Cuneiform Records APRIL 2023 Newsletter

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WE MOVED  to a new location in downtown Silver Spring MD, Cuneiform Records' home base in Washington DC's DMV since 1984   Cuneiform Records and our associates Wayside Music (estab. 1980) and Music Outpost Publicity (estab. 2018) are still busy moving boxes from our former offices and unpacking and reorganizing in our new. BUT we've made time to release a VERY special archival Soft Machine album this month; READ OUR APRIL 2023 NEWSLETTER, BELOW.  Once we're settled into our new space, we'll have other exciting new releases for you this summer and fall 2023.   mark your calendars: 2024 is CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 40TH ANNIVERSARY!!!  – view this email online – CUNEIFORM RECORDS APRIL 2023  NEWSLETTER: New Releases & Concerts      view this email online – on laptop/computer:  click menu links & jump to topic – on mobile: scroll down ~~~~~~   NEW RELEASES: APRIL 2023 & Beyond  COMING OUT APRIL 28, 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS SOFT MACHINE  – THE DUTCH LESSON Previously unreleased live recording by this groundbreaking British band, made during a tour in The Netherlands [UK] SNEAK PEEKS COMING OUT SUMMER 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDSd LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION – DAMAGED GOODS New studio recording by Michael Formanek (bass), Anthony Pirog (guitar) and Mike Pride (drums) [USA] ~~~~~ SNEAK PEEKS COMING OUT LATE 2023 AND IN 2024 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS (sound samples of these Sneak Peeks in future newsletters) CURLEW - (two digital releases of previously unreleased live recordings by Downtown-NY-Sound legends) [USA] ~~~~~ GHOST RHYTHMS - MISSING TIMES (new studio album by young French avant progressive ensemble [FRANCE] ~~~~~ JANEL & ANTHONY - (new studio album by reknowned DC/Silver Spring-based cello/guitar/electronics beyond-genre duo, Janel Leppin & Anthony Pirog) [USA] ~~~~~ TOMEKA REID QUARTET - (new studio album by composer/cellist Reid's jazz all-star quartet with guitarist Mary Halvorson/ drummer Tomas Fujiwara/ bassist Jason Roebke) [USA] ~~~~~ RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL - GALACTIC FURNACE  (new double album by longstanding prolific UK electronic trio) [UK] ~~~~~ I.P.A. – GRIMSTA (Scandinavian jazz quintet release a 3rd album for Cuneiform)  [NORWAY] ~~~~~ PRESENT - THIS IS NOT THE END  (studio recordings made by Present, composer Roger Trigaux's longstanding band, of music the legendary chamber rock/ avant progressive composer was making for Cuneiform at the time of his 2021 death  [BELGIUM] ~~~~~~ CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR: LIVE CONCERTS & TOURS   ~~~~~~ ENJOY A WORLD OF MUSICAL ADVENTURE WITH CUNEIFORM RECORDS ONLINE:   • EXPLORE Cuneiform Records'  SOCIAL MEDIA // BANDCAMP PAGE // YouTube Channel • WATCH Henry Kaiser's REQUIEM FOR DAVID LINDLEY (1944-2023) on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel: • Purchase music from100s of labels at WAYSIDE MUSIC, our sister store estab. in 1980 • Missed seeing a Cuneiform Newsletter? Access prior issues at cuneiformrecord.blogspot.com/   ~~~~~~ return to top COMING OUT APRIL 28, 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: SOFT MACHINE THE DUTCH LESSON Bio information: SOFT MACHINE Title: : THE DUTCH LESSON (Cuneiform Rune 490/491) Format: DOUBLE CD / DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS FILE UNDER: ROCK / JAZZ-ROCK From their beginnings as a psychedelic rock band in 1966, sharing stages with Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, to being one of the originators of electric jazz/rock by early 1969, Britain’s SOFT MACHINE were restlessly creative. The Dutch Lesson captures them in late October, 1973. listen/share on Soundcloud: "Chloe and the Pirates" from SOFT MACHINE'S THE DUTCH LESSON   By 1973 Soft Machine already had a long history of playing in Rotterdam, appearing at major festivals such as Hippy Hippy Fair (1967), Kralingen (1970) and AHOY (1971, Phil Howard’s debut), and no less than four times at the city’s most prestigious venue, De Doelen, most recently (in September 1972) on a double bill with Robert Wyatt’s Matching Mole. This time, however, they were booked in a smaller venue, which they filled to capacity at around 400. Part of an arts complex originally known as Ons Huis, De Lantaren had recently been renovated into a theatre and music venue.   