SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE
August 13, 2009
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A sad note today as we learn of the passing of drummer Rashied Ali, one of the greats... he will be missed. Put
on your copy of Interstellar Space, his ground-breaking duo with John Coltrane, no doubt they're playing together once again.
New releases this time lead with 2 CDs and 4 CDRs on Another Timbre;
Burkhard Beins' first release on his own label;
Hatology reissues Archie Shepp & Max Roach's "The Long March", and Horace Tapscott's "The Dark Tree";
Not Two adds Joe Morris Trio and Whit Dickey Trio CDs;
Sun Ra's "Helsinki", Rufus Harley's "Bagpipes", and AMK's Jackie Gleason/Salvador Dali deconstruction on Transparency;
Tim Olive on EM Records;
Chris Corsano on Ultra Eczema;
Pansonic with Haino Kaji, and Pansonic's Mika Vainio solo;
two great RIO releases on Altrock: Bay Area's miRthkon, and Yugen's tribute to Stormy Six's Leddi;
Sub Rosa's 4 CD Anthology of modern Chinese experimental music;
Greg Davis' "Primes";
we found a few final copies of early releases on the now defunct CUT label (while they last);
Espers II is reissued;
CHANGES TO blind & Blue Sausage Infant on Intangible Arts;
Faust "So Far" LP reissue on 4 Men with Beards.
After the listings are 10 new reviews on
The Squid's Ear
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Improvisation:
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Abbott, Paul / Leo Dumont:
loiter volcano
(Another Timbre)
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Powerful debut release for three young musicians emerging onto the European electroacoustic improv scene, one of whom, Kanngiesser, has recently performed with AMM. |
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$16.95
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Archetti, Luigi / Bo Wiget:
Low Tide Digitals III
(Rune Grammofon)
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The third installment in a series of extremely fine-tuned and beautiful pieces that mix acoustic instruments and electronic elements in subtle and unforced ways. |
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$17.95
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Cancura / Morris / Nazary:
Fine Objects
(Not Two Records)
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Joe Morris continues his work with the bass, allowing him more opportunity to perform with new and outstanding young talent, as this set of original and standards demonstrates. |
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Chant / Davies / Drew / Edwards:
Decentred
(Another Timbre)
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Improvisations and realisations of indeterminate scores by Michael Pisaro and John Cage from this trio originally brought together by a reading of Cardew's "Treatise". |
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Coleman / Kasyansky / Wright:
control and its opposites
(Another Timbre)
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A durational piece featuring saxophonist Seymour Wright, electronic artist Grundik Kasyansky (Grundik + Slava) & trumpeter Jamie Coleman, members of Eddie Prevost's improv workshop. |
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$29.95
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Corsano, Chris:
Another Dull Dawn
(Ultra Eczema)
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An incredible LP of bizarre instrumentation from the world's most unique drummer, playing drum sets, baritone sax mouthpiece on a 2 foot metal pipe, metal strips from windshield wipers, toy comb, &c. &c. |
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Davies / Doneda / Martin / Minton / Patterson:
Midhopestones
(Another Timbre)
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Four extraordinary improvisations by musicians spanning 3 countries and 3 generations, a dark, brooding, swirling music from a remarkably tight and unified ensemble. |
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Douglas, Dave & Keystone:
Moonshine
(Greenleaf Records)
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Trumpeter Dave Douglas' soundtrack to the unfinished 1917 Buster Keaton/Fatty Arbuckle movie of the same name, performed live with his amazing Keystone band. |
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$25.95
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Doyle Plus 4, Arthur:
Alabama Feeling [VINYL]
(Rank Records)
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Tenor saxophonist Arthur Doyle's first LP was this live recording from 1977, in a quintet with two drummers, bassist Richard Wiliams and trombonist Charles Stephens. |
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Forge / Julian / Papapostolou:
meshes
(Another Timbre)
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Two improvisations-one live, one without audience-by an Anglo-French trio of new voices from trombonist Forge, electronics artists Julian and cellist Papapostolou. |
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$19.95
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Harley, Rufus:
Bagpipes of the World
(Transparency)
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3 CDs from the late bagpiper and multi-instrumentalist Rufus Harley, a frequent Sun Ra compatriot, recording in Paris, in a long radio interview from 1995, and live in Jamaica. |
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Kahn, Jason:
Analogues
(Cut)
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Percussionist and lowercase ea-improviser Jason Kahn in his first solo recording for field recordings, percussion and electronics. Last copy! |
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Kahn, Jason:
Drums and Metals
(Cut)
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Minimalist percussion and metal improviser Jason Kahn's second album has tracks named by the instrumentation used for these slowly shifting highly detailed recordings. |
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Martin / Turcotte / Haynes:
Get Together Weather
(Barnyard)
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Vancouver's The Trio - drummer Jean Martin, guitarist Justin Haynes, trumpeter Kevin Turcotte - plays the music of...Dr. Seuss (The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T) and Rogers (Oklahoma). |
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Matt Milton / Leo Dumont:
scrub
(Another Timbre)
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A half-hour concert of understated and engaging performance of astonishing detail and subtlety from violinist Milton and percussionist Dumont. |
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Nakamura, Toshimaru / Jason Kahn:
Select Dialect
(Cut)
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The duo of Cut label leader, drummer, and electronic artist Jason Khan with no-input mixer Toshimaru Nakamura in this 1999 live recording by Bob Drake. |
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Olive, Tim:
The Specialist
(EM Records)
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Improviser Tim Olive's 1st full length solo CD is a set of realtime recordings using his electric guitar/bass hybrid machine without effects; microscopic & meticulous sound work. |
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Repeat:
Repeat
(Cut)
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The first Repeat CD, fourteen improvisations recorded live in studio from percussionist/electronic artist Kahn and no-input mixing board artist Nakamura. |
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Roach, Max & Archie Shepp:
The Long March
(Hatology)
