Cuneiform Records NOVEMBER 2023 Newsletter

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CUNEIFORM RECORDS   NOVEMBER 2023  NEWSLETTER: New Releases & Concerts view this email online click menu links & jump– on laptop/computer:   – on mobile: scroll down ~~~~~~ CUNEIFORM RECORDS' NOVEMBER 2023 RELEASE FRENCH TV – A GHASTLY STATE OF AFFAIRS   New studio recording by Mike Sary's longstanding Louisville, KY-based progressive rock group, French TV [USA] ~~~~~  CUNEIFORM RECORDS' OCTOBER 2023 RELEASES OUT NOW IN DIGITAL FORMAT: Championing cutting-edge, beyond-genre music since 1984, Cuneiform Records celebrates music that defies staid tradition to creatively push forward. In October, we release four digital releases of genre-defiant, boundary-crossing music from 1986 to the present by some of the world's most progressive musicians. VOLAPUK – PUKAPOK Reissue of 1999 live album by Volapük, drummer/ composer/ Etron Fou Le Loublan alumni Guigou Chenevier's post-rock / RIO/ avant progressive/ post-classical trio [FRANCE] ITOKEN - KLIMPEREI - FRANK PAHL – IKP   New recordings by international, tri-continental art rock/ post rock collaborative IKP  [JAPAN / FRANCE / USA] 5UU'S – LIVE AT A.K.W., WURZBURG, GERMANY, APRIL 8, 1995   Previously unreleased live recordings from the 5UU's 1995 tour of Eastern Europe. Avant progressive / Rock In Opposition   [USA] CURLEW – CBGB NYC, NY 1987 // TAKLOS FESTIVAL, BERN, SWITZERLAND 1986 Previously unreleased live recordings by Downtown NY / Knitting Factory scene legends, Curlew. Jazz / Rock / Post-genre firebrands [USA] ~~~~~ OUT NOW! RELEASED SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 JAZZ I.P.A. – GRIMSTA ALL-STAR SCANDINAVIAN JAZZ QUINTET I.P.A. RELEASE A THIRD ALBUM FOR CUNEIFORM ~~~~~ SNEAK PEEKS  COMING OUT DECEMBER 2023 IN DIGITAL FORMAT: A SELECTION OF EXPERIMENTAL, AVANT-PROGRESSIVE AND ROCK RECORDINGS  FROM NORTH AMERICA & EUROPE  AHLEUCHATISTAS – THE SUMMER WE WENT WEST [and EAST] –LIVE 2006  Live recordings from Ashville NC's stunning experimental rock trio  [USA]  PASCAL GLOBENSKY – ZIGZAG Solo album by Miriodor's longtanding keyboardist & co-composer [Quebec, Canada] NEBELNEST – NeBeLNeST  Remixed, remastered reissue of this French avant-progressive band's first album [France] ~~~~~  COMING OUT IN 2024 A LENGTHY LIST OF UPCOMING RELEASES   ~~~~~ 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 //  SOUNDCLOUD PAGE ~~~~~ • Purchase music from 100s of labels at WAYSIDE MUSIC, our sister store, estab.1980 ~~~~~ • Missed seeing a CUNEIFORM NEWSLETTER? Access prior issues at cuneiformrecord.blogspot.com/   ~~~~~   mark your calendar: 2024 is CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 40TH ANNIVERSARY!!! Would you like to celebrate this against-all-odds music business landmark with us?   – view this email online –   return to top COMING OUT NOVEMBER 17, 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: FRENCH TV A GHASTLY STATE OF AFFAIRS New studio recording - their first on the Cuneiform Records label - by French TV, Mike Sary's long-standing, Louisville KY-based progressive rock group  [USA] Bio information: FRENCH TV Title: A GHASTLY STATE OF AFFAIRS (Cuneiform Rune 519) Format: CD  / DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS FILE UNDER: FUSION / PROGRESSIVE ROCK   "French TV retain their own unique identity, finely walking the line between...classic 70s progressive rock and the more experimental stylings of the avant-garde. Truly a majestic auditory journey... They mesh both musical directions effortlessly and thus create a unique sound unlike anyone else. On top of that, the melodies and musical ideas are absolutely gorgeous, intricate and thought-provoking, tickling both the emotional and logical sides of your brain, which very few acts are able to do."  -- Rok Podgrajsek, The Rocktologist     French TV's newest CD, "A Ghastly State Of Affairs" is their 15th in their long history. It is also their first album not to be self-released. Headed up by charter member bassist/composer Mike Sary, he is joined again by guitarist Kasumi Yoneda (also from the Japanese band TEE), keyboardist Patrick Strawser (best known for his work in the 90's band Volare), and now by the original drummer from FTV's first three abums, Fenner Castner. The new album displays their ingenious knack for tricky arrangements, blazing solos, surprising left-turns, and their ability to tell a well-crafted yarn musically without words. Blending elements of progressive rock, fusion, cartoon music, and Rock-in-Opposition, the music of his group can be simultaneously hilarious and highly challenging, making it one of the most original American prog rock outfits and also one of the longest lived, having created 14 albums, toured Europe and the US a few times, and played many festivals.   French TV began in Louisville, KY as an offshoot of an early '80's art-rock band Festung Amerika. Bassist Mike Sary and keyboardist/drummer Steve Roberts (currently with R.I.O. band Ut Gret) recruited guitarist Artie Bratton and drummer Fenner Castner, and the first album was released in 1984. Steve left the band to concentrate on his mail order CD business ZNR Records and his growing family, so Mike shepherded the band through many different members, tours, phases, and recordings through the present day.   The band's current trajectory roughly began four albums ago with their 2016 release "Ambassadors Of Good Health And Clean Living", when Mike was joined by guitarist Katsumi Yoneda. Pat Strawser signed up with their following CD, "Operation: MOCKINGBIRD" and brought more of a "clarity" to Mike's slightly-less-than-coherent arrangements, as well as bringing in his own pieces (encouraged by the band!).   "A Ghastly State Of Affairs" opens with Patrick's 18-minute opus "Every Morning, I Wake Up And Take My Hat Off To All The Beauty In The World" and could be considered FTV's finest moment, with a haunting main theme, various sub-themes, powerful solos (especially the ones featuring the flute of Katsumi's TEE bandmate Kenji Imai), movements that build and build only to have the floor disappear from under you, and an ending that will find you reaching for a cigarette (even if you don't smoke). Track two, "Baby, You Fill Me With Inertia", spotlights former member/occasional contributor Warren Dale's intricate 4-part horn charts. 2 songs, "Drunkard's Train To Westchester" and "My Boys Awake At Night "Cuz They Nocturnal" include some blazing violin from another FTV alumni, Ludo Fabre of the French band Mentat Routage.    listen on soundcloud CREDITS: Mike Sary : bass, loops, samples Katsumi Yoneda : guitars Patrick Strawser : keyboards Fenner Castner : drums with Kenji Imai : flute Warren Dale : saxes Ludo Fabre : violin Recommmended if you like: Happy The Man, National Health, Bruford, Brand X, Planeta Imaginario, Caravan, Hatfield & the North. ~~~~ "I've always had a soft spot for French TV, a very quirky American band who combine the eccentric nature of Frank Zappa with a bit of Canterbury playfulness and a whole lot of classic jazz-fusion as well as the more avant-garde stylings of RIO. Often times not music for the faint of heart, French TV's stuff is ready made for those with challenging tastes, and once you peel back the layers there's always plenty of rewards to be found on any of their albums." ---Peter Pardo, Sea Of Tranquility   If you're not familiar with this band; imagine combining jazz, prog, carnival music, and avant-garde all at the same time. Not only do they pull this off, but...they make the music sound fun and not...dissonant, creepy, disturbing, purposely complex, and unsettling... For the most part, this is instrumental music with the occasional spoken word or (aaahh!) thrown in. It is challenging but not so much that you need to study, orneed a degree to understand it." ----ProgArchives  listen /pre-order on Bandcamp:     "...if you don’t like French TV, wait a minute or two. It doesn’t take them ten minutes to change sounds. But it all mashes together and makes sense somehow. ... Mellotron-backed guitar freakouts trading fours with twittery monosynth; RIO-like woodwind parts bordering on dissonant chaos or perhaps Gentle Giant like polyphony; a spoken bit that sounds like Dalek poetry; tempo changes just when things are getting into a groove... These wonders and many more await you inside the freak show. ... It’s their willingness to persevere against the bounds of safety that makes the music thrilling to me. That and titles like “Theme from ESPN X-treme Cobalt Blue 4x4 Bathroom Tile Installation Games” – how can you resist something like that?" --Jon Davis, Expose   "It always makes me smile how French TV are listed as “RIO/Avant Prog” on prog nerds’ Bible, Prog Archives. They may be baffling, humorous, and sometimes wilfully and knowingly pretentious, but “avant” they are not. Most of all, this band is fun! Don’t let labels put you off, there is enough here to put a smile on the face of Mr & Mrs Adversity, no matter their musical preferences."  --Roger Trenwith, The Progressive Aspect return to top   OUT NOW!!! IN DIGITAL FORMAT RELEASED OCTOBER 27, 2023   CURLEW – CBGB NYC, NY 1987 // TAKLOS FESTIVAL, BERN, SWITZERLAND 1986 ITOKEN - KLIMPEREI - FRANK PAHL – IKP VOLAPUK – PUKAPOK 5UU'S – LIVE AT A.K.W., WURZBURG, GERMANY, APRIL 8, 1995 OUT NOW!!!  CURLEW CBGB NYC, NY 1987 // TAKLOS FESTIVAL, BERN, SWITZERLAND 1986 Bio information: CURLEW Title: : CBGB NYC, NY 1987 // TAKLOS FESTIVAL, BERN, SWITZERLAND 1986  (Cuneiform Rune 3370) Format: DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Release date: OCTOBER 27, 2023 FILE UNDER: JAZZ / ROCK / POST-JAZZ   Live recordings from concerts in the USA and Switzerland by the legendary Curlew, THE best live band from the NY Downtown / Knitting Factory scene credits: George Cartwright - saxophones Wayne Horvitz - keyboard and keyboard bass Pippin Barnett - drums Tom Cora - cello Davey Williams - guitar Recorded live off the board March, 1987 at CBGB, New York City, New York [1-15] and October, 1986 at the Taklos Festival, Zurich, Switzerland [17-22]. Mastering and cleanup by Ian Beabout, ShedSounds Media.   listen on soundcloud "Curlew needed a bass player, so I asked Wayne Horvitz if he would be interested. Wayne played keyboards, and I thought a keyboard bass would be pretty darn great. And Wayne would be in the band. I knew he would be a good fit when I saw him playing the keyboard (a DX7) with his fists at Curlew's show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He was clearly a creative and unconventional musician. We played at CBGB and then after, opening for Chuck Berry at Queens College (Queens) (booked by the estimable Glenn Leslie of Art Rock Management (now sadly departed) the night before we left for Europe. Our first gig was at the Taklos Festival, Zurich, Switzerland, at the Rotefabric. The Curlew recording Live in Berlin came from this same tour. We did have one close call when Davey lost his passport in Nuremberg after our gig there. We couldn't get into East Germany without a passport, so Pippin and Davey went back to the bar where they had been the night before, woke up the bar owners, and found Davey's passport. They were able to find it just in time for us to transit from Western Germany through East Germany and on into West Berlin. All in all, it was a great tour with