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NEW RELEASES!!  MARCH, 2021 ON CUNEIFORM RECORD

DAVID BORDEN Heaven-Kept Soul
21st century classical / post-classical fugues


GABRIEL BORDENBorden On Borden:  Gabriel Borden plays David Borden
classical minimalist masterworks on multitracked  guitar

ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER – Bracknell – Bresse Improvisations
jazz-rock / Canterbury/ progressive rock
 
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OUT NOW!  FEBRUARY 2021 CUNEIFORM RECORDS RELEASE 
THUMBSCREW – Never Is Enough
jazz from all-star U.S.A. trio

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OUT NOW!  JANUARY 2021 CUNEIFORM RECORDS RELEASE 
BISBÂYÉ - The Sense Of An Ending / Le Sens De La Fin
math rock / tech metal from Canada's Quebec Province
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SNEAK PEEK! UPCOMING APRIL 2021 RELEASE ON CUNEIFORM
DESERTION TRIO - Numbers Maker
alt-jazz from Philadelphia
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CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR :  Concerts
ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT: MASTER CLASSES & MUSIC FESTIVAL
HENRY KAISER CONCERT VIDEO SERIES on Cuneiform Records YouTube
THINKING PLAGUE LIVE VIDEOS on Cuneiform Records YouTube 
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ENJOY GREAT MUSIC AT HOME DURING WINTER'S LAST MONTH  with 
CUNEIFORM RECORDS' ACTIVITIES ONLINE

• Join us on SOCIAL MEDIA
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Discover new artists & albums on Cuneiform Records' BANDCAMP PAGE
• Enjoy performances on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel
 Purchase music from100s of labels at WaysideMusic.com, our sister store, estab.1980

• and much more!
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COMING OUT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS ON
MARCH 19, 2021


           


     DAVID BORDEN  
  
   Heaven-Kept Soul



CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Format: Digital   Cat.#: Cuneiform Rune 3350
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One of America's greatest classical minimalist composers, David Borden (b. 1938) has written some of minimalism's most significant works despite being less widely known than contemporaries Terry Riley, Phillip Glass and Steve Reich.  The composer and keyboardist is also an electronic music pioneer; as leader of  Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., the world's first synth ensemble, Borden was intimately familiar with Bob Moog's Trumansburg warehouse and wrote works to be played on the inventor's early instruments. Over the years, Borden has written numerous works for both solo performance and ensembles of various size (including Mother Mallard), and for acoustic, electric and electronic instrumentation, in addition to also writing for dance. The 21st century classical fugues for piano released here by Cuneiform Records are among his recent works.
 
File Under: CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3350
Format:  DIGITAL

Release Date: March 19, 2021
 

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"The title Heaven-Kept Soul is an anagram derived from the name Kathleen Supové, the pianist for whom this piece was composed. She is known for her boundary- breaking ways of dissolving the wall between performer and audience. 

The piece is patterned structurally on The Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach. It has thirty variations on a theme stated in the beginning by the piano. The compositional challenge is that starting with "Variation No. 3," every third variation is a canon at a different interval. Most of the variations are composed for synthesizers accompanying an amplified piano; there are a few variations for solo piano. The synthesizer and sampled sounds have been collected on computers, mapped onto keyboards, and played using a USB keyboard controller and laptop with REASON software. Altogether, the piece requires two USB keyboard/ computer performers and one pianist."

– David Borden


Credits:

David Borden - virtual piano, virtual prepared piano, samplers, synthesizers, drum

Compositions by David Borden




Other recordings by David Borden / Mother Mallard / Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co on Cuneiform  (click album cover for purchase info)

Places, Times & People: medium-length works (including "Enfield in Winter") ranging from piano duets, to electronic soundscapes, to dense, interlocking multi-keyboard works for keyboard.
    



