Favourite Cuneiform Albums?

[Steve F.]

Keep it real, Dr. Feigenbaum

Thanks, Kim!

It's 'realer' than it's ever been now!

[Mascodagama]

I'm revisiting Zaar this morning. I love absolutely everything about this album. Another Cuneiform great.

Bobbus

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It's a great one, isn't it? I expect you already have it, but if not Platypus, the second album by predecessor band Sotos, is also a must.

RIP Yan. Such a tragic loss.

[inhortte]

It's a great one, isn't it? I expect you already have it, but if not Platypus, the second album by predecessor band Sotos, is also a must.

RIP Yan. Such a tragic loss.

I have Platypus, but it's been years since I listened to it attentively. I'll do so tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder!

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[MJBrady]

Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
Boud Deun - The Stolen Bicycle, A General Observation
Cartoon - SORTIE
Cheer-Accident - Introducing Lemon, Babies Shouldn't Smoke
Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold
Deus Ex Machina - Imparis, Cinque, Devoto. etal
Doctor Nerve - Did Sprinting Die?
Far Corner - Far Corner
Far Corner - Endangered
Far Corner - Risk
5UUs - Abandonship
Forgas Band Phenomena - l'axe du fou axis of madness, Acte V, etal
Gilgamesh - Arriving Twice
Happy Family - st, Tossco
Isotope - Golden Section
Machine And The Synergetic Nuts Leap Second Neutral
The Mahavishnu Project - Return to the Emerald Beyond
Mats Oberg (keyboards) and Morgan Agren (drums)Thanks For Flying With Us, schack-tati, etal
Miriodor - everything
National Health
NeBeLNeSt
Nucleus
Picchio Dal Pozzo
Philharmonie
Soft Machine
Thinking Plague
Univers Zero
Von Zamla
Yang - A Complex Nature

Wow, I didn't realize how many of the Cuneiform artists I really like, I guess I am a avant fusion fan afterall

I have to thank a local cd shop in Minneapolis for their eclectic selection of cds, as they were mostly found in the obscure Progressive rock bin.

I swear I bought a Happy the Man cd there that was on the Cuneiform label?? digging now. It was a non Arista disc for sure.

Tonight, binging on a bunch of these CDs.

[Rick L.]

I'm just gonna copy and paste from the Top 10 Cuneiform thread, since my list is the same. In no particular order:

1. Bone - Uses Wrist Grab
2. Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune (My former band Tamandua did a double bill with them when they hit Boston on tour for this album. We all had a freakin' blast.)
3. Curlew - Fabulous Drop (or pretty much any Curlew released on Cuneiform. Though not originally released on Cuneiform, North America is another favorite. An album with Fred Frith and Tom Cora on it is a groovy thing. The Cuneiform issue with the six extra live tracks is a big hairy bonus. That's right people, the bonus is simultaneously big and hairy.)
4. Dead Cat Bounce - Chance Episodes
5. Doctor Nerve - Skin
6. Hamster Theatre - Carnival Detournement (The Public Execution of Mister Personality is also awesome, but Carnival Detournement was the first one I dug into.)
7. Happy Family - Toscco
8. Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral
9. Thinking Plague - In Extremis (I dig them all. A History of Madness is a close second, but In Extremis is the first one I dug into.)
10. Volapuk - Polyglot

[Steve F.]

I swear I bought a Happy the Man cd there that was on the Cuneiform label?? digging now. It was a non Arista disc for sure.

We actually released four CDs by Happy The Man!

Third, Beginnings, Live, Death's Crown.

[Phlakaton]

I'm just gonna copy and paste from the Top 10 Cuneiform thread, since my list is the same. In no particular order:

1. Bone - Uses Wrist Grab
2. Cheer-Accident - Fear Draws Misfortune (My former band Tamandua did a double bill with them when they hit Boston on tour for this album. We all had a freakin' blast.)
3. Curlew - Fabulous Drop (or pretty much any Curlew released on Cuneiform. Though not originally released on Cuneiform, North America is another favorite. An album with Fred Frith and Tom Cora on it is a groovy thing. The Cuneiform issue with the six extra live tracks is a big hairy bonus. That's right people, the bonus is simultaneously big and hairy.)
4. Dead Cat Bounce - Chance Episodes
5. Doctor Nerve - Skin
6. Hamster Theatre - Carnival Detournement (The Public Execution of Mister Personality is also awesome, but Carnival Detournement was the first one I dug into.)
7. Happy Family - Toscco
8. Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral
9. Thinking Plague - In Extremis (I dig them all. A History of Madness is a close second, but In Extremis is the first one I dug into.)
10. Volapuk - Polyglot

My kinda list mate... rawk!

[Shadow]

Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral

This was one of my favorites.Maybe if it had sold better there would have been more by them.

