The Squid's Ear Magazine




  October 2015
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Di Domenico, Giovanni  / Peter Jacquemyn / Chris Corsano: A Little Off The Top [VINYL]
Di Domenico, Giovanni / Peter Jacquemyn / Chris Corsano:
A Little Off The Top [VINYL]

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $21.95    




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A limited LP from the trio of European improvisers Giovanni Di Domenico on piano and Peter Jacquemyn on double bass with American drummer Chris Corsano, recording in the studio in Belgium, 2013, for 3 free improvisations of dexterous and expressive playing.

Kuchen, Martin / Jon Rune Strom / Tollef Ostvang: Melted Snow [VINYL]
Kuchen, Martin / Jon Rune Strom / Tollef Ostvang:
Melted Snow [VINYL]

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $21.95    




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Martin Kuchen (Angles, Fire! Orchestra, All Included, &c) on tenor and soprano sax, Jon Rune Strom on bass, and Tollef Ostvang on drums for an album of muscular playing and intense interaction, including a breakdown of All Included's "Satan In Plain Clothes".

Kupczak, Slawomir : Res Facta
Kupczak, Slawomir :
Res Facta

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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A series of electroacoustic compositions from composer Slawomir Kupczak, combining the sounds of instruments via electronic means to create new hybrid sounds of alien character, released in carefully building works from near-minimal to unsettling eruptions of sound.

Lenar / Masecki / Zralek: Fortepian Chopina
Lenar / Masecki / Zralek:
Fortepian Chopina

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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A diverse set of radio compositions by three Warsaw artists from different fields of art -- Martin Masecki, Wojtek Zra ka-Kossakowski and Martin Lenarczyk -- who reconstruct and commemorate the memory of Poland's most famous composer, Frederic Chopin.

Lindberg,  John / Anil Eraslan: Juggling Kukla [VINYL]
Lindberg, John / Anil Eraslan:
Juggling Kukla [VINYL]

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $22.95    




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The duo of cellist Anil Eraslan and contrabassist John Lindberg in a "rollicking adventure of sound explosions and subtle sensibilities, ragged expressionism and multi-faceted surprises and shockers. All from simple raw unfettered wood, strings, bow hairs, and flesh."

MIRT: Solitaire
MIRT:
Solitaire

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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Tomek Mirt resurrects the memory of Norwegian composer Arne Nordheimie through this five part work of slowly shifting electronics, tense atmospheres, and gentle murmurs, detailed work that reveals its meditative depth through repeated listenings.

Petit, Philippe : Ear Me In
Petit, Philippe :
Ear Me In

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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Composer Petit in an opus dealing with the dynamic of resonance and its incidences: a microphonic exploration of a single sound body made to resonate by means of different types of percussion, building a dramatic story from sampled and processed percussive elements.

Carter, John Trio: Echoes from Rudolph's [2 CDs]
Carter, John Trio:
Echoes from Rudolph's [2 CDs]

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $15.95    




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Between 1973 and '76 Sunday afternoons at Rudolph's Fine Art Center hosted the superb John Carter Trio with son Stanley Carter on bass and Chris Carter on cymbals; these live recordings were originally released in a limited LP in 1977, now reissued with a rare '77 radio broadcast.

Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden: Frictions / Frictions Now
Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden:
Frictions / Frictions Now

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $15.95    




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Two studio recordings recorded 2 years apart (1969, 1971) of "Frictions", a 6 part work, and the additional 2 part "Frictions Now" from the quartet of Michael Sell (trumpet), Dieter Scherf (sax & winds), Gerhard Konig (guitar & flutes) and Wolfgang Schlick (percussion).

Kuchen, Martin / Johan Berthling / Steve Noble: Night In Europe
Kuchen, Martin / Johan Berthling / Steve Noble:
Night In Europe

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $15.95    




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Swedish saxophonist Martin Kuchen (Angles, Trespass Trio, All Included) with UK drummer/percussionist Steve Noble and double bassist John Berthling in a searing album of free improvisation performed live at Glenn Miller Cafe in Stockholm in 2014.

Lundbom, Jon & Big Five Chord: Jeremiah
Lundbom, Jon & Big Five Chord:
Jeremiah

(Hot Cup Records -- USA )


Price: $12.95    




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Guitarist Lundbom expands his Big Five Chord of Jon Irabagon (sax), Bryan Murray (sax), Moppa Elliott (bass) and Dan Monaghan (drums) to include Sam Kulik on trombone and Justin Wood (sax & flute) for a dynamic album of power jazz named after the prophet Jeremiah.

Schott, John: John Schott's Actual Trio
Schott, John:
John Schott's Actual Trio

(Tzadik -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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San Francisco Bay Area guitarist John Schott (Junk Genius, T.J. Kirk, Tom Waits) in his 3rd release on Tzadik with his trio of Dan Seamans on bass and John Hanes on drums, 8 upbeat compositions including one for James Blood Ulmer; lyrical pieces with tight interplay.