The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, David Borden's 12 part masterwork, was released on Cuneiform Records as a series of 3 CDs from 1988-1991 
        

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. early electronic recordings 1970-1976
    
 
GABRIEL BORDEN  

Borden on Borden : Gabriel Borden Plays David Borden



CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Format: Digital         Cat.#: Cuneiform Rune 3350
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A solo tour-de-force of post-classical guitar (acoustic and multi-tracked electric guitar) and classical minimalism. Guitarist Gabriel Borden plays music by composer David Borden, including works from his father's The Continuing Story of Counterpoint (Cuneiform Records, 3 CDs), the classical minimalist masterpiece that critics have called "'the Goldberg Variations of Minimalism' of minimalism, a canon of work that defines a style and an era."  Jaw dropping in complexity, elegance, precision and force, Borden on Borden: Gabriel Borden Plays David Borden is a masterwork in which performance, composition and recording/production are intimately entwined.
 
File Under: CLASSICAL / POST-CLASSICAL / GUITAR
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3350
Format:  DIGITAL

Street Date: March 19, 2021
 

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The download of this album includes a digital booklet with extensive liner notes by Gabriel Borden and his father, David Borden.  Brief excerpt:
 
"During the summer of 1987 Trudy and I took our son Gabriel to see guitarist David Torn perform in Trumansburg, NY at the Rongovian Embassy, AKA The Rongo. Gabe was eighteen. He had had a few years of piano lessons when he was younger, but had given them up at around age 11. 

The next day, after hearing David Torn’s beautiful performance, Gabe bought a Stratocaster, and proceeded to teach himself the guitar. That is to say, he spent eight to twelve hours a day learning the instrument on his own with the help of various guitar method books he bought along the way. 

About a year later, he contacted Chris Woitach, a local guitarist who now lives in Washington State, for lessons. He also discussed with me and with Les Thimmig, the woodwind virtuoso and great jazz improviser who was a member of my ensemble Mother Mallard, how best to learn about improvisation. I wasn’t much help, but Les recommended a book by Howard Roberts, the noted jazz guitarist. So Gabe added that to his daily routine or should I say marathon, because, really, from the summer of 1987 until the end of summer 1989 he spent practically all of his waking hours practicing the guitar. Many, many hours were spent methodically upping the tempo of the metronome so that he could play things perfectly at any tempo he chose, no matter how fast or slow. By the end of the summer of 1989 he sounded like a virtuoso. Actually, he WAS one.”
– David Borden 

"Having heard my father's pieces, especially The Continuing Story of Counterpoint (TCSOC) series, throughout my childhood, as they were being composed and premiered, I had subconsciously begun to develop my own arrangements and interpretations. The process of learning some of the parts and recording and performing them led to the conscious crystallization of these ideas.”
– Gabriel Borden  

Credits:
All performances by Gabriel Borden 
Compositions by David Borden
Recording: Gabriel Borden, recording engineer

1. TCSOC.06 (1978) 
Multi-tracked harmonica, electric guitar and electric bass guitar 

2. TCSOC.07 (1978) 
Multi-tracked large and regular harmonica, electric guitar and banjitar 

3. TCSOC.08 (1979) 
Multi-tracked electric guitar 

4. TCSOC.09 (1980) 
Multi-tracked acoustic guitar and electric guitar 

5. ENFIELD IN WINTER (1978) 
Multi-tracked electric guitar 

    

ALAN GOWEN & HUGH HOPPER
with Nigel Morris 

Bracknell-Bresse Improvisations



CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Format: Digital         Cat.#: Cuneiform Records Rune 3348
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Melodic improvisations by two greatly missed British jazz-rock giants and Canterbury icons, keyboardist Alan Gowen and bassist Hugh Hopper
 
File Under: PROGRESSIVE / JAZZ-ROCK / CANTERBURY MUSIC
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 3350
Format:  DIGITAL

Release  Date: March 19, 2021
 

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This album includes a digital booklet with notes by Hugh Hopper.
 
"I knew Alan Gowen personally only from 1978 to his death from leukaemia in 1981 – three short years really when I think how close I felt to him musically and as a friend. 

With his technique and talent he could have been one of those keyboard monsters playing in giant stadia and making gothic concept albums – if he’d been a more arrogant and extrovert person. Instead he spent most of his time in his front room in Tooting surrounded by keyboards, LPs and cassettes, reams of sheet music, small bells and percussion instruments, hooters and clockwork toys. And there he would sit writing and playing music – working wonders with Mini-moogs and other analog keyboards that in those days were somewhat less than user-friendly. 

