Cuneiform Records DECEMBER 2025 Newsletter

CUNEIFORM RECORDS DECEMBER 2025 NEWSLETTER New Releases & Concerts read this newsletter online    LAPTOP/ COMPUTER: navigate email via colored links or scroll down   MOBILE:  scroll email  or read online if images don't open ~~~~~~   “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ―William E. Gladstone   ~~~~~~ AN OVERVIEW OF CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 2025 RELEASES CUNEIFORM RECORDS 2025 JAZZ RELEASES CUNEIFORM RECORDS 2025 ROCK RELEASES CUNEIFORM RECORDS 2025 NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL MINIMALIST / BEYOND GENRE RELEASES ~~~   OUT NOW! RELEASED NOVEMBER 25, 2025 HAPPY FAMILY – JUST A STAIR / THE GREAT SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY  NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL MINIMALISM The third installment of Happy Family's piano series featuring composer/pianist Kenicho Morimoto. Released in anticipation of the band's Silver Elephant concert in Tokyo. [JAPAN] ~~~   OUT NOW! RELEASED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 GILLES LAVAL –   100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE [100 GUITARS ON A DRUNKEN BOAT] AVANT ROCK / EXPERIMENTAL French guitarist, composer and spectacle organizer Gilles Laval's immersive project, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's poem and composed for 100 electric guitars [FRANCE] – Gilles Laval on Cuneiform's 2022 release of Balungan's Kudu Bisa Kudu ~~~ OUT NOW! RELEASED  OCTOBER 31, 2025 TRINARY SYSTEM – THE HARD MACHINE ROCK Third release by Trinary Systems, current rock band led by former Mission of Burma guitarist Roger Clark Miller  [USA] – Official Video for The Hard Machine: "Monkeys (On Your Back)" – Video: Trinary System at the 9:30 Club, Washington DC – Other Roger Clark Miller releases on Cuneiform Records ~~~ OUT NOW! RELEASED OCTOBER 13, 2025 HAPPY FAMILY – WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST  NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL MINIMALISM Japan's Happy Family second single featuring composer/pianist Kenicho Morimoto releases Oct. 13, when tickets for their December Tokyo concert go on sale. [JAPAN] – Additional Happy Family releases on Cuneiform Records ~~~ SNEAK PEEKS  OF WHAT'S COMING OUT IN 2026: A LIST OF UPCOMING JAZZ , ROCK, & EXPERIMENTAL/ ELECTRONIC 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/    ~~~~~                                                                                    read this newsletter online Winter Solstice 2025 "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."                – Les Misérables by Victor Hugo return to top CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 2025 RELEASES Click Album Cover to Listen & Buy via Bandcamp JAZZ  (format: CD, Digital, some LP )     HEAT ON – HEAT ON "In personnel and style, it’s an unabashed mash note to Chicago jazz. Tenor saxophonist Edward Wilkerson Jr. and alto saxophonist Fred Jackson Jr. have both been members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians..and both are strong creative forces... Electric and acoustic bassist Nick Macri,...is a long-time presence on the city’s musical scene across genres... ...Finnegan’s compositions give the players plenty to deal with... If you’re looking for a Chicago sound, you need look no further.... Heat On makes Finnegan as a strong and conscious representative of place Chicago’s jazz scene." – Bill Myers, Dusted   ~ ~ ~ ~   LED BIB – HOTEL PUPIK “Led Bib are back as a lean and mean four-piece... It’s a riotously melodic set, with saxophonists Chris Williams and Pete Grogan going toe-to-toe with maverick drummer/bandleader Mark Holub and wildly creative bassist Liran Donan. While they ‘continue to make the world safe for dangerous music’, the sound of the group has matured and become deeper and more melodic, incorporating influences from other cultures and weaving them into their Motorik, prog and punky DNA.” – JazzWise (UK)   ~ ~ ~ ~      REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE – SERPENTINE "Splendid...spontaneous, improvisational, rigged with the band's energy and prosody...a solid blast of brass in a mercury-wild package.  This is music for listening, moving your ass....being alive." - Provincetown Magazine "Such an invigorating blast." - Downbeat "[a] unique and somewhat twisted twist on the New Orleans brass band tradition…hard-partying avant-funk, with boisterous soloing.” - NYC Jazz Record   "What’s refreshing here is the dual nature: yes, you can stomp your feet - because the grooves land hard - but you should think too, because the arrangements and improvisations carry weight. Field’s decision not to include a chordal instrument (no piano, no guitar) gives the horns autonomy; harmony becomes a communal act of negotiation, not a backdrop ... – Chain D.L.K. ~ ~ ~ ~ SKULLCAP – SNAKES OF ALBUQUERQUE JAZZ / ROCK / BEYOND "6 Stars...I honestly believe this is the first time I have ever said "power cello trio". Janel Leppin (cello, Minimoog) and Anthony Pirog (electric guitar)...Mike Kuhl (drums, percussion)....coming together...and recording this album has resulted in something which is special, indescribable and undoubtedly beautiful. ...The music is RIO at times, or avant, or jazz, or something more, but never anything less. ...music which has real worth and value..."  – Progressor "5 Stars.  ...The whole album is comfortable and fluent, taking you through a variety of influences and styles, from rock to folk to jazz, without a jarring moment." – MusiqueMachine ~ ~ ~ ~   LUKE STEWART / SILT REMBRANCE ENSEMBLE – THE ORDER "4.5/5 stars. ...Silt Remembrance Ensemble.. brings together [Luke Stewart's] Silt Trio...and members of his Remembrance Quintet ... The result, The Order, doesn’t sound quite like either group — although it does sound indefatigably like Stewart.  In fact, it might be said to encapsulate everything Stewart does best. The tunes tend toward the kind of infectious, organic grooves that shape the Silt Trio’s two albums... Yet it has the wider textural palette, busier interaction and poetic augmentations of the Remembrance Quintet... Much is happening here, all of it captivating." –Mike West, DownBeat ~ ~ ~ ~   JOHN SURMAN – FLASHPOINTS AND CROSSCURRENTS              "Rating: 5/5 stars.   ....this new 2-CD set, Flashpoints and Undercurrents. Comprising 13 originals it fully justifies the five star rating. In fact, if there is a spare star lying around anywhere you can add that too. This music fully deserves it – British jazz from its famous Golden Period, 1955 to 1975, at its best.      Nothing Surman recorded for Deram – John Surman (1969), How Many Clouds Can You See (1970) or Tales of the Algonquin (1971) – [can]  prepare you for this.      .....Recorded in exceptional fidelity from the original broadcast quality tapes, this is jazz for the ages. At a time when Surman’s albums for Deram are going for three-figure sums in the collectors market, this classic of perhaps greater merit is now available for a two-figure sum." – Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise   John Surman's Flashpoints & Undercurrents named  #6 in JazzWise Magazine (UK) Top 20 Reissue/Archive Albums of the Year   JAZZ  (format: Digital)   CURLEW – EAST / WEST / ALSO JAZZ / ROCK / BEYOND / POST-GENRE "4/5 STARS. Recorded on the 1990 Knitting Factory tour...from fairly late in the timeline of the [Pippin] Barnett / [Tom] Cora / [George] Cartwright / [Ann] Rupel / [Davey] Williams line-up. ... This RIO/avant-garde/free jazz outfit manage to be completely together, as tight as can be imagined while playing complex music, or free and loose as they improvised over the top, meaning each time they played a song it would be different ... This is music for those who love improvised music yet also need some semblance of structure, as this is dynamic and exciting, thought-provoking and necessary, all at once. The crowd were certainly appreciative of what must have an incredible experience, and it is great that 35 years after these events, Cuneiform have made the tapes available." – Kev Rowland, Progarchives ~ ~ ~ ~   PATRICK FORGAS – COCKTAIL JAZZ / JAZZ ROCK / PROGRESSIVE ROCK "4.5/5 STARS. In the realm of jazz-rock fusions and progressive experiments, Cocktail is an odd, sparkling gem - equal parts charm, youthful audacity, and dream logic. Originally released in 1977, when its creator Patrick Forgas was barely out of his teenage years, this reissue...serves as both time capsule and crystal ball: a snapshot of a young drummer-composer’s ambitions, and a prophecy of the path he would later carve in the European avant-prog underground. ... The original tracks (recorded in 1977) unfold like scenes in a silent film scored by a jazz-fusion troupe...in a crooked mirror maze. ...bonus tracks - drawn from various demo sessions between 1973 and 1979...reveal the slow formation of a musical voice.... ...Cocktail is where it all starts - with reel-to-reel dreams, punkish confidence, and an uncanny sense of melodic storytelling."