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SQUIDCO NEWS

April 3, 2007


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Welcome to Spring! (or, in the lower half of the planet, welcome to Fall!) March was a busy month, and there are a few more than 100 new releases this time around:

Improv: Two SME (John Stevens) reissues on Emanem; William Parker on Aum Fidelity; several Jeff Arnal releases, including Rogue States on his own Generate Records; two Hatology releases: Dave Liebman and the Jackson Harrison Trio; 4 new Leo releases; Sylvie Courvoisier and Leo Smith releases on Intakt; Austria's NVO micro-improv label; Tim Berne's excellent Science Friction triple CD; Michael Doneda/Lelasi/Ingar Zachon Sedimental; Matt Lavelle on Silkheart; two Songlines; 2 new Tzadiks; Volcano the Bear on Beta-Lactam; and watch the site this week for new Clean Feeds!

Rock & Related: New York's excellent Psychic Paramount; The Ex's Terp label with Getatchew Mekuria, and Mohammed "Jimmy" Mohammed; New Takayanagi on Doubtmusic; Italy's excellent RIO oriented Yugen with Dave Kerman; Red Krayola reissue; live Faust.

Electro-Acoustic: Otomo retrospective DVD; Allesandro Boseeti and Daniel Menche releases on Crouton; Phonomena's Osso Exotico; David Toop on Samadhi; Bhob Rainey on Sedimental; two excellent Sonic Arts radio compilations; 3 Bill Laswell releases on Sub Rosa, plus Israel Quellet and Stephen Vitiello CDs; Half Makeshift on Utech.

Compositional:2 Hat [now]: John Cage, Morton Feldman; David Tudor and Luigi Nono releases on Edition Rz; Luciano Berio; LTM's Bauhaus Reviewed; Philip Glass on Orange Mountain; Leo Ornestein on New World; Palestine Charlemagne.

DVDs: Pink Floyd Roger Water Years; Sublime Frequencies Niger: Magic & Ecstasy; Looper with John Tilbury on Portugal's Esquilo; Einsteurzend Neubaten on MVD.

Vinyl: Double release Ken Vandermark on Atavistic; Smega with Perry Robinson on QBICO; Chris Corsano & Michael Flowers on No-Fidelity.

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Improvisation


Akiyama, Tetuzi / Jozef van Wissem: Hymn For A Fallen Angel

Label: Incunabulum (INC 003CD)

Tetuzi Akiyama-Martin HD-28 Guitar, Bottle Neck / Jozef van Wissem-Baroque Lute, Bottle Neck, Edits

"Minimal classical contemporary folk blues played by Japanese rising improv star guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama and Dutch/American lute player/composer Jozef van Wissem, Their second CD as a duo. 'The music is gradual and contemplative, unfolding like an unhurried chess game, edging forward in a shared yet adaptable and accommodating language. Courtly arpeggios, blues slurs and other pointers beyond the frame don't disrupt the Feldmanesque autonomy of their continually mutating, freely patterned flow.'-The [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Arnal, Jeff / Beeferman, Gordon: Rogue States

Label: Generate Records (GEN 11)

Jeff Arnal-percussion / Gordon Beeferman-piano

"Percussionist Jeff Arnal and pianist/composer Gordon Beeferman, two-thirds of Rara Avis (an ongoing trio with alto saxophonist Seth Misterka) and previously featured as a duo on 2001's Bodies of Water, meet again for Rogue States, a short suite of open-minded musical vignettes.

As on their earlier outing, Arnal and Beeferman eschew timbral trickery and sensational sound painting in favor of exploring and expanding on the more "traditional" acoustic palette of the drum kit and piano; unlike [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Berne, Tim: Science Friction 3CD

Label: Screwgun (SC700018)

Tom Rainey-drums / Craig Taborn-rhodes, laptop, virtual organ and virtually / Marc Ducret-electric & acoustic guitars / Tim Berne-alto saxophone

Tim Berne's amazing Science Friction unit reissued in a 3 CD collection.


Disc 1 recorded December 2001, Engineered and mixed by Tom Mark / Make Believe Ballroom. Disc 2 & 3 recorded live in Winterthur , Switzerland on April 12th 2003. Engineered by Ron Kurz for swiss radio DRS2.

Disc 1 originally released as Science Friction on Screwgun (screwu013). Disc 2 & 3 originally released as The Sublime And on Thirsty Ear (thi57139.2)

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Bohman, Adam / Smith, Roger: Reality Fandango

Label: Emanem (4135)

Adam Bohman-prepared violin, objects / Roger Smith-guitar

"At the end of 2004, Adam Bohman went to Roger Smith's home, and the duo recorded two extended improvisations included in their entirety. Bohman returned a year and a half later, resulting in four short duos to fill out the CD. Smith played Spanish guitar, and Bohman a table-top covered with objects including a prepared violin. Apart from a very short section of electric guitar, no electronics or amplification were used, so that both musicians could hear themselves and each other (unlike their [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


London digital recordings made in Roger Smith's kitchen by Ian Vickers.

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Branca, Glenn: Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses

Label: Atavistic (ALP 046CD)

Mark Bingham, Glenn Branca, Craig Bromberg, Barbara Ess, Jeffrey Glenn, Sue Hanel, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, David Rosenbloom, Ned Sublette-guitars / Stephan Wischerth-drums, tympani / The New York Chamber Sinfonia / Glen Cortese-conductor

Long rumored, long awaited and essentially the first-time issue of this incendiary Branca masterwork, recored in 1981 at NYC's Radio City Studios- during the peaked out early era of Glenn's "Guitar Army" ensembles - and shortly after the release of The Ascension EP on 99 Records.

Featuring contributions from soon-to-be Sonic Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo, as well as Branca mainstays Craig Bromberg, Barbara Ess, Jeffrey Glenn, Sue Hanel, David Rosenbloom and Ned Sublette, Indeterminate... [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded in 1981 at NYC's Radio City Studios.

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Braxton, Anthony: Phonomanie VIII

Label: Leo (LEO 468)

See Track listing for personnel

"In June 2005 Anthony Braxton was invited to work with a 16-piece ensemble at Jazzatelier in Ulrichsberg, Austria. This work culminated in four performances beginning withthe solo piano and the trio and finishing withtwo performances with the ensemble. This 4-CD set documents yet another incredible achievement of Anthony Braxton, who, as Stuart Broomer writes in his brilliant notes, "has constructed a musical state in which no ultimate score can exist and in which the conductor himself is liberated [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Brennan / Cline / Patumi / Theissing / Voirol: Shooting Stars & Traffic Lights

Label: LEO (477)

John Wolf Brennan-Piano, Melodica / Alex Cline-Percussion, Drums / Daniele Patumi-Bass / Tscho Theissing-Violin / John Voirol-Synthesizer, Soprano & Tenor Sax

"Pianist John Wolf Brennan and his quintet's music is adventurous and often quite dissonant but it is also quirky, episodic, witty in spots and full of variety. The title cut, "Shooting Stars & Traffic Lights," has violinist Tscho Theissing playing a sweet classical melody that is soon overrun but not completely defeated by other sounds and ideas. "Ognatango" is an eccentric tango, and other pieces range from exuberant to somber, brief sound explorations to more highly developed interplay. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Originall released by Bellaphon in 1995. Recorded & mixed at Hardstudios, Winterthur, Switzerland, August 3 & 4, September 24 & 26, 1993

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Bynum, Taylor Ho / Fujiwara, Tomas: True Events

Label: 482 Music (1052)

Taylor Ho Bynum-cornet / Tomas Fujiwara-drums

"These longtime collaborators first worked together 15 years ago while still in high school, and have since performed together hundreds of times in a variety of ensembles. "I feel like I can anticipate what Tomas is going to play," says Bynum of their relationship in the liner notes, "yet I'm continually surprised and delighted and inspired by what he does." The nine tracks on True Events, a mix of pre-conceived elements and spontaneous improvisation, also take their inspiration from Anthony [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Chadbourne, Eugene: New Directions in Appalachian Music

Label: Chadula (2007AP)

Dr. Eugene Chadbourne-banjo, vocals / Mike Cooper-lap steel, dobra, vocals, electronics / Johnny Hamill-bass electronics / Paul Lovens-drums / Phil Minton-drums / Cedric Prive-violin

New Directions in Appalachian Music is an "old-time" folk performing project that Chadbourne's been working with over several years. Frequent collaborator percussionist Paul Lovens and improv vocal phenomenon Phil Minton join Doc Chad on banjo, Mike Cooper on lap steel & dobra and Cedric Prive on violin. It's an impressive set of musicians to front any style of band, and they give it their all. Appalachian music itself developed in America from traditional Scottish, English and Irish [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded at Chadfest 2006 in Vandouvres-Les-Nancy.

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Cherry, Don / Appleton, Jon: Human Music

Label: Water (WTR 182)

Don Cherry-wood, bamboo, metal flutes, kalimbas, earthquake drums, coronet with traditional mouthpiece, basson reed / Jon Appleton-synthesizer

This 1969 avant-garde collaboration between trumpeter Don Cherry and electronics pioneer Jon Appleton finds Cherry stretching out on various flutes and percussion instruments in addition to his trademark pocket trumpet. Reissued with its original artwork and detailed liner notes.


