Cuneiform Records AUGUST 2021 Newsletter

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view this email  in your browser Cuneiform Records AUGUST 2021 Newsletter scroll down, or jump to: ~~~~~~ NEW RELEASES!  COMING OUT AUGUST 27 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS DAVID BORDEN – Cayuga Night Music Contemporary classical / minimalism / New Age / ambient DAVID BORDEN  – Smart Hubris Contemporary classical /  modern composition RAY RUSSELL – Secret Asylum Brit-Jazz, free-jazz, out jazz ~~~~~~ OUT NOW: RELEASED July 28, 2021:   NO SAFETY alt-rock / art-rock / avant-progressive from early '90s NY Downtown band – Spill – Live at the Knitting Factory – Live in Italy 1994 ~~~~~~ SNEAK PEEK! COMING OUT in SEPTEMBER 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS MUJICIAN – 10 10 10 Legendary British all-star free-jazz cooperative ~~~~~~ CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR:   LIVE CONCERTS & TOURS ~~~~~~ DIVE INTO CUNEIFORM RECORDS ACTIVITIES ONLINE: • Explore Cuneiform Records'  SOCIAL MEDIA;  BANDCAMP PAGE; YouTube Channel • Purchase music from100s of labels at WaysideMusic.com, our sister store estab.1980 ~~~~~~ THREE RELEASES COMING OUT in DIGITAL FORMAT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS AUGUST 27, 2021 pre-order on Bandcamp    RAY RUSSELL SECRET ASYLUM File under: BRIT-JAZZ, FREE-JAZZ, OUT JAZZ Label: Cuneiform Records Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3354 Format: Digital (download & Bandcamp streaming) Harry Beckett – trumpet and flugel horn  Gary Windo – tenor sax and flute  Darryl Runswick – bass  Alan Rushton – drums  Ray Russell – electric and acoustic guitars, and piano  All titles written and arranged by Ray Russell.  Recording by Bob Auger – an unassuming poet.  Produced by Ray Russell and Bob Auger.  Cover painting by Ray Russell.  Master tape transfer by Ray Russell.  If, as Mailer said, Picasso is medically good for your eyes, then Russell  is medically good for your ears – Charles Shaar Murray    A reissue of UK free-guitar pioneer Ray’s fifth album, first released in 1973, and the last of his 70s free classics.    share/ listen to "These That I Am" from Secret Asylum He (the Mulla Nasrudini) had gone to China, where he gathered a circle of disciples, who he was preparing for enlightenment. Those who became illuminated immediately ceased attending his lectures. A party of his undeveloped followers, desiring more illumination, travelled from Persia to China to continue their studies with him. After their first lecture, he received them. ‘Why Mulla,” one of them asked,“do you lecture on secret words which we (unlike the Chinese) can understand?’  They are namidanam and hichmalumnist! They mean in Persian merely “I Don’t know” and “Nobody knows”. ' ‘What would you have me do instead – lie my head off?’, asked Nasrudin.   – from The Sufis, Idries Shah.  I wish for change and glimpses  –  Ray Russell return to top DAVID BORDEN CAYUGA NIGHT MUSIC File under: CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL, MINIMALISM, NEW AGE, AMBIENT Label: Cuneiform Records Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3355 Format: Digital (download & Bandcamp streaming) All compositions by David Borden David Borden, Synthesizers  Ellen Hargis, Soprano  Les Thimmig, Soprano Saxophone Gabriel Borden, Electric Guitar       share / listen to "Snow Gorge with Full Moon" from Cayuga Night Music: A reissue of Borden's 1993 tribute to Cayuga Lake's awe-inspiring beauty. Contemporary American classical music blending synth-minimalism and new age ambiance, transcendent vocals and visionary composition.   David Borden: "I got the idea for these pieces after several years of running at night along the railroad tracks that follow the east shore of Cayuga Lake. I simply walked across the street from where I lived, at 1191 East Shore Drive, and ran north. In less than half a mile I was in deserted, barely accessible terrain. On the west is the lake and West Hill. Directly to the east are sheer, moderately high cliffs which now and then give way to rolling hills, gorges, and a few summer cottages. This was during the 1980s and in the early morning hours there was a sense of isolation and wonder.  My favorite time to run was between 2:00 and 3:00 am; I did it in all seasons and weather conditions. I sense that this ideal state of affairs is ending as the Ithaca-Lansing area is becoming over- developed; more and more docks appear, a marina, and homes closer to the lake’s edge and along the top of the cliffs. Already more than one of my favorite meditation spots has disappeared as trees are cut down and brush is cleared away. It’s fortunate for me that these pieces were composed before my inspirational scenes became too cluttered with man-made objects or disappeared altogether.  