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Rune 217 mbs
Claudia Quintet - Semi-Formal CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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...
$4.00
Rune 377-mbs
Claudia Quintet - September CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
“Rich with ambition and empathetic interplay...the Claudia Quintet doesn’t...sound like anybody else. Which is exactly what makes them worth seeking out.” —
Los Angeles Times
Led by composer, drummer and three-time Grammy nominee
John Hollenbeck
,
The Claudia Quintet
have quietly but firmly and definitively recast jazz into shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. They are one of the most influential stylists...
$4.00
Rune 427
Claudia Quintet - Super Petite
“You’d never mistake Claudia for anyone else.” –
DownBeat
“Sensing the tipping point where improvisation undermines a composer's intentions, or composition imprisons good improvisers, is the challenge for musicians who like giving equal weight to both – and the Claudia Quintet are frontrunners at this tricky game.” –
The Guardian
...
$15.00
Rune 327-mbs
Claudia Quintet featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann - What is the Beautiful? (Mega Blowout Sale)
For their sixth album,
What Is the Beautiful?
,
The Claudia Quintet
brings together the acclaimed compositional approach of leader
John Hollenbeck
with two of the most important male singers in improvised music...
$4.00
Rune 327
Claudia Quintet featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann - What is the Beautiful? CD
For their sixth album,
What Is the Beautiful?
,
The Claudia Quintet
brings together the acclaimed compositional approach of leader
John Hollenbeck
with two of the most important male singers in improvised music,
Kurt Elling
and
Theo Bleckmann
. Elling and Bleckmann recite and sing the poems of avant-garde/proto-beat American poet, Kenneth Patchen, an innovator in his time.
"Claudia with vocals?" Yes, Claudia with vocals, and it will probably not surprise...
$15.00
Rune 307
Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace - Royal Toast
Royal Toast is the long-awaited fifth release by this wonderful and undefinable ensemble. Led by twice Grammy-nominated drummer/composer John Hollenbeck, who The Village Voice called, "...superb, technically ingenious... passionate and serious...
$15.00
Rune 213/214
Collier, Graham - Workpoints 2 x CDs
Called "A pioneer...a true British jazz original." by The Times, "An inventive and underrated jazz figure" by Jazziz and "Britain's most original jazz talent." by The Financial Times, Graham Collier is one of the best known British jazz composers, and over a 40 year career, his list of compositions and comissions has grown to encompass ensembles around the world.
He was born in Tynemouth, England in 1937. He won a Downbeat scholarship to Berklee School of Music, Boston, studying with Herb Pomeroy...
$21.00
RUNE263
Cosmologic - Eyes in the Back of My Head
"More than impressive"-Brian Morton/The Wire
"The most exhilarating band performance of the entire five days [of the Guelph Jazz Festival]..."-Musicworks
...
$15.00
RUNE 144
Creely, Robert/Steve Swallow/David Torn/Chris Massey/David CasT - Have We Told You All You'd Thought To Know?
Robert Creeley is one of Americas 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 & improvised music on his work. In this collab...
$15.00
Rune 303-304
Curlew - A Beautiful Western Saddle/The Hardwood/Live in Washington, D.C. CD + DVD
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...
$17.00
RUNE 105
Curlew - Fabulous Drop
Led by saxist George Cartwright, Curlew are noted for their sense of fun, great riffing, spirited interplay, & the superb musicianship of musical members like Davey Williams, Ann Rupel, Chris Cochrane & Kenny Wollesen. This features somewha...
$15.00
RUNE 12 vinyl
Curlew - Live In Berlin vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
Classic, live release, pressed by the best-ever pressing plant in the USA, Wakefield, who did all of our releases for us in the 80s. This is new, perfect, 23 year old stock! Still sealed!
Led by saxist George Cartwright, Curlew are noted for...
$16.00
RUNE 177
Curlew - Mercury
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 u...
$15.00
Rune 167
Curlew - North America (expanded / remastered)
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
.
Formed in 1979,
North America
reissues their obscure 2nd album, which was recorded in 1984-85 and originally released only in Germany. It features the band in transition from it's original line-up into the band that helped to define the "Knitting Factory Sound" in the mid/late 1980's, and who the New York Times, called, "the best of the unsigned, genre.
$15.00
RUNE 80
Curlew - Paradise
Led by saxist George Cartwright, Curlew are noted for their sense of fun, great riffing, spirited interplay, & the superb musicianship of musical members like Davey Williams, Ann Rupel, Chris Cochrane & Samm Bennett. This features somewhat changed instrumentation & a new edge & maturity.
''Curlew's new twin-guitar lineup has resulted in, perhaps, the most satisfying yet of recordings by this criminally unrecognized band.''-Henry Kaiser.
