Your Invitation to a Presale of Art Zoyd's + Cuneiform's First-Ever Box Set

Cuneiform Records and Art Zoyd present

Art Zoyd's 44 1/2 : Live and Unreleased Works

A 14-disc Box Set of all Previously Unreleased Recordings.

A comprehensive collection of Art Zoyds previously unreleased material, this box set celebrates Art Zoyds far-sighted musical works over the decades and serves a key role in documenting their important legacy.

Every CD is filled to the bursting with nearly 80 minutes of music. There are basically eight CDs of live recordings stretching from the years 1972-2004 and four CDs of studio recordings, sketches and outtakes from 1980-2005.

Of the two DVDs, one is comprised of historical television appearances from the late 70s into the end of the 80s and the other being the entire performance of their celebration at the RIO Festival.

It will cost us a fortune to manufacture this, and we do not have a fortune, so we are asking Art Zoyd's fans and our friends and fans to help us to be able to release this by paying for their copy in advance directly from us. This will give us the needed funds to pay for its manufacture which we need in order to make this set a reality.

Important, please read:  If we do not sell enough copies of this set here, by March 1, we will be forced to cancel the release and your money will be refunded.

If all goes as we hope and plan, we will send you confirmation of production in early March, and we will ship the boxes and shirts to you sometime in May 2017.

In return, and in thanks for your early purchase, you will receive a...FREE LIMITED EDITION ART ZOYD T-SHIRT that will ONLY BE MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THOSE WHO PRE-BUY THIS BOX SET; if someone orders it from us after this pre-sale or anywhere else, the price will remain the same, but they will not receive the shirt!

If you want to order, please ONLY order this item. If you want other items from us, please place a separate order for those items.

Thank you for your help in making this gargantuan project happen!!

“Art Zoyd is a quartet, but their instrumental arsenal produces the sound of a mighty orchestra.”

– The New York Times

Originally founded as a psychedelic / progressive rock band in France in 1969, with the arrival of soon-to-be co-leaders Gerard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboitzeff in 1971 and then with the departure of the band’s founder, the group radically changed direction. By 1975 they were no longer a ‘rock’ band with guitars and drums, the band were now based around the unique sounds of violins, electric bass and cello and trumpet, with additional instrumentation.

In 1976, Art Zoyd released their first album, toured with Magma and within a few years were invited to become one of only eight members of the Rock In Opposition Movement, a musician-led organization of some of the most cutting edge bands from Europe who banded together to increase their opportunities for work.

By the early 1980s, they were touring internationally and were a figurehead of ‘new music’ or ‘avant rock’. Beginning in the mid 80s into the mid 90s, they were at their peak renown, collaborating with choreographer Roland Petit, who commissioned them to work with him on a full ballet: Le Marriage Du Ciel et De L’Enfer (The Marriage Of Heaven & Hell) as well as performing live, self-penned soundtracks to classic silent films such as Nosferatu, Faust and Haxan. Concurrent with this period and their work in ballet and with films, the music shifts towards a more electronic, stripped-down and modern sound during this era.

In 2014, after a period of inactivity, Gerard and Thierry began to speak to each other about the idea of performing some retrospective concerts to celebrate their many achievements and performing as much music from the past as was practical in a concert with as many old collaborators as could be included. The first of these events was held in September 2015 at the Rock In Opposition Festival in Carmaux, France.

Box Set Contents:

12 CDs featuring:

• Live in Berlin, The Loft (April 1986)

• Häxan, Live in Copenhagen, European Capital of Culture (February 1996)

• u•B•I•Q•U•e, Live in Maubeuge, La Luna (January 2000)

• Lindbergh (circa 1990)

• Le mariage du ciel et de l’enfer, Live in Paris, with the Ballet National de Marseille (Roland Petit), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (March 1985)

• Live in Paris, Le Golf Drouot (1972)

• Live in Nancy (1975)   

• Live at Pop Club avec José Artur, Radio France (1974)

• Live in Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance (1976)

• Live in Mons, with Musiques Nouvelles (2000)

• “La Nuit du Jabberwock,” with members of Musiques Nouvelles, Live in Armentières, Le Vivat (2002)

• Live in Grenoble, 38èmes Rugissants Festival (1990)

• Live in Maubeuge, Art Zoyd with the Orchestre National de Lille (2000)

• Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (1975/orch. 2000)

