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Happy New Year 2007! Thanks to all who helped make this our best holiday season yet, we really appreciate the nice comments we received over the holiday season, and of course the excellent selections you made and gifts that you gave this year!
To the releases, almost 100 new items were added in December. Highlights include new Hat Art titles; another great round from Portugal's superb Clean Feed label; No-Necks best recorded release on Victo, as well as William Parker's tribute to the late Percy Heath; new Mats Gustafsson, Vandermark and Lim on SmallTown Super Jazz; Timo Shanko, Steve Latner and Jeff Platz on Skycap; a number of new Emanem and psi releases; the expansion of our ESP catalog; two new Simon Fell titles; Blitzoids and Avi Belleli on AdHoc Records; new Kyriakides on Unsounds; and excellent electro-acoustic releases on Mego, Asphodel, Touch, 4ForEars and Type UK.
Last, some may have noted that we've been working on the store recently, making it simpler to find the music that we sell as our catalog becomes larger. To that end we've changed all the large categories listing (CDs, Improv, Electro-Acoustic, Rock, etc) to simple text lists up to 200 items at a time, with each entry linking to the detailed product description and cover art. Our hope is that browsing in this manner is faster than one can view at a physical store, and with cross-referencing between categories there are many ways to explore and discover the music that we sell. As always we welcome your feedback on the changes to Squidco, and suggestions on how to make our store better for you.
Coltrane's polyrhythmic drummer Rashied Ali in a quintet setting of his own, playing original tracks and pieces by Wayne Shorter, Don Cherry and James Blood Ulmer. "For the past 20 years Rashied Ali has been operating like an Art Blakey figure in terms of discovering and nurturing new talent. His current working quintet is another cross-generational affair featuring veterans Greg Murphy (piano) and Joris Teepe (bass) and two new firebrands in Lawrence Clark on tenor sax and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Coltrane's polyrhythmic drummer Rashied Ali in a quintet setting of his own, playing original tracks and pieces by Wayne Shorter, Don Cherry and James Blood Ulmer.
"For the past 20 years Rashied Ali has been operating like an Art Blakey figure in terms of discovering and nurturing new talent. His current working quintet is another cross-generational affair featuring veterans Greg Murphy (piano) and Joris Teepe (bass) and two new firebrands in Lawrence Clark on tenor sax and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Volume 2 of drummer Rashied Ali's Quintent recording on his own Survival label. "After Coltrane's passing, Ali became one of the leading figures on the New York avant-jazz scene, a position he holds to this day. In the '70's, he founded his own record label, Survival, for which he's recorded a string of raw and risky albums featuring such prominent avant-gardists as the late saxophonist Frank Lowe, violinist Leroy Jenkins and guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer. For several [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Volume 2 of drummer Rashied Ali's Quintent recording on his own Survival label.
"After Coltrane's passing, Ali became one of the leading figures on the New York avant-jazz scene, a position he holds to this day. In the '70's, he founded his own record label, Survival, for which he's recorded a string of raw and risky albums featuring such prominent avant-gardists as the late saxophonist Frank Lowe, violinist Leroy Jenkins and guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer. For several [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This was the debut on disc of the John Carter - Bobby Bradford Quartet (then under the cooperative name New Art Jazz Ensemble), and captures their marvelous cohesiveness, moral vibrancy, and quiet determination in equal measure. Subsequent recordings (and there were precious few of them) may have widened our view of their talents slightly, but didn't necessarily alter any early assessment of their unique capabilities. Their music was fresh and vital from the git-go, and remains so."-Art Lange, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Dave Burrell has long been recognized as an important pianist among the most astute jazz fans. Best known for his contributions to the music of Archie Shepp, David Murray, Pharaoh Sanders, and others, Burrell has finally positioned himself as one of the pre-eminent bandleaders in jazz. After a long hiatus from recording, Dave Burrell returned in 2004 with the album Expansion (High Two). His new trio recording, Momentum, is his best and most assured album to date. Fronting a new, more [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Dave Burrell has long been recognized as an important pianist among the most astute jazz fans. Best known for his contributions to the music of Archie Shepp, David Murray, Pharaoh Sanders, and others, Burrell has finally positioned himself as one of the pre-eminent bandleaders in jazz. After a long hiatus from recording, Dave Burrell returned in 2004 with the album Expansion (High Two). His new trio recording, Momentum, is his best and most assured album to date.
Fronting a new, more [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"John Butcher's experiments with feedback, amplification, microtonality and multitracking are pretty far from the studies in rhythm and texture developed by Paal Nilssen-Love. The British saxophonist is one of the top names in the ranks of the new guard of free improvisation (even if he's been around since the Eighties and played with the old guard - people like Derek Bailey, John Stevens, and Phil Minton). The truth is, Butcher started the radical process of reinventing his sax playing during [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
2nd No Labels release for the "Cost Effective Orchestra for the American Way of Life," this studio effort trims the group to just Carter and Shurdut.
Reissue of a 1959 recording from the classic Ornette lineup, issued originally in a Japanese-only LP in 1975, and finally reissued by Water.
"prime source is Ellery Eskelin's own recording label which has up until now been reserved for special projects such as "Premonition - Solo Tenor Saxophone" from 1992 and the recent DVD tour diary "On the Road with..." released in 2004. "Quiet Music" is a double CD package containing music written by Ellery Eskelin (with one exception) and developed on several tours of Europe and the United States. For this recording Eskelin chose to work in one of France's most prestigious recording [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"prime source is Ellery Eskelin's own recording label which has up until now been reserved for special projects such as "Premonition - Solo Tenor Saxophone" from 1992 and the recent DVD tour diary "On the Road with..." released in 2004.
"Quiet Music" is a double CD package containing music written by Ellery Eskelin (with one exception) and developed on several tours of Europe and the United States. For this recording Eskelin chose to work in one of France's most prestigious recording [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"On these disks, Denver-based acoustic guitarist Janet Feder furthers her exploration on the instrument, and teams up with another of the world's most respected guitarists, Mr. Fred Frith. A whole gamut of strange techniques, musical strategies, beautiful tunings and ambiences are employed; The outcome is sure bliss for fans of modern, instrumental music. Part avant-garde, part classical, part folk, in fairly equal proportions, this approach has never before been attempted with such striking [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"[...] no follower of Agustí Fernández, that convulsive, torrential pianist, will be surprised by the sea change brought about in Aurora, an album of ultra-concentrated sonority, long eloquent silences, enlivening interactions and material that seems to have emerged from remote remembrance and to be retained in the memory in an immediate way, like a succession of precise yet enigmatic melodies. Nothing to do, it appears, with the abstract and prepared piano works that have marked [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In 1999 The George Steeltoe Ensemble began experimenting in free jazz and other improvisational forms through weekly "church" sessions at the Lexington, KY home of Brian and Elisa Osborne. Since its inception the Ensemble has taken many shapes, performing throughout the Midwest and South and participating actively in New York's free music community. Currently the Ensemble is comprised of a rotating field of multi-instrumental improvisers and performing artists, and performances have combined [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Swedish reedsman Mats Gustafsson has written five Hidros works, the other four having been interpreted by the NU-Ensemble and the Copenhagen Arts Ensemble. This third incarnation was specially prepared for an augmented Sonic Youth, featuring (amongst others) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors. Although the disc is divided into separate tracks, Hidros 3 is really one extended piece, with no gaps whatsoever. Dedicated to Patti Smith, it frequently sounds like improvisation rather than composition. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Swedish reedsman Mats Gustafsson has written five Hidros works, the other four having been interpreted by the NU-Ensemble and the Copenhagen Arts Ensemble. This third incarnation was specially prepared for an augmented Sonic Youth, featuring (amongst others) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors.
