SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE
March 3, 2011
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Spring slowly begins to heat up and new releases continue apace! This newsletters features releases
on great labels like:
Skirl,
Tzadik,
Thirsty Ear,
Hatology,
Tour de Bras,
JVTLandt,
Flying Note,
Edition Rz,
Emanem,
psi,
Victo,
Editions Mego,
Zeitkratzer,
Sub Rosa,
Sublime Frequencies;
and from artists including
Anthony Braxton,
Black/Dunn/Noriega/Speed,
Phillip/Jauniaux/Goldstein,
Matthew Shipp,
Walter/Halvorson/Evans,
Zorn/Baptista,
Denley/Normand,
Emergency!,
Ron Anderson,
Pitom,
Kali Fasteau,
Pandelis Karayorgis,
Hans Koller with Bill Frisell,
Ikue Mori,
John Cage,
Morton Feldman,
Faust,
Terry Riley,
Zeitkratzer,
Machineabriek,
Novi_Sad,
and
Marcus Schmickler!
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Squidco Presents Zero Moon's Fine Noise from Moscow and Washington DC Tour
Wilmington Area Customers! This Sunday, March 6 at 8:00 PM,
ASTMA (Russia); Violet (DC); Blue Sausage Infant (DC); Pilesar (MD) and Promute (NC)
will perfom at Squidco
as part of Zero Moon's East Coast Tour.
Click here for more details!
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After the store listings are links to 7 new reviews on our online companion magazine,
The Squid's Ear.
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Jazz & Improvisation:
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Black / Dunn / Noriega / Speed:
Endangered Blood
(Skirl)
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The acoustic quartet of NY improvisers drummer Jim Black, bassist Trevor Dunn, and saxophonists Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed, pushing the jazz genre while powered by tradition. |
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Braxton, Anthony Trio & Quintet:
Town Hall (Trio & Quintet) 1972
(Hatology)
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Braxton's 1972 Town Hall, NY concert with the great lineup of Dave Holland, Philip Wilson, John Stubblefield, Jeanne Lee, and Barry Altschul, an early example of his numbered compositions. |
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Denley / Lauzier / Martel / Myhr / Normand:
Transition de Phase
(Tour de Bras)
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Intense and understated electro-acoustic improvisation from saxophonists Jim Denley and Philippe Lauzier, electronic artist Pierre-Yves Martel, guitaris Kim Myhr and bassis Eric Normand. |
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Derome, Jean and Le Quan Ninh:
Flechettes
(Tour de Bras)
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Part of Rencontres de musiques spontanees 2009, Jean Derome on bird calls, flute & sax met percussionist Le Quan Ninh playing objects over bass drum for a long work of unusual improvisation. |
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Emergency!:
Live In Copenhagen
(JVTLANDT)
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Guitarists Otomo Yoshihide & Ryoichi Saito, bassist Hiroaki Mizutani & drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki performing a form of psychedelic swing on tunes by Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Kirk and Louis Prima. |
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Fasteau, Kali Z. / Jordan, Kidd :
Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland
(Flying Note)
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Intermingling free & traditional jazz with wide-ranging world influence, Fasteau's ecstatic music here is taken from a live set in Finland in 2006 with Kidd Jordan and Newman Jordan. |
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Fasteau, Kali:
Animal Grace: Live in Harlem with Louis Moholo-Moholo
(Flying Note)
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Live recordings from Big Apple Jazzspace and the Uncool Festival of Jazz performing with drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo plus Bobby Few, Wayne Dockery and Steve McCraven. |
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Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza:
1967-1975
(Edition Rz)
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A very forward-thinking Italian composers and improvising collective from the mid-60's and early 70s noted for having Ennio Morricone on trumpet, and Frederic Rzewski appearing. |
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Karayorgis, Pandelis Quintet:
System Of 5
(Hatology)
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Pianist Pandelis Karayorgis in a new band with Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Jeff Galindo and Matt Langley, distinctive jazz focusing on tradition through contemporary perspectives. |
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Koller, Hans with Bill Frisell:
Cry, Want
(psi)
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Electric pianist Hans Koller in an 11 piece band with guitarist Bill Frissell, plus Evan Parker on two tracks, playing arrangements of six Koller originals and 2 standards by Charlie Parker and Jimmy Giuffre. |
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McCslin, Donny:
Perpetual Motion
(Koch)
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Tenor saxophonist McCaslin steps out of the acoustic world for an album of electric grooves, fueled by the idea that a mechanism can produce more energy than it consumes. |
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Mori, Ikue:
Kibyoshi
(Tzadik)
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Ikue Mori continues her work with visual imagery, animating cutouts from Japanese woodblock prints, with sound from the trio of Koichi Makigami and Mark Nauseef. |
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Ohanami:
