Browse by Label: CUNEIFORM

Artist:	PINHAS, RICHARD
Title:	Chronolyse
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 030CD

2007 repress of the 2nd Pinhas solo album, originally released in France in 1978. Performed by: Didier Batard (bass) François Auger (drums, percussion), Richard Pinhas (guitar, synthesizer, mellotron). "Composer, guitarist & electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians & is a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock. This was his 2nd solo and is absolutely one of his very finest works: half live Moog electronics that make fantastic use of stereo imaging and mix aggression with the repetitiveness of Phillip Glass or Terry Riley, & half with Heldon in a 30' King Crimson-ish stormy drone-epic of mellotrons, electronics, guitar, bass, & drums."

Artist:	MILLER, PHIL
Title:	Digging In
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 034CD

2008 repress. "Guitarist Phil Miller started his career as a member of Delivery. After Delivery's demise, he ended up with Robert Wyatt who had just left Soft Machine in Matching Mole. Matching Mole ended prematurely due to Robert's paralyzing accident, and Phil found himself playing with some other ex-Delivery people for a band that eventually metamorphosed into Hatfield and the North. After two critically acclaimed and large selling albums with Hatfield, Phil continued on after their break up with 3 of the 4 members in National Health. When National Health came to an end, Phil began assembling his own band, In Cahoots in the early 1980s. Since that time, Phil has released 9 albums under his or In Cahoot's name. Guitarist and composer Phil Miller was a founding member of Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North and National Health, and has been in the public eye for over 35 years! Originally released in 1991, this was Phil's third solo album and features musicians who have played with Gong, Mike Oldfield, John Surman and many, many others. For fans of: Hatfield and the North, National Health, Picchio dal Pozzo, Soft Machine, Frank Zappa."

Artist:	DOCTOR NERVE
Title:	Armed Observation/Out To Bomb Fresh Kings
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 038CD

Repressed. "These are the first two albums (1984, '87), complete on one CD, that cemented Nerve's reputation as one of New York City's most fast 'n' furious bands. The first album is somewhat more in the vein of the early 80's punk/jazz scene (Massacre, Material) than later work, and with embryonic versions of the lineup, but it still smokes. Produced by Fred Frith, Armed Observation was their second, and the definitive Nerve sound is beginning to be cemented into place. Includes some of the very earliest recordings of trumpet star Dave Douglas. Hot NYC downtown fusion."

Artist:	HELDON
Title:	Interface
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 043CD

"This is a reissue of the sixth album by this quintessential progressive French electronic rock band. Originally released on Cobra in 1977, this features the classic Heldon line-up of Richard Pinhas-guitar and electronics, Patric Gauthier-Moog synthesizer and electronics and François Auger-drums and electronics. This was one of Heldon's heaviest albums, featuring their most intense and relentless electronic fusillades. This includes two bonus live tracks and is a great place to start your Heldon collection."

Artist:	PINHAS, RICHARD
Title:	Iceland
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 044CD

2007 repress of this 1979 album. "Richard Pinhas has been at the forefront of new rock music in France since the early 1970s, when he founded the band Heldon. Heldon was one of the first bands to meld rock music and electronics, releasing a number of 'classic' albums during the 1970s. He has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock music. His stature in France is roughly analogous to that of Tangerine Dream in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. Iceland was Richard's third solo album and the first one to be released after the demise of Heldon."

Artist:	PINHAS, RICHARD
Title:	Rhizosphere/Live, Paris 1982
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 061CD

1994 release. "Rhizosphere, originally released in 1976, was Pinhas' first solo album. It consists of four solo pieces for synthesizer, plus an extended fifth synthesizer piece which is a duet with Heldon drummer Francois Auguer. For this CD release, an additional 38' was added of a previously unheard, professionally recorded 1982 concert by the Richard Pinhas Band, a short-lived ensemble who were essentially Heldon II in all but name and who featured a great cast of musicians who had all previously played in Magma: Clement Bailly (drums), Patrick Gauthier (synthesizer) (also of Heldon and Weidorje), Bernard Paganotti (bass) (also of Weidorje) and Richard on electronics, synthesizers and guitar. This title has been unavailable on CD for a number of years and with the huge interest in analog electronics and the early days of synthesis, Richard's career in general and the music of Magma, there is a big market for this music."

Artist:	MUJICIAN
Title:	Poem About The Hero
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 062CD

2007 repress of the 2nd Mujician album, originally released 1994. Featuring Keith Tippett (Steinway grand piano, wood blocks, plastic pan pipes, pebble and maraca), Paul Rogers (five-string double bass), Tony Levin (drums and percussion) and Paul Dunmall (soprano and tenor saxophones). "The second album from Mujician was recorded live ... In the interim, free jazz has developed a tradition and language which Poem About The Hero unashamedly refers to. It may not be that radical anymore, but Tippett's ensemble can still surprise you with the ease with which it can slip in and out of different formal confines -- from the rich and balladic, through the microtonal and muscular. " --The Wire

Artist:	HOPPER & ALAN GOWEN, HUGH
Title:	Two Rainbows Daily
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 077CD

1995 release, repressed. "Two Rainbows Daily is a reissue of a long out of print classic from 1980 from these two fine composers and insrumentalists (keyboards and bass). While rich in sound due to overdubs, this doesn't have a full band sound, and this rather stripped-down approach makes for a 'intimate' release filled with crafty melodies and subtle tonal colors. Mastered directly off the master tapes it sounds terrific; finally! No vinyl crackle! As a bonus there is 20 minutes of extra live material and excellent liner notes by Hugh, which tell the story of this disc. Absolutely a 'Canterbury' classic." "...the coming together of two British jazz-rock giants...These gracefully introspective instrumentals feature Gowen's trademark flowing analog synth and Hopper's unique high-register bass work in equal measure." -- Muze

Artist:	BJORKENHEIM/KRAKATAU, RAOUL
Title:	Ritual
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 086CD

Repressed. "Reissue of the Finnish LP-only first release by this great rock/avant/fusion guitarist & his band (includes two bonus tracks). The record features a unique blend of heavy guitar work combined with dual, wailing, Coleman & Ayler-influenced saxes & a rhythm section of bass/electric bass and two drummers. The music is quite original, but has certain musical ties to the harmolodic school, ala the Decoding Society. ECM have released their 3rd (Volition) and 4th (Matinale) releases."

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Spaced
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 090CD

Fantastic archival release of this legendary avant-rock group, showing them at their most experimental, tranced-state ever, an organically looped masterpiece of sound construction which will be of interest far beyond the prog section. "Previously unreleased studio recordings recorded in early/mid 1969 by the 'classic' Soft Machine trio line-up of Hugh Hopper (bass), Mike Ratledge (electric piano/organ) and Robert Wyatt (drums). Shortly after recording Volume Two (rightly considered a landmark of British progressive rock), Soft Machine agreed to collaborate with Peter Dockley on Spaced, a multimedia show at the Roundhouse. It was an experimental 'happening' in all its creative splendor, with ballet dancers and ex-army gymnasts choreographed to perform on a geodesic structure made of construction scaffolding. The dancers wore rubber costumes with octopus suckers up and down their legs. After it's week-long performance, Spaced slipped into obscurity. The tapes Soft Machine created for the event were forgotten for over two decades. They feature Soft Machine at their most radical, using sound-manipulated techniques associated with experimental music genres like 'musique concrete'. While they would never again use the studio in such a heavily manipulated fashion, the work influenced later Soft Machine works. It can also be seen as an early blue-print for later radical experimenters like Faust. Hugh Hopper: "They wanted a backing tape of suitably deranged and doomy sounds, so we recorded chunks of music as a trio...My brother came up at the weekend to add some sax blasts here and there, and we then spent a week or more playing around with tape loops and ancient mechanical aids to produce the finished tape. Now of course with a computer you could do the whole thing in an afternoon, but in those analog days it was strictly scissors and tape."

Artist:	VOLAPÜK
Title:	Slang!
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 094CD

"Volapük is a trio from southern France with unique instrumentation -- drums, bass clarinet, and cello -- and active, Rock In Opposition (R.I.O.) style compositions. Band members Guigou Chenevier (drums), Michel Mandel (bass clarinet), and Guillaume Saurel (cello) deftly cast their instruments into expanded roles, creating unusual tonal colors for rock music. Slang! builds upon the style established with Volapük's premier release and adds to it with the additional experience the band has gained."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	The Devouring
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 099CD

Established in the fall of 1984, Djam Karet are one of the better known American prog outfits. "The Devouring is Djam Karet's first recording released outside of their own HC Productions label. It is a summation of over a decade's worth of work, incorporating elements of from all their previous releases. It is most notable for incorporating heavy rock pieces together with ambient and electronic textures. While stylistic comparisons to bands such as Porcupine Tree and 'classic era' Genesis and Pink Floyd are possible, Djam Karet have developed a sound completely their own."

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Virtually
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 100CD

"One of the most critically acclaimed and far-reaching avant rock bands ever was Soft Machine, named after a novel by William Burroughs. The band was formed in Canterbury, Kent, England in 1966 & had many personnel permutations over it's decade-long career, but the lineup featured on this release [Elton Dean/Mike Ratledge/Hugh Hopper/Robert Wyatt] is considered by most to be the 'classic' version. This previously unreleased, excellent quality live concert was recorded by German radio during the lineup's final European tour." Wyatt (drums, vocals), Dean (alto sax, saxello, electric piano), Ratledge, (electric piano, organ), Hopper (bass). Recorded 3/23/71. "The early seventies (around Third) was for me the most exciting of the band's many transitional periods: a time when they began to move away from the song format (without abandoning an obvious melodic approach), and to incorporate extended modal, free improvisation and segued sets just like the most advanced jazz groups. Unlike jazz groups, they had at their disposal an awareness of identity of sound (who else played the Lowery organ apart from Ratledge, or the saxello other than Dean, or used spaced out bass features like Hopper, or processed voices like Robert Wyatt?). This concert took place a year and a half after jazz player Elton Dean joined Soft Machine and a few months before Robert Wyatt left the band because its music had become too jazz oriented for him. And it was this tension between rock and jazz elements that made up the group's dynamic in that particular period." --Peter Schulze/Radio Bremen.

Artist:	RATTLEMOUTH
Title:	Fist Full Of Iffy
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 101CD

Second CD by this Richmond, VA group, no longer featuring Rebbie Sharp. "Rattlemouth's unusual usage of sax, bass, drums and vocals produce a sound that is anything but stereotypical rock. Their tunes are instantly recognizable: unusual scales and modes in melodies that are usually handled by sax. The rhythm section keeps all of this activity firmly grounded, with quick-witted bass work and a drummer who can find the groove no matter what else is going on musically."

Artist:	DEAN, ELTON
Title:	Just Us
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 103CD

"A reissue of Dean's first solo album, originally released in 1971 and out of print for 25 years. The album's name comes from that of the side-band -- Just Us -- that Elton led during his tenure with Soft Machine and for the year following his departure. The band featured some of the best known names of 'Brit-jazz' of the early 70's (Moholo, Ratledge, Evans, etc.). In addition to the original album, this reissue adds 25 minutes of previously unreleased material. The music is a cross between the free sound Dean would later focus on and the more composed music typical of his work with Soft Machine. The bonus tracks were recorded during Just Us' final year, and show the direction the band took after Dean left Soft Machine."

Artist:	HOPPER, HUGH
Title:	1984
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 104CD

New CD issue of this classic album, with bonus track and improved sound (previously issued by Mantra). "Upon it's original release, 1984, with it's unusual combination of lengthy abstract sound-journeys and short, weirdly devolved James Brown-inspired pieces, gained much critical acclaim. 1984 was an extremely unusual release for 1973 and an extremely unusual project for CBS Records, who first released it. Like the groundbreaking novel after which it was named, Hopper's record was truly ahead of its time when it was created. It remains timeless today. 25 years after it was created -- years which saw the rise of industrial music and electronica, the seeds of which can be found in Hopper's release -- the originality and distinctiveness of Hopper's 1984 remains untouched."

Artist:	MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO.
Title:	1970-73
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 109CD

"The first album and previously unreleased recordings from the world's first all-synthesizer ensemble. They were also one of the very first [possibly the first] performing synthesizer ensembles, working closely with Robert Moog, whose first factory was nearby. This material pre-dates or is contemporary with the first work of Kraftwerk & Tangerine Dream. A uniquely American slant on synthesizer music by a band whose pioneering contributions to the genre had been forgotten until now." Some excellent driftage found here, fans of the likes of Reich, Riley, Schulze, etc. should take note.

Artist:	HUGHSCORE
Title:	Delta Flora
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 110CD

1999 release, repressed. "This is the 3rd release (their first on Cuneiform) by the hugely influential UK bassist & composer Hugh Hopper, along with Seattle musicians Fred Chalenor (bass & guitar), Elaine diFalco (Rhodes piano, organ, accordion & vocals) and Tucker Martine (drums), plus other musical guests. Delta Flora is an appealing mix of beautifully sung songs and the more experimental structures that Hopper is usually associated with. It marks Hopper's return to collaborating with singer/songwriters in the tradition of his early work with Robert Wyatt on Soft Machine Volume Two. A psychedelic classic for the millennium!"

Artist:	DUNMALL OCTET, PAUL
Title:	Bebop Starburst
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 112CD

"Saxophonist Dunmall of Mujician appears here fronting his Octet, a mixture of well known & up-and-coming players, including Keith Tippett (piano), Simon Pickard (tenor sax), Annie Whitehead & Chris Bridges (trombone), Gethin Liddington (trumpet), Paul Rogers (bass) & Tony Levin (drums). But the group is not just 'Mujician + four more', as Paul is firmly in control here, mixing his compositions with the more free-oriented blowing of the ensemble. Sympathetically produced by Evan Parker, Bebop Starburst is an important addition to Paul's growing body of works, and to the genre known affectionately as 'Britjazz'."

Artist:	THINKING PLAGUE
Title:	In Extremis
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 113CD

"A Colorado-based ensemble that explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic music meet. Through these explorations, the band has created what Journal Wired called 'a genre of music unto itself, eclectically derivative in a bold way and spectacularly innovative in the old- fashioned sense of genuine originality.' Tuneful, well composed & strongly structured, this is very much in the vanguard of the RIO art-rock song style, along with peers such as U Totem, the 5uu's & the Art Bears."

Artist:	DELIVERY
Title:	Fools Meeting
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 115CD

"This reissues a very rare 1970 album, out of print for at least 25 years, which was the first professional band by musicians who would later fame in a number of other bands: Steve Miller (Caravan), Phil Miller (Matching Mole, Hatfield & The North, National Health), Roy Babbington (Soft Machine), Pip Pyle (Gong, Hatfield, National Health), Carol Grimes + Lol Coxhill. Contains the original album, a non-lp single, a great alternate take & a couple of live tracks, all sounding unbelievably better than the rather poor sounding original LP on the wall of your favorite collector shop with a $250 price tag. Also includes a full history of the band, written by author Mike King & rare photos from Steve Miller's personal archives. An usual & appealing blend of blues-rock, psychedelia, & early Canterbury-style progressive."

Artist:	FRITH/HENRY KAISER, FRED
Title:	Friends & Enemies
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 117/8CD

"The complete recordings (1979-1999) by these two extremely well known & respected guitarists, who, separately & together, have both pushed the boundaries of what can be done in music and with their instruments for many decades now. This includes all the music from their vinyl-only albums With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies, an unreleased live album, and 30 minutes of material recorded expressly for this set in January, 1999! Friends & Enemies is an essential document for those interested in the work of either Frith or Kaiser, two highly respected and stylistically distinct contemporary guitarists renown for pushing the boundaries of their chosen instrument."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	Live At Orion
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 119CD

"In September, 1998, Djam Karet were invited to play their 1st ever East Coast shows, during a two night stand at Baltimore's Orion Sound Studios. The shows were recorded, & this excellent sounding release is the result. The vital playing of Djam Karet's instrumental dual guitar, bass and drums instrumental attack is perfectly captured here, & the performances are really exemplary, capturing a band at their absolute peak! Released on the band's 15th anniversary, this is an excellent summation of their work, & a perfect introduction to the band."

Artist:	UNIVERS ZERO
Title:	The Hard Quest
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 120CD

"Univers Zero's distinctive sound is a combination of their unique instrumentation (piano and keyboards, violin, clarinet and bass clarinet, bassoon, oboe, bass and drums). blended with gothic imagery, and an intensely strong, classically influenced writing style. In the hands of some of the best musicians in Europe, these factors lead to a group on the cutting edge of creating a new, vital and different approach to rock music. This is the band's first release in 13 years (!) and even before its release is already gathering acclaim such as, 'The fall of Rome? The parting of the Red Sea? What else can compare with the monumental occurrence of a new slab of Univers Zero....the world's finest musical ensemble.' -- Exposé 18."