In attendance that October night was Bert Boogaard, a record store owner at the time, sitting in the front row with a Uher portable tape machine, and we have him to thank for this excellent ambient recording of the performance, only marred by occasional saturation in the drums. But Boogaard can be excused for not anticipating how powerful and loud John Marshall’s playing would be. This recording contains some of his most unashamedly “rock” drumming, likely egged on by Roy Babbington’s frequent use of a fuzz pedal on his bass, a long-time Soft Machine signature.   The band as a whole is a real powerhouse, nowhere better exemplified than on the encore, an infectiously funky fuzz organ-led jam based on the “Gesolreut” riff. Generally the tempos are much faster than usual, making the originals feel leisurely in comparison (“37½” is a case in point), and even when they aren’t, as with “The Soft Weed Factor,” an unexpected switch to double time makes up for it.   Within a couple of weeks of this Dutch mini-tour (a double-bill with local Canterbury disciples Supersister at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, at the time featuring Marshall’s future Colours bandmate Charlie Mariano on sax, followed the next day), Soft Machine would enter a new phase of its history when, initially for a one-off Musicians’ Union workshop, the quartet teamed up with guitarist Allan Holdsworth (like Marshall, Jenkins and Babbington formerly of Nucleus, although only the latter was still a member when he joined it), a successful experiment repeated on two dates in Ireland before Holdsworth was made a full member in time for the band’s Christmas Party at the Roundhouse.   Expanding the line-up to a quintet was to prove what had been needed to propel Soft Machine and its music to the next level. The amount of overdubbing on Seven, itself evidence that something was missing in the band as it was, probably accounted for the resulting material not working in a live context with just four people. But although the fifth man would change several times in the interim, the quartet of Mike Ratledge, Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington and John Marshall would remain in place for nearly three years, until Ratledge’s departure in April 1976—a very long time by Soft Machine’s standards, and a sure sign of shared musical affinity.   listen to / pre-order Soft Machine's The Dutch Lesson on Bandcamp: CREDITS: ROY BABBINGTON: Electric 6-string bass KARK JENKINS: Soprano sax, baritone sax, oboe, electric piano JOHN MARSHALL: Drums MIKE RATLEDGE: Electric piano, organ Recorded at De Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 26, 1973. EXPLORE ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY SOFT MACHINE ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/Softmachine.html return to top COMING OUT SUMMER 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION DAMAGED GOODS Bio information: LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION Title: : DAMAGED GOODS (Cuneiform Rune 518) Format: CD / DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS FILE UNDER: JAZZ Listening to Location Location Location’s debut, “Damaged Goods”, it would be so easy to get the wrong impression of where Anthony Pirog, Michael Formanek and Mike Pride's session was born ... listen/share on Soundcloud: "Verdigris" from LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION'S DAMAGED GOODS Listen to Location, Location, Location’s debut, Damaged Goods, and it’s easy to visualize the three musicians sweating it out in the recording studio, locking in on a groove and just jamming. With, it should be noted, occasional breaks to contemplate the basics, then add subtle overdubs: some bit-crunched guitar here, a marimba there, perhaps a harmonized line or a spacey reverb effect. But essentially live, essentially just three guys in a room, giving their all.   But that’s not how it went down at all.   Recorded during the darkest days of Covid-19, Damaged Goods is actually the ultimate pandemic project. Not only were guitarist Anthony Pirog, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Mike Pride safely socially distant during the recording project, two of them have not yet met in the flesh.   Nonetheless, Location, Location, Location is a band.   “I think that’s probably just our personalities, the way that we work, and the way that we wanted to hear it,” explains the Virginia-raised Pirog, who was living in Monterey, California during the sessions. With Pride and Formanek on the East Coast, and getting together not in the cards, the three made Damaged Goods by sending sound files and audio notes back and forth while trusting the others to do their best.   “The whole thing was pretty new,” Pirog continues. “I was really excited because I’m a fan of both of their work, both composing and playing. So that was a big thing to deal with in terms of ‘What are you getting from the piece to react to? Are you initiating the piece? How do you supply that and have it be something that people can add sound to?’    “But when I sat down to record, it wasn’t like I composed my parts. I’d press ‘play’, and I’d react to things as I heard them. So it wasn’t that hard, actually, as long as I didn’t get into pop-overdubbing mode and hyper-fixate on things under the microscope.”   It’s obvious that both Formanek and Pride were on the same page. “Improvising like this definitely presents a set of potential challenges,” says the bassist. “But I’ve got to say that in this project I never felt that anything was stifled at all, or disconnected. When I would hear something from Mike or Anthony it just immediately gave me thoughts about what to do. In most cases I’d just dive in there pretty fast. The initial ideas were mostly pretty quick, pretty immediate. So in a weird way it didn’t feel like we weren’t improvising in real time, if that makes any sense. Which was a little surprising to me!”   “Everybody listened really deeply, and nobody tried to put a certain personality on it,” Pride says. “We were just experimenting, and then at the end we liked what we had, and we had a record.”   A very fine record, it should be mentioned.    CREDITS: ANTHONY PIROG: guitar, guitar synth, synthesizers MICHAEL FORMANEK: bass and electric bass MIKE PRIDE: drums, marimba, dub Michael Formanek recorded at Outlier Sound, West Orange, NJ by Michael Formanek. Mike Pride recorded at Farming Studios, Chester, NY by Mike Pride. Anthony Pirog recorded at Anthony's Room Studio, Monterey, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Silver Spring, MD by Anthony Pirog. return to top CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR 2023 CALENDAR IMPORTANT COVID REMINDER: In an evolving (and now endemic) 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 happening worldwide, but we remain aware that emergent variants - as well as severe weather - can unexpectedly affect schedules. See also the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records.   ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI "UR is yet another thrilling ride, a beautiful ride, it is challenging then it is challenging in the most positive of ways, we’re talking flights of a Mahavishnu Orchestra nature, we’re talking beautiful details, undercurrents, counterbalances, we’re talking flow that flows against the flow and flows so well…" – The Organ (UK) _______________________________ April 8 - Binario69 - Via de' Carracci 69/7d - Bologna, Bologna, Italy   Listen to & buy:  UR          BLUE CRANES "The first time I saw Portland's Blue Cranes live, I walked away trying to compare what I'd seen to anything I'd encountered before. I couldn't do it, and I still can't - the band is a force of nature.... Call it "creative music" or "post-jazz" or whatever you like, but the Blue Cranes sound is steeped in the ideas and concepts of jazz....a beautifully improvised sonic experience." - NPR/A Blog Supreme _______________________________ April 5 - Holocene - 1001 SE Morrison St - Portland, OR   Listen to & buy: Swim CHEER–ACCIDENT "...one of the most impressive concerts I saw was the Dragon Drop/Cheer Accident/Free Salamander Exhibit show in Indianapolis. ...Cheer Accident blew me away... The music was innovative and powerful and brave and everything I’d hoped it would be."- Proglodytes "Cheer-Accident are the quintessential Chicago post-rock band... They've been exploring head-scratching, creatively fucked-up time signatures and sideways guitar shenanigans for 20 years now, leaving a pronounced influence on the Windy City's art-rock scene. Their playful musical approach is a ripe aesthetic of absurdist humor." – Pitchfork _______________________________ April 1 - Cheer-Accident Basement - Chicago, IL [for address / tickets hit the link] April 21 - Platypus - 4501 Manchester Ave - St Louis, MO 63110 April 22 - The Lodge - 231 Sixth Ave - Dayton, KY 41074   Listen to & buy  Chicago XX, Putting Off Death,          No Ifs, Ands or Dogs, Fear Draws Misfortune      "Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser..." – Time Out New York THE FOURTH WORLD QUARTET "The resulting...sessions, collected here for the first time, reveal how the amalgam of volatile styles the brothers ingested during their varous sonic encounters fused together and caught fire...Although The Fourth World Quartet was a short-lived project, this remarkable discovery reveals a group who were knocking over some serious creative barriers." – Edwin Pouncey / Jazzwise  _______________________________ THE FOURTH WORLD QUARTET'S FIRST SHOWS IN NEARLY 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!! September 29 - Zal Gaz Grotto No. 34 - 2070 W