Although the disc is divided into separate tracks, Hidros 3 is really one extended piece, with no gaps whatsoever. Dedicated to Patti Smith, it frequently sounds like improvisation rather than composition. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A bassist associated with the best New York improvisers - Mark Helias; a drummer who has continued his meteoric rise since his stint as a member of Braxton's well-known Nineties quartet - Gerry Hemingway; and a trombonist known for his intensity and his motto, which says it all: "if I ever had a home, it was the slide trombone"- Ray Anderson. The latter's career represents very well what jazz is today - a music that's heard everything and absorbed it in some way. From Dixieland to AACM, from [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"When deciding to make a record of my recent experiences I realized the last couple of years has involved so much traveling that it would be natural to use the aspect of different locations and different people in the music. Around August 2005 the piles of scribblings and musical ideas started calling. I had to respond; start working out the music, and by mid November I was in Brooklyn recording with Ben Dixon-drums and Ken Filiano-bass. In December (2005) I was touring in Sweden and here [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"When deciding to make a record of my recent experiences I realized the last couple of years has involved so much traveling that it would be natural to use the aspect of different locations and different people in the music.
Around August 2005 the piles of scribblings and musical ideas started calling. I had to respond; start working out the music, and by mid November I was in Brooklyn recording with Ben Dixon-drums and Ken Filiano-bass. In December (2005) I was touring in Sweden and here [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Koch-Schütz-Studers new release "Tales from 30 Unintentional Nights" is a collection of live recordings made during the 30 days performance in Zurich last year. "Thirty days, two sets every evening, always at the same time, always in the same place. In the laboratory atmosphere, black with age, of the Alte Schlosserei 12 [Old Locksmith's Shop] on Pfingstweidstrasse in Zurich, three researchers, tinkerers, lab techs of sounds, Koch-Schütz-Studer, are at work in the middle of a jungle [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This synthesis of jazz, composition and electronic music was made possible above all by Steve Lacy's extraordinary openness, which - as he himself said - has often brought him together with musicians whose roots are not in jazz. Steve Lacy was a searcher to the very end. We are going to miss Steve Lacy's overwhelming passion for sonic exploration."-Reinhard Kager, cover liner notes
"Boston-based pianist/improviser Steve Lantner brings the disparate natures of a wide range of musical styles - free improvisation, jazz, contemporary chamber and microtonal music - together to create an all encompassing voice that is uniquely his. He is known for his originality, energy, versatility and a style that places melody and harmony back on the improviser's palette alongside texture, velocity and abstraction. Part of his pursuit is to find a new language that embraces the deep traditions [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Second release from this Swedish improvising group, led by saxophonist and composer Henrik Frisk. "The playing (still) remains reflective as a balanced energy patiently develops into what becomes a very suggestive style. Musically audacious, LIM stays boldly faithful to this design, restraining from an extroverted energy. True to this idea, the final piece, Re:Happy, climaxes with an explosive 3-minute release. The music is tightly structured throughout, gifting the listener, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Second release from this Swedish improvising group, led by saxophonist and composer Henrik Frisk.
"The playing (still) remains reflective as a balanced energy patiently develops into what becomes a very suggestive style. Musically audacious, LIM stays boldly faithful to this design, restraining from an extroverted energy. True to this idea, the final piece, Re:Happy, climaxes with an explosive 3-minute release. The music is tightly structured throughout, gifting the listener, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Considered by many fans to be one of the rarest late '60s Euro/Brit avant jazz recordings, these sessions bring together such legendary players as Harry Miller, Mike Osborne and Louis Moholo in a free jazz outing that unites European, American and African players. For this reissue on New York avant record store Downtown Music Gallery's own ARC label, Friendship Next of Kin is presented in two versions: an edited version which includes a drum solo excised from the original take (replayed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Considered by many fans to be one of the rarest late '60s Euro/Brit avant jazz recordings, these sessions bring together such legendary players as Harry Miller, Mike Osborne and Louis Moholo in a free jazz outing that unites European, American and African players.
For this reissue on New York avant record store Downtown Music Gallery's own ARC label, Friendship Next of Kin is presented in two versions: an edited version which includes a drum solo excised from the original take (replayed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Paul Bley has an heir at last, and his name is Russ Lossing. With strong classical training and the natural talent to improvise, this pianist is, like Bley, walking a hard road to achieve his purposes. As far as free jazz is concerned, he doesn't play what you would normally expect from what some also call "fire music". Lossing clearly preferes nuance to power, even if he does have the drive. In "Metal Rat" we find two first line string players at his side (small wonder, considering Lossing's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"First installment in the new "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.I sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and his all-star ensemble Text Of Light (this time featuring Alan Licht, Dj Olive, Ulrich Krieger and Tim Barnes). Their track "033103 Paris" has been recorded live at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2003 and mixed in dual mono by Ranaldo & Licht at [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The music on this album, their second, relates more to the subtle and sophisticated branch of jazz than to the extroverted, loud and expressive tradition. Muted, gloomy sounds, the superimposition of compositional elements, complex rhythms, and well-dosed episodes of improvisation set the pace. Big Zoom plays jazz as chamber music. The occasional spurts and eruptions of energy, and the wild dynamics are in no way inconsistent with this, but are in fact part of the dramaturgy, acting as [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
New York's No-Necks played the Victoriaville Festival in 2005, which was preserved for this well-recorded release. The No-Neck Blues Band is a spaced out but well organized rock band with sax, assorted percussion, unusual vocals, and a meandering but purposeful approach to playing. Their music is oddly fascinating, sometimes loose and a little loopy, but in a well-weird way that keeps it interesting. For this release they've edited the live set into a series of compositional sections for easier [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton meet in Barcelona. A trio concert in the "Auditorium" is on the agenda, the first one for months. "We hadn't seen each other for quite a while and were really looking forward to it", Barry Guy remembers. That their reunion should take place in Barcelona, was as obvious as the intention to record the evening's concert. However, nobody knew beforehand that sound engineer Ferran Conangla would hand over a glittering uncut gem at the end of the day from which [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The first time I met Percy Heath was 1983 in San Francisco. I was playing a concert with the pianist Cecil Taylor and when the concert ended, I went off stage and there standing in the wings was Percy Heath. He greeted me with a hug and called me "Iron fingers". I thanked him for his wonderful bass playing. Then we spoke about the importance of space, timing and playing the right thing at the right time in a musical situation. I saw Percy one other time at the North Sea Festival in Holland. He [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Guitarist Platz' 3rd release on Skycap, joined by Timo Shanko on tenor saxophone. "I really enjoy the power and directness of a quartet format, especially with this lineup of players. Timo Shanko and Luther Gray both made major contributions to my first release, "Skull Session, Rise Above." Joined here by Kit Demos on bass this group really provides endless options for exploration of these six musical sketches. Ron Harrity, recording guru and always positive power source did a great job capturing [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Soprano and Alto Saxophonist Rob Reddy in his own label's first release, and eclectic mix of originals inspired by hymns, processionals, threnodies, ballads, sambas, &c.. "One might be reminded of Ornette Coleman's loose unisons, Henry Threadgill's circusy spins, Frank Zappa's angularities (during "Procession," for instance), headstrong early jazz or the Master Musicians of Joujouka meeting Weather Report (on "Hundred Devils" itself, where Reddy takes up the soprano sax, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Soprano and Alto Saxophonist Rob Reddy in his own label's first release, and eclectic mix of originals inspired by hymns, processionals, threnodies, ballads, sambas, &c..
