SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE June 4, 2009

An excellent set of releases this time: Polweschel with John Tilbury, and Gerry Hemingway's Demon Chaser on HatOLOGY; Sun Ra's 6 CD Slug's Saloon and Nidhamu / Dark Myth Equation on Art Yard; Henry Cow Box 3 (The Studio); 4 CDs on ESP including Talibam!; Normand Guilbeault, Charity Chan, Mankind, and Ugly Beauties on Ambiances Magnetiques + 1 on Malasartes; 4 CDs on Creative Sources; Fully Celebrated Orchestra on Aum Fidelity; Splinters (Trevor Watts, Stan Tracey, John Stevens, &c) on Reel Recordings; Maja Ratkje (FE-Mail) on LP; Franck Vigroux & Matthew Bourne on D'Autres Cordes; Sir Richard Biship's Freak of Araby (CD & LP); A Koenjihyakkei rebuild; Quaturo Bozzini performs Michel Gonneville; Michael Gordon & Selvaggi Plays Bryars & Glass on Cantaloupe; plus The Wire's June 2009 issue!

Also, have a look at our Recommended Records Sale, with more than 25% off selected titles from the legendary UK label!

After the listings are 10 new reviews on The Squid's Ear .

Improvisation / Jazz / EA-Improv:
$12.95    Buy  listen	Barbieri, Gato: In Search of Mystery (ESP)
	Saxophonist Barbieri played with fire in his early free jazz sets; his recording from 1967 is accompanied by Sirone on bass, Calo Scott on cello and Bobby Kapp on drums.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Bourque / Mailloux / Tabassian: Bomata (Malasartes)
	Subtle exploration of the jazz trio from this Montreal based group whose music is driven by Middle Eastern influences melodies and the exotic percussive work of Ziya Tabassian.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Carrier / Lambert: nada (Creative Sources)
	20 short improvised pieces from Canadian saxophonist Francois Carrier and drummer Michel Lambert, lyrical and focused discourse using an extended wind and rhythmic language.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Chan, Charity: Somewhere the Sea and Salt (Ambiances Magnetiques)
	An aural map of extended pianist Charity Chan's techniques, in unusual non-invasive, object interactive and excursive approaches to the acoustic piano.
$20.95    Buy  listen	Core, The: Golonka Love (Moserobie Music)
	Live sets from the very cool 70s-Miles influenced The Core (Mathisen / Slettevoll / Raknes / Aalberg) in performance at 3 clubs in Poland 2007-2008.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Ferguson / van Heumen: whistle pig saloon (Creative Sources)
	WPG is John Ferguson and Robert van Heumen, blending a fractured pulse with dynamic texture into an immersive and disorientating music, from subtle to invasive sound.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones (Aum Fidelity)
	The trio of Jim Hobbs, Timo Shanko and Django Carranza in a studio release of original upbeat and amazing riff based compositions, along with a nifty skate video.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Gronvold, Daniel / Havard Volden: (Creative Sources)
	Volden and Gronvold are two Oslo-based improvising acoustic tabletop guitarists whose work focuses on textures and timing creating large and impressionistic soundscapes.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Guilbeault, Normand Ensemble: Live at Upstairs 2008. Hommage a Mingus (Ambiances Jazz)
	The Normand Guilbeault Ensemble with Jean Derome, Matthieu Belanger, &c. continue to create incredible interpretations of the music of Charles Mingus.
$19.95    Buy  listen	Hemingway, Gerry Quintet: Demon Chaser (Hatology)
	Drummer Hemingway's '93 live masterwork reissued, presenting his "transatlantic quintet" with Mark Dresser, Ernst Reijseger, Michael Moore & Walter Wierbos.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Mankind: Ice Machine (Ambiances Magnetiques)
	Surreal sound experiments using poetry, noise and ambient music and an eclectic set of instruments to make bewildering and enjoyable compositions, recommended!
$19.95    Buy  listen	Polwechsel & John Tilbury: Field (Hatology)
	An E-A supergroup with Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, Werner Dafeldecker, John Butcher, Michael Moser and AMM pianist John Tilbury, mysterious and wonderful music!
$34.95    Buy	Ratkje, Maja S.K.: Cyborgic [VINYL] (The Last Record Company)
	A live recording from electronic/vocal artists Ratkje playing theremin, toys and life fx processing, in a limited gatefold pressing of 500 copies with a 16 page art booklet.
$16.95    Buy  listen	Splinters: Split The Difference (Reel Recordings)
	Splinters is the monumental musical meeting of London giants Tubby Hayes, Kenny Wheeler, Trevor Watts, Stan Tracey, Jeff Clyne, John Stevens and Phil Seamen.
$18.95    Buy  listen	Sun Ra: Nidhamu / Dark Myth Equation (Art Yard)
	Reissuing two Sun Ra LPs from the Arkestra's 70s Egyptian tour, an amazing formation of the band with Sun Ra on Moog, adding two bonus tracks from the original releases.
$38.95    Buy  listen	Sun Ra: Slug's Saloon 6 CD box (Transparency)
	A 6-CD boxed Set of 2 complete shows recorded live at Slug's Saloon, NYC, in the summer of 1972, a raucous blast of Sun Ra in a set balancing jazz and spacetime!
$14.95    Buy  listen	Swiss Improvisers Orchestra: Zwitzerland (Creative Sources)
	Since 1998 the SIO have performed their witty and fun-loving style that tickles and dares its audience with subtle surprises, giving improvised music a new name.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Ugly Beauties: Brubeck / Fraser / Lerner: Ugly Beauties (Ambiances Magnetiques)
	"Ugly Beauties" explores the alien terrains between jazz, compositional and improvised music, with pianist Marilyn Lerner, cellist Matt Brubeck and drummer Nick Fraser.

