SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE
October 8, 2009
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Cuneiform release 5 new titles, leading with a double CD from Wadada Leo Smith, plus Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown;
ESP also releases 5, including Joe Morris, a Charles Tyler reissue, The Revolutionary Ensemble, and 2 LPs;
France's RogueArt issues Larry Ochs, a poem to John Coltrane, and Joelle Leandre/George Lewis at the Vision Fest;
Tzadik issues Anthony Coleman playing Scott Joplin, plus Ahleuchatistas;
Thrill Jockey reissues the Boredoms Super Roots 10 on 2 LPs;
Ecstatic Peace with John Blum, plus Whiteout with Thurston Moore & Jim O'Rourke;
Rodrigo Amado with Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love;
Area C's Planetarium;
Erik Satie on Sub Rosa;
Kevin Drumm's gorgeous Imperial Horizon;
Robert Wyatt's Radio Experiments;
Acid Mothers Temple goes Experimental;
plus the October issue of The Wire to read while listening.
After the store listings are 11 new reviews on our online companion magazine,
The Squid's Ear.
Improvisation:
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Adasiewicz's Rolldown, Jason:
Varmint
(Cuneiform)
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Chicago vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown with Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Jason Roebke & Frank Rosaly in their 2nd excellent 60s/Blue Note influenced album. |
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Amado / Kessler / Nilssen-Love:
The Abstract Truth
(European Echoes)
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The trio of Portuguese saxophonist Amado with Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love return for a 2nd album, an homage to Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico with a nod to Oliver Nelson. |
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Ayler, Albert:
Bells
(ESP)
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Albert Ayler's 1965 1-sided LP with Donald Ayler, Charls Tyler, Sonny Murray and Lewis Worrell performing live at Town Hall, remastered and reissued on transparent vinyl. |
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Bergman / Pastor:
Live At Tortona
(Mutable)
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The duo of pianist Borah Bergman and violinist Stefano Pastor performing live at the Fuori Tema Festival in Tortona, Italy in 2007, fascinating parallel dialogs. |
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Blum, John:
In The Shade Of Sun
(Ecstatic Peace)
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New York City pianist John Blum in a studio album recorded in Brooklyn, 2008, great free playing in a trio with William Parker and Sunny Murray. |
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Coleman, Anthony:
Freakish
(Tzadik)
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Downtown New York pianist Anthony Coleman brings a new edge to the music of the very first composer in jazz history, Jelly Roll Morton, combining ragtime, Latin inflections & more. |
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Cosottini / Melani / Miano / Pisani:
Cardinal
(Impressus Records)
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The quartet of Cosottini, Melano, Pisani, Miano (EAQuartet Electroacoustic) in compositions referring to the 4 cardinal map points using graphic scores, games, open readings, &c. |
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Ergo:
Multitude, Solitude
(Cuneiform)
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The trio of Ergo (Brett Sroka/Carl Maguire/Shawn Baltazor) blend atmospheric electronics with jazz in music that recalls Miles' "In a Silent Way" or Hancock's Mwandishi period. |
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Floyd / Buckner / Marsh:
In Crossing The Busy Street
(Mutable)
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Pianist, composer, & improvisor Floyd composed this 22 minute song cycle for Thomas Buckner using a poem by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, then worked with drummer Marsh to create improvisations on the same. |
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Kassap / Tchamitchian / Lopez / Lavant:
Ascension, Tombeau of John Coltrane
(RogueArt)
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The trio of clarinetist Sylvain Kassap, bassist Claude Tchamitchian and drummer Ramon Lopez with Denis Lavant interpreting Franck Medioni's jazz poem to John Coltrane. |
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Leandre, Joelle / Lewis, George :
Transatlantic Visions
(RogueArt)
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The live recording of basist Leandre and trombonist Geroge Lewis at the Vision Festival XIII concert, awarded "Best Performance of the Year" by All About Jazz NY. |
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Morris, Joe:
Colorfield
(ESP)
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Joe Morris returns to guitar in a trio with pianist Steve Lantner & drummer Luther Gray, parallelling the Colorfield painters, evoking emotions with color through harmony, phrase, tempo & rhythm. |
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Ochs, Larry Quintet:
Stone Shift
(RogueArt)
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Larry Ochs Sax & Drum Core with Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura and the dual drummers of Scott Amendola and Donald Robinson performing live at Teatro Fondamente Nuovo in Italy. |
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Peacock, Gary & Marc Copland:
Insight
(Pirouet)
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The pairing of two masters in an intensive, sensitive musical dialogue with beautifully interwoven parts, performing a mix of standards and original compositions. |
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Revolutionary Ensemble:
Vietnam
(ESP)
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The Revolutionary Ensemble of AACM alumni violinist Leroy Jenkins, bassist Sirone, and percussionist Jerome Cooper in their 1972 debut album of avant chamber jazz. |
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Smith, Wadada Leo :
Spiritual Dimensions
(Cuneiform)
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2 CDs of trumpeter Leo Smith's groups: one with Vijay Iyer, Pheeroan AkLaff, Don Moye & John Lindberg at Vision Fest XIII; and studio recording with a larger group including Nels Cline. |
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Sun Ra:
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume One
(ESP)
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LP remaster with mp3 download of the 1st volume in Sun Ra's "Heliocentric World" set recorded in NYC, 1965, music that was "light years beyond "free jazz" improvisation". |
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Tyler, Charles:
Charles Tyler Ensemble
(ESP)
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Charles Tyler's Ensemble with Henry Grimes, Ronald Jackson, Charles Moffett and Joel Friedman in 4 extended original compositions, incredible and historic free sessions. |
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Vandermark / Guy / Sanders:
Fox Fire
(MAYA)
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The trio of Ken Vandermark on sax and clarinet, Barry Guy on bass and Mark Sanders on drums performing live in the UK in 2008, explosive to introspective free playing. |
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W.O.O. Presents Mambo Mantis:
Connecting Branches
(Sweetstuff Media)
