Cuneiform Records FEBRUARY 2021 Newsletter

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view this email  in your browser Cuneiform Records FEBRUARY 2021 Newsletter   scroll down, or jump to ~~~~~~ NEW RELEASE!!  FEBRUARY 26, 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORD THUMBSCREW – Never Is Enough jazz from all-star U.S.A. trio ~~~~~~ OUT NOW!  JANUARY 2021 RELEASE ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS BISBÂYÉ - The Sense Of An Ending / Le Sens De La Fin math rock / tech metal from Canada's Quebec Province ~~~~~~ SNEAK PEAK! UPCOMING MARCH 2021 RELEASES ON CUNEIFORM DAVID BORDEN – Heaven-Kept Soul 21st century classical/ post-classical fugues GABRIEL BORDEN – Borden On Borden:  Gabriel Borden plays David Borden classical minimalist masterworks on electric guitar ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER – Bracknell – Bresse Improvisations jazz-rock / Canterbury/ progressive rock  ~~~~~~ SNEAK PEAK! UPCOMING APRIL 2021 RELEASES ON CUNEIFORM DESERTION TRIO - Numbers Maker alt-jazz from Philadelphia ~~~~~~ CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR :  Concerts ~~~~~~ HENRY KAISER CONCERT VIDEO SERIES On Cuneiform Records YouTube  ~~~~~~ ENJOY GREAT MUSIC AT HOME DURING WINTER'S COLD MONTHS  with  CUNEIFORM RECORDS' ACTIVITIES ONLINE • Join us on SOCIAL MEDIA • Discover new artists & albums on Cuneiform Records' BANDCAMP PAGE • Enjoy performances on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel • Purchase music from100s of labels at WaysideMusic.com, our sister store, estab.1980 • and much more! ~~~~~~ COMING OUT FEBRUARY 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: THUMBSCREW NEVER IS ENOUGH   File Under: JAZZ Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 478 Format: VINYL / CD / DIGITAL UPC CD / Digital:  045775047829 UPC Vinyl:  045775047812 NOTE: The vinyl edition of Never Is Enough includes a 'bonus' fourth side of four otherwise unavailable live recordings (20') from the group's Ours and Theirs tour! These tracks are only available on the vinyl edition; they are not on the CD and they are not part of the digital album. Street Date: February 26, 2021                                                                                                                                                                                     listen/share "Through a Window"                  How much is too much when it comes to Thumbscrew?           The all-star collective trio delivers a decisive answer with their             sixth album Never Is Enough, a riveting program of originals by                  Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson and Michael Formanek   TOMAS FUJIWARA – Drums  MARY HALVORSON – Guitar  MICHAEL FORMANEK – Double Bass and Electric Bass A funny thing happened while Thumbscrew was hunkered down at City of Asylum, the Pittsburgh arts organization that has served as a creative hotbed for the collective trio via a series of residencies. Late in the summer of 2019 the immediate plan was for drummer Tomas Fujiwara, guitarist Mary Halvorson and bassist Michael Formanek to rehearse and record a disparate program of Anthony Braxton compositions they’d gleaned from his Tri-Centric Foundation archives, pieces released last year on The Anthony Braxton Project, a Cuneiform album celebrating his 75th birthday. At the same time, the triumvirate brought in a batch of original compositions that they also spent time refining and recording, resulting in Never Is Enough, a brilliant program of originals slated for release on Cuneiform Records. There’s a precedent for twined projects by the trio serving as fascinating foils for each other. In June 2018, Cuneiform simultaneously released an album of Thumbscrew originals, Ours, and Theirs, a disparate but cohesive session exploring music by the likes of Brazilian choro master Jacob do Bandolim, pianist Herbie Nichols, and Argentine tango master Julio de Caro. Those albums were also honed and recorded during a City of Asylum residency. While not intended as the same kind of dialogue, The Anthony Braxton Project and Never Is Enough do seem to speak eloquently (if cryptically) to each other. “Braxton’s presence was very strong in this period, spending time with his music, reading some of the composition notes” Formanek says. “I think and hope the influence was there. It was definitely in our minds. I don’t know if there’s a direct influence, but definitely inspiration.” Each member contributed three pieces to the project, and the