''...one hell of a group...''-The Wire.
$25.00
Rune 317
De Rosa, Carlo - Brain Dance
"I liked what I heard. Great writing and ensemble playing. Deep thoughtful solos." –
Jack DeJohnette
Proficient, creative, a first-call, in-demand bassist,
Carlo De Rosa
has earned a reputation of very high standards....
$15.00
Rune 323
Dead Cat Bounce - Chance Episodes
"Dead Cat Bounce does it all with exquisite writing, the subtle use of a bass-drum rhythm section and above all a definite sense of communication between the members that I am sure will be apparent to even the casual listener. These musicians...
$15.00
RUNE103DU
Dean, Elton - Just Us (expanded)
Poking around in the back of the warehouse while trying to consolidate stuff, we found these Japanese versions of this title.
It is identical to the standard version, except it has one 5 minute bonus track which is unavailable elsewhere, from the..
$18.00
Rune 103
Dean, Elton - Just Us CD (expanded)
“The debut album was recorded while Dean was still with Soft Machine, and made largely with fellow-Softs, though it is clear that he was already interested in exploring new territory...Deservedly rescued from oblivion by Cuneiform, Just Us is a great introduction to a compelling voice.” –
The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings
English jazz saxophone legend Elton Dean has been in the public eye for over 30 years, & has played in numerous acclaimed groups over the years, including the...
$15.00
Rune 143
Dean, Elton - Moorsong
This Cuneiform title is LONG out of print, but we found a few and can offer them to you at the regular price, while they last! Don't blink and miss it!
!This was the last of four albums we released under Elton's name. It has been out of print for many, many years, but we found a small cache in France and here they are. This is it. You won't find these anywhere else and neither will we after these are gone!
Moorsong shows British jazz sax legend Dean entirely at home with an...
$15.00
RUNE 83
Dean, Elton - Silent Knowledge
English jazz saxophone legend Elton was in the public eye for over 35 This was Cuneiform's first release by the great free-jazz saxophonist and composer Elton Dean and was also Elton's first-ever North American release under his own name. This album fe...
$15.00
RUNE92
Dean, Elton/Paul Dunmall/Tony Levin/Paul Rogers/Roswell Rudd/Keith Tippett - Bladik
This album, released under all of the musician's names, but instigated and led by Elton Dean, features all of Mujician as well as the legendary American trombonist - possibly the foremost trombonist in free-jazz, Roswell Rudd. "Dunmall, Levin, Rogers a...
$15.00
Rune 479
Desertion Trio - Numbers Maker
Nick Millevoi
- guitar
Johnny DeBlase
- bass
Jason Nazary
- drums
“[Desertion Trio] hits the sweet spot between Neil Young's exploratory Crazy Horse jams and a spaghetti western soundtrack. –
NPR
“...the band’s tunefulness and delicate touch—even during its most punishing passages—have a universal profundity that I’ve been unable to resist. –
Chicago Reader
From the first notes of
Numbers Maker
, the third album
$15.00
Rune 429
Deus Ex Machina - Devoto
“...lyrical, provoking and genre-pushing...one of the most extraordinary bands in the entire music universe.” –
AllMusic
“Extremely tight, lots of texture and dynamic shifts and flawless acrobatic vocals...by one of the genre's best...” –
Icon
Mauro Collina
– electric & acoustic guitars
Alessandro Bonetti
– violin
Alessandro Porreca
-– bass
Luigi Ricciardiello
– organ, Rhodes piano & synthesizers
Claudio Trotta
– drums
$15.00
RUNE259-260
Deus Ex Machina - Imparis CD + DVD
A sextet of violin, analog keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and vocals, Deus ex Machina's sound is a unique and unequaled blend of aggressive jazz-rock mixed with complex rhythms, 1970s-style hard-rock guitar and hints of Rock In Opposition-style avant...
$21.00
RUNE 169
Djam Karet - A Night For Baku
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...
$15.00
Rune 119
Djam Karet - Live At Orion
“Drawing upon music that spans its 15 years together, Djam Karet is never less than exhilarating in its virtuoso interplay, while never succumbing to jam band histrionics” –
Billboard
“...the greatest undiscovered band in the world.” –
Electronic Musician
“Pink Floydian dreamscapes intersect with the jagged complexity of King Crimson.” –
Rolling Stone
Djam Karet
are a southern California quartet using dual guitars, keyboards/electronics, bass &..
$15.00
RUNE 129
Djam Karet - Suspension & Displacement
Very limited stock left of this title.
$25.00
Rune 142
Dunmall, Paul - The Great Divide
This Cuneiform title is LONG out of print, but we found a few and can offer them to you at the regular price, while they last! Don't blink and miss it!
