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UPDATE
July 8, 2022
"In my performances,
The emotion I feel is the joy of making sound.."
—Jaap Blonk
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Creative Artists
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• Anderson/Smith/Stephenson/Amba/Ankhitek
• Jose Canha/Dan Banks/Trevor Taylor
• Johnny Chang/Keir GoGwilt/Celeste Oram
• Katelyn Clark/Isaiah Ceccarelli
• Rob Clearfield/Quin Kirchner
• Aaron Dilloway/Jeph Jerman
• Ferran Fages
• Chad Fowler/Christopher Parker
• Elisabeth Harnik/Didi Kern/Jaap Blonk
• Max Johnson Trio (w/ Anna Webber/Michael Sarin)
• Klaus Lang/Trio Amos
• Leap Of Faith
• David Murray (w/ Brad Jones/Hamid Drake)
• Original Mind (Holden/Studer/Hirsh)
• Terry Riley played by John Tilbury
• Kristine Scholz
• Matthew Shipp Trio
• Simulacrum
• Toshiya Tsunoda
• Turbulence
• Vegan Dallas
• Phil Venable/Paul Swest Duo
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Essential Labels
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Another Timbre
Astral Spirits
Black Truffle
Broken Sound
ESP
Evil Clown
FMR
Inexhaustible Editions
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Intakt
Klanggalerie
Mahakala Music
nunc.
Soul City Sounds
thanatosis produktion
White Centipede Noise/New Forces
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Anderson, Chad (Anderson / Smith / Stephenson / Amba / Ankhitek): Mellifluous Excursions Vol. 1 - Where You Been
(Mahakala Music)
A solid album of buoyant collective improvisation led by NY drummer Chad Anderson, with vibraphonist Warren Smith adding an optimistic voice to the quintet of relative newcomer, sax and flute player Zoh Amba and bassist Barry Stephenson, the sophisticated and generally upbeat sound of the group taking a stinging tone on two tracks with the sharp observations from The Ankhitek.
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Canha, Jose / Dan Banks / Trevor Taylor: Guernica
(FMR)
Recording in the studio in Hornchurch, UK in 2022, the open-minded, innately lyrical and freely improvising trio of pianist Dan Banks, long-time collaborator with drummer Trevor Taylor at the latter's Jazz825 club in Southend-on-Sea, and Portuguese double bassist Jose Canhas, are heard in five impeccable contemporary jazz recordings, warm collective conversations of adept skill.
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Clearfield, Rob / Quin Kirchner: Concentric Orbits [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)
An active and creatively absorbing duo between Chicago drummer Quin Kirchner and French-based pianist Rob Clearfield, recorded spontaneously during the sessions of The Shadows and The Light, with one extended improvisation per side, alternating between percolating rhythms of quick witted exchanges to gorgeous lyrical moments of hanging piano figures.
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Fowler, Chad / Christopher Parker: Park Hill Saudade
(Mahakala Music)
An intimate sax and piano duo from two improvisers with a 30-year friendship--Chad Fowler and Christopher Parker--both living in the same block of Park Hill, Staten Island, forming a close musical bond that is heard in their confident exchanges, both playing together and in providing space for each to express themselves; a lovely album of warm and informed conversations.
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Harnik, Elisabeth / Didi Kern / Jaap Blonk: Steamology
(Klanggalerie)
Joyfully assertive and somewhat twisted, the first of three improvisations on this live album at Wels Unlimited 2020 is the duo of Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik and drummer Didi Kern, starting at high speed then shifting to unusual approaches in a quirky dialog, made quirkier with Jaap Blonk adding wonderfully nonsensical vocalizations on the last two pieces.
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Johnson, Max Trio (w/ Anna Webber / Michael Sarin): Orbit Of Sound
(Broken Sound)
A new trio from NY bassist Max Johnson with Anna Webber on tenor saxophone & flute and Michael Sarin on drums, performing five lyrically inclined yet inventive compositions from Johnson, allowing distinction for each performer as they bridge sections between fluid straight-ahead playing and spaciously singular experimentation, keeping player and listener on their toes.
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Leap Of Faith: Loops Of Gravitational Force
(Evil Clown)
The core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, joined by the Reverend Grant Beale on guitar and Eric Woods on analog synth, subtly merging electronic elements into the primarily acoustic sound of the group as they amble through unusual soundscapes.
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Murray, David (w/ Brad Jones / Hamid Drake): Seriana Promethea
(Intakt)
A new piano-less trio led by a modern giant of jazz--saxophonist David Murray--who composed the lyrically upbeat and swinging compositions for this Brave New World Trio with bassist Brad Jones and drummer Hamid Drake, two incredible and innovative players who expand each piece with enthusiastic playing of free and inventive approaches to Murray's music.
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Original Mind (Holden / Studer / Hirsh): You Know When It's Time
(Mahakala Music)
Three Minneapolis–Saint Paul/Twin City improvisers--Brad Holden on saxophones, Dick Studer on bass and Steve Hirsh on drums--active in a variety of groups come together as a collective, named for a Buddhist concept of the consciousness that underlies the everyday thoughts about the world around us, heard in 12 improvisations emphasizing deep listening and open-minded expression.