Half of the music on this CD was recorded on the first tour we did together in May, 1978. It was supposed to be three weeks of gigs in France for the band Soft Head, but the middle week disappeared as if by magic and by French ‘promoter’. Elton Dean and drummer Dave Sheen went back to England for the week, but Alan and I drove down from Paris to the tiny Burgundy village of Bress-sur-Grosne where we were due to play the following weekend. What we discovered there was the near wreck of an old village inn in the process of being renovated by longhaired, bearded, ex-actor Jacky Barbier and his entourage, with the eventual idea of setting up a club and recording studio. The first of many visits to Jacky’s… 

Alan and I floated through the days eating fabulous food cooked by Jacky’s wife Pascale, drinking the local wine, and occasionally rehearsing music for the gig. One afternoon Jacky Barbier plugged us in and just let the machine run until the tape ran out. What you hear on the second half of the CD is the result – some noodling, some lulls and pauses for breath and some colourful extended improvisations. Sixteen years later it still recalls for me that pleasant, unplanned week. 

The other three tracks here come from the very last music I did with Alan. We’d recorded the LP Two Rainbows Daily in June, 1980 [reissued on Cuneiform Records in October 1995], the first musical project I’d been involved in after giving up all music for over a year. Alan was always trying to get me back into playing and writing, and when he finally persuaded me, we made the LP at his house in a low-profile way – Peter Ball recording just the two of us, overdubbing keyboards and basses. So when I was offered a one-off gig at Bracknell a few months later, Alan was the obvious partner to choose. We asked percussionist Nigel Morris to play too – Nigel had been in East Wind and Isotope with me, but I hadn’t played with him for about four years. A chance to do some improvising and other strange stuff. 
 
I prepared a backing tape of loops and other weirdness for us to play along with for the first set, another thing I hadn’t done for a long time – in fact not since the LP 1984 [reissued 1998 on Cuneiform Records] or the last gig I did with Soft Machine in Hamburg in May, 1973. We had no rehearsal for the gig. Nigel showed up at Bracknell with a wonderfully eccentric drum kit, including a giant, custom-made cowbell about two foot across that gave the whole kit a special reverberation. No good for a clean jazz rock band, but a marvel to behold for the subtle free improvisation he was playing at the time. 

It rained hard, limiting the audience to a few enthusiasts. And those who did come were further bombarded by another bizarre tape I took along to be run off during the interval – voices and loops and all manner of oblique statements of musical intent. Sensibly, most people went to the bar. 

Alan was off on holiday to Morocco the next day. I had a postcard from him saying “Gad – the heat! The flies!” Two weeks later Celia, his partner, called me to say that Alan was in hospital with suspected leukaemia. He died eight months later."

– Hugh Hopper, December 1994

credits:
Alan Gowen : keyboards 
Hugh Hopper : bass, tape loops 
Nigel Morris : percussion [1-3] 

Tracks 1-3 recorded live September 21, 1980 at South Hill, Bracknell, UK. 

Tracks 4-8 recorded May, 1978 at Bress-sur-Grosne, France by Jacky Barbier, with Jean-Pierre Weiller & Pierre Roger.
OUT NOW! RELEASED FEBRUARY 2021:

THUMBSCREW

NEVER IS ENOUGH

 
File Under: JAZZ
Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 478
Format: VINYL / CD / DIGITAL

UPC CD / Digital:  045775047829
UPC Vinyl:  
045775047812
NOTE: The vinyl edition of Never Is Enough includes a 'bonus' fourth side of four otherwise unavailable live recordings (20') from the group's Ours and Theirs tour! These tracks are only available on the vinyl edition; they are not on the CD and they are not part of the digital album.
Street Date: February 26, 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                    listen/share "Through a Window"

TOMAS FUJIWARA – Drums 
MARY HALVORSON – Guitar 
MICHAEL FORMANEK – Double Bass and Electric Bass 

                         How much is too much when it comes to Thumbscrew?

               The all-star collective trio delivers a decisive answer with their
                 sixth album Never Is Enough, a riveting program of originals by 
                    Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson and Michael Formanek

A funny thing ha"...a streamlined trio quickly becoming today's premiere small jazz group" Francis Davis, NPR

Currently one of the most exciting and active groups in boundary-pushing jazz, is the collective trio Thumbscrew, who release their sixth album in seven years with Never Is Enough. Constantly taking the simple, ‘guitar trio’ line-up into new territories, their music is a masterclass of musical interplay and focused forward momentum.

