SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE March 20, 2009

More great titles this time around, with two on RogueArt, Mats Gustafsson & Herb Roberts releases on Ninth World, a pair of Tim Berne releases on Screwgun, Nate Wooley & C.Spencer Yeh CDs on Important, a few more Creative Sources releases, 3 on Cadence Jazz Records, two Ayler additions, Parker / Domancich / Drake on Marge, John Butcher's "Resonant Spaces", more Merzbow birds, Sub Rosa's Sonology, New Faust, My Cat Is an Alien CD/DVD, Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana Maria Avram's iO Quartet, Sun City Girls' Womb on LP, Charles Curse' bizarre LP, Faust & NWW double vinyl, an Ornette Coleman 180GM resissue, Christian Marclay's Ensemble poster & CD, Zappa & High Rise DVDs, plus a new Wire magazine with Wire Tapper CD!

Henry Cow Box Sets - Alert! We're tracking our shipment of Henry Cow Boxes and expect to have them on the site by Monday evening. They've been a long time coming, but completely worth the wait, so check back with us early next week!

After the listings are 15 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$19.95  Buy  listen	Anker / Courvoisier / Mori: Alien Huddle (Intakt)
	Acoustic improv and electronics combined when these three improvisers from Europe and New York met in 2006 in NYC, where Jamie Saft recorded these 11 mercurial compositions.
$18.95  Buy  listen	Bennani, Abdelhai Trio: There Starts the Future (Ayler)
	Moroccan tenor saxophonist in a trio with Benjamin Duboc & Edward Perraud, extended examinations on tracks of extended technique and expressive approaches to improv.
$19.95  Buy  listen	Berne, Tim & The Copenhagen Art Ensemble: Open, Coma (Screwgun)
	2000 studio and live release from Tim Berne with a big band grouping of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble including trumpeter Herb Robertson and guitarist Marc Ducret.
$14.95  Buy	Borbetomagus: Snuff Jazz (Agaric)
	Long awaited reissue of this 1998 LP, originally of live performances at ABC No Rio in NYC and now expanded to include live performances at DC Space in Washington, DC.
$13.95  Buy  listen	Brethern of the Free Spirit (Blackshaw / Van Wissem): The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb (Important Records)
	Named after a cult of 13th-century heretics, Blackshaw and Van Wissem employ contemporary performance styles and for guitar and lute on 4 circular compositions.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Bruckmann, Kyle: Wrack: Intents & Purposes (482 Music)
	Bruckmann's Chicago based released bridges the gap between modern classical music and Chicago's experimental jazz scene in a hybrid form of chamber jazz.
$14.95  Buy  listen	Buffalo Collision (Berne / Roberts / King / Iverson): Duck (Screwgun)
	Three tracks of powerful fully improvised music from the power combo of saxophonist Tim Berne with cellist Hank Roberts, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King.
$9.95  Buy  listen	Chabala / Noyes: Illuminati (Roeba)
	Duo recording with percussionist Lee Noyes and guitarist Barry Chabala playing electric, a mix of out percussion and expansive yet understated guitar work.
$13.95  Buy  listen	Dennis Gonzalez: The Earth and the Heart (Music & Arts)
	Trumpeter Gonzalez's '96 release with Mark Hewins, Ken Filiano, Alex Cline and Andrew Cyrille, recorded on both coasts to document his sound in an electric trio setting.
$16.95  Buy  listen	Domancich / W.Parker / Drake: Washed Away (Marge)
	The trio of pianist Sophia Domancich, bassist Willim Parker and Hamid Drake performing live at the club Sunside in Paris, July 1 & 2 of 2008.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Drury, Andrew: My Fingers Will be Your Tears (Cadence Jazz Records)
	The only recording of Andrew Drury's trio with Myra Melford and Briggan Krause, captured live at Roulette in December '04, performing Drury original compositions.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Edelin, Michele Trio + Steve Lehman: Kuntu (RogueArt)
	Flautist Michel Edelin's Trio with Jean-Jacques Avenel and John Betsch, and guest alto saxophonist Steve Lehman performing a set of originals and one Monk in France, 2008.
$24.95  Buy  listen	Feza, Mongezi / Rosengren Quartet, Bernt: Free Jam (Ayler)
	Double disc of South-African trumpeter Mongezi Feza, who worked with Robert Wyatt, Henry Cow, &c, from 1972 recordings in an amazing group of Swedish improvisers.
$13.95  Buy  listen	Flaherty, Paul & C. Spencer Yeh w/ Greg Kelley: New York Nuts And Boston Baked Beans (Important Records)