Originally released on Flying Dutchman as LP 121. Produced by Bob Thiele.

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Cline, Nels / Parkins, Andrea / Rainey, Tom: Downpour

Label: Victo (VICTO 104CD)

Nels Cline-electric guitar / Andrea Parkins-accordion, sampler / Tom Rainey-drums

New Yorkers Rainey & Andrea Parkins with Nels Cline at the 23rd Victoriaville Festival (FIMAV) in an extremely well received set. This is a series of three long pieces which slowly build, sometimes developing into overwhelming but amazing structures. Strong stuff.


Recorded live at the 23rd Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville on May 20, 2006.

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Coleman, Ornette: Whom Do You Work For?

Label: GET BACK (GET 2028CD)

Ornette Coleman / Charlie Haden-bass / Dewey Redman-tenor / Ed Blackwell-drums

"Recorded live in Berlin in 1971, this set features Charlie Haden on bass, the prominent solos of Dewey Redman on tenor, and Ed Blackwell's delightful drumming. But the real stars are the compositions themselves, which are wonderful vehicles for inspired improvisation. Coleman picks up his bandmate's lines as if in mid-thought and extends them seamlessly."-Get Back


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Courvoisier, Sylvie : Lonelyville

Label: Intakt (120)

Sylvie Courvoisier-piano, compositions / MarkFeldman-violin / Gerald Cleaver-drums / Ikue Mori-electronics / Vincent Courtois-cello

"In April 2006, Courvoisier reconvened the quintet with Mark Feldman, Vincent Courtois, Ikue Mori, Gerald Cleaver at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in Switzerland for a four-night stand. Stands such as this were once the ubiquitous proving ground for improvisers working through jazz, but are now a rarity. Still, it was the perfect laboratory for a project like Courvoisier's, and the performances could not have occurred at a better interval to test the cure. Lonelyville confirms that the wait [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded by Walter Quintus live at the Vidy Theater, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 6-8, 2006.

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Cracow Klezmer Band, The: Rememberance

Label: Tzadik (TZ 8116)

Jaroslaw Bester-Bayan / Oleg Dyyak-Bayan, Clarinet, Percussion / Wojciech Front-Double Bass / Jaraslaw Tyrala-Violin

"The last release by this spectacular ensemble. Formed in 1997, the Cracow Klezmer Band has been a phenomena. Through their spectacular combination of impeccable musicianship, imaginative arrangements and passionate performances they have developed into one of the most successful groups in Radical Jewish Culture. This exciting live CD marks their dissolution after ten years and captures them performing an exciting program of colorful new music and a few of their compositional classics in their [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Doneda, Michael / Lelasi, Giuseppe / Zach, Ingar: Flore de Cataclysmo

Label: Sedimental (SED 048CD)

Michael Doneda-soprano, sopranino saxophones / Giuseppe Lelasi-guitar, electronics / Ingar Zach-drums, percussion

"Flore De Cataclysmo met for the first time in Instants Chavires in February 2003. The year after they went on their first tour in France, Spain, Italy and Slovenia, and also recorded material for what will become their first cd, due to be released on Fringes Recordings in 2005.

The music is an organic combination of electronic and acoustic sound, featuring the airy multilayered soundworld of Michel Donedas saxophones, the sparse electronic, melodic touch of Giuseppe Ielasi and the wide [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded by Fraçois Dietz at Studio CCAM, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, January 25gh, 2004.

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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Hot 'N' Heay - Live at The Ascension Loft

Label: Delmark (574)

Kahil El'Zabar-drums, earth drums, kalimba / Corey Wilkes-trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion / Ernest Dawkins-alto and tenor saxophone, percussion / Fareed Haque-electric and acoustic guitar

The Chicago based Ethnic Heritage Enselmble, headed by Kahil El'Zabar, plays their form of rhythmic and African influenced jazz with a vengeance. El'Zabar's work with this band and the Ritual Trio has influenced Chicago jazz for 30 years, and this is another great example of both his writing and playing. This version of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble adds young trumpeter Corey Wilkes to the line-up; Wilkes has tourned with the Art Ensemble and led his own bands. Powerful rhythmic jazz.


Recorded live on July 30, 2006.

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Evans, Michael / Arnal, Jeff: MEJA

Label: C3R (C3R008)

Michael Evans-percussion / Jeff Arnal-percussion

"This is the first album from Michael Evans and Jeff Arnal, a duo of amazing percussionists from the NYC improv scene. Over the course of fourteen tracks, Evans and Arnal display their skill as players and their intuition as improvisers. Such movement! Such vivacity! We're not snowing ya -- this is a fantastic record that you'll want to hear again and again!"-C3R


Recorded at the Make Believe Ballrom by Tom Mark, June 9, 10, 2004 in West Shokan, NY.

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Flower, Michael / Corsano, Chris Duo: The Undisputed Dimension [7" Vinyl]

Label: NO-FIDELITY (NEU 003EP)

Chris Corsano-drums / Michael Flower-Japanese banjo

"Corsano has been widely hailed as the next chapter in the story of out-there drumming - he's played with everyone worth mentioning at the massive freenoisefolkpsych crossroads. (He's also just been recruited by Bjork's live band for the next year or so, and appears on her forthcoming album, along with Lightning Bolt and Konono No.1). Similarly, Mick's renowned for his work with Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunburned Hand Of The Man, amongst many others. Together they construct a devilishly beautiful [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Friedl, Heribert: Back_Forward

Label: Non Visual Objects (NVO 009)

Heribert Friedl

"This CD is solely based on recordings of the hackbrett (cymbalon). It is a research of playing and digital processing of the instrument itself. The tracks should show the changes of concrete sounds into abstraction, without losing the soul of the sound itself. On BACK_FORWARD musical movement happens in a clearly defined space. Even though the initial point and the endpoint are never the same, the path between is always equal."-Heribert Friedl

Heribert Friedl is an Austrian sound/visual/sensory [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Günter, Bernhard / Friedl, Heribert: TRANS˜

Label: Non Visual Objects (NVO 006)

Bernhard Günter-electric cellotar, self-made bamboo flute, harmonicas / Heribert Friedl-amplified Hackbrett (cymbalon or hammered dulcimer)

"The most striking characteristic of TRANS~ is the use of a field recording of a group of three small power transformers I conceived as a kind of improvised piece, changing microphone positions to cull different sounds and overtone spectra from the transformers' intense hum. The field recording became our basis track for TRANS~, and is exceptionally well and seamlessly embedded in the piece.

Heribert plays his amplified Hackbrett (cymbalon or hammered dulcimer), I play my electric cellotar, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Garet, Richard: Intrinsic Motion

Label: Non Visual Objects (NVO 008)

Richard Garet

"The title Intrinsic Motion emphasizes the movement connecting these four aural compositions, which also share similar interests and aesthetic negotiations. Each work emerged from the combinations of various sound sources such as field recordings, found sound appropriations, contact microphone play, feedback, and studio processing. The works in this release explore the communicational diversity of surrounding sound fields, time, pitch, physical acoustics, and the sensory encounter that conveys [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Golub, Thom: Lexicon

Label: House Leek Audio (HLA 002)

Thom Golub-string bass

A solo improvisation, recorded perhaps under duress, Lexicon is a miniature document of Thom Golub's celebrational, monumental and sustained attack-style on the double bass. Relentlessly and ruthlessly scrambling through passages between dissonance and tunefulness, extended and traditional technique, Lexicon demonstrates the full sonic palette of the acoustic bass and culminates precariously between free improvisation and pure aural candy.

Thom Golub lives as a bassist and composer [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded May 28, 2004.

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Gratkowski, Frank & Misha Mengelberg: Vis-A-Vis

Label: LEO (476)

Frank Gratkowski-alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet / Misha Mengelberg-piano

"A rare collaboration of two giants of European music scene. Frank Gratkowski is on alto sax, clarinet, bassclarinet and contrabass clarinet while Misha Mengelberg is on piano. With this CD you get 68 minutes of music which is full of imagination, wit, elegance and beauty. It is bound to become a classic of improvised music."-Leo


Tracks 1-3 recorded live on June 16, 2006 at the SWR Funkhaus Mainz. Tracks 4-6 recorded live on June 17, 2005 at Loft, Koln, Germany

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Grubbs, David / Howe, Susan : Souls of the Labadie Tract

Label: Blue Chopsticks (BLUE 017CD)

David Grubbs-khaen baet, khaen jet, VCS3 synthesizer, computer / Susan Howe-reader

"Souls of the Labadie Tract is the second collaboration between musician David Grubbs and poet Susan Howe. Susan Howe's and David Grubbs' collaboration is largely without precedent. (Cage and Tudor? Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy?) Souls of the Labadie Tract takes as its starting point a substantial new poem by Howe that will appear in a collection bearing the same title, to be published in 2007 by New Directions. The Labadists were a Utopian Quietest sect that moved from the Netherlands to Cecil [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Harrison, Jackson Trio: Land Tides

Label: Hatology (647)

