Cuneiform Records APRIL 2021 Newsletter

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view this email  in your browser Cuneiform Records APRIL 2021 Newsletter scroll down, or jump to ~~~~~~ NEW RELEASE!  OUT APRIL 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS DESERTION TRIO - Numbers Maker alt-jazz/out-jazz from Philadelphia ~~~~~~ OUT NOW!  MARCH 2021 RELEASES ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS DAVID BORDEN – Heaven-Kept Soul 21st century classical / post-classical works for piano & electronics GABRIEL BORDEN – Borden On Borden:  Gabriel Borden plays David Borden classical minimalist masterworks on multitracked  guitar ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER – Bracknell – Bresse Improvisations jazz-rock / Canterbury/ progressive rock  ~~~~~~ SNEAK PEEK! UPCOMING MAY 2021 RELEASE ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS JACK O' THE CLOCK – Leaving California ~~~~~~ CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR    LIVE CONCERTS & TOURS MUSEUM OF MAKING MUSIC @Home PRESENTS: Antarctica: Music from the End of the World HENRY KAISER PRESENTS:  New MONTHLY CONCERT Series EXCLUSIVELY on CUNEIFORM RECORDS YOU TUBE CHANNEL THINKING PLAGUE LIVE VIDEOS on Cuneiform Records YouTube  ~~~~~~ SPRING INTO GREAT MUSIC 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 APRIL 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS DESERTION TRIO NUMBERS MAKER File Under:  JAZZ / ELECTRIC JAZZ / AVANT GARDE / BRUTAL JAZZ Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 479 Format: CD / Digital UPC: 0-45775-04792-8 Street Date:  April 23, 2021   "[Desertion Trio] hits the sweet spot between Neil Young's exploratory      Crazy Horse jams and a spaghetti western soundtrack." – NPR   listen to / share: Philadelphia's fiery Desertion Trio throw down in front of a live studio audience on the thrilling new Numbers Maker, taking edgy, dark cues from spy guitar themes, electric-era Miles Davis, and much more. NICK MILLEVOI – guitar JOHNNY DEBLASE – bass JASON NAZARY – drums From the first notes of “Albion,” the opening track on the Desertion Trio’s third album, Numbers Maker,  its first release on Cuneiform Records, it is clear that the Philly band is leaning into a new direction. Rolling Stone described their previous effort — 2019’s Twilight Time, a record of ecstatically-arranged covers of mid-century hits — as “surreally deconstructed retro pop,” but this new music has a darker edge that hits a little differently. The opening melody offers an oblique, fisheye reference to the sound of 1960s spy and surf guitar themes while a collective improvisation warps that perspective, shooting for the stars with sprawling and effected tones. Although Desertion Trio is following a new musical path, the sound of the band — described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “exploratory, distorted, and warped” — is still recognizable. On “Powers,” the band builds angular riff-age into a sideways blues motif that is akin to 2018’s Midtown Tilt, while the album’s centerpiece, “Buist,” is an energetic romp that pairs wah-soaked shredding from guitarist Nick Millevoi with a propulsive, tumbling groove from bassist Johnny DeBlase and drummer Jason Nazary, owing an equal debt of gratitude to Funkadelic guitar-maestro Eddie Hazel as well as the darker side of Miles Davis’ electric bands. While the band has always been a three-piece, Desertion Trio brought friends along on their previous records, such as keyboardists Jamie Saft and Ron Stabinsky and Sun Ra Arkestra vocalist Tara Middleton. Stripped down and focused on Desertion Trio's brutal core, Numbers Maker is thus their first true trio release. With Nazary’s addition to the drum chair, the band’s pulse beats a little differently, allowing them to go places they’ve never gone before. Nowhere is that clearer than on “Taboo” and “Numbers Maker,” both tunes from previous Desertion Trio records where the group reconstructs these songs and, in the case of “Numbers Maker,” shifts into hyperdrive with sheer abandon. In order to celebrate the spirit of a power trio in its natural, unadorned state, Desertion Trio recorded Numbers Maker in front of a live audience at New Haven, CT’s Firehouse 12 studio. The result is a detailed studio recording that finds the band all-in with no overdubs and no re-takes, capturing the energy of live improvisations in an effort that harkens back to Millevoi and DeBlase’s work with their previous band, the Tzadik-released brutal prog trio Many Arms. Released April 23, 2021, Numbers Maker is the band's first album on Cuneiform Records, although the Philly trio and DC-based label have long been good friends. The third Desertion Trio release, Numbers Maker follows the trio's two previous, critically acclaimed albums, which