SQUIDCO & THE SQUID'S EAR UPDATE June 9, 2011
The unofficial start of summer is accompanied best by releases from these great labels and artists! Prominent Labels: BananaMoon Cuneiform Doubtmusic Edition Rz Frank Records Hot Cup Records Kelippah Monotype NEOS Music NoBusiness Old News Peacock Staubgold Sub Rosa Tompkins Square United One/SoLyd Records Impressive Artists: Afuche Daevid Allen and Nicoletta Stephanz Sam Amidon & Aaron Seigel blacksheep Ran Blake Alessandro Bosetti Cheer-Accident Decimus Agostino di Scipio Thomas Heberer William Hooker / Thomas Chapin Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord Lionel Marchetti Marhaug / Wastell Sei Miguel / Pedro Gomes Jim O'Rourke Richard Pinhas And Merzbow Henri Pousseur Quartet Otomo Yoshihide, Axel Dorner,     Sachiko M, Martin Brandlmayr Matthew Shipp & Sabir Mateen Wadada Leo Smith Organic Rafael Toral David Tudor Jakob Ullmann David S. Ware
The editor of The Squid's Ear was away for the last couple of weeks - reviews will return with our next mailing.

Improvisation & Jazz:
$14.95 Buy listen	Amidon, Sam & Aaron Seigel: Fiddle And Drum [VINYL] (Peacock)
	Sam Amidon and Aaron Siegel weave together a puzzling and ecstatic improvised narrative inspired by the free jazz duos of Ed Blackwell and Don Cherry, as well as Kentucky fiddling and noise improv.
$21.95 Buy listen	blacksheep: 2 (Doubtmusic)
	Ryuichi Yoshida's blacksheep in their second album, performed live to push this jazz oriented trio in unexpected directions, as they rework pieces from their 1st and introduce new sci-fi numbers.
$14.95 Buy listen	Blake, Ran: Grey December: Live in Rome (Tompkins Square)
	2010 recordings of pianist Ran Blake performing live in Rome, surprisingly his first proper solo record despite 36 releases under his own name; a remarkable set of standards and original compositions.
$34.95 Buy	Heberer, Thomas: Klippe / One [VINYL 2 LPs] (NoBusiness)
	Master trumpeter Thomas Heberer in a two part double LP release: "Klippe" in a trio with clarinetist Badenhorst and bassist Niggenhkemper; and "One" performing solo.
$15.95 Buy listen	Hooker, William / Thomas Chapin: Crossing Points (NoBusiness)
	A collosal encounter of drummer William Hooker and the late wind player Thomas Chapin performing at the 9th Street Gallery in NYC in 1992, 3 massive improvisations from the jazz underground.
$34.95 Buy listen	Hooker, William / Thomas Chapin: Crossing Points [VINYL 2 LPs] (NoBusiness)
	Double LP edition of the above CD.
$13.95 Buy listen	Lundbom, Jon & Big Five Chord: Big Five Chord (Hot Cup Records)
	The first recording by guitarist Jon Lunbom's Big Five Chord with bassist Moppa Elliott, saxophonists Jon Irabagon and Dominic Lalli, and drummer Justin Walke, superb 21st century jazz.
$13.95 Buy listen	Lundbom, Jon and Big Five Chord: Accomplish Jazz (Hot Cup Records)
	Jon Lundbom's Big Five Chord took three years off before this album to develop the "Bryand and the Haggards" alter-ego, returning with this intense genre-shipping and virtuosic album.
$9.95 Buy listen	Lundbom, Jon and Big Five Chord: All The Pretty Ponies (a live recording) (Hot Cup Records)
	A live set from 2004 of guitarist Lundbom's Big Five Chord with Bryan Murry and Jon Irabagon on sax, Andrew Bain on drums and Moppa Elliott on bass, heavy electric jazz with Ulmer/Crimson overtones.
$13.95 Buy listen	Lundbom, Jon & Big Five Chord With Irabagon / Murray / Elliott / Fischer + Kanelos: Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup Records)
	The fourth release from NY guitarist Lundbom's Big Five Chord, wide ranging jazz tunes with two saxes (Irabagon and Murray) in a band with great technical and melodic power!
$15.95 Buy listen	Miguel, Sei / Pedro Gomes: Turbina Anthem (NoBusiness)
	An album of direct, succint and turbulent conversation between guitarist Pedro Gomes and pocket trumpeter Sei Miguel performing live-in-studio by-the-book (of visions, the panorama key)!
$26.95 Buy listen	Miguel, Sei / Pedro Gomes: Turbina Anthem [VINYL] (NoBusiness)
	LP edition of the above CD.
$39.95 Buy listen	Quartet Otomo Yoshihide, Axel Dorner, Sachiko M, Martin Brandlmayr: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2005: : Allurements of the Ellipsoid (NEOS Music)
	An excellent performance of electroacoustic improv from four of the leading players in the field, live at Germany's Donaueschingen Festival for Contemporary Music.
$17.95 Buy listen	Shipp, Matthew & Sabir Mateen: SaMa Live in Moscow (United One/SoLyd Records)
	On the heels of their "SAMA" release (Not Two Records), saxophonist Sabir Mateen and pianist Matthew Shipp recorded these powerful duo recordings live at the DOM Culture Center in Moscow.
$20.95 Buy listen	Smith, Wadada Leo Organic: Heart's Reflection [2 CDs] (Cuneiform)
	An incredible double CD from trumpeter Leo Smith's Organic with Michael Gregory, Pheeroan AkLaff, Angelica Sanchez, Skuli Sverrisson, Brandon Ross, &c &c... incredible electric and acoustic jazz from the legendary improviser and innovator!
$33.95 Buy listen	Ware, David S.: Onecept [VINYL 2 LPs] (Frank Records)
	Expanded LP edition with 2 exclusive tracks of David S. Ware's 50th year celebratory release, performing on tenor, stritch and saxello in a trio with William Parker & Warren Smith.