Jackson Harrison-piano / Thomas Morgan-double bass / Dan Weiss-drums

"Jackson Harrison [winner of the Australian Jazz Award] is a brilliant young pianist / composer who brings fresh perspectives to the traditional piano trio through his thoughtful and sensitive compositions". - Mike Nock

"Harrison's attitude to the work - his regard for the fundamental mystery of the creative process - bodes well for the future: "When playing I am not attempting to 'make' or construct something, I'm just trying to let the music dance, which is the more difficult path to [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded December 30, 2005 at Systems Two, Brooklyn by Michael Marciano

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I Compani: Museum of Emotions - Live at the BIMhuis Amsterdam 2006

Label: IC Disc (601)

Bo van de Graaf-soprano, alto & tenorsax / Ewout Dercksen-tenor & baritonesax / Jeroen Doomernik-trumpet & flügelhorn / Tessa Zoutendijk-violin / Michel Mulder-bandoneon / Hans Hasebos-vibraphone & percussion / Albert van Veenendaal-piano / Meinrad Kneer-bass / Yonga Sun-drums / Emanuel Pessanha (1) Gülendem Wubuli (3,4,5,6,9) Simon Vinkenoog (10) Quirine Melssen (11) Hans Hasebos (12) Simin Tander (14)-vocals

"To celebrate their 20th anniversary I Compani asked some of the (former) band members to write new compositions. All of the new pieces were inspired by the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond d'Andrade. Veejay Martijn Grootendorst worked with the band to perform this project during a tour."-IC Disc


Recorded by Onno Prillwitz and Mark Peters BIMhuis Amsterdam Jan. 7, 8 2006.

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Invitation (Carter / Cumbie / Flandreau / Hoffman / Lane): The King's Waltz

Label: Konnex (5182)

Daniel Carter-trumpet, tenor, alto saxohpne, flute, clarinet / Ty Cumbie-electric, acoustic guitars / Tara Flandreau-viola / Christopher Hoffman-cello / Adam Lane-acoustic bass

"In the summer of 2004, producer Nick Holmes invited me to put together a string group in support of multi-reed/brass player Daniel Carter and record at his studio in Chelsea, New York. This recording is a result of the ensuing session. I had just recently gotten to know the wonderful West Coast violist, Tara Flandreau, and impulsively called her to join the session. Chris Hoffman had also recently come to my attention as a terrific, and unjustly underappreciated improvising cellist. I had already [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Ito, Teiji: Tenno

Label: Tzadik (TZ 8031)

Teiji Ito-Wooden Flutes, Ryuteki, Hichiriki, Shakuhachi, Koto, Shamisen, Taiko, Tsutsumi, Frame Drums, Tom Toms, Bass Drum, Ki, Woodblocks, Bells, Rattles, Gongs, Steel Drums, Thumb Piano, Marimbula, Log Drums, Timpani, Cymbals, Prayer Bells, Glass Bowls, Temple Blocks, Glass Bottles, Clapping, Tambourine, Maracas, Shakers, Sticks, Percussion, Drum Set, Trumpet, Horns, Conch Shells, Sho, Voice, Sound Effects, Turntable, Electronics

"The second in a series of releases by the legendary downtown pioneer Teiji Ito presents his postmodern masterpiece Tenno, blending Japanese, African, Carribean and Western musical instruments with sound effects, voice and electronics to create the most startling long form composition in his catalog. Born in Japan in 1935, Ito moved to New York and worked closely with Maya Deren, Jerome Robbins and Julian Beck creating music for film, dance and theatre for nearly half a century. These are the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Kimm, D. / Falaise, Bernard: Le Silence des Hommes

Label: Monsieur Fauteux (MFMV 14)

D. Kimm-conception, texts, voice / Bernard Falaise-direction musicale, realisation / Bernard Grenon-mixage, assistance a la realization

"An artistic meeting between poet/performer D Kimm and musician Bernard Falaise. Kimm mentions silence but mostly talks about love, the kind of love that leaves a mark, moves you, changes you, and does not let you forget. Powerful lyrics are carried, whispered, chanted and sung by D Kimm in her gravely and fragile voice. A carnal dialogue established with the bewitching music performed by Falaise and his acolytes. And the unexpected surprise: three love songs sung by Michel Faubert, André [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Lavelle Trio, Matt: Spiritual Power

Label: Silkheart (SHCD156)

Matt Lavelle-trumpet, flugelhorn, bass-clarinet / Hilliard Greene-bass / Mike T.A. Thompson-drums

"Spiritual power: the ability to save, or change someone's life through music, and/or the ability to overcome any obstacle with music as the guiding transformational force."

"With Spiritual Power Lavelle establishes himself as a major player and he is backed on this fine achievement by two stalwart veterans. My long time friend bassist Hilliard Greene whom I first heard play in the late 80's with the great Charles Gayle who has several incredible Silkheart [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded at Park West Studios, Brooklyn, NY, 12/04/2006 by Jim Clouse.

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Liebman / Beirach/ Mcclure/ Hart : Redemption

Label: Hatology (642)

David Liebman-soprano & tenor saxophones, wooden flute / Richie Beirach-piano / Ron McClure-double bass / Billy Hart-drums

"To be back on tour with Quest after fifteen years was like going home. We are peers with a common language that traverses the past several decades of music; experience and commonality are intangibles which when present create a sum much greater than the individual parts. What a joy to be back with the brothers...not a step was missed."-David Liebman"The present performances, from two stops on its 2005 European tour, find the band revisiting and extending longstanding concepts with the added [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


1-3 recorded live at Kantonsschule, Baden/Switzerland on November 3, 2005 by Peter Pfister; 4-6 recorded live at Sunset Club/Paris by Radio France on November 2, 2005

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Looper / Tilbury, John: MASS

Label: Esquilo Records (ESDVD001)

Nikos Veliotis-video, cello / Martin Küchen-saxophone / Ingar Zach-Percussion / John Tilbury-piano

"First release on Esquilo's new DVD series, Incite Series, featuring audiovisual works of contemporary electroacustic improvisation and composition music and video art.

MASS is a collective intermedia project, featuring Looper (Nikos Veliotis, Martin Küchen, Ingar Zach) and John Tilbury, which integrates image and sound to reach a deeper conceptual level that brings open questions about human thoughts and beliefs to the foreground.

The visual side of MASS is realised by Nikos [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Video by Nikos Veliotis, audio tracks recorded by Thomas Ukkelberg (Oslo), Marc Pichelin (Stavanger)

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Marcus, Michael / Daniel, Ted: Duology

Label: Boxholder (52)

Michael Marcus-clarinet / Ted Daniel-trumpet, flugelhorn, Moroccan bugle, cornet

"Duology pairs multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus and trumpeter Ted Daniel in a series of unique, vibrant duets. Eschewing his usual arsenal of horns, Marcus limits himself to B-flat clarinet, while Daniel alternates between a few members of the trumpet family for subtle variety. With a selection of brief skeletal miniatures, Marcus and Daniel deliver a snapshot of jazz history, from its syncopated Dixieland roots to AACM-influenced abstraction.

Both seasoned veterans, Marcus and Daniel [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Mekuria, Getatchew / Ex, The / + Friends: Moa Anbessa

Label: Terp African Series (AS-11)

Getatchew Mekuria-saxophone / The Ex: Katerina-drums / Terrie-guitar / Andy-guitar / GW Sok-vocals / Guests: Colin McLean-bass / Zavier Charles-clarinet / Brodie West-alto saxophone / Joost Buis-trombone / Cor Fuhler-organ

Enamored by saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria's Ethiopiques 14 CD "The Negus of Ethiopian Sax", The Ex invited Mekuria to play at their 25th anniversary party in November, 2004 at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Mekuria's career stretches back to 1948, and though in his 70's, this was his first time out of Ethiopia. The results were compelling, so much so that The Ex and Mekuria decided to tour France together. So pleased were both that when Mekuria suggested recording a CD with The Ex they jumped at the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded April 3-4, 2006 at Jottem, Wormerveer, Hollan by Jeroen "Ato Asa" Visser and Dolf Planteijdt. Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 11 recorded live April 8 2006 in The Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France by Jeroen Visser.

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Mohammed, Mohammed "Jimmy": Takkabel!

Label: Terp African Series (AS-10)

Mohammed "Jimmy" Mohammed-vocals / Mesele Asmamaw-krar, backing vocals / Asnake Gebreyes-drums, backing vocals / Han Bennink-drums / Getatchew Mekuria-saxophone / Massimo Zu-bass

Blind Ethiopian vocalist Mohammed 'Jimmy' Mohammed, influenced by the legendary vocalist Tlahoun Gessesse (heard on the Ethiopiques CD series), has been a legend in Ethiopia for many years, mostly singing Gessesse's songs. Incredibly this is his first proper full length CD, which The Ex and Han Bennink made possible after hearing Mohammed perform in Europe and Ethiopian; so impressed were they that they made these recordings possible. Han Bennink plays on several tracks, as does Zu bassist [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded at Jottem, Wormerveer, Hollan, May 6, 7, 10, 2005 by Maarten Tap.

