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SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS

May 23, 2008

A shorter list as we catch up from vacations and go into the Memorial Day Weekend. Highlights this time around include the new Scorch Trio on CD & LP, and our addition of Paal Nilssen-Love's PNL label, including his latest duo with Broo Magnus; 5 Japanese facsimile releases of Art Zoyd's original LPs; 5 new Cuneiform titles including new Lars Hollmer and Wadada Leo Smith CDs; 2 new Hatology releases including a new Dave Liebman and Ellery Eskelin CD and a Matthew Shipp reissue; 3 additional titles from Alfred Harth's Laubhuette CDR label; and a strange vocal duo LP from Jaap Blonk and DylanNyoukis.

There are also a large number of items in stock but still working their way to this news letter. The next issue of this mailing list will also list several new reviews on The Squid's Ear that will be published over the next two weeks.

Last, it seems that inflation is now a way of life and the US Post Office has announced annual changes to their postal rates, which started May 15. Consequently we've made some minor changes to our shipping policies, which you can read about here. Our new rates aren't significantly different than before: US media mail is a flat rate of $2.25 for any size order, and international and US 1st Class orders have Squidco picking up additional shipping costs over 6 items. We're always happy to quote actual shipping costs for any customer should you have any concerns, so please feel free to contact us.

Improvisation:
$16.95 Buy	Asheim, Nils Henrik / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Late Play (PNL)
	Percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love in duet with organist Nils Henrik Asheim for dark onimous works of dramatic tension and tactile, scraping and thunderous drumming.

$16.95 Buy	Broo, Magnus / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Game (PNL)
	Versatile and prolific drummer Paal Nilssen-Love's 3rd release on his PNL label is a duo with trumpeter Broo Magnus, 6 extended and dynamic improvisations.

$18.95 Buy	Choi Sun Bae: Solo (Laubhuette)
	26 free improvisations from Korean trumpeter Choi Sun Bae demonstrating a masterful control and range over the instrument in traditional and unique approaches to the horn.

$16.95 Buy	Cohn / Lane / Sage / Siwula / Shimizu: Wire (Konnex)
	Spontaneous compositions from this New York quintet with an excellent lineup of seasoned improvisors, recording live in The Studio downtown in NYC.

$14.95 Buy	Cosmologic: Eyes in the Back of My Head (Cuneiform)
	Cosmologic (Robinson/Dessen/Walton/Hubbard) makes or interprets music in the vein of Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Coltrane, &c, here in their 4th release of original compositions.

$14.95 Buy	Flying Luttenbachers, The : Trauma (Ugexplode)
	CD reissue of this 2001 studio album originally released as a double colored vinyl LP from the furious free jazz trio of Weasel Walter, Michael Colligan and Kurt Johnson.

$14.95 Buy	Halvorson, Mary / Walter, Weasel: Opulence (Ugexplode)
	First time meeting between East Coast guitar diva Mary Halvorson and West Coast drumming iconoclast Weasel Walter for 8 tracks of telepathic improvisation.

$18.95 Buy	Harth, Alfred : Vor Gang (Laubhuette)
	Described simply as "Alfred Harth plays acoustic guitar", this is a guttural approach to the instrument using scrapes, thumps and all manner of unusual attacks to make his statements.

$18.95 Buy	Harth, Alfred / Foster, Joseph / and 5 more with Choi Sun Bae: Live at LaubhetteStudio (Laubhuette)
	Nine minimal and scrabbly works from Harth and trumpeter Foster employing every aspect of their instruments, inside and out; then 5 more in trio with Korean trumpeter Choi Sun Bae.

$15.95 Buy	Jamal, Khan / Taylor, Dylan: Fire & Water (CIMP)
	Philly associates Khan Jamal & Dylan Taylor in a set of standards and originals including work by Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Coltrane, &c., playing vibes, balafon, bass and cello.

$19.95 Buy	Liebman, David / Eskelin, Ellery: Renewal (Hatology)
	DaveLiebman & Ellery Eskelin unite again with Tony Marino and Jim Black in an exceptional NY quartet of freedom and spontaneity framed within underlying jazz structures.

$16.95 Buy	Marhaug, Lasse / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Stalk (PNL)
	Paal Nilssen-Love with Lasse Marhaug, recorded and edited by Fe-mail/Spunk Hild Sofie Tafjord to create 6 fascinating free-form compositions of sound and texture.

$16.95 Buy	New (Edwards / Noble / Ward): Deadeye Tricksters (Bo Weavil Recordings)
	The European trio of notable free jazz players Steve Noble on drums, John Edwards on bass and Alex Ward on guitar incorporates language, ritual, myth, and laughter.

$14.95 Buy	Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Forked Tongue (Cuneiform)
	The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble plays New Orleans style jazz, performing in Sun Ra inspired costumes while jamming on originals & covers from Ornette Coleman to Billy Idol.

$13.95 Buy	Schumacher, Stanley and the Music Now Ensemble: Uber Brass (Musikmacher)
	The Music Now Ensemble is Stanley Schumacher's shifting collective exploring aspects of improvisation, here presenting an all brass trio with Nate Wooley and David Hofstra.

$16.95 Buy	Scorch Trio: Brolt (Rune Grammofon)
	The 3rd album from the power trio of Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Raoul Björkenheim is a masterful example of passionate improvisation and breathtaking interplay.

