SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE May 8, 2009

This mailing comes early as we change our publishing schedule to accommadate staff schedules... so the list is about half the usual size (23 items this time) but filled with some great new releases: 5 new Clean Feed releases; Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford on Libra; Steve Lacy reissued on Marge; 3 new Cuneiform titles including Positive Catastrophe with Taylor Ho Bynum; new Talibam!, Sun City Girls and No Neck Blues Band LPs; Bushman's Revenge on Rune Grammofon; Acid Mothers Temple "Lord of the Underground"; we add the last few releases from the amazing Zarek label to our catalog; plus the latest issue of the Wire.

Our next email notice will be in two weeks and will include the latest Hat Arts, Emanem & PSI releases, Important Records latest, and much more!

After the listings are 9 new reviews on The Squid's Ear !

Improvisation:
$17.95    Buy   listen	Beins / Rowe: Grain (Zarek)
	The meeting of AMM guitarist Keith Rowe with Burkhard Beins on percussion, two studio sessions and one live recording, sparse and subtle improv of the highest standard.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Dennis Gonzalez / Joao Paulo: Scapegrace (Clean Feed)
	First meetings between Texan trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez met Portuguese pianist Joao Paulo, playing a delicate, beautiful music full of spirituality, nuance and drive.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Derome, Jean And The Dangereux Zhoms+7: Plates-Formes Et Traquenards (Victo)
	Jean Derome's extended Dangereux Zhomes opened the 25th Victo Festival in 2008, adding Joane Hetu, Lori Freedman, Bernard Falaise, &c. for an incredible and expressive orchestra.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Fefer / Revis / Taylor: Ritual (Clean Feed)
	Saxophonist Fefer's NY based trio with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Chad Taylor play an ecstatic and spiritually charged modern jazz style with great drive and expressiveness.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Fujii / Melford: Under the Water (Libra)
	Pianists Fujii & Melford met in Berkley to record these masterful and challenging duo works, impressionist excursions in the water inside and out of the piano.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Herculaneum: Herculaneum III (Clean Feed)
	Ranging from trio to septet, Herculaneum incorporates a chamber aesthetic into modern improvisational aesthetic with graceful expressiveness and compositional power.
$17.95    Buy   listen	Kammerer, Margareth & Ruby Ruby Ruby: The Shadow Of Your Smile (Zarek)
	Vocalist Margareth Kammerer (Magic ID) in an album of understated jazz standards revolving around Billy Holiday, with guests Axel Doerner, Michael Thieke, Tobias Delius, &c.
$17.95    Buy   listen	Lacy, Steve: Wordless (Disques Futura et Marge)
	An excellent 1971 live recording of soprano saxophonist Lacy with Ambrose Jackson, Irene Aebi (on cello only, hence the 'wordless'), Kent Carter and Jerome Cooper.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Lucky 7's: Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)
	Chicago's Lucky 7 with trombones from Jeb Bishop & Jeff Albert, Josh Berman on cornet, Keefe Jackson on tenor sax, Jason Adasiewicz on vibes, &c... essential jazz color and style.
$24.95    Buy   listen	Perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine: It Ain't Necessarily So (Zarek)
	Charlemagne Palestine met Perlonex (Ignaz Shick / Joerg Maria Zeger / Burkhard Beins) in 2006 for a live performance of this Gershwin classic in a distinctly lowercase mode.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Positive Catastrophe (Ho Bynum / Gomez-Delgado / Bauder / Attias): Garabatos Volume One (Cuneiform)
	The first release from this New York 10 piece band co-led by cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and vocalist Abraham Gomez-Delgado, drawing together modern jazz and Latin music.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Snake Figures Arkestra: Cooks & Devils (Zarek)
	A live recording of Ignaz Schick and Marcel Turkowsky in an electroacoustic-improv set performed on small instruments & objects, creating strange and obscure audio environments.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Transit (Arnal / Misterka / Radding / Wooley): Quadrologues (Clean Feed)
	New York's Transit with Jeff Arnal, Seth Misterka, Reuben Radding and Nate Wooley, intelligently designed, unpredictable static and the hyper active free-jazz!

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$17.95    Buy   listen	Morsanek / Vinekeeper: Split LP [VINYL] (Kazemat)
	Morsanek (aka Mark Morse) in a edited piece, 181 "tracks" of varied instrumentation; and the mysterious Vinekeeper in a complex organized sound work.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Sun City Girls: Napoleon & Josephine (Singles Volume 2) (Abduction)
	This is the second volume in a series featuring rare singles and unreleased tracks from Sun City Girls, strange and disturbing recordings from 1985-1997.
$15.95    Buy   listen	Various Artists: Sound Off 2002 (Hermes Discorbie)
	An oddly inspired creative compilation and thick booklet based around the typewriter and typos, with tracks from Gen Ken Montgomery, Al Margolis, Carl Stone, Jozef Cseres, &c

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$15.95    Buy   listen	Acid Mothers Temple: Lord Of The Underground: Vishnu And The Magic Elixir (Alien8 Recordings)
	New studio recordings from 2008 showing Acid Mothers Temple in fine form playing psychedelic rock meets Krautrock in AMT's inimitable hashish-hazed style.
$16.95    Buy   listen	Bushman's Revenge: You Lost Me At Hello (Rune Grammofon)
	Shining's guitarist Even Helte Hermansen leads this heavy power trio in an all-on-assault of heavy improvised rock, comparable to Scorch Trio or Motorpsycho.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Led Bib (Holub / Donin / Mclaren / Grogan / Williams): Sensible Shoes (Cuneiform)
	The 4th release by this London quartet with dual alto sax, Fender Rhodes, bass and drums mixes free jazz and avant (skronk) rock into a powerfully explosive music.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Miriodor: Avanti! (Cuneiform)
	After 29 years together, Miriodor is one of the finest improvising rock bands on the planet, here refocused on the dense and twisted instrumental work that best defines them.
$18.95    Buy	No Neck Blues Band: At 6AM We Become The Police [VINYL] (Locust)
	Recordings from NNCK's first rehearsal space at 195 Chrystie St. NYC from 1995-97, historic recordings exploring the development of their unusual free improv rock style.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Talibam! With Daniel Carter: The New Nixon Tapes [VINYL] (Roaratorio)
	New York's avant rock band Talibam! with Daniel Carter play rock, jazz, noise and all stops in between, an aggressive mix of free music where nothing is out of bounds.

Book:
$8.95    Buy	Wire, The: #303 May 2009 Magazine (Wire)
	On the cover: Kode9; plus: Patterson; Contributors: Clive Bell, Nick Cain, Jace Clayton, Mark Fisher, Alan Licht, Nick Richardson, Peter Shapiro, etc.

Recent Reviews:

Sun Ra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold (ESP) Pat Thomas: Plays the music of Derek Bailey and Thelonious Monk (FMR) Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans, Steve Beresford: Check for Monsters (Emanem) David S. Ware: Shakti (Aum Fidelity) Jamie Saft: Black Shabbis (Tzadik)

Schindler/ Holzbauer/ Lillmeyer: rot (Creative Sources) Ran Blake: Driftwoods (Tompkins Square) Borah Bergman Trio: Luminescence (Tzadik) Fred Frith And Arte Quartet: Still Urban (Intakt)

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