The band credited with inspiring the launch of Cuneiform Records, and not a few experimental music projects, is being celebrated with a retrospective box set featuring 12 CDs, a DVD and book. Fittingly, the Nov. 18 release of The Muffins’ Baker’s Dozen comes to us via Cuneiform.

The band had a pair of celebrated runs – from 1974 to 1981 and then again from 1993 to 2015. Fred Frith called them “the finest progressive band that America produced.”

Almost all of the 135 tracks included are previously unreleased.