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Another fine month of releases, 90 new ones listed here, including new Leo titles; a great set of new Magaibutusu CDs; an excellent documentary on Misha Mengelberg and a new ICP Orchestra title; several UTech releases (Fennesz fans don't miss Nadja!); Evolving Ear's dark and disturbingly intense Peeesseye; Magma's retrospective DVD Mythes et Legendes; issues on Doubtmusic of Masayuki Takayanagi's Axis quartet; the reissue of Evan Parker's The Topography of the Lungs; several new Tzadik titles; the great Ut Gret triple CD; a comprehensive Cornelius Cardew book; My Cat is an Alien reissues; and for readers, the latest Wire (watch the site this week for the latest Signal to Noise already in house).
The late Masayuki Takayanagi started in the 50's as an active improviser in the Japanese scene, working with his own New Directions trio, Three Blind Mice, April is the Cruelest Month, and Axis Another Revolvable Thing. He also was one of Japan's earliest noise guitar improvisers. He worked with Keith Rowe, John Zorn, and Abe Kaoru, amongst countless others. This recording of Axis is from a concert at Tokyo's Yasuda Seimei Hall in 1975.See [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The new Bent Spoon Trio album takes a new approach from the last, this time working with small(er) track lengths. It was recorded in the smoking stairwell of ACAD, which, as anybody who's been in there knows, has insane amounts of sound to play with. The record ended up being a document of our afternoon there, and features improvisations, along with other tracks that help give a sense of the space we were working with. As with the other BUG INCISION albums, this release will feature some lucid [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The Boxhead Ensemble returns with their fourth proper studio album (fifth in sum) since the inception of the Dutch Harbor project in 1996. The collective's leader Michael Krassner (guitar/organ/FX) joins forces with Fred Lonberg-Holm (Vandermark 5, Terminal 4, Valentine Trio) on cello/harmonica, Frank Rosaly (drums) & Jacob Kolar (prepared piano), generating a meditative aura unlike any other. Nocturnes is a like-minded & appropriately gorgeous follow-up to their Two Brothers and Quartets [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I remember at one period when Han Bennink couldn't make the gigs - he was playing with Misha most of the time - Albert and I had a trio with Fred Van Hove, and we used to play in a little bar in Cologne which was run by the son of Päffgen brewery, a famous little brewery where Kölsch is brewed. It was equipped with an upright piano and a 20-liter barrel of fresh beer, which was empty after the gig.Albert's generosity and open-mindedness, compared to many other jazz musicians [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I remember at one period when Han Bennink couldn't make the gigs - he was playing with Misha most of the time - Albert and I had a trio with Fred Van Hove, and we used to play in a little bar in Cologne which was run by the son of Päffgen brewery, a famous little brewery where Kölsch is brewed. It was equipped with an upright piano and a 20-liter barrel of fresh beer, which was empty after the gig.
Albert's generosity and open-mindedness, compared to many other jazz musicians [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The first solo piano CD by John Wolf Brennan in Leo Records catalogue. It's been recorded live in two different museums in Switzerland and Russia. 27 instant compositions have been inspired by the great paintings exhibited in these museums. As Stuart Broomer writes in his notes, John Wolf Brennan is blessed with a very quick mind, so his improvisations are always stretching to and from form to such an extent that we can readily confuse the spontaneous with the pre-formed. The CD is accompanied [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Given the logistical hiatus that Spaceways Inc. has found itself occupying, Ken Vandermark was seeking to create another mode of expression for those groove-centric hunks of sound...""Ergo: the birth of BRIDGE 61, featuring KV, Spaceways Inc. bassist Nate McBride, V5 trapman Tim Daisy, and newcomer Jason Stein on bass clarinet. With tunes crafted by these stalwarts, and dedications to This Heat, Jackson Pollock &Amp; Sonny Sharrock- how can Bridge 61 miss?" -Atavistic
"Given the logistical hiatus that Spaceways Inc. has found itself occupying, Ken Vandermark was seeking to create another mode of expression for those groove-centric hunks of sound..."
