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SQUIDCO Email Update April 12, 2012

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April 12, 2012
"Music is born out of the inner sounds within a soul."-John McLaughlin


Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

DOM Records
Doubtmusic
Editions Mego
FMR
Hatology
Hermes Discorbie
Leo
Mode Records
Mutable
Not Two
Ozit

     
Pan
Pi Recordings
Rune Grammofon
SFS Media
Slam
Sub Rosa
The Wire
TIZONA
Tzadik
Wergo
Young Americans
 
      Creative Artists
    

• John Adams
• BassX3
• Bushman's Revenge
• John Cage
• Captain Beefheart &
      His Magic Band
• Carrier/Lambert/Lapin
• The Clarinet Trio
• Phil Cohran
• El Doom &
      The Born Electric
• Amir ElSaffar
• Jean-Luc Fafchamps
• Fenn O'Berg
• George Haslam
• Erdem Helvacioglu
• Shelley Hirsch/Simon Ho
• Fred Ho & Quincy Saul
• io 0.0.1 beta++/Park/
      Coates/Schroeder
• Eli Keszler
• SteveLehman Trio feat.
       Matt Brewer and
       Damion Reid
• Liebman/Eskelin with
      Tony Marino &
      Jim Black

       
• Jimmy Lyons &
      Sunny Murray Trio
• Berangere Maximin
• Merzbow & Marhaug
• Daphne Oram
• Perelman/Morris/
      Cleaver
• Guillaume Perret &
      The Electric Epic
• Jon Raskin &
      Carla Harryman
• Resonance Ensemble
• Reverie Duo
• Tyshawn Sorey
• Teneleven
      (Nasuno Mitsuru)
• Ben Vida
• Ward/Hill/Lash/Sanders
• Warholes
      (Yoshihide/Sachiko M/
      DJ Mao/Skala)
• The Wire
• John Zorn-
      David Krakauer plays
      Masada Book 2


Squid Bubble




   Jazz & Improvisation

BassX3: Transatlantic
(Leo)

Three bass instrumentalists - Gebhard Ullman on bass clarinet and bass flute, Chris Dahlgren on double bass, and Clayton Thomas on double bass, improvising on the lower end of the tonal range of chamber music.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Carrier / Lambert / Lapin: In Motion
(Leo)

In December 2010 Francois Carrier went to Russia to play with pianist Alexey Lapin, accompanied by Carrier's regular partner, drummer Michel Lambert, recording an album of stimulating and diverse improvisation.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Clarinet Trio, The: 4
(Leo)

The fourth Clarinet Trio release on Leo Records, and the first one in eight years, with Jurgen Kupke on clarinet, Michael Thieke on alto clarinet, and Gebhard Ullmann on bass clarinet.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Cohran, Phil: Spanish Suite [VINYL]
(TIZONA)

Cohran wrote this suite using a tuning system of natural tone relationships to magnify the contribution Moorish Spain had on the European Renaissance, heard in a '68 performance at the Chicago Affro Arts Theatre.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
ElSaffar, Amir: Inana
(Pi Recordings)

Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar and his quintet expand the sonic possibilities of jazz by building on the modal music of the Iraqi maqam, adding a microtonal harmonic and melodic language influenced by the pitch-flexibility of Middle Eastern music.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Haslam, George: Once Upon A Time In Argentina [2 CDs]
(Slam)

A double CD from saxophonist George Haslam: a quartet with 2 percussionists; and The Walter Thiers Memorial Saxophone Quartet, both of which were recorded in Argentina in 2008 and 2010.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
Hirsch, Shelley / Simon Ho: Where Were You Then ?
(Tzadik)

Free improvising vocalist and story spieler Shelley Hirsch teams with Simon Ho and a great set of musicians including Tony Buck, David Hofstra, Tomas Ulrich, for an engaging and fascinating set of songs and stories.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Ho, Fred & Quincy Saul: The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute
(Mutable)

Fred Ho pays tribute to under-recognized jazz composer and trumpeter Cal Massey, performing his "The Black Liberation Movemement Suite" and 3 other works with a large band of excellent players.
   
