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SQUIDCO Email Update June 21, 2012

Squidco & The Squid's Ear
UPDATE
June 21, 2012
"Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness
as if you could imagine life before words."-Charlie Haden


Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Chimera Music
Clean Feed
Doxy
erstwhile
ESP
Honest Jon's Records
Important Records
Kadima
Maya
Pi Recordings
    
PNL
RCA
Recollection GRM
ReR
Rune Grammofon
Sedimental
Sub Rosa
Sublime Frequencies
Susannasonata
Victo
 
      Creative Artists
    

• Biota
• Black Forest Fire
• James Blackshaw
• Bradford/Gjerstad/
      Nilssen-Love
• Brotzmann/Trio Roma
• Ido Bukelman
• Hugo Carvalhais
• Kelan Philip Cohran &
       The Hypnotic
       Brass Ensemble
• Peter Cusack
• DAT Politics
• El Doom &
      The Born Electric
• Eleh
• Fire! with Oren Ambarchi
• The Fish
• Barry Gray
• Hairy Bones:
      Brotzmann/Kondo/
      Pupillo/Nilssen-Love
• Maya Homburger
• JC Jones
• Gan Lev/
      Jean Claude Jones
      
• Frank Lowe
      with Jarman/
      Lee Cheng/
      Parker/Sinan
• Robert Millis
• Charles Mingus Qnt. &
       Max Roach
• Yoko Ono/
      Thurston Moore/
      Kim Gordon
• Michael Pisaro/
      Toshiya Tsunoda
• Duane Pitre
• Platform 1
• Pierre Schaeffer
• Ariel Shibolet
• Ariel Shibolet/
      Haggai Fershtman
• Ariel Shibolet/
      Nori Jacoby
• Susanna
• Eric Thielemans
• Henry Threadgill Zooid
• Trespass Trio
• Frank Wright with
      James Blood Ulmer
      Benny Wilson/
      Rashied Ali


Squid Bubble




   Jazz & Improvisation

Biota: Cape Flyaway
(ReR)


Incredibly crafted sonic worlds from the Biota collective, and indescribable orchestration of electric & acoustic guitars, clavioline, trumpet, organ, micromoog, biolmellodrone, voice, electric & acoustic violins, bass, percussion, &c.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Bradford / Gjerstad / Nilssen-Love: Dragon
(PNL)


Legendary West Coast cornetist Bobby Bradford meets two Norwegians, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and multi-reedist Frode Gjerstad, for a live performance at Klub Dragon in Poland.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Brotzmann / Trio Roma: Solo [2 CDs]
(Victo)


Victoriaville celebrated European Free Jazz legend Peter Brotzmann's 70th birthday by presenting two concerts: one solo, and one with the amazing Trio Roma of Massimo Pupillo and Paal Nilssen-Love, both presented on this essential 2 CD release.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $23.95      Listen          

 
Bukelman, Ido: The Door
(Kadima)


Solo improvisations from Israeli free jazz guitarist Ido Bukelman, who's idiosyncratic style often finds itself in the company of Albert Beger, Harold Rubin, Yoni Kretzmer, &c. &c.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Carvalhais, Hugo: Particula
(Clean Feed)


Following his successful "Nebulosa" debut CD, Portuguese bassist Hugo Carvalhais augments his trio of Gabriel Pinto (keys) and Mario Costa (drums) with French soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien and violinist Dominique Pifarely.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Cohran, Kelan Philip & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble:
(Honest Jon's Records)


The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is former Sun Ra-alumni and jazz pillar Phil Cohran's family band, recording works from Cohran's amazing 50 year catalog in their home town of Chicago in 2011.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Cohran, Kelan Philip & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Honest Jon's Records)


Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $20.95      Listen          

 
Fire! with Oren Ambarchi: In The Mouth - A Hand [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Rune Grammofon)


The Swedish trio of Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin present their 3rd album, here collaborating with Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi for an album of hypnotic, psychedelic rock'n'jazz exploration.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $26.95          

 
Fish, The: Moon Fish
(Clean Feed)


The long running trio of alto saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet and drummer Edward Perraud (Hubbub) and bassist Benjamin Duboc in a studio album of intense and expressive free jazz in the Albert Ayler tradition.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Hairy Bones: Brotzmann / Kondo / Pupillo / Nilssen-Love: Snakelust
(Clean Feed)


Live at Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal from the amazing free jazz of the Hairy Bones quartet of Peter Brotzmann (reeds), Toshinori Kondo (trumpet & electronics), Massimo Pupillo (bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums).
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Homburger, Maya: Lysandra + Sonata In C-dur + Partita In E-dur
(Maya)


