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Also, we've added two new sections to the store: Recently Restocked, a list of items we've restocked, listed in reverse order to their restock date - an interesting way to see what people are buying at Squidco. Upcoming Releases, a list of titles that we expect to have in stock in the next few weeks. Both sections are updated frequently during the week. For upcoming releases, we'd be happy to take pre-orders for established customers so that you can ensure that you're the first to receive a copy when they're in stock. Please email us at sales@squidco.com to pre-order any item, and of course, feel free to email with comments or suggestions, we'd like to hear from you!
"This New York City-based jazz/improvising trio emerges as a cohesive unit, meshing superior technical ability with extreme imaginative powers. And for my money, drummer Jeff Arnal is one of the finest free-jazz thinkers in the business. He often encircles saxophonist Seth Misterka and electric pianist Gordon Beeferman with acutely integrated pulses and hues. Therefore, the band navigates thru a potpourri of nooks and crannies, where the respective musicians often take on various rhythmic roles. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"It's not a new recording, but certainly this re-release by Clean Feed will be a great surprise to all those in North America, Europe and Japan who are interested in what's happening in the jazz and improvised music scene on this little country called Portugal. With the most inventive cover art we've seen in 2006, signed by Rui Garrido, "Radio Song" is an example of "user friendly" avant-jazz. It's Free but structured, with obvious connections to the most straightahead jazz, a sense of melody [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"After a free jazz investment for many years, now something entirely different. Avant-garde? Composer / improviser Rob Brown says it's an irrelevant categorization nowadays. Instead of the conventional sax-bass-drums combo of the New Thing, "Sounds" gives us an alternative combination of alto saxophone with a cello (Daniel Levin) and Japanese taiko percussion set (Satoshi Takeishi), for a quieter, more open, exotic and abstract music performance than the ones usually labelled as jazz. Abstract, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I seem to remember someone once said of a certain jazz pianist, that he would sound good even if he was playing a spinet on the back of a camel. Something similar could be said about Lol Coxhill, who always sounds good regardless of what area he is playing in and who he is playing with. The variety of musical areas he works in was hinted at on his SPECTRAL SOPRANO compilation - this present collection just features his free improvising, but with a variety of partners.The late Hugh Davies [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I seem to remember someone once said of a certain jazz pianist, that he would sound good even if he was playing a spinet on the back of a camel. Something similar could be said about Lol Coxhill, who always sounds good regardless of what area he is playing in and who he is playing with. The variety of musical areas he works in was hinted at on his SPECTRAL SOPRANO compilation - this present collection just features his free improvising, but with a variety of partners.
The late Hugh Davies [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"These five duos mark Terry Day's return to small group improvising after an over-long absence caused by ill health. He is mainly playing his home-made bamboo pipes, but also uses his voice (reciting two poems and otherwise) as well as an echo toy and a cold water bottle."-Emanem"These five duos are amongst my first ventures playing the bamboo pipes in recent years away from the bosom of the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO). The performances are also my first duo collaborations with [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"These five duos mark Terry Day's return to small group improvising after an over-long absence caused by ill health. He is mainly playing his home-made bamboo pipes, but also uses his voice (reciting two poems and otherwise) as well as an echo toy and a cold water bottle."-Emanem
"These five duos are amongst my first ventures playing the bamboo pipes in recent years away from the bosom of the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO). The performances are also my first duo collaborations with [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The trio of reed player John Dierker, pianist Jonathan Vincent, and drummer Jeff Arnal explores the art of collective improvisation on Spy Satellite. It is a meteoric ride of high intensity with intermittent spaces of quietude used to break the action. Dierker plays with a brittle, biting tone and lunges into extended unstructured experiments of free sound. Whether on saxophone or clarinet, Dierker brews up a storm of activity even when the pace drops down to a fast trot after having gone at [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Marc Edwards, noted for his associations with Cecil Taylor, Sabir Mateen and David Ware. His own CDR label Alphaphonics has been releasing his work since the mid-90's. This release puts Edwards in a trio with ABC-No RIO saxists Blaise Siwula and NY guitarist Tor Snyder. "Slipstream Time Travel began when I, Marc Edwards, began playing locally here in New York City. The idea had been knockingaround inside my head for a while. When the band was a trio, I would introduce it [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Marc Edwards, noted for his associations with Cecil Taylor, Sabir Mateen and David Ware. His own CDR label Alphaphonics has been releasing his work since the mid-90's. This release puts Edwards in a trio with ABC-No RIO saxists Blaise Siwula and NY guitarist Tor Snyder.
