -- and in parts actually managing to -- connect with the muse. Let's just say the tension is tangible. This is a different cup of tea. This is a living, breathing muscle-car of a rock band in full flight, stretching the limits of their imaginations (and sometimes the patience of their audience!) by going someplace new as often as possible -- creating a new collective identity for themselves and reimagining the material in the process. The focus of the two volumes -- and the series as a whole -- is the same though: the improvising rock band. The versions of the songs contained herein all have one thing in common: they are all really different from the studio incarnations of themselves. "All Is Loneliness," an acoustic five minute hymn in its original state on Demon Box (1993), is here an 18-minute electric behemoth slouching towards ...eh, Haarlem (?) to be born anew. The somewhat stilted orchestral psych version of "Landslide" from the 2002 Phanerothyme album has become something altogether more organic and jazzy here, and "Arnie Hassle"'s kozmic kayaking escapades from Heavy Metal Fruit had grown into epic proportions by the time it hit Leipzig in the summer of 2010. It's this kind of reinvention that is the focus of everything going on here, and although the adrenalin wins out in places and the kinetic energy the boys amass sometimes becomes almost too much for them to handle, the power trio's antics make for an exciting listen. Riding the tiger indeed, the band sometimes tethers on the brink of fusion, jazz-rock, and other forms, but mostly manages to rein in the beast on the right side of taste. Mostly." [Rune Grammofon] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Operachina-Operchina $15.00 "Oprachina is a neologism made up of the two words opra (opera) and china (bowed), meaning alienating, back-breaking work. Coined in the first half of the 20th century, the term features in the Italian version of the "Internationale" as well as other tracts of the period. Oprachina are committed to the continuous pursuit of an equilibrium between written passages and free improvisation, helping to develop a contemporary musical language. Their first creation, "The Jazz Farm" (2007), published under the Creative Commons licence, was hailed at the 2009 Cannes Midem as the most popular Italian album by the Jamendo portal (200.000 web downloads). In 2010 critic Giordano Selini included Oprachina among the top ten bands in Italian jazz. Personnel: Massimo Bognetti: Guitars. Directs the Etnofonie school of music. Errico De Fabritiis: Saxes. Committed to improvised and contemporary music, he has figured in Musica Jazz magazine's "Top Ten" of musician-revelations in 2009 and 2010. Fabio Fochesato: Bass guitar, double bass, arrangements. Has his fingers in various musical languages, from jazz to rock, world music to classic and contemporary music. Adriano Galinari: Percussion. Has collaborated with many Italian and foreign musicians, including the never-to-be-forgotten Massimo Urbani. [SLAM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Orchestra Panica-Journey to Devotion $18.00 O.P. is a duo of guitar and keyboards plus some guests that give some tracks a full band sound and other tracks that are much more spacious. They are an offshoot of the (now disbanded) Zita Ensemble. This has a very live sound but also a very manipulated sound (think 'loops'!) and the biggest influences are ambient music, minimalism and perhaps some aspects of the German "kosmiche' school (I mainly think of aspects of Manuel Gottsching). Really good: check out the sounds on the link below! "I was devoted after one journey alone...Not much info could I find on this Italian outfit, and what I did was in Italian, such as here. The little info in English I found was here and it says this: "ORCHESTRA PANICA is a new project from Luca Vicenzi (guitar, Zita Ensemble) and Francesco Agostini (keyboards, programming). Psychedelia, Steve Reich minimalism and Miles Davis electric jazz are the main influences. Inspired by the surrealistic art of Alejandro Jodorowsky." Despite their name, Orchestra Panica's music has nothing remotely hysteric or agitated in it. It's in fact a down-tempo/ambient/post-rock jazzy and psychedelic album, filled with gorgeous soundscapes and charming, haunting short melodies. It is calm, relaxed, but not devoid of richness of subtle sounds and delicate motions of tender notes. This is the kind of album you put on at the end of a long day and relax to. This is an album you put on during a sleepless night when burdens interrupt your circadian rhythm, when you wish you were away from your daily routine; all for the chance to be transported away from from it with the magic created by this beautiful music."-hangingsounds blog You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phideaux-Doomsday Afternoon $11.00 "Doomsday Afternoon is 2007's opus from Phideaux Xavier and co-horts. This dystopic concept album is part deux of a projected trilogy which began with The Great Leap and is purportedly to conclude with an album entitled Infernal in 2012. Possibly the most overtly "progressive rock" in the Phideaux ouevre." [Bloodfish] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phideaux-Snowtorch (mini-lp sleeve) $12.00 Back in stock! "Another weird conceptual album from Phideaux Xavier and cohorts. This time the album is basically one long song with many twists and turns. A long form composition extolling the virtues of DNA and life and culture. Gorgeous melodies, heavy instrumental passages and thoughtful surreal lyrics." Phideaux Xavier has been releasing interesting, modern symphonic rock/progressive albums for a while now. This is his eighth album, released in a lovely, gatefold mini-lp sleeve, and like the well received "Number Seven", he has a huge band band (10 musicians, including himself) plus two guests. I saw them about 3 months ago and it was a fine show. His stage presence was excellent and the music was an impressive show of proggy music that didn't sound old and had its own strong vision and showed a lot of class. Good singing and fine playing from everyone, with great, well thought out touches throughout. If you had to compare it to anyone of the 'old school', I guess you could compare it JUST a bit to Genesis, but like I said, it has its own vision. Engaging and enjoyable and smart. [Bloodfish] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Les Rallizes Denudes/Hadaka No Rallizes-Yodo-Go-a-Go-Go/ "Seemingly endless sonic flame-throwers of phased white noise streak across your inner landscape, as stupidly loud and overly-backlit lead guitar emissions perpetrated by a perpetually be-shaded longhair pummel the similarly be-shaded but barely adequate musical backing that sags and creaks under the wattage. Occasionally, lead vocals of a singular variety are provided by said be-shaded mad axeman, whose paranoid personality ensures all songs are delivered in a voice of querulous subterranean gargling from beyond the valley of Alan Vega… My giddy aunt, what’s this, then, a Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy from the Underworld? A rough guide to Japrock’s most intuitive non-career movers? Has the world’s most revolutionary rock’n’roll band released a compilation album of leader Mizutani’s most frequently requested tracks due to overwhelming popular demand? Ja, mein hairies, this certainly seems to be the case. For, with the arrival of this superb Flightless Bird compilation, obsessive fans of Les Rallizes Denudés (are there any other kinds?) finally have a proper ‘early career’ overview of Mizutani & Co. at their fingertips, a 70-minute-long super distillation of this most contrary of band’s choicest musical moves executed between 1967-82, a superb sounding and partly/mostly chronological trawl through the freaked out and perpetually-yelping mindscape of singer and avant-avalanche guitar monger Mizutani, and his sinister-yet-interchangeable pool of black clad world-to-rights acolytes."-Head Heritage [10th Avenue] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mikel Rouse-A Lincoln Portrait vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) $8.00 Since everything old is new again, and since we've been selling a lot of vinyl recently and I was poking around in the back of the warehouse, I found these brand new, still sealed, perfect copies of Cuneiform #13, which was never reissued on lp or CD; you can buy mp3s of it (the rights long ago reverted back to Mikel), but you can't buy it in physical format any other way. Like many of our early works, this is a new rock release from the amazingly fertile new-music scene that was the downtown York scene of the 1980s. This album incorporates elements of minimalism, progressive rock and arty who-knows-what-to-call-it. It features the recording debut of saxist Ellery Eskelin and is still a great listen 25 years later. "Mikel Rouse Broken Consort's third release finds the combo more experimental than ever. Recorded after Rouse's groudbreaking Quorum for Linn Drum machine, the ensemble couldn't resist showing that the device could be used for something other than square 4/4 beats. A Lincoln Portrait also features the recording debut of avante sax genius Ellery Eskelin on soprano sax. The track Quick Thrust, a twelve tone row piece, exemplifies the wild fusion of styles that are all over this recording. Upon its release, Vogue Magazine said: "Rouse's boundary-breaking music has him poised on the cusp of our musical future." Upon its release, A Lincoln Portrait got an A- in the Village Voice, the same week that the newly released Tirez Tirez album Against All Flags received Pop Album of the Week in the New York Times." [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Runaway Totem-Le Roi du Monde $18.00 "Runaway Totem is proud to announce that the third and final movement of 4 Elements 5, Le Roi Du Monde will be published in March 2011. This album marks the end of the First Symphony NOUS. In order to complete the album, given its complexity and importance, two new Elements are descended. Current Elements: CAHÅL DE BÊTÊL Guitars, Voice, Keyboards, Synth and Sampler TIPHERET Drums, Percussions, Kettle-drum and Keyboards DAUNO Telluric Bass ISSIRIAS MOIRA DUSATTI Vocals RAFFAELLO RE-TUZ REGOLI Voice, Diplophonic voices and Obliquitions ANBIS-UR MARCO ZANFEI Electronic Piano, Keyboards This last Album is so important that a new Entity descended on this World, in order to support Runaway Totem with its Work. We’re talking about Modern Totem Ensemble. Runaway Totem is the Star, and Modern Totem Ensemble is a Planet orbiting around it. It’s like other Planets, that during the Time will show themselves and descend on this World." [RTR] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Various Artists-Stormy Suite $18.00 This is a collection of interpretations of songs by various Italian artists of works by Stormy Six. There is almost no information about this album on the web and what little there is is in Italian. I did a translation and it made very little sense, but *apparently*, this record came out years after it was actually initially planned for some reason and may have even been planned before the group reformed! Anyway, if you know and love the Stormy's, then this 14-track album is well worth hearing and sheds a very different light on their songs. [Erosha] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Christian Vander Trio-65!/Jour Apres Jour 2 x CDs $22.00 Before C.V. jump-started Magma back into life, one of his main activities during the late 1980s and early 1990s was his trio with Philippe Dardell-double bass and Emmanuel Borghi-piano. When I saw them in the 90s, I thought it would be the only time I would ever see Vander play drums! And they (and he) were excellent. Their sound (as given away by one of the titles of their two albums included here) was jazz ala '65 Impulse Coltrane, with Coltrane going for a coffee off the bandstand. This is their two, long out of print albums reissued with 3 previously unreleased tracks from their very first session in 1988, just to make those of you who already own this stuff feel the need to buy it again. I realize that this is a jazz album that will mostly sell to rock people who are fans of Magma, but by any stretch of the imagination, these are both excellent jazz releases; if buying this because you love Magma gets you interested in Impulse-era John Coltrane/McCoy Tyner and you go exploring from there, I guess that isn't any worse than my being 16 and buying an Eric Dolphy record because I adored The Mothers of Invention and wanted to hear what the dedicatee of the Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue actually sounded like! [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Zu & Eugene Chadbourne-The Zu Side of Eugene Chadbourne $15.00 This title is long, long, long out of print and a bit rare now, but we have it at normal pricing! "For this endeavor the mad Doctor Chadbourne performs with a deliciously irreverent pianoless Italian quartet. More structured than some of the other recordings by Chadbourne, this one enjoys the impressive trumpet sounds of Ray Pacci, who seems to anticipate the guitarist's every move and adds a sort of Lester Bowie sound to the proceedings. Pacci effectively uses mutes and grows, plus short emphatic blasts and guttural blats, to pave his way. At times sounding a touch like late Miles, at others like Bowie, while always forging his own path, the trumpeter leads the procession with pomp and glory. With Jacopo Battaglia's hard core drumming and Massino Popillo's strong bass, the results are usually exciting and even thrilling at times. Overcoming some of the rambling that has characterized some of Chadbourne's earlier projects, this one is highly focused post-modern jazz mixed with a touch of avant-fusion. Chadbourne's electric guitar churns away and he leads the ensemble through dangerous terrain with barely a glitch."-Steve Loewy/All Music Guide [New Tone] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE http://londonjazz.blogspot. GUTBUCKET (explain how to argue about food) http://alarmpress.com/34669/ THE STICK MEN http://www. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 AFUCHE May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) AHLEUCHATISTAS June 5 - The Blind Tiger - 2115 Walker Avenue - Greensboro North Carolina 27403 (336) 272-9888 June 7 - 405 1/2 West Rosemary St - Chapel Hill, NC 27516 June 8 - Velvet Lounge - 915 U St, NW - Washington, DC 20002 June 9 - Highwire Gallery - 2040 Frankford Ave - Philadelphia, PA June 10 - Douglass Street Music Collective - 295 Douglass St. - Brooklyn, NY 11217 (this show is a special improvised collaboration with bassist Trevor Dunn!) June 11 - Coco 66 - 66 Greenpoint Ave - Brooklyn, NY 11222 June 17 - Roxaboxen Exhibitions - Chicago, IL BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN/MOTHER MALLARD June 29 - Issue Project Room - 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor - Brooklyn, NY 11215 November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - La Faena II - c/Alfonso Gomez no. 35 Callejon - Madrid, SpainLA FAENA II Address: C/ Alfonso Gómez nº 35 callejón, [al ladito del metro Suanzes (L5)] June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing - CD out in September) November 25 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CARLO DEROSA'S CROSS-FADE November 25 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DOCTOR NERVE June 25 - Doctor Nerve (with Jersey Band and Turn Around Norman) - The Windup Space - 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201 (410) 244-8855 August 17-21 - Zappanale - Bad Nurnberg, Germany GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA May 28 - TeaterStudio Lederman - Stockholm, Sweden (record release show!) GUTBUCKET May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD LEO JOHNSON and GREGG BENDIAN November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK MAHAVISHNU PROJECT May 27 - The 8 x 10 Club - 10 East Cross Street - Baltimore, MD 21230 (410) 625.2000 June 10 - Bearsville Theatre - 291 Tinker St. - Woodstock, NY (845) 679.4406 THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ED PALERMO BIG BAND June 3 - The Falcoln - 1348 Rte 9w - Marlboro, NY 12542 (845) 236-7970 August 3 - Iridum Jazz Club - 1650 Broadway (51st. St.) - New York, NY - 10019 (212) 582.2121 (this show will feature special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!) RICHARD PINHAS May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages May 28 - tbc - Detroit May 29 - The Strutt - 773 West Michigan - Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 492-7200 (with Unitard, Forget the Times, Boron Nuzzle) showtime: 9:00 / $8.00 18+ May 30 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL (with Magas + Scum Ra (featuring Plastic Crimewave and Kathy of Spires That In The Sunset Rise) + Mark Solotroff - doors 8:00/show 8:30 - $10.00 / $12.00 at door June 1 - The Happy Dog - 5801 Detroit Avenue - Cleveland, OH June 3 - (Soft House at the Copycat Bldg - 5TH FLOOR - 1511 Guilford Street- Baltimore, MD / 8:00 pm doors / 8:30 show $7.00 June 4 - The Schoolhouse - 330 Ellery St (at Broadway) Bushwick, Brooklyn (subway: J, M to Flushing; G to Broadway) POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France JASON ROBINSON November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France UZ JSME DOMA September 3 and 4 - the 17th annual Progday - Storybook Farm - Chapel Hill, North Carolina (many more shows to be added - watch this space) ZEVIOUS November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Richard Leo Johnson and Gregg Bendian November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Jason Robinson/Janus band November 25 - Carlo DeRosa's Cross-Fade November 25 - Dead Cat Bounce November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - Ergo November 29 - Motor Totemists Guild November 29 - Upsilon Acrux November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Gutbucket ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) THE CLAUDIA QUINTET + 1 with special guests Theo Bleckmann and Kurt Elling-sixth album and YES it is a vocal album(!!!) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes ELTON DEAN'S NINESENSE-Ninesense Suite (finally! recorded 6/20/81 and long rumored to be released, this show from the band's final tour finally makes it out!) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) which will include a DVD of their NEARFest performance from 2010! JAKKO JAKSZYK/MEL COLLINS/ROBERT FRIPP/TONY LEVIN/GAVIN HARRISON-A Scarcity of Miracles (they aren't calling this "KING CRIMSON", but this sure looks like a winner....) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) -Live (reissue of their amazing live release) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany TANGERINE DREAM-Zeit (their classic 3rd album with a previously unreleased bonus disc of a concert from the same era) THINKING PLAGUE-Decline and Fall (studio album #6!) ZEVIOUS-album number 3 (and it's gonna be amazing, judging from their shows recently) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp130.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Ashra-New Age Of Earth $11.00 Back in stock! This album, recorded in 1978 in Berlin, and originally released in 1977 on Virgin, marks the first time Manuel Gottsching used the name Ashra (as opposed to Ash Ra Tempel). This was also possibly the first time that the term "new age" was used on a record! It's another completely wonderful, flowing, spacey album, featuring just Manuel performing on sequencer, keyboards and a lot of guitar. He did one more great one after this, Blackouts. I totally love Manuel's work; when he's on, he might be my absolute favorite of the Berlin scenesters. Highly recommended if you dig this stuff. [Virgin] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kevin Ayers - The Radio Sessions 2 x 180 gram vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (special) $16.00 Beautifully packaged collection of Kevin's most interesting/best radio sessions (made from the original radio tapes in storage at the BBC and in wonderful sound quality). This is the complete surviving tapes from 1970-1972. Features: Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill, Mick Fincher, David Bedford and more. Gatefold sleeve. [Turning Point] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Bang on a Can-Music for Airports Live $10.00 "In 1978, Brian Eno put out Music for Airports, his first 'ambient' album. It was a four-part piece, composed in the studio, devoid of all but the most basic aspects of song, challenging listeners to re-imagine what music might be. Twenty years later, Bang on a Can All-Stars created their own version of the work with live musicians, all the while staying true to the source by working with Eno. It was released on record in 1998 to wide acclaim. Ten years later, Cantaloupe Music released a live version of Music for Airports as a digital-only release. To this day, the All-Stars frequently perform the classic work live. Of such a live performance, the Village Voice remarked, 'It was beautiful, and best enjoyed while lying flat on your back and staring straight up, through the palm trees and the sunroof to the deep night outside, with the neighboring, towering buildings overhead appearing to curve inward around you as breathy keyboards slowly gave way to meandering clarinet'. The Bang on a Can All-Stars, with their unparalleled musicality, their international touring, award-winning cds and far ranging commissioning programs, have become one of the most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music in the world. For all their efforts, Musical America recognized the All-Stars in 2004 as Ensemble of the Year. 'One of the most visceral performing groups around', the London Independent raved." [Canaloupe] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Beardfish-Fran En Plats du ej Kan Se... $25.00 Back in stock; this Swedish release is always hard to find and hard to stock. We've finally got a decent supply. This 2003 release is Beardfish's first album. The band are a quintet: Robert Hansen-bass, David Zackrisson-guitar, tapes, vocals, Magnus Östrgren-drums, Rikard Sjöblom-vocals, guitar, piano and Stefan Aronsson-organ, Moog, vocals. It's a very good, heavy, 1970s-styled progressive rock album - almost a progressive hard-rock styled album, but with more progressive than hard rock elements. You can definitely hear traces of similar Scandanavian bands like Trettioåariga Kriget, November, etc, but, as I said, with a more progressive slant, even though there's some outstanding heavy organ and guitar work. Vocals are very good too. This isn't as ambitious of an album as their newer double, The Sane Day, but I think I actually like this one better in terms of just enjoying it. [Progress] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Beardfish-Mammoth CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $13.00 Back in stock! Beardfish have come a very, very long way from their Swedish-only, very Zappa-like, self-released albums to being signed to one of the larger/more visible progressive rock-oriented labels. This is their sixth album and they continue to somehow manage to blend complexity and a lot of elements of progressive rock without sounding retro or like they wish it was 1973. This really nice set includes their new studio album, as well as a fantastic bonus in the form of a nearly 2-hour long live video! [Superball] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anne Briggs-Nottinghamshire Tales 180 gram vinyl lp $12.00 (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (special) "There are few female folk singers with the natural talent of Anne Briggs, and although she never became a major star (mostly because she wasn't interested) it is difficult to overstate her influence on the British folk scene of the '60s and '70s. (i.e. Pentangle, Fairport Convention). Discovered in a local club in 1962 before she had even turned 18, she was soon touring all over the British Isles, living the troubador's life and influencing a generation of young folk musicians wherever she went. She went on to release three solo albums between 1971 and 1973 before tragically abandoning the music scene forever. Brilliant musicians who walk away from their career at their creative peak are few and far between, but that is exactly what Anne Briggs did...and fans and fellow musicians have been begging her to go back into the recording studio ever since! This is her third and last solo album, recorded in 1973 and finally released in the '90s as Sing A Song For You. Anne was pregnant for her second child at the time of these recordings and already living off the coast of Scotland in the Hebrides islands, as far from the London music scene as possible! Not surprisingly, given Briggs' talent, the album has since become known as 'lost classic'. Accompanied by 'Ragged Robin' a folk rock band assembled by Steve Ashley (with Richard Byers on mandolin and lead guitar, Brian Diprose on bass, and John Thompson on drums), these brilliant versions of British folk standards and original material, are delivered with the kind of rare sincerity and natural vocal ability that slices through time, straight to the soul." [Vinyl Lovers] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Caravan-Caravan $9.00 (special) Back in stock While they last, this is over 50% off the regular price! Newly reissued in the Decca/Deram series, this title has been remastered from the original master tapes. This is the band's previously very hard to find debut from 1968, featuring the classic lineup (Dave Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hasting, Richard Coughlin + Jimmy Hastings). It has their usual sound with a more psychedelic air. And fairly unbelievably dated sound effects as well! Includes both the stereo and mono versions of the album complete (some serious sonic differences, as well as the single version of "Hello Hello". ABSOLUTELY a 1968 psychedelic/progressive classic! [Universal] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Discipline-Live Days 2 x CDs $23.00 A relatively recent release of two disc's worth of live recordings from Discipline's 90s live shows - shows I saw several times and was always blown away by - which includes live versions of all of Unfolded Like Staircase as well as a bunch of less known/seldom heard or performed works. "At last we are privileged to bring you this superb double live set from one of our favourite groups. By going through their collection of live concerts we have been able to chose the best performances which include all their classics together with unreleased rare versions and unrecorded tracks exclusive to this release. All are taken from top quality recordings and then mastered for brilliant sound quality. Close your eyes and the band are there in the room with you. Opening with the previously unreleased Mickey Mouse Man which was regularly played live but for some reason never recorded in the studio. Then a stunning near 20 minute Before The Storm concluding with the great lead guitar ending of Blueprint. Circuitry, another lost track, is then followed by the epic classic Canto IV from Progday 95 - a brilliant version with sublime guitar work and great vocal performance. Next the unreleased Homegrown, with its long storming guitar solo finish. When The Walls Are Down and Safe In Your Vision are accompanied by a rarely played live version of Systems. Disc 2 has a great live version of Crutches followed by the rarely heard unreleased Wrists showing the group did listen to early Genesis. Into The Dream is the epic 20 minute tour de force with the group on top form in this rarely heard performance from 1998's Progday festival. Diminished, another unreleased track, completes the CD along with Carmilla, The Nursery Year and Between Me And The End. Over 150 minutes of the best in progressive rock with wonderful songs, exciting instrumental sections, outstanding guitar work, sublime vocals, great keyboards and a rhythm section that is one of the best. With a very detailed booklet containing lots of unreleased photos this package is a must for all Discipline. fans. For those not familiar with this great band here is an opportunity to catch up on one of the very finest at their best live." [Cyclops] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Matthias Eick-Skala $17.00 Mathias Eick: trumpet, vibraphone, guitar, bass; Tore Brunborg: tenor saxophone; Andreas Ulvo: piano; Morten Qvenild: keyboards; Audun Erlien: electric bass; Torstein Lofthus: drums; Gard Nilssen: drums; Sidsel Walstad: harp "Mathias Eick’s intensely melodic trumpet occupies the centre-stage in this album of self-penned tunes which will appeal to an audience beyond “jazz”. Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, he delivers richly lyrical soliloquies." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Faust-Faust Faust - So Far 180 gram vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA the price will be adjusted as needed) $30.00 The classic 1st album by Faust. Upon its release in 1971, it really looked and SOUNDED like nothing else. Intelligent and crafty use of the studio in a way that no one else in rock other than Frank Zappaa was doing (and it sounds nothing like The Mothers). While I actually *enjoy* some of their other works more, none of their other albums were as radical and shocked the scene as much as this one. As the man in England who owns the label would say, "recommended!" [Polydor] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jean-Philippe Goude-Drones (expanded) $15.00 This was the third solo album (but the first one most people have ever heard), originally released in 1980, by this excellent Weidorje/Richard Pinhas keyboardist/synthesist. It's an excellent, Zeuhl-ish progressive/fusion album and it features a wide number of great guests: François Auger, Didier Batard, Klaus Blasquiz, Michel Ettori, Patrick Gauthier, Alain and Yvon Guillard, François Ovide, Bernard Baganotti, Richard Pinhas, Gérard Prévost, Jean-Louis Rizet, David Rose, Kirk Rust, Patrick Tillman and others! I know that those names alone were enough to get the blood flowing of fans of French progressive rock! And it's an excellent album! Features a bonus track that was recorded for the album, but wouldn't fit, as well as a large, in depth booklet. Recommended! "Goude’s proto-electronica cosmic loops and moog melodies now find themselves coupled with tough prog drum beats and other elements of rock music; "Drônes" mixes solo keyboard pieces like ‘Coma’ and ‘Duo’ with group oriented pieces: ‘Dies Irae’ is a Zeuhl rock scorcher; ‘Machine’ uses a string quartet as the foundation for synthesizer musings by Goude and Richard Pinhas; ‘Trepidanse’ is a playful piece for dueling synthesizers. Although the Weidorje influence is evident on some numbers, Jean-Philippe Goude takes his music well beyond the Zeuhl trend. He offers a very personal approach to music, which contributed to the album's initial success, and has ensured that its cult status has lasted until the present day." [Lion] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kenny Hakansson-2117 M. Above Sea Level $21.00 This 1995 release is Swedish legendary guitarist Kenny's 3rd solo album. Kenny is best known for providing the guitarwork on the classic era Bo Hansson albums, as well as being the original guitarist in one of the earliest Swedish psychedelic bands, the Mecki Mark Men as well as Baby Grandmothers. Finally, he is also the leader and driving force behind the legendary and still great ensemble Kebnekajse. On this album, recorded at home, Kenny performs on all manner of guitars and bass and is joined by drummer Jorgen Ringqvist. [Silence] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jono El Grande-Phantom Stimulance $18.00 "This is the third full-length release by Jon Andreas Håtun aka Jono El Grande, a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster who remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. He released his debut mini-album Utopian Dances in 1999, a collection of absurdist instrumentals recorded at home using not much more than a workstation synth. 2003 saw the release of Fevergreens, an album that drew upon classic progressive rock, film music, easy listening and a variety of pop idioms and featured a 9-piece orchestra. 2009's Neo Dada was a masterstroke; brimming with creative ideas, odd turns, weird combinations of sounds and instruments, complex time signatures and a healthy dose of pure musical joy, all mysteriously sugared with melodic hooks that would stick to your brain like any annoying pop tune. As far as musical form and content goes, this can be said to continue with Phantom Stimulance. It's put together to celebrate Jono's 15 years as a composer and performer and 10 years as a band leader, but it's not a mere compilation. Recorded in Athletic Studio, home to great analog recordings by Supersilent, Motorpsycho, Scorch Trio and countless others, it's a collection of new versions of stage favorites and previously-unreleased songs as well as a brand-new song. Jono lists movements like Rock In Opposition and the Canterbury Scene and artists and composers like Frank Zappa, Stravinsky, Magma, Henry Cow and Gentle Giant as inspirational sources but has established his own signature with his latest releases and stage shows. Instrumentations and arrangements have become more adventurous, he has picked up the electric guitar again and successfully added a rougher edge to the ensemble sound." [Run Grammofon] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble-From the Stairwell $26.00 The fourth release by this continuously interesting UK band who combine very modern electronica with jazz and progressive elements to come up with something new, fresh and unusual. They say about themselves: 'A creepy crawly electronic jazz combo, creating soundtracks for non-existing movies ; Dark, exotic and mysterious. Fusing analog and digital flawlessly, giving them a totally unique and original sound. Film Noir futurism'. "If you like Barry Adamson, Angelo Badalamenti, Bohren Und Der Club of Gore, or any of the other albums made by TKDE or their alter ego Mount Fuji Doomjazz Ensemble, then you'll like this. It's for patient people only, or for patient moods, at least. There's a lot going on here and much of it ferments slowly, so you should not expect instant gratification. And don't expect any gratification at all if you're trying to listen to this in somewhere where you're interrupted frequently. Turn off the lights, play this, and don't expect to be lulled to sleep. It's a scary beast, but a subtle one at that."-Dan Bergevin [KDJE] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Knocker Jungle-Knocker Jungle (expanded) $8.00 (special) "2008 reissue of perhaps the rarest album on Ember Records. The band had already taken their collaboration as far as their individual musical tastes would allow and had split before it was released. Further, due to an "offensive hand signal" inside the cover, many shops refused to stock it. As a result it was completely withdrawn from sale almost immediately after release, with only a tiny handful of pressings ever sold! Adding to this veneer of mystery is that very little is known about the artists prior to the release of the album and certainly not after. Beyond a Spanish only single containing two tracks from the album, and gigs in the seedy confines of Wardour Street's "The Temple", the duo have proved to be immune from the Google age. It is this scarcity that seems to be stoking the flames of interest and adding to the mystic!" " Well there certainly seems to have been a bit of a deluge of rediscovered/lost classics being released in recent years and we can add this to the ever lengthening line. I approached this album with a little suspicion and wariness but found myself very pleasantly surprised. From the opening track I found the album to be packed very lovable tunes and an easy-going carefree hippy vibe that gives the disc great character. At eighteen tracks and some fifty minutes in length it is a pretty substantial work and is surprisingly consistent in quality throughout with, to my mind, only a few tracks that could be considered merely pleasant filler. What does it sound like? Well saying that the influence of the Beatles and Dylan can be heard is like saying that 'it sounds like music' so I would say that I could hear early T-Rex, Donovan and at least one track('where I belong')that would fit neatly onto Love's "Forever Changes". Here's the strange thing though, I actually feel this music will appeal more strongly to fans of Devandra Banhart(if only his last album were this good)or Six Organs of Admittance, than those who are into the music of the time('68-'72)and looking to unearth another 'lost gem' in the style of Nick Drake/Judee Sill/Bill Fay. Having said that if you enjoyed Gary Higgins or Linda Perhacs this may well appeal. Some will find the production a little murky and some of the track edits could have been done with more care but these flaws in presentation are easily counter-balanced by the enjoyment provided by the music."-William J. Walker [Acrobat] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Octember Variations(24-bit remaster) $16.00 First time ever for this very good jazz/rock album on CD! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its earliest, most exciting days. This was his fifth album, from 1976, and it brings together a fine grouping of musicians: Volker Kriegel (electric guitar), Alan Skidmore (tenor), Ack van Rooyen (trumpet), Thomas Bettermann (keyboards), Hans Peter Stroer (bass), Nippy Noya (percussion), etc. This is not as great as his earlier MPS releases; the bloom was fading from the rose of early, adventurous jazz/rock, but this is still a great listen. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Topical Harvest (24-bit remaster) $16.00 First time ever for this very good jazz/rock album on CD! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its earliest, most exciting days. This was his fourth album, from 1975, and it brings together a fine grouping of German musicians: Volker Kriegel (electric guitar), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Rainer Brüninghaus (electric piano and keyboards), Hans Peter Stroer (bass, etc), Peter Giger (drums and percussion), etc. This is not as great as his earlier MPS releases; the bloom was fading from the rose of early, adventurous jazz/rock, but this is still a great listen. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rolf Kuhn/Joachim Kuhn Quintet-Transfiguration (24-bit remaster) $12.00 A great price on this first-time-ever CD issue of this rare 1967 Saba Records release (which I actually have an original of). Rolf performs on clarinet and bass clarinet, Joachim is on piano and also here are Karl Berger (vibes), Bab Guerin (bass) and Aldo Romano (drums). The sound is exploratory jazz of the period; the opening, long track features bass clarinet and with the vibes and the drums and bass sound, you could imagine it as an outtake from the 1963 Douglas sessions by Eric Dolphy. This is a goodie! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rolf Kuhn-More, More, More & More: The Artist's Selection (24-bit remaster) $12.00 This collects a fine, broad swath of clarinetist and composer Rolf's 70s work, which leans towards electric jazz, as you would expect from the time period covered. A good way to check out his jazz/rock work. Lots of long tracks here and the CD is over 75' long! You'll hear performers like: Joachim Kuhn, Wolfgang Dauner, Philip Catherine, Albert Manglesdorff, Randy Brecker, Gerd Dudek, Charlie Mariano, Herb Geller, Alan Skidmore and many more here. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rolf Kuhn-Symphonic Swampfire (24-bit remaster) $12.00 A great price on this first-time-ever CD issue of this rare 1978 MPS release. It's a big-band jazz rock album with an impressive cast: Rolf and Joachim Kuhn (clarinets and piano/synths), Charlie Mariano-sax, Philip Catherine-guitars, NHOP-bass, Bruno Castellucci-drums + additional musicians and brass and strings. This is a good-but-getting-quite-late- http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Peter Lemer Quintet-Local Colour 180 gram vinyl lp $12.00 (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (special) This 1966 recording by one of the founding members of the Little Theatre Club (thereby one of the founding members of the English free jazz movement) is considered one of the first recordings of UK free jazz. A pretty amazing lineup: Nisar Ahmad Khan-tenor sax, John Surman (making his recording debut! on baritone and soprano sax), Peter Lemer (piano), Tony Reeves (bass), Jon Hiseman (drums). "British pianist Peter Lemer is one of the U.K. jazz scene's primary links between '60s free jazz and '70s fusion, but his sole album as a leader, recorded in 1966, sticks closely to the former. Lemer, a former student of Paul Bley, opens the set with a rattling version of Carla Bley's "Ictus," then runs through a program of originals that run from fairly "out" ("City" has some absolutely frenzied free blowing by saxophonists Nisar Ahmad Khan and John Surman, accompanied at one point by Lemer banging on the top of his piano) to relatively restrained (the melody of "Frowville" wouldn't sound out of place on a Dave Brubeck album). Although Lemer's often highly rhythmic piano playing drives the band, Khan and Surman are the stars of the album, taking most of the solos. (The bass solo comes late in "In the Out" -- have your fast-forward finger ready accordingly, but don't miss the remarkable Khan/Surman duel right after.) Even the most experimental pieces, however, keep the traditional theme-solos-theme structure, so Local Colour is the sort of album that's useful for the free jazz novice. It's just traditional enough that it's not scary, but neither is it so traditional that it's boring. It's a shame this group didn't get a chance to record more."-Stewart Mason/All Music Guide [Get Back] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Albert Mangelsdorff-Live (24-bit remaster) 2 x CDs $27.00 This reissues two trio live recordings by monster (I mean MONSTER) trombonist Mangelsdorff. Disc one is "Trilogie - Live" featuring Jaco Pastorius and Alphonse Mouzon from November 6, 1976 and disc two is "Live in Montreux" featuring J.F. Jenny-Clark and Ronald Shannon Jackson. Two interesting groups backing him and there's tons of the amazing multi-phonics that Albert was known for. Did you ever want to hear the first drummer for Weather Report playing with the third bassist of Weather Report? Well, now you can! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mark McGuire-A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire 2 x CDs $23.00 This release is by one of the mainstays of the great Emeralds. That alone tells you (1) what to expect and (2) that this release is worth great consideration! "A Young Person's Guide To Mark McGuire collects together some of this Emeralds member's best works, previously-released on a number of limited edition CD-Rs and tape releases over the last 4 years. Although only 24 years of age, McGuire has racked up an impressive canon which most artists twice his age would have problems delivering. With his expert use of loops and layers, as well a superb ear for killer melody hooks, makes AYPGTMM simply an essential collection. Electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, tapes, and guitar-synthesizer performed and recorded by Mark McGuire 2007-2010." [Editions Mego] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dave Pike Set-Four Reasons (24-bit remaster) $16.00 First time ever on CD for this trippy and 1969-style funky jazz album. Dave was known early for combining jazz with psychedelia and rock (iirc, he recorded a version of Zappa's "Mother People" in 1968!) and this is a modestly successful and very early (August, 1969 - in other words before or at the same time as Miles was formulating Bitches Brew) electric jazz album. This has some nice leads by Volker Kriegel (who also plays sitar, man!), plus there is bass and electric bass and drums. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dave Pike Set-Salomao (24-bit remaster) $16.00 First time ever on CD! Vibest Dave Pike leads a great band: Eberhard Weber (bass), Marc Hellman (drums) and secret weapon Volker Kriegel (guitar) + a Brazilian percussion section. This is a 'fusion' album of Brazilian style rhythms and jazz/rock, recorded in Rio de Janeiro in mid 1972. There's some really excellent work from all and especially from Volker. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Relogios de Frederico-Chumbo Grosso $18.00 Back in stock! The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this was their second album, released in 2003. This was has a lot of vocals over a complex music network, but there's also a lot of instrumental passages, where they strut their stuff. [CFD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Relogios de Frederico-Faskner $18.00 Back in stock! The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this, their third album, is widely considered to be their best by fans of avant-progressive rock. All instrumental, this features crazy rhythms, interesting ideas, great solos and a sound that reminds me a lot in some ways (just *some*; they aren't a copy band) of late period Etron Fou. Start here and be thrilled and if you love this as much as I do, you'll probably also want their others, even if they aren't as immediately entrancing. This one is highly recommended! [CFD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Relogios de Frederico-Quatro Centesimos de Semitom $18.00 Back in stock! The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this is their first album, released in 2000. Lots of vocals on top of really complex music; this is very different than Faskner, but it's really fantastic as well. They definitely have a unique voice. The official hype says, "like Gentle Giant signing Arrigo Barnabé' s music." [CFD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hans-Joachim Roedelius-Momenti Felici (expanded) $18.00 "Bureau B reissues Momenti Felici by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1987 on the Virgin label Venture. Since the early '80s, Roedelius had more or less dispensed with electronics, focusing increasingly on the grand piano. He also collaborated with various combinations of musicians to create a new kind of music, vastly different from Cluster and Harmonia aesthetics. For Roedelius, it was not only a period of reorientation in musical terms, but also geographically: Austria was now his home. "Tu Felix Austria" (trans. "Oh, Happy Austria"), a time-honored Austrian campaign slogan, became his very own motto in no time at all. The pleasure he derived from playing the piano and meeting musicians on the same wavelength did the rest: an enthusiastic Roedelius allowed new impressions and discoveries to flow virtually unfiltered into his music. Momenti Felici is one of the finest examples hereof. With characteristically exuberant inventiveness, Roedelius tickles the ivories lightheartedly, or, entering into a more pensive mood, seems to caress the keys. With saxophonist Alexander Czjzek dueting on some of the pieces, Roedelius shuffles a pack of disciplined compositions and carefree improvisations. In this respect, Momenti Felici most closely resembles Jardin Au Fou. On closer listening, however, the length of time between the two albums can be discerned. Roedelius honed both his compositional and, more than anything, his playing skills in the lengthy period in between. Naturally, Momenti Felici saw Roedelius distance himself further still from the electronic scene. The signs had been there on his preceding albums and this release simply removed any last vestige of doubt. Roedelius had, in any case, long since found a new audience, who continue to follow him avidly today. With the passage of time, many of his companions from earlier days have come to realize that a beautiful melody and a rich piano chord can be just as pleasing to the ear as pure tones and rhythm machines. Includes three previously-unreleased bonus tracks." [Bureau B] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sun Ra-Piano Recital, November 24, 1977, Teatro La Fenice 180 gram vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) $12.00 (special) "Not much to say, really - except that you are not likely to find another solo piano jazz record with such a stylistic scope, such humor, such swing, such depth, such beauty, such anger, such blues. The incredible Sun Ra and his vision really shines."-T Bekken "Sun Ra was often written off as a so-so keyboard player (probably by people who didn't listen to him much!). Fortunately, his enormous catalogue proves otherwise, and no recording does so more definitively than this Solo Piano Recital. It is pure delight to hear Ra dig deeply into this program of his own compositions and jazz standards, pulling them apart with great joy and then rearranging the pieces into delightful tapestries of sound. Purists may not like what he does to "St. Louis Blues," but his great ability to _do it_ cannot be denied. You will hear echoes in his playing of the entire range of piano jazz from Jelly Roll Morton all the way up to Cecil Taylor. Sun Ra recorded solo all too infrequently. Of the solo recordings I have heard I consider this the best, the fullest, the most delightful. It's a recording I will be able to use to convince those who doubt Sunny's celestial abilities. It's that good -- really."-Glenn Becker [Vinyl Lovers] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sündenfall II-Sündenfall II vinyl lp - numbered edition of 1,000 (due to size and weight, this price for USA only; outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted) $27.00 Sündenfall II from the Kevelaer area at the Lower Rhine played a mixture of folk and jazz, influenced by Jethro Tull. While their predecessors, Sündenfall, exclusively dedicated themselves to jazz, the group included folk after a change in line-up and band name (following the example of Amon Düül II). In 1972, Hubert Schmitz invited the band into his Trepitia film and sound studio in Alpen-Drüpt for free recordings, as he wanted to test the newly installed equipment after a recent move into the new location. Thus the recordings were made for the album "Sündenfall II" (Trefiton HS 1017), which was released in a small edition of 200 copies at the end of 1972. Today it is sold at a price of about €500 to €1000 in mint condition. The track "Montpellier", chosen for the sampler on hand, stands out due to the distinctive trumpet play both at the beginning and at the end." [Garden of Delights] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jannick Top-Infernal Machina $29.00 Back in stock! Here is something big that has been quietly brewing in the land of Zeuhl for some time now and was finally released for Jannick's appearance at les Tritonales in Paris. Bassist Jannick, best known for his playing in the 1974 edition of Magma and then co-leading Magma (as VanderTop) in 1976, has finally put together his definitive take on a zeuhl-related solo project. This large-ish ensemble includes Jannick-bass, cello, cellobass, percussion and voices, Natalia Ermlova, Veronika Boulytcheva and Klaus Blasquiz-vocals, Stella Vander, Himiko Paganotti, Antoine Paganotti-backing vocals, James McGaw, François Delfin, Thibault Abrial, Jim Grandcamp-guitars, Damien Schmitt, Christian Vander-drums, Marc Chantereau-percussion, Mathias Lecomte-grand piano and Fabien Colella-keyboards and computer. A single piece with 12 movements, the album starts slowly with a gradually intensifying buildup. The voices have a 'Mystere de voix Bulgares' kinda sound, which they keep, no matter how heavy it all gets. By the time of the 3rd movement, it's pretty heavy and by the time of the 4th movement, Klaus is singing solo over heavy growling bass, grand piano and noise and it's pretty evil. By the time of the 5th movement and onward, it's gotten unbelievably heavy and reminsicent of De Futura turned inside out and...well, do I really have to write more? You want this. [HM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tetragon-Stretch vinyl lp - numbered edition of 1,000 (due to size and weight, this price for USA only; outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted) $27.00 "Tetragon, successor of Trikolon, were founded in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) in the spring of 1971. They released their first and only LP, “Nature”, in that very year. It came out as CD on Musea in 1995. At the end of 1971, Tetragon recorded in a Hamburg studio five long tracks in their well-proven style for their second LP, the release of which, however, failed. Fortunately, the master tape has survived until the present day, so that now, 38 years past schedule, the work is released on CD. Three of the five songs have been written by the band itself, one by Eddie Harris (“Listen here”) and one by John McLaughlin (“Dragon song”). The two latter ones had already been worked on by Brian Auger. Especially remarkable are Hendrik Schaper’s exceptional play on keyboards and Jürgen Jaehner’s hot guitar play. The other two, however, are their equals in skill and talent." [Garden of Delights] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Colin Vallon/Patrice Moret/Samuel Rohrer-Rruga $18.00 Colin Vallon: piano Patrice Moret: double-bass Samuel Rohrer: drums "“Rruga”, meaning ‘path’, ‘road’ or ‘journey’ in Albanian, is the evocative title of the ECM debut by the trio of pianist Colin Vallon, bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Samuel Rohrer. After shared musical experiences on the Swiss jazz scene, they began their trio journey five years ago, and have grown into one of Europe’s most promising bands, shaping a rugged and individual music, inspired by songs and singers, and by the music of the Caucasus region as well as by the jazz tradition. Challenging conventions of the modern jazz piano trio, the instrumentalists meet on equal terms as the music is created, arranged and developed collectively." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Weather Report-Live in Berlin 1975 CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $27.00 I'm a big Weather Report fan of their earlier period, although after a certain point, they lose me a little bit (but then again, most fusion going into the late 70s loses me a bit). But this is an wonderful archival release (released for the very first time) of a late period peak for the group. Recorded November 6, 1975 at the Berliner Jazztage, this presents the group somewhere between Mysterious Traveller and Tale Spinnin'. Featured are Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Alphonso Johnson, Alex Acuña and Chester Thompson. The sound is great (obviously *LOUD*, but great) and the visuals are excellent for the time period. The only complaint I could possibly think of is that it is only 42' long. But that's a very small thing to bitch about. Highly recommended. [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Yes-The Revealing Science of God NTSC (all region) DVD $15.00 "This DVD features performances by Yes that were filmed in Budapest, Hungary for television 1998. The performances features hits such as "Owner of a lonely heart" "Long distance runaround", "Rhythm of love" "I've Seen All Good People" and "The revealing science of God" plus many others." Track Listing * Firebird suite * Siberian khatru * Rhythm of love * America * Open your eyes * And you and I * Heart of the sunrise * Mood for a day * Diary of a man who vanished * Clap * From the balcony * Wonderous stories * Igor Khoroshev solo * Long distance runaround * Whitefish * Owner of a lonely heart * The revealing science of God * I've seen all good people * Roundabout * Starship trooper [XXL] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Zombi-Escape Velocity $13.00 Totally bitchin' new one from this great synthi/prog/retro/futuristic duo of Steve Moore (a million ARP, Moog, Elka, Korg, etc keyboards) and A.E. Paterra (drums and Moogs). Here are the fat sequencer sounds and runs of Heldon circa "Interface" combined with the stripped down approach of D.A.F. (who also stole Pinhas' fat Moog soundz) with heavy proggy keyboard leads that you could compare to Goblin's. These guys are totally fun and no one sounds like this. A monster soundtrack album in search of a movie good enough for it! And dig the amazingly spot-on, Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson cover homage/parody of his work circa Alan Parson's Project. [Relapse] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Zombi-Escape Velocity vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for USA only; outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted) $20.00 Beautiful, limited edition color vinyl pressing and you can GAWK at the great Hipgnosis-hommage cover in all its full size glory! Totally bitchin' new one from this great synthi/prog/retro/futuristic duo of Steve Moore (a million ARP, Moog, Elka, Korg, etc keyboards) and A.E. Paterra (drums and Moogs). Here are the fat sequencer sounds and runs of Heldon circa "Interface" combined with the stripped down approach of D.A.F. (who also stole Pinhas' fat Moog soundz) with heavy proggy keyboard leads that you could compare to Goblin's. These guys are totally fun and no one sounds like this. A monster soundtrack album in search of a movie good enough for it! And dig the amazingly spot-on, Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson cover homage/parody of his work circa Alan Parson's Project. [Relapse] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Below are six (!!!) new Cuneiform releases and a re-printing of an out of print classic, which are not going to be generally released for another few weeks, but which you can buy directly from us now. Our releases are available from us to our direct mail customers several weeks before they are generally released or available from other sources. We spend a small fortune on our releases and your direct purchase from us via Wayside Music helps us tremendously and is extremely important to our being able to continue our work and our release schedule; Please don't steal them or make it possible for others to steal them. Thank you for your interest and support of our work. Afuche-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match $15.00 "An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker “Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel Music Based out of Brooklyn, NY and creating a group sound that is truly their own, Afuche is a band that needs to be heard by lovers of adventurous, modern progressive music! Formed by Ruben Sindo Acosta & Zach Ryalls in 2008, they have been adding to the ensemble and evolving their sound by writing, performing, and touring non-stop – it was at one of their many shows where we found them and watched their continued development with keen interest. Afuche is a 5 piece band featuring Ruben on keyboard, vocals and percussion, Zach on guitar, Denny Tek on bass, Andrew Carrico on baritone sax and Max Jaffe on drum. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences as a base and apply their own group sound to it and bend it all into a hybrid, original and very progressive contemporary rock music that is interestingly complex without losing its inviting quality; most of all Afuche is a lot of fun. Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is a showcase of a group whose sound is more than the sum of its parts. Recorded mainly live in the studio with minimal textural overdubs in one day, it is Afuche presenting their work with just as you would experience it at one of their lively and exciting shows. The fearless intensity and the strong group dynamic in the playing - extremely notable in such a young band - pours through the speakers; their sound is catchy and mesmerizing and will have you moving in ways you never thought possible! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cheer-Accident-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs $15.00 "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser of an album..." – Time Out New York Emerging from the incredibly diverse crucible of music that is Chicago, Cheer-Accident embodies and re-affirms the “promises made” by previous generations of progressive rock, post-punk, and post rock bands—the creation of a thoroughly new rock-based music. There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century. Cheer-Accident wrap creativeness inside an inviting enigma of honeyed vocals, harmonious pop melody, and thorny dissonance. They have the rare ability to synthesize and juxtapose pure pop, thundering rock, and avant-garde complexity and ambiguity, intuition and intellect, sweetness and sarcasm, to create a stunning signature sound.No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs, Cheer-Accident’s 17th album is a kaleidoscopic, inclusive trip into a musical madhouse that you’ll want to stay lost within. The core membership of the ever-shifting organism that is Cheer-Accident remains Thymme Jones (vocals, keyboards, brass, synth, drums); Carmen Armillas (vocals), Alex Perkolup (vocals, bass, guitar), and Jeff Libersher (vocals, guitar, keys, trumpet, bass), with able and many assists from D. Bayne (trombone, keyboards), Andrea Faught (vocals, keyboards), and Lise Gilly (saxophones), among others. Everyone makes significant and important and wonderful contributions, but since the vocalist is always the focal point in bands, I want to mention that Carmen is a real find, with a powerfully emotive voice; she really lends a huge presence to this album, working beautifully with Thymme and Jeff and the rest. The songs on No Ifs… run the gamut of everything that makes Cheer-Accident an exceptional band: prickly, lurching psychedelia with honeyed singing, quizzical Steve Reich-meets-King Crimson rockers, and sweetly peculiar soft-pop a la Beach Boys and Free Design. This diversity does not denote dilettantism, however; Cheer Accident empowers and devotes itself to whatever style, mode, or genre it absorbs. Even after a few listens, regardless of stylistic diversity displayed during No Ifs, Ands or Dogs is the commitment to primo performance of the album/music/concept as a whole — songs often lead into one another, going from a self-contained song to a introduction (or a coda) depending on where you are or where your focus is in the listening. After the critical acclaim and expanded audience that greeted Cheer-Accident after the release of Fear Draws Misfortune, the group responded as they always do; by a reinvention of their sound. A wonderful album that is – as usual - also something completely different! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gösta Berlings Saga-Glue Works $15.00 "Masterpiece…or thereabouts: 5/5" – Lowcut Magazine "This is hypnotic, robotic, thankfully long and yet somehow, so damn soulful. Also, I haven’t heard a Fender Rhodes being played like this since like forever....It doesn’t get better than this." – Deaf Sparrow Named after one of the most notable Swedish books of all time, Gösta Berlings Saga are currently one of Sweden's most notable bands. The group are a modern instrumental rock band and their style combines post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound and more, all recorded and combined with unusual and interesting studio techniques. The four members of Gösta Berlings Saga, with their diverse musical backgrounds and personalities find a common focal point in the music they create together. Each individual effort is melted into the pot and glued together with the rest to create something greater together. The collage as a working method; Soft glued to rough. Epic glued to tiny. Minimalism glued to maximalism, all to create a new whole. For their third album and their first for Cuneiform, they have created an album that is highly and creatively produced. The solid backbone of the band is always the focus and the core: Alexander Skepp (drums and percussion), Einar Baldursson (guitars), David Lundberg (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers and Mellotron), Gabriel Hermansson (bass). With the engineering and production work of Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, White Willow, etc) the band has created a truly all-embracing and forward thinking album. The disc is packed with creative and surprising flourishes from guest musicians performing on French horn, musical saw, cello, trumpet and more. There is always a lot going on that makes Glue Works much more than 'merely' a document of band performing; the group is performing extremely well, but the production work incorporates many unique elements into the album in surprising ways. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Rhizome CD + NTSC (all region) DVD + download coupon $15.00 "In 1973, a rock guitarist and an electronic knob-twiddler released a revered and trail-blazing document in contemporary ambient music: Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's No Pussyfooting. Thirty-five years later, guitarist Richard Pinhas and noise artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) have formed the 21st century version of the concept." – Brandon Wu/Washington City Paper It's interesting that Brandon Wu compares the work of Richard Pinhas and Merzbow to Fripp and Eno. At the time it was recorded, No Pussyfooting was considered to be practically 'noise' (sound familiar?) and Robert Fripp has gone on record about how the record label didn't want to release the album because it would affect the commercial impact of these artsts. Yet, with time, the work the duo did was absorbed into the greater musical universe - if not into the mainstream - and its influence continues to this day. While it's never safe to predict the future, perhaps the unlikely but also quite logical meeting of Richard's billowing clouds of guitarwork with Masami's well considered sonic assault will also prove to be influencial upon the larger musical universe. In any event, this recording from September, 2010, expands upon their first studio meeting, Keio Line and offers an obvious follow-up, as well as new twists to the sound. The first pressing of Rhizome also includes a number of bonuses not available after the initial pressing: a bonus DVD of a generous excerpt of the duo's performance at the Sonic Circuits festival as well as a download coupon for their performance in Paris, November 12, 2008. "A surprising meeting of minds and one of the strongest CDs I've heard in a while." – Musicworks [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $18.00 "...arguably one of the finest works in either artist’s canon; hypnotic like Harmonia and monumental like Mountains. ... 4 stars" – Spencer Grady, Record Collector "Merzbow’s collaboration with French pioneer Richard Pinhas features some of his best music and gleefully amplifies the psychedelic tendencies of both composers." – Luke Schleicher, Laughter "...an album of ambient soundscapes that prove noise can indeed be beautiful, and that it's possible to dispense with conventional constructs of rhythm, melody and harmony yet still create something both musical and profound...it's...quite extraordinary just how appealing it is." – John Kelman, All About Jazz In 2007, guitarist and rock electronics innovator Richard Pinhas performed in Tokyo and then performed a duo concert with notorious 'noise' artist Merzbow. Both men were so excited by the duo concert, they immediately booked studio time to make the recordings that became their first duo release Keio Line. The duo continue to perform together; this concert performance and recording was their first meeting together after Keio Line. It was recorded at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris on November 12, 2008. Even though they had only worked together for a very short time the year before, the duo had already established a recognizable sound with Richard's metronic and spacey guitar figures being worked over by Merzbow's electronic mayhem in a glorious, psychedelic death spiral. Paris 2008 is a vinyl-only release; the first vinyl released by Cuneiform in over 20 years! There are only 500 copies made and there will not be a repress; this lp edition is the only way to buy this in a physical format. The lp comes with a digital download card for the music and if you buy it from Cuneiform, your copy will be on beautiful blue vinyl; there are only 100 blue copies! You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for outside of the USA) $25.00 http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wadada Leo Smith/Organic-Heart's Reflection 2 x CDs $21.00 "Organic’s music is a swirling roar, part fusion and part jazz rock orchestra, like a combination of Burnt Sugar and Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Ensemble. – The Wire, February 2010 cover story "Organic’s music is powerfully electric and electronic in nature; fiery and interactive in character; contemporary, spiritual and politically conscious, its creative energy is heartfelt and connected with the human feeling." – Wadada Leo Smith Although he made his reputation over decades and decades of work in the free jazz and improvised music realm and as a early member of Chicago's hugely influencial AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has long been interested in larger ensembles and electric music as well. Heart’s Reflections is a bold double-disc set that features Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, a predominately electric, fourteen-piece group, a band most notable for a lineup marked by four guitarists. In addition to Smith, who plays both acoustic and electric trumpet, the extraordinary lineup on Heart’s Reflection includes: Brandon Ross, Michael Gregory, Lamar Smith, and Josh Gerowitz on guitar; Skuli Sverrisson and John Lindberg on bass; Angelica Sanchez on acoustic and electric piano; Stephanie Smith on violin; Casey Anderson on alto saxophone; Casey Butler on tenor saxophone; Mark Trayle and Charlie Burgin on laptops; and Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. For a record by such a large group, at times the sound is surprisingly sparse and delicate - both qualities that have long marked Smith's work, while at other times, it sizzles and stomps! There a strong melodies and strong solos throughout; this is not a big band blow-out, but a carefully scored and worked out set of compositions. Though longtime listeners who haven't followed Wadada's work in the last decade might be surprised at times by the fierceness of Organic’s rhythm section, Heart’s Reflections is nonetheless marked by the trumpeter’s usual touchstones: long sustained notes, occasional clipped phrases, and a tough-to-define playfulness that infuses all of his work. Coming across like the next evolutionary step after Miles Davis’ electric era, Heart’s Reflection is a vibrant set that harkens back to the blues influence of Smith’s Mississippi childhood, and looks forward to still-developing realms of noise and electronics. The album fuses a galaxy of influences into a natural and accessible form, offering an ideal entry point into Smith’s vast oeuvre. Heart’s Reflections should appeal to fans of groove-oriented jazz, as well as rock and electronics audiences with a taste for adventure. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phil Miller-Cutting Both Ways $15.00 Back in print after several years of unavailability. Phil Miller made his name as guitarist with the legendary Canterbury bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield & the North and National Health. After the demise of National Health, he began preparing for a solo career that began with Cutting Both Ways and continues to this day. This was the first album released under his own name, and the first album to feature his band In Cahoots, who are pretty much of a supergroup themselves: Hugh Hopper-bass (Soft Machine), Elton Dean-saxes (Soft Machine), Peter Lemer-keyboards (Gilgamesh, Mike Oldfield, Pierre Moerlen's Gong) & Pip Pyle-drums (Gong, Hatfield, National Health). Additionally, two tracks are multi-overdubbed meetings between Phil and keyboardist Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield, National Health) and Barbara Gaskin (Hatfield). Canterbury jazz/rock of the highest order. "This album comprises two aspects of my compositional output. The first is represented by the four pieces recorded by my band, In Cahoots, and the second by the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave Stewart. In Cahoots has toured Europe extensively in the past two years. The music recorded here is largely a result of the live-in-the-studio approach. This contrasts with the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave. Here the orientation is towards multi-tracking, utilizing the latests developments in music technology."– Phil Miller [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA & Canada only) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $74.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for customers outside of the USA and Canada) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $88.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA only) 5 CDs/1 vinyl lp (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD/1 vinyl lp) $91.00 Save $12.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 6 new Cuneiform titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow CD, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow vinyl lp, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): THE CLAUDIA QUINTET http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/ GUTBUCKET http://latimesblogs.latimes. NEW YORK ART QUARTET http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ RICHARD PINHAS and MERZBOW http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - Rock And Pop - Calle de Albasanz, 79 - Madrid, Spain June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing - CD out in September) November 25 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CARLO DEROSA'S CROSS-FADE November 25 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DOCTOR NERVE June 25 - Doctor Nerve (with Jersey Band and Turn Around Norman) - The Windup Space - 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201 (410) 244-8855 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA May 28 - TeaterStudio Lederman - Stockholm, Sweden (record release show!) GUTBUCKET May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK MAHAVISHNU PROJECT May 27 - The 8 x 10 Club - 10 East Cross Street - Baltimore, MD 21230 (410) 625.2000 June 10 - Bearsville Theatre - 291 Tinker St. - Woodstock, NY (845) 679.4406 THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ED PALERMO BIG BAND June 3 - The Falcoln - 1348 Rte 9w - Marlboro, NY 12542 (845) 236-7970 August 3 - Iridum Jazz Club - 1650 Broadway (51st. St.) - New York, NY - 10019 (212) 582.2121 (this show will feature special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!) RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) for the rest of the tour, Richard will be performing in a duo with Duncan Pinhas May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages May 28 - tbc - Detroit May 29 - The Strutt - 773 West Michigan - Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 492-7200 (with Unitard, Forget the Times, Boron Nuzzle) showtime: 9:00 / $8.00 18+ May 30 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL (with Magas + Scum Ra (featuring Plastic Crimewave and Kathy of Spires That In The Sunset Rise) + Mark Solotroff - doors 8:00/show 8:30 - $10.00 / $12.00 at door June 1 - The Happy Dog - 5801 Detroit Avenue - Cleveland, OH June 3 - (tbc) Soft House at the Copycat Bldg - 5TH FLOOR - 1511 Guilford Street- Baltimore, MD / $7.00 June 4 - The Schoolhouse - 330 Ellery St (at Broadway) Bushwick, Brooklyn (subway: J, M to Flushing; G to Broadway) POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France JASON ROBINSON November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France UZ JSME DOMA September 3 and 4 - the 17th annual Progday - Storybook Farm - Chapel Hill, North Carolina (many more shows to be added - watch this space) ZEVIOUS November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ------ Rest in Peace: Cornell Dupree (R'n'B and funky jazz guitarist *supreme*.) John Walker (guitarist and singer with The Walker Brothers) ------ 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!) : ABRETE GANDUL-Enjambre Sismico (new on Fading/AltrOck) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) THE CLAUDIA QUINTET + 1 with special guests Theo Bleckmann and Kurt Elling-sixth album and YES it is a vocal album(!!!) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes ELTON DEAN'S NINESENSE-Ninesense Suite (finally! recorded 6/20/81 and long rumored to be released, this show from the band's final tour finally makes it out!) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) which will include a DVD of their NEARFest performance from 2010! JAKKO JAKSZYK/MEL COLLINS/ROBERT FRIPP/TONY LEVIN/GAVIN HARRISON-A Scarcity of Miracles (they aren't calling this "KING CRIMSON", but this sure looks like a winner....) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) -Live (reissue of their amazing live release) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras THE NERVE INSTITUTE-Architects of Flesh-Density (on AltrOck) OCTOBER EQUUS-Saturnal (3rd avant-progressive release by this very good, very interesting Spanish band. On AltrOck) ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) SKE-1000 Autumnni (solo release by a member of Yugen that aims for the Canterbury sound. On AltrOck) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany TANGERINE DREAM-Zeit (their classic 3rd album with a previously unreleased bonus disc of a concert from the same era) THINKING PLAGUE-Decline and Fall (studio album #6!) ZEVIOUS-album number 3 (and it's gonna be amazing, judging from their shows recently) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp171.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Accordo Dei Contrari-Kublai $17.00 Very excellent and not to mention eagerly-awaited to release by this very excellent Italian jazz/rock band. As good as, or better than the debut, this ups the wattage a bit, but basically continues to deliver on their 'instrumental Deus ex Machina meets Mahavishnu' sound while the years that have passed since their first one have only served to make them greater. Additionally, Richard Sinclair sings on a track, giving it some ties to the Canterbury sound. Really great. Highly recommended. "Kublai represents ordered chaos, light and dark, the balance between written and improvised music, as illustrated both by the cover and by the music. On the cover is the same sphere of Kinesis, but transformed into something different, which appears to be more linear, essential and complex at the same time. Many small irregular circles are subtly interwoven in a larger regular circle. This is the logo of Accordo dei Contrari (Accord of the Opposites)." [ADC] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Aguaturbia-Psychedelic Drugstore $10.00 (special) "Aguaturbia (or "murky waters") were Chile's premier underground rock band in the late '60s and early '70s, though their uncompromising attitude caused them to flee for the U.S. in 1970, leaving behind two hyper-rare albums. This brilliant compilation gathers the best tracks from those LPs (original copies of which have changed hands for well into four figures). Taking in fuzz-drenched originals and covers of contemporary rock standards, their music combines the savage guitar work of Carlos Corales with the haunting vocals of his wife Denise to stunning effect, and is essential listening for all psych fans. Also included are historical sleevenotes." "Chile's primary underground psychedelic band. Their music is characterized by powerful female vocals and very heavy fuzz guitar work."-Dreams, Fantasies & Nightmares [Relics] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Miles Davis-Live Evil 2 x CDs $11.00 (special) Back in stock! Tremendous price on two albums of (mostly live) astonishment. This album was (mostly) recorded live at Washington DC's Cellar Door on the one night (October 19, 1970) that John McLaughlin came down from NYC to join the regular group of Miles, Keith Jarrett, Gary Bartz, Michael Henderson, Jack DeJohnette and Airto Moreira. Too bad I was only 12 at the time, or I would have mosey'd down there too. With the posthumous release of all of the shows in the "Cellar Door" box, I have read a lot of reviews that the addition of Johnny meant that the 'balance' of the original group was thrown off kilter by his addition and you don't really get the feel of the real group by listening to this and blah blah blah. Lemme tell you something; Johnny f**king slays and Miles & Teo were no dummies; if they chose the material with McLaughlin, it's because they felt that he absolutely raised the bar on the one night he appeared. And they were right. Absolutely essential, early, wild and hairy jazz/rock. Priceless...and now inexpensive too! [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dionysos-Dionysos $10.00 (special) While they last, this is 45% off the regular price. "Dionysos was one of Canada's most influential early progressive rock bands. Having formed in Quebec in 1969, they gained a name for combining French-language vocals with intricate musical interplay, and played at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 1971. This classic debut appeared the same year, combining stoner rock with psychedelia, blues and progressive influences, and makes a welcome return to CD here, together with background notes." "The majority of this album is guitar and keyboard rock with progressive moves."-The Acid Archives "The album experiments with psychedelia, blues and rock, and includes some fine progressive moments."-progquebec.com [Axis] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Doom Ribbons-The Violence, The Violence $13.00 Yes, I know you don't know who this is, but take 2 minutes and read this! Doom Ribbons is a duo that features guitarist/composer Shane Perlowin from Ahleuchatistas, joined by drummer/percussionist James Owen. You would expect it to sound a lot like the Ahleuchatistas, but the sound is a lot less intense and a lot more psychedelic. There's some nice added instrumentation on violin, accordion, double bass, saxes and trumpet, and sonic surprises abound, such as the fourth track that sounds like Faust jamming with Urban Sax. Anyway, in my book this is a hard-core keeper; probably the best record I heard this month. High recommended! "Doom Ribbons is a band from Asheville, North Carolina, featuring multi-intrumentalist/vocalist James Owen and guitarist Shane Perlowin (Ahleuchatistas). The Violence The Violence is Doom Ribbons' debut album. It is a beautiful and haunting opus and a lament for humanity's folly. An ambitious conceptual work over three years in the making, it moves from ambient soundscapes, to epic world beat, to acoustic psychedelia, to tension-building post rock, to noise, to nuanced sound-collage, and it features guest musicians Meghan Mulhearn on violin, Tyler Kittle on tenor sax, Simon Goldberg on trumpet, August Hoerr on accordion, and Joseph Burkett on upright bass." RIYL: Terry Riley, Bob Fripp, Autechre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag, Konono, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Edgard Varese, Ennio Morricone, Henry Cowell, John Cage, Colleen, The Beach Boys, Moondog" You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ England-The Last of the Jubblies $10.00 (special) While they last, this is 45% off the usual price! This rarities collection by this great 'one and done' UK symphonic rock band has unavailable for many years and makes a welcome return here. "England have been described as "the last of the great '70s symphonic prog bands." Drenched in Mellotron and influenced by Yes and Genesis, their Garden Shed is one of the best-loved albums to have emerged from the 1970s UK progressive scene. Last Of The Jubblies is a collection of rare non-album recordings by the band, and a treat for their many fans, showcasing their inimitable songwriting and intricate instrumental work. Includes liner notes." [Relics] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Brian Eno-1971-1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 "The first ever film about one of the most influential characters in the history of modern music. Musician, composer, producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist; probably best known for his early work with Roxy Music, his production duties for U2 & Coldplay, and as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. This documentary film - the first ever about Eno - explores his life, career and music between the years 1971 & 1977, the period that some view as his golden age. Featuring numerous exclusive interviews, contributions from a range of musicians, writers, collaborators and friends - plus performance and studio film and an abundance of the most exceptional music ever created." [Sexy Intellectual] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Flied Egg-Good Bye $10.00 (special) A reissue of a stupidly rare Japanese psych/heavy album, originally released on Japanese Vertigo in 1972. They were a short-lived offshoot of Strawberry Path. "The 2nd and last album from Flied Egg, also originally released in 1972 on Japanese Vertigo. It's a theoretical live album, with a miraculously heavier "rockin" sound than Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine. Number of tracks with the word "woman" in the title? A mere one. But don't let that lessen the sensational experience of your your brain cells slowly killing themselves off one by one as this stoner-magnet spins in your player." [Bamboo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Grobschnitt-Die Grobschnitt Story 0 : 2 x CDs $18.00 Back in stock This is an amazing archival release of early and unreleased Grobschnitt, recorded just before they recorded their first album. These are pretty much perfect quality recordings that include much of the material that would be featured on their first album but there are also many unreleased pieces too. Additionally you get some live material, including a version of Die Sinfonie which is over 30' long and which Grobschnitt fans know can be considered sort of a early proto-version of Solar Music! This would be great under any circumstances, but the 1st Grobschnitt album has never been released on CD, so this is like having a better and bigger version! [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Grobschnitt-Die Grobschnitt Story 1 : 2 x CDs $18.00 This was originally released nearly 20 years ago by Eroc, and consists of previously unreleased live and studio recordings, but it has been out of print for a decade; nice to see it available again! "We are writing the year 1994 and it's time to tell a story - the story of a band and the history of their time. For those who took part in it, and for the ones who never had the chance to do so and would give anything to experience how the spotlight's turned on for the legend among the bands of German Rock History. They were the best. They were indescribable. Never again a non-commercial German band managed to crowd the places with audience like Grobschnitt did with their unique performance combining music and theatre, adventures and fun, and dream and reality. This new issue of The Grobschnitt-Story was remastered with the latest technical achievements and now finally transfers the recordings of our long history how it always was intended." [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Grobschnitt-Die Grobschnitt Story 2 : 2 x CDs $18.00 This was originally released nearly 15 years ago by Eroc, and consists of previously unreleased live and studio recordings, but it has been out of print for a decade; nice to see it available again! "It's 1998 and time to continue the story. And above all it gets more and more important to introduce the picture of a band which is still considered by so many as "the best German live act", to all those who never had the chance to experience this legend live on stage. There was always a discrepancy between Grobschnitt's albums and their live performances. The often uttered statement "you never come across on record as you do live" definitely had it's right. On one hand a studio recording only shows a freezeframe of a working process done with more or less perfection, while performances in front of a living audience are completely different from "performances" in a soundproof recording-room. Like most of Rock History's bands, Grobschnitt also succumbed to this fact. On the other hand there were two basic differences that raised Grobschnitt above many other groups: Grobschnitt offered much more than "only" music on stage. And Grobschnitt existed that long, so several generations of fans only got to know their specific timeframe. Hardly any fan who enjoyed THE CREW rocking in 1968 and 1969 the Beat-Festivals at the Vestlandhalle in Recklinghausen, still attended the debut performance of Rockpommel's Land in 1976. And nobody who experienced Grobschnitt's live performances with two drummers in 1971 sang along when they played "Der Weg nach Haus" at their very last concert ever on 4th of December 1989 at Hagen City Hall. Many of those who still consider themselves as absolute die-hard-fans never saw "Baer" on bass guitar (1970 til 1975) or "Mist" on keyboards (1973 til 1982) live on stage because they joined in later. And others never could experience the band live. This makes it even more important to create with the Grobschnitt-Story a comprehensive insight, to get rid of rumours, conjecture and envy. Grobschnitt were not (only) the "Sauerland Lunatics". In addition to that they scarcely were those typical impassive representatives of clumsy Teuton music somebody somewhen branded as "Krautrock". Also it is inappropriate to consider them a late 60s hippie-commune of hempseed brains. Over decades Grobschnitt were to a great extent an unbelievable hard working creative bond of talented musicians with ideas in many cases far ahead of their time. It is kind of idle when nowaday's generations are chasing acts who try to cover up their helplessness with e.g. martial affectation and fireeffects and thereby always keep their eyes on the profit. Grobschnitt set the stages on fire right from the beginning using nothing but fun and music to light them up. Promotion and money were no matter at all. Grobschnitt-Story 2 therefore provides further insights to the show, the backstage area and soundexamples that were unreleased up to this day for reasons whatsoever. So the chronic of "canned" Grobschnitt gets longer, more colourful and much more complex and thereby further approaches the actual character of this unique band, that offers material for at least 1000 stories."