album opens with Fujiwara’s amiable “Camp Easy,” a gently loping piece that starts with a pastoral improvised passage that anticipates the spacious counterpoint between Formanek’s thoughtfully surefooted bass and Halvorson’s slippery lines. Fujiwara’s “Through an Open Window” features a very different kind of movement, with episodic motifs that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Inspired by a hotel view in Sarajevo, the piece suggests a layered panorama, “a cityscape skyline, rain falling, mountains, a lot of visual inspiration with people, clouds, and cars subtly moving and shifting,” Fujiwara says. With a rock ‘n’ roll edge, Halvorson’s “Sequel to Sadness” maintains the coiled energy of a panther stalking prey, with strategic pauses and a centerpiece drum solo that builds delicious tension. She also contributes the album’s most unabashed ballad, a supplely lyrical tune inspired by standards she’s been working on. And "Fractured Sanity" expands from a telegraphic guitar riff into quicksilver conversation with all three players offering agitated commentary. Formanek’s title track introduces a whole new array of shades to Thumbscrew’s already brimming palette. After decades of almost entirely avoiding the instrument on recordings, he created a squally, atmospheric piece that gives him plenty of space for his non-idiomatic electric bass work. “I conceived ‘Never Is Enough’ as a piece I was going to record on the electric bass, but could play on either one,” he says. The ambiguous title riffs on a classic New Yorker cartoon (“How about never — is never good for you?”) but speaks more to “the ever present feeling of being held captive by the insanity of the last four years of...whatever this has been.” Opening with a brief lockstep theme, Formanek’s “Emojis Have Consequences” gives each player a distinct part, with their evolving two-against-one interactions weaving a quietly volatile matrix. The album’s closer, “Scam Likely,” is another palette-expanding by Formanek, with a long abstract duo passage featuring his ambient, electronically altered and synthesized electric bass calls set against Fujiwara’s beautifully textured trap work. Halvorson’s arrival adds pulsars and star-bursts to the celestial soundscape, which coalesces like a galaxy being born. Which makes sense considering the music took shape in the midst of Thumbscrew’s deep dive into Braxton’s vast and varied oeuvre. “We weren’t separating them out when we were rehearsing and recording,” Halvorson says. “It was just going through this music, and one tune might be Braxton, and one might be an original. The thing I get from both is an intense sense of focus.” The focus each player brings to Thumbscrew and the dense web of experience they share is part of what makes the ensemble so extraordinary. Beyond their work as a trio they’re the foundation for Formanek’s Ensemble Kolossus, the hair-raising and ridiculously talent-laden large ensemble that released its 2016 debut, The Distance, on ECM. Formanek joined Halvorson on Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up’s third release, the critically hailed 2015 album After All Is Said (482 Music). And Halvorson’s Thumbscrew bandmates are the foundation of her song-based band Code Girl. For Halvorson, Thumbscrew has become an invaluable creative foundation. “It’s one of my favorite rhythm sections to be a part of, the power and energy and everything we create together,” she says. “At this point, all of us have used this rhythm section as leaders.”                 Halvorson and Fujiwara first started playing together in cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum’s Sextet. Among other bands, they also work together in Halvorson's Reverse Blue (with Chris Speed and Eivind Opsvik), the collective Illegal Crowns (with Bynum and Benoît Delbecq), and Mike Reed’s fascinating Sun Ra-inspired ensemble Living By Lanterns, which released the acclaimed 2012 Cuneiform album Old Myth, New Science. They also join forces on cellist Tomeka Reid’s debut album Tomeka Reid Quartet (Thirsty Ear) and with clarinetist Ben Goldberg on The Out Louds (Relative Pitch Records), a collective trio featuring their live-wire connection in a free improv setting. More recently, Halvorson joined Bynum, Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Seabrook and Ralph Alessi on Fujiwara’s acclaimed 2017 album Triple Double (Firehouse 12 Records). Based in Brooklyn, Fujiwara has also earned renown as a composer and bandleader who performs and records with some of the