Cuneiform Records, was founded in 1984. We currently have well over 250 titles available. More in depth information, soundclips, reviews, photos and more can be found on the Cuneiform Records Web Site.
Wayside Music was established in January of 1980 as a mail order operation. For over 28 years, we have been dealing in progressive rock, experimental rock, new jazz, off-beat, contemporary and many other undefinable musics from across the globe.
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LATEST CUNEIFORM RELEASES
 LED BIB / SENSIBLE SHOES / CUNEIFORM / Rune 283
Genre: JAZZ
Now “Fun” may not be a word you expect to hear in relation to jazz, but it's the addition of this playfulness that has over years seen Led Bib throw out any preconceptions and play for audiences who don't consider themselves jazz fans or would not even necessarily know that they like jazz in the least. With a very loud blast of anarchic rock, a surge of euphoric jazz and an irrepressible burst of band laughter, the UK quintet Led Bib release their fourth album. A tremendously popular act at home in the UK, where they regularly play large-scale festivals and concert halls (as well as playing the typical club gigs.) Sensible Shoes is their first recording to be released outside of the UK.
Cuneiform Records is proud -- indeed, THRILLED -- to announce that our new CD, Sensible Shoes by the British group Led Bib, was announced on the short-list for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize's 2009 "Album of the Year"
The prestigious Mercury Prize is of ground-shaking importance within the UK, and has been called the United Kingdom's "most influential music award". Unlike the UK's Brit Awards, which concentrate on more commercially successful acts and is more widely known in the US, the Mercury Prize is devoted to celebrating quality. It is given to the CD that a panel of experts feels is the best album of the year by a UK artist, regardless of musical genre, position on radio charts, or sales numbers.
Previous Mercury winners include the Arctic Monkeys, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal and Franz Ferdinand.
Previous Mercury shortlisted nominees include Radiohead, The Jesus and Mary Chain, U2, Blur, Oasis, The Chemical Brothers, David Bowie, Belle & Sebastian, Robert Wyatt, John Surman, M.I.A. and Muse.
"Best listened to with the volume up and the neighbours warned&x2026;sounds like a gale of fresh air...”
- The Guardian
“...incendiary concoction of maverick avant garde jazz and rock sounds... [4 stars]”
- Jazzwise
"Rarely have two saxes, keyboard, bass and drums sounded so dangerous yet so compelling... [4 stars]"
- Observer Music Monthly
 MIRIODOR / AVANTI! / CUNEIFORM / Rune 288
Genre: ROCK / AVANT PROGRESSIVE
A Montreal-based quartet, Miriodor create instrumental music that is complex, playful, visually evocative, and exquisitely performed. The band describes its sound as “like a soundtrack for a movie, a movie with weird and strange stories,” and indeed, each CD is like a book of short video stories, each differing in subject and mood. Their compositions, each as intricate as an Escher drawing and entertaining as fun-house mirrors. Miriodor's distinctive compositions and its rigorous musicianship have identified it as the main Canadian exponent of the R.I.O. (Rock In Opposition) sound with an unpresumptuous, light-hearted, and sincerely entertaining twist.
 POSITIVE CATASTROPHE / GARABATOS VOLUME ONE / CUNEIFORM / Rune 286
Genre: JAZZ / LATIN JAZZ
Positive Catastrophe is the brainchild of Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado. Bynum has been described as “animated as a vintage Loony Tune...one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation” (Steve Dollar, Time Out Chicago). Gomez-Delgado has been called “the new century's mad scientist, creating a musical hybrid so seemingly wrong it can be nothing but right” (Global Rhythm Magazine). Together they have come up with Positive Catastrophe: a trans-idiomatic ten-piece little big band that successfully connects the dots between Sun Ra and Eddie Palmieri.
“&x2026; If you've been hungering to hear Latin-based jazz in a new light, your prayers have been answered.”
- NY Press
 ED PALERMO BIG BAND / EDDY LOVES FRANK / CUNEIFORM / Rune 285
Genre: JAZZ / BIG BAND JAZZ
As a jazz arranger, composer, bandleader and saxophonist, Ed Palermo works magic with Frank Zappa's music. These big-band jazz arrangements are no mere transcriptions; they are “revelations”, as one critic best said. Palermo belongs to a tradition of visionary composers and arrangers who have recognized hidden beauty and genius in an avant garde composer's radical work, and created genius arrangements that help reveal that beauty to the public eye. Palermo's arrangements have helped bring Zappa's rock music wider recognition outside of the rock world, elevating rock music's status as ‘serious' composition while proving that serious and satirical can indeed coexist.
 UPSILON ACRUX / RADIAN FUTURA / CUNEIFORM / Rune 284
Genre: ROCK / POST-PUNK
Upsilon Acrux is among the best of the bands transforming the post-punk landscape, reinvigorating modern music's physically powerful, aggressive and speed-driven sound by infusing it with a compositional intensity and technical prowess long associated with various forms of metal and progressive rock. In Upsilon Acrux's hands, this sonic fusion results in an explosive new music that is both exhilarating and abstract. Radian Futura is an album of explosive, intense and surprisingly beautiful, intricate, instrumental rock. Simultaneously physical and cerebral, challenging and melodic.
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