captured attention from Rolling Stone and NPR, as well as cutting-edge webzines and fans. Their first album, 2018’s Midtown Tilt, was embraced by Noisey as “supremely weird desert noir” and by Aquarium Drunkard as a “nonstop instrumental thrill-ride.” Desertion Trio's bandleader, composer and guitarist, Nick Millevoi, previously worked with Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band and John Zorn. NPR described the guitarist's sound as “like a rocket darting skyward between clouds.” Bassist Johnny DeBlase has worked alongside Millevoi in the band Many Arms and in performing the music of John Zorn. In addition, DeBlase is a member of Zevious (who have two releases on Cuneiform Records) and Sabbath Assembly. Desertion Trio's drummer, Jason Nazary is also a member of such bands as Anteloper, Bloor, Clebs and Little Women.                  Recorded live at Firehouse 12 on October 18, 2019 by Greg DiCosta Mixed and mastered at Mengroth by Colin Marston Cover art by Erik Ruin / Design & layout by Chester Rogers Photos #1 (multi-exposure) + #3 (portraits) by Katie Rey Photo #2 (performance) by Mike Rogers All songs by Nick Millevoi except “Taboo” by Margrita Lecuona & Al Stillman. pre-order / buy on Bandcamp: “...the band’s tunefulness and delicate touch—even during its most punishing passages—have a universal profundity..." – Chicago Reader   return to top OUT NOW ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS! MARCH 2021 RELEASES                  DAVID BORDEN         Heaven-Kept Soul CUNEIFORM RECORDS Format: Digital   Cat.#: Cuneiform Rune 3350 * One of America's greatest classical minimalist composers, David Borden (b. 1938) has written some of minimalism's most significant works despite being less widely known than contemporaries Terry Riley, Phillip Glass and Steve Reich.  The composer and keyboardist is also an electronic music pioneer; as leader of  Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., the world's first synth ensemble, Borden was intimately familiar with Bob Moog's Trumansburg warehouse and wrote works to be played on the inventor's early instruments. Over the years, Borden has written numerous works for both solo performance and ensembles of various size (including Mother Mallard), and for acoustic, electric and electronic instrumentation, in addition to also writing for dance. The  32 pieces for piano  and electronics on Heaven-Kept Soul, released by Cuneiform Records, are among his recent works. File Under: CLASSICAL  Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3350 Format:  DIGITAL Release Date: March 19, 2021   listen to / share this track   "The title Heaven-Kept Soul is an anagram derived from the name Kathleen Supové, the pianist for whom this piece was composed. She is known for her boundary- breaking ways of dissolving the wall between performer and audience.  The piece is patterned structurally on The Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. It has thirty variations on a theme stated in the beginning by the piano. The compositional challenge is that starting with "Variation No. 3," every third variation is a canon at a different interval. Most of the variations are composed for synthesizers accompanying an amplified piano; there are a few variations for solo piano. The synthesizer and sampled sounds have been collected on computers, mapped onto keyboards, and played using a USB keyboard controller and laptop with REASON software. Altogether, the piece requires two USB keyboard/ computer performers and one pianist." – David Borden Credits: David Borden - virtual piano, virtual prepared piano, samplers, synthesizers, drum Compositions by David Borden buy on Bandcamp: Other recordings by David Borden / Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co on Cuneiform:  (click album for purchase info) Places, Times & People: medium-length works (including "Enfield in Winter") ranging from piano duets, to electronic soundscapes, to dense, interlocking multi-keyboard works for keyboard.      The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, David Borden's 12 part masterwork, was released on Cuneiform Records as a series of 3 CDs from 1988-1991           Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. early electronic recordings 1970-1976        GABRIEL BORDEN   Borden on Borden : Gabriel Borden Plays David Borden CUNEIFORM RECORDS Format: Digital         Cat.#: Cuneiform Rune 3350 * A solo tour-de-force of post-classical guitar (acoustic and multi-tracked electric guitar) and classical minimalism. Guitarist Gabriel Borden plays music by composer David Borden, including works from his father's The Continuing Story of Counterpoint (Cuneiform Records, 3 CDs), the classical minimalist masterpiece that critics have called "'the Goldberg Variations of Minimalism' of minimalism, a canon of work that defines a style and an era."  