a great band. I'm so glad that I asked Wayne to join us." -– George Cartwright Listen to / Buy on Bandcamp:  Listen To / Buy Other Curlew Releases on Cuneiform: //  North America // CBGBs, NYC, 1987 // Live in Berlin                  Bee // Live at the Knitting Factory/ Live at D.C. Space // A Beautiful Western Saddle                        Paradise  // Phantasmagoria 1998 + WFMU 1997 //  Fabulous Drop          Meet the Curlews //  Mercury         return to top OUT NOW!!! ITOKEN - KLIMPEREI - FRANK PAHL IKP   Bio information: ITOKEN - KLIMPEREI - FRANK PAHL Title: : IKP  (Cuneiform Rune 3390) Format: DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Release date: OCTOBER 27, 2023 FILE UNDER: ART ROCK / POST ROCK / AVANT PROGRESSIVE  New recordings by international (JAPAN / FRANCE / USA) art rock / post rock collaborative IKP credits Itoken (Kenji Ito) - all instruments Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz)  - all instruments Frank Pahl  - all instruments   "This beautiful new release by IKP is a wonderful triangulation of sounds, cultures and seasoned musical wizards. The production on this record is impeccable, melding into a wondrous new sound that only these three musicians could make. It's the perfect filmscore, and who cares about the film!" – Friendly Rich, host, Industry Tactics podcast listen on soundcloud IKP is Itoken (Kenji Ito, Harpy, etc.) Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz, etc.) and Frank Pahl (Little Bang Theory, Scavenger Quartet, etc). Kenji answers to Itoken, Christophe answers to Klimperei and Frank answers to Frank because he’s never adopted a cool stage name. In the 1980’s Itoken, Christophe and Frank were on different continents making music shaped by rock, punk, classical, folk, art rock, film scores and electronic music but prog and the playful side of rock are the unlikely godparents of IKP. Itoken writes syncopated math rock while Klimperei embraces more of the improv side of prog. Simplifications...o well. Musically they’re brothers from another mother but in the 80s they were unaware of their brothers across the pond(s). Fortunately the world got a bit smaller with the cassette tape, which allowed anyone with a tape recorder and a mike the chance to find their community. Swapping with like minded strangers became the norm. In the 90s, Itoken was touring with his band Harpy and he stayed with Frank in the US and Klimperei in France. Harpy could have been the poster child for prog toypop. During their stay in the US Frank shared his musical toy collection with Harpy for never released jam sessions in his studio. In 1997 when Frank was in grad school he participated in an exchange trip to Japan. After 4 weeks of pretending to be a printmaker Frank headed to Tokyo to see Itoken. Itoken joined Frank along with members of Hi-Speed, Harpy and After Dinner for a live show. After the show, Watanabe, the presenter from Locus Solus, suggested Klimperei should be a collaborator. In 2014 and 2018 Klimperei toured Japan with Itoken, Madame Patate and special guests. In 2018, Frank was in Japan to support the release of his third collaboration with Klimperei. The release was titled Music for Perfect Strangers, in part because Frank and Klimperei had never been in the same room together. Collaborations were the result of long distance file sharing. Itoken joined Frank and Terri Sarris (and guests) for shows in Tokyo and Osaka. Klimperei’s tours and Frank’s tours did not overlap. They remain Perfect Strangers. When the pandemic hit, the idea of IKP was formed. Why not? It seemed like the world might be screeching to a halt so we might as well dance.    listen to "Hannah's Dancing Lesson" / Buy IKP on Bandcamp:     return to top OUT NOW!!!  VOLAPUK PUKAPOK Bio information: VOLAPUK Title: : PUKAPOK (Cuneiform Rune 3383) Format: DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Release date: OCTOBER 27, 2023 FILE UNDER: AVANT PROGRESSIVE / POST-ROCK / ROCK IN OPPOSITION / POST-CLASSICAL Reissue of limited edition 1999 live album by Volapük, drummer/composer/Etron Fou Le Loublan alumnus Guigou Chenevier's art rock/ post-rock / Rock In Opposition trio [FRANCE].  This French group, whose compositionally distinctive music combines elements from folk music, rock and jazz, previously released 3 studio albums on Cuneiform Records:  Le Feu du Tigre (1995), Slang (1997), and  Polyglot (2000). credits: Guigou Chenevier : drums, sax, vocals, electronics Michel Mandel : bass clarinet, clarinets, taragot, vocals Guillaume Saurel : cello, vocal "A wonderful trio [whose] compositions are highly rhythmic and playful, full of both surprises and logical thematic development." - C.M.J.   "These guys are pros...with drummer and leader Guigou Chenevier...a Rock in Opposition veteran with numerous recordings as a member of Etron Fou Leloublan, and the two other group members, Guillaume Aurel on cello and Michel Mandel on bass clarinet, both with substantial classical training and performance experience. The name "Volapuk" references an early attempt at a universal language, actually predating Esperanto by 50 years. Just as Volapuk (the language) draws from English, German, Latin, French, and Italian sources, Volapuk (the group) integrates popular and folk music of various European cultures...Rock in Opposition...tricky time signatures, repetitive riffs, ...anchored by Chenevier's inventive and propulsive drumming." – AllMusic This album features live recordings from Volapük's May and June 1998 tour of Poland. The tour consisted of twelve concerts: Pod Jaszezurarm [Krakow], Manhattan Gallery [Lodz], Cultural Centre [Lutain], Centre for Contemporary Art - Zamek Ujacdowski [Warsaw], Pinakio [Szczecin], Chemik [Gorzaw Wielkopolski], Kameralna [Pila], Swiatowit [Eibiag], FRGS Mozg [Bydgoszcz], Katakumby [Wroctaw], Radio Lodz Studio [Lodi], St. John’s Church [Gdansk]. Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 & 9 recorded at Radio Lodz Concert Studio (June 7, 1998) by Michal Targowski and Wirslaw Grzelak. Tracks 3, 4, & 8 recorded in Gorzow (June 2, 1998) by Jarek Szebga. Tracks 6 & 7 recorded in Warsaw (May 31, 1998) by Arek Was. Al tracks mixed at SDN (May-October 1999) by Tadeusz Sudnik, assisted by Jean Piptotain except 6 & 7 - mixed at Grubba Rybba (February 1999) by Arek Was and re-mixed at SDN (summer 1999). Mastered (November 1999) at SDN by T. Sudnik & J. Piptotain. Re-mastered at DAMP Studio by Marcin Orlowski & J. Piplotain. This album was originally released on CD in a numbered edition of 999 copies in 1999. listen on soundcloud   "Formed in Southern France in 1993, Volapük were initially a trio of drums, bass clarinet, and cello. The trio members used their instruments in expanded roles, creating unusual tonal colors; their music blended ensemble play, jazz, and chamber music with a solid rock underpinning. In 1973 Volapük's percussionist, Guigou Chenevier, had been a founder of Etron Fou Leloublan, a band that (along with other groups including Henry Cow, Univers Zero, Stormy Six, and Samla Mammas Manna) became a charter member of the Rock in Opposition collective in 1978.  Bass clarinetist Michel Mandel received a master's degree in music from the Grenoble Academy of Music. He has played in numerous musical and theatrical settings in Italy, France, Germany, and Hungary. Cellist Guillaume Saurel studied at the Avignon Academy of Music. He has performed in concert and on recordings, and has played music for dance and theater throughout France. After 17 years in existence, Volapük announced their breakup in March of 2010." – AllMusic   listen / pre-order Pükapök on Bandcamp: Listen To / Buy Other Volapük Releases on Cuneiform Records via Bandcamp:  Polyglot                       //    Slang           //         Le Feu du Tigre            return to top OUT NOW!!!   5UU'S LIVE AT A.K.W., WURZBURG, GERMANY, APRIL 8, 1995 Bio information: 5UU'S Title: : LIVE AT A.K.W., WURZBURG, GERMANY, APRIL 8, 1995 (Cuneiform Rune 3385) Format: DIGITAL Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS Release date: OCTOBER 27, 2023 FILE UNDER:  The 1990s... long-shuttered international doors opened and the global world beckoned.  Two American avant garde rock musicians – Bob Drake and Dave Kerman -– leave behind comfortable lives in Los Angeles to join British sound engineer Maggie Thomas in in the south of France transforming a long vacant, semi-ruined 18th century farmhouse into a studio haven for recording the boundary-pushing international bands that they loved.  The artistic possibilities seemed infinite: an opportunity to create and record genre-defiant music - "Rock in Opposition" music without borders - in a Europe where the Soviet Union had collapsed and political and social borders were now opening.  They recorded a new 5UU's album in the bare-boned, emergent studio, and invited Californian musician friends Mike Johnson and Scott Braziel to join them in promoting it on tour throughout Eastern and parts of Western Europe.   The tour was challenging    Previously unreleased live recordings from the American avant progressive/ RIO band 5UU's 1995 Tour of Eastern Europe [USA] listen on soundcloud Scott Brazieal - keyboards Bob Drake - bass, vocals Mike Johnson - guitar, lap steel guitar, backing vocals Dave Kerman - drums, percussion Maggie Thomas - live sound mixing (which is why this 30-year-old board cassette sounds so good!) "Maggie was the obvious choice, as well, for doing live sound. Nobody else mixes shows so well, and no one else knows us like she does, both as musicians and as friends." – Dave Kerman   Recorded live to cassette. Mastered by Bob Drake Here are a few of the band's memories of that tour; read MORE tour tales on Bandcamp. "The Montepulciano show was a highlight for me. Many of the folks in this small Tuscan village showed up in an old church, on top of a hill, with wine and food, great happiness and energy…and they were dancing to our complex rhythms. That’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. At least it was for me." – Scott Braziel "We had a show in what had fairly recently been East Berlin when much of it was still somewhat of a grim urban wasteland. The gig was at a type of club-restaurant...We were slated to go on at 1am... We didn't get to sound-check until 7 or 8 pm, smack in the middle of dinnertime, and the place was full of customers eating. The stage was stuck right in the big dining room, elevated about five feet above the floor, and tucked right up against the tall storefront windows. It was as if we were some kind of oversized toy store display. Really weird. Our dinnertime mini-concert did not seem to add to the diners’ enjoyment!  When we finally went on in the wee hours, we just dutifully plowed into our set. At some point a woman somewhere in the audience yelled "Scheisse!" (“crap”)." – Mike Johnson  "A gig in another squat, either Slovenia or Czech…a very dark and dingy room with low ceiling, a bare light bulb or two dangling on their wires, as were the electrical sockets on the "stage." In the dimness one could make out perhaps 30 or 40 youngish people..all standing along the walls, silently watching as we got ready to play.  