SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE May 26, 2011
We've been busy with hot new releases to warm you up for the coming summer! Releases on Prominent Labels: Abduction Accretions Records Alien8 Recordings B13 Blue Chopsticks Clean Feed Cuneiform FMR Funhole Funhole Records Hat [now] ART Important Records Mikroton Recordings Mode Records Ninth World PLANAM PSF Recommended Records Relative Pitch Saturn Sub Rosa Sublime Frequencies Thrill Jockey Veal Victo Releases from Artists Including: Acid Mothers Temple &    The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Ralph Alessi and This Against That Alvarius B Paolo Angeli & Takumi Fukushima Atmospheres Without Oxygen Bech / Tchicai Tim Berne / Bruno Chevillon Cockpit Music Deep Joy Trio Michael Dessen Trio Bill Dixon Evil Eye Feldman, Morton Gosta Berlings Saga Group Doueh Gutbucket Julia Kent Christina Kubisch Joelle Leandre / Phillip Greenlief Margaret Leng Tan Daniel Levin Mountains Richard Pinhas And Merzbow Mike Pride From Bacteria To Boys Sun Ra John Surman Vultures Quartet & Philippe Petit
After the store listings are links to 6 new reviews on our online companion magazine, The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation & Jazz:
$15.95 Buy listen	Alessi, Ralph and This Against That: Wiry Strong (Clean Feed)
	Bridging mainstream jazz with avant approaches, trumpeter Alessi leads his "This Against That" group with saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, bassist Drew Gress, pianist Andy Milne, drummer Mark Ferber, and Tim Berne co-producing.
$14.95 Buy listen	Angeli, Paolo & Takumi Fukushima: Itsunomanika (Recommended Records)
	Sardinian guitarist Paolo Angeli teams up with After Dinner/Volapuk violinist and singer Takumi Fukushima for a complex, unusual, and wonderfully embraceable work recorded live in Bologna.
$15.95 Buy listen	Atmospheres Without Oxygen (Dunmall / Gibbs / Stevens / Taylor): 4 Live In Oxford (FMR)
	Live recording from Oxford Improv Club in 2010 opposite Red Square with Paul Dunmall on saxophones, Phil Gibbs on electric guitar and electronics, Nik Stevens on double bass and Trevor Taylor electronic percussion.
$15.95 Buy listen	BassDrumBone: The Other Parade (Clean Feed)
	The remarkable trio of basist Mark Helias, drummer Gerry Hemingway and trombonist Ray Anderson in a release that brings modern language to traditional jazz, blues, and Louisiana rhythms.
$19.95 Buy listen	Bech / Tchicai: Blues In Green Yellow Red (Ninth World)
	Saxophonist Bjorn Bech wrote this Miles-tinged modern jazz suite - a cycle in musical nature - specifically to perform in concert with John Tchicai, with Martin Dam on trumpet and Margriet Naber Tchicai on piano, &c.
$15.95 Buy listen	Berne, Tim / Bruno Chevillon: Old and Unwise (Clean Feed)
	American saxophonist Tim Berne and French double-bassist Bruno Chevillon in the studio after 3 live gigs in Portugal, improvising freely while exploring sound and spinning tales in the moment.
$19.95 Buy listen	Cockpit Music: This Doesn't Look Like Our Town (Ninth World)
	A series of amazing miniatures from the 30 year trio of drummer Pere Oliver Jorgens, saxophonist Thorsten Hoeg, and guitarist Soren Tarding, playing an expectionally focused hybrid of improvised styles.
$29.95 Buy	Coleman, Ornette: Live in Beograd, Yugoslavia - 2 November 1971 [VINYL] (B13)
	A rare live concert from Belgrade, 1971, by the quartet of Ornette Coleman on alto, trumpet and violin; tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman; bassist Charlie Haden; and drummer Ed Blackwell.
$15.95 Buy listen	Deep Joy Trio: Live in Austria (FMR)
	Long time associates since their Mujician days, saxophonist Paul Dunmall, bassist Paul Rogers and drummer Tony Levin are recorded live in Austria for two extended and deeply joyful improvisations.
$15.95 Buy listen	Dessen, Michael Trio: Forget the Pixel (Clean Feed)
	California trombonist Michael Dessen's trio with drummer Dan Weiss & bassist Chris Tordini in a cycle of 7 pieces integrating grooves, colors and textures in intricate compositions yielding adventurous improvisations.
