SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE May 22, 2009

Catching up with 30 new items in our catalog this time: 3 on Emanem + Peter Evans on psi; 8 new releases on Tzadik including new Zorn and Ikue Mori releases; Evan Parker and John Wiese on 2nd Layer; Eskelin/Parkins/Black "One Great Night" reissued on Hat; Palermo and Upsilon Acrux releases on Cuneiform; 7 new releases on Important Records; Steven Vitiello & Molly Berg on 12K; Taj Mahal Traveler's Stockholm 71; Eema Records Ima Ensemble; Acid Mothers Temple 'Black Moon; Eugene Chadbourne and Jack & Jim releases; and a Sublime Frequencies DVD.

Also, have a look at our May Showers Sale, offering a great selection of deeply reduced releases!

After the listings are 5 new reviews on The Squid's Ear .

Improvisation:
$18.95    Buy   listen	Agnel, Sophie: Capsizing Moments (Emanem)
	Sophie Agnel uses a startling array of objects and techniques in playing inside the prepared piano, demonstrated in these digital concerts recordings from 2008.
$18.95    Buy   listen	ARC (Hallett / Kingshill / Garside): The Pursuit Of Happiness (Emanem)
	Since 1988 ARC have developed through improvisation a collective language that draws on the European textures of the violin family with a little bit of voice added.
$14.45    Buy   listen	Berg, Molly / Vitiello, Stephen: The Gorilla Variations (12K)
	Vitiello and Berg improvised the basic tracks for Gorilla to create a soundtrack for Brazilian video artist Eder Santos, expanded and reorganized into these 10 gorgeous compositions.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Burger, Robert: City Of Strangers (Tzadik)
	Tin Hat Trio founder Burger in an eclectic and wonderfully informed set of film cues, with help from Marc Ribot, Eyvind Kang, Carla Kihlstedt, Kenny Wollesen, &c.
$19.95    Buy   listen	Eskelin, Ellery / Parkins, Andrea / Black, Jim: One Great Night...Live (Hatology)
	A live concert recording at Towson University, Baltimore in 2007 from this trio who's years together have made them a seamless ensemble with amazing dexterity and sound.
$28.95    Buy   listen	Evans, Peter: nature/culture (psi)
	A sequel to his highly-acclaimed 1st solo trumpet CD "More is More", demonstrating extreme creative and technical skills in studio and concert settings.
$11.95    Buy   listen	Ima Ensemble: Bad Monkey Bad Bad Monkey (Eema Records)
	This quartet features percussionist Debashis Sinha in post traditional improvised music performed with 2 percussionists, electronics, voice & hurdy-gurdy.
$11.95    Buy   listen	Ima Ensemble: Tumma (Eema Records)
	Toronto percussionist Debashis Sinha's first release as the Ima Ensemble features the vocals of Toronto world music singers Jayne Brown and Sophia Grigoriadis.
$13.95    Buy   listen	London, Frank / Lorin Sklamberg: Tsuker-zis (Tzadik)
	Klezmatics Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg in a quintet with Knox Chandler of the Psychedelic Furs, Indian percussionist Deep Singh, and Ara Dinkjian on Oud.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Palermo Big Band, Ed: Eddy Loves Frank (Cuneiform)
	Ed Palermo's dexterous big band have been playing the music of Frank Zappa for 15 years; this is their 3rd record of his compositions, complex and exhilarating improv about rock.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Parker, Evan / Wiese, John: C-Section (Second Layer)
	British free jazz phenomenon Evan Parker with electronic and tape artist John Wiese in a set of real-time evolving improvisations intended for maximum volume.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Parkins, Andrea: Faulty (Broken Orbit) (Important Records)
	"Faulty (Broken Orbit)" re-imagines "Faulty (Per-Objective)", an hour long 10-channel site-specific audio work, premiered in 2007 at Diapason Gallery in NYC.
$28.59    Buy   listen	People Band: 69/70 (Emanem)
	Two hours of unreleased material from this under-documented seminal London free jazz unit, recorded at four locations including live and studio sessions, essential additions!
$13.95    Buy   listen	Pissuk Rachav: Eretz Hakodesh (Tzadik)
	Pissuk Rachav weave marimba, ney, theremin, drums and voice in a remarkably original and hilariously serious music that seems so perfect one wonders why it has never happened before.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Rodriguez, Roberto Juan: Timba Talmud (Tzadik)
	Composer/percussionist Roberto Rodriguez's imaginative Cuban-Jewish fusion draws upon several traditions in Timba Talmud as Son Montuno and Guaracha meet the Jewish tradition.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Smith & Jack Dejohnette, Wadada Leo: America (Tzadik)
	Originally proposed to ECM in 1979 and rejected, the duo of legendary trumpeter Smith and drummer DeJohnette pushes each other into remarkable and telepathic interplay.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Sommer, Gunter Baby: Live In Jerusalem with Assif Tsachar, Steve Horenstein, JC Jones, Yoni Silver, Yonatan Kretzmer, Yonatan Albalak (Kadima)
	Drummer Gunter Baby Sommer performing live at The Kadima Salon in 2008 in a great band with JC Jones, Assif Tsahar, Steve Horenstein, Yoni Silver, &c.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Stabat Akish: (Tzadik)
	Maxime Delporte's band Stabat Akish merges jazz, rock, classical and more into a crazy new music filled with compositional surprises, brilliant solos and wild juxtapositions.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Zorn, John: Alhambra Love Songs (Tzadik)
	The trio of Rob Burger, Greg Cohen & Ben Perowsky perform Zorn's touching and lyrical ode to the San Francisco/Bay Area and the artists who have made it their home.