Artist:	VON ZAMLA
Title:	1983
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 121CD

"Von Zamla were founded in 1981 by Grammy Award-winning keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer and guitarist Eino Haapala, both former members of Sweden's Samlas Mammas Manna, one of the original five founding bands of the 'Rock In Opposition' [R.I.O.] movement, and one of the most popular bands in Sweden during the 1970s. Von Zamla released two albums in their lifetime; Zamlaranama (1981) and No Make Up (1983), neither of which was released outside of Sweden. The band disbanded after a final tour in 1985. These previously unavailable, professionally recorded live tapes are from the band's European tour in Spring, 1983. In addition to the two co-leaders, the band features the work of Univers Zero member Michel Berckmans on oboe and bassoon, a second keyboardist, bass and drums. This album is the first time that any Samla/Zamla related works have been released in the USA."

Artist:	THE HOSEMOBILE
Title:	What Can & Can't Go On
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 122CD

"The second album for The Hosemobile, a band from rural Cookeville, TN., stuck right in the middle of the bible-belt with a sound all their own, as they mix late 1990's influences of postrock bands such as Don Caballero, Shellac and Slint with the progressive/experimental edge of Mahavishnu Orchestra, This Heat and others. The end result is a fusion of fiery aggression with complex structures and intense layering of musical ideas performed on dual guitars [one of whom doubles on Fender Rhodes piano], bass and drums, with one track featuring voice as well."

Artist:	FROHMADER/RICHARD PINHAS, PETER
Title:	Fossil Culture
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 123CD

"Two giants of electronic rock music join forces on this compelling collaboration! Based in Munich Germany, Peter Frohmader has been an important fixture on the European electronic music/avant garde scene since the mid 1980's. He has released over 20 CDs & LPs. Parisian Richard Pinhas is best known as the leader of Heldon. Between 1974-1978, Heldon released 7 highly praised and sought-after albums that fused electronics and rock music. Besides the Heldon works, Pinhas has recorded about a dozen additional solo works. Richard Pinhas has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock."

Artist:	BLAST
Title:	A Sophisticated Face
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 125CD

"Blast is a Dutch band notable for compositionally complex music and brutally powerful performances. Since forming in 1989, the band has worked to develop a sound both dense and kaleidoscopic. A Sophisticated Face, the band's fourth release, is an exciting stylistic departure; normally working as a quartet, for this release the band are essentially a miniature orchestra consisting of guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn, soprano, alto and baritone saxes, alto clarinet, violin, cello, cymbalom [an Eastern European hammered dulcimer], bass and percussion. The music reflects that as well, as the sound is geared more towards modern 20th century classical composition than what is normally thought of as 'rock' music."

Artist:	CARTWRIGHT, GEORGE
Title:	The Memphis Years
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 127CD

"The Memphis Years is the second solo release by composer/saxophonist/improvisor George Cartwright. Besides his solo CDs, Cartwright has released numerous recordings as leader and main composer of Curlew, and has appeared on many other releases with various players. The Memphis Years pays tribute to Cartwright's five year involvement in Memphis' well known music scene, and features some of that city's best musicians. Here Cartwright returns to the collaboration he first employed on A Beautiful Western Saddle by Curlew with noted lyricist Paul Haines ("Tropic Appetites", "Escalator Over The Hill") and vocalist Amy Denio. Davey Williams, a Curlew member and reknowned guitarist and improvisor, also appears. The result is a blending of strictly composed songs sung by Denio with composed and semi-improvisational jazz-oriented instrumentals. In The Memphis Years, Cartwright fuses these seemingly disparate styles into an eloquently coherent musical experience."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	Burning The Hard City
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 128CD

"Established in the fall of 1984, Djam Karet grew out of the ashes of several Los Angeles based bands. The name, Djam Karet (jam care-ray), came from an Indonesian word (popularized in an Harlan Ellison story) meaning 'elastic time' or 'the hour that stretches' -- a term ideally suited to the band's expansive songs. Pleased with their successful collaboration with Cuneiform, which began in 1997, Djam Karet decided have Cuneiform license and reissue their out of print back catalog, starting with these two 1991 releases. Burning The Hard City is certainly the heaviest, most rock album that the band ever made. Keyboard wrote, 'Guitars crunch, slash, crash and bang through a bundle of hard driving prog rock cookers. Think 1983 and King Crimson...'."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	Suspension & Displacement
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 129CD

"Suspension & Displacement stands alone in the band's oeuvre as their most atmospheric and also their most studio-oriented release. The record grew organically out of the band's improvisations and experiments with tapes, textures and electronics. In a recent article, Expose said that 'To this very day, Suspension remains the definitive album in the realm of ambient electronica with its novel guitar looping, eerie effects processing, and sampling'."

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Noisette
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 130CD

"One of the most critically acclaimed and far reaching avant rock bands ever was the British group Soft Machine, named after a novel by William Burroughs. The band was formed in Canterbury, Kent, England in 1966. Noisette was recorded January 4th, 1970, by the short-lived quintet formation of the group: Elton Dean & Lyn Dobson (reeds), Hugh Hopper (bass), Mike Ratledge (keyboard)s & Robert Wyatt (drums & vocals). Noisette showcases a band in transition from their earlier psychedelic/progressive rock period towards the jazz/rock sound that would make them famous with the release of their Third and Fourth albums in 1970 and 1971. It features the quintet performing versions of material from Soft Machine's first two albums as well as previously unreleased material. As such, it is a vital and necessary release for all fans of this legendary English ensemble."

Artist:	UNIVERS ZERO
Title:	Univers Zero
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 1313CD

"Over 30 years ago, after 3 years of work and rehearsals, a group of seven unknown Belgian musicians gathered in a small basement studio to record their first album, which they released themselves in a tiny edition of 500 copies. The album was untitled, but the catalog number was '1313,' which the album later became known by. The power and originality of their creation turned heads and all these years later, this album is rightly considered the beginning of the 'chamber-rock' movement as well as a classic of the genre. With the release of their first album, Univers Zero went on to co-found the hugely influential "Rock in Opposition" movement with four similarly-minded bands. Active until 1987 and then reactivated in the late 1990s, Univers Zero are considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde rock bands of all time. Working in a world-class studio, the album has been re-mixed from the original multi-track tapes and remastered. It has never sounded better. The front is restored to be a facsimile of the original issue, and included is a 16-page booklet with many never-before seen photos, as well as a very complete history of the band up to the recording of this, their first album. A 28-minute, never-released, live bonus track is included."

Artist:	PINHAS/MAURICE DANTEC (SCHIZOTROPE), RICHARD
Title:	The Life and Death of Marie Zorn -- North American Tour 1999
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 131CD

"Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: father figure of an entire musical movement. Pinhas first came to public attention as leader of Heldon, whose violent fusion of electronics and guitar is acknowledged to be a precursor of today's industrial music. In 1998, he teamed up with noted French 'cyber-punk' author Maurice Dantec to make a musical and spoken word tribute to his mentor, the noted philosopher Gilles Deleuze. This duo became 'Schizotrope' who came to North America, in March 1999 for a series of shows. The Life And Death of Marie Zorn was compiled from tapes of those live shows, which were Pinhas' first-ever performances in North America."

Artist:	WOODSON'S ELLIPSIS, RICH
Title:	Control And Resistance
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 132CD

"Woodson is a self-taught composer and guitarist who grew up on hard rock and heavy metal in Nashville,TN and San Antonio and Austin, TX. His major musical influences are jazzman Tim Berne, Frank Zappa, Watchtower (an 1980's Austin metal band, who invented the 'technical metal' subgenre) and academic composer Charles Wuorinen. This debut CD is a bold and brilliant synthesis of RIO progressive rock, modern jazz and contemporary composition. Densely textured, angular compositions, filled with complexity, intensity and spontaneity, the music is as personal and individualistic as a fingerprint."

Artist:	MILESI, PIERO
Title:	Within Himself
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 133CD

"Milesi is one of a number of composers in Italy who, although relatively unknown here, are quietly changing the way we think about music and its usage via their work with installations. He has scored numerous film, video, and television soundtracks, and has composed music for several ballets and live performance events This is melodic new-music compositions with an underlying electronic/minimalist base. For fans of Klaus Schulze, Steve Reich, John Adams, Philip Glass, Vangelis, etc."

Artist:	KERMAN/5UU'S, DAVE
Title:	Regarding Purgatories
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 135CD

"Drummer/composer David Kerman formed the band 5uu's in 1984. He derived the band's name from gang graffiti spray painted on buildings in Los Angeles. The band recorded several albums before the band's merging with fellow L.A. experimentalists The Motor Totemist Guild to form the acclaimed U Totem. In 1994, Kerman reformed the 5uu's, with different personnel, to record two well received releases on the ReR label. In the 1990's, Dave also became a member of a number of other musician's and composer's ensembles, and had contributed his drumming ability to releases by Thinking Plague, Present and Blast, among others. Regarding Purgatories is Dave?s latest release of his own music, and features yet another version of the 5uu's. He has enlisted what amounts to an avant/progressive supergroup to back him here, including vocalist Deborah Perry [of Thinking Plague], bassist Keith Macksoud [of Present] and keyboardists Charles Turner [5uu's] and Sanjay Kumar [U Totem]."

Artist:	BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC
Title:	Petrophonics
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 137CD

"Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a side project by half of Boston's now legendary Mission Of Burma: Roger Miller and Martin Swope. Miller and Swope joined forces with Rick Scott and Erik Lindgren. In 1983, they released their first project. In 1987, Roger Miller was replaced by saxophonist Ken Field. In 1992 guitarist Michael Bierylo replaced Martin Swope. Petrophonics, the band's tenth release, is the band's first in five years. Birdsongs' instrumentation is as striking as their music: two keyboards, guitar and saxophone blend with electronic/computer percussion."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	Reflections From The Firepool
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 139CD

2000 release, repressed. "Established in the fall of 1984, Djam Karet grew out of the ashes of several L.A.-based bands. The band's early live performances featured music that was a free-form mixture of guitar-dominated instrumental rock and textural Eastern drone music. Out of this process of musical exploration and thematic conceptualization emerged their music. Reflection From The Firepool, originally self-released by the band in 1989, was the album that first brought them to the attention of the general public."

Artist:	GILGAMESH
Title:	Arriving Twice
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 140CD

"Founded by keyboardist/composer Alan Gowen in 1973, Alan Gowen later went on to co-found National Health with members of Gilgamesh and Hatfield and the North in 1975. He left National Health in 1977, and then rejoined in time for a long series of gigs, including the band's US tour of 1979. After National Health broke up for good in 1980, he recorded a few sessions. Shortly after, Alan Gowen was diagnosed with leukemia, & he died in 1981. This is almost one hour of all previously unreleased recordings by this legendary "Canterbury" band. The musicians here later went on to play with notables such as Soft Machine, National Health, Black Sabbath, Mike Oldfield & others. This CD features a 16 page booklet jammed with rare photos and interviews, telling the story of leader Alan Gowen's career, from his birth until the demise of Gilgamesh. Interest in our archival Canterbury projects is very high, as witnessed by the great sales of our releases by Soft Machine, Delivery, etc. This is the latest in the series."

Artist:	THINKING PLAGUE
Title:	Early Plague Years
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 141CD

"Thinking Plague were founded in Denver, CO. by guitarist Mike Johnson and bassist/drummer Bob Drake in the early 1980's. They released their first LP, a thinking plague, in 1984 on their own label. Each album cover was hand painted by Bob. Johnson and Drake then disbanded the group & began working with new musicians. In 1987 their second album, Moonsongs, was released. Early Plague Years is a repackaging of the band's first two albums. These records have been out of print and highly sought after by collectors for well over a decade and have never before been released on CD. They have been remixed and remastered, and the sound is far beyond the meager sonics of the original vinyl pressings."

Artist:	PAUL DUNMALL OCTET
Title:	The Great Divide
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 142CD

"Born 1953 in Welling, England, Paul Dunmall is one of Britain's best-known jazz musicians. Classically trained on clarinet, Dunmall began his professional music career in 1969. Dunmall is perhaps most widely known for his work since 1988 as a member of Mujician, a highly acclaimed British improvising collective that has released four albums on Cuneiform. Since 1997, Dunmall has led his own Octet. The band includes Paul's tenor sax, Keith Tippett-piano, Simon Pickard-tenor sax, Paul Rutherford & Hilary Jeffries-trombone, Gethin Liddington-trumpet, Paul Rogers-bass & Tony Levin-drums. In The Great Divide, the band's third release, the Paul Dunmall Octet progresses through a six-part program that explores a multitude of moods and styles within the medium of modern improvised jazz."

Artist:	DEAN, ELTON
Title:	Moorsong
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 143CD

"Moorsong shows Dean entirely at home with an impressive range of jazz settings and styles. The CD begins with a swinging, Hammond Organ-driven session that may be seen as a nod to Medeski, Martin & Wood. The latter part of Moorsong features spacier, more atmospheric sets, with the music more based on moods and drones. Moorsong shows Dean in top form throughout, exploring the varied topography of British jazz via sax. It should appeal to afficionados of jazz, fusion and free music alike."

Artist:	CREELEY/STEVE SWALLOW/DAVID TORN/CHRIS MASSEY/DAVID CAST, ROBERT
Title:	Have We Told You All You'd Thought To Know
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 144CD

"Robert Creeley is one of America's greatest living poets; he was the link between the Beat poets of Greenwich Village and those of Black Mountain College. Creeley has long acknowledged the influence of jazz and improvised music on his work. In this collaboration of music and poetry, recorded live 9/98, Creeley reads his texts while the extremely talented band of David Torn [guitar, processing], Steve Swallow [electric bass], David Cast [saxes, bass clarinet] and Chris Massey [drums, percussion] provide a lively mesh of music that supports and augments the reading. This disc provides a permanent record of the quintet's emotionally moving performance, a work of art in which poetry, music and process become one."

Artist:	NATIONAL HEALTH
Title:	Playtime
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 145CD

"National Health was one of the last of the great 'Canterbury-style' progressive rock bands. By late '78, the personnel had become Alan Gowen [keyboards], Phil Miller [guitar], John Greaves [bass & vocals] and Pip Pyle [drums]. This version strove towards a more stretched-out, free-er approach. This CD is the first National Health live album to ever be released. It is also the only recorded documentation of the Gowen, Greaves, Miller, and Pyle version of the band. This is a fantastic, unexpected, newly unearthed document 20 years later, of a much loved band."

Artist:	HAMSTER THEATRE
Title:	Carnival Detournement
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 146CD

2001 release, repressed. "The band's music is a theatre of the absurd, a musical realm where reggae rhythms collide with Rock In Opposition style trickery, and where beautiful melodies are painstakingly constructed -- and then just as carefully destructed. There are echoes here of a wide geographic, social, and chronological range of music: carnival and theatre music, European avant/progressive composers and bands, 20th century French composers ranging from Satie and Ravel to Albert Marcoeur and Lars Hollmer, folk music forms from across the continent and sidewalk cafe musings from Eastern Europe."

Artist:	MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE COMPANY
Title:	Like A Duck To Water
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 147CD

"MMPMC were the world's first all synthesizer ensemble. This was their 2nd & final release, and was originally released in 1976. The music is a unique and extremely enjoyable blend of space electronics (ala Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze), minimal music (Terry Riley, Philip Glass), and contemporary classical & electronics (Gordon Mumma, John Cage). This album showcases a uniquely American slant on synthesizer music by a band whose pioneering contributions to the genre had been forgotten until now. Includes the original album, 20' of previously unheard bonus material, and bonus CDRom material; a QuickTime video of the band in performance in 1976. With David Borden, Steve Drews & Judy Borsher."

Artist:	MIRIODOR
Title:	Mekano
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 148CD

"Miriodor have been making adventurous progressive rock music in Quebec for 20 years. They are among a handful of bands worldwide whose works convey all hallmarks of the 'R.I.O.' school: adventurous and inspired compositions, rigorous musicianship, a distinctive and highly personalized sound, periodic references to folk music, and a steely determination to make music without compromise. Mekano, the band's 5th album, is perhaps their most impressive & entertaining work of all. It continues the trend that the band has adhered to since their beginning; a sound that is always developing in new and interesting ways, but that is still completely recognizable as 'Miriodor'."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	New Dark Age
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 149CD

"Recorded in California at the turn of the millennium -- a time when severe power crises overshadowed the Sunshine State and Silicon Valley -- New Dark Age is the band's 11th release, and is the band's first studio release of new material almost five years. It showcases the band's unique signature sound, combining a heavy rock foundation with spacier elements derived from the 'ambient' & 'trance' schools. New Dark Age showcases how Djam Karet's signature sound has evolved after over 15 years of playing together. Interweaving elements from the hard rock/progressive and ambient/trance schools, Djam Karet has created a progressive rock that remains outside of one stylistic time -- a true 'classic' progressive sound."

Artist:	MATCHING MOLE
Title:	Smoke Signals
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 150CD

"Matching Mole was the band formed by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine in July, 1971. Soft Machine were hugely popular in France, and Robert got the name of his new band as a play on the French translation of Soft Machine: Machine Molle. What eventually became the first Matching Mole album was begun as a solo album. Midway through recording, he was joined by guitarist Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield & The North, National Health), organist Dave Sinclair (Caravan, bassist Bill MacCormick (Phil Manzanera's 801) and guest electric pianist Dave MacRae. These recordings became their self titled first album, released in early 1972. Sinclair left soon after and MacRae joined full time. This quartet performed often throughout Europe, and recorded a second album, Little Red Record, which was released in fall,1972. Soon after, Robert decided that he did not want the responsibilities of being a band leader & broke up the band. Smoke Signals compiles all previously unreleased performances from the band's most intense gigging period, the spring of 1972, and has been assembled to replicate their continuous concert set. The band's sound is an unique take on fusion with interesting structures."

