SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE
January 6, 2011
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Happy New Year - may 2011 be a prosperous and adventurous year filled with incredible music!
2010 was a great year of music, and we point you to our
2010 Top 40 List, last year's best
sellers as selected by all of our discerning listeners.
Our first mailing list of the year is shorter
than usual, but still full of incredible releases
from labels including
Porter Records,
Greenleaf Music,
Barnyard,
RAI Trade,
Red Toucan,
Transparency,
Important Records,
Editions Mego,
Raster-Noton,
MoonJune,
Blackest Rainbow,
ECM,
EMI
plus we've added the Wire Rewind Issue and the latest Yeti Book & CD to read while listening!
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Hush Arbors / Jason Ajemian Perform at Squidco
Wilmington Area Customers! This Sunday, January 9 at 9:00 PM, Jason Ajemian and Hush Arbors will perform at Squidco
in Downtown Wilmington. Bassist Ajemian will perform solo, then will join forces with Keith Wood to
perform as Hush Arbors in their East Coast ""Two of Us Riding Nowhere" tour. Click here for more details!
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After the store listings are links to 2 new reviews on our online companion magazine,
The Squid's Ear.
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Improvisation & Jaz:
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Ajemian, Jason & The Highlife:
Let Me Get That Digital
(Sundmagi)
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Jason Ajemian's Chicago-based Highlife with Peter Hanson, Owen Stewart, Marc Riordan and New Yorker Jacob Wick, a six piece jazz/rock ensemble with a skewed lyric sense, recommended. |
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Beger, Albert:
Peacemaker
(A Nova Music)
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Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger's Electroacoustic band, a 5 piece including electric and acoustic guitar, laptop and electronics, performing live in the Anova Music Studio, 2010. |
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Braxton, Anthony & Italian Instabile Orchestra:
Creative Orchestra - Bolzano 2007
(RAI Trade)
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Superb recordings of Anthony Braxton and the Italian Instabile Orchestra performing all Braxton compositions at the Alto Adige Jazz Festival in Bolzano, Italy in 2007. |
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Catalyst:
The Complete Recordings Vol.1
(Porter Records)
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Philadelphia's 1970s band with Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Eddie Green, Al Johnson and Sherman Ferguson, from their first 2 albums, fusing jazz, funk, R & B, avant garde in compelling and melodic ways. |
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Catalyst:
The Complete Recordings Vol.2
(Porter Records)
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Volume 2 of this great Philadelphia 70s band with Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Eddie Green, Al Johnson and Sherman Ferguson, from their 3rd and 4th albums, fusing jazz, funk, R & B, avant garde in compelling and funky ways. |
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Crispell / Rothenberg:
Onen Dark Night I Left My Silent House
(ECM)
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Clarinetist David Rothenberg met pianist Marilyn Crispell for this set of exploratory duets which includes Crispell playing percussively on the extricated soundboard from a baby grand. |
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Douglas, Dave & Keystone:
Spark Of Being: 3 Disc Box Set
(Greenleaf Music)
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Expanded boxset edition of all 3 CDs from
Spark of Being
, a reinterpretation of the Frankenstein myth from trumpeter Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison. |
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Gill, Tania:
Bolger Station
(Barnyard)
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Pianist Tania Gill with Lina Allemano on trumpet, Clinton Ryder on bass and Jean Martin on drums, music informed by American song forms, Bartok, free improvisation and the northern Ontario landscape. |
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Grassi, Lou Po Band With Marshall Allen:
Live At The Knitting Factory Volume 1
(Porter Records)
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Live at the Knitting Factory in 2000 of drummer lou Grassi's band with Marshall Allen on alto & flute, Paul Smoker on trumpeter, Steve Swell on trombone, Perry Robinson on clarinet & Wilber Morrison on bass. |
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Gratkowski, Frank / Jacob Anderskov :
Ardent Grass
(Red Toucan)
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Saxophonist and clarinetist Frank Gratkowski meets Danish pianist Jacob Anderskov for these masterly live recordings at Germany's Loft in Koln in 2008. |
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Sun Ra and the Intergalactic Research Arkestra:
Live in London 1970
(Transparency)
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Two sets from Sun Ra's very large Arkestra with both Allen and Gilmore recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on November 9th, 1970 - their debut UK concert. |
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Electronic/Experimental:
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Fell, Mark:
UL8
(Editions Mego)
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Unusual rhythmic patterns and synthetic textures in this three part experimental work from Mark Fell, strange and interesting studies in Occultation, Vortexes, and Acids. |
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Kangding Ray:
Pruitt Igoe 12" [VINYL]
(Raster-Noton)
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Pruitt Igoe is a 4-track EP by Kangding Ray on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth. |
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Krieger, Ulrich:
Fathom
(Sub Rosa)
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The 2nd of Sub Rosa's Framework series is this Ulrich Krieger (Cage of Saxophone) piece for contrabass-saxophone, 2 electric guitars, close-miced percussion and 2 CDs. |