Experimental / Eletronic:
$15.95    Buy  listen	Hecker, Florian: Acid In The Style Of David Tudor (Editions Mego)
	Florian Hecker's full length electronic music compositions referencing the parallel universes of modern 20th century composition and hedonistic rave culture.
$15.95    Buy  listen	Mashayekhi, Alireza: Ornamentalism (Sub Rosa)
	New contemporary electronic orchestral compositions from Iranian avant-garde pioneer Alireza Mashayekhi performed by Alireza Mashayekhi and the Iranian Orchestra.
$11.95    Buy  listen	Sinha, Debashis: Quell (Eema Records)
	"Quell" is an aural sound journey, using music and field recordings to investigate and present a deeply emotional exploration of Sinha's second home: India.
$19.95    Buy  listen	Tazartes, Ghedalia: Diasporas/Tazartes (Alga Marghen)
	Tazartes amazing 1st & 4th LPs on one CD, eclectic and unexpected connections between musical worlds in an eccentric music that absolutely refuses categorization!
$15.95    Buy  listen	Vigroux, Franck & Matthew Bourne: Me Madame (good news from wonderland) (D'Autres Cordes)
	A shared love of vintage analogue equipment, ear-splitting frequencies and the music of Scott Walker brought Franck Vigroux and Matthew Bourne together.
$9.95    Buy  listen	Violet: Violet Ray Gas and the Playback Singer (Zeromoon)
	Washington DC's master of drone and proprietor of the Zeromoon record label uses unconventional sound sources to organize walls of sound sources into complex compositions.
$15.95    Buy  listen	Wrekmeister Harmonies: Recordings Made In Public Spaces Volume One CD/DVD (Atavistic)
	"Recordings Made In Public Spaces" aptly describes the organized sound work of Chicago-based sound artist J.R. Robinson, here with a CD and DVD of his compositions.