     Buy      $14.45      Listen          

 
io 0.0.1 beta++ / Park / Coates / Schroeder: io 0.0.1 beta++
(Slam)

Constructed by Han-earl Park, the machine musician io 0.0.1 beta++ constructed from ad-hoc components including plumbing, kitchenware, speakers and missile switches, performs with its maker, and saxophonists Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Lehman Trio, Steve feat. Matt Brewer and Damion Reid: Dialect Fluorescent
(Pi Recordings)

With his new trio with bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid, saxophonist Lehman combines his own original compositions with a full program of works by jazz legends like John Coltrane and Jackie McLean.
 
Squidco Pick
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Liebman / Eskelin with Tony Marino & Jim Black: Non Sequiturs
(Hatology)

Two Liebman originals, Albert Ayler's "Ghosts", and a suite that Ellery Eskelin wrote specifically for this quartet with bassist Tony Marino and drummer Jim Black, allowing the band's energy to be altered by the compositional progressions.
   
     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Lyons, Jimmy & Sunny Murray Trio: Jump Up
(Hatology)

A much-need reissue and remaster of saxophonist Jimmy Lyon's smoking free jazz trio album live at Jazz Festival Willisau, 1980, performing with double bassist John Lindberg and drummer Sunny Murray.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Perelman, Ivo / Joe Morris / Gerald Cleaver: Family Ties
(Leo)

Ivo Perelman's fifteenth album for Leo Records is a trio with bassist Joe Morris and drummer Gerald Cleaver, performing original group compositions recorded in the studio in NYC.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Perret, Guillaume & The Electric Epic:
(Tzadik)

An edgy and ecstatic new electric improvising band from Paris led by composer and saxophonist Guillaume Perret, exciting and unexpected music that's doesn't want to be quickly characterized.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Raskin, Jon & Harryman, Carla: Open Box
(Tzadik)

Jon Raskin has set the genre-busting poetry of Carla Harryman to music ranging from rock and metal to jazz and free improv, with help from Gino Robair, John Shiurba, Liz Albee, Jon Raskin, Alva Mendoza, &c.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Resonance Ensemble, The: What Country Is This?
(Not Two)

Ken Vandermark's amazing Resonance Ensemble crossing Chicago, Polish & Ukraine players, with Pere-Ake Holmlander, Magnus Broo, Michael Zerang, Tim Daisy, Devin Hoff, Mikolaj Trzaska, Dave Rempis, Waclaw Zimpel, and Steve Swell.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 
Reverie Duo : Stagioni
(Slam)

Reverie Duo is the acoustic duo of Valerio Daniele on acoustic guitar and Redi Hasa on cello, whose art is largely drawn from natural influences, here recorded in the atmospheric environment of a fifteenth century chapel.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Sorey, Tyshawn: Oblique-I
(Pi Recordings)

10 compositions from drummer Tyshawn Sorey's creative quartet/quintet repertoire "41 Compositions", created as a series of platforms for improvisation, here performed with Loren Stillman, Todd Neufeld, John Escreet & Chris Tordini.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Vida, Ben: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends [VINYL]
(Pan)

In collaboration with Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, Ben Vida explores cross-control voltage-integrated improvisation and real-time automatic group composition.
   
     Buy      $25.95          

 
Ward / Hill / Lash / Sanders: Predicate
(FMR)

Alex Ward developed this band to confront the issue of combining composition with improvisation, using free jazz as a touchstone for pieces allowing stylistically unbounded playing, here with an incredible set of players.
 
Squidco Pick
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Zorn, John - Krakauer, David plays Masada Book 2: Pruflas: The Book Of Angels Vol. 18
(Tzadik)

Modern Klezmer clarinetists David Krakauer, founding member of Klezmatics, performs John Zorn's Masada compositions by taking them back to their roots, interpreting them as traditional (and not-so-traditional) Klezmer tunes.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Fenn O'Berg: In Hell [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Editions Mego)

Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg in an album of 5 live recordings from their 2010 Japan tour, in which they forged further west for some wild sets in Beppu and Omuta.
   