$14.95 Buy listen	Dixon, Bill: Envoi (Victo)
	The late trumpeter Bill Dixon's final performance at the 2011 Victo Festival, performing with and directing an incredible group including Taylor Ho Bynum, Rob Mazurek, Stephen Haynes, Graham Haynes, &c. &c.
$8.95 Buy listen	Evil Eye: (Funhole)
	A modern jazz quartet led by drummer Mike Pride and saxophonist Jonathan Mortiz with Nate Wooley on trumpet and Ken Filiano on bass in 2 jazz compositions and 2 chamber jazz pieces.
$8.95 Buy listen	Fernandes, Marcos / Mike Pride: a mountain is a mammal (Accretions Records)
	Percussionists Marcos Fernandes and Mike Pride, with electronics and phonography, in a set of 3 duos, mammalian movements set against a rolling landscape of sound.
$13.95 Buy listen	Leandre, Joelle / Phillip Greenlief: That Overt Desire of Object (Relative Pitch)
	Relative Pitch Records debuts with the excellent duo of bassist Joelle Leandre and Bay Area woodwind improviser Phil Greenlief in 11 variations for contrabass and woodwinds.
$15.95 Buy listen	Levin, Daniel: Inner Landscape (Clean Feed)
	The "Inner Landscape" of cellist Daniel Levin's playing in a 6-part solo release of pure improvisation as Levin finds his music in real time through spontaneous play and surprise.
$14.95 Buy listen	Miller, Phil: Cutting Both Ways (Cuneiform)
	Reisussing Miller's long out of print debut CD of Matching Mole/Hatfield & The North drummer Phil Miller's excellent 1989 LP with Elton Dean, Peter Lerner, Pip Pyle and Hugh Hopper.
$8.95 Buy listen	Pride, Mike From Bacteria To Boys: hang (Funhole)
	A radical trio of musicians approach Mike Pride's newest compositional strategies based on cellular movement, snowballing momentum and the most focused and concrete of improvisations.
$14.95 Buy	Sun Ra: The Soul Vibrations Of Man [VINYL] (Saturn)
	A 180 gram reissue of this rare 1977 Saturn Label release with Sun Ra's band including Michael Ray, Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, &c, performing live in Chicago.
$19.95 Buy listen	Surman, John: Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop – April '69 [CD + DVD] (Cuneiform)
	1969 studio recordings from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Germany of the amazing British Jazz grouping of John Surman, Alan Skidmore, Ronnie Scott, Mike Osborne, Kenny Wheeler, Harry Miller, Alan Jackson, &c.

Electronic/Experimental:
$15.95 Buy	Belfi / Grubbs / Pilia: Onrushing Cloud [VINYL] (Blue Chopsticks)
	The trio of percussion/electronic artist Andrea Belfi, guitarist/electronic artist David Grubbs and guitarist Stefano Pilia in a rich 5 piece work culminating atop a mountain.
$23.95 Buy	Decimus: Decimus [VINY] (PLANAM)
	Pat Murano, a founding member of No Neck Blues Band, in a solo project of abrasive atmospheric aggressions, one of New York City's darkest creations.
$14.95 Buy listen	Kubisch, Christina: Magnetic Flights (Important Records)
	Using headphones designed to detect & amplify electromagnetic fields, Kubisch recorded international airports and airplanes from her 2007 travels, making these surpisingly complex and musical recordings.
$14.95 Buy listen	Kubisch, Christina: Mono Fluido (Important Records)
	Two major compositions from electronic composer and innovator Kubisch, reworking the material she composed for Fabrizio Plessi's "Liquid Movie" soundtrack into beautiful and rich textural works.
$14.95 Buy listen	Mountains: Air Museum (Thrill Jockey)
	Brendon Anderegg & Koen Holtkamp (Mountains) blur the lines between acoustic instrumentation and electronic music without sacrificing melody or the delicacy of their sound.
$19.95 Buy listen	Pinhas, Richard And Merzbow: Paris 2008 [VINYL] (Cuneiform)
	Cuneiform's 1st vinyl issue in 20 years is this uncompromising 2007 collaboration between electronic artist Richard Pinhas and Japanese sound artist Merzbow.
