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Rune 549

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - Serpentine CD

Ken Field – alto saxophone, flute
Tom Hall – tenor saxophone
Dave Harris – trombone, tuba
Phil Neighbors – drums
Blake Newman – acoustic bass
Jerry Sabatini – trumpet

“[a] unique and somewhat twisted twist on the New Orleans brass band tradition…hard-partying avant-funk, with boisterous soloing.” - NYC Jazz Record

Poised to gracefully undulate into its fifth decade, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble....

$15.00

Rune 311

Robinson, Jason - The Two Faces of Janus

The Two Faces of Janus - one face looking at the past, one face looking towards the future. Borrowed from Greek mythology, Janus is an apt metaphor for the lat-est release by accomplished reedist and composer Jason Robinson. Robinson first appeared...

$15.00

Robinson, Jason - Tiresian Symmetry Rune 346

Rune 346 mbs

Robinson, Jason - Tiresian Symmetry CD (Mega Blowout Sale)

On saxophonist/composer Jason Robinson’s polydirectional masterpiece Tiresian Symmetry, he’s gathered an extraordinary cast of improvisers to investigate and embellish the framework of his compositions. The music’s richly...

$3.00

Rudolph, Adam / Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra - Turning Towards The Light Rune 406

Rune 406-mbs

Rudolph, Adam / Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra - Turning Towards The Light CD (Mega Blowout Sale)

On the Winter Solstice of 2014 – the Northern Hemisphere’s longest night of the year – composer, bandleader & percussionist Adam Rudolph convened 11 of New York City’s finest and most adventurous guitarists in a New Jersey studio for a most auspicious event: the debut of Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra, his all-guitar orchestra. In attendance were guitarists Rez Abbasi, Nels Cline, Liberty Ellman, David Gilmore, Miles Okazaki, and Marvin Sewell, all...

$4.00

Rune 483

Russell, Ray - Fluid Architecture

Ray Russell – guitars
- with -
Eric Baldwin – found sounds, sequential creativity
Georg Baldwin – bass, Chapman Stick
Chris Biscoe – tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone
Mo Foster – bass
Nic France – drums
Simon Phillips – drums
Ralph Salmins – drums
Jim Watson – keyboards

Frank Zappa famously characterized music as sculpted air, a notion Ray Russell parlays into another dimension...

$15.00

Rune 223

Russell, Ray - Goodbye Svengali CD

Like contemporaries Sonny Sharrock and Terje Rypdal, 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...

$15.00

Rune 357

Ryan, Dylan - Sky Bleached

"I had the idea to write songs for a jazz band that had elements of Black Sabbath, the Cure, Jaco-era Joni Mitchell, and free jazz. I intentionally made the free playing and the composed sections less compartmentalized. The idea is to have a really...

$15.00

Rune 397

Ryan, Dylan / Sand - Circa

"Dylan Ryan is a drummer adept at combining his jazz skills with adventurous rock, resulting in music that maintains the cerebral and viceral qualities of both." – JazzTimes....

$15.00

Rune 397-mbs

Ryan, Dylan / Sand - Circa CD (Mega Blowout Sale)

"Dylan Ryan is a drummer adept at combining his jazz skills with adventurous rock, resulting in music that maintains the cerebral and viceral qualities of both." – JazzTimes....

$4.00

Rune 359

São Paulo Underground - Beija Flors Velho E Sujo

"...the results are a mix of electric jazz, minimalism, and Brazilian samba, bossa nova, and street sounds. Percolating textures, crackling cornet (smacking of Miles Davis and Don Cherry), and surreal electronica process local riffs and rhythms for...

$15.00

Rune 359-V

São Paulo Underground - Beija Flors Velho E Sujo vinyl lp with download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

This is an extremely high-quality vinyl version of this great album, and the wild, colorful cover artwork looks just wonderful in this larger size.

$21.00

Rune 423

São Paulo Underground - Cantos Invisíveis

"São Paulo Underground's work - all of Mazurek's work, really - draws from multiple traditions, each of them already porous and absorbent, and combines ideas from each into something utterly new, while keeping it welcoming to almost any curious listener." – The Wire

"Mixing the opaque with the diffused and blurring the lines between electric and acoustic, Rob Mazurek’s wide ambition continues to race toward the outer limits of what is possible in music." – Something Else...