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Noonan Brewed by Noon, Sean: Stories to Tell

Label: Songlines (SGL SA1563-2)

Sean Noonan-electro-acoustic drumset / Thierno Camara-electric bass, vocals, percussion / Marc Ribot, Aram Bajakian, Jon Madof-electric guitar / Mat Maneri-viola / Abdoulaye Diabaté, Susan McKeown, Dawn Padmore-vocals / Jim Pugliese-percussion / Thiokho Diagne-djembe

"NY drummer Sean Noonan describes his Brewed by Noon project as "tribal rhythms by an Irish griot" and adds "My goal is to adapt folklore in a modern jazz context, merging storytelling and folk music from bardic and griot traditions." The basic concept isn't particularly novel in jazz: what happens when "wandering" folk melodies and grooves from different cultures are communally re-created through improvisation. But the ingredients, the brewing methods, and the spirit of the resulting music, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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O'leary, Mark / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey: Waiting

Label: LEO (475)

Mark O'Leary-electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, implements, e-bow, electronics, loops / Cuong Vu-trumpet, electronics and loops / Tom Rainey-drums, percussion

"Recorded in New York with Mark O'Leary on guitars, Cuong Vu on trumpet and Tom Rainey on drums, this CD has been influenced by and dedicated to Samuel Beckett (2006 is 100th anniversary of his birth). The titles of nine pieces on the CD have been borrowed from the playwrite's Waiting for Godot. Liner notes by Steve Day. Mark says: "I have always admired Sam Beckett, particularly his fertile imagination and his endless reservoir of inspirational creativity. This music is for Sam."-Leo


Recorded at Acoustic Recording, Brooklyn, NY February 2004 by Michael Brorby

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Oliver, Cody: Microclimate

Label: House Leek Audio (HLA 001)

Cody Oliver-guitar, accordion, clarinet, violin, computer

Multilayered minimal improv based around various string and electro-acoustic sources, using encompassing and rotating noise floors over which he plays guitar and other string instruments. The pieces slowly build, occasionally making a seething and howling mix that reminds one of the work of Soopa improvisers, wrenching sounds dragged over odd sound constructions. Calgary based Cody Oliver has been working in the improv noise scene since the mid-90's, releasing several independent releases, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded by Cody Oliver June - November 2006.

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Parker, William / Drake, Hamid : First Communion + Piercing The Veil - Volume 1 Complete

Label: Aum Fidelity (AUM 039/40CD)

William Parker-bass, shakuhachi, slit drum, balafon, bombarde, dumbek / Hamid Drake-drums, tabla, frame drum, bells

"Way back in 1999 the vision struck AUM to bring William Parker and Hamid Drake into the studio to make a duo album; the proposal was made on the front steps of a church in June of that year. Hamid's flight from Chicago was booked shortly thereafter. The very first time that Parker & Drake performed together as a duo took place on April 1, 2000 at AUM HQ to a fully packed and rapt audience of some 80 strong. It was a magical Saturday night; the First Communion concert is here presented [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


First Communion recorded LIVE! by Christina Schwartz on April 1, 2000 at AUM HQ in Brooklyn

Piercing The Veil recorded by Michael Marciano on April 3, 2000 at Systems Two Studio in Brooklyn

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Parkins, Zeena: Nightmare Alley

Label: Table Of The Elements (TOE 202CD)

Zeena Parkins-Composer, Harp, Electric Harp

"The leading New York avant jazz harpist has appeared on hundreds of free improvisation recordings in collaboration with artists such as Fred Frith, John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Lee Ranaldo, and Ikue Mori, among many others. During the '80s and '90s, she pioneered the electric harp of her own design, an instrument which thrives on the rich tonalities of the traditional harp matched with the flexibility of an electric guitar. The instrument was so unique that it shaped and influenced the music she [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded in 1992 by Elliot Sharp, originally issued on Table of the Elements in 1998 as the first Table of the Elements release.

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Shepik Trio, Brad: Places You Go

Label: Songlines (SGL SA1562-2)

Brad Shepik-guitar / Gary Versace-Hammond B-3 / Tom Rainey-drums

"[...] Songlines has produced a number of records with Shepik since 1993, from the avant collective trio Babkas to his jazz/world quintet The Commuters, and most recently (2005) Lingua Franca, a collective trio with saxophonist Peter Epstein and percussionist Matt Kilmer. And it's been instructive to follow his career as a composer and performer. With adventurous ears he has immersed himself in music near and far -- rock, jazz, free improv, reggae, 20th century classical, and traditional [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Shiurba, John with Anthony Braxton: 5x5 1.2=A

Label: Rastascan (RAT 55)

John Shiurba-guitar / Anthony Braxton-Eb, F alto and sopranino saxophones / Greg Kelly-trumpet / Morgan Guberman-contrabass / Gino Robair-percussion

Guitarist John Shirba created his suite of five movements for a quintet featuring saxophonist Anthony Braxton. 5x5 1.2=A is the second of five sets in the first of five groups of five short pieces written for five players to be used as interjections within a continuous free improvisation. The A is for Anthony. This CD is a co-release with UN-Limited Sedition, the permanent-collection wing of Limited Sedition.


Recorded 12/10/03 at Guerrilla Recording, Oakland, CA, by Myles Boisen. Mastered at Headless Buddha by Myles Boisen.

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Smith, Wadada Leo / Sommer, Günter Baby : Wisdom in Time

Label: Intakt (128)

Wadada Leo Smith-trumpet, flugelhorn, electronics / Günter Baby Sommer-drums, percussion

Trumpet and drum duos from the ever amazing Wadada Leo Smith, who's extended techniques shine under the propelling force of drummer Günter Sommer. Sommer is well established in the Euro free jazz scene, working with Conrad Bauer, Ulrich Gumpert and Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, and who has also had a long association with pianist Irène Schweizer. Upbeat and happy interplay from these two impressive improvisers.


Recorded May 22, 23, 2006 by Willy Strehler at Studio Klangdach, Guntershausen, Switzerland.

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SPLINT!: Moro

Label: Lampse Audiovisual Recordings (LAMP 008CD)

Jon Falt-drums, sampler / Gunnar Halle-trumpet, electronics / Johannes Lundberg-bass / Nils Olav Johansen-guitar

"Before joining Splint!, each of the members toured extensively through the years as part of various constellations (Bobo Stenson Trio, Frederk Lundin Overdrive, New Junge Orchestra, Billy Cobham, Farmers Market, &c) but never as a group. Even so, this musical marriage is a successful one, not only because all four are very talented and experienced musicians, but also because they are good friends who want to have a bit of fun.

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Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Frameworks (1968-73)

Label: Emanem (EMANEM 4134)

John Stevens-percussion, voice / Norma Winstone-voice / Kenny Wheeler-flugelhorn / Paul Rutherford-trombone / Trevor Watts-bass clarinet, soprano saxophone / Julie Tippett-voice, guitar / Ron Herman-double bass

"This CD contains three previously unissued performances that all feature Stevens' frameworks leading to group improvising. FAMILIE SEQUENCE from mid-1968 features a unusual instrumentation with three wind instruments, voice and percussion. (An earlier, unissued studio recording of FAMILIE has the very different instrumentation of two voices, piccolo, flute, soprano sax, piano, guitar, cello, two double basses and percussion.) The group texture is made even more unusual by Watts playing bass [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded in London, 1968, July 14 (track 1), 1971, April 25 (2), and 1973, October 11 (3).

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Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence

Label: Emanem (EMANEM 4217)

John Stevens-percussion, cornet, voice / Evan Parker-soprano saxophone / Trevor Watts-soprano saxophone / Derek Bailey-amplified guitar, guitar / Kent Carter-cello, double bass

"The eight-five minutes of totally improvised music produced at the 1974 ICA concert are so cohesive that it sounds as if this quintet had worked together for some considerable time. However, apart from a brief sound check earlier that day, this was the only occasion that these five musicians performed together.

When John Stevens put this quintet together, he had envisioned that Derek Bailey would play acoustic guitar and Kent Carter cello. This instrumentation never happened in practice, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


.

A1 - A2 originally issued in 1986 as Emanem LP 3401 - reissued in 1997 on Emanem 4015; A3 - B1 originally issued in 1986 as Emanem LP 3402 - reissued in 1997 on Emanem 4016; B2 - B4 originally issued in 1997 on Emanem 4015; B5 - B6 originally issued in 1997 on Emanem 4016

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Tabassian, Ziya: Tombak

Label: Ambiances Magnetiques (AM 161)

Ziya Tabassian-tombak (zarb)

Solo tombak work from this accomplished Iranian performer who has spent his life studying Persian music, placing it in both traditional and modern contexts. He has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, Hossein Omoumi, Keyhan Kalhor, Liu Fang, and En Chordais, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal and Caprice. This is a beautiful record of solo tombak, played in a variety of styles, including modern approaches more associated with free improvisational.

"Also called [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Ullmann, Gebhard / Dahlgren, Chris / Lande, Art: Die Blaue Nixe (Blue Water Nymph)

Label: Between The Lines (BTLCHR 71216)

Gebhard Ullmann-bass clarinet, soprano, tenor saxophones, ocarinas, toys / Art Lande-piano, toys / Chris Dahlgren-double bass, preparations, toys

"Water nymphs are know from ancient legends as female beings, who live in water and bring death through their beauty and song or at least prophesy ruin and depravation - usually of men. The "Blue Water Nymph" of the international trio also casts a spell on listeners, but proclaims enjoyment of outstanding and fascinating music.