THE COMING OF WINTER  Along the lake, winter usually starts during the first week in November. From mid-September through October the inevitable changes take place. Leaves fall, most birds leave, vacationers take their boats out of the water and insects become quiet except for a few crickets that prevail until late October. Finally the smell of wood smoke returns and I can see my breath as I run. The terrain is mine again, as city people lock up their summer cottages. The first snowfall assures me that things will be wonderfully quiet and chilly for months to come.  LAKE ICE  Toward the end of winter, when there is still no plant life except for the pines, and no sounds of insects, large snow-dusted chunks of ice idle in the lake and thousands of smaller chips undulating in the wind-tossed water make a high soft clatter near the shore. Every once in a while I stop running to listen to the ice chips and watch the white rafts float wherever the wind carries them. The starlight, moonlight and distant city light reflected from the clouds combine to give each patch a color profile all its own. Occasionally a Canada goose shouts its approval.  SNOW GORGE WITH FULL MOON  I usually run north for two and one half miles, rest for a short time, or meditate. If I have only rested, I run the return route south for a mile, and then meditate at this small, exquisitely beautiful gorge. Unless it’s the middle of summer, there’s usually a moderate trickle of water flowing down. In winter, a small amount of water is usually flowing under the frozen cascades. From December through March, snow collects on the frozen mantle. Sometime in March, the full moon lines up with the gorge (I have to check the moon rise times) and presents one of the most trance-inducing sights I’ve ever witnessed. When this happens, I don’t meditate, but simply stare for a long time, until the earth’s rotation moves me and the gorge away from the moon; then I continue my run homeward.  FIREFLIES  The third week of June around the summer solstice is the best time to see fireflies on the lake. After running twenty minutes or so, there is a slight curve, then a segment of track about forty yards long; on each side, a border of trees and bushes. I was startled one night to arrive inside this corridor suddenly surrounded by hundreds of fireflies, each pulsing off and on at different rates and intensities. At the end of this segment of track I sat down and watched the light show for about half an hour. I did this every night for a week, then the population of fireflies thinned out and continued to do so for weeks. It became my annual private light show. This piece is dedicated to my late friend, the renowned entomologist and “father of chemical ecology” Tom Eisner.  NORTHERN LIGHTS   Spring and Fall seem to be the best seasons for this phenomenon.  Although these lights in the sky do occur in the Finger Lakes area, they are not a common sight. The first thing I notice is a black, eerie, electric curtain that cloaks the northern end of the lake horizon; midway in the sky above are various colors that reach toward the apex of the sky. The colors vary from electric shades of yellow-green to blue mixed with red. When the curtain begins to dissipate, stars are visible behind transparent windows of color. The border between the black curtain and the colors resembles millions of undulating bristles. It all fades gradually back into the night; some kind of cosmic smoke.  CRICKET DREAMS  Towards the end of fall, most insects fall silent except for the crickets whose numbers keep dwindling until there are only a few left. One year, there was one lone cricket left, making sounds at a particular junction on my jogging trail near Myer’s Point. This was surprising because it was starting to get really cold. Nonetheless, this lone cricket persisted. It wasn’t until the end of the first week in November that the sometimes tentative cricket sounds stopped. This poignant sound has remained with me ever since. I still wonder whether it was the persistence of consciousness or resistance to the coming long winter sleep that kept this life form producing its natural sounds.  MIST VISIONS  One night in late October, the temperature dropped twenty degrees. The moon was almost full and I could see my breath for the first time in months. I decided to take a walk instead of run because my knee was bothering me. The first thing I noticed was how silent it was because the dip in temperature had silenced the insects. Then I saw what seemed like smoke toward the middle of the lake. The cooler air coming in contact with the warmer water was causing condensation, releasing the vapor into the night air. As I continued walking north, the mist continued to rise a little higher with the passing minutes; this appeared to happen only at the lake’s midpoint along a continuous line in a north-south direction. Over a period of an hour the mist changed slowly but dramatically to suggest different ghostly, slowly moving shapes, enhanced by the bright light from the moon. At first it looked like a small amount, then like a grayish-white bank of flames in slow motion. As the flames grew higher, angel-like figures emerged every twenty feet or so, eventually spouting undulating white wings of various sizes. Then, the angels slowly merged into a hazy, semi-transparent tree line on the water. I suppose it stayed like that for hours. I went home to bed with beautiful visions in my head.  