     Buy      $27.95          

 
Helvacioglu, Erdem: Timeless Waves
(Sub Rosa)

Electroacoustic composer Erdem Helvacioglu is a sonic work based on six basic human emotions, composed for a 47 channel / 53 speaker diffusion system and commissioned for the interdisciplinary art project The Morning Line.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Keszler, Eli: Cold Pin [VINYL]
(Pan)

"Cold Pin" joins Keszler's large string installation with live performance from Eli Keszler (drums, guitar), Geoff Mullen (guitar), Ashley Paul (clarinet, guitar, greenbox), Greg Kelley (trumpet), Reuben Son (bassoon) & Benjamin Nelson (cello).
   
     Buy      $25.95          

 
Maximin, Berangere: No One Is An Island
(Sub Rosa)

With Christian Fennesz, Richard Pinhas, Rhys Chatham and Frederic D. Oberland, electroacoustic improvising guitarist, laptop artist and vocalist Berangere Maximin composed and mixed this subtle and richly beautiful album.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Merzbow & Marhaug: Mer Mar [VINYL]
(Editions Mego)

Made using a combination of scrap metal screeching; analogue synths; and a large collection of effect pedals, 'Mer Mar' is a tour de force for noise veterans Merzbow and Lasse Marhaug.
   
     Buy      $19.95          

 
Oram, Daphne: The Daphne Oram Tapes: Volume One
(Young Americans)

Founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Daphne Oram died in 2003 leaving a colossal archive of reel-to-reel tapes; this set represents two years mining that archive to create a coherent document of her experimental electronic work.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $24.95      Listen          

 
Various Artists: Sound Art At Het Apollohuis [2 CDs]
(Wergo)

This CD presents excerpts of exhibitions, installations, performances, and concerts at Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, NL, recorded between 1980-97 under the direction of founders Paul and Helene Panhuysen.
   
     Buy      $48.95          

 
Warholes (Yoshihide, Otomo / Sachiko M / DJ Mao / Peter Skala): Warhol Memory Disorder
(Hermes Discorbie)

This CD documents the visual-acoustic installation by LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS and Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M, with guests Peter Skala and DJ Mao, at Warhol's Museum of Modern Arts, Medzilaborce, Slovakia.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Bushman's Revenge: A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza
(Rune Grammofon)

Norway's formidable heavy rocking trio of Even Helte Hermansen on guitar, Rune Nergaard on bass and Gard Nilssen on drums and percussion, 8 intense rock instrumentals including a Sonny Sharrock cover.
 
Squidco Pick
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Nan Trues Hole Tapes Volume 3
(Ozit)

These recordings portray Captain Beefheart performing some of his most avant garde live tracks in the 70s, gathered from tape reels of live concerts supplied by John Peel in 2003.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
El Doom & The Born Electric:
(Rune Grammofon)

Debut from this heavy melodic progressive rock, guitar-driven Norwegian band fronted by singer & guitarist Ole Petter Andreassen with guests Nikolai Eilerston and Starle Storloskken from Elephant9.
   
     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Teneleven (Nasuno Mitsuru): Teneleven
(Doubtmusic)

Nasuno Mitsuru (Altered States, Seijaku, Korkyojin, &c) in a new band with two synthesizers, bass, and drums, rock in a Heldon/Tangerine Dream mode using modern electroacoustic principles for richly hypnotic electronic music.
   
     Buy      $20.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Adams, John: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine [CD/SACD]
(SFS Media)

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present a Hybrid SACD of John Adams' San Francisco Symphony commissioned "Harmonielehre" and the Michael Tilson Thomas commissioned "Short Ride in a Fast Machine".
   