"Slipstream Time Travel began when I, Marc Edwards, began playing locally here in New York City. The idea had been knockingaround inside my head for a while. When the band was a trio, I would introduce it [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Marc Edwards, noted for his associations with Cecil Taylor, Sabir Mateen and David Ware. His own CDR label Alphaphonics has been releasing his work since the mid-90's. This CD presents Edwards in quartet with NY tenor saxophonist Ras Moshe in a quartet setting.
"A selection of 6 excerpts of Joel Merah's long piece "Music of wheel", for piano, cello, percussion/trombone, and electric guitar. The score of this composition inlcudes chance operations with dice, and improvisation skills are requested to perform it. The performances of this piece by 0 have last between 30 minutes and 2 hours. That's why it was decided to select excerpts for the Creative Sources record."-Ensemble 0 "... the project is based on the idea of generating, with [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A selection of 6 excerpts of Joel Merah's long piece "Music of wheel", for piano, cello, percussion/trombone, and electric guitar. The score of this composition inlcudes chance operations with dice, and improvisation skills are requested to perform it. The performances of this piece by 0 have last between 30 minutes and 2 hours. That's why it was decided to select excerpts for the Creative Sources record."-Ensemble 0
"... the project is based on the idea of generating, with [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Alvin Fielder is a drummer because at age 12 he heard a Max Roach recording and liked it. His family wanted him to study Pharmacy, his father's profession, and although he became a Pharmacist, music helped shift his destiny. In 1963 he was one of the founders of the now legendary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and there, he was in good company: "Sound", Roscoe Mitchell's masterwork, was the first recording with his name on it. The records that followed - many of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Here is a new item from the variable ensemble of a self-made man who was a spotter for drug dealers and a thief of hubcaps in his teens, but somehow managed to graduate with degrees in economics and journalism and who has gone on to become one of the most interesting guitarists and composers in the current international scene: Scott Fields. This recording - and what a recording it is! - is the first of a series of settings of Samuel Beckett's short plays, the ensemble now cast as a quartet with [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Guitarist Chris Forsyth is a founding member of the iconoclastic group Peeesseye, who have released 5 CDs and performed in all manner of venue around the US and Europe since forming in 2002. Other projects include the mysterious and rarely spotted quartet Phantom Limb & Bison; the civil twilight cover band Dirty Pool; lead guitar duties for cabaret art rockers Condor Moments; and improvised encounters with the likes of Alessandro Bosetti (Italy), Chris Heenan (US), Nate Wooley (US), Burkhard [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Percussionist and composer Billy Fox is a specialist in combining worlds that live apart. His "Uncle Wiggly Suite" is a mix of atonal music, Sixties modal jazz, New Orleans brass bands, Cuban rhythms, Pakistani ghazals, and much more (one of the tracks includes a shamisen, a traditional string Japanese instrument), and he usually combines composition, arrangement and improvisation.A pupil of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, he formed his ensemble with emergent young musicians like [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Percussionist and composer Billy Fox is a specialist in combining worlds that live apart. His "Uncle Wiggly Suite" is a mix of atonal music, Sixties modal jazz, New Orleans brass bands, Cuban rhythms, Pakistani ghazals, and much more (one of the tracks includes a shamisen, a traditional string Japanese instrument), and he usually combines composition, arrangement and improvisation.
A pupil of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, he formed his ensemble with emergent young musicians like [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Great overviews of the impressive British bassist Barry Guy, presenting tracks from the major organizations he's been part of and the artists he's collaborated with, including Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Mats Gustafsson, Marilyn Crispell, &c. &c. Includes a beautifully published book with writing about and photos of Barry Guy. "For over thirty years, the British double bassist, composer and band leader Barry Guy has been one of the leading personalities in today's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Great overviews of the impressive British bassist Barry Guy, presenting tracks from the major organizations he's been part of and the artists he's collaborated with, including Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Mats Gustafsson, Marilyn Crispell, &c. &c. Includes a beautifully published book with writing about and photos of Barry Guy.
"For over thirty years, the British double bassist, composer and band leader Barry Guy has been one of the leading personalities in today's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Herman Müntzing attended the Royal Academy of Music in the late eighties, transforming from a straight jazz/rock bass player into a more broad-minded sound artist, working mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music.Since the late nineties, his life as a musician includes different Swedish and international groups, playing in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, UK, Iceland, Belgium, France, and Holland. He has collaborated with Phil Minton, Eugene Chadbourne, Martin Küchen, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Herman Müntzing attended the Royal Academy of Music in the late eighties, transforming from a straight jazz/rock bass player into a more broad-minded sound artist, working mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music.
Since the late nineties, his life as a musician includes different Swedish and international groups, playing in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, UK, Iceland, Belgium, France, and Holland. He has collaborated with Phil Minton, Eugene Chadbourne, Martin Küchen, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Trio work from this bassist and composer, who's compositions are also featured on the recent Malasartes "Cordâme". This is a jazz release, supported by the drumming of Jonathan Racine Ménard and piano work of Arden Arapyan, both active Montreal musicians. The music is straight-ahead and lyrical, beautiful material for the night air.