– Tio Camarretta, Chain D.L.K. ~ ~ ~ ~   CUNEIFORM RECORDS: THE ALBUMS OF 2024 – CUNEIFORM'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR JAZZ / ROCK /CLASSICAL MINIMALISM / ELECTRONIC / POST-GENRE feedback from BandCamp customers:  "gracias por este regalo de verdadero arte" – Marek Kulpa: "wow - what a great sampler high quality - mine this carefully kids : )" – jorgegonzalezlarramendi: return to top CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 2025 RELEASES Click Album Cover to Listen & Buy via Bandcamp ROCK (format: CD, Digital, some LP ) HAPPY FAMILY – 4037 AVANT PROGRESSIVE / ZEUHL / ROCK "4/5 STARS: Happy Family’s 4037 feels less like an EP and more like a triumphant phoenix rising... After touring behind Minimal Gods into near burnout, the Tokyo-born, Zeuhl-infused quartet vanished - only to reemerge at the invitation of Cuneiform Records’ 40th anniversary. Fittingly, 4037 marks “40” years of the label and “37” years of the band itself, a playful arithmetic that underpins both the record’s spirit of gratitude and its sly commentary on time’s elastic pull. ...For fans of the adventurous fringe - whether you worship Magma’s ancient lineage or crave the next twist in avant-prog - Happy Family’s 4037 is a miniature epic worth savoring." – Chain D.L.K.  "...4037 is a powerful reminder that Happy Family’s fire hasn’t dimmed with time – it’s only grown weirder, heavier, and more compelling." – Avant Music News "... Instrumental progressive rock just doesn’t get much better than this. ... it’s a welcome return for a great band." – Exposé ~ ~ ~ ~   GILLES LAVAL –   100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE [100 GUITARS ON A DRUNKEN BOAT] ROCK / EXPERIMENTAL « 100 guitares sur un bateau ivre » sails from town to town, inviting local musicians to reinterpret the composition. The number of participants can vary from 30 to 100, depending on the context.  It is a tribute to the oceans and their defenders, to the still little-known blue immensities full of life and secrets, outrageously and dangerously plundered today, in the light of Arthur Rimbaud’s scintillating, lactescent, tempestuous and wild poem. It’s also a tribute to all those who won’t find the shores after departures full of hope or terror. " – Gilles Laval          ~ ~ ~ ~ ROGER CLARK MILLER –  CURIOSITY FOR SOLO ELECTRIC GUITAR ENSEMBLE ROCK / EXPERIMENTAL "4.5/5 STARS. Roger Clark Miller ..returns with...a record that is both an exploration of sound and an excavation of the psyche. ...It’s part science fiction, part lucid dream, and entirely Roger Clark Miller. ...this is a solo album, but don’t let that fool you. Miller is an ensemble unto himself, conjuring layers of sound from a modified Stratocaster, an array of prepared lap steel guitars, and enough looping devices to make time fold in on itself. His compositions emerge like carefully constructed hallucinations - somewhere between 20th-century avant-garde, post-punk experimentalism, and a tape-delay séance with the ghost of Morton Feldman." – Chain D.L.K. "Roger Clark Miller’s latest solo electric guitar ensemble album showcases him at his best, blending avant-garde experimentation with familiar guitar rock textures."– ArtsFuse   ~ ~ ~ ~ SKULLCAP – SNAKES OF ALBUQUERQUE JAZZ / ROCK / BEYOND "6 Stars...this album...is special, indescribable and undoubtedly beautiful. ...The music is RIO at times, or avant, or jazz, or something more, but never anything less. ...music which has real worth and value..."  – Progressor "5 Stars. ... Lightly distorted blues rock fuzz guitar meets a vibrant, expressive folk lead cello, with a drummer who plays with a jazz subtlety. ..In this trio, each player establishes a strong identity without a weak link. The lead playing is poignantly, cuttingly expressive, whether it's Pirog's...or Leppin's...."– MusiqueMachine ~ ~ ~ ~   TRINARY SYSTEM – THE HARD MACHINE "...Trinary System presents their new album...between art rock, experimental pop, and instrumental storytelling, feeling both complex and immediate. The band combines organic timbres with electronic structures, layering with transparency, energy with melancholy. ...Between pulsating grooves, poetic textures, and shimmering guitar lines, musical spaces emerge that range from introspective fragility to eruptive power. The album plays with contrasts – between control and chaos, catchiness and abstraction. ... "The Hard Machine" is a multifaceted statement from a band that defies easy categorization yet remains instantly recognizable. – Broken Silence    "Trinary System continues the elegant, abstract, agitated firestorm tradition of Miller's Burma songs, with an unmistakable swagger…" – Dusted Magazine.   ROCK (format: Digital) BALLOONS FOR THE DOG – WICKED FORMS OF OLD SNOW ROCK / ART ROCK / NEW WAVE "4/5 STARS  ....From 1977 to 1981, they were Washington DC’s untrainable stray, sniffing at the bins of punk, lapping at the puddles of art rock, and then running away to bark at metaphysics under the moon. Wicked Forms of Old Snow finally gathers their only single alongside 18 unreleased tracks... They were too feral for punk’s uniforms, too irreverent for art rock’s temples, and far too funny to be taken seriously - until suddenly they were. ... Forty-plus years later, these tracks sound oddly prescient. Where so many “lost bands” emerge from the vaults sounding dated, Balloons for the Dog feel like they were rehearsing for a future that never arrived - a future where categories were useless, where art was both joke and sacrament, where amps burning down was just part of the gig. In 2025, with post-punk’s ghosts endlessly resurrected, their refusal to choose sides feels less like confusion and more like liberation."– Chain D.L.K.  ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRIS COCHRANE'S COLLAPSIBLE SHOULDER BIG BAND – LIVE 2019: A MAP OF BOOKS ROCK / AVANT ROCK " In 2019, Cochrane introduced...Collapsible Shoulder...Ia big band—a total of 20 musicians... The songs they played explode off the disc, but what’s most notable is the strength of Cochrane’s writing. He’s long been an intriguing songwriter, but the cuts here—which also includes covers of songs by Fred Frith, Robert Pollard and This Heat—are sensitive, engaging, and, dare I say, refined? ...Cochrane’s writing has never come off so heartfelt. – Kurt Gottschalk, NYC Jazz Record "Cuneiform offers a vital document of guitarist, vocalist, and composer Chris Cochrane with his Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, recorded live at Roulette in 2019 and 2020. Cochrane is one of those archetypal downtown NYC creatives who’s had a hand in pretty much everything: new music, free improv, indie rock, and so on. His band – a multi-generational crew comprising similarly versatile players like Gordon Beeferman, Brian Chase, Kato Hideki, Gelsey Bell, Syd Straw, Jim Pugliese, and longtime No Safety partner Zeena Parkins – is up to every challenge the leader proposes. Listen, learn, savor." – Steve Smith, Night After Night   ~ ~ ~ ~ KRAKHOUSE – BASTARDS OF PROG ROCK / COMEDY / EXPERIMENTAL ...“Bastards of Prog,” Krakhouse’s debut...runs across eighty-four lo-fi/high-IQ experimental-comedy songs. Krakow collaborated with Dot Wiggin-Semprini of The Shaggs, and threw in covers of Captain Beefheart, Sisqo, and Alan Smithee. Krakow says, “...anything can be ‘prog,’ no matter how it sounds, looks like or tastes.” For him, progress is about breaking limits: “the people who do so don’t (just) play ‘prog’, they play music... Whatever it is that they do, they bastardize the medium of their choice.”  – Idioteq   ~ ~ ~ ~ SWRM – LIGHTS OFF DARK SYNTH POP / ART ROCK / PSYCH / MINIMAL WAVE / ELECTRONIC "8 Great Psychedelic Albums from Summer 2025 SWRM – LIGHTS OUT A witches’ brew of psych, prog, space rock, minimal wave and post-punk...created by just two musicians from Providence...: Alec K. Redfearn and Matt McLaren. They both play...wizards of Oz by employing a slew of curious instruments and using them as a curtain behind which they carry out their hypnotic hijinks. Vocalist Redfearn alternates between...four skronky-sounding synths (a Moog Matriarch, the Sequential Trigon 6 Analog Synthesizer, the Korg MS-20 and a Eurorack modular synth). All the while, McLaren keeps busy...over his drum kit and percussion, whilst also dabbling with harmonica and neyanban (a Persian bagpipe...). With a guest spot by Mary Sullivan of Yawni, Lights Out succeeds in that its tempo remains mostly steady through the six songs, which allows listeners to...soak in the range of synths. That strategy worked for Gary Numan, and it works for longtime collaborators Redfearn and McLaren with their shadowy SWRM project."  – Kurt Orzeck, Treble "...the duo released...Lights Out via Cuneiform Records and it’s purely hypnotic. ....It’s a unique and haunting assortment of electronic-based music that’ll excite the senses." – Rob Duguay, Culture Beat ~ ~ ~ ~ MIRIODOR – LIVE '97 ROCK / AVANT-PROGRESSIVE / ROCK IN OPPOSITION "6/6 STARS. This is a version of RIO which can be even more challenging than normal and...very French, taking influences from the likes of Art Zoyd and Univers Zero and then combining it with King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator. There are times when the guitar feels almost like a wild animal with plenty of feedback and distortion but then it can suddenly move into...pronk, picked and very effective. We keep getting circus melodies coming to us from the keyboards, but this is not the sort of world where children will be happily laughing... There are passages of sheer beauty which are in total contrast to the chaos, each making the other feel even more so. While this album will not be for everyone, anyone who likes this style of music will find this an incredible piece of work where every musician knew the destination, even if there are times when they are taking quite different paths." – Progressor "There’s also something oddly poignant about hearing Miriodor in 1997 from the vantage point of 2025. The circus they built then was a counter-spectacle, a rebuttal to rock’s solemnity and prog’s tendency to drown in its own gravitas. What they offered instead was artful chaos, wit, and daredevil precision - a reminder that progressive music could be serious without being self-serious, and absurd without being throwaway. ..."Live 97" is not just a long-lost artifact for collectors. It’s a snapshot of risk-taking energy, of a group willing to stumble for the sake of surprise, of a band whose sense of play was as sharp as their musicianship." – Chain D.L.K. ~ ~ ~ ~ THE REFERENCE GROUP – FILE UNDER UNPOPULAR ROCK "6/6 STARS . There is no doubt that Cuneiform are one of the most important labels in the world as they continue to make available music which otherwise would have been lost, and here we have a fine example in The Reference Group who were only around in 2007/08, played just one gig and recorded just eight tracks (all collected here). ...This does not sound like songs...recorded nearly 20 years ago but instead is cutting edge and of today. ...Beefheart...brought...into the modern environment and...definitely uncommercial,... The more this is played the more significant one realises this group were in a musical sense, and they should have been far more highly recognised. Yet again Cuneiform have released an absolute indispensable gem." – Progressor ~ ~ ~ ~ TINN PARROW & COMPANY  – MY GYMNASIUM MUSEUM ROCK / ART ROCK  "...music-hall-pop-psychedelic-jazz by Tinn Parrow & Company / Laurence Bond Miller... Tinn Parrow is Miller's alter-ego for this mad collection, and he plays the majority of the instruments, alongside numerous Metro Detroit jazz and classical musicians, as well as his twin brother, Benjamin... ...there's so much pop on this album—leftfield, off-the-wall, atypical, nonintuitive pop, but undeniably catchy—alongside more Dada-esque excursions. My Gymnasium Museum...fully captures Miller's brilliance with composition and harmony, his surrealist humor, and deeply embedded ability to balance weird hooks and controlled anarchy." – Christopher Porter, A2 Pulp Arts / Ann Arbor District Lbrary ~ ~ ~ ~   CUNEIFORM RECORDS: THE ALBUMS OF 2024 – CUNEIFORM'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR JAZZ / ROCK /CLASSICAL MINIMALISM / ELECTRONIC / POST-GENRE     return to top CUNEIFORM RECORDS' 2025 RELEASES NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL MINIMALISM / POST-GENRE (format: Digital) ROSA ENSEMBLE – ODDMENTS NEW MUSIC / CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL / POST-GENRE "4/5 STARS. On "Oddments", now a quintet featuring musicians with terrifyingly wide résumés - John Dikeman’s free-jazz sax, Koen Kaptijn’s trombone-as-noise-machine, Jeroen Kimman’s anything-goes guitar arsenal, Mei Yi Lee’s restless percussion, and Peter Jessen’s bass grounding it all - the group returns to something deceptively “small”. Instead of grand productions, we get a collection of bite-sized compositions from Floris van Bergeijk, Jeroen Kimman, and Wilbert Bulsink. Each track is a tiny organism...under two minutes. ...It’s a collage aesthetic - part Erik Satie’s sardonic brevity, part Captain Beefheart’s fractured logic, part downtown New York improv scene - but filtered through Dutch wit and precision.  ...playful, unpredictable, and gloriously unclassifiable" – Chain D.L.K.    HAPPY FAMILY  some words from Happy Family: We are excited to share three new piano versions of upcoming Happy Family tracks. These interpretations offer a raw and intimate glimpse into the core of our latest compositions—currently being developed into full-band arrangements through ongoing rehearsals. We're also thrilled to announce an upcoming headline show in Japan. Happy Family will perform a live set on Saturday, December 13, 2025 at Silver Elephant in Tokyo. For more details and updates, please visit our official Facebook page HappyFamily.music.   JUST A STAIR / THE GREAT SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY       WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST      FLOWING YET CUNNING / FORT OF RESPONSIBILITY  Airplay on BBC Radio 6, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone Oct. 19, 2025       CUNEIFORM RECORDS: THE ALBUMS OF 2024 – CUNEIFORM'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR JAZZ / ROCK /CLASSICAL MINIMALISM / ELECTRONIC / POST-GENRE return to top !!OUT NOW!! RELEASED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS GILLES LAVAL 100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE [100 GUITARS IN A DRUNKEN BOAT] Bio information: GILLES LAVAL Title:  100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE (100 GUITARS IN A DRUNKEN BOAT) (Cuneiform Rune 535) Format: CD / DIGITAL Release date: November 21, 2025 www.cuneiformrecords.com FILE UNDER: AVANT ROCK / EXPERIMENTAL    French composer, guitarist, spectacle organizer and educator, GILLES LAVAL presents large-scale musical works in cities across Europe. Inspired by Earth's oceans and ARTHUR RIMBAUD's poem, he composed 100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE (100 GUITARS IN A DRUNKEN BOAT) for live, immersive performances by 100 electric guitars. Laval's stunning and evocative tribute to the sea is captured on this studio album, 100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE, released on Cuneiform Records   listen to/ share "Roches" on Soundcloud, from Gilles Laval's 100 Guitares sur un Bateau Ivre" « 100 guitares sur un bateau ivre » sails from town to town, inviting local musicians to reinterpret the composition. The number of participants can vary from 30 to 100, depending on the context. Coming soon to your town? Info: gsubi.com  It is a tribute to the oceans and their defenders, to the still little-known blue immensities full of life and secrets, outrageously and dangerously plundered today, in the light of Arthur Rimbaud’s scintillating, lactescent, tempestuous and wild poem. It’s also a tribute to all those who won’t find the shores after departures full of hope or terror. " – Gilles Laval  100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre – performance n Avignon, 2019. Photo by L Danière & S Kamel   When Arthur Rimbaud wrote his 1871 poem Le Bateau ivre, it’s likely that he’d never boarded any vessel larger than a ferry across the river Meuse. At 17, his voyages to Java, Yemen, and Ethiopia were still far in the future, but the young writer was no stranger to the tempestuous seas of sex, love, and the subconscious. Plunging through vertiginous waves and “milk-white spume”, his “drunken boat” finds an ecstatic death in fire and breakers. The metaphorical implications are many, and it’s easy to see why guitarist, educator, and composer Gilles Laval took it as inspiration for his return to the Cuneiform Records label, following his 2022 contributions to the brilliant Franco-Javanese band Balungan’s Kudu Bisa Kudu.   “I wanted to find an unconventional form of writing that was accessible to as many people as possible,” Laval explains, noting that he’s an avid snorkeler and scuba diver, with a life-long passion for the sea. “In this poem by Rimbaud, which I read regularly, the sea symbolizes freedom, adventure, escape, and rebellion.   “Le Bateau ivre guided me throughout the composition as a common thread,” he continues, “and the title itself opens up an immediate and limitless imagination.”   Laval’s 100 guitares sur un bateau ivre is much more than a cruise through Rimbaud’s poetic waters, however. In its seven sections, Laval unfurls a narrative that has only a tangential connection to the poet’s imaginary voyage, while incorporating atmospherics drawn from his own aquatic adventures. There is great beauty here, as the music often embraces the otherworldly and immersive aspects of the marine environment, but also quietly subversive commentary. “I wanted to denounce the madness of overfishing, and new forms of fishing such as bottom trawling that massacre the seabed without respecting anything,” Laval says. And if his music embraces darkness as well as adventure, that’s only natural. 100 guitares sur un bateau ivre’s final movement, “Unsaved”, is a wordless eulogy for all of the nameless migrants who’ve died in desperate voyages to find safety and peace.   100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre – performance in Berlin What has been a place of wonder and joy for the composer has also been a “horrible cemetery” for others, he notes. Still, the strongest currents here have to do with surprise, transformation, and empowerment. On the surface, Laval has embraced Rimbaud’s aesthetic of “the systematic derangement of the senses”, using the abstract sonic possibilities of the electric guitar to produce a shifting, restless soundscape that asks for the listener’s active engagement.   “Yes, I like this idea of disturbing the senses, shaking up sounds, melodies, harmonies, and ways of doing things,” Laval says, adding that his tools include prepared guitars and multiple eBows, handheld electronic devices that allow guitarists access to violin-like sustain and various timbral effects. “There is no organized narrative to the poem,” he continues. “I drew inspiration from the sensations I experienced each time I read it, with these explosions of colors, scents, sounds, rhythms, images, and a sense of the revolt brewing within.”   For many, the idea of an orchestra made up of 100 electric guitars will be revolutionary enough, but there are precedents for some of Laval’s innovations—and he was in on some of them. For instance, he was the motivating factor behind Fred Frith’s Impur, which called for an ensemble of 100 and emerged from the avant-rock mastermind’s extended residency at the National Music School in Villeurbanne, where Laval teaches. The French musician has also performed with Rhys Chatham, whose early multi-guitar pieces prefigured the work of everyone from American rock band Sonic Youth to Canadian composer and guitarist Tim Brady.  Cuneiform Records has previously released works composed for guitar orchestras, including Raoul Bjorkenheim's Apocalypso (2001) and Adam Rudolf's GO: Organic Guitar Orchestra's Turning Towards the Light (2015), but this is their first release of a work composed for 100 guitars.     100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre – performance in Leipzig 21 juin 2023. Photo by Laurence Danière For Laval, working with up to 100 other plectrists is a way of expressing his love of his chosen instrument. “I can't get enough of it!’ he enthuses. “I also feel most at home working with musicians who share my musical worlds or musical practices. I already have other ideas for compositions, perhaps adding other instruments, but almost anything is possible with guitars.” There’s also a democratic impulse at play here: although all too often shunned in symphonic circles, the electric guitar is the instrument of choice in many cultures worldwide and is accessible to all, from amateurs to virtuosi. Built into 100 guitares sur un bateau ivre, Laval explains, are multiple levels of complexity; relative novices can comfortably take part (with some preparation), while experienced professionals will have their skills as well as their preconceptions challenged.  “Bringing together 100 people in a common project is no small feat,” the composer explains. “I’ve chosen to offer a ‘long-term’ approach: one to two months of preparatory work with a core group of 20 guitarists who will then be distributed among four groups of 25. I also need to train four captains or ‘skippers’ who will lead the four groups, with the help of the guitarists in the core group. Mutual support is essential so that everyone can find their way, regardless of their background or guitar level.   “Once the 100 guitarists are assembled,” he continues, “I propose a work period of approximately six months, with six to eight rehearsals during this time. Things take time to settle in, and the process is complicated, but it works!”   100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre – rehearsal Part of Laval’s pedagogical intent is that his hundred musicians will learn more than just his score. Along the way, he hopes, they’ll pick up the skills necessary to navigate this world’s increasingly troubled waters, using the solidarity they’ve developed on-stage and in the rehearsal process to combat racism, sexism, disinformation, and the other plagues of our time.   “The future doesn't seem to me to be the brightest one could wish for: wars, famines, the climate, politics, leaders, nationalist and populist movements, et cetera,” Laval allows. “The list is far too long. We currently know less about the ocean floor and its ecosystem than the surface of the moon, and already some new colonizing autocrats want to go to Mars. Yet we must continue to navigate, to rebel, to remain hopeful.   “The battle is tough,” he adds. “But in the end the most important thing is to see the smiles and enthusiasm of the participants, and the pleasure they have in sharing this extraordinary musical moment with the audience.” We’ll have to extrapolate those smiles from this recorded version, but in 100 guitares sur un bateau ivre Laval and his musicians have courage, hope, and adventure to spare—and to share.   100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre in Avignon 2019  Photo by O. Dick ~ ~ ~ buy / listen to Gilles Laval's 100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre on Bandcamp: ~ ~ ~   ALBUM CREDITS: 100 GUITARS SUR UN BATEAU IVRE  STUDIO GUITARISTS: Stéphane Augagneur, Serge Bégout, Adrien Bovigny, Jacq-Niels Clerc, Rémy Decrouy, Jon Fayard, Guillaume Fenoy, Louisa Fillot, Clémentine Gasnier, Sébastien Gayrard, Guillaume Jacquet, Salah Kamel, Mélodie Kostrzewa, Antoine Lartigue, Jules Laval, Le Bich Nhi, Thiên Kim Pham-Picard, Thomas Picot, Léonie Prost, Paolo Rezze COMPOSITION: Gilles Laval RECORDED AT: Mikrokosm, Villeurbanne, France (Oct 2020) MIXING: Clémentine Gasnier, Gégé Millet, Gilles Laval at Studio 8 PM, Lyon, France  MASTERING: Paul Nameche ARTWORK: Jon Fayard, Gilles Laval PHOTO CREDIT: Paul Caigert (strawberry squid) DIRECTION: Gilles Laval, assisted by Nicolas Sidoroff CO-PRODUCTION: Les ateliers Frappaz centre national des arts de la rue et de l’espace public, Chef Menteur production 100 Guitars sur un Bateau Ivre at Avignon 2019 – rehearsal return to top OTHER RELEASES ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS FEATURING GILLES LAVAL BALUNGAN KUDU BISA KUDU "...French drummer Guigou Chenevier...and five other French musicians ended up in Yogyakarta teaming up with seven Javanese gamelan players to create this thirteen-piece ensemble [Balungan] fusing Indonesian traditional sounds with rock music. This isn’t rock music with gamelan tacked on, nor is it traditional gamelan music played by a rock band; the group was built from the ground up, each member contributing their original material and instrumentation, each contributing lyrics in their own language, and the arrangements done together as a group...in France and Indonesia.. ...the recording at hand, live at La Garance, dates from May 23rd, 2017, a technically flawless recording that stands as one of the best gamelan-rock fusions one is likely to hear anywhere, and these guys do rock — each of the twelve tracks is are overflowing with energy, urgency, and power. ... Kudu Bisa Kudu is like no other, and perhaps my number one contender for album of the year." – Peter Thelen, Exposé, 2022   BALUNGAN credits: Guigou Chenevier – drums Loïc Guénin – keyboards Laurent Frick – vocals Gilles Laval – guitar Laurent Luci – guitar Franck Testut – bass Setyanto Prajoko – gamelan Sudaryanto – gamelan Tri Widiantoro – gamelan Setyaji Dewanto – gamelan Sutikno – gamelan Bagus Ariyanto Seputro Nasution – gamelan Desyana Wulani Putri – gamelan return to top !! OUT NOW !! NOVEMBER 25, 2025 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS HAPPY FAMILY JUST A STAIR / THE GREAT SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY Bio information: HAPPY FAMILY Title: JUST A STAIR / THE GREAT SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY (Cuneiform Rune 4040) Format: DIGITAL Release date: November 25, 2025 www.cuneiformrecords.com FILE UNDER:  NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL MINIMALISM JAPAN'S HAPPY FAMILY RELEASE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF THEIR PIANO SERIES:  – JUST A STAIR  / THE GREAT SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY – BY COMPOSER / PIANIST KENICHI MORIMOTO –  The new single released November 25, in celebration of Happy Family's return to live performance with a December 13 2025 concert at Tokyo's Silver Elephant –  the quartet's first live show in a decade! HAPPY FAMILY shares its news: SINGLE RELEASE The third installment of Happy Family’s piano series is here! We are excited to share two new piano versions of upcoming Happy Family tracks. These interpretations offer a raw and intimate glimpse into the core of our latest compositions—currently being developed into full-band arrangements through ongoing rehearsals. CONCERT IN TOKYO: December 13, 2025 The Happy Family quartet will perform a headline show in Tokyo on Saturday, December 13, 2025 at the Silver Elephant. For more details and updates, please visit our official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HappyFamily.music Tickets for this performance - our first live show in 10 years - will go on sale starting October 13: www.silver-elephant.com/progre ABOUT THE SINGLE JUST A STAIR / THE SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY Kenichi Morimoto discusses his compositions: "Just a Stair" There is an artistic approach proposed by the avant-garde artist Genpei Akasegawa called Hyperart Thomasson. It refers to architectural fragments that, through layers of renovation and reconstruction, have lost their original purpose yet remain abruptly embedded in the built environment. These vestiges are often left untouched—presumably because removing them would cost more than simply ignoring them. Akasegawa named the appreciation of such abandoned structures “Hyperart Thomasson.” One of its emblematic examples is the “Just a Stair.” It is a staircase attached to the exterior wall of a building; as you climb, you find that it connects to nothing, forcing you to descend the same steps back to the ground. This piece takes that staircase as its theme, incorporating touches of the blues scale. I wonder if the intention came through—the attempt to give meaning to something that is, by nature, utterly meaningless. "The Great Sword of Responsibility" In the Happy Family piano series, I once presented a piece titled "Fort of Responsibility." Yet defense alone cannot shift the situation, so this time I composed from the opposite stance. Because the work was never meant to be performed on a standalone piano, I entered everything directly into my Mac. The entire composition probably took about an hour. Among the pieces in this series, it is the only one that did not employ an acoustic piano in its creation.  BUY / listen on Bandcamp to HAPPY FAMILY'S JUST A STAIR / THE GREAT SWORD OF RESPONSIBILITY   CREDITS Kenichi Morimoto - piano written by Kenichi Morimoto mixed and mastered by Takahiro Izutani   ~~~   "We already have...a full album's worth of brand new material...composed by Kenichi Morimoto...The upcoming album will centre around his piano and focus on expressing the 'beauty' of Happy Family. ....Before, Happy Family had two sides of musical direction: comical, fun melodies, and the dark, heavy side of music. Now, we are thinking about how to make a great, beautiful kind of music. That's a new perspective [facet] of ourselves." – Takahiro Izutani, quoted in Daniel Spicer's article "Happy Family," The Wire  496, June 2025   Happy Family photograph by Ryohei Obama for The Wire Read the full 4-page (pp. 26-29) article on Happy Family by Daniel Spicer in The Wire (#496), June 2025 return to top !!OUT NOW!! RELEASED OCTOBER 31, 2025 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS TRINARY SYSTEM THE HARD MACHINE Bio information: TRINARY SYSTEM Title: THE HARD MACHINE  (Cuneiform Rune 540) Format: CD / DIGITAL Release date: October 31, 2025 www.cuneiformrecords.com FILE UNDER: ROCK   On THE HARD MACHINE, TRINARY SYSTEM’S Third Release and First on Cuneiform Records, Guitarist ROGER MILLER Takes His Post-MISSION OF BURMA Rock Band Full Throttle, Do or Die “Trinary System continues the elegant, abstract, agitated firestorm tradition of Miller’s Burma songs, with an unmistakable swagger…" – Dusted Magazine   listen to/ share "Monkeys (on Your Back)" on Soundcloud, from TRINARY SYSTEM's The Hard Machine “I think of Trinary System as my third, and last, really good rock band.” – Roger C. Miller                             1969: Sproton Layer (With Magnetic Fields Disrupted)                             1979: Mission of Burma (Vs., The Obliterati, etc.)                             2012: Trinary System (Lights in the Center of Your Head;                                                                  The Hard Machine) photo by Bruce Rogovin Trinary System is Roger Miller’s current rock band. He plays guitar, sings and composes, accompanied by Larry Dersch (Binary System, A.K.A.C.O.D., etc.) on drums and P. Andrew Willis (the Web, Crappy Nightmareville, etc.) on bass, vocals and electronics.  Roger Clark Miller (Roger Miller, Roger C. Miller) was born in 1952 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He began studying piano at age 6. Inspired in 6th grade by seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, he picked up guitar and bass guitar in middle school, and played french horn in the orchestra to avoid study hall. He was profoundly affected by the psychedelic movement which was full-blown by 1967 - here was real mind-altering music. He did psychedelic lettering for the Ann Arbor rock club "The 5th Dimension", which allowed him to get into the club for free (he saw Jimi Hendrix there on the "kicked off the Monkees" tour). Miller found his voice as a song-writer, composer and improviser in 11th grade (1969/ Sproton Layer).   Disillusioned with the conservative state of rock music in the 1970's, Miller studied composition at CalArts and Thomas Jefferson College (see Cuneiform Records’ release of 1975 by The Fourth World Quartet). There he accompanied dance classes on piano. Adapting his musical skills for dance paved the way for his later soundtrack work (four films at Sundance, multiple silent film scores premiering with Alloy Orchestra at the Telluride Film Festival).   In 1978, Miller moved to Boston, where he co-formed the highly influential post-punk rock band Mission of Burma on guitar and voice in 1979. He continued playing keyboards and other instruments during and after Mission of Burma, starting with Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Under his band leadership, Miller has recorded over 60 albums, all of which push various envelopes and have generally received high praise (NY Times, Rolling Stone, Boston Globe, Spin, Pitchfork, Pop Matters, etc...).  His music tends to vacillate between the two poles of "rock" (guitar, small bands) and "modern" (prepared piano, chamber ensembles), often combining the two with open improvisation. His chamber music has been performed at the New England Conservatory, Tufts University, and other institutions. He is also a visual/conceptual artist, where his art installation "Transmuting the Prosaic" and his drawings have shown in many art institutions/galleries.   When Mission of Burma inexplicably reformed in 2002, things took an amazing turn.     photo by Tim Bugbee But by 2012, Miller was looking for a way to free his guitar playing from the confines of a post-punk environment and conceived of Trinary System. He had played with Larry Dersch in Binary System, and knew that Dersch’s drumming would keep him on his toes. Miller met multi-instrumentalist P. Andrew Willis while Willis was engineering an Alloy Orchestra  (now Anvil Orchestra) score. He found his comments intriguing, and, never having seen him play a note, asked him to join Trinary System on bass and synthesizer. It was the right decision. Trinary System began loosely based on previous non-Burma Miller compositions, but covering Miles Davis' "Black Satin" and Can's "You Doo Right" were turning points. Once the value of each player became clear, Miller began composing for the group in earnest.   Trinary System released its first recording in 2016 on Fun World Records, a 5-song EP called Amplify the Amplifiers. Reviewing it, Boston’s The Noise noted: “There is skronk, feedback, flash, psyche, R & B vamps, classical and more. It is also a very rock ’n’ roll record, with choruses and everything. It just rocks a little weirder, and a lot better, than almost anything else you’ve ever heard in your life.”   