SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE April 30, 2009

A number of essential labels with releases this time around, starting with 4 new Intakt titles; Tony Bevan's latest on Forghorn UK; 4 titles on Another Timbre; 2 Incus reissues; one each on ICP and ic.Disc; 3 titles on Creative Sources; Cage performing Cage and Peter Ablinger on Mode Records; Tony Malaby on New World; and just in, 5 new releases on Clean Feed!

Also Tony Buck of The Necks new Projekt: Transmit; The World of Arthur Russel back on CD and now also a triple LP; 2 new Utech releases; Luc Ferrari and Luca Gherasim LPs on Alga Marghen; Aidan Baker's "thoughtspan"; Sublime Frequencies CD issue of 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai; and a book of words and images from musicians on Hermes Discorbie.

After the listings are 8 new reviews on The Squid's Ear !

Improvisation:
$12.95    Buy	Appleton, Jon & Don Cherry: Human Music [VINYL] (Flying Dutchman)
	Exact LP reproduction of this 1970 Flying Dutchman collaboration between trumpeter Don Cherry on trumpet, flute and percussion, with electronics pioneer Jon Appleton.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Bevan / Corsano / Lash: Monster Club (Foghorn Records)
	Saxophonist Tony Bevan in a trio with drummer Chris Corsano and bassist Dominic Lash, physically and emotionally powerful music that remains lyrical and articulate.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Blah Blah 666: Little Man on the Boat (Barnyard)
	An eclectic assortment of old-fashioned entertainment, pre-harmonic bop, and Canada's new wave of avant garde mariachi from Jean Martin, Nick Fraser, Justin Haynes, &c..
$14.95    Buy   listen	Chauveau, Sylvain: Touching Down Lightly (Creative Sources)
	Pianist Sylvain Chauveau (Type, Les Disques du Soleil) in a long piano work recorded in Chicago in 2008, beautiful lingering tones and melodic development.
$27.95    Buy	Diaboliques, Les (Schweizer / Nicols / Leandre): Jubilee Concert [DVD in PAL format] (Intakt)
	The "diabolical" trio of pianist Irene Schweitzer, bassist Joelle Leandre and improvising vocalist Maggie Nicols in a DVD recorded live at Jazzclub Moods, Zurich (PAL format!).
$17.95    Buy   listen	Duval, Dominic / Jimmy Halperin: Monk Dreams (NoBusiness)
	In the same mode as the "Monkinus" album, this is a new reincarnation of Monk's tunes arranged and performed by bassist Dominic Duval and saxophonist Jimmy Halperin.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Eastley, Max / Rhodri Davies: dark architecture (Another Timbre)
	The duo of sound sculptor Max Eastley and electric harpist Rhodri Davies in an unedited recording performing live at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell, UK.
$16.95    Buy   listen	EKG (Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel): Electricals (Another Timbre)
	The 4th release by EKG (Bruckmann/Karel) presents live electroacoustic recordings extracted and restructured by Bruckman, emphasizing the electronic nature of their work.
$19.95    Buy   listen	Friedli, Gabriela : This Side Up: Objets Trouves (Intakt)
	The 2nd CD for the quartet of Gabriela Friedli, Co Streiff, Jan Schlegel und Dieter Ulrich, lyric playful melodic lines with erratically pulsating accents of drum and bass.
$17.95    Buy   listen	Frith, Fred / Zorn, John: The Art of Memory (Incus)
	The original incredible duet of alto saxophonist John Zorn and guitarist Fred Frith in live duets of amazing strength and communication, awe inspiring improvisation.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: GIO poetics (Creative Sources)
	Glasgow's Improvisers Orchestra from the CCA Glasgow performing three free improvisations and a discretely structured piece by Raymond MacDonald.
$14.45    Buy   listen	Hamilton, Tom / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine (Pogus)