-Eroc, September 1998 [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kuni Kawachi and Flower Travelling Band-Love Suki Daikirai/Kirikyogen $10.00 (special) "This is a two-fer reissue of early '70s Japanese underground rock albums Love Suki Daikirai and Kirikyogen, featuring Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travelling Band. Recorded in 1970, the tone of Kirikyogen is cast in a shadow, and it seeps through the pores of each track, with titles such as "Graveyard Of Love" and "Works Composed Mainly By Humans." However, this ain't some pointless posturing... this is an LP that carries that weight, while remembering to bring a pocket full of cool-ass riffs, super-heavy Hammond, bouncin' bass and far-out vox. LP opener, "Kirikyogen" teases in the intro with stop/start bass and organ before dropping into Grade A heavy funk-psych prog rock. It's completely irresistible. There's a whiff of the weirdness of early English prog records, but crucially, these kids were still into Hendrix too, remembering that no matter how good you are on guitar, you still gotta bring something to the dancefloor. Love Suki Daikirai released in 1972 is more straight-up dreamy psychedelia. Kawachi plays piano, celesta, Hammond organ, Rocksichord, Harpsichord, various percussions, and sings. Kimio Mizutani (A Path Through Haze, Love Live Life +1) contributes acoustic and electric guitars." "...the appearance on lead vocals of Akira 'Joe' Yamanaka has guaranteed Kirikyogen a rightful place in rock'n'roll history, and a more genuinely listenable Japrock art statement you'd be hard pressed to find."-Julian Cope [Bamboo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Denny King-Evil Wind is Blowing $10.00 (special) While they last, this is 45% off the regular price! So, I am in the middle of reading John French's book about the Magic Band ("Through the Eyes of Magic") and one of the things it is giving me an appreciation of is the guitarwork of the original two guitarists in the Magic Band, Doug Moon and especially Alex St. Claire Snouffer. Other than his appearances with the Magic Band, this blues-based album is the only other appearance of Alex and Doug. "It was during this time that Alex was involved in the recording of the Evil Wind Is Blowing album (released in 1972) by another Lancaster musician working on the bar circuit - Denny King. Well worth checking out this is a great blues-based album with many Beefheart/Magic Band overtones. Doug Moon appears on harmonica. Alex, as ever plays fine slide guitar, plus some trumpet as well as getting a production and co-writing credit."-John French "This superb blues-rock album was issued on Little Richard's Specialty label in the summer of 1972, and has barely been heard since. Featuring the distinctive singing and guitar of Wisconsin-native King, backed by early Captain Beefheart sidemen Alex St. Claire and Doug Moon, it's a lost genre classic with unusually fine musicianship and an odd vibe all of its own. Includes biographical liner notes." "King's vocals are in a Beefheart-out-of-Howlin' Wolf mode ... The album features cool harmonica and really hot slide guitar (courtesy of ex-Beefheart sideman Alex St. Claire). The rhythm section is stellar too."-The Acid Archives [Axis] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Niagara-Niagara/S.U.B./Afire 3 x CDs $19.00 Back in stock and lower-priced too! Niagra released 3 albums (two on United Artists) in Germany in the heady early Krautrock days. The first album is a all percussion album (that's all percussion, not all drum solos). The second album adds other musicians/instruments as does the third, but all are very percussive-oriented and feature a lot of groove. "Austrian Klaus Weiss (former Friedrich Gulda musician and leader of his own orchestra) moved to Munich in the early-70's. Himself a drummer, he became fascinated with the possibility of creating a drum orchestra out of the wealth of Munich drummers, thus Niagara was born featuring percussionists from all backgrounds. With just one track per side the debut Niagra offered an energetic and highly charged percussion music combining rock, jazz and African cultures into a most complex music. Obviously, such an album was destined to very limited appeal and thus further Niagara offerings featured other instruments turning Niagara into a percussive fronted fusion band, in the realms of Embryo and Passport, but with a much bigger jazz-groove sound."-The Crack in the Cosmic Egg [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Nordagust-In the Mist of Morning $16.00 This is the 1st release by a Norwegian symphonic rock band who draw from the great legacy of modern Scandanavian symphonic groups like Anglagard and Wobbler (what? I need to list them?). The sound features beautiful, soaring, guitar leads, mellotron and other keyboards, and a dark, melancholy symphonic moodiness which is reflected in the sorrowful vocals. There's also cool folk touches like dulcimer and more. As nice and as brooding as you would hope for! "The name "Nordagust" comes from a myth, and acording to that myth Nordagust was the spirit of the north wind. The spirit was said to be extremely wise, and was supposed to have insight in all things. The spirit was also called "the grieving souls spirit". The band Nordagust was formed in 1999, but the members have played together more or less since 1994. The idea of Nordagust was basically to use the wistful, bewitching and recklessness of Norwegian folk music, and to intergrate this with a form of heavy rock music. With this as a starting point, we have made music from our own impressions and experience. This has of course been done before, but we try hard to find our own expression, with weight on a soulful atmosphere and organic dynamics, above precision and virtuosity." [Karisma] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eberhard Schoener-Bali-Agung CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $19.00 One of a small number of Kosmiche classics by this composer and keyboardist. The CD has been out before, although I haven't seen it in many ages, but no one has seen the film in decades and decades! This is a quietly extraordinary release; highly recommended! "Eberhard Schoener is hailed as the first German musician to own a "Big Moog" system, and was also amongst the first musicians to do an album of purely synthesizer music.... Another innovation was the unique fusion of Gamelan music, synthesizers and drums, on the extraordinary BALI-AGÚNG."-The Crack in the Cosmic Egg "The island Bali in the Indian Ocean became perhaps the most important chapter in the musical life of Eberhard Schoener. There he found something he had not seen before, - at least not in the Western civilized world he lived in - and he felt a strong desire for empirical music. Feeling is the credo in Eberhard's music. He is a musician who concluded that things can arise out of the feeling of the moment and that he must have the courage to go for it. "In modern music", he says "feelings were immediately dismissed as kitsch". Eberhard owes the discovery of Bali to Johannes Schaaf, who first brought him to this island but he really got to know Bali through the Swiss artist Theo Meier who introduced Eberhard to his longtime friend, the Prince Agung Raka in Saba. Eberhard extended all his antennae and drank in the Balinese life. Agung Raka introduced him to the gamelan music. Gamelan is not only referring to a style of music but also to the instruments used to create it. Most gamelan instruments are beaten with a hammer made of wood or horn. Mainly, they consist of metallophones with bars made of bronze, gongs and drums. Depending on the style, flutes and xylophone might also be added. In the old days, every village and every aristocrat has had its / his own gamelan. Eberhard observing how Agung Raka treated his musicians, with precision and patience, Eberhard learned not to make decisions for the musicians, but simply to accompany them instead.....After several visits to Bali, it was clear to Eberhard that he and the gamelan orchestra of Prince Agung Raka would do something new. He spoke with drummer Pete York about it. A composition of traditional gamelan sounds, with Pete's rhythm and Eberhard's sensitive electronics, it would be exciting. He also wanted to film a documentary about how the musicians approach each other with their different attitudes towards the other's conception. The film not only shows what happens, but it also interprets the music through images, a complex interaction and an opportunity to perform his music and bring it to a spiritual place. In 1975, Eberhard Schoener bundled up the cables for his Moog and traveled to Bali with all the necessary equipment, along with Pete York, two engineers and a cameraman to the city of Denpasar in Bali....Under the title "Bali Agung -or - The Other Time" the documentary was shown on German TV. Eberhard was awarded by the German evening newspaper DIE ZEIT in February 1976 with "the Star of the week". The LP was positively received . DIE ZEIT wrote, "The result is something entirely new: floating sounds and hard rhythms, both contemplative as a very exciting music of a very own kind". Meanwhile, Eberhard pursued his aim of a joint tour. He went to Bali several times in the summertime to organize the documents for the musician's outward voyage." [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eberhard Schoener-Flashback $16.00 This is the best known of his works...mainly because his backing band was The Police (then completely unknown). It mostly sounds like Eberhard, but you can hear a little bit of The Police in it too. Funny! " He is a tall man in his fifties with romantic wisps of grey hair framing an interestingly lugubrious face. His face looks like an eighteenth century aristocrat who has somehow been displaced into the twentieth. It was Andy Summers, The Police's guitarist who had introduced us all years ago. Andy brought Stewart Copeland and me to Munich in 1977 to work with this unusual director. Eberhard Schoener needed a band of versatile musicians to take part in a show that he was creating. We had only recently formed The Police and were desperately in need of funds to keep our venturous dreams of stardom alive. Hence, a couple of weeks working in Germany as part of (as Andy described it) 'a multi media extravaganza of lasers, circus, rock, classical and electronic music, with ballet dancers and a mime artist' was too seductive to refuse not to mention extremely well paid. We were on the next plane out, not quite sure what we were in for but none the less excited. Eberhard's urbane cosmopolitanism, his old fashioned German addiction to romanticism and his insistence that modern life could still be an adventure inspired me greatly, as he really seemed to be a man born in those days."-Sting [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eberhard Schoener-Trance-Formation $16.00 One of a small number of Kosmiche classics by this composer and keyboardist. The CD has been out before, although I haven't seen it in many ages, but it makes a welcome return. The combination of Andy Summers' guitar with a small rock band and nearly 'monesterial' vocals make this a really great album. This is a quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) deep release; highly recommended! "Eberhard Schoener is hailed as the first German musician to own a "Big Moog" system, and was also amongst the first musicians to do an album of purely synthesizer music... "-The Crack in the Cosmic Egg "Back then, I was interested in creating kind of shifting musical layers, a means to let the chorus - almost canonical - come in at certain intervals, like in "Frame of Mind", the first track on the LP. This had an incredible effect. We had to be very technically clever, because computers did not exist at that time. So we made tape loops - some as long as 10 meters - and threaded them through the EMI-studio recording and each one had to be started at a fixed interval. Technically speaking, this was a really crazy project and I believe, no record has ever been produced this way before. The whole studio looked like a maze. There were tapes all over the room, hanging on wall ledges or on broomsticks. When I had finished, the time difference of "Frame of Mind", was caused by the different starts of the tapes, I said to Andy, and Nippy Noya, the percussionist, "Forget about the beat, forget the tact! Play just as you feel. I want to have a complete obliteration of the bar." There should be a big bow - a phenomenon, as Celibidache would have called it - that generates a maelstrom. In "Falling into a Trance", I turned to the "Black & Decker" principle. We named it the "Black & Decker" principle alluding to the advertisement in which the company name is pronounced in a furiously fast, choppy rhythm. The Moog synthesizer had a sequencer. This sequencer allowed us to repeat certain melodies, thus causing the "Black & Decker" effect. There were many attempts needed before the computer generated sounds like this specific rattle. We were nominated for the" German Record Prize", as the "Black & Decker" -principle was something completely new. Later, when I visited a New York nightclub on Long Island, I heard some music and thought, "Oh, my God, I know that sound!"' I asked the DJ and then he said:"Munich sound". I then bought that record, it was number one on the U.S. charts at that time. When I returned to Germany, I asked my former technician Robert Wedel: "This, I heard in America, the current number one record on the U.S. charts. Did you pass this effect on to someone else?". "Yes," he answered, "to Giorgio Moroder. I didn't know he wanted to use it for himself. Moroder, producer and composer, had added a woman's voice to the track, I think it was Donna Summer.'"-Eberhard Schoener [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ La Stelle di Mario Schifano-Dedicato a... $10.00 (special) While they last, this is 45% off the regular price! "Mario Schifano was a leading Italian pop artist, and a friend of The Rolling Stones and other prominent 1960s countercultural figures. Inspired by Andy Warhol's association with The Velvet Underground, in 1967 he decided to sponsor a band. The album that resulted combines a lengthy improvisation with five shorter, psychedelic-influenced tracks, and is a landmark in the development of Italian rock. Pressed in tiny quantities, it was released in November 1967 (with artwork designed by Schifano), and original copies have sold for thousands of Euros, making this long-awaited CD reissue especially welcome. Includes background notes." "The only (true) italian psychedelic album. The first track is one of the most experimental tour de force of those years (the early Pink Floyd meet Zappa and John Cage?)and a stunning, powerful piece of absurd music. Side 2 is much more traditional, but some songs (Susan Song, Molto Lontano) have delicate melodies and are superbly arranged."-rateyourmusic.com [Relics] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Trees-The Garden Of Jane Delawney (expanded/remastered) $15.00 Back in stock First album of two by this short-lived UK folk rock band. At their best, they combine fine folk rock with good psychedelic touches and a guitarist who is reminsicent of the great Popol Vuh guitarist Daniel Fichelscher! If you dig this sort of thing, you will enjoy this. "Trees play folk rock comparable to bands like Fairport Convention or Mellow Candle. Beautiful compositions with a good balance between acoustic and electric pieces. Electric and acoustic guitar are the principal instruments. The vocals are handled by an excellent female vocalist. Sheer beauty reigns on this album. The melancholic title track is out of this world. An incredible folk rock classic."-Gnosis/Sjef Oeller [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ulver-Wars of the Roses $15.00 Ulver were a Norwegian black metal band who turned into a oddball, soundtracky-noir band and who nabbed Daniel O'Sullivan from Guapo and are now a simply indescribable band! "It’s astonishing to look at where Ulver are today and to think back to where they have come from. These eclectic Norwegians began their life as a black metal band heavily influenced by their national folklore. Nowadays they are a genre-busting electronica act. Of course the notorious black metal scene, in Norway especially, is not well known for its overwhelming tolerance for other musical creeds...quite the opposite. Along their bumpy ride Ulver have had to put up constantly with the purists scoffing at their departure from the black metal scene that spawned them. Everyone else who has given them a listen in this time meanwhile has been astonished by their musical explorations. From the trip-hop of 'Perdition City' to the ambience of 'Shadows of the Sun', Ulver have been at the forefront of cutting edge electronic music now for over a decade. The long-awaited 'Wars of the Roses' is the first release by the band since they became a regular touring act again in 2009, and since English multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan joined to make the act a quartet; a quartet that has made a masterpiece... For the musical purist this album is undeniably going to be a little bit of a tricky ride. It is not altogether easy to figure out what you’re actually hearing at any one moment on this record. The now trademark Ulver array of electronic scribbles, only broadened with the arrival of O’Sullivan in the ranks, are combined with flashes of recognisable instruments. The best example of this wide array of sounds comes in closer 'Stone Angels' which is the only song on the record that could really be accused, completely fairly, of not being so much a song as a purely experimental piece. Featuring O’Sullivan reading a poem by Keith Waldrop over a swell of ambient soundscapes, 'Stone Angels' stretches on for a whole fourteen minutes although, for this listener at least, it is a fourteen minutes that floats by in a haze of glorious tranquillity. For some the closing track will be an inconvenience or unnecessarily artsy touch to the record but in fact sums up some of what is most brilliant about it. There is restraint and texture, light and shade, art and song. No, it actually does not matter one bit that there are no prominent guitars or indeed that there is an absence of prominent instrumentation at all for the majority of the running time; this is still an effort of musical genius. In fact, this is probably the best album that 2011 will see."-stereoboard.com [KScope] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wobbler-Rites at Dawn $18.00 Third from one of the best retro-symphonic rock bands today, Wobbler emerged with their first album in the early 00s and their sound instantly gained them an international following. This new one veers a bit closer to the classic Yes sound than their past works, but its still recognizably Wobbler. But they are definitely kidding themselves about one thing below: Girlfriends will *not* like this. "Norway's kings of symphonic prog, Wobbler, arrogantly sidestep the whole debate of "prog" versus progressive. Since it's dubious whether rock has anywhere left to progress anyway, they have instead chosen simply to celebrate the rainbow-colored fireworks, the airy-fairy themes, the danger and the drama and the joy of pure music that made prog what it really was, and still can be: An exhilarating musical spectacle, a gladiator match of major chord crescendos and mini-moog glissandos. Wobbler's third album, Rites at Dawn, is a case in point. It's a no-holds-barred declaration of love to the progressive giants. It's all here - Lars Fredrik Frøislie's overblown arsenal of every analog synth known to man, played with Wakemanesque flair and Emersonian hubris. Andreas Prestmo's soaring vocals, delivering at times delicate, fragile melodies and at times joyous, triumphant multi-part harmonies that would make CSN proud. The vibrant, stinging guitar of Morten Eriksen, the - you guessed it - thundering Rickenbacker bass of Kristian Hultgren, and finally Martin Kneppen's drumming, which manages that neat and esoteric 70's trick of making even impossible time signatures swing and swagger. Rites at Dawn is a major step forward for Wobbler. As songwriters they have matured. Even though the music is as complex as ever, it flows and breathes in a whole new way, and the addition of Andreas' vocals adds a very human, and dare we say emotional, element to the songs. The album somehow pulls off being both challenging and adventurous, but at the same time accessible and downright infectious. Even though this is the kind of prog connoisseurs will stroke their beards appreciatively to, it is also prog their girlfriends will like. And you really can't ask for more than that." You can hear their music here: http://www.youtube.com/watch? http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Below are six (!!!) new Cuneiform releases and a re-printing of an out of print classic, which are not going to be generally released for another few weeks, but which you can buy directly from us now. Our releases are available from us to our direct mail customers several weeks before they are generally released or available from other sources. We spend a small fortune on our releases and your direct purchase from us via Wayside Music helps us tremendously and is extremely important to our being able to continue our work and our release schedule; Please don't steal them or make it possible for others to steal them. Thank you for your interest and support of our work. Afuche-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match $15.00 "An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker “Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel Music Based out of Brooklyn, NY and creating a group sound that is truly their own, Afuche is a band that needs to be heard by lovers of adventurous, modern progressive music! Formed by Ruben Sindo Acosta & Zach Ryalls in 2008, they have been adding to the ensemble and evolving their sound by writing, performing, and touring non-stop – it was at one of their many shows where we found them and watched their continued development with keen interest. Afuche is a 5 piece band featuring Ruben on keyboard, vocals and percussion, Zach on guitar, Denny Tek on bass, Andrew Carrico on baritone sax and Max Jaffe on drum. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences as a base and apply their own group sound to it and bend it all into a hybrid, original and very progressive contemporary rock music that is interestingly complex without losing its inviting quality; most of all Afuche is a lot of fun. Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is a showcase of a group whose sound is more than the sum of its parts. Recorded mainly live in the studio with minimal textural overdubs in one day, it is Afuche presenting their work with just as you would experience it at one of their lively and exciting shows. The fearless intensity and the strong group dynamic in the playing - extremely notable in such a young band - pours through the speakers; their sound is catchy and mesmerizing and will have you moving in ways you never thought possible! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cheer-Accident-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs $15.00 "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser of an album..." – Time Out New York Emerging from the incredibly diverse crucible of music that is Chicago, Cheer-Accident embodies and re-affirms the “promises made” by previous generations of progressive rock, post-punk, and post rock bands—the creation of a thoroughly new rock-based music. There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century. Cheer-Accident wrap creativeness inside an inviting enigma of honeyed vocals, harmonious pop melody, and thorny dissonance. They have the rare ability to synthesize and juxtapose pure pop, thundering rock, and avant-garde complexity and ambiguity, intuition and intellect, sweetness and sarcasm, to create a stunning signature sound.No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs, Cheer-Accident’s 17th album is a kaleidoscopic, inclusive trip into a musical madhouse that you’ll want to stay lost within. The core membership of the ever-shifting organism that is Cheer-Accident remains Thymme Jones (vocals, keyboards, brass, synth, drums); Carmen Armillas (vocals), Alex Perkolup (vocals, bass, guitar), and Jeff Libersher (vocals, guitar, keys, trumpet, bass), with able and many assists from D. Bayne (trombone, keyboards), Andrea Faught (vocals, keyboards), and Lise Gilly (saxophones), among others. Everyone makes significant and important and wonderful contributions, but since the vocalist is always the focal point in bands, I want to mention that Carmen is a real find, with a powerfully emotive voice; she really lends a huge presence to this album, working beautifully with Thymme and Jeff and the rest. The songs on No Ifs… run the gamut of everything that makes Cheer-Accident an exceptional band: prickly, lurching psychedelia with honeyed singing, quizzical Steve Reich-meets-King Crimson rockers, and sweetly peculiar soft-pop a la Beach Boys and Free Design. This diversity does not denote dilettantism, however; Cheer Accident empowers and devotes itself to whatever style, mode, or genre it absorbs. Even after a few listens, regardless of stylistic diversity displayed during No Ifs, Ands or Dogs is the commitment to primo performance of the album/music/concept as a whole — songs often lead into one another, going from a self-contained song to a introduction (or a coda) depending on where you are or where your focus is in the listening. After the critical acclaim and expanded audience that greeted Cheer-Accident after the release of Fear Draws Misfortune, the group responded as they always do; by a reinvention of their sound. A wonderful album that is – as usual - also something completely different! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gösta Berlings Saga-Glue Works $15.00 "Masterpiece…or thereabouts: 5/5" – Lowcut Magazine "This is hypnotic, robotic, thankfully long and yet somehow, so damn soulful. Also, I haven’t heard a Fender Rhodes being played like this since like forever....It doesn’t get better than this." – Deaf Sparrow Named after one of the most notable Swedish books of all time, Gösta Berlings Saga are currently one of Sweden's most notable bands. The group are a modern instrumental rock band and their style combines post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound and more, all recorded and combined with unusual and interesting studio techniques. The four members of Gösta Berlings Saga, with their diverse musical backgrounds and personalities find a common focal point in the music they create together. Each individual effort is melted into the pot and glued together with the rest to create something greater together. The collage as a working method; Soft glued to rough. Epic glued to tiny. Minimalism glued to maximalism, all to create a new whole. For their third album and their first for Cuneiform, they have created an album that is highly and creatively produced. The solid backbone of the band is always the focus and the core: Alexander Skepp (drums and percussion), Einar Baldursson (guitars), David Lundberg (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers and Mellotron), Gabriel Hermansson (bass). With the engineering and production work of Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, White Willow, etc) the band has created a truly all-embracing and forward thinking album. The disc is packed with creative and surprising flourishes from guest musicians performing on French horn, musical saw, cello, trumpet and more. There is always a lot going on that makes Glue Works much more than 'merely' a document of band performing; the group is performing extremely well, but the production work incorporates many unique elements into the album in surprising ways. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Rhizome CD + NTSC (all region) DVD + download coupon $15.00 "In 1973, a rock guitarist and an electronic knob-twiddler released a revered and trail-blazing document in contemporary ambient music: Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's No Pussyfooting. Thirty-five years later, guitarist Richard Pinhas and noise artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) have formed the 21st century version of the concept." – Brandon Wu/Washington City Paper It's interesting that Brandon Wu compares the work of Richard Pinhas and Merzbow to Fripp and Eno. At the time it was recorded, No Pussyfooting was considered to be practically 'noise' (sound familiar?) and Robert Fripp has gone on record about how the record label didn't want to release the album because it would affect the commercial impact of these artsts. Yet, with time, the work the duo did was absorbed into the greater musical universe - if not into the mainstream - and its influence continues to this day. While it's never safe to predict the future, perhaps the unlikely but also quite logical meeting of Richard's billowing clouds of guitarwork with Masami's well considered sonic assault will also prove to be influencial upon the larger musical universe. In any event, this recording from September, 2010, expands upon their first studio meeting, Keio Line and offers an obvious follow-up, as well as new twists to the sound. The first pressing of Rhizome also includes a number of bonuses not available after the initial pressing: a bonus DVD of a generous excerpt of the duo's performance at the Sonic Circuits festival as well as a download coupon for their performance in Paris, November 12, 2008. "A surprising meeting of minds and one of the strongest CDs I've heard in a while." – Musicworks [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $18.00 "...arguably one of the finest works in either artist’s canon; hypnotic like Harmonia and monumental like Mountains. ... 4 stars" – Spencer Grady, Record Collector "Merzbow’s collaboration with French pioneer Richard Pinhas features some of his best music and gleefully amplifies the psychedelic tendencies of both composers." – Luke Schleicher, Laughter "...an album of ambient soundscapes that prove noise can indeed be beautiful, and that it's possible to dispense with conventional constructs of rhythm, melody and harmony yet still create something both musical and profound...it's...quite extraordinary just how appealing it is." – John Kelman, All About Jazz In 2007, guitarist and rock electronics innovator Richard Pinhas performed in Tokyo and then performed a duo concert with notorious 'noise' artist Merzbow. Both men were so excited by the duo concert, they immediately booked studio time to make the recordings that became their first duo release Keio Line. The duo continue to perform together; this concert performance and recording was their first meeting together after Keio Line. It was recorded at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris on November 12, 2008. Even though they had only worked together for a very short time the year before, the duo had already established a recognizable sound with Richard's metronic and spacey guitar figures being worked over by Merzbow's electronic mayhem in a glorious, psychedelic death spiral. Paris 2008 is a vinyl-only release; the first vinyl released by Cuneiform in over 20 years! There are only 500 copies made and there will not be a repress; this lp edition is the only way to buy this in a physical format. The lp comes with a digital download card for the music and if you buy it from Cuneiform, your copy will be on beautiful blue vinyl; there are only 100 blue copies! You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for outside of the USA) $25.00 http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wadada Leo Smith/Organic-Heart's Reflection 2 x CDs $21.00 "Organic’s music is a swirling roar, part fusion and part jazz rock orchestra, like a combination of Burnt Sugar and Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Ensemble. – The Wire, February 2010 cover story "Organic’s music is powerfully electric and electronic in nature; fiery and interactive in character; contemporary, spiritual and politically conscious, its creative energy is heartfelt and connected with the human feeling." – Wadada Leo Smith Although he made his reputation over decades and decades of work in the free jazz and improvised music realm and as a early member of Chicago's hugely influencial AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has long been interested in larger ensembles and electric music as well. Heart’s Reflections is a bold double-disc set that features Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, a predominately electric, fourteen-piece group, a band most notable for a lineup marked by four guitarists. In addition to Smith, who plays both acoustic and electric trumpet, the extraordinary lineup on Heart’s Reflection includes: Brandon Ross, Michael Gregory, Lamar Smith, and Josh Gerowitz on guitar; Skuli Sverrisson and John Lindberg on bass; Angelica Sanchez on acoustic and electric piano; Stephanie Smith on violin; Casey Anderson on alto saxophone; Casey Butler on tenor saxophone; Mark Trayle and Charlie Burgin on laptops; and Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. For a record by such a large group, at times the sound is surprisingly sparse and delicate - both qualities that have long marked Smith's work, while at other times, it sizzles and stomps! There a strong melodies and strong solos throughout; this is not a big band blow-out, but a carefully scored and worked out set of compositions. Though longtime listeners who haven't followed Wadada's work in the last decade might be surprised at times by the fierceness of Organic’s rhythm section, Heart’s Reflections is nonetheless marked by the trumpeter’s usual touchstones: long sustained notes, occasional clipped phrases, and a tough-to-define playfulness that infuses all of his work. Coming across like the next evolutionary step after Miles Davis’ electric era, Heart’s Reflection is a vibrant set that harkens back to the blues influence of Smith’s Mississippi childhood, and looks forward to still-developing realms of noise and electronics. The album fuses a galaxy of influences into a natural and accessible form, offering an ideal entry point into Smith’s vast oeuvre. Heart’s Reflections should appeal to fans of groove-oriented jazz, as well as rock and electronics audiences with a taste for adventure. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phil Miller-Cutting Both Ways $15.00 Back in print after several years of unavailability. Phil Miller made his name as guitarist with the legendary Canterbury bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield & the North and National Health. After the demise of National Health, he began preparing for a solo career that began with Cutting Both Ways and continues to this day. This was the first album released under his own name, and the first album to feature his band In Cahoots, who are pretty much of a supergroup themselves: Hugh Hopper-bass (Soft Machine), Elton Dean-saxes (Soft Machine), Peter Lemer-keyboards (Gilgamesh, Mike Oldfield, Pierre Moerlen's Gong) & Pip Pyle-drums (Gong, Hatfield, National Health). Additionally, two tracks are multi-overdubbed meetings between Phil and keyboardist Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield, National Health) and Barbara Gaskin (Hatfield). Canterbury jazz/rock of the highest order. "This album comprises two aspects of my compositional output. The first is represented by the four pieces recorded by my band, In Cahoots, and the second by the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave Stewart. In Cahoots has toured Europe extensively in the past two years. The music recorded here is largely a result of the live-in-the-studio approach. This contrasts with the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave. Here the orientation is towards multi-tracking, utilizing the latests developments in music technology."– Phil Miller [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA & Canada only) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $74.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for customers outside of the USA and Canada) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $88.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA only) 5 CDs/1 vinyl lp (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD/1 vinyl lp) $91.00 Save $12.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 6 new Cuneiform titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow CD, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow vinyl lp, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): GUTBUCKET http://blurt-online.com/ UZ JSME DOMA http://blurt-online.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - Rock And Pop - Calle de Albasanz, 79 - Madrid, Spain June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DOCTOR NERVE June 25 - Doctor Nerve (with Jersey Band and Turn Around Norman) - The Windup Space - 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201 (410) 244-8855 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland May 28 - TeaterStudio Lederman - Stockholm, Sweden (record release show!) GUTBUCKET May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 10 - Revolution Cafe - San Francisco, CA May 11 - Cafe Van Kleef - Oakland, CA May 12 - Hotel Utah - San Francisco, CA May 13 - Secret Society Lounge - Portland, OR May 14 - Cafe Racer - Seattle, WA May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK MAHAVISHNU PROJECT May 11 - World Cafe Live - 3025 Walnut Street - Philadelphia PA 19104 (215) 222.1400 May 13 - Iridium - 1650 Broadway (at 50th St) - NYC, NY (212) 582-2121 (8 and 10 pm) May 14 - River Street Jazz Cafe - 665 N River St. - Plains, PA (570) 822.2992 May 27 - The 8 x 10 Club - 10 East Cross Street - Baltimore, MD 21230 (410) 625.2000 June 10 - Bearsville Theatre - 291 Tinker St. - Woodstock, NY (845) 679.4406 THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ED PALERMO BIG BAND June 3 - The Falcoln - 1348 Rte 9w - Marlboro, NY 12542 (845) 236-7970 August 3 - Iridum Jazz Club - 1650 Broadway (51st. St.) - New York, NY - 10019 (212) 582.2121 (this show will feature special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!) RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) for the rest of the tour, Richard will be performing in a duo with Duncan Pinhas May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages May 28 - tbc - Detroit May 29 - The Strutt - 773 West Michigan - Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 492-7200 (with Unitard, Forget the Times, Boron Nuzzle) showtime: 9:00 / $8.00 18+ May 30 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL (with Magas + Scum Ra (featuring Plastic Crimewave and Kathy of Spires That In The Sunset Rise) + Mark Solotroff - doors 8:00/show 8:30 - $10.00 / $12.00 at door June 1 - The Happy Dog - 5801 Detroit Avenue - Cleveland, OH June 3 - (tbc) Soft House at the Copycat Bldg - 5TH FLOOR - 1511 Guilford Street- Baltimore, MD / $7.00 June 4 - The Schoolhouse - 330 Ellery St (at Broadway) Bushwick, Brooklyn (subway: J, M to Flushing; G to Broadway) POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance JASON ROBINSON November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France UZ JSME DOMA September 3 and 4 - the 17th annual Progday - Storybook Farm - Chapel Hill, North Carolina (many more shows to be added - watch this space) ZEVIOUS November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Jason Robinson/Janus band November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - Ergo November 29 - Motor Totemists Guild November 29 - Upsilon Acrux November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Gutbucket Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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!) : ABRETE GANDUL-Enjambre Sismico (new on Fading/AltrOck) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes ELTON DEAN'S NINESENSE-Ninesense Suite (finally! recorded 6/20/81 and long rumored to be released, this show from the band's final tour finally makes it out!) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) which will include a DVD of their NEARFest performance from 2010! JEAN PHILLIPE GOUDE-Drones (reissue of a minor classic synthi release) JAKKO JAKSZYK/MEL COLLINS/ROBERT FRIPP/TONY LEVIN/GAVIN HARRISON-A Scarcity of Miracles (they aren't calling this "KING CRIMSON", but this sure looks like a winner....) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) -Live (reissue of their amazing live release) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras THE NERVE INSTITUTE-Architects of Flesh-Density (on AltrOck) OCTOBER EQUUS-Saturnal (3rd avant-progressive release by this very good, very interesting Spanish band. On AltrOck) ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) SKE-1000 Autumnni (solo release by a member of Yugen that aims for the Canterbury sound. On AltrOck) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany TANGERINE DREAM-Zeit (their classic 3rd album with a previously unreleased bonus disc of a concert from the same era) THINKING PLAGUE-Decline and Fall (studio album #6!) ZEVIOUS-album number 3 (and it's gonna be amazing, judging from their shows recently) ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp132.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.-Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Inner Space $16.00 "Anyone who has ever witnessed Acid Mothers Temple live has more than likely heard them perform 'Pink Lady Lemonade.' It's a staple of their live sets and has been released in various forms over the years on of now out of print releases. It is offered here for the first time in a single CD edition. While 'Pink Lady Lemonade' is a single piece of epic proportions, it comes off more like a very cohesive full-length recording, as the tune is broken down into four separate movements. The record's first movement runs for about 30 minutes and introduces the album's central motif, a mesmerizing and repetitive guitar riff. The track eventually dissolves into a particular jazzy section that has the band frantically freaking out somewhere between ragtime and Sun Ra. This jazz-inspired section ends rather abruptly after just under six minutes, yet it's enough to radically alter the previous vibe and prepare oneself for the third movement. The third segment marks the return of main riff being played in a very gentle manner with slight processing on Kawabata Makoto's guitar and additional synth action from Higashi Hiroshi being panned in and out of the mix. The results are very intriguing and verge into psychoacoustic territory. The effect of the layered sounds is reminiscent of that experienced when listening to the music of contemporary classical composer Luigi Nono, whose compositions created something entirely new out of manipulating taped recordings of vocalists and orchestras. Pink Lady Lemonade maintains the same heavy spiritual qualities that so much of the Acid Mothers output does, but the hippy elements are kept a little further at bay and instead replaced with an artier drone component. The effect of the cascading drone alongside the full band playing is both refreshing and strange, almost as if you were listening to two different pieces of music being performed simultaneously." [Alien 8] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Luther Adams-Four Thousand Holes $14.00 "Four Thousand Holes is a sometimes lush, sometimes fragile, rhythmically complex and technically demanding work for piano and mallet percussion (performed by the extraordinary pianist Stephen Drury and percussionist Scott Deal) and ghostly electronic 'auras'--electronic sounds created by processing the acoustic instruments' sonorities. Unlike Adams's other works, the pitch material used in Four Thousand Holes is drawn exclusively from Western music's most basic elements: major and minor triads. In this case they are superimposed upon one another in multiple tempo streams, creating a beautiful yet continuously fracturing sound world--from splintering glass shards to nearly seismic disturbances. The other work on this CD, '...and bells remembered...,'performed by the Callithumpian Consort, is a more introspective piece." [Cold Blue] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Daevid Allen-Time of Your Life 2 x CDs $8.00 (special) This inexpensive compilation gives you two of Daevid's best albums; 1970's "Bananamoon", which has performances from Robert Wyatt, Gary Wright, Pip Pyle, Archie Leggett, Gilli Smyth, Nick Evans, Maggie Bell and others and has a very anarchic/stoned/jam quality. Also included is 1977's excellent release (his second post-Gong album) "Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life, which features Juan Biblioni and Pepe Milon on flamenco guitars, which colors the sound of the whole album, as well Sam Gopal, Victor Peraino and Xaver Riba. The albums are included complete here, but they've mixed up the order. Why? I guess so that it would be deleted and you could pick it up for $8.00! IF you want to program it to hear the original albums, here's the order: Bananamoon: Time of Your Life / Memories / All I Want Is Out of Here / Fred the Fish / White Neck Blooze / Stoned Innocent Frankenstein / And His Adventures in the Land of Flip / I Am a Bowl Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life: Flamenco Zero / Why Do We Treat Ourselves Like We Do? / Tally & Orlando Meet the Cockpot Pixie / See You on the Moontower / Poet for Sale / Crocodile Nonsense Poem / Only Make Love If You Want To / I Am / Deya Goddess. [Atom] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny-Ebbets Field 1974 2 x CDs $15.00 The first time ever legit release of this famous radio recording from Denver, CO in May, 1974. This is mid period, but it captures them when Sandy had returned and anything with Sandy is of interest! "British Folk-Rock legends, Fairport Convention recorded LIVE in 1974 with the late Sandy Denny, Dave Mattacks, Jerry Donahue, Dave Pegg, Trevor Lucas & Dave Swarbrick. A magic evening from May 1974. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk-rock movement." [IAM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Flied Egg-Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine $18.00 "Japan's proggers Flied Egg, consisting of former Strawberry Path alumni Shigeru Narumo and Hiro Tsunoda, supported by former Brush leader, Masayoshi Takanaka, released two albums in the early '70s, Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Machine being the first and undoubtedly the better of the two. Dr. Siegel's..., originally released in 1972, is a much more keyboard-oriented affair, with Narumo adding a Moog, celeste and harpsichord to his usual Hammond and piano line-up. On this album, the musical influences are more Uriah Heep than the previous Hendrix-inspired leanings, although touches of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Birth Control and even Black Sabbath find their way into the musical mèlange. Dr. Siegel's... presents a rich selection of musical styles, culminating with "Guide Me To The Quietness," a glorious prog epic that brings an inventive and enjoyable album to a climactic finale. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collector's edition housed in an LP-replica gatefold card wallet." [Phoenix] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ryan Francis-Works For Piano $13.00 "Ryan Anthony Francis is a remarkable young composer who was born in Portland, Oregon, studied at Julliard and now resides in New York City. His work is brilliant and dynamic, combining the imagination of Ligeti with the minimal language of Steve Reich and John Adams. Fluid and fascinating, his work for solo piano is some of his very best. Performed here by the virtuoso pianist Vicky Chow, a long time colleague of Francis, the music is lush, beautiful and endlessly inventive." Vicky Chow: Piano [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sugar Cane Harris-Cup Full of Dreams (24-bit remastering/mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 First time on CD for this title originally released on MPS, this features Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Dewey Terry, Paul Lagos and others. "Hi Fiddlety - The Hot Rats Connection presents part 1. Sugar Cane Harris was one of the featured violinists on Zappa's may-be-best album ever. Violin wizardry in perfection: Sugar Cane's fourth out of six MPS recording is a jaw-dropping masterpiece that shows the man with the blue fiddle at the zenith of his career..." [Promising Music] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Lard Free-III/Spirale Malax (mini-lp sleeve/remastered) $29.00 Back in stock in limited quantities. Now out of print on CD in any form! Third & final of the original three Lard Free albums. Lard Free, led by Gilbert Artman, were a legendary, early progressive/avant/electronic instrumental group. Along with Heldon this is as close as the French came to "krautrock". This is probably my personal favorite of all of them, & I like all of them a lot! A classic! "Chaotic heavy sound like as early German Rock. The original LP was released on Cobra in 1977. Featuring: Gilbert Artman (orgue, piano, arp synthetiseur, vibraphone, drums premier), Xavier Baulleret (guitares), Yves Lanes (synthy-EMS), Jean-Pierre Thiraut (clarinette). Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the original LP (full coating sleeve). 2007 digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!" [Captain Trip] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magic Mixture-This is the Magic Mixture (bonus/mini-lp sleeve/remastered) $20.00 "Sunbeam Masters is a series of deluxe CDs celebrating some of the most enduring underground albums of the 1960s and 1970s. Manufactured to the highest standards, each is presented in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve, complete with a full-color booklet (including rare pictures and detailed background information) and archive bonus material. Each release is strictly limited to 1,000 individually-numbered copies. Recorded swiftly and issued briefly on the Saga label in September 1968, the sole album by this mysterious London quartet has become one of the most cherished artifacts of British psychedelia. Sunbeam is delighted to announce the only reissue ever to be produced with the full involvement of the band, boasting better sound quality than ever and telling their story for the first time. Also featured are four previously-unheard bonus tracks dating from the same time as the LP, as well as numerous rare photographs, making this the definitive edition of the album and an essential purchase for all fans of UK psych." "A psychedelic classic, full of swirling guitar work and a heavy organ sound."-The Tapestry Of Delights [Sunbeam] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mazal-Axerico En Selanik $13.00 "A remarkable duo out of France performing traditional and original Sephardic-Jewish songs in an electronica/dance context, Axerico en Selanik is one of the most surprising CDs in recent years to come out on the Tzadik Jewish Series. Charming and endlessly creative, these imaginative interpretations combine a hypnotic rhythmic drive with heartfelt vocals. A modern take on tradition with an ecstatic edge." Thomas Baudriller: Programming, Sampler, Bass, Double-bass, Mandolin Emmanuelle Rouvray: Vocals, Percussion [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Nektar-A Tab In The Ocean (expanded) 2 x CDs $15.00 This was the second album released by this English-by-way-of-Germany spacerock band. It was recorded in 1972 and features Taff Freeman (mellotron, pianos, organ, vocals), Roye Albrighton (guitars, vocals), Mo Moore (bass) and Ron Howden (drums). Despite my fondness for the pure psychedelic progressiveness of Journey To The Centre Of The Eye, A Tab In The Ocean is the first release where they really gain their very unique sound and sense of self. Another excellent spacerock release. Additionally (and this is a big deal for fans) you get a second disc of the group from their very earliest days - a 40' demo tape of more than reasonable quality recorded in Boston (!?!?) in 1970 (!!) [IAM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Nektar-Remember The Future (expanded) 2 x CDs $15.00 The third and best-known release by this English group who spent their most popular years in Germany, and are usually thought of as a German band. This was a hugely popular release in the mid 70's, selling hundreds of thousands of copies! Really! Kinda jammy, definitely somewhat Pink Floydy, Nektar were a quartet of vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass and drums. This includes a bunch of extras, including the entire album done live (but not identified as to where and when) and on the second disc, a live show from Brazil in 2007! [IAM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mani Neumeier-Smoking the Contracts $14.00 Includes the wonderfully titled song, "Go Ahead, Oren". "Drummer legend Mani Neumeier meets up with guitar extraordinaire Oren Ambarchi and others. "Smoking the Contracts" consists of two extended tracks recorded live in Melbourne in 2007 and 2009. One a duet between Mani and Oren and the other a quartet where the two are joined by Brandan Walls(guitar) and Edmondo Ammendola(bass). Only musicians of this caliber could conjure up a performance as powerful and interwoven as these recordings." [Atavistic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pink Floyd-Piper at the Gates of Dawn (remastered/expanded) 40th Anniverary Edition 2 x CDs $8.00 (special) Back in stock and last time back in stock; they're all gone now.... This is really an extraordinary buy on an extraordinary work. Originally released in Fall, 1967, this is the very first album by Pink Floyd and is one of the very best releases from the original psychedelic period of music. Period. Band leader Syd Barrett really was a genius, releasing gem after gem until his downfall, which came early and fast, but you can hear why there's still interest in his work nearly 45 years later and over 35 years after he went silent. The rest of the band back him sympathetically and interestingly and as I said, this is a true high-water mark in adventurous, exploratative music, which manages to combine short song-forms with experimentation and to bestow on long-form wig-outs, the listenability of songs. If you don't own this album, I would say that it basically belongs in *any* rock music collection. "But I already own this", I hear you say. Well, maybe you do, but this 40th Anniversary Edition has the album very sympathetically remastered from the original tapes, both mono and stereo with each version getting its own disc. That's right, for the 1st time in 40 years, you can hear the entire original mono mix of the album - and remember that in 1967 bands used to labor over the mono mixes much longer than over the stereo mix, as most people did not have stereo reproducing equipment. The mono and stereo mixes are quite different and there were many ideas used in the mixing of the mono mix that did not make its way to the more familiar stereo mix and vice-versa. I know this album like the back of my hand and the mono mix was a minor revelation. So, again, you probably need this. Unconditionally recommended at any price and at this price?... [EMI] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jean-Luc Ponty-Open Strings (24-bit remastering/mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 First time on CD for this title, which was the last album he released under his own name before he formed his famous 70s fusion group and released Aurora! "Hi Fiddlety - The Hot Rats Connection presents part 2. Jean-Luc Ponty was one of the featured violinists on Zappa's may-be-best album ever. Just before his American breakthrough the French violin star opened his mind towards bridges between pop, rock and free structures, stimulated by some of the most interesting personalities of these days like Joachim Kuhn and Philip Catherine (and Steve Lacy's drummer Oliver Johnson!)." [Promising Music] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Seabrook Power Plant-II $12.00 I've seen this wild, great and extraordinary power trio of electrified banjo, bass and drums twice and the second time was signficantly better than the 'already great' 1st time. Their mixture of the banjo's unique sounds combined with skronk/punk-jazz makes for a unique take on the 2011 version of 'the downtown sound' (now relocated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn). Take 10% no-wave, 50% punk jazz ala Zevious/Massacre and 40% something completely original and that's what these guys present. A fine release and a just slaying live outfit! Highly recommended! "Frank Zappa got it right when he referred to Steve Vai’s style as “stunt guitar,” and up to a point, Brandon Seabrook champions that strain of metalloid virtuosity (e.g., “Black Sheep Squadron” above). But on 2010’s Seabrook Power Plant and the new Seabrook Power Plant II, the guitarist f**ks with our heads by playing much of his crazy-impossible music on banjo (e.g., “Lamborghini Helicopter,” “I’m Too Good for You,” “Sacchetto Mal D’Aria,” “Forcep Protection”). The extraordinary sonic color, rhythmic daredevilry and sheer filth coming from Seabrook’s instruments can be downright alarming—if someone can explain what is happening at 1:15 on “Kush Lamps Ablaze,” please do. Drummer/brother Jared Seabrook and bassist Tom Blancarte help keep it fun. Catch ’em live and you’re surely in for it."-David R. Adler "Seabrook Powerplant II, the follow-up to their incendiary debut release, with tenor banjo/guitarist Brandon Seabrook focusing on composition and in-studio production to pursue the trio's destruction of the walls separating punk, folk and jazz. Following their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which stunned NPR’s A Blog Supreme by terrifyingly sustaining a “crazed state of improvisation,” and numerous live dates, one of which alarmed the New York Times with its “grimly combative clamor,” the group returns with a fresh book of 8 electrifying, category-demolishing compositions on vinyl and CD. Seabrook Power Plant started, says Brandon Seabrook, “as an outlet for my writing and a chance to experiment with sound approach and improvisation on tenor banjo.” Jared Seabrook on drums and bassist Tom Blancarte, the trio was designed to articulate the unique and underexplored percussive capacities of the tenor banjo, an instrument Brandon first engaged while a student at New England Conservatory. Initially inspired by drummer Bob Moses, with whom he studied closely in Boston, Brandon’s diverse influences are evident in his unrivaled approach to the instrument. “Slayer’s Dave Lombardo and Zeppelin’s John Bonham,” he claims, “inspire me equally, as does Thelonious Monk.” While the group’s debut leaned heavily on improvisations built around Brandon’s wild banjo explorations, on Seabrook Power Plant II they emphasize constructing a vigorous band dialogue grounded on a remarkable set of original compositions. After a year and a half of concentrated rehearsals and feverish gigs, this muscular document shows them unleashing the full force of their musical arsenal... From the Minutemen’s jazz-centric econo-punk to the bristling twang-rock of the Meat Puppets, Seabrook Power Plant joins a wide array of musical references without ever slipping into the grips of replication. In part due to their unique instrumentation, the band’s unyielding vision and superb ability as a musical unit sets them apart from their contemporaries. Alongside Sun City Girls, Frank Zappa, and Henry Flynt, Seabrook Power Plant is crafting a sonic universe of its own through daringly unusual and adventurous music." [Loyal Label] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Seabrook Power Plant-II viny lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only; outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted) $16.00 Beautiful lp version of this great disc! I've seen this wild, great and extraordinary power trio of electrified banjo, bass and drums twice and the second time was signficantly better than the 'already great' 1st time. Their mixture of the banjo's unique sounds combined with skronk/punk-jazz makes for a unique take on the 2011 version of 'the downtown sound' (now relocated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn). Take 10% no-wave, 50% punk jazz ala Zevious/Massacre and 40% something completely original and that's what these guys present. A fine release and a just slaying live outfit! Highly recommended! "Frank Zappa got it right when he referred to Steve Vai’s style as “stunt guitar,” and up to a point, Brandon Seabrook champions that strain of metalloid virtuosity (e.g., “Black Sheep Squadron” above). But on 2010’s Seabrook Power Plant and the new Seabrook Power Plant II, the guitarist f**ks with our heads by playing much of his crazy-impossible music on banjo (e.g., “Lamborghini Helicopter,” “I’m Too Good for You,” “Sacchetto Mal D’Aria,” “Forcep Protection”). The extraordinary sonic color, rhythmic daredevilry and sheer filth coming from Seabrook’s instruments can be downright alarming—if someone can explain what is happening at 1:15 on “Kush Lamps Ablaze,” please do. Drummer/brother Jared Seabrook and bassist Tom Blancarte help keep it fun. Catch ’em live and you’re surely in for it."-David R. Adler "Seabrook Powerplant II, the follow-up to their incendiary debut release, with tenor banjo/guitarist Brandon Seabrook focusing on composition and in-studio production to pursue the trio's destruction of the walls separating punk, folk and jazz. Following their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which stunned NPR’s A Blog Supreme by terrifyingly sustaining a “crazed state of improvisation,” and numerous live dates, one of which alarmed the New York Times with its “grimly combative clamor,” the group returns with a fresh book of 8 electrifying, category-demolishing compositions on vinyl and CD. Seabrook Power Plant started, says Brandon Seabrook, “as an outlet for my writing and a chance to experiment with sound approach and improvisation on tenor banjo.” Jared Seabrook on drums and bassist Tom Blancarte, the trio was designed to articulate the unique and underexplored percussive capacities of the tenor banjo, an instrument Brandon first engaged while a student at New England Conservatory. Initially inspired by drummer Bob Moses, with whom he studied closely in Boston, Brandon’s diverse influences are evident in his unrivaled approach to the instrument. “Slayer’s Dave Lombardo and Zeppelin’s John Bonham,” he claims, “inspire me equally, as does Thelonious Monk.” While the group’s debut leaned heavily on improvisations built around Brandon’s wild banjo explorations, on Seabrook Power Plant II they emphasize constructing a vigorous band dialogue grounded on a remarkable set of original compositions. After a year and a half of concentrated rehearsals and feverish gigs, this muscular document shows them unleashing the full force of their musical arsenal... From the Minutemen’s jazz-centric econo-punk to the bristling twang-rock of the Meat Puppets, Seabrook Power Plant joins a wide array of musical references without ever slipping into the grips of replication. In part due to their unique instrumentation, the band’s unyielding vision and superb ability as a musical unit sets them apart from their contemporaries. Alongside Sun City Girls, Frank Zappa, and Henry Flynt, Seabrook Power Plant is crafting a sonic universe of its own through daringly unusual and adventurous music." [Loyal Label] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Tangent-Going Off on Two CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $27.00 "The Tangent release Going Off On Two" is their second live DVD/CD. As an independent Fan-funded release, this DVD shows the new band performing over 90 minutes of music from different areas of their career. Filmed in a studio environment the DVD is energetic and vital, beautifully recorded and filmed. Showcasing the five piece lineup of the all British band in an entirely LIVE situation with no overdubbing, the band work their way through classics like "In Darkest Dreams" and "GPS Culture" and jawdropping live versions of songs from the "Down & Out In Paris & London" album like "Where are they Now?" and "Perdu Dans Paris". in addition there's a completely new song "The Mind's Eye" (unavailable anywhere else at present) which is a preview of the new studio album "COMM" due for release later in 2011. Theo Travis (Sax & Flute) joins up again with band leader Andy Tillison (Keyboards & Vocals) - Jonathan Barrett (Bass), Tony Latham (Drums) and the incredible 22 year old guitarist Luke Machin whose work on this DVD will amaze everyone! This is a 2 disc set that includes the DVD with extra subtitled commentary, interviews and photo gallery and audio CD that contains most of the music from the video." [Sally Collyer] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ TheRhythmIsOdd-Raw Material $13.00 TheRhythmIsOdd were formerly known as Trio, and we have stocked a previous album by them entitled "From Nowhere to Eternity". On that one, they played a sort of heavy power trio fusion music. Here, they've not only changed their name, but they have changed their approach. This is a heavy, psych/out/jammer, which will remind you of groups like early Guru Guru, Sepsis and Loch Ness. The band plays with total authority and also with total abandon. Unbelievably great if you like this style; highly recommended. [TRIO] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Emil Viklicky-The Funky Way of Emil Vicklicky $13.00 Well, it's a silly concept and sillier cover, but if this hipster compilation will allow people to hear the music released between 1974-1987 by this Czech keyboardist (probably best known to Waysiders for his work with Energit), all's the better and it's reasonably priced too. [Vampisoul] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Zorn-The Satyr's Play: Cerberus $17.00 "Two dramatic new worlds in sound from our downtown Alchemist who continues to confound and defy expectations well into his fourth decade of recorded activity. Scored for two percussionists, The Satyr's Play is a dramatic work that mysteriously evokes the decadent excesses of Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. Presented in book form accompanied by a esoteric text beautifully illustrated with rare drawings by the great mystical artist Austin Osman Spare, this is a work of subtle nuance and sexuality. In contrast, Cerberus, is a flamboyant and dynamic trio for brass. A demonic piece featuring three undisputed Brass virtuosos, it jumps styles, moods and genres in classic Zorn fashion. Radical, moody and colorful chamber works for the 21st century." Cyro Baptista: Percussion Marcus Rojas: Tuba David Taylor: Bass Trombone Kenny Wollesen: Percussion Peter Evans: Trumpet [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Below are six (!!!) new Cuneiform releases and a re-printing of an out of print classic, which are not going to be generally released for another 4 weeks, but which you can buy directly from us now. Our releases are available from us to our direct mail customers several weeks before they are generally released or available from other sources. We spend a small fortune on our releases and your direct purchase from us via Wayside Music helps us tremendously and is extremely important to our being able to continue our work and our release schedule; Please don't steal them or make it possible for others to steal them. Thank you for your interest and support of our work. Afuche-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match $15.00 "An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker “Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel Music Based out of Brooklyn, NY and creating a group sound that is truly their own, Afuche is a band that needs to be heard by lovers of adventurous, modern progressive music! Formed by Ruben Sindo Acosta & Zach Ryalls in 2008, they have been adding to the ensemble and evolving their sound by writing, performing, and touring non-stop – it was at one of their many shows where we found them and watched their continued development with keen interest. Afuche is a 5 piece band featuring Ruben on keyboard, vocals and percussion, Zach on guitar, Denny Tek on bass, Andrew Carrico on baritone sax and Max Jaffe on drum. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences as a base and apply their own group sound to it and bend it all into a hybrid, original and very progressive contemporary rock music that is interestingly complex without losing its inviting quality; most of all Afuche is a lot of fun. Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is a showcase of a group whose sound is more than the sum of its parts. Recorded mainly live in the studio with minimal textural overdubs in one day, it is Afuche presenting their work with just as you would experience it at one of their lively and exciting shows. The fearless intensity and the strong group dynamic in the playing - extremely notable in such a young band - pours through the speakers; their sound is catchy and mesmerizing and will have you moving in ways you never thought possible! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cheer-Accident-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs $15.00 "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser of an album..." – Time Out New York Emerging from the incredibly diverse crucible of music that is Chicago, Cheer-Accident embodies and re-affirms the “promises made” by previous generations of progressive rock, post-punk, and post rock bands—the creation of a thoroughly new rock-based music. There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century. Cheer-Accident wrap creativeness inside an inviting enigma of honeyed vocals, harmonious pop melody, and thorny dissonance. They have the rare ability to synthesize and juxtapose pure pop, thundering rock, and avant-garde complexity and ambiguity, intuition and intellect, sweetness and sarcasm, to create a stunning signature sound.No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs, Cheer-Accident’s 17th album is a kaleidoscopic, inclusive trip into a musical madhouse that you’ll want to stay lost within. The core membership of the ever-shifting organism that is Cheer-Accident remains Thymme Jones (vocals, keyboards, brass, synth, drums); Carmen Armillas (vocals), Alex Perkolup (vocals, bass, guitar), and Jeff Libersher (vocals, guitar, keys, trumpet, bass), with able and many assists from D. Bayne (trombone, keyboards), Andrea Faught (vocals, keyboards), and Lise Gilly (saxophones), among others. Everyone makes significant and important and wonderful contributions, but since the vocalist is always the focal point in bands, I want to mention that Carmen is a real find, with a powerfully emotive voice; she really lends a huge presence to this album, working beautifully with Thymme and Jeff and the rest. The songs on No Ifs… run the gamut of everything that makes Cheer-Accident an exceptional band: prickly, lurching psychedelia with honeyed singing, quizzical Steve Reich-meets-King Crimson rockers, and sweetly peculiar soft-pop a la Beach Boys and Free Design. This diversity does not denote dilettantism, however; Cheer Accident empowers and devotes itself to whatever style, mode, or genre it absorbs. Even after a few listens, regardless of stylistic diversity displayed during No Ifs, Ands or Dogs is the commitment to primo performance of the album/music/concept as a whole — songs often lead into one another, going from a self-contained song to a introduction (or a coda) depending on where you are or where your focus is in the listening. After the critical acclaim and expanded audience that greeted Cheer-Accident after the release of Fear Draws Misfortune, the group responded as they always do; by a reinvention of their sound. A wonderful album that is – as usual - also something completely different! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gösta Berlings Saga-Glue Works $15.00 "Masterpiece…or thereabouts: 5/5" – Lowcut Magazine "This is hypnotic, robotic, thankfully long and yet somehow, so damn soulful. Also, I haven’t heard a Fender Rhodes being played like this since like forever....It doesn’t get better than this." – Deaf Sparrow Named after one of the most notable Swedish books of all time, Gösta Berlings Saga are currently one of Sweden's most notable bands. The group are a modern instrumental rock band and their style combines post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound and more, all recorded and combined with unusual and interesting studio techniques. The four members of Gösta Berlings Saga, with their diverse musical backgrounds and personalities find a common focal point in the music they create together. Each individual effort is melted into the pot and glued together with the rest to create something greater together. The collage as a working method; Soft glued to rough. Epic glued to tiny. Minimalism glued to maximalism, all to create a new whole. For their third album and their first for Cuneiform, they have created an album that is highly and creatively produced. The solid backbone of the band is always the focus and the core: Alexander Skepp (drums and percussion), Einar Baldursson (guitars), David Lundberg (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers and Mellotron), Gabriel Hermansson (bass). With the engineering and production work of Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, White Willow, etc) the band has created a truly all-embracing and forward thinking album. The disc is packed with creative and surprising flourishes from guest musicians performing on French horn, musical saw, cello, trumpet and more. There is always a lot going on that makes Glue Works much more than 'merely' a document of band performing; the group is performing extremely well, but the production work incorporates many unique elements into the album in surprising ways. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Rhizome CD + NTSC (all region) DVD + download coupon $15.00 "In 1973, a rock guitarist and an electronic knob-twiddler released a revered and trail-blazing document in contemporary ambient music: Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's No Pussyfooting. Thirty-five years later, guitarist Richard Pinhas and noise artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) have formed the 21st century version of the concept." – Brandon Wu/Washington City Paper It's interesting that Brandon Wu compares the work of Richard Pinhas and Merzbow to Fripp and Eno. At the time it was recorded, No Pussyfooting was considered to be practically 'noise' (sound familiar?) and Robert Fripp has gone on record about how the record label didn't want to release the album because it would affect the commercial impact of these artsts. Yet, with time, the work the duo did was absorbed into the greater musical universe - if not into the mainstream - and its influence continues to this day. While it's never safe to predict the future, perhaps the unlikely but also quite logical meeting of Richard's billowing clouds of guitarwork with Masami's well considered sonic assault will also prove to be influencial upon the larger musical universe. In any event, this recording from September, 2010, expands upon their first studio meeting, Keio Line and offers an obvious follow-up, as well as new twists to the sound. The first pressing of Rhizome also includes a number of bonuses not available after the initial pressing: a bonus DVD of a generous excerpt of the duo's performance at the Sonic Circuits festival as well as a download coupon for their performance in Paris, November 12, 2008. "A surprising meeting of minds and one of the strongest CDs I've heard in a while." – Musicworks [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $18.00 "...arguably one of the finest works in either artist’s canon; hypnotic like Harmonia and monumental like Mountains. ... 4 stars" – Spencer Grady, Record Collector "Merzbow’s collaboration with French pioneer Richard Pinhas features some of his best music and gleefully amplifies the psychedelic tendencies of both composers." – Luke Schleicher, Laughter "...an album of ambient soundscapes that prove noise can indeed be beautiful, and that it's possible to dispense with conventional constructs of rhythm, melody and harmony yet still create something both musical and profound...it's...quite extraordinary just how appealing it is." – John Kelman, All About Jazz, In 2007, guitarist and rock electronics innovator Richard Pinhas performed in Tokyo and then performed a duo concert with notorious 'noise' artist Merzbow. Both men were so excited by the duo concert, they immediately booked studio time to make the recordings that became their first duo release Keio Line. The duo continue to perform together; this concert performance and recording was their first meeting together after Keio Line. It was recorded at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris on November 12, 2008. Even though they had only worked together for a very short time the year before, the duo had already established a recognizable sound with Richard's metronic and spacey guitar figures being worked over by Merzbow's electronic mayhem in a glorious, psychedelic death spiral. Paris 2008 is a vinyl-only release; the first vinyl released by Cuneiform in over 20 years! There are only 500 copies made and there will not be a repress; this lp edition is the only way to buy this in a physical format. The lp comes with a digital download card for the music and if you buy it from Cuneiform, your copy will be on beautiful blue vinyl; there are only 100 blue copies! You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for outside of the USA) $25.00 http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wadada Leo Smith/Organic-Heart's Reflection 2 x CDs $21.00 "Organic’s music is a swirling roar, part fusion and part jazz rock orchestra, like a combination of Burnt Sugar and Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Ensemble. – The Wire, February 2010 cover story "Organic’s music is powerfully electric and electronic in nature; fiery and interactive in character; contemporary, spiritual and politically conscious, its creative energy is heartfelt and connected with the human feeling." – Wadada Leo Smith Although he made his reputation over decades and decades of work in the free jazz and improvised music realm and as a early member of Chicago's hugely influencial AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has long been interested in larger ensembles and electric music as well. Heart’s Reflections is a bold double-disc set that features Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, a predominately electric, fourteen-piece group, a band most notable for a lineup marked by four guitarists. In addition to Smith, who plays both acoustic and electric trumpet, the extraordinary lineup on Heart’s Reflection includes: Brandon Ross, Michael Gregory, Lamar Smith, and Josh Gerowitz on guitar; Skuli Sverrisson and John Lindberg on bass; Angelica Sanchez on acoustic and electric piano; Stephanie Smith on violin; Casey Anderson on alto saxophone; Casey Butler on tenor saxophone; Mark Trayle and Charlie Burgin on laptops; and Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. For a record by such a large group, at times the sound is surprisingly sparse and delicate - both qualities that have long marked Smith's work, while at other times, it sizzles and stomps! There a strong melodies and strong solos throughout; this is not a big band blow-out, but a carefully scored and worked out set of compositions. Though longtime listeners who haven't followed Wadada's work in the last decade might be surprised at times by the fierceness of Organic’s rhythm section, Heart’s Reflections is nonetheless marked by the trumpeter’s usual touchstones: long sustained notes, occasional clipped phrases, and a tough-to-define playfulness that infuses all of his work. Coming across like the next evolutionary step after Miles Davis’ electric era, Heart’s Reflection is a vibrant set that harkens back to the blues influence of Smith’s Mississippi childhood, and looks forward to still-developing realms of noise and electronics. The album fuses a galaxy of influences into a natural and accessible form, offering an ideal entry point into Smith’s vast oeuvre. Heart’s Reflections should appeal to fans of groove-oriented jazz, as well as rock and electronics audiences with a taste for adventure. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phil Miller-Cutting Both Ways $15.00 Back in print after several years of unavailability. Phil Miller made his name as guitarist with the legendary Canterbury bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield & the North and National Health. After the demise of National Health, he began preparing for a solo career that began with Cutting Both Ways and continues to this day. This was the first album released under his own name, and the first album to feature his band In Cahoots, who are pretty much of a supergroup themselves: Hugh Hopper-bass (Soft Machine), Elton Dean-saxes (Soft Machine), Peter Lemer-keyboards (Gilgamesh, Mike Oldfield, Pierre Moerlen's Gong) & Pip Pyle-drums (Gong, Hatfield, National Health). Additionally, two tracks are multi-overdubbed meetings between Phil and keyboardist Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield, National Health) and Barbara Gaskin (Hatfield). Canterbury jazz/rock of the highest order. "This album comprises two aspects of my compositional output. The first is represented by the four pieces recorded by my band, In Cahoots, and the second by the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave Stewart. In Cahoots has toured Europe extensively in the past two years. The music recorded here is largely a result of the live-in-the-studio approach. This contrasts with the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave. Here the orientation is towards multi-tracking, utilizing the latests developments in music technology."– Phil Miller [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA & Canada only) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $74.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for customers outside of the USA and Canada) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $88.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA only) 5 CDs/1 vinyl lp (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD/1 vinyl lp) $91.00 Save $12.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 6 new Cuneiform titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow CD, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow vinyl lp, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): GUTBUCKET (interview) http://fracture-compound.com/ HUGH HOPPER http://new.music.yahoo.com/ LED BIB http://jazztimes.com/articles/ NEW YORK ART QUARTET http://www.jazzword.com/ RICHARD PINHAS http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ JOHN SURMAN http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ UNIVERS ZERO http://www.progressor.net/ UZ JSME DOMA http://blurt-online.com/ http://gapplegateguitar. http://www.seaoftranquility. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - Rock And Pop - Calle de Albasanz, 79 - Madrid, Spain June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DOCTOR NERVE June 25 - Doctor Nerve (with Jersey Band and Turn Around Norman) - The Windup Space - 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201 (410) 244-8855 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland May 28 - TeaterStudio Lederman - Stockholm, Sweden (record release show!) GUTBUCKET April 27 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY May 2 - Rockshop - Brooklyn, NY May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 10 - Revolution Cafe - San Francisco, CA May 11 - Cafe Van Kleef - Oakland, CA May 12 - Hotel Utah - San Francisco, CA May 13 - Secret Society Lounge - Portland, OR May 14 - Cafe Racer - Seattle, WA May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ED PALERMO BIG BAND June 3 - The Falcoln - 1348 Rte 9w - Marlboro, NY 12542 (845) 236-7970 August 3 - Iridum Jazz Club - 1650 Broadway (51st. St.) - New York, NY - 10019 (212) 582.2121 (this show will feature special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!) RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) for the rest of the tour, Richard will be performing in a duo with Duncan Pinhas May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages May 28 - tbc - Detroit May 29 - The Strutt - 773 West Michigan - Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (269) 492-7200 (with Unitard, Forget the Times, Boron Nuzzle) showtime: 9:00 / $8.00 18+ May 30 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL (with Magas + Scum Ra (featuring Plastic Crimewave and Kathy of Spires That In The Sunset Rise) + Mark Solotroff - doors 8:00/show 8:30 - $10.00 / $12.00 at door June 1 - The Happy Dog - 5801 Detroit Avenue - Cleveland, OH June 3 - (tbc) Soft House - Baltimore, MD June 4 - The Schoolhouse - 330 Ellery St (at Broadway) Bushwick, Brooklyn (subway: J, M to Flushing; G to Broadway) POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France UZ JSME DOMA September 3 and 4 - the 17th annual Progday - Storybook Farm - Chapel Hill, North Carolina ZEVIOUS November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ------ Rest in Peace: POLY STYRENE (lead vocalist for X-Ray Spex and a female punk rock icon. "They say little girls should be seen but not heard, but I say..." ------ 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!) : ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI-Kublai JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes ELTON DEAN'S NINESENSE-Ninesense Suite (finally! recorded 6/20/81 and long rumored to be released, this show from the band's final tour finally makes it out!) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) which will include a DVD of their NEARFest performance from 2010! JEAN PHILLIPE GOUDE-Drones (reissue of a minor classic synthi release) JAKKO JAKSZYK/MEL COLLINS/ROBERT FRIPP/TONY LEVIN/GAVIN HARRISON-A Scarcity of Miracles (they aren't calling this "KING CRIMSON", but this sure looks like a winner....) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) -Live (reissue of their amazing live release) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany TANGERINE DREAM-Zeit (their classic 3rd album with a previously unreleased bonus disc of a concert from the same era) THINKING PLAGUE-Decline and Fall (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZEVIOUS-album number 3 (and it's gonna be amazing, judging from their shows recently) ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp162.net/archive_ |