Rock / R.I.O. / Prog:
$18.95    Buy	Bishop, Sir Richard: Improvika [VINYL] (Locust)
	Sun City Girl guitarist Richard Bishop's second instrumental release on 180gm vinyl LP, a follow up to his part in Locust's "Wooden Guitar" collection.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Bishop, Sir Richard: The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)
	The debut of Bishop's Freak of Araby Ensemble, a quartet of players deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and Moroccan chanters.
$15.95    Buy  listen	Bishop, Sir Richard: The Freak Of Araby [VINYL] (Drag City)
	The debut of Bishop's Freak of Araby Ensemble, a quartet of players deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and Moroccan chanters.
$12.95    Buy  listen	Cromagnon: Cave Rock (ESP)
	Cromagnon's 1969 non-linear journey through the subconscious, weaving together bizarre instrumentation and meter with a psychotic blending of musical styles.
$84.95    Buy  listen	Henry Cow: Box 3 (Recommended Records)
	The complete re-mastered Henry Cow studio recordings in the third matching box: Legend, Unrest, Desperate Straights, In Praise of Learning and Western Culture.
$14.95    Buy	Jandek: Brooklyn Wednesday (Corwood Industries)
	A double DVD of the Corwood representative (Jandek) in a trio with Chris Corsano and Matt Heyner performing live at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn in September, 2005.
$16.95    Buy  listen	Jono El Grande: Neo Dada (Rune Grammofon)
	Brimming with musical adventure, complex signatures, and melodic joy, Jono El Grande merges elements of Canterbury & RIO reminiscent of Henry Cow, Magma, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, &c.
$13.95    Buy  listen	Koenjihyakkei: Nivraym (Skin Graft/Magaibutsu)
	Koenjihyakkei's 2001 release extensively rebuilt with the original master augmented with new flourishes, overdubs, re-recorded drum tracks and entirely remixed!
$12.95    Buy  listen	Talibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks (ESP)
	One of NYC's oddest rock bands, Talibam! augment and mutilate rock forms with a weird mix, helped along by Jon Irabagon, Peter Evans, Chris Forsyth, &c., great and bizarre!

Compositional:
$8.95    Buy  listen	Gordon, Michael: [purgatorio] Popopera (Cantaloupe)
	Gordon's score performed by 7 guitars and voice for a dance work by Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten, principal choreographers of the Amsterdam based troupe Emio Greco/PC.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Quatuor Bozzini: Michel Gonneville: Hozhro (Collection QB)
	Michel Gonneville's dreamlike, shamanistic journey, "Hozhro", in a brilliantly executed reading by Montreal's Quatuori Bozzini with vocalist Marianne Lamber & saxophonist Mathieu Gualin.
$8.95    Buy  listen	Sentieri Selvaggi: Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass (Cantaloupe)
	The group Sentieri Selvaggi have worked extensively with Glass and Bryars, here performing Bryar's "Sub Rosa" (based on a Frisell guitar solo) and Philip Glass' "Facades".

Book:
$8.95    Buy	Wire, The: #304 June 2009 Magazine (Wire)
	June 2009 issue with Ornette Coleman on the cover, plus articles on Louis Armstrong, The Caretaker, Comus, Dan Graham, Graham Lambkin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Andy Moor, &c.

World, Historic, Miscellaneous:
$12.95    Buy  listen	Leary, Timothy: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (ESP)
	Dr. Timothy Leary's famous 1966 LP was a rallying cry for a whole generation, recorded at Millbrook, NY, Liddy's residency until raids and arrests ended their LSD experiments.
$22.95    Buy	Niblock, Phill: The Movement Of People Working DVD (Microcinema)
	Niblocks' documentary films show the dynamics of motion involved in manual labor, accompanied by Niblock's minimal soundtrack, now expanded to 2 discs for this release.
$14.95    Buy  listen	Souleyman, Omar: Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria (Sublime Frequencies)
	Sublime Frequencies' 2nd volume of Northeast Syrian dabke music from legendary vocalist Omar Souleyman and his group, compiled by Mark Gergis from Syrian cassettes 1999-2008.
$27.95    Buy	Souleyman, Omar: Highway To Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria 2LP [VINYL] (Sublime Frequencies)
	The Western debut of Syrian folk-pop legend Omar Souleyman in a retrospective double vinyl LP of studio and live recordings spanning 12 years of his career.
$29.95    Buy  listen	Various Artists: Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music... [BOOK & CD] (Dust-to-Digital)
	Jim Linderman's 96-page hardcover book with 75 sepia photographs from 1890-1950 and a CD of rare gospel and folk recordings from original 78-RPM records (1924-1940).

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