"One might be reminded of Ornette Coleman's loose unisons, Henry Threadgill's circusy spins, Frank Zappa's angularities (during "Procession," for instance), headstrong early jazz or the Master Musicians of Joujouka meeting Weather Report (on "Hundred Devils" itself, where Reddy takes up the soprano sax, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
" "You never know enough", says trombonist Roswell Rudd in an interview about his attitude in life and music. He studied with a master - Herbie Nichols; played Monk with another one - Steve Lacy; was part of a legendary free jazz combo with the great John Tchicai, the New York Art Quartet; worked regularly with Archie Shepp; traveled in Africa to perform with local musicians, like the Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté; and he recently jammed with the experimental rock band Sonic Youth [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Eddie Korvin's Blue Rock Studio on Greene Street in Soho was a great place to record because it was so comfortable for musicians. Eddie was relaxed, there was a room upstairs for privacy, and the studio felt more like a living room. Eddie's studio and the players on this album just happened to be available on these two days March 27th and 28th, 1976 in NYC - Steve Lacy and Enrico Rava, both living in Europe but passing through NY at this time. The chances of getting all these people together [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The second edition of Paul Rutherford's trio Iskra 1903, with Barry Guy and Philipp Wachsmann, lasted from around 1977 to 1995. Yet, until this release, the only issued recordings of this superb group are from its latter years. Fortunately, Wachsmann recorded many earlier performances, and he recently selected these five superb gigs from 1983. The three December concerts from Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol come from a Contemporary Music Network tour of Britain. These represent Iskra [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The second edition of Paul Rutherford's trio Iskra 1903, with Barry Guy and Philipp Wachsmann, lasted from around 1977 to 1995. Yet, until this release, the only issued recordings of this superb group are from its latter years. Fortunately, Wachsmann recorded many earlier performances, and he recently selected these five superb gigs from 1983.
The three December concerts from Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol come from a Contemporary Music Network tour of Britain. These represent Iskra [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Third album of post-punk/art-rock from Sand to be released on Soul Jazz Records. Influenced by the New York Art/punk scene of Sonic Youth, The Swans, Liquid Liquid, this is the group's follow up to Still Born Alive (Soul Jazz Records, 2003) and Beautiful People are Evil (Soul Jazz Records, 2001). This new album brings in a number of guest vocalists - Norwegian experimentalist artist/singer Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje as well as Austrian cabaret singer Louie Austen (Kitty Yo Records) who provides [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Sax player and Coltrane compatriot Pharoah Sander's classic 1964 session, his first as a leader. Remastered from the original tapes. Bonus tracks include insightful and entertaining interview clips detailing Pharoah's early experiences as a young musician in New York. "Sanders came to New York from San Francisco in 1962 and spent much of this early period scuffling, often homeless and barely working as a musician. His first break came as part of an early Don Cherry band [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Sax player and Coltrane compatriot Pharoah Sander's classic 1964 session, his first as a leader. Remastered from the original tapes. Bonus tracks include insightful and entertaining interview clips detailing Pharoah's early experiences as a young musician in New York.
"Sanders came to New York from San Francisco in 1962 and spent much of this early period scuffling, often homeless and barely working as a musician. His first break came as part of an early Don Cherry band [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Known for his film soundtracks as much as for his straight-ahead jazz recordings, Portuguese pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti has with the new "Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon" his most ambitious work ever, comprising the two aspects of his musical output, from the mainstream to the cinematic and beyond. In every aspect: the disk is accompanied by a surprising and beautiful book of photo assemblages (he did it all himself, photography and digital manipulation), and the music tell us a story in [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Subtitled "new explorations in percussive music," this is an excellent album from a percussion group that uses instruments from wrecking yards, surplus stores, hardware stores: grinders, drill, hand and power saws, springs, coils, and basically anything that clangs or makes a rhythmic sound. Powerful stuff, play at loud volumes!
Slightly out of step with their European peers since inception, the Schlippenbach Trio's fondness for the American jazz canon is persistent and well publicized. This new travelogue of two winter tours hammers that point home once again, in both musical and visual terms. An essay authored by the pianist himself humorously recounts the banal particulars of the many kilometers commuted by car (upwards of 6000). An accompanying slideshow of photos contains several conspicuous representatives of the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
A work by Simon Fell applying modern compositional techniques to a setting for a small improvising group. "Captured in one breathtaking take, Thirteen Rectangles is an exceptional work. Even though the piece is scored for small group, Fell thinks big, leaving plenty of room for solo playing. The asymmetrical swing of the matching sequences bookending the work recall Anthony Braxton's writing for jazz chamber orchestra. The music in between draws jazz, free Improvisation and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
A work by Simon Fell applying modern compositional techniques to a setting for a small improvising group.
"Captured in one breathtaking take, Thirteen Rectangles is an exceptional work. Even though the piece is scored for small group, Fell thinks big, leaving plenty of room for solo playing. The asymmetrical swing of the matching sequences bookending the work recall Anthony Braxton's writing for jazz chamber orchestra. The music in between draws jazz, free Improvisation and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Tenor saxist Shanko is also a strong bass player, having worked with Joe Morris and the Fully Celebrated Orchestrated in that role. On sax he's a powerful player, and his second release on Skycap has him in a trio setting recorded live to 2-track in the studio in Massachusetts.
