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Joe McPhee:
Glasses
(Corbett Vs. Dempsy)

Joe Morris / Agusti Fernandez / Nate Wooley:
From the Discrete to the Particular
(Relative Pitch)

Yoshi Wada:
Singing in Unison
(EM Records)

Aperiodic:
Future Feedback
(Phratry Records)

Alexander Hawkins and Louis Moholo-Moholo:
Keep Your Heart Straight
(Ogun)

Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille:
I Wish I Didn't Dream
(Northern Spy)

Bevan / Morris / Buck / Lash:
Tony-Joe Bucklash
(Foghorn Records)

Sam Pluta:
Machine Language
(Carrier Records)

Irabagon, Jon with Mike Pride and Mick Barr:
I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues - Volume 2: Appalachian Haze
(Irabbagast Records)

Hijokaidan / Akira Sakata:
Made In Studio
(doubtmusic)

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:

Endangered Blood
(Black/Dunn/
Noriega/Speed):
Work Your
Magic
(Skirl)

Rara Avis
(Vandermark/Ferrian/
etc.):
Mutations/
Multicellulars
Mutations
[2 CDs]
(Den Records)

Steve Lacy & Joe McPhee:
The Rest [VINYL]
(Roaratorio)

Anne Guthrie/
Richard Kamerman:
Sinter
(ErstAEU)

Ceramic Dog
(Ribot/Smith/
Ismaily):
Your Turn
(Northern Spy)

Keiji Haino/
Jim O'Rourke/
Oren Ambarchi:
Now While
It's Still
Warm Let Us
Pour in All
the Mystery
[VINYL]
(Black Truffle)

The Convergence Quartet:
Slow and Steady
(NoBusiness)

Quat Quartet
(Fred Van Hove,
Els Vandeweyer,
Paul Lovens,
Martin Blume):
Live at Hasselt
(NoBusiness)

Melodic Art-Tet
(Brackeen, Abdullah,
Parker, Blank,
Waters):
Melodic Art-Tet
(NoBusiness)

Tortoise & The Ex:
In The
Fishtank 5
(Fishtank)

Tortoise & The Ex:
In The
Fishtank 5
[VINYL]
(Fishtank)

Takase, Aki:
My Ellington
(Intakt)

Koch-Schutz-Studer
With
Shelley Hirsch:
Walking And
Stumbling Through
Your Sleep
(Intakt)

John Cage
(Cornford/Monteiro/
Curgenven/Fages/
armer/...):
Cartridge Music
(Another Timbre)

Atolon +
Chip Shop
Music:
Public Private
(Another Timbre)

Devin Gray:
Dirigo Rataplan
(Skirl)

Peter Brotzmann
Chicago Tentet
plus guests:
Concert for
Fukushima
[DVD]
(PanRec/Trost Records)

Butcher/Buck/
Mayas/Stangl:
Plume
(Unsounds)

ADA Trio
(Brotzmann/
Lonberg-Holm/
Nilssen-Love):
with Pat Thomas
live at
Cafe OTO
(PNL)

Little Women:
Lung
(Aum Fidelity)

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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

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