Shyu, Jen & Jade Tongue: Sounds and Cries of the World
Shyu, Jen & Jade Tongue:
Sounds and Cries of the World

(Pi Recordings -- USA )


Price: $14.95    




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Experimental jazz vocalist and pianist Jen Shyu with her Jade Tongue band of Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, Mat Maneri on viola, Thomas Morgan on bass, and Dan Weiss on drums in an intimate album that incorporates world traditions, instruments and languages.

Zorn, John: Inferno
Zorn, John:
Inferno

(Tzadik -- USA )


Price: $15.95    




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The 3rd album from Zorn's trio of John Medeski (organ), Kenny Grohowski (drums) and Matt Hollenberg (guitar) in a long-form composition inspired by the work of Swedish poet, painter, alchemist and occultist August Strindberg, 7 pieces of dark, driving, ecstatic improv.

Alebeek, Rinus van & Michael Libera: play Alvin Lucier Chambers
Alebeek, Rinus van & Michael Libera:
play Alvin Lucier Chambers

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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Rinus van Alebeek and Michal Libera made frequent excursions into Calabrian towns to follow Alvin Lucier's suggestions to make large and small resonant environments sound, presented through field recordings and readings of text adaptations of Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities".

AMM: Spanish Fighters
AMM:
Spanish Fighters

(Matchless -- Great Britain )


Price: $17.95    




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Recorded at the festival Neposlusno (Sound Disobedience) in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2012, the AMM duo of Eddie Prevost on percussion and John Tilbury on piano perform an extend improvisation of tension and dynamic, delicately balancing sound in a rich dialog.

Catchpole / Edwards / Prevost: Beyond the Barrier
Catchpole / Edwards / Prevost:
Beyond the Barrier

(Matchless -- Great Britain )


Price: $17.95    




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Superb free improvisation from the UK trio of Nathaniel Catchpole on tenor sax, John Edwards on double bass, and Eddie Prevost on drums and bowed tam-tam, three generations of improvisers pushing the envelope of spontaneous composition in accomplished and playful dialog.

Glowicka: Seven Sonnets
Glowicka:
Seven Sonnets

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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Seven sonnets from William Shakespeare in a 50-minute song cycle that unfolds as an evocative journey using the perceptive words written in 1609 as a basis for compositions for quartet and countertenor, bringing depth and new appreciation to The Bard's sentiments.

Mitchell, Matt Quartet: Vista Accumulation [2 CDs]
Mitchell, Matt Quartet:
Vista Accumulation [2 CDs]

(Pi Recordings -- USA )


Price: $18.95    




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NY pianist and composer Matt Mitchell's quartet with reedist Chris Speed, bassist Christopher Tordini, and drummer Dan Weiss for an album of long-form improvisation that reflects on jazz tradition while expanding the possibilities between composition and improvisation.

Dikeman Noble Serries Trio: Obscure Fluctuations
Dikeman Noble Serries Trio:
Obscure Fluctuations

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $16.95    




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High-charged improvisation balancing between free jazz, avantgarde and minimalism from the trio of American saxophonist John Dikeman, Belgian guitar experimentalist Dirk Serries, and legendary English drummer Steve Noble, performing at Soundsavers in London, 2015.

Moore, Thurston / John Moloney: Caught On Tape: Full Bleed
Moore, Thurston / John Moloney: Caught On Tape:
Full Bleed

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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Under the name "Caught on Tape", Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore and John Moloney from Sunburned Hand of the Man deliver a set of heavy duos that swing through quiet dynamics and thick riffs, evoking both free/out jazz and beautiful SY-like rock moments.

Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: Planets of Life or Death: Amiens '73
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra:
Planets of Life or Death: Amiens '73

(Strut -- USA )


Price: $14.95    




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Originally released on LP for Record Store Day 2015, this is an unissued Sun Ra concert from Amiens, France in 1973 with a 19-piece Arkestra performing live at Maison de la Culture, a good quality capture of this intense, ritualistic and visceral concert from the band's prime.

Zs (Hillmer / Fox / Higgins): XE
Zs (Hillmer / Fox / Higgins):
XE

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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Sam Hillmer's NY based Z's in a trio format, with Hillmer on sax & electronics, Patrick Higgins on guitar & electronics, and Greg Fox on percussion & electronics, for an album of energetic and often abstracted beats, hyperkinetic electronics, and strange tonal music.

Rose, Simon / Stefan Schultze: The Ten Thousand Things
Rose, Simon / Stefan Schultze:
The Ten Thousand Things

(Red Toucan -- Canada )


Price: $14.95    




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Free improvising saxophonist Simon Rose, on baritone and alto sax, meets composer/arranger Stefan Schultze on prepared piano for 11 exploratory works based around Schultze's "modules"--bits and pieces attached inside the piano--creating unusual platforms for free improvisation.