Stadium Blvd - Ann Arbor, MI 48103 September 30 - Trisophenes - 1464 Gratiot Ave - Detroit, MI   Listen to & buy:  Spectral Music  //  Live at Yoshiwara          GHOST RHYTHMS "The music here walks a wide loop around Soft Machine and Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, Miles Davis and Miriodor, Van Der Graaf Generator and Art Zoyd. It's impeccably assembled and played, while freely indulging the more insane aspects of progressive rock, avant-garde chamber music, and electric jazz....Despite the musical sophistication and adventure on Live at Yoshiwara, this music is extremely accessible to a wide swathe of listeners. Its release signals the magnificent arrival of Ghost Rhythms on American shores. Get it now." – AllMusic _______________________________ May 12 - Pan Piper - 2-4 impasse Lamier - Paris, 75011, France [performing with Andy Emler MegaOctet!]   Listen to & buy:  Spectral Music  //  Live at Yoshiwara        JOEL HARRISON "Named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010, Washington D.C. native Joel Harrison has long been recognized as a highly gifted guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist and songwriter. A survey of Harrison’s body of work would be a bit like spinning a globe and stumbling on regions with names like Duke Ellington, Hendrix, The Beatles, John Mclaughlin, and Charles Ives. Wielding a focused lens and an ever-increasing courage to take risks with his art, Harrison has quickly blossomed from mentorships with Joan Tower, Ali Akbar Khan and Charlie Banacos into one of the most respected artists of his generation." - From Joel's official website   April 16 - with Anthony Pirog - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC April 17 - with Anthony Pirog - U. of VA - Cabel Hall - Charlottesville, VA April 23 - with Anthony Pirog - Nublu -  151 Avenue C - East Village, NY 10009 Listen to & buy: Joel Harrison, Mother Stump Joel Harrison / Lorenzo Feliciati / Cuong Vu / Roy Powell / Dan Weiss, Holy Abyss The Spellcasters (Joel Harrison/ Anthony Pirog/ Dave Chappell/ John Previte/ Barry Hart), Music from the Anacostia Delta JANEL LEPPIN A composer and cellist who’s honed a singular synthesis of composition, orchestration and improvisation, Janel Leppin is one of DC's leading avant-music stars. Besides performing as half of the experimental duo Janel and Anthony, which she co-leads with her husband guitarist Anthony Pirog, she leads the seven-piece chamber-jazz Ensemble Volcanic Ash, as well as performing and recording with other jazz, rock, and experimental  groups.  "An Absolute Virtuoso - 4 Stars" - Downbeat Magazine "Leppin is a rarity..ahhh-vant garde at its finest." - Capital Bop April 2 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC May 18 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC May 27 - with Anthony Pirog and Mike Kuhl - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave - Baltimore, MD 21230 - Opening for Roger Clark Miller  [Janel and Anthony and Mike will play a set of music drawn from their releases on Cuneiform as well as some new material]   Listen to & buy: Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash Janel & Anthony, Where Is Home 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.  In June 2023, the video series will convert to a quarterly format. We invite you to visit and follow Cuneiform Record's YouTube Channel to see the videos that Henry regularly presents. The March 1, 2023 video is HENRY KAISER SHOW #24 - The final monthly before the HK series goes quarterly. It covers music by Alan Holdsworth, Randy Newman, Robert Hunter, Obray Ramsey. Plus Improvs. Guests: Anthony Pirog, Andy West, Ed Pettersen, Ramon Goose, Bob Bralove, Jody Stecher, & Bill Walker. Most recently, in addition to his video series, Kaiser occasionally presents special videos:  some focusing on current events and guitar legends, and some providing free guitar lessons, focusing on tunes associated with legendary guitarists. His September 2022 guitar lesson video, focusing on the whole tone scale and Sonny Sharrock, is titled The Whole Tone Scale! Sonny Sharrock’s DICK DOGS lesson with Henry Kaiser. In March, Henry released a video tribute to guitarist David Lindley (3/21/1944 - 3/3/2023), whom Henry had worked with on numerous projects, including a series of releases for Shanachie featuring the Music of Madagascar.  Henry's REQUIEM FOR DAVID LINDLEY is a must-see: Besides his work as a musician, Kaiser is also a scientific diver and underwater videographer in the U.S. Antarctic program. Several of his Solo Series videos on the Cuneiform channel feature Henry's stunning underwater videography in addition to his guitar playing, as in this stunning video from May 2020:  HENRY KAISER : Cuneiform Weekly Solo #2 : Under The Ice Again . Because all videos are archived on the Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel, you can watch anything in the series at any time.   