The composer and saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann born in Bad Godesberg in 1957 has lived in Berlin since 1983. He conquered the world from there and in the meantime [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded on December 10, 11, 2003 and September 6, 2004 at RBB Studios by Willi Leopold.

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Vandermark 5, The: Four Sides to the Story [VINYL]

Label: Atavistic (ALP 232LP)

Tim Daisy-drums / Kent Kessler-bass / Fred Lonberg-Holm-cello / Dave Rempis-saxophones / Ken Vandermark-saxophones, clarinets

Beautifully packaged limited edition double LP boxset from Chicago's Vandermark 5, recorded during their 2005 "Color of Memory" gig while performing in Poland. This was a new lineup for the V5, including the great cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, bringing a strength to the sound that keeps this ten-plus year ensemble sounding fresh and amazing. Includes liner notes by Ken Vandermark and Wawrzyniec Makinia.


Recorded, mixed & mastered November 23, 2005 at the Alchemia Club, Krakow, Poland and MAQ Studios by Micha Rosicki

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Various Artists: Just Drums II - The Project

Label: Fever Pitch (FP31)

Jacopo Andreini / Jeff Arnal / Ben Hall / M.S. Bacon / E.W. Hagstrom / Christine Bard / JT Bates / Michael Bettine / Chris Corsano / Andrew Drury / Michael Evans / Fast Forward / Maark Guiliana / John Hollenbeck / Jeph Jerman / David Lebleu / Payton MacDonald / Billy Martin / Sean Meehan / Ravish Momin / Kevin Shea Duet / Stephen Moses / (Disc 2) Rich O'Donnell / Mark Powers / Jim Pugliese / Mike Pride / Gilles-Vincent Rieder / Gino Robair / Mirko Sabatini / Jen Schwartz / Ches Smith / Trey Spruance / Karen Stackpole / Moe! Staiano / Jason Verhagen / Fritz Welch / William Winant / Kim Zack

Excellent compilation of work from drummers as compiled by Fever Pitch, a magazine & label that understands the breadth of work the instrument is capable of. Many names familiar to Squidco readers: Jeff Arnal, Chris Corsano, Andrew Drury, John Hollenbeck, Billy Martin, Sean Meehan, Jim Pugliese, Gino Robair, Moe! Staiano, William Winant, etc. A really great introduction to a broad spectrum of approaches in modern drumming and percussion.


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Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion

Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records (mt092a)

"VTB have crafted a strange geometry in their musique concrete between celestial duck honks and what sounds like a flood in the living room, there are more than a few occasions of heads cocked at the speaker in mundus caninus. Of course, this bodes well for humans, too. Augmented by all the dog friendly moments is a double album of sprawling musical invention. Record one births gently into a lo-fi-adelic Comus-like saline that even might even win over the Devendra crowd, if the Devendra crowd [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Electro-Acoustic/Electronic


Atom TM: Son of a Glitch

Label: Rather Interesting (RI 064)

Atom Heart (Uwe Schmidt) / Guests: Audiocrip / Mikrosopht / Original Hamster

Atom Heart, AKA Uwe Schmidt, has released fascinating and oddly rhythmed music at an amazing rate, and under an enormous number of names. His Rather Interesting label took a break in 2006, but returns here with a complex and compelling release of funk, glitch, horn sections and unusual songs. This is not simple IDM/Electronica, and Atom maintains a pulse that must vary with every breath he takes. Unusual, humorous, utterly serious, bewildering, and a tremendous amount of fun.


Recorded, programmed and mixed at "Mira, Musical, Stgo" 206/2007.

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Becuzzi, Gianluca / Orsi, Fabio: The Stones Know Everything

Label: Digitalis (DIGI 038CD)

Gianluca Becuzzi / Fabio Orsi

Southern Italian Fabio Orsi works in the electro-acoustic world using field recordings and drone music; Gianluca Becuzzi has worked since 1993 releasing abstract experimental music on various labels such as Kinetix and Limbo. Together the two released "Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines" in 2006 on the A Silent Place label, a lovely drone based work using guitars and field recordings. That brings us to 2007 and their new "the stones know everything" double release, a series of compositions [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Bosetti, Alessandro: Her Name

Label: Crouton (crou035)

Alessandro Bosetti

Her Name is a record founded on meetings and voices. Having toured extensively throughout Europe, China, Japan, and the U.S., Bosetti's performances consisted of some of the music you'll hear within. During the performances he sat, with a computer sitting on a table next to him, his voice at the aural focus, coming from his mouth in the middle of his face, he translated the recorded voices of the people he's met along the way. Those voices appear in this recording. However, many more things [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Cor Fuhler : Stengam

Label: Potlatch (206)

Cor Fuhler-piano & preparations

"[...] On his new solo CD, [Cor Fuhler] plays an 'acoustic grand piano, using ebows and super magnets. No overdubs, no electronics, no electronic treatment'. Which is something I read on the cover after I heard the CD. Fuhler could have fooled me. I recognized indeed the piano, and yes, there are long sustained overtones, but just as easily I could have thought there was electronic treatment in these subtle walls of droning and sustaining sounds, with sparse interception by the piano itself. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded in August 2006 at ConundromCd studios. Played on an acoustic grand piano, using e-bows and super magnets.

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FIGS (Fedorova / Ivanov / Godwyn / Soudnick): Neva Wave

Label: Auris Media (CDDOMA 06435)

Ekayerina Fedorova / Alexei Ivanov / Marcus Godwyn / Nick Soudnick

Studio recordings from ZGA studio by Nick Soudnick and his FIGS project: Ekaterina Fedorova (Iva Nova, ZGA), Alexei Ivanov (Union of Commercial Avant-guarde, Nado Podumat) and Markus Godwyn (The Noise of Time).


Recorded at "Dorbrolet" studio by Oleg Volkov and at ZGA studio by Nick Soudnick, January 2006.

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Half Makeshift: Aphotic Leech

Label: Utech Records (URCD005)

Nathan Michael-piano, guitar, organ, glitch work, manipulation / Nicholas Szczepanik unknowingly provided all percussion

"Aphotic Leech is the first movement in a series of ever changing modes which make up what Half Makeshift has slowly become. A bath of heavy drone and bitter piano chords strewn over top of subtle glitch work and manipulated percussion, Aphotic Leech trades malice for despair and shuns any probable hope. Created in November of 2006 from austere piano pieces, string fragments, a live percussion specimen and other various arrangements, this piece grew to be much larger than originally intended [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded November, 2006.

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Laswell, Bill: City of Light

Label: Sub Rosa (SR 114CD)

Lori Carson / Janet Rienstra / Christopher James / Coil / Trilok Gurtu / Tetsu Inoue / Hakim Bey

"While it may appear an anachronism in his catalog, fans of Bill Laswell will find City of Light an extension of ideas he has explored throughout his career. His strong interest in Eastern music and religion resulted in this 1997 collaboration with Janet Rienstra. Part sacred, spoken word, part meditative soundscape, City of Light takes as its inspiration the holy region of Banaras, India. Said to belong to Shiva, Banaras also contains the Ganges river: a place sought by Hindus for their cremation. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded in Banaras, India, and mixed at Greenpoint Studio in Brooklyn. Originally released in 1997 on CD as East Side 11

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Laswell, Bill: Hashsisheen - The End of Law

Label: Sub Rosa (SR 154CD)

music of Bill Laswell / W.S. Burroughs / Iggy Pop / Techno Animal / Patti Smith / Lizzy Mercier-Descloux / Genesis P-Orridge / Jah Wobble / Paul Schutze / Anne Clark / Hakim Bey / Nicky Scopelitis / Peter Wilson / Nicole Blackman / Ira Cohen / Helios Creed / Anton Fier / Sussan Deyhim / Percy Howard III

Through immense exposure to their innovative experimentation, Bill Laswell developed a strong interest in North Africa, Arab culture, Islam, the Tangier scene, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Paul Bowles, ritual magick, drugs and travel; and discovered their obsession with the wild heretical actions of the Persian-Hassan-i-Sabbah, who claimed to be the incarnation of God on earth - Hassan, son of Sabbah.

"The work of William S. Burroughs and collaborator Brian Gysin is the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Laswell, Bill: Lo. Def Pressure

Label: Sub Rosa (SR 150CD)

Bill Laswell-bass, keyboard, beats, sounds / Kadri Sriram, Arif Singh, Hassan Akber Ali-additional music, elements and sounds / Zakir Hussain, Badal Roy-tabla matrix, rhythm elements

"Lo. Def Pressure consists of two extended compositions (both over 20 minutes) from genre-expanding musician/composer/producer Bill Laswell. Featuring a group of percussionists (including the exceptional tabla player Zakir Hussain) and sound generators, the results are texture-heavy excursions into rhythm that combine ancient musical traditions with modern beat science. It's a meeting of old and new, East and West that has taken place on Laswell's recordings ever since talking drums and tablas [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded and mixed at Orange Music, NJ. Additional recording in Bombay, Delhi, and Madras, India.

