SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE
August 27, 2009
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A busy couple of weeks as the pace of new releases picks up:
4 new Tzadik titles and John Zorn's Music for Children reissued;
Dizzy Reece on Futura Marge;
we add the Monotype label, with titles from Gunter Muller, Thomas Lehn, Franz Hautzinger, Eric LaCasa, Francisco Lopez, &c.;
Lokai, and Daniell/McCombs guitar duo on Thrill Jockey;
we catch up with Porter Records, esp. the Wooley/Lonberg-Holm/Roebke trio, Nu Band, and Grimes & Rashied Ali;
4 more on AltrOck productions, particularly Kurai with Yugen, Chritian Weber and members of Evan Parker's band,
and Finnegans Wake with members of Mats/Morgan, Present and Univers Zero;
we add the great plunderphonic label Gigante Sound;
Second Original Silence on LP;
PSF releases Kazuki Tomokawa, and My Cat Is an Alien's Painting Petals on Planet Ghost;
Sebastian Lexer on Matchless (plus we've restocked most AMM titles);
the latest FM3 Buddha Machine in aqua;
Nik Sheehan's documentary on Brion Gysin's Dream Machine;
and the September issue of The Wire to read while listening.
After the store listings are 10 new reviews on our online companion magazine,
The Squid's Ear.
Improvisation:
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Carter / Colbourne / Flaherty:
A Flash In The Sky
(Glass Museum)
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The trio of Daniel Carter, Randall Colbourne and Paul Flaherty captured live during The Thing in the Spring in June 2008, powerful free jazz from 3 mature masters. |
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Daniell, David & Douglas McCombs:
Sycamore
(Thrill Jockey)
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Guitarists Daniell & McCombs in a delicate tapestry of spacious and ethereal guitar lines woven into abstract, slow-burning and multi-layered textural improvisations. |
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Daniell, David & Douglas McCombs:
Sycamore [VINYL]
(Thrill Jockey)
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Vinyl LP edition. |
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Davis, On Ka'a:
Djoukoujou
(Tzadik)
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On Ka'a channels Sun Ra, P-Funk, Hendrix, Fela & more into the squat politics of the East Village basement jam, accompanied by a large group of counter culture Downtown New Yorkers. |
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Dizzy Reece:
From In To Out
(Futura Marge)
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1970 recordings from free jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece performing in a quintet including John Gilmore, Art Taylor, Siegfried Kessler and Patrice Caratini. |
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Gauguet / Hautzinger / Lehn:
Close Up
(Monotype)
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Intense and minimal electroacoustic improv from an incredible trio of saxophonist Gauguet, trumpeter Hautzinger, and analog synth player Lehn. |
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Goldberg, Ben:
Speech Communication
(Tzadik)
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Clarinetist Ben Goldberg returns to his roots with this first new CD from his legendary band New Klezmer Trio (Greg Cohen, Kenny Wollesen) in almost ten years. |
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Grimes, Henry and Rashied Ali:
Going to the Ritual
(Porter Records)
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A recording of Grimes' and Ali's live 2007 duo performance on Columbia University's WKCR; two masters effortlessly interweaving drums, bass, violin, and voice. |
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La Casa, Eric / Jean-Luc Guionnet:
Inscape. Lille-Flandres
(Monotype)
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A concept album for their Inscape project: onsite installations with strategically placed microphones mixed in real time to create complex and intriguing sound sculptures. |
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Lexer, Sebastian:
Dazwischen
(Matchless)
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Dazwischen means in-between, and these works by pianist, electronic artist and AMM associate Sebastian Lexer bridge the electronic, compositional, and free improv worlds with subtlety. |
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Maoz, Eyal's Edom:
Hope And Destruction
(Tzadik)
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Guitarist, bandleader and composer Eyal Maoz presents powerful rock instrumentals combining the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot. |
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Muller, Gunter with: Alan Courtis, Pablo Reche, Sergio Merce, Gabriel Paiuk:
Buenos Aires Tapes (2 CD Edition)
(Monotype)
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EA-Improv artist Gunter Muller (For4Ears) in a double CD release of two trios, the first with Alan Courtis & Pablo Reche, the second with Sergio Merce and Gabriel Paiuk. |
