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UPDATE
August 2, 2024
"Abstractly speaking,
There are as many sounds as molecules in the human body.
Let them accomplish their work!"
—Joëlle Léandre
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Essential Artists
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• Agnel/Camps/Rieussec/Lazro
• Goncalo Almeida (Almedia/Silva/Costa)
• Catalogue (Berrocal/Pauvros/Artman)
• Countryman/Toyozumi/Bates
• On Ka'a Davis (Davis/McKenzie II/Ali)
• Jean-Marc Foussat/Guy-Frank Pellerin/Eugenio Sanna
• Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura
• Luisa Goncalves
• The Jazz Doctors
(Bang/Lowe/Morris/Barker/Garrett/Charles)
• Klein/Rosaly/Warelis
• Joëlle Léandre
• Andy Moor/Marta Warelis
• Margaux Oswald Collateral Damage
• Ada Rave
• Guilherme Rodrigues/Ben Bennett/Ernesto Rodrigues
• Udo Schindler/Michel Wintsch
• Wilfrido Terrazas/Kyle Motl
• Tatsuya Yoshida x Risa Takeda
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Essential Labels
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Cadillac Records
Cbzm Records
Clean Feed
Creative Sources
FMR
Fou Records
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Libra
Magaibutsu Limited
Relative Pitch
RogueArt
Tzadik
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Agnel / Camps / Rieussec / Lazro: Quartet Un Peu Tendre
(Fou Records)
The duo of French sound artists J-Kristoff Camps and Carole Rieussec, whose long-running duo project Kristoff K.Roll creates sound labyrinths of electroacoustic and acousmatic sources, meets with pianist Sophie Agnel and saxophonist Daunik Lazro for two extended works of sonic twists and turns, acoustic improvisation infiltrated with mysterious and startling sound; fascinating.
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Almeida, Goncalo (Almedia / Silva / Costa): States of Restraint
(Clean Feed)
Recorded at Sonoscopia, the Porto, Portugal experimental music and sound art hub under the direction of percussionist Gustavo Costa, double bassist Gonçalo Almeida leads a trio with trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and Gustavo Costa performing the five-part Almeida composition "Restraint", fulfilling the title through commanding cliff's-edge control.
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Countryman / Toyozumi / Bates: Lovely Tago (On A Sunday Night)
(FMR)
The first of two performances at Tago Jazz in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines in 2024 between first generation Japanese free improv drummer Sabu Toyozumi, Malaysia-based bassist Richard Allan Bates, and Philippines-based alto saxophonist Rick Countryman, two contrasting sets from the first of a week of performances and studio recordings between three extraordinary collective players.
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Countryman / Toyozumi / Bates: Lovely Tago (On A Friday Night)
(FMR)
The second of two performances at Tago Jazz in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines in 2024 between first generation Japanese free improvisational drummer, Sabu Toyozumi, Malaysia-based bassist, Richard Allan Bates, and Philippines-based alto saxophonist, Rick Countryman, this energetic concert recorded after two days in the studio developing their collective sound.
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Davis, On Ka'a (Davis / McKenzie II / Ali): ...Here's to Another Day and Night for the Lwa of the Woke
(Tzadik)
The second Tzadik release for guitarist On Ka'a Davis in a trio with trumpeter Ali Ali and drummer Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie II, for a wild album of electric jazz with a psychedelic edge, fourteen tracks with spectacular and high-powered playing balanced with moments of introspective awe, music standing in the shadows of Mahavishnu, Material or late Miles.
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Foussat, Jean-Marc / Guy-Frank Pellerin / Eugenio Sanna : Escale
(Fou Records)
Four electroacoustic improvisations recorded in Italy between Jean-Marc Foussat on Synthi AKS, piano, toys & voice, Guy-Franck Pellerin on saxophones & percussion, and Eugenio Sanna on amplified guitar, metal strips balloons, cellophane & voices, an album of unconventional orchestration and approach that fascinates in its unusual sonic journey.
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Fujii, Satoko / Natsuki Tamura : Aloft
(Libra)
Propelled by the confidence and intimacy that a familial relationship brings to two improvisers, imbued by each player's masterful technical skills and creative drive, the husband and wife duo of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura expand their catalog with this set of magnificent dialogs, sometimes quirky, always powerful and implicitly lyrical.
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Goncalves, Luisa: Under your Breath - Solo Piano Works II
(Clean Feed)
Portuguese pianist Luísa Gonçalves' second volume of solo improvisations extends her 2020 album Unno with eight new, lyrical works of succint and focused compositions that bring both her classical and improvisation skills to the foreground through beautifully structured and elegant works, ending with a lovely homage to "Bill Evans" that seemingly hangs in space.
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Jazz Doctors, The (Bang / Lowe / Morris / Barker / Garrett / Charles): Intensive Care: Prescriptions Filled: The Billy Bang Quartet Sessions 1983/1984
(Cadillac Records)
With two bass players (Wilber Morris & Rafael Garrett), two drummers (Denis Charles & Thurman Barker, violinist Billy Band and tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe, this 1984 album covered pieces from Jackie McLean, Butch Morris, Ornette Coleman and Rashied Ali, here remastered with a previously unreleased 1984 session including a 2-part suite composed by Billy Bang.
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Klein / Rosaly / Warelis: Tendresse
(Relative Pitch)
Since 2020 this trio of Amsterdam-based improvisers have worked together to develop a unique free improvisational language, fueled by but not contained to jazz forms, as heard in this debut album recorded in 2022 between three ex-patriots residing in Amsterdam: German bass & contrabass clarinetist Tobias Klein, Polish pianist Marta Warelis and Chicago drummer Frank Rosaly.