Artist:	THE STICK MEN
Title:	Insatiable
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 151CD

2008 repress. "In the early '80s, The Stick Men ruled the Philadelphia new/no wave scene. Reminiscent of James Chance and the Contortions with more hyperkinetic energy (!!), they created a frenzied psycho-funk-punk sound that featured gut-wrenching timing, extraordinary charm, personality with a plus, and tons of good humor. This CD contains the The Stick Men's entire recorded output as well as rare tracks from live radio broadcasts. Also included is bonus CD-Rom material: a 20 minute Quick Time video of the band. The band remains an incomparable phenomenon to this day."

Artist:	CHRIS MCGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH
Title:	Travelling Somewhere
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 152CD

"South African born and raised pianist/bandleader Chris McGregor formed the racially mixed Blue Notes in the early 1960's, touring and trying to get by in extremely difficult political circumstances as best they could. By 1964, facing continuous government harassment, Chris & the Blue Notes fled their South African homeland, finally settling in London in 1966. They made a huge impact on London's jazz scene and befriended many in London's emerging avant-garde jazz community. By 1969, the Blue Notes had drifted apart. Not too long afterwards, Chris formed The Brotherhood Of Breath, which was essentially the Blue Notes, augmented by a large number of the friends that they had made in the British jazz community. The band toured constantly during their peak years of 1971-74, but they only released 3 albums in their lifetime. Travelling Somewhere was recorded at a well known jazz club in Bremen, Germany on January 19th, 1973 for radio broadcast, and is by far the best recorded live document of the Brotherhood. The 12 piece band is a who's who of many of the big names of British free jazz of the early/mid 1970's: Harry Beckett, Mark Charig & Mongezi Feza (trumpets), Nick Evans & Malcolm Griffiths (trombones), Mike Osborne, Evan Parker, Dudu Pukwana & Gary Windo (saxes), Chris McGregor (piano), Harry Miller (double bass) and Louis Moholo (drums)."

Artist:	PICCHIO DAL POZZO
Title:	Camere Zimmer Rooms
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 153CD

"Picchio dal Pozzo are considered to be one of the very few 'Canterbury' inspired bands that emerged from Italy's fertile 1970's progressive rock musical scene. They released two highly regarded -- and highly sought after -- albums during their lifetime. The exciting release of Camere Zimmer Rooms, a previously unknown studio recording of all unreleased compositions, extends their legacy greatly! The band formed in Genoa in 1972. They released their first, self-titled album in 1975. The band recorded their second LP Abbiamo Tutti i Suoi Problemi in 1980. Shortly after this release, the band dissolved. But, back in 1977, with their first earnings as a band, Picchio decided to buy their first sound reinforcement equipment to use for touring. To check out the equipment, the band decided to set up a live concert in studio for some friends and record it. The result is the tapes that now make up Camere Zimmer Rooms. While never originally intended for release, the band now feels that it is indeed the most faithful recording of Picchio dal Pozzo's music and mood. One of the first things that even the casual listener will discover is that Camere Zimmer Rooms does not sound like a live-in-the-studio recording. Using the full extent of the large band and pre-recorded tapes of things like natural sounds, factory noises, radio-advertising collages and other manipulated material, that were triggered by the various members of the band, the sound is indeed very close to a studio recording that would be filled with overdubbing. Essential for their fans, as well as fans of groups like Caravan, Hatfield & The North, Henry Cow, Soft Machine & Frank Zappa."

Artist:	NEBELNEST
Title:	Nova Express
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 154CD

"NeBelNeST are one of the most adventurous and energetic young bands to emerge on the international post-rock / avant-progressive scene in recent years. The young French band is noted for its dark symphonic rock music influenced by King Crimson, Shylock and Univers Zero/Present, laced with psychedelia and improvisation, and played with a riveting level of energy and intensity derived from the hardcore and noise scenes. It is produced by Bob Drake, a musician and producer who has produced CDs by the 5uu's and Thinking Plague, and has recorded solo and other CDs for the ReR label. Drake's distinctive production techniques are a perfect match for NeBeLNeST, emphasizing and augmenting the wide dynamic range of the band's dark, mesmerizing sound."

Artist:	UNIVERS ZERO
Title:	Crawling Wind
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 155CD

"A founding member of the original 'Rock In Opposition' [R.I.O.] movement, and considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde bands of the 70's & 80's Belgium's Univers Zero were originally founded in 1974. For the first five years, they were co-led by Daniel Denis & Roger Trigaux. Originally released as a limited edition, Japanese-only 12" EP, Crawling Wind has long been the unavailable crown jewel of the band's oeuvre. Now available for the first time on CD, it has been remastered and expanded, with the addition of rare and never before released studio and live material, to a full length album. Univers Zero's distinctive sound is a combination of their unique instrumentation (piano and keyboards, violin, clarinets, oboe/bassoon, bass, and drums) blended with Gothic imagery and an intensely strong, classically influenced writing style. In the hands of some of the best musicians of Europe, these factors lead to a group on the cutting edge of creating a new, vital and different approach to rock music."

Artist:	BJÖRKENHEIM, RAOUL
Title:	Apocalypso
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 156CD

"Finnish guitarist Raoul Björkenheim first came to international attention with Edward Vesala's Sound & Fury band. Concurrently, he formed his own group Krakatau as an offshoot Sound & Fury. The well-known German ECM label signed Björkenheim & Krakatau (who are a quartet of guitar, sax, bass & drums on both of their ECM CDs), and released their 3rd (Volition) and 4th (Matinale) releases internationally. Since that time, Raoul's energizing, furious playing has been featured with a wide array of well known international artists, including Mats Gustavsson, Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Bill Laswell, Michael Manring, Paul Schütze, Nicky Skopelitis, Jah Wobble and many others. Apocalypso is a galvanizing & exciting work that features the massed power of 30 guitarists, 8 bassists and 4 percussionists. This version, recorded in 2000, features Raoul performing all of the parts himself in a tour-de-force of virtual ensemble playing."

Artist:	CURLEW
Title:	Meet The Curlews
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 157CD

"Few avant/electric jazz bands have maintained as high a quality of work over as long a career -- over two decades thus far -- as Curlew. Cuneiform has released all of Curlew's CD releases, and is now proud to release Curlew's eighth album. Curlew was formed in 1979 by George Cartwright, the group's leader, saxophonist, and main composer. Curlew's alumni includes such well-known musicians as Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Wayne Horvitz, and Tom Cora. Meet the Curlews features long-time members Cartwright and Davey Williams as well as new members Fred Chalenor, Bruce Golden and Chris Parker, whose contributions swing the genre-busting band more firmly into the realm of jazz."

Artist:	KERMAN/5UU'S, DAVE
Title:	Abandonship
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 158CD

"Inspired by the European 'Rock In Opposition' (RIO) movement's uncompromising stance, and devoted to a concept of song-oriented music with emphasis on short pieces, and lyrics and melodies, the 5uu's created a sound that was 'a distinctly American version of RIO-inspired progressive rock.' (Alternative View). Abandonship features compositions, lyrics (printed in the CD booklet), and multi-instrumentation by Kerman, vocals by Deborah Perry (of Thinking Plague), and sound sculpting by Udi Koomran. Like other 5uu's works, it consists of mostly short pieces that coalesce into a musically and/or conceptually coherent mosaic."

Artist:	DEUS EX MACHINA
Title:	Cinque
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 159CD

"One of the finest avant/progressive bands in the world today, Deus Ex Machina has carved out an enviable reputation with its amazingly high energy live shows and critically acclaimed live and studio albums. The band's music is a heady, playful fusion of classic hard rock (think 1971-era Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin) and progressive rock and jazz, topped with the incredible vocals of Piras, one of the most extraordinary vocalists working in rock music today. Notably, the classically-trained Piras sings in both Latin (!) and Italian. Cinque, Deus Ex Machina 5th studio recording, is the band's first release on Cuneiform and their first album release outside of Italy. A powerful work of jazz/rock fusion and progressive rock, it is the culmination of the band's search for, in their words, 'an even deeper rock impact.'"

Artist:	ARKHAM
Title:	Arkham
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 160CD

"Arkham is a legendary band in the annals of European progressive rock. Arkham was co-founded by two musicians who subsequently became two of the best-known known names in progressive rock: Jean-Luc Manderlier and Daniel Denis. Manderlier, Arkham's keyboardist and sole composer, would later become a member of the French band, Magma, recording on that band's landmark work, Mekanïk Destructïw Kommandöh. During its brief yet highly active and visible two years of existence, Arkham played countless live concerts but never released a recording. Compiled from tapes made at various Arkham performances and rehearsals in Belgium between 1970-72, this self-titled CD documents the band's music throughout its existence. Arkham is an essential document of a band which holds a key place in the history of European progressive rock."

Artist:	MUFFINS, THE
Title:	Bandwidth
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 161CD

"The Muffins -- the band whom Fred Frith called 'the finest progressive band America produced' -- are back after an absence of two decades.Bandwidth, in production for more than two years, is the first album of new music by the band since 1980. Reformed in its best-known quartet version, the band sounds like it had never been apart. The Muffins' new music remains 'progressive' to its core in the truest meaning of that term: forward looking, boundary bursting, innovative, and yes, astonishingly fresh. Influenced by Soft Machine, Hatfield & The North, Henry Cow, Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and many other jazz and European progressive rock bands, this quartet forged a committed following in the USA and abroad during the 1970's until 1981, when they split up. In a world glutted with half-baked reformations by bands looking to cash in on past glories, Bandwidth is the genuine article; a reformation of all the original members who have gotten together not for money, but because they miss what they had done together in the past and who feel that they still have something to say."

Artist:	MUJICIAN
Title:	Spacetime
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 162CD

"Since Mujician formed in England in 1988 as an improvising collective, the band has released 5 CDs on Cuneiform. Mujician is composed of four of the biggest names in the European jazz and improvised music community: Paul Dunmall: saxes, Tony Levin: drums, Paul Rogers: double bass, Keith Tippett: piano. But this 'supergroup' is also a true co-operative, a collective critically praised for its sensitive interplay and coherent voice. Spacetime, the band's newest release, features Mujician experimenting with shorter formats, and includes 15 pieces under 10 minutes each, recorded live in the studio."

Artist:	VA
Title:	156 Strings
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 163CD

"Curated by guitarist and producer Henry Kaiser, 156 Strings is a compilation designed to showcase some of the most unique and highly personal work currently being done on the acoustic guitar. A longtime fan of the 'master creators' of American, steel-string, instrumental guitar -- musicians such as John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Lang, and Leo Kottke -- Kaiser created this compilation to highlight, in his own words, some of the 'many players today who are operating at those elevated levels of acoustic eloquence.' The early Takoma Records sampler lps compiled by John Fahey, and Fred Frith's 'Guitar Solos' lps provided Kaiser with editorial inspiration; as he says in his liner notes: 'Those releases were portals that many listeners went through to discover new artists and sounds.' 156 Strings includes pieces by the following 19 acoustic guitarists. Each and every one of them, in Kaiser's words, 'sound like themselves and have something special to say.' : Duck Baker, Stefan Basho-Junghans, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Nels Cline, Janet Feder, Fred Frith, Michael Gulezian, Richard Leo Johnson, Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Peter Lang, Scott McGill, Shawn Persinger is Prester John, Rod Poole, Gyan Riley, Miroslav Tadic, Richard Thompson, U Tin."

Artist:	UNIVERS ZERO
Title:	Rhythmix
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 165CD

"Univers Zero has stretched and disintegrated the boundaries of classical and rock music alike throughout the course of its career, producing a sound that is equally passionate and sophisticated and always on the cutting edge. In Rhythmix, Denis draws upon the rich legacy of Univers Zero's oeuvre, using both the acoustic colorations (bassoon, oboe, harmonium) of the band's earliest releases and the electric vibe (electronic keyboards and synthesizers) that marked Univers Zero releases from the mid-1980s. He also expands the Univers Zero's sound by using a greater number of musicians (10), and adding instrumentation -- flute, trumpet, acoustic guitar, marimba and accordion -- not customarily used by the band. In addition to Denis (drums, percussion, keyboard, harmonium), musicians on Rhythmix include Michel Berckmans (oboe, English horn, bassoon); Aurelia Boven (cello), Ariane De Bievre (flute, piccolo), Dirk Descheemaeker (bass clarinet, Bart Maris (trumpet), Eric Plantain (electric bass), Christophe Pons (acoustic guitar) Bart Quartier (marimba, glockenspiel), and Louison Renault (accordion). Rhythmix shows that, nearly three decades after it was first formed, Univers Zero continues to evolve, expanding and experimenting with the boundaries of New Music."

Artist:	PINHAS, RICHARD
Title:	Event and Repetitions
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 166CD

"Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: father figure of an entire musical movement. For the last decade, Pinhas has been developing a system of electronic processing to perform live solo guitar concerts with. Event and Repetitions is over 75' of music performed live in his studio with just guitar and processing systems. The music is rich in depth, detail and texture, and will appeal to fans of musicians such as Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Windy and Carl, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Labradford, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream."

Artist:	CURLEW
Title:	North America
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 167CD

"Formed in 1979, North America reissues their obscure 2nd album, which was recorded in 1984-85 and originally released only in Germany. North America is an unusual album in the band's oeuvre, as it's their one album that is the most obviously a product of the studio, and it's also their most overtly 'avant-progressive' release. Like all the band's work, it is a unique synthesis of gritty Southern r 'n' b, harmolodics, finger-popping grooves and the avant-garde. The band who perform on North America is pretty much an all-star ensemble of the emerging 'downtown' scene: Appearing as always are saxist/leader George Cartwright and cellist Tom Cora. Noted guitarist and composer Fred Frith appears in the role of bassist for the band. The guitarist is Mark Howell. Drum duties are split between Rick Brown and Pippin Barnett. In addition there is 30' of bonus live material included on North America, which features Cartwright, Cora, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, drummer Anton Fier, and bassist Otto Williams."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	A Night For Baku
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 169CD

"Djam Karet were established in 1984, and by the late 1980's had established themselves as one of the US's most important instrumental progressive rock ensembles. Compared by the press with King Crimson, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, Ozric Tentacles and Porcupine Tree, they are credited with breathing new life into progressive rock. Their music is a unique and exciting blend of heavy guitar rock, jam-band excitement and ambient/electronic soundscapes. A Night For Baku is a journey through Djam Karet's musical universe, an immersion in its aural dreams. This finds Djam Karet utilizing more keyboards and electronics than in the recent past, and collaborating on one track with electronic musician Steve Roach."

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Backwards
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 170CD

"One of the most critically acclaimed, far-reaching and influential avant rock bands ever was Soft Machine, named after a novel by William Burroughs. The band was formed in Canterbury, Kent, England in 1966 by Daevid Allen (guitar), Kevin Ayers (bass/vocals), Mike Ratledge (keyboards) and Robert Wyatt (drums/vocals). Backwards is comprised of recordings from three different and intriguing eras of the band, and includes liner notes written by Canterbury music scholar Aymeric Leroy. Backwards begins with three tracks from May, 1970: a recording of the 'classic' quartet made about the time that Soft Machine had finished recording its acclaimed Third album. The recording is mono, but the sonic quality is superb; this may be the single finest recording of the quartet version of Soft Machine, surpassing even the band's official studio releases. The next two tracks on Backwards are recordings of performances from November, 1969, featuring the 'big band' septet version. Since the only other available material by this version of the band is 20' of BBC recordings, this is an invaluable addition to the band's recorded legacy. Backwards concludes with Robert Wyatt's original demo of 'Moon In June', a tune the band would later record for Third. The demo version which appears here, taken from the original acetate, was recorded in two parts and spliced together by the band."

Artist:	PROTO-KAW
Title:	Early Recordings From Kansas 1971-1973
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 171CD

"This album compiles and releases for the very first time all of the studio recordings (as well as two live recordings) made by guitarist and composer Kerry Livgren with the 2nd edition of Kansas, a seven-piece band that immediately preceded the formation of the lineup of the band that the world knows as Kansas. With dual keyboards and an electric saxist/flautist featured in addition to the more standard rock instrumentation, the sound is obviously influenced by jazz/rock pioneers such as Don Ellis, Soft Machine and Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention as well as early progressive rock bands such as Van Der Graaf Generator and King Crimson."

Artist:	MATCHING MOLE
Title:	March
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 172CD

"Matching Mole was the band that drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt formed after he left the pioneering UK outfit Soft Machine in July, 1971. Over the course of its brief, one-year existence, Matching Mole would develop a characteristic sound, a unique take on fusion, with interesting structures that encouraged individualistic expression through solos. When one of the members came across a forgotten live show on tape -- identified simply as 'March, 1972', they immediately contacted us, and this album is the result. Recorded live in Europe 3/72, shortly after Dave MacRae became the keyboardist, this includes the basic repertoire that the band would perform during their lifetime, with a few surprises thrown in. The sound is surprisingly superb for a live show of this vintage, and once again Tom Recchion has come up with a charming cover."