$15.00

Rune 325

Sao Paulo Underground - Tres Cabecas Loucuras

Tres Cabeças Loucuras is the third album by Sao Paulo Underground. It's a very catchy, jazz + electronics album filled with sunny melodies, beats, noise, sounds and songs. The group formed around Rob Mazurek (cornet and electronics), a key player in...

$15.00

Rune 482

Schnellertollermeier - 5

Andi Schnellmann : electric bass
Manuel Troller : electric guitars
David Meier : drums & percussion

There are bands that play beautiful, engaging concerts, take a bow and go home – and then there are others that open up completely new perspectives, make time stop, and whose clear-cut approach burns itself into the audience's memory. Schnellertollermeier is such a band. Anyone who has seen them live will attest to the experience and, when trying to describe.

$15.00

Rune 482-V

Schnellertollermeier - 5 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

The band needed more copies, so we pressed more for them and ended up with a very small number (like only 50) to sell to Wayside folks
Blink and they'll be GONE (hopefully)...

Andi Schnellmann : electric bass
Manuel Troller : electric guitars
David Meier : drums & percussion

There are bands that play beautiful, engaging concerts, take a bow and go home – and then there are others that open up completely new perspectives, make time stop, and..

$21.00

Rune 442

Schnellertollermeier - Rights

Manuel Troller - guitar & effects
Andi Schnellmann - electric bass & effects
David Meier - drums

"Schnellertollermeier have developed an approach to music where distinctions between conventionally marked terrains -- heavy metal, post-rock, prog, electric jazz, new music, improvisation, noise, modern composition, etc. -- meet in one place...and vanish. In their place is a music that is aggressive (at times brutal), wildly ambitious, and indefinable by common....

$15.00

Rune 402

Schnellertollermeier - X

The brutal-jazz power trio Schnellertollermeier doesn't screw around. Their uncompromising attitude is even apparent before you hear a note of their music -- it's right there in that deliberate tongue-twister of a name. Their fresh and...

$15.00

Rune 539

Skullcap - Snakes of Albuquerque CD

Janel Leppin - cello, Minimoog
Anthony Pirog - electric guitar
Mike Kuhl - drums, percussion

Snakes of Albuquerque is the debut recording from the rock and jazz, free improvising, classically informed, adventurously rhythmic, and memorably tuneful power cello trio Skullcap. These long-time collaborators and three of the busiest musicians in the Baltimore/DC-area finally release their first album together! A kind of half imaginary/half real-life...

$15.00

Rune 539-v

Skullcap - Snakes of Albuquerque vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

Janel Leppin - cello, Minimoog
Anthony Pirog - electric guitar
Mike Kuhl - drums, percussion

Snakes of Albuquerque is the debut recording from the rock and jazz, free improvising, classically informed, adventurously rhythmic, and memorably tuneful power cello trio Skullcap. These long-time collaborators and three of the busiest musicians in the Baltimore/DC-area finally release their first album together! A kind of half imaginary/half real-life...

$25.00

Rune 330-331

Smith, Wadada Leo - Heart's Reflections 2 x CDs

"Organic’s music is a swirling roar, part fusion and part jazz rock orchestra, like a combination of Burnt Sugar and Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Ensemble. – The Wire, February 2010 cover story

"Organic’s music is powerfully electric and...

$21.00

Rune 495/496/497

Soft Machine - Facelift France and Holland 2 x CDs + DVD

Elton Dean – Alto sax, saxello
Lyn Dobson – Soprano and tenor sax, flute, harmonica, vocals
Hugh Hopper – Bass
Mike Ratledge – Hohner Pianet, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ
Robert Wyatt – Drums, vocals

"A love affair with France preserved on film - shot with tangible cinematic flair at Paris' photogenic Theatre De La Musique in March 1970, this superb quality live footage of the Softs at their freewheeling peak was originally broadcast on..