most exciting musicians of the current generation. He’s been described by Point of Departure as “a ubiquitous presence in the New York scene...an artist whose urbane writing is equal to his impressively nuanced drumming.” One of his primary vehicles for the past decade has been Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up, which debuted on 2010’s Actionspeak (482 Music) with Halvorson, Jonathan Finlayson, Brian Settles, and Danton Boller. Aside from Trevor Dunn and Formanek taking over from Boller on bass on 2012's The Air Is Different and 2015's After All Is Said, respectively, the quintet has featured the same players on the subsequent 482 Music albums. Other notable ensembles include 7 Poets Trio with Tomeka Reid and Patricia Brennan, documented on 2019’s eponymous RogueArt release, and his collaborative duo with cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, captured on 2007's True Events (482 Music), 2010's Stepwise (NotTwo) and 2014's self-released Through Foundation. Known for the diversity of his creative work, he’s also performed with leading improvisers and composers such as John Zorn, Matana Roberts, Joe Morris, Nicole Mitchell, Amir ElSaffar, and Benoit Delbecq, among many others. The New York Times described him as a drummer who “works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting. His style is forward-driving but rarely blunt or aggressive, and never random. He has a way of spreading out the center of a pulse while setting up a rigorous scaffolding of restraint...A conception of the drum set as a full-canvas instrument, almost orchestral in its scope.” Also based in Brooklyn, Halvorson has been described by JazzTimes as “a singular talent,” and by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the most exciting and original guitarists in jazz—or otherwise.” In recent DownBeat’s Critics Polls Halvorson has been celebrated as guitarist, rising star jazz artist, and rising star composer of the year, and in 2019 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. One of New York City’s most in-demand guitarists, over the past decade Halvorson has worked with such diverse musicians as Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, John Dieterich, Trevor Dunn, Bill Frisell, Ingrid Laubrock, Jason Moran, Joe Morris, Tom Rainey, Jessica Pavone, Tomeka Reid, Marc Ribot and John Zorn. Halvorson has released a series of critically acclaimed albums on the Firehouse 12 label, from 2008’s Dragon’s Head, her trio debut featuring bassist John Hébert and drummer Ches Smith. The group expanded to a quintet with trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon on 2010’s Saturn Sings and 2012’s Bending Bridges, a septet with tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and trombonist Jacob Garchik on 2014’s Illusionary Sea, and finally an octet with pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn on 2016’s Away With You. She also released the 2015 solo recording Meltframe, and most recently the second Code Girl release, 2020’s Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12 Records) with trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, saxophonist/vocalist Maria Grand, and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi (singing Halvorson’s lyrics). Halvorson and Fujiwara connected with Formanek when he subbed in Bynum’s band in 2011, and the chemistry was so readily apparent they immediately started looking into performance opportunities as a trio. He’s been described as “a bold and unclassifiable bassist and composer,” while The New York Times has noted that his music is always “graceful in its subversions, often even sumptuous.” Whether it’s for a small band or a large ensemble, he creates modern jazz that is earthy yet atmospheric, always alive with dark-hued melody and bone-deep rhythms, rich in dynamic possibility and the sound of surprise. Even with decades of experience to his credit – he got his start as a Bay Area teenager playing with the likes of Joe Henderson and Tony Williams – Formanek has made some of his keenest creative leaps in recent years, documented on a sequence of justly lauded recordings. His three ECM albums as a leader each scored rare five-star reviews in DownBeat. These included two discs – Small Places (2012) and The Rub and Spare Change (2010) – featuring a powerhouse quartet with saxophonist Tim Berne, pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver; the third was a magnificent record – The Distance (2016) – that showcased his compositions for an