We got started, and after the first song came complete silence. No one in the audience moved or made a sound. Another few songs and the same reaction; I was starting to wonder if we ought to call it a night and pack up. After the fourth or fifth song, there was again the complete silence, when someone standing along the wall near the stage spoke very softly: "You guys ruuuule." A general murmur of agreement and affirmative nodding of heads spread across the whole audience. It turned out they were all flabbergasted by what we were doing and absolutely loved it." – Dave Kerman  "In Maribor, Slovenia... The gig was OK. It was in an old fire station that had been turned into a alternative club. Our accommodation was the squat across the street, and we went there pretty early to get some sleep. At 3 or 4 am, BOOM, the doors open, and a few of the inebriated audience shook us awake: “WAKE UP AND DRINK WITH US, YOU AMERICANS!!” We politely declined, and found some floor space elsewhere in the building. Bob slept in the stairwell.  In the morning we found ourselves locked in the squat. The drunkards had left, and there was no way out, as all of the doors were padlocked, and the windows were barred. Someone found one, lone window on the second floor, that we could drop down from, with some difficulty. We had to also drop Mike’s guitar down carefully. The concert promoter was not at the club, as planned, to let us retrieve our instruments, so we drove to his apartment, and banged on the door. We could hear him inside, vomiting up a storm, poor guy. He pushed the keys to the club under the door, and we were on our way to the next gig, in Koper. " – Dave "The floor, walls and ceiling of that club were all shiny tiles that added a loud slap echo to everything! Yiihhh. The squat was a former Yugoslav army barracks, and our room was empty except for some raunchy old, stained mattresses and a little detritus from some former occupants. The accommodations on that tour ranged from basically none to excellent hotel rooms, and everything in between—organizers’ modest homes; a large, wonderful ancient farmhouse in Tuscany; various squats in old apartment buildings, etc. I couldn't begin to do that now, but it's an experience that I cherish. " – Mike "And another thing: it was winter and certainly below freezing. There were icicles on the buildings and frozen mud puddles all around. None of the windows of the (unheated) building we found ourselves padlocked into had glass, or any sort of covering at all.  In the morning we had to climb down from the second-story window onto the roof of the entryway, where it was an easy jump to the ground. Maggie had wisely spent the night in the van! " – Bob Dave: "Yours truly fell ill, some days later. The worst was in Prague, where I spent two of our three days off, backstage, rolled up in a mat, feverish, quivering, and doing the technicolor yawn into a waste can, whilst the others played tourist. On the third day we drove to Würzburg, where this very show was recorded. Though the fever had broken, I was quarantined in a friend of Charlie’s costume room, and was brought over to the A.K.W. in time for the sound check.  Mike: Ah…we had had just a few hours sleep for that. I remember sleeping on the concert organizer's floor, couches, etc., the night before in Chemnitz, because he didn't arrange any accommodations for us (Chemnitz is another story!). We got up kinda early, and drove to Würzburg, getting there like mid-afternoon and sleeping on the picnic tables in the back of the club. Started raining as I recall! The club had a big mirror ball, which is really odd considering the music. I think they played Thinking Plague on their club stereo...?.... We were not in Kansas any more....  Scott: I had a predilection for taking short naps before our performance start times. At this Würzburg recording, I happened to lie down behind the thick stage curtain and at show time no one in the band could find me. Eventually Dave shook me awake and I sleepily stumbled on stage and dove into “Equus.” I woke up FAST!  Dave: We did the show, and it was lotsa fun. Charlie Heidenreich, today still a mainstay of music in Würzburg, is/was quite a character! Nowadays he’s opt to meet you in his squash sweats. But that night, the first time we met, he was wearing a beige, 3-piece leisure suit, a big bow-tie, platform shoes, long hair, and the biggest smile one can imagine. The band played well, and the audience was great. Afterwards, things got surreal, in the best of ways, and that’s why it’s affectionately known, even today, as the “Freakshow.”  Bob: By the way, one of my fave moments is at 2:54 in “Truth, Justice and the American Way” when the sound effect tape comes in so loud. I bust up  laughing every time! The whole song shoulda been like that. Haha.  Dave: Within a few minutes of our encore, the chairs were gone, the disco ball was spotlighted, and the audience was freak-dancing to a really loud playback, and singing along, joyously, word for word, to the likes of “Supper’s Ready,” “Long Distance Runaround,” “A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers,” etc. They knew all of the words and, for the most part, could dance in time to this stuff. It was bizarre. And I shudder to imagine how Charlie could wear all of those heavy clothes, running up and down between the dance floor and the DJ booth, without breaking a sweat.  Sadly, due to the lingering fever, I can’t remember more of this particular show. I went on to play many “Freakshows” with other bands for Charlie, but that’s another set of stories. " See MORE about the  5UU's 1995 Tour, in the album's liner notes, posted on Bandcamp. listen to / Buy the 5UU's on Bandcamp:   Listen To / Buy Other 5UU's Releases on Cuneiform Records, via Bandcamp: The Quiet in Your Bones   //     Abandonship //     .  