Electronic / Experimental:
$13.95    Buy   listen	Merzbow: Suzume: 13 Japanese Birds Volume 1 (Important Records)
	The first and flagship release to Merzbow, a.k.a. Masami Akita's, 13 month, 13 CD series of complex analogue noise dedicated to Japanese Birds.
$13.95    Buy	Merzbow: Fukurou: 13 Japanese Birds Volume 2 (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.
$13.95    Buy	Merzbow: Yurikamome: 13 Japanese Birds Volume 3 (Important Records)
	Masami Akita, AKA Merzbow, releases the 3rd in a series of 13 monthly CDs dedicated to Japanese Birds, inspired by Olivier Messaien's "Catalogue D'Oiseaux".
$13.95    Buy	Merzbow: Karasu: 13 Japanese Birds Volume 4 (Important Records)
	This is the 4th release in the 13 CD series from Masami Akita A.K.A. Merzbow, dedicated to Japanese Birds. "Karasu" is April 2009's release.
$13.95    Buy   listen	Mori, Ikue: Class Insecta (Tzadik)
	One of the pioneers of laptop electronics, Mori here features her idiosyncratic take on contemporary dance rhythms and electronica in instrumental tracks and an animated video.
$16.95    Buy   listen	SND: Atavism (Raster-Norton)
	SND's (Mark Fell, Mat Steel) 4th album uses geometric forms and rhythms with digital minimalism to expose themes of ostensive sparsity that belie their complexity.
$17.95    Buy   listen	Taj Mahal Travellers: Live Stockholm July, 1971 2CD (Drone Syndicate)
	Led by infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Tokyo's Taj Mahal Travellers were *the* early Japanese free noise improvising band, in this repress of their live Stockholm release.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$13.95    Buy   listen	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Dark Side Of The Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? (Important Records)
	Excellent quality studio recordings from the heavy psychedelic Acid Mothers, here laying out their focused riffing in a kinder, gentler and trippy as ever set of songs.
$12.95    Buy   listen	Chadbourne, Eugene: Museo Della Musica (Chadula)
	Inspired by a concert in Bologna, Italy at the Museo della Musica, these are studio tracks with one live recording from that concert, great new versions of classic songs!
$12.95    Buy   listen	Jack and Jim Show (Jimmy Carl Black / Eugene Chadbourne): We Don't Have That In The Home! (Chadula)
	The final Jack and Jim CD (Eugende Chadbourne and the late Jimmy Carl Black), recorded live in Japan, insanely great covers of Zappa, Beefheart and their ilk.
$14.95    Buy   listen	Upsilon Acrux: Radian Futura (Cuneiform)
	Virtuosic, melodic, technical, and incredibly exhilarating rock from this quintet, with fast twists and turns in creative avant math-punk, intricate and amazing music.

Compositional:
$13.95    Buy   listen	Wissem, Jozef van: It Is All That Is Made (Important Records)
	Acclaimed lutenist and Brethren Of The Free Spirit Van Wissem in 6 trance inducing circular pieces composed for 10 course renaissance and 13 course baroque lute.

Miscellaneous:
$19.95    Buy	Mayet, Hisham (Director): Palace Of The Winds DVD (Sublime Frequencies)
	Shot over two years this is an intimate and dreamlike journey exploring the music of Saharawi culture from Guelmim in S. Morocco to the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.

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