all-star big band, playfully dubbed Ensemble Kolossus. Formanek’s first album for the Intakt label, Time Like This (2018), saw him leading his new Elusion Quartet with saxophonist Tony Malaby, pianist Kris Davis and drummer Ches Smith to “soul-stirring” effect, according to All About Jazz. Formanek’s latest release is Even Better, which presents for the first time his Very Practical Trio, featuring Halvorson and altoist Tim Berne. Born in San Francisco in 1958, Formanek has performed in myriad contexts over the decades, including with masters from Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to Freddie Hubbard and Fred Hersch. Among his peers, the bassist has collaborated closely with Tim Berne, making a duo album with the saxophonist (Ornery People) and performing extensively in Berne’s iconic Bloodcount band in the ’90s. Formanek also released a solo LP – Am I Bothering You? – via Berne’s Screwgun label in 1998. Formanek’s early recordings as a leader included a string of quartet and septet releases for Enja from 1990 to 1996. As a sideman, he has recorded with Uri Caine, Dave Burrell, Jane Ira Bloom, Gary Thomas, Jack Walrath, Harold Danko, Lee Konitz, Freddie Redd, Art Pepper, Chet Baker and even Elvis Costello, along with appearing on albums by such frequent partners as Halvorson and Fujiwara, Berne, Malaby, multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich, trumpeter Dave Ballou, saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, drummer Devin Gray and pianist Angelica Sanchez. From 2001 to 2018, Formanek taught jazz bass and jazz history at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he also directed the Peabody Jazz Orchestra. He continues to teach at the School for Improvisational Music in New York, along with conducting workshops and masterclasses internationally.                                                   ~~~~~ Recorded September 8–11, 2019 by Nate Campisi at Mr. Smalls Studio, Pittsburgh, PA.  Mixed March through June 2020 by Jake K. Leckie, Los Angeles, CA.  Mastered July 2020 by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT.  Produced by Thumbscrew.  Original artwork by Warren Linn.  Design by Steve Byram.  Tracks 1, 4 & 8 composed by Tomas Fujiwara (BMI)  Tracks 2, 5 & 7 composed by Mary Halvorson (BMI)  Tracks 3, 6 & 9 composed by Michael Formanek (Formtone Music, BMI) pre-order on Bandcamp for other Thumbscrew recordings on Cuneiform, see:  http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/thumbscrew.html return to top OUT NOW! RELEASED JANUARY 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: BISBÂYÉ THE SENSE OF AN ENDING / LE SENS DE LA FIN   File Under: METAL / EXPERIMENTAL / PROGRESSIVE / MATH ROCK / TECHNICAL METAL / PROGRESSIVE Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 474 UPC:  045775047423 Format: CD / DIGITAL Street Date: January 22, 2021 listen/share                                  Math rock act BISBÂYÉ’s THE SENSE OF AN ENDING                                                        is exactly how you felt about 2020:                                            challenging, intense, unpredictable, and complex                                                 (while, ultimately, learning something from it) JEAN-PIERRE LAROUCHE : Guitar  NATHANAËL LABRÈCHE : Guitar  JULIEN DAOUST : Drums  HUGO VEILLEUX : Drums  VINCENT SAVARY : Bass Bisbâyé—pronounced ‘bees-bow-yay’—translates as “what happens when there is nothing else one can do, when uncertainty and obstacles require excelling oneself”. Initially from Quebec’s remote region of Saguenay (home of prog metallurgists Voïvod), the Montreal-based band was founded in 2001 by guitarist Jean-Pierre Larouche with drummer Hugo Veilleux.  Currently based in Montreal, Bisbâyé is rounded up by bassist Vincent Savary, guitarist Nathanaël Labrèche, and a second drummer, Julien Daoust.  