"Marginal Consort is a collective improvisation project launched in 1997. All of the members, brought together by Kazuo Imai, were students of Takehisa Kosugi at Bigakko art school in 1975. Once a year Marginal Consort gives a continuous, uninterrupted performance two to four hours in duration. This 4-CD set contains the complete performances of 2003 and 2004 (each on two CDs). The listener is overwhelmed by the myriad sound colors and textures arising from the combination of electric and acoustic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Trio work on a mix of standards and original compositions from frequent collaborators Mat Marucci and Doug Webb, in a trio with basist Kerry Kashiwagi.
"Originally from New York, Paul Giallorenzo is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, and sound designer playing piano, synthesizer, and electronics in a wide variety of groups and contexts, ranging from jazz and improvised music to electro-acoustic / noise. Current projects include the free jazz quintet Get in to Go Out; the synth pop duo The Telegraph Series and a noise-jazz trio with bass clarinetist Jason Stein and percussionist Frank Rosaly. Additionally, Paul is involved with ongoing collaborations [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This great set of improvisers have been working with each other for decades in various duo and group settings. This particular quartet was formed to perform Mouthfull Of Ecstasy on Victo, which presented instrumental and vocal impressions of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'. According to Minton, he originally thought about singing the words, but then decided, 'what's the point?'...
Glasgow recordings of this quintet which includes New York/Japanese percussionist and H&H label leader Tatsuya Nakatani and Neil Davidson, whose previous Creative Sources release was Grain.
"You may have noticed that the canadian Ambiances Magnétiques label concentrated on new jazz in the last few years with there series of jazz releases. This trend is continued with the new associated label Malasartes. Although this label welcomes any new music, the first two releases are definitely jazz. The label is founded by Damian Nisenson, an Argentinian born musician and actor who came from Europe to Montréal in 2005. He assimilated quickly it seems, as he presents now his [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Commuter Anthems" is the second album from Eivind Opsvik and Aaron Jennings. Opsvik is from Oslo, Norway, but has lived in New York since 1998 where he´s playing bass in several cutting edge groups. Guitarist Aaron Jennings is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, but moved to New York after college. As with many of our releases "Commuter Anthems" is difficult to categorize. Both players come from a jazz background, but that´s only a small part of the picture. Folk and country influences [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Summer Snow represents the second immaculate Duo studio session from two of the greatest musical beings America has to offer the World. Our March 2007 über-expanded re/issue of their first Duo meetings - First Communion + Piercing The Veil: volume 1 complete - displayed their eternal prowess via intensity in full; drawing on musical traditions that span the globe. Summer Snow continues their masterful incorporation of the world's music and reveals Parker and Drake in a beautifully meditative [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The piano solo format is a natural one for this musician of great inner density. João Paulo is a composer of exquisite melodic and harmonic sensibility. He's also a very special improviser, with the same drive, deliverance and proficiency that we recognize in Keith Jarrett. But Paulo isn't just a Lisbon-based disciple of Jarrett's stylings and techniques, even if there are the same Romantic references, more Schumann than Chopin. With a classical Conservatory formation in which he had [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"(((POWERHOUSE SOUND))) formed in the Summer of 2005, originally with Ken Vandermark on tenor sax, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Nate Mcbride on basses, LASSE MARHAUG on electronics and on drums. Ken Vandermark composed tracks with the idea of building the music from the perspective of the bass instead of the more conventional approach of composition construction, "from the top down", as he puts it. "The three major influences I considered when putting the music together were the rhythmic ideas [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Quintet work from label founder Ernesto Rodrigues with active improviser Alessandro Bosetti and trumpeter Masafumi Ezaki, known here from Akiyama/Barnes/Ezadki's Futuro record.
