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UPDATE
June 3, 2022
"Improvised music means for me
No preconceived architecture."
—Keith Tippett
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Creative Artists
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• Carter/Holmes/Putman/Greene/Ughi
• Charming Hostess
• Child of Illusion (Pitsiokos/Santos Silva/Zetterberg)
• Anthony Coleman/Brian Chase
• Yuko Fujiyama/Graham Haynes/Ikue Mori
• Shimizu Kazuto/Yoshida Tatsuya
• Kitamura/Ho Bynum/Reid/Morris
• Masayo Koketsu
• Machinefabriek/Matt Wand/Nick Storring/Phil Macguire
• Massimo Magee
• Csaba Pengo
• Rekon With Friends
(Alga/Espvall/Billstrom/Vallgren/Jordansson/Ullen/Lloyd)
• Howard Riley/Keith Tippett
• Quentin Rollet/Xavier Mussat
• Patrick Shiroishi
• Elias Stemeseder
• Sun Ra Arkestra & Salah Ragab
• Sun Ra Arkestra Under The Direction Of Marshall Allen
• Tragic Assembly
• Various (The Residents/MX-80/Chrome/ Tuxedomoon)
• Matt Weston
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
7272music
American Dreams Records
Chaikin Records
Creative Sources
In and Out
Inexhaustible Editions
Intakt
Klanggalerie
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Machinefabriek
Magaibutsu Limited
NoBusiness
Relative Pitch
Soul City Sounds
STRUT
Tour de Bras
Tzadik
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Carter, Daniel / Patrick Holmes / Matthew Putman / Hilliard Greene / Federico Ughi: Telepatica
(577 Records)
Named for the long history of collaboration over decades, the NY free jazz Telepathic Band of Daniel Carter on saxophones, clarinet & trumpet, Patrick Holmes on clarinet, Matthew Putman on piano, Rhodes, Hilliard Greene on bass and Federico Ughi on drums are heard live at the 2018 Forward Festival in Brooklyn, NY for four outstandingly informed improvisations.
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Child of Illusion (Pitsiokos / Santos Silva / Zetterberg): Khimaira
(Relative Pitch)
The 3-headed monster Khimaira--a lion head in front, a goat head at its back and a snake head at its tail--is rendered by the transatlantic trio of NY saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos, Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and Swedish bassist Torbjourn Zetterberg, using profound technique, snarling interaction and contemplative patience to coax the beast in masterful interplay.
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Coleman, Anthony / Brian Chase: Arcades [VINYL]
(Chaikin Records)
Downtown NY pianist Anthony Coleman (John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Glenn Branca), and drummer Brian Chase (Jeremiah Cymerman, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Drums and Drones) present their debut collaboration, balancing jazz-influenced improvisation with avant compositional forms to forge a chamber jazz album of thoughtful interaction informed by profound technique and creative drive.
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Fujiyama, Yuko / Graham Haynes / Ikue Mori: Quiet Passion
(Intakt)
A beautiful trio album of compositions from pianist Yuko Fujiyama and presented in a mix of solo pieces and duets & trios with cornetist Graham Haynes and electronic improviser Ikue Mori, for a subtle set of elegant improvisations balancing spacious moments with responsively relaxed interplay rich with anticipation, punctuated with two poems by Shutaro Tankikawa.
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Kitamura / Ho Bynum / Reid / Morris: Geometry of Trees
(Relative Pitch)
The Geometry quartet of Tomeka Reid on cello, Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, Kyoko Kitamura on voice, and Joe Morris on guitar in their sophomore release of subtly ferocious acoustic improvisation, acute and obtuse angularity through both highly interactive playing and spacious sprawls that merge melody and pointillist styles, expanded through Kitamura's imagistic vocals; outstanding.
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Koketsu, Masayo: Fukiya
(Relative Pitch)
An extended monologue on the alto saxophone from Tokyo-based Masayo Koketsu (Carrier/Koketsu/Fuwa/Itani), driven by an innate sense of timing to introduce assertive utterances, growls, throttling and intense interaction offset with long pauses, digressive asides and reflective moments, a remarkable album of modern free jazz in the Japanese tradition.
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Magee, Massimo: Toneflower
(577 Records)
A solo sax album of patterns and intersections from London writer, artist & musician Massimo Magee, influenced by a wealth of sources from Braxton to Stockhausen, each of the five parts of "Toneflower" affected through mic placement as Magee builds to wild expressiveness, transforming round tones into stratospheric pitches, using circular breathing for extended expressiveness; stunning!
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Rekon With Friends (Alga / Espvall / Billstrom / Vallgren / Jordansson / Ullen / Lloyd): Rekon With Friends
(Creative Sources)
The core Rekon trio of multi-instrumentalist and wind player Daniel Borgegård Älgå, guitarist Leif Jordansson and drummer Perry Vallgren are joined by guests, cellist Helena Espvall, bassist Niklas Billstrom, trumpeter Mike Lloyd and pianist Lisa Ullen, for four lyrical and experimentally inclined improvisations, a beautiful balance of diverse approaches to modern jazz.
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Riley, Howard / Keith Tippett: Journal Four
(NoBusiness)
Having collaborated as a duo first at Goldsmiths College in 1981, UK pianists Howard Riley and Keith Tippett met for this spectacular 2016 concert as part of The Steinway Spirio Two-Piano Festival in Soho, London, each bringing decades of experience as lyrical and inventive players, together complementing each other in merging disparate forms from Joplin to Debussy to Mujician.