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Toral, Rafael:
Violence Of Discovery And Calm Of Acceptance
(Touch)
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Reissue of this 2001 release by Rafael Toral, who has developed a unique sound world, having been as influenced by Alvin Lucier and Brian Eno as by Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. |
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Vogel, Cristian:
Black Swan
(Sub Rosa)
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The launch of Sub Rosa's Framework series is this album by sound artist Cristian Vogel, a dark electronic work for dance composed with choreographer Gilles Jobin and toured worldwide. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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Ajemian, Jason & The Highlife:
Monsters & Animals [7" VINYL]
(Sundmagi)
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7" single from Jason Ajemian's Chicago-based Highlife with Peter Hanson, Owen Stewart, Marc Riordan and New Yorker Jacob Wick, a six piece jazz/rock ensemble with a skewed lyric sense, recommended. |
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Leigh, Geoff & Yumi Hara:
Upstream
(MoonJune Records)
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Henry Cow wind player Geoff Leigh and keyboardist and free vocalist Yumi Hara in a beautiful and evocative album of dramatic and atmosopheric improvisations. |
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Makoto, Kawabata:
White Summer Of Love Dreamer [VINYL]
(Blackest Rainbow)
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AMT's Makoto continues to develop his psychedelic drone music, here using acoustic & electric guitar, bouzouki, sarangi, tambura, organ, hurdy-gurdy, electronics, field recording, and voice. |
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Soft Machine Legacy:
Live Adventures
(MoonJune Records)
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Soft Machine Legacy with John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Roy Babbington & John Marshall keep the essence of Soft Machine alive through new works and reinterpretations of original Soft Machine numbers. |
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Compositional:
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Part, Arvo:
The Very Best Of Arvo PArt
(EMI)
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Estonian composer Arvo Part's work in a 2 disc set presenting some of his finest work, including pieces in his own Tintinnabuli style using slow tempi and repeated notation. |
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Books & Magazines:
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Wire, The:
323 January 2011 [Magazine]
(The Wire)
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On The Cover: The Wire's 2010 year review and retrospective plus Top 50 Records; Giuseppe Ielasi, Electronic Voice Phenomena, Scanner's Invisible Jukebox, Peter Christopherson, Lichens, Pat Maherr, &c. |
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Yeti:
#10 [BOOK & CD]
(Yeti)
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Yeti in it's 10th issue with a 23 track VA CD including Starving Weirdos + an interview with Robert Scott and Amelia Gray, plus stories and graphic art - a beautiful package. |
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Jazz Reissues:
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Blakey, Art and The Jazz Messengers:
3 Blind Mice [VINYL]
(United Artists)
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United Arist Jazz reissue of this 1962 Blue Note LP, with the Messengers made up of Wayne Shorter (before Miles), Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton and Jimmy Merritt. |
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Coltrane, John & Don Cherry:
The Avant-Garde [VINYL]
(Atlantic)
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The 1967 meeting of trumpeter Don Cherry with saxophonist John Coltrane, including the debut of Coltrane on soprano, playing Cherry, Ornette Coleman and Monk tunes. |
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Dolphy, Eric:
Out To Lunch! [VINYL]
(Blue Note)
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Eric Dolphy's most essential solo album from 1964 with Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard David and Anthony Williams, in a Blue Note exact LP reproduction. |
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Sun Ra & His Arkestra:
Strange Worlds In My Mind
(Norton Records)
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The 1st volume in Michael D. Anderson's series of Sun Ra spoken word pieces, poetry and pronouncements, with unreleased material from El Saturn Research hand-selected by Sun Ra's own picked archiver. |
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Sun Ra & His Arkestra:
The Outer Darkness
(Norton Records)
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The 3rd volume in Michael D. Anderson's series of Sun Ra spoken word pieces, poetry and pronouncements, with unreleased material from El Saturn Research hand-selected by Sun Ra's own picked archiver. |
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Sun Ra & His Arkestra:
The Sub-Dwellers [VINYL]
(Norton Records)
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The 2nd volume in Michael D. Anderson's series of Sun Ra spoken word pieces, poetry and pronouncements, with unreleased material from El Saturn Research hand-selected by Sun Ra's own picked archiver. |
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THE SQUID'S EAR
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers. |
The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews:
John Russell:
Hyste
(psi)
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Jerome Cooper:
A Magical Approach
(Mutable)
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Squidco Storefront
Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2001.
In 2010 we opened a storefront in downtown Wilmington, NC, giving customers access to our catalog
of more than 5,500 new items, plus hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items
not listed on our website. We're open Monday-Friday, 12:00-5:00 PM,
so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region make sure to stop by and say hello,
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