"John Russell has been running the Mopomoso series of concerts since the mid-1980s, initially with the help of Chris Burn. The concerts take place on the third Sunday of every month at the Red Rose, which is between Finsbury Park and Holloway in the inner suburbs of north London. The usual format is to have three groups (commonly duos, trios or soloists) per concert, with the final group being a duo with Russell. The three duos on this compilation come from such occasions - there are several [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Free improvisation isn't only a European thing. The alto saxophonist Wally Shoup is one of the few American representatives of the musical praxis that dropped the jazz part of the "free jazz" equation and started improvising without idiomatic parameters. And even if he did discover the Music Improvisation Company (British improvisers Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Hugh Davies and Jamie Muir) during the Seventies, he didn't forget Ornette Coleman or Albert Ayler, the pioneers of the "new thing", [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Following the recording session on September 4th 2005 which produced the Konnex Records release "Blaise Siwula, Nobu Stowe & Ray Sage - Brooklyn Moments", Blaise, Ray and I decided to keep the trio as a regular-working unit. Mostly due to the distance between NYC (Blaise & Ray) and Baltimore (myself), we had to wait awhile to perform together again. The chance came when we had a gig at Kavehaz in the Chelsea district of Manhattan almost four months after. For this gig, we were joined [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I first met Blaise Siwula back in January 2005, when I played at ABC NoRio (located in Lower East Side of Manhattan) with the superlative bassist Vytis Nivinskas from Lithuania. Since 1998, Blaise has been hosting C.O.M.A., a weekly creative music series there. I had just moved to Baltimore from Chicago and was looking for like-minded collaborators in the East Coast, especially in NY, with whom I could expand my musical horizon. So I asked Blaise to introduce me to musicians who would like to [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Second album for Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff's sextet, after her 2003 release "Quattara" also on Intakt. From Marcus Maida's liner notes: "This second album is a great step forward for the sextet. If the first, "Qattara," clearly established its direction, with a focus on African and world-music instruments, themes, melodies, and rhythms, while also referring to such soul mates as the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, and Andrew Cyrille, this sophomore release only needs a few relaxed cues and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"If you already sensed that the free bop style played by Ken Vandermark has roots in rhythm 'n' blues, here is the recording that confirms your impression. The context enables him to show his origins, and is provided here by a rock solid rhythm section formed by Adam Lane (sometimes with his double bass plugged to a distortion pedal, and when that happens it really grooves) and Paal Nilssen-Love, a drummer who seems to have four arms and four legs A second horn, the trumpet of the amazing Magnus [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The 2006 FREEDOM OF THE CITY festival, London curated by Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost and me, consisted of four concerts on two consecutive days at the Red Rose in north London. As in previous years, the music was generally of a very high standard and well received by the audience.Some of the performances from the 2006 festival have appeared on other CDs: The trio of Eddie Prévost, Alan Wilkinson and Joe Williamson can be heard on ALONG CAME JOE (Matchless 69); the duo of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The 2006 FREEDOM OF THE CITY festival, London curated by Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost and me, consisted of four concerts on two consecutive days at the Red Rose in north London. As in previous years, the music was generally of a very high standard and well received by the audience.
Some of the performances from the 2006 festival have appeared on other CDs: The trio of Eddie Prévost, Alan Wilkinson and Joe Williamson can be heard on ALONG CAME JOE (Matchless 69); the duo of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"More than an hour of blistering high energy free jazz featuring Weasel Walter on drums with Damon Smith and Randy Hunt (basses), John Gruntfest, Aram Shelton and Josh Allen (saxophones) and Henry Kaiser (guitar). It's a quartet, so only four of these guys play at a time! Awesome live and studio recordings from 2005-2006 will set the tone for things to come: fans of Ayler/Brotzmann/Cecil Taylor look no further - this is the new wave of violent free jazz. take no prisoners!"-UGExplode
"Renunciation was recorded live at Vision Festival XI on June 18, 2006 at the Orensanz Art Center in New York City. It was posited as the last ever U.S. performance by David S. Ware's revered Quartet. Featuring three profound new compositions (the beauty ballad Ganesh Sound, the epic Renunciation Suite centerpiece, and the condensed encore), this concert and exquisite recording thereof offers the Quartet at a new height of their powers. A magnificent performance by one of the greatest Jazz bands [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Who would've predicted that the drummer of the punk band Joe Cool, one of the regular groups playing at the legendary CBGB's at the end of the Seventies along with Talking Heads, Television and The Ramones, would become a big name in the progressive jazz scene? And who could've known that the collaboration between Ethan Winogrand and Eric Mingus in the funk-rock sextet New Republik in 1991, would continue through the fall of 2006 with the release of "Tangled Tango"? But it's true. And guess [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"To begin with - and we always begin listening a record by reading its title and the names of the tracks -, a glance to the cover of this disc informs us of a situation of conflict. The international outfit formed by Alípio Carvalho Neto (Brazil), Johannes Krieger (Germany), Alex Maguire (United Kingdom), Ricardo Freitas (Portugal) and Rui Gonçalves (Portugal) calls itself Wishful Thinking, the mental capacity to project our most ambitious desires. But the title of the CD is not [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The infamous Moonchild/Astronome Trio of Patton, Dunn and Baron returns to the studio this time aided by the searing organ of Jamie Saft, the complex electronics of Ikue Mori and a small female chorus to realize Zorn's latest project Six Litanies for Heliogabalus. Inspired by the decadent excesses of the Roman emperor/child-god who made Caligula and Nero look like reasonable human beings-smothering his dinner guests to death in a rain of perfumed rose petals-these six compositions (including [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The Italian power trio Zu has made quite a career out of high-profile guest artist collaborations. Joint albums with Eugene Chadbourne, Ken Vandermark, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mats Gustafsson have bolstered the group's impressive discography in the past few years. Identification With The Enemy is a different sort of meeting for the flexible trio, which joins forces this time with Japanese electronica artist Nobukazu Takemura.One of the first club DJs to introduce hip-hop to Japan [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The Italian power trio Zu has made quite a career out of high-profile guest artist collaborations. Joint albums with Eugene Chadbourne, Ken Vandermark, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Mats Gustafsson have bolstered the group's impressive discography in the past few years. Identification With The Enemy is a different sort of meeting for the flexible trio, which joins forces this time with Japanese electronica artist Nobukazu Takemura.