(Wonderyou / Nature Bliss)
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Drummer and percussionist Tatsuhisa Yamamoto meets steelpan player Yoshio Machida for an album of rhythmic and melodic intersections with electronic underpinnings. |
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Otherways & Free Space:
Life Amid the Artefacts
(Emanem)
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Two releases in one, Otherways was a 2nd generation free improvising group from London performing in '73; and Free Space was a group assembled in '73 by John Stevens with Trevor Watts, John Russell, &c. |
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Phillips / Jauniaux / Goldstein:
Birds Abide
(Victo)
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Delicately powerful and unusual improvisation from the trio of bassist Barre Phillips, violinist Malcolm Goldstein, and free vocalist Catherine Januiaux, performing at the Victo Festival in 2010. |
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Scanner / The Post Modern Jazz Quartet:
Blink of an Eye
(Thirsty Ear)
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Scanner (Robin Rimaud) with the PMJQ (Matthew Shipp, Khan Jamal, Michael Bisio and Michael Thompson) adding cinematic approaches to jazz tradition through electronics and keyboards. |
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Shipp, Matthew:
Art Of The Improviser
(Thirsty Ear)
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Double CD of pianist Shipp in a trio with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey performing live in Troy, NY and at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, presenting perspectives on the art of modern acoustic jazz. |
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Walter / Halvorson / Evans:
Electric Fruit
(Thirsty Ear)
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The trio of guitarist Halvorson, drummer Weasel and trumpeter Evans in music aptly described as "brisk, strange and articulate, presenting a dry and bizarre sense of humor and play". |
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Zorn, John / Banquet of the Spirits:
Caym - The Book of Angels Volume 17
(Tzadik)
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Prodigious percussionist Cyro Baptista's touring band Banquet of the Spirits takes on the 17th volume of John Zorn's Book of Angles, a dynamic, inspired, lyrical, and propulsive release! |
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Compositional:
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Cage, John:
How To Get Started [CD]
(Microcinema)
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An audio CD of John Cage's 1989 performance at Skywalker Ranch in Nicasio, CA, where he discusses the difficulty of initiating the creative process, and the usefulness of improvisation. |
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Christou, Jani:
Enantiodromie / Praxis / Epicycle / Anaparastasis III / Mysterion / Anaparastasis I / Praxis For 12
(Edition Rz)
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7 works by Greek composer Jani Christou performed by the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunkorchester Hanover, NDR, Ensemble "musik unserer zeit", and Christou himself. |
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Faust / Band Of Pain:
John Cage - Radio Music (1956) [10" VINYL]
(Dirter Productions)
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Faust (Jean-Herve Peron & Zappi Diermaier) with Steve Pittis present 4 solo versions of John Cage's 1956 composition "Radio Music" scored in 8 parts for radio frequency tunings and silence. |
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Feldman, Morton:
Piano Three Hands, Intermission 5, Vertical Thoughts 2, Extensions 3, Four Instruments, Intermission 5, Piano Piece 1956 A + B, Intersection 3, Instruments 1
(Edition Rz)
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A collection of Feldman compositions primarily for piano as recorded by his earliest interpreters: Cornelius Cardew, John Tilbury, David Tutor, Cantilene Chamber Players, and Feldman himself. |
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McGuire, John:
Works For Instruments [2 CDs]
(Edition Rz)
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Instrumental compositions by "post-minimalist" John McGuire who took classes with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig, among others. |
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Riley, Gyan:
Stream Of Gratitude
(Tzadik)
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Virtuoso guitarist and composer Gyan Riley, a Northern California now living in Brooklyn, in a solo album of original, informed, and impressive classical guitar compositions. |
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Riley, Terry & Gyan Riley:
Live
(Sri Moonshine Music)
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Influential avant composer Terry Riley in an album of keyboard and guitar improvisations with his son Gyan Riley, beautiful interaction in music inspired by classical and North Indian structures. |
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Satie, Erik:
Ballets, Piano Works & Rarities [2 CDs]
(EMI)
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An excellent collection of Satie works including Parade, Relache, Gymnopedie, &c. performed by Aldo Ciccolini, Mady Mesple, Gabriel Bacquier, Nicolai Gedda, and Pierre Dervaux. |
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Von Biel, Michael:
(Edition Rz)
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German composer, cellist and fluxus artist Michael von Biel in 5 works, two performed by the Pellegrini-Quartett in 2003, a string quartet from '67, and two electronic works from '64 & '68. |