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Rollet, Quentin / Xavier Mussat: Debordements
(Tour de Bras)
Soundscapes, drones, disruptive aberrations, textures and perplexingly absorbing interactions btween French guitarist and sound artist Xavier Mussat and saxophonist Quentin Rollett (Red Krayloa, Nurse with Wound), performing live at Instants Chavires, in Montreuil, France in 2020 for eight diverse and unusual improvisations.
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Shiroishi, Patrick: Hidemi [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(American Dreams Records)
A meditation on the life of Japanese-Americans after living in California's concentration camps during World War II, performed by Patrick Shiroishi through layering of c melody saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone and voice, reflecting on his own grandfathers's seemingly unbearable experience through patience and dignity.
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Stemeseder, Elias: Piano Solo
(Intakt)
A solo album from Austrian-born, NY-based pianist Elias Stemeseder, a member of the Jim Black Trio and Dre Hocevar, here presenting 14 original compositions, succinct works of inventive structures and insightful improvisation along with a traditional Austrian tune "foeggslia'l", an album revealing great skill, quick wit, and a complex mind that yields delightfully intrepid discovery.
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Sun Ra Arkestra & Salah Ragab: Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt
(STRUT)
The last installment in Strut's Sun Ra reissue series is also the first time that Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt album has been reissued, bringing to light these studio recordings between the Arkestra and Egyptian drummer Salah Ragab, recorded during Ra's 1983 Egyptian tour, and featuring two Ragab compostions from his Cairo Jazz Band.
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Sun Ra Arkestra Under The Direction Of Marshall Allen: Live At Babylon [VINYL 2 LPs LTD AUDIOPHILE w/ M.A. Signature]
(In and Out)
The Sun Ra Arkestra configured as the 14-piece Centennial Dream Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen are heard in an ecstatic live concert at Istanbul's Babylon music club in 2014, released as a double LP audiophile edition, with performances of Sun Ra classics including "Astro Black", "Saturn", "Discipline 27B", and "Satellites Are Spinning".
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Tragic Assembly: Instability
(Soul City Sounds)
The trio of North Carolina Triangle free jazz players Crowmeat Bob on bass clarinet, clarinet, alto & tenor saxophones, Phil Venable on upright bass, and Charles Chance on drums, Venable and Chance known from The Paul Swest band, here in a studio album of seven collective free improvisations using open and often abstract approaches to melody and rhythm.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Machinefabriek / Matt Wand / Nick Storring / Phil Macguire: Prisma+
(Machinefabriek)
Unique to the vast catalog of Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, this album was developed with Zuydervelt original material and then remixed by Matt Wand, Nick Storring and Phil Maguire, presenting the original highly rhythmic electronics at the base of "Prisma", then 4 remixes: "Scarlett's Blood Bubbles"; "Tactile Debt"; "Thigh Slapping Without Tears"; and "Wheats Flats".
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Weston, Matt: Sparky 3 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(7272music)
The 3rd installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Charming Hostess: The Ginzburg Geography
(Tzadik)
An examination of the lives and work of anti-fascist political activists Natalia and Leone Ginzburg during World War II, researched and developed by late vocalist and composer Jewlia Eisenberg, this album completed by her longtime collaborator Marika Hughes and performed with musicians including Nils Frykdahl, Darren Johnston, Dan Cantrell, &c.
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Kazuto, Shimizu / Yoshida Tatsuya: Whatchamacallits [CD + DOWNLOAD MOVIE LINK]
(Magaibutsu Limited)
A live recording at Koenji Jirokichi in 2022 between Magaibtusu leader Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojinn, Koenji Hyakkei, PYN, &c) and pianist Kazuto Shimizu (Arepos, Chakra, Hikashu, Killing Time, Lars Hollmer's Global Home Project, &c), both on vocals as they unfold a playful and technically incredible set of "Doodads", "Watchamacallits" and other wonderful curiosities.
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Various (The Residents / MX-80 / Chrome / Tuxedomoon): Subterranean Modern
(Klanggalerie)
Reissued as the inexplicable avant rock band The Residents celebrate their 50th year, this compilation album from 1979 includes tracks from San Fransisco peer bands Chrome (Damon Edge/Helios Creed), Art rockers from Indiana, MX-80 Sound, SF electronic new wave band Tuxedomoon, and four tracks from The Resident's themselves, two with Fred Frith on guitar.
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Compositional
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Pengo, Csaba: Circles
(Inexhaustible Editions)
Hungarian double bass player Csaba Pengő in an album of solo compositions alongside four duos with fellow double bassist Ádám Bögöthy, Pengő's influences from chamber music to jazz-based improvisation heard in his substantial tone and strong bowing as he creates languid and beautiful landscapes through patient harmonic riffs and cyclical rhythmic motifs.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear
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Jennifer Allum, John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Eddie Prevost:
Sounds of Assembly
(Meena)
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Studio Dan/Michel Doneda:
Fanfare III
(ROS 1)
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Eva-Maria Houben:
3 Trios
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Korekyojinn (Yoshida / Nasuno / Natsuki):
Mesopotamia
(Magaibutsu Limited)
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-Don Van Vliet
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