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Below are six (!!!) new Cuneiform releases and a re-printing of an out of print classic, which are not going to be generally released for another 4 weeks, but which you can buy directly from us now. Our releases are available from us to our direct mail customers several weeks before they are generally released or available from other sources. We spend a small fortune on our releases and your direct purchase from us via Wayside Music helps us tremendously and is extremely important to our being able to continue our work and our release schedule; Please don't steal them or make it possible for others to steal them. Thank you for your interest and support of our work. Afuche-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match $15.00 "An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker “Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel Music Based out of Brooklyn, NY and creating a group sound that is truly their own, Afuche is a band that needs to be heard by lovers of adventurous, modern progressive music! Formed by Ruben Sindo Acosta & Zach Ryalls in 2008, they have been adding to the ensemble and evolving their sound by writing, performing, and touring non-stop – it was at one of their many shows where we found them and watched their continued development with keen interest. Afuche is a 5 piece band featuring Ruben on keyboard, vocals and percussion, Zach on guitar, Denny Tek on bass, Andrew Carrico on baritone sax and Max Jaffe on drum. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences as a base and apply their own group sound to it and bend it all into a hybrid, original and very progressive contemporary rock music that is interestingly complex without losing its inviting quality; most of all Afuche is a lot of fun. Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is a showcase of a group whose sound is more than the sum of its parts. Recorded mainly live in the studio with minimal textural overdubs in one day, it is Afuche presenting their work with just as you would experience it at one of their lively and exciting shows. The fearless intensity and the strong group dynamic in the playing - extremely notable in such a young band - pours through the speakers; their sound is catchy and mesmerizing and will have you moving in ways you never thought possible! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cheer-Accident-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs $15.00 "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser of an album..." – Time Out New York Emerging from the incredibly diverse crucible of music that is Chicago, Cheer-Accident embodies and re-affirms the “promises made” by previous generations of progressive rock, post-punk, and post rock bands—the creation of a thoroughly new rock-based music. There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century. Cheer-Accident wrap creativeness inside an inviting enigma of honeyed vocals, harmonious pop melody, and thorny dissonance. They have the rare ability to synthesize and juxtapose pure pop, thundering rock, and avant-garde complexity and ambiguity, intuition and intellect, sweetness and sarcasm, to create a stunning signature sound.No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs, Cheer-Accident’s 17th album is a kaleidoscopic, inclusive trip into a musical madhouse that you’ll want to stay lost within. The core membership of the ever-shifting organism that is Cheer-Accident remains Thymme Jones (vocals, keyboards, brass, synth, drums); Carmen Armillas (vocals), Alex Perkolup (vocals, bass, guitar), and Jeff Libersher (vocals, guitar, keys, trumpet, bass), with able and many assists from D. Bayne (trombone, keyboards), Andrea Faught (vocals, keyboards), and Lise Gilly (saxophones), among others. Everyone makes significant and important and wonderful contributions, but since the vocalist is always the focal point in bands, I want to mention that Carmen is a real find, with a powerfully emotive voice; she really lends a huge presence to this album, working beautifully with Thymme and Jeff and the rest. The songs on No Ifs… run the gamut of everything that makes Cheer-Accident an exceptional band: prickly, lurching psychedelia with honeyed singing, quizzical Steve Reich-meets-King Crimson rockers, and sweetly peculiar soft-pop a la Beach Boys and Free Design. This diversity does not denote dilettantism, however; Cheer Accident empowers and devotes itself to whatever style, mode, or genre it absorbs. Even after a few listens, regardless of stylistic diversity displayed during No Ifs, Ands or Dogs is the commitment to primo performance of the album/music/concept as a whole — songs often lead into one another, going from a self-contained song to a introduction (or a coda) depending on where you are or where your focus is in the listening. After the critical acclaim and expanded audience that greeted Cheer-Accident after the release of Fear Draws Misfortune, the group responded as they always do; by a reinvention of their sound. A wonderful album that is – as usual - also something completely different! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gösta Berlings Saga-Glue Works $15.00 "Masterpiece…or thereabouts: 5/5" – Lowcut Magazine "This is hypnotic, robotic, thankfully long and yet somehow, so damn soulful. Also, I haven’t heard a Fender Rhodes being played like this since like forever....It doesn’t get better than this." – Deaf Sparrow Named after one of the most notable Swedish books of all time, Gösta Berlings Saga are currently one of Sweden's most notable bands. The group are a modern instrumental rock band and their style combines post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound and more, all recorded and combined with unusual and interesting studio techniques. The four members of Gösta Berlings Saga, with their diverse musical backgrounds and personalities find a common focal point in the music they create together. Each individual effort is melted into the pot and glued together with the rest to create something greater together. The collage as a working method; Soft glued to rough. Epic glued to tiny. Minimalism glued to maximalism, all to create a new whole. For their third album and their first for Cuneiform, they have created an album that is highly and creatively produced. The solid backbone of the band is always the focus and the core: Alexander Skepp (drums and percussion), Einar Baldursson (guitars), David Lundberg (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers and Mellotron), Gabriel Hermansson (bass). With the engineering and production work of Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, White Willow, etc) the band has created a truly all-embracing and forward thinking album. The disc is packed with creative and surprising flourishes from guest musicians performing on French horn, musical saw, cello, trumpet and more. There is always a lot going on that makes Glue Works much more than 'merely' a document of band performing; the group is performing extremely well, but the production work incorporates many unique elements into the album in surprising ways. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Rhizome CD + NTSC (all region) DVD + download coupon $15.00 "In 1973, a rock guitarist and an electronic knob-twiddler released a revered and trail-blazing document in contemporary ambient music: Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's No Pussyfooting. Thirty-five years later, guitarist Richard Pinhas and noise artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) have formed the 21st century version of the concept." – Brandon Wu/Washington City Paper It's interesting that Brandon Wu compares the work of Richard Pinhas and Merzbow to Fripp and Eno. At the time it was recorded, No Pussyfooting was considered to be practically 'noise' (sound familiar?) and Robert Fripp has gone on record about how the record label didn't want to release the album because it would affect the commercial impact of these artsts. Yet, with time, the work the duo did was absorbed into the greater musical universe - if not into the mainstream - and its influence continues to this day. While it's never safe to predict the future, perhaps the unlikely but also quite logical meeting of Richard's billowing clouds of guitarwork with Masami's well considered sonic assault will also prove to be influencial upon the larger musical universe. In any event, this recording from September, 2010, expands upon their first studio meeting, Keio Line and offers an obvious follow-up, as well as new twists to the sound. The first pressing of Rhizome also includes a number of bonuses not available after the initial pressing: a bonus DVD of a generous excerpt of the duo's performance at the Sonic Circuits festival as well as a download coupon for their performance in Paris, November 12, 2008. "A surprising meeting of minds and one of the strongest CDs I've heard in a while." – Musicworks [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $18.00 "...arguably one of the finest works in either artist’s canon; hypnotic like Harmonia and monumental like Mountains. ... 4 stars" – Spencer Grady, Record Collector "Merzbow’s collaboration with French pioneer Richard Pinhas features some of his best music and gleefully amplifies the psychedelic tendencies of both composers." – Luke Schleicher, Laughter "...an album of ambient soundscapes that prove noise can indeed be beautiful, and that it's possible to dispense with conventional constructs of rhythm, melody and harmony yet still create something both musical and profound...it's...quite extraordinary just how appealing it is." – John Kelman, All About Jazz, In 2007, guitarist and rock electronics innovator Richard Pinhas performed in Tokyo and then performed a duo concert with notorious 'noise' artist Merzbow. Both men were so excited by the duo concert, they immediately booked studio time to make the recordings that became their first duo release Keio Line. The duo continue to perform together; this concert performance and recording was their first meeting together after Keio Line. It was recorded at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris on November 12, 2008. Even though they had only worked together for a very short time the year before, the duo had already established a recognizable sound with Richard's metronic and spacey guitar figures being worked over by Merzbow's electronic mayhem in a glorious, psychedelic death spiral. Paris 2008 is a vinyl-only release; the first vinyl released by Cuneiform in over 20 years! There are only 500 copies made and there will not be a repress; this lp edition is the only way to buy this in a physical format. The lp comes with a digital download card for the music and if you buy it from Cuneiform, your copy will be on beautiful blue vinyl; there are only 100 blue copies! You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wadada Leo Smith/Organic-Heart's Reflection 2 x CDs $21.00 "Organic’s music is a swirling roar, part fusion and part jazz rock orchestra, like a combination of Burnt Sugar and Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Ensemble. – The Wire, February 2010 cover story "Organic’s music is powerfully electric and electronic in nature; fiery and interactive in character; contemporary, spiritual and politically conscious, its creative energy is heartfelt and connected with the human feeling." – Wadada Leo Smith Although he made his reputation over decades and decades of work in the free jazz and improvised music realm and as a early member of Chicago's hugely influencial AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has long been interested in larger ensembles and electric music as well. Heart’s Reflections is a bold double-disc set that features Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, a predominately electric, fourteen-piece group, a band most notable for a lineup marked by four guitarists. In addition to Smith, who plays both acoustic and electric trumpet, the extraordinary lineup on Heart’s Reflection includes: Brandon Ross, Michael Gregory, Lamar Smith, and Josh Gerowitz on guitar; Skuli Sverrisson and John Lindberg on bass; Angelica Sanchez on acoustic and electric piano; Stephanie Smith on violin; Casey Anderson on alto saxophone; Casey Butler on tenor saxophone; Mark Trayle and Charlie Burgin on laptops; and Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. For a record by such a large group, at times the sound is surprisingly sparse and delicate - both qualities that have long marked Smith's work, while at other times, it sizzles and stomps! There a strong melodies and strong solos throughout; this is not a big band blow-out, but a carefully scored and worked out set of compositions. Though longtime listeners who haven't followed Wadada's work in the last decade might be surprised at times by the fierceness of Organic’s rhythm section, Heart’s Reflections is nonetheless marked by the trumpeter’s usual touchstones: long sustained notes, occasional clipped phrases, and a tough-to-define playfulness that infuses all of his work. Coming across like the next evolutionary step after Miles Davis’ electric era, Heart’s Reflection is a vibrant set that harkens back to the blues influence of Smith’s Mississippi childhood, and looks forward to still-developing realms of noise and electronics. The album fuses a galaxy of influences into a natural and accessible form, offering an ideal entry point into Smith’s vast oeuvre. Heart’s Reflections should appeal to fans of groove-oriented jazz, as well as rock and electronics audiences with a taste for adventure. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phil Miller-Cutting Both Ways $15.00 Back in print after several years of unavailability. Phil Miller made his name as guitarist with the legendary Canterbury bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield & the North and National Health. After the demise of National Health, he began preparing for a solo career that began with Cutting Both Ways and continues to this day. This was the first album released under his own name, and the first album to feature his band In Cahoots, who are pretty much of a supergroup themselves: Hugh Hopper-bass (Soft Machine), Elton Dean-saxes (Soft Machine), Peter Lemer-keyboards (Gilgamesh, Mike Oldfield, Pierre Moerlen's Gong) & Pip Pyle-drums (Gong, Hatfield, National Health). Additionally, two tracks are multi-overdubbed meetings between Phil and keyboardist Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield, National Health) and Barbara Gaskin (Hatfield). Canterbury jazz/rock of the highest order. "This album comprises two aspects of my compositional output. The first is represented by the four pieces recorded by my band, In Cahoots, and the second by the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave Stewart. In Cahoots has toured Europe extensively in the past two years. The music recorded here is largely a result of the live-in-the-studio approach. This contrasts with the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave. Here the orientation is towards multi-tracking, utilizing the latests developments in music technology."– Phil Miller [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA & Canada only) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $74.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for customers outside of the USA and Canada) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $88.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA only) 5 CDs/1 vinyl lp (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD/1 vinyl lp) $91.00 Save $12.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 6 new Cuneiform titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow CD, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow vinyl lp, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ---------------------------- Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Serge Bringolf-Strave $18.00 Back in stock once again! The release of this great jazz/rock/Zeuhl album on CD is a cause of great joy for me personally. This is one of the albums I've long waited to appear on CD and also one of the ones that I most wanted Soleil Zeuhl to tackle. This is a nonet of vibes, trumpet, saxes, trombone, violin, flute, bass, drums and female vocals. Originally a double CD set that was recorded in 1980, this has obvious influences from Magma, especially circa 1001 Centigrades, Tony Williams, Soft Machine and European jazz/rock. Serge later formed a group with Alain Eckert (ex Art Zoyd) called Strave that did good work too, but this is his finest hour for certain, imo. A wonderful album and a total classic! Highly recommended. "Reissue of Serge Bringolf's first album (1980), Strave is an impressive effort. Classified as zeuhl, but including lots of jazz in it, it has a unique sound. Since Bringolf being a drummer, the drums are very important on this album. Add the incredible bass work of François Grillot, the impressive brass section consisting of Jean Golanet (trumpet), Philippe Gisselmann (saxophones) and Pascal Beck (trombone) & you have a good idea of what the music sounds like. You just need to throw in some great wordless (scat) vocals. The album consists of 4 long tracks, ranging from fifteen to approximately twenty minutes. A truly inspiring mixture of genres." "Like Christian Vander, Serge Bringolf, not content with being a fabulous drummer, is also an excellent composer, arranger and orchestrator. Paying no need to classification, his music draws its inspiration from the sensibility of jazz and the violence in rock to create a strong, energetic and totally original sound. "Strave" is the most explosive and direct album...all of his records are musical events not to be missed. A cross between Magma, Jacques Thollot and Art Zoyd, Serge Bringolf is a french musician worth keeping an eye on."-La Discographie du Rock Francais [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Calomito-Cane di Schiena $18.00 Excellent second album from this fine Italian avant-progressive ensemble with more than a touch of jazz in them as well. Well played, well paced and everything just fits. Highly recommended! "Five years after their much-acclaimed album Inaudito, Calomito has come back with a new great album! Calomito melt with taste avant-prog, Canterbury, jazz and folk, but they give the right space to melody, a typical feature of many Italian bands. Beside usual electric instruments, their arrangements include a peculiarly nice palette of acoustic colours – trombone, violin, viola – that gives the band a really recognizable sound. Sharp and groovy, Cane di Schiena is a relevant step forward compared to the first album, being a clear sign of maturity for a band which is considered among the most interesting ones in the alternative Italian music scene, taking the best from the past and revising it in a new direction. RIYL: Frank Zappa, Canterbury sound, Stormy Six, Gong, Dr. Nerve." [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Calomito-Inaudito $13.00 First album by this fine album who moved over to AltrOck for their second release and gained some well-deserved attention! Calomito are a six piece Italian band who use: violin/viola, guitars, alto/soprano saxes/percussion/weird vocal efx, Fender Rhodes/synth/organ, electric bass/double bass and drums and this is their first album. The sound veers between avant-prog very much in the Cuneiform esthetic to more straighter jazz to more avant leanings. They've been together for some time now (I got a demo from them a few years ago and strongly encouraged them to stay in touch) and this is an exceedingly promising debut. Recommended. [Megaplomb] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Scott Cutshall-Zyphoid Process $8.00 (special) This 1996 release has got to be the last - or at least one of the very last - CMP releases. Scott Cutshall-drums, percussion, Dave Liebman-soprano sax, Russ Lossing-piano and Tony Marino-bass. "Scott did the RIGHT THING!! He let the musicians just play - no words, no directions, no attitude - just make music. All each of us had was the moment and the other people playing. After all, isn't that the point of improvisation?"-Dave Liebman [CMP] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ From.Uz-Quartus Artifacts 2 x CDs + NTSC (all region) DVD $14.00 An amazingly low price on this 'unplugged-style' thiple disc set from Uzbekistan's greatest export! This is a 'best of' collection of songs from their previous three albums, but done in a more acoustic chamber/progressive format, with much more emphasis on acoustic guitars and keyboards, although it isn't strictly 100% acoustic - but that's the basic sound. "Quartus Artifactus is a newly recorded collection of songs from all three of the band's previous releases, Audio Diplomacy, Overlook, and Seventh Story - rearranged and played in a prog-chamber format, with a less electric, more acoustic sound. The album includes a full concert DVD, with behind the scenes supplemental material and 2 CDs of the individual music tracks. The sound is a gentler, friendlier FROM.UZ, but retains the intensity of the originals while bringing in some beautiful acoustic interpretations. "Live performance is where FROM.UZ really explode and take on a whole new vitality", says 10T Records president, Steve Carroll. "This collection takes their best material and puts a great new twist on it by paring it down to primarily acoustic instrumentation, ushering in a more intimate atmosphere, without sacrificing any of the fire or complexity." [10T] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Steve Hackett-Live Rails 2 x CDs $16.00 Still one of the great, distinctive and emotive guitarists of progressive rock, this set was recorded during his extensive world tour of 2009-2010. His band is really great; they aren't just 'the guys behind the superstar', but are notable on their own and the set list highlights his latest release, the back catalog of his solo career and Genesis works too. A no brainer for fans old and new. [Inside Out] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Stephen Haynes/Warren Smith/Joe Morris-Parrhesia $10.00 "To save you a short trip to Google, “parrhesia” means “to speak everything” and, by extension, “to speak freely,” “to speak boldly,” or “boldness.” Without getting bogged down in intellectual scaffolding, what Stephen Haynes, Joe Morris, and Warren Smith give you on Parrhesia is “the other sh*t.” And you may ask yourself “just what is the other sh*t, and who the hell markets music this way?” When you hear Haynes’ trumpet speaking in tongues while Morris finger-taps African rhythms on his detuned guitar on the tune “Invocation,” you’re not listening to a typical free jazz session. When Smith recites poetry about America being the best place for him to live while he talks about black lives being destroyed by drugs AND pokes fun at Twitter, you’re not in the jazz equivalent of Kansas anymore. We don’t claim Parrhesia is bold and different in order to sell records or to say that this music is superior to other music. Abundant with melody, space, and rhythm, Haynes’ debut as a leader is a singular experience that resonates with the continuum of tradition." [Engine] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Hollenbeck/Orchestre National de Jazz-Shut Up and Dance 2 x CDs 2 x CDs $20.00 Back in stock at 33% off the old price! Amazingly great, 2011 release by the very excellent Orchetre National de Jazz, led by Daniel Yvinec, who leads the group into much more interesting and exciting projects than just jazz (don't forget their very great and unique take on Robert Wyatt from a few years ago). This time, they've got a real winner here; this is two albums featuring the (always great and always fascinating) compositions of John Hollenbeck, best known here for his compositions and his drumming with The Claudia Quintet. This is a 10 piece band consisting of two keyboardists , four reeds. trumpet, guitar, bass and drums. As far as I could tell, none of these pieces have appeared elsewhere, making this even more of a must-have. Highly and hugely recommended! [Bee Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Inzinzac-Inzinzac $12.00 "Not lazy for a second. A wonderful and unique record that you must check out." – Mary Halvorson Inzinzac are a fairly amazing Philadelphia trio of guitar, sax, drums. Their music is very raw and rough, but also tight as hell and very composed. It reminds me of a rough-hewn Etron Fou but brought up to date with modern day skronk and noise. They are one of the surprising number of interesting, entertaining, challenging brutal-prog bands cropping up all over and are one of the best. Highly recommended. "Founded by a Philadelphia-based French musician Alban Bailly (guitar), Inzinzac includes Dan Scofield (soprano & tenor sax) and Eli Litwin (drums). Inzinzac is influenced by rock, new music, free jazz and the rhythms and energy of eastern European music. The trio combines strong improvisations with densely composed music. Meticulously balancing a thin line between melody and chaos, Inzinzac has a penchant for jagged angles and gradually expanding mazes of sound that obfuscate the boundaries of composition and improvisation. A brutal and muscular document, Inzinzac's first album captures the raw energy the power trio has nurtured through intense live shows and demanding group development. Across the album’s eight songs, Inzinzac moves through a plethora of styles, structures, and time signatures. Although all of the pieces were composed by Bailly, the trio finds plenty of room for individual and collective improvisation. Without overtly showing off their individual skills or blatantly shifting styles, Inzinzac has created an masterful debut record that is not easily compared to any other band." You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Henry Kaiser/Charles K. Noyes/Weasel Walter-Ninja Star Danger Rock $11.00 Even Henry calls this one noisy and extreme! "Total skonk for ugly times", is what Weasel says. "This rawly recorded studio album features 12 tracks of musical destruction. Henry Kaiser is at his most extreme here, deploying bizarre electronic effects to conjure alien landscapes. Charles K. Noyes (of Toy Killers fame) staggeringly _arrythmic drumming displays Japanese Noh and Korean percussion influences as well as conjuring bad dreams of The Shaggs. Weasel Walter ties the whole thing together with his penchant for extremity, wielding the bass guitar with an air of spastic fury. Plunderphonics expert John Oswald and Toy Killer Mark E. Miller both make surprise appearances on alto saxophone and drums." [UgExplode] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jethro Tull-Living with the Past $7.00 (special) "This is a beautifully packaged and thoughtfully programmed compilation of recent live recordings of songs across the span of Jethro Tull's sizeable catalog. Their origins as a blues band with folk leanings made them a welcome alternative to the power trio back in the late '60s. That period is covered here on "Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You," recorded by the original band when they reunited in 2002. Their commercial high-water mark was Aqualung, as brilliant and lasting a statement as any in classic rock. Here, in crystal-clear recordings of utterly respectful versions, the current lineup takes on "Locomotive Breath" and the title track. Elsewhere, Ian Anderson is joined by a string quartet for new takes on some early and obscure single sides. The band's penchant for long-form rock-operatic fare, which put them in a progressive cul-de-sac alongside Yes and Genesis, lost them critical support but not their legion of fans. The fans, who refer to them simply as "Tull," know that this band still has its chops. In particular, longstanding guitarist Martin Barre is among the most underrated of classic rock axmen, and this fine live album is as much his as it is Anderson's."-Rob Stewart "Now to the reason I'm writing this review - The great, the amazing, the highly underappreciated and underglorified, the masterful.....Martin Barre. This album features Martin's terrific playing, and he's never been sharper. This man is one of the finest masters of the electric guitar on the planet today, yet he is frequently ignored in the popular press, and is still often referred to as being the replacement guitar player for the band. While Ian Anderson is acknowledged as the driving force behind Tull, Martin Barre must be recognized as the power that has made this band a major force in rock history for more than 30 years. My goodness, he's been there since 1968 - playing on every album but the very first. Even Ian Anderson has said that without Martin, there would be no Jethro Tull!"-G. Dexter [Eagle] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Lukas Ligeti-Pattern Time $15.00 With “Pattern Time”, Lukas Ligeti and his group introduce a style of music that is hard to categorize for the best of reasons: it is something the likes of which have not been heard before. Is it a new direction in jazz, perhaps more specifically in African jazz? Is it a new idiom in the otherwise unidiomatic realm of creative improvised music? Ultimately, such questions may be impossible to answer. This, however, is for sure: it is a fresh approach to both sound and rhythm, a musical conversation that uses a new syntax that comes across as immediately striking; an abstract language the listener can instantly understand — with enough motion to keep a restless octopus happy. Invited b the Vienna Musik-Galerie festival in Austria to put together a group consisting of some of his favorite musicians, New York-based Ligeti assembled a quintet of kindred spirits united by their interest in new rhythmic possibilities in improvised music. Their communication was immediate, their interaction both playful and profound. Like in African music, patterns form the foundation of this music; like in jazz, the patterns are often implied rather than obvious. But here, both the musicians’ usual roles and the ways in which the patterns interrelate are blurred, resulting in a form of interplay that indicates directions heretofore unexplored. Time is treated topologically; it is expanded, contracted, twisted and turned to provide fresh and new ways of experiencing the beat. And often, there is no clear beat, though a sense of groove is never lost. This music takes the African approach to polymeters, which renders the rhythm both firmly grounded and ambiguous, to the world of experimental improvisation; it swings while eschewing all clichés. Lukas Ligeti’s compositional input - mainly in the form of ideas, shapes, and patterns - provides the conceptual foundation upon which the ensemble builds its conversation, combining their individual, highly evolved musical vocabularies. The African influence is a cornerstone throughout. Ligeti has developed a choreographic, polyrhythmic drumming style based on the music of East Africa’s Kingdom of Buganda; his connection to the continent was deepened through numerous trips and collaborations with African musicians. In Côte d’Ivoire, he met Aly Keïta, one of today’s leading virtuosos of the balafon, the West African marimba, who has boldly introduced his instrument and traditions into a jazz environment. Parisian pianist Benoît Delbecq, in turn, has developed a completely original approach to jazz piano, preparing his instrument with wood and basing his rhythmic vocabulary on the chants of Ba’aka pygmies. His playing leaves an indelible mark on any music to which he contributes. Hailing from Sicily, saxophonist Gianni Gebbia has similarly crossed the bridge between traditional and experimental music, conjuring up the launedda, the ancient Sardinian bagpipe, and propelling it into the new millennium. And Michael Manring, one of the world’s most recognized electric bass players, built a new world of expression upon the foundations passed on to him by his teacher, Jaco Pastorius. It is a rare and welcome treat to hear him in a context where he is so unbound and free to experiment. Together, these singular musicians create an architecture that is greater than the sum of its parts, and points to new paths, spaces, and structures to be explored. Like his father György before him, in his own way Lukas is revealing a new musical universe strikingly his own." [Innova] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Alvin Lucier-Almost New York 2 x CDs $20.00 CD 1 - Twonings: Charles Curtis, cello; Joseph Kubera, piano; Almost New York: Robert Dick, flutes; Broken Line: Robert Dick, flute; Danny Tunick, vibraphone; Joseph Kubera, piano CD 2 - Coda Variations: Robin Hayward, tuba "Pogus is extremely delighted to release this 2 CD set of recordings of works by Alvin Lucier. He is one of the key experimental artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and is one of my favorite composers. A unique and individual artist: No one sounds quite like Alvin Lucier. Lucier writes about the genesis of the works on this release: "Since the early 1980's I have made a series of works for conventional musical instruments. Before that time I had been mainly occupied with the exploration of such phenomena as echoloca-tion, brain waves, room acoustics and the visual representation of sound. Often these works required special equipment-hand held pulse wave oscillators (Vespers), differential amplifiers (Music for Solo Performer), horseshoe magnets (Music on a Long Thin Wire). Then players began asking me for pieces. Now I needed to find a way of achieving the same poetry with acoustic instruments as I did with electronic means. "One of the things I discovered was that players could create rhythmic patterns by closely tuning with electronically generated pure waves or with each other, producing audible beats. Often, to get continuous motion, I have one or more voices sweep up or down at various speeds against fixed sustained pitches. As a wave approaches a sustained pitch the audible beating slows down to zero when it reaches unison, then speeds up again as the wave leaves the pitch. Almost New York employs slow sweep pure wave oscillators, Broken Line, flute glissandi. In Twonings two different tuning systems collide and in Coda Variations slight variations in pitch are heard chronologically." Recorded by Charles Curtis, Joseph Kubera, Robert Dick, Danny Tunick, and Robin Hayward - some of the leading new music performers of our era, these works are essential additions to the Alvin Lucier oeuvre, as well as satisfying anyone interested in great experimental music." http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Matta Gawa-bA $10.00 "Drums (Samuel T Lohman) & Guitar (Edward J Ricart) Improvised Astral Cartography. MATTA GAWA is an improvising drums+guitar duo hailing from Washington DC. Building with time and texture, their music is deeply connected to the methods and spirit of jazz, while retaining the electric backbone of creative rock music. Loosely translated, MATTA GAWA means river of moments- an apt description for their spontaneously composed flow of singing guitars, free-form drumming, howling feedback, sub-blasting bass, stagger-stepped odd-time signatures, polyrhythmic beatrock + guitar solos. Both founder members of DC’s New Atlantis Collective of musicians, drummer Sam Lohman has also worked with early NYHC legends Sheer Terror, the Radon Collective, Steve Mackay of the Stooges, and the Acid Mothers Temple. Guitarist Ed Ricart works with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Peter Brotzmann, Herb Robertson, Jason Ajemian, G. Calvin Weston, Steve Swell, and members of avant rock legends Fugazi." "Imagine you are a guitar player, and you have amassed a collection of 40+ pedals. You have octave pedals, phase shifters, delays, phrase samplers, synthesizers, and even the classic wah wah pedal. What might you do with this armada of electronics? You might want a bass groove so you write a line on your guitar, drop it down an octave, sample it, loop it, and send it out for the drummer. You might want to vamp over that so you have some rhythm guitar. After you’ve built the rhythmic foundation, you might noodle, you might shred, you might drop another loop, or you might feedback. And this is Matta Gawa: cinematic chunks of post-hardcore improvised sound. As “ba” is an ancient Egyptian word for spirit, let’s just call Matta Gawa’s “ba” soul music." [Engine] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kimio Mizutani-A Path Through Haze $10.00 (special) A reissue at a bargain price of this stupidly rare Japanese psych/progressive album, originally released on Polydor in 1971, which was the first solo album by the guitarist of Love Live Life +1. Mizutani plays some great electric guitar and there's also organ, bass, drums, organ, electric piano, Moog, a little bit of vocals as well as occasional extra instrumentation by a string quartet and a woodwind quartet only add more flavors to a record considered a highlight of the early Japanese psychedelic scene. "A Path Through Haze is an almost completely instrumental album, where heavy psychedelic acid guitar rock and Canterbury jazz rock are combined. Strangely these two possibly contradictory styles are integrated quite well. Besides great psychedelic guitar playing, other instruments include flute, sax, drums, bass, and keyboards (mainly moog, organ, and electric piano). Basically the keyboards provide the Canterbury feel, while the guitar playing adds the acid rock vibe. The first three tracks sound a bit like Canterbury jazz rock (maybe like Isotope or Zyma), but always with great acid guitar soloing on top. Several tracks on the second half of the album are much heavier, sounding like Guru Guru or Jimi Hendrix playinging some of the more free jazz tracks from Soft Machine 4. The result is great. There are two quiet tracks as well, one with a string quartet. Overall, a quite original and creative album."-Sjeff Oellers/Gnosis [Bamboo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Louis Moholo-Moholo/Dudu Pukwana/Johnny Dyani/Rev. Frank Wright-Spirtual Knowledge and Grace $20.00 Louis Moholo-Moholo-drums, voice. Dudu Pukwana-alto sax, piano, whistle, voice. Johnny Dyani- double bass, piano, voice. Rev. Frank Wright-tenor sax, double bass, voice. Recorded live in Eindhoven, Holland on June 22, 1979, this presents 3/4ths of the late 70s Blue Notes with guest fire-music tenor player (and was there ever a player who wasn't at least as deserving of being called a fire-breather than Wright? I don't think so!). They all blend really well and this is a scorching show that still retains a real sense of swing. The sound quality is very vibrant and live; it's not a magnificent recording, but you can hear everything going on and its definitely 'good enough' by far. "Ogun is extremely proud to present a previously unreleased recording documenting a one-off collaboration between members of The Blue Notes and tenor sax giant The Reverend Frank Wright. Recorded live in Eindhoven, Holland on what was meant to be the opening night of The Blue Notes’ Dutch tour in 1979, the collaboration was spawned by the unavoidable absence of pianist Chris McGregor and prompted by Louis Moholo-Moholo’s experience of playing alongside Frank in Peter Brotzmann’s Alarm. The tour of Holland proved prolific for The Blue Notes - another Dutch date is set for future release on Ogun - but this meeting of musical titans could not be left in the vaults. Great empathetic performances and an engrossing listen." [Ogun] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Orchestre National de Jazz -Around Robert Wyatt (limited edition version) 2 x CDs $20.00 Back in stock at 33% off the old price! This is the French National Jazz Orchestra - a 10 piece band - performing pieces either written by Robert, performed by him (lke Shipbuilding) or associated with him (3 by Greaves/Blegvad). Robert sings on 5 of the pieces. This is the limited edition version with a second, bonus disc. "Hearing that France's National Jazz Orchestra has prepared a program of music by Robert Wyatt, the venerable sage of English rock and roll, is intriguing, but not necessarily shocking....It's a quirky bet by the orchestra's new director, Daniel Yvinec, and it's a rousing success. The record is first of all a gorgeous piece of exquisitely orchestrated pop music, a modern variant of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966); indeed, some of Wyatt's best work, with its multi-layered vocal sweetness, sounded like a distant cousin to the Californian group. It's also remarkably hip. Yvinec's predecessor Franck Tortiller released an ONJ tribute to Led Zeppelin, the solid Close To Heaven (Le Chant du Monde, 2006); that was clever, but the Wyatt record seems to be really upping the ante. In comparison, the Zep disc sounds endearingly square. Now, pursuing hip runs the risk of sacrificing depth for flash. As if to stave off that danger, Yvinec includes a splendid and rigorous reading of the title track of the lovely long-lost prog-classical-jazz hybrid Kew. Rhone. (Virgin, 1977) by John Greaves, Peter Blegvad and Lisa Herman (a rumination on the exhumation of a mastodon that includes the following palindrome in its dense lyric: "Peel's foe, not a set animal, laminates a tone of sleep"). No record featuring such a track could be accused of being crassly fashionable. Yvinec generally enhances rather than radically reconfigures the source material—the original "Just As You Are" also featured a French singer's heavily-accented English, for example. Wyatt's 1980s records often featured him exclusively on overdubbed vocals and synthesizers. Wyatt, who has been confined to a wheelchair since he fell from a third-story window at a party in 1973, recently remarked in a British music magazine that this reflected a sort of "paraplegic politics"—trying to demonstrate that he could do anything and everything. The orchestral fleshing-out (for example, Elvis Costello's bitter "Shipbuilding," or "Del Mondo," intoned by actress Irene Jacob) remains true to the originals' spirit but sounds appreciably more lush. Nowhere is this more clear than on "Alliance," Wyatt's vituperative, venom-dripping screed against the British upper class from his Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade, 1985)—the lyrics obliquely refer the devastating UK coal miners' strike. Here, "Alliance" is sung by Camille, vocalist of the group Nouvelle Vague, known for their charmingly low-key, acoustic covers of 1980s new wave classics. For "Alliance," arranger Vincent Artaud finds some brief horn harmonies in Wyatt's chords; the result sounds like a Todd Sickafoose composition as scored by Guillermo Klein for his Filtros (Sunnyside, 2008). The song is ushered out by Vincent Lafont's exquisitely idiomatic Fender Rhodes solo. Where's the jazz in all this? Well, laying bare for all the world to see the hidden connection between Klein and Sickafoose, with funky keyboards to boot, should be enough. If not, there are excellent solos throughout. And then there are the arrangements. There is plenty of praise to go around, but a special share should accrue to arranger Artaud. Victor Jara's tribute to his parents falling in love ("Te Recuerdo Amanda") is given a tender, minimal touch, while "Kew Rhone" is unabashedly orchestral; his treatment of "O Caroline," meanwhile, might have been a Gil Evans chart for Claude Thornhill. Pretty, witty, accomplished and fun; a fitting tribute to Wyatt, with not a whiff of the stodgy museum piece, and destined to be one of 2009's best releases."-Jeff Dayton-Johnson/All About Jazz [Bee Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hermeto Pascoal-Eu e Eles $18.00 This 90s album features Hermeto performing all of the instruments (60 of them!) on 12 of his compositions. Very Hermeto; it won't make a believer out of you if you aren't already a fan, but it's a fun project that just radiates HIM from every track. "On his latest album, Hermeto Paschoal exhibits all that has made him famous worldwide. Everything is here: the atmospheric surrouding, the complex harmonies and, of course, the weirdest musical instruments in the world. Hermeto plays tea pots, toys, and even sings with his mouth full of water. Everything is an instrument in his hands." [RM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phideaux-Snowtorch (mini-lp sleeve) $12.00 "Another weird conceptual album from Phideaux Xavier and cohorts. This time the album is basically one long song with many twists and turns. A long form composition extolling the virtues of DNA and life and culture. Gorgeous melodies, heavy instrumental passages and thoughtful surreal lyrics." Phideaux Xavier has been releasing interesting, modern symphonic rock/progressive albums for a while now. This is his eighth album, released in a lovely, gatefold mini-lp sleeve, and like the well received "Number Seven", he has a huge band band (10 musicians, including himself) plus two guests. I saw them about 3 months ago and it was a fine show. His stage presence was excellent and the music was an impressive show of proggy music that didn't sound old and had its own strong vision and showed a lot of class. Good singing and fine playing from everyone, with great, well thought out touches throughout. If you had to compare it to anyone of the 'old school', I guess you could compare it JUST a bit to Genesis, but like I said, it has its own vision. Engaging and enjoyable and smart. [Bloodfish] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rattlemouth-5 $10.00 Back in stock! Glad to see some interest in this perennially undervalued band! Great to see a new album by Rattlemouth, who veer further into the world-music scheme of things (Danny Finney always had *that sound* anyway, so it's a natural move for them and this is a fine work. Highly recommended. Rattlemouth emerged in the 1990’s from the ashes of the legendary 1980’s art-punk outfit the Orthotonics, offering stripped down hard driving works featuring saxophone, vocals, bass, guitar and drums. Finding success on the adventurous Cuneiofrm Records label, they produced two acclaimed albums and made successful tours including sharing the stage with Medeski, Martin, and Wood and Belgian prog rockers, Present. The rebirth of the ensemble in 2004 has seen the group work nonstop, composing and performing music for dance and film projects and maintaining a constant performance schedule in the Mid-Atlantic. Rattlemouth’s music is hypnotic, danceable, and unlike anything else coming out of Richmond’s thriving music scene. As local music critic, Chris Bopst, writes in his review of their 2006 release Hopabout, “Rattlemouth are the thinking man and woman's dance music. It can be a heady listen, but the emphasis is always on the slinky, sax driven rhythms that invoke the experimentation of Fred Frith and Ornette Coleman with solid world beat sensibilities…Rattlemouth prove that taking risks is always a worthwhile musical endeavor.” With the release of their latest album, 5, Rattlemouth focuses exclusively on their repertoire of Ethio-Jazz and other world music arrangements, capturing the powerhouse sound that has mesmerized audiences for years. Featuring the saxophone tandem of Danny Finney and Roger Carroll, the monster rhythm section of Robbie Kinter (drums) and Marc S. Langelier (bass), plus the unique guitar styling of George M. Lowe, they blaze through spirited instrumental updates of classic tunes from around the world (arranged by Lowe) plus similarly flavored originals." http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Endel Rivers-The Jaz Symphony CD + PAL (all region) DVD $21.00 It's amazing what you can find when you browse the 'net. Endel Rivers is a Estonian composer and guitarist who have lived in Australia for several decades. His music is really great, top-drawer, instrumental, progressive jazz/rock. This is a stupendous work of sweeping symphonic jazz rock performed by a ensemble of top-drawer musicians. featuring two versions of his 'symphony; a studio recording and a live recording, which is presented on the DVD. Watch the video clip and be amazed! Highly recommended. [ER] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sanhedrin-Ever After $18.00 Back in stock! A very good instrumental symphonic progressive rock band who feature flute, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass and drums. This was the 2nd release on AltrOck's Fading subsidiary, which aims to release more 'proggy progressive' than what AltrOck normally releases. Like their 1st, Cicada, the quality control of the AltrOck crew shines highly through. You'll hear touches of Camel (of course - they started their life as a Camel cover group), but you'll also hear a lot of Kenso II as well as Asia Minor, Anglagard and early Genesis. "Sanhedrin is an Israeli band who started their life as a Camel cover group. Yet after a short while the group started to write and compose original materials of their own. Sanhedrin are clearly influenced by the most important classic rock band of the past, such as Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Genesis, VDGG, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull. Nonetheless they can produce a really original music that could reminds bands like Asia Minor and Anglagard. A colourful palette, evocative moods, sophisticated and skillful rock passages, are just some examples of this Ever After, a CD that will surely astonish prog aficionados. RIYL: Genesis, Gentle Giant, Asia Minor, Anglagard, King Crimson." [Fading] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dimitri Voudouris-... Onta $13.00 "Pogus is very pleased to release its second recording by composer Dimitri Voudouris, a South African composer of Greek birth. As Massimo Ricci wrote in his Touching Extremes review of the first Pogus release: 'Voudouris is interested in the 'research of cognitive psycho-acoustic behavioral patterns in humans and the behavior of sound in relationship to continued environmental changes'. Don't let the composer's difficult description fool you into thinking about some kind of cerebral pretentiousness, though, as this album contains instead four magnificent examples of his approach, music that's always challenging and, in many of its expressions, of extraordinary beauty.' This description applies just as well as to this new recording. ___=_ (for text to speech synthesis with computer assisted processing for 24 speaker interactive robotic ensemble) is a comparative study of pathways in communication between Man and Machine and is composed using fragments of processed speech synthesis; UVIVI is a computer music piece that is Voudouris's fourth work that was composed for contemporary dance theatre. UVIVI originates from Zulu -- meaning 'daybreak'. This computer music composition focuses on linearity and infinite memory in the kinetic flow of vehicular traffic. Four languages were chosen to represent the composition of 1:__4 (singing synthesis for four artificial female voices) namely Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. ONTA (for voice and electronics) is a project that discusses the daily tensions encountered and focuses on the energy building up, exploding, or imploding from these tensions in the city, be it organically or inorganically created; this promotes musical creativity integrated into everyday life, of familiar places and natural behaviours." [Pogus] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): GUTBUCKET (interview) http://fracture-compound.com/ HUGH HOPPER http://new.music.yahoo.com/ NEW YORK ART QUARTET http://www.jazzword.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - Rock And Pop - Calle de Albasanz, 79 - Madrid, Spain June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DOCTOR NERVE June 25 - Doctor Nerve (with Jersey Band and Turn Around Norman) - The Windup Space - 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201 (410) 244-8855 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland May 28 - TeaterStudio Lederman - Stockholm, Sweden (record release show!) GUTBUCKET April 27 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY May 2 - Rockshop - Brooklyn, NY May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 10 - Revolution Cafe - San Francisco, CA May 11 - Cafe Van Kleef - Oakland, CA May 12 - Hotel Utah - San Francisco, CA May 13 - Secret Society Lounge - Portland, OR May 14 - Cafe Racer - Seattle, WA May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ED PALERMO BIG BAND June 3 - The Falcoln - 1348 Rte 9w - Marlboro, NY 12542 (845) 236-7970 August 3 - Iridum Jazz Club - 1650 Broadway (51st. St.) - New York, NY - 10019 (212) 582.2121 (this show will feature special guest Napoleon Murphy Brock!) RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) for the rest of the tour, Richard will be performing in a duo with Duncan Pinhas May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages May 30 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL (with Magas + Scum Ra (featuring Plastic Crimewave and Kathy of Spires That In The Sunset Rise) + Mark Solotroff - doors 8:00/show 8:30 - $10.00 / $12.00 at door - many more dates tba - details coming - POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - Motor Totemists Guild November 29 - Upsilon Acrux November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Gutbucket Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ 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!) : ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI-Kublai JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes ELTON DEAN'S NINESENSE-Ninesense Suite (finally! recorded 6/20/81 and long rumored to be released, this show from the band's final tour finally makes it out!) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) which will include a DVD of their NEARFest performance from 2010! JAKKO JAKSZYK/MEL COLLINS/ROBERT FRIPP/TONY LEVIN/GAVIN HARRISON-A Scarcity of Miracles (they aren't calling this "KING CRIMSON", but this sure looks like a winner....) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany THINKING PLAGUE-Decline and Fall (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZEVIOUS-album number 3 (and it's gonna be amazing, judging from their shows recently) ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp130.net/archive_ |
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Below are six (!!!) new Cuneiform releases and a re-printing of an out of print classic, which are not going to be generally released for another 4 weeks, but which you can buy directly from us now. Our releases are available from us to our direct mail customers several weeks before they are generally released or available from other sources. We spend a small fortune on our releases and your direct purchase from us via Wayside Music helps us tremendously and is extremely important to our being able to continue our work and our release schedule; Please don't steal them or make it possible for others to steal them. Thank you for your interest and support of our work. Afuche-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match $15.00 "An evolving local group with a cacophonous yet catchy approach..." – The New Yorker “Afuche’s palpable onstage energy is key to the unique corner the band has carved for itself in the ever-saturated Brooklyn music scene.” - Jezebel Music Based out of Brooklyn, NY and creating a group sound that is truly their own, Afuche is a band that needs to be heard by lovers of adventurous, modern progressive music! Formed by Ruben Sindo Acosta & Zach Ryalls in 2008, they have been adding to the ensemble and evolving their sound by writing, performing, and touring non-stop – it was at one of their many shows where we found them and watched their continued development with keen interest. Afuche is a 5 piece band featuring Ruben on keyboard, vocals and percussion, Zach on guitar, Denny Tek on bass, Andrew Carrico on baritone sax and Max Jaffe on drum. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences as a base and apply their own group sound to it and bend it all into a hybrid, original and very progressive contemporary rock music that is interestingly complex without losing its inviting quality; most of all Afuche is a lot of fun. Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is a showcase of a group whose sound is more than the sum of its parts. Recorded mainly live in the studio with minimal textural overdubs in one day, it is Afuche presenting their work with just as you would experience it at one of their lively and exciting shows. The fearless intensity and the strong group dynamic in the playing - extremely notable in such a young band - pours through the speakers; their sound is catchy and mesmerizing and will have you moving in ways you never thought possible! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cheer-Accident-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs $15.00 "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser of an album..." – Time Out New York Emerging from the incredibly diverse crucible of music that is Chicago, Cheer-Accident embodies and re-affirms the “promises made” by previous generations of progressive rock, post-punk, and post rock bands—the creation of a thoroughly new rock-based music. There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century. Cheer-Accident wrap creativeness inside an inviting enigma of honeyed vocals, harmonious pop melody, and thorny dissonance. They have the rare ability to synthesize and juxtapose pure pop, thundering rock, and avant-garde complexity and ambiguity, intuition and intellect, sweetness and sarcasm, to create a stunning signature sound.No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs, Cheer-Accident’s 17th album is a kaleidoscopic, inclusive trip into a musical madhouse that you’ll want to stay lost within. The core membership of the ever-shifting organism that is Cheer-Accident remains Thymme Jones (vocals, keyboards, brass, synth, drums); Carmen Armillas (vocals), Alex Perkolup (vocals, bass, guitar), and Jeff Libersher (vocals, guitar, keys, trumpet, bass), with able and many assists from D. Bayne (trombone, keyboards), Andrea Faught (vocals, keyboards), and Lise Gilly (saxophones), among others. Everyone makes significant and important and wonderful contributions, but since the vocalist is always the focal point in bands, I want to mention that Carmen is a real find, with a powerfully emotive voice; she really lends a huge presence to this album, working beautifully with Thymme and Jeff and the rest. The songs on No Ifs… run the gamut of everything that makes Cheer-Accident an exceptional band: prickly, lurching psychedelia with honeyed singing, quizzical Steve Reich-meets-King Crimson rockers, and sweetly peculiar soft-pop a la Beach Boys and Free Design. This diversity does not denote dilettantism, however; Cheer Accident empowers and devotes itself to whatever style, mode, or genre it absorbs. Even after a few listens, regardless of stylistic diversity displayed during No Ifs, Ands or Dogs is the commitment to primo performance of the album/music/concept as a whole — songs often lead into one another, going from a self-contained song to a introduction (or a coda) depending on where you are or where your focus is in the listening. After the critical acclaim and expanded audience that greeted Cheer-Accident after the release of Fear Draws Misfortune, the group responded as they always do; by a reinvention of their sound. A wonderful album that is – as usual - also something completely different! [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gösta Berlings Saga-Glue Works $15.00 "Masterpiece…or thereabouts: 5/5" – Lowcut Magazine "This is hypnotic, robotic, thankfully long and yet somehow, so damn soulful. Also, I haven’t heard a Fender Rhodes being played like this since like forever....It doesn’t get better than this." – Deaf Sparrow Named after one of the most notable Swedish books of all time, Gösta Berlings Saga are currently one of Sweden's most notable bands. The group are a modern instrumental rock band and their style combines post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound and more, all recorded and combined with unusual and interesting studio techniques. The four members of Gösta Berlings Saga, with their diverse musical backgrounds and personalities find a common focal point in the music they create together. Each individual effort is melted into the pot and glued together with the rest to create something greater together. The collage as a working method; Soft glued to rough. Epic glued to tiny. Minimalism glued to maximalism, all to create a new whole. For their third album and their first for Cuneiform, they have created an album that is highly and creatively produced. The solid backbone of the band is always the focus and the core: Alexander Skepp (drums and percussion), Einar Baldursson (guitars), David Lundberg (Fender Rhodes, synthesizers and Mellotron), Gabriel Hermansson (bass). With the engineering and production work of Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, White Willow, etc) the band has created a truly all-embracing and forward thinking album. The disc is packed with creative and surprising flourishes from guest musicians performing on French horn, musical saw, cello, trumpet and more. There is always a lot going on that makes Glue Works much more than 'merely' a document of band performing; the group is performing extremely well, but the production work incorporates many unique elements into the album in surprising ways. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Rhizome CD + NTSC (all region) DVD + download coupon $15.00 "In 1973, a rock guitarist and an electronic knob-twiddler released a revered and trail-blazing document in contemporary ambient music: Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's No Pussyfooting. Thirty-five years later, guitarist Richard Pinhas and noise artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow) have formed the 21st century version of the concept." – Brandon Wu/Washington City Paper It's interesting that Brandon Wu compares the work of Richard Pinhas and Merzbow to Fripp and Eno. At the time it was recorded, No Pussyfooting was considered to be practically 'noise' (sound familiar?) and Robert Fripp has gone on record about how the record label didn't want to release the album because it would affect the commercial impact of these artsts. Yet, with time, the work the duo did was absorbed into the greater musical universe - if not into the mainstream - and its influence continues to this day. While it's never safe to predict the future, perhaps the unlikely but also quite logical meeting of Richard's billowing clouds of guitarwork with Masami's well considered sonic assault will also prove to be influencial upon the larger musical universe. In any event, this recording from September, 2010, expands upon their first studio meeting, Keio Line and offers an obvious follow-up, as well as new twists to the sound. The first pressing of Rhizome also includes a number of bonuses not available after the initial pressing: a bonus DVD of a generous excerpt of the duo's performance at the Sonic Circuits festival as well as a download coupon for their performance in Paris, November 12, 2008. "A surprising meeting of minds and one of the strongest CDs I've heard in a while." – Musicworks [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Richard Pinhas and Merzbow-Paris 2008 blue vinyl edition lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $18.00 "...arguably one of the finest works in either artist’s canon; hypnotic like Harmonia and monumental like Mountains. ... 4 stars" – Spencer Grady, Record Collector "Merzbow’s collaboration with French pioneer Richard Pinhas features some of his best music and gleefully amplifies the psychedelic tendencies of both composers." – Luke Schleicher, Laughter "...an album of ambient soundscapes that prove noise can indeed be beautiful, and that it's possible to dispense with conventional constructs of rhythm, melody and harmony yet still create something both musical and profound...it's...quite extraordinary just how appealing it is." – John Kelman, All About Jazz, In 2007, guitarist and rock electronics innovator Richard Pinhas performed in Tokyo and then performed a duo concert with notorious 'noise' artist Merzbow. Both men were so excited by the duo concert, they immediately booked studio time to make the recordings that became their first duo release Keio Line. The duo continue to perform together; this concert performance and recording was their first meeting together after Keio Line. It was recorded at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris on November 12, 2008. Even though they had only worked together for a very short time the year before, the duo had already established a recognizable sound with Richard's metronic and spacey guitar figures being worked over by Merzbow's electronic mayhem in a glorious, psychedelic death spiral. Paris 2008 is a vinyl-only release; the first vinyl released by Cuneiform in over 20 years! There are only 500 copies made and there will not be a repress; this lp edition is the only way to buy this in a physical format. The lp comes with a digital download card for the music and if you buy it from Cuneiform, your copy will be on beautiful blue vinyl. You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wadada Leo Smith/Organic-Heart's Reflection 2 x CDs $21.00 "Organic’s music is a swirling roar, part fusion and part jazz rock orchestra, like a combination of Burnt Sugar and Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Ensemble. – The Wire, February 2010 cover story "Organic’s music is powerfully electric and electronic in nature; fiery and interactive in character; contemporary, spiritual and politically conscious, its creative energy is heartfelt and connected with the human feeling." – Wadada Leo Smith Although he made his reputation over decades and decades of work in the free jazz and improvised music realm and as a early member of Chicago's hugely influencial AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has long been interested in larger ensembles and electric music as well. Heart’s Reflections is a bold double-disc set that features Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, a predominately electric, fourteen-piece group, a band most notable for a lineup marked by four guitarists. In addition to Smith, who plays both acoustic and electric trumpet, the extraordinary lineup on Heart’s Reflection includes: Brandon Ross, Michael Gregory, Lamar Smith, and Josh Gerowitz on guitar; Skuli Sverrisson and John Lindberg on bass; Angelica Sanchez on acoustic and electric piano; Stephanie Smith on violin; Casey Anderson on alto saxophone; Casey Butler on tenor saxophone; Mark Trayle and Charlie Burgin on laptops; and Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. For a record by such a large group, at times the sound is surprisingly sparse and delicate - both qualities that have long marked Smith's work, while at other times, it sizzles and stomps! There a strong melodies and strong solos throughout; this is not a big band blow-out, but a carefully scored and worked out set of compositions. Though longtime listeners who haven't followed Wadada's work in the last decade might be surprised at times by the fierceness of Organic’s rhythm section, Heart’s Reflections is nonetheless marked by the trumpeter’s usual touchstones: long sustained notes, occasional clipped phrases, and a tough-to-define playfulness that infuses all of his work. Coming across like the next evolutionary step after Miles Davis’ electric era, Heart’s Reflection is a vibrant set that harkens back to the blues influence of Smith’s Mississippi childhood, and looks forward to still-developing realms of noise and electronics. The album fuses a galaxy of influences into a natural and accessible form, offering an ideal entry point into Smith’s vast oeuvre. Heart’s Reflections should appeal to fans of groove-oriented jazz, as well as rock and electronics audiences with a taste for adventure. [Cuneiform] You can hear a track from the record here: http://www.cuneiformrecords. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phil Miller-Cutting Both Ways $15.00 Back in print after several years of unavailability. Phil Miller made his name as guitarist with the legendary Canterbury bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield & the North and National Health. After the demise of National Health, he began preparing for a solo career that began with Cutting Both Ways and continues to this day. This was the first album released under his own name, and the first album to feature his band In Cahoots, who are pretty much of a supergroup themselves: Hugh Hopper-bass (Soft Machine), Elton Dean-saxes (Soft Machine), Peter Lemer-keyboards (Gilgamesh, Mike Oldfield, Pierre Moerlen's Gong) & Pip Pyle-drums (Gong, Hatfield, National Health). Additionally, two tracks are multi-overdubbed meetings between Phil and keyboardist Dave Stewart (Egg, Hatfield, National Health) and Barbara Gaskin (Hatfield). Canterbury jazz/rock of the highest order. "This album comprises two aspects of my compositional output. The first is represented by the four pieces recorded by my band, In Cahoots, and the second by the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave Stewart. In Cahoots has toured Europe extensively in the past two years. The music recorded here is largely a result of the live-in-the-studio approach. This contrasts with the two pieces recorded in collaboration with Dave. Here the orientation is towards multi-tracking, utilizing the latests developments in music technology."– Phil Miller [Cuneiform] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA & Canada only) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $74.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for customers outside of the USA and Canada) 5 CDs (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD) $88.00 Save $10.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 5 new Cuneiform CD titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cuneiform new release bundle (for USA only) 5 CDs/1 vinyl lp (3 single CDs/1 CD + DVD set/1 double CD/1 vinyl lp) $91.00 Save $12.00 (in costs + postage combined), when you buy this package of all 6 new Cuneiform titles (Afuche, Cheer-Accident, Gosta Berlings Saaga, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow CD, Richard Pinhas and Merzbow vinyl lp, Wadada Leo Smith's Organic). Thank you! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Paolo Angeli/Takumi Fukushima-Itsunomanika $15.00 Excellent album of duos; some a bit wild, others, very intimate and - dare I say - beautiful? Remember, Monk wrote a song called "Ugly Beauty"... After the demise of Volapük, I was wondering when I would hear Takumi again and I am happy to hear her here with Paolo who makes an excellent musical partner for her. "This is Paulo Angeli’s fifth release, this time with ex-After Dinner, ex Volupuk violinist and singer Takumi Fukushima. A high quality, hi-fidelity concert performance in which Paulo and Takumi deliver an impressively well integrated, complex - and largely composed - programme of sharply focused pieces, making the most of their not inconsiderable talents and, somehow, managing to sound like a much larger ensemble. In part, this is sheer virtuosity and, in part, it’s the exoticism of the instrumentation – in particular, the sonorities of Paulo’s extended, customised, prepared Giant Sardinian guitar, which does extraordinary, chameleonic work as bass, chord accompaniment, melody instrument, viola, cello, and sometimes percussion. There are some palpable After Dinner atmospheres here, but mostly the music occupies its own ambiguous, highly convincing, cultural space. High definition, highly nuanced, work. It’s hard to believe they’re concert recordings." [ReR] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Beardfish-Mammoth 180 gram vinyl lp with CD (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $18.00 Beardfish have come a very, very long way from their Swedish-only, very Zappa-like, self-released albums to being signed to one of the larger/more visible progressive rock-oriented labels. This is their sixth album and they continue to somehow manage to blend complexity and a lot of elements of progressive rock without sounding retro or like they wish it was 1973. This is a beautiful looking, beautiful sounding 180 gram, very limited edition pressing. [Superball] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Between-And The Waters Opened vinyl lp $30.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) Reissue in high-quality form from the master tapes of the second album by this improvisational/folk/world music, formed in 1970 by Peter Michael Hamel on keyboards, and also featuring guitar, oboe, guitar, percussion, electronics and bamboo flute. Definitely of its time, but also something ahead of its time in how it blended a lot of musics that had never been blended before in 1973! "Formed in 1970 in Munich, Between was an international band devoted to explore the spaces existing between (hence the name) disparate musical currents: from ancient music to avant garde from Western classical to Eastern musics, from medieval to pop music in a fresh approach that perfectly fitted the experimentation dominating the early '70s German music scene. Whereas many of their contemporaries favoured the introduction of electronic elements, Between relied mostly on purely acoustic sounds, albeit so distorted they would pass as electronic. Roberto Detree's self-made motocello was a constant source of other-wordly sonorities which permeated many of the band's compositions. Add to this Peter-Michael Hamel's Indian-influenced systemic organ minimalism and Cotch Black's hypnotical percussion and you'll get Between's sound in a nut-shell. A mystical vision not removed from that of their contemporaries Popol Vuh that predated much of the new-age, meditation and world-music fusions that would blossom in the '80s. Originally released by Vertigo in 1973 and housed in a colourful psychedelic sleeve by Guntram Holdgrün, this is often regarded as Between's most exotic and beautiful opus. A huge, majestic droning masterpiece with oriental nuances that might recall Popol Vuh, Fripp & Eno or Taj Mahal Travellers. Classic album from the early German '70s scene that deserves to be rediscovered by a wider audience. With Roberto C. Detrée (guitar, motocello, adapted harp), Robert Eliscu (oboe, oboe d'amore), Peter Michael Hamel (keyboards, vocals), Cotch Black (percussion) plus Duru Omson (bamboo flute, percussion, voice) and Fabian Arkus (electronics). Limited to 500 copies. Cover reproduces the original artwork by Guntram Holdgrün from the 1973 Vertigo issue. Insert with liner notes." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Between-Einstieg vinyl lp $30.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) Reissue in high-quality form from the master tapes from the master tapes of the first album by this improvisational/folk/world music, formed in 1970 by Peter Michael Hamel, and actually featuring the soon to be world-wide famous classical star James Galway! Definitely of its time, but also something ahead of its time in how it blended a lot of musics that had never been blended before in 1970! "The debut album by this multinational outfit, originally released by Wergo in 1971. A groundbreaking fusion of diverse sources and traditions: from ancient and medieval to avant garde, free improvisation or eastern meditation. A unique mixture that will blossom in their follow up And The Waters Opened. With Roberto Detree (guitar, motocello), Peter-Michael Hamel (piano, organ), Robert Eliscu (oboe, vocal), Cotch Black (percussion), Ulrich Stranz (viola) plus a young James Galway on flute. With 4-page insert." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ketil Bjørnstad/Svante Henryson-Night Song $18.00 Ketil Bjørnstad piano Svante Henryson violoncello "Ketil Bjørnstad returns to the piano/cello duo, instrumentation which defined two of his best-loved albums, “The River” and “Epigraphs” with David Darling, back in 1996 and 1998. This new collaboration with Svante Henryson, however, tells a different story. As cellist, Henryson currently works in duos and trios with distinguished classical musicians including pianists Roland Pöntinen and Bengt Forsberg, clarinettist Martin Fröst, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and baritone Mikael Samuelson. ECM listeners, however, first heard him as a member of Jon Balke’s Magnetic North Orchestra on “Kyanos” (2001). In jazz contexts, he has also played in diverse formations with Tord Gustavsen, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Petter Molvaer, Arild Andersen and others. In rock and pop, he has collaborated with artists from Yngwie Malmsteen to Elvis Costello. In brief, he is an artistic polymath, rather like composer/improviser/author Bjørnstad himself. The music they create together - atmospheric, dark-hued, of melancholic temperament - is similarly beyond category." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Combat Astronomy $11.00 Fourth album and another great, heavy one. As usual, this features band mastermind James Huggett on fretless, five string bass, churning up a heavy, zeuhl-based sound and also provding the drumming via computer programming (and doing a fine job of it too). This time around there are more guests on heavy horns and beyond: Martin Archer (organ, electronics, multi-saxes), Mich Beck (tenor sax) and Mike Ward (tenor sax, bass and concert flutes). Imagine a really heavy, Sonny Sharrock-less, Zeuhl-influenced Last Exit session and...well, it doesn't sound like that. But it is great and it definitely kicks out the jams! Instrumentally, their best ever, I think. Highly recommended. "Flak Planet is Combat Astronomy's fourth album as an ensemble. As ever, this outing sees the band stubbornly idiosyncratic, hypnotic and heavy. Combat Astronomy continue to achieve alchemical brilliance in their fusion of 70's influenced avant jazz and 21st century doom metal, producing something (yet again!) rather special and rather unique. The result is a sprawling, martial beast: kicking and screaming in its joyous fractal webs. Huggett's overdriven double-tracked bass churns in complex cycling patterns of additive time signatures, locked with the intricate drums, never failing to conjure an incessant force wall of grinding poly-rhythmic groove. Danceable, yes, though probably for the disco at the end of time. The music asks you to submit to its ecstasy, uncompromising as it may be. Martin Archer and his cohorts, Mike Ward and Mick Beck, cut through and soar over this super-sized grizzled rhythm section with a high energy brass and woodwind attack: often dissonant, but equally likely to erupt into surprisingly uplifting exultations that are bursting with questing exuberance. Certain to appeal to fans of modern avant metal (Meshuggah, Gorguts etc.), modern heavy prog (Guapo, Circle, Zu etc.) and the forerunners of modern jazz-grind (God, Godflesh and 16/17)." [Zond] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Endanged Blood-Endangered Blood $14.00 I've seen all four of these great players in various groupings and they are all monsters of swinging free-bop and this is even greater than the sum of its parts. Nice! "Endangered Blood is a burning acoustic jazz quartet - four experienced musicians in their prime, playing at their best. On their self-titled debut CD, Chris Speed (tenor saxophone), Oscar Noriega (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), Trevor Dunn (bass) and Jim Black (drums) carry on the genre-pushing, limitless experimentation of bands like Alas No Axis, The Claudia Quintet and Electric Masada (all of which include EB members). Endangered Blood also is an urgent example of the jazz tradition's continuing power to inspire musicians to reinvent, reinterpret and re-shape. Most of all it is a celebration of long-term commitment - to friendships and to music itself. Endangered Blood was formed in 2008 to play at a benefit for a friend's cancer treatment - thus their original name, The Benefit Band. Longtime friends and collaborators Chris Speed and Jim Black should need no introduction to fans of cutting edge music. Their work together has included some of the most influential avant-jazz of the last twenty years- in their own bands like Human Feel, Pachora, Yeah No and Alas No Axis, and with other artists like Uri Caine and Tim Berne’s bloodcount. Trevor Dunn is one of the top bassists of his generation, known both for his legendary avant-rock band Mr. Bungle and for his extensive work with John Zorn and Mike Patton. Multi-reedist Oscar Noriega may be a new name to many listeners, but his relationship with Speed and Black stretches back over twenty years. Awareness of his role as an underground force in the New York jazz world is rapidly expanding due to his recent work with Lee Konitz and especially as a member of Tim Berne's new quartet Los Totopos. The music on their debut CD reflects this history and its members' lifelong love for the jazz tradition. Original pieces by Speed like "Plunge," "Rare," and "Elvin Lisbon" continue his relentless push to unify his musical obsessions - pre and post-Coltrane jazz, Eastern European music, and avant-rock. "Uri Bird" demonstrates a powerful engagement with bebop. "Iris," unlike any other piece in the Speed catalogue, shows the influence of New Orleans- particularly a visit to the Iris Mardi Gras parade. "Epistrophy," of course, is an arrangement of the Thelonious Monk classic, maintaining the spirit of Monk in the inimitable voice of Endangered Blood. Other pieces, like "Tacos at Oscar's" and "Andrew's Ditty Variation 1" celebrate the powerful and longtime friendships that form the true backbone of Endangered Blood - the alchemy between musicians whose lives and music have been intertwined for decades." [Skirl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Faust-So Far 180 gram vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only)$30.00 The classic 2nd album by Faust. This one seems to get lost in all the praise heaped on the one that came before it (their s/t debut) and the one that came after (Faust Tapes), but this is one of my very favorites by them. There seems to be a little less obvious studio muckery and the songs themselves and the musical performances get more of a chance to shine though - and they do shine. As the man in England who owns the label would say, "recommended!" Beautiful job on this vinyl issue. [Polydor] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Harold Grosskopf-Synthesist/Re- This one keeps shooting out of here! and it's back now! "Synthesist, the landmark 1980 solo album by Harald Grosskopf, the enigmatic percussionist behind Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Cosmic Jokers, and YOU. A melodically rich and celebratory symbiosis of krautrock, kosmische, and new age, restored and remastered for RVNG Intl's debut reissue. Includes a bonus album compilation CD Re-Synthesist, featuring reinterpretations of Synthesist by Oneohtrix Point Never, Blondes, Arp, CFCF, Stellar Om Source, James Ferraro and more. The Synthesist LP comes in a deluxe package including a unique reverse-bound record jacket and full-color liner notes in English and German." [RVING] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Iro Haarla Quintet-Vespers $18.00 Iro Haarla piano, harp Mathias Eick trumpet Trygve Seim tenor- and soprano saxophone Ulf Krokfors double-bass Jon Christensen drums "Six years after the much-loved “Northbound” – described by All About Jazz as “lovely, articulate, river-deep music” -, a new album of emotionally-powerful ballads from outstanding composer-pianist-harpist Iro Haarla and her remarkable Finnish-Norwegian ensemble. The line-up is unchanged, likewise the commitment of the players, top-flight improvisers, every one. “Vespers” continues a tradition of music - and a scope feeling - that Iro helped establish in the Far North in her years as composer/arranger/orchestrator for Edward Vesala’s bands (and magical ECM recordings including “Lumi”, “Ode To The Death Of Jazz”, “Invisible Storm” and “Nordic Gallery”). Iro has, furthermore, composed music for the UMO Jazz Orchestra (in 2002 for Tomasz Stanko as soloist, and in 2006 for a “UMO plays Haarla” event in Helsinki and for a suite of pieces premiered in Tampere). In 2008, at the instigation of Manfred Eicher, she premiered new music for string quartet and piano and harp in Helsinki." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Peter Michael Hamel-Hamel 2 x vinyl lps $45.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) Great, classic, trancey album, reissued here for the very first time, in a high-quality vinyl reissue. Expensive, but a classic. "First ever reissue of P.M Hamel's debut album, originally released by Vertigo in 1972. An extended trip through meditative and minimalist territories that has its roots both in western avant-garde and Indian classical music. Organ and synthesizer drones mix with natural sounds in a flowing, ever-changing soundscape. For fans of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Popol Vuh, Taj Mahal Travellers, Deuter and anyone into ambient and meditation musics. With Peter Michael Hamel (organ, voice, electronics, piano), Anatol Arkus (synthesizer), Ulrich Kraus (synthesizer)." Deluxe gatefold sleeve with 4-page insert featuring photos and liner notes written by Ulrich Kraus and Terry Riley." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Harmonia-Musik Von Harmonia 180 gram vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only)$30.00 One of the all-time classic, classic Krautrock albums! After two albums, guitarist Michael Rother left Neu! & joined forces with the electronic duo Cluster (Hans Joachim Roedelius & Didier Moebius). The first of two by guitarist Michael Rother & synthesists Hans Joachim Roedelius & Dieter Moebius. Extremely high quality instrumental melodic-yet-proto-industrial texture music for guitar, organ, synthesizer, piano & percussion. Highly, highly, personally recommended; one of my favorites of all time, along with its brother "Deluxe", which I like just a tad more, but in terms of 'hipster factor', I can see that this one has had more influence on the music of today; I can not recommend this highly enough! Beautiful job on this vinyl issue. [Polydor] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Chris Higginbottom-One $11.00 "Rising star drummer Chris Higginbottom will be returned to the UK in summer/ autumn 2005 to tour his long-awaited debut album "ONE" featuring New York based musicians Seamus Blake, tenor saxophone (Dave Douglas), Aaron Goldberg, piano (Joshua Redman) and Orlando le Fleming, bass (Jane Monheit). Chris presents a combination of originals and modern interpretations of compositions by some great American musicians including Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and Wayne Shorter. The strong melodic content of the music makes this album accessible contemporary jazz, but a closer listen reveals subtle complexities that are as evident in Chris' approach to composing and arranging as they are in his playing. Odd time signatures, and a wide range of tempos from slow ballads to up-tempo swing are performed by some of the finest New York - based musicians of today, all of whom are as well versed in the tradition of the music as they are internationally acclaimed artists." [Basho] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kay Hoffman-Floret Silva $17.00 Back in stock for the first time in ages! Nice to see this rarity available; I've had a vinyl copy of this since the mid 80's, but that edition was sold out a billion years ago and it has never appeared again until now! "1977 avant/folk progressive masterpiece from minimalist composer Kay Hoffman. Includes collaborative performances from Jacqueline Darby and Gaio Chiocchio -- members of the legendary, Italian progressive group Pierrot Lunaire. Originally slated for release on RCA Italy in '78, the album was later rejected due to recording deadlines, release schedules, and requests by RCA for other artistic/musical considerations. However, many years later, Floret Silva did end up surfacing on a very different shore. Copies of the masters found their way to the highly eclectic Japanese label Belle Antique, whose musical director had heard rumors about the early project in the mid-1980's. As a result, Floret Silva was finally released eight years after the completed sessions in 1985 as a small edition, but very well received LP (Belle Antique 8502, Japan). Apparently, not many copies of the record were exported outside Japan. This merely created even more mystery surrounding the recordings as well as rumors associated with a Pierrot Lunaire-related project. The recordings were based on the 'Carmina Burana' -- a collection of medieval poetry written by various authors of which little is known. Floret Silva was an attempt to find a voice for these anonymous authors in the late 1970's in Florence. Now, nearly 30 years after the completed sessions, Floret Silva blooms again...this time in the US. Available for the first time on CD with remastered sound, including a 12-page booklet with full lyrics and English translations. A lost (but now reclaimed) gem from the Italian progressive underground." [Robot] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hugh Hopper/Matt Howarth-The Stolen Hour $17.00 In the early/mid 00s, Hugh started working with his computer and started cutting up and putting together music in the new technological version of how he did it starting in 1963, when Daevid Allen showed him what a tape loop was. He made two full albums that were actually released, 2003's "Jazzloops" and this album, which was released in a enhanced CD edition with a digital (.pdf) comic book by Matt Howarth. This features Hugh on guitar, bass, and rhythm loops plus: Robert Wyatt, John Marshall, Didier Malherbe, Simon Pickard, Frank van der Kooy, Pierre Olivier Govin and Jan Ponsford. Pop it into your computer and read Matt's accompanying story/art. [Burning Shed] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Julia Hülsmann Trio-Imprint $18.00 Julia Hülsmann piano Marc Muellbauer double-bass Heinrich Köbberling drums "On the second ECM disc from the popular Berlin-based Julia Hülsmann Trio, the leader’s themes stand out in stark relief, as if stamped or printed into the surrounding improvisation. “Imprint” offers highly communicative jazz in which melody, clearly-etched melody, is paramount. Hülsmann is a gifted jazz-composer and there are surprises amongst her pieces here, including a powerfully-swinging Thelonious Monk tribute entitled “Who’s Next”. Bassist Muellbauer and drummer Köbberling also contribute intriguing tunes of their own, and this year’s offbeat cover version is a lilting Austrian Schlager tune from the 1940s, “Kauf dir einen bunten Luftballon”." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Itibere Orquestra Familia-Pedra do Espia 2 x CDs $28.00 This is the very first album by the the large scale Itibere Orquestra Familia, which we have not been able to track down until now. It is led by Itibere Zwarg, Hermeto Pascoal's long-time bassist and it has a lot of Hermeto's sound in their music. A LOT. "This is incredible music - intricate, joyous, intelligent, crazy, fun (all hallmarks of Hermeto, of course, and Itibere's leader has been his bass player for many years). The musicianship is mindblowing considering how young most of these players are. Really, if you're into something a little different, with a wild Brasilian twist, get this album."-Andy Kip "If you like Prog / avant garde and exotic complex music then this is for you. Even though there are references to Hermeto Pascoal, prog / jazz / rock / folk / avant master from Brazil, the music has a sound of its own and a style which is quite original.Highly Recommended to those looking for adventurous beautyful-yet-challenging music!" [JAM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sharron Kraus-The Woody Nightshade $12.00 "British singer and musician Sharron Kraus has firmly established herself as a genuine heiress to the UK folk ancestry of Shirley Collins, Lal Waterson, or Maddy Prior…performing with a sparkling clear voice that can sound as ancient and elemental as rain, stone, or soil." - Matthew Murphy, Pitchfork "Sharron Kraus is a UK-based singer, musician and songwriter whose craft defiantly recasts yet tenderly cherishes the folk traditions of England and Appalachia. Kraus summons a sound imbued in darkness yet is somehow enveloped in an aura shimmering with heavenly luminescence; her songs tell intricate tales of rootless souls, dark secrets and earthly joys, carried high by an astonishing and inimitable voice of bell-clear sonority. With a tableau of critically-acclaimed albums, collaborations and projects across the past decade, Kraus has forged a musical path bewtiched by the dark side of folk music and its traditions while lifting its veil to the sunlight of modern times. The Woody Nightshade is the newest entry into Kraus' canon, a body of work that is her finest and most ambitious to date - and, notably, the least overtly "folky" of the bunch. The Woody Nightshade takes an amble down a slightly different route along Sharron Kraus' musical path. Reminiscent of the expanded instrumentation and compositional arrangements found on The Fox's Wedding (released on David Tibet/Current 93's Durtro/Jnana label, 2008), gone are the traditional folk tools of the trade, such as the familiar use of banjo and fiddles, in favor of drums, electric guitar and bass. While that may sound as though Kraus has "gone electric", she uses this foray into broader instrumentation as texture and color, wrapping coarse velvet and splashing subtle earth tones over her songs. Kraus's signature has always been her distinctive vocals, and her idiosyncratic siren sound is in top form throughout The Woody Nightshade. As a first, Kraus is joined alternately by a trio of singers, providing harmony on some tunes and dissonance on others, a turn that furthers the textured qualities and inherent duality in her musical vision. The result is a much more folk-inspired album than folk-saturated, and although a feeling of claustrophobia seems to permeate throughout The Woody Nightshade, shining moments of serenity are present to ease the foreboding tension. Timely and timeless, The Woody Nightshade is a triumph by one of the most original and innovative artists presiding over today's new folk idiom." [Strange-Attractors] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sharron Kraus-The Woody Nightshade vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only)$15.00 "British singer and musician Sharron Kraus has firmly established herself as a genuine heiress to the UK folk ancestry of Shirley Collins, Lal Waterson, or Maddy Prior…performing with a sparkling clear voice that can sound as ancient and elemental as rain, stone, or soil." - Matthew Murphy, Pitchfork "Sharron Kraus is a UK-based singer, musician and songwriter whose craft defiantly recasts yet tenderly cherishes the folk traditions of England and Appalachia. Kraus summons a sound imbued in darkness yet is somehow enveloped in an aura shimmering with heavenly luminescence; her songs tell intricate tales of rootless souls, dark secrets and earthly joys, carried high by an astonishing and inimitable voice of bell-clear sonority. With a tableau of critically-acclaimed albums, collaborations and projects across the past decade, Kraus has forged a musical path bewtiched by the dark side of folk music and its traditions while lifting its veil to the sunlight of modern times. The Woody Nightshade is the newest entry into Kraus' canon, a body of work that is her finest and most ambitious to date - and, notably, the least overtly "folky" of the bunch. The Woody Nightshade takes an amble down a slightly different route along Sharron Kraus' musical path. Reminiscent of the expanded instrumentation and compositional arrangements found on The Fox's Wedding (released on David Tibet/Current 93's Durtro/Jnana label, 2008), gone are the traditional folk tools of the trade, such as the familiar use of banjo and fiddles, in favor of drums, electric guitar and bass. While that may sound as though Kraus has "gone electric", she uses this foray into broader instrumentation as texture and color, wrapping coarse velvet and splashing subtle earth tones over her songs. Kraus's signature has always been her distinctive vocals, and her idiosyncratic siren sound is in top form throughout The Woody Nightshade. As a first, Kraus is joined alternately by a trio of singers, providing harmony on some tunes and dissonance on others, a turn that furthers the textured qualities and inherent duality in her musical vision. The result is a much more folk-inspired album than folk-saturated, and although a feeling of claustrophobia seems to permeate throughout The Woody Nightshade, shining moments of serenity are present to ease the foreboding tension. Timely and timeless, The Woody Nightshade is a triumph by one of the most original and innovative artists presiding over today's new folk idiom." [Strange-Attractors] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dickie Landry-Fifteen Saxophones $10.00 "First ever CD reissue of this little known classic from founding Philip Glass Ensemble member Richard 'Dickie' Landry. Following two jazz LPs issued on the Chatham Square label (which he co-ran), Dickie Landry released Fifteen Saxophones, a set of 1974 recordings done with engineer Kurt Munkacsi, on the Northern Lights and Wergo labels in 1978. Fifteen Saxophones simultaneously demonstrates Landry's boundary-pushing saxophone and his understanding of the minimalists' long-form treatises on sound. Using intricate Revox tape delays on 'Fifteen Saxophones', 'Alto Flute Quad Delay,' and the side-long live document 'Kitchen Solos', Landry's strong personality as a player shines through a brilliant wall of sound. It is unsurprising Landry was a fixture in the same New York scene that spawned artists like Richard Serra - something equally monumental exists in the pieces found on this album. This reissue includes new liner notes by Clifford Allen and period photos by Gianfranco Gorgoni." "Despite his close working relationship with Glass, this album bears more of a relation to Terry Riley s early improvisational, jazzy aesthetic than Glass additive, endlessly repetitious style ... a great album of dreamy, droney minimalist music, which nowadays would probably pass for ambient or some such thing."-The Incessant Noise [Unseen Worlds] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mopar Mountain Daredevils-Mopar Bloody Mopar vinyl lp (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) $14.00 Cotton Casino, ex of Acid Mothers Temple lives in Baltimore? Who knew? Now I know...and you do too! This is a very limited, Record Store Day 2011 release; limited to 500 copies on red & black splatter-colored wax that are quite lovely to behold! "Features Cotton Casino from Acid Mothers Temple. Mopar Mountain Daredevils create a swirling thicket of heavy psychedelia that has more to do with stoner metal than any current psychedelic rock trends. But where loud bands with less songwriting talent or imagination settle down with the almighty riff, Mopar Bloody Mopar remains unhinged throughout, careening from one passage to the next, never looking back. The first thing that hits you on Mopar Bloody Mopar is how crisply the guitar effects pan out of the speakers, almost glistening, and in sharp contrast to the acid bath of rhythm lurking underneath. It is almost as though someone took rhythm tracks from a long lost '70s heavy metal band, and grafted beautiful spiraling fractals of guitar w**k onto them in a thick-knit fabric woven of modern technology and 40 year old psych aesthetics. Like the best Sabbath albums, Mopar Mountain Daredevils' heaviness always comes caked in an irresistible sludge. Bits and pieces peek through like glimpses of some half-witnessed swamp thing. The whole EP sounds like it might have been recorded on top of a Himalayan peak, with space and wind being the dominant elements of the effects board. Excess has been the norm with psych bands, but the effect is for the album to fade out, strangely becoming more minimalistic as the songs get longer, and the beast settles back into the murk. An engaging debut from a promising band." [El Supremo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Le Orme-La Via Della Seta $17.00 One of the longest lived and consistantly good Italian progressive rock bands return with a new lineup and a new album, which "is in line with their characteristic sonorities: symphonic, romantic progressive rock." It's a concept album about the ancient Silk Road, through which people of different cultures and nationalites have met, made commerce and found a commonality in their shared experiences as people. The album features original members (the drummer - 45 years and counting) long standing members (the keyboardist - 20 years!) and new members (most notably vocalist Jimmy Spitaleri, best known for his work with the classic Italian band Metamorphoses). The first pressing is a limited edition of a 6 panel digipack with a separate booklet. The cover depicts a map and uses a special paper to reproduce the look of ancient parchment maps. "Like the Phoenix, like the cat with seven lives, like the Highlander, Le Orme are reborn and return every time more extraordinary and exciting than ever. Some misunderstanding had undermined the existence of the progressive group longest in history but with an incredible backlash drummer Michi Dei Rossi has taken over the situation firmly and well, giving new life to one of the most amazing legends that Italian music remembers. Le Orme, [a band] that with the album Collage (1971) started the progressive music [movement] and [created] a turning point in Italian society, rise from their ashes with an exciting concept album for the ages. Le Orme enrich their outstanding creative work that continues with yet another unstoppable [album], [following] the path along the streets of symphonic rock, progressive and romantic; this path which, over 45 years, has given birth masterpiece albums such as Collage, Uomo Di Pezza, Felona E Sorona, Contrappunti, Florian ... today is more alive now than never. All this demonstrates that the project, thanks to the affection the fans have shown over the years, will continue for a long, long time with the quality that distinguishes them. Yesterday, today and tomorrow only Le Orme! Le Orme are: Michi Dei Rossi, drums -- a fixture of Le Orme's history but also of the Italian progressive rock band has been leading group for nearly 45 years. [All during] the high (70s) and low (80s) [points of] Le Orme's career [he has] never [lost] sight of the goal of good music and undermined the unwavering loyalty to the largest Italian band. Now the "Warrior of Music" is back on the road. Michel Bon, keyboards -- Bon who graduated in music theory at the Conservatorio Pollini of Padova, working with Le Orme from the end of the year '80 but he was hired as keyboard player in 1990, replacing Tony Pagliuca. So for more than 20 years is the alter-ego of the volcanic drummer and soundtrack of Le Orme. Fabio Trentini, bass, guitar -- a native of Rome, but has experienced his greatest successes as a producer in Germany (Guano Apes, Subway To Sally. Nina Hagen, etc...). [For t]he new project of Le Orme, [he has] worked for some time as a bassist and guitarist making his international experience. Jimmy Spitaleri, vocals -- it would take volumes to tell the story of the great singer. We simply say that with Metamorphoses, a band of progressive years in the '70s, who realized 2 LPs, authentic and hard to find jewels (E Fu Il Sesto Giorno, Inferno) and the prog world envies us even now. After years of personal projects, he agreed with Michi's enthusiasm for the offer of the lead singer in Le Orme, more angry and aggressive than ever. William Dotto, guitar -- Director of the Institute of Modern Music Treviso is a perfectionist of the guitar (especially in chordal tapping) as well as excellent violinist and pianist. Will be back on tour with the historic band. Frederic Gava, piano -- Gava has only twenty years of age but experience to navigate [as a] musician. [In his] eighth year at the conservatory in Venice, he has played in bands and [with] progressive young people in a celebration of the album Collage where exactly was noted for the perfection of its contribution. He has a reverence for King Crimson, Genesis, and of course for Le Orme; this is his second tour as a pianist. [Orme] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo-Mundo Verde Esperança $18.00 This 2002 release was the first from Hermeto's 'Grupo' after a 10 year recording hiatus. The Grupo here is Hermeto, Fabio Pascoal (perc), Alexandre Marques (piano), Itiberê Zwarg (bass), Marcio Bahia (drums), and Vinícius Dorin (sax/flute). Also featured are members of Itiberê's 'Orquestra Família'(their first recording 'Pedra do Espia' is available here at Amazon), delivering incredible performances of fourteen tunes, each named for one of Pascoal's grandchildren. The music here is fresh, challenging, and inspiring; everything you would expect from 'O Bruxo'. The musicianship is virtuostic; especially from the 'Orquestra' members, none of whom is over 25 years of age! This, along with all the great musicians to have passed through Hermeto's tutelage, is Hermeto's legacy; his 'Universal Music' will live and grow forever. A must for any Hermeto collection; and required listening for jazz fans who want to discover contemporary Brazilian improvised music."-Ray Moore [RM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phlox-Rebimine + Voltimine $16.00 Back in stock! I heard a couple of tracks on MySpace and they were really good, so I bought some, but this is an excellent, somewhat noisy (in a good way - it doesn't induce slumber) take on classic jazz rock from Estonia that challenges almost anything else being made today. Keyboards, guitar, sax, bass, drums, percussion. All instrumental. Highly recommended! "The third album by the Estonian jazz-rock/prog group Phlox, “Rebimine + voltimine” (“Tearing and Folding”) is a fast, high energy old school fusion rollercoaster. Although these instrumental compositions are somewhat influenced by Cantebury bands like Soft Machine, etc., also early 70s King Crimson and others, the different tastes of the members of this six-piece combo produce a strange mix, and the result is a unique and colourful picture. The album was recorded with vintage analogue equipment at MKDK Studios, Tallinn, Estonia, providing a soft sound even at the most hard hitting moments, of which there is no shortage. Phlox has been recording and playing since 2000, the line-up has gone through numerous changes and at present features Kristo Roots (g), Pearu Helenurm (kb), Kalle Klein (s), Raivo Prooso (b), Madis Zilmer (d) and Allan Prooso (perc)." [MKDK] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phlox-Talu $16.00 Back in stock! Long awaited - at least by a number of folks here - new album by this Estonian jazz rock group. They perform in classic style jazz rock (think Weather Report crossed with early Passport with guitars, or a better take on Perigeo, if you want to be more obscure) but who give it enough of their own personality that you won't think that this is from the 70s. Depite being from a small country and being a unknown group, for me, this challenges almost anything else being made today. All instrumental. Highly recommended! Kalle Klein: Saxophone, Raivo Prooso: Bass, Pearu Helenurm: Keyboards, Kristo Roots: Guitar, Madis Zilmer: Drums, Allan Prooso: Percussion guests: Vambola Krigul: vibraphone Maarja Nut: violin Liis Jürgens: harp Ramo Teder: flute [MKDK] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Primordial Undermind-Last Worldly Bond vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $16.00 "Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen style epics...Primordial Undermind have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey, The Wire "Eric Arn is the centrifugal force behind Primordial Undermind, the band he has steadfastly navigated throughout the nether regions of avant psych-rock for the past two decades. Arn cut his teeth in the legendary Crystallized Movements throughout the 1980s, the Twisted Village flagship band that, in its wake, spawned the Wayne Rogers & Kate Village-led freakout troupes Magic Hour (with Damon Kurkowski and Naomi Yang, otherwise known as Damon & Naomi) and Major Stars. Multiple geographic relocations over the years (Arn moves around: from Pasadena CA to Boston, MA to San Francisco, CA to Austin TX and, since 2004, Vienna, Austria) and a revolving door of personnel all but assured each new recording would be a different set of lysergic skree from the previous outing. A wealth of 7" singles, a number of compilation appearances throughout the 1990s, and an armful of albums for September Gurls, Camera Obscura, and Emperor Jones each documented a departure from the last, an ongoing evolution of sound and structure pointing upwards and outwards from their earliest roots as a predominantly song-based psych/punk band, culminating with the all-out experimental rock excursions displayed on 2006's Loss of Affect. Although the PU sound has been in constant flux, it is Arn's frenetic guitar work and unfurling sonic vision which maintains a familiar anchor at its very core. Looking back, the seemingly innocent psych-garage sound of PU's earliest period feels like a distant echo when held up to the infrared light of their newest ozone-depleting blast Last Worldly Bond. Recorded live in December 2008 in front of a live studio audience at Amaan Studios in Vienna, Austria, Last Worldly Bond captures stunning performances with impeccable fidelity by yet another Primordial Undermind lineup primed to do some supersonic firewalking. Make no mistake, this is no mere live album recorded from the board, these are truly pro recording studio sessions capturing the band in rare form. The new lineup features soaring cello playing by Megan Burke and proto-Japanese psych-rock textures anchored by a palpitating rhythm section interwoven with electronics, and the results are mystifying. Leading off with the astral moon-scrape "I Am Afraid of You", evocative of what an unholy matrimony between Einstruzende Neubauten and Guru Guru may sound like, Last Worldly Bond finds the band mining fertile lands homesteaded by what often times feels like a heady collision of Amon Duul II (circa Phallus Dei) with classic Austin TX-style garage-psych like ST37. In all, Last Worldly Bond captures Primordial Undermind in all of its consciousness-elevating glory, firmly illustrating that this enigmatic band blows the doors off of most acid/experimental/free-rock acts rattling on the cellar door today." [Strange Attractors] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Conrad Schnitzler-Ballet Statique vinyl lp (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) $18.00 "M=Minimal continues their collaboration with electronic music legend Conrad Schnitzler, and presents after 30 years, the re-release of one of the key works from Conrad's large, adventurous back catalog. Ballet Statique is not only a musical milestone but also a highlight of music production. It was recorded in 1978 at the legendary Paragon Studio, Berlin by Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann in the same period when other masterworks like Cluster's Großes Wasser and solo recordings by Roedelius and Asmus Tietchens were recorded. Ballet Statique was first released on the German Paragon label, under the original title Con (also issued on legendary French label Egg). This album is a must-have, and not only for fans of Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never." [M=Minimal] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Klaus Schulze-Big In Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010 : 2 x CDs + NTSC (all region) DVD $21.00 Very good, new Klaus; he shows the influences of modern electronica, but basically, it's all Klaus and it's all very good! "The concerts in Tokyo in March 2010 were remarkable for many reasons. First of all, the Japanese crew rebuilt Klaus‘ legendary and extraordinary equipment exactly the same way as you can see it at his European concerts. Considering the fact that this equipment includes a lot of rare instruments and devices, the Japanese crew did a great job. Secondly, the concert itself contained some surprises: It was the first time that Klaus Schulze rebuilt and remodeled his classic “ Crystal Lake ” (original released 1977 on the album “Mirage”), renamed here as: “The Crystal Returns”. Also astonishing was the fact that Klaus played electric guitar on the track, “Sequencers Are Beautiful” - of course in his own, totally unconventional way. In all, these were breathtaking concerts that combined Klaus tradition and vision: You will love the sequencer-sounds as well as the new components. And of course, the DVD gives you the perfect vision of these intense and atmospheric performances. “Big In Japan” had already been released in as a box-set, limited to 500 copies and as an European Version. This American version is different to all previous editions:: The tracklisting of the two CD’s is the same as on the European Edition, but you will get a totally new DVD with different tracks – this time edited and produced by the famous French film director James Frachon, who already filmed Klaus Schulze on the DVD’s “Rheingold” and “Dziekuje Bardzo”. Along with this stylish package, these historic moments are now available for every Klaus Schulze fan in America!" [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ SYCH-Lunar Roulette $12.00 SYCH is: Wally Shoup - Alto Saxophone C. Spencer Yeh - Violin, Vocals Chris Corsano - Percussion Bill Horist - Electric Guitar "Each of these musicians is a brilliant creative force in his own right, and as a quartet they are capable of blistering ecstatic play as well as voyages into novel, subtle textural forms." - Creative Music Guild "SYCH is both an acronym for the dream-team avant jazz quartet of Wally Shoup/C. Spencer Yeh/Chris Corsano/Bill Horist, and the heady, buzzing state of mind achieved while immersed in their glorious fire-ringed soundpools. The players' combined resume reads as a borderline hyperbolic who's who of contemporary experimental and improvised music: Shoup is a free jazz veteran from Seattle, WA who leads his Wally Shoup Trio and Project W, and has collaborated with Nels Cline (Wilco etc), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etc), and Paul Flaherty; Yeh is most known for leading Burning Star Core and boasts countless live and recorded collaborations in his own right; Corsano is a shining light in avant music, most recently as a member of Rangda (with Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and is a tremendously in-demand and diverse percussionist, performing with people that range (literally) from Bjork to Jandek, and on recordings with Six Organs of Admittance, Nels Cline and dozens more; Horist is a West Coast signature guitarist, composer and improviser, with scores of recordings and collaborations alongside such names as Bill Frisell, Eugene Chadbourne, and Steve Fisk. The sum of the individual parts is staggering as displayed on Lunar Roulette, an astonishing album brimming with ecstatic excursions into the outer regions of free music. Lunar Roulette is the direct result of an inspired whim by Shoup, who invited Corsano and Yeh to come play the Seattle Improvised Music Festival in February 2010 with Horist, a friend and frequent hometown collaborator. What occurred was a fountainhead of creative interplay culminating in a set for Sonarchy Radio, an ongoing series for Seattle's KEXP in which artists converge in the studio at Jack Straw Productions for live-in-the-studio performances broadcast over the air. Lunar Roulette is culled from this performance, fine tuned to bring out the absolute best in the individuality of each player and their uncanny cohesion. SYCH billows forth with some of the most unusual and genre-pushing music heard to ooze from both jazz and free rock circles alike. The burly and frenetic combination of Corsano/Shoup/Horist is enriched by the orchestral nature of Yeh's violin…and when Yeh interjects with his Yamtastuka Eye-esque vocal improvisations, the whole aircraft launches into entirely alien terrain. Make no mistake, it's not just solid skronk-freakouts bellowing from the belly of SYCH, but Lunar Roulette is often strikingly subtle, with various passages exploring lilting and ethereal moods, with some outright accessibility within the oddness. SYCH shows exactly why these folks are the world's top players in improvised music and have been for years. Let's hope Lunar Roulette is a harbinger for many more soul-grinding sessions to come." [Strange Attractors] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ SYCH-Lunar Roulette vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $15.00 SYCH is: Wally Shoup - Alto Saxophone C. Spencer Yeh - Violin, Vocals Chris Corsano - Percussion Bill Horist - Electric Guitar "Each of these musicians is a brilliant creative force in his own right, and as a quartet they are capable of blistering ecstatic play as well as voyages into novel, subtle textural forms." - Creative Music Guild "SYCH is both an acronym for the dream-team avant jazz quartet of Wally Shoup/C. Spencer Yeh/Chris Corsano/Bill Horist, and the heady, buzzing state of mind achieved while immersed in their glorious fire-ringed soundpools. The players' combined resume reads as a borderline hyperbolic who's who of contemporary experimental and improvised music: Shoup is a free jazz veteran from Seattle, WA who leads his Wally Shoup Trio and Project W, and has collaborated with Nels Cline (Wilco etc), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etc), and Paul Flaherty; Yeh is most known for leading Burning Star Core and boasts countless live and recorded collaborations in his own right; Corsano is a shining light in avant music, most recently as a member of Rangda (with Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and is a tremendously in-demand and diverse percussionist, performing with people that range (literally) from Bjork to Jandek, and on recordings with Six Organs of Admittance, Nels Cline and dozens more; Horist is a West Coast signature guitarist, composer and improviser, with scores of recordings and collaborations alongside such names as Bill Frisell, Eugene Chadbourne, and Steve Fisk. The sum of the individual parts is staggering as displayed on Lunar Roulette, an astonishing album brimming with ecstatic excursions into the outer regions of free music. Lunar Roulette is the direct result of an inspired whim by Shoup, who invited Corsano and Yeh to come play the Seattle Improvised Music Festival in February 2010 with Horist, a friend and frequent hometown collaborator. What occurred was a fountainhead of creative interplay culminating in a set for Sonarchy Radio, an ongoing series for Seattle's KEXP in which artists converge in the studio at Jack Straw Productions for live-in-the-studio performances broadcast over the air. Lunar Roulette is culled from this performance, fine tuned to bring out the absolute best in the individuality of each player and their uncanny cohesion. SYCH billows forth with some of the most unusual and genre-pushing music heard to ooze from both jazz and free rock circles alike. The burly and frenetic combination of Corsano/Shoup/Horist is enriched by the orchestral nature of Yeh's violin…and when Yeh interjects with his Yamtastuka Eye-esque vocal improvisations, the whole aircraft launches into entirely alien terrain. Make no mistake, it's not just solid skronk-freakouts bellowing from the belly of SYCH, but Lunar Roulette is often strikingly subtle, with various passages exploring lilting and ethereal moods, with some outright accessibility within the oddness. SYCH shows exactly why these folks are the world's top players in improvised music and have been for years. Let's hope Lunar Roulette is a harbinger for many more soul-grinding sessions to come." [Strange Attractors] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Octavo-Des Pieds et des Mains $9.00 (special) From 1991, this is by the duo of Guigou Chenevier (Etron Fou, Volapuk) & Guy Sapin. Using guitars, bass, keyboards, saxes & drums, their music is well developed & well played. Much more music from 2 players than you would think possible. Guigou is a unheralded master and is always worth hearing and this is a great album of stripped down music that in light of guitar/drum duos that came later (Vialka, Ahleuchatistas) seems prescient. [Gazul] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ O Terco-Tributo Ao Sorriso $18.00 One of the first progressive bands from Brazil, O Terço (meaning rosary beads) first formed in 1968, but didn't hit its stride until the mid '70s. Personnel changes would become part of the bands dynamic, with Sergio Hinds assuming the role of band anchor. They also managed to mix in other styles, like folk, heavy metal, and funk. This collects their earliest recordings, originally released on EPs in mono only, and, as far as I can tell, never reissued until now and also now issued in stereo for the first time ever. You can hear the influences of The Beatles and the Moody Blues, among others here. For the psych fan. [Discobertas] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ O Terco-O Terco $18.00 One of the first progressive bands from Brazil, O Terço (meaning rosary beads) first formed in 1968, but didn't hit its stride until the mid '70s. Personnel changes would become part of the bands dynamic, with Sergio Hinds assuming the role of band anchor. They also managed to mix in other styles, like folk, heavy metal, and funk. This was their very first album, from 1971. You can hear the influences of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and the Moody Blues, among others here. For the psych fan. [Discobertas] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Marcin Wasilewski Trio-Faithful $17.00 Marcin Wasilewski piano Slawomir Kurkiewicz double-bass Michal Miskiewicz drums I had the great pleasure of seeing them about 2 years ago and it was a beautiful, intimate concert. "Dazzling third ECM album by Poland’s Wasilewski Trio, which perfectly captures the group’s blend of energy and lyricism. There is space here for both the outgoing and the reflective, for profound composition and in-the-moment creativity. The wide-ranging repertoire on “Faithful” (named after the Ornette Coleman title track) includes five new tunes from the pen of Marcin Wasilewski and timeless pieces by Paul Bley and Hermeto Pascoal. From the standard repertory, the trio plays “The Ballad of the Sad Young Men”. Reaching beyond jazz, the players also find a new approach to Hanns Eisler’s “An den kleinen Radioapparat”." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): Hear BEAT CIRCUS' BRIAN CARPENTER inteviewed on FRESH AIR: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/ CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ http://www.pointofdeparture. GUT BUCKET http://www.allmusic.com/album/ LED BIB http://www.classical-music. JOHN SURMAN http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/ http://www.pointofdeparture. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ FUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - Rock And Pop - Calle de Albasanz, 79 - Madrid, Spain June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DOCTOR NERVE June 25 - Doctor Nerve (with Jersey Band and Turn Around Norman) - The Windup Space - 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD 21201 (410) 244-8855 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland May 28 - TeaterStudio Lederman - Stockholm, Sweden (record release show!) GUTBUCKET April 27 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY May 2 - Rockshop - Brooklyn, NY May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 10 - Revolution Cafe - San Francisco, CA May 11 - Cafe Van Kleef - Oakland, CA May 12 - Hotel Utah - San Francisco, CA May 13 - Secret Society Lounge - Portland, OR May 14 - Cafe Racer - Seattle, WA May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) for the rest of the tour, Richard will be performing in a duo with Duncan Pinhas May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages May 30 - The Abbey - Chicago, IL (with Magas + Scum Ra (featuring Plastic Crimewave and Kathy of Spires That In The Sunset Rise) + Mark Solotroff - doors 8:00/show 8:30 - $10.00 / $12.00 at door - many more dates tba - details coming - POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - Motor Totemists Guild November 29 - Upsilon Acrux November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Gutbucket Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ Rest in Peace: BILLY BANG (new music violinist from the 1970s forward) ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #18 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) LE ORME-La Via della Seta (The Silk Road) PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflections (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany THINKING PLAGUE-Decline and Fall (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp91.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Amoeba Split-Dance of the Goodbyes $16.00 Amoeba Split are a Spanish, progressive jazz/rock band with heavy Canterbury-scene influences. After 4 years of work together, this is their first album, released in a numbered, limited-edition package of 500 copies! The line up is: Ricardo Castro Varela-Hammond organ, piano, mellotron, mini-Moog, Alberto Villarroya Lopez-bass, guitars, Pablo Anon-saxes, Maria Toro-vocals, flute, Fernando Lamas-drums. The tracks are about evenly divided between vocal tracks and even the vocal tracks have a lot of instrumental passages, as befits a Canterbury-influenced outfit. "This is the time to celebrate the emergence of such a lovely progressive dance in the key of 21st century Canterbury ? from Spain's Northeastern coast, Amoeba Split has delivered a beautiful album in which jazzy vibrations and melodic colorfulness fuse in an appealing dynamics. Four years was the time that Amoeba Split took to complete this album's repertoire little by little, and now "Dance Of The Goodbyes" is a brilliant reality. In the meantime, the band lost its permanent guitarist, hence becoming a quintet where the bassist adds the guitar parts on studio, except for track no. 3 that features a guest guitarist. All lyrics in the sung tracks are in English: I guess the band feels comfortable doing that. 'Dedicated to us, but we weren't listening' opens up the album with obvious softmachinesque reference in its title, but the track's actual sonic scheme is more related to Matching Mole's agile density as exhibited in the "Little Red Record": one way or another, it is an effective opener that provides good progressive hope for big pleasure in the short run to the listener. 'Perfumed garden', the first sung piece, bears a calmer mood in the beginning, full of dreamy melodic developments, but eventually things get more intense dominated by a vibrant swing and a few cosmic passages. Right before the 5 minute mark, a duet of piano and mellotron-flute signals the reprise of the last sung portion, this time augmented with flute flourishes and mellotron-cello orchestrations. With a 10 ¾ minute span, 'Turbulent matrix' develops the jazz factor more deeply, with dominant airs a-la Weather Report in many of the piano and sax interventions that occur in the interlude section. For a while, during the second half, the band indulges in a sort of homage to "Volume Two"-era SM, but finally the coda states a reshaping of the initial motif. This is a highlight of the album, no doubt about it, as is 'Blessed water' as well. This one, the second sung track, brings an overall romantic vibe to a tale of moral disappointment and desperation for faith. This track's compositional development benefits from gradual crescendos of colorfulness that are properly fuelled by the alternated guitar and woodwind solos. Picture a Robert Wyatt ballad rearranged and performed by a combo of Caravan and Catapilla musicians and you might get the picture about this song's structure. 'Qwerty' is a brief instrumental based on a few letters on old typewriter's panels: it isn't even one minute long but it clearly delivers exciting moods that are heavily inspired by the Hatfield & The North mold. Mostly, 'Qwerty' is a preamble to the epic 23+ minute long 'Flight to nowhere'. After a brief psychedelic intro theme, the first sung section is a melodic expression of serene simplicity, soon followed by a Caravan-style jam (featuring an excellent flute solo by Miss Toro). With the next jam, things get much more vivacious with a featured position of the guitar and sax solos. Then, a softer section, very symphonic in itself, brings pastoral nuances that stand closer to PFM than, say, National Health. Later on, after a reasonable time for development of this new found symphonic groove, the jazz-prog orientation is retaken in full swing in order to elaborate a partial climax that serves as the anticipation to the following sung section. The stage is set for yet another climatic moment, with the whole instrumental framework focused on the powerfully stated organ layers and rhythmic dynamics. At the 21 ½ minute mark, the music stops drastically for the eerie emergence of soft heartbeats and lifeline machinery? and then, silence. The last thing of this suite and this album is not such silence, but an unsettling piano solo that somehow brings a variation of the same intensity with which the music had stopped earlier. A very clever ending for a very good closure to a great album: Amoeba Split nailed it big time with this debut album, the first dance."-Cesar Inca/progarchives.com You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Argent-Argent/Ring of Hands 2 x CDs (remastered) $12.00 I have a big fat soft spot for these two albums, which I adored before having my musical tastes reshapped by The Mothers of Invention. Still quite good proto-progressive/art rock with classical trappings and with heavy (for 1969) keyboards. For the most part, some really good songs too! "After the Zombies broke up, keyboardist/songwriter Rod Argent formed his own band in 1969, which incorporated more classical, jazz, and art rock influences in accordance with Argent's musical training. The group's other members were guitarist/songwriter Russ Ballard, bassist Jim Rodford, and drummer Bob Henrit. Argent's first two albums, Argent and Ring of Hands, received a fair amount of critical acclaim..." – Steve Huey/All Music Guide "Argent's back catalog remains in a parlous state 20 years on from the group's peak, with great swathes of the repertoire unavailable on CD, and even some of the band's best-known and loved recordings are still chained up in a vault somewhere. Thankfully, this two-fer rendering of their first two albums is an exception to that sorry rule, as the group's transformation from the logical successors to the Zombies into one of the finest prog bands of the early '70s is traced out across 19 songs, almost any of which would be a shoo-in for some future "best-of" Argent compilation. It is true, of course, that Argent was prone to excess on occasion -- what is remarkable is just how naturally the band approached that state, as songs build on their own momentum toward peaks that even the best oiled of the group's peers audibly struggled to approach. The combination of Rod Argent's keys and Russ Ballard's words and vocals is, of course, key to this success, and both "Dance in the Smoke" and "Lothlorien" offer firm pointers as to just how tight the union would become. Elsewhere, "Liar," "Schoolgirl," and "Celebration" all have "classic" stamped across them, even this early into the group's career. And as "Where Are We Going Wrong" brings the CD to a halt, one is left wondering what on earth the bandmembers were talking about...they weren't going wrong anywhere." – Dave Thompson/All Music Guide [BGO] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Beardfish-Destined Solataire $15.00 Until recently, this was 'the band's great, but sadly unavailable fifth album'. Luckily a reprinting and new distribution has remedied that problem. There is - as always - a lot of humor in what they do and they are one of the top Swedish progressive rock bands out there. Good to have this available again, as it should be. [Inside Out] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Beardfish-Mammoth CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $13.00 Back in stock! Beardfish have come a very, very long way from their Swedish-only, very Zappa-like, self-released albums to being signed to one of the larger/more visible progressive rock-oriented labels. This is their sixth album and they continue to somehow manage to blend complexity and a lot of elements of progressive rock without sounding retro or like they wish it was 1973. This really nice set includes their new studio album, as well as a fantastic bonus in the form of a nearly 2-hour long live video! [Superball] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Blonde on Blonde-Rebirth/Reflections of a Live $8.00 (special) The 2nd and 3rd albums by this UK psychedelic/proto-progressive outfit. "Rebirth is the second (and best) of three albums released by late sixties/early seventies band Blonde On Blonde. With distinctive new singer Dave Thomas on board, and fiery guitarist Gareth Johnson taking a dominant role, Rebirth was a far more coherent affair. The band delivered an ambitious set of melodic, progressive rock. From the Moody Blues-like pop-rock of opening track (and single A-side) Castles In The Sky to the Procol Harum-style keyboard grandeur of finale You'll Never Know Me/Release, via heavy magnum opus Colour Questions, Rebirth is consistently excellent. Fantastic Voyage is on a mission to elevate Rebirth to the pantheon of classic rock albums. Expanded to include the single version of album tour de force Circles, Rebirth has been mastered from original tapes and housed in a new sleeve, based on a striking publicity photo of the band posing in a castle along with contemporary images and new sleeve notes." "1971's "Reflections On a Life" was recorded in the wake of another personnel shakeup that saw original guitarist Richard/John Hopkins replaced by singer/multi-instrumentalist Graham Davies. With drummer Les Hicks and guitarist Gareth Johnson sharing production responsibilities, the result was the band's most conventional, commercial and to some extent pedestrian release. With a couple of exceptions (notably the rather disconcerting 'Happy Families' and the 'Revolution Number 9'-styled sound collage 'No.2 Psychological Decontamination Unit'), the band's earlier progressive moves were largely absent from their third set. That said, the collection certainly started out with a bang. Complete with crying babies, backward tapes, bizarre sound effects and ominous vocal treatments, the Gareth Johnson penned 'Gene Machine' was easily the wildest thing the band ever recorded. From there on it was far less experimental and less interesting (though side two's 'The Rut' continued the psych mood). With Johnson, Dave Thomas and Graham Davies splitting songwriting chores tracks like 'Love Song' and 'Bar Room Blues' found the band exploring a modest country/folk-rock orientation, while 'I Don't Care' and 'The Bargain' pursued a surprisingly conventional AOR sound. The performances were never less than sterling and the band excelled at injecting interesting touches throughout the collection (check out the Eastern influences that cropped up at the end of 'Ain't It Sad Too'), making the entire album worth hearing. In case anyone cared, propelled by a killer lead guitar 'Sad Song for An Easy Lady' and the pretty ballads 'The Bargain' (which I could swear I've heard elsewhere) and 'Chorale (Forever)' made for the album's standout performances."-rateyourmusic. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jack Bruce and the Cuicoland Express-Live at the Milkyway 2001 : 2 x CDs $26.00 This is the first general release of this high quality live album, recorded under the influence of Kip Hanrahan and including Bernie Worrell, Vernon Reid and a number of Latin percussionists. "Mixed and produced by the legendary Kip Hanrahan the sound quality is outstanding. And so is the music. This is taken from the Cuicoland Express tour, promoting Jack's then new album "Shadows In the Air". And it's certainly nice to hear just how great the songs from that album was, like "Shadow Heart"."-Bodhi Heerin "In 2001 an incredible concert took place, the legendary Jack Bruce performing live with his all-star band; the Cuicoland Express at The Melkweg in Amsterdam. For nine years, only the lucky few who were members of the audience that night were able to experience the magic that took place. Although the show had been recorded, the tapes lay dormant and inaccessible, seemingly lost to the world. In 2009 an opportunity in New York arose enabling the tapes to be digitally converted, meaning they could be mixed and mastered by Bruce’s long-term producer and friend, Kip Hanrahan. This will give fans of Jack Bruce, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer, the chance to experience original material as well as some of their best-loved Cream and Bruce classics re-worked into a sizzling, energetic fusion of Rock and Latin Jazz. Featuring Vernon Reid on guitar (Living Colour), Bernie Worrell on organ (Parliament / Funkadelic), Richie Flores on congas (Tito Puente / Cachao), Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez on drums (Roy Hargrove / Carlos Santana) and Robby Ameen (Dizzy Gillespie / Paul Simon) also on drums, this unstoppable line-up had the audience on fire. This amazing new live album is sure to give Jack Bruce fans exactly what they want and indeed expect; a musically unique and boundary-pushing experience. Listening to this live recording, you can close your eyes and literally feel like you were there on that special night in Amsterdam back in 2001." [Flaccid Parrot] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Crazy World of Arthur Brown-Strange Lands (remastered) $18.00 This was the second album by TCWOAB, which lay dormant and unreleased until it was issued in 1988 by Reckless. It's been out of print for 2 decades. Additionally, also included are most (not all but most) of the material by the great offshoot of TCWOAB, Rustic Hinge, who were TCW without Arthur, whose home / demo recordings from 1970 appeared here for the first time in 1989, also on Reckless. This is the most 'Captain Beefheart' influenced recording next to Kraldjursanstalten, and also the earliest. For that alone, it gets big points from me. Conditionally highly recommended! "Esoteric Recordings are pleased to release the classic lost album by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Strangelands. Recorded in the Autumn of 1969, the sessions were an attempt to resurrect the Crazy World by Arthur Brown and featured some classic material. Divided into four sub-headings, ( The Country, The City, The Cosmos and The Afterlife ), Strangelands was certainly ahead of its time but failed to gain a full release for nearly two decades. In hindsight, the material can be seen as the blueprint for Arthur s next project, the innovative Kingdom Come. This Esoteric Recordings reissue also adds the legendary Replicas sessions by Rustic Hinge. Featuring Crazy World drummer Drachan Theaker and guitarist Andy Rickell, the project was originally intended to feature Arthur Brown as vocalist and also featured the legendary High Tide guesting on one track. With Brown leaving the group to form the first incarnation of Kingdom Come, Rustic Hinge would eventually release material on John Peel’Dandelion label, whilst the Replicas sessions would remain unreleased for a further 20 years. This Esoteric reissue has been newly re-mastered and includes a new essay." [Esoteric] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Miles Davis-Bitches Brew Live $12.00 More info below, but basically, the 3 quartet tracks which are released here for the 1st time ever are fantastic and great recordings. Chick was the Rhodes MASTER! The Isle of Wight show is a great show and if you don't already have it, this is a great release and great value. "It would be easy to casually dismiss one CD with a running time slightly under one hour after the wealth of "box" sets from the vault, since it would seem that the number of tapes which can be cleaned up are thinning out. But this is a solid release which shows the creative electric prowess of Miles Davis and the musical energy that saw no limits on the fusion superspeedway. The hook for even casual collectors is the initial trio of unreleased tracks from the July 1969 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, which features Chick Corea (keyboards), Dave Holland (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums) in a jazz/rock setting that is driven hard by the latter. Wayne Shorter was missing from the lineup due to getting stuck in traffic. The six numbers from the August 1970 Isle of Wight Festival finds Davis bolstering the sound through an expanded group - Gary Bartz (sax), Aierto Moreira (percussion), Keith Jarrett (keyboards), Corea, Holland, DeJohnette - which take themes introduced in the landmark album to new heights. Corea is essentially the lead guitarist in this sonic attack of jazz/rock/funk. The liner notes provide an interesting historical perspective and perhaps - just perhaps - this is going to start a new focus on issuing material without placing a premium on the credit card limits of fans." [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ DeWolff-Orchards/Lupine $17.00 DeWolff are a very young band from The Netherlands consisting of a trio who use keyboards, guitars and drums. The sound is extremely retro protressive/proto-progressive rock and for some reason, these guys are getting really big in Holland and beyond! I first heard of them when I saw that they had done an episode of the German television show "Rockpalast", which is really amazing in this day and age for a band whose median age is 20, but who channel music from 1970! Think Black Bonzo and you have a pretty good idea of what they do. This is a band on the rise playing music that is inspired by what probably gave their parents a thrill. Who whouda thunk it? [Re] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dug Dug's-Dug Dug's (mini-lp sleeve/remaster) $14.00 Beautiful, mini-lp sleeve remaster of this classic Mexican psychedelic release. "Also known as "Lost in My World": the "must have" debut album (1971) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band, recorded after their failed trip to NYC did not produce the stardom they had been promised—pain and disappointment sparking great song-writing on this, the first Mexican psych album in English. After an extended stint as the house band at Tijuana strip joint Fantasitas, Los Dug Dug's relocated to Mexico City in 1966. They quickly garnered a rabid fan following there, which resulted in the Dug Dug’s signing to RCA Records and cutting a series of singles (the band also headlined a pair of 1967 films, El Mundo Loco de los Jovenes and Cinco de Chocolate y Una de Fresa). Upon returning to Tijuana in 1968, Los Dug Dug's took up residence at the popular Sans Sous Ci club. An American tourist was so impressed that he offered to bankroll a trip for the band to New York City. The group played a handful of live dates and recorded a few demos, but having no money to pay the union fees necessary to earn them the opportunity to play NYC’s larger venues left them with little choice but to return to Mexico. Los Dug Dug’s immediately began work on their first LP for RCA Mexico, little knowing at the time that it would become a classic of psychedelia. Long-simmering creative differences between band leaders Nava and Jorge de la Torre forced the latter's resignation after the album was completed; by the time the resulting psychedelic opus appeared in 1971, the first incarnation of Los Dug Dug's was essentially no more. All that remained was this heavy, explosive album, a record which captures the fever/dream humidity of flower children running amok on a July afternoon. Essential. Licensed from Sony/BMG, and newly mastered from the original tapes. CD version is a mini-LP replica jacket, enclosed inside a re-sealable PVC outer sleeve." [Lion Music] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dug Dug's-Smog (mini-lp sleeve/remaster) $14.00 Beautiful, mini-lp sleeve remaster of this classic Mexican psychedelic release. "Classic second album (1972) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band is in Spanish this time, as all other Mexican bands were by now singing in English. The recording sessions were tumultuous: after the band—now stripped down to a power trio—had recorded just three songs, Nava stormed out of the sessions and locked himself in his house for fifteen days. Everyone on the outside worried about his safety, but Armando was fine: he kept himself busy reconfiguring the entire album, including penning the punishing riffs that form the central motif of the mesmerizing twelve-minute medley that explodes over the album’s entire first side. So again, as with the genesis of the Dug Dug’s debut album (also available from Lion Productions), the end result of all the tumult surrounding the band was a great album. There’s no doubt that the Dug Dug’s toughened up their sound on “Smog”: to some people they sound like a crazy Mexican version of Jethro Tull, and to others like a Spanish speaking incarnation of MC5. No matter how you look at it, this is tremendous progressive-influenced hard rock, with a new chunky sound. It is clearly among a small group of elite recordings from the psychedelic age; it is also possibly the best Mexican hard rock album of all time. Licensed from Sony/BMG, and newly mastered from the original tapes. CD version is a mini-LP replica jacket, enclosed inside a re-sealable PVC outer sleeve." [Lion Music] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Egg-The Civil Surface (remastered) $18.00 Back in stock. Finally available again after much too many years and much demand from our customers. This was the third and final album by the trio of Dave Stewart-organ and piano, Mont Campbell-bass and vocals and Clive Brooks-drums. It was actually recorded a few years after the band had broken up, while Dave was 'riding high' with Hatfield and Virgin Records and Virgin gave him the opportunity to temporarily reform the band and record all of their unreleased material that they had developed after the release of their second album. The material was top-notch; their best, imo. The only issue was that they didn't really have a full album's worth, so they padded out the album by adding some wind quartets written by Mont, which, while they aren't exactly very Egg-like, are still quite charming in their own right. Guests include The Northettes, Steve Hillage, Lindsay Cooper, Tim Hodgkinson and Jeremy Baines and this is newly remastered and features notes by Mark Powell, who put this reissue together. This comes personally highly recommended! [Esoteric] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Wild Man Fischer-Derailroaded NTSC (all region) $14.00 "A shocking and sensitive journey through the thunderstorms of a paranoid-schizophrenic mind, DERAILROADED follows Larry "Wild Man" Fischer's discordant encounters in the music business. Institutionalized at 16 after attacking his mother with a knife, Fischer wandered the mean streets of L.A. singing his unique brand of songs for 10 cents each to passersby. He was discovered by Frank Zappa, with whom he cut his first record album, including the enduring dada rock classic "Merry Go Round." A precursor to punk, Fischer became an underground club and concert favorite, earning him the title of "godfather of outsider music." Over the course of his 40 year career, Fischer has performed constantly, is the first artist ever recorded on Rhino Records, was featured on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," had a top hit in the UK on John Peel's Festive Fifty, was the subject of his own comic book, was a mainstay on the Dr. Demento Show, and even sang a duet with the late Rosemary Clooney. DERAILROADED traces Fischer's life from neglected child to troubled genius through archival footage and personal interviews with family, friends, and industry professionals, including: Frank Zappa, Gail Zappa, Weird Al Yankovic, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Solomon Burke, Dr. Demento, and Barnes and Barnes. Prepare to be moved, amazed, and repelled, but ultimately come to know what it is like to be profoundly DERAILROADED." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Steve Hillage-Live in Germany 77 CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $10.00 (special) Unbelievable killer price on this CD/DVD set. Previously we had 100 copies of this and they shot out of here. Now we have received the final stock at this totally insane price and the price is even lower! Highly, highly recommended! This is the legendary show that Hillage and his great, original band performed on Germany's Rockpalast TV program on March 20, 1977. The line-up is: Steve Hillage-guitar, vocals, Miquette Giraudy-synths, vocals, Clive Bunker-drums, Colin Bass-bass, vocals, Christian Boule-rhythm and glissando guitar, Phil Hodge-keyboards and Basil Brooks-synths, flute. It features a terrific set-list and great playing. Highly and easily recommended to fans of Hillage, fans of Gong and all spacey progressive rock!! This is cheap just for one disc and this great set lets you listen through your audio system as well as watch through your DVD player. 1. Salmon Song 2. Hurdy Gurdy Glissando 3. Hurdy Gurdy Man 4. Solar Musick Suite 5. Lunar Musick Suite 6. Meditation of the Dragon 7. It's All Too Much 8. Aftaglid part 1 9. Electrick Gypsies 10. Not Fade Away (glid forever) 11. Bonus Feature - Exclusive Interview [Floating World] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jethro Tull-Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 $6.00 (special) Killer, monster price on this wonderful set! I just love early Tull, so it's a real thrill for me personally to be able to listen to this professional recording of their concert in front of 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight 8/30/70. As far as I know, this is the earliest professional live recording of the group,, which finds the band at one of their peaks, circa the release of their wonderful Benefit album. This CD contains the complete one hour performance of: My Sunday Feeling, My God, With You There To Help Me, To Cry You A Song, Bourée, Dharma For One, Nothing Is Easy and We Used to Know/For a Thousand Mothers. Higly recommended! [Eagle] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble-From the Stairwell $25.00 The fourth release by this continuously interesting UK band who combine very modern electronica with jazz and progressive elements to come up with something new, fresh and unusual. They say about themselves: 'A creepy crawly electronic jazz combo, creating soundtracks for non-existing movies ; Dark, exotic and mysterious. Fusing analog and digital flawlessly, giving them a totally unique and original sound. Film Noir futurism'. "If you like Barry Adamson, Angelo Badalamenti, Bohren Und Der Club of Gore, or any of the other albums made by TKDE or their alter ego Mount Fuji Doomjazz Ensemble, then you'll like this. It's for patient people only, or for patient moods, at least. There's a lot going on here and much of it ferments slowly, so you should not expect instant gratification. And don't expect any gratification at all if you're trying to listen to this in somewhere where you're interrupted frequently. Turn off the lights, play this, and don't expect to be lulled to sleep. It's a scary beast, but a subtle one at that."-Dan Bergevin [KDJE] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Psychedelic Jazz Guitar (remaster) $10.00 If you've been curious about work of German jazz/rock guitar pioneer Volker Kriegel, but haven't wanted to plunge into one of the full albums, this nicely priced sampler disc from the years 1969-1978 is just the ticket. Includes tons of great personnel and tracks from: Octember Variations, Lift!, Tropical Harvest, Elastic Menu, Infr-Red, Noisy Silence, Spectrum, Live at the Philharmonie and Mild Maniac. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rolf Kuhn-Total Space (24-bit remaster) $16.00 Clarinetist Rolf Kuhn is much less well known here than his piano playing brother Joachim, but in Germany he is a extremely well regarded father figure of the modern jazz scene there. This 1975 release features some heavy hitters of the day (Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Philip Catherine, Joachim Kuhn, etc.) and there's additional brass instrumentation, making this, at times, a big band. This is a creative, heavily jazz-rock-tinged work from the original era and one that fans of that sound (think: The Only Chrome Waterfall Orchestra") will be thrilled to get. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the Africa 70-Music is the Weapon of the Future $8.00 (special) "There were three great beats in the 70 s: Fela Kuti s Afrobeat, James Brown s Funk, and Klaus Dinger's NEU!"-Brian Eno This collection of 70s works by Fela and the great Africa 70, includes 3 long tracks totalling 45' and includes one of his very all-time greatest classics, Roforofo Fight. And if you aren't familiar with him: Fela was one of *the* most important musicians from Africa. From Nigeria, he pioneered a hypnotic, early form of Afro-beat in the 70's that used driving percussion, jazz influences, funk influences from James Brown and hypnotic and interlocking rhythms and musical figures performed by a huge band, all behind very pointed & often politicized lyrics. He was insanely popular in his homeland of Nigeria and his music raised the ire of the government who attacked his compound, fatally injuring his mother and leading to his first of many arrests. I'm proud to say that I was aware of his work early enough to have seen him twice and he was always amazing, even though I saw a later version of the band who weren't as good as they are here! As Robert Wyatt said once, "Fela is my favorite arranger. He's only got one arrangement, but it's so good, it doesn't matter." [Movie Play] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Fela Kuti and Egypt 80-Army Arrangement $8.00 This album has some of Fela's most politicized lyrics and it also has a weird history, as it was released in several forms. This has 3 songs produced by Bill Laswell when he was hired by the label to 'popularize' Fela's sound and some typical 80s hired hands that Bill used appear here (Bernie Worrell, Aiyb Dieng, Sly Dunbar). Also included are two additional versions of songs that were not remixed/produced. [Movie Play] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Roy Ayers-Music of Many Colours $8.00 (special) "This meeting of the minds and bands of Afro-funk creator Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and American vibist and R&B/jazz innovator Roy Ayers is a collaboration that shouldn't work on the surface. Fela's music was raw, in your face politically and socially, and musically driven by the same spirit as James Brown's JBs. At the time of this recording in 1979, Ayers had moved out of jazz entirely and become an R&B superstar firmly entrenched in the disco world. Ayers' social concerns -- on record -- were primarily cosmological in nature. So how did these guys pull off one of the most badass jam gigs of all time, with one track led by each man and each taking a full side of a vinyl album? On hand were Fela's 14-piece orchestra and an outrageous chorus made up of seven of his wives and five male voices. For his part, Ayers played vibes, and saxophonist Harold Land blew like the soul master he is. The rest of the Ayers septet performed on his tune only, the funk fest "2,000 Blacks Got to Be Free," an open-ended soul groove overdriven into Afro-funk by Fela's orchestra. Ayers is down on the quick changes, and his band leads the orchestra in pulling down the funk into a hypnotic sway and groove. On Fela's "Africa -- Centre of the World," everything starts out dark and slow with a chant from the master and then the chorus and Fela's trademark tenor honk. The horn section kicks in and Ayers starts playing all around the mix like a restless spirit. He darts in and out of the changes and sometimes hovers above them. The effect is as mesmerizing as it is driving. This is a sure bet for any bash where you want 'em to dance until they drop. For the purpose of musical history, this was a meeting that panned out in all the right ways and left listeners with a stellar gift of a recorded souvenir."-Thom Jurek/All Music Guide [Movie Play] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Paatos-Breathing $17.00 The fifth album by this Swedish post-Landberk/post-rock/post- http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rattlemouth-5 $10.00 Great to see a new album by Rattlemouth, who veer further into the world-music scheme of things (Danny Finney always had *that sound* anyway, so it's a natural move for them) and this is a fine work. Highly recommended. Rattlemouth emerged in the 1990’s from the ashes of the legendary 1980’s art-punk outfit the Orthotonics, offering stripped down hard driving works featuring saxophone, vocals, bass, guitar and drums. Finding success on the adventurous Cuneiofrm Records label, they produced two acclaimed albums and made successful tours including sharing the stage with Medeski, Martin, and Wood and Belgian prog rockers, Present. The rebirth of the ensemble in 2004 has seen the group work nonstop, composing and performing music for dance and film projects and maintaining a constant performance schedule in the Mid-Atlantic. Rattlemouth’s music is hypnotic, danceable, and unlike anything else coming out of Richmond’s thriving music scene. As local music critic, Chris Bopst, writes in his review of their 2006 release Hopabout, “Rattlemouth are the thinking man and woman's dance music. It can be a heady listen, but the emphasis is always on the slinky, sax driven rhythms that invoke the experimentation of Fred Frith and Ornette Coleman with solid world beat sensibilities…Rattlemouth prove that taking risks is always a worthwhile musical endeavor.” With the release of their latest album, 5, Rattlemouth focuses exclusively on their repertoire of Ethio-Jazz and other world music arrangements, capturing the powerhouse sound that has mesmerized audiences for years. Featuring the saxophone tandem of Danny Finney and Roger Carroll, the monster rhythm section of Robbie Kinter (drums) and Marc S. Langelier (bass), plus the unique guitar styling of George M. Lowe, they blaze through spirited instrumental updates of classic tunes from around the world (arranged by Lowe) plus similarly flavored originals." [Rattlemouth] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Schicke Fuhrs Frohling-Symphonic Pictures (expanded/remastered) 2 x CDs $18.00 First-tier German symphonic rock from the 1970s, originally released on Brain. SFF's entire output was previously available on a fine set by Laser's Edge, but that's been out of print for at least a decade and this is the first time since then this has been available. Using mellotron/Moog/Fender Rhodes, guitar/bass and drums, SFF were one of the greatest German progressive/symphonic rock bands of the 1970's. In addition to the original album, there is an additional disc which adds seven tracks recorded live in 1975! [Reactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sündenfall II-Sündenfall II $23.00 "Sündenfall II from the Kevelaer area at the Lower Rhine played a mixture of folk and jazz, influenced by Jethro Tull. While their predecessors, Sündenfall, exclusively dedicated themselves to jazz, the group included folk after a change in line-up and band name (following the example of Amon Düül II). In 1972, Hubert Schmitz invited the band into his Trepitia film and sound studio in Alpen-Drüpt for free recordings, as he wanted to test the newly installed equipment after a recent move into the new location. Thus the recordings were made for the album "Sündenfall II" (Trefiton HS 1017), which was released in a small edition of 200 copies at the end of 1972. Today it is sold at a price of about €500 to €1000 in mint condition. The track "Montpellier", chosen for the sampler on hand, stands out due to the distinctive trumpet play both at the beginning and at the end." [Garden of Delights] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Surgery-Ubermorgen $23.00 "There are loads of jazz-rock LPs from around 1980. So one could ask oneself why any more of them should be released on CD at all. "Übermorgen" ("The day after tomorrow") by Surgery, however, certainly belongs to the better ones of this genre: sparkling piano runs, contemplative sax parts, a masterly played electric guitar, many good ideas, and a clear and good recording make the album an auditory pleasure. To those detered from German lyrics: Don't worry, the Marl group did without any vocals. At that time, a small edition of 500 copies was released by the artists themselves. It should remain their only album. In collectors' circles it is little known until the present day. The CD was drawn from the master tapes, and the ten bonus tracks of the same style were as yet unreleased." [Garden of Delights] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Vialka-La Poursuite de L'Excellence $13.00 For the moment, this is the latest release by the terrific French duo of Eric Boros (baritone guitar and voice + trumpet) and Marylise Frechevile (drums and voice + keyboards). I have had the great pleasure of seeing them twice, and they amazed me with their stupendously tight and humorous music and stage antics. I don't want to ignore Eric's contributions - he's a great player - but Marylise is the star of the show. She's a f**king great drummer in the Guigou Chenevier style and she'll suddenly leap up from behind the kit and do a little dance while continuing to sing with Eric backing her up before she leaps back behind the kit!! They are an amazing band and an amazing show to see. Do you need every one of their albums? Maybe not, but you need at least one, and this is a great one! [Vialka] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Vialka-Succes Planetaire International $13.00 Fourth (?) release by the terrific French duo of Eric Boros (guitar and voice) and Marylise Frechevile (drums and voice). I have had the great pleasure of seeing them twice, and they amazed me with their stupendously tight and humorous music and stage antics. I don't want to ignore Eric's contributions - he's a great player - but Marylise is the star of the show. She's a f**king great drummer in the Guigou Chenevier style and she'll suddenly leap up from behind the kit and do a little dance while continuing to sing with Eric backing her up before she leaps back behind the kit!! This new one has some added instrumentation and good 'behind the scenes' work from Bob Drake. Highly recommmended - and SEE THEM if you can (they tour constantly). "Hailing from deepest France, via everywhere and nowhere, Vialka are a devilishly high-spirited guitar/drums duo who tour hard and fast across the world. Together they create a music that skips joyfully across borders, channeling desert blues, Chinese folk songs, scatter rock and European gypsy song dynamics. This whirlwind of dervish energy, combines endless gypsy punk folk rock tales, hard hitting poly-rhythms, yelps and howls into one feverishly danceable and intoxicating brew. Like ‘A Hawk And A Hacksaw’ or ‘The Ex’ their openness to new sounds and cultures makes you feel alive and shows that 'world punk rock' need not be a dirty phrase. Succès Planétaire International ("International Worldwide Success"), is their latest album and third recording with engineer Bob Drake. The album features collaborations with François Marcziniak and Cyrielle Faure (tuba and flute), Crank Sturgeon (vocals and guitar), Andrew Dymond (mbira), and Xiao He (vocals and Hunan pipa)." [Dual Plover] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Zorn-Nova Express $13.00 "Following up on seeds first planted in the depths of the Interzone conspiracy, Nova Express combines the quirky atonal lyricism of Zorn's classical music with the cut up techniques of Naked City and the intimate virtuosity of the Masada songbook. Scored for a modern jazz quartet of vibes, piano, bass and drums, these episodic, dynamic and moody compositions feature some of Zorn's strongest writing. Performed by an all-star group of four downtown masters, this is an exciting new sound from the world of John Zorn. Modern chamber music filled with beautiful details and dramatic passions composed and conducted by our East Village musical alchemist." Joey Baron: Drums Trevor Dunn: Bass John Medeski: Piano Kenny Wollesen: Vibes [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): Hear BEAT CIRCUS' BRIAN CARPENTER inteviewed on FRESH AIR: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/ CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ http://www.pointofdeparture. JOHN SURMAN http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/ http://www.pointofdeparture. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CHEER-ACCIDENT June 4 - Le Grattoir - 11 blvd. Kelsch 88400 - Gerardmer, France June 5 - Musique Action Festival - Nancy, France June 6 - tba June 7 - tba June 8 - Immerhin - Bahnhofplatz 2 (Posthalle) - 97080 Würzburg, Germany June 9 - Schokoladen - Ackerstr. 169 - Berlin, Germany June 10 - tba - Basel, Switzerland June 11 - tba - Zurich, Switzerland (?) June 12 tba June 13 - Mogambo - Plaza Jose Maria Sert, 15, 20018 - San Sebastian, Spain: June 14 - Rock And Pop - Calle de Albasanz, 79 - Madrid, Spain June 15 - La Ley Seca - Calle de Sevilla, 2 - 50006, Zaragosa, Spain June 16 - Moog - Calle Arc del Teatre, 3 - 08001, Barcelona, Spain June 17 - La Route du Son - 1 allée Montesquieu, 64140 - Pau, France June 18 - tba - Paris, France (?) CLAUDIA QUINTET April 9 - Bimhuis - Amsterdam, The Netherlands / 8:30 pm November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland GUTBUCKET April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 11 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria April 27 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY May 2 - Rockshop - Brooklyn, NY May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 10 - Revolution Cafe - San Francisco, CA May 11 - Cafe Van Kleef - Oakland, CA May 12 - Hotel Utah - San Francisco, CA May 13 - Secret Society Lounge - Portland, OR May 14 - Cafe Racer - Seattle, WA May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND (our latest signing! CD out in September!) April 9 - Musee du quai Branly - Paris, France April 13 - Wels, Austria April 16 - Area Seismica - Forli, Italy THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) for the rest of the tour, Richard will be performing in a duo with Duncan Pinhas May 26 - The Boat - 158 Augusta Ave - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 9:00 pm May 27 - The Shop art and performance studio - 4314 Main St. - Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (with: Ga'an, Forget the Times, Michael Johnsen) / 8:00 - 11:00 pm / $8.00 - all ages - many more dates tba - details coming - POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with Masses and TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - Schlafly Tap Room - 2100 Locust St, Saint Louis, MO 63103 - (314) 241-2337 (with Spelling Bee and Britches) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and Goliathon) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Carabar - 115 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215 (with Kuan, Lemia Belus, and TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with Rickles and Epilogue) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - Motor Totemists Guild November 29 - Upsilon Acrux November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Gutbucket Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) BLIXT: Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Morgan Ågren (new powerful power trio - jesus these guys can wail!) CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #18 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) LE ORME-La Via della Seta (The Silk Road) PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) POCKET ORCHESTRA (a reissue of their archival, very out of print release + live material; hooray!) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp36.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: ----- Back in stock! All 3 new titles from Soleil Zeuhl! ----- Serge Bringolf-Strave $18.00 The release of this great jazz/rock/Zeuhl album on CD is a cause of great joy for me personally. This is one of the albums I've long waited to appear on CD and also one of the ones that I most wanted Soleil Zeuhl to tackle. This is a nonet of vibes, trumpet, saxes, trombone, violin, flute, bass, drums and female vocals. Originally a double CD set that was recorded in 1980, this has obvious influences from Magma, especially circa 1001 Centigrades, Tony Williams, Soft Machine and European jazz/rock. Serge later formed a group with Alain Eckert (ex Art Zoyd) called Strave that did good work too, but this is his finest hour for certain, imo. A wonderful album and a total classic! Highly recommended. "Reissue of Serge Bringolf's first album (1980), Strave is an impressive effort. Classified as zeuhl, but including lots of jazz in it, it has a unique sound. Since Bringolf being a drummer, the drums are very important on this album. Add the incredible bass work of François Grillot, the impressive brass section consisting of Jean Golanet (trumpet), Philippe Gisselmann (saxophones) and Pascal Beck (trombone) & you have a good idea of what the music sounds like. You just need to throw in some great wordless (scat) vocals. The album consists of 4 long tracks, ranging from fifteen to approximately twenty minutes. A truly inspiring mixture of genres." "Like Christian Vander, Serge Bringolf, not content with being a fabulous drummer, is also an excellent composer, arranger and orchestrator. Paying no need to classification, his music draws its inspiration from the sensibility of jazz and the violence in rock to create a strong, energetic and totally original sound. "Strave" is the most explosive and direct album...all of his records are musical events not to be missed. A cross between Magma, Jacques Thollot and Art Zoyd, Serge Bringolf is a french musician worth keeping an eye on."-La Discographie du Rock Francais [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Noa-Noa $18.00 "Reissue of an obscure underground French album from 1980. NOA features a histrionic female vocalist, piping the French language and enunciating syllables just like another instrument. The music of Noa is of the jazzy Zeuhl variety, with plenty of sax...soaring flute and the expected rhythms of the genre."-Tom Hayes. "Although the general mood of the album is Zeuhl-influenced (the dark vibe & the female voice that reminds of Eskaton), the main influences claimed by the band are Henry Cow & Art Zoyd. The fact is that the use of the female voice has something musically to do with HC's Dagmar Krause era. Line-up includes guitar, bass, flute, sax, drums, percussions & female vocals. This album, sadly the sole recording of the band, is a real curiosity, a pretty experimental record that could have only come out in France during this period, at the turn of the 70s." "A music which follows in the footsteps of Jacques Thollot in the intermediate areas between jazz, rock and improvised music. The same liking for a strange atmosphere, obsessional rhythms and refined sounds."-La Discographie du Rock Francais [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Scherzoo-01 $18.00 Scherzoo is the new quintet of composer/drummer/multi- "Scherzoo is François Thollot's 3rd CD, with a new band, featuring Anthony Béard (bass), François Mignot (guitar), Jeremy Van Quackebeke (piano), Guillaume Lagache (sax alto) & François Thollot (drums). This is his most accomplished effort so far, the band plays tight & the music is an unlikely fusion of Zeuhl & mid/late period of Soft Machine. 6 tracks (including a 19 minutes re-written version of "Voyage au bout de la nuit" which was part of Thollot's first CD - in 2002, then recorded alone as a multi instrumentist)." [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Jan Akkerman-A Real Elegant Gypsy $6.00 (special) Googling around tells me that this was previously released in the mid 80s as "The Complete Guitarist" and this is that complete album - but what that album actually was is the album "It Could Happen to You" plus two bonus tracks from the album Can't Stand Noise", all from the mid 80s. In any event, this has some wonderful guitarwork from Akkerman, who really was one of the great guitarists to emerge in the 70s. This has two pages of liner notes but still somehow fails to include the names of the musicians on the album! I do know that Kennth Knudsen of Secret Oyster makes an appearance. "In the mid-eighties, I found a vinyl album titled "It could happen to you", recorded in 1982, released by Polydor, the one with a strange artwork with mouses running on a white Gretsch on the cover. The sound was muddy, so much bass, no trebble, but the music was incredible. I kept looking for years for this album on CD. Just now... I've found it ! This is "A real elegant gipsy". Far better sound, although the output level is low, you'll have to boost your hi-fi equipment. Let's skip the first tune "Journey - A real elegant gipsy", it was not in the original album. Nothing special. The real album begins with "Old tennis Shoes", with a strong bass line played on synth (Kenneth Knudsen) (no credits on the CD cover), and the guitar comes in. The best Akkerman music takes its time. It's really the case here. Long exposition, growing tension, transitions, climax, resolution... 11:30 minutes. Akkerman sings with his guitar. Nice solo of synth (in the Mahavishnu style of Jan Hammer). No bass player on the album, the keyboards keeps on laying devastating bass lines, with strong and dynamic percussion (Ole Theill). "Come closer" (7:50) comes next, with still this solid frame of melody-chords throughout (keyboards and synth-guitar), lead singing lines on top, drum kicks explode through the rythm part that keeps growing, sparse guitar licks, you just can't keep from dancing with the pulse, Akkerman plays fast and fades. "Funkology" (11:50) is the strongest piece : Akkerman proves here once again that he is even better at rhythm guitar playing than at soloing (yes...): a magnificent funky rhythm that evolves through displaced syncopations, enter the claps and then the drumkit, synth layers invite fast guitar lines, the whole thing drives you mad, and then... a classical acoustic guitar sets a new pace ! Akkerman ? It's european music (nothing to do with body-built shredder). "It could happen to you" (5:25) is a quiet tune that closes the album, acoustic guitar in a classical way throughout, synth chords background, and always those fine singing melodies, this is the end of the voyage... quiet and relaxed." [Atom] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anglagard-Buried Alive $16.00 Back in print and back in stock. Classic style symphonic progressive performed on guitars, bass/bass pedals, piano/ organ/mellotron, flute, drums & a smattering of vocals. Fantastic! This is a professional recording of the band's final-ever show, & includes most of their final album Epilog as well as most of Hybris. [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cyro Baptista-Solos NTSC (all region) $17.00 "Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music. Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise of the public's interest in world music, Cyro has recorded and toured with some of music's most popular names. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown. In this special set of solo performances, Cyro pulls out all the stops and creates a soundscape like no other heard before or since. A unique and brilliant musician alone on stage with only the beats he hears in his heart and shares with the world. Using an array of delay pedals and instruments bought, made and found, Cyro shows why rhythm just might be the ultimate pulse of the universe." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Erik Baron/D-Zakord-De Futura Hiroshima $16.00 Back in stock. "Erik Baron is a bass player and leader of the band from the Bordeaux band 'DésAccordes'. This third album, after 'Cordeyades' and 'In C', is revisiting Jannick top’s Magnum Opus 'De futura Hiroshima', initially released on Magma’s album 'Udu Wudu'. Six bass players, six guitar players plus one drummer re-invent this classic from 'Zeuhl' music, with an exceptional intensity, but also with a real precision in the dialogues between basses and guitars. Recorded by Minimum Vital’s Thierry Payssan. A great album for all Zeuhl fans." [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Fall of Saigon-Fall of Saigon $18.00 Named after a track by This Heat, Fall of Saigon was the new-wave/experimental group of Pascal Comelade, which existed for a couple of years. They recorded a 12" EP due for release on the justly legendary Atem label, but never released because the label folded before this could come out. That record plus other tracks make their first real release here. "In the patchwork panteon of French rock, Fall of Saigon was possibly the most New York influenced; in its brief two years of existence, this early 80s trio managed to contruct a classy and inventive stripped-to-the-bones sound with just vocals (florence Berthon), keyboard (Pascal Comelade), guitar (Terry Den) and a very loud rhythm machine. This release of their much sought-after and regrettably only recorded work, a 45rpm maxi, is augmented by seven unheard tracks of which three are live. For fans old and new to (re) discover this much-missed trio." [Gazul] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Focus-8 $10.00 (special) "Focus has never been one for clever album titles and the rather pedestrian title to this album is no different. I don't know this for sure, but I assume this is the band's 8th studio album. The lineup for this one is the reformed new millennium Focus and is the same that appeared on the bands "Live In America" disc the previous year. About half of the material is written by original member Thjis Van Leer with the rest Jan Dumme and Bobby Jacobs. "8" is a very nice comeback album and should please fans of the classic 70's albums. The sound is very much in the style Focus is known for, although the music does not sound derivative and maintains a modern feel to most of it. The album is a mix of rockers and jazzier mellower pieces. Thjis Van Leer's keyboards are as constant as ever and he really contributes some nice work on flute throughout the album. Guitarist Jan Dumee smokes on the rocker and adds just the right touch of melodic sensibility on the slower material. Jan Akkerman is not missed at all with the expertise of Dumee's contributions here. Highlights of the disc include the opening rocker "Rock & Rio" which is in a similar style to Focus big hit "Hocus Pocus". "Tamara's Move", "Fretless Love", and "Focus 8" are all good ones as well. The only real stinker on the album is the final "bonus" track "Flower Shower". This just sounds like they were in the studio goofing around and decided to stick it on to the end of the album. They shouldn't have bothered. Other than that it is a very nice comeback for this new version of the band."