Artist:	NUCLEUS
Title:	Live In Bremen
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 173/4CD

"The groundbreaking UK band Nucleus were one of the very first jazz/rock fusion groups, forming in 1969 and releasing their first album in 1970. During their lifetime, the band recorded 13 albums for labels like Vertigo and Capitol, among others. The band was founded by trumpeter Ian Carr. He recruited musicians for the band in the autumn of 1969. The timing was perfect: the world was ready for Nucleus and other early bands who were combining the energy and excitement of rock with jazz instrumentation, like Miles Davis, Tony Williams' Lifetime and Soft Machine. This never before released concert, recorded May 25th, 1971 and licensed from Radio Bremen, captures the band at an early peak and with an interesting lineup: Carr, Karl Jenkins-piano & oboe, Brian Smith-tenor & soprano sax, flute & percussion, Ray Russell-guitar, Roy Babbington-bass & John Marshall-drums. Most notably, Russell never recorded with the band, and his short tenure with Nucleus was completely unknown until now. Shortly after this recording, the original Nucleus began to unravel and three of the players (Babbington, Jenkins & Marshall) ended up in Soft Machine. This fine slice of vital, exciting, early jazz/rock."

Artist:	WYATT, ROBERT
Title:	Solar Flares Burn For You
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 175CD

"Vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Wyatt's career extends from the beginnings of the psychedelic era to the present day. This album started its life as simply a collection of the two BBC Top Gear sessions that Robert recorded in 1972 and 1974. But as we worked on it, Robert became more and more involved in it, until it ended up in its final form. In addition to the Top Gear recordings, there is a previously unheard and little known 1973 soundtrack for a short experimental film, two recent works with old collaborator Hugh Hopper and finally a 2003 home demo of a new song that did not end up on Robert's new release Cuckooland. Additionally, this CD includes a Quicktime movie of that 1973 film, as well as a 16 page booklet filled with photos, artwork and stories supplied by Robert and others, and liner notes by Aymeric Leroy."

Artist:	BONE
Title:	Uses Wrist Grab
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 176CD

"This is the first album by the new band of: guitarist Nick Didkovsky (Doctor Nerve), bassist Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) and drummer John Roulat (Forever Einstein). Inspired by the energy and iconoclasm of heavy metal, evoking the fervor of guitar gods past, Bones' music is cathartic, blistering, and smart. Wailing, distorted guitars and driving rhythms delineate compositions that are brilliantly constructed, compelling and concise. Upon close inspection, this seemingly traditional guitar-bass-drums lineup is revealed to be anything but. In addition to the traditional rock instrumentation of guitar/bass/drums, some tunes on the CD feature electronics such as synth and tape loops, played by Hopper, and digitally based computer software instruments played by Didkovsky. The music ranges from take-no-prisoners-and-give-no-apologies intensity to deep floating psychedelia. Intense, precise, surreal: Bone is a power trio that defies expectations."

Artist:	CURLEW
Title:	Mercury
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 177CD

"Curlew was formed in 1979 by George Cartwright, the group's leader, saxophonist, and main composer. Cartwright's compositions are at once direct and mysterious, possessing a clarity and focus that show both Ellington and Ornette assimilated in a most unique way. Backed by the hard-rocking unit of Chris Parker-electric keyboards and piano, Dean Granros-guitar, Fred Chalenor-bass and Bruce Golden-drums, Curlew somehow manage to combine r'n'b swagger and groove with free jazz and wild soloing into a whole that is immediately identifiable as nothing other than 'Curlew'. Curlew are well known and well respected for almost 25 years of exciting work. Mercury is their 10th release."

Artist:	LARVAL
Title:	Obedience
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 178CD

"Larval is an avant/progressive rock ensemble led by composer Bill Brovold. Defined by driving guitars, saxes, multiple strings (violin, bass, cello, harp) and percussion, Larval's sound is intense, relentless and savagely hypnotic. The music brings to mind a blending of aspects of Glenn Branca, Godspeed You Black Emperor! King Crimson and more, but all put together in a completely 'Larval' fashion. Blistering in its intensity, relentless in its propulsive rhythms, the music on Obedience is nevertheless disciplined at its core. Brovold's compositions here encompass a wide spectrum of mood, traveling from quiet, contemplative passages tinged with ominous expectations to driving, aggressive onslaughts of screaming guitars and assorted strings that threaten chaos."

Artist:	BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC
Title:	The Iridium Controversy
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 179CD

"Dubbed 'the world's hardest rocking chamber quartet' by the New York Times, Boston's Birdsongs of the Mesozoic creates innovative instrumental music that fuses rock, classical, minimalism, punk, garage/pop, and jazz. Two keyboardists (one on grand piano and one on synthesizer), guitar, saxophone and electronic/computer percussion produce a unique sound that fuses the youthful energy and anarchism of rock with the structure (and process) of classical music. The result is simultaneously abstract and accessible, music without vocals with broad popular appeal. The Iridium Controversy is a sophisticated work, a soundtrack to a primordial epic that harkens to the future as well as the past. The cover art for The Iridium Controversy is by British artist and designer Roger Dean."

Artist:	THINKING PLAGUE
Title:	A History Of Madness
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 180CD

"Thinking Plague is a Colorado-based ensemble that explores the aural frontier where rock (in all its manifestations), modern classical, folk, and jazz music meet. A History of Madness, presents a further maturation of the band's sound. Its warm, organic sound is due in part to the inclusion of acoustic instruments in the mix, which is also interwoven with electronic sounds and samples. The CD includes two soundscape pieces, 'War on Terra' and 'Le Gouffre', that leader Mike Johnson maintains: 'are really a departure for me, or a beginning, as it were, in that they are my first really serious forays into the realm of semi-composed, sonic environments rather than organized pieces or songs'."

Artist:	MILLER/IN CAHOOTS, PHIL
Title:	All That
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 181CD

2010 repress, originally released in 2003. "Guitarist Phil Miller started his career as a member of Delivery. After Delivery's demise, he ended up with Robert Wyatt, who had just left Soft Machine, in Matching Mole. Matching Mole ended prematurely due to Robert's paralyzing accident, and Phil found himself playing with some other ex-Delivery people in a band that eventually metamorphosed into Hatfield and the North. After two albums with Hatfield that are still considered to be classics to this day, Phil continued on after their break up with 3 of the 4 members in National Health. When National Health came to an end, Phil began assembling his own band, In Cahoots, in the early 1980's. Since that time, Phil has released 9 albums under his or In Cahoot's name, including this one. In Cahoots are a supergroup of English jazz and rock players. In addition to Phil Miller featured are: Elton Dean(Soft Machine, Carla Bley Band, Brotherhood of Breath), Pete Lemer (Mike Oldfield, Gong, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Gilgamesh), Fred Baker(Brotherhood of Breath, John Stevens) and Mark Fletcher(Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Soft Machine Legacy) This title has been unavailable for some time, and with the steady interest in 'Canterbury' style progressive rock music (Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Caravan, etc), this will be eagerly nabbed by fans who missed it the first time."

Artist:	MCGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH, CHRIS
Title:	Bremen To Bridgewater
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 182/3CD

"Combining the rhythms of African music with those of American big-band jazz and the free playing of British improv, it produced 'one of the most vital and life-affirming big-band jazz ever played by anyone, anywhere.' (BBCi). The Brotherhood released only a handful of recordings in its lifetime. This release, Bremen to Bridgewater, contains two CDs of previously unreleased live recordings made in Germany and England during two very different periods of the band's career. The German recordings were made on June 20th, 1971 at Lila Uele, a well known jazz club in Bremen. The English recordings were made at the Bridgewater Arts Center, during two tours that the band made with different lineups in February and November of 1975, and feature some of the very last recordings of trumpeter Mongezi Feza, who died in December of that year. The band's lineups on these recordings are a veritable who's who of British free jazz, and include Harry Beckett, Marc Charig, Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Harry Miller, Louis Moholo, Mike Osborne, Evan Parker, Dudu Pukwana, Alan Skidmore, Gary Windo and others."

Artist:	GUAPO
Title:	Five Suns
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 184CD

"Guapo is a British trio that plays an intense, emotive and sometimes harrowing music that straddles the boundaries of progressive, noise, minimalism and avant-rock. Indeed, their sound has been compared to such artists as Magma, Boredoms, King Crimson, Univers Zero, This Heat, Ruins, Sun Ra and Terry Riley. Five Suns is the band's fifth album, and its first on Cuneiform. Five Suns is Guapo's most apocalyptic and dynamically accomplished work to date, bringing a new sense of sonic and spatial awareness to the band's trademark sensibilities of complex song structures, harmonic atonality and percussive mantras. The Five Suns makes use of vintage equipment such as Fender Rhodes, mellotron, Moogs and gongs to create a colour-saturated patchwork of epic, primordial beauty. The new instrumentation has allowed for an opening out of the sound into more ambitious vistas, where progressive influences are turned on their head by both the infusion of hardcore rock energy and the use of hypnotic, trance-like repetition."

Artist:	AHVAK
Title:	Ahvak
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 185CD

"The Israeli band Ahvak, named after the Hebrew word for 'Dust', creates music of dark, ominous and compelling beauty. Its striking and elegant compositions blur the boundary lines between classical, rock and folk musics, and align the band with such 'Rock in Opposition' style bands as Univers Zero and Present, The Science Group, Thinking Plague and the 5UUs. Ahvak's mesmerizing and electrified version of chamber rock is also comparable with such post-rock bands as Dead Can Dance and Godspeed You Black Emperor."

Artist:	PINHAS, RICHARD
Title:	Tranzition
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 186CD

"Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. On Tranzition, his newest work on Cuneiform, Pinhas weaves beautiful, spacey, processed guitar tapestries, with added color from laptop, violin and the drumming of Antoine Paganotti of Magma. The voice of the late author Philip K. Dick can be heard on 'Moumoune girl', from a 1977 tape that he gave Pinhas. Tranzition is a multifaceted and richly jeweled work in which cause and effect, acoustics and electronics, taped sound and live playing change roles and even realities."

Artist:	CLAUDIA QUINTET, THE
Title:	I, Claudia
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 187CD

"Formed by composer/drummer John Hollenbeck in 1997, this NY ensemble creates music that explores the edge in a manner that captivates and enthralls novice listeners, and keeps experienced fans returning for more. 'Claudia's' newest release, I, Claudia is a highly seductive work, ripe with compelling, propulsive grooves, dynamic sensitivity and telepathic improvisation. Remarkably accessible, its music can perhaps be called postjazz." Features: Drew Gress, Matt Moran, Ted Reichman, Chris Speed.

Artist:	UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS
Title:	Jet Propelled Photographs
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 188CD

"University of Errors is led by guitarist, vocalist, and pataphysical icon Daevid Allen. A near-legendary figure of the musical avant garde, Allen is an accomplished musician, artistic catalyst, and free-spirited psychedelic prankster who, over the course of his 60+ years, ignited and/or cross-pollinated creative fires in avant art movements across the globe. Allen launched his US-based band, University of Errors, twenty years, numerous musical escapades and multiple continents later. Jet Propelled Photographs is University of Error's 4th release. It is a remake of Soft Machine's first music: their repertoire from the days when Allen was in, and recorded with, the band whose existence he sparked. On Jet Propelled Photographs, University of Errors revives, re-informs, and reinvents Soft Machine's psychedelic rock and pop of the era, kicking it into the 21st century and resulting in a sound that is entirely new."

Artist:	WINDO, GARY
Title:	Anglo American
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 189CD

"Anglo-American saxophonist, improviser and composer Gary Windo was a 'musician's musician,' whose talent, passion and sheer joy for music energized and inspired musicians and audiences on two continents. Capable of handling any musical task while imprinting it with his personal style, and loving music of every manifestation, his work was in high demand by jazz, rock, r&b and pop artists. Anglo American, the 2nd retrospective of Windo's work to appear on Cuneiform, was compiled by Mike King and features liner notes by Pam Windo which include Gary's brief annotations. Consisting of over 70 minutes of previously unreleased and rare recordings from 1971-81, it not only highlights a decade of Windo's work but also that of numerous other prominent avant garde musicians on two continents. Anglo American includes 35 minutes of early 1970s recordings featuring Wyatt; several tracks featuring Brotherhood of Breath members, including Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana and Louis Moholo; and appearances by Hugh Hopper, Steve Swallow, Laurie Allen and numerous other notable artists."

Artist:	KAISER AND WADADA LEO SMITH, HENRY
Title:	Yo Miles! Sky Garden
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 191CD

"Among the giants enthroned in jazz's pantheon, no one made as big, as broad, as bad-boy brazen of an impact on popular music in many manifestations -- jazz, rock and improvisation -- as Miles Davis. At the same time, he pioneered new routes for rock. The innovations Davis made in both jazz and rock spawned immediate followers in his time, and continue to infuse and energize the music of today. During the period c.1969-75, Davis also blazed new trails in improvisation. For Sky Garden, Yo Miles!'s 2nd recording and 1st release on Cuneiform, Kaiser and Smith have assembled an all-star cast culled from both the jazz and rock communities. The lineup here includes Smith on trumpet; Kaiser, Mike Keneally and Chris Muir on electric guitars; Michael Manring on bass; Steve Smith on drums; Karl Perazzo on percussion; Greg Osby (alto) and John Tchicai (tenor and soprano) on saxophones; and Tom Coster on percussion. It also features a number of special guests, including Zakir Hussain on tabla, Dave Creamer on guitar, and the ROVA Sax Quartet. The group's studio performance at The Site was recorded live, directly to a stereo DSD (Direct Stream Digital) recorder, in a manner comparable to how Davis recorded live to analogue tape. The result is a set of two hybrid SACDs (Super Audio CDs, a new technology for enhanced audio quality) playable in either an SACD player or on a standard CD player."

Artist:	PYLE'S BASH, PIP
Title:	Belle Illusion
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 193CD

"Drummer and composer Pip Pyle is widely recognized as the drummer of the Canterbury school of progressive rock. As the drummer for Hatfield and the North and National Health, as well as stints with Gong, In Cahoots, Soft Heap and many, many others in both England and France, Pyle is one of the great drummers of both progressive rock and jazz-rock/ fusion. His newest project, Bash!, is a modern electric jazz fusion outfit that integrates all of his past musical experiences while showcasing his compositional skills."

Artist:	FAR CORNER
Title:	Far Corner
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 194CD

"An exciting and auspicious debut release by a chamber rock quartet from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Far Corner play carefully honed compositions, composed in a style that reflects influences from 20th century composers, such as Stravinsky and Bartok combined with classical/chamber rock greats like Univers Zero , early ELP, Present and more. In addition to their compositions, Far Corner also perform purely improvised music as well. Their music maintains the energy level and power of rock, but in a very sophisticated way. Their music is mysterious, sometimes dark, and always intriguing. Far Corner uses a relatively small palette of instrumental colors to achieve a big sound: Grand piano and Hammond organ, cello (played both 'classically' and with amplification and fuzzboxes to give it a metal, rock edge), electric bass and drums."

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Live In Paris, May 2nd, 1972
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 195CD

"One of the most critically acclaimed, far-reaching and influential avant rock bands ever was Soft Machine, named after a novel by William Burroughs. About five years into the band's lifetime, in August 1971, founding member Robert Wyatt left Soft Machine. The band had just released its Fourth album and completed an exhausting period of touring. Wyatt's departure left the band -- then consisting of keyboardist Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper and saxophonist Elton Dean -- in disarray. After a few months, Soft Machine recruited rock drummer John Marshall, formerly of the Jack Bruce Band and Nucleus. But the lineup of Hopper, Ratledge, Dean and Marshall would only last a half year. Live in Paris is a rare recording of the quartet of Hopper, Ratledge, Dean and Marshall during that lineup's final days; Dean left Soft Machine later that month. It is also a special, rare example of a Soft Machine concert recorded and released in its entirety. Live in Paris shows Soft Machine playing in top form, their stage performance transcending any internal tensions. Heavily indebted to jazz as well as free improvisation, the band's jazz/rock sound here is at times spare, even minimal, with Dean's free-blowing saxophone often in the fore. In the liner notes, Aymeric Leroy notes that the music illustrates main composers Ratledge and Hopper's 'shift in compositional style towards looser and more minimalistic themes'."

Artist:	YANG
Title:	A Complex Nature
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 197CD

"Yang, a French quartet whose stunning compositions combine intricate guitar parts with driving rock, is the newest project led by French guitarist and composer Frederic L'Epée. L'Epée's former projects include founding two of the most intriguing all-instrumental bands to emerge from France and capture international interest: Shylock and Philharmonie. Yang, L'Epee's post-Philharmonie band, extends some of Philarmonie's compositional ideas while adopting a harder tempered, more rock-based approach. Featuring the 'standard' line-up of two guitarists, bass and drums, Yang play a dynamic instrumental music that rocks hard, and which bears comparisons to groups such as Gordian Knot and King Crimson."