"[They have] the requisite chemistry to become a perennial powerhouse on the international scene." - JazzTimes
Born 1953 in Welling, England, Paul Dunmall is one of Britains best-known jazz musicians. Classically trained on clarinet, Dunmall began his professional music career in 1969. Dunmall is perhaps most widely known.
$15.00
Rune 203
Dunmall, Paul / Moksha Big Band - I Wish You Peace
I Wish You Peace is a landmark recording in the career of one of modern jazzs 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 playerone 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...
$15.00
Rune 416
Empirical - Connection
"The coolest of Britain's young jazz bands." –
Daily Telegraph
"...they’re still evolving, pushing boundaries and moving jazz forward." –
Mojo
Empirical
has become one of Europe’s top jazz ensembles by creating a bracing sound rife with roiling emotion. The quartet builds on the extroverted improvisational ethos of the 1960s New Thing, embracing oblique harmonies, translucent textures and jagged, quick shifting rhythms. Featuring...
$15.00
Rune 419
Ergo - As Subtle As Tomorrow
“Ergo's music is also rooted in jazz...fused with electronica and a distinct avant-garde feel. ...quite beautiful and moving...a bit like Sigur Ros meeting Sun Ra uptown.” –
Terrascope
“This is music that evolves slowly, almost imperceptibly; yet for all its freedom, there's no shortage of structure...Sroka takes a different approach to composition, one where improvisation and structure work hand-in-hand, each feeding the other.” –
All About Jazz
...
$15.00
Rune 339
Ergo - If Not Inertia
"[Ergo] has a deft touch when it comes to molding silence and drones into rich celestial balladry....a nifty confluence of George Lewis's dreamscapes and Miles's Lonely Fire, and while it's a record that invites you to watch the embers glow, it does...
$15.00
RUNE 289
Ergo - Multitude, Solitude
Ergo is a trio made up of Carl Maguire on Rhodes electric piano and analog synths and effects, Shawn Baltazor on drums and lead by Brett Sroka on trombone and laptop. They have been playing together since 2003, combining the modern sound of electronica...
$15.00
Rune 194
Far Corner - Far Corner
This is 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, combined in their own fashion.
In addition to their compositions, Far Corner also perform purely improvised music. Their music maintains the energy level...
$15.00
Rune 449
Far Corner - Risk
“Far Corner plays insanely complex instrumental chamber rock (modern classical meets prog rock) and I can easily say that Risk was the most challenging record I’ve ever played on.” –
William Kopecky
“... three of the four members of Far Corner (keyboardist and chief composer Dan Maske, cellist Angela Schmidt and percussionist Craig Walkner) have music degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and have clearly logged in some serious practice, rehearsal and performance
...
$15.00
Rune 205
Fast 'N' Bulbous - Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind CD
Gary Lucas
– guitar
Jesse Krakow
– bass
Richard Dworkin
– drums
Rob Henke
– trumpet
Phillip Johnston
– alto sax
Joe Fiedler
– trombone
Dave Sewelson
– baritone sax
All music by Don Van Vliet.
All music arranged by Phillip Johnston.
All guitar parts arranged by Gary Lucas.
What magic occurs when you put Gary Lucas (ex Beefheart) together with musicians drawn from the personnel of The Microscopic Sept
$15.00
Rune 3359
Field, Ken / Alieno deBootes - Alien Field CD
Ken Field
- saxes, flutes
Alieno deBootes
- keyboards, creative mix
with
Alessandro Monti
- occasional electric bass on “A new cosmo”
Matteo Bertolini
- soundscapes on “Izar” and “A new cosmo”
Domenico Meggiato
- some electric bass on “Krunsch”
Franco Moruzzi
- extra drums on “Krunsch”
Sometimes unusual circumstances create perfect conditions for long-considered but never materialized collaborations. This distanced virtu
$15.00
Rune 25
Forever Einstein - Artificial Horizon CD
John Roulet - drums & percussion
Marc Sichel - bass
C.W. Vrtacek - amplified acoustic guitar and keyboards
Forever Einstein use guitar, electric bass, & a wonderfully idiosyncratic drummer to unique ends, performing well thought out & playful instrumental rock music that is highlighted by a great sense of dynamics & sensitivity from all. Their immediately identifiable ''power trio with smarts'' sound has won them a broad range of acclaim. All three players are really superlative...
$15.00
RUNE136
Forever Einstein - Down With Gravity
Forever Einstein use guitar, electric bass, & a wonderfully idiosyncratic drummer to unique ends, performing well thought out & playful instrumental rock music that is highlighted by a great sense of dynamics & sensitivity from all. Their immediately...