Electronic/Experimental:
$15.95 Buy listen	Bosetti, Alessandro: Royals (Monotype)
	Another fascinating exploration of language and its relationship to music from composer Bosetti, translating the intonation and rhythm of language into music and melding it back onto the same.
$13.95 Buy	Decimus: Decimus 1 (Kelippah)
	Synthetic meditations on the zodiac as envisioned by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (310-395) - the second in a series of twelve Decimus LPs by No Neck Blues Band's Pat Murano
$13.95 Buy	Decimus: Decimus 5 (Kelippah)
	Synthetic meditations on the zodiac as envisioned by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (310-395) - the third in a series of twelve Decimus LPs by No Neck Blues Band's Pat Murano.
$16.95 Buy listen	di Scipio, Agostino : Horbare Okosysteme: Live elektronic compositions 1993-2005 (Edition Rz)
	Live electronic compositions from 1993-2005 by composer Agostino Di Scipio, using acoustic instruments and digital sound processing to create unusual and previously unheard sound worlds.
$21.95 Buy listen	Marchetti, Lionel : Une Saison (Monotype)
	Two large and intricate works from the mid-90s of concrete music from electroacoustic composer Lionel Marchetti, working with field recordings, electronic and analog synthesis.
$15.95 Buy listen	Marhaug / Wastell: Kiss Of Acid (Monotype)
	A dark kiss of acid from Lasse Marhaug performing on electronics, computer and the compositional structures, with Mark Wastell submitting rich recordings of a 32" Paiste tam-tam.
$25.95 Buy	O'Rourke, Jim: Old News #5 [VINYL 2 LPs] (Old News)
	First in a regular series of vinyl albums documenting analog synth and tape works (both studio and live) from the depths of Jim O'Rourke's nearly quarter century archive of experimentation.
$14.95 Buy listen	Pinhas, Richard And Merzbow: Rhizome [CD + NTSC (all region) DVD] (Cuneiform)
	A CD/DVD of electronic pioneer Richard Pinhas and noise legend Merzbow performing live at the 2010 Washington, DC Sonic Circuits festival at La Maison.
$15.95 Buy listen	Pousseur, Henri: Parabolique d'Enfer (Sub Rosa)
	Sub Rosa's first posthumous recording of Henri Pousseur, the 6th dedicated to the composer's experimental and electronic works and marking the end of the trilogy of the Parabolic works.
$16.95 Buy listen	Toral, Rafael: Space Elements Vol. III (Staubgold )
	Third volume of Rafael Toral's Space Program Space Elements series, featuring guests including Tatsuya Nakatani, Riccardo Dillon Wanke, &c., and focusing on a specific compositional function.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$14.95 Buy listen	Afuche: Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (Cuneiform)
	Afuche is a young band from Brooklyn in the chamber prog mold, upbeat and complex music with influences ranging from Zappa, Can, Crimson, African and Afro-Cuban music.
$14.95 Buy listen	Allen, Daevid and Nicoletta Stephanz: Live At The Knitting Factory (BananaMoon)
	This release is from the Bananmoon Obscura Collection, finding Daevid Allen with theremin artist and vocalist Nicoletta Stephanz performing live in New York City at The Knitting Factory.
$14.95 Buy listen	Cheer-Accident: No Ifs, Ands or Dogs (Cuneiform)
	Chicago's Cheer-Accident's 17th release of genre blending rock that borrows as much from progressive and it does from punk in songs that juxtapose pure pop, thundering rock, and avant-garde complexity.

Compositional:
$31.95 Buy listen	Tudor, David: Music for Piano (Edition Rz)
	2-CD set with recordings by the legendary 20th century avantgarde pianist performing compositions by (and with) John Cage, plus Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff.
$16.95 Buy listen	Ullmann, Jakob: A Catalouge of Sounds (Edition Rz)
	Ullman's composition of subtle gradations in sound performed very softly forcing the ear to notice the smallest variations, as realized by the string trio Ensemble Oriol Berline.

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