Late in the summer of 2019 Thumbscrew hunkered down at City of Asylum, the Pittsburgh arts organization that has served as a creative hotbed for the trio via a series of residencies. The immediate plan was for them to rehearse and record a disparate program of Anthony Braxton compositions they’d gleaned from his Tri-Centric Foundation archives, pieces released last year on The Anthony Braxton Project, an album celebrating his 75th birthday. At the same time, the triumvirate brought in a batch of original compositions that they also spent time refining and recording, resulting in Never Is Enough.

           


While not intentional, The Anthony Braxton Project and Never Is Enough do seem to speak eloquently (if cryptically) to each other. “Braxton’s presence was very strong in this period, spending time with his music, reading some of the composition notes” Formanek says. “I think and hope the influence was there. It was definitely in our minds. I don’t know if there’s a direct influence, but definitely inspiration.”

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Recorded September 8–11, 2019 by Nate Campisi at Mr. Smalls Studio, Pittsburgh, PA. 
Mixed March through June 2020 by Jake K. Leckie, Los Angeles, CA. 
Mastered July 2020 by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT. 

Produced by Thumbscrew. 
Original artwork by Warren Linn. 
Design by Steve Byram. 

Tracks 1, 4 & 8 composed by Tomas Fujiwara (BMI) 
Tracks 2, 5 & 7 composed by Mary Halvorson (BMI) 
Tracks 3, 6 & 9 composed by Michael Formanek (Formtone Music, BMI)

All Thumbscrew recordings are on Cuneiform. For previous titles, see:
 http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/thumbscrew.html

 
File Under: METAL / EXPERIMENTAL / PROGRESSIVE / MATH ROCK / TECHNICAL METAL /
AVANT-PROGRESSIVE

Label: CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Catalog #: Cuneiform Rune 474
UPC:  045775047423
Format: CD / DIGITAL
Street Date: January 22, 2021
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JEAN-PIERRE LAROUCHE : Guitar 
NATHANAËL LABRÈCHE : Guitar 
JULIEN DAOUST : Drums 
HUGO VEILLEUX : Drums 
VINCENT SAVARY : Bass

Recorded December 2019 – January 2020 at Studio Makina and Studio Kappa in Montreal.

 "This Quebec tech metal crew has been spewing out relentlessly complex and ferocious sounds since the early 2000s. With each release, the quintet keeps getting more focused on finding the point where its double guitar, double drum and bass attack can be deliver the most impact...blasts into your ears like Helmet channelling Albert Ayler." – The Vancouver Sun


"...a hyper-caffeinated...all-out assault with...interlocking polyrhythms, frequent time changes, and dense riffing....Thumbs way up." – Avant Music News

                                 

 


COMING OUT ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS
APRIL 2021




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CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR

2021 CALENDAR
In an evolving and recently re-surging COVID-19 world, these dates are ALL tentative. Please check with venues, close to the concert date, to confirm. We look forward to live concerts resuming AS SOON as it is safe to do so. 
Thank you. 


See also the Tours Page at Cuneiform Records.

ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT 2021


We'd like to bring your attention to a very special annual festival celebrating alternative guitar music and guitarists, and often including performances by guitarist on Cuneiform Records. Founded in 2010 by JOEL HARRISON (who's released three recordings on Cuneiform), the ALTERNATIVE GUITAR SUMMIT is a month-long festival featuring a CAMP/ MASTER CLASSES and a two-day MUSIC FESTIVAL.  

Because of the Covid 19 pandemic, in 2021 both the Camp and the Music Festival will be held virtually: an unprecedented opportunity for guitar fans worldwide.