Adapting and modernizing the concepts of Bach's "Sonatas and Partitas" for solo violin, this is the 3rd piece written by bassist/composer Barry Guy at the request of Maya Homburger, who performs on an 18th century baroque violin.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
Jones, JC: Myelination
(Kadima)


Bassist J.C. Jones brings together science & music, enabling an evocative window into the illness MS by making the vibrations of myelin protein audible, over which Jones, Yoni Silver, Harold Rubin, Airel Shibolet, &c. improvise.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Lev, Gan / Jean Claude Jones: Languages
(Kadima)


Seventeen duets, most of them less than two minutes long and all recorded in one afternoon, bring multi-reed and vocalist Gan Lev together with Kadima label leader, bassist JC Jones.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Lowe, Frank with Jarman / Lee Cheng / Parker / Sinan: The Loweski
(ESP)


A previously unreleased recording from the legendary concert that produced saxophonist Lowe's ESP-Disk's debut as a leader, "Black Beings", with William Parker, Joseph Jarman, Raymond Lee Cheng, and Rashid Sinan.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Mingus, Charles Quintet & Max Roach: The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach [VINYL]
(Doxy)


A 180 gm virgin vinyl reissue of the Jazz Workshop period Charles Mingus quintet with Max Roach, Mal Waldron, Willie Jones, George Barrow and Eddie Bert performing live at the Cafe Bohemia, Greenwich Village in 1955.
   
     Buy      $23.95          

 
Pisaro, Michael / Toshiya Tsunoda: Crosshatches
(erstwhile)


Composer Michael Pisaro teams up with Toshiya Tsunoda for an 85 minute work in 8 sections developed over 14 months, a profound saga of subtle lowercase interactions using electronics and field recordings.
   
     Buy      $22.95      Listen          

 
Platform 1: Takes Off
(Clean Feed)


A first and exceptional release from the Platform 1 quintet of Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark, NY trombonist Steve Swell, European trumpeter Magnus Broo, Canadian ex-pat bassist Joe Williamson, and Amsterdamn based drummer Michael Vatcher.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Shibolet, Ariel / Haggai Fershtman: Happiness for Things Unseen
(Kadima)


A live concert from soprano saxophonist Airel Shibolet performing with drummer Haggai Fershtman live in Tel Aviv, 2010, part of Kadima's Cy Twombly live performance series.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Shibolet, Ariel / Nori Jacoby: Scenes From An Ideal Marriage
(Kadima)


Viola player Nori Jacoby and soprano saxophonist Ariel Shibolet performing live at Hateiva, Tele Aviv in 2010, part of Kadima's Cy Twombly live performance series.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Shibolet, Ariel: Live at The Total Music Meeting
(Kadima)


Solo saxophone recordings from Israeli artists Ariel Shibolet, performing at Berlins Total Music Meeting in 2007, joyful and complex work in the vein of Evan Parker.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Thielemans, Eric: EARR Plays A Snare Is A Bell [2 CDs]
(Sub Rosa)


Drummer/composer Eric Thielmans presents "Snare Mother suite" and 7 works performed with Hilary Jeffrey (trombone), Claron Mc Fadden, Jorgen Cassier, Peter Jasquemyn (voice), Jozef Dumoulin (keys) & Jean-Yves Evrard (guitar).
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Threadgill Zooid, Henry: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp
(Pi Recordings)


Henry Threadgill and his Zooid band follow up the 2 part "This Bring Us To" series with this exceptional album of NY jazz, abstracting the jazz idiom in persuasive and stunning ways through great writing and playing.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Trespass Trio: Bruder Beda
(Clean Feed)


The 2nd Trespass Trio CD with Martin Kuchen (alto and baritone), Per Zanussi (bass) and Raymond Strid (drums and percussion), jazz music with a narrative drive from 3 powerful players.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Wright, Frank with James Blood Ulmer / Benny Wilson / Rashied Ali: Blues For Albert Ayler: Live 1974
(ESP)


Recorded live in '77 at drummer Rashied Ali's Studio 77, saxophonist Wright pays tribute to his mentor Albert Ayler on his birthday, with a quartet including guitarist James Blood Ulmer and bassist Benny Wilson.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Cusack, Peter: Sounds From Dangerous Places (2 CD's + 90 Page Hardback Book)
(ReR)


Two CDs and a 90 page hardback book with photos, info and interviews from audio documenter and experimenter Peter Cusak, recording in Chernobyl, The Caspian Oilfields, and various dangerous locations in the UK.
   