13 improvised duets recorded live in NYC at Tonic. This release is more instrumental and less electronic than their previous Grob release. First collaborations in 1997 with my composition 'Coriolis Effect' for Reinhold's ensemble Zeitkratzer. Revealed within the massed forces of the group, his unique instrumental voice utilising the raw materials of the piano: bones, teeth, hide. Meetings in Berlin and NYC, more of my compositions played by Zeitkratzer (including 'SyndaKit' [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
13 improvised duets recorded live in NYC at Tonic. This release is more instrumental and less electronic than their previous Grob release.
First collaborations in 1997 with my composition 'Coriolis Effect' for Reinhold's ensemble Zeitkratzer. Revealed within the massed forces of the group, his unique instrumental voice utilising the raw materials of the piano: bones, teeth, hide. Meetings in Berlin and NYC, more of my compositions played by Zeitkratzer (including 'SyndaKit' [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A recording of solo acoustic guitar and alpine zither songs, this release will delight those familiar with his early Riverboat (reissued as FM 04) and ESP Disc recordings as well as the audience for experimental solo guitar - while creating an audience for experimental solo alpine zither! On this release, Alan performs on the 1927 martin tenor guitar, 19th century parlor guitar, 1920s prime alpine zither and 1860s elegie alpine zither."-Fire Museum "Guitar is all I can do. Everything [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A recording of solo acoustic guitar and alpine zither songs, this release will delight those familiar with his early Riverboat (reissued as FM 04) and ESP Disc recordings as well as the audience for experimental solo guitar - while creating an audience for experimental solo alpine zither! On this release, Alan performs on the 1927 martin tenor guitar, 19th century parlor guitar, 1920s prime alpine zither and 1860s elegie alpine zither."-Fire Museum
"Guitar is all I can do. Everything [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Sonic Liberation Front is a band without peers. The amorphous Philadelphia unit has essentially created its own genre in its evolution as a band. Combining free jazz with Afro-Cuban percussion and modern electronics, Sonic Liberation Front has forged an incredible sound assemblage - one that has sailed to new levels on Change Over Time. While others simply talk of combining the ancient with the futuristic, SLF have done so. More than any other band on the scene today, SLF is continuing [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Sonic Liberation Front is a band without peers. The amorphous Philadelphia unit has essentially created its own genre in its evolution as a band. Combining free jazz with Afro-Cuban percussion and modern electronics, Sonic Liberation Front has forged an incredible sound assemblage - one that has sailed to new levels on Change Over Time.
While others simply talk of combining the ancient with the futuristic, SLF have done so. More than any other band on the scene today, SLF is continuing [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Drawing from their extensive experience of playing with virtually every household name in the experimental and avant-garde jazz areas, this quartet featuring Hans Tammen, Alfred 23 Harth, Chris Dahlgren and Jay Rosen delivers a real thrill ride with their new release Expedition. Its members have played with John Zorn, Sonny Sharrock, Jaco Pastorius, Peter Brötzmann, David Murray, Fred Frith, Peter Kowald, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Günter Müller, Paul Lytton, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Here is an extraordinary excavation from the buried history of the Downtown NYC scene: the unreleased, self-titled Transmission EP, recorded in 1981-82. Comprised of Jonathan Kane and Daniel Galliduani, the duo is one-half of the original version of the behemoth band Swans. Transmission both preceded and ran concurrent with the formation of Swans (Michael Gira was enough of a fan that he mixed Transmission's few live shows), and much of their material evolved into Swans tracks, including the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The members of this trio all share a strong awareness of sound quality and timbre, which sets them apart from other musicians. Three distinct instrumental voices - Colin Vallon's singing piano, Pat Moret's full reverberating bass and Samuel Rohrer's polyvalent drums - blend into a highly complex ensemble sound; here, too, the band has hardly anything in common with the traditional jazz piano trio conventions. What is nearer to their heart than virtuoso pirouetting is weaving and elaborating [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The members of this trio all share a strong awareness of sound quality and timbre, which sets them apart from other musicians. Three distinct instrumental voices - Colin Vallon's singing piano, Pat Moret's full reverberating bass and Samuel Rohrer's polyvalent drums - blend into a highly complex ensemble sound; here, too, the band has hardly anything in common with the traditional jazz piano trio conventions.
What is nearer to their heart than virtuoso pirouetting is weaving and elaborating [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The association between Norwegian Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark has seemingly been one of continuously paring down boundaries and borders. [...] This duo recording for the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound prunes things even more without amputating the vital essence. [...] They create music on the spot that feels, at times to be composed. The symbiotic relationship between the two fuels the same. Whether Vandermark is treading lightly with his bass clarinet [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This is a CD preview release of an upcoming Dust-to-Digital 5CD collaboration with renowned music archivists, Art and Margo Rosenbaum. The diverse talents of the Rosebaums have allowed them to record music traditions in a way few others could have done. Dust-to-Digital is proud to announce this project in an attempt to keep alive the music they love so dearly. Get ready for antebellum spirituals, lined-out hymns of country churches, old time frolic tunes, bottleneck blues, hammer-and-pick work [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"What Christian Weber and Co. have achieved on 3 Suits & A Violin is a music that eschews formulaic approaches and instead temper their group sound in dense laminations of texture and sonic residue. The result is an arresting music which combines elements of group-improvised minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation and avant-garde chamber music into a texturally rich exploration of detailed noise texture... In Christian Weber's work noise has become closely connected to the repertoire, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Mississippi-born and Cleveland-raised tenorman Frank Wright (1935-1990) was one of the forerunners of the multiphonics-driven school of saxophonists to follow the direction pointed by Ayler, but with a more pronounced bar-walking influence than most of his contemporaries. Whereas Ayler's high-pitched wails, wide vibrato and guttural honks all belied an R&B pedigree, his solos still contained the breakneck tempos and facility of bebop, for which he had earlier earned the nickname "Little [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Not really a solo percussion album, Ingar Zach has crafted another excellent recording to compliment his "Percussion Music" released on Sofa earlier this year. Here, in addition to various bowed and struck objects, he makes use of a sruti box, an instrument previously unknown to me but relatively common in Southern India, a kind of harmonium operated via bellows. It's responsible for the burred, wooly drone toward the middle of the single, 26-minute track and, certainly as used here, it's a [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Billiger Bauer is free and structured, Billiger Bauer is "Edges & Friends": Outer edge community of musicians of the post 68 generation as awareness of the local in an open discussion with artistic disposition, melancholy, recalcitrancy, vi-tality, free improvisation and composition, imagination and expertise."-Christian Broecking, Liner Notes
Archival recording of this duo's opening set, recorded live at The Loft in Cologne on March 3, 2002. Lovingly recorded with attention to detail, this release beautifully captures the two guitarists creating their own sonic universe in real-time. Gorgeous audial density to utterly submerge yourself in. This is the last instalment on the triology that started with Honey Pie and Flypaper. "Squire possesses attributes and stamina to spare, revealing itself in all its staying [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Archival recording of this duo's opening set, recorded live at The Loft in Cologne on March 3, 2002. Lovingly recorded with attention to detail, this release beautifully captures the two guitarists creating their own sonic universe in real-time. Gorgeous audial density to utterly submerge yourself in.