FOG, STARS, TRAIN, WEST HILL LIGHTS  During the early morning hours, gazing across the lake, there are countless lights of different colors and intensities; some steady, some flashing. Above all, the lake is always present, reflecting the lights across two miles of water and extending out of sight, northward for forty miles. Sometimes it’s so foggy the lake is barely visible, and there are no lights to be seen, just the fuzzy whites and greys of the fog itself. Once in spring, the fog was very thick, but lifting. It made the lights from the hospital into a hazy, other worldly presence. While I was staring at it, a truck stopped suddenly above me on the slope, and I could hear the driver get out; he didn’t leave until the fog lifted and things looked normal again. Once, on my return trip, running, a bright spiral suddenly unfolded in the sky and dissolved into glowing smoke. It turned out to be a satellite burning ejected fuel before re-entry. On another occasion, over West Hill, an intensely white glowing round object one tenth the size of the moon suddenly appeared out of nowhere and except for a brief rush of air, silently traversed the sky southward surely going thousands of miles an hour before abruptly turning southwest and disappearing over the horizon. The next day’s newspaper reported a meteor instead of a flying saucer. Then there are the shooting stars, the distant street lights, ambulances, cars, buoys, occasional yachts, airplanes, the usual thousands of stars, and the moon throwing a gentle golden spotlight on the lake before the earth’s rotation affects a scene change. Once in a while, the train appears, projecting its bright searchlight into the mix. In this last piece of the series as in the first one, the running is musically audible. Just listen." – David Borden, Ithaca, NY 1993    return to top DAVID BORDEN SMART HUBRIS Seven pieces by composer David Borden for synthesizer and computer plus violin. File under: CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL / MODERN COMPOSITION Label: Cuneiform Records Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3356 Format: Digital (download & Bandcamp streaming)   David Borden - synthesizers and samplers  Martin Davids - electric violin share /  listen to "Smart Hubris" from Smart Hubris David Borden: "The title SMART HUBRIS (2005) was derived from and is an anagram of Ritsu/Brahms. Violinist Ritsu Katsumata asked me to write a piece for her using the violin part from Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 3 in d minor, Op. 108. Ritsu is primarily a performer on electric violin, so composing this piece for her, accompanied by synthesizers, was a natural choice. Ms. Katsumata was also familiar with my work as a performer with Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co., my synthesizer ensemble.  Johannes Brahms composed the violin part and I composed everything else. The idea of borrowing material from other composers and adapting it to one’s own use has been a part of music history from the beginning. In Composers at Work by Jessie Ann Owens, composer Heinrich Isaac (C. 1445-1517) is noted for his technical mastery of working with pre- composed melodies by leaving the original untouched while adding florid voices around it. Bach lifted bass lines from Handel (The Goldberg Variations) and transcribed and transformed concertos from Vivaldi. Charlie Parker kept the harmonic content of tunes by composers like Gershwin, Cole Porter and others while supplying new melodies or heads for them which totally transformed their character while giving him the needed harmonic context for improvisation.  K216.01 (2003) is, like much of my work from that era, a polyphonic composite utilizing a melodic part from another composition. In this case, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major. While there are precedents for this kind of work, it has not been in vogue since the 15th century outside of the Baroque Chorale-based pieces. Also, this is a more radical approach since it does not alter the original part in any way. These works receive their inspiration from Buckminster Fuller’s definition of synergy ( . . . behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately) and by the work of painters Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and George Deem. Close starts with a photograph whose content and structure he then transforms into a unique painting. Some of Lichtenstein’s work (like Femme Au Chapeau) is based entirely on paintings from history. George Deem has based many of his paintings on Vermeer’s work. In addition his Art School series quotes various