     Buy      $44.95      Listen          

 
Eleh: Radiant Intervals
(Important Records)


Remastered CD edition of Eleh's LP of the same name, exploring pure analog electroacoustic music with an emphasis on tonal juxtapositions, harmonic intervals, bass tones and various acoustic phenomenon.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Pitre, Duane: Feel Free
(Important Records)


Duane Pitre writes for a unique sextet combination with an emphasis on rhythm and melody in this lattice-work composition in 5 parts for computer, electronics, guitar, violin, hammered dulcimer, bass, cell and harp.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Pitre, Duane: Feel Free [VINYL]
(Important Records)


Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Schaeffer, Pierre: Le Triedre Fertile [VINYL]
(Recollection GRM)


"Le Triedre Fertile" is composer Pierre Schaeffer's only purely electronic music work, developed from synthetic sounds where the synthesizer is monitored by sensitivity, allowing uncanny structures to emerge.
   
     Buy      $22.95          





   Rock & Related

Black Forest Fire: Transit of Venus [VINYL]
(Sedimental)


An intriguing pop album from the Austin-based Black Forest Fire, songs of hypnotic drumming, driving bass, dream-pop vocals, and chiming arpeggiated guitars building to swirling blasts of distorted reverb.
   
     Buy      $15.95          

 
Blackshaw, James: Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death
(Important Records)


British guitarist James Blackshaw recorded this LP in Chicago, a beautiful album of emotional disquiet performed on nylon-string classical guitar, piano, and percussion, with song titles taken from sci-fi author James Tiptree Jr.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Blackshaw, James: Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death [VINYL]
(Important Records)


Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
DAT Politics: Blitz Gazer [VINYL]
(Sub Rosa)


Berlin's DAT politics create rough-edged turbo pop mood with a Kraftwerk bent, here in a new duo of Claude Pailliot and Gaetan Collet, rebooting the band with strange loops, odd vocals, and electro beats.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
El Doom & The Born Electric: The Teeth That Match My Wounds [7-inch VINYL]
(Rune Grammofon)


Two prog-oriented modern rock tracks from Norway's El Doom & The Born Electric, powerfully rocking numbers in a limited 7" release.
   
     Buy      $9.95          

 
MacLean, Steve & Chris Cutler: Year of the Dragon
(ReR)


Instrumental and song work from Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, &c.) and Steve MacLean (Dr. Nerve) with Julie Thompson as vocalist, subtle non-linear songs created using unusual processes.
   
     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Ono, Yoko / Thurston Moore / Kim Gordon: Early in the morning [10-inch VINYL]
(Chimera Music)


A limited 10" 1-sided vinyl with an etching by Yoko Ono on the flip side, bringing together Ono, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon for a powerful recording to benefit orphans from the Japanese tsunami.
   
     Buy      $19.95          

 
Susanna: Wild Dog [VINYL]
(SUSANNASONATA)


Susanna Wallumrod's 8th album, a heartfelt and rich release of introspective and lyrical songs, with collaborators including NY drummer Shahzad Ismaily (Marc Ribot, Carla Kihlstedt, Fred Frith, &c).
   
     Buy      $21.95      Listen          

 




   World & Miscellaneous

Gray, Barry: Space: 1999 [VINYL]
(RCA)


British composer Barry Gray wrote the soundtrack to the mid-70s TV show "Space 1999" (Martin Landau, Barbara Bain) using electronic instruments in unusual and intriguing ways, represented in 13 recordings from the show.
   
     Buy      $14.95          

 
Millis, Robert: This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope [DVD]
(Sublime Frequencies)


Robert Mills filmed this collage live and in the moment of the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, &c.
   
     Buy      $19.95          

 
Various Artists: Eat The Dream: Gnawa Music From Essaouira [VINYL]
(Sublime Frequencies)


The late, great master of Gnawa music, Macllem Boubker Ghania recorded this session in 1994, here interwoven with a wedding procession in the streets of Marrakech, snake charmers of the Jemma El Fna, Moroccan radio, &c.
   
     Buy      $18.95          

 




  Kadima Collective Sale!



Squidco Kadima Label Sale Squidco Kadima Label Sale

We have put the following releases from the great Israel-based improvisation label Kadima for 40% or more off the usual retail price. In addition, the first 10 customers who place an order from the sale will receive a free copy of J.C. Jones - Myelination. Also, the first 10 customer spending $80 or more in Kadima products will receive a free copy of the Kadima Triptych Series release Deep Tones for Peace. Hurry, this sale ends Sunday, June 24!

The Kadima Collective label is devoted to free improvisation, founded by bassist JC Jones. The label represents a diverse set of artists, with an emphasis on bassists including Joelle Leandre, Barre Phillips, and Mark Dresser. The label has released more than 32 titles and continues to bring outstanding improvisation to the foreground through timely and thought-provoking albums and projects.