Artist:	JOHNSON TRIO, RICHARD LEO
Title:	Poetry of Appliance
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 198CD

"Richard Leo Johnson is one of the most innovative and inspired acoustic guitarists on the current American music scene. Amazon.com's editors called Johnson 'perhaps the next in a short line of guitar greats -- a line that includes [Michael] Hedges, Derek Bailey, Pat Metheny, Sonny Sharrock, and a few others.' Johnson's style, characterized by complexity, exhilarating speed, and hauntingly unfamiliar harmonies created through 'found' tunings, marks this self-taught player apart from any other musician. The Richard Leo Johnson Trio fuses elements of Americana, rock, ambient and folk music with the sensibilities of classical color and structure, reflecting an eclectic, modern outlook on chamber music."

Artist:	MUFFINS, THE
Title:	Double Negative
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 199CD

"Originally founded in 1974, The Muffins were one of the best known bands in a world-reknowned progressive music scene that flourished in D.C. a decade before D.C.'s better known hard-core punk scene emerged. Double Negative is The Muffins' 2nd studio recording released since reforming and possibly the most ambitious work of their career. Featuring 75 minutes of music spread over 17 songs, Double Negative is The Muffins' most compositionally diverse work, featuring pieces that vary in style from jazz to rock to classical and beyond. In addition, it is the band's most instrumentally rich work, featuring an unprecedented number of guest appearances by musicians from D.C. (some previously on Bandwidth) and farther afield. 2 principal members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, play sax on several Double Negative tracks."

Artist:	SURMAN, JOHN
Title:	Way Back When
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 200CD

"A truly stupendous archival find, with broad appeal to both jazz and fusion fans. This never before released album was recorded on October 7th, 1969 by John Surman and British jazz superstars. It is a mix between the vibrancy of late 60's UK jazz and spacey early electric jazz/rock ala In A Silent Way; listening to this album, you can hear that the fusion explosion is on the cusp of happening. Soprano/baritone saxophonist John Surman is one of the UK's best known jazzmen, having released 8 albums under his own name between 1968 -- 1974 for mainstream labels such as Deram and Island. He was a member of John McLaughlin's final UK-based group, recording John's famous first solo album, Extrapolation with him in 1969, six months before recording Way Back When. Since the late 1970's, he has mostly recorded for the ECM label, recording dozens of albums as either the leader or as a sideman."

Artist:	DUNMALL MOKSHA BIG BAND, PAUL
Title:	I Wish You Peace
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 203CD

"To celebrate the British musician's 50th anniversary in 2003, the BBC enabled Dunmall to fulfill his longstanding dream to compose and record for a big band at Gateway Studios. This gave Dunmall an unprecedented opportunity to assemble and write for the large ensemble of his dreams, which he named the Moksha Big Band after a Hindu word meaning 'the supreme liberation of the soul.' Numbering 14 players plus a conductor, the Moksha Big Band includes both established and new talent from the UK free-jazz pool, including all 4 members of Mujician (Tony Levin, Paul Rogers, Keith Tippetts), as well as Chris Bridges, Howard Cottle, Hilary Jeffrey, Gethin Liddington, Simon Picard, Paul Rutherford, John Adams, Mark Sanders, Philip Gibbs, David Priseman and conductor Brian Irvine, whose ensemble Dunmall has long worked with. I Wish You Peace is an intensely visceral yet spiritual work."

Artist:	REDFEARN & THE EYESORES, ALEC K.
Title:	The Quiet Room
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 204CD

"A huge nine-piece band (accordion/vocals, guitar, French horn, violin, electronics, alto sax, string bass/vocals, drums and percussion), they combine a gigantic array of influences, such as acid folk, maverick 20th century Americana (Tom Waits, Charles Ives, John Cage, Harry Partch), Eastern European folk music, noise/drone rock, cyclical minimalism (Terry Riley, Philip Glass), cabaret and theater music and more. To my ears, this band is simultaneously drawing from the 'primitive' and 'avant-garde' aesthetic, and blending together this huge range of styles into a distinctive, wholly charming sound; at any given moment, you can't tell if you will be hearing the influences of 1920's Appalachia, as filtered through a modern rock band, or post math-rock rendered by acoustic instruments. There are not a lot of vocals, but what vocals there are are nicely sung and feature a wry wit. Always evolving and ever elusive, The Eyesores have consistently left their audiences equally enthralled and confused; the tradition continues here."

Artist:	FAST 'N' BULBOUS
Title:	The Captain Beefheat Project: Pork Chop Blue Around the Rind
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 205CD

"Fast 'N' Bulbous is a Captain Beefheart tribute project, led by two innovators of New York's avant music scene: Gary Lucas, who was guitarist for Captain Beefheart's Magic Band in its latter years and saxist and arranger Phillip Johnston. Their mission statement: 'The idea is to use the compositions of Don Van Vliet as a vehicle for improvisation and arranging. The band contains a crew of seasoned improvisers from both the worlds of avant-garde jazz and rock, who render the music as both a tribute and a creative adventure in improvising. We use the horn section to take the place of the vocals, as well as transmute this guitar-based music into ensemble into ensemble interplay, between horns and guitar and rhythm section.' They energetically revive the spirit and sound of The Magic Band, while adding a big healthy dollop of themselves to it and making it their own, cartwheeling through tunes that are as gutsy as they are cerebral, and playing this wonderful repertoire with verve and soul."

Artist:	FOREVER EINSTEIN
Title:	Racket Science
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 206CD

"Forever Einstein are an instrumental guitar/bass/drums progressive rock outfit whose roots include musical forms not normally associated with 'progressive rock', such as blues, bluegrass, cartoon and film noir soundtracks, surf-rock, western swing and other very American musical forms that stretch back 50 years or more. Additionally, they add a lot of humor into their work, which makes for a musical twist. They use familiar musical elements in unfamiliar and interesting ways, and as a consequence, their music is somehow quite familiar, while being startlingly different."

Artist:	PRESENT
Title:	A Great Inhumane Adventure
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 207CD

"Present is a Belgian band formed and led by guitarist/composer Roger Trigaux. In 1974, Trigaux and drummer Daniel Denis co-founded Univers Zero. Trigaux performed with Univers Zero for five years, performing on their first two album and touring throughout Europe. In 1979, seeking a change of musical direction towards a more rock-based sound, Roger left Univers Zero and formed Present. In 1998, when Cuneiform released the band's fifth album, Certitudes, the band came to the USA for the very first time and undertook a huge, full US tour, logging in 10,000 miles and 5 weeks of concerts. Professionally recorded on 24 track on the final date of the tour, after 40 days of touring, the band were a tight, hard-rocking, road-tested machine and this is a stunning and hot performance."

Artist:	MIRIODOR
Title:	Parade + Live At NEARfest 2002
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 208/9CD

"Miriodor have been making adventurous, memorable and truly entertaining instrumental rock music for 25 years, performing on guitars, keyboards, violin, saxophones, bass and drums. As Goldmine said, 'Occupying a realm somewhat between the chamber rock of Univers Zero and the spry fusion of vintage Jean-Luc Ponty, with hints of Van Der Graaf Generator and Soft Machine along the way, Miriodor mostly just sounds like Miriodor...unique and forward looking.' Featuring guest performances by accordionist/keyboardist Lars Hollmer (of Samla Mammas Manna), Parade is the band's sixth album and is their most impressive and inspired album yet."

Artist:	MACHINE AND THE SYNERGETIC NUTS
Title:	Leap Second Neutral
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 210CD

"This features combined monster grooves and head-crunching heaviness. You will hear traces of fusion bands like mid-period Soft Machine/Canterbury fusion, early Passport, Nucleus, Mushroom, The Mothers Of Invention, all filtered through Japanese over-driven rock ala Happy Family or Tatsuya Yoshida's Koenjihyakkei or Keorekyojinn; they tear into these jazz/rock grooves with a great ferocity, which makes complete sense when you learn that the drummer/leader was the original drummer for Melt Banana, and was on their first two albums."

Artist:	COLLIER, GRAHAM
Title:	Workpoints
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 213/4CD

"Graham Collier is one of the best known British jazz composers, and over a 40 year career, his list of compositions and commissions has grown to encompass ensembles around the world. Workpoints consists of two previously unreleased concerts from 'a golden age of British jazz': one from 1968 and one from 1975. The music is composed with lots of room for contributions from the individual players, and in that regard, might be comparable to the work of one of Graham's heroes, Charles Mingus. The album features a huge number of well known jazz musicians, such as: Harry Beckett, Mike Gibbs, Frank Ricotti, Henry Lowther, John Marshall, John Surman, Art Themen, Kenny Wheeler and others. Included in the booklet are archival photos, notes and comments from Graham."

Artist:	MATS/MORGAN BAND
Title:	Thanks For Flying With Us
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 215CD

"Mats Oberg (keyboards) and Morgan Agren (drums) first began playing together 25 years ago (!!) when Mats was 11 and Morgan was 15. Originally very influenced by Frank Zappa, they actually played with Zappa in 1988, but while some of the Zappa influence remains, they have long since found their own voices. All players with superb playing ability, the quintet plays as a well-honed, cohesive unit, with more developed compositions than in earlier works, showing the band arriving at its own voice, with a modern-sounding blend of complexity, composition, chops and beats. Thanks For Flying With Us is their seventh album, their first release outside of Sweden and their first studio work since 1997."

Artist:	NDIO
Title:	Airback
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 216CD

"NDIO was formed from the ashes of the Holland-based Hugh Hopper Band. Some time after the Hopper Band disbanded, saxophonist Frank van der Kooij, a key member from the start, asked Hopper to join a project under his leadership. Frank also invited two other Hopper Band alumni to join: British trombonist Robert Jarvis, and drummer Pieter Bast. Three other Dutch musicians rounded out the ensemble: guitarist Niels Brouwer, keyboardist Paul Maassen. Airback is NDIO's first CD release. The music is a fluid and 'airy' fusion of jazz with elements of rock, folk, ambient, classical music and sampling."

Artist:	CLAUDIA QUINTET, THE
Title:	Semi-Formal
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 217CD

"The Claudia Quintet is proof positive that the pessimists were wrong: jazz is not dead, despite being embalmed by major labels and confined by some musicians to dead ends. In the works of this sensational NY-based, 'jazz and beyond' ensemble, jazz has broken through its rigid shell and been reborn in shimmering and beautifully alluring new form. It lives and breathes in music that melds influences from classical minimalism, new music composition, and progressive and post-rock with an astonishingly fresh jazz sensibility. Whatever one wants to call their music, it has very striking original, unique and attractive qualities."

Artist:	FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
Title:	Soleil 12
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 218CD

"The Forgas Band Phenomena is led by composer and drummer Patrick Forgas, who has been hailed as 'the French answer to the Canterbury scene' since he first burst upon the scene in 1977 with his Cocktail album, which featured members of Magma and Zao. Due to bad luck and bad circumstances, he fell out of the music scene for a great number of years, re-emerging with the very wonderful Forgas Band Phenomena about a decade ago. For their third album, and their first for Cuneiform, Patrick leads an eight piece instrumental ensemble (dual saxes, trumpet, violin, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums) through epic-length, complex and melodic compositions that mix ambitious progressive structures and inspired soloing. In addition to the many Canterbury comparisons, I also hear a lot in common with the band that Frank Zappa led with George Duke & Jean-Luc Ponty; great tunes and arrangements in a fusion style with excellent 'jazz' soloing."

Artist:	DJAM KARET
Title:	Recollection Harvest
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 219CD

"Acoustic guitars, generous use of vintage analog synths and mellotrons, and the use of two bass players for compositional ideas, are paired along with familiar aspects of the Djam Karet sound: ripping dual lead guitars, a dynamic pounding rhythm section, and electronically- treated field recordings and soundscapes. Recollection Harvest is the band's 16th studio recording, and is actually two albums combined on a single CD. The first half, 'Recollection Harvest,' is Djam Karet's most extensive foray into high energy melodic rock underpinned by vintage and modern keyboards. It also shows Djam Karet revisiting its 'fusion' roots. The second half of Recollection Harvest, titled 'Indian Summer,' is a quieter, more introspective and evocative work in which Djam Karet explores a variety of electro/acoustic sounds and moods. The instrumentation ranges from acoustic guitars and bazouki, to hand percussion, modular analog synths, and field recordings from the Middle East."

Artist:	AHLEUCHATISTAS
Title:	What You Will
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 221CD

"Formed in February, 2003, Ahleuchatistas are a guitar/bass/drums trio from Asheville, NC whose music is a cutting cultural critique and a joyous musical experience. Their sound is as stripped down as it can be -- they use no effects whatsoever -- and they combine elements of punk rock, post-electronic, progressive rock mathrock, fusion, and minimalism. They have released two acclaimed records, but What You Will is their first release with significant distribution. They have gained a significant reputation very quickly for their powerful and precise live shows. The band's name comes from a Charlie Parker song called 'Ah-Leu-Cha' and from the '-tistas' part of 'Zapatistas,' who are an indigenous people's movement in Southern Mexico."

Artist:	JOHNSON, RICHARD LEO
Title:	The Legend of Vernon McAlister
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 222CD

"Richard Leo Johnson's style is marked by startling speed, complexity and hauntingly unfamiliar harmonies. After over a decade of being on the road, performing concerts and guitar clinics and workshops, Richard was discovered by Blue Note Records, who released Fingertip Ship in 1999 and Language in 2000, gathering extreme critical praise. For The Legend of Vernon McAlister, Richard has traded in his double-neck acoustic for a well-worn, 1930s National Duolian steel-bodied guitar. Richard was inspired by this unique instrument and its sounds to try something different from any of his other albums. This is a CD of deep beauty and innovation, created with just this one old guitar, some simple electronic and tape effects, and Richard's talents."

Artist:	RUSSELL, RAY
Title:	Goodbye Svengali
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 223CD

"Russell makes it sound as if the guitar is not enough, as if he's reaching for something wilder, something that can't be contained within the 6-string cage." -- Jim O'Rourke. "Goodbye Svengali is influenced by and dedicated to visionary jazz arranger Gil Evans and includes one of Gil's final recordings. It is an album that mixes dark fusion, lyrical guitar pieces and icy soundscapes. For fans of: John Abercrombie, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, John Scofield."

Artist:	ZAAR
Title:	Zaar
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 224CD

"The debut album by this instrumental chamber rock/Zeuhl band who arose from the ashes of the great French band Sotos, whose second and final album was released on Cuneiform (Platypus), Zaar features the unusual line-up of guitar, bass, drums and vielle a roue (hurdy gurdy). All players are excellent, and the too-rarely-used vielle a roue gives Zaar an edge, sounding like nothing else you've ever heard, but sometimes a bit like a cross between a wild cellist and an electric organ."

Artist:	THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND
Title:	Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 225CD

"Ed Palermo's big band has been together for twenty-five years, and has been performing the music of Frank Zappa for over a decade, with regular, weekly shows at The Bottom Line and Iridium in New York City for the past decade! Years and years of playing these pieces in front of enthusiastic crowds have honed the band's skills with this difficult material to where they glide through these charts as if they were butter. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of this great 20th century American composer, but no one does it with this ease and skill."

Artist:	HAMSTER THEATRE
Title:	The Public Execution of Mister Personality/Quasi Day Room
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 226/7CD

"Hamster Theatre are co-led by multi-instrumentalists Dave Willey and Jon Stubbs, with reed player Mark Harris, guitarist Mike Johnson, drummer Raoul Rossiter, bassist Brian McDougall and a number of other guests. This set includes their new studio album as well as a second disc of a live performance from 2002. Hamster Theatre straddle the edges of folk music; avant-garde; 'world' music; early 20th-century French composers, such as Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel; contemporary composition and many other musical forms, bringing together elements of all of these styles, while never sounding 'just like' any one of them. Their songs are always filled with delightful melodies and surprising orchestrations."

Artist:	PINHAS, RICHARD
Title:	Metatron
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 228/9CD

New studio recordings from 2005; double CD w/ bonus video track. "Richard Pinhas has been at the forefront of new rock music in France since the early 1970s, when he founded the band Heldon. Heldon was one of the first bands to meld rock music and electronics, releasing a number of 'classic' albums during the 1970s. He has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock music. His stature in France is roughly analogous to that of Tangerine Dream in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. Metatron is over two hours of spacey and flowing music that isn't afraid to rock!"

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Grides
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 230/1CD

"Soft Machine were one of England's original psychedelic bands, rising out of the same 'UFO CLUB' London scene at the same time as Pink Floyd. They toured the USA with the Jimi Hendrix Experience two different times in 1968, playing over 60 shows as their opening act. The band broke up at the end of those Hendrix tours, but then reformed in early 1969 with the trio lineup of Mike Ratledge (organ), Hugh Hopper (bass) and Robert Wyatt (drums/vocal) in a more jazzified direction, while keeping their rock energy. Adding Elton Dean (saxes) in the fall of 1969, this is the lineup considered their 'classic' formation. They were one of the very first English jazz/rock bands. This set is a previously-unreleased live concert as well as the first-ever DVD release by Soft Machine, both featuring the classic lineup."