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Brooklyn's W.O.O.Mambo madness has nothing to do with mambos, but definitely with madness: psychedelic free noise jazz that mutates melody into riveting sonic jams. |
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Zevious:
After The Air Raid
(Cuneiform)
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Powerful, rhythmically intense and downright devious electric jazz in a rock vein similar to Crimson or Mahavishnu from this impressive New York trio. |
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Electronic/Experimental:
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Area C:
The Planetarium Project
(Sedimental)
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Area C's Erik Carlson alt-Space project is a way to explore interactions between sound and space in environments, here collaborating with other sound artists at the Cormack Planetarium. |
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Berthet, Pierre:
Extended Loudspeakers
(Sub Rosa)
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Belgium composer and sound installation artist Berthet in a work using connected jerrycans with broadcasting hardware modulated for pitch, timbre, volume, & density. |
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Drumm, Kevin:
Imperial Horizon
(Hospital Productions)
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Kevin Drumm's "Imperial Horizon" is a further examination into sustained tone, stretching out minimalism into serene ambient, lulling and slowly mutating electronic drones. |
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Jerman, Jeph / Ones:
1997~2005 Ones / Hands
(Palsy)
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Sound explorer Jeph Jerman sent Ones (Daniel Mitha & Nick Phillips) recordings in 2004 which they added to and mixed, resulting in this LP originally released on CD in 2005. |
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Jerman, Jeph:
Prayer * Tactus
(Semperflorens)
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Jeph Jerman in two long otherworldly works using Tinguely's machine, Tibetan prayer wheels, burden busket, drums, stones, volcanoes, shortwave, wire & vlf. |
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Jerman, Jeph:
Vinyl
(Easy Discs)
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Collaged recordings of old vinyl records being played with cactus needles and dried agave leaves, an unexpectedly fascinating tactile approach to vinyl and dry nature. |
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Moodring:
Scared of Ferrett
(Silber Media)
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Moodring is centered around Rollerball's Monte Allen & Mae Starr, mixing rock with sound & noise, tinted with a free post-jazz flavor in deep doom filled grooves and ghostly vocals. |
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Quellet, Israel:
Soni Sclavus
(Sub Rosa)
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Electro-acoustic out-sound experimentician Israel Quellet's 2nd release on Sub Rosa explores common objects and the problem of saturation and noise without compression or manipulation. |
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White Out With Jim O'Rourke & Thurston Moore:
Senso 2CD
(Ecstatic Peace)
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Formed in 1986, White Out's Linn Culbertson and Tom Surgal met in NYC @ CBGBs to created this no wave, free jazz, noise rock, here joined with Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.:
Are We Experimental
(Prophase Music)
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Acid Mother's & The Melting Paraiso UFO in a studio album of shorter (8 minute or less) tracks with a decidedly electronic and experimental bent to their psychedelic mayhem. |
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Ahleuchatistas:
Of The Body Prone
(Tzadik)
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The trio of Ahleuchatistas play an intense mix of compositional complexity and hardcore improvised rock, similar in their own vein to Ruins, Meshuggah and Naked City. |
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Beat Circus:
Boy From Black Mountain
(Cuneiform)
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Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter's Beat Circus experiments with disparate genres including Americana, cabaret, circus, Appalachian string, bluegrass music &c. &c. |
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Boredoms:
Super Roots 10 [2 VINYL LPs]
(Thrill Jockey)
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Double LP of the previous Japanese only CD release of Boredom's Super Roots 10, with a remix from Smalltown Supersound's Lindstrom plus 2 other remixes. |
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Lubelski, Samara:
Future Slip
(Ecstatic Peace)
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Samara Lubelski's 5th solo release, a gorgeous collection of bittersweet melodies in songs of knowledge and innocence, truth and fairytale, wonder and clarity. |
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$23.95
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Wyatt, Robert:
Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981
(RAI Trade)
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Robert Wyatt made these studio recordings as a work in progress in 1981 for an obscure Italian radio program as a chance to expand on his ideas outside of the music business. |
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Compositional:
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De Leon, Mario Diaz:
Enter Houses
(Tzadik)
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NY composer Mario Diaz de Leon, who is influenced by Scelsi, Ligeti, Dumitrescu & Radulescu, focuses on acoustic & electronic hybrids that often fuse both elements into unified meta-instruments. |
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Satie, Erik (Stephane Ginsburgh):
42 Vexations (1893)
(Sub Rosa)
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Pianist Stephane Ginsburgh performs Satie's "Vexations", which Satie referred to as furniture music (sound as drapes, tiling, wallpaper), 840 repetitions of the same motif. |
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Recent Reviews:
Peter Evans:
nature / culture
(psi)
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Archetti, Luigi / Bo Wiget:
Low Tide Digitals III
(Rune Grammofon)
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Charity Chan:
Somewhere the sea and salt
(Ambiances Magnetiques)
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Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra:
Helsinki 1971 - The Complete Concert & Interview (2 CDs & DVD)
(Transparency)
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Savoldelli, Boris & Elliott Sharp:
Protoplasmic
(MoonJune Records)
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Blast 4tet:
Sift
(ReR Megacorp)
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Cancura / Morris / Nazary:
Fine Objects
(Not Two)
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Pansonic / Haino Keiji:
Shall I Download A Blackhole And Offer It To You
(Blast First Petite)
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Fred Anderson:
Staying in the Game
(Engine)
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Francois Carrier and Michel Lambert:
Nada
(Creative Sources)
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Honsinger, Tristan & Massimo Simonini:
Call Me Us
(I Dischi de Angelica)
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