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Menche, Daniel: Creatures of Cadence

Label: Crouton (crou032)

Daniel Menche-percussion, cello, horns, and zither, voice, sticks, American Indian drum / Erick Stotik-banjo and additional percussion sounds

Despite what the title might suggest, "Creatures of Cadence" is not about endings, completion, or finality. Instead we find Menche inviting a slew of new mediators into his cathartic miasma. The medium now extends beyond the rich and unfathomable depths of somatic sound. His ongoing dialogue between body and mind has found sympathetic resonators in a myriad of instruments (percussion, cello, horns, and zither) that have proven through the ages of being capable of channeling both our most ecstatic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Joint release between Crouton and Longbox Recodings (Longbox Recordings No. 40). Recorded and mixed in the Summer of 2006 at Smegma Sutdios, House of Menche

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Namlook, Pete / Inoue, Tetsu: 2350 Broadway 4

Label: pulsewidth (PW 50)

Pete Namlook / Tetsu Inoue

Peter Namlook's FAX label has been issuing his ambient electronic releases, as well as the work of other electronic innovators, since the early 90's - this is the fifth in a series of "Air" releases that began in 1993, working with electro-acoustic artist Tetsu Inoue. This double CD release is a beautiful CD of inspired electronic melodies and rhythms, influenced by Eastern spiritual muisc. Italian artist Tying Tiffany also joins in on one track. The two CDs present the same material, the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded at Bretton Hall, New York and Klanglabor Hödeshof.

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Osso Exotico / Verres Enharmoniqueszine: Folk Cycles

Label: Phonomena Audio Arts & Multiples (PAAM 030CD)

Osso Exotico: David Maranha / André Marnha / Patricia Machas

Verres Enharmoniques: Emmanuel Holterbach / Sophie Durand

Slowly evolving and minimal electro-acoustic work that focus on harmonics and overtones, using simple variations presented in a ritualist approach. David Maranha is the obsessive mind behind Osso Exotico, who have recorded together since 1990, based in Portugal but over the last few years receiving recognition throughout Europe. The main sonic source for this project uses glasses - tuned wine glasses, glass tables, etc, in harmony with "resophonic guitar," the "percuted and continuum harmonium", [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Quellet, Israël: OPPRESSUM

Label: Sub Rosa (SR244)

"Introduction to Israël Quellet - His Life Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1972. He worked in the psychiatric field for several years. At 16, he discovers on his own some different soundworlds, such as Miles Davis's electric era, Sun Ra, Dub, German cosmic music, Magma, Zappa and many more. In 1997, he stepped into the action and, following the advice of a sound engineer friend, bought microphones, a digital mixing board, and studio monitors. Basically, he turned part of his basement [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Rainey, Bhob / Wehowsky, Ralf: I Don't Think I Can See You Tonight

Label: Sedimental (SED 047CD)

Bhob Rainey / Ralf Wehowsky

Electro-acoustic improv and organized sound from two uncompromising performers making fascinating soundscapes of depth and continued interest. Liner notes describe the collaboration's development from 2001-2006


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Science of Sound: Introducing...Science of Sound

Label: self-released (0000)

Dorian Byrd

Relaxed and jazzy IDM Eletronica, a self-released CD of drum tracks layered with guitar and occassional trumpet.


All tracks produced by the Mad Mind Muzik Master for Science of Sound

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Toop, David: Sound Body

Label: Samadhi Sound (SAMAD 009CD)

David Toop, Clive Bell, Haco, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Gunter Müller, Rafael Toral, &c.

"David Toop's Sound Body hums and glows with life, five gorgeous morphing electronic tracks that continue Samadhi Sound's exploration of quiet, minimal, melodic music worlds created by the likes of Harold Budd, Akira Rabelais, Fennesz, Derek Bailey, David Sylvian and others. These remarkable soundscapes have only become possible in the twenty-first century, when improvisation, digital composing and mixing, and traditional music forms from around the globe all mutate and fuse in ways that surprise [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Ussachevsky, Vladimir: Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972

Label: New World Records (80654)

Macalester College Chamber Chorus / Ian Morton-conductor / Alice Shields-mezzo-soprano / University of Utah A Capella Chorus / Newell Weight-conductor / Jo Ann Ottley-soprano / chorus of the University of Utah / brasses from the Utah Symphony / Newell Weight-conductor

In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have important consequences for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Electronic music was born.

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Various Artists: Frankfurter Ahnung - Curated by Ben Watson

Label: Sonic Arts Network (SAN 2005)

Another Sonic Arts 7" book + CD, released back to 2005, which programmes a highly eclectic selection of pieces ranging from the sublime to the mystifying. The good parts are really good, and I think there are enough of them. Linked by snatches of audio verité, this CD plays like an intriguing radio programme. [...] The print book - a confection of gruesome poetry, talk-down arrogance and rococo wordheaps - will be a matter of taste, but it seems to me that it fails to show the reader any [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Various Artists: The Topography Of Chance - Curated by Stewart Lee

Label: Sonic Arts Network (sonicTopograpy)

"8th installment of the continuing Sonic Arts 7" book + CD series. This excellent issue features eclectic and unexpected selections made by comedian Stewart Lee, most of which in one way or another do squeeze into his borrowed (from Fluxus) title. Only a canny civilian could make such unusual choices - so, full marks to SAN for inventive commissioning. The success of the project makes it hard to give a proper impression, but I can say that all these pieces stay close to people, eccentric sometimes, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Vitiello, Stephen: Listening to Donald Judd

Label: Sub Rosa (SR245)

Sound artists Stephen Vitiello has collaborated with artists, musicians and choreographers, including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Constance De Jong, Nam June Paik, Eder Santos, Scanner, Andrew Deutsch, etc.

"This piece is a work in progress evolving from the numerous recordings Vitiello made of the sculptures of American artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. High-precision microphones are placed directly on the surface of Judd's "specific objects." They capture a subtle [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Yoshihide, Otomo: The Multiple Otomo Project

Label: Asphodel (ASPH 3007DVD)

"On Monochrome Otomo presents 18 pieces that illustrate the entire range of his solo work from pieces constructed entirely of feedback, static and randomly generated radio noise, to sine wave experiments that bring to mind the humming of the solar wind as it wafts through intergalactic space. There are also rhythmic bursts of feedback and percussion that are almost danceable and subtle Zen like meditations full of slow sustained notes that fill the air with otherworldly overtones.

The Multiple [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Rock/RIO/Prog


Einstürzende Neubauten: Palast der Republik

Label: MVD Visual (DR 4564DVD)

"This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Faust: The Land of Ukko & Rauni

Label: Ektro (EKTRO 007 CD )

Werner Zappi Diermaier / Hans Joachim Irmler / Steven Wray Lobdell / Lars Paukstat / Michael Stoll

"A concert (84 minutes) by the current incarnation of the reformed band. [...] As always with Faust, things are never predictable or easily categorized, and for the most part, the individual pieces tracked on the CD's (7 on the first, 3 on the second) flow into one another with only subtle differentiations at the track boundaries. Beginning with sounds that might best be described as "bowed whales", eventually dissolving into a maelstrom of other oceanic noises... Single-mindedly near-industrial [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded in Finland April 20, 2000

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Moving Gelatine Plates: Moving Gelatine Plates

Label: Musea (FGBG 4062CD)

"On their impressive 1971 debut, France's Moving Gelatine Plates create a unique brand of jazz-influenced progressive rock. Parts of the album are reminiscent of the music recorded by groups from England's Canterbury scene (e.g., Soft Machine), but the Moving Gelatine Plates' driving rhythms and catchy thematic shifts set the band apart from their English counterparts. Drummer Gerard Pons pulls the listener along at a frantic pace on tracks like "Gelatine" and "Last Song." With help from the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Originally issued on CBS as 64399 in 1971

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Nico : All Tomorrow's Parties CD

Label: Cherry Red (CDMGOTH25)

"One of the most fascinating figures of rock's fringes, Nico hobnobbed, worked, and was romantically linked with an incredible assortment of the most legendary entertainers of the '60s.

Nico first rose to fame as a European supermodel, also landing a bit part in Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita' film. In the mid-1960's she moved to New York, where Andy Warhol installed her as a vestigial presence and occasional lead singer for the Velvet Underground. The band never really accepted her as a bona [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded live in Manchester, UK and another unkown UK location in the early 1980's.

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Nine Horses: Money For All

Label: Samadhi Sound (SAMAD 010CD)

David Sylvian / Steve Jansen / Burnt Friedman / Stina Nordenstam

The post-Japan/Rain Tree Crow band Nine Horses follows up on Sylvian and brother Steve Jansen's first Nine Horses release with this 44 minute EP. The newest track leads the CD, "Money for All," an excellent song of the times that sneaks words around intrusive airline searches and terrorists: 'it's no longer the nation you belong to but the things you do.' With a dark mood and a good hook it's an excellent addition to their catalog, and two versions of the song are presented on this CD. "Get [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Psychic Paramount, The: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural

Label: No Quarter (NOQ007)

Drew St. Ivany-guitar / Ben Armstrong-bass / Jeff Conaway-drums

It would be too easy to use the tired description "Wall of Sound" for the music of The Psychic Paramount. It's more like several Fort Knox style Walls of Sound. Combining their frenetic and fierce playing style with the "In the Red" (more like beyond the red) recording and mastering job, the music on Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural sonically loses depth and becomes one dimensional. One dimensional, in a very good way. Existing somewhere in the sound world of This Heat (grooving rhythms [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded August 2004 at The Seaside Lounge Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY by Charles Burst.