	NY synth player Hamilton and guitarist Eisenbeil in a duo of unusual improv in an aim to generate new forms, new ways of listening, new definitions of music.
$15.95    Buy   listen	I Compani: Circusism (IC Disc)
	An audio recording of the music, film and theatre production of "Circusism" produced with DZIGA with a band including Bo van de Graff, Albert van Veenendall, &c. &c.
$16.95    Buy   listen	Kohlhase, Charlie Explorer's Club: Adventures (Boxholder)
	Boston reed player Kohlhase and his 7 piece Explorer's Club playing Kohlhase's original compositions-adventurous, melodic and inventive music of great imagination and wit.
$16.95    Buy   listen	Krebs, Annette & Rhodri Davies: kravis rhonn project (Another Timbre)
	Guitarist and electroacoustic musician Krebs met harpist and electronicist Rhodri Davies in 2008 for these recordings, which Krebs then organized for these fascinating recordings.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Malaby, Tony: Paloma Recio (New World Records)
	Downtown NY tenor player Malaby in a trio with guitarist Ben Monder, bassist Eivind Opsvik, and drummer Nasheet Waits, a lyrical blend of composition and free improv.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Morris / Voigt / Plsek: The Graphic Scores Of Lowell Skinner Davidson (Riti Records)
	The trio of Joe Morris, John Voigt and Tom Plesk interpreting the graphic scores of legendary pianist and Ornette Coleman sideman Lowell Skinner Davidson.
$18.95    Buy   listen	Music Improvisation Company, The: 1968-71 (Incus)
	Derek Bailey's Music Improvisation Company in early recordings from the London free improv scene, non-idiomatic freely improvised music with a new sense of spontaneity.
$16.95    Buy   listen	Octante (Barberan / Monteiro / Fages / Garcia): lunula (Another Timbre)
	Four Barcelona musicians on the cutting edge of contemporary electroacoustic improvisation in their second release, recording at ca l'escuder in 2008.
$19.95    Buy   listen	Oliver, Mary & Rozemarie Heggen: Oh, Ho! (ICP)
	Fascinatingly introspective record from double bassist Heggenand violinist Oliver performing compositions by Cor Fuhler, Michael Moore, Yanis Kyriakides, &c. + original works
$17.95    Buy   listen	Schmidt / Weniger / Henze / Bussenius: schmidt happens (Cracked an Egg)
	Pianist Andreas Schmidt in a quartet with saxophonist Peter Weninger, bassist Andreas Henze and drummer Kai Bussenius live in concert in Berlin, 2007.
$19.95    Buy   listen	Schweizer Holz Trio: Love Letters To The President (Intakt)
	Three saxophonist - Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, and Omri Ziegele - all innovators on the European Free Improv scene in a trio of unusual and intense approaches to the horn.
$12.95    Buy   listen	Shibolet, Ariel and Between the Strings Trio: Live at the Tel Aviv Museum (Kadima)
	Soprano saxophonist Shibolet performing solo and with the Between the Strings trio (JC Jones, Daniel Hofman, Nori Jacoby) live at the Tel Aviv Museum in 2006.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Speak Easy (Wasserman / Minton / Lehn / Blume): Backchats (Creative Sources)
	Formed in 2008 Speak Easy brings free vocal improvisers Ute Wassermann and Phil Minton together with drummer Martin Blume and synth player Thomas Lehn for 5 tracks recorded in concert.
$19.95    Buy   listen	Weber, Katharina: Woven Time (Intakt)
	15 solo improvisations on the piano from Katharina Weber, who Fred Frith describes as a "a new piano icon", bridging the worlds of new music and improv.
$59.80    Buy	Another Timbre: 4 CD Special Offer! (Another Timbre)
	Buy the 4 recent Another Timbre releases and save $5: Eastley, Max / Rhodri Davies: dark architecture EKG (Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel): Electricals Krebs, Annette & Rhodri Davies: kravis rhonn project Octante (Barberan / Monteiro / Fages / Garcia): lunula