-Steven Sly [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ David Solid Gould Vs Bill Laswell-Dub Of The Passover $13.00 "Bill Laswell has worked closely with many of the greatest names in Reggae: Sly and Robbie, Lee Scratch Perry and many others. A Dub Master Supreme, he turns his fabulous creativity to the classic Tzadik release Feast of the Passover. Featuring some of the greatest Passover seder songs, it is perhaps David Solid Gould’s most varied and spiritually inspired project. Connecting the Rasta and Jewish traditions through the miracle of music, Laswell’s imaginative dubs are the perfect background to anyone's 21st century seder. Moody, atmospheric and essential!" The Temple Rockers David Solid Gould: Electric Bass, Upright Bass, Auxiliary Percussion, Vocals, Nyabinghi William McKenna: Sticky Guitar, First Guitar JP Nawn: Nyabinghi Jonathan Petronzio: Organ, Clavinet Mark Wienand: Baritone Sax, Tenor Sax, Flute Ryan Zawel: Trombone Special Guests Tommy Benedetti: Drums Brian Thomas: Trombone Craig Akira: Vocals Keith "Sleepy" Coley of The Silvertones: Vocals Steve Digrigorio: Synths Leonard "Sparrow" Dillon of the Ethiopians: Vocals Adam Gold: Vocals Lisa Gould: Vocals Gilmore "Smoker" Grant of The Silvertones: Vocals Mike Keenan: Rhythm Guitar Basil Punsalan: Nyabinghi Nathan Silas Richardson: Piano, Guitar Robert Salvato: Jaw Harp Elisa Sciscioli: Vocals Jared Sims: Baritone Sax, Tenor Sax Yuri Yunakov: Tenor Sax [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Inside: Missing Link 2 x CDs $26.00 First time ever for this great jazz/rock album on CD! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its earliest, most exciting days. This was his third album, originally released as a double lp on MPS in 1972 and it brings together a fantastic group of English and German musicians: Volker Kriegel (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, octave guitar), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone) Alan Skidmore (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone), Heinz Sauer (tenor saxophone), John Taylor (electric piano), Eberhard Weber (bass), Cees See (percussion, voice, flutes, effects), John Marshall (drums). Man. They don't make line-ups like that any more. This is early, exploratory, spacey/spacious jazz/rock of very high quality; if this even sounds like it's your thing, lemme tell you something...it's your thing! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Lift! $16.00 First time ever for this great jazz/rock album on CD! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its earliest, most exciting days. This was his fourth album, originally released on MPS in 1973 and like his previous album, Inside: Missing Link, it brings together a fantastic group of English and German musicians: Volker Kriegel (electric and acoustic guitars), Stan Sulzman (soprano sax and flute), Zbigniew Seifert (electric violin), John Taylor (electric piano), Eberhard Weber (bass and cello), Cees See (percussion), John Marshall (drums). Man. They don't make line-ups like that any more. This is early, exploratory, spacey/spacious jazz/rock of very high quality; if this even sounds like it's your thing, lemme tell you something...it's your thing! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Okkyung Lee-Noisy Love Songs $13.00 "An important member of the downtown scene since 2000, Okkyung Lee has worked with Laurie Anderson, Evan Parker, Vijay Iyer, Thurston Moore, Butch Morris, Larry Ochs, Christian Marclay and John Zorn, among others. Her new project for Tzadik features several of her closest collaborators in intimate chamber pieces that combine written music with noise improvisation. Evocative, intense and passionate music from this cutting edge master of modern cello!" Okkyung Lee: Cello Ikue Mori: Electronics Craig Taborn: Piano Satoshi Takeishi: Percussion, Electronics Cornelius Dufallo: Violin Peter Evans: Trumpet John Hollenbeck: Percussion Christopher Tordini: Bass [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Metabolisme-Tempus Fugit $10.00 (special) Special while they last! Nearly 40% off the regular price. A French band who recorded for the Crypto label and released their one and only album in 1977, which has never been reissued before! The band consisted of Robert Duantet (guitars, vocals), Thierry Scaduto (organ, synthesizer, piano, flute, vocals), Jackie Poillot (bass, bass pedals) and Carmine Versage (drums). "A group playing melodic progressive rock with a lush character reminsicent of early Genesis, Moody Blues, Cressida, Rare Bird and Fruupp. Still, Metabolisme have their own distinctive character and used French lyrics. The five long tracks have convincing melodies, pleasant vocal harmonies and good use of the dynamic range. Among the better bands from the second half of the seventies, Metabolisme were victims of the changing fashions of the times."-Scented Gardens Of The Mind [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mr. Brown-Mellan Tre Ogon Med Mr. Brown $10.00 Special while they last! Over 40% off the regular price. "Transubstans Records are proud to present this Swedish prog classic, originally released in '77, for the first time on CD. Symphonic prog in the same school as Focus and Camel and Swedish legends Kaipa and with a singer that's been compared with bigshots like Justin Hayward, Roger Waters and Bob Dylan. This album contains lyrics both in Swedish and English and the melodies are often built around mellotrons, piano and hammond. The atmospheric lush instrumental passages combined with the strong melodies truly makes Mr. Brown "Mellan tre Ogon" a milestone in progressive music history. First time on CD and includes a band history and lyrics." [Transsubstans] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Various Artists-Musiques Electroniques en France 1974-1984 $10.00 (special) Great price on this compilation of electronic/synthesizer use in rock music in France. An essential overview of the scene. "By 1974 E.M. was comparatively long in the tooth - the Theremin in 1920; the Ondes Martinot in 1928; the Trautonium in 1930; the advent of audio tape and musique concrete, itself created in Paris in 1948 by Pierre Schaeffer. Musiques Electroniques en France, 1974 - 1984 refines the focus to those subsequent waveforms of the genre made possible by small, portable, stable and affordable synthesizers and their subsequent blurting and gurgling onto the meta-rock reels of young and autodidactic artists and in doing so captures a period and style of work that was rapidly stamped out by the digital "era". Pinhas, together with and separate from his Heldon; Camizole; Lard Free and others drove early synths (here mostly the AKS and ARP products) into the marginally popular milieu. The predominant and shared trait is an exuberance of imperfection and spontaneous discovery unique to lil' analog synths. To the chagrin of many, this sense of discovery, surprise and judicious frustration rapidly disappeared as early digital machines exhorted their unhealthy obsession with reliability and repeatability, made manifest by dreary "presets" and the ever more perfect and even more ironic simulation of existing instruments. As a vanished breed, the Pre-preset perfection of this music is all the more engaging, important, distinctive and instructive. In particular, a piece by Camizole - "Electronic Alarm" - prefigures much of today's drone artists and deserves a spot next to Klaus Schulze's seminal and monumental Irrlicht. The only drawback is scope: this should be a six-disc set at minimum."-K. Leimer "More than 70 minutes of electronic music in 9 tracks that had mostly never been released before." [Gazul] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ptose-Ignobles Limace $10.00 (special) Special while they last! Nearly 40% off the regular price. First there was the tribute to Ptose and now their only album, with the great Mark Beyer cover, which was originally released by AYAA in 1984, is reissued! Well, it is about time that there was a Ptose revival and their early electro-wave-experimental sound with lots of primitive electronics, drum machines and funny voices, all obviously influenced The Residents as well as by groups like Tuxedomoon, Der Plan, Pyrolater, etc, yet being unmistakably French, probably resonates even stronger today in these post-post times. As a bonus is a 1983 cassette-only release that I had never even heard of, entitled Night Of The Reptiles. [Gazul] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Residents-Meet the Residents(remastered) $12.00 The group's earliest release and one of their most inventive. Primitive as hell and also inventive as hell! Highly recommended if you don't already have this! "Reissue of the Residents' classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially). Mixing everything from Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart to Raymond Scott and Sun Ra in the world's most bizarre blender, this one is the place to start in the wild and weird world of the Residents." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Residents-Meet the Residents(remastered) vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only) $14.00 The group's earliest release and one of their most inventive. Primitive as hell and also inventive as hell! Highly recommended if you don't already have this! "Reissue of the Residents' classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially). Mixing everything from Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart to Raymond Scott and Sun Ra in the world's most bizarre blender, this one is the place to start in the wild and weird world of the Residents." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Residents-Randy's Ghost Stories NTSC (all region) DVD $14.00 "8 animated videos, with all new music, of ghost stories from Randy and the Residents, documenting some of the mythical madness of the Talking Light tour from 2010. Also 2 bonus videos and one Easter Egg. Strange, melancholic and beyond." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Scarlet Thread-Valheista Kaunein $10.00 (special) Special while they last! Nearly 40% off the regular price. Founded in 1995, in 2004, this Finnish instrumental art rock quintet released their first album, which was very good and showed promise, but this, their second goes beyond promise and delivers the goods! Their distinctive sound is predicated on the fact that they are a dual guitar, violin, bass and drums outfit and they are not adverse to rocking pretty darn hard here, although there are some really pretty mellow passages as well at times. Guests also appear on flute, but that doesn't change the 'rok' factor by much. Sometimes it is a little bit reminiscent of certain aspects of Boud Deun without having the Mahavishnu vibe that Boud Deun had. [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Show-Yen-II $10.00 Special while they last! Nearly 40% off the regular price. "SHOW-YEN is a Japanese band led by guitarist-composer Yasuhiro NISHIO, that has existed as an instrumental trio since 1998. Its other members are bassist Hiroaki FUJII and drummer Masanobu TONOMURA. Their eponymous concept-album (2003) is actually built on a new idea, called "Free-concept". The listener must invent his own story while listening to the music ! The fifteen tracks are quite dense and concise, and represent a very wide range of musical tendencies, that can evoke KING CRIMSON or RUSH in the Seventies among other influences (Oriental music for example)." [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tangle Edge-Dropouts 2 x CDs $24.00 When Tangle Edge first emerged - seemingly out of nowhere - with "In Search of a New Dawn", their first album in 1988, they had already been a band for about 8 years and had released a number of cassette releases. Dropouts is their earliest material to be available on CD; I'm not sure if it is a reissue of very early cassette releases or previously unreleased material, but basically, you can be assured that you don't have this material already. The band at this point consisted of: Ronald Nygard-electric guitar, e-bow, rhythm machine, percussion, Hassie Horrigmoe-bass guitar, penny whistle, bells, Tom Steinberg-drums, rhythm machine, ring modulator, voice. You can hear the sound that they are most famous for, but in a more embryonic form. [Tangle Edge] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer-Tales of Finin 2 x CDs $22.00 "Following on from the duo's widely acclaimed first full length collaboration Ghosts of Gold, which was essentially an album of poetry plus electronic soundscapes, FiNiN shifts toward extended jazz and electronic song forms and widens the sonic palette to include a larger group of musicians together with an emphasis on rhythm. The result is an adventurous and beautiful suite of 17 musically and thematically linked songs spread over 2 CDs. Although the duo is a studio rather than a live group, this is most definitely a not another "singer submits to studio producer" type album; Martin and Julie are equally hands on for both the performance and the production of this CD from first to last." "Julie Tippetts is a unique singer with distant blues and jazz roots. She was briefly a pop star and fashion icon with the hit single This Wheel's on Fire in the 1960s, and has made remarkable original music with her pianist husband Keith Tippett for decades. This album is ambient experimental music of a different kind. Computer musician and multi-instrumentalist Martin Archer created soundscapes for Tippetts's mysterious poems and found texts on last year's Ghosts of Gold album, but this double CD adds strings, percussion, and guitar from Chris Sharkey of Acoustic Ladyland and trioVD fame. The words suggest a gothic world of clashing armies and windblown castles; the aural scenery slowly shuffles John Surmanesque overdubbed saxes, cymbal clashes, church-organ roars, squirty synth sounds, fidgeting strings and, at one point (on the funky, uptempo The Other Side), an exhilarating guitar outburst from Sharkey. Although Tippetts's rich tone and soulfulness suggest an exploratory Cassandra Wilson or Sarah Jane Morris, this is a one-off for listeners willing to hang up all preconceptions - about free-jazz, noise collages, meaning and language, ambient electronics or pretty much anything else."-John Fordham /Guardian [Discus] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): GUTBUCKET http://www.boston.com/ae/ PLANETA IMAGAINARIO (a fairly lengthy interview) http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ ZEVIOUS http://www.tucsonweekly.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CLAUDIA QUINTET March 31 - Littlefield - 622 Degraw St. (between 3rd and 4th Ave.) - Brooklyn, NY / $10 in advance/$12.00 at the door - show starts at 8:30 sharp! April 2 - Jazzhouse - Copenhagen, Denmark / 9:00 pm April 3 - Wabe - Berlin, Germany / 8:00 pm April 5 - AMR Jazz Festival - Geneva, Switzerland / Festival workshop: 5:00 - 8:00 pm April 5 - AMR Jazz Festival - Geneva, Switzerland / 8:30 pm April 7 - Jazzkantine - Luzern, Switzerland / 8:30 pm April 8 - Lantaren Venster - Rotterdam, Netherlands / 8:30 pm April 9 - Bimhuis - Amsterdam, The Netherlands / 8:30 pm November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland GUTBUCKET April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7 - Tone - Dresden, Germany April 8 - Supamolli - Berlin, Germany April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 11 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria April 27 - Union Hall - Brooklyn, NY May 2 - Rockshop - Brooklyn, NY May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 10 - Revolution Cafe - San Francisco, CA May 11 - Cafe Van Kleef - Oakland, CA May 12 - Hotel Utah - San Francisco, CA May 13 - Secret Society Lounge - Portland, OR May 14 - Cafe Racer - Seattle, WA May 22 - Local 269 - NYC, NY November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD April 2 - Irene Aebi presents an evening's interpretations from Steve Lacy's oeuvre. Joining her will be Ideal Bread (Josh Sinton, Kirk Knuffke, Pascal Niggenkemper and Tomas Fujiwara) as well as saxophonist Jeremy Udden! - Douglass St. Music Collective - 295 Douglass St., #1 - Brooklyn, NY November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND (our latest signing! CD out in September!) European tour - April - watch for updates here very soon! THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 (with Gamma Like Very Ultra) March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 2 - Mama Buzz - 2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (with Groundskeeper) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with Masses and TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - Schlafly Tap Room - 2100 Locust St, Saint Louis, MO 63103 - (314) 241-2337 (with Spelling Bee and Britches) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and Goliathon) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Carabar - 115 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215 (with Kuan, Lemia Belus, and TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with Rickles and Epilogue) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - Motor Totemists Guild November 29 - Upsilon Acrux November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Gutbucket Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #18 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras ONE SHOT-Live in Japan (Soleil Zeuhl) PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp79.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: --------Four new titles on the AltrOck label!------------- Calomito-Cane di Schiena $18.00 "Five years after their much-acclaimed album Inaudito, Calomito has come back with a new great album! Calomito melt with taste avant-prog, Canterbury, jazz and folk, but they give the right space to melody, a typical feature of many Italian bands. Beside usual electric instruments, their arrangements include a peculiarly nice palette of acoustic colours – trombone, violin, viola – that gives the band a really recognizable sound. Sharp and groovy, Cane di Schiena is a relevant step forward compared to the first album, being a clear sign of maturity for a band which is considered among the most interesting ones in the alternative Italian music scene, taking the best from the past and revising it in a new direction. RIYL: Frank Zappa, Canterbury sound, Stormy Six, Gong, Dr. Nerve." [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Factor Burzaco-II $18.00 Factor Burzaco’s popularity grows day by day in the RIO/Avant-Prog world. Coming from South America, due to their sound and musical style they are also known as the “Argentinian Thinking Plague”. With this new album the group moves forward with their musical vision, driven by the great ability of their female vocalist, Carolina Restuccia, who shows an uncommon vocal extension and, above all, a really distinctive expressive register. Intriguing, obscure, strangely fascinating, Factor Burzaco’s music is going to earn a particular place in the avant-prog world scene. RIYL: Thinking Plague, Igor Stravinskij, Henry Cow, King Crimson." [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Humble Grumble-Fanders Fields $18.00 "Humble Grumble is a surprising Belgian band who has built an original sound mixing skilfully and effectively a number of genre – rock, jazz, folk, prog. They follow the great tradition of Belgian alternative bands as X-Legged Sally, Fukkeduk, Think of One... In their unique style you can easily find complex structures abnd rhythmic intricacies together with an expressely melodic vein. Last but not least, Humble Grumble displays an inexhaustible ironic attitude, mainly referring to Frank Zappa’s style. Flanders Fields is a great news in the AltrOck stable, surely a must for Zappa fans and avant-prog lovers! RIYL: X-Legged Sally, Zappa, Mr.Bungle, Gong." [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sanhedrin-Ever After $18.00 "Sanhedrin is an Israeli band who started their life as a Camel cover group. Yet after a short while the group started to write and compose original materials of their own. Sanhedrin are clearly influenced by the most important classic rock band of the past, such as Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Genesis, VDGG, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull. Nonetheless they can produce a really original music that could reminds bands like Asia Minor and Anglagard. A colourful palette, evocative moods, sophisticated and skillful rock passages, are just some examples of this Ever After, a CD that will surely astonish prog aficionados. RIYL: Genesis, Gentle Giant, Asia Minor, Anglagard, King Crimson." http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Acqua Fragile-Mass-Media Stars (mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 The second of two albums by this Italian group who gave vocalist Bernardo Lanzetti (who joined PFM during their most famous period) to the world. This was released in the USA in the 70s and was available for many years and so many folks have this one from the old days and enjoy it, but, surprisingly, it has not been available on CD in many, many years. [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Area-Arbeit Macht Frei (digipack) $16.00 Back in stock! The first album from the band that I consider to be possibly the finest Italian progressive rock band of the 1970's, & certainly a band in the top tier of all early 1970's progressive bands worldwide! Area combined jazz/rock/stolen ethnic music (mostly from Eastern Europe and the Middle East)/avant garde and more. Superb playing from all (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass & drums + sax on this album only). This includes a thick booklet with rare photos, notes, etc. While everyone shines, the vocalist, the late Demetrio Stratos is rightly one of the legends of 1970's music. This album includes bassist Jan Patrick Djivas, who left after this album to join P.F.M. [Cramps] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Area-Caution Radiation Area $12.00 (special) Back in stock and still $7.00 off the regular price! The 2nd album from the band that I consider to be possibly the finest Italian progressive rock band of the 1970's, & certainly a band in the top tier of all early 1970's progressive bands worldwide! Area combined jazz/rock/stolen ethnic music (mostly from Eastern Europe and the Middle East)/the avant garde and more. Superb playing from all (vocals/organ, guitar, electric piano/synths, bass & drums). This includes a thick booklet with rare photos, notes, etc. While everyone shines, the vocalist, the late Demetrio Stratos is rightly one of the legends of 1970's music. On this one, bassist Ares Tavolazzi joins, making this their first album with the classic quintet lineup. [Cramps] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Area-Crac! $12.00 (special) Back in stock and still $7.00 off the regular price! The 3rd album from the band that I consider to be possibly the finest Italian progressive rock band of the 1970's, & certainly a band in the top tier of all early 1970's progressive bands worldwide! Area combined jazz/rock/stolen ethnic music (mostly from Eastern Europe and the Middle East)/the avant garde and more. Superb playing from all (vocals/organ, guitar, electric piano/synths, bass & drums). This includes a thick booklet with rare photos, notes, etc. While everyone shines, the vocalist, the late Demetrio Stratos is rightly one of the legends of 1970's music. This is probably their great studio work, as well as possibly their most accessible, so this is a fine one to start with! [Cramps] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Area-Are(A)zione $12.00 (special) Back in stock and still $7.00 off the regular price! The 4th album from the band that I consider to be possibly the finest Italian progressive rock band of the 1970's, & certainly a band in the top tier of all early 1970's progressive bands worldwide! Area combined jazz/rock/stolen ethnic music (mostly from Eastern Europe and the Middle East)/the avant garde and more. Superb playing from all (vocals/organ, guitar, electric piano/synths, bass & drums). This includes a thick booklet with rare photos, notes, etc. While everyone shines, the vocalist, the late Demetrio Stratos is rightly one of the legends of 1970's music. This was the only live album released in their lifetime, and it's an amazing disc even over 25 years later - excellently recorded and with incredibly hot versions of some of their best material. And when you hear keyboardist Patrizio Fariselli eat an apple on mike in the middle of "La Mela Di Odessa", I hope you will agree that it's one of the great moments in recorded progresive rock history. [Cramps] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Area-Event '76 $9.00 (special) A live album of improvisations from Demetrio Stratos (vocals), Patrizio Fariselli (acoustic piano), Paulo Tofani (guitar, synthesizer) + Steve Lacy (soprano sax) & Paul Lytton (drums). For fans of European free music. [Cramps] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso-Cio' Che Si Vede E PAL (region 2) DVD $20.00 This is the band live in 1992. This was originally released on video tape in Italy-only, and now it is finally issued on DVD. Includes many of the band best loved progressive tracks. NOTE: This is not only a PAL DVD, it's a Region 2 Pal DVD. Incredibly stupid, sez I, but we are warning you right here that if you are not certain that you can play a PAL Region 2 DVD in your machine, you probably can not. We will NOT accept returns if your machine won't play this DVD, so please do your homework before buying. [BMG] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Beardfish-Mammoth CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $13.00 Beardfish have come a very, very long way from their Swedish-only, very Zappa-like, self-released albums to being signed to one of the larger/more visible progressive rock-oriented labels. This is their sixth album and they continue to somehow manage to blend complexity and a lot of elements of progressive rock without sounding retro or like they wish it was 1973. This really nice set includes their new studio album, as well as a fantastic bonus in the form of a nearly 2-hour long live DVD! [Superball] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Blood Ceremony-Living With The Ancients $13.00 This is the second album by a Canadian band who are mining the field of progressive hard rock/proto-prog. This takes its cues from the 1970-era Vertigo label + early, Benefit-era Tull, and it succeeds in presenting these influences in a very fun and inspired way. One of the things that makes this work in a fashion that isn't so obvious is that they features a female vocalist who also plays flute, so you blend a more gentle side in with the satanic riffs. If you like that sound and also like retro bands like Big Elf and Black Bonzo, this is a distinctive take on that sound. "Taking their name from a 1972 Spanish horror flick named Ceremonia Sangrenta, Toronto, Canada's Blood Ceremony traffic in authentic '70s doom and heavy prog laden with occult themes and occasional folk and psych rock flourishes -- none of it betraying the secret of having been recorded over 30 years after the fact. Rather, beginning in 2006, bandmembers Alia O'Brien (vocals, flute, organ), Sean Kennedy (guitar), Chris Landon (bass), and Andrew Haust (drums) rejected all forms of modern sounds to embrace vintage analog technology in the pursuit of their ancient history project, gradually refining their style with shows in Toronto, Montreal, and every town in between..."-Eduardo Rivadavia/All Music Guide [Rise Above] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gadi Caplan-Opposite Views $9.00 Gadi is an Israeli guitarist currently living in Boston. He's released this, his first album, and it's a very strong release firmly in the progressive/jazz-rock vein. This is a full band, featuring Gadi's guitar work, keyboards, bass, drums, alto sax and violin, viola, cello featured on certain tracks. The music is definitely 'fusion', but it also definitely fits closer to progressive rock than 'jazz'. This is the first release by somone I think we'll be hearing a lot of in the future. You can hear his music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cervello-Melos (mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 Another Italian one-shot that hasn't been out on CD in quite a number of years. "One of many bands from Naples, and strictly connected to Osanna, with Corrado Rustici being the younger brother of that group's guitarist Danilo. Not unlike Osanna they had a highly interesting fusion of progressive sounds with typical southern Italy and mediterranean rhythms. A very good voice/instruments interplay is present throughout their majestic one and only album, Melos, released on Ricordi in 1973 with seven long tracks. Their sound is characterised by acoustic instruments such as flutes and horns (with four of the five players dealing with flutes) and acoustic guitars, but the album is by no means an acoustic one, with complex rhythm changes that sometimes resemble the Lizard-era King Crimson. The band had a successful appearance at "III Festival d'avanguardia e nuove tendenze" held in Naples in June 1973, and split in 1974. A nice band that deserved more success."-italianprog.com [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gutbucket-Sludge Test $17.00 This was Gutbucket's 3rd album and the last before signing to Cuneiform. Anyone who enjoyed their more recent two on the label will find plenty more good things here! "Gutbucket is a seven year old, singular New York quartet who flit from hard rock to Latin to thrash to klezmer and back. They attack their music with the kind of ferocity usually reserved for punk, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. While each band member has had training in jazz, with Sludge Test they have moved outside that world (while successfully keeping one foot inside of it) and are really aiming to bring something new to the rock world. Sludge Test is Gutbucket's fantasy album -- they recorded with the engineer Jay Pellici (Deerhoof) at Tiny Telephone Studios to create an instrumental rock record full of intense energy." [Cantaloupe] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Hollenbeck/Orchestre National de Jazz-Shut Up and Dance 2 x CDs $28.00 Back in stock! Amazingly great, 2011 release by the very excellent Orchetre National de Jazz, led by Daniel Yvinec, who leads the group into much more interesting and exciting projects than just jazz (don't forget their very great and unique take on Robert Wyatt from a few years ago). This time, they've got a real winner here; this is two albums featuring the (always great and always fascinating) compositions of John Hollenbeck, best known here for his compositions and his drumming with The Claudia Quintet. This is a 10 piece band consisting of two keyboardists , four reeds. trumpet, guitar, bass and drums. As far as I could tell, none of these pieces have appeared elsewhere, making this even more of a must-have. Highly and hugely recommended! [Bee Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Last Exit-Low Life $19.00 This is the somewhat odd, but also logical pairing of Bill Laswell/Peter Brotzmann's "Low Life" duet album with the album "Koln" by Last Exit, which adds Sonny Sharrock and Ronald Shannon Jackson to the Laswell/Brotzmann mix. [Jazzwerkstatt] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magical Power Mako- Hapmoniym 1972-1975 : 5 x CD box set $62.00 "The epitome of a cult artist (and a favorite of Julian Cope), the enigmatic Magical Power Mako (aka Makoto Kurita) has been sporadically releasing albums in his native Japan since 1974. This lavish numbered, limited edition 5CD set collects jams taped by him between 1972 and 1975, and comes complete with a full 12-page booklet. Encompassing psychedelic folk, Krautrock, electronica and fuzz guitar, the music's effect is frequently astounding, and absolutely essential for all fans of Japrock." "Hard-grooving episodes alternate with meditative drones, bongo freak-outs, Greek and Japanese folk tunes, a slide whistle solo, electronic music that sounds inspired by Arne Nordheim, delirious fuzz guitar, and an unexpected medieval-sounding song. Hapmoniym (whose title, when written in uppercase letters, spells out the word Harmonium in Greek characters) is a monument to creativity, self-indulgence, and the occasional necessity of self-indulgence to foster superhuman creativity."-All Music Guide [Bamboo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magma-Mythes et Legendes, Volume One NTSC (all region) DVD $18.00 (special) While they last, we have perfect, new copies for $14.00 off the regular price. What's the difference between these copies and the copies we are selling for $32.00? $14.00 (bada-bing!) In May, 2005, Magma took over the Parisian club "Le Triton" for four weeks with an ambitious, over the top project; a retrospective of 35 years of Magma music, showcasing some of their best known pieces from 1970 to the present. The four sold-out weeks were a major success. This is the first of a series of four DVDs which capture the best of these performances for the world beyond Le Triton to enjoy them. The band here includes the current line-up of Magma (Christian Vander, Stella Vander, James Mac Gaw, Emmanuel Borghi, Philippe Bussonnet, Isabelle Feuillebois, Antoine Paganotti, Himiko Paganotti), special guest Klaus Blasquiz (vocals) and a 3-piece saxophone section. The emphasis here is on the period 1970-1972 (Kobaia, 1001 Degrees Centigrade & the earliest versions of MDK). Tracks are: Malaria, Stoah, "Iss" Lansei Doai, Aurae, Kobaia, Theusz Hamtaahk 1st movement, Sowiloi, KMX B12. Total time is over two hours and this is beyond unbelievably wonderful. Highly recommended. [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magma-Mythes et Legends, Volume Two NTSC (all region) DVD $18.00 (special) While they last, we have perfect, new copies for $14.00 off the regular price. What's the difference between these copies and the copies we are selling for $32.00? $14.00 (bada-bing!) In May, 2005, Magma took over the wonderful Parisian club "Le Triton" for four weeks with an ambitious, over the top project; a retrospective of 35 years of Magma music, showcasing some of their best known pieces from 1970 to the present. The four sold-out weeks were a major success. This is the second of a series of four DVDs which capture the best of these performances for the world beyond Le Triton to enjoy them. The band here includes the current line-up of Magma (Christian Vander, Stella Vander, James Mac Gaw, Emmanuel Borghi, Philippe Bussonnet, Isabelle Feuillebois, Antoine Paganotti, Himiko Paganotti) with guest Klaus Blasquiz on vocals and very special guest - yes, really! - Jannick Top (bass). The emphasis here is on the very great and intense period 1973-1974. Tracks are: Wurdah Itah (almost 50'!), Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh, Suite for violincelle, Quadrivium, De Futura. Total time is just under two hours and this is beyond unbelievably wonderful. Highly recommended. [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Museo Rosenbach-Zarathustra (mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 Why this classic of Italian progressive rock went out of print for a numbers of years is something I can not fathom, but here it is again in a nice, mini-lp sleeve. This really is one of the classic Italian progressive rock albums of all time. Encased in a dark, evil sleeve, this has stunning keyboard work & much more. In the grand tradition. [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Napoli Centrale-Mattanza $10.00 Back in stock! Bargain price on the 2nd album by this Italian fusion quartet of tenor sax/electric sax/vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, bass & drums/percussion. There is a definite Italian slant to their take on fusion; I don't know exactly how to put it into words, but it's there. Not an essential record, but at this price, it's kinda hard to resist them.[Ricordi] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ New Trolls-Concerto Grosso: The Seven Seasons $17.00 Surprisingly very strong new title from Italian progressive/classic legends New Trolls. "Concerto Grosso 3 is a new record from legendary Italian progressive rockers, and for me it is the best symphonic rock album of the year.... The record can be described in one word - excellent, and it is excellent in every way - the melodies are outstanding, the musicianship is of highest quality, the production is top notch. The record stands proud among countless numbers of releases of various modern progressive rock bands which one can hardly tell one from another. Having heard this record, you will never forget it! The music is of the same highest quality as Concerto Grosso 1, but more mature and a bit more commercial with substantial emphasis on orchestral parts." [Aereostella] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Niacin-Live in Tokyo NTSC (Region 1 & 4) DVD $6.00 (special) This features the Hammond B3-led trio live in Tokyo, Japan. Three monster players (Billy Sheehan-bass, John Novello-organ and Dennis Chambers-drums) make this a smoker from beginning to end. [Eagle] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Nuova Idea-Clowns (mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 The 3rd & last album by this early 70's Italian progressive/heavy quintet (keyboards, guitars/violin, guitar, bass/flute, drums with vocals from all). This has been out on CD before, but not for many, many years. The sound combines a heavy edge ala early Deep Purple, etc. with obvious progressive rock tendencies. Definitely dated sounding...and fun! [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Le Orme-Ad Glorium $12.00 The first album by this band, who later gained fame for their classical rock albums in the early 1970's and beyond. Here they are a quintet of organ/celeste/electric piano, guitars, flutes, cellos, bass, drums and vocals, this is psychedelic beat music; just what you would expect for 1968 and excellent, wide-eyed and innocent stuff. Acid leads, cute harmonies, sound affects and lots of paisleys! And they play all the orchestrations themselves.! It is a lot of fun hearing them (and it is quite obviously them) playing this stuff. Some folks think it is the best psychedelic album to come out of 1960s Italy; I'm not familiar enough to comment, but I will say that it's very good. "Ad Gloriam is a colorful album blending that whimsically paisley West Coast psych element including great vocal harmonies, backwards guitar loops, freakbeat allusions and some exquisite orchestral arrangements....Aldo Tagliapietra still handles the lead vocals and flute while Michi Del Rossi as always adds his strong tympanic talents and Toni Pagliuca performs on his organ and electric piano. Although quite a diversion from their classic prog sounds, "Ad Gloriam" is a simply masterful piece of psychedelia and must be owned by all lovers of music. Definitely wear some flowers in your hair when travelling to Italy."-progarchives.com [replay] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Osanna-Palepoli $11.00 (special) New, terrific price on this classic title. "Palepoli begins with a pounding medieval drum, which turns out to be the messenger of great things to come. Flute and distant children's voices appear shortly. Next the full band is faded in, playing at full power in a heavy, up tempo, folk rock part that is followed by a raucous guitar solo. The mood slows down and a longer spacey, pastoral part follows with beautiful mellotron playing (a bit like King Crimson). The tension builds again after several minutes with guitar and dual flute leads, which develop into a more symphonic rock melody. This constant variation of styles continues throughout the album - flute/guitar lead hard rock, dreamy mellotron parts, spacey symphonic progressive, occasionally rather chaotic free rock sections, etc. Just like the Semiramis album, they play with infectious energy and great intensity. Palepoli covers a wide range of styles, moods, and tempo variations, and Osanna handle these diverse modes of playing superbly. An ultimate classic!"-Sjef Oellers/Gnosis [Warner] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Perigeo-Abbiamo Tutti Un Blues Da Piangere $11.00 (special) New, terrific price on this classic title. A good one by the best known Italian fusion band in the USA (a couple of their releases were even released in the US). All instrumental, these feature great melodies performed on guitar, saxes & electric piano/synths on top of a solid rhythm section. If I were to compare them to a better known fusion band, I would choose Weather Report, but they definitely have their own flair & flavor. This belongs in any serious fusion collection. [RCA] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Perigeo-La Valle Dei Templi $11.00 (special) New, terrific price on this classic title. A good one by the best known Italian fusion band in the USA (a couple of their releases were even released in the US). All instrumental, these feature great melodies performed on guitar, saxes & electric piano/synths on top of a solid rhythm section. If I were to compare them to a better known fusion band, I would choose Weather Report, but they definitely have their own flair & flavor. This belongs in any serious fusion collection. [RCA] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Premiata Forneria Marconi-Dracula $28.00 Surprisingly, this rock opera about Dracula from 2005 is, overall, a very, very good album. This is not something that I would have considered a given after Serendipity, but it''s actually true. That isn't to say that this every note on this is golden or that it's as good as Per Un Amico, but I think that this delivers the basical sound and feel that fans are hoping for, without pretending that it is 1972 either! "A truly convincing new album by PFM. A this point in time I felt they were just an old-dinosaurs band , capable of a good live rendition of their 70s masterpieces, but no more than that. Now Dracula, from the very beginning , with Overture up to the end...is a fantastic succession of modern...orchestral moments, good keyboards and guitar solos and excellent rhythmic and interesting vocal parts. In other words, PFM 2005 style, just partially looking back to the 70s."-ProgArchives/Roby [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Premeria Forneria Marconi-Live In Japan 2002 PAL (all region) DVD $20.00 Back in stock! Recorded on their triumphant 2002 Japanese tour, this is 135 minutes of most of their best work in PAL format and an all region disc. They can still play the hell out of the stuff, and almost all of this is 'the good stuff'! [Sony] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Joe Sachse-One Take $19.00 How great to see In Cahoots bassist Fred T. Baker with Soft Machine/Eberhard Weber's Colours drummer John Marshall here on a set led by guitarist Joe Sachse! [Jazzwerkstatt] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Christian Vander/Alien Trio-Antibes 1983 $20.00 This is by Vander's Alien Trio, which was a regular working group in the 1980s. Consisting of Michel Gaillier (formerly of Magma, and then a well-known jazz pianist in France) on piano, Alby Cullaz on double bass and Vander on drums, the group appeared at jazz festivals frequently, but for some reason they never left a document of themselves. Both Gaillier and Cullaz have since died and a decision was made to somehow document the group on record. This is live recordings of bootleg quality - well fixed up, but still quite bootleggy - of the group at Antibes PLUS a bonus of five studio sessions for an aborted studio recording that never was completed. The studio tracks are extremely good quality and I can't imagine why this session was never completed, as it sounds great, both musically and sonically. But it never was. "A rare witness to the memory of an exceptional trio, this album will combine a live performance recorded from the core of the crowd in Antibes, in 1983 with long extracts from fully unreleased studio sessions. In February 1988 the trio entered the studio to work on an album, but the project never got off the ground. Following the death of Alby Cullaz in 1998, and Michel Graillier in 2003, we thought these recordings would never see the light of day. Time, however, has passed by and the moment has come to share both the moving intimacy of the studio sessions and the incredible energy of this unique concert; not only this, to honour the memory of these great musicians, such dear friends of ours who passed away before their time." [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): JOHN SURMAN http://www.audaud.com/article. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland GUTBUCKET April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7 - tba - Dresden, Germany April 8 - Supamolli - Berlin, Germany April 9 - tbc - Leipzig, Germany April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 12 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD April 2 - Irene Aebi presents an evening's interpretations from Steve Lacy's oeuvre. Joining her will be Ideal Bread (Josh Sinton, Kirk Knuffke, Pascal Niggenkemper and Tomas Fujiwara) as well as saxophonist Jeremy Udden! - Douglass St. Music Collective - 295 Douglass St., #1 - Brooklyn, NY November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND (our latest signing! CD out in September!) European tour - April - watch for updates here very soon! THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 26 - 1919 Hemphill - 1919 Hemphill St, Ft. Worth, TX - (with Caulfield, Beartrap, Humanerror, and Moon Titan) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with Miles Okazaki) March 28 - Elmo Jones Metal/Punk Music Complex - 8329 Camp Bowie W., Ft. Worth, TX 76116 (with Raging Boner, Haggard Daggers, Odor) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 (With Flying Scorpion and The Internet) March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 (with Gamma Like Very Ultra) March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 2 - Mama Buzz - 2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (with Groundskeeper) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with Masses and TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - Schlafly Tap Room - 2100 Locust St, Saint Louis, MO 63103 - (314) 241-2337 (with Spelling Bee and Britches) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and Goliathon) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Carabar - 115 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215 (with Kuan, Lemia Belus, and TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with Rickles and Epilogue) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ------ 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. ------ Rest in Peace: Pinetop Perkins (One of the last great bluesmen from a bygone era) Zoogz Rift (Well, you had to hear his music and/or have a conversation with him to know why he will be greatly missed) ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #18 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) KARI IKONEN and KARIKKO-The Helsinki Suite (incredibly great, 2nd album by this wonderful Finnish jazz/rock group) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) MUSEO ROSENBACH-Zarathustra! (back in print, finally!) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp185.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: --- First let's start off with a bunch of winners from the great Clean Feed label. Arrive-There Was $17.00 Aram Shelton, alto saxophone / Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone / Jason Roebke, double bass / Tim Daisy, drums. A great album by an amazing band. This is four great Chicago-scene musicians, 3 of whom play in Jason's Rolldown ensemble, with the drummer being from the Vandermark 5. Led by Aram, who is a great bandleader (one of the very best shows I saw in 2010 was by his quartet, although not this quartet), this delivers the goods, both swinging and more out, but in a perfectly balanced proportion. Highly recommended! "There aren't many musicians tied to more than one musical scene, but Aram Shelton is one of those rare examples. Both the Chicago and the Bay Area avant-jazz and free improv circuits benefit from this horn player who improvises with a composing perspective and composes to serve collective improvisation. Arrive, which dates back to 2001, is one of Aram's Chicago bands, and you can sense the connections with this city's jazz and experimental traditions, including the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. His individual alto saxophone style makes us think of the early music played by Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton: it's bitter and argumentative, but also ascetic, expressionist, with a sense of measure. Aram Shelton's parallel interest for electroacoustic music isn't strange to this approach. His partners in "There Was..." are the right ones for such an "in-between" focus. Vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz is an exquisite colorist, but also a master in what concerns intensity and balance. With his double bass, Jason Roebke is a secure time-keeper and a trustable space-organizer, even when he puts the "center" way out there. Tim Daisy is the kind of drummer indispensable when a band needs to keep the motor running and simultaneously to be free from strict pulses. What an astonishing quartet we find here, indeed..." [Clean Feed] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tim Berne-inSOMNIA $17.00 Back in stock! Tim Berne, alto and baritone saxophones / Baikida Carroll, trumpet / Chris Speed, clarinet / Marc Ducret, 12 string guitar / Dominique Pifarély, violin / Erik Friedlander, cello / Michael Formanek, double bass / Jim Black drums. Holy smoke, is this an incredible lineup or what? This is a previously unreleased recording from 1997. "Insomnia might seem like a liability for someone who needs to be creative and sharp, but not always. Sleeplessness can give the eye another perspective –as if seeing through a kind of kaleidoscope: The things on the other end are the same, but they look different, other. Tim Berne didn't sleep the night before he and a choice international octet recorded inSOMNIA live in the studio, summer 1997. "I wouldn't suggest not sleeping before a session or a gig," Berne says, "but in this case, it did make everything look sharper. It was a different kind of focus." And this document is different, strikingly so. Released for the first time, inSOMNIA comprises two key Berne compositions – "the proposal" and "oPEN, cOMA," each a half-hour long or more – refracted through an expansive, even orchestral sensibility. Eight musicians can sound like 20 in these beautifully textured arrangements, with chamber-music intimacy the order, rather than any typical big-band jazziness. The core of the band is Berne's '90s quartet Bloodcount: Berne on alto and baritone saxophones, double-bassist Michael Formanek, drummer Jim Black and reed man Chris Speed on clarinet. The rest of the rich ensemble is made up of veteran trumpeter Baikida Carroll and a complement of strings: violinist Dominique Pifarély, cellist Erik Friedlander and guitarist Marc Ducret on 12-string acoustic. "It's just large enough to sound big, but it's not too big to keep from being intimate," Berne says. "The big band thing, per se, doesn't really interest me. I'm not into some people improvising and the rest just playing backgrounds. Here, all the improvising actually makes the written notes sound more alive but also more lucid." Composition and improvisation are threads woven together like a fantastic, multi-hued yarn on inSOMNIA. The are shades both bold and subtle; passages that are knife-edged, others that are limpid. There are extreme rhythmic intricacies, as well as disarming legato melodies and textures that feel wholly new. Moreover, instrumental episodes lead from one to another like chapters in a stream-of-consciousness narrative. "The big thing to me are the transitions –if they don't work, the whole thing falls apart," Berne says. "With the arrangements, it's about balance, matching an instrument with very little sustain, like acoustic guitar, with one that has a beautifully sustained sound, like the cello. And the doubling allowed people to play lighter, with more subtlety, that intimacy I was looking for." Even the album artwork – one by Steven Byram, who has created so many latter-day Berne covers – feeds into the kaleidoscopic impressions of inSOMNIA. "Byram's work is beautiful in that organic way; it just adds to the vibe. You get stimulated even before you open the thing." [Clean Feed] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cylinder-Cylinder $17.00 Darren Johnston, trumpet / Aram Shelton, alto saxophone, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet / Lisa Mezzacappa, double bass / Kjell Nordeson, drums, percussion. Great new band with some familiar names; all play great, but Darren has released a previous CD on Clean Feed that I highly recommend and I've mentioned the others before as well! "Since the late fifties, Ornette Coleman's music has inspired many projects. The music of Cylinder shares Ornette's now-iconic chordless instrumentation (trumpet-reeds-bass-drums) - but the novelty here is in the way the harmolodic concept of the master saxophonist is applied through inventive compositions and creative musical structures. Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Lisa Mezzacappa and Kjell Nordeson do this with their own voices, not passively reproducing Ornette's free jazz of the past - "Cylinder," the album, is molded in history, but it's not nostalgic. The members of this quartet, who each compose for the group, come not only from diverse geographical origins (Ontario, Florida, New York and Stockholm, all converging in San Francisco), but also from different practices in jazz and improvisation. We can find Johnston in avant-garde excursions and in straight-ahead contexts, and that says much about his personality. Shelton can be simultaneously lyrical and abrasive, making it impossible to attach his personal style with a specific jazz branch. Mezzacappa is oriented for a cross-current, going from jazz to chamber music to sound art. Nordeson is involved in many experimental and free-improvising bands, and composes for dance and intermedia art. This is music of the future made present, fresh compositions and bold musicianship heralding a new wave of creative music emerging from the West Coast." [Clean Feed] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Julio Resende-You Taste Like a Song $17.00 Júlio Resende, piano / Ole Morten Vågan, double bass / Joel Silva, drums / João Custódio, double bass (on 8) / Bruno Pedroso, drums (on 3). "In his third appearance in the Clean Feed catalogue, Portuguese pianist and composer Júlio Resende confirms his love for the song format – "You Taste Like a Song" is a compromise between poetry and guts, combining beatiful, lyrical melodies, groovy rhythms and red hot improvisations. After "Da Alma" and "Assim Falava Jazzatustra" there's no more doubts about the consistency, and the exquisite personality, of his musical world, represented here not only by Júlio's compositions, but also by his own versions of two very special songs, "Airbag", a pearl created by the pop-rock band Radiohead, and Thelonious Monk's "Straight No Chaser", considered today a noble jazz standard. These choices are of symbolic importance, considering the musician's commitment to bring back that music idiom we call jazz to the centre of popular music. In doing so, proposing us a project which is, simultaneously, accessible and inteligent, agreable and defying. With something new to offer: this time, Júlio Resende fronts his trio, with the phenomenal Norwegian contrabassist Ole Morten Vagan and portuguese wonder drummer Joel Silva. Bruno Pedroso (drums on 3), and João Custódio (double bass on 8) also contribute to the record. And yes, you can expect to find here adapted extensions of some of the aspects introduced by Bill Evans with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, and by Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette but Resende also contribute with his outrageous melodic sense as part of the expansion of the piano trio language." [Clean Feed] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Nate Wooley Quintet-(Put Your) Hands Together $17.00 Nate Wooley, trumpet / Josh Sinton, bass clarinet / Matt Moran, vibraphone / Eivind Opsvik, double bass / Harris Eisenstadt, drums. This is a real all-star session of young 'up 'n' comers', all of whom are leaders in their own right. "By this time we have all learned to expect everything from trumpeter Nate Wooley, from post-bop heritage to the most abstract improvisation. This CD adds something more to what you already know about this extraordinary musician. Not because it mixes his diferent interests in one project – although it does –, but because he keeps things going forward, never repeating himself. Of course, with a little help from his friends, who provide Nate with all the "space" he needs to act. With personal references like Steve Lacy and John Cage, bass clarinetist Josh Sinton combines the tradition and the the avant-garde with the same naturality and the same competence. Dealing with the, only apparent, delicacy of the vibraphone's crystal clear sounds, Matt Moran confirms a comparison already made between him and a speed-chess player. Eivind Opsvik uses the contrabass as a sculpting tool, never emprisoned with just one box of idiomatic vocabularies. Last but not least, drummer Harris Eisenstadt provides the polyrhythmic mastery he brought from his African travels, and the contemporary classical techniques he introduced in his jazz playing. "(Put Your) Hands Together" is a particularly inventive example of the progressive music performed these days." [Clean Feed] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ----New releases on Soleil Zeuhl are always cause for celebration---- Serge Bringolf-Strave $18.00 The release of this great jazz/rock/Zeuhl album on CD is a cause of great joy for me personally. This is one of the albums I've long waited to appear on CD and also one of the ones that I most wanted Soleil Zeuhl to tackle. This is a nonet of vibes, trumpet, saxes, trombone, violin, flute, bass, drums and female vocals. Originally a double CD set that was recorded in 1980, this has obvious influences from Magma, especially circa 1001 Centigrades, Tony Williams, Soft Machine and European jazz/rock. Serge later formed a group with Alain Eckert (ex Art Zoyd) called Strave that did good work too, but this is his finest hour for certain, imo. A wonderful album and a total classic! Highly recommended. "Reissue of Serge Bringolf's first album (1980), Strave is an impressive effort. Classified as zeuhl, but including lots of jazz in it, it has a unique sound. Since Bringolf being a drummer, the drums are very important on this album. Add the incredible bass work of François Grillot, the impressive brass section consisting of Jean Golanet (trumpet), Philippe Gisselmann (saxophones) and Pascal Beck (trombone) & you have a good idea of what the music sounds like. You just need to throw in some great wordless (scat) vocals. The album consists of 4 long tracks, ranging from fifteen to approximately twenty minutes. A truly inspiring mixture of genres." "Like Christian Vander, Serge Bringolf, not content with being a fabulous drummer, is also an excellent composer, arranger and orchestrator. Paying no need to classification, his music draws its inspiration from the sensibility of jazz and the violence in rock to create a strong, energetic and totally original sound. "Strave" is the most explosive and direct album...all of his records are musical events not to be missed. A cross between Magma, Jacques Thollot and Art Zoyd, Serge Bringolf is a french musician worth keeping an eye on."-La Discographie du Rock Francais [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Scherzoo-01 $18.00 Scherzoo is the new quintet of composer/drummer/multi- "Scherzoo is François Thollot's 3rd CD, with a new band, featuring Anthony Béard (bass), François Mignot (guitar), Jeremy Van Quackebeke (piano), Guillaume Lagache (sax alto) & François Thollot (drums). This is his most accomplished effort so far, the band plays tight & the music is an unlikely fusion of Zeuhl & mid/late period of Soft Machine. 6 tracks (including a 19 minutes re-written version of "Voyage au bout de la nuit" which was part of Thollot's first CD - in 2002, then recorded alone as a multi instrumentist)." [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------ Bakery-Momento $9.00 (special) Special while they last - over 45% off the regular price of this psych/blues classic. "Bakery is an Australian rock group from the early 70s with strong strains of blues and psychedelia in their music. Obviously influenced by the wave of late 60s/early 70s beat psych and early progressive rock, Bakery are often imitators or regurgitators of their influences. Momento is the band's second album and even though they were never around long enough to fully create their own sound, they were beginning to do so here. Strains of all sorts of groups inform Bakery's rock: Jefferson Airplane, Family, Procol Harum, and Traffic among many. Bakery are quite dynamic and dramatic with room for some great guitar, organ and flute solos. In fact, as powerful as the vocals are (they remind me a bit of John Mayall), it's these wonderful instrumental sections that really push this forward. True, the occasional boogie number/section might remind one of Pig Pen-era Grateful Dead, but these are all pretty few and far between. This is the sort of album one might call a proto-progressive, although by 1972, this sort of album was already starting to sound dated. To hell with it, I love this sort of thing. Side 2 in particular has some excellent jamming sections. This is one I'd love to see reissued."-Mike McLatchey/Gnosis [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Brast Burn-Debon $11.00 (special) Special - while they last , this is 40% off the normal price. Only 10 available at this price! "Phoenix Records reissues Brast Burn's Debon -- a classic of Japanese Kraut obscurity originally released in 1975 on Voice Records, now digitally-remastered. Brast Burn are often linked with Karuna Khayal, with many aficionados concluding that they were actually the same band. Whether this is true or not remains an unsolved mystery, but one thing is for sure: Brast Burn's one and only recorded outing left an indelible stamp on those who were to follow. Nurse With Wound's Steve Stapleton thought highly of Debon and included it on his "legendary list" that appeared on the sleeve of his band's 1979 debut album. Featuring orchestrated fuzz guitar, echo-drenched percussion, reverbed bass, zithers, assorted taped sounds and vocals that are simply inspired, Debon is an album that's a must for headphones and for devotees of the likes of Faust and Can. A rare musical experience and a vital addition to any record collection. Housed in a unique, LP-replica card wallet, in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only." "One of the great lost Krautrock albums of the 1970s -- by a Japanese group ... This is a must for headphones, it's like there was a bunch of seasoned stoners on an expedition along the vast ice carpets in the tundra, consigned to being totally lost but evoking their gods through herbs and music."-Jim Tones, Head Heritage [Phoenix] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Bill Bruford/Earthworks-Random Acts of Happiness $5.00 (special) Yes, this great release is only $5.00. Monster, monster price on a great release! Highly recommended! This 2004 release, recorded live in San Francisco at Yoshi's on May 13-14, 2003, is, by my count, the 8th release by his Earthworks jazz group. I haven't followed Earthwork's career probably as much as I should (I like Bill's work a lot and I like jazz) because I was originally a bit turned off by his initial useage of electronic drums in a jazz context when Earthworks first started. That's not been the case for many years however, and listening to this, I see I've been missing quite a lot. The music is definitely jazz and it definitely swings, but it is more dependent on 'tricky bits' (ala the best progressive rock) than a lot of jazz. As I was playing this, I forgot what I was playing and a couple of times I thought I was listening to a Hermeto Pascoal record, who is 'tricky' in the same, attractive way. An excellent release and a great buy at this price. [Summerfold] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Embryo-Opal (expanded/remastered) $22.00 Embryo are famous for their excursions into world music and collaborations with musicans from all over the globe, but this, their very first album, originally released on the Ohr label, is a stone classic Krautrock album. This includes 2 bonus tracks from the same basic period, which adds nearly 30' of playing time to the album! If you don't already have this, then you need this one. [Materiali Sonori] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gentle Giant-Playing the Cleveland $10.00 (special) We have exactly 10 copies of this official bootleg product from Gentle Giant's own label for official bootlegs. Recorded live at the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, January 27th 1975 & Academy Of Music, New York, November 5th 1975 (2nd show). [Glasshouse] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jimmy Giuffre-Three Classic Albums (remastered) 2 x CDs $9.00 (special) This is 3 of Jimmy Giuffre's four 1958 albums! On two of them it's a trio of Jim Hall (guitar), Bob Brookmeyer (trombone) and Jimmy on clarinet and sax. This is The Music Man, Trav'lin' Light and Western Suite, all complete in this one package. [Real Gone Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Stan Kenton-Five Classic Albums (remastered) 2 x CDs $9.00 (special) Here's the deal: This is five early to mid 50s Stan Kenton albums; City of Glass, This Modern World, Contemporary Concepts, Kenton in Hi-Fi, Cuban Fire. You are buying this for the long out of print two 10" lps City of Glass and This Modern World, which contain some of the most hard to play, insane, rehearsal-intensive music ever made. I mean like Henry Cow/Blast/Yugen type insanity. Until this issue, the CD of City of Glass was going for more than $50.00. You feel like your ears can take a challenge, punk? "To call this music shocking would be an understatement. Bob Graettinger was one of the most radical arrangers around in the 1950s and it is doubtful whether any other jazz big-band leader other than Stan Kenton would have ever employed him. His two major works, "City of Glass" and "This Modern World," are heard in their entirety on this LP and these atonal compositions still sound extremely advanced. A large string section is employed on the former while the latter features Maynard Ferguson's screaming trumpet on two of the six movements. These performances are intense, very dense and quite scary. Recommended for open-eared listeners."-Scott Yanow/All Music Guide "I can't help amazement at the neglect of The City of Glass and This Modern World. Where Gershwin was blending (admittedly pretty) tunes from jazz and the classical musical styles of the '20s and becoming popular, Kenton did exactly the same with the classical styles of the '50s via composers such as Graettinger. Unfortunately, the serially inspired compositional techniques of the '50s did not produce tunes that are easy to whistle or swoon over after a glass or two of wine. However, these works are highly developed. One doesn't have to go far into any of the movements to realise how much has been done with the thematic material at hand. About 'classical' musical styles of the fifties, I'd given up on Webern and Schoenberg and the few who followed that route, but surrendered to Kenton/Graettinger/Russo (et al) with ease. The works have a vibrance, a life, a turbulence and dissonance that so reflected the fifties as a cultural epoch, especially in the States which became the seat of artistic innovation at that time. I have never ceased to be amazed at how Kenton managed to create these works at all. Admittedly, he had true virtuosi like Maynard Ferguson and Johnny Graas (and many others), but the act of keeping the expanded innovations orchestra in control must have given him a real headache. But he did it. And I still sit there spellbound as I did on my first hearing (via 10-inch LPs). These works aren't for the faint-hearted. But they are for anyone who wants to experience the limits to which Kenton pushed music." [Real Gone Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magma-Emehntehtt Re CD + NTSC (all region) DVD $26.00 Back in stock! The official story is that like Kohntarkhosz Anteria, Emenhntehtt Re (note: I've left many umlats left off the title) was a major, long-form work. It was part of a trilogy along with Kohntarkhosz and K.A. and was written circa in the early/mid 1970s, but never recorded. Unlike K.A., a very good portion all of the parts have appeared on various albums over the years. So, it's hard for a non Kobaian to know if the official story is true or if the story is just a way to make a new, major statement without actually having to write a completely new work. Having said all of that, this is MAGMA for stoh's sake and it isn't like they are exactly cranking out new albums; this is only the second newly recorded work since the band was 'reactivated' in the mid/late 90's. The band has really turned into a great unit and this is a cranking performance. IMO, Magma are truly a special band - a band that has created it's own genre within the adventurous rock field - and like any of their major works, this is a great listen and comes highly recommended. Packaged in a really nice digipack including a booklet with the entire libretto, so you can memorize all the words and sing along without looking, just like I did with my A&M copy of Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh that included the libretto when I was in High School. It comes with a 57' minute DVD entitled "Phases", which is a 'making of' type DVD and which has some interesting/amusing bits; I quote my friend Aymeric Leroy now: "Apparently it's all from the later sessions - from "Zombies" onwards. It's very illuminating to see Christian giving instructions & exchanging impressions with the other musicians. A great lesson of artistry. He's really in charge. It's all in French but there's an English subtitles option. There is a very short sitcom like "sketch" by Christian, Stella and Francis at the end speaking in Kobaian. Funny." "At the doors of immortality, dreams the Great Servant of Ptah, God of creation drifting infinitely within his own mind, as he tries to awaken Him. In its message, as in its genesis and its making, Ëmëhntëhtt-Re is an intimate epic, an occult stride forward, a quest for the sublime. Initiated in 1975, its composition beholds its whole fulfillment after more than three decades. It is the testimony of an unwaveringly timeless inspiration, of which the expectant present asserts itself beyond history. Connecting wide and contrasted scenes, it sets its coherence within its very dynamics, playing with chiaroscuro , between choral splendor, operatic jubilation and hurricane of spirits beyond graves. As much a seraphic liturgy as it is a telluric opera, Ëmëhntëhtt-Re comes as the final closure to a second trilogy, following upon that of Theusz Hamtaahk, in Christian Vander’s corpus. This is a music reaching out from a time before man time. Born at the heart of nebulas, fed on mineral glow, and riding crypts capped with a cosmic vault."-Bruno Heuzé Stella Vander - vocals, percussions Isabelle Feuillebois- vocals Hervé Aknin - vocals Benoît Alziary - vibraphone James Mac Gaw - guitare Bruno Ruder - Fender Rhodes Philippe Bussonnet - bass, piccolo bass Christian Vander - drums, vocals , piano, Fender Rhodes, keybords, percussions also featuring : Emmanuel Borghi - piano Himiko Paganotti, Antoine Paganotti , Claude Lamamy, Marcus Linon, Pierre-Michel Sivadier - backing vocals [Seventh] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mente Clara-Sao Benedito $18.00 This is a mixture of very nice but 'standard style' Brazilian jazz and the very unstandard stylings of Hermeto Pascoal. "Mente Clara (Clear Mind, named after a Hermeto Pascoal composition) is a combo from Tatuí, a small city in São Paulo, Brazil. They follow the musical idiom Hermeto created called "universal music": complex harmonies, structures and rhythms, from jazz to ethnic/regional stylings, played with complete musical freedom. On their second album the band keep developing their sound, with more mature compositions, astounding musicianship and a quite improved overall production." [Unwritten Music] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Charles Mingus-Eight Classic Albums (remastered) 4 x CDs $12.00 (special) Back in stock! Eight great 50s works! Some of these are Charles just starting to find his footing and are half great but at least half of these are stone classics and must-owns: Mingus Three, Charles Mingus Quartet and Max Roach, The Clown, East Coasting, Mingus at the Bohemia, Pithecanthropus Errectus, Jazzical Moods, Mingus in Wonderland. Phew. [Real Gone] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Thelonious Monk-Eight Classic Albums (remastered) 4 x CDs $12.00 (special) Back in stock! Eight great 50s works! These cover the period of 1954-1957 and include many Riverside classics: Monk, Plays the Music of Duke Ellington, Mulligan Meets Monk, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music, The Unique Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk Trio. Phew. [Real Gone] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Muffins-Palindrome $16.00 Back in stock! Despite having reformed with the original personnel in 1998 (which means that they have been back longer than they were with us originally in the 70s and 80s!), this is only the 3rd studio release by this quintessential US avant-progressive band! "Here is the new album of the US band The Muffins after too many years of silence, from one of the few American group with Canterbury style. Their progressive rock, with light jazz accents is a sheer wonder, full of breaks and melting themes with lots of thrilling ideas. Recommended to all Canterbury school fans." [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anthony Phillips-The Geese & the Ghost (expanded/remastered) 2 x CDs $11.00 (special) We have exactly 12 copies of this great, classic, pastoral progressive rock album in stock; while they last, this is 65% off the regular price and these are unmarked copies! Anthony was a founding member of Genesis and was a very important part of their formative years; when he left due to stage fright, the rest of the band was very unsure he was replaceable. After a number of years, he came back with this, his first solo album, which is very good in a pastoral progressive type way and also very much like Trespass in a lot of ways and which includes guest shots by Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins. This new 2008 version includes new sleeve notes and a second disc of demos and work-versions. "Released in 1977, this debut by former Genesis guitarist Anthony "Ant" Phillips presents a fine collection of largely acoustic and pastoral pieces. As a long time Genesis fan, it became clear to me exactly what Anthony contributed to the early Genesis sound, as I can hear elements of Trespass (1970) throughout. This is not too surprising in that The Geese and the Ghost was written sometime around 1970. I should note that although Anthony left before the release of Nursery Cryme, he had worked on a few of the tracks that eventually turned up on the album. As such, the quieter sections of Nursery Cryme (1971) pop up here and there. On the Geese and the Ghost, Anthony (acoustic, classic & electric guitars, basses, dulcimer guitar, bouzouki, piano, organ, synthesizers, Mellotron, harmonium, celeste, pin piano, drums, glockenspiel, bells & chimes, timbales, gong, vocals) is joined by Genesis members Phil Collins (vocals on three tracks) and Mike Rutherford (acoustic, classic & electric guitars, basses, organ, drums, timbales, bells, glockenspiel, cymbals) along with a host of supporting woodwind, string and percussion players. There is some nice playing on the album, which is generally very delicate, tasteful and restrained. The eight tracks on the album include a few long pieces (The Geese and the Ghost 15:40) and shorter, more atmospheric tracks (Chinese Mushroom Cloud 0:46). The album is loaded with delicate and dreamy 12-string acoustic textures and soft, discreet washes of mellotron and synthesizers that are subtly layered in. The supporting musicians really fill in the cracks (there are very few) and lend the music a richly textured feel. I especially like the way Anthony has arranged these pieces and the use of dynamic contrasts is surprisingly wide for what is essentially an album dominated by acoustic guitars and other acoustic instruments. Lastly, the melodies are very nice and at times, fairly haunting."-Jeffrey J. Clark [Voiceprint] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ric Sanders Group-In Lincoln Cathedral 2 x CDs $9.00 (special) Great price on a appealing trio set performed on violin (Ric Sanders, known for his long tenure in Fairport Convention as well as for his short but tasty tenure in Soft Machine), guitar (Vo Fletcher) and percussion (Michael Gregory). This has a wide variety of styles of compositions featured, all of which are given a personalized and intimate treatment, special note must be made of their extraordinarily nicely unique 20 minute version of "In a Silent Way/It's About That Time". "This unusual album comprises two CDs. The first is a conventional audio CD with 72 minutes of music, but the second is a multimedia mixture. The first five tracks (just over 33 minutes) are of binaural sound for listening to on headphones. Two tracks (nearly 18 minutes) are of DTS encoded sound, which will apparently play 'sensurround' on a compatible DVD player, but not on mine. Finally there is a 19-minute MPEG video which will play on PCs operating under Windows 95 or later or on Macintoshes. Ric Sanders' violin takes the lead most of the time and he is accompanied by Vo Fletcher on guitar and Michael Gregory on drums; Rick Wakeman plays piano on one track. Ric will be familiar to many for his playing with Fairport Convention, but this is 'other side' and quite different in style - if you've heard the reissued 2nd Vision album you'll know the sort of thing to expect. The source of the music is a mixture, varying from George Harrison (Life Itself) and Paul McCartney (Calico Skies) to Chick Corea (Crystal Silence) and Miles Davis (It's About That Time) via Jimi Hendrix (Little Wing) and Joe Zawinul (In a Silent Way). There are also compositions by Ric (A Lifetime's Love, Remembrance Day, The Rose Hip) and Vo (Threedom), and by Ric's Fairport colleague Chris Leslie (Tune for the Land of Snows). Although the style is essentially jazz, this is music that is better not labelled but enjoyed. The CD has grown on me with each listening, with some wonderfully atmospheric and uplifting sounds. You can sense the space of the cathedral as the violin soars and cries, resonating above Vo's inventive guitar and spurred on by a variety of gentle percussive sounds. The audio CD contains all the tracks, but only selections are on the second CD. I can't comment on the DTS encoded tracks as I have been unable to listen to them, but the binaural section is a good headphone experience. The video is worth a watch to get a feel for the performance in the cathedral at night, with an engineer creeping around in socks to avoid acoustic intrusion! The technology on the second CD may be inaccessible to some, so don't buy unless you're happy with what you're getting, but there is little extra cost and the audio on its own is pretty good."-Tim Edmonds [Heliopause] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Secret Oyster-Secret Oyster $8.00 (special) While these last, these are over 40% the regular price. Classic, top-quality, European jazz rock from the original era! Secret Oyster were a five piece Danish fusion/progressive supergroup of the 1970s, whose members came from the ranks of Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Hurdy Gurdy and Coronarias Dans. This was their first album, which was released in 1973, and which, I was surprised to realize, I had never actually heard before this reissue. Having played this one a number of times now, I can say that this is really an excellent album and unlike the band's later albums, has a stronger rock feel, including some really fantastic post-psychedelic guitar work from the original 'Hurdy Gurdy Man', Claus Bohling, who Donovan wrote that song for! Recorded in the early, exploratory days of the band live to stereo tape, this one is intense and raw in a way that their other albums were not. This includes two rare bonus tracks from the same period as the album and new liner notes. Recommended! [Laser's Edge] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Secret Oyster-Straight to the Krankenhaus $8.00 (special) While these last, these are over 40% the regular price. Classic, top-quality, European jazz rock from the original era! Secret Oyster were a five piece Danish fusion/progressive supergroup of the 1970s, whose members came from the ranks of Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Hurdy Gurdy and Coronarias Dans. This album, recorded in the fall of 1975, was the band's fourth and final album; the pressures of having recorded four albums in just over two years, touring constantly and being dissapointed when the US branch Columbia broke their promise to the band to give them the same 'priority' treatment they had given to Weather Report knocked the wind out of their sales and the band folded 18 months after this release, without recording another album. Despite that sad winding down, this album is considered by many to be their pinnacle achievement of progressive jazz/rock and it was a favorite of mine for a number of years as well! This album appears on CD for the very first time, includes two rare bonus tracks from the same period as the album and new liner notes. Recommended! [Laser's Edge] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Secret Oyster-Vidunderlige Kaeling (Astarte) $8.00 (special) While these last, these are over 40% the regular price. Classic, top-quality, European jazz rock from the original era! The catalog of the Danish jazz/rock band Secret Oyster have long been one of the most sought-after titles for release on CD; I can't tell you the number of times that people have requested one or another of their titles from us. Despite having been very popular in their day, none of the band's four albums have ever appeared on a legitimate CD. Until now. "Under exclusive world-wide license from Sony Denmark, The Laser's Edge is pleased to re-launch their long heralded reissue series with the first of six titles from the legendary Danish jazz-rock ensemble Secret Oyster. Considered a "supergroup" by the Danish rock press, Secret Oyster originally formed in 1973. Notable members include Karsten Vogel (sax) and Jess Staehr (bass) from Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Kenneth Knudsen (keyboards) and Ole Streenberg (drums) from Coronarias Dans, and guitarist Claus Bohling of Hurdy Gurdy. In 1975 Secret Oyster was commissioned by noted Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt to create the music for "Vidunderlige Kaelling," the provocative ballet based on the erotic poetry of Jens August Schade. With contributions from ECM recording artist Palle Mikkelborg and Kasper Winding, the recording sessions resulted in their 3rd album, also released the following year in the USA as "Astarte." Thirty years later it is considered a jazz rock classic that will appeal to fans of Soft Machine, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Return To Forever. With the co-operation of the band, "Vidunderlige Kaelling" features 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks and new liner notes from Karsten Vogel." [Laser's Edge] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Seval-I Know You 180g vinyl lp + mp3 download (due to shiping costs, this price for USA only; outside of USA will have price adjusted upwards to match shipping costs) $26.00 Sofia Jernberg (voice), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), David Stakenas (guitar), Emil Standberg (trumpet), Patric Thorman (bass). Formed by the Chicago-based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm; with Stockholm's Sofia Jernberg, Patric Thorman, Emil Strandberg and David Stackenäs. Seval's music is acoustic, sonically rich, emotionally uplifting, cozy and airy, playful, panoramic and passionate, rooted in jazz but doesn't stop at jazz's border. You've heard this before, we know, but this quintet has a sound truly their own. "The members of this group are all active in the Swedish new music/improvising scene," says Lonberg-Holm, "and this project - with its fixed melodies and more traditional harmonies - is more of an anomaly for all of us. In spite of the restrictions placed on us by the material, we find a way to re-build and invent the music differently each time." Lonberg-Holm's background uniquely qualifies him to lead such an adventurous ensemble. The cellist's principal projects have included his Valentine Trio and Lightbox Orchestra, and he has recorded solo records for the Emanem and Flying Aspidistra labels. He is also a member of the Peter Brötzmann Chicago 10tet, The Vandermark 5, Frame Quartet, Friction Brothers and Fast Citizens. Over the years Lonberg-Holm has been credited for work on dozens of jazz, rock, pop, contemporary classical and country recordings. Although the cello is still something of a rarity in jazz-associated music, Lonberg-Holm looks beyond the accepted notions of what the instrument is capable of. As he told the Swedish magazine Spisa, "Rather than having a monolithic idea of what the cello sounds like (and thinking cellists are all of one cloth), now I think a lot of people can hear and recognize individualism on the cello like they can other, more historically common, instruments in improvised music." Some of the songs on i know you were initially recorded as instrumentals, although most of the lyrics were written at the same time as the music. With the addition of the ethereal voice of Sofia Jernberg - who was born in Ethiopia and grew up in Vietnam before making Stockholm her home - there was little doubt that i know you was meant to include lyrics and vocals. Fleshed out by trumpet, acoustic guitar and bass, the music exhibits a full tapestry of multiple hues and moods. I Know You is released as a blue vinyl LP including a code to download all tracks on the album as high-quality mp3s, plus bonus tracks, completely resequenced for an altogether different listen." [482 Music] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Andy Summers-Earth + Sky $8.00 (special) "After two albums exploring the boundaries of jazz via the music of Thelonious Monk (Green Chimneys) and Charles Mingus (Peggy's Blue Skylight), ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers returns to original compositions with a new band that moves forward through a swarm of genres on Earth + Sky. Employing two keyboard players, John Novello and John Beasley, as well as drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, saxophonist Katisse Buckingham, and bassist Abraham Laboriel, Summers creates a body of work that looks through jazz, rock, and folk forms and is technology based while also using organic rhythms and atmospherics. While some might see this as retrenchment, Summers, unlike so many of the superchopper guitarists out there, is a melodist whose lyricism is inescapable in virtually everything he plays. Hence the effect of these tunes is chimeric, whether they begin with gorgeous, simple harmonic lines that are reminiscent of nursery rhymes (such as "Now I'm Free"), feature complex hypnotic guitar lines that are fully charged both modally and rhythmically (as in the title track), or are atmospheric pieces that could be serial selections in a film noir soundtrack (such as "I Choose You"). Summers has utilized his jazz chops to stunning effect here, in that he allows his guitar to be an architectural focal point of an ensemble rather than as the centerpiece of the music itself. Hence, whether he is engaging the trappings of fusion or acoustic balladry ("Roseville"), he weaves something complex, soulful, and memorable from the elements. Earth + Sky is another solid effort from a guitarist who is forever reinventing himself."