$14.95 Buy listen	Various Artists: Klingt.org: 10 Jahre Bessere Farben [2 CDs] (Mikroton Recordings)
	44 tracks. 44 projects. 2 discs. 16 page booklet. 2 hours, 35 minutes, 6 seconds. Artists include: Christof Kurzmann; Toshimaru Nakamura; siewert / dieb13; &c. &c. !
$15.95 Buy listen	Vultures Quartet & Philippe Petit: Tourbillon d'Obscurite (Sub Rosa)
	Sub Rosa's Framework series continues with the electroacoustic collaboration of electronic artists Philippe Petit and the London-based ea-improvising group Vultures Quartet.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$26.95 Buy listen	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Inner Space [2 VINYL LPs] (Alien8 Recordings)
	A 4-part epic from Acid Mothers Temple, a piece performed over the years and released in various formats, here in a mesmerizing and heavy "Inner Space" version detailing a massive AMT journey.
$17.95 Buy listen	Alvarius B: Baroque Primitiva (Abduction)
	A beautifully bound CD issue of a very limited 2011 LP from Sun City Girls' Alan Bishop and Eyvind Kang playing shimmering gorgeous songs and instrumental work taken from the last several years.
$13.95 Buy	Angel Ov Death: live in space and time [DVD] (Veal)
	Andrew d'Angelo, Mike Pride, and Jamie Saft's NY alter-ego as a rock band fusing metal, hardcore, free jazz and noise, here in a DVD documenting their first NY show at The Stone, NYC.
$12.95 Buy listen	Dynamite Club: it's deeper than most people actually think (Funhole Records)
	A cross of Tokyo and NY rock scenes, Dynamite Club is led by vocalist Kentaro Saito and drummer Mike Pride, in their 2nd release with help from Nate Wooley, Aaron Ali Shaikh, &c.
$14.95 Buy listen	Gosta Berlings Saga: Glue Works (Cuneiform)
	3rd release from this Swedish instrumental rock band, combining post-rock, progressive rock, minimalism, avant-rock, collage/sound with unique orchestration and studio techniques.
$15.95 Buy listen	Group Doueh: Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
	A collision of contemporary Afro-Saharan grooves balanced with the searing modalities of Doueh's desert origins, nuanced by pop/rock/desert blues elements from the fringes of the Sahara desert.
$14.95 Buy listen	Gutbucket: Flock (Cuneiform)
	Mixing complex turn-on-a-dime instrumental work with raw rock energy makes Brooklyn's Gutbucket a unique and modern voice in complex rock, here in their 5th superb release.
$35.95 Buy	Key Of Shame: [VINYL 2 LPs] (PLANAM)
	Double gatefold LP from No Neck Blues Band's & Decimus' Pat Murano and Sightings' Mark Morgan, four sides of atmospheric radical electronics at their highest peak.
$18.95 Buy listen	Le Son De L'os: Grass Pillow (PSF)
	The acoustic rock-oriented improvisation trio of Yuko Hasegawa, Shizuo Uchida (Hasegawa-Shizuo, Kito Mizukumi Rouber), and Masahiro Deguchi (Gendai Sokkyo), fragile and ethereal music.
$14.95 Buy listen	Pinhas, Richard: L'Ethique (Cuneiform)
	Reissue of Heldon band leader and electronic pioneer Richard Heldon's 1982 LP on the UK Pulse label, a great mix of electronic soundscape and prog-oriented electronic rock.

Compositional:
$17.95 Buy listen	Feldman, Morton: Neither (Opera) (Hat [now] ART)
	A non-convention opera by Morton Feldman using words by Samuel Beckett to create musical equivalents to what Beckett's words suggest; performed by Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt.
$14.95 Buy listen	Kent, Julia: Green and Grey (Important Records)
	Using looped and layered cello, electronics, and recordings of natural sounds, Julia Kent explores in this new instrumental record the melding of the technological and the organic.
$20.95 Buy	Leng Tan, Margaret: She Herself Alone [DVD] (Mode Records)
	Margaret Leng Tan performing works by Cage, Crumb, Griswold, &c. on toy pianos, toy instruments, piano, percussion, music boxes, and voice, raising miniature instruments to "serious music" status.
$17.95 Buy listen	Schonberg, Arnold: Works For Piano (Hat [now] ART)
	Pi-hsien Chen performs Arnold Schonbgergs, a small part of his oeuvre, yet significant in that they reflect the evolution and development of this great composer's compositional powers.

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