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Shipp, Matthew Trio: World Construct
(ESP)
The fourth album from pianist Matthew Shipp's Trio with Michael Bisio on bass and Newman Taylor Baker on drums, a well-sequenced studio recording from short lyrical works leading to diverse moods of creatively unique abstractions and powerfully grooving passages, a wealth of styles and magnificent playing from one of the most interesting piano trios active.
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Simulacrum : Synesthesia
(Evil Clown)
An offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble, this Evil Clown collective features David Peck on reeds, percussion and electronics, Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar, and electronics, Eric Woods on analog synth and Joel Simches on real-time electronics, "synesthesia" a perceptual phenomenon where stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a 2nd.
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Turbulence: Updraft Intensity
(Evil Clown)
The extended horn section of the Leap of Faith Orchestra, the core ensemble of the Boston collective led by multi-instrumentalist David Peck, here in a spacious and somewhat psychedelic and embraceable performance with Bob Moores on trumpet & brass, Eric Dahlman on trumpet and winds, Duane Reed on baritone horn, and all on percussion & electronic instruments.
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Venable, Phil / Paul Swest Duo: Kaolin
(Soul City Sounds)
Phil Venable, the Chapel Hill, North Carolina bass player known for his work in the free jazz outfit Tragic Assembly, pairs up with Tragic Assembly drummer Charles Chace for an excursion into the outer limits of improvisation, the album title a reference to a medicinal clay and a riff off of the Charles Mingus song "Moanin".
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Experimental/Electronic
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Dilloway, Aaron / Jeph Jerman: Casual Collisions
(White Centipede Noise / New Forces)
Originally released in 2013 on CDR, this meeting of sound artists Jeph Jerman and Aaron Dilloway show the skill, subtlety, and disruptive sonic skills of two innovators, using objects, damaged electronics, electronic loops and live acoustic sound to create large tapestries: 4 pieces that defy characterization through diverse approaches to impactful sound.
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Tsunoda, Toshiya: Landscape And Voice [VINYL]
(Black Truffle)
A truly unique set of compositions juxtaposing lush field recording with disruptive vocal repetitions, vowel sounds from six different speakers, creating disorienting moments that lull the listener into complacency and then startles them with unexpected interference, as the composer explores how he can establish a subjective relationship with natural environments.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot
(nunc.)
Rhythmically rich instrumental music crossing experimental, rock and compositional forms with an ear towards primitive and instinctual pulses, the French quartet of drummer & bass harpist Julein Chamla, percussionist Benjamin Flament, Simon Henocq on live electronics and guitarist Richard Comte explore innate pulses imbued with modern and urgent overtones.
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Vegan Dallas: Electro Griot [VINYL]
(nunc.)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Compositional
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Chang, Johnny / Keir GoGwilt / Celeste Oram: Hope Lies Fallow
(Another Timbre)
Six pieces developed by violinists Johnny Chang and Keir GoGwilt, with vocalist Celeste Oram joining on three, starting with early music works by Hildegard van Bingen and Orlando de Lassus in a hybrid of musical archaeology informed by modern concepts of repetition, variations of timbre, improvisation, &c, as they seek hidden sound worlds in older notation.
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Clark, Katelyn / Isaiah Ceccarelli: Landmarks
(Another Timbre)
Eight powerful and often cinematic pieces for organ and percussion, jointly composed and performed by long-time collaborators, Montreal composers and improvisers Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli, these 8 compositions developed around improvisations on the historic instruments continuo & portative organs, with percussion including a 40" bass drum, bell plates, and almglocken.
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Fages, Ferran: From Grey To Blue
(Inexhaustible Editions)
Written by Catalan composer Ferran Fages for pianist Lluïsa Espigolé following a quote by Catalan author Carles Camps Mundó — "Barely anything: deformities of silence" — this delicate work of resonance, space and suspense slowly unfolds, the score giving Espigolé choices for timing and placement as each meaningful note or combination subsides.
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Lang, Klaus / Trio Amos: Tehran Dust
(Another Timbre)
Three chamber works by Klaus Lang of a beautifully fragile and dark nature and a meticulous inner structure, alongside arrangements of early music pieces by Johannes Ockeghem and Pierre de la Rue, performed by Klaus Lang himself on organ with the Trio Amos of Sylvie Lacroix on flute, Krassimir Sterev on accordion and Michael Moser on cello.
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Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies
(Another Timbre)
There is uncertainty of when pianist John Tilbury recorded these three solo keyboard works by his associate and friend, legendary minimalist composer Terry Riley, performing "Keyboard Study #1" and #2, along with "Dorian Reeds" using piano, electric organ, harpsichord & celesta, captured with excellent quality in superb performances from Tilbury at the height of his powers.
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Scholz, Kristine: Plays Otte And Cage
(thanatosis produktion)
The 2nd solo album from Sweden-based pianist and Merce Cunningham-collaborator Kristine Scholz, performing on a 1921 Steinway & Sons Model A piano, recording four movements from composer Hans Otte's seminal work "Das Buch der Klänge" (1979-82), and an interpretation of John Cage's "Music for Piano 4-19", compatible pieces from two contemporary and visionary composers.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear
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Jean-Luc Guionnet / Lunar Error:
Plafond De Verre
(BeCoq)
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Aaron Foster Breilyn & Luke Martin:
Recursive Retent
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Ornette Coleman:
New York is Now & Love Call Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Fred Lonberg-Holm / Abdul Moimeme / Carlos Santos:
Transition Zone
(Creative Sources)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release.
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-Don Van Vliet
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