Jaw dropping in complexity, elegance, precision and force, Borden on Borden: Gabriel Borden Plays David Borden is a masterwork in which performance, composition and recording/production are intimately entwined.   File Under: CLASSICAL / POST-CLASSICAL / GUITAR Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3350 Format:  DIGITAL Street Date: March 19, 2021   listen to / share this track The download of this album includes a digital booklet with extensive liner notes by Gabriel Borden and his father, David Borden.  Brief excerpt:   "During the summer of 1987 Trudy and I took our son Gabriel to see guitarist David Torn perform in Trumansburg, NY at the Rongovian Embassy, AKA The Rongo. Gabe was eighteen. He had had a few years of piano lessons when he was younger, but had given them up at around age 11.  The next day, after hearing David Torn’s beautiful performance, Gabe bought a Stratocaster, and proceeded to teach himself the guitar. That is to say, he spent eight to twelve hours a day learning the instrument on his own with the help of various guitar method books he bought along the way.  About a year later, he contacted Chris Woitach, a local guitarist who now lives in Washington State, for lessons. He also discussed with me and with Les Thimmig, the woodwind virtuoso and great jazz improviser who was a member of my ensemble Mother Mallard, how best to learn about improvisation. I wasn’t much help, but Les recommended a book by Howard Roberts, the noted jazz guitarist. So Gabe added that to his daily routine or should I say marathon, because, really, from the summer of 1987 until the end of summer 1989 he spent practically all of his waking hours practicing the guitar. Many, many hours were spent methodically upping the tempo of the metronome so that he could play things perfectly at any tempo he chose, no matter how fast or slow. By the end of the summer of 1989 he sounded like a virtuoso. Actually, he WAS one.” – David Borden  "Having heard my father's pieces, especially The Continuing Story of Counterpoint (TCSOC) series, throughout my childhood, as they were being composed and premiered, I had subconsciously begun to develop my own arrangements and interpretations. The process of learning some of the parts and recording and performing them led to the conscious crystallization of these ideas.” – Gabriel Borden   Credits: All performances by Gabriel Borden  Compositions by David Borden Recording: Gabriel Borden, recording engineer 1. TCSOC.06 (1978)  Multi-tracked harmonica, electric guitar and electric bass guitar  2. TCSOC.07 (1978)  Multi-tracked large and regular harmonica, electric guitar and banjitar  3. TCSOC.08 (1979)  Multi-tracked electric guitar  4. TCSOC.09 (1980)  Multi-tracked acoustic guitar and electric guitar  5. ENFIELD IN WINTER (1978)  Multi-tracked electric guitar  Buy on Bandcamp:  "Simply amazing. I normally find minimalism to be redundant and boring. Instead, this album is riveting and almost infectious the way each song builds to a much-too-soon climax. My current choice for Album of the Year." – PDD, Bandcamp purchaser   ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER with Nigel Morris  Bracknell-Bresse Improvisations CUNEIFORM RECORDS Format: Digital         Cat.#: Cuneiform Records Rune 3348 * Melodic improvisations by two greatly missed British jazz-rock giants and Canterbury icons, keyboardist Alan Gowen and bassist Hugh Hopper   File Under: PROGRESSIVE / JAZZ-ROCK / CANTERBURY MUSIC Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3350 Format:  DIGITAL Release  Date: March 19, 2021   listen to / share this track This album includes a digital booklet with notes by Hugh Hopper.   "I knew Alan Gowen personally only from 1978 to his death from leukaemia in 1981 – three short years really when I think how close I felt to him musically and as a friend.  With his technique and talent he could have been one of those keyboard monsters playing in giant stadia and making gothic concept albums – if he’d been a more arrogant and extrovert person. Instead he spent most of his time in his front room in Tooting surrounded by keyboards, LPs and cassettes, reams of sheet music, small bells and percussion instruments, hooters and clockwork toys. And there he would sit writing and playing music – working wonders with Mini-moogs and other analog keyboards that in those days were somewhat less than user-friendly.  