[Polypet]

Machine and the Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral

This was one of my favorites.Maybe if it had sold better there would have been more by them.

Oh yeah. I love those guys

My favorites are the first batch I bought in 2003 at Tower Records.

Univers Zero - Rhythmix
Picchio Dal Pozza - Cammere Zimmer Rooms
The Muffins - Bandwidth
Hamster Theater - Carnival Detournament
The Grits - As The World Grits

Nice to see the Hamster get some love here. That one is a classic, imho

[StarThrower]

Hunger's Teeth
A History Of Madness
Decline And Fall
Virtually
Steve Tibbetts
Way Back When
Uses Wrist Grab
NDIO - Airback
Curlew - Paradise
Ed Palermo - Take Your Clothes Off...
Carnival Detournement

Time to peruse the Wayside site again!

[NogbadTheBad]

CHANGE OF SCHEDULE, WE WILL BE STARTING 1 HOUR EARLIER AT 5.30PM CENTRAL (6.30 EASTERN) ON MAY 31ST.

Episode 60 of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour will be a three and a half hour bumper edition dedicated to Cuneiform Records, formed in 1984 by Steve Feigenbaum, dedicated to adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world.
The podcast should be up within 48 hours of the show airing. Check out previous shows at https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...core-happy.../
Search the podcast page for jazzcore.
Requests & recommendations can be sent to ian@progrock.com

I had so much material had to extend the show by an hour, still had to cut a bunch of stuff. I'll be covering most aspects of the label and focusing on artists particularly associated with the label.

[Steve F.]

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Nice to see / hear. Thank you.

[NogbadTheBad]

Tonight's bumper Cuneiform playlist was -

Univers Zero - Heatwave
Thinking Plague - Kingdom Come
Lars Hollmer - Talrika (original)
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra - Collections of Time
Miriodor - Chapelle lunaire
Soft Machine - Slightly All The Time
CHEER-ACCIDENT - I Don't Believe
Gutbucket - Sacrificial Vegan
Guapo - Tremors From The Future
David Borden / Mother Mallard - Part 1
Led Bib - Squirrel Carnage
Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - Punjabi/Watery Grave
Art Zoyd - Ceremonie
The Muffins - Monkey With the Golden Eyes
Present - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou 2
Schnellertollermeier - 209 Aphelion
Upsilon Acrux - Prelude to Forshadow'n
Radio Massacre International - The Emissaries Reveal Themselves
Von Zamla - Clandestine
Wadada Leo Smith - Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
National Health - Dreams Wide Awake
Janel & Anthony - Broome's Orchard
Happy Family - The Picture Book X Rated
Djam Karet - Night of The Mexican Goat Sucker
Blue Cranes - Soldier
The Claudia Quintet - What Is The Beautiful
Richard Pinhas - South

The podcast is up at - https://podcasts.progrock.com/2023/0...p60-5-31-2023/

[Steve F.]

^ ^ ^ ^

Thanks!

P.S.

I figured that if you listen to Cuneiform releases 8 hours a day (like it was a JOB!), you'd have over 2 months of listening.

[arturs]

I figured that if you listen to Cuneiform releases 8 hours a day (like it was a JOB!), you'd have over 2 months of listening.

As much as I love most of the music on Cuneiform, I doubt I would survive 2 weeks of that, much less 2 months!

[Steve F.]

As much as I love most of the music on Cuneiform, I doubt I would survive 2 weeks of that, much less 2 months!

It's merely meant to make you go "OOOOOO" and "AAAAAHHHHH" over my voluminous work over the four decades. It's not a recommended dosage!

[NogbadTheBad]

Looks like I have around 200 Cuneiform albums plus 2 boxsets so that's probably around a month at 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

[Steve F.]

Looks like I have around 200 Cuneiform albums plus 2 boxsets so that's probably around a month at 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

my calculation of 2 months was for 8 hours a day, seven days a week. We aren't union and we don't pay overtime either!

[Rick L.]

Looks like I have around 200 Cuneiform albums plus 2 boxsets so that's probably around a month at 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

Nerd.

[NogbadTheBad]

Guilty

[aith01]

my calculation of 2 months was for 8 hours a day, seven days a week. We aren't union and we don't pay overtime either!

[chalkpie]

Nerd.

Understatement.

[soundsweird]

Forrest Fang

[vandergraf]

So many great things... There came a day many years ago now, when I realized that Cuneiform had become my favorite label. Well not Favorite exactly, more like first in the line as a place to find thrilling new music (sorry Recommended...). Blast. Thinking Plague. Cheer Accident. Curlew. Kerman.... It is a long and wonderful list.

David

[mx20]

My very favorite Cuneiform album must be Happy Family- Tossco. This one alone, above all others, has probably given me two solid months of joy over the years (I think I acquired it around 1998)!