Bisbâyé includes two drum kits, with the two percussionists answering each other’s beats in real time, creating a compelling stereo effect. Larouche, the band’s leader and main composer,  cites Don Caballero and Meshuggah as influences, but experiencing Bisbayé's music is something else entirely. Yes, the intricacy and drum-heavy approach of Bisbâyé’s compositions can remind the former, while the sheer aggression of some of their most intense moments is akin to the Swedish extreme metal act’s surgical sound. King Crimson’s influence is also undeniable, so is the sophistication of the math-rock genre’s best acts (e.g., Battles, Dillinger Escape Plan), while you can find some of Larouche’s favorite composers (Steve Reich, Gyorgy Ligeti) in there as well. We might also say there is a bit of Primus guitarist Larry Lalonde’s discordant riffing in Bisbâyé’s wall of sound. Larouche explains: "By superposing melodic layers and different forms of rhythms (polyrhythms, isorhythms, phase shifting and contrapuntal ones), I create sonic textures of emerging properties. Their sometimes disorienting and complex effects are contrasted with instrumentation and simple composition structures borrowed to popular music. Mostly, I tend to toy with the listener’s perception, inviting them to let go of their preconceptions to dive completely into the sound itself to explore new frontiers of possibilities. " After releasing two EPs (Bisbâyé, 2001; II, 2003) and as many albums (Gestalt, 2013; Synkronik, 2016) independently, the Canadian five-piece recorded its new offering at the Makina and Kappa studios, right before the lockdown. Instead of the usual collection of separate tracks, Le Sens de la Fin (The Sense of an Ending) was the first album Larouche conceived and composed as a whole, with the collaboration of Savary (on "Caustique"). "I wrote the pieces instinctively, and the entire process took less time than on previous records,” mentions the guitarist. "The inspiration behind the title lies in today’s withdrawal into individualism. This, emanating from the feeling of hopelessness, where there is nothing more we can do collectively to improve the world. Our collective unconscious embedded this sense of an ending, pushing us into this reclusive fallback." Undeniably, this album – Bisbâyé's first release on Cuneiform Records –  is their most accomplished effort so far. It sums up everything that initially made what Bisbâyé is. This time around, the band put a lot of emphasis on their sound’s polyrhythmic aspect, while tightening up the compositions’ structures. Underneath densely layered, yet dissonant arrangements, there are some subtle, looped up grooves that will grow on you after a few listens. The Sense of an Ending is guaranteed to teleport any open-minded avant-garde music enthusiast into Bisbâyé’s voiceless multiverse. A place where heavy music’s most hypnotic riffs perfectly cohabit with asymmetric jazz, condensed prog, luminous melodies and the most hostile soundscapes.                                                                          ~~~~~ “Polyrhythmic anger and dissonant mathematics. That’s how I would describe Bisbâyé’s album. Rarely have I listened to music where polyrhythms truly feel polyrhythmic. [Here] there’s no doubt you’ll feel each separate rhythmic pattern on its own, thanks to the ingenious arrangement of the drums and guitars, and it creates an unnatural, counter-intuitive, and mesmerizing feel. This particular playing paints a form that is truly Bisbâyé’s own...” – Can This Even Be Called Music ENREGISTRÉ ENTRE DÉCEMBRE 2019 ET JANVIER 2020 AU STUDIO MAKINA ET AU STUDIO KAPPA À MONTREAL.  RECORDED BETWEEN DECEMBRE 2019 AND JANUARY 2020 AT STUDIO MAKINA AND STUDIO KAPPA IN MONTREAL. available on Bandcamp return to top SNEAK PEAK!!!! COMING OUT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS IN MARCH 2021      DAVID BORDEN      Heaven-Kept Soul CUNEIFORM RECORDS Format: Digital   Cat.#: Cuneiform Rune 3350 * 21st century classical / post-classical music / new fugues by American minimalist composer / keyboardist/ electronic music pioneer David Borden ~~~~~~ GABRIEL BORDEN   Borden on Borden : Gabriel Borden Plays David Borden CUNEIFORM RECORDS Format: Digital         Cat.#: Cuneiform Rune 3350 * Guitarist Gabriel Borden plays music by composer David Borden, including works from his father's The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, the classical minimalist masterpiece that critics have called "the Goldberg Variations of Minimalism" ~~~~~~ ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER  Bracknell – Bresse Improvisations    * CUNEIFORM RECORDS Format: Digital         Cat.#: Cuneiform Records Rune 3348 Melodic improvisations by two much-missed British jazz-rock giants and Canterbury icons, keyboardist Alan Gowen and bassist Hugh Hopper   return to top SNEAK PEAK!!!! COMING OUT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS APRIL 2021   return to top CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR 2021 CALENDAR In an evolving and recently re-surging COVID-19 world, these dates are ALL tentative. Please check with venues, close to the concert date, to confirm. We look forward to live concerts resuming AS SOON as it is safe to do so.  