Half of the music on this CD was recorded on the first tour we did together in May, 1978. It was supposed to be three weeks of gigs in France for the band Soft Head, but the middle week disappeared as if by magic and by French ‘promoter’. Elton Dean and drummer Dave Sheen went back to England for the week, but Alan and I drove down from Paris to the tiny Burgundy village of Bress-sur-Grosne where we were due to play the following weekend. What we discovered there was the near wreck of an old village inn in the process of being renovated by longhaired, bearded, ex-actor Jacky Barbier and his entourage, with the eventual idea of setting up a club and recording studio. The first of many visits to Jacky’s…  Alan and I floated through the days eating fabulous food cooked by Jacky’s wife Pascale, drinking the local wine, and occasionally rehearsing music for the gig. One afternoon Jacky Barbier plugged us in and just let the machine run until the tape ran out. What you hear on the second half of the CD is the result – some noodling, some lulls and pauses for breath and some colourful extended improvisations. Sixteen years later it still recalls for me that pleasant, unplanned week.  The other three tracks here come from the very last music I did with Alan. We’d recorded the LP Two Rainbows Daily in June, 1980 [reissued on Cuneiform Records in October 1995], the first musical project I’d been involved in after giving up all music for over a year. Alan was always trying to get me back into playing and writing, and when he finally persuaded me, we made the LP at his house in a low-profile way – Peter Ball recording just the two of us, overdubbing keyboards and basses. So when I was offered a one-off gig at Bracknell a few months later, Alan was the obvious partner to choose. We asked percussionist Nigel Morris to play too – Nigel had been in East Wind and Isotope with me, but I hadn’t played with him for about four years. A chance to do some improvising and other strange stuff.    I prepared a backing tape of loops and other weirdness for us to play along with for the first set, another thing I hadn’t done for a long time – in fact not since the LP 1984 [reissued 1998 on Cuneiform Records] or the last gig I did with Soft Machine in Hamburg in May, 1973. We had no rehearsal for the gig. Nigel showed up at Bracknell with a wonderfully eccentric drum kit, including a giant, custom-made cowbell about two foot across that gave the whole kit a special reverberation. No good for a clean jazz rock band, but a marvel to behold for the subtle free improvisation he was playing at the time.  It rained hard, limiting the audience to a few enthusiasts. And those who did come were further bombarded by another bizarre tape I took along to be run off during the interval – voices and loops and all manner of oblique statements of musical intent. Sensibly, most people went to the bar.  Alan was off on holiday to Morocco the next day. I had a postcard from him saying “Gad – the heat! The flies!” Two weeks later Celia, his partner, called me to say that Alan was in hospital with suspected leukaemia. He died eight months later." – Hugh Hopper, December 1994 credits: Alan Gowen : keyboards  Hugh Hopper : bass, tape loops  Nigel Morris : percussion [1-3]  Tracks 1-3 recorded live September 21, 1980 at South Hill, Bracknell, UK.  Tracks 4-8 recorded May, 1978 at Bress-sur-Grosne, France by Jacky Barbier, with Jean-Pierre Weiller & Pierre Roger. return to top COMING OUT MAY 28, 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: JACK O' THE CLOCK LEAVING CALIFORNIA listen / share: 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. Regarding online  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. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– April 9 - "Henry Kaiser, Cheryl Leonard, and Glenn McClure - Antarctica: Music from the End of the World" - Museum Of Making Music -  MoMM@Home AIR DATE: 2:00 PM (Pacific)   Henry Kaiser, Dr. Cheryl Leonard, Glenn McClure, three musical explorers, share their experiences in Antarctica and the musical inspirations they've discovered there. Antarctica is often described as a “silent continent” — the absence of noise pollution is striking and surprising. However the “silent” Antarctic natural soundscape is full of interesting sounds heard nowhere else on Earth. The Antarctic Artists & Writers Program has supported composers and musicians interested in exploring sounds inherent in the Antarctic landscape. Cheryl E. Leonard uses field recordings and instruments built with penguin bones and other natural materials found in Antarctica for her intricate compositions. Henry Kaiser uses experimental guitar music to create improvisations for the mesmerizing video footage he records during his scientific ice diving in Antarctica. Glenn McClure translates scientific data into classical compositions through the process of sonification. This online event features pre-recorded performances by these artists, who also engage in a conversation about Antarctica’s surprisingly rich soundscapes. THE HENRY KAISER MONTHLY [formerly WEEKLY] SOLO SERIES, presented exclusively on the CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel Launches April 2021!  