• Live in Mexico, Art Zoyd with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México (1999)

• Armageddon, actes 2 & 3, Live in Lille (2004)

• Musiques Inédites demos (1987-1992)

• Faust  (unreleased, 1992)

• Les Présidents (1980)

• Korbes (1995)

• Live at Pop Club avec José Artur, Radio France (1975)

• Les Escalators mystérieux (2005)

• Globe Arena (1989)

• Musique pour le Six-Centenaire du Beffroi de Bethune (1988)

• Bethune 1789 (1989)

• Les Inattendus de Maubeuge “Spoutnik” (1993)

• Les Trois Mousquetaires

• Flixecourt Tisserands

• La Guerre de Marguerite

• Au nom du Père (1991)  

• Malbodium (1987)

• L'étrangleur est derrière vous (1983)

• Terra Terra! (1986)

• Live in Nancy (1975)

• Live in Reims, Maison de la Culture (1980)

• Live performance (excerpt) for Radio Tonkraft, Stockholm (October 3, 1979)

• Marco Polo (1984)

2 DVDs featuring:

• 44 1/2, the birthday concert, Live at Maison de la Musique, Cap’Découverte, Le Garric, France, Rock In Opposition Festival 2015 (September 19, 2015)

• Live in Berlin, Centre Culturel Français de Berlin (April 14–15, 1986)

• Live on Phase IV / FR3 TV, Hôtel de Ville de Maubeuge (December 1982)

• Nosferatu - Teaser (1988)

• Musique pour l'Odyssée / FR3 Nord Picardie TV excerpt (1979)

• Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer (excerpts) / Antenne 2 TV (1985)

Agnes Hvizdalek - INDEX (NAKAMA RECORDS 27th of February 2017)

"Index" is a 47 minutes long abstract of Agnes Hvizdalek's decade-long experimental music practice and systematic research on the sonic possibilities of the human voice. It can be read as a book of references to contemporary and electronic music, as well as a kind of meta-alphabetical catalogue of verbal communication’s smallest building bricks: a table of content, or depending on the point of view, a blacklist.

The piece is recorded at the bottom of a 60 meter high chimney of the ancient factory "Casa das Caldeiras" in the heart of São Paulo. We follow Agnes Hvizdalek on a consequent path from intimate breaths and clicks to powerful echoing overtones and multiphonics. The lonesome, unprocessed voice is accompanied by the macro-soundscape of city noises and other background sounds, such as construction workers' radios, ambient activity within the factory and helicopters flying overhead – gentle reminders of the outside world.

27th of February

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Bill O'Connell Monk’s Cha Cha CD Release Show @ Mezzrow Thurs., March 16th Sets 8 and 9:30 pm

Bill O'Connell

Monk’s Cha Cha

CD Release Show

@

163 West 10th street, basement

Greenwich Village, New York City

10014  Tel: 646-476-4346

Thursday, March 16th

Sets 8 and 9:30 pm

Bill O'Connell- piano

Kenny Davis-bass

Bill O'Connell - Monk’s Cha Cha

Release Date: FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The musical history of solo piano recordings is long and rich, and contains much emotionally compelling music. Entire albums of solo piano require real skills from the improvising artist to keep the listeners’ ears glued to the music. The demonstration is here. Bill O’Connell is woefully under-recorded as a solo artist, given that he has been the rst-call pianist for names like Mongo Santamaria, Sonny Rollins, Gato Barbieri and Jerry González’s Fort Apache Band, to name but a few. On this CD, recorded in a beautiful-sounding concert venue in Rockland County, NY he plays his own compositions with some covers of the standards “The Song is You”, “It Could Happen to You” and “Afro Blue”. O’Connell’s playing is very satisfying, not ostentatious or prone to dramatic e ects, but is focused on careful development and further expansion of initial ideas. Imaginative in spirit, his improvisations are quite controlled, never wild, never cloyingly sweet, yet very lyrical and impressionistic. A rare and winning combination.

