The Squid's Ear Magazine


Dietrichs (Don Dietrich / Camille Dietrich): Live Bahdu (Relative Pitch)

Uniting legendary tenor saxophonist Don Dietrich with cellist Camille Dietrich, this fierce duo performance surges with overwhelming intensity, as lung-shaking sax eruptions collide with raw, textural cello force to engulf the sonic space in dense, high-velocity, noise-driven free improv, captured live at the 2025 Ear We Are festival in Biel, Switzerland.
 

Price: $13.95



Quantity:

In Stock

Quantity in Basket: None

Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units

Sample The Album:





Product Information:

Personnel:



Camille Dietrich-cello

Don Dietrich-tenor saxophone

Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.



UPC: 5904224875008

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPR1256
Squidco Product Code: 37284

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded live at the Ear We Are festival in Biel, Switzerland, on February 6th, 2025, by Lars Dolle.
Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

Artist Biographies

"Having grown up exposed to her father's playing since birth Camille Dietrich has been in a unique position as a musician, being subjected to a method of free playing that takes most artists years of exploration to locate. Yet as a cellist Camille has not grown up a copy of her father, and while she shares his unforgiving intensity in her playing, there is an individual confidence and playfulness to how she approaches her instrument [...]"

-Pica Disk (http://www.picadisk.com/pica042.html)
4/8/2026

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.

"Don Dietrich is a saxophonist and founding member of New York City based improvisational group, Borbetomagus. Recently, he has become involved with the noise/free jazz "supergroup" The New Monuments (with C. Spencer Yeh and Ben Hall)."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Dietrich_(musician))
4/8/2026

Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.


Track Listing:
Related Categories of Interest:

March 2026
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Jazz
NY Downtown & Metropolitan Jazz/Improv
Duo Recordings
Recordings by or featuring Reed & Wind Players
Stringed Instruments
New in Improvised Music
Recent Releases and Best Sellers

Search for other titles on the label:
Relative Pitch.


Recommended & Related Releases:
Dietrichs (Camille Dietrich / Don Dietrich)
Catch the Leaves
(Relative Pitch)
Definitely of the Borbetomagus mold, the duo of tenor saxophonist Don Dietrich and cellist Camille Dietrich, his daughter who grew up under the influence of that band's relentlessly aggressive free jazz, here in a live performance at Tubby's in Kingston, New York for four burning improvisations that take apart a tree, leaving the audience to catch the fragments; terrifyingly intense!
New Monuments (Dietrich / Spencer / Hall)
New Earth
(Pleasure of the Text Records)
Burning free improvisation from the New Monument trio of saxophonist Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus), violinist/vocalist C. Spencer Yeh, and drummer Ben Hall ( Graveyards), their 3rd formal album after releases on Bocian and Important Records, as the trio tangle strings, reeds and drums in a turbulent set of improvisations that scorch the earth to make something new.
Borbetomagus
Trente Belles Annees
(Agaric)
Live recordings from Instants Chavires in Montreuil, France as the final concert of the Borbetomagus 2009 tour, a blistering 46 minute improvisation celebrating 30 years of this groundbreaking noise jazz trio's work.
Borbetomagus / Voice Crack
Fish That Sparkling Bubble
(Agaric)
The meeting of the extreme jazz trio Borbetomagus and the electroacoustic trio Voicetrack for an album of radical textures, timbres, colors, and tone fields.
Borbetomagus / Shaking Ray Levis
Coelacanth [10" VINYL]
(Agaric)
1991 collaboration between Shaking Ray Levis and Borbetomagus in an exquisite mix of over-amplified and otherwise bewilderingly fierce free improv.
Borbetomagus
Songs Our Mother Taught Us
(Agaric)
Three performances from London and Glasgow from New York saxophonists Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich, and guitarist Donald Miller, playing through pedals and distortion devices in unique and irascible free improvisations.
Borbetomagus / Hijokaidan
Both Noises End Burning
(Les Disques Victo)
Two monster proponents of noise esthetics, representing two continents whose cultures have often been described as incompatible, meet in the celebration of noise.
Goal Weight (Maggie Cox / Jennifer Gersten)
Keep Telling Yourself That
(Relative Pitch)
Koketsu, Masayo / Nava Dunkelman
Veins of Rain
(Relative Pitch)



Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought:
Merzbow / Gustafsson / Pandi
Cuts Cut
(Les Disques Victo)
Documenting a ferocious live performance from the 2018 Victoriaville Festival with additional recordings from 2025, the trio of Merzbow (electronics), Mats Gustafsson (bass & baritone sax, electronics), and Balázs Pándi (drums) unleash a volatile collision of noise, free jazz intensity, and crushing rhythmic force of towering electronic textures, blistering sax blasts, and wildly inventive percussion.
LDL (Leimgruber, Urs / Jacques Demierre / Thomas Lehn)
The Eerie Glow Of Jellyfish
(Relative Pitch)
Marshall, Hannah
Grazing
(Relative Pitch)
Mayas', Magda Filamental
Murmur
(Relative Pitch)
Exploring the fluid coordination and shifting forms of collective motion, pianist Magda Mayas leads her octet Filamental — featuring Zeena Parkins, Rhodri Davies, Aimée Theriot, Anthea Caddy, Angharad Davies, Christine Abdelnour, and Michael Thieke — in an intricate program of ensemble-driven free improv where shared memory, evolving textures, and intuitive interplay coalesce into dynamic, murmuration-like structures.
Tippet, Keith / Julie Tippet / Trevor Watts / Colin MacKenzie
Warm Spirits Cool Spirits
(FMR)
Reissuing British pianist Keith Tippett quartet with vocalist Julie Tippetts, saxophonist Trevor Watts, and bassist Colin McKenzie for an intimate session blending composed miniatures with open improvisation, where piano, voice, reeds, and bass move between lyrical passages and exploratory free jazz interplay in a collaborative and expressive dialogue.
Taylor, Cecil New Unit (Tony Oxley / Hari Sjostrom / Okkyung Lee / Jackson Krall)
Words & Music (The Last Bandstand)
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Reviving Cecil Taylor's legendary Unit concept, this searing New Unit performance with Okkyung Lee (cello), Tony Oxley (electronics), Harri Sjostrom (soprano and sopranino saxophones), and Jackson Krall (drums) documents the final concert of Taylor's life in a nearly eighty-minute fusion of music and spoken word, recorded live on April 23, 2016, at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / John Edwards / Marc Sanders)
Sharp Illusion
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
The third release from the trio of John Butcher, John Edwards and Mark Sanders captures a live performance in Lublin that unfolds across four extended improvisations, balancing explosive collective energy and deep listening restraint as saxophones, bass and percussion interweave in a fluid, highly responsive dialogue shaped by decades of shared experience within the UK and European free improv community.
Altman, Laura
Holy Trinity
(Relative Pitch)
Recorded at the Holy Trinity Anglican church in York, Western Australia, this solo work from Laura Altman explores the interplay of instrument, environment, and intervention, as clarinet, voice, tapes, and small objects interact with feedback and resonant space to create a delicate yet expressive sound world where shifting timbres, silence, and acoustic response blur the boundaries between source and surroundings.
Gemmo, Francesca / Magda Mayas
Tides In The Mirror (first visit)
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Recorded in Verona, Italy, pianists Francesca Gemmo and Magda Mayas engage in an intricate dialogue between piano and prepared piano, blending Gemmo's contemplative lyricism and impressionist echoes with Mayas's inventive explorations of touch, timbre, and texture, creating a vivid and unpredictable sonic landscape of tension, nuance, and resonance.
Zorn, John / Mary Halvorson Quartet
The Bagatelles Vol. 1
(Tzadik)
Originally part of the Bagatelles 4-CD box set, this standalone release presents John Zorn's tightly constructed compositions interpreted by the Mary Halvorson Quartet, where Halvorson's microtonal guitar meets Miles Okazaki's rhythmic fluidity, propelled by bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tomas Fujiwara in an explosive and intricately woven set of high-energy, avant-garde jazz explorations.
Abdou / Gouband / Warelis
Hammer, Roll and Leaf
(Relative Pitch)
With a thoughtful approach to collective improvisation, saxophonist Sakina Abdou, pianist Marta Warelis, and percussionist Toma Gouband weave free music into a 60-minute arc of intimate, acoustic interplay, exploring collective themes like a torn canvas of echoes and fragments, where each gesture binds, stretches, and celebrates stories woven from ash and memory.
Parker, Evan / Mark Nauseef / Toma Gouband
As The Wind
(psi)
A brilliant album of subtle and masterful improvisation recorded in 2012 at and using the reverb of the St. Peters church in Whitstable by soprano saxophonist Evan Parker with two percussionists: Toma Gouband on lithophone-based percussion and Mark Nauseef on metallophone-based percussion.
Fenetre Ovale (Risser / Ruhl / Billet / Gouband)
Deuxieme Volet
(Umlaut Records)
Transcendental and exceptional improvisation in the 2nd release from the Fenetre Ovale project, with composer Karl Naegelen and improvisers Eve Risser (piano) and Joris Ruhl (clarinet), expanded with the arrival of percussionist Toma Gouband and violinist Amaryllis Billet.
Kuchen / Rowe / Wright
Kuchen / Rowe / Wright
(Another Timbre)
The dual alto saxophones of Martin Kuchen and Seymour Wright meet guitarist Keith Rowe for an impressive journey of free improvisation with Rowe taking the lead.




The Squid's Ear Magazine

The Squid's Ear Magazine

© 2002-, Squidco LLC