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Leandre, Joelle: Lifetime Rebel [4 CDs + DVD + BOOKLET]
(RogueArt)
The complete recording of Joëlle Léandre's Lifetime Achievement evening that opened the 2023 Vision Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn, in a box set with 4 CDs, a DVD of a 2023 interview punctuated with bass solos, and a 32-page color booklet of concert images and liner notes from John Sharpe; performances by Tiger Trio, Roaring Tree, Atlantic Ave Septet & the duo of Léandre/Moten.
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Moor, Andy / Marta Warelis: Escape
(Relative Pitch)
Improvisations recorded at the historical Zaal 100 in Amsterdam between pianist Marta Warelis, whose previous Relative Pitch solo album A Grain of Earth had her playing inside and out of the keyboard; here joined by The Ex and Dog Faced Hermans guitarist and improviser Moor the two create both introspective and rapid-paced sonic interactions of fascinating twists and turns
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Oswald, Margaux Collateral Damage: In Time, Hollow Oaks Become Chapels
(Clean Feed)
The debut of this international septet with three double basses, two electric guitars, drums, and grand piano, led by pianist Margaux Oswald, who chose these players for their connection to Copenhagen and their previous collaborations in varying configurations, here their collective improvisations employing subgroups juxtaposed to full ensemble power through texture and timbre.
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Rave, Ada: In Search Of A Real World
(Relative Pitch)
A collection of sonic poems & images that are inspired by her search for a 'real world' — more tangible and less virtual — presented by Argentinian saxophonist based in Amsterdam, Ada Rave, performing on tenor, soprano & sopranino saxophones with differing preparations for each improvisation, while also being influenced by the native music of the Mapuche people and Argentinian folk music.
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Rodrigues, Guilherme / Ben Bennett / Ernesto Rodrigues: This Full Mouth
(Creative Sources)
An extraordinary meeting in Berlin, where Portuguese cellist Guilherme Rodrigues resides, with Creative Sources label leader and long-time collaborator as a father/son duo, violist Ernesto Rodrigues, joining as a trio with US percussionist Ben Bennett, known for his work with Michael Foster and Jack Wright, for an incredibly well-balanced album of unorthodox technique and creative expresion.
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Schindler, Udo / Michel Wintsch: Tout L’ame Resumee
(FMR)
Drawing on a sound poem from French poet Stéphane Malarmé published in 1875, pianist Michel Wintsch and multi-reedist Udo Schindler on bass clarinet and alto saxophone tubax (a modified contrabass saxophone) perform five expressive and assertive improvisations with titles "borrowed from Stéphane Malarmé, who sees his texts as instruments."
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Terrazas, Wilfrido / Kyle Motl: Seven Gifts
(FMR)
Seven Gifts as an offering through seven improvisations between double bassist Kyle Motl (Peter Kuhn Trio, Kyle Motl Trio) and Mexican flutist Wilfrido Terrazas, transforming their instruments through texture and tone to draw imagistic and free flowing stories in each conversation, applying unique and evocative approaches to their dialogs.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Catalogue (Berrocal / Pauvros / Artman): Assassins
(Fou Records)
Trumpeter Jac Berrocal's 80's underground avant-garde band Catalogue with drummer Gilbert Artman (Lard Free, Urban Sax) and electric guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros were known for their merging of experimental and boundary pushing forms of improvised jazz, punk, and rock (Think Etron Fou or This Heat); these early recordings by Jean-Marc Foussat find the band at their most assertively eclectic.
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Yoshida, Tatsuya x Risa Takeda: YGGDRASILL
(Magaibutsu Limited)
Thirteen high-speed rock improvisations on drums, synth, piano & voice from the continuing collaboration of Magaibutsu label leader & drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and synthesist & pianist Risa Takeda, each track titled for Nordic mythology, the album title a reference to the World Tree, a giant ash supporting the universe; dramatic, amazing, unconventional instrumental music.
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Yoshida, Tatsuya x Risa Takeda: Falsifiability
(Cbzm Records)
The duo of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and keyboardist Risa Takeda take to the road in a 2023 summer tour, their rock-based improvisations energetically wild and masterfully controlled as they run through 11 pieces in a concert at Environment 0g in Osaka, the title referencing the capacity for some proposition or theory to be proven wrong; in contrast, this concert is quite right!
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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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Otomo Yoshihide:
Hummingbird and Four Flowers - Turntable and Harmonium Solo Live
(Hitorri)
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Ensemble 5 (Geisser / Blumer / Staub / Morgenthaler / Dell):
The Human Factor
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Franz Koglmann:
Near Blue - A Taste of Melancholy
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Nikolaus Gerszewski (Giusto Chamber Orchestra):
3 Works For Strings
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records, Ltd.)
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Dominic Lash / Stale Liavik Solberg:
Hey Kje
(Confront)
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Mars Williams & Hamid Drake:
I Know You Are But What Am I?
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
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Giuseppe Doronzo / Andy Moor / Frank Rosaly:
Futuro Ancestrale
(Clean Feed)
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Sergio Armaroli / Evan Parker:
Dialog
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Matthew Shipp and Steve Swell:
Space Cube Jazz
(RogueArt)
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Jonas Cambien:
Maca Conu
(Clean Feed)
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Eric Dolphy:
At the Five Spot to Iron Man, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Evelyn Glennie / Szilard Mezei Polar Quartet:
Capt's Look
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Stay Current With Squidco
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-Don Van Vliet
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