	Skronky great live improv from 3 serious innovators and experimenters: Flaherty from the old guard, and C.Spencer Yeh the new, with Greg Kelley along for two performances.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Gauci / Cline / Filiano / Pride: Red Feast (Cadence Jazz Records)
	The meeting through mutual friends of Stephen Gauci and Nels Cline with Ken Filiano and Mike Pride, acoustic and electronics for music of intense colors & unpredictable turns.
$14.95  Buy  listen	Guionnet / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Murayama: noite (Creative Sources)
	Saxophonist Guionnet guides this quartet of sax, viola, cello, & percussion, including label leader Ernesto Rodrigues, delicate yet detailed improv of a high order.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Indigo Trio (Mitchell / Drake / Bankhead): Anaya (RogueArt)
	The trio of flautist Nicole Mitchell with Harrison Bankhead and Hamid Drake, three Chicago musicians recording a set of original recordings in NYC, 2008.
$17.95  Buy  listen	Mokuto: Dressed Like a Horse (Ninth World)
	Mokuto brings New York trumpeter Herb Robertson together with Danish musicians Lotte Anker on sax, Peter Friis Nielsen on bass and Peter Ole Jorgensen on percussion.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Smith, Wadada Leo: Procession Of The Great Ancestry (NESSA)
	Finally remastered, this is one of Smith's most obscure and satisfying early recordings with Kahil El'Zabar, Louis Myers, Joe Fonda, John Powell, Mchaka Uba, & Bobby Naughton.
$13.95  Buy  listen	Thirteenth Assembly, The: (Un)sentimental (Important Records)
	Some of the finest in NY's improv scene, with Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, and Tomas Fujiwara, frequent collaborators making exceptional music.
$17.95  Buy  listen	Torden Kvartetten: Devil's Last Call (Ninth World)
	A Live recording from this intense free jazz unit with Mats Gustafsson, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Peter Friis Nielsen & Per-Ake Homlander.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Ulrich, Tomas Cargo Cult: If You Should Go (Cadence Jazz Records)
	First recordings from cellist Tomas Ulrich's new music/improv trio with Rolf Sturm and Michael Bisio, recorded at the New Vanguard Series in Kingston, New York.
$19.95  Buy  listen	Watts, Trevor / Peter Knight: Reunion Live In London (Hi 4 Head Records)
	A single 56 minute performance from violinist Knight and saxophonist Watts, a journey through improv, abstract sonic soundscapes, post-bob, and elegant melodic invention.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$15.95  Buy  listen	Butcher, John: Resonant Spaces (Confront)
	Extreme acoustic space recordings from saxophonist John Butcher, part of Arika's Resonant Spaces event, with performances from resonant and remote corners of Scotland.
$13.95  Buy	Merzbow: 13 Japanese Birds Vol. 2: Fukurou (Important Records)
	Volume Two of Merzbow's 13 volume Japanese Birds series, with Merzbow (Masami Akita) returning to his drumset to accompany his complex analogue noise.
$14.95  Buy  listen	Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Santos / Drury: eterno retorno (Eternal Return) (Creative Sources)
	The quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, son Guilherme on cello, Carlos Santos on electronics and Andrew Drury on percussion in 4 extended tracks of engaging ea-improv.
$15.95  Buy  listen	Various Artists: Institute for Sonology: Early Electronic Music 1959-69 (Sub Rosa)
	Re-release of this 2001 CD, collecting electronic works from 1959-69 composed at the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht, Holland, including Dick Raaymakers, Konrad Boehmer. &c.

Rock / RIO / Prog:
$16.95  Buy  listen	Faust: C'est Com... Com... Complique (Bureau B)
	Original members Jean-Herve Peron and Zappi Diermaier continue Faust's unusual approach to (kraut)rock and sound with a new studio album of cohesive & contradictory elements.
$16.95  Buy  listen	Musica Transonic (Makoto / Yoshida / Nanjo): Xyosfbigkou (Vivo Records)
	Wild & furious madness by Nanjo Asahito of High Rise, Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple and Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins, extreme heavy psychedelia!
$15.95  Buy  listen	My Cat Is An Alien & Enore Zaffiri: Through The Magnifying Glass Of Tomorrow [CD/DVD] (Atavistic)
	Brothers Opalio of My Cat Is an Alien meet electronic and video artist Enore Zaffiri to create this CD and DVD combo of space sounds, recoded reel-to-reels, and video paintings.