-Thom Jurek/AllMusic [Random] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sun Ra-Three Classic Albums (remastered) 2 x CDs $9.00 (special) This is three great, early classics by Ra, from the mid to late 50s. You get Jazz By Sun Ra, Supersonic Jazz and Jazz in Silhouette. This is before the moogs and the space chants, but was there ever a greater post hard bop big band in the 5os than the Arkestra? If so, I don't know it. Highly and hugely recommended. [Real Gone Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tamam Shud-Goolutionites and the Real People $9.00 (special) "Tamam Shud were formed after the break up of beat/R&B band, The Sunsets. The band was ostensibly a vehicle for singer and songwriter Lindsay Bjerre (whose burgeoning interest in the acid rock experience had precipitated The Sunset's demise). Bjerre christened the new band Tamam Shud (means 'the very end') which was taken from the closing words of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The band's first release was the 1968 soundtrack to Paul Witzig's groundbreaking surf film Evolution and brought them to the attention of Warner Brothers, who offered them a deal. The band, with a key line-up change in teenage guitar prodigy Tim Gaze (just 15 when he joined!), recorded their masterpiece, the concept album Goolutionites and the Real People in 1970. Ian McFarlane calls it 'one of the truly great Aussie progressive rock albums,' and it also distinguished them as one of the first local bands to tackle environmental issues in their songs. It is now extremely rare and one of the most collectible albums of the period. " [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Cecil Taylor-Three Classic Albums 2 x CDs(remastered) $9.00 (special) Back in stock! These are some of pianist/improvisor/composer Cecil Taylor's earliest and even 'straightest' recordings. With someone as advanced as Cecil, that doesn't mean that this is supper-club music! You get Looking Ahead (1958), Hard Driving Jazz (his famous collaboration with John Coltrane - the only time they met on record, 1959) and Love for Sale (1959). All uncut and at an amazing price. [Real Gone Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Robin [email protected] - 2 x CDs : $9.00 (special) Back in stock! Having seen this tour, I can safely give this the big thumbs up! "2009 enhanced two CD live set from the Classic Rock guitar great, recorded in 2008. Trower presents this double disc dose of live recordings capturing Robin in action last year in America. Contains exceptional performances as well as four enhanced video performances on the second disc." [Free World] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Umphrey's McGhee-Mantis 2 x CDs $11.00 (special) This is the latest release by a band who has long been involved in the jam band scene, but who are crossing over into the progressive rock world in a major way with this release and with their headlining appearance at NEARFest 2011. This is very, very progressive-rock sounding in a pleasing, contemporary way. You can hear elements of some of the best of the modern progressive bands such as Echolyn both instrumentally and vocally (yes, they can 'jam' and also sing!) and bits of jazz and rock float by in a pleasing, unbelievably well played way. Once again, there are plenty of things you can do with 'progressive rock' to keep it fresh, as long as you are not only concerned about sounding like 35 year old music...and U.M. do NOT sound old. If you want to spend relatively little bread and a lot of music and also see why it makes total sense for them to be playing NF, this is a great place to start. Additionally, this is the hard to find UK version which includes a second disc containing seven live tracks not found elsewhere. [Floating World] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Yang-Machines $18.00 Back in stock! Long-awaited and quite wonderful second album by Yang. Wasn't sure it would ever happen (read below) but I'm glad it did and it is everything we were all waiting for! "Founded by Frédéric L'Epée in 2002, Yang is an instrumental rock quartet which compositions mix guitar counterpoints with a powerful rock pulse. The band released its 1st CD “A complex nature” on Cuneiform Records in 2004... and disbanded before the first concert. Frédéric and Volodia stayed on board. Fortunately, bassist Nico Gomez and guitarist Laurent James, whom Frédéric had already worked with, were interested in taking part in the project, and replacing Stéphane Bertrand and Julien Vecchié. A new Yang was born, and rehearsals began. As the new musicians were very different from the previous ones, titles have been reshaped for their playing, and appeared to become more and more powerful. On stage the group were rocking hard, so the evolution toward a harder music was obvious. That is how “Machines” was composed: in one hand completing _the repertoire for concerts, in the other hand creating pieces fitted to all musicians (contemporary music, contemporary jazz, metal, prog. metal, latin jazz, fusion and Eastern Europe traditional music)."-Frédéric L'Epée Yang, a French quartet whose stunning compositons combine intricate guitar parts with driving rock, is the newest project led by French guitarist and composer Frederic L’Epée. L’Epée’s former projects include founding two of the most intriguing all-instrumental bands to emerge from France and capture international interest: Shylock and Philharmonie. Yang, L’Epee’s post-Philharmonie band, extends some of Philarmonie’s compositional ideas while adopting a harder tempered, more rock-based approach. Featuring the 'standard' line-up of two guiarists, bass and drums, Yang play a dynamic instrumental music that rocks hard, and which bears comparisons to groups such as Gordian Knot and King Crimson. Featuring intricate and often beautiful guitar pieces embedded in harder-tempered rock compositions, complex rhythms and melodic modes not previously seen in L’Epée’s work, and a rich variety of guitar treatments, A Complex Nature is an inventive, dynamic and accessible instrumental work that rocks hard. It is, in L’Epée’s own words: “the next step after Philharmonie’s last CDs: Rage and The Last Word.” [Yang] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland June 25 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7 - tba - Dresden, Germany April 8 - Supamolli - Berlin, Germany April 9 - tbc - Leipzig, Germany April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 12 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD April 2 - Irene Aebi presents an evening's interpretations from Steve Lacy's oeuvre. Joining her will be Ideal Bread (Josh Sinton, Kirk Knuffke, Pascal Niggenkemper and Tomas Fujiwara) as well as saxophonist Jeremy Udden! - Douglass St. Music Collective - 295 Douglass St., #1 - Brooklyn, NY November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT March 25 - Mexicali Live - 1409 Queen Anne Rd. - Teaneck, NJ ( 201) 833 0011 : Tix $15.00 advance/$20 day of show - performing Visions of the Emerald Beyond plus bonus tracks from Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame, & Apocalypse played by the 10-piece band! ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND (our latest signing! CD out in September!) European tour - April - watch for updates here very soon! THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with Danny Sher Quartet) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with SCUO and Top Knot) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 24 - Trash Mountain - 1619 Greenland Drive Murfreesboro, TN (with Beautiful Creatures, Technikiller, and Square People) March 26 - 1919 Hemphill - 1919 Hemphill St, Ft. Worth, TX - (with Caulfield, Beartrap, Humanerror, and Moon Titan) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with Miles Okazaki) March 28 - Elmo Jones Metal/Punk Music Complex - 8329 Camp Bowie W., Ft. Worth, TX 76116 (with Raging Boner, Haggard Daggers, Odor) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 (With Flying Scorpion and The Internet) March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 (with Gamma Like Very Ultra) March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 2 - Mama Buzz - 2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (with Groundskeeper) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with Masses and TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - Schlafly Tap Room - 2100 Locust St, Saint Louis, MO 63103 - (314) 241-2337 (with Spelling Bee and Britches) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and Goliathon) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Carabar - 115 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215 (with Kuan, Lemia Belus, and TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with Rickles and Epilogue) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ------ 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. ------ Rest in Peace: Jet Harris (bassist for England's legendary and hugely influencial rock 'n' roll combo "The Shadows") Joe Morello (the excellent and tasteful drummer for many years with the Dave Brubeck Quartet; yes, that's him doing the famous fills during "Take Five") Owsley "Bear" Stanley (not a musician, but the LSD guru behind the San Francisco sound and possibly more responsible for that sound than any other single person) ------ 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!) : ACQUA FRAGILE-Mass Media Stars (first time on CD in a long time) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #18 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) ISOTOPE-Isotope -Illusion -Deep End (the 3 very excellent albums by this '2nd generation' UK jazz/rock group, led by Gary Boyle; these have been very hard to get for some time. Reissued by Esoteric) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) MUSEO ROSENBACH-Zarathustra! (back in print, finally!) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp182.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Antibalas-Security $6.00 (special) Great price on the latest release by this fine group. They started as a homage to the particular Afrobeat style that Fela Kuti pioneered, and there's still a lot of that in their sound, but this 12 piece ensemble shows their interest in expanding beyond being merely a homage by the enlistment of co-producer John McEntire of Tortoise! A rockin', smokin' set! "Antibalas established themselves in the late 1990s as a burning, tough, horn, bass and drum driven Afrobeat ensemble cut from the Fela Kuti mold, who were politically savvy and socially conscious. Their live shows have been incendiary events where rhythm and perspiration from completely crazy, booty-shaking audience members shared something deeper and wider than the music itself. Security is Antibalas' fourth album. It was co-produced by the band with John McEntire from Tortoise (he also mixed the set). While opening horn lines let the listener know immediately that this is Antibalas, virtually everything else is different. It's not like the Afrobeat is gone, but it's been stretched to the breaking point to include organic funk, electronic sounds, hip-hop rhythms, and a wicked backbeat on some tracks that could whip out the kinks in a tight spine better than a chiropractor...What's here accounts for the finest Antibalas moment yet. The grooves on every track burn -- check the cuts written by Stuart Bogie like "Beaten Metal," which opens the set. There are literally bits and pieces of metal being played in counterpoint rhythms to the jacked trap kit and other drums. They are layered right onto the top of the dense mix, playing around and through the horn charts. Bogie also wrote the moody funk cut "I.C.E.," where a B-3 chills the tune into a slightly eerie vibe, while McEntire contributes a smoking little hammered dulcimer vamp amid various rhythm instruments. When the horns and guitar enter, the horns play counter; these instruments all but cover the organ and synth and dig deep into the chart. The acoustic bassline that creates a separate groove and duos with the keyboard and hand percussion takes the whole thing into another world. But the real magic happens on the bridge where the entire track falls away and is rebuilt as something else. These are simply two of the nearly endless surprises on Security. Another is the Afrobeat cum reggae slip and slur in "Sanctuary" with killer vocals by conquero Duke Amayo. The following cut is a nocturnal soul-exotica tune with beautiful vocals by the band and lead singer/guitarist Marcos Garcia. Security is so radically different from its predecessors, it may be initially off-putting to some listeners, but this is guaranteed to melt away by the second track: the fat grooves are so seductive and all encompassing. This music jams but Antibalas is not a jam band. There isn't a weak moment here as everything is organized, beautifully arranged, and never feels pushed or forced. Security is so fine, it ups the ante for anyone -- in America, anyway -- who claims they play "world" music. This one will be burning up dancefloors at parties all year long. In this country there has never been a better argument for rhythm fused with politics."-Thom Jurek/All Music Guide [Anti] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Arrigo Barnabe-Arrigo Barnabe & Orquestra a Base de Sopro de Curitiba NTSC (all region) DVD $20.00 I just watched this again and it blew me away more than before, and we have not sold very many and there are so many readers here who would like this that I am re-listing it, hoping you missed it (rather than thinking you are ignoring me...) Well, I must've been awfully good this year for Santa to have brought me this! Arrigo Barnabe is a Brazilian bandleader and composer who released 3-4 real classic out-rock albums in the 1980s that were comparable in some ways to Albert Marcoeur's first four. They were reissued on CD a few years ago, but are now long out of print as the label went bust. We've carried his stuff as we can, but he's woefully obscure outside of Brazil and probably woefully obscure within Brazil as well. So, finding a professionally filmed, great sounding DVD featuring a 16 piece band with conductor, 3 female vocalists and Arrigo himself doing vocals is beyond an amazing treat for me. Like Albert, if you don't speak the language, you are obviously missing a lot and unlike Albert and French, I can't even pretend to speak Portugese. But the unbelievable musicianship all comes through, even if you can't quite understand what he is saying while the three singers shimmy and prance around in their heels and respond to his cajoling (I should also note that like Albert, he really can't 'sing', but his vocalizing is completely integral to the music). He cuts quite the 'evil devil' figure as he sits in his chair and cajoles the ladies to come over and sign his docment in blood! This is just amazing; it even includes some of his best work (including Clara Crocodilo). Recommended as strongly as it is possible for me to do... [DPR] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Breznev Fun Club-L'Onda Veatebrata: Lost + Found Vol. 1 (mini-lp sleeve) $18.00 Back in stock! A group that combines avant-progressive with symphonic rock with classical music performed on 'real' instruments. The lineup is flute, clarinet, 2 saxes, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, drums, mallet percussion and sprechgesang that you won't understand as well as mezzosoprano voice. It consists of short pieces and the whole album has a strong Italian flavor. "A mysterious band, only known to very few collectors, they where noticed at first for their contribution on the hopelessly sold-out Italian Prog sampler that was a bonus to the same-named book. Breznev Fun Club, were born in the deep south of Italy, namely Montescaglioso (MT) at the beginning of the eighties and probably it is the first prog band from Lucania to release a CD. With this “L’onda vertebrata”, recorded in 2009 with new musicians from Lucania and Puglia Breznev Fun Club show a part of their music production of the last twenty years. More than a proper band, BFC are a ensemble with great guest star that perform the compositions of Rocco Lomonaco, that run between avant-prog and contemporary classical music, with rock and jazz rhythms, surrounded by the poetical Sprechgesang of lyricist Franco Sciscio. If you look for comparisons, Breznev Fun club are close to Picchio dal Pozzo, representing their logic sequel in terms of musical skill and irony. Definitely among the best prog bands coming from Italy in the last 10 years. A pleasant surprise from the deep south of Italy." [AMS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Delirium-III (remaster) (mini-lp sleeve) $22.00 "Third album released in 1974, called Delirium III (Viaggio negli arcipelaghi del tempo) and judged by many as their most mature work. La battaglia degli eterni piani contains a dark-inspired atmosphere not heard in their previous releases, the flute has again a prominent role and the sax is only present in Viaggio n.2. This is also the first album to feature electric guitar, as Mimmo Di Martino, the guitar player, only played the acoustic in previous albums. Finally in deluxe papersleeve and extended liner notes." [Vinyl Magic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Delirium-Dolce Acqua (remaster) (mini-lp sleeve) $22.00 "Delirium came from Genova, from a previous beat band called I Sagittari, and formed in 1970, releasing their first single a year later. Canto di Osanna, presented at first Viareggio pop festival was a successful single and gave the band an immediate notoriety. They had also won a Radio Montecarlo rock contest in 1971. Their first album, Dolce Acqua, also from 1971 contains a good and original mix of prog, jazz and some tuneful melodies, the leading role of singer Ivano Fossati is evident, with his furious flute soloing being one of the band's most distinctive elements. The album, housed in a nice triple gatefold cover, is structured in various movements like a classical suite, but here and there some parts seem a little incoherent with the whole LP."-www.italianprog.com [Vinyl Magic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Delirium-Lo Scemo e il Villaggio (remaster) (mini-lp sleeve) $22.00 "After their first album, Dolce Acqua, from 1971 and their memorable TV presence at Sanremo music festival given around mid-1972, Ivano Fossati suddenly had to leave Delirium for his military service, later to pursue a solo career that's still successful today. His replacement was Englishman Martin Frederick Grice (from Boomerang) who, along with the ever present flute, was also a brilliant sax player. With this renewed line-up they released their second album, Lo scemo e il villaggio, still with some jazz influences and a stronger use of sax by Grice. With the evident lack of a role singer in the band, all members took the lead singer's role. The track La mia pazzia is the closest to first album's style."-www.italianprog.com [Vinyl Magic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ EL-Electric Leak $18.00 This is a privately made CD release, released in a numbered, limited edition of 499 copies. They strike an impressive balance between jazz rock and rehearsal intensive-styled avant-progressive music and improvisation. I was alerted to this band by my pal Marcello, who runs the always great AltrOck label and if he tells me something is worth paying attention to...well, you know I pay attention! This should appeal to fans of rehearsal intensive bands who don't mind a little free-skronk mixed in. They use Wurlitzer piano, synths, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes, cello and drums. "A remarkable, huge creative strength leads the choices of this band born in Bologna four years ago, quiet active in performing gigs, and listened in Radiotre studios too. The set up is made of a saxophone player, a keyboard master, a cello player, a drummer and percussionist: furthermore they all handle with skill and good taste "poor" electronics and objects. Divided in three big parts, as suites, the recording balances to perfection jazz and radical improv and rigorous music structure, by a medium that seems to be the best mediation ever: european art rock of the last forty years. Peaceful oasis and edgy jazz rock events with remembrances of Area and Van Der Graaf. To the heart and the brain. Marvelous"-Alias/ Guido Festinese [EL] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Elonkorjuu-Harvest Time $18.00 A rare Finnish progressive/hard rock type album from 1972 from one of the earlier underground bands; they were formed in 1969. Vocals, dual guitars, piano/organ, flute, bass and drums are used. Short songs, but they manage to make room in them to rock out! "Elonkorjuu came from Pori, Finland and was founded in 1969. At first, the sessions were done in a rather dark cellar; the musicians were young, talented and highly motivated. That same year, Elonkorjuu won second place at a competition at Helsinki's House of Culture. A short time after this, the band's success grew very fast. They toured through Finland and quickly became well-known. One of the band's highlights was the gig at the rock festival in Turku, where they performed before a hundred thousands youths who went wild about the fantastic band. By the end of the year, they decided to make the album Harvest Time, which has since reached cult status in the annals of progressive rock. This quartet are one of the many little-known bands that did heavy blues/psych with strong prog elements, drawing initially from the schools of Cream, Black Sabbath and Colosseum, but they expanded on those influences with soulful church organ and cutting guitar from leader Jukka Syrenius. A killer album from beginning to end. Heavy guitar work all over and great English vocals." [Shadoks] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Embrujo-Embrujo $18.00 "The band Kissing Spell changed their name to Embrujo in early 1970 due to the political climate in Chile and conditions being less than ideal for a band with an English name. "Embrujo" is Spanish for "spell" or "bewitched," and their album came out on Arena Records in 1971. This record sits among the great albums from Chilean bands such as Blops, Aguaturbia, Los Jaivas and Escombros, with beautiful compositions and instrumentation, strong vocals and poetic lyrics, and is quite possibly one of the best albums in South American history. Chile seemed to be a breeding ground for extraordinary, heartfelt pop and underground music. What a shame that during the period between 1973-1990 the Pinochet dictatorship made it difficult for so many promising bands to find work. We are missing a lot of great future albums by those bands." [Shadoks] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eneide-Uomini Umili Popoli Liberi (expanded/remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $22.00 This 1972 album by this Italian quintet (vocals, dual guitars, flute, organ/mini moog, bass & drums) was supposed to be released on the legendary Trident label, but for some reason it never came out until the 1990s! The band obviously were big fans of VDGG, as they thank them all over the cover, but I don't really hear a big VDGG influence. Some fine organ passages are the highlights for me! In any event, it's a very good early 70's Italian progressive rock release. This 2011 reissue is on deluxe papersleeve, remastered by Eneide's Gianluigi Cavaliere, and features extended liner notes, plus two bonus tracks from an unreleased second project. [Vinyl Magic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eternal Tapestry-Beyond the 4th Door $15.00 Fun, cool, sorta retro/sorta contemporary hipster progressive rock-oriented sounds. Always nice to see Sonny Sharrock, Popol Vuh and Trad Gras och Stenar name-checked together! "Eternal Tapestry started in the fall of 2005, conceived after original members Nick Bindeman and Dewey Mahood discovered their mutual love of Sonny Sharrock and Neu! It was these two vastly different artists who helped the band's sound take shape, free improvised guitar with structured rhythms and lots of layered ambient sound. On their Thrill Jockey debut Eternal Tapestry have delivered an album not unlike their epic live shows. Beyond the 4th Door contains long stretches of melodic guitar improvisations, dark brooding songs that slowly build and expand to allow in layers of light. The album was recorded in their home studio and was created by recording more that two hours of material, mostly live, and hand picking what you hold in your hands. There is a free and open nature to their structure creating for the listener a spacious environment to explore. Harkening back to the early 70's experimental rock that inspired them, such as Popol Vuh, Cluster and Trad Gras och Stenar, Beyond the 4th Door is an album meant to be listened to in its entirety." [Thrill Jockey] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Paolo Fresu-Mistico Mediterraneo $18.00 Paolo Fresu-trumpet, flugelhorn Daniele di Bonaventura-bandoneon A Filetta Corsican Voices: Jean-Claude Acquaviva-seconda Paul Giansily-terza Jean-Luc Geronimi-seconda José Filippi-bassu Jean Sicurani-bassu Maxime Vuillamier-bassu Ceccè Acquaviva-bassu "Sketches of Corsica: the radiant lyric trumpet of Paolo Fresu glides across the massed voices of A Filetta, the singers who are both trailblazers and keepers of tradition in the realm of Corsican polyphony. The ancient and the experimental blend seamlessly in these compositions, several of them written by ensemble founder Jean-Claude Acquaviva, who has directed the singing group for more than 30 years. A powerful showing here also for Italian bandoneon innovator Daniele do Bonaventura, who contributes new music, solos imaginatively, duets with Fresu, and envelops voices and trumpet with an almost orchestral sense of form." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gutbucket-Dry Humping the American Dream $20.00 Back in stock. This is the second album by this great NY band who take the 'downtown sound' as pioneered in the 1980s by bands like Naked City, Curlew, Doctor Nerve and keep it current and fresh. I know you are buying this because you want to check them out since they are now signed to Cuneiform and have two great releases out with us. That's fine with us, but even if we didn't sign them, they're a great group who deserve to be heard by more folks. "This review is probably useless to anyone who has already got Gutbucket's first album, as you won't need any more encouragement. To those that haven't yet, let me say that they should give them a try if they have time for a band that can combine the edge of Hasidic New Wave, the genre bending craziness of Estradasphere and the sheer energy of John Zorn's Naked city with an amazing level of musicianship, a solid jazz grounding and raw, rock and roll productions! I am a jazz as well as extreme metal fan, I like electronic music and the blues as well, and this band can do it all with an exciting sense of gusto and enthusiasm that has made them irresistible to me. They can be as cerebral as Mr Bungle, but with a sense of fun and a rockier attitude. They can reach total punk craziness via Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane or just give you some of the most lyrical and airy passages in unexpected arrangements. I wouldn't say that they are the most original band I have heard but their enthusiasm and audacity makes up for their few (if any) shortcomings."-Alexander Vagenas [Cantaloupe] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hostsonaten-Springsong (expanded/remix/remaster) (mini-lp sleeve) $22.00 This offshoot of Finisterre features composer/leader Fabio Zuffanti plus current and former members of Finisterre, as well as other musicians to create this airy and beautiful progressive work. Musicians perform on flute, violin, piano, 12 string guitar, organ/mellotron/moog, bass and drums (drums appear very infrequently on this album). The press compares it to Anthony Phillips' The Geese and the Ghost, and that's not a bad comparison at all; quite acoustically based, with some electricity and generally pastoral, with the occasional 'bite'. This comes in a lovely package that includes some beautiful paintings. This new, remixed, remastered edition also includes a 13 minute suite as a bonus track! [AMS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hostsonaten-Summereve (mini-lp sleeve) $22.00 "Finally the first and final part of the SEASONSCYCLE SUITE, the four seasons Hostsonaten project, namely "Summereve", dedicated to Summer. This is the beginning of it all - the birth - and here all the main melodies of the cycle are introduced. This record is close to "Springsong", containing positive, sparkling moments, being influenced by ethnic and folk music. At the same time it is also somehow reminiscent of "Winterthrough", but for sure "Summereve" is is the most progressive symphonic record of the seasons cycle, as the contribution of a real string quartet make the sound even more majestic and dream-like. "Summereve" is the absolute Hostsonaten masterpiece, and this is THE symphonic prog record of 2011." [Vinyl Magic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jack O' The Clock-How Are We Doing and Who Will Tell Us? (band released CDR) $11.00 "Jack o’the Clock are an unbelievably great band, Damon Waitkus is an extraordinarily courageous composer, and this is some of the freshest and most surprising music I’ve heard since, well, since their first record. Hallelujah!"-Fred Frith That's really some praise and should make even the most jaded of you give this a glance. The band was sent my way by Scott Brazieal, ex Cartoon, and I was interested in what I heard even before I saw that quote! The band call themselves 'majestic junk folk' and that's a pretty funny but not inaccurate description for a band who blend folk music and experimental music together in a way that sometimes is a bit reminscent of some aspects of Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, but folkier and even more song-oriented, while just as exploratory - albeit in a 'gentler' way. The line up / instruments used get the general feeling across: Jordan Glenn - drums, percussion, accordion / Jason Hoopes - basses, voice, piano / Kate McLoughlin - bassoon, voice, flute, recorder, percussion / Emily Packard - 5 string and baritone violins, viola, banjo, psaltery, melodica, musical saw / Damon Waitkus - voice, guitar, hammer dulcimer, banjo, piano, pianet, flute, ukelin, percussion, production. "Jack O’ The Clock brings a quietly giddy sort of energy to the intersection of American folk songwriting and experimental music. The group's sound, a jangly mix of concert-hall agility, acoustic rock drive, and junk shop scouring, is characterized by tight vocal harmonies and intricate arrangements for unusual combinations of instruments made possible by the varied musical experience and multi-instrumentalism of its five members, who have played everything from new music to art metal to fingerstyle folk to free improvisation, sometimes in the same concert. Jack O' The Clock's recordings go beyond the group's live sound to incorporate bits of on-location percussion, found sounds, clandestinely recorded monologues, city noise, and various birds and insects, as well as a number of guest musicians and singers. This is a band entranced by and dedicated to songs, which it crafts with resolute attention to voice, melody, and storytelling. These songs are embodiments of the small, magisterial, inane, inspired, and pedestrian voices of everyday people and staticky news reports filtered through a string of sleepless nights. Your weird neighbors and relatives squawking back at you at 5AM." Anway, this is very highly recommended. You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kaleidoscope-Kaleidoscope (expanded) $18.00 "Kaleidoscope's sole release is one of the best psychedelic albums ever recorded and also among the rarest albums of all time. Enrique Rivas located all the original band members as well as the original cover artist. Shadoks Music signed a deal with the band, and now puts this baby out legitimately for the first time, ever. The band was not actually from Mexico: the musicians came from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Spain, and the album was recorded in 1967 in the Dominican Republic. The manager took it to Mexico where it had a tiny release of 200 copies on the Orfeon label. They were friends with Addib Casta from Ladies WC, Venezuela, so one song is by Ladies WC -- the rest are all original compositions. The music features some amazing, heavy, guitar-based psychedelia of the best kind, and there are three bonus tracks here, including a live track from 1969. The cover art has also been completely restored (bootleg versions were heavily cropped) with the original label artwork for the first time. The package also includes many photos and a band history, making this a collector's dream come true. This reissue was done with the complete participation of the original band members for the first legitimate reissue of this album, ever. Includes 3 bonus tracks, including a live track from 1969." [Shadoks] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kebnekajse-Idioten $18.00 Not only is it just wonderful to have this great, classic Swedish psychedelic/progressive/folk- "Kebnekajse takes folk rock to new heights on Idioten. Forty years after their debut, the Swedish '70s folk rock pioneers have gathered no moss. A short biography for new listeners: During the 1970s, Kebnekajse was known as Sweden's highest band, pioneering and leading the Swedish instrumental psych/progressive groups. They electrified folk music and made six albums from their inception in 1971 to 1978, after which they split up. Kebnekajse reunited during the summer of 2001 and in the early spring of 2009, they released their critically-acclaimed comeback album Kebnekajse, filled with pure Swedish folk songs. Two years later, and proven by countless tours, they now present what is perhaps their strongest recording ever. On this album, Kebnekajse widens views and lets the folk music tone find new forms, free from any tightly-held reins. As the band themselves explain: "We wanted to give the folk music new feet. From the vast canon of ancient Swedish folk songs we wanted to highlight songs that stand out, rare songs that leave room for improvisation and debauchery in the spirit of the psychedelic '70s." With these resolutions, the band got into the studio (the same one used for recording Dungen) for three sessions of four days each, from May to September. The result was 10 new tracks. This is unlimited music where intricate melodies and distinctive rhythms take unexpected turns -- electrical and eclectic while unified in a dynamic drive. Kebnekajse have deepened their interplay in their last years of touring. On the initial track "Barfota" (trans. "Barefoot") the electric guitar and violin weaves melody over pulsating drums, percussion and double basses -- heavy and soft at the same time. "Fäbodpslam" (trans. "Mountain Shack Psalm") breathes beautiful melancholy before the great polska "From-Olle" (trans. "Pious-Olle") whips up a furious pace. "Hans & Greta" is tight like a music box in its melody interplay while "Senpolska" (trans. "Late Polska") from Hälsingland becomes a drawn-out, distorted drone piece ("like a grunt from the deepest of halls of the mountain king"). The musicians also break up the action with jam trips and let loose the love of their musical roots. The title track "Idioten" (trans. "The Fool") madly mixes a Hälsingland polska with hard progressive rock. "Stockholmpolka" has a snorting, country feel mixed with dream-like Afro-funk psych and an Alpine feel. The closing Norwegian "walking tune" "Sangenuten" (trans. "The Song Without") is connected with a long tail of psychedelia. With Idioten, Kebnekajse lifts Swedish folk rock to new heights and new psychedelic overtones. " [Subliminal] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mark Lockheart-Moving Air $11.00 "Moving Air is multi layered studio album from acclaimed saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart, the 2010 winner of "Musician of the Year" in the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Described as "a beautiful type of orchestral world jazz" Moving Air is a carefully crafted exploration of improvisation, texture and grooves from jazz with a heady mix of contemporary classical, folk and world. On Moving Air Mark plays all the reeds (saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet) as well as keyboards and is joined by drummer Martin France, guitarist John Parricelli and bassist Dudley Phillips." [Basho] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ La Maschera Di Cera-La Maschera Di Cera (remastered/mini-lp sleeve) The first album by this extremely good new Italian symphonic/progressive band. "The Wax Mask" are a five piece who use vocals, piano/mellotron/organ/moog/' http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Material-Secret Life $7.00 (special) This one hour long compilation collects their first four singles and EPs. For me, their absolute peak work came right after this, with the release of the proto 'downtown sound' classic Memory Serves, so I don't agree that this is their best work. Having said that, you can hear them glueing together their (and Bill's) signature sound and the Knitting Factory sound here in earnest; funky basslines, found sounds, noise/noisey solos, etc., and you can also hear what Bill and Fred brought to the table when they joined Fred Frith in 1979 to form the fantastic, to-short-lived trio Massacre. Features Bill Laswell (bass); Fred Maher (drums); Michael Beinhorn (keyboards) with Robert Quine (guitar), Cliff Cultreri (guitar) and Bill Bacon (drums). Material became less unique and interesting with each passing release, so it's no surprise that their most solid album is this compilation that gathers their first four singles and EPs, written and recorded between 1979 and 1981. Material's roots were in New York's anti-musical no wave scene, and although from the very beginning these guys had chops galore (Michael Beinhorn sounds like he's playing electronic drums even on a trap kit, he's so precise), there's a much harsher and more aggressive edge to these early recordings than there ever would be on later Material albums, which were far too slick and veered dangerously close to fusion territory. Songs like "O.A.O.," with its fiery Robert Quine guitar solo, and the free jazz-influenced rhythm improvisation "On Sadism" are as fresh and exciting as any jazz-based instrumental music of the early '80s, although the unfortunate vocal disco track "Dark Things" that closes the disc portends the group's slow and steady decline."-Stewart Mason [Jungle] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mirthkon-Vehicle $18.00 Back in stock! This is going to be one of the CDs of 2009 for me personally. This is the first full length by a great California sextet consisting of dual guitars, dual woodwinds, bass and drums with a small amount of vocals and some guests. It mixes comtemporary stylings (i.e. the guitars are often crunchy) with stop on a dime avant-progressive influences such as Picchio dal Pozzo, Miriodor, Blast, Henry Cow, Frank Zappa, etc. There's really not much more to say other than if Picchio and Miriodor really float your boat and you want to hear complex, modern rock music that touches on the influences I have mentioned but that already have their own sound. Highly, highly recommended. [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mani Neumeier/Makoto Kawabata-Samurai Blues $18.00 "A damn good one-million-euro question: Who was the first German musician to have his likeness displayed at the Tokyo Wax Museum? Answer: Mani Neumeier, founder and drummer of the legendary Krautrock band Guru Guru. And how come? Simple: The Japanese simply have fine taste in music. Not only are they the most enthusiastic classical music listeners, they're also wild about Teutonic avant-garde rock (aka Krautrock) -- which is no better embodied by anyone than by Mani Neumeier.The affinity, by the way, is based on reciprocity. Ever since 1996, the same year his wax figure was inaugurated, when he toured through the country for the first time with Guru Guru, Neumeier has been so enthusiastic about Japan that he journeys there at least once a year. The following year, he performed there with the Damo Suzuki Network. Later he was usually traveling solo, seeking out the best improvisational musicians that Japan had to offer to take part in his concerts. Some of these musicians told him of a completely freaked-out guitarist. He was the wildest of them all -- in other words, exactly the right thing for Mani Neumeier. Kawabata Makoto was his name, and he was/is the head of the band Acid Mothers Temple. Neumeier had already played together with their bassist, Tsuyama Atsushi, and to satisfy Neumeier's curiosity, Tsuyama arranged a concert. That was in 2006. The three harmonized perfectly: The chemistry was right and they brewed up a massive storm. They sensed that they had created a mighty psychedelic monster and called it Acid Mothers Guru Guru. A year later, they completed a 10-day whirlwind tour of the United States, where they were met with wild applause. During each of the four tours of Japan that have followed so far, they have also been celebrated in packed concert halls every time. But Mani Neumeier also very much enjoys playing as a duo, so he organized numerous concerts just for himself and Kawabata. The desire soon emerged to record a CD in the studio with just the two of them. The result is Samurai Blues: high-grade psychedelic improvisations by two absolutely unrestricted professionals. With their tempestuous guitars and thundering drums, Neumeier and Kawabata demonstrate just what is possible in acid rock in 2011." [Bureau B] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pandora-Sempre E Ovunque Oltre Il Sogno (mini-lp sleeve) $20.00 This is a very good, 1970s-styled Italian release, the second from this group. It includes amazingly great and retro keyboardwork and combined with a band who are a bit more modern (but still completely symphonic/progressive) in their approach. Vocal and instrumental pieces in about equal proporation. [Vinyl Magic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Polite Refusal-Geese and Swans $18.00 Back in stock! From Moscow, the group's name is actually in Cyrillic and most closely comes out as "Vezhliviy Otkaz". The group is a six piece with vocals, acoustic guitars, grand piano, electric violin, trumpet, double bass and drums. Their songs are mostly in the five minute range and while there's a lot of vocals, there's also a lot of intricate, interesting instrumental sections. I had heard of them but had never actually heard them until now and their reputation as the most original and unpredictable band in Russia seems to be well deserved! This is a Russian release but is packaged for sale outside of Russia, with English credits and is distributed by AltrOck, whose output this easily fits into and who deserve a big round of applause for making this interesting gem easily available. Highly recommended! “Vezhliviy Otkaz, which means “polite refusal” in English, is one of the most original and erratic rock bands in Russia. They have never gone for pop stardom or tried to establish themselves as an underground “cult” act. Around 1986, they did perform in ripped tuxedos and throw pieces of raw meat into the audience, but this was a passing, and nearly forgotten, stage in their career. The band was formed in 1985 with a then-popular reggae/ska blend. Since then, they have gone through numerous stylistic changes, flirting with everything from free jazz to Russian folk. Their sound, however, has always been unique and immediately recognizable. Suslov’s rhythmic guitar work and unusual high-pitched vocals gives Polite Refusal’s music a precisely constructed, crystal-clear sound that is completely devoid of any of the extra noise so typical of rock-n-roll. The sound is so well organized that sounds almost academic.” In fact,” says Suslov, “we’ve always aimed at creating orchestral music, but guitars, piano and drums are the only instruments we have. People usually label us as post-modernist, but we are not. All of our songs bear very little irony and are based on real-life experiences,” Suslov says. "I’d rather call our work ‘naturalism’.'”-Artemy Troitsky/Moscow Times [AltrOck/Zen] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Rational Diet-On Phenomena and Existences $18.00 Back in stock Third and best release yet from this fine RIO-styled chamber-rock ensemble from Belarus who have really hit their stride here. They are a 7 piece of Vitaly Appow-bassoon, Maxim Velvetov-guitars, Cyrill Christya-violin, Olga Podgaiskaja-keyboards, vocals, Anna Ovchinnikova-cello, Dmitry Maslovsky-bass and Nikolay Semitiko-drums. Their press release claims influences of: Shotakovich, Stravinsky, Webern, Ives, Henry Cow, Art Bears, Univers Zero, Present and Debile Menthol. Check! Check! and DOUBLE check! "On Phenomena and Existences points in the same direction of the previous 'At Work', of which inherits the complexity and some rocklike tones. The band from Belarus offers again, in a more mature and articulated way if possible, the love for the Russian Twentieth century big names (Stravinsky and Shostakovich above all, but also Bartok and Prokofiev) filtered through the most evoluted rock and, as usual, without compromises. The atmosphere of the songs, effectively dotted by the unmistakable voice of Olga Podgaiskaja (also composer), is unquiet, sleepwalking-like, sometimes grotesque, underlined by Daniel Charms and other Russian avant-garde poets’ lyrics. In a band of unquestionable technical value, in particular Anna Ovchinnikova (cello) and Cyrill Christia (violin and composition) stand out, always in the balance between virtuosity and more crepuscular mood." [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Red Zen-Void $18.00 This is a new, instrumental (except for one song) Italian band somewhere between jazz/rock and progressive rock. At various times, the remind me of Djam Karet and Return to Forever, which is a pretty unique take on things. The press materials also reference Mahavishnu, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Ozrics and Genesis. Definitely a cool band and one to watch. You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tape-Revelationes $17.00 Very nice guitar/keyboard contemporary hipster-progressive with some other instruments thrown in, but basically there's always a guitar and there's always a keyboard. Lots of space between the notes. They use simple but great ideas which are presented extremely effectively. It's too bad it is so hard to find good quality weed, because this is a definitely a good quality weed album. "It takes confidence and skill to play so few notes, let them evolve into something new but still maintain the original focus. What's even more amazing is that Tape makes this virtuosity of understatement seem so welcoming and so human."-Dusted [Hapna] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tera Melos-Patagonian Rats $13.00 This group has been around for a number of years and a number of albums, but I only learned about them now because they are touring with Marnie Stern. Think of the crazy, tap-guitar complexity of Upsilon Acrux. Then marry it with the deep, multi-part singing of Time of Orchids and that's the area this is working in. Really good, modern, underground/avant-progressive. [Sargent House] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Van der Graaf Generator-A Grounding in Numbers $17.00 Great to see VDGG firing on all cylinders and hitting the mark so hard and well! "The brand new studio album by the legendary Van Der Graaf Generator. The stunning new album is the band’s 12th studio record by the band and is their first since 2008. In April 2010 Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans met up for intensive tracking sessions in Cornwall, arranging, rehearsing and recording the album in a week. Some of the pieces were already fully-formed songs; others, even at this stage, remained more sketches than fully realised works. Over the next months the tracks were overdubbed, edited and adapted by the band in their own studios. By September the project was ready to be mixed. Legendary producer Hugh Padgham agreed to take on this part of the process - the first time anyone outside the band had been entrusted such responsibility. After three weeks in Hugh’s London studio, Sofasound (which shares its name with Peter’s original home set-up), “A Grounding in Numbers” was completed. With a fantastic clarity and depth of sound and a helter-skelter stretch of tunes, “A Grounding...” sees VdGG pushing ever further forward into the twenty first century. Clearly, they know they’re a group with a certain history - but they are also an emphatically modern one. "While Trisector (2008) was finely wrought but felt a mite flat, the music here, while still driven by Van Der Graaf’s characteristic restlessness and intensity, sounds bolder and full of colour. It’s also their most melodic set since VDGG’s earliest days. Commencing with a typically hymnal Your Time Starts Now, the album gearshifts into the strident Highly Strung. Peter Hammill’s singing reminds us why he is the greatest pop star that never was, while the group’s momentum is at times diverted into some knotty unison instrumental passages. On the cruel and wry Embarrassing Kid, the interaction of guitar, keyboard and drums make it all sound like they are all slipping about on ice. “No one can never know what of their own’s very best” states Hammill on Bunsho, but one feels he knows that this album is pretty high up the list."-Mojo [Esoteric] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Van der Graaf Generator-Live at the Paradiso NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 This great title has been out of print for some time, so it's completely lovely to have it back now! This edition also includes a interview with Peter Hammill, filmed in 2009. 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/ Yugen-Iridule $18.00 Back in stock! Third album by this Italian 'difficult music' ensemble, who derive great pleasure in presenting for your ears what Frank Zappa referred to as "The Black Page" (i.e. musical scores so filled with notes that it appears as a sea of black ink)! "Iridule pushes on the most abstract language derived from the avant-garde music of the Twentieth century (Ligeti, Xenakis, Nancarrow), but also on a typically rock rhythmical drive, thanks to a more aggressive drum-and-bass section and to heavier and multi-faceted sound, on the edge between Henry Cow, King Crimson and Frank Zappa, with the further novelty of the voice. You won’t miss, as in Labirinto d’acqua, great dynamical ranges, a scrupulous tymbrical research, an even more articulated and stratified rhythmical detail. Important guests as Elaine Di Falco, Dave Willey, Mike Johnson, Dave Kerman (practically speaking, the whole of Thinking Plague!), Guy Segers (Univers Zero), Michele Epifani (Areknames) and others make a kaleidoscopic and astonishing album." [AltrOck] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Yugen-Labirinto d'Acqua $18.00 The first album by this Italian/international avant-progressive supergroup, which has been eagerly anticipated. Their stated influences should tell you all you need to know: Satie, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage, Reich, Zappa, Henry Cow, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Univers Zero! Very very good stuff for fans of 'rehearsal-intensive, complex avant-progressive rock. "Yugen is a musical project born during autumn of 2004 from an idea by Francesco Zago and Marcello Marinone. Four years after the end of The Night Watch, , Francesco Zago begins thinking about a synthesis between rock (progressive and RIO-style oriented) and chamber music. Thanks to the ideas and fundamental support of Marcello Marinone, the project takes its shape from a few chamber compositions, enriched with electric sounds and a rock rhythm section. The name of the project became Yugen, a japanese word – impossible to translate in its precise meaning – which expresses the aesthetic canon of japanese art, as haiku in poetry or Noh in theatre. Between December of 2004 and January of 2005 the first demo of Yugen was produced. Diego Donadio, formerly drummer of The Night Watch, contributes to the drums arrangements. In February, during an extemporaneous jam session in Tradate, the keyboard player Paolo Botta (Franch TV) and swiss saxophone player Markus Stauss (Spaltklang, Ulterior Lux) joined the group. Then Stephan Brunner, who plays electric bass in Spaltklang, and reed player Peter Schmid (Evan Parker, Vinny Golia) accept to play with Yugen. In the meantime, new compositions come out: Zago writes little acoustic pieces. To satisfy the complexity and richness of the arrangements, other instrumentalist join the band: the percussionist Massimo Mazza, Giuseppe Olivini (OZ, Contrapplugged) plays harpsichord, the classical players Maurizio Fasoli (piano), Elia Mariani (violin) and Marco Sorge (clarinets). Last arrivals, but not less important, the drummer Mattia Signò, Tommaso Leddi (Stormy Six) and U.S. drummer Dave Kerman (Thinking Plague, 5uu’s, Present, Blast, Ahvak….). The recordings began in June of 2005 and they continued until January of 2006. During the following months, Udi Koomran (Avhak, Present, Thinking Plague) worked on mixing and mastering." [Altrock] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC http://touchingextremes. GUTBUCKET (great video history in only 7 minutes! http://www.youtube.com/watch? http://www.allmusic.com/album/ LED BIB http://www.thejazzmann.com/ http://londonjazz.blogspot. MICROSCOPIC SEPTET http://bigbutterandeggman. JOHN SURMAN http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland June 25 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7 - tba - Dresden, Germany April 8 - Supamolli - Berlin, Germany April 9 - tbc - Leipzig, Germany April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 12 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 4 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT March 25 - Mexicali Live - 1409 Queen Anne Rd. - Teaneck, NJ ( 201) 833 0011 : Tix $15.00 advance/$20 day of show - performing Visions of the Emerald Beyond plus bonus tracks from Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame, & Apocalypse played by the 10-piece band! THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming PLANETA IMAGINARIO March 16 - Paraninfo de la Universidad de Malaga - Malaga, Spain - 21:00 March 17 - Chubby Cheek - Jaen, Spain March 18 - Cosmo's Factory - Cabezas de San Juan - Sevilla, Spain March 19 - Classi Jazz - Almeria, Spain POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with Danny Sher Quartet) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with SCUO and Top Knot) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 24 - Trash Mountain - 1619 Greenland Drive Murfreesboro, TN (with Beautiful Creatures, Technikiller, and Square People) March 26 - The Phoenix Project - 406 S. Haskell, Dallas, TX - (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with Miles Okazaki) March 28 - Elmo Jones Metal/Punk Music Complex - 8329 Camp Bowie W., Ft. Worth, TX 76116 (with Raging Boner, Haggard Daggers, Odor) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 (With Flying Scorpion and The Internet) March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 (with Gamma Like Very Ultra) March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 2 - Mama Buzz - 2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 (with Groundskeeper) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with Masses and TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - Schlafly Tap Room - 2100 Locust St, Saint Louis, MO 63103 - (314) 241-2337 (with Spelling Bee and Britches) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and Goliathon) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Carabar - 115 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215 (with Kuan, Lemia Belus, and TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with Rickles and Epilogue) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ------ 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. ------ 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!) : ACQUA FRAGILE-Mass Media Stars (first time on CD in a long time) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) MUSEO ROSENBACH-Zarathustra! (back in print, finally!) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn ZOMBI-Escape Velocity (new release from this always great and always entertaining synth/drums duo) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp18.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Ahleuchatistas-Location Location $13.00 Since their last release, Of the Body Prone, a lot has happened to Ahleuchatistas. Founding member, bassist Derek Poteat left the group and after a short tour with a different bassist (I saw that tour and it was amazing - as they always are), the group is now a duo of Shane and Ryan. As the short press statement says, "The first full length offering from the guitar/drums duo of Shane Perlowin and Ryan Oslance. This is a document of their musical explorations in the duo format with recordings dated from September 2008 thru March 2010." Obviously being a duo has greatly changed their sound, but since the time of their two Cuneiform releases, they've been expanding their formerly very un-affected sound out, and Shane's using effects and delay and other interesting tricks to expand his palette. So, it's still recognizably them. They remain an amazing band and this is a very different and still amazing recording! "The music draws from an enormous pool of influences and traditions, reflecting the vast shared interests of the two players and is a step forward into new musical directions from the project’s previous efforts. The album opens with Waterboarding, a spontaneous garage/skronk-surf/death ritual composition captured in the studio, reminiscent of The Ex or Yo! I Killed Your God-era Marc Ribot. A Little Effort Goes Away, a Balinese prog-punk fantasy, performed with prepared guitar (a la John Cage), was recorded live in concert at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina in February 2010. It exhibits Perlowin’s fresh melodiousness and Oslance’s organic syncopated rhythmic development, as well as the off-the-cuff chemistry and psychic interplay that make this duet such an exciting act to catch in a live setting. No Sleep, a slab of block-form composition, needles away with a layer of extended guitar technique and lowercase “i” free jazz percussion, simulating a manic Morse code message. Over this texture, float swelling Ligeti-esque horror chords, drenched in syrupy delay. Heraclitean, the extended version of which was released on a clear 10” vinyl on the French label Gaffer Records in April 2010, is a driving Afrikana shredfest that pays tribute to Ennio Morricone, Konono No.1, and Terry Riley. Channel Zero is a minimalist musical moment, a phone-off-the-hook tone poem about staring into the abyss (and the abyss staring into thee). Second Self features Oslance’s fierce breakbeat capabilities and his penchant for “blown out” drum production. Perlowin supplies white noise loops and dark e-bow psychedelia. Mistaken Identity is a multi-tracked home studio production. The electronic percussion was recorded years before Perlowin added the interweaving guitar lines that nod to such players as Andy Summers, Robert Fripp, and Bill Frisell. Blind Way was recorded live in the studio during the same session as the opener, Waterboarding. The sound of an e-bow’s plastic gyrating against electric guitar strings implies electrocution. Frenetic drums and swelling low-range tone clusters morph into a haunting and delicate repetitive theme. Israel is the very first fruit of the Perlowin/Oslance collaboration. It was recorded within a week of Oslance relocating to Asheville, NC to join the then trio outfit Ahleuchatistas. It is an up electro-jazz number with elements of nostalgia for a time that never existed. Finally, the bittersweet closer, Our National Anthem, pays homage to the use of sound in the films of David Lynch, culminating in a warped yet tuneful anti-climax." [Open Letter] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gatto Marte-Colombo Tutto Tondo $11.00 (special) While they last, this is 45% off the usual price! This is the 8th album by the Italian chamber ensemble Gatto Marte and this time it's something quite different; it's an opera about Christopher Columbus! How Italian can you get? "The story of Christopher Columbus. A funny and witty tale for every age with hidden treasure chest, pirate’s ship, cocktails on the beach and lots of songs. Culture on Campus at Teesside University is delighted to have the opportunity to premiere the new Opera Buffa Colombo Tutto Tondo (Christopher Columbus the world is round) by Pietro Lusvardi with the Gatto Marte ensemble. This Opera Buffa is made up of ten arias, sung in Italian and English, and instrumental pieces interwoven with narration. The story, witty and funny, tells the tale of Christopher Columbus in a style inspired by the Commedia dell’Arte, where the narrator and the singers share lines on stage. As well as being a piece to entertain all ages, the opera serves as an educational tool, especially for young people. This Opera Buffa features four soloists and narrator. It is performed by the Italian ensemble Gatto Marte." [Music Center] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Grupo Um-A Flor de Plastico Incinerada $18.00 A band I had long heard of but never actually heard until Editio Princeps started their reissue program. This is a goodie, with nice Fender Rhodes work, electric bass, drums and percussion + guests on reeds. "Formed in 1976, Groupo Um was one of the pioneers from the Brazilian jazz and jazz-rock scene. After some years playing with well known musicians like Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti, the band (members) developed a musical language of their own. Grupo Um's third and last album, released in 1982. Here we have the same trio who recorded "Reflexões": Lelo Nazario, Rodolfo Stroeter and Zé Eduardo Nazario, plus guests Teco Cardoso and Felix Wagner. During those sessions Grupo Um recorded more material than could be placed on a vinyl record. In this special edition the outtakes will be finally added to the 1982 album." [Editio Princeps] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ku-Fragments From The Alterated $9.00 (special) Long out of print, but we've got too many on the shelf, so get the last copies in existence! This is an psych/prog underground quartet that consists of guitar, flute/synths/sax, bass and drums, and they have ties to Arjuna and Alhambra. This is probably the most freak-out/underground sounding release of the three, but it still bears comparison with those groups. Great long tracks with great flute and distorted guitar psychouts. The very live 'basement sound' recording only adds to the authenticity of the music! [Fly-agaric] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Albert Mangelsdorff-A Jazz Tune I Hope (24-bit remaster) $11.00 For those who have heard that trombonist Albert only plays free music, this album is a good introduction to what he does. A great band: Wolfgang Dauner - piano, Eddie Gomez - bass, and Elvin Jones - drums. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Albert Mangelsdorff-Birds of Underground (24-bit remaster) $11.00 Free-ish session from late 1972 by the always pretty amazing trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and a line-up of musicians mostly known for their ties to FMP, although this is less 'out' than a lot of the FMP titles of the same era: Heinz Sauer (alto and tenor), Gerd Dudek (tenor and soprano), Buschi Nieberall (bass), Peter Giger (drums). [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Albert Mangelsdorff-Never Let It End (24-bit remaster) $11.00 Free-ish session from early 1970 by the always pretty amazing trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and a line-up of musicians mostly known for their ties to FMP, although this is less 'out' than a lot of the FMP titles of the same era: Heinz Sauer (alto and tenor), Gunter Lenz (bass) and Ralf Hubner (drums). [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Albert Mangelsdorff-The Wide Point (24-bit remaster) $11.00 While the term 'power trio' is usually applied to guitar/bass/drum outfits, I think that it might also apply here! Albert Mangelsdorff-awesome trombone, Palle Danielsson-killer bass, Elvin Jones-monster drums! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Phil Manzanera-Diamond Head (expanded/remastered/digipack) $18.00 Phil's classic first solo album, recorded in 1975 at the same time as Quiet Sun, in a lovely, remastered edition with a bonus track. "This is really a sister album to QUIET SUN's "Mainstream" record,as they were both recorded in the same studio one right after the other.Brian Eno,Phil Manzanera and Bill MacCormick would play on both,although "Diamond Head" isn't a canterbury recording like "Mainstream" is.Most of the guys from ROXY MUSIC are here to help Phil out, plus a multitude of other guests.I must say that i couldn't help but think of our own tszirmay everytime i listened to this album.If there was a record that best described his personality this is it.It's fun,energetic,humerous and full of personality. "Frontera" will put you in a good mood rather quickly.It's so uplifting with the legendary Robert Wyatt on vocals, and singing in Spanish.Manzanera's guitar work 2 1/2 minutes in becomes almost angular and dissonant.He's having a blast i'm sure.Great tune. "Diamond Head" is just a pleasure to listen to.Tasteful guitar leads the way as John Wetton(fresh out of KING CRIMSON) adds some nice bass. "Big Day" opens with strummed guitar as drums,vocals and full sound come in quickly.Eno is terrific on vocals.This is another cool song with fun lyrics like "Everyone's there in gay Peru" haha.Manzanera adds some fuzz to his guitar on this one. "The Flex" opens with bass and is kind of funky.Sax from ROXY MUSIC's MacKay a minute in.Jobson adds some clavinet as well. "Same Time Next Week" features the duet of John Wetton and Doreen Chanter.They are so fun as they banter back and forth throughout.Wetton adds some mellotron in this one, as well as bass.More sax from MacKay. "Miss Shapiro" sounds like a Zappa title.The guitar is outstanding to open.Vocals from Eno 1 1/2 minutes in.It kicks into gear after 2 minutes.Again Eno sounds great on vocals,and the bass and drum work is fantastic! This is too much! "East Of Echo" features the complete QUIET SUN band along with Wetton,Thompson and Ian MacDonald on bagpipes! This is an instrumental that opens with a fairly heavy soundscape of guitars and drums for 1 1/2 minutes.Then it lightens and the tempo picks up.Nice bass lines from Wetton,while MacCormick follows that up 2 1/2 minutes in with some fuzz bass.Nice. "Lagrima" is simply Manzanera on guitar and MacKay on the aboe.Cool instrumental. "Alma" is quite the contrast to the previous song.It does settle,MacCormick is on vocals this time.Manzanera shines on guitar 2 minutes in to the end.A fitting ending. I can't recommend this album high enough,in fact if you can also get your hands on QUIET SUN's "Mainstream" record as well, go for it!"-progarchives.com [Expression] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Martyn-Live At Leeds and More 2 x CDs $9.00 (special) Disc 1 is the very well known (and very, very great) album John made with backing by Danny Thompson (double bass) and John Stevens (yes, the famous free-jazz/free-music drummer), recorded 10/75 and which he self-released himself in a limited edition shortly after! Includes five bonus tracks from the same concert. Disc 2 is recordings from the 80's, which are quite good but don't reach the same brilliance level of disc one. "Because Island Records didn't feel it was the right time for a live album, Martyn independently released this record from his home. The initial release was a limited edition of 10,000 (which Island did manufacture, though not distribute or promote) that was numbered and signed. Though the album shares its title with the famous Who live collection of the same name, the working title was "Ringside Seat" and photos of Martyn and bassist Danny Thompson in a boxing ring were even taken for a prospective cover, though never used. Recorded February 13, 1975 (the sleeve incorrectly states October), at Leeds University in the U.K., this is John Martyn at a peak in his career. In Thompson, he'd found a perfect foil for his increasingly jazzy textures and their bass and guitar interaction is a particular highlight. Having mastered the echoplex, which was capable of producing waves of echoed and distorted sound, Martyn was doing things with an acoustic guitar that no one had ever done (or has done since). "Outside In" (all 18:57 of it!) is a tour de force showcasing the otherwordly sounds he could coax from this device, and is worth the price of the album alone. The re-released version on Voiceprint/One World includes five bonus tracks ("My Baby Girl," "You Can Discover," "So Much in Love With You," "Clutches," "Mailman") from the show, including the ones Paul Kossoff of Free guested on."-Rob Caldwell/All Music Guide [Snapper] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Metropole Orkest with Pat Metheny-Live in Concert NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 "The Metropole Orkest from Europe performing live for the cameras from film and television archives plus one of the greatest musican Pat Metheny in an incredible live performance - for the first time on DVD! This DVD cannot be missed by a genuine Pat Metheny / jazz fan. This is a masterpiece in perfection - recorded live at the famous North Sea Jazz Festival in 2003." [IMV] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ikue Mori-Kibyoshi NTSC (all region) DVD $24.00 "Ikue Mori continues to be one of the most respected and original voices in the laptop electronic music scene. Distinct and personal, her sounds are immediately recognizable as her own. For the past several years she has been incorporating visual imagery into her presentations, animating cutouts from Japanese woodblock prints in ways both charming and disturbing. Her latest work is her best yet, and draws upon the rich literature of Japanese Kibyoshi, satirical comics which pointed sharp barbs at contemporary society with a sharp focus on gossip, literature, political affairs and current events. Reversing, inverting and twisting truth and fiction, Ikue Mori creates a rich world of her own with sound and image. Featuring the charismatic voice of Makigami Koichi and the percussion of Mark Nauseef, Kibyoshi is a masterpiece!" Personnel: Ikue Mori: Electronics Koichi Makigami: Vocals, Mouth Harp Mark Nauseef: Percussion [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pak-Secret Curve $13.00 Ron Anderson and PAK have been at it for some time and it's great to see their hard work rewarded with a release with Tzadik, which willc certainly bring them some well-deserved attention! A bit crazed and more than a bit great! Highly recommended! "Ron Anderson is a multi-instrumentalist intuitive music maker whose compositions, bands, collaborations and solo projects combine heavy rock intensity with improvisation and a level of compositional complexity rarely matched. For his third CD with his band PAK, he has avoided the electric guitar and orchestrated a rich and orchestral sound with keyboards, strings, horns and electronics. One of the most maddening releases he has ever created, Secret Curve is mind blower, and one of Ron's masterpieces. Featuring some of the best players out of the downtown scene, it is a brilliant new direction for this brave musical explorer who has worked with artists as diverse as Elliott Sharp, Sun City Girls, Otomo Yoshihide, James Chance and Haco." Personnel: Ron Anderson: Bass Guitar Keith Abrams: Drums, Percussion Tim Byrnes: Trumpet, French Horn, Keyboards with: Anthony Coleman: Piano Jérôme Noetinger: Electronics, Tape Manipulation Eve Risser: Piano, Prepared Piano Tom Swafford: Violin Stefan Zeniuk: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, English Horn [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pitom-Blasphemy and other Serious Crimes $13.00 Pitom are one of my favorite Tzadik bands, and that's really saying something when you have a catalog as strong as they do. I saw them open for Gutbucket at a tiny little club in VA a few years ago and I didn't even connect them at first with their great first album, because their first album was released under leader Yoshie Fruchter's name! They play a heavily rocking power-trio music with the distinctive touch of an electric violin added, who plays in a Plastic People kinda way; very direct and rock and not ornate or classical at all. Highly recommended "In their second CD for Tzadik, a sonic homage to the Day of Atonement, Yoshie Fruchter and his remarkable band Pitom continue their exploration of the New Jewish rock sound with their unique blend of punk, noise rock, metal and jazz filtered through the Jewish tradition. Echoes of the Melvins, Mahavishnu, Zappa and Masada make this a fiery and soulful CD that you will listen to again and again. Intense new Jewish Music from this exciting quartet of punk rebels." Personnel: Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: Bass Yoshie Fruchter: Guitar Kevin Zubek: Drums Jeremy Brown: Violin, Viola [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Plastic People of the Universe-Egon Bundy's Happy Hearts Club Banned (remastered/first complete version) $24.00 Back in stock once more! 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/ Quiet Sun-Mainstream (expanded/remastered/ Quiet Sun was the 1970 band of Phil Manzanera-guitar, Bill MacCormick-bass, Dave Jarrett-keyboards & Charles Hayward-drums & vocals. They played around & recorded demos, but the band died when Phil went to Roxy Music & Bill went to Matching Mole. Phil briefly reformed the band in 1975 to record some of their old material & the result is this scorcher with Jarrett's Canterbury-style Rhodes piano spurring on Phil's fuzzed-out leads & the monster rhythm section! This is beautifully packaged, includes cool photos and tons of other documentation from Phil's archives (including all his 'no thank you letters" from various record labels! Additionally, there is nearly a full album's worth (30') of demos and outtakes (including part 1 of RFD, which got left off the original album!!), as well as a brief audio documentary/history. A highly recommended classic made even more beautiful in this set. "Quiet Sun was a four piece conceived in 1970 at Phil Manzanera's alma mater, Dulwich College; his fellow band members were Bill MacCormick, bass, Charles Hayward, drums, vocals and Dave Jarrett, keyboards. After a brief tour and no record deal in prospect, the band split and Manzanera joined Roxy Music. By 1974, riding high on the Roxy wave, Manzanera secured a deal for his debut album Diamond Head. What he didn't mention was that he had reformed Quiet Sun and was splitting his daily 12-hour studio time between the two projects. This reissue of 'Mainstream' is in book form with new photos and memorabilia as well as bringing together all early demos in one place." [Expression] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Django Reinhardt-Rhythm & Swing 7 x CD box set with booklet $13.00 Hugely tasty and stupid cheap collection of some of Django's best known recordings from his best known and most-loved pre-War prime period (1934-1939) 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 7 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. [Snapper] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Travis Reuter-Rotational Templates $9.00 Everyone here remembers Danny Sher, right? Right? Sigh. Anyway, at the very beginning of 2011, Danny contacted me about carrying his self-released first album, which was a fantastic, complex electric jazz release, all by terrific musicians I had never heard of. The guitarist was Travis Reuter and here is Travis with his own debut. Featured on this disc in addition to Travis are Jeremy Viner-tenor sax, Bobby Avey-Fender Rhodes, Chris Tordini-bass and Jason Nazary-drums. This is modern electric jazz at its finest, reminiscent of some of Ben Monder's work as a leader but with a more electric/progressive edge and also more of a 'rehearsal intensive avant-progressive' flair; think of electric jazz as filtered through the complexity of Blast and you have an idea of what this is about. Interesting meters and modes and inspired soloing zip by and the playing is unbelivably first rate. If intricate, really, really tricky electric jazz/rock sounds like your kind of thing, this comes HIGHLY recommended. "New Focus Recordings announces the release of Rotational Templates, the debut recording from New York City based guitarist and composer Travis Reuter. The music on Rotational Templates, though written for jazz quintet, is inspired by contemporary classical music and draws heavily on influences from the music of composers Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, and Jason Eckardt. Reuter’s compositions focus on abstract forms, complex rhythmic structures, timbre, and polytonality, while continuing to explore the improviser’s role in a traditional setting. Each composition experiments with combinations of form, counterpoint, and non-repetitive devices for improvisation. And yet this music definitely does not sound academic – quite the contrary, it pulses with an aggressive urban energy that has become somewhat of a sonic badge for this emerging generation of young experimental jazz musicians. Underlying this approach is an implicit skepticism of the aesthetics of the mainstream jazz establishment and a deep hunger to integrate elements from other forward-looking genres. Reuter’s guitar style itself is indicative of this voracity: his sound, use of effects pedals, and angular melodic patterns associate him with such experimental jazz guitarists as John Abercrombie, Allan Holdsworth, and Ben Monder, all of whom similarly looked outside of the Wes Montgomery/Joe Pass tradition for guidance. Reuter’s integration of the motivic and rhythmic language of the classical modernists sets him apart from other young modern jazz guitarists who have developed their approaches in this lineage, and this material drawn from outside of the jazz tradition acts as the glue that holds this recording together conceptually. The power of the quintet's performances hold the recording together viscerally; indeed, their taut ensemble approach is akin to a contemporary chamber group tackling a relentless, thorny score." [New Focus] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Scale the Summit-The Collective $13.00 Dual guitar, bass and drums instrumental, very progressive technical metal group with their third album. These guys have toured til their van doors melted and it sure shows; I saw them a couple of years ago and they utterly melted the joint. The music is a cross between King Crimson/Canvas Solaris/Gordian Knot and is really nicely played with good melodies mixed in with the heavy riffage. Modern and brilliantly played. Recommended. [Prosthetic] You can hear them at myspace: http://myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Shiver-Walpurgis lp (numbered edition of 1,000) (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) $26.00 LP reissue from the master tapes of the only album by this heavy Swiss late 1960's heavy underground cult band, which was originally released in 1969. "A very heavy, world-class psychedelic album. This is one of the rarest albums in the world and includes the H.R. Giger's original cover artwork." This Swiss band was a quintet of vocals, organ/piano, guitar, bass and drums. This is an excellent heavy psych release!" [Garden of Delights] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tempio delle Clessidre-Il Tempio Delle Clessidre $16.00 When making a list of the 70s one-shot classics from Italy, of which there are a surprising number of really good ones, certainly Museo Rosenbach's classic Zarathustra should be included. Why am I talking about Museo Rosenbach when we are trying to sell you the 1st CD by a new group from Italy, Il Tempio delle Clessidre? Because the singer for Tempio delle Clessidre is Stefano Galifi, Museo's singer! Led by keyboardist Elisa Montaldo, the group features her Hammond organ, synths and Mellotron heavily in their sound, while also featuring plenty of guitarwork as well. Stefano sounds great, as he did in Museo Rosenbach. This is a excellent, proggy prog release, one that has genuine ties via Stefano to the this music's heyday! [Black Widow] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Atilla Zoller/Lee Konitz/Albert Mangelsdorff-Zo-Ko-Ma (24-bit master) $11.00 March 1968, free-ish session with Attila Zoller on guitar, Lee Konitz on alto sax, Albert Mangelsdorff on trombone, Barre Phillips-bass and Stu Martin-drums. [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET http://lucidculture.wordpress. http://gapplegatemusicreview. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/ RICHARD PINHAS http://www.dustedmagazine.com/ SOFT MACHINE http://www.classical-music. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 ERGO March 5 - One Thousand Pulses - 9 Edward Place - Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 - 8:00 pm GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 11 - Special - Oulu - Finland May 12 - Dynamo - Turku - Finland May 13 - Korijaamo - Helsinki - Finland May 14 - Telakka - Tampere - Finland June 25 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7 - tba - Dresden, Germany April 8 - Supamolli - Berlin, Germany April 9 - tbc - Leipzig, Germany April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 12 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB March 4 – The Kazimier - Liverpool, UK March 5 - Voodoo Rooms - Edinburgh, UK March 6 - Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, Scotland, UK March 9 - Dempsey's - Cardiff, Wales, UK March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 04 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MAHAVISHNU PROJECT March 25 - Mexicali Live - 1409 Queen Anne Rd. - Teaneck, NJ ( 201) 833 0011 : Tix $15.00 advance/$20 day of show - performing Visions of the Emerald Beyond plus bonus tracks from Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame, & Apocalypse played by the 10-piece band! THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS March 8 - Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris - Paris, France (lecture about metallic music and Deleuze) April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming PLANETA IMAGINARIO March 16 - Paraninfo de la Universidad de Malaga - Malaga, Spain - 21:00 March 17 - Chubby Cheek - Jaen, Spain March 18 - Cosmo's Factory - Cabezas de San Juan - Sevilla, Spain March 19 - Classi Jazz - Almeria, Spain POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL May 7 - St Clement’s Church - Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9JF - UK - doors at 6:45/band on at 7:45. Tickets £10.00 - click here to get tickets in advance November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with Danny Sher Quintet) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with TBA) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 24 - Trash Mountain - Murfreesboro, TN (with TBA) March 26 - The Phoenix Project - 406 S. Haskell, Dallas, TX - (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with TBA) March 28th - Elmo Jones Metal/Punk Music Complex - 8329 Camp Bowie W., Ft. Worth, TX 76116 (with Raging Boner and TBA) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - Schlafly Tap Room - 2100 Locust St, Saint Louis, MO 63103 - (314) 241-2337 (with Spelling Bee and Britches) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and TBA) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Carabar - 115 Parsons Ave, Columbus, OH 43215 (with Kuan, Lemia Belus, and TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with TBA) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Gutbucket November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Radio Massacre International November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - November 29 - November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Upsilon Acrux Also: Since there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ 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!) : ACQUA FRAGILE-Mass Media Stars (first time on CD in a long time) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 (finally! and it's a great one - maybe their best!) FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) MUSEO ROSENBACH-Zarathustra! (back in print, finally!) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras PHIDEAUX-Snowtorch RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) WOBBLER-The Rites of Dawn IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp44.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Brandt Brauer Frick-You Make me Real $16.00 Unique German trio who combine certain aspects of progressive/postrock bands like Tortoise, Jaga Jazzist with the rhythmic aspects of Nik Bartsch's Ronin, a Steve Reich/Philip Glass/Michael Nyman maximum minimalist sweep and 'die mensch machine' esthetic of Kraftwerk. Lots and lots of polyrhythms here, baby, both electronic and non-electronic varities and lots of piano and keyboards. If you dig around on YouTube, you'll see lots of clips of them and you can see what they do. Released on a very hip German electronic/techno/dance label, it's nice to see something that's so very rhythmic 'electronic dance music' be this weirdo at the same time! If you like the referenced bands/ensembles and you don't mind shaking your booty, you'll dig this muchly. [K7] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Copernicus-Cipher and Decipher $13.00 "Cipher and Decipher is a brand new studio album by Copernicus, the conceptual concerns of the New York performer-poet who addresses The Universe itself. He is not distracted by everyday matters. He is not penning couplets about the changing fortunes of human existence, other than on the grandest (or lowliest) scale. He speaks of subatomic matter, and refuses to bear any glad tidings. As always, Copernicus is documenting the evolution of an old-world human confronting modern physic. Musical direction by Pierce Turner, and Copernicus’ powerful vocals are accompanied by a 13 piece band, featuring among othersmembersof Celtic rock band Black 47 (Larry Kirwan, Thomas Hamlin and Fred Parcells). “All music is spontaneous, completely improvised, chaotic, ravingly psychedelic, and perfectly intuitively scored to the rants, cozenings, enlightenments, and madnesses he's conveying.” Perhaps the most fitting way to describe Copernicus is as a performance poet. Even though he (originally named Joseph Smalkowski) plays keyboards, Copernicus refuses to be categorised as a musician. Despite often having inhabited the alternative New York rock'n'roll scene, his music also exudes strong elements of jazz, classical and the avant garde. Even though Copernicus' preferred recording strategy is that of improvisation, his epic pieces tend to revolve around themes, riffs and repeated clusters, moving along a clearly linear pathway. The booming delivery and abstract texts evoke the spirit of classic beat generation poetry, but the Copernicus stance goes back even further to the theatrical confrontations of the Dada movement. He's always preferred the improvisatory approach, even though each poem's grist might be prepared in advance, their rhythms and content might be disassembled in the moment." [MoonJune] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dasputnik-Parapsykosis $15.00 Great, young, heavy space-rock band from Finland. These guys are as good as anyone working in the genre today and will recall other young spacerock bands like Hidria Spacefolk and Taipuva Luotisuora. Deep and heavy synth, sax, guitar, bass and drums action that builds and builds and mostly never relents. There's a new generation of spacerockin' punks out there and they aren't merely taking names! You can hear their music here: http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Firesign Theatres-Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers $7.00 The troupe's third release and their first to be based around a single, unifying theme. Very funny, smart and even a bit touching. "By fusing the high-concept comic vision of Stan Freberg with the expansive studio experimentation of the Beatles, the Firesign Theatre singlehandedly dragged the comedy album into the psychedelic era. Creating densely layered montages of improvisational routines, overheard dialogue, media manipulation, commercial parodies, and sound effects, the four-man troupe devised a hallucinatory brand of surrealist comic performance and Joycean satire laced with puns, metaphors, and obscure literary allusions that redefined the very concept of recorded comedy."