"Ergo: the birth of BRIDGE 61, featuring KV, Spaceways Inc. bassist Nate McBride, V5 trapman Tim Daisy, and newcomer Jason Stein on bass clarinet. With tunes crafted by these stalwarts, and dedications to This Heat, Jackson Pollock &Amp; Sonny Sharrock- how can Bridge 61 miss?" -Atavistic
Chadbourne subtitled this a "C&W Opera by Eugene Chadbourne," and it's presented as a song cycle of protest songs - originals and covers - along with a good dose of social commentary. As presented it's an avant-garde country opera meant to offend Senator Helms and his ilk, and Helm's smug image graces the cover. The music features members of the Violent Femmes, Don Helms, Jimmy Carl Black, and Lol Coxhill, working in Chadbourne's typically twisted and pointed musical world. A strong record [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Before Shockabilly, before the Downtown New York scene, there was a guy in Alberta playing very strange things on an acoustic guitar. This disc is a reissue of the classic and long out-of-print second solo LP by legendary guitar madman Eugene Chadbourne. Beautifully recorded, and mastered directly from the master tapes, Volume 2 is an essential document of Chadbourne's innovative prepared guitar playing. This reissue also includes three previously unreleased tracks from the same period (ca. 1976). [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The Chadbournes revisited: new sets of avant-country, recent recordings from Europe."A compilation disc presenting the best live performances of Dr. Chad's various groups between the years 1996 and 2000 with plethora of musicians: Olivier Bernet, Victor Marco, Cedric Prive, Jerome Renault, Chris Cornetto, Billy Kettle, Walter Daniels, Barry Mitterhoff, Roy Paci, Bob Jordan, Chuch Rosina, with Dr. Chad himself on guitar, banjo and vocal on all selections. The music covers an incredible range of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A compilation disc presenting the best live performances of Dr. Chad's various groups between the years 1996 and 2000 with plethora of musicians: Olivier Bernet, Victor Marco, Cedric Prive, Jerome Renault, Chris Cornetto, Billy Kettle, Walter Daniels, Barry Mitterhoff, Roy Paci, Bob Jordan, Chuch Rosina, with Dr. Chad himself on guitar, banjo and vocal on all selections. The music covers an incredible range of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This disc contains live recordings from Europe and Canada further documenting the Clusone Trio's evolution. This recording was later licensed by Gramavision (which promptly deleted it from their catalog). "Some modernists avoid the past in quest of the unheard; some postmodernists scrabble at historical references for want of anything original to say. Clusone Trio neither aver the well-worn pleasures of yesteryear nor do they use pastiche as an easy out. Aggressive, playful, clamorous, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This disc contains live recordings from Europe and Canada further documenting the Clusone Trio's evolution. This recording was later licensed by Gramavision (which promptly deleted it from their catalog).
"Some modernists avoid the past in quest of the unheard; some postmodernists scrabble at historical references for want of anything original to say. Clusone Trio neither aver the well-worn pleasures of yesteryear nor do they use pastiche as an easy out. Aggressive, playful, clamorous, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"One of the mainstays of the New York avant-garde since 1978, Anthony Coleman has worked with every major name in the downtown scene and more. A brilliant player, composer and critical thinker, his projects are some of the most consistently interesting and radical around. Long overdue, this CD of classically based chamber works sheds new light on this misunderstood musical master, and contains intimate solo pieces and large ensemble compositions that will stimulate, delight and confuse even the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Chris Dadge (Bent Spoon/Ensemble) and Jay Crocker in prepared banjo and percussion live improv recordings from 2005. "2) Primitivism is the new modern. If fourth world music was the combination of third world indigenous music with early 80s electronic technology, then fifth world music eliminates MIDI and bleep for organic tone and texture. [...] 6) Ecstatic tone and texture. Why can't a drum kit and percussion sound like an octopus falling down the stairs wearing tap shoes, or rain on the steel-roofed [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Peter Evans in a 2005 recording of trumpet and solo piccolo trumpet. "Peter Evans is a trumpeter, improvisor, and composer living in New York City. He grew up near Boston, and moved to New York after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. He co-leads the New York Trumpet Ensemble with Mark Gould, is half of the duo Victrolophone, plays in the improvisation groups Imaginary Folk & Effects on Man and Animals, and leads a maximalist jazz quartet with Mary Halvorson, Moppa Elliott and Kevin Shea. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Peter Evans is a trumpeter, improvisor, and composer living in New York City. He grew up near Boston, and moved to New York after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. He co-leads the New York Trumpet Ensemble with Mark Gould, is half of the duo Victrolophone, plays in the improvisation groups Imaginary Folk & Effects on Man and Animals, and leads a maximalist jazz quartet with Mary Halvorson, Moppa Elliott and Kevin Shea. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The fourth volume in Atavistic's Out Trios Series aligns Beantown-via Chicago co-conspirators Geoff Farina (Karate), Nate McBride (Spaceways Inc./Bridge61/(((Powerhouse Sound))) & Luther Gray. A Yeoman-like commitment, integrity of materials, timeless ideas, and solid uni-body construction produce an audio edifice that we can all lean into with confidence - in signature 'Out' packaging. Atavistic's Out Trios Series is dedicated exclusively to issuing the most captivating instrumental music [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A classic meeting of two giants of the Jewish/Latin connection. Famed piano stylist, originator of Bagels and Bongoes, Irving Fields has been a legend on the Catskills circuit since the 1950's. Now over ninety, Irving is still active and kicking and here he goes head to head with Roberto Rodriguez, whose charming and popular Septeto has delighted audiences the world over with their unique and personal Cuban/Jewish fusion. Twelve compositions, half Rodriguez, half Fields performed by an intimate [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Together Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty have re-written the concept of modern free-jazz with their post-hardcore punk style approach of euphoric togetherness. Ferocious, spontaneous, explosive and aggressively lyric they've established their groundbreaking duo with loads of shows and a host of tremendous recordings."When tales of C. Spencer Yeh's Burning Star Core project reached Corsano/Flaherty the duo were eager to see him jam. Fortunately, fate brought them together at the DeStijl/Freedom [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"When tales of C. Spencer Yeh's Burning Star Core project reached Corsano/Flaherty the duo were eager to see him jam. Fortunately, fate brought them together at the DeStijl/Freedom [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Saxophonist Paul Flaherty is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even before his 1978 record debut Flaherty remained unshakable in the pursuit of soul healing and demon dashing through freedom music. Whirl of Nothingness, Flaherty's second solo album, is eight pieces of alto and tenor saxophone steeped in the theme of loss and channeled through blasting improvisations that showcase his fabulous wailing and inferno of sound to stark bluesy melodies. In the slim cannon of solo horn [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I've mentioned before that Joe Fonda is ebullient and manages to maintain his charm even when he gets down to the serious nature of his music. Right from the first take of Bottoms Out it was clear that Joe was primed and the group in sync, from Gerry's busy hand drumming through the organic development of the ensemble lines into inspired forays and peaks. This group sat and stood (Joe and Gebhard) in a tight little circle (in the center of which a cat sat much of the time) and played high with [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The trio Free Fall was organized by bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, reedist Ken Vandermark, and pianist Haavard Wiik in 2001 as an opportunity to work together in a chamber music environment without percussion. Inspired in part by Jimmy Giuffre's classic group with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, the group quickly found its own way of working with velocity, space, sound and time, after it first met. The trio has always only performed their original compositions, and released its first album of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Jannsen on organ in a trio setting that pays reference to Messiaen and Ellington, alongside compositions from all members of the trio. Impeccable and embraceable music from these Dutch innovators.