$27.00

Rune 495/496/497-v

Soft Machine - Facelift France and Holland 2 x vinyl lps + DVD (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

Elton Dean – Alto sax, saxello
Lyn Dobson – Soprano and tenor sax, flute, harmonica, vocals
Hugh Hopper – Bass
Mike Ratledge – Hohner Pianet, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ
Robert Wyatt – Drums, vocals

"A love affair with France preserved on film - shot with tangible cinematic flair at Paris' photogenic Theatre De La Musique in March 1970, this superb quality live footage of the Softs at their freewheeling peak was originally broadcast on..

$42.00

Rune 230/231

Soft Machine - Grides CD + DVD

Soft Machine were one of first and one of the greatest jazz/rock bands of all time. Their importance and influence was especially great in Europe, where they influenced several generations of bands, and their influences can still be heard to this day in bands like Jaga Jazzist and beyond.

Grides presents the most famous version of the band (Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt) recorded live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on October 25, 1970, in a high...

$21.00

Rune 530/531/532/533

Soft Machine - Høvikodden 1971 : 4 x CD box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

Elton Dean: alto sax, saxello, Hohner pianet
Hugh Hopper: bass
Mike Ratledge: Hohner pianet, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ, Fender Rhodes
Robert Wyatt: drums, vocals

"Essential! And, by the way, it really does sound like the band is playing right in front of you!" – Dimensions in Sound and Space...

$50.00

Rune 305-306

Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop - Hamburg, Germany, 1973 CD + DVD

Released for the very first time here is the Soft Machine's television broadcast, recorded for Germany's famous "NDR Jazz Workshop" on May 17, 1973. This performance was one of the earliest shows by the quartet of Roy Babbington (electric bass), Karl...

$21.00

Rune 130

Soft Machine - Noisette CD

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Lyn Dobson -- soprano sax, flute, vocals
Hugh Hopper -- bass
Mike Ratledge -- electric piano, organ
Robert Wyatt -- drums, vocals

Noisette was recorded January 4th, 1970, by the short-lived quintet formation of the group, this was this line-up's first gig and this is the concert and same recording that gave us Facelift on Third!
Noisette showcases a band in...

$15.00

Rune 395-396

Soft Machine - Switzerland 1974 CD + DVD

Soft Machine were one of the greatest UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time and their work, whether their earliest performances as a psychedelic band, who were contemporaries of, and shared stages with Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being one of Europe's best known 'fusion' bands, their work continues to be name-checked by today's hip experimentalists.

By mid 1973, Soft Machine had gone through a tremendous amount of personnel turnover and a...

$23.00

Rune 490/491

Soft Machine - The Dutch Lesson 2 x CDs

Roy Babbington : Electric 6-string bass
Karl Jenkins : Soprano sax, baritone sax, oboe, electric piano 
John Marshall : Drums 
Mike Ratledge : Electric piano, organ

From their beginnings as a psychedelic rock band in 1966, sharing stages with Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, to being one of the originators of electric jazz/rock by early 1969, Britain’s Soft Machine were restlessly creative. The Dutch Lesson captures them..

$21.00

Rune 100

Soft Machine - Virtually

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, electric piano
Mike Ratledge - electric piano, organ
Hugh Hopper - bass
Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals

This was our second Soft Machine archival release and over 20 years later, it remains one of the great documents of the 'classic quartet' line-up and it is now available again after many years!

"...an innovative union of jazz and rock." – Downbeat...

$15.00

Rune 414-v

Sonar - Black Light 2 x vinyl lps + download card (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

Beautiful gatefold sleeve and over 18' of bonus live material not found on the CD edition!

"Sonar has defied the norm by crafting something singular and magical." – The Buffalo News ...

$34.00

Rune 445

Spellcasters - Music From The Anacostia Delta CD

Dave Chappell Fender Telecaster guitar
Joel Harrison Fender Telecaster guitar
Anthony Pirog Fender Telecaster guitar
John Previte acoustic & electric bass
Barry Hart drums

It all started at the legendary Northern Virginia roadhouse JV's. D.C. born guitarists Anthony Pirog and Joel Harrison , musical soul mates, and now doing their first gig together, tore into a set of jazz-amped honkytonk songs before a stunned crowd. But..