Regarding Purgatories  // Point of Views   .   return to top OUT NOW!!! RELEASED SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS: I.P.A. – GRIMSTA BIO INFO: I.P.A. TITLE: GRIMSTA (Cuneiform Rune 522) FORMAT:  CD / DIGITAL LABEL: CUNEIFORM RECORDS FILE UNDER: JAZZ   Scandinavian jazz supergroup I.P.A. expands its instrumental palette with Grimsta, a program that goes deep into the woods for new sonic adventures. listen to "Ballet" from I.P.A.'s Grimsta, on SoundCloud   Keeping an all-star collective ensemble going is a steep challenge in the best of times. I.P.A., a quintet that brings together some of Scandinavia’s most esteemed improvisers, has created a striking new album in the worst of times. The group’s sixth release overall and third for Cuneiform, Grimsta is an emphatic statement about the ineluctable power of musical communion; it’s a project bristling with energy sparked by shaping new works together in real time.    Featuring Oslo’s Atle Nymo on tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, Buddy Prize-winning Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Trondheim drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen, Swedish trumpeter Magnus Broo and Stockholm vibraphonist/soprano saxophonist Mattias Ståhl, I.P.A. sounds energized and fearless on Grimsta, a program that explores a wide array of kinetic jazz idioms. In many ways, Broo’s title track sets the agenda, with his pulsing trumpet riding high and low-register currents powered by Ståhl’s riotous vibes and Nymo’s insistently rumbling contra bass clarinet line. Named after an ancient forest near Broo’s house in Stockholm, it’s an expansive blast of acoustic metal jazz that quickly gathers momentum.        The album opens with Broo’s “Ballet,” a vividly jagged tune that feels like an alternate track from Eric Dolphy’s seminal Blue Note album Out to Lunch (with Ståhl’s vibes mapping the sonic terrain). Relatively concise at four minutes, the piece moves from a compressed drum solo to a round of statements, with each player elaborating on the previous commentary, punctuated by pregnant pauses building tension that’s never quite released. “Magnus has his own character as a composer, very distinct, and clear,” says Ståhl. “His best one’s are like a sharp knife, and this is one of them.”   Ståhl contributes two pieces to the session, starting with his woozy jazz ballad “Stray,” a lovely late-night theme in honor of Billy Strayhorn that unfolds twice without opening up for solos. With its unusual odd-length phrases it’s a sing-song melody that seems destined for a lyric. His other tune, “Empathy Fog,” rides a unison horn like that brings Thelonious Monk to mind, particularly his shuffle dance when the band was cooking.    Nymo brought three pieces to the session, starting with “Epic,” a raw, multi-section piece marked by deep contrasts. Arranged in the studio, it’s a quintessential I.P.A. performance in the way it plays with space and density, keying on a duo vibes/tenor sax passage. “Flow For Feste” reveals yet another instrumental palette for the quintet, with Ståhl taking up soprano sax to create riffing three-horn lines inspired by the Ethiojazz Nymo has been engaged with in recent years. The album closes with “Pop,” another brief piece suspended on a gentle two-note bass and contra bass clarinet drone.    After so many months not playing together, Grimsta captures the quintet’s excitement at getting back to work. “The album came about out of the urge to make some new music,” Atle says, noting that almost every piece was a fresh addition to the repertoire. “We don’t know what the others will write, what they’ll bring in,” Ståhl adds. “In spite of us meeting us for a few gigs before the recording, it felt like a fresh beginning.”       I.P.A.’s origins go back to 2007 when Nymo, Flaten and Johansen released their electrifying interpretation of Don Cherry's 1966 album Complete Communion. When Broo joined forces with the triumvirate the following year, I.P.A. was born. The quartet introduced itself on Norway’s Bolage label with two critically hailed albums, 2009’s Lorena and 2011’s It’s A Delicate Thing. By 2014’s Bubble, which came out on the top-shelf Swedish indie Moserobie, vibes master Mattias Ståhl had expanded the band to a quintet and All About Jazz proclaimed the ensemble “one of the best kept secrets in the fertile Nordic musical scenery.” With I.P.A.’s 2016 Cuneiform debut I Just Did Say Something the quintet raised its profile in North America, earning widespread praise and due respect.  In 2020, they released another acclaimed album on Cuneiform, Bashing Mushrooms.    While all the players are committed to an array of bands and projects, the five musicians in I.P.A. have found kindred exploratory spirits in the group. With Grimsta, the players have taken another step into the void, bringing new sounds into the world informed by their multiplicity of connections, influences and relationships. “Everyone is contributing,” Ståhl says. “There’s not an obvious leader in the band. We all bring something different into the band and out of each other. That’s what I find so cool.”   pre-order I.P.A.'s Grimsta on Bandcamp: credits ATLE NYMO – tenor sax/contrabass clarinet MAGNUS BROO – trumpet MATTIAS STÅHL – vibraphone/soprano sax INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN – bass HÅKON MJÅSET JOHANSEN – drums Recorded by Dag Erik Johansen at Athletic Sound, Halden, Norway May 31–June 1, 2022. Please credit Paweł K. Koźmińsk for all band photos buy / hear I.P.A.'s previous Cuneiform releases on Bandcamp: return to top ! SNEAK PEEK WITH SOUNDS! COMING OUT DECEMBER 29, 2023 IN DIGITAL