When the Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, Henry Kaiser began curating & presenting a weekly series of pre-recorded music videos exclusively 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 continued to post new videos on Cuneiform's YouTube every Thursday. This month - April 2021 - marks the one year anniversary of Henry's weekly concert series. It also marks the concert series transformation into a new, monthly format; the video for April 1, 2021 is Weekly Solo #52/Monthly Solo #1: "Henry Kaiser with Anthony Pirog, Brandy Gale & Mudang Rock". It's important to note that, while called Henry Kaiser Weekly (now Monthly) Solo Series, many videos depict duets and bands. These videos may depict new (Kaiser/ Pirog/ Gale/ Rock in Weekly Solo #52/Monthly Solo #1), recent (A Love Supreme Electric videos #22 & #31), or vintage performances (The Valentines' 1994 concert in the Fukuoka Dome). Follow Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel to see a new video from Henry every month; all 52 videos from  Henry's prior Weekly Series are archived & available on our YouTube Channel. 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! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [To accommodate Covid restrictions, Ed is performing these shows with a septet – “Eddy’s Chemistry Set” – and not the Big Band] June 5 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 "Eddy's Chemistry Set": Ed Palermo/ Bruce McDaniel (back from touring in Todd Rundgren's "Clearly Human" Virtual Tour!) / Robbie Mangano/ Ray Marchica/ Paul Adamy/ Ted Kooshian/ Bob Quaranta    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 coming Fall 2021. _____________________________ 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      THINKING PLAGUE  Thinking Plague is in the vanguard of groups riding the crest of a largely unheralded avant-progressive tsunami, an idiom responsible for some of the late 20th/early 21st century’s most significant musical achievements. The manner in which Thinking Plague have condensed only the most fertile (and often the most pulverizing) aspect of the last 30 years of progressive exploration into an nth-degree endgame is nothing short of awe-inspiring. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel is happy to present three live performance videos by Thinking Plague. We hope that you enjoy them, and encourage you to explore and subscribe to our Channel to see videos presented by other Cuneiform artists. THINKING PLAGUE LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDd3gWyy0AY THINKING PLAGUE LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ijhX_yLhQ THINKING PLAGUE LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36urh_gZh-U   Listen to & buy: Albums by THINKING PLAGUE on Cuneiform Records:               To set up press and radio interviews with Cuneiform Artists while on tour or at home, please contact: promo@cuneiformrecords.com return to top SPRING FORWARD TO GREAT MUSIC: EXPLORE CUNEIFORM RECORDS' SPRING ACTIVITIES ONLINE !!   New Music is Blooming at Cuneiform Records; we Invite you to Enjoy it with Us, Online! Spring 2021 is here, and we can finally glimpse light at the end of the dark pandemic tunnel thanks to the increasing availability of vaccines  in various countries.  But because of viral resurgences and the emergence of new Covid 19 strains, as well as vaccine shortages and distribution delays, many places have reinstated lockdowns and/or other cautionary measures.  Other places are relaxing restraints on social distancing, opening their doors and local economies to warm spring breezes and eager tourists. Unfortunately, the global pandemic lingers on, despite global frustration and regional efforts. But the world online is Covid 19 free.  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!     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, we can enjoy music at home.  You can explore tracks from over 400 recordings released by Cuneiform Records since 1984 on our website, or on 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.  • 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:   • 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. On every Thursday during the first year of the pandemic, guitarist Henry Kaiser posted a new 'live' concert on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel; all 52 Weekly concerts can now be viewed on our station. On April 1, 2021, Henry ended the Weekly and launched a new, Monthly concert series at Cuneiform.  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 THIS SPRING SEASON 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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