-Jason Ankeny/All Music Guide [Columbia] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Firesign Theatre-Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him $7.00 Their debut album, from 1968. "By fusing the high-concept comic vision of Stan Freberg with the expansive studio experimentation of the Beatles, the Firesign Theatre singlehandedly dragged the comedy album into the psychedelic era. Creating densely layered montages of improvisational routines, overheard dialogue, media manipulation, commercial parodies, and sound effects, the four-man troupe devised a hallucinatory brand of surrealist comic performance and Joycean satire laced with puns, metaphors, and obscure literary allusions that redefined the very concept of recorded comedy."-Jason Ankeny/All Music Guide [Columbia] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Inside: Missing Link 2 x CDs $26.00 First time ever for this great jazz/rock album on CD! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its earliest, most exciting days. This was his third album, originally released as a double lp on MPS in 1972 and it brings together a fantastic group of English and German musicians: Volker Kriegel (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, octave guitar), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone) Alan Skidmore (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone), Heinz Sauer (tenor saxophone), John Taylor (electric piano), Eberhard Weber (bass), Cees See (percussion, voice, flutes, effects), John Marshall (drums). Man. They don't make line-ups like that any more. This is early, exploratory, spacey/spacious jazz/rock of very high quality; if this even sounds like it's your thing, lemme tell you something...it's your thing! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Volker Kriegel-Lift! $16.00 First time ever for this great jazz/rock album on CD! Guitarist Volker Kriegel was an important part of the German jazz/rock scene in its earliest, most exciting days. This was his fourth album, originally released on MPS in 1973 and like his previous album, Inside: Missing Link, it brings together a fantastic group of English and German musicians: Volker Kriegel (electric and acoustic guitars), Stan Sulzman (soprano sax and flute), Zbigniew Seifert (electric violin), John Taylor (electric piano), Eberhard Weber (bass and cello), Cees See (percussion), John Marshall (drums). Man. They don't make line-ups like that any more. This is early, exploratory, spacey/spacious jazz/rock of very high quality; if this even sounds like it's your thing, lemme tell you something...it's your thing! [MPS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Led Bib-Sizewell Tea $18.00 We have a very small number of copies of the Bib's very excellent and hard to find on these shores second album. The basic sound of the band has been intact since their first album, so you know what to expect. The biggest surprise is the last track, an individualistic and qurky take on David Bowie's Heroes! A great band. [Babel] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Marbin-Breaking the Cycle $13.00 "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation."Author Pearl S. Buck's famous quotation seems especially appropriate when discussing the musical configuration called Marbin. Hailing from Israel, Marbin's young duo of guitarist Dani Rabin and saxophonist Danny Markovitch exhibit the energy and passion of youth, combined with a technical prowess seemingly well in adavance of their tender age (incredibly, they are both in their twenties). The two "Dannies" are among the newest members of the recently surging Israeli-grown jazz scene — whose artists like Avashai and Anat Cohen, and Anat Fort, have taken the world by storm. Rabin's assured and expressive guitarwork has been favorably compared to guitar greats Terje Rypdal and Jimi Hendrix but with a jazzier feel, some acoustic strumming and killer slide licks, while the highly talented Markovitch resembles a younger and edgier Jan Garbarek. Of course, technique in a younger player is rare enough, but not unheard of; more astounding perhaps is that both of co-leaders also are gifted with an impressive ability to play with a noteworthy and heartfelt sense of feeling. Both Rabin and Markovitch's playing and composing skills are matched by their intelligence, focus and drive to succeed. As an example, upon arriving in Chicago in 2007, the two wasted no time in hooking up with world-renowned drummer/percussionist Paul Wertico. In a now infamous story, the two unexpectedly arrived at the drummer's doorstep with instruments, amps, and an array of electronic equipment in tow — interupting a family dinner in the process. The veteran drummer — a seven-time Grammy Award winner with the Pat Metheny Group — soon discovered something that attendees of the duo's frequent "apartment concerts" on the north side of Chicago are very much aware of — that these two musicians amaze with their creativity and original sound. In fact, Wertico made the two a big part of his 2009, critically-acclaimed improvised albumImpressions of a City. It is truly a unique experience to see and hear Rabin creating layers of sounds by first playing, then looping guitar lines and textures over which he and Markovitch can soar with ebullient solos. These soundscapes combine elements of jazz, progressive rock, ambient meditative music and world music with an obvious Middle-Eastern influence. On his visit to Chicago in Fall of 2010, MoonJune’s honcho Leonardo Pavkovic, who never ever heard about Marbin before, went to one of their intimate duo loft concerts, by recommendation of the local jazz journalist Brad Walseth, becaming instantly enamored of their unique sound, ultimately deciding to sign two brave youngsters to his label - the same night. Meanwhile, the high regard the playersand their compositions are held in by their fellow musicians is made quite apparent by the fact that Wertico, world-class bassist Steve Rodby (an eleven-time Grammy Award winner with the Pat Metheny Group), and respected percussionist Jamey Haddad (best known as a member of Paul Simon’s band) gladly joined the two central Marbin members to create Breaking the Cycle—the group's second album and first on the MoonJune label." [MoonJune] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Meridian Voice-Atypical Symmetry $10.00 Instrumental fusion/progressive release reminscent of Chick Corea/RTF, The Dregs, etc, with lots of keyboard and guitarwork out front. "I get tons of demos sent to me (since 1997) and I have to say this release woke me right up and completely out of my typical "too-many-demos-ennui" with its tight and solid fusion, full of interesting compositions that are engaging and plenty of fusion rock grooves to rock you. Admission price alone to this CD is worth it just to hear "Hacker" which is a Planet X meets Weather Report meets Tribal Tech meets Chick Corea Electrick Band! I heartily recommend this "under-the-radar" fusion release!"-John W Patterson (JazzRock-Radio.com & EER-MUSIC.com) [MV] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Herbie Nichols-The Complete Blue Note Recordings 3 x CDs $45.00 This fantastic set is a bit pricey, but it's barely available anymore any other way. Herbie was a pianist and composer (and a *fantastic* pianist and composer, by the way) who led 5 sessions and released three 10" lps on Blue Note in their early days and also a session for Bethlehem...and that was about it during his lifetime. This is all his recordings for the Blue Note label, including many alternate takes and is not only his best work, but, imo, represents the height of the post-bop piano trio, with inventive playing and even more inventive compositions. Herbie scuffled all his life and was 'discovered' many years after it was too late for him, but it isn't too late for you to discover the joys of this genius' work! [Blue Note] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Plastic People of Universe-Co Znamena Vesti Kone/Leading Horses (remastered/digipack) $20.00 Legendary Czechoslovakian underground band who were jailed & banned many many times in their lifetime. One of the band's better known titles, at least here in the USA, as this was the 2nd of two releases to come out in Canada, and it was relatively well distributed here. A good one. [LK] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Plastic People Of The Universe-Hovezi Porazka/Beefslaughter (remastered/digipack) $20.00 Legendary Czechoslovakian underground band who were jailed & banned many many times in their lifetime. "Recorded in late 1983 & finished in January 1984, this studio recording was intended for release in Canada but that plan never reached fruition...."[LK] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Plastic People Of The Universe-Pasijove hry Velikonocni/The Passion Play (remastered/digipack) $20.00 Legendary Czechoslovakian underground band who were jailed & banned many many times in their lifetime. This was the 2nd album of theirs released during their lifetime, coming out in 1978, & was recorded with an expanded lineup, including the leader of another banned band, DG07. [LK] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Plastic People Of The Universe-Pulnocni Mys/ Midnight Mouse (remastered/ digipack) $20.00 The final studio album by the Plastic People, this was recorded in the spring of 1985, & features some nice horn/brass arrangements. One of their most sophisticated releases. A good one! [LK] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Boris Savoldelli-Biocosmopolitan $13.00 "Boris Savoldelli’s new MoonJune Records release Biocosmopolitanis nothing short of a tour de force of vocal artistry. Listeners who are only familiar with the singer’s previous MoonJune CD – the edgy, shape-shifting Protoplasmicduets with legendary guitar innovator Elliott Sharp – will be little prepared for the euphonious aural feast that awaits them on Biocosmopolitan, which represents a new pinnacle for this unique and wholly engaging vocal performer. Biocosmopolitan would be a remarkable album even if it were performed by a large ensemble of singers and instrumentalists, but the fact that these intricately layered songs were performed in real time by a single vocalist – apart from the brilliant contributions of rising trumpet star Paolo Fresu on two tracks, fusion bass acrobat Jimmy Haslip on another, Savoldelli’sown piano accompaniment on “Biocosmo,” and subtle use of sound-effects recordings – is difficult to believe. Using only a microphone and a compact, customized setup of looping and sound-processing devices, Savoldelli constructs exquisitely crafted, self-contained sound-worlds replete with elaborate multipart harmonies, complex interlocking rhythms, and a panoply of globe-spanning musical influences old and new, ranging from vintage jazz crooning and calypso to Renaissance polyphony, R&B, South African mbaqanga choral music, psychedelic rock, Beat poetry, his native Italian folk heritage, and a sort of mutant doo-wop. Seldom has vocal music been heard that conjures both the Beach Boys and Stockhausen in the same track. What unifies all of these wildly varied influences is Savoldelli’s inimitable, outgoing musical personality. Unlike Protoplasmic, an improvised outing that explored what Boris refers to as his “dark” side, Biocosmopolitanis a much more exuberant and accessible affair, and presents the most complete portrait of Savoldelli as singer, composer, arranger, and sound manipulator to date. Deft use of looping enables the singer to accompany himself with a rich tapestry of choral and ‘instrumental’ sounds, as in his amazing emulation of longtime hero Jimi Hendrix’s strangulated, wah-fried guitar cries on a version of “Crosstown Traffic”like no other. Likewise, all of the sophisticated and entirely convincing drum and percussion sounds on Biocosmopolitanare produced by vocal cords, mouth, and lips alone. While other singers have also emulated instrumental timbres using the human voice, none has taken this approach further or with such inventiveness as Savoldelli has on Biocosmopolitan. With lyrics in Italian, English, and a nonverbal vocalese syntax of his own invention, Biocosmopolitanis continually enlivened by Savoldelli’s warm- hearted demeanor and infectious sense of humor, belying the worn-out stereotype that ‘avant-garde’ vocalizing is by definition strident and uninviting. Biocosmopolitanbrilliantly demonstrates why Savoldelli has won over audiences throughout Europe, Russia, Brazil and North America with his concerts of ‘one-man polyphony,’ while mapping out new frontiers for the human voice. In Italy, Savoldelli studied operatic vocal techniques with Simona Marcello and, more recently, in New York, he's refined his art with singers Jay Clayton and Mark Murphy. Savoldelli is also a member of the innovative avant jazz-rock combo SADO, and released the acclaimed solo album Insanology in 2008, a feast of inspired vocal-orchestral loop-layering, featuring a guest appearance by US guitarist Marc Ribot. His international record debut is on MoonJune Records, a duet album with Elliott Sharp, Proptoplasmic, released in 2009." [MoonJune] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jannick Top-Infernal Machina $28.00 This title came out a couple of years ago in a limited edition and we somehow managed to get (and blow through) 200 copies. Now it's available again. For how long? I don't know. I do know that if you want this, you should probably get it before it goes away again, even with the high price... Here is something big that has been quietly brewing in the land of Zeuhl for some time now and was finally released for Jannick's appearance at les Tritonales in Paris. Bassist Jannick, best known for his playing in the 1974 edition of Magma and then co-leading Magma (as VanderTop) in 1976, has finally put together his definitive take on a zeuhl-related solo project. This large-ish ensemble includes Jannick-bass, cello, cellobass, percussion and voices, Natalia Ermlova, Veronika Boulytcheva and Klaus Blasquiz-vocals, Stella Vander, Himiko Paganotti, Antoine Paganotti-backing vocals, James McGaw, François Delfin, Thibault Abrial, Jim Grandcamp-guitars, Damien Schmitt, Christian Vander-drums, Marc Chantereau-percussion, Mathias Lecomte-grand piano and Fabien Colella-keyboards and computer. A single piece with 12 movements, the album starts slowly with a gradually intensifying buildup. The voices have a 'Mystere de voix Bulgares' kinda sound, which they keep, no matter how heavy it all gets. By the time of the 3rd movement, it's pretty heavy and by the time of the 4th movement, Klaus is singing solo over heavy growling bass, grand piano and noise and it's pretty evil. By the time of the 5th movement and onward, it's gotten unbelievably heavy and reminsicent of De Futura turned inside out and...well, do I really have to write more? You want this. [HM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Up Drive Trio-Le Reve du Lion $11.00 (special) While they last, this is $9.00 off the regular price. Interesting French jazz release beyond the fact that the playing is really good and strong. The band consists of Gilles Wolf on tenor sax, James MacGaw on double bass and Daniel Jeand'heur on drums. If those last two names ring a distant (or even very familiar) bell, it's because Daniel is the drummer of One Shot and James is the guitarist of One Shot and Magma; I had no idea he played double bass, but here he is, shades of Joe Morris, playing just fine on that big, bad boy! There are 3 originals by Gilles, one by Daniel and 3 covers: Nardis (Miles Davis), 502 Blues (Wayne Shorter) and Sonny Rollins' East Broadway Run Down, which is a real favorite of mine and nice to see it covered. I realize that we are going to sell this to Magma fans and not to jazz fans, but having said that, this is a fine, fine jazz album. [12 Prod] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Watch-Timeless $17.00 "Barely one year after "Planet Earth" comes "Timeless", the brand new studio album from The Watch. Hot off an extensive tour in 2010 which touched most of Europe and the USA and Canada, ("The Watch plays Genesis") in which the band merged their own music with some Genesis classics for a unique result that has been defined as a must also for all Genesis fans, The Watch are back with a new studio breakthrough: borrowing a theme from Genesis's very first album "From Genesis to Revelation" and re-shaping it to create brand new songs bound to become classics. Keeping the original musical flavour that allowed the very young members of Genesis to prove their talent to the world, but adding the typical musical flair and energy people know and love from The Watch. The result is a 10 song album, 7 original songs and 3 reinterpretations of very early '69 - '70 Genesis tracks. On one of these John Hackett joins the band with his flute and another one is a great performance of Genesis's Stagnation, taken from the 2010 shows giving newcomers an idea of how incredible and "timeless" that music and this band can sound when performing Genesis. Don't take our word for it! It has to be heard to be believed!" http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Tony Williams Lifetime-Believe It (expanded/remastered)$12.00 This digitally remastered CD, with two perviously unheard bonus tracks, presents the first (and by far the superior of the two mid 1970's albums that Tony cut with the "new" Lifetime for Columbia. Believe It was from 1975 includes Tony on drums, Allan Holdsworth-guitar (fresh from his stints with Soft Machine), Tony Newton-bass and Alan Pasqua-keyboards. There's some great stuff here, and this set is completely essential for fusion fans, Williams fans and Holdsworth fans. [Columbia] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): THE CLAUDIA QUINTET http://www.stereophile.com/ GUTBUCKET http://www.classicaltv.com/ http://jazztimes.com/articles/ THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET http://jazztimes.com/articles/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Stre CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 ERGO March 5 - One Thousand Pulses - 9 Edward Place - Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 - 8:00 pm GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) June 25 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7 - tba - Dresden, Germany April 8 - Supamolli - Berlin, Germany April 9 - tbc - Leipzig, Germany April 10 - Dumont - Aachen, Germany April 12 - Topos - Leverkusen, Germany April 14 - Stellwerk - Hamburg, Germany April 15 - Jazzfruhling Festival - Freiberg, Germany April 16 - Posthof - Linz, Austria May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB February 28 - Purcell Room - London, UK (record release show) March 2 - The Harley - Sheffield, UK March 3 - The Spin Off - Leeds, UK March 4 – The Kazimier - Liverpool, UK March 5 - Voodoo Rooms - Edinburgh, UK March 6 - Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, Scotland, UK March 9 - Dempsey's - Cardiff, Wales, UK March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 04 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS March 3 - Cite de la Musique - Paris, France (with Pascal Comelade) March 8 - Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris - Paris, France (lecture about metallic music and Deleuze) April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming PLANETA IMAGINARIO March 16 - Paraninfo de la Universidad de Malaga - Malaga, Spain - 21:00 March 17 - Chubby Cheek - Jaen, Spain March 18 - Cosmo's Factory - Cabezas de San Juan - Sevilla, Spain March 19 - Classi Jazz - Almeria, Spain POSITIVE CATASTROPHE November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE February 27 - Chianti Tuscan Restaurant - 285 Cabot Street - Beverly, MA 01915 May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with Danny Sher Quintet) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with TBA) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 24 - Open Lot - 1307 Jewell Street, Nashville, TN 37207 - (with TBA) March 26 - The Phoenix Project - 406 S. Haskell, Dallas, TX - (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with TBA) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - venue tbc - St. Louis, MO April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and TBA) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - Bernie's Distillery - 1896 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43201 - (614) 291-3448 (with Kuan, TBA) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with TBA) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Gutbucket November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Radio Massacre International November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - November 29 - November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Upsilon Acrux Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp179.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: John Abercrombie & Greg Osby-Solos NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 "Guitarist John Abercrombie combines bop and free jazz stylistic elements with electronics utilizing phase shifters, guitar synthesizers and the good old volume pedal. What has kept his playing fresh is his refusal to be chained to these digital devices. Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator Greg Osby has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups for the past 20 years. Highly regarded for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and performance, Osby is a shining beacon among the current generation of jazz musicians." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. & Stearica-Stearica Invade Acid Mothers Temple $21.00 "The long-anticipated collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. & Stearica. In November 2008 AMT and Stearica toured extensively around Europe. Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a legendary Japanese psychedelic band founded in 1995 by members of the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective and have a reputation for phenomenal live shows and releasing frequent albums on a number of international record labels. Stearica lives a rare story for an Italian band, made of international collaborations with artists like Dälek (Ipecac), Amy Denio (Fred Frith, Derek Bailey), Jessica Lurie (Bill Frisell, Nels Cline), Nick Storring (Damo Suzuki network, Picastro). This record is a picture which was shot on the 32th day of AMT and Stearica European tour 2008." [Homeopathic] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Alamaailman Vasarat-Haudasta Lomilla PAL (all region) DVD $18.00 Back in stock! Great to see such an ambitious DVD project from a truly excellent but not so well known group. Their sound is sort of an odd combination of hyper-charged klezmer/polka performed with metallic ferocity and with a slightly sinister air ala Univers Zero's 1313, with great fuzz-cello work imitating electric guitars. As it sez on their hype sheet: "The live DVD to them them all - Five hour hammer feast!" In addition to tons of live footage, there are also the films that they have done soundtracks to - some of which are fantastically twisted things. If you are remotely a fan, you absolutely need this. "For years, our fans have been asking for live versions of our songs. After several years in the making, our answer is ready, behold Haudasta lomilla ("On vacation from the grave"), the live DVD to end them all! This high quality release has hours of live footage from various gigs in Finland and abroad, topped off with plenty of goodies like our legendary music videos, short films and documentaries - a five hour hammer feast! Live footage spans the band's history almost seven years and totals almost four hours. Starting from our legendary performance at Helsinki Festival in 2003 all the way to recent energetic club fiesta at Dubrovnik, Helsinki on New Year's Eve 2009, where we also performed most of the songs from the latest album Huuro Kolkko. Additionally, there are concert hall performances, festivals and club gigs from Finland, Japan, Mexico and Denmark. The variety of venues portraits the band's uncanny ability to change the mood of the songs to fit the feel of the audience. In concert halls, we are quiet as a dead man's whisper, but blasting away with raw energy just after. Clubs gigs see people dancing polka in odd time signatures and festival gigs combine all that in multi-energetic soup that will only end up in total world music disorder. Be prepared to find interesting versions of our songs, many of them evolved into whole new directions, blending threatre and music into visual experience studio albums cannot offer. The sound is always raw, in-your-face and intentionally unpolished, just like live music was always meant to be. To complement the impressive set of live songs, we have gathered our past music videos under a separate section. Here you can find the legendary "Helsinki-Istanbul" 8mm b&w flick Kebab tai henki!, the whole Violence Trilogy shot in Prague, Siltojen alla shot in Arctic Sea far up Norway and a new one, never before seen Eläimet huutaa (intro) from the album Maahan, also an 8mm b&w shortie, shot in China. In addition to all this, the DVD contains a lot of interesting extras. One of the most interesting is the 28-minute puppet animation Elukka ("Animal"), for which the band did the soundtrack for in 2005 and which consequently won the award for best music in French film festival Premiers Plans in 2005. This is your chance to enjoy the whole film and our music in it, truly a magnificent, darkly humorous lycanthropic experience! And it won't stop here - you might be interested in finding out how the band works behind the scenes. 15 minute document from Tuscany, Italy, where the band gathered up to record the album Huuro Kolkko in the autumn of 2008, will reveal some of our secrets - like how to build a fully working sauna on the hill using only modest local supplies and Finnish imagination! The same trip produced also a horror movie with a homage to best Italian horror cinema - a carnivorous zombie shortie called Il Carne Bellissimo, starred by the band members themselves. The extra section is concluded by our encounter with extra-terrestial forces in Puebla, Mexico in 2009. Only the huge sombreros saved the band form burning up during an alien invasion attempt beside the the old pyramid! All your favourite songs presented in their rawest form, timeless music videos and quality extras - a huge package, true collection item and a perfect companion to our studio releases!" [Laskeuma] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Aurora Project-Shadow Border $7.00 (special) "Shadow Border is the second album from Dutch progressive rock band The Aurora Project. Their 2005 debut, Unspoken Words, brought them much acclaim in the worldwide progressive rock community. The band has twice been invited to perform at the prestigious ProgPower Europe festival in Baarlo, Netherlands. After the demise of their record label, the band signed with The Laser’s Edge in 2008. TAP creates atmospheric progressive rock with a metallic edge – this is contemporary music for a forward thinking audience. Liquid keyboard solos duel with heavy, crunch filled guitar riffs. Vocals take a theatrical approach ultimately reminding us that this is after all a prog band. Their ability to skillfully blur the fine line between prog rock and metal creates strong crossover potential that will find The Aurora Project appealing to fans of Riverside, Rush, Arena and Porcupine Tree." [Laser's Edge] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Baker Gurvitz Army-Live 1975 NTSC (all region) DVD $16.00 The great onslaught of fantastic quality Ginger Baker-related DVD releases continues with this one. "The Baker Gurvitz Army came into existence when former Gun and Three man Army members Paul and Adrian Gurvitz joined forces with legendary drummer Ginger Baker in 1974. The Baker Gurvitz Army was the first real musical project for Ginger Baker since the short-lived band Salt in 1972 and Ginger Baker's Airforce some two years prior to that. This live recording was filmed in a German television studio in early February 1975 for broadcast. The band were at that time promoting their second album Elysian Encounter. The total playing time of this unique studio based film runs to over sixty minutes and follows the bands set list of the period drawing on tracks from both of the bands then available albums, the self titled Baker Gurvitz Army and Elysian Encounter and the studio date followed a brief UK tour which would continue in March in mainland Europe." [Gonzo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Bondage Fruit-Bondage Fruit $17.00 Back in stock! Bondage Fruit, led by guitarist Kido Natsuki, who also plays in Korekyojinn, were part of the Japanese Zeuhl explosion of the early 1990's, along with Koenjihyakkei and Happy Family, and this is somewhat similar to these bands and similarly good! The band here includes violin, bass, drums, vibes/marimba and two female vocalists. A great album. Highly recommended. [Mabo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Faust-Something Dirty $18.00 "Faust has been around for over 40 years. Since 2007, the line-up of the Krautrock legends has comprised founding members Jean-HervÈ Peron and Zappi Diermaier, the English musician James Johnston, founder of the brutish blues rockers Gallon Drunk and long-standing member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, plus the English painter, filmmaker, author and musician Geraldine Swayne. On Something Dirty, the creativity and musical ideas of these four personalities coalesce into a perfect symbiosis of sound. It is at once hypnotic, repetitive, melodic, exhilarating, psychedelic, menacing, Dadaist and ethereal. Johnston's guitar saws its way through Diermaier's archaic beats, harmonically enriched by Peron's powerful bass and Swayne's psychedelic keyboards. Time and again, Faust revisits their avant-garde roots, experimenting with voices and unusual instruments. (A flamethrower and goat hooves can be detected in their arsenal of sonic sources.) Best of all, however, Faust have succeeded in reproducing the raw energy and roughness of their live performances on Something Dirty. Breathtaking stuff! "There is no group more mythical than Faust." Thus wrote English musician and eccentric Julian Cope. Which says it all really, neither the habitus nor the music of the six-piece Hamburg group was easy to grasp. While some lauded Faust as the best thing that ever happened to rock, others dismissed them as shameless dilettantes. Their collage of Dadaism, avant-garde rock and free improvisation radically divided opinion. When the first LP was unleashed on the world in 1971, Faust were very much the prophet in his own land, as the saying goes: few were interested in listening to their music -- in Germany. Not so across the Channel: this is where Faust's career really kick-started. These monoliths of avant-garde rock sold 100,000 copies of their album The Faust Tapes. Exactly 40 years after their debut, Faust has come up with another archetypical album: inspiring, innovative, unpredictable, anarchic and Faustian. (Something Dirty is a definitive milestone in the long history of this world-famous musical institution from Hamburg." [Bureau B] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Faust-Something Dirty vinyl lp includes download card (due to size and weight, this is for sale in the USA only) $18.00 "Faust has been around for over 40 years. Since 2007, the line-up of the Krautrock legends has comprised founding members Jean-HervÈ Peron and Zappi Diermaier, the English musician James Johnston, founder of the brutish blues rockers Gallon Drunk and long-standing member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, plus the English painter, filmmaker, author and musician Geraldine Swayne. On Something Dirty, the creativity and musical ideas of these four personalities coalesce into a perfect symbiosis of sound. It is at once hypnotic, repetitive, melodic, exhilarating, psychedelic, menacing, Dadaist and ethereal. Johnston's guitar saws its way through Diermaier's archaic beats, harmonically enriched by Peron's powerful bass and Swayne's psychedelic keyboards. Time and again, Faust revisits their avant-garde roots, experimenting with voices and unusual instruments. (A flamethrower and goat hooves can be detected in their arsenal of sonic sources.) Best of all, however, Faust have succeeded in reproducing the raw energy and roughness of their live performances on Something Dirty. Breathtaking stuff! "There is no group more mythical than Faust." Thus wrote English musician and eccentric Julian Cope. Which says it all really, neither the habitus nor the music of the six-piece Hamburg group was easy to grasp. While some lauded Faust as the best thing that ever happened to rock, others dismissed them as shameless dilettantes. Their collage of Dadaism, avant-garde rock and free improvisation radically divided opinion. When the first LP was unleashed on the world in 1971, Faust were very much the prophet in his own land, as the saying goes: few were interested in listening to their music -- in Germany. Not so across the Channel: this is where Faust's career really kick-started. These monoliths of avant-garde rock sold 100,000 copies of their album The Faust Tapes. Exactly 40 years after their debut, Faust has come up with another archetypical album: inspiring, innovative, unpredictable, anarchic and Faustian. (Something Dirty is a definitive milestone in the long history of this world-famous musical institution from Hamburg." [Bureau B] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Henry Flynt-Graduation and Other New Country and Blues Music $6.00 (special) Back in stock! "Henry Flynt - philosopher, student of Pran Nath, a central figure in the early propaganda actions of the George Maciunas led Fluxus activities in the early 60s, four time sit in performer with the Velvet Underground, author of Blueprint For a Higher Civilization and various spirited broadsides against Stockhausen, 12 tone music, and the cultural dominion of European art -- presents us with Graduation some 21 years after its originally scheduled (and scrapped) release. Graduation is the culmination of several years of solo exploration and chance ensemble opportunities to realize his own personal vision of an avant-hillbilly American ethnic music cast out of the mixed up mold of Indian classical, bluegrass, funk, blues, and psychedelia. The result is a perfectly realized trucking and trancing outsider sound world. From the alternately twisted and comical political anthem of the opening title track, Pran Nath influenced vocal stylings, to the winsome hillbilly, cowboy raga, steel city boogie on the succeeding 6 group instrumentals, it is only too clear that Graduation has as much to do with classic southern jam rock as it does with the minimalism of downtown New York drone luminary, and Flynt ally, La Monte Young. The record takes a sudden turn on the album closer with the nearly 20 minute illuminatory audio program Celestial Power, an elemental, laid back head trip comprised of oscillating vibrato guitar churns that instantly monopolize your ears and spirit and bring you to a natural high. The nearly 80 minute collection was remastered from the original tapes, and features two classic photos of Flynt by the acclaimed photographer Peter Moore and updated track notes by Flynt." [Ampersand] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Erik Friedlander-Solos NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 "Erik Friedlander has always worked to stake out new ground for the cello in both his compositional choices and his dynamic improvising style. His music blends his vision of what the cello can be pushed to do, while maintaining a firm grasp on traditions, both improvising and classical. In this special set of solos performances, Erik shows why he is considered one of music's most creative and progressive instrumentalists. Please enjoy the music of Erik Friedlander on SOLOS: the jazz sessions." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gong-Gong is Dead, Long Live Gong $6.00 (special) No, this isn't the reunion show album, this is a compilation of 14 tracks taken from prime-period Daevid Allen-led Gong, from Camembert Electrique through Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg and You. Stupid cheap price if you want to sample this great 70s space rock/progressive rock band. [MS] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Harald Grosskopf-Synthesist/Re- "Synthesist, the landmark 1980 solo album by Harald Grosskopf, the enigmatic percussionist behind Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Cosmic Jokers, and YOU. A melodically rich and celebratory symbiosis of krautrock, kosmische, and new age, restored and remastered for RVNG Intl's debut reissue. Includes a bonus album compilation CD Re-Synthesist, featuring reinterpretations of Synthesist by Oneohtrix Point Never, Blondes, Arp, CFCF, Stellar Om Source, James Ferraro and more. The Synthesist LP comes in a deluxe package including a unique reverse-bound record jacket and full-color liner notes in English and German." [RVNG INTL] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ King Crimson-Red: 40th Anniversary CD + DVD (expanded/remixed/remastered) $24.00 Back in stock once more. It comes in - it shoots out. That's because it's quite wonderful! This is the new-new version of Red, newly remixed by Steven Wilson with lots and lots of new things. The CD has the original album as you remember it (although newly remastered) with three extra tracks: pre-overdub versions of Red and Fallen Angel + the entire version of Providence. The DVD has a lot of material, but I think the most important thing is the previously unreleased and great French TV performance of four tracks from 1974, which look fantastic given the age of the video. There is very little footage of the pre-80s band; this 25' chunk is the largest amount known to exist! If you weren't sure whether or not to buy this, imo, the live footage alone makes it a worthwhile purchase. The album is mixed onto 5.1 and there are lots of options for the audio playback in terms of sampling rates, etc. This has new notes by Robert Fripp and King Crimson expert Sid Smith.[DGM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Lebowski-Cinematic $13.00 Kind of a funny name for the group who released this very aptly named release. This is wide-screen, technicolor postrock/progressive rock from imaginary films. You can definitely hear at its roots the spacier side of Pink Floyd, as well as other groups both 'prog' and 'post', such as GYBE or Riverside who use that sound as a basis for a modern sound. Very nice and very promising for a 1st release. [Leb] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jean Louis-Morse $18.00 Back in stock! The second album by this great, surprising, energetic, unknown and totally great French trio. Why did they choose the name "Jean Louis", when no one in the band has that name? I can't tell you. I can tell you that the band consists of Aymeric Avice : trumpet, slide trumpet, Joachim Florent : double bass, guitar, Francesco Pastacaldi : drums, and Aymeric uses many boxes and devices on his horn, giving him a sound way, way beyond a trumpet/bass/drums trio sound - veering into smeary electronics with tasteful noise elements added, while Joachim and and Francesco play a hard-driving beat that still remains 'jazz'. Is it jazz? Is it jazz-rock? Is it electronica-jazz? I dunno, but it stomps and rocks and swings and takes no prisoners and you should definitely check it out. Their first album was one of the great 'out of nowhere' releases of the last few years and this second is possibly even better and adds some new elements to the mix. This comes in a great package; a little, silk-screened metal film cannister, ala PIL's "Metal Box", but CD-sized! Highly recommended. You can hear their music here:http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Kuhn Brothers and the Mad Rockers-The Kuhn Brothers and the Mad Rockers vinyl lp (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) $20.00 Rolf and Joachim Kuhn in an early jazz-meets-rock thingy, with Volker Kriedgel, Günter Lenz and Stu Martin. "Experienced jazz avant gardists Joachim and Rolf Kühn joined forces with Volker Kriegel, Gunter Lenz and Stu Martin to release this superb mixture of Krautrock, psych, funk and free jazz. With all kind of sound effects coming from distorted clarinets, Hammond organ, groovy bass/drums section, breaks and hot guitar licks The Mad Rockers paved the way for many Krautrockers to follow. Reissued in vinyl for the first time since its 1969 debut on the Metronome label, this is a basic record to showcase the rich mixture of different styles that would make the '70s German music scene so unique and appealing. The Kühn Brothers, Rolf and Joachim, were at first reluctant to the reissue of this amazing LP. They are highly trained musicians with a huge experience and a big sense of innovation and they felt they have many works which are much better than this one, which undoubtedly they do have since they started being really young and are still at it nowadays, but here at Wah Wah we do feel The Mad Rockers album is a landmark in krautrock story, since it anticipates the path that would be travelled by so many legendary krautsters of the seventies. Everything is there, the adventurous mixture of styles so diverse as psychedelic rock, jazz, funk... You name it, you find it. Plenty of excellent breaks, experimental in the quest for new sounds, with instruments run through distortion effects, the musicians involved are all key figures in the development of modern European of its era. You have Volker Kriegel, who besides his own solo recordings shall also be remembered for his great contributions to Dave Pike Set's classic albums or his work with Klaus Doldinger. There is Stu Martin, drummer also on other interesting projects like The Free Pop Experimental Concept also reissued on Wah Wah. Plus Günter Lenz on bass, jazz master who has worked among others with names like Krzysztof Komeda, Lighting Hopkins, Chet Baker, Coleman Hawkins or Olivier Nelson, and he has even done orchestral arrangements for Plácido Domingo! Jazz meets rock, funk and psych, absolutely amazing groovy LP" [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Steve MacLean Ensemble-GPS $15.00 "Careful compositions converse with focused improvisations under the precise direction of Steve MacLean who, on this CD, after various excursions that took him through experimental works for piano, interactive insect/guitar compositions and pure electronics, returns to a performing band and a journey through complex polyrhythmic compositions imaginatively intercut with careful, atmospheric inventions, for guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and various objects. There is a quiet rigour, almost a formality, about this release, quite unusual in modern electric music - the compositions, which follow the remarkable parallel-metre style pioneered in his under-rated classic ‘Opposite of War’, are almost understated and, throughout, overproduction is strenuously avoided so that the recordings can concentrate on the human scale of the performances. The improvisations, too, don’t strive for effect, the players concerning themselves exclusively with structure and content. In other words, this is a solid, almost old-fashioned, unashamedly musical, record that celebrates distinctive compositions, high performance values and imaginative playing. Steve MacLean is a full-time professor at Berkelee - and his musical output has to work around that. The present CD was made in a rare free summer, at his home on the ocean, and the location, he says, was the direct inspiration for much of what is heard here: 'These months were the happy days of summer and that way of life is reflected in the melodic lightness and harmony of the pieces. It is also the first recording in many years in which I’ve been able to capture the full extent of my electronic guitar rig - including synthesizers, samplers, extensive processing and preparation techniques….helpful for mixing, since we were often tracking as many as 6 or 8 distinctly separate signals from the guitar alone.’ All the recordings were completed in 2 days, played directly and integrally and without overdubbing." [ReR] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Nought-Nought $9.00 Back in stock! "Nought are a band band i first saw supporting the fall they ensued a battering ram assault on the senses quite simply the guitarist is a genius. Technical, creative and inexorably masterful and these compositions showcase just that." When I saw Guapo play at NearFest, I met their new bassist James Sedwards. He handed me this record and asked me to listen to it. So I did and I liked it a lot! This is James' project and here he plays guitars, piano, organ, bass and percussion and he is joined by 11 other musicians on bass, cello, clarinet, keyboards, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, bassoon & percussion!! This is instrumental music with a huge expansive sound that could be considered to fall into the category of 'post-rock', but it does a lot more than your typical Godspeed album! Recommended, especially at this price!! "Formed in March 1996 out of a common desire for improvisation, originality and a love for the classic music of the 20th Century - Miles Davis, Steve Reich, Sonic Youth, Philip Glass, Stravinsky, Glenn Branca, Nation of Ulysses, John Coltrane & The Fall - Nøught have warped the conceived boundaries between rock, jazz and the avant garde and welded a jet engine to Oxford's already musical rollercoaster ride. File under instrumental/new classical/progressive rock." http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Michael Nyman & Motion Trio-Acoustic Accordions $15.00 I've been a big fan of 'minimalist' composer Michael Nyman since seeing him and his ensemble in 1977. He has a very distinctive voice as a composer, even though he is obviously influenced by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich; you know, the usual suspects. On one hand, I think he is tremendously under-recorded and under-rated on record. On the other hand, a lot of people have heard his music, since it's the soundtrack for many of crazy cult-filmaker Peter Greenaway's films. Accordions are a great instrument for his insistant, pulsing music and this is a fine addition to a collection of his works, or a great place to start. Highly recommended! [MNR] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Barre Phillips/Catherine Jauniaux/Malcolm Goldstein-Birds Abide $14.00 "The next set my favorite one of the entire fest, it featured Barre Phillips on acoustic bass, Catherine Jauniaux on voice and Malcolm Goldstein on violin. This set was completely acoustic and didn't really employ any extended techniques yet it was completely successful nonetheless. It was most magical and flowed organically. Barre Phillips has long been one of my favorite contrabassists, ever since hearing the (John Surman) Trio albums from 1970, as well as dozens of albums after that. Mr. Phillips also played a superb solo set here at DMG earlier this year (2010) & I was honored to have him. Catherine Jauniaux is an old friend who I recall so well from her days in NY when she was married to the late Tom Cora. She has long been one of my favorite vocalists and is sadly under-recorded. She did make a fine trio disc with Barre & Ned Rothenberg last year, but it was her first in a long while. Malcolm Goldstein is more known as a composer, but it turns out that he is a great improvising violinist as well. I've only heard him live once & that was twenty years ago. For me, this was the perfect trio, with Malcolm on the high end, Barre on the low end and Catherine somewhere in the middle with her immensely charming voice & presence. Catherine's range goes from Edith Piaf-like vocal sounds to quirky bird-like bits. I kept thinking that this trio is perfect, communicating on a high level and taking us with them on an inner journey that only our fearless fellow travelers could do."-Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery - taken from BLG's 2010 Victo Fest review [Victo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Les Rallizes Denudes-Great White Wonder 4 x CD box set $60.00 "Les Rallizes are the godfathers of artists such as High Rise, Kousokuya, Acid Mothers Temple and Keiji Haino. Originally released in 2006 on the Univive label, Phoenix Records presents this highly-collectable, numbered limited edition 4CD box set of three live gigs spanning 1974-1977 and one bonus disc of live material from a 1980 gig of legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Dénudés. The group was formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. As news of new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA -- mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import -- something was lost in translation in Japan that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Rallizes took rock music at its word while envisioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so, they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. It's a music that's as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. Digitally remastered. Includes a booklet with liner notes." "Has a one way trip to the heart of darkness ever been made in a more handsome jalopy?"-Julian Cope, Japrocksampler [Phoenix] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Relogios de Frederico-Faskner $18.00 The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this, their third album, is widely considered to be their best by fans of avant-progressive rock. All instrumental, this features crazy rhythms, interesting ideas, great solos and a sound that reminds me a lot in some ways (just *some*; they aren't a copy band) of late period Etron Fou. Start here and be thrilled and if you love this as much as I do, you'll probably also want their others, even if they aren't as immediately entrancing. This one is highly recommended! [CFD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Relogios de Frederico-Chumbo Grosso $18.00 The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this was their second album, released in 2003. This was has a lot of vocals over a complex music network, but there's also a lot of instrumental passages, where they strut their stuff. [CFD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Relogios de Frederico-Quatro Centesimos de Semitom $18.00 The Brazilian band Relogios de Frederico (The Clocks of Frederico) has been in existence since 1998. A septet who are very complex and unique, this is their first album, released in 2000. Lots of vocals on top of really complex music; this is very different than Faskner, but it's really fantastic as well. They definitely have a unique voice. The official hype says, " like Gentle Giant signing Arrigo Barnabé' s music." [CFD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Terry & Gyan Riley-Live $17.00 Terry Riley, piano and vocals; Gyan Riley, classical and electric guitars, harmony vocals on "Emerald Runner." "Nothing I have done in this life has given me more satisfaction than improvising on these songs with Gyan. Nothing I have done can match the intuitive synchronicity we have shared many times on the stage. Gyan supplies a brilliant counterpoint to the strands and moods of these pieces always surprising me with a virtuosity that serves and energizes his musical invention. I could not have dreamed up a better marriage of mind and spirit than this collaboration."-Terry Riley "Being able to perform with my dad has been without question the most enriching, challenging, inspirational musical experience I've had. His music is bountiful! I love the rich harmonies, the colorful lyrics, the subtle pitch inflections (stemming from his long-time devotion to the North Indian kirana tradition), and the lengthy and often complex partially improvised structures. But I think the most unique musical quality about my dad is his ability to get deeper and deeper into the mood of a piece, leaving all other concerns behind, transcending the listener. We've been talking about making a record together for years, but each time we plan to record we just end up mostly cooking and hanging out, and playing of course (we just forget to press record!). So we decided on this live release, featuring some of our favorite moments from 3 different concerts given over the last 7 years."- Gyan Riley [Sri Moonshine] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Matthew Shipp-Solos NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 "With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp worked and recorded vigorously during the 1990s, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine. He first became known in the early '90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and soon began leading his own dates - most often including Ware bandmate, leading bassist William Parker - and recording a number of duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell to violinist Mat Maneri, who began appearing on recordings in the 1990s. Through his range of live and recorded performances, and unswerving individual development, Shipp came to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music by the decade's close." [MVD] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sun Ra-Space Probe $17.00 "A transition classic. Recorded mostly in the early ‘60s with Ra, Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, James Jacson, Nimrod Hunt and Thea Barbara, Space Probe explores stripped back forms and colour combinations that are far from jazz – or that attempt, very successfully, to take jazz into wholly new territories. Especially notable is the extraordinary Conversation Of J.P. for piano and percussion which, along with the opening track - an 18-minute Moog solo, probably recorded in 1970, just after Ra had newly acquired the instrument and was still putting it through its paces - make this an essential release in the Ra canon. As a whole, there is an impressive palette of ideas and experiments here, situating Ra at the heart of the musical revolution that was overturning orthodoxies in every field of musical endeavour at this time. The title track is notable as documenting Ra's early exploration (his first released) of the unworldly potential of a newly-acquired Mini-Moog –a prototype, in fact, given him by Robert Moog to test. Moog always claimed afterwards that he never understood exactly where some of those sounds came from – suspecting he (Ra) might have modified the instrument in some way."-Chris Cutler [Art Yard] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Henry Threadgill Zooid-This Brings Us To, Volume II $14.00 Back in stock! "A year ago Pi Recordings released the first new Henry Threadgill recording since 2001: This Brings Us To, Volume I. This is the second release from the same recording sessions of November 2008. Threadgill's Zooid band is a quintet, with Liberty Ellman on acoustic guitar, Jose Davila on trombone and tuba, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums, with Henry alternating between flute and alto sax. Volume II (about 44 minutes long) was again mixed by Liberty Ellman, in June 2010, and mastered by Steve Fallone. This is a tight unit, and they only entered the studio after extensive live touring with these compositions. The liner notes on the Pi Recordings website, explain that Threadgill has developed a new system of improvisation since his last recordings in 2001: "[t]he compositions are organized along a series of interval blocks comprised of three notes, each of which is assigned to a musician, who is free to move around within these intervals, improvising melodies and creating counterpoint to one another." This is something the listener can use in order to hear the parameters of the compositions, but in any event one has only to hear the record to immediately recognize Threadgill's sound world. The music is rhythmically propulsive and tight in the way that only a band that has played together for years can achieve. Threadgill has been mining the same distinctive sound for 30 years now, and it is still a rich vein. Threadgill's Air trio of the '70s, which came out of Chicago's AACM, explored the intersection of composition and free improv. The Sextett of the '80s and Very Very Circus of the '90s (with twin guitars and tubas!) both featured complex compositions that emphasized unusual textures, and utilized a dark, minor key harmonic palette, and the 2008 Zooid THIS BRINGS US TO sessions do not mark a sharp stylistic departure. There is improvisation, but it is tightly constrained, as described above. Threadgill has never been known primarily as a virtuoso alto soloist, rather his strength is as a composer and arranger. He utilizes rhythmic structures from Jellyroll Morton, sophisticated counterpoint, and subtle harmonic shifts that do not resolve. The return of Henry Threadgill is one of the great events of jazz/improv of 2009 and 2010, with much of his back catalog reissued in addition to these new recordings. If you are new to his music, you are in for a pleasant surprise, and if you are a long-time listener like me, you know what to expect -- the best!"-R. Hutchinson [Pi Recordings] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Iannis Xenakis-Pleiades $10.00 "Midline priced reissue of this classic: Pleiades is a percussion piece performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg (vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones, etc.); richly defined, timeless music that will sound good for the rest of your life." "The whole source of this polyrhythmic composition is the idea of periodicity, repetition, duplication, faithful, pseudo-faithful, unfaithful copy... still greater variations of an even greater complexity, due to the hazards of a particular stochastic distribution, lead to total rhythm, to a massy awareness of the event, to notions of clouds, nebulas, galaxies of the fragmented dust of beats organized by the rhythm."-Xenakis [Musique D'Abord] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): LED BIB http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ http://findarticles.com/p/ http://hemulism.wordpress.com/ THE MICROSCOPIC SEPTET (cool interview/overview) http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Stre CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 ERGO March 5 - One Thousand Pulses - 9 Edward Place - Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 - 8:00 pm GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) June 25 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET February 23 - Le Poisson Rouge - NYC, NY (NYC record release show!) - 7:00 pm April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7-21 – European CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB February 28 - Purcell Room - London, UK (record release show) March 2 - The Harley - Sheffield, UK March 3 - The Spin Off - Leeds, UK March 4 – The Kazimier - Liverpool, UK March 5 - Voodoo Rooms - Edinburgh, UK March 6 - Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, Scotland, UK March 9 - Dempsey's - Cardiff, Wales, UK March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 04 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS March 3 - Cite de la Musique - Paris, France (with Pascal Comelade) March 8 - Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris - Paris, France (lecture about metallic music and Deleuze) April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come May 20 - F.I.M.A.V - Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada (with Wolf Eyes and Merzbow!) May 25 and afterwards - USA tour - tba - details coming PLANETA IMAGINARIO March 16 - Paraninfo de la Universidad de Malaga - Malaga, Spain - 21:00 March 17 - Chubby Cheek - Jaen, Spain March 18 - Cosmo's Factory - Cabezas de San Juan - Sevilla, Spain March 19 - Classi Jazz - Almeria, Spain POSITIVE CATASTROPHE February 19 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson St. - NYC, NY - 3:30 pm workshop, 5:00 pm open rehearsal, 9:00 and 10:30 pm performance November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE February 27 - Chianti Tuscan Restaurant - 285 Cabot Street - Beverly, MA 01915 March 1 - The Plough & Stars - 912 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 - (617) 576-0032 - 10:00 pm May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with TBA) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with TBA) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 24 - Open Lot - 1307 Jewell Street, Nashville, TN 37207 - (with TBA) March 25 - La Lucha Space - 2035 Prince St., Conway, AR - (with TBA) March 26 - The Phoenix Project - 406 S. Haskell, Dallas, TX - (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with TBA) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 8 - venue tbc - St. Louis, MO April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Ave. #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and TBA) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 12 - venue tbc - Columbus, OH April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with TBA) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Gutbucket November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Radio Massacre International November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - November 29 - November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Upsilon Acrux Also: Since there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ Rest in Peace: GEORGE SHEARING (Composer and pianist who popularized a tuneful form of bebop and who composed the classic standard "Lullabye of Birdland" among other modern standards) ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp68.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: A Technicolor Dream NTSC (all region) DVD $5.00 An astonishly low price on this very interesting documentary about the early psychedelic era in London, which features an emphasis on the UFO Club and Pink Floyd. In addition to extremely interesting interviews and archival footage with many of the important protaganists (including performances) you get extremely high quality video of 2 of Floyd's promo films from 1967 (The Scarecrow and Arnold Layne) as well as the amazing "The Look of the Week" footage of the group performing Astronomy Domine - yes the entire song! - which is the by far the best video footage of the group with Syd (unfortunately they have edited out critic Hans Keller "who vants to know vhy it must be so loud")! Conditionally highly recommended. "A Technicolor Dream is the story of the Underground movement in the UK during the sixties and leads up to its culmination at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, an all night "musical happening" that was held at Alexandra Palace on April 29, 1967. The story takes in CND marches in the early sixties, the foundation of the London Free School and from that the International Times, the UFO Club and the Notting Hill Carnival. There are brand new interviews with Roger Waters and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd, John "Hoppy" Hopkins, Joe Boyd, Kevin Ayers, Barry Miles, Arthur Brown, Phil May from The Pretty Things and many more. All of this is set in a musical context with the music of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd." [Eagle] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Ginger Baker & African Friends-Live in Berlin Germany 1978 $9.00 (special) This is basically Ginger with Fela's drum section when Fela and Africa 70 left Africa for the 1st time to play in Europe at the Berliner Jazztage. "2010 live archive release from the British musician and friends. In November 1978 after a short period setting up his own Polo Club, Ginger found himself in Berlin for a concert with his old friend Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Africa 70 at the Berlin Jazzfest. The tracks contained on this album are a magnificent blend of styles and one which went down exceedingly well with the audience. Although best described as a jam, the music is never boring or self indulgent. This high quality recording is a fine testament to the pairing of Fela and Africa 70 and Ginger Baker and captures a real moment in time where the language is music and the currency is virtuosity." [Voiceprint] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band-40th Anniversary Celebration NTSC (all region) DVD $9.00 (special) Features original members Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater, Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, Sam Spoons, Bob Kerr and 'Legs' Larry Smith + four guests to fill in/cover for Viv Stanshall! "2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of My Brother Makes The Noises For the Talkies, the first record by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. On January 28th 2006 Classic Rock Productions Ltd presented a very special evening celebrating the music and achievements of the legendary Bonzos. For the first time since the group broke up in the early seventies, a British stage once again resounded to the inspired flights of lunacy of the Bonzos favourites performed live. It was an evening dedicated to the surreal stage presentation of the highlights of the music of the Bonzos, including all the hits, which have built a lasting musical legacy." "This a damned fine performance all round, and with excellent camerawork to compliment the superb and dynamic audio (in Dolby stereo and true Dolby Digital & DTS 5.1 surround). Neil Innes clearly made every effort to be sure that this historic occasion would be recorded with all possible attention to detail....Stephen Fry has a jolly time doing a few key numbers in his stylish lyrical spoken word - nailing the very complex rap of "Rhinocratic Oaths" with aplomb, and adding his trademark touch of class to "Sport (The Odd Boy)" and "The Sound of Music". Adrian Edmondson is spectacular in "The Strain" and does a great job with "My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe", "Tent" and "Mr Slater's Parrot". The dynamic nature of their late frontman Vivian Stanshall is proven in that four highly talented and very different artists have been enlisted to take his role in this gala. The original Bonzo band members all present with gusto and inventiveness. It's also a very gay-friendly show, with "Legs" Larry Smith and Dudley Vernon Bohey Nowell proudly showing their style. The late Vivian Stanshall and Denis Cowan were given a one minute's cacophony as a tribute at the start of the show. I was 13 when I first heard the Bonzo Dog Band - as "I'm The Urban Spaceman" lingered in the Top40. It's still my favourite 45rpm single. In my early 20's I was introduced to the rest of their work and was blown away. I am very grateful (privileged in fact) that the band made the big effort to do this DVD."-John Frame [Classic Rock] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Companyia Electrica Dharma-Diumenge $15.00 The first and one of the best by this Spanish quintet who use elements of Catalan folk music mixed in with their jazz/rock fusion leanings. This is from 1975 and features electric and Spanish guitar, Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano and moog, soprano sax, bass and drums. A band I had long heard of, but had never heard, this is a really nice work that will please fusion/progressive fans, especially those looking for a band who put a unique spin on the sound. [PDI] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Companyia Electrica Dharma-L'Oucomballa $15.00 The second and one of the best by this Spanish quintet who use elements of Catalan folk music mixed in with their jazz/rock fusion sound. This is from 1976 and features electric and Spanish guitar, Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano and moog, soprano sax, bass and drums. A band I had long heard of, but had never heard, this is a really nice work that will please fusion/progressive fans, especially those looking for a band who put a unique spin on the sound. [PDI] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Companyia Electrica Dharma-Tramuntana $15.00 The third by this Spanish quintet who use elements of Catalan folk music mixed in with their jazz/rock fusion sound. This is from 1978 and features electric and Spanish guitar, Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano and moog, soprano sax, bass and drums. [PDI] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Family-Classic Airwaves CDEP $5.00 (special) In the early 1970's, Belgian TV ran a series of 30 minute programs of then- current rock bands, recorded live without an audience in professional lighting and staging. Someone has finally found the original tapes and licensed the masters! This is the audio of the long out of print DVD release "Masters From the Vault". This is a fantastic five song set from one of their greatest periods, circa "Anyway", with Roger Chapman, Rob Townsend, Charlie Whitney, John Weider, and Poli Palmer playing "Dim", "Part of the Load", "Good News - Bad News", "No Mule's Fool" & "The Weaver's Answer". How to explain Family 40 years later? Take a idiosyncratic vocalist, who, like Peter Hammill or Don Van Vliet you either grow to love or hate (Roger Chapman) combine his talents with a standard guitar-led rock format, but add a multi-instrumentalist who plays vibes/piano/flute, a bassist who plays violin, and have a fine guitarist. Stir this wild and creative mix of hard rock and progressive and folk and shake it all up with a lot of thought and experimentation, while still keeping it 'song format' based with almost all of the songs being well under 5 minutes, and you have this great band! Highly recommended. [AL] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ John Hollenbeck/Orchestre National de Jazz-Shut Up and Dance 2 x CDs $28.00 Amazingly great, 2011 release by the very excellent Orchetre National de Jazz, led by Daniel Yvinec, who leads the group into much more interesting and exciting projects than just jazz (don't forget their very great and unique take on Robert Wyatt from a few years ago). This time, they've got a real winner here; this is two albums featuring the (always great and always fascinating) compositions of John Hollenbeck, best known here for his compositions and his drumming with The Claudia Quintet. This is a 10 piece band consisting of two keyboardists , four reeds. trumpet, guitar, bass and drums. As far as I could tell, none of these pieces have appeared elsewhere, making this even more of a must-have. Highly and hugely recommended! [Bee Jazz] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Various Artists-Hur!: Hommage a la musique de Christian Vander 2 x CDs $18.00 (special) On special - $8.00 off the regular price - while they last! Released by the always excellent Soleil Zeuhl label and given who appears on here, you won't be surprised to learn that this is a mostly excellent and very entertaining take on the music of Christian Vander. All tracks previously unreleased and available elsewhere! Appearing here are: Guapo, Setna, Simon Steensland, Forgas Band Phenomena, Jannick Top, Pochataite Malko, Musique Noise, Patrick Gauthier, Klaus Blasquiz, Minimum Vital, Ain Soph, Gerard Prevost, Erik Baron and many more. Well done and huge fun for Magma/Zeuhl fans. [Soleil Zeuhl] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mirasol Colores-La Boqueria $15.00 For whatever reason, Orquestra Mirasol changed their name to Mirasol Colores with this, their third album. This was originally released in 1977, and, like almost all electric jazz/rock in 1977, it's beginning to run a little bit low on steam. There are definitely some mediocre moments here, although at its best, this is as good as the others. Don't start with this one, but if you love the other two, this is still a more than decent album. [Picap] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Orquestra Mirasol-Salsa Catalana $15.00 This was the first album by an excellent Barcelona/Catalan jazz rock band from the early/mid 70s, originally released in 1974. Lots of elements of the great electric jazz of that time period: Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi, Soft Machine (circa Six), Weather Report, but all of it strongly filtered with a warm, Mediterranean sound. Clarinet, flutes, soprano and baritone sax, piano and Fender Rhodes, guitar, bass, drums and pecussion, plus some guests here and there give this a great flowing sound. Ultimately and in keeping with the title, this is a Catalan jazz/rock band who offer us a record of uniquely spiced and flavored electric jazz with a distinctive 'Catalan sauce'. Highly recommended! [Picap] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Orquestra Mirasol-D'oca a Oca i Tira Quet et Toca 2 x CDs $20.00 This was the second album by this excellent Barcelona/Catalan jazz rock band from the early/mid 70s. Originally released in 1975, this was a double album that featured longer tracks than on their first and which allows even more stretching out from the players. Lots of elements of the great electric jazz of that time period: Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi, Soft Machine (circa Six), Weather Report, but all of it strongly filtered with a warm, Mediterranean sound. If you like that sound from that period, this comes highly recommended! [Picap] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Michael Ranta/Mike Lewis/Conny Plank-Mu : very limited edition 2 x CDs in a hardboard box $50.00 This title is now apparently out of print. We got a pretty good restock in, but this time, when they are gone, I think they are gone forever. "The only time this ensemble got together before was for the singular and legendary Wired session recorded in 1970 and published on the Deutsche Grammophon box set Free Improvisation in 1974. The Wired session also included Karl-Heinz Böttner while this release of Mu just has the trio of Ranta, Lewis and Plank. Mu got recorded a few months after the Wired session, in Plank's studio, but never got released strangely enough. Yet it's a true hidden treasure of marvelous minimal psychedelic improvisations with an oriental touch controlled and mixed by 'Diabolis in Musica' Conny Plank. Although the intense recording session ended early in the morning the mixdown was still done straight afterwards of which this is the direct result for MU1, Mu2, and Mu4. For Mu3 Michael Ranta added live percussion to the original tape mix and dedicated it to Mike Lewis. Due to circumstances and moving to different continents they never had the chance to meet again. Previously unreleased studio material from 1970 recorded a few months after the legendary Wired session. Hardboard linen CD box contains 2 CDs and a 28-page booklet with biography text and notes from Michael Ranta (in Dutch, German and English). Edition of 500 copies." Michael Ranta : percussion, guitars and prepared thundersheet Mike Lewis : keyboards, wind instruments and percussion Conny Plank : live electronics, sound control, recording supervision, mix "What a stunning surprise discovery of this obscure ensemble with Michael Ranta, Mike Lewis and Krautrock master Conny Plank. As on the legendary Wired LP on the Free Improvisation box set (Deutsche Grammophon 1974) they created an amazing free form abstraction, a floating resonant and timeless music, similar in many ways to the early experiments of Tangerine Dream but in a world of its own, in all their twisted exotic and melancholy beauty... To be filed under classic Krautrock, a masterpiece!" -Steven Stapleton [Metaphon] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Samla Mammas Manna/Gregory Allan Fitzpatrick-Snorgarnas Symfoni (remastered/Japanese mini-lp sleeve) $19.00 Back in stock! The 1976 collaboration with composer Gregory Allan Fitzpatric. Thi is the hard-to-find missing piece in the Samla puzzle, finally available again! "Delightful cover and music. Composed by Gregory Allan Fitzpatrick and flawlessly played by Samla Mammas Manna, the extraordinary prog-dada-rock combo. Entrancing dances emerge from childhood poetry and occasionally Lars Hollmer scats over the groovy jazz-rocking passages. Not a single dull moment, proving how refined swedish fusion was."-rateyourmusic.com "Wonderfully played, instrumental piano-focused Swedish prog! This is a good SMM album and is a substantially good introduction for newbies to the RIO/Avant genre. however. This is a good album, but not the best from SMM. It is a good starting point for anyone who likes piano-driven instrumental compositions and for RIO in general, but it doesn't have the same masterpiece value of other SMM albums like Maltid or Knossa."-progarchives.com [Arcangelo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Samla Mammas Manna-Maltid (expanded/remastered) Japanese mini-lp sleeve $19.00 Back in stock! Samla Mammas Manna was the original band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer and they were hugely popular in their native Sweden. They blended progressive with bits of folk elements & more. This is an earlier (their second), more overtly "progressive rock" disc, with some great melodies & great playing. Guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. Sometimes it reminded me a little bit of the early Muffins in a more jammy style. Features a bonus track not available anywhere else! http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Samla Mammas Manna-Samla / Zamla box (8 x remastered Japanese mini-lp sleeve albums with bonus tracks in a box) (due to size and weight, this price for the USA and 'possessions' only) $145.00 Back in stock and a giant price drop ($90.00) from the identical first edition This is all five of the original releases by Samla/Zamla (six discs: Samla Mammas Manna, Maltid, Klossas Knapitatet, Schlagerns Mystik/For Aldre Nybegynnare (2 x CDs),Familjesprikor) plus Gregory Allan's collaboration with Samla, Snorungarnas Symfoni, as well as a title by Gregory that as far as I can tell has not personnel ties to Samla at all, but is in here anyway: Bildcirkus. All the discs have been remastered and there are bonus tracks on some of them (usually just 1-2 tracks per disc). I can't imagine that anyone is going to buy this without already knowing who Samla are, but in brief: Samla was founded in 1969 and quickly became one of the cornerstones of the Swedish progressive music scene of the 1970s. They were hugely popular in Scandanavia, toured a great amount and sold lots of records before dissolving in the late 1970s. They are best known for being the first professional band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer, who has released a huge number of solo and 'project' albums (his latest as of this writing is Viandra, which was released by Cuneiform) and for being one of the original five founding bands of the Rock in Opposition (R.I.O.) movement. The music is great and the packaging and generally grooviness of this adorable box and the perfectly reproduced contents is first rate. [Arcangelo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Samla Mammas Manna-Samla / Zamla box (8 x remastered Japanese mini-lp sleeve albums with bonus tracks in a box) (due to size and weight, this price is for outside of the USA and Canada) $155.00 Back in stock and a giant price drop ($90.00) from the identical first edition This is all five of the original releases by Samla/Zamla (six discs: Samla Mammas Manna, Maltid, Klossas Knapitatet, Schlagerns Mystik/For Aldre Nybegynnare (2 x CDs),Familjesprikor) plus Gregory Allan's collaboration with Samla, Snorungarnas Symfoni, as well as a title by Gregory that as far as I can tell has not personnel ties to Samla at all, but is in here anyway: Bildcirkus. All the discs have been remastered and there are bonus tracks on some of them (usually just 1-2 tracks per disc). I can't imagine that anyone is going to buy this without already knowing who Samla are, but in brief: Samla was founded in 1969 and quickly became one of the cornerstones of the Swedish progressive music scene of the 1970s. They were hugely popular in Scandanavia, toured a great amount and sold lots of records before dissolving in the late 1970s. They are best known for being the first professional band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer, who has released a huge number of solo and 'project' albums (his latest as of this writing is Viandra, which was released by Cuneiform) and for being one of the original five founding bands of the Rock in Opposition (R.I.O.) movement. The music is great and the packaging and generally grooviness of this adorable box and the perfectly reproduced contents is first rate. [Arcangelo] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Chuck Van Zyl-Memory Space $12.00 "As host of the STAR'S END radio program, Chuck van Zyl has been quietly pointing out complex connections between musical forms for over 30 years. As organizer of The Gatherings Concert Series his task is to actualize an intimate creative space for innovative musicians and their audience. His photographic artistry is highly personal, rendering images from a range of light invisible to humans. Playing in the duo The Ministry of Inside Things he collaborates with guitarist Art Cohen to produce a unified concert sound out of unique individual influences and innovation. A largely unfamiliar chapter in the creative life of Chuck van Zyl is the area of his own solo music. While two self-titled CDs are credited, after nearly thirty years of music making MemorySpace (73'58") is truly his first album release; as all previous output has been either compilations of early cassette-only titles or in collaboration with other musicians. MemorySpace has not ventured far from his original sound - beginning again from first principles. But now, with such a wider and evolved perspective on music and life, this new music seems more vivid. The past has always conversed with the future, and to portray MemorySpace as strictly "Berlin-School" would be limiting. It is a fresh look at Spacemusic as van Zyl carries the memory of his monumental predecessors' sense of space and mystery all the while forging a distinct authorial voice. Referencing the crystalline sequencer lines of Klaus Schulze's "Crystal Lake", the motorized pulse of Edgar Froese's "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale", warm chords and lilting melodies found on Wunjo by Giles Reaves, The Polar Drones by Erik Wollo and Mountains by Thom Brennan, the music on MemorySpace is extremely comfortable to take in - feeling as if on a long journey to several new moody electronic destinations. The listening experience is episodic, with each of the nine tracks a distinctive aural vignette. From its driving echo patterns skipping beneath full-throated synth leads and crisp arpeggio bells amidst soft flutes, ethereal choirs and potent strings, to its somber thought tones and dark atmospherics, MemorySpace is a mature work - but one where a youthful exuberance may still be heard." [Synronos] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Benoit Widemann-3 $18.00 Back in stock! For the first time ever on CD, taken from the master tapes and even including a short bonus track, this was the third and final solo album by keyboardist Benoit Widemann (Magma), recorded in 1982 and released in 1984. It's a good, solid zeuhl/jazz-rock album featuring piano and analog synthesizers with bass and drums (hence the title "3"). The bassist is either Dominique Bertram or Sylvin Marc and the drummer is either Francois Laizeau (Ghigoul) or Kirt Rust. This was never easy to find and finally it's available on CD (from Japan) at a reasonable price; what more could you ask for? [Seventh Japan] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): LED BIB http://www.musicomh.com/ http://thejazzbreakfast. http://www.musicomh.com/ http://www.artrocker.tv/ http://new.music.yahoo.com/ http://www.thejazzmann.com/ http://londonjazz.blogspot. http://www.gaydarradio.co.uk/ RICHARD PINHAS (interview) http://jazz-net.blogspot.com/ JOHN SURMAN http://new.music.yahoo.com/ UZ JSME DOMA (a really good interview and overview of their career) http://www.progarchives.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ AFUCHE (our latest signing! CD out in May!) May 21 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (record release show - opening for Tune-Yards) JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Stre CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 ERGO March 5 - One Thousand Pulses - 9 Edward Place - Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 - 8:00 pm GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) June 25 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET February 23 - Le Poisson Rouge - NYC, NY (NYC record release show!) - 7:00 pm April 1 - Lilypad - 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square - Cambridge, MA - 9:00 pm / $10.00 April 7-21 – European CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB February 28 - Purcell Room - London, UK (record release show) March 2 - The Harley - Sheffield, UK March 3 - The Spin Off - Leeds, UK March 4 – The Kazimier - Liverpool, UK March 5 - Voodoo Rooms - Edinburgh, UK March 6 - Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, Scotland, UK March 9 - Dempsey's - Cardiff, Wales, UK March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK April 23 - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefed, Germany April 29 - Jazzclub Tonne - Dresden, Germany April 30 - tba - Dachau, Germany May 04 - Metelkova - Ljubjana, Slovenia July 10 - Swanage Jazz Festival - Swanage, UK August 14 - Brecon Jazz Festival, Brecon, Wales, UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS March 3 - Cite de la Musique - Paris, France (with Pascal Comelade) April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come POSITIVE CATASTROPHE February 19 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson St. - NYC, NY - 3:30 pm workshop, 5:00 pm open rehearsal, 9:00 and 10:30 pm performance November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE February 27 - Chianti Tuscan Restaurant - 285 Cabot Street - Beverly, MA 01915 March 1 - The Plough & Stars - 912 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 - (617) 576-0032 - 10:00 pm May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, New York, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with TBA) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with TBA) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 24 - Open Lot - 1307 Jewell Street, Nashville, TN 37207 - (with TBA) March 26 - The Phoenix Project - 406 S. Haskell, Dallas, TX - (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with TBA) March 29 - Scorpion's Nest - 406 Alta Ave, Midland, TX 79705 March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 6 - Zoo Bar - 136 North 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 - (402) 435-8754 (with TBA) April 7 - The Brick - 1727 McGee Street, Kansas City, MO 64108-1423 - (816) 421-1634 (with Nomad's Atlas) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Av #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and TBA) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with TBA) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) April 15th - Elm Bar - 372 Elm St, New Haven, CT 06511 (with Old Man Lady Luck) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Gutbucket November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Radio Massacre International November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - November 29 - November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Upsilon Acrux Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ Rest in Peace: Gary Moore (Great Irish guitarist who started out with the amazing Skid Row and went on to make his name and career with a number of other ensembles such as Thin Lizzy, BBM (Baker, Bruce & Moore), Colosseum II and others. ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album AFUCHE-Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (finally a 'real' release from this great Brooklyn band) ALIEN TRIO (unreleased early 80s recordings by Christian Vander, Michel Graillier and Alby Culaz) PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) RELOGIOS DE FREDERICO (Frederico´s clocks)-Faskner (odd name, but amazing band from Brazil) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp148.net/archive_ |
