Cuneiform Records: The Albums of 2016

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Arminda K Love the annual samplers from Cuneiform. Always opens my ears to new music I fall in love with. Favorite track: Leak Water [from 'Say So'].

Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) Cuneiform Records is one of the labels with the best avantgarde/RIO music in the catalog. Those annual compilation albums are always a good starting point for the exploration of new horizons. Favorite track: Dirty White Bucks [from 'One Child Left Behind'].

Carsten Pieper Another welcome sampler to dip your nose into last years Cuneiform outings. Quite adventurous stuff, mostly jazz, some rock (post and prog) and quite idiosyncratic stuff! Favorite track: JFK Beagle [from 'Super Petite'].

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1.	São Paulo Underground - Olhaluai [from 'Cantos Invisíveis'] 05:21	buy track
2.	Richard Pinhas / Tatsuya Yoshida / Masami Akita [Merzbow] - TVJ 33 (Core Track) (excerpt) [from 'Process and Reality'] 05:55	buy track
3.	Wadada Leo Smith - New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718 (excerpt) [from 'America’s National Parks'] 12:12	buy track
4.	I.P.A. - Sir William [from 'I Just Did Say Something'] 05:46	buy track
5.	Ergo - That never came [from 'As subtle as tomorrow'] 05:49	buy track
6.	The Claudia Quintet - JFK Beagle [from 'Super Petite'] 03:28	buy track
7.	Bent Knee - Leak Water [from 'Say So'] 04:41	buy track
8.	Naima - Bye [from 'Bye'] 04:56	buy track
9.	The Ed Palermo Big Band - Dirty White Bucks [from 'One Child Left Behind'] 04:39	buy track
10.	Gary Lucas' Fleischerei [featuring Sarah Stiles] - The Broken Record [from 'Music from Max Fleischer's Cartoons'] 03:07	buy track
11.	Empirical - The Two-Edged Sword [from 'Connection'] 02:32	buy track
12.	Thumbscrew: Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara - Sampsonian Rhythms [from 'Convallaria'] 04:03	buy track
13.	Rez Abbasi & Junction - Self-Brewing [from 'Behind the Vibration'] 06:20	buy track
14.	Richard Pinhas & Barry Cleveland (feat. Michael Manring & Celso Alberti) - Zen/Unzen (excerpt) [from 'Mu'] 08:06	buy track
15.	Deus Ex Machina - Figli [from 'Devoto'] 06:59	buy track

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This special "Name Your Price" compilation album features nearly 1.5 hours of creative and fun music over the course of 15 tracks all of which was released by Cuneiform Records in 2016.

We invite you to listen to Cuneiform Records: The Albums of 2016 and explore the wide spectrum of music we recently released over the year. Each track by each artist is unique; we invite you to sample all. And then, if you've not already done so, we hope that you'll listen to full albums by the artists who most appeal to you.

We released a total of 15 albums in 2016, by some of the most highly esteemed musicians on the planet, established icons of avant and contemporary musics like Wadada Leo Smith, Sao Paulo Underground (led by Rob Mazurek), The Claudia Quintet (led by John Hollenbeck), Richard Pinhas w/ Masami Akita (Merzbow) & Yoshida Tatsuya, Thumbscrew (Mary Halvorson/Michael Formanek/Tomas Fujiwara), Rez Abbasi (w/ Junction), Gary Lucas (w/ Fleischerei) – as well as fast-rising-stars like Bent Knee, Empirical, Naima, I.P.A. and Ergo. These artists came from around the world: the USA, the UK (England), Europe (France, Italy, Spain), Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden), Japan, and South America (Brazil). And as usual, Cuneiform’s releases were in a wide range of cutting-edge, progressive styles that emerged from the genres of both jazz (avant-jazz, post-jazz, jazz/rock and fusion, improv, creative music) and rock (post-rock, indie-rock, ambient, soundscapes, avant-progressive, experimental rock/noise). The majority of 2016's releases were jazz-related, and this year, two of our artists appeared prominently on the covers of leading American jazz publicans: DownBeat honored Wadada Leo Smith as a "National Treasure" on its November 2016 cover, and Jazziz celebrated Rez Abbasi on its July 2016 cover. 2016 was also notable for the high calibre of our rock albums; we released music by several top-notch bands who astounded the international rock music press, won new fans worldwide, and packed concerts. Our 2016 rock albums included Bent Knee (Say So), Deus Ex Machina (Devoto) and Richard Pinhas (Process & Reality w/ Masami Akita/Merzbow and Yoshida Tatsuya and Mu w/ Barry Cleveland).

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