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Nu Band, The (Campbell / Whitecage / Fonda / Grassi):
Lower East Side Blues
(Porter Records)
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One of NY Downtown's finest, Nu Band give a nod to the Charlie Parker-era as they take it in their own unique directions, an amazing album of melody, soul, wit, and creative spark. |
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Original Silence:
Second Original Silence [VINYL]
(Smalltown Superjazzz)
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2 LP edition with one side long LP-only track; the return of Thurston Moore, Terrie Ex, Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, Pall Nilssen-Love & Massimo Pupillo live in concert at Rome's Brancaleone. |
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Pope, Odean:
Plant Life
(Porter Records)
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A melodic and free ranging release from the trio of saxophonist Odean Pope, drummer Sunny Murray, and bassist Lee Smith, expressive and out jazz in the tradition. |
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Taylor, David:
Red Sea
(Tzadik)
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Virtuosic bass trombonist David Taylor in a creative and exciting blend of Hasidic melodies, improvisation and ambient soundscapes inspired by the music of Pierre Pinchik. |
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Wooley / Lonberg-Holm / Roebke:
Throw Down Your Hammer And Sing
(Porter Records)
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This NY trio create an alien landscape of strange sounds that ebb and flow between sparse instrumentation and dense layers of sound, experimental improv at its best! |
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Zorn, John:
Music Romance Vol. 1: Music For Children
(Tzadik)
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Remastered for its 10th anniversary, "Music for Children" takes the listener through Zorn's Torture Garden, Masada exotica, classical work, plus a new piece performed by Lou Reed! |
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Electronic / Experimental:
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Beaks Plinth:
Kai Kohola Leo
(Gigante Sound)
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Dedicated to Les Baxter, Arthury Lyman, and Martin Denny, this is Jared Blum's dark vision "doom exotica", huge barrel percussion, hollow flutes, chimes, klings, klangs & haunted voices. |
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Blanketship & The Dollson Family Singers:
Music with a Message
(Gigante Sound)
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"Spirtual AM radio classics" and unusual plunder song structures from the "Dollson Family" (Jaren Blum aka Blanketship), colliding pop, prog, gospel, electronics and much more. |
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Blanketship:
Summer Set
(Gigante Sound)
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The 1st release on Jared Blum's, aka Blanketship's, Gigante Sound label, structured experimental sampled sound collage and abstract pop with many twists & disturbing surprises! |
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Blanketship:
Teen Sounds
(Gigante Sound)
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Jared Blum, aka Blanketship, in an eclectic album of strange audio collage, constructed songs with absurd twists in a Negativland or Plunderphonics mold. |
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Blanketship:
The Sound of Fun Surrounds You
(Gigante Sound)
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Two EPs in one CD, 1st Blanketship's wonderful plunderphonic collage "The Sound of Fun...", and then a 35 minute work for People Like Us' WFMU radio show that ran in May 2008. |
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Borful Tang:
On the Back of a Dying Beast Volume One
(Gigante Sound)
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Borful Tang, the outer inter-dimensional exile, in a 2 CD set of live collaged field recordings, instrument recordings and dusty vinyl found-sound. |
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FM3:
Buddha Machine II - Aqua Soundbox
(FM3)
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The Buddha Machine is a remarkable music player that switches between 9 different ambient drone loops, allowing pitch change and volume to each. Aqua color only. |
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Kurai:
(AltrOck Productions)
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A dark project mixing improv and composition, with Yugen's Francesco Zago, Maurizio Fasoli & Olivini (Yugen), plus Cristian Weber and Peter Scmhid from Evan Parker's band. |
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Lokai:
Transition
(Thrill Jockey)
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4 years after their Mosz release, Lokai's 2nd album brings Florian Kmet and Stefan Nemeth together for a delicate and gorgeous record of electroacoustic composition. |
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Lokai:
Transition [VINYL]
(Thrill Jockey)
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Vinyl LP edition. |
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Lopez, Francisco:
Live in Auckland
(Monotype)
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Sections of complex deep sound work juxtaposed with stillness in this 43 minute epic of sophisticated industrial environments full of suspense and engaging darkness. |
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Marchetti, Lionel / Jean-Baptiste Favory:
100 000 Annees (Kitnabudja town / Des Speres)
(Monotype)
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2 CDs, one each by - Marchetti: a work of dense and excursive sound collage - and by Favory: a narrative for our 7 closest celestial neighbors mixed from 7 electronic improvisations. |
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Monteiro, Alfredo Costa :
Anatomy of Inner Place
(Monotype)
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Organized sound compositions using recordings from Monteiro's home environment, compositing acoustic sound without adding electronic effects processing. |
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Qulfus:
Enos
(Gigante Sound)
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Dominic Cramp (Borful Tang, Vulcanus 68, Modular Set) in a futurist abstract blues instrumental record heavily influenced by classic soul and dub using samples and synthetics. |
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Vulcanus68:
2
(Gigante Sound)
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Jared Blum & Dominic Cramp in a thick stew of concrete exploration using a wide sonic pallet including turntables, tape machines designed for the blind, prepared guitars, electronics & vocals. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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Finnegans Wake:
Blue
(AltrOck Productions)
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RIO-oriented Finnegans Wake's 5th LP, complex chamber rock with an edge, with guests Morgan Agren (Mats/Morgan), Reginald Trigaux (Present) and Guy Segers (Univers Zero). |
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Painting Petals On Planet Ghost:
Haruno Omoi
(PSF)
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3rd release from Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, the project of My Cat Is An Alien's Maurizio and Roberto Opalio featuring Ramona Ponzini (Black Magic Disco, Praxinoscope) on vocals. |
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Steensland, Simon:
Fat Again
(AltrOck Productions)
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Sweden's Simon Steensland plays dark complex chamber rock, in this release with Magma inspired vocal arrangements, in a band including Mats/Morgan's Morgan Agren and Robert Elovsson. |
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Tomokawa, Kazuki:
A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado
(PSF)
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Japanese folk singer Tomokawa in his 1st completely solo ablum in fifteen years, nine songs of immense passion and power; booklet contains lyrics in English and Japanese. |
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Book:
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Wire, The:
#307 September 2009
(The Wire)
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On The Cover: David Sylvian's latest with improvisors Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, &c. Plus: Aki Onda, Julie Tippetts, William Basinski's Jukebox, Caroliner, J Philip Jeck, &c. &c. |
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Sheehan, Nik:
FLicKeR [DVD]
(Alive Mind)
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Director Nik Sheehan's counter-culture-studded film on beat legend and Burroughs compatriot Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, which is intended to stimulate the user's subconscious. |
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Recent Reviews:
Tim Olive:
The Specialist
(EM Records)
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Bevan / Corsano / Lash:
Monster Club
(Foghorn)
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Andrea Parkins:
Faulty (Broken Orbit)
(Important Records)
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Various Artists:
Institute of Sonology 1959-1969
(Sub Rosa)
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Daniel Meyer Gronvold / Havard Volden:
(Creative Sources)
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John Butcher Group:
somethingtobesaid
(Weight of Wax)
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Jason Kahn:
Vanishing Point
(23five)
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Soft Machine:
Drop
(Moonjune Records)
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Gato Barbieri:
In Search Of The Mystery
(ESP)
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Wrekmeister Harmonies (J. R. Robinson):
Recordings Made In Public Spaces Volume One CD/DVD
(Atavistic)
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