Electroacoustic/Experimental:
$18.95    Buy	Baker, Aidan: thoughtspan [VINYL] (Blackest Rainbow Records)
	Nadja's genre defying musical experimentalist in two long form tracks of genre-blending shoegaze, post rock, and free playing clatter experimentation.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Calcination: (Utech Records)
	The Berlin based duo of saxophonist Antoine Chessex and guitarist Ktho Zoid, dense alchemical transformations through dense layers of amplification and feedback.
$30.95    Buy	Ferrari, Luc: Labyrinthe De Violence/Danse [VINYL] (Alga Marghen)
	Ferrari's experimental work "Danse", part of an installation called "Labyrinthe De Violence" conceived in 1975 and presented in 2009, here captured in this 1-sided LP.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Gargaud, Guillaume : She (Utech Records)
	French sound artist Guillaume Gargaud creates moody spiderwebs of sound improvising on guitar and electronics, subtle shifting and acrid soundscapes.
$28.95    Buy	Luca, Gherasim: Two Poems [VINYL] (Alga Marghen)
	Two experimental sound works by Gherasim Luca recorded in 1970 at the EMS in Stockholm, electronically treated works performed at the '71 & '72 Text-Sound Festivals.
$19.95    Buy   listen	Russell, Arthur: The World of Arthur Russell (Soul Jazz Records)
	A rare dance release for Squidco, Arthur Russel was Downtown NY's chameleonic cellist, song writer, conceptualist, &c. &c., whose short life left legacies in many disciplines.
$24.95    Buy   listen	Russell, Arthur: The World of Arthur Russell [VINYL] (Soul Jazz Records)
	Triple LP edition of The World of Arthur Russell CD.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$15.95    Buy   listen	Dr. Boogie: Presents 26 Deranged And Smokin' Cool Cats (Sub Rosa)
	This is the fourth volume in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare and lost recordings, here focusing the sudden rise and fall of the rockabilly from 1954-59.
$16.95    Buy   listen	Projekt: Transmit (Staubgold )
	Showing a completely different side to Necks drummer Tony Buck, detailed repeating riff driven and compelling rock with Buck handling the guitar and vocal work.

Compositional:
$14.95    Buy   listen	Ablinger, Peter: 33-127 (Mode Records)
	Seth Josel performs Peter Ablinger's "33-127" for guitar and field recordings of transportation, graphic minimalism punctuated by bursts of activity - cacophony vs. tranquility.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Cage, John: Cage Performs Cage: Empty Words With Music For Piano / One7 (Mode Records)
	1991 recordings of frequent collaborators John Cage on voice with pianist Yvar Mikhasoff performing "Empty Words", and Cage alone performing his time bracket piece "One7".

Book:
$19.95    Buy	Various Artists: Herme's Ear [BOOK] (Hermes Discorbie)
	A deluxe hardcover book of musician's impressions, prose, and images from an amazing list of artists including Franz Hautzinger, Jon Rose, Alvin Curran, Annea Lockwood, Al Margolis, &c. &c.

Miscellaneous:
$15.95    Buy   listen	Various Artists: 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies)
	Rai music from early 1970s Algeria as you've not heard before, Northwest coast groups who pioneered was a sound forced underground by their government.

JUST IN! 5 New Clean Feed Releases!
$15.95  Buy	Herculaneum: Herculaneum III (Clean Feed)
$15.95  Buy	Lucky 7's: Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)
$15.95  Buy	Transit (Arnal / Misterka / Radding / Wooley): Quadrologues (Clean Feed)
$15.95  Buy	Paulo, Joao / Dennis Gonzalez: Scapegrace (Clean Feed)
$15.95  Buy	Fefer, Avram / Eric Revis / Chad Taylor: Ritual (Clean Feed)

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Loren Connors & Jim O'Rourke: Two Nice Catholic Boys (Family Vineyard) Who Trio: Less is More (Clean Feed) Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country (Kranky) Powertrio: What We Think When We Walk and What We Walk While Thinking (Creative Sources)

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