“Bill O’Connell continues to be in the springtime of his career and his last few recordings are wonderful testaments to a gift for composition and performance...Latin Jazz is richer for his contributions as he continues to add volumes to the literature of the earthy dialect.” Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network

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Jesse Davis - Soul Searchin' (Live in Seoul) NAGEL HEYER RECORDS 2017

Alto saxophonist Jesse Davis is one of the top contemporary Jazz stars coming out of New Orleans, where he was born in 1965. In addition to leading his own group, Davis has performed with such stellar jazz musicians as Jack McDuff, Major Holley, Cecil Payne, Illinois Jacquet, Chico Hamilton, Junior Mance, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Nicholas Payton, and Roy Hargrove. He toured in 1996 along with Phil Woods, Charles McPherson, and Gary Bartz in the group Sax Machine.

Recording with his own quartet since 1991, Davis led the band in more than 50 shows in Spain, France, Italy, and the U.K. in 1993, 1994, and 1995. He returned to New Orleans in 1996. Davis made his acting debut in the Robert Altman film "Kansas City" where he plays Charlie Parker.

Now he is leading the Jesse Davis Quartet accompanied by the uprising pianist Paul Kirby and a world-class rhythm section with Martin Zenker, bass, and Kim Minchan, drums.

1 Pray Thee Be Free 

2 Beyond the Storm 

3 Innuendo 

4 It's Just Farewell 

5 End of a Love Affair 

6 Jesse Talks 

7 I'm Glad There Is You 

Tracks 1-4 are Jesse Davis originals

Jesse Davis - alto sax

Paul Kirby - piano

Martin Zenker - double bass

Kim Minchan - drums

Rhoda Scott Lady Quartet - We Free Queens (2017)

Cela fait maintenant une quarantaine d’années que la musicienne aux pieds nus nous fait savourer les délices de son orgue Hammond aux sonorités vite reconnaissables. Qu’elle interprète du gospel, du blues, du jazz ou de la musique classique, son talent reste le même et sa passion intacte avec près de 60 enregistrements au compteur et un nombre incalculable de concerts !

En 2007, l’américaine, qui vit désormais en France, rencontre 3 musiciennes de jazz au club parisien Sunset-Sunside : Sophie Alour (sax ténor), Lisa Cat-Berro (sax alto) et Julie Saury (batterie). Le Lady Quartet est né. Un premier album verra le jour en 2009 sous le label Must Record.

Ce deuxième enregistrement du quartet a été produit par le Sunset. Les compositions sont signées tour à tour Lisa Cat-Berro, Sophie Alour, Rhoda Scott. On y trouve aussi quelques belles reprises : « Que reste-t-il de nos amours ? » de Charles Trenet, « One by one » de Wayne Shorter ou encore le célébrissime « What I’d say » de Ray Charles enregistré en public.

« We free queens » est un album tonique et enjoué, plein d’une grande vitalité, où les musiciennes sont en parfaite harmonie. Un régal de swing sous l’égide d’une organiste au charisme et à la générosité légendaires.

1. We Free Queens (feat. Géraldine Laurent & Anne Paceo) 5:45

2. I Wanna Move (feat. Géraldine Laurent & Anne Paceo) 4:23

3. Que reste-t-il de nos amours? 5:05

4. One by One (feat. Julien Alour) 5:06

5. Rhoda's Delight (feat. Géraldine Laurent) 4:29

6. Valse à Charlotte 5:46

7. Joke (feat. Anne Paceo) 7:31

8. What I'd Say (feat. Géraldine Laurent & Julien Alour) 4:56

The United East Jazz Quintet - The United East Jazz Quintet (2017)

The United East Jazz Quintet is a collaborative project between Korean and Japanese musicians who was based in Boston and New York.

1. Teemo's Journey 06:36

2. Strolling Through the Night Market 04:15

3. Little J 04:11

4. Desert Front 08:00

5. Sanctum 07:38

6. In the Beginning 08:52

Myungsup Shin (sax)

Yuto Kanazawa (guitar)

KyuMin Shi m (piano)

Hoo Kim (bass)

Hironori Suzuki (drums)

Theo Bleckmann - Elegy (ECM 2017)

Beyond being a vocalist of rare purity and daring, Theo Bleckmann is a sound painter who creates what JazzTimes has described aptly as “luminous webs” in music. The German-born New Yorker – after appearing on two ECM albums by Meredith Monk and another by Julia Hülsmann makes his striking label debut as a leader with Elegy.

This album showcases Bleckmann as a composer as much as a singer, with several instrumental pieces voiced by what he calls his “ambient” band of kindred-spirit guitarist Ben Monder, keyboardist Shai Maestro and the subtle rhythm team of Chris Tordini and John Hollenbeck. Highlights include Bleckmann’s sublime rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s “Comedy Tonight” (“tragedy tomorrow… comedy tonight”), as well as the mellifluous vocalise of “Little Elegy” and achingly poetic “To Be Shown to Monks at a Certain Temple.”