This is the last instalment on the triology that started with Honey Pie and Flypaper.
"Squire possesses attributes and stamina to spare, revealing itself in all its staying [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Turntablist Martin Ng and guitarist Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with visual artists Tina Frank and Robin Fox for an AV expedition into the sublime and fascinating worlds of Fateless. "Since their teens, the Australian electronic composers have produced with congruent obsessions in mind. After AMBARCHI crashed one of NG's experimental basement jams with other local improvisers, they discovered their unique love for buddhist harmonics and harmonic sound phenomenology. Their convergent [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Turntablist Martin Ng and guitarist Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with visual artists Tina Frank and Robin Fox for an AV expedition into the sublime and fascinating worlds of Fateless.
"Since their teens, the Australian electronic composers have produced with congruent obsessions in mind. After AMBARCHI crashed one of NG's experimental basement jams with other local improvisers, they discovered their unique love for buddhist harmonics and harmonic sound phenomenology. Their convergent [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Steven Wilson, the man behind Bass Communion, says "For me, the album is an extension of the previous release, Ghosts on Magnetic Tape, which relates to Electronic Voice Phenomena, or the idea that the dead can still communicate with the living world through recorded media. In order to try to capture this feeling I wanted the music to leave a spectral, ghostly impression, and to have an organic decaying quality, like something trying to break through from another world. To this end my [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In the fall of 2003 Franziska Baumann performed at the Matrix Festival of contemporary music, in Leipzig, Germany. Her manipulated recordings of melting glacier ice wowed the audience, but just as memorable were the 125 copies of a remix CD distributed at the event. Noted artists Lull, Seetyca and Clemmens Presser were drafted to compose pieces based on her works. For Mick Harris (Lull) fans, finding a copy of this CD has been their holy grail. Lull is the name of the dark ambient side [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In the fall of 2003 Franziska Baumann performed at the Matrix Festival of contemporary music, in Leipzig, Germany. Her manipulated recordings of melting glacier ice wowed the audience, but just as memorable were the 125 copies of a remix CD distributed at the event. Noted artists Lull, Seetyca and Clemmens Presser were drafted to compose pieces based on her works. For Mick Harris (Lull) fans, finding a copy of this CD has been their holy grail.
Lull is the name of the dark ambient side [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Little known outside of Israel, Avi Belleli is the lead writer, vocalist and bass player of the band Tractor's Revenge, a gold-record rock band. Belleli has strong compositional skills, and "Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder" was written for a dance work by Yasmeen Goder, which has been performed in Israel, Japan, Europe and New York. The piece works equally well on it's own, as it supports the opressive wartime environments both in the Middle East and in the global war on terror. The piece owes [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Olivia Block's "Heave To" is her fourth full release under her own name (her first two are on Sedimental, the most recent on Jason Kahn's Cut label) and marks both a new maturity in her compositional prowess and also a new confidence. "Heave To", a composition in three movements, is an investigation into the deep structures of maelstroms. A roiling mixture of crashing waves and wind, jagged strings, clanging metal, complex electronic textures, and clusters of chamber instruments. In our opinion [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Assembled from two recordings from September 2002 and another one from April 2003, The Big Misunderstanding Between Hertz and Megahertz documents one of John Butcher's less obvious collaboration projects. This is not the first time that the saxophonist duets with an electronician, as his albums with Phil Durrant and Toshimaru Nakamura can testify, but in these 45 minutes with laptop artist Christof Kurzmann, he pulls his saxophones deeper than ever into the realm of electronics. His trills, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Assembled from two recordings from September 2002 and another one from April 2003, The Big Misunderstanding Between Hertz and Megahertz documents one of John Butcher's less obvious collaboration projects. This is not the first time that the saxophonist duets with an electronician, as his albums with Phil Durrant and Toshimaru Nakamura can testify, but in these 45 minutes with laptop artist Christof Kurzmann, he pulls his saxophones deeper than ever into the realm of electronics.
His trills, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Richard Chartier, an installation sound artist who runs the Line label, here presents an hour long work on the Raster-Noton label. "Incidence is neither organic nor electronic. In fact, it's difficult to imagine its origin at all. The constant drone carries no emotion besides a peaceful, grey solemnity. As the piece moves towards its midsection, clicking fragments of noise flicker through the haze. Speakers buzz as if absorbing the electricity of a human body -- the same sound [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Richard Chartier, an installation sound artist who runs the Line label, here presents an hour long work on the Raster-Noton label.
"Incidence is neither organic nor electronic. In fact, it's difficult to imagine its origin at all. The constant drone carries no emotion besides a peaceful, grey solemnity. As the piece moves towards its midsection, clicking fragments of noise flicker through the haze. Speakers buzz as if absorbing the electricity of a human body -- the same sound [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Diversion is the debut release from Chicago's own Delicate Noise. Layered, plodding backbeats and textured synth washes and a human voice all blend together to create a diverse form of electronica. Mark's musical influences are evident as well - Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Air and Recoil - all mesh to form an interesting blend of electronic music that is engaging, lyrical and atmospheric. With tracks featured on both CMJ's NMM and Magnet Magazine's promotional CD's, Delicate Noise is sure [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Christian Fennesz lives and works in Paris and Vienna. Plays was originally released as a 7" vinyl by Mego in 1998 and a CD single by Moikai in 1999. It is seen by many as the "turning point" between early Fennesz electronic abstract works such as the Instrument 12" and Hotel Paral.lel CD, and the more guitar-based works such as Endless Summer and Venice. The two tracks, "Paint It Black" and "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)," were initially released as cover versions of songs by The Rolling [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Over the last two decades, Ellen Fullman has been perfecting her Long String Instrument. This unique instrument of her own design is some 80 feet in length and played by literally walking through it. The resulting sounds are beautiful gliding tones with a rich harmonic content. The CD presents two works from her time in Austin, Texas in the late 1980's which beautifully display a sound you can get inside of. These long tracks envelope you in their cascading overtones. Even though she has performed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Furt's second psi release is 77 minutes of intense electronic improv from the duo of Barrett and Obermayer, recorded live in Durham and Belfast during 2005 & 2006. OMNIVM is named after "the essential inherent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything" from Flann O'Brien's novel "The Third Policeman." "The box is full of noise. Myself and the Sergeant spend our spare time in the summer collecting noises so that we can have light and heat for [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Furt's second psi release is 77 minutes of intense electronic improv from the duo of Barrett and Obermayer, recorded live in Durham and Belfast during 2005 & 2006. OMNIVM is named after "the essential inherent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything" from Flann O'Brien's novel "The Third Policeman."