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Psychic Paramount, The: Origins and Primitives Volume 1 & 2

Label: No Quarter (NOQ009)

Drew St. Ivany-electric, acoustic guitars, organ, drums, guitar, tape recorder, effects, loop pedal

One might say that it's highly unusual for a group's second album to consist of solo recordings by one member made prior to their first album and their formation. Such is the strange workings of The Psychic Paramount and their new album, Origins and Primitives Vol. 1 + 2. Recorded between 1996 and 2002 in Brooklyn and France, Origins and Primitives first comes off as a solo improv record by Drew St. Ivany, the guitarist and founding member of The Psychic Paramount. This would, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded live to stereo cassette 2001-2002 in France (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7); four-track cassette in Brooklyn, NY 1996 (tracks 3, 6); digital multi-track in Isère, France in August 2002 (Disc 2).

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Red Krayola, The: Soldier-Talk

Label: Drag City (DC 079CD)

Mayo Thompson / Jesse Chamberlain / Christine Thompson / Lora Logic / Dick Cuthell / Tom Herman / David Thomas / Scott Krause / Tony Maimone / Allen Ravenstine

Red Crayola's star has been waxing lately, issuing new material and, happily, seeing their back-catalog reissued. Soldier-Talk was issued in 1979 after a nearly 10 year break from recording after their 1968 "God Bless the Red Krayola..." LP, and was recorded after their second European tour. The core of the band is the duo of guitarist/leader Mayo Thompson and drummer Jesse Chamberlain, recording with familiar names including David Thomas, Tony Maimone, Allen Ravenstine and Scott Krauss (essentially, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Originally release in 1979 as Radar 18

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Residents, The: Kettles of Fish on the Outskirts of Town

Label: Ralph (DCD370)

The Residents / Snakefinger / Guest Appearances: Laurie Amat, Carla Fabrizio, Penn Jillette, A. Deckbar, Toby Dammit, Maria Harvey, Isabelle Barbier, Nolan Cook, E. Benskin, R. Brody, J. Clem, G. Ewart, K. French, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, C. LeMaitre, S. McLennan, S. Mitchell, K. Newell, D. Paulsen, M. Salvatore, N. Senada, Tom Timony, C. VanRaalte, Jacqueline Kennedy, Peggy Honeydew, Don Jackovich

The ever-odd eyeballed ones reveal this massive set of video and audio works of material from the years 1983-1999, focusing on the 13th Anniversary Show and Icky Flicks, with plenty of other material from projects like The Mole Show, Cube-E, &c. (see track listings below) Beautifully packaged as a large box set with a 56 page book, a great release for any Residents fan!


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Smegma / Perry Robinson: Live at No Fun Fest [VINYL]

Label: QBICO (QBICO 57)

Dr. Id / Ju Suk Reet Meate, Oblivia / Conroy / Burned Mind / Perry Robinson

Avant-rockers Smegma came out of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) scene from the 1970's, and continue to this day with their odd psychedelic improvisations and opaque and unusual persona, with past member names like Chucko D. K. Fatts, Cheezit-Ritz, or Dr. Odd. They now work from Portland, Oregon, releasing records on their own Pigface label and playing at festivals like this No-Fun Festival in Brooklyn, NY, joined by New Yorker Perry Robinson on clarinets. QBICO describes the music [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded August 2001, September 2003 at PDX (track 1, side A & B); March 17, 206 at No Fun Fest (track 2, side A & B).

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Takayanagi New Direction for the Art, Masayuki: Complete " La Grima"

Label: Doubtmusic (DMH-113)

Masayuki Takayanagi-guitar / Kenji Mori-saxophone / Hiroshi Yamazaki-percussion

"La Grima (Tears) was performed on August 14, 1971, at the Genyasai festival in Sanrizuka, Japan. The first six minutes or so of this performance can be heard on the omnibus LP Genya (released on CD in 2004). This CD presents the complete, unedited version of the performance.

As if to slash through the audience's scornful, jeering reaction to Takayanagi's opening remarks, the group launched into a fiercely convulsive performance. Despite having a variety of objects thrown at them, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Performed live August 14, 1971, at the Genyasai festival in Sanrizuka, Japan

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Thompson, Molly: Ash

Label: White Lime Records (White Lime 001)

Molly Thompson-voice, accordion / Jody Redhage-voice, cello / Kamala Sankaram-voice / Kathleen Supové-piano / Patrick Kane McCarthy-electric guitar / Laura Harrison-bass clarinet / Margaret Lancaster-alto flute / Sycil Mathai-trumpet / Yumi Oshima-viola / Guest Musicians: Kristine Barrett-voice / Theresa Wong-cello / Quentin Sirjacq-piano

With her album ASH, New York composer/performer Molly Thompson, who studied extensively with Fred Frith, is on a unique path. Instead of taking the current route of many composers (i.e. forming large gang-like collectives that perform each others music) she writes very personal chamber songs that don't fit into any particular compositional genre. So, are they compositions or are they songs? One might say that they're more complex than songs without losing the gripping melodic center of most [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded at Threshold Music by Sheldon Steiger.

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Tujiko, Noriko: Solo

Label: Editions Mego (EMEGO 078CD)

Tujiko Noriko

This is Osaka's Tujiko Noriko's third-full length release for Editions Mego. While still maintaining her trademark version of experimental Japanese pop, on Solo the edges have been polished with some of Noriko's most accomplished works. In part due to the mixing skills of Gerhard Potuznik and Tyme. One could even say a work of great maturity. Noriko herself best describes the record this way "Making music was like I drive and drive looking for a place where there is nobody. I would arrive [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, September 2006

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Unknown Instructors: The Master's Voice

Label: Smog Veil (SV 066CD)

Joe Baiza-guitar / George Hurley-drums / Mike Watt-bass / Dan McGuire, David Thomas, Raymond Pettibon-vocals

"[The Unknown Instructors] ...improvisational rock band are comprised of the former Minutemen/Firehose rhythm section of drummer George Hurley and bassist Mike Watt (who's now also playing bass for the reconstituted Stooges), Saccharine Trust guitarist Joe Baiza and frontman Dan McGuire.

Watt sings lead on one track on the follow-up to 2005's The Way Things Work, while Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs mastermind David Thomas lends his voice to three songs. Renowned contemporary [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded at Total Access, October, 2005.

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Yugen: Labirinto d'Acqua

Label: AltrOck Productions (ALT 001)

Paolo «Ske» Botta-piano elettrico, mellotron, organo, moog / Stephan Brunner-basso / Maurizio Fasoli-pianoforte / Dave Kerman-batteria [in Corale metallurgico] / Tommaso Leddi-mandolino, liuto / Massimo Mazza-vibrafono, marimba, glockenspiel / Elia Mariani-violino / Giuseppe A. Olivini-clavicembalo, percussioni, shakuachi, theremin / Peter Schmid-clarinetto basso, tubax, sassofono subcontrabbasso, flauto basso, taragot / Mattia Signò-batteria / Marco Sorge-clarinetto in sib, clarinetto basso / Markus Stauss-sassofono tenore, soprano, basso / Francesco Zago-chitarra elettrica, chitarra classica, tastiere / Diego Donadio-arrangiamenti batteria

"Yugen" is a Japanese term meaning deep or mysterious, while also graceful and elegant. In the context of this release Yugen is an excellent Italian instrumental RIO/Chamber-rock band, driven by the compositions of Francesco Zago and producer Marcello Marinone. Udi Koomran's hand in the mixing and production may give a good idea of the style this band works in, along with guests Dave Kerman of 5uu's and Tommaso Leddi from Stormy. The music is complex and shifting, using an interesting sonic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Avant-Garde


Berio, Luciano: Différences / Sequenze III & VII / Due Pezzi / Chamber Music

Label: LILITH (LR 121CD)

Five pieces composed between 1951 and 1969 by avant-garde composer Luciano Berio, as performed by the Julliard Ensemble, with Cathy Berberian on voice, and Heinz Hollinger on oboe. Berio was an early sonic pioneer, and "Différences," the first and longest work on the CD, is written for five instruments and magnetic tape. Significant and interesting work.