     Buy      $25.95      Listen          

 
Cage, John: The Number Pieces 6 performed by Essential Music
(Mode Records)

Volume 44 in Mode's John Cage Edition has the New York based ensemble Essential Music performing Cage's numbered pieces "Five", "Seven" and "Thirteen", named for the number of musicians participating.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Fafchamps, Jean-Luc: KDGhZ2SA, A Six-Letter Sufi Word
(Sub Rosa)

Belgian composer and pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps in works based on a Sufi chart connecting a vast system of symbolic interrelations to the 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet, performed by Ensemble Ictus and Orchestre National de Lille.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 




   Books & Magazines

Wire, The: #338 April 2012 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)

April 2012 issue with the Wire Tapper CD, articles include artists Oren Ambarchi, Dirty Electronics, Charles Gayle, Tom Moulton, Conlon Nancarrow, Elizabeth Price, Sun Araw, David Toop, Hanna Tuulikki, Nate Wooley, &c.
   
     Buy      $8.95          

 

The Squid's Ear The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
 

   Recent Reviews





Various Artists:
PRES Revisited: Jozef Patkowski In Memoriam
(Bolt)


Ruins Alone:
(self-titled)
(Skin Graft)


Tetuzi Akiyama / Takuji Kawai:
Transition
(Ftarri)

Scott Fields Ensemble:
Frail Lumber
(Not Two)


The Thing with Otomo Yoshihide:
Shinjuku Crawl
(Smalltown Superjazzz)


Max Eastley:
Installation Recordings (1973-2008)
(Paradigm Discs)





   In Stock and Ready to Ship




Agren / Kaiser / Gunn:
Invisible Rays
(7D)
Barnyard Drama:
Christmas Singalong Volume 6
(Barnyard)
Bognetti / De Fabritiis / Fochesato / Galinari:
Oprachina
(Slam)

Brotzmann, Peter / Michael Zerang:
Live In Beirut
(Al Maslakh)
Bruckmann, Kyle:
On Procedural Grounds
(New World Records)
Bruckmann, Kyle Wrack:
Cracked Refraction
(Porter Records)

Capece, Lucio:
Zero Plus Zero
(Potlatch)
Circuit:
Genesis
(FMR)
Dunmall / Gibbs / Rogers:
Tribute to Tony Levin
(FMR)

Gjerstad, Frode / Steve Hubback:
One Foot Moving
(FMR)
Gunn, Trey:
The Third Star (re-mastered)
(7D)
Guthrie, Will:
Sticks, Stones & Breaking Bones
(Antboy)

Guthrie, Will:
Sticks, Stones & Breaking Bones [VINYL]
(Antboy)
Honsinger's This That and the Other, Tristan:
Sketches of Probability
(Angelica)
L'Ensemble Raye:
Ein Fest fur Pu den Baren
(Kein & Aber)

L'Ensemble Raye:
Les Contrepoints Cardinaux
(Kein & Aber)
L'Ensemble Raye:
Theatre de la Poudriere [2 CDs]
(Les Disques Rayes)
L'Ensemble Raye:
Vis-A-Vis Movers
(Les Disques Rayes)

Lord Tang:

(Gigante Sound)
Mastelotto, Pat:
Recidivate [2 CDs]
(7D)
MUTA:
Bricolage
(Al Maslakh)

New Miminokoto:
All About Mimi
(PSF)
Northern Valentine:
Fin de Sie
(Silber Media)
Osborne, Mike Trio with Harry Miller and Tony Levin:
The Birmingham Jazz Concert [2 CDs]
(Ogun)

Pastor, Stefano & Ari Poutiainen:
North South Dial
(Slam)
Quijano Quartet, Antonio:
Songs From Another Blue Planet
(Slam)
Realisation Trio: Dunmall / Jurd / Bashford:
Salt Dolly
(FMR)

Ricart Quartet, Edward:
Ancon
(Slam)
Rives, Stephane:
Much Remains To Be Heard
(Al Maslakh)
Rutherford, Paul & George Haslam with the Samuli Mikkonen Trio:
Raahe '99
(Slam)

Stabbins / Riley / Wren / Sanders:
ST Cyprians 2
(FMR)
Talibam! & Sam Kulik:
Discover AtlantASS
(Belly Kids)
Vida, Andre:
Brud: Volumes I-III [3 CDs]
(Pan)

Wiese, John:
Seven Of Wands
(Pan)



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