aspects of paintings from many artists throughout history. In all cases this method forces the use of techniques different from those normally at the artist’s command. The results are surprisingly different from the catalysts. I hope this is the case with these musical works as well." – David Borden, 2021    return to top OUT NOW! Released JULY 23, 2021 on CUNEIFORM RECORDS: digital releases of three albums (2 reissues, 1 previously unreleased) from the '90s Downtown NY Scene by NO SAFETY  the alternative rock / art rock / avant-progressive band featuring CHRIS COCHRANE, ZEENA PARKINS,  & other key Downtown denizens  No Safety photo by Jamie Livingston   Thirty years ago, there was a different virus in the headlines, and police violence barely made the news. It was different, unsafe times that produced No Safety. But we might need them now more than ever.  No Safety only released three albums during their half dozen years as one of the most vibrant bands in the maelstrom of Downtown experimentalism. Cuneiform Records is reissuing in digital format their 2nd and 3rd albums, both from the '90s – Spill  and Live at the Knitting Factory  – and releasing a newly discovered album, Live in Italy 1994, which significantly adds to the band's legacy.  There’s an ambiguity to the anger in No Safety’s songs, an uncertainty that makes the songs all the more salient, and makes the sentiments still relevant today. It sometimes feels as if No Safety would be writing protest songs if they could only figure out where to start. There’s just too much to deal with. No Safety disappeared without the heralding it deserved. Now, for a momentary flash, they’re back.               - Kurt Gottschalk SPILL File Under:   AVANT PROGRESSIVE / AVANT-GARDE / ALTERNATIVE ROCK Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3351 Format: Digital download & Bandcamp streaming   listen/share the track "Sad" from Spill via Soundcloud: Zeena Parkins - keyboards, electric harp, accordion, vocals  Chris Cochrane - guitars, sampler, vocals  Ann Rupel - bass, vocals  Tim Spelios - drums, percussion  Doug Seidel - guitars  Remastered by Kato Hideki Winter 2021 SPILL was recorded from January 1991–1992, released in 1992 at Water Music in Hoboken NJ Newly remastered version of SPILL coming out July 23rd 2021 at Cuneiform Records.   preorder at Bandcamp: LIVE AT THE KNITTING FACTORY   File Under:  AVANT PROGRESSIVE / AVANT-GARDE / ALTERNATIVE ROCK Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3352 Format: Digital download & Bandcamp streaming   listen/share the track "Take Me" from Live at the Knitting Factory via Soundcloud: Ann Rupel - bass, vocals  Chris Cochrane - guitar, tape, tambourine, vocals  Zeena Parkins - harp, sampler, eggs, vocals  Doug Seidel - guitar  Tim Spelios - traps  "Live at the Knitting Factory" shows that the New York-based quintet has turned to recognizable pop styles for inspiration. Blending free improvisation with funk, it attains an enviable equilibrium.  The guitarist Chris Cochrane...On "Ms. Quoted" he reclaims an old rap by the Clash and connects it with a rhythm-and-blues phrase from Soul II Soul. ... Even the craggy instrumentals by the harpist Zeena Parkins have been polished. Fragments are grouped...creating continuity. In under three minutes, "F Is for Fake" moves through five passages... The ominous tone that drifts through the 17 works isn't unusual for No Safety; the group has long been fascinated by the way modern dilemmas -- from sexism to urban deterioration -- are addressed in society. In the past, Mr. Cochrane has sung of how AIDS is robbing the world, and his ardor can be daunting." –Jim MacNie, The New York Times, April 3, 1994    Live at the Knitting Factory was produced by No Safety and John Siket  Recorded live at the Knitting Factory July 5, 12, 13, 1993  Original recordings remastered by Kato Hideki, 2021 pre-order at Bandcamp: LIVE IN ITALY 1994 File Under:  AVANT-GARDE / ALTERNATIVE ROCK Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3353 Format: Digital download & Bandcamp streaming listen/share the track "A MONKEY DEFINITION" from Live in Italy via Soundcloud: Chris Cochrane - guitar, vocals  Kato Hideki - guitar, vocals  Zeena Parkins - electric harp, keys, vocals  Ann Rupel - bass, vocals  Tim Spelios - drums, vocals  DOWNTOWN SUPERGROUP NO SAFTEY RELEASES PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD 1994 LIVE RECORDING    Live in Italy 1994 catches the band — Chris Cochrane, Kato Hideki, Zeena Parkins, Ann Rupel and Tim Spelios — in all its fury, going out in a blaze at the end of their final tour.  No Safety only released three albums during their half dozen years as one of the most vibrant bands in the maelstrom of Downtown experimentalism. They were, they’ll say today, always at their best live. The last album they released during their short life—Live at the Knitting Factory—made the case. The new Live in Italy 1994 seals the deal.  