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- Artist:
Various Artists - Rating:
- Release Date: October 17, 1995
- Total Time: 128:08
- Type: Collection (various artists)
- Genre: Avant-Garde
Review
The idea came from Forever Einstein's Chuck Vrtacek: to put together an album of Cuneiform Records artists interpreting tunes from their label mates. Since the label had a pretty stable roster by 1994-1995, with most of them sharing some common musical aesthetics, the project has the possibility of being interesting. And it is. Unsettled Scores is not a compilation album or a label sampler. All tracks with the exception of one can't be find anywhere else (Volapük's rendition of Nick Didkovsky's "Three Curiously Insubstantial Duets No. 3" would later appear on their CD Slang!, along with No. 1 and 2). And yet, this is not an "unreleased material" patchwork: all tracks have been put together in 1994-1995, especially for the project, therefore one can feel the artistic cohesion of the whole. Ex-Soft Machine Hugh Hopper, Richard Pinhas, Doctor Nerve, and Univers Zéro all get tribute to the important place they hold in Cuneiform's catalogue. Some of the numerous highlights on Unsettled Scores include: Philarmonie's beautiful reading of Miriodor's "Transsibérien"; the latter's Present/Univers Zéro medley (including parts of "Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal" and "Heatwave"); a incredibly fast version of Daniel Denis' "Bulgarian Flying Spirit Dances," delivered by the prog-core Japanese outfit Happy Family; Djam Karet's spirited jam on Richard Pinhas' "Dedicated to K.C."; George Cartwright's jazzed-up take on Univers Zéro's "Complainte"; and finally an unreleased Univers Zéro piece completed by Nick Didkovsky (that one's a real treat!). Other renderers/renderees include Forever Einstein, The Muffins, Piero Milesi, David Borden, Birdsongs of the Mezosoic, Phil Miller, Henry Kaiser, U Totem, Virgil Moorefield, and Forrest Fang. Any fan of the Cuneiform roster will find something to like in here, but Univers Zéro aficionados will be particularly delighted. ~ François Couture, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| The True Wheelbase/Coco Boudakian [Medley] | Forever Einstein | (1:35) | |
| Hobart Got Burned | Kit Watkins, |
(4:04) | |
| Onde Crépusculaire | (6:34) | ||
| Ubik | Richard Pinhas | Peter Frohmader | (4:59) |
| Enfield in Summer | David Borden | Piero Milesi | (9:41) |
| Transsibérien | (5:51) | ||
| Unna | Nick Didkovsky | Hugh Hopper | (2:41) |
| A Moral Dilemma for Our Times | C.W. Vrtacek | Birdsongs of the Mesozoic | (4:04) |
| Promenade Sous Zéro | Andy Kirk, |
Miriodor | (7:04) |
| Meccano Pelorus | Hugh Hopper | Phil Miller | (4:47) |
| The March (Or Ornette Went to Cecil's House, But Left After About 10 ...) | George Cartwright | Henry Kaiser | (9:22) |
| Bulgarian Flying Spirit Dances | Daniel Denis | Happy Family | (6:16) |
| Dedicated to K.C. | Richard Pinhas | Djam Karet | (8:40) |
| Pain Waits Till 5pm | Nick Didkovsky | (6:11) | |
| They Walk Among Us | Richard Pinhas, |
(2:39) | |
| Miniluv | Hugh Hopper | David Borden | (5:35) |
| Three Curiously Insubstantial Duets, No. III | Nick Didkovsky | Volapük | (2:39) |
| Summer Walk | Virgil Moorefield | Rattlemouth | (3:56) |
| Piège | (3:45) | ||
| Carousel, Dedicated to Hugh | Hugh Hopper | U Totem | (4:12) |
| Get Moose and Squirrel | Henry Kaiser | Virgil Moorefield | (2:31) |
| She Wears Her Dead Mother's Hat | C.W. Vrtacek | The Muffins | (2:47) |
| Scene of the Madmen | Piero Milesi | Forrest Fang | (6:55) |
| Dyed | George Cartwright | (3:15) |