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 ROGER CLARK MILLER Roger Clark Miller is a guitarist, pianist, bassist, composer, singer, percussionist and occasional cornet player. His career officially began in 1979 when he co-founded the influential post-punk band Mission of Burma on guitar and vocals. He formed Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on piano in 1981, and from 1983-1989 he began his Maximum Electric Piano work. Miller joined the Alloy Orchestra in 1998 - "the best [orchestra] in the world at accompanying silent film" says Roger Ebert – which continues today as The Anvil Orchestra. He is currently working on his new looping-based music "Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble." Boston Globe: "Less a recital than a musical minefield... Miller is a man in constant motion, a one-man symphony."   May 26 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC May 27 - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave - Baltimore, MD 21230   Listen to & buy: Roger Clark Miller, Eight Dream Interpretations for Electric Guitar Ensemble      Birdsongs of the Mesozoic Dawn of the Cycads, The Fossil Record       The Fourth World Quartet, 1975 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! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Don't miss seeing the ED PALERMO BIG BAND live! ~~~~ April 29 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 June 24 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 August 26 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 October 28 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 December 23 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 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                     ANTHONY PIROG "[Palo Colorado Dream] covers a sprawling musical terrain–avant jazz, atmospheric soundscapes, earthy Americana, math-rock...with an arsenal of effects hardware and studio production techniques..." – JazzTimes "One of jazz’s most reliable conduits to a living, breathing audience is electric-guitar heroism, and Anthony Pirog, from Washington...seems poised to become a hero of the instrument." – The New York Times ________________________________ April 16 - with Joel Harrison - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC April 17 - with Joel Harrison - U. of VA - Cabel Hall - Charlottesville, VA April 23 - with Joel Harrison - Nublu -  151 Avenue C - East Village, NY 10009 May 27 - with Janel Leppin and Mike Kuhl - Orion Studios - 2903 Whittington Ave - Baltimore, MD 21230 - Opening for Roger Clark Miller  [Janel and Anthony and Mike will play a set of music drawn from their releases on Cuneiform as well as some new material]   Listen to & buy: Anthony Pirog: Pocket Poem; Palo Colorado Dream .       Janel & Anthony, Where Is Home      in other groupings: Five Times Surprise The Spellcasters, Music from the Anacostia Delta   Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL UK electronic ensemble Radio Massacre International bring "Berlin School electronics" into the 21st  century and onto the live stage. The longstanding improvisational synth & electronics trio has released dozens of recordings - including 3 on Cuneiform – and mesmerized festival audiences worldwide.   October 21 - Awakenings Festival - Lea Hall Pavillion - Sandy Lane, Rugely, Staffs - WS15 2LB, UK   Listen to & buy: Time & Motion, Rain Falls in Grey, Emissaries       SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER "The Best Music of 2015: A Banner Year for the Bold: …here are a dozen albums released in 2015 that I savored repeatedly for their musicality, clarity of statement and courage. …“X” by 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 Schnellertollermeier's clear-cut approach burns itself into one's memory; audiences who have seen the trio (bassist Andi Schnellmann/ guitarist ManuelTroller /  percussionist David Meier) live describe their music as “stunning”, “minimalist”, “brutal”, “decisive”, “monumental”, “angry”, “controlled”, “captivating” or “radical”.  Simply fantastic. _____________________________ June 22 - Roadburn Festival - Paradox - Tillburg, The Netherlands June 24 - Kultiläum '23 - Kulturwerk 118 - Sappeurstrasse 6, Sursee, Switzerland June 25 - Perronnord - Rosenbergstrasse 48 - St. Gallen, Switzerland Listen to & buy: 5, Rights, X                 THUMBSCREW Thumbscrew is the all-star collaborative trio of Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass). Thumbscrew's critically acclaimed albums, all on Cuneiform Records, have appeared on Best of Year lists worldwide. Thumbscrew perform  frequently at festivals and served numerous residencies at art centers and prominent venues in the US and abroad. I September 2022, in celebration of their 10th Anniversary, Thumbscrew will release their 7th album on Cuneiform Records: Multicolored Midnight.   “Made up of three highly distinctive voices in the world of jazz and avant-garde music, Thumbscrew should probably collapse under the weight of its own star power but Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Mary Halvorson (electric guitar) and Michael Formanek (acoustic bass) are just too aware of the potential of this supertrio to let that happen.”  – Something Else! ________________________________ April 29 - Weinberg Center For The Arts - 20 West Patrick Street - Frederick, MD, 21701 Listen to & buy: Multicolored Midnight //  Never Is Enough // The Anthony Braxton Project // .    Ours // Theirs //      Convallaria // Thumbscrew //         To set up press and radio interviews with Cuneiform Artists while on tour or at home, please contact: promo@cuneiformrecords.com return to top   IT'S APRIL 2023! click for Pixel's "Easter Song" We're celebrating Spring!! & Passover &  Easter &  More! WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT MUSIC & VIDEOS ONLINE !   CUNEIFORM RECORDS has a treasure chest of interesting music to serve as soundtrack, inspiration and solace during these evolving and challenging times. Our mammoth catalogue of over 500 releases by artists from around the world includes many of avant music's most esteemed icons as well as young rising stars, and is available for purchase in digital and physical formats at the CUNEIFORM RECORDS BANDCAMP store, and in physical formats at one of our sister companies, WAYSIDE MUSIC as well as in RECORD SHOPS worldwide (see our DISTRIBUTORS).  Your purchases of our CDs, LPs, and digital downloads supports or indie musicians, indie labels, and small businesses.      click for David Borden's "Easter"   • VISIT the official CUNEIFORM RECORDS WEBSITE  for extensive information on the artists and recordings on our label,  upcoming concerts & much more.   • WATCH VIDEOS on Cuneiform Records' YOUTUBE CHANNEL Cuneiform Records has an extremely active YouTube Channel which you should bookmark as a favorite:  free music videos, videos of live shows, & samples from 500+ adventurous releases!   And we began expanding our video content during the pandemic, most notably with an ongoing video series curated  and produced by guitarist Henry Kaiser.  • PURCHASE & LISTEN to releases on CUNEIFORM RECORDS BANDCAMP PAGE  Discover new music on our Bandcamp Page, and support artists & our indie label by purchasing music.   • PURCHASE music from100s of LABELS from around the world at  WAYSIDE MUSIC, our sister store.  At our internet store, WaysideMusic.com (established in 1980!), you can purchase hard-to-find CDs and LPs from ALL your favorite labels!  • ENJOY and SHARE SAMPLES of music by releases of countless Cuneiform artists on the Cuneiform Records' SoundCloud Site. • VISIT, LIKE & FOLLOW  Cuneiform Records' Official FACEBOOK PAGE.  • JOIN the Cuneiform Records FACEBOOK GROUP:  FANS Of Cuneiform Records.  • FOLLOW @CuneiformRecord onTWITTER • LICENSE music from Cuneiform for movies, ads etc via our sister site TheMusicOutpost.com. • SIGN UP for the CUNEIFORM RECORDS NEWSLETTER if you're not already one of our subscribers, and  get BOTH this monthly newsletter in your email box AND receive 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 half price. • VISIT our TOURS PAGE for upcoming concerts WORLDWIDE by our artists.   • ACCESS PRIOR ISSUES of the CUNEIFORM RECORDS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER at cuneiformrecord.blogspot.com/     Cuneiform Records' Monthly Newsletter announces and gives in-depth info on ALL of the label's NEW RELEASES - both physical and digital formats - and also provides TOUR / CONCERT info from its artists.   CUNEIFORM RECORDS SOCIAL ONLINE: video - "Call Me"  [Norway] from Pixel's album Reminder Cuneiform YouTube Cuneiform Website Facebook FanGroup Facebook Page Cuneiform Twitter Cuneiform SoundCloud Cuneiform Bandcamp Instagram Email Cuneiform Cuneiform Records' Monthly Newsletter is compiled by Joyce [Nalewajk] Feigenbaum, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSIC OUTPOST – PUBLICITY FACEBOOK PAGE: MusicOutpostPublicityAndLicensing TWITTER: @TheMusicOutpost return to top Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* Cuneiform Records, All rights reserved.   Washington, DC // Silver Spring, MD Our mailing address is: Cuneiform Records P.O. 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