$19.95 Buy	Shipp Trio, Matthew : The Multiplication Table (re-issue) (Hatology)
	Reissue of Matthew Shipp's '97 trio release with Susie Ibarra and William Parker in a set of original numbers, along with Strayhorns "A Train", an Ellington Jam, and "Autumn Leaves".

$14.95 Buy	Smith, Wadada Leo: Tabligh (Cuneiform)
	Trumpet legend Wadada Leo Smith in a quartet with Vijay Iyer, Shannon Jackson and John Lindberg playing music from free improv to late 60's Miles.

$18.95 Buy	Van Hove, Fred: Journey (psi)
	Fred Van Hove's 52 minute solo piano performance at the Jazz à Mulhouse summer festival 2007 reveals one of the giants of improvised music at the height of his creative powers.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$25.95 Buy	Art Zoyd: 3 (Symphonie Pour Le Jour, 1976 version) (Belle Antique)
	Reissue of the first self-released Art Zoyd LP from 1976, a legendary and impressive chamber rock record of unusual and complex music years ahead of its time.

$25.95 Buy	Art Zoyd: Génération Sans Futur (Belle Antique)
	Art Zoyd's 3rd LP from 1980 now with Daniel Denis on drums is an impressive album of complex, dramatic music with shifting time signatures, tones and unlikely twists and turns.

$25.95 Buy	Art Zoyd: Musique pour l'Odyssée (Belle Antique)
	Three years after Art Zoyd's 1st release, this album presents a slightly different lineup for a set of cinematic journeys in complex classical rock compositions.

$33.95 Buy	Art Zoyd: Phase IV (Belle Antique)
	Art Zoyd's 4th release was this double LP originally released on Recommended Records, an album with great rhythmic and compositional drive using an intense sonic palette.

$25.95 Buy	Art Zoyd: Symphonie Pour Le Jour Où Brûleront Les Cités (Belle Antique)
	A different version of the 1st Art Zoyd LP with a differing lineup, impressive chamber rock of unusual, startling and complex music from members of the RIO movement.

$14.95 Buy	Hollmer, Lars: Viandra (Cuneiform)
	Keyboardist and Samla Mammas Viandra is an album of sophisticated and often demented melodic compositions with great warmth, intimacy, and even innocence.

$14.95 Buy	Univers Zero: (Remastered) (Cuneiform)
	The remaster of the first album from innovative chamber rock/RIO band Univers Zero album, a fascinating and inventive combination of rock and compositional music.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$18.95 Buy	Harth, Alfred : Achter Atem: Remix of Kang Taehwan's solo-album Seven Breath (Laubhuette)
	Alfred Harth's remix of Korean saxophonist Kang Tae Hwan's Seven breath, using sounds exclusively from Kang's alto to create formidable aural environments of great textural richness.

$16.95 Buy	Jeck, Philip: Sand (Touch)
	Sand highlights Jeck's mastery of vinyl manipulation, personal and collective memories, a piece that is at once elegiac, celebrational, mournful and uplifting.

$14.95 Buy	Sawako: Bitter Sweet (12K)
	New York/Tokyo based Sawako is a software designer and multimedia artist whose works intermix her music with inspiration ranging from nature, science, academia and poetic motion.

Compositional:
$24.95 Buy	Ashley, Robert: Concrete (Lovely Music)
	Concrete follows from Ashley's preoccupation with the kind of speech that has not been explored in opera: the bizarre and unreal speech of marginal people.

$14.95 Buy	Gaburo, Kenneth: Lingua II: Maledetto / Antiphony VIII (Pogus)
	2 works from Kenneth Gaburo (1926-93): Maledetto, a piece for 7 voices spoken, sung and shouted; and "Antiphony VIII", a counter-cultural percussionist and electronic tape work about nuclear war.

$14.95 Buy	Wickham-Smith, Simon: Love & Lamentation (Pogus)
	Three mutated organized sound works from composer Wickham Smith: a work based on tape of a monastic recital; a piece manipulating language; and work for voice and electronics.

Vinyl:
$9.95 Buy	Ambarchi, Oren: Destinationless Desire 7" [VINYL] (Touch)
	The 5th installment in Touch Records' 7" series is the ever-brilliant guitarist/electronic artist Oren Ambarchi of sonic transitions and textures.

$15.95 Buy	Blonk, Jaap / Nyoukis, Dylan : Dubbletwee [VINYL] (Ecstatic Peace)
	Two startling voices meet in "relentless and rapacious slew of ululation and indescribable utterance": Jaap Blonk and Chocolate Monk's Dylan Nyoukis.

$24.95 Buy	Scorch Trio: Brolt! [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon)
	The 3rd album from the power trio of Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Raoul Björkenheim is a masterful example of passionate improvisation and breathtaking interplay.

Book:
$7.95 Buy	Wire, The: #292 June 2008
	On The Cover: Evangelista, interviews with Nihilist Spasm Band, People Like Us, and Yoshi Wada.

World:
$15.95 Buy	Tzotziles: Psalms, Stories and Music (Sub Rosa)
	Reissue of this 1999 release of recordings from the Tzotzile community in Chiapas, Mexico, last descendants of the Mayan culture, in ritual music and audio fragments.

$15.95 Buy	Various Artists: Radio Myanmar (Burma) (Sublime Frequencies)
	A fascinating set of diverse recordings, commercials, annoucements, &c. from Burma's The Union Solidarity & Development Association recorded in Yangon in 2007.

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