Thank you.  See also the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records. THE GREAT HARRY HILLMAN The exuberant Swiss jazz/ pop/ beyond group - named after the American triple-Gold Medal winner at the 1904 Summer Olympics - are one of the most active groups on the European festival and club circuit, top-notch live performers ceaselessly honing their skills. May 14 - Konservi - Seon, Switzerland Listen to & buy: Tilt HENRY KAISER Grammy winner Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz, world, and contemporary experimental musics. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THE HENRY KAISER WEEKLY SOLO SERIES, presented exclusively on the CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel  When the Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, Henry Kaiser began curating & presenting a weekly series of pre-recorded music videos on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel for music lovers isolating at home. When lockdowns began to lift, the series proved to be so popular that Henry continues to post new videos on our YouTube every Thursday. It's important to note that, while called Henry Kaiser Weekly Solo Series, many videos depict duets and bands (both recent [#22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpNBqBmnLw and #31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKafal721z0, showing performances of A Love Supreme Electric); and vintage, as in the 1994 Valentines concert of Grateful Dead material in the Fukuoka Dome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf54D0YdLtA ). Follow Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel to see a new video from Henry every Thursday; all videos are archived online.   Listen to & buy: Albums by Henry Kaiser & Friends  on Cuneiform A Love Supreme Electric [Vinny Golia / John Hanrahan / Henry Kaiser / Wayne Peet / Mike Watt]: A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme and Meditations  Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Sky Garden & Upriver     Five Times Surprise [Henry Kaiser / Anthony Pirog / Tracy Silverman / Jeff Sipe / Andy West]:  Five Times Surprise Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell:  The Celestial Squid Henry Kaiser: Lemon Fish Tweezer; Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser: Friends & Enemies     Healing Force [Vinny Golia • Aurora Josephson • Henry Kaiser • Mike Keneally • Joe Morris • Damon Smith • Weasel Walter]: Healing Force:  The Songs of Albert Ayler                       V.A.: 156 Strings: Nineteen Totally Original Acoustic Guitarists THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND "Twenty-first century big-band music doesn’t get more exciting and impressive than this." – Jazz Times An astounding 18 piece jazz ensemble of five woodwind players, four trumpeters, three trombonists, two keyboardists, guitar, violin, bass and drums, led by arranger, composer & saxophonist Ed Palermo, one of America's most singular arrangers who draws on jazz, pop and rock tunes for his top-notch band. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of Frank Zappa, one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century, but no one does it with the ease, skill and originality that Ed and his band do! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Due to Covid concerns/ restrictions, Ed is performing these shows with  an octet – “Eddy’s Chemistry Set” – and not the 16 piece Ed Palermo Big Band] March 20 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 March 27 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 Listen to & buy: Ed Palermo Big Band albums on Cuneiform: The Adventures of Zoyd Zundgren; The Great Un-American Songbook Vols. 1&2; One Child Left Behind; Oh No! Not Jazz!!; Eddy Loves Frank; Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance                   SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER "Schnellertollermeier marries brutality to avant-garde rock and jazz. A classic power trio from Switzerland, the band plays with punk fury and dazzling technical dexterity to create booming, bone-rattling music that stalks, confronts and astonishes." – The Wall Street Journal Brutal-jazz power trio Schnellertollermeier doesn't compromise. Their fresh and uncompromising mix of jazz, punk, rock, sound and free improvised music, combined with great musicianship, interplay and intense energy, has awed audiences at festivals of jazz, rock, pop and experimental music worldwide. In