March 6 & 7- AGS MASTER CLASSES ONLINE 
(Those unable to attend live online on March 6 & 7 can access replays of Master Class sessions for 30 days after the event). Click on the flyers
 



 

March 20 – "Honoring Pat Martino"AGS MUSIC FESTIVAL – 8pm EST

Compositions by Pat Martino, one of the greatest living jazz guitarists, played by Adam Rogers & Peter Bernstein, Dave Stryker & Paul Bollenback, Rez Abbasi & Jeff Miles, Oz Noy & Nir Felder, Sheryl Bailey & Ed Cherry, Joel Harrison, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Howard Paul.
"Pay What You Wish" although donations are encouraged and will go towards the Pat Martino Fund.  
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March 21 – "Virtual Visionary Solos," AGS MUSIC FESTIVAL – 2-5pm EST

An afternoon of (mostly) solo guitar:  Nguyen Le, Nels Cline, Michael Gregory Jackson, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Mary Halvorson with Tomas Fujiwara, Henry Kaiser, and Anthony Pirog.
"Pay What You Wish" although donations are encouraged and will go towards the Festival's production costs and scholarship fund.

THE GREAT HARRY HILLMAN

The exuberant Swiss jazz/ pop/ beyond group - named after the American triple-Gold Medal winner at the 1904 Summer Olympics - are one of the most active groups on the European festival and club circuit, top-notch live performers ceaselessly honing their skills.

May 14 - Konservi - Seon, Switzerland

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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.
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THE HENRY KAISER WEEKLY SOLO SERIES, presented exclusively on the CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel

 When the Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, Henry Kaiser began curating & presenting a weekly series of pre-recorded music videos on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel for music lovers isolating at home. When lockdowns began to lift, the series proved to be so popular that Henry continues to post new videos on our YouTube every Thursday.

It's important to note that, while called Henry Kaiser Weekly Solo Series, many videos depict duets and bands (both recent [#22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpNBqBmnLw and #31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKafal721z0, showing performances of A Love Supreme Electric); and vintage, as in the 1994 Valentines concert of Grateful Dead material in the Fukuoka Dome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf54D0YdLtA ). Follow Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel to see a new video from Henry every Thursday; all videos are archived online.

 



Listen to & buy:
Albums by Henry Kaiser & Friends  on Cuneiform


A Love Supreme Electric [Vinny Golia / John Hanrahan / Henry Kaiser / Wayne Peet / Mike Watt]:
A Love Supreme Electric: A Love Supreme and Meditations 


Yo Miles!: Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Sky Garden & Upriver
   

Five Times Surprise [Henry Kaiser / Anthony Pirog / Tracy Silverman / Jeff Sipe / Andy West]: 
Five Times Surprise


Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell: 
The Celestial Squid


Henry Kaiser: Lemon Fish Tweezer;
Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser: Friends & Enemies 
  

Healing Force [Vinny Golia • Aurora Josephson • Henry Kaiser • Mike Keneally • Joe Morris • Damon Smith • Weasel Walter]:
Healing Force:  The Songs of Albert Ayler              
       

V.A.: 156 Strings: Nineteen Totally Original Acoustic Guitarists

THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND

"Twenty-first century big-band music doesn’t get more exciting
and impressive than this."
– Jazz Times
An astounding 18 piece jazz ensemble of five woodwind players, four trumpeters, three trombonists, two keyboardists, guitar, violin, bass and drums, led by arranger, composer & saxophonist Ed Palermo, one of America's most singular arrangers who draws on jazz, pop and rock tunes for his top-notch band. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of Frank Zappa, one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century, but no one does it with the ease, skill and originality that Ed and his band do!
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[Due to Covid concerns/ restrictions, Ed is performing these shows with  an octet – “Eddy’s Chemistry Set” – and not the 16 piece Ed Palermo Big Band]



March 20 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542

March 27 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542



Listen to & buy:
Ed Palermo Big Band albums on Cuneiform:

The Adventures of Zoyd ZundgrenThe Great Un-American Songbook Vols. 1&2One Child Left BehindOh No! Not Jazz!!Eddy Loves FrankTake Your Clothes Off When You Dance
               

 

SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER

"Schnellertollermeier marries brutality to avant-garde rock and jazz. A classic power trio from Switzerland, the band plays with punk fury and dazzling technical dexterity to create booming, bone-rattling music that stalks, confronts and astonishes."
– The Wall Street Journal

Brutal-jazz power trio Schnellertollermeier doesn't compromise. Their fresh and uncompromising mix of jazz, punk, rock, sound and free improvised music, combined with great musicianship, interplay and intense energy, has awed audiences at festivals of jazz, rock, pop and experimental music worldwide. In celebration of their new release on Cuneiform, the album 5, they tour Northern Europe this winter.