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Zeitkratzer: Alvin Lucier:
Old School
(Zeitkratzer)
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Zeitkratzer peforms the works of American minimalist Alvin Lucier in works of ringing overtones, a singing piano, a thrilling concert triangle, pencils on little objects, &c. |
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Electronic/Experimental:
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Machida, Yoshio:
The Spirit of Beauty
(Amorfon)
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A soundtrack for their first retrospective exhibition at Mori Art Center in Tokyo in 2009-2010 commissioned to Yoshio Machida by legendary French jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels. |
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Machinefabriek, Kleefstra-Bakker-Kleefstra & Liondialer:
That It Stays Winter Forever
(White Box)
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After performing together in Europe these three bands collaborated with Manchester's White Box label to record this limited 3-way split CD of dark and beautiful sound work. |
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Mathieu, Stephan:
Remain
(Line)
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Stephan Mathieu takes the original material from Janek Schaefer's "Extended Play" and reprocesses it in beautiful ways using an entropic setup, spectral analysis and convolution processes. |
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Novi_Sad:
Inhumane Humans
(Sub Rosa)
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Part 4 of Sub Rosa's Framework series, Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias) in two works of field recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, and microtones vs. overtones. |
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Schmickler, Marcus:
Palace Of Marvels (Queered Pitch)
(Editions Mego)
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Works developed as a new interpretation of Roger Shepards 1960's Shepardtone, which creates auditory illusions of tone or, as Schmickler denotes: queered pitch. |
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Suzuki, Akio:
NA-GI 1997
(Edition Rz)
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Sound and installation pioneer Akio Suzuki in a work based on field recordings from the bay and caves of Takano, Tango-cho in the northern-most coast of Kyoto, Japan. |
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Talugung:
Anura
(Amorfon)
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Canadian artist Ryan Waldron (The Riderless) works with collected and constructed instruments, here in a mystic release inspired by the sound and polyrhythms of frogs. |
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Zeitkratzer: Whitehouse:
Electronics
(Zeitkratzer)
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Zeitkratzer with Frank Gratkowski, Reinhold Friedl, Rhodri Davies, &c. perform the music of Whitehouse (William Bennett) live at Festival Les Musiques GMEM Marseille, France in 2009. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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Alemi, Hayvanlar:
Guarana Superpower
(Sublime Frequencies)
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Hailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara, Hayvanlar Alemi is a group of contemporary players steeped in the art of psychedelics, surf, and expansive rock instrumental grandeur. |
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Anderson, Ron:
Secret Curve
(Tzadik)
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PAK combines complex and shifting rock with improvisation in unexpected and wonderfully demanding ways, here in a band including Anthony Coleman, Tim Byrnes, Jerome Noetinger, &c. |
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Faust:
Something Dirty
(Bureau B)
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The current Faust quartet in an album that balances avant and rock roots of the band while reproducing the raw energy and roughness of their live performances. |
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Faust:
Something Dirty [VINYL]
(Bureau B)
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Vinyl edition of the LP listed above. |
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Hall, Gordon:
Things The Willow Told Me
(no label)
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Guitarist Gordon Hall in an album of instrumental journeys and vocal work, a series of independent spatial experiences with structural nuance and improvisation. |
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Pitom:
Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes
(Tzadik)
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In their 2nd CD for Tzadik, Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom continues their exploration of the New Jewish rock sound with their unique blend of punk, noise rock, metal and jazz. |
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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:
Luc Ferrari:
Piano & Percussion Works
(hat(now)ART)
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Joelle Leandre & India Cooke:
Journey
(NoBusiness)
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Pink Saliva (Allen / Cote / St-Onge):
Pink Saliva
(&Records)
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Phonophani:
Kreken
(Rune Grammofon)
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Philip Jeck:
An Ark for the Listener
(Touch)
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ICP Orchestra:
Jubilee Varia
(Hatology)
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