celebration of their new release on Cuneiform, the album 5, they tour Northern Europe this winter. _____________________________ February 11 - ISC Club- Neubrückstrasse 10- Bern, Switzerland October 2 - Le Singe - Untergasse 21, Biel, Switzerland October 9 - Guten-Morgen-Eberswalde - Eberswalde, Germany October 12 - Dexter - Vindegade 65 - Odense C, Denmark October 14 - Rotondes - Rue de la Rotonde - Luxembourg, Luxembourg October 15 - LantarenVenster - Otto Reuchlinweg 996 - Rotterdam, Netherlands October 16 - LOCH - Bergstraße 50 - Wuppertal, Germany Listen to & buy: 5, Rights & X      To set up press and radio interviews with Cuneiform Artists while on tour, please contact: promo@cuneiformrecords.com return to top CUNEIFORM RECORDS WINTER ACTIVITIES ONLINE !!   We invite you to  Spend the Winter Months with Us, Online! Because of the emergence of new strains of Covid 19 and resurgences, and delays in vaccine distribution, many places have reinstated lockdowns and/or other cautionary measures.  Wherever you are, and why-ever you are there, we invite you to visit us online and enjoy the music and videos we present for your enjoyment!     Many of us thought - or hoped -  the pandemic would be over by now, but  that's not the case.  Music can make a positive difference in our lives, and help us survive prolonged weird and tumultuous times.  All of us long to attend live concerts again, but until that's safe, let's enjoy music at home.  You can enjoy sample tracks from over 400 recordings released by Cuneiform Records since 1984 on our website, Bandcamp, SoundCloud or YouTube, and also watch recordings of recent and vintage concerts that we regularly post on YouTube.  Cuneiform Records has a treasure chest of interesting music to serve as soundtrack, inspiration and solace during these challenging times. We have a mammoth catalogue of releases by some of avant music's most esteemed icons as well as young rising stars, available for purchase at the Cuneiform Records Bandcamp store and at one of our sister companies, Wayside Music. Your purchases support indie musicians, indie labels, and small business.  • Shopping for treats to bring smiles to yourself and your music loving friends this winter?  Please stop by both Wayside Music and Cuneiform Records's Bandcamp store for great gifts! • Discover new music on Cuneiform Records' BANDCAMP PAGE :  support our artists & our indie label by purchasing music.   • Visit our internet store, WaysideMusic.com (established 1980!), to purchase  music from ALL your favorite labels!  We also have a ton of FREE entertainment for your enjoyment on several online platforms:   TUNE INTO CUNEIFORM RECORDS' YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR HOURS OF MUSIC VIDEOS, AND HENRY KAISER WEEKLY VIDEO SERIES: • Enjoy hours on Cuneiform Records' YouTube CHANNEL:  free music videos, videos of live shows, & samples from 400+ adventurous releases!   And we've expanded our video content during the pandemic: every Thursday, guitarist Henry Kaiser continues to post a new 'live' concert on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel!  Read how Henry creates these "live" concerts –which are taped beforehand and not streamed - in a Guitar Moderne interview, "The New "Live". • Enjoy and share samples of music by releases of countless Cuneiform artists on the Cuneiform Records' SoundCloud Site. • Visit & Like & Follow our Facebook PAGE for Cuneiform Records. • Join our Facebook GROUP: Fans of Cuneiform Records. • Follow @CuneiformRecord onTwitter • Visit the CuneiformRecords.com official WEBSITE for extensive information on the artists and recordings on our label,  upcoming concerts & much more. • Media professionals: find music to LICENSE from Cuneiform for movies, ads etc via our sister site TheMusicOutpost.com. • Were you forwarded this email from a friend?  If so, make sure you sign up for the Cuneiform NEWSLETTER to  get this monthly newsletter in your email box, in addition to receiving notices for Cuneiform's weekly "$5 Friday" offers – Cuneiform selects a special album from its archive each weekend,  to be sold in download format via Bandcamp, that weekend only,  for $5.   WE LOOK FORWARD TO SPENDING 2021 WITH YOU, ONLINE!   Cuneiform YouTube Cuneiform Website Facebook FanGroup Facebook Page Cuneiform Twitter Cuneiform SoundCloud Cuneiform Bandcamp Instagram Email Cuneiform return to top Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* Cuneiform Records, All rights reserved. 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