Artist:	MUJICIAN
Title:	There's No Going Back Now
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 232CD

"Since Mujician's initial formation in 1988 as an improvising free-jazz collective, the band has been showcased at numerous festivals across Europe and Canada, working and refining their dynamic take on improvised jazz. There's No Going Back Now is the sixth Cuneiform release by this English improvising supergroup and is their first since 2002's lavishly praised Spacetime." Mujician consists of four members, each with a well-established reputation in the European jazz & improvised music community: Paul Dunmall - reeds; Tony Levin - drums; Paul Rogers - bass; Keith Tippett - piano.

Artist:	MILLER'S ISIPINGO, HARRY
Title:	Which Way Now
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 233CD

"This album features six of the greatest British jazz players of the 1970s: Nick Evans - trombone; Mongezi Feza - trumpet; Harry Miller - bass; Louis Moholo - drums; Mike Osborne - alto sax; Keith Tippett - piano. All of these players (except for Tippett) were members of the Brotherhood of Breath, and Tippett was closely aligned with these players and featured them all in his large-scale project, the equally legendary Centipede. This CD features over 70 minutes of music from a beautifully recorded radio concert from November, 1975 and includes a 16-page booklet with rare and beautiful photos as well as extensive notes by Italian jazz scholar Francesco Martinelli. Since Isipingo only released one album during their lifetime, this release dramatically extends their legacy."

Artist:	NEBELNEST
Title:	ZePTO
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 234CD

"NeBeLNeST are a young French instrumental band who formed in 1997. In 1999, they recorded their first, self-titled album, which was released on The Laser's Edge label to tremendous acclaim. In January 2002, they released their second album, Nova Express on Cuneiform Records. Since the release of Nova Express, they have gone through some personnel changes, losing two different guitarists but slowly continued working on their third album. ZePTO keeps the basic sound of their earlier works, taking the classic 1970's sound of dark symphonic rock (Pulsar, Shylock, King Crimson) and updating and punishing it, performing it with a powerful post-punk energy and use of noise and found-sound that '70s bands never even imagined!"

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Middle Earth Masters
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 235CD

"Soft Machine were one of England's original psychedelic bands, rising out of the same 'UFO CLUB' London scene at the same time as Pink Floyd. Originally founded in Autumn, 1966 as a four piece of Daevid Allen-guitar, Kevin Ayers-bass, vocals, Mike Ratledge- organ and Robert Wyatt- drums, vocals, they became a trio in August, 1967 when Australian Daevid was denied re-entry into the UK after a French tour. The trio continue onward playing many shows and slowly building an audience in 'swinging London' and beyond. The band releases a 45 and link with Jimi Hendrix's management which culminates in the Softs touring the USA with the Jimi Hendrix Experience two different times in 1968, playing over 60 shows as their opening act and recording their first album while in the USA during their tours. This captures the 1967-era Soft Machine (Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt) in full concert glory, recorded live in swinging London's legendary Middle Earth club. The performance is unbelievably freaky for 1967, with songs that feature unusual structures linked by wild solos and improvisations."

Artist:	MICROSCOPIC SEPTET, THE
Title:	Seven Men In Neckties
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 236/7CD

"Active for roughly a dozen years, the Microscopic Septet were widely recognized as 'New York's Most Famous Unknown Band.' The group started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture that was sonically similar to the sound of the Swing Era. They employed this texture to address a widely eclectic range of styles, from free-form music to R&B, reggae, rhumbas and ragtime. The result was a brilliant blend of fresh-sounding orchestration ideas and inspired soloing. Along with Don Byron and former band-member John Zorn, The 'Micros' were also the most celebrated of the many cutting-edge units associated with experimental music's best-known venue, the Knitting Factory, during the peak years of the 'Downtown' music movement in the late '80s and early '90s."

Artist:	MICROSCOPIC SEPTET, THE
Title:	Surrealistic Swing
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 238/9CD

"Surrealistic Swing is the second of two volumes that freshly remasters, repackages and reissues all four of the albums that The Micros released between 1982 - 1988. This set presents their last two albums: Off Beat Glory (1986) and Beauty Based on Science (1988) with lots of bonus material. The cover is by Pulitzer Prize winning artist, Art Spiegelman. These albums have not been available for a large number of years. Included in the bonus material are two never-released tracks featuring John Zorn, as well as themes recorded for the popular NPR show Fresh Air."

Artist:	HOPPER, HUGH
Title:	Hopper Tunity Box
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 240CD

"Freshly remastered from the master tapes and issued on CD from tapes for the first time, this is the second solo album by Soft Machine bassist and composer Hugh Hopper. Hopper Tunity Box features stellar contributions from members of groups such as the Brotherhood of Breath, Gilgamesh, Hatfield and the North, Isotope, Soft Machine and the Keith Tippett Sextet. Originally released in 1977, this is a lost jazz/rock classic that demands to be rediscovered 30 years later! Includes new liner notes by Hugh explaining how the record was made, as well as reproductions of some of the musical scores."

Artist:	BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC WITH ORAL MOSES
Title:	Extreme Spirituals
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 241CD

"Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a side project by half of Boston's now legendary Mission Of Burma: Roger Miller and Martin Swope along with friends Rick Scott and Erik Lindgren. In 1987, Roger Miller left the group and was replaced by saxophonist Ken Field. In 1992, guitarist Michael Bierylo replaced Martin Swope. This is the 4th release to feature the current lineup of the band. For their 13th album and in their 25th year together, the band demolish all preconceptions of what they are about by joining forces with bass-baritone vocalist Oral Moses, who specializes in the art-song and spiritual repertoire of African-American composers, on a program of well-known spirituals. Together they bring these centuries-old songs kicking and screaming into the 21st century..."

Artist:	MAHAVISHNU PROJECT, THE
Title:	Return to the Emerald Beyond
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 242/3CD

Live recordings from 2006. "Founded in 2001 by drummer and composer Gregg Bendian, The Mahavishnu Project has been dedicated to reviving and bringing to today's audiences the excitement and the transcendent experience of visceral intensity of the early days of jazz/rock in general and the music of The Mahavishnu Orchestra specifically. The band was formed by Gregg specifically to perpetuate the spirit of live performance in which this music was created by performing this great music live! Return to the Emerald Beyond features an 11-piece band interpreting The Mahavishnu Orchestra's Visions of the Emerald Beyond, one of the most explosive albums in the fusion genre."

Artist:	REDFEARN & THE EYESORES, ALEC K.
Title:	The Blind Spot
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 244CD

"This marvelous large ensemble from Providence, Rhode Island has been in existence for a decade now, bringing their very original music to audiences in the US and Europe. The Blind Spot is their 6th release and their second for Cuneiform and it's also surprisingly different from The Quiet Room. It includes a few shorter songs but the main focus of the album is a very ambitious work entitled 'I am the Resurrection and the Light,' which is a song cycle for a large ensemble featuring a number of different players: appearing are accordion, violin, viola, French horn, guitar, alto sax, bassoon, contrabass, drums, 'loops, processing and other electronic mayhem' and layers and layers of vocals from up to 4 vocalists (Alec and 3 female voices). A compelling, powerful, demanding and ultimately beautiful and moving work. No one else sounds like The Eyesores and with this album, no one combines such purity of vocal and instrumental work with such a sense of impending uneasiness and doom."

Artist:	FAR CORNER
Title:	Endangered
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 246CD

"Far Corner was formed in the Spring of 2003. This quartet of keyboards, cello, bass, and drums blends contemporary classical chamber music with rock. One can hear influences from Stravinsky and Bartok and other contemporary classical giants, as well as from some of the great progressive rock bands of the 1970s. On their second album, Far Corner combine and contrast group improvisation with completely scored works, composed in a contemporary, post-Bartokian style."

Artist:	CLAUDIA QUINTET, THE
Title:	For
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 247CD

"Since their founding in the late 1990s, The Claudia Quintet has walked a unique path in contemporary jazz. Unlike most jazz ensembles where the particular musicians may come and go, drummer, composer and leader John Hollenbeck always wanted Claudia to be a 'band' with a sound not only determined by the compositions and the instrumentation, but with the actual players who perform the music. This conception is why Claudia has had an immediately identifiable sound since its inception and why I am taking the time to name the other musicians in the group who are able to both play the intricate compositions that John hands them but to also improvise within and around these compositions and give them life. Drew Gress (acoustic bass), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion) and Chris Speed (clarinet and tenor sax) all make Claudia the fantastic band that it is. An astonishing band with a huge range of emotional depth and range and with appeal far beyond strictly 'jazz' listeners. For this, their fourth album, they've released an album of dedications."

Artist:	BROVOLD/LARVAL, BILL
Title:	Surviving Death/Alive Why?
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 248/9CD

"Larval is an ever changing lineup of some of the best musicians in Detroit. Led by composer Bill Brovold, it is an amalgamation of styles and approaches to music, from quiet and thoughtful passages to an aggressive onslaught of screaming horns, guitars and assorted strings. Bill Brovold studied painting at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and received his degree in 1982. While there he was making music (and sounds) for film makers and performance artists. In 1983, he joined the ensemble of experimental/no-wave legend Rhys Chatham as guitarist and stayed on until 1988. In 1994, he moved to the Detroit area, where he formed Larval. This is Larval's fifth album, comprising their new studio recording and a second disc covering seven years of potent live work. Larval's experimental rock often combines wall-of-sound guitars, bass and drums with saxes and violin, and is very direct and powerful."

Artist:	LACY/ROSWELL RUDD QUARTET, STEVE
Title:	Early and Late
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 250/51CD

"Until his death in 2004, soprano saxist Steve Lacy worked with trombonist Roswell Rudd as often as circumstances would permit, from their start together in Dixieland-style bands in the 1950s, to the more adventurous styles that both master players are known for. This album of all previously unreleased material presents work spanning a 40-year period, with live recordings from the great 'free-bop' quartet they co-led in the late 90s and early 00s to over 20 minutes of previously unheard studio recordings -- the only studio recordings ever released! -- by the famous School Days quartet, recorded in 1962. Also appearing on this album are bassists Jean-Jacques Avenel and Bob Cunningham and drummers John Betsch and Dennis Charles."

Artist:	COLLIER, GRAHAM
Title:	Hoarded Dreams
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 252CD

"Graham Collier is one of the best known British jazz composers and over a 40 year career, his list of compositions and commissions has grown to encompass ensembles around the world. He is well-known as an author and educator, having written seven books on jazz. Hoarded Dreams is a previously unreleased long-form composition heard here in a powerful live performance by an international all-star band that includes: Tomasz Stanko, Conny Bauer, Ted Curson, John Surman, Manfred Schoof, Kenny Wheeler, Art Themen and many others."

Artist:	MILLER/LOL COXHILL, STEVE
Title:	'The Story So Far...' '...Oh Really?'
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 253/54CD

Recordings from 1971-74, previously issued on two LPs by the UK label Caroline Records. "Saxist Lol Coxhill met pianist Steve Miller in 1968, when Lol was a guest with Steve's band at a club. Lol then joined the band, which soon re-named itself Delivery. A few years later, Lol left Delivery just as they were about to record their debut (and only) album, although he appeared on the album as a guest. He joined Kevin Ayers' Whole World, which included a 15 year-old bassist, the then-unknown Mike Oldfield. After some tours and one album, Lol left Kevin Ayers to concentrate on his solo work just as Delivery was coming to an end and transforming itself into Hatfield and the North. Steve and Lol struck up a partnership that lasted several year, many live performances and which resulted in two albums, which are now very hard to find and go for 'collector's prices.'"

Artist:	GOLIA/JOSEPHSON/KAISER/KENEALLY/MORRIS/SMITH/WALTER
Title:	Healing Force: The Songs of Albert Ayler
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 255CD

"Albert Ayler's later works (Love Cry, New Grass and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe) seem to be generally reviled. Through meditations, dreams, and visions, the players on this project were given the message to once again attempt to send the people of earth a message of love, peace, and spiritual understanding. We selected a representative set of tunes for this material and essentially let it play itself through us. We hope you will be as surprised as we still are by the results of this invocational experiment. We hope you will like this record." --Henry Kaiser, producer and guitarist. "Seven major figures from the art-punk, free-jazz, brutal-prog, improvisational and modern jazz worlds come together for a rocking tribute to the unfairly ignored, misunderstood and vilified late-period work of Albert Ayler."

Artist:	RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
Title:	Rain Falls In Grey
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 256CD

"Best known for electronic space music for keyboards, electronics and guitars, here Radio Massacre have expanded greatly upon their usual sound and also use conventional rock instrumentation to create a sincere and moving tribute to Syd Barrett, and in doing so, manage to capture some of the psychedelic magic of 1967-1968. This album features a really striking cover by Daevid Allen, which is also a homage to Syd. For fans of: Ash Ra Tempel/Manuel Göttsching, Djam Karet, Heldon, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and, of course, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd."

Artist:	TIME OF ORCHIDS
Title:	Namesake Caution
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 257CD

"Formed in the summer of 1999, New York City's Time of Orchids possesses a unique and jarring slant -- a wedding of staggered, progressive angularity, dark, musical imagery and a sweeping, seductive beauty, informed as much by 1960s Italian film scores as by modern rock, with rich, Beach Boys-like, dream-pop vocal harmonies. Comprised of members Chuck Stern (keyboard, vocals), Eric Fitzgerald (guitar, vocals), Jesse Krakow (bass) and Dave Bodie (drums). Meticulously recorded by Colin Marston (Behold... The Arctopus), Namesake Caution, Time of Orchid's fifth album, boasts layer upon layer of rich, orchestrated vocals, lavish guitar antics and eerie, otherworldly keyboard textures, draped voyeuristically atop a complex rhythm section. Songs writhe and intersect, taking on the form of anthems one moment and desperate plodding dirges the next. For fans of: Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Cocteau Twins, Shudder to Think, Ennio Morricone, Swans, Kayo Dot, Depeche Mode, Cheer-Accident, Thinking Plague."

Artist:	JOHNSON & GREGG BENDIAN, RICHARD LEO
Title:	Who Knew Charlie Shoe?
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 258CD

"Touted by Playboy as 'the most innovative guitarist since Jimi Hendrix,' and by 20th Century Guitar as 'mind-boggling!' Richard Leo Johnson's style is marked by emotional depth, complexity and hauntingly unfamiliar harmonies. Percussionist Gregg Bendian is the leader of The Mahavishnu Project and Interzone and has performed and recorded with Pat Metheny, Nels Cline, Cecil Taylor, Jan Hammer, Derek Bailey and Zoot Horn Rollo among many others. Richard and Gregg have toured together in the past, opening for King Crimson, among others, but this is their first recording together. This record is an extension of the music and the story of Vernon McAlister and his influence on the people he encountered, which started on Richard's hugely acclaimed last record, The Legend of Vernon McAlister."

Artist:	DEUS EX MACHINA
Title:	Imparis
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 259/60CD

"Deus Ex Machina formed in Bologna, Italy in 1985. Their fifth studio album, Cinque, released by Cuneiform in 2002, was their first work issued outside of Italy. A sextet of violin, analog keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and vocals, their sound is a unique blending of high energy rock and jazz/rock fusion influences, all capped off with the distinctive vocals -- sung in Latin and Italian -- by Alberto Piras, one of the great vocalists working in rock today. Their music is a unique and unequaled blend of aggressive jazz/rock mixed with complex rhythms, touches of 1970s hard-rock guitar, Rock In Opposition and the avant-garde, all topped by the incredible vocals, sung in Latin and Italian, of Alberto Piras, one of the most amazing vocalists working in rock today. Imparis is a double set which comprises a new studio album and a live DVD (the band's first ever DVD). The DVD is released in the NTSC format as a region free disc. For fans of: Area, Magma, Mahavishnu Orchestra, One Shot, Present, Return To Forever." Ratio 4:3, Stereo 2.0

Artist:	AHLEUCHATISTAS
Title:	Even in the Midst...
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 261CD

"Leaving audiences slack-jawed in amazement at South by Southwest, punk-rock dives across the USA and jazz festivals in Europe, the Ahleuchatistas and their unique, high-energy, instrumental, technical, undefinable trio music for guitar, bass and drums continue to reach new heights as a performing and a recording unit. If they come to your town, you must see them; there is no one -- and I mean no one -- who can match them at what they do. They make playing this tight, fast, complicated music sound effortless! Even in the Midst... is their fourth album and the years together playing hundreds and hundreds of shows have created one of the most amazingly tight ensembles that you will ever hear or see. This album widens their sound a little bit; there's plenty of the insane, over-the-top playing that we've come to expect, but there's more room for improvisation here and also for more quiet moments as well. For fans of: Captain Beefheart, Don Caballero, Fantômas, Hella, Minutemen, Ruins."

