Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: 5 nuove uscite Cuneiform

Subject: Five new Cuneiform CDs availble for ordering from Wayside Music
Hi
We're taking pre-orders on our five spankin' new Cuneiform releases. You can
place your order now and it will arrive in your mail box right around street
date!
If you go to:
www.waysidemusic.com
and click on the NEW ARRIVALS button on the left, you'll see them all.
Soundclips can be heard at:
www.cuneiformrecords.com
Thank you for your interest and support!
Paul Dunmall Moksha Big Band-I Wish You Peace $13.00
I Wish You Peace is a landmark recording in the career of one of modern jazz
’
s emerging giants: British jazz musician Paul Dunmall. A world-class reed
player, Dunmall is described as "A powerful player often cited as the cream
of
British saxophonists" by the Guiness Who's Who In Jazz, and a "Superlative
saxophone and clarinet player…one of the best reed players in Europe if not
the
world." by Venue. He is a member of the UK improvising ensemble Mujician and
leads
the Paul Dunmall Octet among many other credits. 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 Keith Tippett, Tony Levin, Paul Rogers, Chris
Bridges, Howard Cottle, Hilary Jeffrey, Gethin Liddington, Simon Picard,
Paul
Rutherford, John Adams, Mark Sanders, Philip Gibbs, David Priseman and
conductor
Brian Irvine. Like the best 'energy jazz', I Wish You Peace is an intensely
visceral yet spiritual work. The music goes from intensely hot and focused
jazz to
rowdy 'blowing' from the large ensemble. [Cuneiform]
Far Corner-Far Corner $13.00
This is an exciting and auspicous 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 conbined with classical/chamber rock greats like
Univers
Zero , early ELP, Present and more, combined in their own fashion. In
addition to
their compositions, Far Corner also perform purely improvised music. Their
music maintains the energy level and power of rock, but in an extremely
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 edge ala Alamaailman
Vasarat), electric bass (by the very excellent Bill Kopecky) and drums.
Their
fusion of classical and rock instrumentation is untraditional; occasionally
it
even inverts the instruments’ roles, using rock instruments in a classical
context and manner and treating classical instruments as though they were
rock.
Most notably, each instrument in the quartet is treated as an equal, and all
instruments are assigned melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic roles. The four
musicians are all extremely accomplished players, and this is sure to get
the
attention it deserves from fans of chamber/progressive rock. [Cuneiform]
The Richard Leo Johnson Trio-Poetry Of Appliance $13.00
Richard Leo Johnson is one of the most innovative and inspired acoustic
guitarists on the current American music scene. Johnson’s style,
characterized by
complexity, exhilarating speed, and hauntingly unfamiliar harmonies created
through ‘found’ tunings, marks this self-taught player apart. Richard was
raised
in America’s deep South, in a small Arkansas town in the Mississippi Delta.
A
good indication of Richard is about is captured   when he recalls that his “
real jumping off point” was a home-made cassette he received as a teenager,
which featured The Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Inner Mounting Flame on one side,
and
Leo Kottke’s Greenhouse on the other; “I thought both sides were by the same
artist! The initial impact was that it was somehow possible to make
something
happen that fused the linear liquidity of McLaughlin and the dense harmonic
structure and drive of Kottke.” Practicing incessantly on his own, Johnson
developed an idiosyncratic playing style which combined plucking and
strumming,
alternating between 6, 12, and 18 strings (a 2-necked McCullum guitar with 6
and
12 strings), using all parts of the guitar, and employing 30 tunings he
devised. The Richard Leo Johnson Trio is his first ever 'band' and it 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. With the collaboration of the classically trained and former symphony
musicians Andrew Ripley (wind instruments and electronics) and Ricardo A.
Ochoa
(strings and theremin), Richard Leo Johnson brings a fresh new focus and
additional instrumental orchestrations to his own brand of guitar-centric
instrumental
poetry, making for a music that is both beautiful and deep. 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,” while Playboy touted him as “the most innovative
guitarist
since Jim Hendrix.” [Cuneiform]
The Muffins-Double Negative $13.00
It is an all-too-rare occurrence for a band, throughout its career, to
create
music that continually pushes the envelope and transforms the landscape. It
is an even rarer occurrence for such a band to reunite after a long
separation,
and embark on a second musical career that proves as innovative as the
first.
For The Muffins, lightning has struck twice. In 1998, The Muffins reformed
with all four members, and it proved to be the genuine article. 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 and tone greatly, but which are always
theirs (although they might fool you for a bit here and there!). The Muffins
have long been noted for the way they craft memorable themes with
adventurous
musical structures and this is no exception. In addition, it is the band’s
most
instrumentally rich work, featuring an unprecedented number of musical guest
appearances. Two principal members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen
and
Knoel Scott, play sax on several tracks, while longtime Muffins contributor,
Doug Elliott, contributes excellent trombone parts to half the pieces and
string
players also contribute. [Cuneiform]
Yang-A Complex Nature/Une Nature Complexe $13.00
Yang, a French quartet whose stunning compositons 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
guiarists, 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. L’Epée formed Yang in September, 2002. Yang’s debut CD consists of
8
compositions written by L’Epée with each of the specific band members in
mind. The
band recorded the CD quickly, spending only 3 days in the studio in a
conscious
attempt to harness the power and spontanaety of live performance. Featuring
intricate and often beautiful guitar pieces embedded in harder-tempered rock
compositions, complex rhythms and melodic modes not previously seen in L’
Epée’s
work, and a rich variety of guitar treatments, A Complex Nature is an
inventive, dynamic and accessible instrumental work that rocks hard. It is,
in L’Epée’
s own words: “the next step after Philharmonie’s last CDs: Rage and The Last
Word.”   This exciting and hard-rocking album features some subtly stunning
work from all players, and is probably as close to an 'air guitar' album as
you
will ever hear from Cuneiform! [Cuneiform]

 The Muffins-Double Negative $13.00
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!!!
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Geppo