Live in Italy 1994 opens with a chugging montage of three songs, incorporating Skeleton Crew's “Man or Monkey” with two of their own tunes. “Not a Slave to Unforeseen Future,” draws inspiration from artist David Wojnarowicz while incorporating a song from Rupel’s previous band, V-Effect. “Pavlov” displays the diversity of textures the band was capable of, in no small part due to Zeena Parkins’ harp, keyboard and sampler. The final cut is Parkins’ “Take Me,” a jaggedly punkish anthem for contradiction and indecision, resolving in her and Rupel repeating “yes” and “no” in Russian and the words “take me” swirling down the reverb drain.  The newly uncovered recording is from the band’s last tour, and in fact the last show the rhythm section of Rupel and Spelios played with them. Rupel returned to career and family life. Cochrane focused his energies on social work while continuing to compose and play music. Parkins has been the most musically active; projects with the likes of Fred Frith, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn and countless others, recording and touring with Björk and leading her own bands have made her an international name in unusual and experimental music. But No Safety disappeared without the heralding it deserved. Now, for a momentary flash, they’re back.                                                                                                                              – Kurt Gottschalk  Live in Italy 1994 was recorded live at Vorax/Ottomat - Alte Montecchio VI (Italy) - 1994 Live sound mixed by Scott Anthony. Recording edited by Zeena Parkins and Chris Cochrane. Remixed and mastered by Kato Hideki. Released July 23, 2021 by Cuneiform Records.   pre-order / buy at Bandcamp:   "This is so exciting from start to finish.  I saw No Safety live in New York in ’88.  They were amazing then, hot sound, like a unique, contrary voice in a scene that could take the concept of ‘cool’ a little too seriously.  This recording is several years later, they are on tour in Europe, everything is up a notch, about to explode.  I remember that European tour vibe, this catches it 100%."  - Charles Hayward  return to top SNEAK PEEK! COMING OUT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS SEPTEMBER 23, 2021: MUJICIAN 10 10 10 File under: FREE JAZZ / IMPROVISATION Label: Cuneiform Records Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 492 Format: CD, Digital Keith Tippett – piano Tony Levin – drums Paul Dunmall – soprano and tenor saxophones, bagpipes Paul Rogers ­– 7-string acoustic bass   listen / share: “In 2010 Mujician did a short tour organised to celebrate Tony Levin's 70th year. Whilst on tour, on 10th October, Mujician were recorded in the Victoria Room at the University of Bristol Music Studios by the great engineer Jonathan Scott. Little did we know this would be the last time we would record, as Tony Levin sadly passed away a few months later. Founded in 1988, Mujician were together for 22 years, and in that time we played in Europe, Canada, Russia, South Africa and many concerts in the UK. In 2020 Keith Tippett died after a long illness. I believe that Mujician was one of the great groups in jazz history. It wasn't just a free jazz group; it covered so many areas that I think all we can say is it played outstanding music.” – Paul Dunmall, 2021   "With Mujician, the rule of thumb is to expect the unexpected. Their music is affirmative but never trite and it seems to embrace virtually all musical and emotional possibilities...group members are almost prescient in their knowledge of each other's moves, and even though very little on this date is scripted, there is always an impression of common purpose. Simply put, this is spontaneous, interactive jazz at its best." – AllMusic   return to top CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR 2021 CALENDAR In an evolving COVID-19 world, these dates are ALL tentative. Please check with venues, close to the concert date, to confirm. We're ecstatic that live concerts are resuming in many locales, and look forward to music venues and concert halls opening worldwide, when health and safety measures allow. See also the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records. CHROME HOOF "Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?"  – headline from The Quietus    Like Sun Ra, Magma, Trans-Global Underground, Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, and Afro-Celt Sound System, Chrome Hoof is an ever-developing affair, unpredictable yet with a drive and focus that makes their music (like the aforementioned icons) truly memorable. Its sound spans progressive rock, electronic dance music (especially electro), metal, funk, classical music, and more. August 28 - Raw Power Festival - The Dome - Tufnell Park, London, UK  Listen to & buy: Chrome Black Gold DESERTION TRIO “[Desertion Trio] hits the sweet spot between Neil Young's exploratory Crazy Horse jams and a spaghetti western soundtrack." – NPR    Philly's Desertion Trio (Nick Millevoi / Johnny DeBlase / Jason Nazary) celebrate Numbers Maker – their 3rd album and 1st disc on Cuneiform – with a post-pandemic live show in DC, Cuneiform's home town. August 21 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St NW - Washington DC 20012 [Record Release Show!] Listen to & buy: Numbers Maker GHOST RHYTHMS A remarkable, eclectic and electric "Jazz and beyond" large ensemble, Ghost Rhythms perform across France in 2021, celebrating new discs, including Live in Yoshiwara, their fourth release and their first on Cuneiform.    _________________________   September 28 - Les Disquaires - Paris, France  November 12 - La Péniche Antipode - Paris, France December 10 - Le Sunset - Paris, France Listen to & buy: LIVE AT YOSHIWARA 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. August 7 - BeJazzSommer - Bern, Switzerland October 7 - JazzChur - Chur, Switzerland October 9 - Zoglau 3 - Reut, Germany October 24 - Saxstall - Pohrsdorf, Germany 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 MONTHLY SOLO SERIES, presented exclusively on the CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel  When Covid 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. These "live" concerts are taped beforehand and not streamed - Henry discusses the process in a Guitar Moderne interview, "The New "Live"".  Many videos in the series depict duets and larger bands, despite the program being called the "Henry Kaiser Weekly Solo Series".  While many depict new or recent performances, other videos in this series are vintage footage of performances not available elsewhere (The Valentines' 1994 concert in the Fukuoka Dome). After lockdowns began to lift In April 2021, the series celebrated its one-year anniversary and converted to a monthly format, which continues. All 52 videos from the Henry Kaiser's Weekly Series and everything in the current Monthly Series are archived & available on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel.  We invite you to visit Cuneiform Record's YouTube Channel to see the videos that Henry present on the first of every month. Henry's AUGUST 1, 2021 video in this series,  "Monthly Solo #5: Nels Cline, Brandy Gale, Anthony Pirog, & Robbie Lee + ASMR GUITAR," includes Henry discussing Joel Harrison's new book GUITAR TALK: CONVERSATIONS WITH VISIONARY PLAYERS, which includes interviews with several guitarists on Cuneiform Records.    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! ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––   July 31 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY [with Eddy's Chemistry Set (septet band)] Setember 20 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY [all Iridium shows with the full Ed Palermo Big Band!] October 18 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY  November 22 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY  December 20 - Irridium - 1650 Broadway - New York, NY  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                   RICHARD PINHAS One of France's major experimental musicians and a key figure in the development of electronic rock, guitarist and electronic musician Richard Pinhas will perform in 2021 in France and beyond in various groupings. _______________________________ September 2 – Festival Exhibitronic – Strasbourg, France Richard Pinhas with Duncan Pinhas   Listen to & buy releases by Richard Pinhas & friends on Cuneiform: Process and Reality,  Desolation Row,  Metatron,  Metal/Crystal,  Tranzition,  Event & Repetitions                 Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi: Tikkun   Richard Pinhas & Merzbow:   Keio Line / Rhizome / Paris 2008           Schizotrope (Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec):  The Life & Death of Marie Zorn   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 1 - 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 or at home, please contact: promo@cuneiformrecords.com return to top CELEBRATE THE SUMMER OF 2021!  Support live music as venues reopen while continuing to enjoy music at home via CUNEIFORM RECORDS' ACTIVITIES ONLINE !   Music can make a positive difference in our lives, and help us survive in evolving and uncertain times.  Concerts calendars  are resuming in many places, and we're enjoying  seeing music and people outside our doors. But we'll continue to also enjoy music at home.  You can explore tracks from nearly 500 recordings released by Cuneiform Records since 1984 on cuneiformrecords.com, our website, or on our Bandcamp, SoundCloud or YouTube sites, 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 evolving and 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, most notably with an ongoing video series curated  and produced by guitarist Henry Kaiser.  • 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 BEING YOUR SUMMER COMPANIONS, 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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