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Cage, John: Imaginary Landscapes

Label: Hat [now] ART (145)

Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble, Jan Williams conducting

"Improvising guitarist Derek Bailey has expressed the belief that "If you're going to explore uncharted territory, it's okay to carry a compass, but not a map." It's obvious; if you know where you're going and have plotted the most efficient or scenic course to get there, you may arrive without mishap but deprived of much of the drama, the danger, the unpredictable uniqueness of the journey. In the years following 1950, John Cage walked these paths of musical uncertainty, providing performers [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Feldman, Morton: For Samuel Beckett

Label: Hat [now] ART (142)

Ensemble Modern conducted by Arturo Tamayo

"For Samuel Beckett" is a late (1987) work, rich in detail and lush in sound (especially in relation to so many of his more austere pieces, early and late), but troubling, obsessed, claustrophobic in spite of its scope. Given their shared attraction to shadow (Feldman's music uses chiaroscuro in the way Beckett meticulously exploited darkness and light and the moods in between on the stage and on the page), it's perhaps surprising that Feldman's dedication didn't involve the starker textures [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded May 24 & 25, 1991 at Sendesaal Hessischer Rundfunk. 2006 2nd edition

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Glass, Philip: Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass

Label: Orange Mountain Music (0034)

Philip Glass-composer / Alter Ego

One of Philip Glass' great achievements aside from his role as a minimalist pioneer has been his successful effort to establish the composer and associated ensemble as a viable musico-economic model. For many years performances of his music usually involved his Philip Glass Ensemble, but this profusion of recordings of his music by independent ensembles is a strong sign of the durability of his reputation. Alter Ego, a group from Italy, here performs a group of early Glass works and generally [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Keller, Derek: Impositions and Consequences

Label: Tzadik (TZ 8032)

Christopher Adler-Piano, Mellotron / Lisa Cella-Flute, Voice / Aiyun Huang-Percussion / Derek Keller-Electric Guitar, Tenor / Ivan Manzanilla-Percussion / Morris Palter-Percussion / Steven Schick-Conductor / Harvey Sollberger-Conductor / Carolyn Lechusza Aquallo-Cello, Voice / Fabio Fonseca de Oliviera-Conductor / Anne-Marie Dicce-Soprano / Rob Esler-Percussion, Voice / Nathan Hubbard-Drums / Alan Lechusza-Baritone Saxophone / Cristyn Magnus-Programming / Colin McAllister-Guitar, Voice / Greg Stuart-Percussion / Scott Walton-Contrabass

"Guitarist/composer/conductor/vocalist Derek Keller was born in Philadelphia and now resides in La Jolla, California. A former student of Roger Reynolds, George Crumb and Brian Ferneyhough, his work is intense and remarkably colorful. Blending diverse styles, instruments and sounds, Keller is a brave explorer of uncharted territory, and though the delicate balancing of composition and improvisation he has made some remarkable new music. Including a dynamic percussion quartet beautifully performed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Nono, Luigi: 20 Jahre Inventionen V

Label: Edition Rz (RZ 4006)

Ingrid Ade / Monika Bair-Ivenz / Bernadette Manca di Nissa / Halina Nieckarz / Roberto Fabbriciani / Frances-Marie Uitti / Arturo Tamayo / Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWF / ars nova ensemble Berlin / Edelgard Neubert-Imm / Peter Schwarz

Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990 in Venice) wrote 20th century classical contemporary music, turning increasingly to electronics and the properties of sound , particularly after 1980, where he pursued such studies at the Freiburg Experimental Studio. This CD features an early work for electronics and tape, the 1960 piece "Omaggio A Emiolio Vedova"; also presented is "Canciones a Guimar," a work for soprano, choir and ensemble as performed by the Nova Ensemble; and "Quando Stanno Morendo," [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded live at the Berlin festival "Inventionen".

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Ornstein, Leo: Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Label: New World Records (80655)

Joshua Gordon-cello / Randall Hodgkinson-piano

"Although best known for a collection of radical early works, throughout his life Leo Ornstein (1893-2002) wrote in diverse styles. Such stylistic eclecticism confounded his listeners, which, in turn, may explain why he chose to retire from the concert stage in order to follow his muse away from public pressure and scrutiny. Ornstein's music blends lyricism, exotic atmospheres, innovative tone clusters, and dramatic rhythmic drive, greatly influenced by Debussy, Scriabin, and Eastern European [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Palestine, Charlemagne: A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies...For Maybeck

Label: Cold Blue Music (CB 0025)

Charlemagne Palenstine-pianos, voice, brandy snifter

"Though he was a contemporary of Glass, Reich, Riley, and Young, Charlemagne Palestine has rarely been included in the holy pantheon of New York minimalists. Perhaps it's his aversion to the use of a "minimalist" categorization to describe his work, or that his discography, until recent years, remained rather scant. Or even his personality, which has always been in contrast to the more somber and serious airs of many of his peers. For whatever reason, Palestine remains, to many with only a cursory [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded live at Maybeck recital hall, Berkely, CA, 2006

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Tudor, David : Music For Piano

Label: Edition Rz (RZ 1018/19)

David Tudor-piano

This excellent compilation of Tudor's most historic performances of avant-garde and minimalist piano compositions features works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and Sylvano Bussotti. Mostly presenting material from the mid-50s and early 60's, this is an essential document of David Tudor the pianist. "From 1950 until around 1965, David Tudor was the epitome of the pianist who could simply play anything. In fact, David Tudor was no longer a name, but an indication for instrumentation [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


Recorded between 1955-1963.

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Various Artists: Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-1933

Label: LTM (LTM2472)

Walter Gropius / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Josef Albers / Arnold Schoenberg / Josef Matthias Hauer / George Antheil / Stefan Wolpe / H.H. Stuckenschmidt

"An illuminating 72 minute audio review of the Bauhaus, based on a lengthy interview with founding architect/director Walter Gropius, together with contributions from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, as well as relevant musical interludes (composed 1919-1925) from Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, Josef Matthias Hauer, George Antheil and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt. The featured interview extracts are all English language, and offer a comprehensive overview of Bauhaus history, staff and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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DVD, Books & Magazines, Misc.


Signal To Noise: Issue #45, Spring 2007

Publisher: Signal to Noise #45
On the cover: Jean Derome / Jarboe / High Llama / Steve Swell / Peter Walker / The Slip / Lauren Newton / Milton Babbit / Live Reviews: Cutler/Frith/Hodgkinson / "Teh Independents / Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches / Sussan Deyhim / Avalon String Quartet / Simon Joyner


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The Wire: #278 March 2007

Publisher: Wire WIRE 278
On the Cover: Terry Riley
Articles:
  Maja Ratkje
  Eyeless In Gaza
  Aufgehoben
  Islaja
  Michio Kurihara
  Cross Platform: Hal Rammel
  Invisible Jukebox: The Dead C

Reviews: Throbbing Gristle, Bordoms, Laub, Einstürzende Neubauten, Adelaide Film Festival, New Humans with Vito Acconci, Sotto Voce, Flower-Corsano Duo, Olga Neurwirth's "Lost Highway"


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Various Artists: The Encyclopedia of Swedish Music - From Psychedelic Experiments to Political Propaganda (1967-1979)

Label: PREMIUM PUBLISHING (PP 89136BK)

Petterson, Tobias-author / Henningson, Ulf-editor / with International Harvester / Made In Sweden / Hansson & Karlsson / Mecki Mark Men / November / Träd / Gräs & Stenar / Hoola Bandoola Band / Blå Tåget / Nationalteatern / Kebnekajse / plus many more

This beautifully produced book and CD covers the Swedish progressive rock movement from the years 1967-1979, including such bands and artists as International Harvester, Bo Hansson, Samla Mammas Manna, Nationalteatern and Kebnekajse. Heavily illustrated with album covers (including collector's valuations) and band shots in 238 oversized pages, it's hard to imagine a more comprehensive or lavish tribute to the incredible music of that period. The book is edited by Tobias Petterson and Ulf Henningsson, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Souleyman, Omar: Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria

Label: Sublime Frequencies (SF 031CD)

More exotic and interesting world sounds from the Sun City Girls run label Sublime Frequencies, this time focusing on Syrian folk-pop legend Omar Souleyman.

"Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend. Since 1994, he and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, they have issued more than five-hundred studio and live-recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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Pink Floyd: Up Close and Personal - The Roger Waters Years

Label: Storm Bird LTD (UCAP2300)

Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett / Nick Mason / Rogers Waters / Richard Wright / David Gilmour

Musical Criticism: Joe Boyd / John "Hoppy" Hopkins / Norman Smith / Nigel Cross / Pip Williams / Nick Tauber / Ron Geesin / Peter Mew / Clare Torry / George Hardie / Snowy White / Andy Roberts

Archive, interview and documentary footage of Pink Floyd from their beginnings with Syd Barrett in 1967 through 1996, the year that Roger Waters left the band. As a documentary the analysis is relatively critical while still paying homage - milestones are investigated, such as Syd Barrett's withdrawal from the band and replacement by Dave Gilmour, but also good discussion on their more obscure releases such as Atom Heart Mother and Umagumma; their breakthrough with Meddle; interesting background [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


$34.95 - View @ Squidco


Various Artists: Niger: Magic & Ecstasy in the Sahel

Label: Sublime Frequencies (SF 022DVD)

"A celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, this film by Hisham Mayet showcases many of Niger's venerable music styles. Tuareg Electric Guitar trance rock, Bori cult dance ceremonies, Fulani Folk, and Roadhouse Gospel Rave-ups are some of the segments included in this latest "Folk Cinema" classic from Sublime Frequencies! Filmed in December of 2004 on location in Niger, Hisham Mayet delivers a spontaneous, raw, and inspiring collection of images, music, and ceremony (again with a single [ ... continued @ Squidco ]


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