"The box is full of noise. Myself and the Sergeant spend our spare time in the summer collecting noises so that we can have light and heat for [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Jóhann Jóhannsson is one of the most active participants in the new Icelandic music scene. He has one of the founders of Kitchen Motors, the art organization/think tank/record label which specializes in instigating collaborations, promoting concerts and exhibitions, performances, chamber operas, producing films, books and radio shows based on the ideals of experimentation, collaboration and the search for new art forms. Jóhann has produced and written music with artists as [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Signal To Noise Vol.1 is the first one of a series of five CDs presenting collaborations of Jason Kahn, Tomas Korber, Norbert Möslang, Günter Müller, and Christian Weber with Japanese musicians. Studio recordings were made during an extensive tour in spring 2006, commissioned by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, and for the Expo 5/06 in Aichi, Japan. For Vol.1 Kahn, Möslang, and Müller met with Keiichiro Shibuya and Maria, founders of the innovative Tokyo electronic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Raijin, five untitled tracks constructed by noise artists Daniel Menche and KK Null, hit like a violent storm in this electrically charged collaboration by two masters of dense sound sculpture. Like Raijin and Fujin, Shinto Gods of thunder and lightning, Menche and Null command attention with the ability to create a powerful sensory presence. Their treatment of drum, voice, trumpet and electronics roars and tumbles through these collating waves of noise and electro-acoustic ambience. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Another excellent concept from Netherlands electro-acoustic voice & sound shaper Kyriakides. This work is titled Wordless because, in fact, the words have been removed from audio interviews, leaving only the pauses, breaths, gulps and hesitations that connect the words. Under this Kyriakides creates audio environments, enhancing the alien utterances with strange tonal worlds."Wordless is a suite of 12 sound portraits based on interviews with and by residents of Brussels from the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Another excellent concept from Netherlands electro-acoustic voice & sound shaper Kyriakides. This work is titled Wordless because, in fact, the words have been removed from audio interviews, leaving only the pauses, breaths, gulps and hesitations that connect the words. Under this Kyriakides creates audio environments, enhancing the alien utterances with strange tonal worlds.
"Wordless is a suite of 12 sound portraits based on interviews with and by residents of Brussels from the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The second installment of a short series begun with the Sanctus album issued by Robot Records in January of 2006. 'Amen,' 'Unto the Aeon of Aeons,' is a work of two parts using grand piano, Hammond organ, tower bell, gong and voices. The CD is pressed in a first edition of 600 copies in digipack. Playing time: 40:08 min."
"The suncrows fall and tree" bolsters Stefano Pilia's small but substantial and well received body of solo work(LVD, Time-Lag) along with his participation in the highly lauded 3/4HadBeenEliminated project with Valerio Tricoli and Claudio Rocchetti. The new document contains two 20-minute long sound arcs that are sweeping and focused, essentially drone pieces. They are beautiful in their restraint but not "pretty" and are grounded in the subtle use of acoustic and natural sound elements. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Thompson's latest disc features lots of shorter quiet tracks, often with intricate layers to explore. Starting in a most understated fashion, "Of Mirrored Air" is barely audible for the first minute. It is like listening to small ripples on an otherwise still pond. "Causal Connecting Principle" is both brooding and sad, and will send unsettling shivers down your spine. "Airport for Shadows and Dust" (great name) is smooth as glass, but dark as obsidian at times. "Presences" is a dissonant, richly [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This is the third full-length release from Manchester-based Xela, and his first release on his own Type label imprint. Showing an astonishing evolution in sound from early releases such as "For Frosty Mornings" and "Summer Nights and Tangled Wool," through to the ink-blot atmospherics of "The Dead Sea," what originated in the clinical environs of digitalis was gradually eroded by thickly-hued instrumentation and sublime arrangements. Featuring a fantastically macabre set of illustrated [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This is the third full-length release from Manchester-based Xela, and his first release on his own Type label imprint. Showing an astonishing evolution in sound from early releases such as "For Frosty Mornings" and "Summer Nights and Tangled Wool," through to the ink-blot atmospherics of "The Dead Sea," what originated in the clinical environs of digitalis was gradually eroded by thickly-hued instrumentation and sublime arrangements.
Featuring a fantastically macabre set of illustrated [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Full title: Production and Decay of Spacial Relations vs. Reproduction and Decay of Spatial RelationsIndustrial drummer and conceptualist Z'ev celebrates the 25th anniversary of his first Z'ev studio album, which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, with the re-release of "Production and Decay of Spacial Relations" for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six 'recodings' entitled 'Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations' made by Z'ev in [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Industrial drummer and conceptualist Z'ev celebrates the 25th anniversary of his first Z'ev studio album, which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, with the re-release of "Production and Decay of Spacial Relations" for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six 'recodings' entitled 'Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations' made by Z'ev in [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Fresh on the heels of The Queen of Softcore ep, Ahab Rex delivers Blood on Blonde - a diverse collection of raw and energetic rock songs. Hard yet lyrical, the music is sometimes caustic but surprisingly catchy. Ahab's gripping lyrics and heartfelt melodies explore the emotional underbelly of life. Sometimes dark and gritty, sometimes sweet and full of promise but always real. Ahab Rex is unapologetic, he combines aggressive rock vocals with smooth refrains along with killer pop sensibility. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Swiss raised but Italian born, Archetti has worked solo and under the name Tiere Der Nacht since 1993. His work is sonically rich, many in the realm of electro-acoustic drone and sound platform. This is a rock release, a tough and exciting work that borrows from many genres in fascinating, technical and rugged music."Adrenalin (Recdec, 1994), his "rock" masterpiece, assembled 28 deconstructed, cubist songs of a dissonant post-psychedelic music mutating into a wild variety of styles. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Swiss raised but Italian born, Archetti has worked solo and under the name Tiere Der Nacht since 1993. His work is sonically rich, many in the realm of electro-acoustic drone and sound platform. This is a rock release, a tough and exciting work that borrows from many genres in fascinating, technical and rugged music.
