any of these albums worth checking out?
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Topic: any of these albums worth checking out?
Posted By: Hierophant
Subject: any of these albums worth checking out?
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 04:27
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I was looking at the cuneiform record site and saw some interesting stuff. http://cuneiformrecords.com/ - http://cuneiformrecords.com/ Any of these albums worth checking out? |
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 04:49
| The interesting one to me is Radio Massacre International.They use real Mellotrons in their music and sound incredibly like early Tangerine Dream (Phaedra era) or early Edgar Froese.That link includes a five minute sample from their latest album.Awesome stuff! All TD fans should check this out! |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 04:59
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The Muffins MANNA/MIRAGE
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 07:02
| Cuneiform are a brilliant label for avant-prog and the like. I agree with the Muffins, but really it depends on what you want! Read the descriptions, listen to the samples, take your pick! It's a real melting pot of unusual music. Lovely label. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 07:37
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Just listening to John Surman - highly recommended. Remember he's a jazz artist, though. ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: progreviews
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 12:16
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Cuneiform is my favorite currently-running label. Great forward-looking stuff that isn't necessarily totally out there and inacessible to a regular ol' prog fan (unlike, say, a lot of ReR material, which is also great but tougher stuff).
The thing about Cuneiform is that there's a huge diversity of material on the label, from jazz (Graham Collier, John Surman) to electronic (Richard Pinhas, Peter Frohmader) to avant-prog/RIO (U Totem, Thinking Plague) to Canterbury (Soft Machine, Machine and the Synergetic Nuts) to more straight-up proggy-prog (Djam Karet, Deus ex Machina, Yang). No symph though! For the straight-up RIO type stuff, my favorite bands on the label: Univers Zero Present U Totem Motor Totemist Guild Thinking Plague 5uu's If you go to Wayside Music, Cuneiform's sister operation, you can find a bunch of older Cuneiform releases at $4 cutout prices. None of these are classics but most are very good. And while they are all forward-thinking, complex, experimental, and all those other things we claim to like, they are also not really prog, so be warned - Steve (the owner of the label and vendor) likes to use as his motto, "purposefully disappointing the 'true' 'prog' fan for over 25 years!"  ------------- http://www.progreviews.com/"> 
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: July 31 2005 at 16:33
| Richard Pinhas? |