$15.00
Rune 41
Forever Einstein - Opportunity Crosses The Bridge CD
John Roulat - drums & percussion
Marc Sichel - bass
C.W. Vrtacek - amplified acoustic guitar and keyboards
Forever Einstein use guitar, electric bass, & a wonderfully idiosyncratic drummer to unique ends, performing well thought out & playful instrumental rock music that is highlighted by a great sense of dynamics & sensitivity from all. Their immediately identifiable ''power trio with smarts'' sound has won them a broad range of acclaim. All three players are really superlative....
$15.00
RUNE206
Forever Einstein - Racket Science
They truly deserve the title of power trio. Essentially a rock album, but with some very diverse influences...full of power and complexity-Wonderous Stories. Forever Einstein are an instrumental guitar/bass/drums progressive rock outfit whose roots inc...
$15.00
Rune 332-333
Forgas Band Phenomena - Acte V CD + DVD
"For those of you who grew up on the Return to Forever / Mahavishnu Orchestra / Weather Report strain of modern jazz, you will love this group. There's no mincing words about the Phenomena tag this band is proud to own — terrific music made by a wonderful band that cannot be a trade secret for too much longer. Viva Forgas !" –
All-Music Guide
"Composer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Forgas has been making music for the last four decades, and now in the heart of his fifth one
...
$21.00
Rune 447
Forgas Band Phenomena - L’Oreille Électrique [The Electric Ear]
.“...there's always a logical and organic flow, despite knotty and sometimes orchestral transitions.... Its combination of singable themes and rock rhythms will appeal to...all fans of improvisation within a richly composed context.” –
All About Jazz
“Jazz-fusion, yes, but with a degree of compositional content and integrity often absent in the genre.” –
Progression
...
$15.00
Rune 481
Fourth World Quartet - 1975
Benjamin Miller
– alto saxophone, electric guitar
Laurence Miller
– bass clarinet
Roger C. Miller
– piano, percussion, cornet
Jack Waterstone
– alto saxophone
The brothers Miller grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They came of age during the Summer of Love. By 1969 they were engaged in freeform rock improvisations and started their first all-original rock band
Sproton Layer
. During this time, they would see the
MC5
at a free concert in the...
$15.00
Rune 519
French TV - 15: A Ghastly State of Affairs CD
Mike Sary
: bass, loops, samples
Katsumi Yoneda
: guitars
Patrick Strawser
: keyboards
Fenner Castner
: drums
with
Kenji Imai
: flute
Warren Dale
: saxes
Ludo Fabre
: violin
French TV
's newest cd,
A Ghastly State Of Affairs
is their 15th in their long history. It is also their first album not to be self-released. Headed up by charter member bassist/composer Mike Sary, he is joined again by guit
$15.00
Rune 117-118
Frith, Fred & Henry Kaiser - Friends & Enemies 2 x CDs
"Sonic manna...5 out of 5 stars"- Alternative Press
“In 1979, guitarists Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser made an album titled With Friends Like These... on the Metalanguage label. It was one of the defining documents of the downtown avant-garde scene, a collection of improvised duets on which both players essentially redefined the sound of the guitar, Frith with his physically altered (and sometimes beaten) instruments, and Kaiser with his virtuosic and harmonically adventurous technique...
$21.00
RUNE59
Frohmader, Peter - Cycle Of Eternity
Last FIVE copies in existence anywhere!
This straddles the boundries between the menacing works of his past, & a more spacier side. Despite it's less intense nature, it still has that "bite" that you expect from him. "...a brilliant achievement...
$15.00
Rune 123
Frohmader, Peter / Richard Pinhas - Fossil Culture CD
Peter Frohmader
Synthesizers, E-MU Samplers and 5-string Bass
Richard Pinhas
- Roland Guitars + Arboretum Hyperprism process
'The best Pinhas release since the glory days of Heldon's Standby. Incendiary, musicially consistent, cohesive...one of the most powerful, dynamic & totally mind blowing releases you'll hear in 1999.''-Andy G./C&D.
These two giants of European electronic music join forces. Richard's sustained, instantly recognizable guitar work...
$15.00
Rune 466
Ghost Rhythms - Live At Yoshiwara
Mysterious and beguiling...gloriously expansive and darkly cinematic...a highly enjoyable and melodic album intricate chamber jazz arrangements for...medium sized ensemble...” –
Bird Is The Worm
Having so far self-released three studio efforts, French ensemble
Ghost Rhythms
present their first live album, and debut Cuneiform release,
Live at Yoshiwara
, recorded in front of a small audience just before Christmas 2018 at Les Frigos in Paris – in the very room...
$15.00
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