FORMAT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS:   ROCK / EXPERIMENTAL AHLEUCHATISTAS – THE SUMMER WE WENT WEST [and EAST] – LIVE 2006  (live recordings by fiery Southern experimental/ rock/ post-punk guitar/drums/bass trio) [USA   listen to "Fodder for Defamation" from Ahleuchatistas' The Summer We Went West (and East) on Soundcloud credits: Shane Parish – guitar Derek Poteat – bass Sean Dail – drums ~~~~~  ROCK / AVANT-PROGRESSIVE / POST ROCK / PROGRESSIVE PASCAL GLOBENSKY – ZIGZAG  ( First solo album by Pascal Globensky, keyboardist & co-composer of Miriodor, the legendary Quebec, Canada based avant-progressive ensemble) listen to "Approche" from Pascal Globensky's Zigzag on Soundcloud: credits: Pascal Globensky - Composition, musique et instruments +  Bernard Falaise - synthétiseur, guitar électrique, basse électrique (9,10)  Rémi Leclerc - batterie, percussions, électronique, beatbox (1,4,9,10)  Nicolas Lessard - basse électrique (1) ~~~~~  ROCK / PROGRESSIVE ROCK / AVANT-PROGRESSIVE NEBELNEST – NeBeLNeST  (Remastered reissue of Nebelnest's 1999 first album) [France] listen to "Pyskial Trysm Najha" from Nebelnest's NeBe4LNeST on Soundcloud: credits: Michaël ANSeLMI : drums Cyril MALDeReZ : guitar Gregory TeJeDOR : bass Olivier TeJeDOR : synth, devices Recorded 1998 Released 1999 on Laser's Edge Remixed & remastered 2022 by Olivier Tejedor 2022 Album Art by Fred Avignon (drawings) & Robert Levy (photos) return to top SNEAK PEEKS OF DISTANT TREASURES   COMING OUT IN 2024 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS (Listed in alphabetical order. Sound samples to come out in future newsletters)   ~~~~~ JAZZ GHOST RHYTHMS – MISSING TIMES  (new studio album by young French avant progressive ensemble [FRANCE] ~~~~~ JANEL LEPPIN / ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH COMING OUT JUNE 2024 (new studio album by composer/cellist Leppin's all-star DC jazz ensemble with guitarist Anthony Pirog/ drummer Larry Ferguson / bassist Luke Stewart / saxophonists Brian Settles & Sarah Hughes) [USA] ~~~~~  JANEL & ANTHONY  COMING OUT JUNE 2024 (new studio album by reknowned DC/Silver Spring-based cello/guitar/electronics post-rock/ post-jazz / beyond-genre duo, Janel Leppin & Anthony Pirog) [USA] ~~~~~  TOMEKA REID QUARTET COMING OUT APRIL 2024  (new studio album by composer/cellist Reid's jazz all-star quartet with guitarist Mary Halvorson/ drummer Tomas Fujiwara/ bassist Jason Roebke) [USA] ~~~~~ LUKE STEWART / SILT REMEMBRANCE ENSEMBLE COMING OUT OCTOBER 2024  (new live jazz recording by a quintet ensemble featuring Luke Stewart, Chad Taylor, and Brian Settles – the members of Luke Stewart's Silt Trio – with Jamal Moore (sax & percusison) and Daniel Carter (sax & trumpet)) [USA]   ROCK ~~~~~ ANTISTATIC – RELICS COMING OUT JANUARY 2024 (Premier release by young Danish minimalist / post-rock quartet of two guitars, bass & drums) [DENMARK] ~~~~~ CHEER ACCIDENT – VACATE COMING OUT FEBRUARY 2024 (Chicago post-pop/ avant rock legends Cheer-Accident release a new studio recording for Cuneiform) [USA] ~~~~~  JANEL & ANTHONY  COMING OUT JUNE 2024 (new studio album by reknowned DC/Silver Spring-based cello/guitar/electronics post-rock/ post-jazz / beyond-genre duo, Janel Leppin & Anthony Pirog) [USA] ~~~~~   PRESENT – THIS IS NOT THE END  COMING OUT MARCH 2024 (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] ~~~~~ SOFT MACHINE – HØVIKODDEN 1971 (4 disc set) COMING OUT MAY 2024 (4-disc set of previously unreleased live recordings by British electric jazz/ jazz-rock legends, Soft Machine) [UK] ~~~~~ YANG – REJOICE! COMING OUT JULY 2024 (Yang, the French quartet led by guitarist & composer Frederic L'Epée, release a new disc featuring vocals by guest Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio) [FRANCE]   CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL  /  ELECTRONIC  MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO. / DAVID BORDEN –  MAKE WAY FOR MOTHER MALLARD COMING OUT AUGUST 2024  (Two discs of previously unreleased music - one from 1970s, one from 2010s - by electronic music pioneer/ classical minimalist composer David Borden and his band, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.) [USA] ~~~~~   ELECTRONIC – ROCK   ~~~~~~  RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL – GALACTIC FURNACE  (New double album by longstanding prolific UK electronic trio) [UK]   return to top CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR 2023-2024 CALENDAR IMPORTANT COVID REMINDER: In an evolving (and now endemic) COVID-19 world, and with adverse weather "events" happening in increasing frequency, 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. A LIGHT SLEEPER “…not quite rock, not quite jazz, not quite worth labeling, but most certainly worth hearing.”  — smilepolitely.com _______________________________ December 10 - The Hideout - 354 West Wabansia Ave - Chicago, IL - Sunday Sessions with a Light Sleeper: Winter Edition (with Wihuba)   Listen to & Buy:  Equaiverpoise 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 _______________________________ November 4 - Elastic Arts - 3429 W. Diversey #208 - Chicago IL, 60647 March 13 - Lincoln Hall - 2424 N Lincoln Ave - Chicago, IL [opening for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum] March 14  - Irving Theater - 5505 E Washington St - Indianapolis, IN [opening for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum]   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 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). Over time, the series converted to monthly and currently, a quarterly release schedule.  