Compositional:
$18.95  Buy  listen	Dumitrescu, Iancu - Ana Maria Avram: iO Quartet (Edition Modern)
	Four performances of Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram's iO String Quartet playing their compositions for string quartet & tape live in London, Brussels and Paris.
$18.95  Buy	Nancarrow, Conlon: Studies For Player Piano Arranged For Wind Quintet & Piano (MDG Scene)
	Conlon Nancarrow's impossible piano parts were rearranged by saxophonist Raaf Hekkema for the Calefax Reed Quintet with Ivo Janssen on piano.

Vinyl LPs:
$15.95  Buy  listen	Coleman, Ornette : Twins (Water)
	Originally recorded in '59 and not released until '71, these recordings of his Quartet include tracks with Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard and an early version of "Free Jazz".
$15.95  Buy  listen	Coleman, Ornette: Twins [VINYL] (Atlantic)
	Virgin vinyl 180 gram reissue of Ornette Coleman's classic 1971 release with Eric Dolphy, Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Scott LaFaro, & Freddie Hubbard.
$21.95  Buy  listen	Curse, Charles: Rain In Skull [VINYL] (Olde English Spelling Bee)
	A bizarre album of disjointed and fragmented organized sound, folk melodies, tape hiss, and perplexingly layered and structured sound, lo-fi and wonderfully weird.
$34.95  Buy  listen	Faust & Nurse With Wound: Disconnected 2LP [VINYL] (Dirter Productions)
$23.95  Buy	Sun City Girls: Fruit Of The Womb/Polite Deception [VINYL] (Eclipse)
	5th vinyl reissue in the Cloaven Cassettes series, these 2 cassettes are from 1987, between the 1st & 2nd Sun City Girl LPs, an unusual mix of ethnic, improv & standards.

Book & Magazine:
$19.95  Buy  listen	Marclay, Christian: Ensemble (poster & CD) (Institute of Contemporary Art)
	A CD and large poster of Marclay's installation at the ICA, with artists including Shelly Hirsch, Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Alan Licht, Marina Rosenfeld and Mika Tajima, &c.
$8.95  Buy	Wire, The: #302 April 2009 Magazine & CD (Wire)
	Wire's 302nd issue with Sunn O)) on the cover, plus a free CD with 21 tracks including Jim McAuley & Nels Cline, Felix Kubin, Tony Bevan/Chris Corsano/Dominic Lash, &c.

Book:
$23.95  Buy	High Rise: Psychedelic Speed Freaks Live 1986 [DVD] (PSF)
	The first DVD release of the Japanese speed psych-garage band High Rise from a 1986 live recording at Eggplant in Osaka, around the time of their 2nd album release.
$19.95  Buy	Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention, Frank: In The 1960s [DVD] (CHROME DREAMS)
	The story of Frank Zappa in the 1960s, starting with his relationship to Don Van Vliet and working up to the formation and early years of the Mothers of Invention.

Recent Reviews:

John Butcher: Resonant Spaces (Confront) HAR-YOU Percussion Group: Sounds of the Ghetto Youth (ESP-Disk) Univers Zero: Relaps: Archives 1984-1986 (Cuneiform) Sebastien Cirotteau, Brigitte Lacasse, Catherine S Massicotte, Eric Normand: Face a la derive (Ambiances Magnetiques) Larry Polansky: The Theory of Impossible Melody (New World Records) Benge: 20 Systems (Expanding Records) Xenakis: Electronic Works 2 (Mode Records) Alva Noto: Xerrox Vol. 2 (Raster-Noton)

The Red Masque: Fossil Eyes (AdHoc Records) Revolutionary Ensemble: Beyond the Boundary of Time (Mutable) Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (Mode Records) Musica Elettronica Viva: MEV 40 (New World) Jack Wright with Hell & Bunny: over the transom (Bug Incision) Phil Minton / Veryan Weston: Ways (Jazzwerkstatt) Arcane Device: Devices 1987-2007 (Monochrome Vision)