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Morton Feldman:
For Bunita Marcus
(Nuscope)

Hanno Leichtmann:
Minimal Studies
(Mikroton)

Jeb Bishop & Jorrit Dijkstra:
1000 Words
(Driff Records)

Satoko Fujii ma-do:
Time Stands Still
(NotTwo)

Pat Thomas / Dominic Lash / Mark Sanders:
Skip
(FMR)

The Margots:
Pescado
(Okka)

Jean-Luc Guionnet / Eric La Casa / Philip Samartzis:
Soleil D'Artifice
(Swarming)

John Coxon / Evan Parker / Eddie Prevost:
Cinema
(Fataka)

Alessandro Bosetti / Chris Abrahams:
We Who Had Left
(Mikroton Recordings)

Chris Abrahams and Magda Mayas:
Gardener
(Relative Pitch)

When The Squid's Ear first started it was with the idea of creating a magazine website that emulated the print medium. Hence we created structured covers for each "issue," which were purportedly delivered quarterly. Below are the 6 issues from our first 2 years.

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Recent Selections @ Squidco:

The Thing:
Boot!
[VINYL]
(The Thing Records)

Margareth Kammerer:
Why Is The Sea
So Blue
(Mikroton Recordings)

William Parker:
Flute Songs:
Anthology/Live
2006-2012
[8 CD BOX SET]
(Aum Fidelity)

The Thing:
Mono
[VINYL 2 LPs]
(The Thing Records)

Evan Parker &
Joe Mcphee:
What/If/They
Both Could Fly
(Rune Grammofon)

Marco Cappelli
Acoustic Trio:
Le Stagioni
del Commissario
Ricciardi
(Tzadik)

Taylor Ho Bynum:
Navigation
(Possibility Abstracts
XII & XIII)
[2 CDs]
(Firehouse 12 Records)

Daniel Rorke:
San'an
(Saturn Musikk)

The Apophonics
(Butcher/
Edwards/
Robair):
On Air
(Weight of Wax)

Pascal Niggenkemper
Vision 7:
Lucky Prime
(Clean Feed)

Angles 9:
In Our Midst
[VINYL]
(Clean Feed)

Angelica Sanchez/
adada Leo Smith:
Twine Forest
(Clean Feed)

Elliott Sharp
Aggregat:
Quintet
(Clean Feed)

ISKRA 1903:
South on
the Northern
[2 CDs]
(Emanem)

Chan/Evans/
Blancarte/Walter:
Cryptocrystalline
(Ugexplode)

Evan Parker:
The Topography
of the Lungs
(psi)

Tatsuya Nakatani:
Present Presence
(Nakatani-Kobo)

Matt Mitchell:
Fiction
(Pi Recordings)

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The Squid's Ear 1st Or So
Anniversary Issue

Illustration: Madeleine Fix

FEATURES

    EEwAP+JB(10)
        Ellery Eskelin's Trio with Andrea Parkins and Jim Black
        Mark 10 Years Together
        By Kurt Gottschalk

    The Best Kept Secret in the East
        Tom Rainey Sits Behind the Kit for Tim Berne,
        Mark Helias and Tony Malaby. Surely You've Noticed
        By Matt Rand
         An Earful of Rainey
        By Steve Smith

FESTIVAL REVIEW

    Flying through Vancouver
        The 16th Annual Time Flies Festival
        By Paul Serralheiros

BOOK REVIEWS

    Helen Stapinski - Baby Plays Around (Villard)
        By Kristen Persinos

    Steve Dollar - Jazz Guide to New York City
    (The Little Bookroom)
        By Kurt Gottschalk


The Best of Last Year	Pauline Oliveros on the Accordion	Okkyung Lee Travelogue	Our Own Bottom Shelf	Editorials

Previously Featured at The Squid's Ear

December 2003

SAXOPHONE TRIO

    Singing at the Threshold
        Kali Fasteau's Lifetime of
        Listening and Playing
        By James Keepnews