All 52 videos from the Henry Kaiser's Weekly Series, the entire two year Monthly Series and all current quarterly videos are archived & available on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel.  We invite you to visit and follow Cuneiform Record's YouTube Channel to see the videos that Henry regularly presents. A must see: the SUMMER 2023 video is HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY #2, featuring Henry's awesome guitar work along with performances with friends. 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. 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 LE REX Consisting of two saxophonists, trombone, tuba and drums, the Swiss band Le Rex is street smart & road-tested, ferociously grooving & lyrically charged: a new millennium jazz brass band powered by indie rock energy & attitude.   December 21 - BeJazz - Könizstrasse 161 - Liebefeld, Switzerland February 22 - Dekadenz- Obere Schutzengelgasse 3a, Brixen, Italy Listen to & buy: Escape of the Fire Ants, Wild Man      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 recently released new solo looping-based music on Cuneiform - 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."   Roger C. Miller featured with The Anvil Orchestra: November 18 - [featured with THE ANVIL ORCHESTRA - performing to 'The Lost World' (1925)]  - AFI Silver - 8633 Colesville Road - Silver Spring, MD November 18 - [featured with THE ANVIL ORCHESTRA - performing to 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' (1920)]  - AFI Silver - 8633 Colesville Road - Silver Spring, MD   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!  Their shows often sell out, so buy your tickets well in advance. ~~~~ 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 ________________________________ November 11 - Olive's Bar - Hilton Hotel - 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD [7:00 pm / free] March 21-24 - [featured with THE MESSTHETICS] - Big Ears 2024 - Knoxville, TN     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   TOMEKA REID QUARTET 2022 MacArthur Award winning cellist Tomeka Reid's all-star Quartet  (Jason Roebke-bass,Tomas Fujiwara-drums, 2019 MacArthur Award recipient Mary Halvorson-guitar, Reid-cello) plays new material while also celebrating Old New, its second release and first on Cuneiform Records. Both accessible and adventurous, Old New became a critically acclaimed 2019 jazz favorite, reviewed in numerous publications and featured on Best of Year lists worldwide! March 21-24 - Big Ears 2024 - Knoxville, TN   Listen to & buy: Old New   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 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.  _____________________________ November 3 - Sendesaal - Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee 45 - Bremen, Germany November 22 - New Adits Festival - Viktringer Ring 21 - Klagenfurt am Wörthersee - Austria December 22 - Fri-Son - Fribourg, Switzerland [opening for Young Gods]   Listen to & buy: 5  // Rights //  X           STIRRUP The Chicago-based Stirrup is Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello,tenor guitar),  Nick Macri (bass), Charles Rumback (drums).  A true collective, all three write and arrange for the band. “There is lyrical exposition, exciting juxtaposition, lots of power tempered by long flowing lines and strong solos.... Macri and Rumback anchor the jazzy in-and-out rhythms and the improvisations move effortlessly, sometimes collectively, sometimes hard and fast, at other times supple and enchanting, resulting in a strong contender for Best Album of 2020. – The New York City Jazz Record   December 13 - The Whistler - 2421 N Milwaukee Ave - Chicago, IL December 14 - Audio for the Arts - 7 S Blair St - Madison, WI December 15 - The Sugar Maple - 441 E Lincoln Ave - Milwaukee, WI   Listen to & buy: Stirrup + 6's The Avondale Addition UPSILON ACRUX Upsilon Acrux is an instrumental quintet (dual guitars, keyboards, bass and drums) playing aggressive, intricate, athletic, complex and composed post-punk / avant-progressive instrumental rock. Their music fuses the animalist attack of punk rock with a daring complexity and unusual instrumental techniques and sonorities. The music that results is very powerful but upon further listening, you'll realize that it features strangely beautiful melodies that unfurl like some anaerobic Martian flower.  "...a refreshing ability to reference artists from Robert Fripp to John Coltrane with crushing irreverence. Maybe the last of the cool guitar bands."  – Exclaim!   November 25 - 220 Arts - 2220 Beverly Blvd - Los Angeles, CA 90057   Listen to & buy: UPSILON ACRUX RECORDINGS ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS:   GALAPAGOS MOMENTUM //. RADIAN FUTURA   // IN THE ACRUX OF THE UPSILON KING          .       VOLUCRIS AVIS DIRAE-​ARUM // LAST TRAIN OUT // THE LAST PIRATES OF UPSILON               To set up press and radio interviews with Cuneiform Artists while on tour or at home, please contact: promo@cuneiformrecords.com return to top   SPEND THE UPCOMING HOLIDAY SEASON WITH 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.    • 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. return to top CUNEIFORM RECORDS SOCIAL ONLINE Cuneiform YouTube Cuneiform Website Facebook FanGroup Facebook Page Cuneiform Twitter Cuneiform SoundCloud Cuneiform Bandcamp Instagram Email Cuneiform return to top Cuneiform Records' Monthly Newsletter is compiled by Joyce (Joy) [Nalewajk] Feigenbaum, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSIC OUTPOST – PUBLICITY FACEBOOK PAGE: MusicOutpostPublicityAndLicensing TWITTER: @TheMusicOutpost 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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