One of the first club DJs to introduce hip-hop to Japan [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases. Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with acclaimed members of the noise underground before heading off on his own as Axolotl. In the last couple of years Axolotl have released numerous cd, cdr and vinyl releases many of which quickly went out of print and started demanding some serious coin on ebay. Memory Theater collects the best of these out of print releases [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Maurizio Bianchi has been creating electro-acoustic music since 1979, originally aligned with the Nurse With Wound/Whitehouse noise community. He removed himself from the music world in 1984, but was drawn back by the Alga Marghen label, who offered him his own record deal, allowing him to repress older works and offer new releases. Since then he has continued working in the electro-acoustic world, gaining notoriety for his subtle use of loops and layering of sound. This limited edition release [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Flanger is Uwe Schmidt (Atom TM, Señor Coconut) and Burnt Friedman's electro-jazz project. Nuclear Jazz is a two-in-one, edited and freshly mastered reissue of Flanger's future jazz classics, Templates (1999) and Midnight Sound (2000). Nonplace offers a 79-minute (carefully edited down from around 100 minutes of original music) assembly of probably the most elaborate and witty electronic collaboration to date. Ten years ago, in December 1997, Atom TM and Burnt Friedman [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Four pieces dedicated to Derek Bailey in a non-standard package and a postcard sized booklet that muses, in a language that is almost English, very interestingly and passionately on improvisation and its loss of power (the difficulties of language probably aid concentration on the text, which has not been corrected by anyone with English as a mother tongue but, somehow, in the whole context, this seems to contribute to the overall impact of the package). The improvisations are all virtual duos [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Over the years, both Jason Kahn and Jon Mueller have explored different means of percussion, finding texture and rhythm in not only acoustic drums, but in their relation to electronic devices. This pursuit also included work with other, non-drum related material. Papercuts is a critical document of this pursuit. Recorded over the course of a year, it was created entirely with various grades of handmade and commercial paper. With an extensive and delicate approach to mixing and electronic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Fertile is KK NULL's first album for Touch. KK NULL (real name Kazuyuki Kishino) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a wider context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80's.Kazuyuki writes:"In June of 2006 i had the good fortune of visiting Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia and explored in Kakadu National [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Fertile is KK NULL's first album for Touch. KK NULL (real name Kazuyuki Kishino) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a wider context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80's.
Kazuyuki writes:
"In June of 2006 i had the good fortune of visiting Darwin in the Northern Territory in Australia and explored in Kakadu National [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Merzbear pulses and pounds with distorted droning heavy guitar feedback, pulsing noise-blasts and swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Sythi. Like most of Merzbow's recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he's been moving away from his pure laptop era and re-incorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days w/ his homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi & electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past into the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Orphica is the debut album by London sound artist Mikhail. After releasing his music alongside sound explorers such as Scanner and Stephen Vitiello, and on a compilation by pop experimentalist Björk, this is Mikhail's first solo album. Orphica takes the listener on a thrilling sonic adventure. Twelve songs map a journey through epic encounters, intimate confessions and emotional confrontations in an exuberant melding of pop, electronica, Greek folk and avant-garde music. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Orphica is the debut album by London sound artist Mikhail. After releasing his music alongside sound explorers such as Scanner and Stephen Vitiello, and on a compilation by pop experimentalist Björk, this is Mikhail's first solo album. Orphica takes the listener on a thrilling sonic adventure. Twelve songs map a journey through epic encounters, intimate confessions and emotional confrontations in an exuberant melding of pop, electronica, Greek folk and avant-garde music.
First solo release by Crouton label founder Jon Mueller."For the past two years, individuals have been invited to contribute their beards, which would then be filed and placed in a special wooden case, for no apparent reason. The process, on the other hand, revealed many conversations that would not have taken place; moments of understanding, insight, curiosity, and and overall positive manifestations that possibly would not have happened under 'normal' circumstances. The intent of this [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
First solo release by Crouton label founder Jon Mueller.