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February 11 - ISC Club- Neubrückstrasse 10- Bern, Switzerland

October 2 - Le Singe - Untergasse 21, Biel, Switzerland

October 9 - Guten-Morgen-Eberswalde - Eberswalde, Germany

October 12 - Dexter - Vindegade 65 - Odense C, Denmark

October 14 - Rotondes - Rue de la Rotonde - Luxembourg, Luxembourg

October 15 - LantarenVenster - Otto Reuchlinweg 996 - Rotterdam, Netherlands

October 16 - LOCH - Bergstraße 50 - Wuppertal, Germany



Listen to & buy:
5
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Rights & X

  
 

THINKING PLAGUE

 Thinking Plague is in the vanguard of groups riding the crest of a largely unheralded avant-progressive tsunami, an idiom responsible for some of the late 20th/early 21st century’s most significant musical achievements. The manner in which Thinking Plague have condensed only the most fertile (and often the most pulverizing) aspect of the last 30 years of progressive exploration into an nth-degree endgame is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
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The CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel is happy to present three live performance videos by Thinking Plague. We hope that you enjoy them, and encourage you to explore and subscribe to our Channel to see videos presented by other Cuneiform artists.

THINKING PLAGUE LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDd3gWyy0AY

THINKING PLAGUE LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ijhX_yLhQ

THINKING PLAGUE LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36urh_gZh-U
 


Listen to & buy:
Albums by THINKING PLAGUE on Cuneiform Records:


             

To set up press and radio interviews with Cuneiform Artists while on tour, please contact:

promo@cuneiformrecords.com
CUNEIFORM RECORDS

WINTER ACTIVITIES ONLINE !!


 
We invite you to bring a smile to
MARCH MADNESS and 

Spend Winter's Last Month with Us, Online!


Because of the emergence of new strains of Covid 19 and resurgences, and delays in vaccine distribution, many places have reinstated lockdowns and/or other cautionary measures.  Wherever you are, and why-ever you are there, we invite you to visit us online and enjoy the music and videos we present for your enjoyment!  
 
Many of us thought - or hoped -  the pandemic would be over by now, but  that's not the case.  Music can make a positive difference in our lives, and help us survive prolonged weird and tumultuous times.  All of us long to attend live concerts again, but until that's safe, let's enjoy music at home.  You can enjoy sample tracks from over 400 recordings released by Cuneiform Records since 1984 on our website, Bandcamp, SoundCloud or YouTube, and also watch recordings of recent and vintage concerts that we regularly post on YouTube. 

Cuneiform Records has a treasure chest of interesting music to serve as soundtrack, inspiration and solace during these challenging times. We have a mammoth catalogue of releases by some of avant music's most esteemed icons as well as young rising stars, available for purchase at the Cuneiform Records Bandcamp store and at one of our sister companies, Wayside Music. Your purchases support indie musicians, indie labels, and small business. 


• Shopping for treats to bring smiles to yourself and your music loving friends this winter?  Please stop by both Wayside Music and Cuneiform Records's Bandcamp store for great gifts!

• Discover new music on Cuneiform Records' BANDCAMP PAGE :  support our artists & our indie label by purchasing music.  

• Visit our internet store, WaysideMusic.com (established 1980!), to purchase  music from ALL your favorite labels! 

We also have a ton of FREE entertainment for your enjoyment on several online platforms:  

TUNE INTO CUNEIFORM RECORDS' YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR HOURS OF MUSIC VIDEOS, AND HENRY KAISER WEEKLY VIDEO SERIES:

• Enjoy hours on Cuneiform Records' YouTube CHANNEL:  free music videos, videos of live shows, & samples from 400+ adventurous releases!   And we've expanded our video content during the pandemic: every Thursday, guitarist Henry Kaiser continues to post a new 'live' concert on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel!  Read how Henry creates these "live" concerts –which are taped beforehand and not streamed - in a Guitar Moderne interview, "The New "Live".


• Enjoy and share samples of music by releases of countless Cuneiform artists on the Cuneiform Records' SoundCloud Site.

• Visit & Like & Follow our Facebook PAGE for Cuneiform Records.

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