Pere Ubu : Carnival Of Souls [LP Gold Vinyl Ltd Ed]
Pere Ubu :
Carnival Of Souls [LP Gold Vinyl Ltd Ed]

(Fire Records -- USA )


Price: $29.95    




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David Thomas continues the Pere Ubu project with band members playing a mix of rock elements and synths, electronics and computers, adding alienation and oddity to this soundtrack to Herk Harvey's 1962 low-budget shocker "Carnival of Souls".

Thing, The: Shake
Thing, The:
Shake

(The Thing Records -- Austria )


Price: $16.95    




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Wild free jazz grooves, another monster of an album from the trio of reedist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love with guests Anna Hogberg on alto sax and Goran Kajfes on cornet; intense, passionate, and precise.

Dikeman Noble Serries Trio: Obscure Fluctuations [VINYL]
Dikeman Noble Serries Trio:
Obscure Fluctuations [VINYL]

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $22.95    




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High-charged improvisation balancing between free jazz, avantgarde and minimalism from the trio of American saxophonist John Dikeman, Belgian guitar experimentalist Dirk Serries, and legendary English drummer Steve Noble, performing at Soundsavers in London, 2015.

Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL]
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver):
An Air of Unreality [VINYL]

(RogueArt -- France )


Price: $19.95    




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A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog.

Deux Maisons: For Sale
Deux Maisons:
For Sale

(Clean Feed -- Portugal )


Price: $13.95    




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Deux Maisons (Two Houses) is a chamber jazz quartet bringing together French and Portuguese players of the current generation: from France, 2 brothers, Theo & Valentin Ceccaldi (violin and cello); from Portugal, Luis Vicente (trumpet) & Marco Franco (drums).

Guthrie, Will: Sacree Onsession [VINYL] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Guthrie, Will:
Sacree Onsession [VINYL] [Used Item]

(ideal -- Sweden )


Price: $16.00    




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SLIGHTLY DINGED SLEEVE

Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Cremaster / Komora A:
split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item]

(Monotype -- Poland )


Price: $11.66    




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A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth).

Pinhas, Richard / Tatsuya Yoshida: Live In Japan
Pinhas, Richard / Tatsuya Yoshida:
Live In Japan

(Magaibutsu -- Japan )


Price: $13.95    




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After the 2014 Rock In Opposition Festival in Japan, Richard Pinhas and Yoshida Tatsuya did a two week tour of Japan; one of the results was this CD compiled from several shows during that tour, an excellent album of improvised electronics and drums from Heldon and Ruins masters.

Riggs, Christopher / Carl Testa: Sn (S to the power of n, or S&#8319;)
Riggs, Christopher / Carl Testa:
Sn (S to the power of n, or Sⁿ)

(Gold Bolus Recordings -- USA )


Price: $11.95    




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New Haven instrumentalist Carl Testa and Chicago guitarist Christopher Riggs in a large composition for prepared electric guitar and live electronic processing that references Ashley, Stockhausen and Braxton while manipulating one's sense of time, space, and memory.

Tyto Alba: Michal Libera w/ Martin Kuchen and Ralf Meinz: 13 Portraits Of Melancholics, Birds And Th
Tyto Alba: Michal Libera w/ Martin Kuchen and Ralf Meinz:
13 Portraits Of Melancholics, Birds And Their Co-Hearing

(Bolt -- Poland )


Price: $14.95    




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Sound essay, horspiel, reading, electroacoustic music, plunderphonics, sound portraits, collection of songs: a sonic exposition of melancholia from Tyto Alba, (Michal Libera and Ralf Meinz) accompanied by samples from classical music, birds, and saxophone playing by Martin Kuchen.

Bradford, Bobby / Frode Gjerstad Quartet: The Delaware River [VINYL]
Bradford, Bobby / Frode Gjerstad Quartet:
The Delaware River [VINYL]

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


Price: $22.95    




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The longstanding collaboration of cornetist Bobby Bradford and reedist Frode Gjerstad (together since '86) with bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten on bass and Frank Rosaly on drums, recording at Philadelphia Art Alliance in 2014, a powerful lineup of modern free players.

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk
Mostly Other People Do the Killing:
Mauch Chunk

(Hot Cup Records -- USA )


Price: $5.00    




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Recorded and mixed on analog tape, MOPDtK combines historical jazz lineage and the 21st century perspective of MOPDtK's members (Jon Irabagon; Ron Stabinsky; Moppa Elliott; Kevin Shea), with each piece dedicated to an individual who influenced their compositional process.

Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson: Live / Studio <i>[Used Item]</i>
Durrant, Phil / Daniel Thompson:
Live / Studio [Used Item]

(Bead -- UK )


Price: $10.00    




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The improvising string duo of stalwart London improvisers, Daniel Thompson on acoustic guitar and Phil Durrant on the octave mandola, are heard in two settings of texturally rich, intricate interactions, first at Cafe OTO in 2022 for an extended improvisation, then at Cable Street Studios two months later for six succint, impressively diverse dialogs.




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