"For the past two years, individuals have been invited to contribute their beards, which would then be filed and placed in a special wooden case, for no apparent reason. The process, on the other hand, revealed many conversations that would not have taken place; moments of understanding, insight, curiosity, and and overall positive manifestations that possibly would not have happened under 'normal' circumstances. The intent of this [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Seth Nehil, also heard on Jason Kahn's Cut label and who has recorded with Olivia Block, has composed sound works for CD, multi-speaker installation, solo and large-group concerts, dance, theater and multi-media performance. He is also the co-editor and designer of FO A RM magazine, a journal of arts and research with a focus on sound art. "Perhaps Seth Nehil is better known from his collaborative work than for his solo work. He worked with jgrzinich and Olivia Block, but [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Seth Nehil, also heard on Jason Kahn's Cut label and who has recorded with Olivia Block, has composed sound works for CD, multi-speaker installation, solo and large-group concerts, dance, theater and multi-media performance. He is also the co-editor and designer of FO A RM magazine, a journal of arts and research with a focus on sound art.
"Perhaps Seth Nehil is better known from his collaborative work than for his solo work. He worked with jgrzinich and Olivia Block, but [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Xerrox is the new, self-contained project of Alva Noto, which like his 'Transall' series (Transrapid, Transvision and Transspray) is intended to be released in five parts during the next years. On Xerrox, Alva Noto works with samples from muzak, advertising, soundtracks and entertainment programs. These sounds we hear randomly in everyday life and thereby they become an always present and available public domain. With Xerrox Alva Noto manipulates these recognizable melodic (micro) [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Visual artist and musician Hal Rammel has been involved in the creative arts for the past 40 years. "Like Water Tightly Wound" marks Rammel's latest installment of his recorded documentation of solo Sound Palette studies. Beginning with a series of three separate 7" records (titled LOST DATA), released on his own Penumbra Music in early 2006, "Like Water Tightly Wound" captures every nuance of this intriguing instrument. Invented and built by Rammel, these instruments are as curious for their [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more "classic" in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with this collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular as well as analog synthesizers [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Montreal experimental turntablist and Ambiances Magnetiques collective member Martin Tétreault in a reissue of his early 1992 cassette releases, originally issued in limited and numbered editions of 250. " Snipettes! 1991-1992. It had already been two years since the release of Des pas et des mois (AM 017 CD). Given the surprise success of that first CD, I was looking for a way to make another studio work with the help of precious acolytes. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Montreal experimental turntablist and Ambiances Magnetiques collective member Martin Tétreault in a reissue of his early 1992 cassette releases, originally issued in limited and numbered editions of 250.
" Snipettes! 1991-1992. It had already been two years since the release of Des pas et des mois (AM 017 CD). Given the surprise success of that first CD, I was looking for a way to make another studio work with the help of precious acolytes. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Part Two - The Endless Not, the first new album since 1980's Heathen Earth. "Vow of Silence", "Greasy Spoon" and "Lyre Liar" find Throbbing Gristle taking one of their signature modes - the churning electronic rhythm track overlaid with improvised noise - and buffing it up for the 21st century. Separated and Above and Below give the same treatment to the kind of disquieting ambient style they pioneered on 1978's E-Coli. There are certainly moments when you're [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Part Two - The Endless Not, the first new album since 1980's Heathen Earth.
"Vow of Silence", "Greasy Spoon" and "Lyre Liar" find Throbbing Gristle taking one of their signature modes - the churning electronic rhythm track overlaid with improvised noise - and buffing it up for the 21st century. Separated and Above and Below give the same treatment to the kind of disquieting ambient style they pioneered on 1978's E-Coli. There are certainly moments when you're [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In 2004, Rafael Toral announced that he was to embark on a long term project, which was to be a multi-facetted work in progress representing his new approach to music. With the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous "Space" (staubgold 69 cd), he managed to disrupt the notions of "avantgarde music" even of those who consider themselves well-versed in this field.In the past, Toral's work had been based on the guitar and the myriad possibilities of generating sounds from [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In 2004, Rafael Toral announced that he was to embark on a long term project, which was to be a multi-facetted work in progress representing his new approach to music. With the release of the first album of the program, the eponymous "Space" (staubgold 69 cd), he managed to disrupt the notions of "avantgarde music" even of those who consider themselves well-versed in this field.