"Adrenalin (Recdec, 1994), his "rock" masterpiece, assembled 28 deconstructed, cubist songs of a dissonant post-psychedelic music mutating into a wild variety of styles. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"If there are two types of music, Cheer-Accident adeptly defies them both. Informed by King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, Charles Ives, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Steely Dan, Martin Mull, machines, insanity, people... Cheer-Accident effortlessly makes transitions from hypnotic minimalist drone to dissonant jazz improvisation to deconstructed progressive rock, often during the course of a single song. And then, amidst these gestures, intersperse light upbeat pop tunes, like sprigs of mint [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Essential RIO band, this group uses sophisticated rock based compositions and a very strange sense of humour to make some of the greatest pieces of complex rock music imaginable. Chris Cutler states that, while many bands are thrown around as belonging to RIO, this is one of the bands that would have been invited had the timing been possible. This CD comprises both of their original releases, La cigarette du plus fort and Live in Europe. After disbanding the members of Debile Menthol [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"They sound like the future and yet it's unlikely the future of rock music will sound like them. They're Holy Smokes, a smokingly hot superband with an incredibly impressive line-up. First and foremost there's founder, supersonic drummer and allround busy bee Zach Hill, mostly known for his avant-garde technical rock duo Hella. Then there's Hill's soulmate of The Ladies: Rob Crow. Apart from The Ladies, you'll most certainly know him from his work with Pinback. And ultimately, next to a few co-collaborators, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this is still a stunning piece of work, from the nightmarish sleeve art -- the "Hell Panel" from Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century painting "Garden of Delights" -- to the strange yet powerful songs. "Another Time," the most memorable selection, is an understated acoustic song, the first that Rapp ever penned, based on [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Both classic ESP albums (One Nation Underground and Balaklava) on one disc for the first time, with an extensive booklet and new liner notes, including complete lyrics. "Tom Rapp, an 18 year-old draft resistor and college dropout living in Eaugallie, Florida, sent a small unsolicited reel of tape to ESP. Bernard Stollman invited him to bring his musicians to New York, where they recorded their acclaimed debut, One Nation Underground in 1967. Less than a year later, they released [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Still going strong since the 60's, Houston born Red Krayola (originally Red Crayola) is led by Pere Ubu alumni Mayo Thompson on voice and guitar. This is their second release in 2006 after a quiet gap of 7 years; this album is half instrumental half song, with a wide variety of influence and ideas. "With the same line-up as featured on their uncharacteristically accessible 2006 release Introduction, Red Gold is a six track, 22 minute addendum that is equally divided between semi-structured [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Still going strong since the 60's, Houston born Red Krayola (originally Red Crayola) is led by Pere Ubu alumni Mayo Thompson on voice and guitar. This is their second release in 2006 after a quiet gap of 7 years; this album is half instrumental half song, with a wide variety of influence and ideas.
"With the same line-up as featured on their uncharacteristically accessible 2006 release Introduction, Red Gold is a six track, 22 minute addendum that is equally divided between semi-structured [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Rivulets is the project of minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson. Born in Colorado, Amundson grew up in Alaska before leaving home at age 16 and moving frequently throughout the United States. He started performing as Rivulets in 1999, and currently resides in Bloomington, IN. Nathan Amundson is a prolific songwriter, with releases out on several labels, including Acuarela, BlueSanct, Silber, and Chair Kickers' Union. This is Rivulets' 3rd full length album, and 1st for Important [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Rivulets is the project of minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson. Born in Colorado, Amundson grew up in Alaska before leaving home at age 16 and moving frequently throughout the United States. He started performing as Rivulets in 1999, and currently resides in Bloomington, IN.
Nathan Amundson is a prolific songwriter, with releases out on several labels, including Acuarela, BlueSanct, Silber, and Chair Kickers' Union. This is Rivulets' 3rd full length album, and 1st for Important [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Conrad Schnitzler is a genuine legend in the krautrock and electronic music worlds. Schnitzler studied under Joseph Beuys before joining an early Tangerine Dream. Their first album Electronic Meditation shows a band highly influenced by Schnitzler's unique, singular approach. Schnitzler left Tangerine Dream to form Kluster with friends Dieter Moebius and Hans Joachim Roedelius. When Schnitzler left Kluster they changed their name to Cluster eventually merging with Michael Rother (of Neu!) to [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Soft Machine alumni Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean in a band working the same compositional vein, a wide variety of rock and jazz influences that combine for excellent and boundless music. "This ability to intuitively veer between structure and unencumbered interaction is what makes [...] Soft Bounds, work so well. Teaming with French pianist Sophia Domancich-who worked with both in Equip Out and released a live album of improvised duets, Avant, with Dean earlier this year-and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Soft Machine alumni Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean in a band working the same compositional vein, a wide variety of rock and jazz influences that combine for excellent and boundless music.
"This ability to intuitively veer between structure and unencumbered interaction is what makes [...] Soft Bounds, work so well. Teaming with French pianist Sophia Domancich-who worked with both in Equip Out and released a live album of improvised duets, Avant, with Dean earlier this year-and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Way back in 80's, before the term "Alternative" was hijacked to correspond with Seattle "Grunge", the genre was held in high-esteem for its "D.I.Y. / Low-Fi" ethic. The Blitzoids - along with The Residents, R. Stevie Moore and Eugene Chadbourne - epitomized this school of thought in the USA. From the headquarters of their native Chicago, Illinois compound (ie. The De Chiara brothers' record store, which was infamous for its somewhat crude but workable 8 Track recording studio conditions), The [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This album brings Brise-Glace (Jim O'Rourke/Darin Gray/Thymme Jones) together with Japanese legend K.K. Null from Zeni Geva, with Melt-Banana's vocalist Yasuko O, as recorded by Steve Albini. The songs use odd time signatures and tight interplay, with strange lyrics and an experimental bent. For the curious, Yona-Kit means "Jonah Whale!" Insane and essential rock.
Bay Area composer Applebaum has been busily releasing a series of excellent CDs in the 2000s, and Asylum is his 9th on Innova (check his excellent releases on Tzadik as well). This releases presents four short works, and the 5-part Asylum for nonet and percussion soloist. A jazz pianist and a builder of junkyard electro-acoustic instruments as well as a former composition pupil of Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum brings out the carnival beneath complexity's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Bay Area composer Applebaum has been busily releasing a series of excellent CDs in the 2000s, and Asylum is his 9th on Innova (check his excellent releases on Tzadik as well). This releases presents four short works, and the 5-part Asylum for nonet and percussion soloist.