Artist:	MCGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH, CHRIS
Title:	Eclipse at Dawn
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 262CD

"South African born & raised pianist/bandleader Chris McGregor formed the racially mixed Blue Notes in the early 1960s. By 1964, facing continuous government harassment, Chris & the Blue Notes fled their South African homeland: first to France, then to Switzerland, and finally settling in London in 1966, where they made a huge impression on London's jazz scene. In 1969, Chris formed The Brotherhood Of Breath, which was essentially the Blue Notes augmented by a large number of the brightest names in contemporary British jazz. Due to the death of many of the key players, the band was mostly forgotten and at best a historical footnote when Cuneiform started releasing albums by them in 2001. These albums were released to great sales and huge acclaim and kick started a Brotherhood Of Breath revival, which continues to this day. Includes a 16-page booklet with detailed liner notes and unpublished photos from the concert. Professionally recorded for German radio, this was recorded in front of a huge crowd in Berlin in November, 1971 and this recording is released for the first time here!"

Artist:	COSMOLOGIC
Title:	Eyes in the Back of My Head
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 263CD

"Cosmologic was founded as a collective quartet in 1999, and still consists of the original four musicians. The group initially incorporated interpretations of music by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and others into their performances, but quickly moved towards playing only original compositions. Central to the group's sound is a commitment to developing challenging and original compositions. With nearly a decade of experience together, Cosmologic continues to extend their repertoire of original music, in an ongoing search for new ideas. The result is a band that pushes the envelope while remaining accessible."

Artist:	BEAT CIRCUS
Title:	Dreamland
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 264CD

"Dreamland, the second full length album by Beat Circus, is a uniquely fierce and magical record composed by singer/songwriter Brian Carpenter, who delivers dark narrative songs of Deadwood saloons, gangsters from The Bowery, Coney Island sideshows, and the Santa Fe Railway. Loosely based on historical events associated with turn-of-the-century New York, Dreamland is the culmination of a two-year effort by Beat Circus and marks the first installment of Brian Carpenter's Weird American Gothictrilogy. Brian leads a 9-piece band with a unique & exciting instrumentation: pump organ, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, accordion, jawharp, tuba, trombone, banjo, mandolin, saxophones drums and percussion. Dreamland was engineered and produced by legendary NY producer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Foetus, The Dresden Dolls, Barbez). For fans of: Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Henry Threadgill, Kurt Weill, Bernard Hermann, Carla Bley, Faun Fables, DeVotchKa, Hanns Eisler, Fanfare Ciocarlia."

Artist:	MATS/MORGAN BAND
Title:	Heat Beats Live/ Morgan Ågren Tourbook 1991-2007
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 265/6CD

"Keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren have been playing together for over 25 years, since Mats was 10 and Morgan was 14! They are legendary in their native Sweden. Joining forces in 1981, they later formed Zappsteetoot together in 1984, a band internationally known for performing the music of Frank Zappa. They met Zappa in 1988 and performed with him while he was in Sweden. They were due to join his band, but his ill health cancelled his tour plans. Mats and Morgan began releasing records in 1996 on their own UAE label. In September, 2005, Cuneiform released Thanks For Flying With Us, their seventh album and the first to be released outside of their native Sweden to wide acclaim and sales. This set includes a DVD that contains over one hour, 45 minutes of material from various projects that drummer Morgan Ågren has been involved with over the past 15 years, including Mats/Morgan Band, Fredrik Thordendal of (Meshuggah), Christian Vander/Magma tribute and much more." DVD: NTSC; All-Region; Total running time: 1 hour, 49 minutes.

Artist:	MATS/MORGAN
Title:	Trends and Other Diseases
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 267CD

"This was the first album release by Mats/Morgan, recorded in 1993-1995 and which was released only in Sweden. It has been remastered and includes a 15 minute bonus track. With this release, Cuneiform begins a reissue series that will eventually see all six of Mats/Morgan's Swedish-only albums released outside of Sweden for the very first time. Mats and Morgan have worked with a number of Frank Zappa-related musicians such as Terry Bozzio, Mike Keneally, Steve Vai, Denny Walley and Dweezil Zappa on various projects, including the Grammy Award-winning Zappa's Universe album in 1994."

Artist:	PLANETA IMAGINARIO
Title:	Biomasa
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 268CD

"Planeta Imaginario (Imaginary Planet) are a creative and extraordinary 8 piece jazz-rock band that have emerged from the Catalan region of Spain. Founded in 1999 by keyboardist and leader Marc Capel, Planeta Imaginario originally performed psychedelic rock music, but over time evolved into their present-day sound as the band grew in size and added musicians who added jazz and jazz-rock elements. Their first album, ¿Que Me Dices? was released on the small Spanish Margen label in 2005. Biomasa (Biomass) is their second album and with this release, the band have a chance to have their music heard on a much wider basis. The band are active in Spain, playing shows and festival gigs and recently added a ninth player on French horn! For fans of: Chick Corea's Spanish-tinged fusion works, Deus ex Machina, Gilgamesh, Pat Metheny, Soft Machine, Weather Report and Frank Zappa."

Artist:	REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
Title:	Forked Tongue
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 269CD

"Formed in 1990, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is an experimental brass band with influences ranging from free jazz to New Orleans second line to contemporary funk. This is their second album. Their first album received considerable public, radio, and press acclaim. Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is a funk & street beat brass band, playing music that comes directly from New Orleans combined with other modern improvised celebratory musics. They capture the fun of a street parade band while also expanding its stylistic range. For fans of: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bobby Previte, Soul Rebels, Skerik, John Scofield."

Artist:	HOLLMER, LARS
Title:	Viandra
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 271CD

"Active in music for over 40 years, Lars Hollmer first got together with his friends to play music in late-'60s Sweden. This band eventually became the legendary 'Rock In Opposition' band, Samla Mammas Manna. Concurrently towards the end of Samla's original life-span (the band reformed in the '00s and is recording and playing shows again), Lars started a solo career, where he emphasized his very personal compositions and his accordion-playing, of which he is a master. Lars' solo albums have a great warmth, intimacy, and even innocence to them. Although he makes music that can be abrasive and even purposefully a bit demented, with rough textures, quirky instrumentation, and unusual rhythms and time signatures, Hollmer's compositions are mostly tuneful and easy-going, sometimes catchy, and often disarmingly lovely. In addition to Lars' performance on accordions and keyboards, percussion and vocals, also appearing are Michel Berckmans (Univers Zero) on bassoon, English horn and oboe, Santiago Jimenez on violins and Andreas Tengberg on cello, among others."

Artist:	MICROSCOPIC SEPTET, THE
Title:	Lobster Leaps In
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 272CD

"During their original lifetime, The Microscopic Septet was widely recognized as 'New York's Most Famous Unknown Band.' Originally active from 1980-1992, the group started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture that was sonically similar to the sound of the Swing Era, but used influences from the entire continuum of jazz. The result was a brilliant blend of fresh-sounding orchestration, ideas and inspired soloing. Along with Don Byron, Wayne Horvitz and former band-member John Zorn, The 'Micros' were one of the most celebrated of the many cutting-edge units associated with experimental music's best-known venue, the Knitting Factory, during the peak years of the 'Downtown' music movement in the late '80s and early '90s. In 2006, Cuneiform Records reissued their four albums in two double-CD packages and these albums met with great acclaim and terrific sales and airplay. The Micros reunited to play a few shows to celebrate their release and had such a good fun that they decided to make it 'an occasional regular thing.' So, they are back with their first album in 20 years! Their sound is the sound of jazz in America; all of it, from Ayler to Zorn, bebop to Basie, Ellington to Thelonious."

Artist:	ISOTOPE
Title:	Golden Section
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 273CD

"Isotope was formed by British guitarist Gary Boyle in 1972. Having previously played with Dusty Springfield, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger and the Trinity and Brit-jazz figures like Mike Gibbs, Keith Tippett and Mike Westbrook, Gary decided to form his own ensemble to explore the new worlds of jazz-rock. The band signed with a large UK management company and label and immediately began playing constantly - 4-5 times per week at clubs throughout England and Europe. In May, 1974, bassist and composer Hugh Hopper, formerly of Soft Machine, joined the group and stayed nearly 2 years. Golden Section is over an hour of previously unreleased recordings from 1974-1975, all recorded with Hugh. Isotope's music combined the flavors of contemporary, early 1970's jazz-rock with a distinctive British sound and Hugh's immediately recognizable fuzz-bass sound. The personnel is Gary Boyle (guitar), Hugh Hopper (bass), Nigel Morris (drums), Laurence Scott (keyboards), with Aureo de Souza added on percussion on half of the program. For fans of: Brand X, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Soft Machine, and Weather Report."

Artist:	BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC
Title:	Dawn Of The Cycads
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 274/75CD

"Founded in 1980 by Roger Miller and Martin Swope, half of Mission of Burma, Boston's legendary and influential art-punk band, plus two related musicians, Birdsongs coexisted with Burma for several years until Burma broke up in 1983 and Birdsongs became a full-time performing and recording project. Birdsongs, with their unique lineup of three keyboardists (including electronic percussion) and guitar, occupied the musicians full-time until Roger left the band under very friendly terms in 1987 to devote his time to a solo career (and nearly two decades later to eventually resuscitate Mission of Burma). Dawn of the Cycads reissues on CD all of their recordings for Boston's Ace of Hearts label, which consisted of two EPs: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic (1983) and Beat of the Mesozoic (1986) and a full album, Magnetic Flip (1985) in newly remastered sound. There is over 40 minutes of previously unreleased bonus material included, including late-period live recordings featuring material that the band never had a chance to officially record. The set features a 20-page booklet that includes essays by the musicians and many photos. Also included on the second disc are graphic files of various photos and documents which are viewable on any computer."

Artist:	CHEER-ACCIDENT
Title:	Fear Draws Misfortune
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 276CD

"Cheer-Accident (who, incidentally, took their name from a section of cards found in a Hallmark Store) were founded in the very beginning of 1981 and released their first album in 1988. Since that time, the band has added, subtracted and changed personnel not quite as often as you change your socks. Cheer-Accident have never been about 'having a sound' or 'having a career'. They have always been about challenging themselves and challenging their audiences with constant reinvention and change. They have released albums of dissonant 'out-rock' and albums of surprisingly straight-forward pop songs. Everything and anything is permissible. Fear Draws Misfortune is the band's 16th album. Using a core trio plus 15 auxiliary musicians and singers, they have created a strongly compelling and high-reaching album that uses a wide variety of ideas, styles and studio techniques, resulting in a cohesive and ambitious album of art-rock. Recommended if you like: Art Bears, The Association, Faust, Magma, Nomeansno, Steve Reich, Shudder to Think, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, This Heat, Time of Orchids. Playing simultaneously."

Artist:	FAST 'N' BULBOUS
Title:	Waxed Oop
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 277CD

"Fast 'N' Bulbous is co-led by guitarist Gary Lucas and saxist Phillip Johnston. The band been together for over 7 years and has played festivals and concerts throughout Europe and the USA. This is their second album. Gary Lucas was a member and/or guest soloist with Captain Beefheart for 4 years and two albums. He leads a number of other projects and has a large discography of works on a number of labels. Phillip Johnston has written music for a number of films and has led recordings since the early 1980s. He is best known as the co-leader of NY's beloved Microscopic Septet. Captain Beefheart's music is the quintessential 'outsider art music' of the second half of the 20th century. Despite the fact that he retired from music over 25 years ago, interest in his music is greater than ever. Featuring well-regarded rock and jazz musicians, Fast 'n' Bulbous offer a unique slant on the songbook of one of contemporary music's most idiosyncratic musical figures. The final 'bonus' track features guest Robyn Hitchcock."

Artist:	PINHAS AND MERZBOW, RICHARD
Title:	Keio Line
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 278/79CD

"Richard Pinhas has been at the forefront of new rock music in France since the early 1970s, when he founded the band Heldon. Heldon was one of the first bands to meld rock music and electronics, releasing a number of 'classic' albums during the 1970s. He has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock music. His stature in France is roughly analogous to that of Tangerine Dream in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. Active since 1979, Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, is considered the originator of Japanese noise music, a very influential and hip movement in sound. He has recorded and released nearly 100 CDs. Richard and Merzbow are both among the best-known figures in electronic rock music today. Despite coming from very different musical backgrounds, they had long expressed admiration for each other's work and this collaborative meeting, recorded over two days in Tokyo while Richard was on his second tour of Japan was as inevitable as it is musically surprising and satisfying! On their first-ever work together, two of the world's leaders of underground, contemporary, electronic rock music collaborate on a release that is violent, soothing, hypnotic, noisy and trance inducing. Keio Line is two full length CDs of radical music that sells at a radically low price!"

Artist:	UNIVERS ZERO
Title:	Relaps
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 280CD

"A founding member of the original 'Rock In Opposition' (R.I.O.) movement, and considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde rock bands of the last 30 years, Belgium's Univers Zero are rightly famous for their perfect balance between classical and rock influences. They were originally founded in 1974. During their first lifetime, they released Univers Zero (1977), Heresie (1979), Ceux Du Dehors (1981), Crawling Wind, (1983), UZED (1984) and Heatwave (1986) until their breakup in 1987. After 2 solo albums, leader Daniel Denis reformed the band in 1997. In 1999, the band released The Hard Quest, their first album in 13 years. The period documented produced some of their most electric and powerful works Included is a 16 page booklet that includes a history of the band during this period. The booklet is also loaded with never-before seen period photographs. This album contains previously unreleased live recordings in excellent sound quality."

Artist:	GUTBUCKET
Title:	A Modest Proposal
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 281CD

"Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond, the decade-old New York quartet Gutbucket is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing teenage skate-punks, a crowd of cosmic indie-psych freaks, or on an anarchist German art collective's houseboat, but most importantly, their music fits right in. Called 'stomprovisors' by the Village Voice, the band has spent the past 10 years injecting a shot of exuberance into the minimalist cool of the New York downtown scene. The group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for punk, and the humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. A Modest Proposal is Gutbucket's fourth album in a decade-long career. It solidifies their place at the forefront of a revitalized avant-garde music scene in New York. Their music is filled with layers of mature arrangements and a full-throttle blend of energy, chops, melody, intricacy and noise."

Artist:	LED BIB
Title:	Sensible Shoes
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 283CD

"Sensible Shoes is the fourth album by this London quintet of dual saxes, keyboards, bass and drums. It is a cataclysmic offering of free-jazz, jazz-rock, avant-skronk, funk-rock, noise-metal and whatever else they can lay their hands on. As the Observer Music Monthly said, '..If you don't go near jazz because it just isn't damned noisy enough, and seems to have petered out after the pre-punk free jazz ideological furies of the sixties and seventies, then [try] Led Bib.. Led Bib sound like they could have coped supporting '61 Sun Ra, '66 Beefheart, and even '69 Led Zep. Led Bib are jazz, though, through and through, crammed with horn and blast, and as much swing as sweat.' This is their first release outside of the UK and is the culmination of two years of heavy touring since the release of their massively acclaimed album Sizewell Tea."

Artist:	UPSILON ACRUX
Title:	Radian Futura
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 284CD

"Recommended if you like: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Don Caballero, Flying Luttenbachers, King Crimson, Koenjihyakkei, Magma, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sleeping People, Orthrelm, Ruins. Upsilon Acrux have played shows all over the U.S.A. with bands like Orthrelm, The Z's, Cheer-Accident, Time of Orchids, The Boredoms, Hella, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, The Locust, The Ex Models, The Haters, Nels Cline, The Flying Luttenbachers, Don Caballero, The Black Hearth Procession, Saccharine Trust, Behold....The Arctopus, The Fucking Champs and Ruins among others! Radian Futura is Upsilon Acrux's sixth album of explosive, intense, and surprisingly beautiful, intricate instrumental rock."

Artist:	PALERMO BIG BAND, THE ED
Title:	Eddy Loves Frank
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 285CD

"Ed Palermo has led his big band for 30 years. Although best known for his interpretations of the music of Frank Zappa, whose music he has been performing for 15 years, the ensemble has also performed the pioneering electric blues music of Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield, including the entirety of the classic East West album, works by other composers and Ed's own compositions. Ed's band consists of 16+ great musicians, drawn from the worlds of jazz, rock and Latin music, Broadway productions, music education, television and film soundtracks, session work and beyond in New York City. Years and years of playing these pieces in front of enthusiastic crowds have honed the band's skills with this difficult material to where they glide through these charts as if they were butter! There are a number of ensembles performing the music of this great 20th century American composer, but no one does it with this ease and skill!"

Artist:	POSITIVE CATASTROPHE
Title:	Garabatos Volume One
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 286CD

"The group enlists a bevy of New York's most adventurous jazz and salsa musicians, all composers and leaders in their own right. With the exceptional musicianship of the players and their fluidity in multiple genres, a unique instrumentation that hints at a traditional jazz and salsa big bands yet includes French horn, erhu, and rock guitar, and a pair of dramatic vocalists that are comfortable singing in three languages (English, Spanish, Chinese), Positive Catastrophe creates a truly boundary-crossing kind of new music, combining the most attractive aspects of new and traditional jazz and hot salsa big bands, but with a huge twist."