$15.00

Rune 534

Stewart, Luke - Silt Remembrance Ensemble - The Order CD

Daniel Carter – alto saxophone, trumpet
Brian Settles – tenor saxophone
Jamal Moore – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, woodwinds, percussion
Luke Stewart – bass, poetry
Chad Taylor – drums, percussion
with
No Land – poetry (1)
Janice Lowe – poetry (9)

Bassist Luke Stewart isn’t afraid of blurring boundaries and blending bands, with astonishing results. An essential creative force in the fertile jazz an

$15.00

Rune 473

Stirrup+6 - The Avondale Addition

Fred Lonberg-Holm : Lightbox operator
Nick Macri : Bass
Charles Rumback : Drums
+6 :
Jen Clare Paulson : Viola
Zoots Houston : Electronics
Keefe Jackson : Reeds
Russ Johnson : Trumpet
Peter Manu : Guitar, Violin
Mars Williams : Reeds

“...in a strong contender for Best Album of 2020.” – Steve Loewy / The New York City Jazz Record...

$15.00

Rune 315-316

Surman, John - Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop – April, '69 CD + DVD

For nearly 45 years, John Surman has been one of England's best known modern jazz musicians. His career began in the late 60s as both a sideman and a leader with such notable greats as John McLaughlin, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath...

$21.00

Rune 515/516

Surman, John - Flashpoints and Undercurrents 2 x CDs

John Surman - soprano and baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Alan Skidmore - tenor saxophone and flute
Ronnie Scott - tenor saxophone
Mike Osborne - alto saxophone
Malcolm Griffiths - trombone
Erich Kleinschuster - trombone
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet and flugelhorn
Fritz Pauer - piano
Harry Miller - bass
Alan Jackson - drums

Recorded April 18, 1969 in Hamburg, Germany…

$21.00

Rune 371

Tatvamasi - Parts Of The Entirety

Born out of cataclysm and nurtured in silence and solitude, the music of Tatvamasi reveals hidden depths of the Polish soul. Tatvamasi is an extraordinary instrumental ensemble that plays scorching, uncategorizable music defined by searing tenor...

$15.00

Rune 467

Taylor, Chad - The Daily Biological

Chad Taylor: Drums
Brian Settles: Tenor Saxophone
Neil Podgurski: Piano

As the debut recording of an ensemble rooted in deep and abiding friendships The Daily Biological is a creatively roiling conversation. The unusual trio of drums (Chad Taylor), saxophone (Brian Settles) and piano (Neil Podgurski) creates tough and engaging music that unfurls in kinetic conversational bursts.
Taylor is probably best known as co-founder of the

$15.00

Rune 500-512

The Muffins - Baker's Dozen 12 x CD + 1 x DVD box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only)

The Muffins were a Washington, D.C. area band who existed from 1974-81 and then again with their best-known line-up still intact from 1993-2015. They released three albums during their original lifetime and six albums during their second life.
They were called, "...the finest progressive band that America produced...even at it's most complicated, (they) sounded effortless & convincing” by Fred Frith. They also acted as Fred’s backing band on his first post-Henry Cow solo album...

$175.00

Rune 500-512-E

The Muffins - Baker's Dozen 12 x CD + 1 x DVD box set (due to weight, this price is for all shipments outside of the USA)

The Muffins were a Washington, D.C. area band who existed from 1974-81 and then again with their best-known line-up still intact from 1993-2015. They released three albums during their original lifetime and six albums during their second life.
They were called, "...the finest progressive band that America produced...even at it's most complicated, (they) sounded effortless & convincing” by Fred Frith. They also acted as Fred’s backing band on his first post-Henry Cow solo album....

$225.00

Rune 407

Thinking Plague - In This Life CD (25th anniversary remaster)

LAST COPIES! Has a small drill hole through the tray.

"Perhaps the finest attempt so far by an American band to add to the pantheon of classic Rock In Opposition records...Mike Johnson's compositions are astonishing and - the clincher - beautiful, and Susanne Lewis' vocals are ...eerily enigmatic..."

$30.00

Rune 415

Thumbscrew - Convallaria CD

“The barrage of riffs are both epic and melodic, the low end beefy and the percussion massive. Expect nothing less than magic from these three avant purveyors.” – The Village Voice

“... all three of these musicians have a well-established history of creating unconventional music. That trend doesn’t end here, but as challenging as this music is, it’s presented in a way easy to accept.” – Wondering Sound...