The band really found its voice just before recording its first full-length album, Lights in the Center of Your Head (Feeding Tube Records, 2019). In it, Trinary System integrated minimalism, psychedelia, and post-prog structures into a raw indie aesthetic. The album was met with significant attention from MAGNET Magazine and other music publications. DUSTED Magazine, Aug. 2019 remarked that: “Trinary System continues in the elegant, abstract, agitated firestorm tradition of Miller’s Burma’s songs, with an unmistakable swagger. “Infinity in a Box,” is a Rubik’s Cube of a song, full of sharp, shiny, colorful edges that align in abrupt, unexpected ways and then, just as suddenly, go out of joint. “Lights in the Center of Your Head” is a surprising amount of fun, intricate when it needs to be, but solidly anchored in rock-hard foundations of rock, funk and blues.”    And this brings us to Cuneiform Records’ release of The Hard Machine where Trinary System is in full maturity mode, full-throttle, do or die. What else is there?  photo by Bruce Rogovin ~ ~ ~ “If Burma at its best had the jostling, bounded chaos of a really physical basketball game, Trinary System is a bit more like pro soccer.” – Magnet Magazine ~ ~ ~                                                                                                                                   BUY / listen to THE HARD MACHINE in HD 24/26 BUY/  listen to THE HARD MACHINE on Bandcamp:         ~ ~ ~ CREDITS: Roger C. Miller : guitars, vocals P. Andrew Willis : basses Larry Dersch : drums  All compositions by Roger C. Miller except "On The Ground (Complete the Circle)" by Trinary System. Recorded and mixed July 2022-December 2023 at Guilford Sound, Guilford, VT.   ~ ~ ~ In addition to Trinary System, Miller is currently musically active in The Anvil Orchestra [formerly Alloy Orchestra](silent film accompaniment), and his Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (2 full-length albums on Cuneiform Records). Miller tours and plays festivals nationally and internationally. He also remains active in the visual arts. Miller currently lives in Vermont.   www.rogerclarkmiller.com   Larry Dersch played in bands in his hometown of St. Louis, MO, before moving to Boston in 1986. He played on Miller's 1988 album Win! Instantly!, and then in Miller’s Binary System (1995-2002). He is currently the second percussionist in Miller's silent film accompanying ensemble The Anvil Orchestra. He has collaborated with Mark Sandman of Morphine, and toured Europe in the acclaimed A.K.A.C.O.D with Morphine sax player Dana Colley. He remains active in the Boston scene and in high demand, and he has won “Best Drummer” awards from the influential local zine The Noise three times.   P. Andrew Willis is “an ex-pat from the Louisville sub-underground” (Byron Coley, 2019), playing in the Web, Azuza Inkh and other improv/noise bands there. He moved to Boston in 1998 to study film scoring. There, he saw Binary System - and knew he'd be playing with them one day. When Miller began putting together Trinary System in 2012, Willis was the only person auditioned. The Hard Machine is a result of those decisions. Willis remains active as a soundtrack composer and improviser in Boston.   photo by Tim Bugbee return to top "...One projects, like Rorschach's dream. One projects, in an ink blot's dream, onto the words."             You could be a country.               You could be a corporation.              You could be the blooming edge of               A new revolution ..."            – Roger Clark Miller, lyric excerpt from "Monkeys (on Your Back)"   Trinary System - "Monkeys (on Your Back)" (Official Video) from The Hard Machine return to top Trinary System performing three songs at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC on January 7, 2018. Trinary System at the 9:30 Club return to top ADDITIONAL RECORDINGS ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS FEATURING ROGER CLARK MILLER ROGER CLARK MILLER SOLO ELECTRIC GUITAR ENSEMBLE "From Mission of Burma to one-man guitar orchestra, Roger Clark Miller remains one of the most quietly influential guitarists of the post-punk era, working to the calendar of his own creative impulses." –  Bill Murphy, "Mission of Burma’s Roger Clark Miller: Guitar Dreamscapes," PREMIER GUITAR photo by Jesse Kreize   Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble “(the closing track) ‘Curiosity on Mars’…is the most rockist...its guitar-derived rhythms pinging to and fro as Miler delivers some deep spindly lead action. Evoking images of a barren and dystopian landscape that might not be so far off in our future, it’s a logical conclusion to this highly visual and visceral body of work.”  – The Wire, May 2025  “His compositions emerge like carefully constructed hallucinations – somewhere between 20th-century avant-garde, post-punk experimentalism, and a tape-delay séance with the ghost of Morton Feldman… It’s part science fiction, part lucid dream, and entirely Roger Clark Miller.” – Chain D.L.K.   Eight Dream Interpretations For Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble "[Miller's] skills as a guitar player and his bottomless imagination have collided in a perfect encapsulation of the two traits, bringing forth a third strand that just can’t be imitated by anyone else, no matter how hard anyone should try. The technically proficient has officially met the sonically fearless on Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar, a project that deserves to be considered more than just a Mission of Burma offshoot. Rating: 8/10."                    – Popmatters "These dream songs demand that Miller cross the borders of rock, jazz, and orchestral music, a cross-fertilization of genre he has been exploring since the ’70s with an array of celebrated projects, including Mission of Burma, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Binary System, Trinary System, and Alloy Orchestra. " – The Arts Fuse     ___________________________________________________ BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC ''Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic has found a common ground amoung garage band rock, classical, minimalism, UK progressive rock, and it's own favorite noises.'' - The New York Times   Miller on far right; photo by f-stop Fitzgerald   DAWN OF THE CYCADS                                                                                   THE FOSSIL RECORD 1980-1987 “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘Thank You,’ that would suffice.” So yeah, thank you. Because who could resist the stately and surprisingly plump pieces on this comprehensive Ace of Hearts anthology with superadded bonus outtakes and live tracks? " – The Noise ''...fantastically innovative music.'' -– Exposé ___________________________________________________ FOURTH WORLD QUARTET 1975   "The resulting series of ... 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    photo with Miller at piano by Deborah Randall Fisher return to top !! OUT NOW !!  RELEASED OCTOBER 13, 2025 ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS HAPPY FAMILY WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST Bio information: HAPPY FAMILY Title: WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST  (Cuneiform Rune 4039) Format: DIGITAL Release date: October 13, 2025 www.cuneiformrecords.com FILE UNDER:  NEW MUSIC / CLASSICAL MINIMALISM JAPAN'S HAPPY FAMILY RELEASE  – WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST – THEIR SECOND SINGLE IN A SERIES OF STUNNING PIANO WORKS BY COMPOSER / PIANIST KENICHI MORIMOTO –  The new single releases October 13, in celebration of ticket sales opening for Happy Family's December 13 2025 concert at Tokyo's Silver Elephant –  the quartet's first live show in a decade! HAPPY FAMILY shares its news: SINGLE RELEASE The second installment of Happy Family’s piano series is here! We are excited to share two new piano versions of upcoming Happy Family tracks. These interpretations offer a raw and intimate glimpse into the core of our latest compositions—currently being developed into full-band arrangements through ongoing rehearsals. To celebrate our return to live performance, these two songs will stream beginning October 13. CONCERT IN TOKYO: December 13, 2025 The Happy Family quartet will perform a headline show in Tokyo on Saturday, December 13, 2025 at the Silver Elephant. For more details and updates, please visit our official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HappyFamily.music Tickets for this performance - our first live show in 10 years - will go on sale starting October 13: www.silver-elephant.com/progre ABOUT THE SINGLE WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST Kenichi Morimoto discusses