Artist:	MIRIODOR
Title:	Avanti!
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 288CD

"Over a 30 year career, Miriodor have produced music that is intricate, melodic, challenging and filled with both fire and humor. Their albums are enjoyable and captivating new-music gems filled with great musicianship, terrific tunes and a distinctive and highly personalized sound. As Goldmine magazine said, 'Occupying a realm somewhat between the chamber rock of Univers Zero and the spry fusion of vintage Jean-Luc Ponty...Miriodor mostly just sounds like Miriodor...unique and forward looking.' Avanti is their seventh release and in addition to their signature sound, features more usage of the studio as another creative voice in their music. For fans of: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Gentle Giant, Hatfield and the North, Henry Cow, Univers Zero, Frank Zappa."

Artist:	ERGO
Title:	Multitude, Solitude
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 289CD

"In 2003, trombonist and composer Brett Sroka began exploring beyond his jazz background and became fascinated with electronic music, surrounding himself with synthesizers and software. As he sought to reconcile the six hundred years of technology between trombone and computer he also found, in Carl Maguire and Shawn Baltazor, musicians of similarly elastic and adventurous temperaments. As they played throughout New York City and the Northeast US over the next few years an idiosyncratic dynamic began to cohere and Ergo was born. Ergo's music is fresh and different -- jazz musicians exploring the boundaries of electronic music -- and one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. It has been compared to music as diverse as Duke Ellington, Autechre, Sigur Ros, Sun Ra, and King Crimson."

Artist:	SMITH, WADADA LEO
Title:	Spiritual Dimensions
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 290/91CD

"Wadada Leo Smith is a well-respected trumpeter and composer working in avant-garde jazz and improvisation. He was an early member of Chicago's legendary AACM collective, joining in 1967 and co-founded the Creative Construction Company, a trio with Leroy Jenkins and Anthony Braxton in the late 60s. In 1971 Smith formed his own label, Kabell, for whom he recorded a number of albums considered classics of their kind and which were collected and reissued by John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2004 on a lavishly praised box set entitled The Kabell Years. He has recorded additional albums on the Tzadik label as well as for ECM, Black Saint, Nessa, Pi and others. This album features two of Wadada's all-star groups, one on each CD. On disc one there is Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet: Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Vijay Iyer: piano, synthesizer; John Lindberg: bass; Pheeroan AkLaff: drums; Don Moye: drums. On disc two there is the recorded debut of Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Michael Gregory: electric guitar; Brandon Ross: electric guitar; Nels Cline: 6- and 12-string electric guitar; Lamar Smith: electric guitar Okkyung Lee: cello; Skuli Sverrisson: electric bass; John Lindberg: acoustic bass; Pheeroan AkLaff: drums. The Golden Quintet straddles the line between modern/avant jazz and jazz with some electric touches. Organic is fully electric and a different beast; a four guitar, creative, bad-ass beast with slinky grooves."

Artist:	ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN, JASON
Title:	Varmint
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 292CD

"Led by vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz [a-dah-shev-its], Varmint is Rolldown's second release. The band, active for over 5 years, features stalwarts from Chicago's vibrant jazz/new music community. Their sound combines Blue Note's classic, avant-leaning '60s albums with contemporary drive, swing, energy, and attack. Varmint features six new compositions by Adasiewicz and a tune written by Andrew Hill. One of the most important influences on Jason's playing and composing are the musicians he plays with in the Chicago scene. The players' fearless presences materialize as collaborative voices rather than sidemen. For the past 10 years, Josh Berman has played with Adasiewicz and remains a key voice in his compositions. The two have struggled together and supported each other's aspirations and maturation as musicians. Jason began playing with Aram Shelton and Jason Roebke in 2001 in Shelton's group, Arrive. Jason and Frank Rosaly's relationship began with the birth of Rolldown. Every player is deeply rooted in jazz tradition, and all are at the mercy of the memory of growing up in the 80s."

Artist:	ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN, JASON
Title:	Varmint
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 292LP

LP version. "Led by vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz [a-dah-shev-its], Varmint is Rolldown's second release. The band, active for over 5 years, features stalwarts from Chicago's vibrant jazz/new music community. Their sound combines Blue Note's classic, avant-leaning '60s albums with contemporary drive, swing, energy, and attack. Varmint features six new compositions by Adasiewicz. One of the most important influences on Jason's playing and composing are the musicians he plays with in the Chicago scene. The players' fearless presences materialize as collaborative voices rather than sidemen. For the past 10 years, Josh Berman has played with Adasiewicz and remains a key voice in his compositions. The two have struggled together and supported each other's aspirations and maturation as musicians. Jason began playing with Aram Shelton and Jason Roebke in 2001 in Shelton's group, Arrive. Jason and Frank Rosaly's relationship began with the birth of Rolldown. Every player is deeply rooted in jazz tradition, and all are at the mercy of the memory of growing up in the 80s."

Artist:	BROWN VS BROWN
Title:	Odds And Unevens
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 293CD

"Brown vs Brown are an intense and stunningly tight 'rehearsal-intensive' avant-garde rock band from Amsterdam, Holland. Brown vs Brown was formed in 2004 by Dirk Bruinsma (saxes, vocals), Viljam Nybacka (bass), Gerri Jäger (drums) and Jeroen Kimman (guitar, banjo). The band's electrifying chemistry quickly made itself apparent. A love/hate relationship with jazz, a quirky alt/punk-rock mindset and the genuine need to create a new music that is coherent and personal, became their common ground in the hard-working years that followed. After 5 years of joint creative exploits and playing hundreds of concerts throughout Europe, Brown vs Brown has developed a musical universe that categorically denies stylistic description. Seemingly contrasting elements clash and recombine: meticulous composition vs. improvisation, complexity vs. raw energy, and breakneck stumble rhythms vs. irresistible swing. Recommended if you like: Henry Cow, Igor Stravinsky, John Zorn, Charles Ives, Ahleuchatistas, Zs, Milton Babbitt, Kayo Dot, Ruins, King Crimson."

Artist:	BEAT CIRCUS
Title:	Boy From Black Mountain
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 294CD

"Beat Circus was formed in Boston in 2002. The band is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist / singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter, who has been its only constant member since its inception. The music bridges a number of disparate genres including experimental music, Americana, cabaret, circus music, Appalachian string music, bluegrass music, old-time music, Southern Gospel, and funereal music. Boy From Black Mountain began shortly after Carpenter's son was diagnosed with autism in late 2006. He began writing songs inspired by the experience of living with his son during the time of diagnosis and treatment. Carpenter further dedicates the album to his father and grandparents, whose lives as watermelon farmers in the rural Bible Belt inspired songs which share their titles with classic Southern Gothic literature. The album was produced by Brian Carpenter and Bryce Goggin (Akron/Family, Antony and the Johnsons, Bishop Allen) and marks the second release in Carpenter's Weird American Gothic trilogy. Singer Larkin Grimm (Young God Records) and cellist Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons) special guest throughout the album. Recommended if you like: Nick Cave, Ennio Morricone, Warren Ellis, Wovenhand, Johnny Cash, Sixteen Horsepower. A very artful-yet-accessible album with great lyrics, memorable songs and rich orchestrations. In addition to the songs are a handful of haunting instrumentals which help to frame the overall work of the songs to a larger canvas."

Artist:	UNIVERS ZERO
Title:	Clivages
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 295CD

"A founding member of the original 'Rock In Opposition' [R.I.O.] movement and the inventors of 'chamber rock', Univers Zero are considered one of the greatest avant-garde rock bands of the last 30 years. Originally founded in 1974, Univers Zero are rightly famous for their perfect balance between classical and rock influences, a balance that is shown especially well on Clivages. During their first lifetime, they released Univers Zero (1977), Heresie (1979), Ceux Du Dehors (1981), Crawling Wind (1983), UZED (1984) and Heatwave (1986) until their breakup in 1987. Leader Daniel Denis reformed the band in 1997. In 1999, they released The Hard Quest. Rhythmix followed in 2002 and Implosion was released in 2004. Since 2004, the band has been touring regularly for the first time since 1986. In 2006 they released their first-ever live recording, Live, and an archival release of unheard late 80s recordings, Relaps, followed in 2008. Recommended if you like: Magma, Bela Bartok, Dead Can Dance, King Crimson, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Cow, Frank Zappa."

Artist:	IDEAL BREAD
Title:	Transmit - Vol. 2 Of The Music Of Steve Lacy
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 296CD

"Ideal Bread was started to perform the idiosyncratic (and underplayed) compositions of Steve Lacy. Using these pieces as a starting point, the group has blossomed into a dynamic and charismatic band. They demonstrate respect for Lacy's work by investigating its compositional implications every time they step up to play. Ideal Bread's music is an exciting demonstration of the possibilities of interpretation and improvisation; this is 'free-bop' at its very best! If anyone deserves such a project, it is soprano saxophone innovator Steve Lacy (1930-2004). He was an integral component of Cecil Taylor's first unit, starting in 1955, and he would then go on to liberate the soprano saxophone and reform the landscape of composition in improvised music. The group was formed in 2005 by Josh Sinton(baritone saxophone) with Kirk Knuffke (trumpet), Reuben Radding(bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums), all of whom are rising stars on their instruments and important contributors to today's modern/avant jazz scene."

Artist:	ALGERNON
Title:	Ghost Surveillance
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 297CD

"Algernon is an instrumental 'post-rock' outfit from Chicago, led by guitarist Dave Miller. They join the direct energy of indie rock with the compositional prowess of 'modern music' and the adventurousness of psychedelic rock. Using the distinctive sonic palette of twin guitars, vibes, bass and drums, they fuse atmosphere and composition. Their individualistic sound engulfs the listener in a world of its own making. They draw inspiration from post-rock, experimental '60s psychedelic rock, Krautrock and no-wave. With the musicians' combined experience in genres from jazz to hard rock, from punk to classical, the band is well equipped to deliver on their promise. Recommended if you like: Tortoise, Jaga Jazzist, Can, electric Miles Davis, Neu! Eno, Isotope 217, Glenn Branca."

Artist:	RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
Title:	Time & Motion
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 298/99CD

"Radio Massacre International is a British trio of Steve Dinsdale (electronics, percussion) Duncan Goddard (electronics, bass) and Gary Houghton (guitar, electronics). These three musicians formed R.M.I. in 1993. They have released a huge number of CDs, all on tiny UK labels, as well as two previous, highly acclaimed albums for Cuneiform, which are their only 'general available' works. They take their musical cues from the classic 1970s 'Berlin electronic sound', a sound that based on the early exploration of electronics in rock music and a sound that has great resonance to listeners today as well. This is over 2 1/2 hours of music for a single CD price. Recommended if you like: Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra/Manuel Göttsching, Cluster, Harmonia, Eno, Pink Floyd, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream."

Artist:	NEW YORK ART QUARTET
Title:	Old Stuff
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 300CD

"Formed in the summer of 1964, although the New York Art Quartet existed for barely a year and a half, great interest remains in their work. They consisted of co-leaders John Tchicai (alto sax), who participated in John Coltrane's ground-breaking Ascension album and Roswell Rudd (trombone), considered to be the first free-jazz trombonist, along with bassist Don Moore and drummer Milford Graves. The band participated in the legendary 'October Revolution in Jazz', which journalist Bill Shoemaker called, 'Arguably the most seminal jazz concert series ever held...it was a comprehensive four-day survey of jazz's cutting edge.... It marked the beginning of the Golden Era of do-it-yourself jazz culture in the U.S.' They recorded their self-titled first album for ESPand Tchicai went back to his homeland of Denmark to scout out work for the group. Only Rudd was able to join him, so the pair enlisted Copenhagen bassist Finn von Eyben and South African drummer Louis Moholo (of the Blue Notes and Brotherhood of Breath) for a pair of concerts in October, 1965, which are released here. This release features all previously unheard recordings from 1965 with very high-quality sonics. In the 8 page booklet are never-before seen photos and a short, informative essay by writer Jason Weiss, who produced this album. Released on the 45th anniversary of the 'October Revolution in Jazz' and of these recordings, there will be major coverage of this CD in the jazz world. There has never been more interest in historic free-jazz than now and Rudd, Tchicai and Moholo are all leading figures in the music."

Artist:	MATS/MORGAN BAND
Title:	The Music Or The Money?
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 301/02CD

"Keyboardist/vocalist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren have been playing together for nearly 30 years, since Mats was 10 and Morgan was 14! They were 'discovered' at a very young age by Frank Zappa, who invited them to join his band (Zappa's ill health ultimately cancelled these tour plans) and they are musical legends in their native Sweden and beyond, known for their wild and funny musical performances. The Music Or The Money is their second album and was originally released in 1997 and has never been available other than at the group's shows. This adds over 45 minutes of unreleased material. For fans of: Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Mahavishnu Orchestra, National Health, Return To Forever and Frank Zappa."

Artist:	CURLEW
Title:	A Beautiful Western Saddle/The Hardwood
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 303/04CD

"For about five years in the mid 80s/early 90s, not enough people seemed to realize that the best live band in the USA was Curlew. Their heyday featured the classic line-up of leader George Cartwright (saxes), Tom Cora(cello) (who also played with Holland's well known art-punk band, The Ex), Davey Williams (guitar), Ann Rupel (bass) and Pippin Barnett(drums). Curlew packed the clubs (CBGBs, The Knitting Factory, etc), toured hard, and thrilled audiences and critics alike with their unique, infectious blend of punk-jazz/downtown sound, roadhouse blues & a distinctly Southern aesthetic, leading The New York Times to call them, 'The best of the unsigned, genre-busting downtown groups'. One of Cuneiform's early successes, but out of print for years, this reissues A Beautiful Western Saddle, coupled with the band's never- before-on-DVD concert film The Hardwood, as well as an hour of unreleased concert footage from the Beautiful Western Saddle tour with Amy. All at a very special price!" NTSC/all-region DVD format.

Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	NDR Jazz Workshop, Germany, May 17, 1973
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 305/06CD

"By the time this remarkable document was recorded, Soft Machine were hugely appreciated in Europe for their unique sound. This previously unreleased show was recorded for Germany's famous NDR Jazz Workshop series and it features Mike Ratledge (electric piano, organ), Karl Jenkins (oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, electric piano), Roy Babbington(bass) and John Marshall (drums) joined by two special guests for the majority of the performance: Art Themen (tenor and soprano sax) and Gary Boyle(electric guitar). This long sought-after performance has never been seen since its original broadcast over 35 years ago -- not even in poor quality bootlegs. It is the best quality video document that exists of the group, featuring clear and beautiful visuals and superb live stereo sound! Soft Machine were one of the classic UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time, and their work continues to be name-checked by today's hip experimentalists, such as Tortoise, Jaga Jazzist, Jim O'Rourke and others. Will appeal to fans of: Dennis Chambers, Miles Davis, Allan Holdsworth, Jaga Jazzist, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Niacin, Nucleus, Passport, Return To Forever, Weather Report." NTSC all-region format DVD.

Artist:	CLAUDIA QUINTET WITH GARY VERSACE, THE
Title:	Royal Toast
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 307CD

"Royal Toast is the long-awaited fifth release by this sensational 'jazz and beyond' ensemble. Led by twice Grammy-nominated drummer/ composer John Hollenbeck, who The Village Voice called, '...superb, technically ingenious... passionate and serious, but also playful and funny...', the band features four other versatile and acclaimed players: Drew Gress (bass), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion) and Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), all of whom are bandleaders in their own right in addition to their work with Claudia. The quintet is here supplemented by pianist Gary Versace, a longtime collaborator of Hollenbeck's (including the composer's Large Ensemble and in the Refuge Trio along with vocalist Theo Bleckmann). The addition of Versace means that half of the band is now essentially playing percussive instruments, giving Hollenbeck more opportunity than ever to follow his polyrhythmic muse."

Artist:	TIBBETTS, STEVE
Title:	Steve Tibbetts
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 55009CD

Nice reissue of an always tough to find privately pressed album from 1977. "Recorded at home just using multiple guitars, synth & tape/effects/processing, this achieves an unholy blend of finger-style guitar Americana with the psychedelic spirit & effects of Jimi Hendrix. Carefully mastered from the original master tape, Steve says that the sound is better than he even hoped was possible." For many who are prone to wariness with anything ECM-relatable (the label Tibbetts has always been associated with since this debut), this is quite a stroke.

Artist:	HAPPY THE MAN
Title:	Death's Crown
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 55015CD

"Composed & performed in late 1974, Death's Crown was written as a collaborative work with dancers, actors, lighting & coordinated slide shows -- a multi-media event staged at a local dinner theatre in their hometown. The piece was performed several times, but was not a regular part of their repertoire, although parts of the work were regularly performed by the band in concert. Rehearsal tapes of the band performing Death's Crown were recently found & this marks the first time that this material has ever been heard."

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Artist:	U TOTEM
Title:	U Totem
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 024CD

Artist:	KOMBINAT M
Title:	Hybrid Beat
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 048CD

Artist:	HAPPY FAMILY
Title:	Happy Family
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 073CD

Artist:	PHILHORMONIE
Title:	Rage
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 084CD

Artist:	5UU'S
Title:	Point Of Views
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 085CD

Artist:	DEAN/DUNMALL/LEVIN/ROGERS/RUDD/TIPPETT
Title:	Bladik
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 092CD

Artist:	SOTOS
Title:	Platypus
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 164CD

Artist:	ZEVIOUS
Title:	After The Air Raid
Label:	CUNEIFORM
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RUNE 287CD