Staub Quartet - House Full of Colors (JACC RECORDS 2017)

Artistic creation is closely linked with the need to take that which remains hidden in the unconscious to a higher level governed by consciousness. 

In the exercise of transforming the occult into something visible, the artist, through a state of catharsis of being, goes about creating an imaginary space where they are able to germinate symbols, capture ideas and project from the magic of playfulness an aesthetic argument that aspires to transform the creative impulse into a significant and substantive action. 

However, for a work to be deemed a truly creative act, it is not enough to solely unearth the hidden in the unconscious nor to bring from the darkness that which exists in the depths of being. There must exist, within the artist, the will to manifest a transparency that allows the light to enter their inner world. 

The symbolism contained in the existing link between the action of "letting in the light" and creative realization, is embodied in a sublime way through House Full of Colors, the debut album by STAUB Quartet. 

This cooperative project, rooted in the development of acoustic improvisation, brings together four essential figures of our time in European creative music: violinist Carlos "Zingaro", guitarist Marcelo dos Reis, bassist Hernani Faustino and cellist Miguel Mira. The approach offered in this album debut of this quartet of distinguished musicians - all having emerged from today’s thriving Portuguese music scene - finds its inspirational epicenter in the concepts of light and color. 

This conceptual reference is embodied in the album title as well as the names of each piece while also giving life and nurturing a musical approach that yearns to explore uncharted creative territories. So claimed Paul Cezanne, "Light is not something that can be reproduced, but something that should be represented using something else". 

The artistic testimony amalgamated by STAUB QUARTET in House Full of Colors, the means used for that representation, are sounds and music. Talking about color also involves talking about light; it is due to light that we see the shapes and colors of forms. However, with subsequent discoveries about how the brain interprets colors in "Color Theory", outlined by Goethe, along with the current research in color psychology, it is agreed that color has a subjective value that is based on the phenomenon of human perception.

There is no doubt that subjectivity can be fertile ground for the blossoming of an artistic idea that seeks to extrapolate the perception of color to music and, in the case of House Full of Colors, that aspiration materializes in a sublime manner. The album passes through different climates - mostly associated with the perception of color and light that gives it life - but finds a common denominator in its abstract nature (which is to say that it doesn’t respond to predetermined stylistic concepts), a spacious and relaxed exploration of the material (which comes from careful listening and mutual understanding with which they interact collectively) and the constant playful instinct that pervades the improvisational approach of the quartet. In its subtle journey, the music passes through the spacious contours and introspective calm of Quiet Arcs, the disturbing intensity that emerges from the complex sound structure exposed in Red Curtains, the fleeting and elusive character of Opacity Rings, the sonic flirtations and emphatic dramatics of Knots of Light, the haunting beauty of a dream-like atmosphere developed in Resonant Shades and the multi-weighted temperament open to myriad readings emanating from Discrete Auroras. All of it ranked by the quality of the ideas of its interpreters and framed in the context of a consummate collective delivery. 

At the time, the brilliant Kandinsky - influenced by Goethe and Delacroix - showed that sound and color had powerful effects on the human condition as both can become "means to exert a direct influence on the soul." 

Based on similar principles, STAUB QUARTET, through House Full of Color, has produced a work capable of illuminating the soul of everyone who is willing to "let in the light" to their inner world. 

Sergio Piccirilli

1. Quiet Arcs 6:10 

2. Red Curtains 6:59 

3. Opacity Rings 10:13 

4. Knots of Light 5:19 

5. Resonant Shades 9:14 

6. Discrete Auroras 5:42

Miguel Mira cello

Carlos Zíngaro violin

Hernani Faustino double bass

Tim Langedijk Trio - Up North (2017)

Up North, the trio’s brand new album, represents going home, to the northern part of The Netherlands, where Langedijk was born. To develop the compositions for this album, guitarist Langedijk and bassist Pannekeet spent the summer in Wedgeview Studio, located in the green heart of The Netherlands. A region that a century and a half ago was much loved by painters from The Hague, they found their inspiration for the particular sky, light and water. Distant from crowds, the two created this 6th album in peace. This unique collaboration resulted in a number of compositions that defines the band more than ever.

