Under the direction of label head Steve Feigenbaum, Cuneiform has searched hither and yon for artists across a wide spectrum of avant rock, jazz, and unclassifiable music for decades, and it was probably only a matter of time before the imprint released an album by a group specializing in the Devil's music…

"Loudspeaker" is an instrumental album by the guitarist Marty Friedman, released in 2006 in Japan, and 2007 in United States. It entered the Japanese national chart at #33. This marks the first Top 40 chart position for any of his solo albums. The album features guest performances of Steve Vai, Kirito, John Petrucci, Jens Johansson, Mick Karn, Masaki, Ryuichi Nishida, and Billy Sheehan.

After reforming in 2014 with a new line up featuring ex-ENGEL vocalist Magnus Klavborn. THE DUSKFALL is back! Marking the band's return to the scene after seven years of silence and delivers all the strengths of the Swedish metallers! Intense guitar solos, unforgettable melodies and brutal death / thrash riffing are the most obvious elements of the bands style. Above all soars the aggressive, yet emotional voice of Magnus that gives a very special edge to anthems like "Endgame", "Farewell" or "We The Freaks".

La Desooorden was formed in Valdivia, Chile, in 1994. In 2001 the band released "El Mounstruo de 7 cabezas", a record, reflecting the period from 1994 to 2000. The band plays an original mix of Jazz, Fusion and Chilean Folk using also ethnic instruments like tablas, djembé, darbouka and didgeridoo. In August of 2002, La Desooorden' recorded "Ensayo" and presented their work in different cities in Chile, sharing the stage with 'Congreso' and 'Los Jaivas'. In 2004, the band received a governmental grant for cultural projects to publish and promote their third disc "La Isla de los Muertos", a concept record dealing in a critical way with issues of Chilean history…

Here we have a collection of Christmas tunes as sung by cats & kittens. It's a cute and original idea for a great Christmas novelty album. I bought this at my son's request when it first came out so it has to be a first press issue, just for the record.

In the famous Preface to Alceste (1767), Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi posited a new direction for opera. They spoke of moving beyond Baroque forms, of striving for a new naturalism in opera. They wanted, in Calzabigi's lovely phrase, to liberate the language of the heart. Taken from the height of this Reform period, the arias on this disc reveal composers exploring and experimenting, at struggle and at play, as they create the new forms that bring to opera the noble simplicity of the Classical era.