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Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: Jimmy Agren-Glass Finger Ghost $12.00 (special) "Slide guitarist Jimmy Agren with a fine collection of Beefheart influenced pieces, wonderfully played. He's also a mean harmonica player, manodolinist, sometime percussionist and singer. Guests include Mats Oberg and Morgan Agren (whose drumming on this record is frighteningly good), and vocalists Freddie Wadling and Magnus Olsson. Beautifully deployed additive rhythms, always moving, with nothing extraneous or unnecessary. This is an impressive, world-class record that rips from start to finish. I can't praise it too much."-Chris Cutler/ReR [UAE] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anima Sound-Musik Für Alle vinyl lp $30.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) "After the success of the previous Wah Wah reissue of Anima Sound's Stürmischer Himmel we are proud to offer a first ever vinyl reissue of their Musik Für Alle album, one of the rarest private pressings in the Krautrock scene. In 1971 Paul and Limpe Fuchs loaded their instruments on an old tractor and spent six months touring through Germany at 20 km/h. When the summer came, they stopped in front of Willy Neubauer's recording studio in Düsseldorf and there they taped a music memory of the tour. Two long pieces, 17 minute long improvisations titled 'N Da Da Uum Da' and 'Traktor Go Go Go', were to be privately released as an LP on their own Altepfarhof label. By some, these two tracks 'can surely be considered as one of the best psychedelic experiences ever created, due to the intensity of the recording.' On their performance the group produced many wonderful and inspired sounds, many of them coming from Paul Fuch's self-built instruments, and counted with the post-production collaboration of Neubauer's Echolette Ringmodulater. The Wah Wah reissue has been properly licensed from Limpe Fuchs herself, reproduces the original cover art and features an insert with photos." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Albert Ayler-Spiritual Unity (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Back in stock! In my opinion, if you have to pick one album to answer the question of "What was Albert Ayler's music all about?", this is that album. And it's available now in a facimile mini-lp sleeve edition at a great price. "Spiritual Unity was the album that pushed Albert Ayler to the forefront of jazz's avant-garde, and the first jazz album ever released by Bernard Stollman's seminal ESP label. It was really the first available document of Ayler's music that matched him with a group of truly sympathetic musicians, and the results are a magnificently pure distillation of his aesthetic. Bassist Gary Peacock's full-toned, free-flowing ideas and drummer Sunny Murray's shifting, stream-of-consciousness rhythms (which rely heavily on shimmering cymbal work) are crucial in throwing the constraints off of Ayler's playing. Yet as liberated and ferociously primitive as Ayler sounds, the group isn't an unhinged mess -- all the members listen to the subtler nuances in one another's playing, pushing and responding where appropriate. Their collective improvisation is remarkably unified -- and as for the other half of the album's title, Ayler conjures otherworldly visions of the spiritual realm with a gospel-derived fervor. Titles like "The Wizard," "Spirits," and "Ghosts" (his signature tune, introduced here in two versions) make it clear that Ayler's arsenal of vocal-like effects -- screams, squeals, wails, honks, and the widest vibrato ever heard on a jazz record -- were sonic expressions of a wildly intense longing for transcendence. With singable melodies based on traditional folk songs and standard scales, Ayler took the simplest musical forms and imbued them with a shockingly visceral power -- in a way, not unlike the best rock & roll, which probably accounted for the controversy his approach generated. To paraphrase one of Ayler's most famous quotes, this music was about feelings, not notes, and on Spiritual Unity that philosophy finds its most concise, concentrated expression. A landmark recording that's essential to any basic understanding of free jazz."-Steve Huey/All Music Guide [ESP] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Paul Bley-Ramblin' (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) "Ramblin' comes from an adventurous period in Paul Bley's career, at a time when he was associated with some of the more avant-garde elements. His playing often takes an attractively aggressive approach, which he tempered in later years. There is his characteristic emphasis on the beauty of the single note. The gorgeous, lush sounds on "Albert's Love Theme," for example, or the slow, beautiful, expressive take on Annette Peacock's "Touching" are filled with enormous depth. Carla Bley's "Ida Lupina" is given a sophisticated treatment that emphasizes tonal bliss. As with all Bley recordings, this one takes close listening to appreciate its subtleties, but the joy is well worth the effort. Barry Altschul is spectacular on drums, with effective polyrhythmic support, and bassist Mark Levinson fits perfectly into the mix."-Steve Loewy/All Music Guide [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anthony Braxton-Anthony Braxton (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Back in stock! "Few modern musicians in any genre can have been so extensively documented as the Chicago-born multi-instrumentalist, and yet the very density of the documentation serves only to heighten the enigma that is Anthony Braxton'' (Penguin Guide To Jazz). This is the first of Braxton's two albums for the BYG/Actuel series recorded in Paris on September 10, 1969 with the help of Leo Smith (trumpet), Leroy Jenkins (violin), and Steve McCall on drums. 24-bit digitally remastered & packaged in a miniature-LP paper sleeve." [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anthony Braxton-This Time... (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Back in stock! "From the opening contrabass clarinet gurgle, it's clear this is no ordinary free jazz album, despite the fact it was released on the quintessentially volcanic free jazz imprint BYG Actuel. This Time features Anthony Braxton on alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet and contrabass clarinet, flute, sound machine, chimes, and voice, Leo Smith on trumpet, flügelhorn, horns, logs, and siren, Leroy Jenkins on violin, viola, flute, mouth organ, and electronic organ, and Steve McCall on drums, percussion, and darbouka in a striking display of vintage AACM multi-instrumentalism. That instantly recognizable Chicago mix of dazzling virtuosity and toy town tinkles and toots still sounds as fresh and crisp as it did when it was recorded back in January 1970; as well as exploring the further reaches of virtuoso improvisation and surrealistic poetry (on the title track), Braxton also throws the windows of the cage (pun intended) open onto the outside world: "In the Street" was recorded where it says it was -- in the street. The other pieces are generically titled ("Solo," "Small Composition," "Composition," etc.) -- Braxton's idiosyncratic algebraic/geometrical titles don't feature here -- but are about as far from generic as you could hope to get. Wild, wonderful, insanely creative, and absolutely timeless."-Dan Warburton/All Music Guide [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ François Faton Cahen-La Fièvre Monte $10.00 (special) François is, of course, best known for being in Magma for their 1st two albums and then forming Zao, one of the earlier and better French jazz/rock bands. This 1999 release is the most recent under his name and is definitely a 'jazz' album and features a great violinist I had not heard of before (Nicolas Krassik) as well as strong contributions on double bass, drums and percussion. [Great Winds] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Camel-Moondances NTSC (all region) DVD $23.00 "It has been a long and frustrating search, but we were finally successful in tracking down a visual recording of Camel performing in 1976. It has been bootlegged mercilessly over the years. We had managed to get a copy on VHS back in 1993, but the recording was so poor, you couldn't recognise the band members. If you didn't know the music intimately, you wouldn't know it was Camel. It was touted as having been filmed in Spain but, in actual fact, it was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 14th April 1976. The original line up of Andrew, Andy Ward and Doug Ferguson, with the late Peter Bardens, were on tour with their new release, Moonmadness. It's a rather dark recording, with the original audio, but an excellent performance. It's a wonder that the record company still had any form of it in the archives and, while it still has its gremlins, it's a fabulous piece of history. We decided to combine this short performance with the complete 1977 BBC recording at the Hippodrome during the Raindances tour (editor's note: for me, this is Camel's finest hour ever). Originally, we were only able to get permission to release specific time frames of this show, as licenses are charged per minute of usage. Now, through the generosity of the BBC, we were granted a special license to release all of the show. Together, they make a nice window to the past. A very special bonus is that we have included two audio recordings Decca Records (and the band, for that matter) had virtually forgotten about. Long ago, in a faraway galaxy known as Someplace in London, Andrew, Andy, Doug and Peter recorded two songs titled Autumn and Riverman. They weren't considered quite good enough for an album, but what makes these recordings so special to my ears is that they are the zygotes of what would become Camel's signature. They are hindsight in perfection, allowing us to look back to where so many songs originated, a bit like the river's source. I think they also have a certain innocence about them, too. We couldn't see them being released on a Camel album of today as they are too juxtaposed, both in structure and sound. I personally felt they were too unique to be included in that way, and needed something special. When our video producer, David Minasian, suggested we put them on the DVD as an audio bonus, we knew we'd found their place. Dave included an excellent slide show of still images to accompany the music." Track Listing 1976 show: White Rider Lunar Sea Preparations Dunkirk Another Night Lady Fantasy Track Listing (1977) First Light Metrognome Unevensong Rhayader RhayaderGTT Skylines Highways of the Sun Lunar Sea Rain Dances Never Let Go One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night [Camel Productions] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Camel-The Opening Farewell: Camel Live in Concert NTSC (all region) DVD $24.00 Back in stock! Recorded at The Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA. on Camel's farewell tour in 2003. This completely professional DVD is 2 hours long and it features Andrew Latimer: Guitar, Flute, Recorder,Vocals, Colin Bass: Bass, Bass Pedals, Vocals, Denis Clement: Drums, Percussion, Recorder, Tom Brislin: Keyboards, Vocals playing in front of a packed house of fans, which spurs them onto giving a excellent performance. This is a total no brainer for their many fans! The tracklist: Lady Fantasy Unevensong Hymn to Her Echoes Stationary Traveller Drafted Rhayader Rhayader Goes to Town Lunar Sea Another Night Ice Spirit of the Water Slow Yourself Down Mother Road For Today [Camel Productions] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Don Cherry-Mu, First Part (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Back in stock! Digitally remastered, mini-lp sleeve reissue of BYG/Actuel 1, released in a limited edition of 1500 copies at a special price. In my opinion, this is one of the greatest of the Actuel series! These relatively early duos between Don moving from instrument to instrument and Ed Blackwell on drums have a singular and strong charm. Superb and recommended! "An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, percussions, bell). His duets with Ed Blackwell, a drummer whose playing Cherry was very conversant with through a shared history in the Coleman group, were the first recordings released in the Actuel series." [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Don Cherry-Mu, Second Part (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Back in stock! Digitally remastered, mini-lp sleeve reissue of BYG/Actuel 31, released in a limited edition of 1500 copies at a special price. In my opinion, this is one of the greatest of the Actuel series! These relatively early duos between Don moving from instrument to instrument and Ed Blackwell on drums have a singular and strong charm. Superb and recommended! "An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, percussions, bell). His duets with Ed Blackwell, a drummer whose playing Cherry was very conversant with through a shared history in the Coleman group, were the first recordings released in the Actuel series." [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Philippe de Mouctouris-Intimal Guitare $10.00 (special) "Since the Eighties, Swiss guitarist Philippe De MOUCTOURIS has taken time to let his music mature. It is now strongly influenced by master Robert FRIPP (KING CRIMSON), but also by some constructivist audacities. The musician blends fire with ice within a truly contrasted music, where cyclic guitar parts and sculpture of the sounds give birth to an emotive and provocative style. Assisted by Ralph KINDIG, Philippe de MOUCTOURIS issues now "Intimal Guitare" (1997), a true masterpiece of the style. Of course, this musician plays the guitar on it, but also some keyboards and bouzouki." [Gazul] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Firebirds-Light My Fire $9.00 (special) A rare reissue of the 1969 album from The Firebirds, a blues-heavy psychedelic outfit similar to Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly except with tunes! A thoroughly intriguing & engaging album that appeared on the Crown label in 1969. Absolutely nothing is known about the band other than their albums have become highly sought-after for their over-the-top heavy psych-blues-rock mayhem that owes much to Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, & Blue Cheer's 'Vincebus Eruptum' (1968). "Heard so much about this gem even heard a few samples am contemplaiting buying the album sounds like kick arse sh*t to me. Is it worth buying or should I wait for a burnt copy. >> I really like it. Then again I am one to really like that wasted old jamming. >> Excellent over-fuzzed Blue Cheer worship. I read on some site that the drummer basically plays fills the entire time and that's a pretty accurate description... >> this ones a keeper."-from a 'conversation' on www.hellridemusic.com [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Flying Luttenbachers-Infection and Decline (remastered/bonus) $15.00 A reissue of one of the must-have releases from this amazing, technical, skronk-filled, BRUTAL, 'brutal-prog' band led by Weasel Walter. Originally released in 2001, this was is the first release by the trio lineup of drums + 2 really agressive bassists, including Alex Perkolup now of Cheer-Accident and Jonathan Hischke (also of Hella and Marnie Stern). Their version of De Futura rules, & the rest of the album is good too in an exceedingly noisy and hard-edged way. "The Flying Luttenbachers have been destroying puny minds & souls for almost 10 years with an extreme, amorphous & unlikely fusion of hardcore, free jazz, death metal bombast and modern classical style abstraction. One mere mortal critic described the current lineup as a 'violent mutant hybrid of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, Bela Bartok and Napalm Death'....the album concludes with a devastating & faithful 16 minute version of 'De Futura', originally recorded by the seminal French prog band Magma." "In 2001, a new line-up of The Flying Luttenbachers emerged. The new direction of the group focused on hyper-composed complexity replete with punishing dissonance and harsh electronic timbres. The group called this music "BRUTAL PROG": this wasn't prog rock for your uncle: it is NOW - ugly, apocalyptic and furious. The debut release from this line-up was issued in 2002 and has been out of print for years until now. Featuring full-frequency digital remastering, improved artwork (the way it was originally supposed to look) and 6 manic, never-before-heard bonus tracks, this definitive version of "Infection and Decline" will blow you away. Featuring Jonathan Hischke (Hella, Marnie Stern, etc.) and Alex Perkolup (Cheer-Accident, Bobby Conn, etc.) on twin bass assault and Weasel Walter on drums, this CD contains almost 80 minutes of Brutal Prog intensity." [ugExplode] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Goliath-Hot Rock and Thunder $9.00 (special) "A supremely talented 5-piece progressive hard rock outfit from Kentucky. Originally released in 1972 on the Bridges label. The band always tight and composed, storms through 7 finely-crafted self-penned songs with flair and originality." "Goliath played a sort of southern style 'swamp rock', with a heavy metal/rock edge, while incorporating elements of progressive rock into their music as well. A close friend of mine from Indiana who has been involved in the music scene there, both as a studio engineer and a musician insists that Goliath are indeed from southern Indiana and not Kentucky, though they are neighboring States, divided by the Ohio river. Musically it's difficult to peg these guys accurately, because they can really confuse the listener. If you happened to be passing by my car and I had this album blasting away, you might think I was listening to some southern swamp boogie rock outfit like 'Hydra'. Then if you passed by a second time, you might think I was listening to some obscure 70's French synth/prog band like 'Carpe Diem'. I think Goliath enjoyed confusing the listener, and this might have been the source of their downfall. These segues and intros of piano and synth are prevalent throughout this album, and might turn some people off." [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anders Helmerson-Triple Ripple $16.00 "Anders HELMERSON has earned some recognition in the Progressive rock scene, for having recorded a one-and-only album in 1979, a true masterpiece reissued by the Musea label. It included instrumental music based on a large array of keyboards, following the path of EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER. After a first attempt in the year 2002 with "Fields Of Inertia", Anders HELMERSON comes back today with a similar formula, strongly revigorated. And the two musicians that were chosen to support him are no strangers by any means. The American bass player Bryan BELLER can be heard along Mike KENEALLY, Dweezil ZAPPA or Steve VAI, while German Marco MINNEMANN (UKZ, David TORN, Paul GILBERT...) is probably one of the most sought-after drummers in the genre. Needless to say the content is worth the packaging: here's top-notch instrumental Progressive rock, sometimes symphonic, sometimes close to jazz-rock fusion. The name of an underrated French band might even come to mind: the almighty PRIAM... Just great!" [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Iconoclasta-La Rencarna Cion de Maquiave Lo $9.00 (special) "This band performs from their first albums onwards, a really structured music which includes many themes, breaks and changes of rhythms and climates. It is elegant and ardent at the same time, due to the complex melodies and subtle and sometimes angry combinations, which developpe in furious crescendos between guitar and keyboards.In "Trece Anos", the style remains lyrical Progressive rock and evokes Italian bands like PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI, BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO or GARYBALDI because of its blend of refined romanticism, enthousiasm and energy. "En Concierto" follows the same path as MINIMUM VITAL, and has the same blend of virtuosity, complex composition taken from jazz-rock (BRAND X school), sophistication and melodical impact inherited of Progressive as well as energy, one of the essential components of rock. All this makes a subtle cocktail full of flavours like breaks, changes, dialogues between keyboards (With MINIMUM VITAL-like sounds) and an energetic guitar. The band survived the passage to the Third Millenium, but had to wait nine years to issue its next opus after "La Granja Humana" in the year 2000. The title of this opus, "Resurreccion" (2009), clearly shows the new stages encountered by the band, still centered around guitarists Roberto MORENO and Ricardo ORTEGON, as well as drummer Victor BALDOVINOS. The two new members add a female touch to the team: they are bassist-singer Greta SILVA and singer Alma CASTILLO. Jointly published by the Musea and Luna Negra labels, "Resurreccion" will surely please the aficionados of the South-American School's precious symphonism. Not to be missed!" [Smogless] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jackal-Awake $9.00 (special) A Canadian group whose only album was released on a tiny label, this is comparable in a lot of ways to 1971/1972 era Deep Purple; progressive hard rock with lots of great organ and guitarwork. Really good in that vein. [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Giya Kancheli-Themes from the Songbook $18.00 Dino Saluzzi: bandoneon Gidon Kremer: violin Andrei Pushkarev: vibraphone "A very special album for Giya Kancheli’s 75th birthday. When starting out on his career as a creator of symphonic and chamber music, the Georgian composer also wrote much incidental music for the theatre and the cinema. Though still little-known in the West, the film music was widely heard across the former Soviet Union and the themes here (there are 20 on the album) enjoyed great popularity. ECM decided to invite Dino Saluzzi to revisit Kancheli’s music for stage and screen, in his personal and highly creative way. Simultaneously Gidon Kremer, an old friend and champion of Kancheli’s music, also expressed an interest in doing something special for Giya’s birthday. With both Kremer and Saluzzi on board, the project took on new dimensions. Finding links between the worlds – Kancheli’s, Kremer’s, and Saluzzi’s - is a task adroitly handled by Pushkarev. The vibraphonist, who works often with Kremerata Baltica, prepared arrangements realized with Kremer in Riga, and also worked in Oslo with Saluzzi, intuitively supporting Dino’s very relaxed approach to the material. Nine of the featured themes derive from Kancheli’s collaborations with internationally acclaimed theatre director Robert Sturua. There are also themes from films by Georgi Danelia, Eldar Shengelaia, Sergei Bodrov, Lana Gogoberidze and others." [ECM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Kotebel-Ouroboros $20.00 "This is a glorious perpetuation of the sort of musical magnificence that we, Kotebel followers, have come to naturally expect from this excellent Spanish-Venezuelan ensemble - "Ouroboros" has to be one of the most outstanding symphonic prog releases in the year 2009, and why not, extensively in the new millennium. For this concept-album around a bunch of mythical figures, Kotebel operates as an all-instrumental quintet with featured room for dual keyboards, which means that the flute and female vocals are now absent in the band's sonic arsenal; but, in the end, the absence of these two items that had been so immensely relevant in the band's previous two efforts ("Fragments of Light" and "Omphalos") has been efficiently compensated by the remaining instrumentalists. The musical ideas remain equally inventive and the instrumental amalgamation continues to be grandiloquent in its infinite elegance. Indeed, this "Ouroboros" album is a total master opus for our current times' progressive rock scene worldwide. 'Amphisbaena' opens up the album with tenuous textures during its brief introductory theme, until the whole ensemble kicks off and settles in through the colorful display of the fusion-friendly motif. The combination of jazz-rock ambiences and Gentle Giant-ish tricks, when merged into the overall symphonic framework, results in an abrasive exhibition of excitement and grandeur. The interplaying among the two keyboardists is effectively massive, with virtuosic guitarist César García Forero spreading his eclectic input all over the place, complementing the keyboard developments and playing amazing leads. The piano-dominated passages during the track's last third states a proper expectation for the coda, wich starts ethereal and ends quite bombastic. A tremendous opener such as this can only be followed by a suite, and so Kotebel deliver the namesake track, which lasts 16+ minutes and comprises 7 sections. This intensely progressive journey is a constant climax of textures, orchestrations and controlled exhibitionist deliveries: the main motifs are clearly signaled, with variations and jams that go on succeeding each other in a perfectly fluid fashion. The melodic sense is brilliant, the harmonic sensibility is flawless, and both prove to be a demanding thing particularly in those passages in which the band uses a dynamic mixture of chamber-rock and jazz (i.e. 'Variation II'). 'Variation IV' is built on soaring atmospheres that may remind us a little of "Incantations"-era Oldfield, although the moment in which the lead guitar and drum kit settle in makes the track move toward momentary bizarre moods. The next 'Variation' is patently more evocative: it starts with a piano solo, then a soft orchestration is set in to evolve into a special climax, bombastic but not overdone. The punchy swing of 'Variation VII' gives way for a vibrant passage whose clever articulation allows to build a well-ordained crescendo, which ultimately leads to a 'Coda': this one culminates the overall suite's architecture on a melancholy note, yet evidently energetic in its own terms. Following this suite is a dirty job to do, but it is left to 'Satyrs' do it, and it does it by going to a different territory. 'Satyrs' is more guitar-orientated than the preceding two pieces, and it is less pompous as much as it is rockier. There is still much musical complexity to rely on while listening to this track: there is a funny tango-based interlude, for instance, and there is also a slow-paced psychedelic that provides an ounce of grayish density right before the splendid closure. The album perseveres in its wonderful majesty with the other suite, 'Simurgh', perhaps the most purely symphonic track in this catalogue: there are some Latin-jazz cadences utilized strategically in places, but they mostly serve as vortexes of varying dynamics to enrich the main motifs? developments within a consistent eclecticism. 'Behemoth' is quite awesome, a special favorite of mine. It bears a stylish tension that owes quite much to the Scandinavian standard of Crimson-inspired retro prog: the big beast after which this track is entitled meets an adequate musical portrait, featuring mellotron-like washes, eerie dissonant guitar phrases and a slow, heavy rhythmic scheme. The track's overall mood is surreal in the sense of a weird dream, almost mystic, consistently mysterious. The studio tracklist ends with 'Legal Identity V', plethoric and bombastic without any boundaries, which is reasonable since its 3+ minute span can clearly allow the musicians to think less about constraint and more about explicit expression? in typically progressive terms, of course. The bonus track is quite long, a live rendition of extracts from the "Mysticae Visiones" suite (from the namesake album) as it was delivered at the Gouveia Art 2007 festival. This item conveniently shows the listener all about the power and color that this band solidly displays in live performances; it is also a sweet reminder of the important input that the female vocals and flute used to offer to the band's whole framework in earlier times. All in all, and paying focusing my attention on the studio tracks exclusively, I'm prepared to give this album a 5 star rating. "Ouroboros" is indispensable in any good symphonic prog collection."-Cesar Inca/ProgArchives.com [Musea] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Lard Free-Lard Free vinyl lp $30.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) Classic, great, early and wild experimental avant/progressive rock band, led by drummer/composer Gilbert Artman, before he formed Urban Sax. Beautiful reproduction, including the gatefold sleeve. "The first album by Lard Free, simply titled Gilbert Artman's Lard Free, is released in 1973 on the Vamp label. It has been recorded and mixed in April that year, the recording session taking place for only 36 hours in a London studio. But that's enough time for the band to showcase the adventurous spirit of Gilbert & Co. There's drums and sax of jazzy, repetitive inspiration, free-rock guitar licks and an always present AKS synthesizer that produce one of the essential works of Europe's musical avant-garde on its time. After this brilliant recorded legacy, Lard Free split in 1978, with Artman dedicating his time to his more 'successful' project Urban Sax. Featuring : Gilbert Artman (drums, piano steinway, vibes), Herve Eyhani (bass guitar, arp synthetizer), Philippe Bolliet (all saxes), Francois Mativet (guitars)." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Lard Free-I'm Around About Midnight vinyl lp $30.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) Classic, great, early and wild experimental avant/progressive rock band, led by drummer/composer Gilbert Artman, before he formed Urban Sax. This one has Richard Pinhas on (part of it? all of it? never been quite certain) and there is overlap with the material HE was doing simultaneously with It's Always Rock 'n' Roll. A classic. Beautiful reproduction, including the gatefold sleeve. "Lard Free's second LP, I'm Around About Midnight, was recorded in Paris in a three day session and released in 1975, also on Vamp. There is a totally different line-up from that of the first LP and it features long time friend Richard Pinhas, with whom Artman explores (in his own way) some sound passages of strong Heldon inspiration, although in a less immediate register, building an organic layered sound that emanates a certain shadowy formal beauty. The strong Artman-Pinhas connection is also confirmed by the inclusion on Heldon's Third of the track 'Pale violence under a reverbere', on a different mix and different title, 'Méchamment rock.' Featuring : Gilbert Artman (drums, percussions, vibes, hammond organ, steinway piano, tenor sax), Richard Pinhas (guitars, bass guitar, arp synthetisers, synthi vks 3), Alain Audat (synthi vks 3, tenor sax, clb), Antoine Duvernot (alto sax, flute)." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Lard Free-III/Spirale Malax vinyl lp $30.00 (due to size and weight, for sale in the USA only) Third & final of the original three Lard Free albums. Lard Free, led by Gilbert Artman, were a legendary, early progressive/avant/electronic instrumental group. Along with Heldon this is as close as the French came to "krautrock". This is probably my personal favorite of all of them, & I like all of them a lot! A classic! "The third and last Lard Free LP is released in 1977 on the Cobra label recorded in two different studios between January and March that same year. Besides some new musicians, another step forward in Artman's constant evolution is the use of the recording studio as an additional instrument that offers a whole lot of possibilities to creative expansion. The results are amazing : under an apparently lineal structure there's thousands of sound brushtrokes that feed themselves back to create a strange and provocative post-industrial picture. Gilbert Artman (orgue, piano, arp synthesizer, vibraphone, drums premier), Xavier Baulleret (guitares), Yves Lanes (synthy-ems), Jean-Pierre Thiraut (clarinette)." [Wah Wah] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Mats/Morgan-The Teenage Tapes $10.00 (special) The earliest recordings released by Mats Oberg-keyboards and Morgan Agren-drums. These guys were friends with Zappa and performed in the tribute "Zappa's Universe" project. Tricky, intricate music with a definite nod to Frank, as well as other progressive musics too. [UAE] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Morgen-Morgen $9.00 (special) "Singer/guitarist Steve Morgen and company (bassist Rennie Genossa, drummer Bob Maiman and rhythm guitarist Barry Stock) originally hailed from Long Island, New York. Signed by ABC's short-lived Probe subsidiary, their 1969 debut Morgen teamed them with producer Murray Shiffrin (Steve Morgen is given the co-production credit). After this superb debut, the entire band quite simply disappeared. If you're into heavy psych guitar, then this is for you. While Morgen had a competent, if limited voice, he was a truly amazing guitarist with the likes of Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond becoming a staunch advocate of Morgen's status as a "psychedelic guitar hero." Tracks such as "Eternity In Between," "Welcome To the Void," "Of Dreams" and "Beggin' Your Pardon (Miss Joan)" were simply drenched with fuzz and feedback guitar. Underpinned by Maiman's powerhouse drumming (easily compared with Led Zeppelin's John Bonham) and suitably trippy lyrics, you're looking at a pseudo-classic slice of psychedelia that largely explains the huge asking price of an original copy." [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sunny Murray-An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker) (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Digitally remastered, mini-lp sleeve reissue of BYG/Actuel 32, released in a limited edition of 1500 copies at a special price. "Avant-garde jazz drummer Sunny Murray was a major player in the experimental jazz community throughout the 1960s. After three years as a member of Albert Ayler's band (1964-1967). Featuring Byard Lancaster, Malachi Favors and Kenneth Terroade." "BYG/Actuel released an impressive array of recordings in 1969/1970. None was more compelling than this effort by Sunny Murray. Along the lines of East Coast Colors on Dave Burrell's High Won/High Two release, Sunny's complete command over jazz cymbals will astonish you. For the recording of "Giblet" alone, this album is worth the price. The tenor team of Byard Lancaster and Ken Terroade, who never received their due in fame, will propel your ears to new levels, led by Sunny's unique and forceful drumming. Tired of "fours"? This is the cure."-Robert E. Lloyd [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sunny Murray-Sunshine (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) "Sunny Murray is one of the most influential and inventive free jazz drummers in the history of jazz and this historic album, originally released in 1969 for the BYG Actuel series is testimony to the man's greatness. Featuring Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Arthur Jones, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Kenneth Terroade and Malachi Favors at the peak of their genius." "Sunny Murray's Sunshine is yet another all-star blowing session from the BYG Actuel series. Like many of the others, it is loud, very intense, and clocks in at just over 30 minutes. Also, and again like the others in the series, it is an indispensable document of late-'60s Pan-African art music. This is an opportunity to hear a number of fantastic players at the peaks of their respective careers. Represented here are three different groups. Both "Flower Trane" and "Red Cross" are performed by ensembles featuring (among others) Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Arthur Jones, Lester Bowie, and Roscoe Mitchell. "Real," on the other hand, is a piece for the trio of Murray, tenor man Kenneth Terroade, and bassist Malachi Favors. This is some heavy music and is not for the faint of heart, but fans of avant-garde jazz will find a great deal to enjoy here."-Brandon Burke/All Music Guide [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pearls Before Swine-Baklava (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) "A record that virtually defies categorization, Pearls Before Swine's 1968 epic Balaklava is the near-brilliant follow-up to One Nation Underground. Intended as a defiant condemnation of the Vietnam War, it doesn't offer anthemic, fist-pounding protest songs. Instead, Rapp vented his anger through surrealist poetry, irony, and historical reference: Balaklava was the 1854 Crimean War battle that inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson to write his epic The Charge of the Light Brigade; in reality, the "Charge" was a senseless military action that killed scores of British soldiers. Balaklava begins with "Trumpeter Landfrey," an 1880's recording of the actual voice and bugle charge of the man who sounded the charge at Balaklava. It makes the transition into "Translucent Carriages," a mix of acoustic guitars, a basic vocal, and ghostly narration ("Jesus raised the dead...but who will raise the living?"), all the more stunning. "Images of April" continues the mystical feel, combining flutes, cricket chirps, and frog croaks for a nether-worldly effect. Rapp virtually cries "I Saw the World," backed by a powerful string arrangement that makes the song even more impassioned. Like One Nation Underground, Balaklava is somewhat unfocused: "There Was a Man" is a little too Dylan-esque, and Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" detracts from Rapp's compositions. Unfortunately, the record closes with "Ring Thing," a morbid piece that refers to Tolkien's famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. Still, this is superb psychedelic music, successfully merging exotic instruments like marimba, clavinet, French horn, and swinehorn with Rapp's unique lisping vocals. But Balaklava isn't just acid-trip background music. It's probably the best example of what Rapp calls "constructive melancholy" (also the name of a recent CD collection of Pearls songs), a combination of the real with the surreal, and it's indispensable to any serious '60s rock collection."-Peter Kurtz/All Music Guide [ESP] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pearls Before Swine-One Nation Underground (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) "Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this is still a stunning piece of work, from the nightmarish sleeve art -- the "Hell Panel" from Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting "Garden of Delights" -- to the strange yet powerful songs. "Another Time," the most memorable selection, is an understated acoustic song, the first that Rapp ever penned, based on his experience in a horrific car crash where he walked away unscathed. Of similar mood is the beautiful "Ballad of an Amber Lady." "Drop Out" is a straightforward song built around a popular credo of the '60s. "Uncle John" is one of the earliest protest songs about the Vietnam War. Strangest (and funniest) of all is "(Oh Dear) Miss Morse," where Rapp adopts a Victorian persona and sounds out the Morse code spelling of F-U-C-K, accompanied by banjo and Farfisa organ. Considering Rapp's fascination with history, it's not surprising that one of the songs here, "I Shall Not Care," features a co-writer credit to "Roman Tombs." The cryptic words that comprise this song's title were discovered on a tomb that dates to the final days of the Roman Empire."-Peter Kurtz/All Music Guide [ESP] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sten Sandell/Simon Steensland-Under Öknar (Rankö Rendu) $10.00 (special) Oddly singular and quite engaging release once you get into the proper mind-set for it. Sten performs on throat-singing, harmonium, synths, percussion and sounds. Simon performs on bass, harmonium, percussion, marimba and sounds. Also appearing are Mats Oberg-voice, synths, harmonium, Morgan Agren-drums, Amit Sen-cello and Savnte Drake-mouth drums. [UAE] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eric Satie-Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies, Piano Works $7.00 (special) Great price on essential piano music from a early 20th century master who died in poverty and has proven unbelievably influencial. Performed by Anne Queffélec with Catherine Collard. Featured works are: 6 Gnossiennes, 3 Morceaux en forme de poire, Descriptions Automatiques, Pièces Froides, Heures Séculaires Et Instantanées, Vieux Séquins Et Vieilles Cuirasses, Je Te Veux and Prélude De La Porte Héroïque Du Ciel. [Virgin Classics] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Sonny Sharrock-Monkey-Pockie-Boo (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) "Of the electric guitar's few proponents in avant-garde jazz, Sonny Sharrock is easily the most influential; he was one of the earliest guitarists to even attempt free playing, along with Derek Bailey and Sonny Greenwich. Sharrock's visceral aggression and monolithic sheets of noise were influenced by the screaming overtones of saxophonists like Coltrane, Sanders, and Ayler, and his experiments with distortion and feedback predated even Jimi Hendrix. Naturally, he provoked much hostility among traditionalists, but once his innovations were assimilated, he enjoyed wide renown in avant-garde circles."-Steve Huey/All Music Guide "An album recorded in Paris (on June 22nd, 1969) with his wife Linda plus Ben Guerin (bass) and Jacques Thollot (drums). Sonny Sharrock was one of the top avant-garde guitarists and his playing was intense and ferocious. He mixed together Jimi Hendrix and Pharoah Sanders." "Sharrock was the first guitarist to really embrace fire music. He wanted his playing to mirror the emotional scream of the tenor saxophone"-Thurston Moore [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Archie Shepp-Live in Antibes, Volume 1 (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 Back in stock. "Superb live recordings (dated July 18 and July 20, 1970) captured in France at the Antibes-Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival. Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (featuring Clifford Thornton on piano and trumpet, Beb Guerin on bass and Claude Delcloo on drums) play through four long tracks with an intensity that still sounds fresh more than three decades later." [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Archie Shepp-Live in Antibes, Volume 2 (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) Back in stock! "Amazing live recordings (dated July 18 and 20 1970) captured in France at the Antibes-Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival. Archie Shepp & The Full Moon Ensemble (including Allen Shorter, Clifford Thornton, Joseph DeJean, Beb Guerin and Claude Delcloo) playing four long and intense tracks." [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Alan Silva-Luna Surface (24-bit remastered) (mini-lp sleeve) $8.00 (special) "For Luna Surface, Alan Silva collected many of the top free jazz players of the day -- and then he gave them all the green light. As a result, this is a very free record that could easily turn off a listener not yet sold on the 1969 avant-garde jazz scene. The 11-piece ensemble featured, among others, Grachan Moncur III, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Leroy Jenkins, and Malachi Favors. Every member of the group should be familiar to fans of the BYG Actuel series and some, like Moncur and Shepp, from sessions on bigger, U.S. labels like Blue Note and Impulse! respectively. There is very little in the way of a theme and arguably little or no direction to "From the Luna Surface," the only cut on the record. For some this might be a little too much to handle, while for others it might just hit the spot. All four of the string instruments are bowed for the majority of the record -- Silva bowing his violin upright, like a bass -- and often at ultra-high frequencies that waver in and out of tonality with one another. There is no ensemble or unison playing from the horn section. Instead, they quietly enter the conversation one by one, hit a handful of fevered pitches midway through the piece, and leave as quietly as the came. As a historical document of Pan-African high art music, this session is absolutely invaluable. It might not be so appropriate in the car."-Brandon Burke/All Music Guide [Sunspots] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Titus Oates-Jungle Lady $9.00 (special) "CD re-issue of the one and only album by this early '70's Florida outfit. Great album with excellent guitar jams. Long tracks, and the right heavy psych vibe. The material ranges from '60s flower power to roadhouse psychedelia and has a decidedly West Coast feel with their Southern roots occasionaly coming to the surface in the style of Allman Brothers-style dual guitar interludes. Great production makes this a lost gem." [Radioactive] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ ------------------------------ Please note: If there are no quotes around the description, that means that we wrote it and you should not use this description without attribution. If there are quotes without attribution, that means that we took the description from the hypesheet/publicity for the release. All other quoted descriptions are attributed. You can order these & many many other items from our on-line store at: http://www.waysidemusic.com You can also fax in your order : (301) 589-1819 or mail in your order to: Wayside Music - P.O. Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): BEAT CIRCUS http://new.music.yahoo.com/ JASON ROBINSON http://latimesblogs.latimes. LED BIB http://mercuryprize.com/ http://londonjazz.blogspot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/ PLANETA IMAGINARIO http://www.allmusic.com/album/ SOFT MACHINE http://www.audaud.com/article? UNIVERS ZERO http://www.goldminemag.com/ http://www.audaud.com/article. ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DAVID BORDEN November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Stre CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) February 9 - Sycamore - 1118 Cortelyou Road Brooklyn, NY 11231 - (347) 240-5850 - 9:30 pm $10.00 (with Hannis Brown Band) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 ERGO March 5 - One Thousand Pulses - 9 Edward Place - Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 - 8:00 pm GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA (our latest signing! CD out in May!) June 25/26 - NEARFest - Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, PA GUTBUCKET February 23 - Le Poisson Rouge - NYC, NY (NYC record release show!) - 7:00 pm April 7-21 – European CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB February 28 - Purcell Room - London, UK (record release show) March 2 - The Harley - Sheffield, UK March 3 - The Spin Off - Leeds, UK March 4 – The Kazimier - Liverpool, UK March 5 - Voodoo Rooms - Edinburgh, UK March 6 - Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, Scotland, UK March 9 - Dempsey's - Cardiff, Wales, UK March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS February 8 - Renne, France March 3 - Cite de la Musique - Paris, France (with Pascal Comelade) April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come POSITIVE CATASTROPHE February 19 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson St. - NYC, NY - 3:30 pm workshop, 5:00 pm open rehearsal, 9:00 and 10:30 pm performance November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE February 27 - Chianti Tuscan Restaurant - 285 Cabot Street - Beverly, MA 01915 March 1 - The Plough & Stars - 912 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 - (617) 576-0032 - 10:00 pm May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS Check these guys out as they go ALL the way across the USA and back! This is your chance to see a great, truly hot NYC harmolodic/punk-jazz group in YOUR hometown. March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, New York, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with TBA) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with TBA) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with TBA) March 30 - Solar Culture Gallery - 31 East Toole Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701- (520) 884-0874 March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 3 - St. James Infirmary - 445 California Avenue, Reno, NV 89501 - (775) 657-8484 - (with Frendo) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 9 - Mexicains Sans Frontieres - 120 S Division Av #226, Grand Rapids MI 49503 - (with Night Toucher) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and TBA) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with TBA) April 14 - Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) - 3rd Floor Auditorium, 330 E State St (aka Martin Luther King Jr. St), Ithaca, NY 14850 (with Makeshift, The Invisible Hand) And more in the works (some very close to being confirmed) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Gutbucket November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - David Borden November 23 - Radio Massacre International November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - November 29 - November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Upsilon Acrux Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ Rest in Peace: MILTON BABBITT (legendary US avant-garde composer) JOHN BARRY (legendary British film composer) TONY LEVIN (wonderful UK jazz drummer, active from the early 60s to now, playing with many greats like Tubby Hayes, John Taylor, Joe Harriott, Paul Dunmall and Mujician) ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GILGAMESH-Gilgamesh (new, remastered version of the first Gilgamesh album) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) RELOGIOS DE FREDERICO (Frederico´s clocks)-Faskner (odd name, but amazing band from Brazil) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp124.net/archive_ |
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First off, our blow-out of the Ambiances Magnetiques label continues. All remaining titles are 50% off. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Here's what has come in in the last week - either new releases or restockings of items that have been unavailable: The 13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere (expanded/remastered/digibook) 2 x CDs $17.00 One of the originators of psychedelic music, this beautifully packaged digibook has the original mono and stereo versions. "Texas psych-rock legends the 13th Floor Elevators released their second studio album, Easter Everywhere, in 1967. Continuing in the tradition established by their debut, Easter Everywhere is built on garage-band R&B and swirling acid-rock, with lead singer Roky Erickson`s haunting wail and Tommy Hall`s percolating electric jug lines front and center. While rave-ups like `Earthquake,` `She Lives (In A Time of Her Own),` and `Nobody to Love` find the Elevators at their beguiling best, the album`s centerpiece is a sprawling, pastoral, and achingly restrained take on Bob Dylan`s `It`s All Over Now Baby Blue` (here titled simply `Baby Blue` ), in which Erickson snakes his away around the lyrics showing off the sweetly damaged croon that made him an underground icon. While they`ll never get the acclaim garnered by the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane, the Elevators made truly psychedelic music, fueled as much by chemicals and the spirit of the times as the beautifully strange journeys Roky Erickson took through his troubled mind. Easter Everywhere is an excellent place to join Roky`s trip." [Snapper] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Acid Mothers Temple SWR & Umezu Kazutoki-Sax & the City $17.00 "Acid Mothers Temple SWR (Makoto Kawabata, Atsushi Tsuyama, and Tatsuya Yoshida) made this one-time improvisational album with Kazutoki Umezu, who is known for his own band ‘the Doctor Umezu Band’ and for the inspiring play in ‘the RC Succession’. The expansion of the sounds in each track which generates the acrobatic grooves reminds us of the every possible kind of music genre, namely, rock, progressive, psychedelic, contemporary, and folk. You will experience the exiting drive of the aggressive sound-mixture and undergo the sound-agitation in this musical melting pot." [Magaibutsu] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Bangtower-Casting Shadows $10.00 Bangtower is a new fusion trio made up of Percy Jones (fretless bass & keyboards), Neil Citron (guitar & keyboards), Walter Garces (drums & percussion). Neil Citron isn't known to me, but a quick 'googling' shows that he's done some work with Erik Norlander and has also done work in a heavier, 'shredding' vein. Walter Garces is a session player who appears on a number of works. Basically, this is heavy fusion that is given a unique personality because of Percy's unique take on the bass joined with heavier sounds. [Declassified] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Banquet of the Spirits-Caym: The Book Of Angels Volume 17 $13.00 "Banquet of the Spirits is the tight touring band of Cyro Baptista, one of the world's most creative percussionists and one of Zorn's oldest friends and closest collaborators. The veteran of dozens of Zorn film scores, game pieces, bands, tours and compositions. Produced and arranged by the upcoming young bassist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, who approaches the music with profound understanding, a wild imagination and indefatigable creativity, it features a dynamic band of young lions, truly the very best of the new generation. Each track tounching upon a different world tradition, this dynamic CD brings Zorn's lyrical compositions to life like never before." Personnel: Cyro Baptista: Percussion, Vocals Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: Oud, Bass, Gimbri, Vocals Tim Keiper: Drum Set, Percussion, Kamel Ngoni, Vocals Brian Marsella: Piano, Harpsichord, Pump Organ, Vocals [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Anthony Braxton/Ben Opie-Duets (Pittsburgh) 2008 : 2 x CDs $16.00 Anthony Braxton: sopranino, soprano, and alto saxophones; contrabass clarinet / Ben Opie: alto and tenor saxophones; B flat and contrabass clarinets "Recorded May 29, 2008 at the studios of Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, Ben Opie led a project that brought avant-garde stalwart and MacArthur Genius Award-winner Anthony Braxton to Pittsburgh. The festival, Braxton Plays Pittsburgh Plays Braxton, included a concert by the Braxton Septet, a large ensemble concert of Pittsburgh musicians playing Braxton’s music, a high school workshop, and two improvised performances at the National Aviary. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, Mr. Braxton requested that he and Mr. Opie record a session of duets for possible release. Those recordings are now available as Duets (Pittsburgh) 2008. Each CD consists of an approximately one hour performance, each based on one of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Musics series of compositions. Disc one is a performance of Composition 220, an early GTM in which an even series of pulsed notes gives way to a series of improvisations. Disc two is a performance of a late generation GTM, Composition 340, involves constantly-shifting rhythms, interspersed with graphic notations and improvisations. There are several lines blurred throughout: the division between composition and improvisation, and the differences between the two reed players. It's an intimate and exciting set of recordings." [OMP] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Jacques Coursil-Trails of Tears $16.00 Jacques Coursil, trumpet / Mark Whitecage, alto sax / Perry Robinson, clarinet / Jeff Baillard, keyboards and Fender Rhodes, / Bobby Few, piano / Alex Bernard & Alan Silva, double bass, Jose Zebina and Sunny Muarry, drums. Leaving music for academia many years ago, trumpeter Jacques Coursil invested considerable time in the study of colonialism and its effect on distressed populations. Coursil has since resumed playing in earnest, with his studies as inspiration, and his new music is showcased well on "Trails of Tears". The intent of this powerful recording is to express the emotion of displacement and loss on the Cherokee tribe that was forcibly removed from their native homeland in the 1830s (the trail of tears) and the response from those of African heritage who were enslaved in that territory. http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Dionysos-Dionysos $18.00 "Dionysos was one of Canada's most influential early progressive rock bands. Having formed in Quebec in 1969, they gained a name for combining French-language vocals with intricate musical interplay, and played at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 1971. This classic debut appeared the same year, combining stoner rock with psychedelia, blues and progressive influences, and makes a welcome return to CD here, together with background notes." "The majority of this album is guitar and keyboard rock with progressive moves."-The Acid Archives "The album experiments with psychedelia, blues and rock, and includes some fine progressive moments."-progquebec.com [Axis] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ The Ex-Catch My Shoe $16.00 "This is the 25th release on their own Ex Records & Catch My Shoe is the first with new singer Arnold de Boer. The songs range from high energy Gurage music from Ethiopia to hypnotic full on dance tunes. 'In a decade when everyone from The Incredible String Band to the Jesus Lizard has staged a comeback, The Ex top them all; not only are they still together thirty years after they first came together as a punk quartet playing gigs in Amsterdam squats, they've never compromised their values, and their music has never sucked. Key to their success is a commitment to constant change and improvisational acumen that enable them to turn circumstances that might break a lesser band into opportunities for growth.'" [Ex] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Flower Travellin' Band-Make Up 2 x CDs $25.00 "When released in 1973, Make Up, with its incredible faux-leather imitation attaché case outer bag, looked every bit the last word in over-the-top packaging and now originals, complete and in good condition, fetch hundreds of dollars in the collectors' market. However, despite the lavish packaging, Make Up did little to enhance the group's already considerable reputation and the various band members went their separate ways immediately after the album's release. Although the album has been described as "inconsistent," there are some definite stand-out tracks, and generally Make Up reflects the varied influences that the band drew on throughout their sadly short career. This double album consists of both live and studio recordings and features keyboardist Nobuhiko Shinohara. 2CD housed in a replica outer slip-case and deluxe gatefold sleeve, including the original LP insert. Numbered, limited edition." "A double album. Half live and half studio, Make Up was Flower Travellin Band's swan song and damn, did they ever know how to go out with a bang. This album passed up good long ago and went straight to Holy sh*tland. It's amazing. It is utterly infused with all the doom, power, and passion that made Flower Travellin Band so amazingly good. Buried under a swirl of burning heavy psychedelic Guitar, doom-wailing Vocals and primal thudding Drums. Oh, and an astounding twenty two plus minute apocalyptic live destruction of the song 'Hiroshima'" [Phoenix] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gilgamesh-Gilgamesh (remastered) $18.00 Gilgamesh was Canterbury keyboardist Alan Gowen's first professional band that he led, before he joined National Health. This was their 1st, which is a fine album very much in the Canterbury jazz/rock/Hatfield and the North mold, but with their own sound added. All players shine: Alan Gowen-electric piano and synthesizers, Phil Lee-guitar, Jeff Clyne-bass and Mike Travis-drums + guest vocalist Amanda Parsons. Produced by Dave Stewart. This has always been hard to find on CD and we are happy to have this one again, especially as it has been very hard to find for some years now. A minor classic. [Esoteric] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Index-Black Album + Red Album + Yesterday & Today 2 x CDs $23.00 "In the mid 1960s, Detroit Michigan was a thriving industrial city. It was at the edge of a cliff, however. The great ethnic diversity in the inner city was a brewing powder keg of civil unrest. This, coupled with a disillusioned population struggling to make some sense of a questionable war in the rice paddies of Vietnam, set an uneasy and troubling tempo for the future. Still, there were pockets of communities in the Detroit area where things were good and economic life was vibrant. The Grosse Pointes were such communities. It was on the outskirts of this political and racially tense era, in the affluent suburbs just outside of the city of Detroit, that Index was formed. The music of Index has been lauded by music heads for decades, and with good reason: it is bizarre, atmospheric, and 'home-made' (in the best of all possible ways); the band has a druggie sound, with songs full of feedback and fuzzy guitars, hazy guitar riffs and loud rhythms. Hidden amongst the echoing canyons of sound there's some snotty post-punk attitude wrapped up in that trippy velvet fuzz; a wonderful bleak sound, both droning and murky, the atonal side of late 1960's rock that would leave the most lasting impression on those who would eventually become punk, post-punk and indie rock artists like Joy Division or the Fall. Includes a 32-page booklet, written by Index drummer Jim Valice, detailing the band's rock and roll adventures, replete with photos and lyrics." [Lion] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Eddie Jobson-Ultimate Zero Tour Live 2 x CDs $28.00 Note that this is an 'official bootleg' type of thing. "Double CD live set culled from various gigs in Russia, Poland, and the US. Eddie Jobson put together a few different incarnations of his touring band but everyone featured is a stellar musician. Featured in the band are John Wetton (first time they played together in 30 years), Tony Levin, Greg Howe, Ric Fierabracci, Trey Gunn, Marco Minnemann, and Simon Philips. The selection of material ranges from classic UK tunes to covers of King Crimson and even the Mahavishnu Orchestra." [Globe] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Koenjihyakkei-070531 NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 Back in stock! This is the third DVD by Koenjihyakkei. As usual, this is a wild race into Zeuhl territory, with all the throbbing bass, wild, Vander-inspired drumming, & Kobaian-via-Japan singing you could hope for. This is the most professionally done of their DVDs. Recorded on May 31, 2007, it is different from previous Koenji CDs and DVDs as it includes guests Imahori Tsuneo (from Tipographica) on guitar, Tsuboy Akihisa (from KBB) on violin and Hoppy Kamiyama on second keyboard. Lasting a full 100 minutes, about half of this is improvised with the various guests and the second half features a number of songs from the albums. [Magaibutsu] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Koenjihyakkei-Live at Koenji High NTSC (all region) DVD $17.00 Docmenting their European tour of 2009, this features 2 new songs that are unavailable elsewhere and totals 75 minutes. Each DVD they release is a bit more professional looking and has more camera angles than the one before, and this is beginning to aproximate a completely professional DVD! Having seen this tour, this perfectly encapsulates just what makes this group so wild and so fun and is *the* DVD to own, if you are owning only one (at least until the next one!). As usual, this is a wild race into Zeuhl territory, with all the throbbing bass, wild, Vander-inspired drumming, & Kobaian-via-Japan singing you could hope for. [Magaibutsu] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Korekyojinn-Tundra $17.00 This is Korekyojinn's 6th release and another great, great power-trio release by this excellent Japanese band featuring amazing drummer Yoshida Tatsuya, leader of Ruins and Koenjihyakkei, mighty guitarist Kido Natsuki [Bondage Fruit] and astounding bassist bassist Nasuno Mitsuru [Altered States]. This band is one of my favorite things that Yoshida is involved with - and heaven knows that he's involved with a lot of good stuff! The basic framework of a good Korekyojinn album (and I think this is the best one yet) is that they have good structures for the band to work their magic around, but enough looseness that they can really take off and roar. Highly recommended if you like Yoshida's work, Bondage Fruit or great, heavy power trios. As a friend pointed out (something I never noticed, but once he pointed it out, I had to agree) it's obvious that these guys really like Yes, combined with heavier music, such as Magma; at its best, this reminds me a lot of the very heaviest guitar/bass/drums sections of Yes (think of the opening few minutes of Close to the Edge) with everyone just going full-throttle around a basic theme) but combine it with Christian Vander-esque drumming. Totally great; I can't recommend this enough. [Magaibutsu] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Various Artists-Let's Dance With Irregular Rhythms NTSC (all region) DVD $22.00 Back in stock. New, lower price. Packaged simply but attractively in a regular CD size case, this is a simple but attractive document of four band's performances in Japan on July 20th, 2002, captured in a two-camera shoot from a good angle. Each band gets 20' minutes or so - a little more or a little less. The two names I was most familiar with are Ruins and Pochakaite Malko. Ruins turn in their usual great, hyper blend of Magma and punk. Pochakaite Malko turn up in a different lineup than their one album: violin, keyboards, bass and drums, but it is still very recognizably their cross of Keith Emerson meets Happy Family sound. Aburadako, a band known in Japan for their dozen or so albums over the past 20 years (and the band who Tatsuya Yoshida played with before forming Ruins) are a vocals/guitar/bass/drums band, and are in the arty/techno punk mode. The final band is very interesting: Cicala Mvta. They feature 2 drummers, clarinet, guitar, cello, violin, French horn and a dancing girl with the most frightening haircut I've seen since my office moved away from across the street from a tattoo parlor. Their music uses a lot of Eastern European influences with a rock/avant flair. [Magaibutsu] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Magical Power Mako-Super Record $18.00 "The second and all-time best Mako album, originally issued by Japanese Polydor in 1975. Packaged in mini-lp jacket sleeve. Although MPM went on to record 20+ more records after this one, he would never exceed the spatial exuberance of Super Record. From the liner notes: 'Mako's music possesses a certain strange kind of texture. It's certainly is what they call rock, but contains elements that we can't describe so succinctly. It clearly goes beyond the various genres of music, and while full of them all, it sends forth a fierce glow. This 'Super Record' shows Mako looking down upon the earth from above, wandering through Alaska and Siberia, the Near East, Okinawa, and South America. Adding to the variety of folk music of India, Turkey, and Russia, his mandolin or Taisho koto, and especially his marvelously performed guitar, expressing fully the odor of the soil and mankind's universality." "The sound starts from a template of basic Japanese folk, and then proceeds to wildly pilfer from every Asian influence one can imagine -- there are Indian sitars, Turkish mandolins, and a distinctly Silk Road-ish sound (showcased most prominently on the song 'Silk Road'). Add danceable rock rhythms, layer on a heavy dose of swirling psychedelic effects, and Super Record produces a lush, dense, relentlessly creative sound."-Pop Matters [Phoenix] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Steve Morse-Coast to Coast $16.00 Amazing that the offical hype for this can't seem to mention his fantastic and much loved work with the Dregs/Dixie Dregs. But so it goes! "Steve Morse is best known for being the current guitarist of Deep Purple. But his passion for rock started long before joining the legendary British group. Out of all the musical endeavors he participated in, the Steve Morse Band is perhaps the most significant and personal one. This instrumental trio is well known for re-inventing rock in all possible ways, mixing it with jazz, country, funk and even bluegrass. "Coast to Coast" from 1992 is to this day considered one of the finest albums the band has ever released. This exclusive reissue bring back true classic of one of the world's most talented rock guitarists... The LP delivered a variety of styles ranging from bluegrass ("Runway Train") to classical music ("Flat Baroque"). New digipak edition is limited to numbered 2000 copies. Re-released on a golden disc." [Metal Mind] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Steve Morse-High Tension Wires $16.00 Amazing that the offical hype for this can't seem to mention his fantastic and much loved work with the Dregs/Dixie Dregs. But so it goes! "Steve Morse is best known for being the current guitarist of Deep Purple, replacing Ritchie Blackmore back in 1993. But his passion for rock started long before joining the legendary British group. The exclusive reissue of his third solo album from 1989 - "High Tension Wires" - brings back true classic of one of the world's most talented rock guitarists... It's one of the most laid back albums in the guitarist's catalogue. Features an eclectic mix of various genres, with such highlights as "Highland Wedding" and "Tumeni Notes". New digipak edition is limited to numbered 2000 copies. Re-released on a golden disc." [Metal Mind] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Steve Morse-Southern Steel $16.00 Amazing that the offical hype for this can't seem to mention his fantastic and much loved work with the Dregs/Dixie Dregs. But so it goes! "Steve Morse is best known for being the current guitarist of Deep Purple. But his passion for rock started long before joining the legendary British group. Out of all the musical endeavors he participated in, the Steve Morse Band is perhaps the most significant and personal one. This instrumental trio is well known for re-inventing rock in all possible ways, mixing it with jazz, country, funk and even bluegrass. "Southern Steel" from 1991 is to this day considered one of the finest albums the band has ever released. This exclusive reissue bring back true classic of one of the world's most talented rock guitarists... Features a guest performance by guitarist Jeff Watson (ex-Night Ranger). New digipak edition is limited to numbered 2000 copies. Re-released on a golden disc." [Metal Mind] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Conor Mulroy-The Glass Ocean $12.00 This is by guitarist/composer Conor Mulroy. Also appearing are drummer/percussionist Ches Smith (Mary Halvorson, John Zorn, Secret Chiefs 3, Tim Berne, etc. etc) and bassist Jordan Alegant. It's interesting to see a jazz and 'out rock' player like Ches involved in this because this album is a alluring and unique amalgam of progressive rock, post-rock and metallic influences. The Glass Ocean consists of one nearly hour long piece. It has long acoustic parts (think Steve Tibbetts or Mike Oldfield), some spacey parts (think Mono) and long metal-influenced parts (think Gordian Knot) and somehow he sticks it all together into a flowing whole. Highly recommended! [CM] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Pineapple Thief-Little Man $12.00 "Pineapple Thief are a band that has improved with each successive release. "Little Man" from 2008 continues in a style similar to Radiohead meets Porcupine Tree, but the band also continue to forge their own direction as well. This is not uplifting music, but rather intense and depressing. I am told that the concept of the album was based on the death of band leader Bruce Sword's child at birth a few years ago. If this is indeed the case it makes the material here that much more poignant. The album is moody and dark although it also rocks quite heavily in spots. The band continues to use interesting electronics and keyboards to spice up the material. The original albums that the band did for the Cyclops label all had rather muddy sound, but this is improved greatly on the re-master. Fans of Radiohead and / or Porcupine Tree should find a lot to enjoy from this underappreciated outfit."-Steve Sly [K-Scope] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Gyan Riley-Stream Of Gratitude $13.00 Gyan's a great guitarist and also the son of Terry Riley. He combines aspects of acoustic guitar geniuses like Jack Rose and John Fahey with his father's hypnotic spirit. "Gyan Riley is a virtuoso guitarist and composer from Northern California who has performed both as a soloist and in ensemble with various artists such as Zakir Hussain, Michael Manring, Dawn Upshaw, the San Francisco Symphony, the Falla Guitar Trio, the World Guitar Ensemble and composer/pianist/vocalist Terry Riley. For his first Tzadik release he presents an astounding recital of original works that draw upon and expand the rich legacy of classical music for solo guitar. Modern Etudes and more from this remarkable composer/guitarist now living in Brooklyn!" [Tzadik] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Hans-Joachim Roedelius-Gift of the Moment $18.00 "This is the tenth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1984 on Editions EG. On Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment, Roedelius broke away unequivocally from purely electronic music. If Lustwandel and Jardin Au Fou had seen the process set in motion, this was the album that completed the transition. Following the Selbstportraits, which had at least been created through the use of electric organ and synthesizers, Roedelius focused on the grand piano, sometimes accompanied by a cello, violin and guitar. Distant echoes of a not-so-distant musical past could only be detected in the occasional appearance of sparse chords played on a polyphonic synthesizer. Significantly, his arrival in Austria (having moved there a few years earlier) was much more than a geographical relocation. Roedelius responded to the musical culture of romanticism and the Biedermeier tradition, their influences seeping into his essentially modern understanding of composition in bewildering fashion on Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment. It was all too much for his listeners, reared on the more familiar sounds of Cluster and Harmonia. Moreover, the album wore a veil of delicate melancholy: no vibrant folk dances, no colorful carousels, no cheerful melodies. Instead, Roedelius offered a calm, almost detached form of music, openly acknowledging romantic heritage. Geschenk Des Augenblicks - Gift Of The Moment eluded contemporary definitions of the "experimental" concept, as Roedelius was now experimenting in new, eclectic areas, too weighty, too grainy to be labeled "proto New Age." Roedelius was not striving for perfection, but for authenticity -- a music stripped of disguise; and to this end he left little playing errors in the mix, fading out tracks rigorously to eliminate any bigger blunders." [Bureau B] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Klaus Schulze-La Vie Electronique 8 : 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! "DURING THE YEARS 1977-1983...Klaus Schulze recorded some of his more introspective works. Albums like MIRAGE, DUNE, and DIG IT saw a significant change in his style of playing and his way of composing. While Schulze was quickly expanding his collection of synthesizers, that ultimately had its effect on the outlook of the music and the possibilities of performing that in a more exquisite way. Play a track like "Synthasy" and notice that Schulze has come a long way since TIMEWIND and MOONDAWN. On this 8th part of LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE there's a selection of stuff that was archived beside his official albums in those years. A large part of this 3CD-set forms the appearance of concert recordings (made on a cheap, but stereo radio cassette recorder) from Klaus' 1979 tour with singer Arthur Brown. Besides the recordings that made up three sides of his monumental "...LIVE..." album that was released in 1980, there were plenty of other versions available of the material that Schulze played during the fall of 1979....The late seventies/early eighties' work of Klaus Schulze is often overlooked and underrated by many. Hearing the material featured on this 3CD-set, one can discover the 'other side' of that particular period when analogue was still there, but digital was about to become the power to be. And so on…"-Wouter Bessels, July 2008 [Made in Germany] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Le Stelle di Mario Schifano-Dedicato a... $18.00 "Mario Schifano was a leading Italian pop artist, and a friend of The Rolling Stones and other prominent 1960s countercultural figures. Inspired by Andy Warhol's association with The Velvet Underground, in 1967 he decided to sponsor a band. The album that resulted combines a lengthy improvisation with five shorter, psychedelic-influenced tracks, and is a landmark in the development of Italian rock. Pressed in tiny quantities, it was released in November 1967 (with artwork designed by Schifano), and original copies have sold for thousands of Euros, making this long-awaited CD reissue especially welcome. Includes background notes." "The only (true) italian psychedelic album. The first track is one of the most experimental tour de force of those years (the early Pink Floyd meet Zappa and John Cage?)and a stunning, powerful piece of absurd music. Side 2 is much more traditional, but some songs (Susan Song, Molto Lontano) have delicate melodies and are superbly arranged."-rateyourmusic.com [Relics] http://www.waysidemusic.com/ Weasel Walter/Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans-Electric Fruit $15.00 "Taken together, these three vibrant musicians represent the best of a coming generation of new talent with the NY Times and the Village Voice calling them "dazzling and light years ahead of their peers". Mary Halvorson, Peter Evans and Weasel Walter, forge a frenetic, yet painterly style of modern improvisational music, imbued with the intense speed and density of information that modern civilization faces. The players distinct instrumental voices weave labyrinthine strands of counterpoint. The music is brisk, strange and articulate, presenting a dry and witty sense of humor and play." 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Box 8427 - Silver Spring, MD 20907 - USA We accept cash, checks/moneyorders (as long as they are in US funds payable through a US bank), Discover, Visa and MasterCard credit cards as well as PayPal. ------ Recent reviews (or recently *discovered* reviews) of Cuneiform artists and titles (in English only): THE CLAUDIA QUINTET (see what Jason Moran had to say about "Royal Toast", as well as 9 other of his favorite albums UNTIL he gets married. Very funny: http://untiligetmarried.com/ LED BIB http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ http://www.independent.co.uk/ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ http://www.jazzwisemagazine. MAHAVISHNU PROJECT http://www.rollingstone.com/ ED PALERMO BIG BAND http://www. RICHARD PINHAS http://gapplegateguitar. JASON ROBINSON http://www.nctimes.com/ ------ You can always see which of our artists are on tour and get the links to the venues at: http://www.cuneiformrecords. or http://my.calendars.net/ ------ JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN June 26 - Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL (Celebrating the Hungry Brain's 10th Anniversary!!) June 28 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALGERNON March 18 - Empty Bottle - 1035 North Western Ave - Chicago, IL (with Roomate) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC with Encanti March 18 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm March 22 - David Friend Recital Hall - Berklee School of Music - 921 Boylston Street - Boston, MA - 7:00 pm May 6 - Democracy Center - 45 Mt. Auburn St. - Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA - $8.00 June 17 - Zumix - 260 Sumner St. - East Boston, MA 02128 (617) 568-9777 - 8:00 pm November 26 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CARLO DE ROSA'S CROSS-FADE March 18 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 (212) 242-1063 - 2 shows : 9:00 and 10:30 (CD release show!) CLAUDIA QUINTET November 18 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 DEAD CAT BOUNCE (our latest signing! CD out soon!) February 9 - Sycamore - 1118 Cortelyou Road Brooklyn, NY 11231 - (347) 240-5850 - 9:30 pm $10.00 (with Hannis Brown Band) April 2 - Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall - 58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - (718) 622-3300 ERGO March 5 - One Thousand Pulses - 9 Edward Place - Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 - 8:00 pm GUTBUCKET February 23 - Le Poisson Rouge - NYC, NY (NYC record release show!) - 7:00 pm April 7-21 – European CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) May 9 - Redcat - Los Angeles, CA (Gutbucket chamber orchestra) May 9-15 – West Coast USA CD release tour (dates to be added as confirmed) November 16 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 IDEAL BREAD November 15 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 HAMSTER THEATRE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 LED BIB February 28 - Purcell Room - London, UK (record release show) March 2 - The Harley - Sheffield, UK March 3 - The Spin Off - Leeds, UK March 4 – The Kazimier - Liverpool, UK March 5 - Voodoo Rooms - Edinburgh, UK March 6 - Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, Scotland, UK March 9 - Dempsey's - Cardiff, Wales, UK March 26 - Gateshead Jazz Festival - UK THE MUFFINS November 20 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 RICHARD PINHAS February 8 - Renne, France March 3 - Cite de la Musique - Paris, France (with Pascal Comelade) April 4 - Super de Luxe - Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (with Merzbow) additional Japanese dates to come POSITIVE CATASTROPHE February 19 - Jazz Gallery - 290 Hudson St. - NYC, NY - 3:30 pm workshop, 5:00 pm open rehearsal, 9:00 and 10:30 pm performance November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 PRESENT (with Univers Zero and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL November 23 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 ALEC K. REDFEARN and THE EYESORES November 27 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE February 27 - Chianti Tuscan Restaurant - 285 Cabot Street - Beverly, MA 01915 March 1 - The Plough & Stars - 912 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 - (617) 576-0032 - 10:00 pm May 20 - Barbés, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY - (347) 422-0248, 8 - 9:30pm November 17 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 THINKING PLAGUE November 22 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 UNIVERS ZERO (with Present and Aranis) September 16 - RIO Festival - Cap'Découverte - 81450 LE GARRIC (Carmaux) - France ZEVIOUS March 11 - Union Pool - 484 Union Ave, New York, NY 11211 - (718) 609-0484 (with Dysrhythmia, Smother Party, and A f**king Elephant) March 19 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave # C, Baltimore, MD 21230 -(410) 646-7334 (with TBA) March 20 - The Rotunda - 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (215) 573-3234 (with Electric Simcha) March 21 - Galaxy Hut - 2711 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201 - (703) 525-8646 (with Matta Gawa) March 22 - The Camel - 1621 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220-2106 - (804) 353-4901 (with TBA) March 23- Eastside Lounge - 485 Flat Shoals Rd, Atlanta, GA 30316 - (404) 521-9666 (with TBA) March 27 - Salvage Vanguard Theater (hosted by Church of the Friendly Ghost) - 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 (with TBA) March 31 - The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave,Phoenix, AZ 85007 - (602) 256-6006 (with Destroyah and TBA) April 1 - The Smell - 247 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - (213) 625-4325 - (with Upsilon Acrux and TBA) April 5 - The Walnut Room - 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO, 80205 (with Bottesini Project) April 10 - Melody Inn - 3826 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 - (317) 923-4707 - (with Kuan, Gash Hound, and TBA) April 11 - South Park Tavern - 1301 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, OH 45410 - (937) 586-9526 - (with Kuan) April 13 - The Bug Jar - 219 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607-3527 - (585) 454-2966 (with TBA) A lot more in the works (some very close to being confirmed) November 30 - The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 CUNEIFORM CURATES THE STONE I was very, very pleased to be contacted by John Zorn and offered the opportunity to book his amazing music space "The Stone" for two weeks in November. The Stone is a great listening space with good sound, comfortable chairs and great music six nights per week (they are closed on Mondays). There are two separate shows per night with a different act at each show and a separate admission to each show. Every cent of your admission money goes to the artists. Watch this space for updates to the schedule. The Stone - 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street) - NYC, NY 10009 Shows at 8:00 and 10:00 - set order not yet decided - so far confirmed are: November 15 - Ideal Bread November 15 - November 16 - Gutbucket November 16 - November 17 - Revolutionary Snake Ensemble November 17 - Positive Catastrophe November 18 - Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown November 18 - The Claudia Quintet November 20 - The Muffins November 20 - November 22 - Hamster Theatre November 22 - Thinking Plague November 23 - Radio Massacre International November 23 - November 25 - November 25 - November 26 - Birdsongs of the Mesozoic November 26 - November 27 - Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores November 27 - November 29 - November 29 - November 30 - Zevious November 30 - Upsilon Acrux Also: SInce there will be so many musicians coming in for the NYC gigs, we are working on setting up a 2 day festival in DC or Baltimore for a number of the bands. Location and venue to be determined. This will occur on Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20. This is still in the very early planning stages, but the idea is to have 5 bands per day over 2 days (i.e. 10 acts). When we know who is playing where and when and feel comfortable posting it, it will be posted. But this is still many months away. Watch this space. ------ 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. ------ 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!) : JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN-new, third album PETER BAUMAN- Romance '76 -Transharmonic Nights (available again for the 1st time in many, many years) SERGE BRINGOLF/STRAVE-Strave (great, fairly obscure zeuhl/jazz-rock album from 1980 from France by a large ensemble. I consider this one of the treasures of French zeuhl and it's really underknown and appreciated. Being reissued by Soleil Zeuhl, of course and if you don't know this one, you are really in for a treat!) CALOMITO-Cane di Schiena CASSIBER (box set with a live DVD as well as unreleased material on CD along with the four albums we already know and love) CHEER-ACCIDENT-No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (album #17 - what more need be said?) DEAD CAT BOUNCE-Chance Episodes FACTOR BURZACO-II (new album on AltrOck) FAR CORNER #3 FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA-a PHENOMENAl new album (#5) GILGAMESH-Gilgamesh (new, remastered version of the first Gilgamesh album) GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA-Glue Works (much anticipated 3rd album from instrumental progressive/post rock Swedes) MATS/MORGAN BAND-new studio album (may still be some time away...) ROB MAZUREK/SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND-Tres Cabecase Loucuras RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Rhizome RICHARD PINHAS + MERZBOW-Paris, Live 2008 (limited edition, vinyl only release) RELOGIOS DE FREDERICO (Frederico´s clocks)-Faskner (odd name, but amazing band from Brazil) WADADA LEO SMITH/ORGANIC-Heart's Reflection (new studio album by Wadada's extraordinary 4 guitar band!) SOFT MACHINE LEGACY-Relegation of Pluto/Live in Germany FRANCOIS THOLLOT-Scherzoo (3rd album!) THINKING PLAGUE-new album (studio album #6!) VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-A Grounding in Numbers (3rd album since their 00's reformation!) IF you'd like to view previous New In stock Announcements, they can be found here: http://ymlp47.net/archive_ |
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SaltyJon
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Posted: January 27 2011 at 15:02 |
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Also, not listed here but new to the site, the newest Korekyojinn album, the new Koenjihyakkei DVD, the new Acid Mothers Temple SWR CD and an older Koenjihyakkei DVD are all featured on the main page.
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TheGazzardian
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Joined: August 11 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8844 |
Posted: January 27 2011 at 13:58 |
And Cheer-Accident
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