In the past, Toral's work had been based on the guitar and the myriad possibilities of generating sounds from [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Unique and quirky instrumental work that reminds me a bit of ZGA, but with a particular folk flavor. Not that it sounds like folk music, really, more like a blend of Harry Partch, space bluegrass of guitar and stoned zither plucker. Really nice, despite my description..."Nordic Visions was originaly released in a tiny vinyl edition of 525 copies which sold out immediately. Here it is by demand, resurrected as a digital tiki for the original vinyl release.While Wooden Wand [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Unique and quirky instrumental work that reminds me a bit of ZGA, but with a particular folk flavor. Not that it sounds like folk music, really, more like a blend of Harry Partch, space bluegrass of guitar and stoned zither plucker. Really nice, despite my description...
"Nordic Visions was originaly released in a tiny vinyl edition of 525 copies which sold out immediately. Here it is by demand, resurrected as a digital tiki for the original vinyl release.
While Wooden Wand [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Ute Wasserman and Richard Barrett perform regularly in an improv duo of voice and electronics. Wasserman is know from her solo work, and also her work with Jaap Blonk, Matthias Kaul, and Sven Ake Johansson. Barrett is well known through Europe as a composer of formal music, but is probably better known here as a member of Furt, among an amazing number of projects and collaborations including Evan Parker, Adam Linson, and Arne Deforce.
Three compositions of early 70's electronic and electronics & percussion works from this Berlin born Australian composer. Werder, born 1922, fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and was interned in Australia for four years as a political prisoner. During that time he developed his compositional language, eventually entering the forefront of Australian avant-garde music. Initially working in 12 tone music, his evolution led him to improvisatory and collage style works, demanding performance pieces, increasingly [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Thurston Moore has a long history in improvising rock settings, and the Bark Haze adds to his discography in a duo with Andrew Macgregor (Gown) occassionally performing with Pete Nolan, heard on the recent Vanishing Voice/Stone Plate release. The name comes from the group Bar-Kays, a radical 70's R&B group, whose name upon hearing it Moore and Macgregor mistook for Bark Haze; this became a base concept in the improviser's arsenal of presenting thei "mis-hearings" through musical dialog. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"French pseudo-beatnik Dashiell Hedayat persuaded the psychedelic, prog-rocking Gong to back him up on Obsolete, his second (and final) album project. This is the Continental Circus-era Gong, and the song structures here resemble that album's stripped-down sound. Propelled by Allen's spacy guitar and Malherbe's spicy sax, the tunes on Obsolete, though at times experimental, aren't as involving or full-blown as those on Gong's Camembert Electrique, recorded on the heels of Hedayat's album. Hedayat [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Two new heavy-hitting blasts from Japan's indefatigable master of the psychedelic, surrealist blues. After a recent European tour and an hour-long special on Japanese television, the wonderfully titled Barking Practice /// White Lines finds Kan Mikami back in the studio in one-take guitar and vocal mode. There's a depth of song spirit on display here that beggars belief -- the guitar bites in all the right place, and Mikami's voice is tuned to a new pitch of hard-won soulfulness, in turns bristle-harsh, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
UK's unusual and unique song writer with 12 new songs for the modern age, this time in an solo acoustic setting. Pure unadultered Bing for a battered and difficult world. Check out Bing's Resonance FM show on Odeo.com for a better idea of what Bing is all about.
"New York's most influential avant-garde rock band, Sonic Youth, follow up their critically acclaimed 2006 release, Rather Ripped, with a special set sure to please fans and completists. The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities, a collection of near-hidden Sonic Youth gems hand-picked by the band, brings together songs from throughout the band's tenure at Geffen Records. Focusing on tracks previously available only on limited-edition compilations, vinyl-only releases, or as B-sides or international [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Poste E Telegrafi is the debut solo album from Italian guitarist Allesandro Stefana. Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot & Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world within his compositions and arrangements. With constant references to traditional music and rural blues he utilizes electric [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Vanishing Voice, closely related to Wooden Wand, are an improvising rock band in the Can/Faust/Kraut rock mold. With experimental, folk and eastern influences, this CD is a psychedelic journey, 2 extended tracks of demanding rock that takes many twists and turns. Well recorded, this bands seriously rocks hard. Stone Tablet is a strange tripped-out and psychedelic trip into groove locked, muilt layered kraut rock. Mixing in discordant and bent elements, battered guitar heroics, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Vanishing Voice, closely related to Wooden Wand, are an improvising rock band in the Can/Faust/Kraut rock mold. With experimental, folk and eastern influences, this CD is a psychedelic journey, 2 extended tracks of demanding rock that takes many twists and turns. Well recorded, this bands seriously rocks hard.