Click here to see the sale listing.

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

   Recent Reviews





Rhodri Davies/ Mark Wastell:
Live in Melbourne
(Mikroton Recordings)




Bradford / Dresser / Ferris:
Live in LA
(Clean Feed)




Werchowska / Pontevia / Boubaker:
A Floating World
(Mikroton Recordings)


Weird Weapons:
2
(Creative Sources)




Slugfield:
Slime Zone
(PNL)




Yusef Lateef:
Roots Run Deep
(RogueArt)






   In Stock and Ready to Ship




3 Mice: di Falco / Vuille / Willey :
Send Me a Postcard
(Les Disques Rayes)

Amado, Rodrigo:
Motion Trio
(European Echoes)

Ametsub:
All is Silence
(nothings66)

Brackeen Quartet, Charles:
Worshippers Come Nigh
(Silkheart)

Brotzmann, Peter / Michael Zerang:
Live In Beirut
(Al Maslakh)

Cage, John:
Sonatas & Interludes (1946 - 1948)
(Hat [now] ART)

Captain Beefheart:
Merseytrout [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Ozit)

Cherry, Neneh & The Thing:
The Cherry Thing
(Smalltown Supersound)

Chrysakis, Thanos / Wade Matthews:
Numen
(Aural Terrains)

Dafeldecker, Werner & Theo Nabicht:
vessels
(Absinth Records)

Doneda, Michel / Nils Ostendorf:
cristallisation
(Absinth Records)

Dumont, Olivier / Rodolphe Loubatiere:
Nervure
(Creative Sources)

Eisenstadt, Haris:
Canada Day Octet
(482 Music)

Eisenstadt, Harris:
Canada Day III
(Songlines)

Elgier / Grinenco / Sahlieh:
Veiled
(Creative Sources)

Eriksen Trio, Espen:
What Took You So Long [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Rune Grammofon)

Fujiwara, Tomas & The Hook Up:
The Air is Different
(482 Music)

Gjerstad, Frode / Steve Hubback:
One Foot Moving
(FMR)

Gonzalez New Dallasangeles, Dennis:
The Desert Wind
(Silkheart)

Halperin, Jimmy:
Changing Tranes
(CIMP)

Hexentrio (Plimley / Guy / Niggli):
Hexentrio
(Intakt)

Hilton, Craig & Tomas Phillips:
le gout de neant
(Absinth Records)

Honsinger, Tristan This That and the Other:
Sketches of Probability
(Angelica)

Jealousy Party & Nicolas Wiese:
Relative Memory
(Absinth Records)

Jerman, Jeph:
For Henry F. Farny
(Trait Central)

Lamb, Andrew:
Honeymoon On Saturn
(CIMP)

Lash, Dominic / Chris Cundy:
Two Plump Daughters
(Creative Sources)

Laurain / Loubatiere / Durant:
Au Dehors
(Creative Sources)

Leaney, Aaron & Chris Dadge:
Continuity
(Bug Incision)

Machinefabriek:
Duotoon
(Machinefabriek)

Moe, Ole-Henrik :
Ciaccona / 3 Persephone Perceptions
(Rune Grammofon)

Mount Everest Trio:
Waves From Albert Ayler
(Atavistic)

Nadja:
Excision [2 CDs]
(Important Records)

New Miminokoto:
All About Mimi
(PSF)

Pisaro, Michael:
fields have ears (6)
(Gravity Wave)

Pisaro, Michael / Greg Stuart:
Hearing Metal 2
(Gravity Wave)

Pisaro, Michael / Greg Stuart:
Hearing Metal 3
(Gravity Wave)

Pisaro, Michael / Greg Stuart:
July Mountain: three versions
(Gravity Wave)

Pisaro, Michael / Greg Stuart:
ricefall (2)
(Gravity Wave)

Reed's People, Places & Things, Mike:
Clean on the Corner
(482 Music)

Rosenberger, Katharina:
Texturen (2007 - 2011)
(Hat [now] ART)

Soloveitzik / Erel / Davis:
Three States Of Freedom
(Creative Sources)

Trapist:
The Golden Years [VINYL]
(Staubgold )

Ughi, Federico:
Songs For Four Cities
(Skycap Records)

Vandermark, Ken & Paal Nilssen-Love:
Letter To A Stranger
(Smalltown Superjazzz)

Various Artists:
The Intelligent Dancer [DVD]
(Absinth Records)

Wickihalder, Jurg:
Narziss And Echo
(Intakt)



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