A jazz pianist and a builder of junkyard electro-acoustic instruments as well as a former composition pupil of Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum brings out the carnival beneath complexity's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Flutist Eberhard Blum has been featured on many landmark recordings on the Hat label, many of them firsts. He has performed the work of nearly every major 20th century composer including John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, Stephan Wolpe, Kazuo Fukushima, and many others. This program is a selection of the works of lesser-known composers such as Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Luis De Pablo, Bernd Alois Zimmerman, and Tona Scherchen. The most notable of the personages whose works are here represented [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A recording of Fell's 2000 magnum opus, made at the world première in Leeds. A large-scale piece for improvising double bassist, clarinet, piano, 26-piece (classical) orchestra and six conductors, which continues Fell's explorations of ways in which improvisation might revitalise contemporary classical music."-Bruce's Fingers "They were rioting at Leeds University and the man to blame was composer Simon Fell. The wizard of wilful discordance strolled on to the stage [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A recording of Fell's 2000 magnum opus, made at the world première in Leeds. A large-scale piece for improvising double bassist, clarinet, piano, 26-piece (classical) orchestra and six conductors, which continues Fell's explorations of ways in which improvisation might revitalise contemporary classical music."-Bruce's Fingers
"They were rioting at Leeds University and the man to blame was composer Simon Fell. The wizard of wilful discordance strolled on to the stage [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Two works by the late electro-acoustic composer Ferrari. The first, from 1977, was orchestrated for tape and instrumental ensemble, a score of intentions and desires of sound: a tape part that indicates materials, forms and general ideas that combine to create meaning. Communication among the musicians is key as they choose the way they realize or 'invent' the piece during performance. The second is a modern work from 2000, reworked in 2005, for 2 CDs and an instrumental ensemble. Two CDs [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Glass Reflections by Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico came about when in 1999 composer Philip Glass heard a movement of his third symphony played by the cello octet in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, he was greatly impressed. Inspired by the great reception and the composer's support, Conjunto Ibérico and their conductor Elías Arizcuren, created an entire program of Glass works transcribed for their ensemble. The result is Glass Reflections which features works from the entire range [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Ives only composed four violin sonatas, but to complete the series, violinist Heleen Hulst and pianist Gerard Bouwhuis also recorded the pre-study for the Holiday Symphony, in 1973 completed by John Kirkpatrick, as the Fifth Violin Sonata.
"This live debut of Franz Koglmann's mammoth work The Use of Memory, in nine sections or movements, was heralded not by the triumph of cheers and the awe of applause, but by critical remarks from journalists with hard-line views of what jazz "is" or "isn't." Too bad. Americans have come more and more to view Euro-jazz as its own thing that has little to do with the music of origin but is no less valid, and have also accepted classical music -- including "new music" -- for decades. Apparently, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Swiss based Romanian composer Radulescu presenting the premier recording of Intimate Rituals, a mystic travel into sound for viola, along with 3 other works from 1984-2000 "Horatiu Radulescu born in Bucharest, 1942, is a noted composer, having developed his spectral technique of composition in the late 1960s. This technique "comprises variable distribution of the spectral energy, synthesis of the global sound sources, micro- and macro-form as sound-process, four simultaneous layers [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Swiss based Romanian composer Radulescu presenting the premier recording of Intimate Rituals, a mystic travel into sound for viola, along with 3 other works from 1984-2000
"Horatiu Radulescu born in Bucharest, 1942, is a noted composer, having developed his spectral technique of composition in the late 1960s. This technique "comprises variable distribution of the spectral energy, synthesis of the global sound sources, micro- and macro-form as sound-process, four simultaneous layers [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Peruvian exotic vocalist YMA Sumac caught the attention of the public in the 50's and 60's through unusual lounge recordings of various settings. Her career began in 1942, and she moved to New York City in 1946 and signed to Capitol Records in 1950, marrying composer and bandleader Moisés Vivanco. In 1961 she went on tour with the Inca Taky Trio, recording this, her only live recording, in Bucharest, Romania.
Anonymous Lute Solos of The Golden Age"The work of Dutch born composer and lute player Jozef van Wissem is based on application of mirror images in lute composition. The work is idiomatic to lute tablature of around 1600. The pieces on this recording exhibit a large musical variety, ranging from decidedly peasant dances to refined melancholic forms that were most likely intended for a more refined public. The black side to Elizabethan life in the mythic 'Golden Age' of prosperity, fed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The work of Dutch born composer and lute player Jozef van Wissem is based on application of mirror images in lute composition. The work is idiomatic to lute tablature of around 1600. The pieces on this recording exhibit a large musical variety, ranging from decidedly peasant dances to refined melancholic forms that were most likely intended for a more refined public. The black side to Elizabethan life in the mythic 'Golden Age' of prosperity, fed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Canada's excellent new and avant music magazine with a CD including work by K-Space, Negativlad and Autorickshaw.A modern spin on a classical tradition By Tilman Lewis Naturally Eelectronic: The art of Kristi Allik and Robert Mulder By Stephanie Moore Beyond postcards from the concert hall: An interview with Paul Dolden By Jeremy Owen Turner Entering K-Space By Julian Cowley Music Without An Audience Part 2: The visual and the aural, popular [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
On the cover: Comets on Fire / Ornette Coleman / Dubstep / Soft Machine / Malcolm Goldstein/ Peesseye. Inside: Dewey Redman R.I.P. / Yuko Nexus6 / Ed Chang / Indian Jewelry / Outward Sound Ensemble / Califone. Live Reviews: Leo Smith's Sufi Project, Istanbul / Erstquake, NYC / Guelph Jazz Festival / Decibel Festival, Seattle / Bohrium Festival, Atlanta / Steve Reich, London
Avidi Lumi - Four-Monthly Journal of Musical Cultures of the Teatro Massimo of PalermoLarge book style magazine and double CD - the magazine, in multiple languages including English, Italian and Arabic, deals primarily with music and theater, with articles on both, and many excellent photos and illustrations. The double CD takes on the history of electro-acoustic music over the last 50 years, with an excellent discography of musicians as listed below. Only a few copies, sorry about [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Large book style magazine and double CD - the magazine, in multiple languages including English, Italian and Arabic, deals primarily with music and theater, with articles on both, and many excellent photos and illustrations. The double CD takes on the history of electro-acoustic music over the last 50 years, with an excellent discography of musicians as listed below. Only a few copies, sorry about [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Ex YMO and ever profilic keyboardist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in his second release with Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai. "As soon as you heard the two names together, it made complete and utter sense, right? Sine-wave manipulator Carsten Nicolai with the pointillist piano master Ryuichi Sakamoto? Guaranteed. And vrioon was exactly that. Voted one of the records of the year by avant Bible The Wire, vrioon was exactly what you'd expect from the two, Nicolai [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Ex YMO and ever profilic keyboardist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in his second release with Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai.
"As soon as you heard the two names together, it made complete and utter sense, right? Sine-wave manipulator Carsten Nicolai with the pointillist piano master Ryuichi Sakamoto? Guaranteed. And vrioon was exactly that. Voted one of the records of the year by avant Bible The Wire, vrioon was exactly what you'd expect from the two, Nicolai [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
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