Tim Langedijk – Guitarist Langedijk (1984) graduated cum laude at the Rotterdam Conservatory. Langedijk started his trio in 2006. Besides his trio he does studiowork and arranging. With different groups he toured throughout Europe. Contemporary jazz that branches out into fusion and country, it’s all possible with Langedijk, yet always with a lovely tone and refined movements.

He likes beautiful melodic lines and subtle harmonies and he also searches for intriguing and adventurous soundscapes. He played with Jasper van ’t Hof, Adam Nussbaum, Tommy Smith.

Currently he’s teaching at the Haarlem Conservatory.

Udo Pannekeet – Bass player Udo Pannekeet (1978) graduated cum laude at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 2002 he started his own quintet Pitch Pine Project, featuring Martijn van Iterson, Tom Beek, Chris Strik en Rob van Bavel. The group got a lot of critical acclaim in the Netherlands as well as outside of it, playing in France, Belgium and Germany. PPP played at the North Sea Jazz Festival twice, with famous trumpet player Randy Brecker. Udo played at major festivals en venues in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, China, the Philippines and Switzerland.

On (2014, Bow Shock Records) is his first album under his own name. With top-notch players: Jeroen van Vliet, Pascal Vermeer and Belgian saxophonist Erwin Vann.

Udo teaches bassguitar and theory at the conservatories in Tilburg, Haarlem and Enschede.

Hans van Oosterhout – Hans (1965) started playing drums at the age of seven. After graduating from high school, he is immediately admitted to the Jazz Department of the Rotterdam Conservatory. Even before finishing his studies, he is offered a position as a drum teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory, a position today he still holds since 1987. Currently also teaching at Fontys in Tilburg. Over the years Hans has established himself as one of the much sought after drummers in Europe. He has been performing with Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Kenny Wheeler, John Scofield, Gino Vannelli, Lee Konitz, Rick Margitza, Denise Jannah, and many more.

In 1998 The Belgian Jazz Magazine voted Hans ‘Best European Jazz Drummer’.

1. Current · 8:45
2. Gerridae · 4:38
3. Song of Secrets · 6:44
4. Flor Ane · 5:07
5. Up North · 5:20
6. Mystics · 3:00
7. Status · 3:34
8. Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry · 3:15

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Papanosh - A Chicken in a Bottle (2017)

Dès le premier titre le ton est donné! Bienvenue dans l'univers tumultueux de Papanosh. Comme sur leur précédent album Oh Yeah Ho, les cinq jazzmen français débarquent avec un tourbillon swing destructuré et jubilatoire à l'imaginaire tout mingusien et dolphyesque. Le quintet du collectif des Vibrants Défricheurs joue avec les codes du jazz pour mieux le faire vivre et danser.

Sur ce A Chicken in a Bottle, les trublions imprévisibles brisent les rythmes, alternent mélodies élégantes et tempêtes rythmiques. Ils trempent leur groove fulgurant dans un folklore imaginaire, de Tijuana à la Havane en passant par La Nouvelle Orléans. Papanosh est un quintet de musiciens qui se sont construits ensemble, où chacun peut être leader. Solos et fièvre collective s'enchaînent avec une évidence rare, le tout avec une dérision que seuls les grands musiciens peuvent se permettre.

Les cuivres du saxophoniste Raphaël Quenehen et du trompettiste Quentin Ghomari irradient, les rythmiques du contrebassite Thibault Cellier et du batteur Jérémie Piazza jouent avec notre tension, tandis que l'orgue B3 et autres claviers de Sébastien Palis nous propulent dans le groove des meilleures années Blue Note. Au milieu de cette cavalcade festive de compositions originales trône une reprise délicate du titre Plain Gold Ring immortalisé par Nina Simone en 1958. Un pur bonheur à voir sur scène absolument.

1. A Chicken in a Bottle 4:28

2. Monsieur Shadows 5:46

3. Bierbeek 5:02

4. Hermanos 6:45

5. Moquette 6:07

6. Plain Gold Ring 5:13

7. El Toro 7:52

8. 160 Bpm 3:34

9. Pour Andre 5:05

Quentin Ghomari : trompette

Raphaël Quenehen : saxophones

Sebastien Palis : orgue B3, piano

Thibault Cellier : contrebasse

Jérémie Piazza : batterie