$15.00

Rune 485-v

Thumbscrew - Multicolored Midnight 2 x vinyl lps cut at 45 rpm (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

Michael Formanek – double bass and electronics
Tomas Fujiwara – drums and vibraphone
Mary Halvorson – guitar

“Thumbscrew...are likeminded souls with decades of experience among them. Encapsulating a rare chemistry, their music offers a virtual masterclass of communal interplay.” – Point Of Departure

At the center of a spiraling musical universe, Thumbscrew is like a reverse black hole radiating brilliant constellations of overlapping.

$38.00

Rune 485

Thumbscrew - Multicolored Midnight CD

Michael Formanek – double bass and electronics
Tomas Fujiwara – drums and vibraphone
Mary Halvorson – guitar

“Thumbscrew...are likeminded souls with decades of experience among them. Encapsulating a rare chemistry, their music offers a virtual masterclass of communal interplay.” – Point Of Departure

At the center of a spiraling musical universe, Thumbscrew is like a reverse black hole radiating brilliant constellations of overlapping.

$15.00

Rune 478

Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough

Tomas Fujiwara – drums
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Michael Formanek – double bass and electric bass

"...a streamlined trio quickly becoming today's premiere small jazz group" - Francis Davis, NPR

Currently one of the most exciting and active groups in boundary-pushing jazz, is the collective trio Thumbscrew, who release their sixth album in seven years with Never Is Enough. Constantly taking the simple, ‘guitar trio’ line-up...

$15.00

Rune 478-v

Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

BACK IN STOCK, BUT NOT FOR LONG! THIS IS THE SECOND AND FINAL PRESSING OF THIS TITLE!

Tomas Fujiwara – drums
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Michael Formanek – double bass and electric bass

"...a streamlined trio quickly becoming today's premiere small jazz group" - Francis Davis, NPR

NOTE that this vinyl version has over 20’ of bonus material that is only available on the vinyl; not on the CD & not on the download! ...

$38.00

Rune 475

Thumbscrew - The Anthony Braxton Project

Tomas Fujiwara : Drums and Vibraphone
Mary Halvorson : Guitar
Michael Formanek : Double Bass

"Probably no one better qualified to make a Braxton tribute than these guys." – S. Victor Aaron / Something Else Reviews

“The cooperative trio that merges guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara is named after an instrument of torture. It is a typically sly move from a band that is constantly flirting..

$15.00

Rune 520

Thumbscrew - Wingbeats CD

Tomas Fujiwara – drums and vibraphone
Michael Formanek – double bass
Mary Halvorson – guitar

“...one of the most spellbinding trios in contemporary improvised music.” – Echoes

“Thumbscrew are one of the essential contemporary jazz groups, and each of those last four words requires an equal stress.” – The Wire ...

$15.00

Rune 439

Thumbscrew: Michael Formanek / Tomas Fujiwara / Mary Halvorson - Ours

Michael Formanek - bass
Tomas Fujiwara – drums
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Thumbscrew demonstrates their unique collective musical vision in contrasting but complementary ways on two exciting new CDs. Ours and Theirs are the first to be released on a newly revamped Cuneiform Records, just returning from a hiatus. Comprised of longtime collaborators Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara, and Mary Halvorson, Thumbscrew is

$15.00

RUNE257

Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution

Time of Orchids is an indefinable avant-rock band that formed in 1999 in New York City. After 3 self-released albums and a release on Tzadik that brought them to a much wider audience, Namesake Caution is their fifth release and their first on...

$15.00

Rune 540

Trinary System - The Hard Machine CD

Roger C. Miller – Guitars, vocals, Mellotron, cornet, piano
P. Andrew Willis – Basses, micro-synths, vocals
Larry Dersch – Drums, Whisky flask

“I think of Trinary System as my third, and last, really good rock band.” – Roger C. Miller
1969 : Sproton Layer
1979 : Mission of Burma
2012 : Trinary System

“Trinary System continues the elegant, abstract, agitated firestorm tradition of Miller’s Burma songs, with an unmistakable

$15.00

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