his compositions: "Walking Through the Mire" The title “Walking Through the Mire” comes from a recurring nightmare of mine—where no matter how much I walk, my steps feel painfully slow and I never really get anywhere. That sensation mirrors the rhythm of this piece. The track itself was nearly finished around the same time as “The Flying Man” (from Happy Family's 2025 Cuneiform Records album, 4037), and they share many of the same chord choices, making them feel like sibling songs. Another subtle influence may have come from Dutch keyboardist Jasper van ’t Hof—one of the leading figures in the European jazz-rock scene of the 1970s. The opening track “BAX” from his 1974 album Eyeball captures precisely that feeling of being bogged down in heavy ground, and I suspect it left a trace on this composition as well. "The Dark Forest" The title “The Dark Forest” comes from a chilling idea in speculative thought: when encountering an alien civilization, the only way to ensure one’s own survival may be to strike first and erase the other. If the opposing civilization were less advanced, or if we could detect them before they detected us, Earth might still stand a chance. But the most effective survival strategy may simply be to erase every trace of ourselves — hiding in silence, unnoticed, like prey concealing itself in a dense jungle from predators. This is the essence of the “Dark Forest” theory: intelligent life may be widespread in the universe, yet we do not encounter it because each civilization has learned to mask its presence as completely as possible. This ballad is written from the perspective of the prey — holding its breath in fear of being discovered. And yet, here on Earth, we have sent the Voyager probes carrying messages of our existence, broadcasting ourselves into the cosmos. Perhaps it is already too late.  BUY / listen on Bandcamp to HAPPY FAMILY'S: WALKING THROUGH THE MIRE / THE DARK FOREST   CREDITS Kenichi Morimoto - piano written by Kenichi Morimoto mixed and mastered by Takahiro Izutani ~~~ return to top   ADDITIONAL HAPPY FAMILY RELEASES ON CUNEIFORM RECORDS   4037  "It's 2025 and HAPPY FAMILY are back! ...It took an offer from Cuneiform Records boss Steve Feigenbaum to participate in Cuneiform's 40th anniversary celebrations to ignite that spark. The spark became "4037" a 21plus minute Ep... The "40" stands for Cuneiform Records 40th anniversary, while the "37" is how many years that HAPPY FAMILY have been in existence. ...this small package is dynamite. ... This is such a consistent band. Every recording they have put out is of the highest quality. Whether you like them or not is another story, but here's another one that keeps up their standards. A solid 4 stars." – Progrchives "In just four tracks, 4037 is a powerful reminder that Happy Family’s fire hasn’t dimmed with time – it’s only grown weirder, heavier, and more compelling." – AvantMusic News   Each of the four members contributed one composition, but there’s a remarkable continuity between the pieces, showing four musicians totally on compatible wavelengths. …it’s a welcome return for a great band." – Expose                             MINIMAL GODS  "Skewered blasts of noisome, Red metal shatters through rough and tumble landscapes of shuddering percussion, ominous, gravelly basslines and wheezing synths. An all-instrumental bulldozer of an album..." – i/e                                                      "Happy Family make no bones about their desire to create off-kilter, highly complex music with a savage nature....This is blistering, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping stuff, a must hear for anyone into instrumental prog, avant-garde, and jazz-fusion. 4.5 / 5 stars"   – Sea Of Tranquility "influenced by the likes of Magma, Univers Zero and heavy metal. … the music is loud, raucous, and uncompromising. … the drive is similar [to Magma]. However, while Vander’s inspiration comes from Coltrane, Nagase’s seems to come from Black Sabbath.  … this visceral music is intriguing and grows with every listen.” - Option                                  TOSCCO "...a fully formed & highly individual voice. Tossco is a real find. (5 stars (highest) rating)" – Alternative Press "This Japanese combo has once again delivered a shock to the progressive music world. The instrumental inventiveness and aggressiveness of this band are things that must be heard to be believed. Highly recommended.” – Exposé HAPPY FAMILY "Monster Japanese Zeuhl; the spirit of Magma, Univers Zero, Weidorje and King Crimson locked together in a furious fusion..." – Audion   "An all-instrumental bulldozer of an album that doesn’t just redirect Crimson’s current - it nukes the circuit.” – Music in Flux   return to top SNEAK PEEKS OF DISTANT TREASURES   COMING OUT IN 2026 & BEYOND 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  – SLOWLY MELTING (Cellist & composer Janel Leppin's 2nd solo album of genre-defying music) [USA] ~~~~~~ JANEL LEPPIN / ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH – PLUTO IN AQUARIUS (Third studio album by composer / cellist/  bandleader Janel Leppin's Washington DC-based jazz group, Ensemble Volcanic Ash) [USA] ~~~~~~ DENMAN MARONEY – MEAN TIMES (Previously unreleased live recording from 1995 at The Knitting Factory by composer Denman Maroney on sampled hyperpiano, with Herb Robertson on trumpet, Ellery Eskelin on tenor saxophone, Mark Dresser on bass and  Phil Haynes on drums ) [USA] ~~~~~~     ROCK ~~~~~~ ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI – TBC (A new studio album by the acclaimed Italian avant -progressive ensemble) [ITALY] ~~~~~~ BOUD DEUN – LIVE ORION APRIL 5, 1997 (Previously unreleased live concert recordings by '90s DMV/suburban Washington DC avant progressive fusion quartet led by Sean Persinger) [USA] ~~~~~~ CHEER-ACCIDENT – TBC (A new studio album and a DVD of live performances by Chicago's fave longstanding alt-rock / post-pop group) [USA] ~~~~~~ FRENCH TV – THE SPANISH CAPER (A double album by French TV: one album of new compositions, and one of covers of '60s and '70s "deep-cuts" that had influenced the band. This double feature will be the band's 16th & 17th album(s)! ) [USA] ~~~~~~ MIKE JOHNSON – THE GARDENS OF LOSS (Mike Johnson, leader/ composer/ guitarist of Thinking Plague, releases an album under his own name featuring orchestration - strings, brass reeds, etc - combined with rock instrumentation.) [USA] ~~~~~~ HENRY KAISER / GLENN PHILLIPS – GUITAR PARTY (Reissue of 1990 studio album featuring Henry Kaiser & Glenn Phillips, two uniquely great, American rock guitarists) [USA] ~~~~~~ JANEL LEPPIN  – SLOWLY MELTING (Cellist & composer Janel Leppin's 2nd solo album of genre-defying music) [USA] ~~~~~~ FREDERIC L'EPEE – CONTRE-COURANT (Solo studio album by French guitarist Frederick L'Epee) [FRANCE] ~~~~~~ NEBELNEST – LIVE AT SAALFELDEN JAZZFESTIVAL 2007 (Live recordings made by this hard-hitting, French instrumental, zeuhl / dark symphonic rock ensemble)  [FRANCE] ~~~~~~ NEBELNEST – THE LOST ALBUM   (Nebelnest's previously unreleased 4th album - an exciting find!) [FRANCE] ~~~~~~ THE LUCK PUSHERS – TBC (New studio recording by guitarist/ composer Shawn Persinger’s current, Connecticut-based band) [USA] ~~~~~~ YANG – TBC (Fifth studio album by French composer/ guitarist Frederick L'Epee's longstanding progressive ensemble) [FRANCE] ~~~~~~ return to top CUNEIFORM ARTISTS ON TOUR 2025 - 2026 - 2027 CALENDAR IMPORTANT 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. HAPPY FAMILY Japan instrumental ensemble  Happy Family celebrate their longstanding collaboration (37 years!) and Cuneiform's 40th anniversary by releasing two recordings on Cuneiform in one year - the EP 4037 and two singles – and an upcoming cncert at Tokyo's Silver Elephant. Just a Stair / The Great Sword of Responsibility Walking in the Mire / The Dark Forest Flowing Yet Cunning/  Fort of Responsibility 4037 December 13 - Silver Elephant - Tokyo Japan Listen to & Buy Happy Family                        Tossco   Minimal Gods           GILLES LAVAL French guitarist, composer & spectacle organiser Gilles Laval celebrates the Cuneiform Records release of his new album 100 Guitares dans un Bateau Ivre / 100 Guitars on a Drunken Boat  with a record release concert in his hometown of Lyon.   2026 February 5 - Marché Gare - Lyon, France    Listen to & buy:   100 Guitares dans un Bateau Ivre        JANEL & ANTHONY Washington DC's premier music power duo, Janel & Anthony individually are internationally acclaimed master players and composers who lead their own ensembles. In June 2024, they'll release a new, double-disc studio recording on Cuneiform Records, called New Moon In the Evil Age - their second duo release for the label.   "Janel & Anthony - guitars and 'cello respectively - play a haunting and humbly virtuosic form of music wherein the elements of electronics, looping, and lo-fi timbres live both in intimacy and in majesty in the same house as acoustic instruments and folk/blues-inspired melodies. As such, it is both timely and timeless..." – Nels Cline   2026   March 23 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC March 24 - Palisades Hub - 5200 Cathedral Avenue, NW - Washington, DC [opening for Nik Bärtsch & Ronin] March 26-29 - Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN   Listen to & buy:   New Moon In the Evil Age                                Where Is Home    "The result is a marvelous surprise at every turn, as the duo...two absolute virtuosos...create atmospheres that at times evoke the music of Steve Tibbetts, Brian Eno, even soundtrack music" – DownBeat   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 QUARTERLY SHOW is presented on a regular basis, exclusively on the CUNEIFORM RECORDS YouTube Channel  When Covid pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, Henry Kaiser began curating & presenting a series of pre-recorded music videos exclusively on Cuneiform's YouTube Channel for music lovers isolating at home. These "live" concerts – which initially were released on a WEEKLY basis – were taped beforehand and not streamed; Henry discusses the process in a Guitar Moderne interview, "The New "Live"".  Many videos in the series depicted duets and larger bands, despite the program then being called the "HENRY KAISER WEEKLY SOLO SERIES".  While many depicted 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). Kaiser continued presenting his popular video series on Cuneiform Records' YouTube Channel after the pandemic, but on a new schedule; it is now THE HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY SHOW. In addition to these quarterly releases, he presents additional videos marking special events or tributes.  All 52 videos from the initial 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 WINTER 2024 video is HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY #4: BARITONE GUITAR SPECIAL, featuring Henry's awesome guitar work along with Special Guests: Luciana Bass, Jim Clark, Janet Feder, Sandy Ewen, Vanessa Gould, Sandor Nagyszalancy, Anthony Pirog, Gregory Stephen, Sid Stephen, & Carl Weingarten. Just released, the SUMMER 2024 video , HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY SHOW #6 : You Can't Get There From Here, features Morgan Ågren  Jennifer Burnes,  Jaya Drats, Trey Gunn, Killick Hinds, Michael Manring,  Ed Petterson, Damon Smith, Jim Thomas, and Bill Walker. 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. For instance, 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.  His video for 2025's 1st quarter, HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY SHOW #8 : The Backwards Guitar Solos Lesson, is both instructional for players and highly entertaining for non-musicians. 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 JANEL LEPPIN A composer and cellist who’s honed a singular synthesis of composition, orchestration and improvisation, Janel Leppin is an avant-jazz luminary. 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. In early 2026, Cuneiform will release a new solo album by Leppin, as well as the third Ensemble Volcanic Ash album.   "An Absolute Virtuoso - 4 Stars" - Downbeat Magazine, reviewing the first EVA album "Leppin is a rarity..ahhh-vant garde at its finest." - Capital   2026 JANEL LEPPIN'S ENSEMBLE VOLCANI ASH April 23 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC [Ensemble Volcanic Ash record release show] April 24 - Belmont Arts Theater - 221 Carlton Road - Charlottesville, VA [Ensemble Volcanic Ash record release show]   JANEL & ANTHONY Janel Leppin with Anthony Pirog March 26-29, 2026 - Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN   JANEL LEPPIN RESIDENCY with ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH May 19, 2027 - The Stone - Stone Residency - 55 West 13th St - NYC, NY May 20, 2027 - The Stone - Stone Residency - 55 West 13th St - NYC, NY May 21, 2027 - The Stone - Stone Residency - 55 West 13th St - NYC, NY May 22, 2027 - The Stone - Stone Residency - 55 West 13th St - NYC, NY   Listen to & buy: Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash  To March Is To Love                 Ensemble Volcanic Ash Janel & Anthony New Moon In the Evil Age,   Where Is Home       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 SELL OUT, so buy your tickets well in advance. ~~~~ 2025   December 20 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542   2026 January 26 - Iridium - NYC, NY February 28 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 March 23 - Iridium - NYC, NY April 25 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 June 13 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 August 29 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 October 31 - The Falcon - 1348 Rte 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542 [Halloween show!]       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 ________________________________ JANEL & ANTHONY Anthony Pirog with Janel Leppin  March 23 - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC March 24 - Palisades Hub - 5200 Cathedral Avenue, NW - Washington, DC [opening for Nik Bärtsch & Ronin] March 26-29, 2026 - Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN   Listen to & buy: Anthony Pirog: Pocket Poem  // Palo Colorado Dream .       Janel & Anthony    New Moon in the Evil Age //     Where Is Home            in other groupings: Location Location Location: Damaged Goods Five Times Surprise: Five Times Surprise The Spellcasters, Music from the Anacostia Delta   Janel Leppin/ Ensemble Volcanic Ash To March Is to Love  //  Ensemble Volcanic Ash            REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE Since 1990, Boston's fun & fantastic Revolutionary Snake Ensemble has expanded the parameters of brass band with influences ranging from free jazz to New Orleans second line to contemporary funk to experimental. Having released the new album Serpentine on Cuneiform Records at the end of September 2025, The band is currently celebrating a new studio album. Serpentine, released on Cuneiform Records at the end of September 2025, in a series of exuberant live shows filled with "fun, fire and innovation".    SERPENTINE 2025 December 12 - Lizard Lounge - 1667 Mass Ave - Cambridge, MA   2026 February 21 - Scullers [Mardi Gras show] - 400 Soldiers Field Road - Boston, MA 0213   Listen to & buy: Forked Tongue LUKE STEWART / SILT REMEMBRANCE ENSEMBLE "Luke Stewart’s "The Order", released in April 2025 on Cuneiform Records, is a masterful convergence of two of his prominent ensembles: the Remembrance Quintet and the Silt Trio. This fusion brings together a formidable lineup - Daniel Carter, Jamal Moore, Brian Settles, and Chad Taylor - culminating in the Silt Remembrance Ensemble....a sonic experience that is both deeply rooted and forward-looking....4/5 stars" – Chain D.L.K.      December 14 - Catalytic Festival - Rhizome DC - 6950 Maple St. NW - Washington, DC Listen to & buy: Silt Remembrance Ensemble The Order     Luke Stewart's Silt Trio The Bottom TRINARY SYSTEM Trinary System is guitarist, composer & singer Roger Clark Miller’s (Mission of Burma) current rock band, a trio with Larry Dersch (Binary System, A.K.A.C.O.D.) and P. Andrew Willis (the Web, Crappy Nightmareville). The band plays live to celebrate The Hard Machine, its first Cuneiform Records release.   listen to & buy Trinary System The Hard Machine   2026 March 21 - Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre - 55 Davis Square - Somerville, MA 02144   “Trinary System continues the elegant, abstract, agitated firestorm tradition of Miller’s Burma songs, with an unmistakable swagger…" – Dusted Magazine   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 2025 WINTER SOLSTICE into 2026 & BEYOND 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 on TWITTER (now X) • 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 “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go and becomes the future; the place of caught breath."    – Canadian writer Margaret Atwood photo: Winter Solstice at Stonehenge return to top Cuneiform Records' Monthly Newsletter is compiled by Joyce (Joy) [Nalewajk] Feigenbaum, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSIC OUTPOST – PUBLICITY EMAIL: joyce@themusicoutpost.com FACEBOOK PAGE: MusicOutpostPublicityAndLicensing TWITTER: @TheMusicOutpost     STOP WARS         Photo on left of Ceasefire Now banner unveiled 1/24/2024 by Greenpeace & Unmute Gaza at Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum. 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