Stone Tablet is a strange tripped-out and psychedelic trip into groove locked, muilt layered kraut rock. Mixing in discordant and bent elements, battered guitar heroics, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Joe Boyd graduated from Harvard in the 60's with big dreams of being involved with the music industry as business man, a tour and record producer. Driven by a love of the new underground psychedelic music from bands like Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Soft Machine, he threw himself into this new music world and the rest is history. All of this is documented in his book "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s", a fascinating read about the time and Boyd's involvement [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Starting with the disc The Virtuoso Trombone, recorded in 1983, Christian Lindberg has been the main protagonist of some 35 discs on the BIS label. But the present disc is surely destined to count as one of the most important. It brings together three of more than 80 concertos that have been dedicated to Christian Lindberg during his unparalleled career. One of the first of these was actually Troorkh (the title derived from trombone + orkhestra) by Xenakis, the result of an encounter in 1985 [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Cordâme is the string trio of Marie Neige Lavigne, violin, Julie-Odile Gauthier-Morin, violoncello and Jean Felix, double bass, with AM collective member Pierre Tanguay on percussion. This, their first CD, is a musical voyage through the compositions of Jean Félix Mailloux. Mailloux is a bass player and award-winning composer who has worked with Jean Derome, Marc Bouchard, Marc Denis, Michel Donato, and other. His own CD on the Ambiances Magnetiques family of labels was released [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Among Feldman fans these days, I imagine I'm fairly typical, having only really discovered the great composer's work after he died in 1987 when labels like Hat, Bridge and Mode began releasing an abundance of albums. Not having experienced his oeuvre as it was developing, I naturally gravitated to the amazing later works, the incredibly beautiful solo piano pieces like "For Bunita Marcus" and "Palais de Mari" as well as the chamber ensemble works and his "opera", "Neither". Hearing his early [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In 2004 Orange Mountain Music released an album of solo piano transcriptions of Philip Glass' Oscar and Golden Globe nominated score to The Hours. These transcriptions were done by Glass' longtime Music Director and pianist Michael Riesman.Mr Riesman's solo piano transcription of The Hours score proved so successful that Orange Mountain Music was inspired to approach Riesman again to make an arrangement of Glass' haunting score to Todd Browning's 1931 classic Dracula [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"In 2004 Orange Mountain Music released an album of solo piano transcriptions of Philip Glass' Oscar and Golden Globe nominated score to The Hours. These transcriptions were done by Glass' longtime Music Director and pianist Michael Riesman.
Mr Riesman's solo piano transcription of The Hours score proved so successful that Orange Mountain Music was inspired to approach Riesman again to make an arrangement of Glass' haunting score to Todd Browning's 1931 classic Dracula [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Recent works exploring microtonal music and unusual instrumentation in compositions for 4 kotos, a trio for piano/sax/flute, and solo bagpipe, flute, triangle."Piper is probably one of the few avant-garde pieces composed for the bagpipe. The piper is asked to walk slowly around the performance space, sounding his instrument as he does so. From time to time he detunes the chanters, creating beating patterns of slightly varying speeds and minor spatial disturbances (imaginary [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Recent works exploring microtonal music and unusual instrumentation in compositions for 4 kotos, a trio for piano/sax/flute, and solo bagpipe, flute, triangle.
"Piper is probably one of the few avant-garde pieces composed for the bagpipe. The piper is asked to walk slowly around the performance space, sounding his instrument as he does so. From time to time he detunes the chanters, creating beating patterns of slightly varying speeds and minor spatial disturbances (imaginary [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Six works from 1961-1979 showing Xenakis' strength at organizing sound in unusual and dramatic ways using unlikely compositional structures. Important work from this impressive and often enigmatic figure, who's work encompassed his interest and background in architecture and mathematics.
"Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Ken Jacobs is one of the truly legendary figures in the New York Underground. Artist, filmmaker, inventor, theatrical innovator and teacher-Ken Jacobs has been questioning and reinventing new film techniques for well over five decades. One of his most important and vital creations are his performances using the Nervous System, and New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903 is among his best. Poring over every frame of a vintage film from the turn of the century, Jacobs digs out [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Ripe for rediscovery, Christopher Petit's post-punk journey RADIO ON (1979) has become a cult film since its initial release and is one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema. Co-produced by Wim Wenders andfeaturing Sting's first film performance, RADIO ON is austere in narrative and captures the lurking disenchantment of the British youth movements of the time.RADIO ON was stunningly photographed in luminous black and white monochrome by Martin Schaefer (Wenders' cinematographer), [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Ripe for rediscovery, Christopher Petit's post-punk journey RADIO ON (1979) has become a cult film since its initial release and is one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema. Co-produced by Wim Wenders andfeaturing Sting's first film performance, RADIO ON is austere in narrative and captures the lurking disenchantment of the British youth movements of the time.
RADIO ON was stunningly photographed in luminous black and white monochrome by Martin Schaefer (Wenders' cinematographer), [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
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