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Live recordings from Willisau in 1979 between these two significant artists of different generations who share a creative impetus of social and political concern. |
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Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra:
Helsinki 1971
(Transparency)
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Live recordings of Sun Ra's large Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra performing live in Helsinki, 1971, plus a DVD of a 1971 interview with The Finnish Broadcasting Co. |
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Tapscott, Horace:
The Dark Tree
(Hatology)
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Pianist Tapscott with John Carter, Cecil McBee and Andrew Cyrille in a rare record of mostly original Tapscott compositions, significant music from a legendary player. |
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Yamamoto / Dickey / Carter:
Emergence
(Not Two Records)
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The NY trio of drummer Whit Dickey, pianist Eri Yamamoto and wind player Daniel Carter, also on trumpet, in 8 group compositions of dynamic improvisational conversation. |
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$44.95
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Another Timbre Summer 2009:
4 CDR Special
(Another Timbre)
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All 4 summer 2009 Another Timbre CDR releases at a special price, saving $1 on each and shipped at the cost of one CD! |
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Electronic/Experimental:
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A.M.K.:
The Lonesome Echo
(Transparency)
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Vinyl terrorists AMK along with Howard Seltzer, Mark Brooks and Jay Sullivan, savagely deconstruct the Jackie Gleason/Salvador Dali LP "The Lonesome Echo". |
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Beins, Burkhard:
structural drift
(Edition Kunstlerhauser Worpswede)
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An organized and intricate sound work in three pieces from percussionist Beins (Polweschel, Rowe, &c) recorded during an arts residency at Kunstlerhauser Worpswede. |
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Blue Sausage Infant:
Scalpels for the Animal God
(Intangible Arts)
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The live sound of Blue Sausage Infant, ranging from brutalist noise to textured drones, pounding neo-tribalism, krautrock-flavored psychedelia, or cut-ups of cultural artifacts. |
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CHANGES TO blind + Blue Sausage Infant:
(Intangible Arts)
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Blue Sausage Infant and CHANGES TO blind met in 1992 for these improvised studio recordings, and to perform CTb's sonic tour of a house live at Troy, NY's Last Exit. |
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Davis, Greg:
Primes
(Autumn Records)
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Beautiful drone work borne out of Davis' research into just intonation and prime numbers, realized in max/msp using a transposed octave set to create these warmly embracing tones. |
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Eleh:
Homage To The Sine Wave [VINYL]
(TAIGA)
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The elusive ELEH electronic and minimalist tribute project in the 2nd release from their sound waves-based
Homage To...
series using vintage analog modular gear. |
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Pansonic / Haino Keiji:
Shall I Download A Blackhole And Offer It To You
(Blast First Petite)
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The complete live recording from the 15th November 2007 concert at Berlin's Volksbuhne from the Finnish experimental electronic duo and Japanese guitarist Haino Keiji. |
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Vainio, Mika:
Aineen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone Of Matter)
(Touch)
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Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio in his 4th solo album on Touch, carefully sculpted soundscapes in a dynamic display of electronics, gauzy ambience, and jarring juxtaposition. |
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Various Artists:
An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008
(Sub Rosa)
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Featuring 48 artists from within the Chinese area of influence, a journey in the current underground of electronic music showing a great diversity of style and influences. |
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Rock / RIO / Prog:
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Collections Of Colonies Of Bees:
Birds [VINYL]
(Table of the Elements)
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White vinyl edition: Jon Mueller and Chris Rosenau formed Collections of Colonies of Bees in 1998 to explore traditional folk forms combined with modern process and technology. |
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Espers:
Espers II
(Drag City)
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2009 repress of this great and encompassing band using intricate arrangements and an eclectic rock orchestration to create melodically rich and intelligent rock. |
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$22.95
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Faust:
So Far [VINYL]
(4 Men With Beards)
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The 1972 2nd album from legendary krautrock group Faust, an absolute classic of outsider pop music reissued here in its original packaging including reproductions of all 10 inserts. |
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Maher Shalal Hash Baz:
C'est La Derniere Chanson 2CD
(K RECORDS)
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177 songs, or song gestures, from Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Tori Kudo) and a French band assembled for the project, fusing stray elements of pop, folk, jazz and experimental music. |
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miRthkon:
Vehicle
(AltrOck Productions)
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The 1st full length from Oakland's RIO-oriented band, an idiosyncratic blend of quirky prog, avant-jazz, contemporary classical abstraction, thrash, and uncanny pop accessibility. |
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Yugen:
plays Leddi "Uova fatali"
(AltrOck Productions)
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The chamber rock band Yugen performs the beautifully lyrical and sophisticated music of Tommaso Leddi of Stormy Six, one of the original Rock in Opposition bands. |
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Recent Reviews:
Nurse With Wound:
The Surveillance Lounge
(Dirter Promotions)
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Oren Ambarchi:
Stacte.3
(Black Truffle)
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Polwechsel & John Tilbury:
Field
(hatOLOGY)
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Lawrence English:
A Colour for Autumn
(12k)
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Florian Hecker:
Acid in the Style of David Tudor
(Editions Mego)
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Greg Davis:
Mutually Arising
(Kranky)
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Mary Oliver / Johanna Varner:
JOMO
(NEOS)
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Urs Leimgruber & Thomas Lehn:
Lausanne
(For4Ears)
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Lussier / Tetreault / Yoshihide:
Elektrik Toboggan
(Victo)
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