    Berlitz Jazz
        David Murray's Musical Travels
        By Kurt Gottschalk

    John Butcher
        Improvising from a
        Sound Perspective
        By Marc Chénard

    Outside the Chicken Shack
            Lars Hollmer Brings Sammla Mammas Manna to the U.S.
        By William Burke

    Festival Reviews

        Fiasco in Chicago
            The 2003 Jazz Festival, and the Story that Needn't Be Told
            By Kurt Gottschalk

        Guelph's Caring Adventure
            The Little Engine in Ontario
            By Mike Chamberlain

    Book Review

        John Fahey's Vampire Vultures
            By Kurt Gottschalk


Ameri-chord: Johnny Cash Remembered	The Upside of Dowloading	Marc Ribot's Musical Activism	Jim Pugliese's Travelogue	Cheek to Cheek Misdemeanors

Previously Featured at The Squid's Ear

October 2003

Overview:

    Mike Hammer, Les Baxter and the Jewish People
    The Many Tribes of John Zorn
    By Skip Heller

    Charming the Cobra
    A first-hand account of organizing a performance of John Zorn's most famous game piece
    By Eyal Hareuveni

Interview:

    12 Stories About John Zorn and One About A Fan
    Claudia Heuermann's Documentary Shows Musician and Filmmaker in Action
    By Kurt Gottschalk

    Op Ed: The Zorn Non-Inteview
    Ah, John, We Hardly Knew Ye

In Review:

    A Month of Zorndays
    John Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration at Tonic
    Updated througout the month!

Critics Picks: John Zorn on Record

July 2003

Susie's Aria
Drummer Susie Ibarra Premieres her first Opera
By Steve Smith

Great Minds at Play
Finding Art in Science, Monthly at Cornelia Street Cafe
By Matt Rand

Goth Pop, The Ocean and Radio Shack
The Unique Sensibilities of Marianne Nowottny
By Florence Wetzel

Stop and Smell the Sewers
Psychogeographers Strive to Slow the Nonstop City
By Kurt Gottschalk and Urania Mylonas

Free Music Missionary or Professional Juggler
Evan Parker Discusses Four Decades in Free Improvisation
By Marc Chenard

Festival Reviews:

    Big Sounds in a Small Town
    The Victoriaville Festival celebrates, or at least notices, its 20th anniversary
    By Kurt Gottschalk

    Visions from the Past
    The 2003 Vision Festival Resurrects Legends from the '60s
    By Kurt Gottschalk
        Sound and Vision 2002
        Thirsty Ear's Vision Festival CD/DVD Reviewed

Op-Ed:

    Irving Stone Remembered,
    The Jazz Journalists Awards Noted,
    The Knitting Factory Lamented


Butch Morris Interviewed	Derek Bailey on the Guitar	Perry Robinson on the Clarinet	Anthony Coleman's Bottom Shelf

April 2003

Destruction and Creativity
Fred Frith in Montreal
By Mike Chamberlain
    An Earful of Fred
    By Len 37 Siegfried

When They Write the Book
Pianist Lewis Porter's Creates an Encyclopedia of Jazz
By Matt Rand

Festival Reviews:

    Sound in the Balance
    Amplify 2003: Elemental
    By Nirav Soni
        An Electroacoustic Ear
        By Nirav Soni

    Swiss Harmony Knife
    Notes from After Yodel: New Swiss Music
    By Kurt Gottschalk

January 2003

Peter Kowald and the New York Unity Village
By Mike Heffley

Separatism and Sound in French Quebec
By Mike Chamberlain

Freedom of Suppression
By Urania Mylonas

The Manhattan Listening Tour
By Nirav Soni

With the Infidel
By Jon Rose

In the Air There's a Feeling of Boombox
By Kurt Gottschalk

The Squid's Ear is the companion magazine to the online music shop Squidco !