"This group has been together since 2000 (John Carlson joined in early 2003) and things have remained pretty much as they were when it recorded its first release in February 2001. Of course, the group is tighter and more conversant with the musical terrain, but the enthusiasm for Bill Gagliardi's music, the bemusement with his routines, and the frustration with the lack of live gigs has remained constant. As in the past, I tried to pin down Bill to specifics about the music. He obliquely obliged [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This straight-ahead guitar, bass, and trap drum trio is a delight in their understated pursuit of solid post-bop existentialism. Guitarist Sandro Gibellini has been nicknamed "The Arpeggiator in Italy" for his loose-wristed flying left hand, which tears chords apart for their melodic possibilities. Bassist Ares Tavolazzi is a deeply centered pizzicato player whose belief is that the heart of rhythm lies in extended harmonics and a lot of wood, while the fleet-handed Mauro Beggio practices his [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Ayelet is a Swiss/Israeli singer based in New York. Born in Jerusalem, she studied at the New England Conservatory before settling in New York in 2002. Her music is a passionate blend of Jazz, Middle Eastern rhythms and improvisation, drawing inspiration from the likes of Oum Kalsoum, Betty Carter, Ornette Coleman as well as the Jewish traditions of Sephardic music and Klezmer. Mayim Rabim, her second release, is an evocative song cycle based on texts from the erotic Biblical love poems Song of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The PoBand in effect was born April 13, 1995 when the core group played a gig at Context Performance Space (NYC, NY) with guest Burton Greene. Lou sent me a tape of that performance and I produced it for Cadence Jazz Records (#1062). In his liner notes for that recording, Chris Kelsey wrote about the"balance ... between utter control and unbridled frenzy" and it was just that form, combined with the excellence of statement from the group, that appealed to me. As Lou will tell you, and has written, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This is the first live document from this sensational trio. The Thing mixes the free jazz ecstasy with the garage rock intensity. And with no electricity, only wood and brass (reeds, bass and drums), they make a hell of a noise, and the album is explosion of energy (the photo on the front cover is taken right after the gig). The album was recorded live at The Thing and Smalltown Supersound`s "home" venue, Blå, in Oslo. The Thing was established in the spring of February 2000 when [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This is the first live document from this sensational trio. The Thing mixes the free jazz ecstasy with the garage rock intensity. And with no electricity, only wood and brass (reeds, bass and drums), they make a hell of a noise, and the album is explosion of energy (the photo on the front cover is taken right after the gig). The album was recorded live at The Thing and Smalltown Supersound`s "home" venue, Blå, in Oslo.
The Thing was established in the spring of February 2000 when [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Mark Nauseef with Ikue Mori and Slyvie Courvoisier celebrate the 100th birthday of the man who discovered LSD.Alfred Hoffmann, working for Sandoz laboratories in 1941, discovered Lysergic acid diethylamide during a methodical study of ergots for practical chemical application. Sandoz initially passed on LSD, but four years later Hoffmann decided to resynthesize the stuff on an intuition, took a magic bike ride, and embarked on his search for psychological application for the psychedelic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Mark Nauseef with Ikue Mori and Slyvie Courvoisier celebrate the 100th birthday of the man who discovered LSD.
Alfred Hoffmann, working for Sandoz laboratories in 1941, discovered Lysergic acid diethylamide during a methodical study of ergots for practical chemical application. Sandoz initially passed on LSD, but four years later Hoffmann decided to resynthesize the stuff on an intuition, took a magic bike ride, and embarked on his search for psychological application for the psychedelic [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Robin Holcomb is a rare talent, with a foot in the pop world of singer/songwriter through several acclaimed releases on major labels, and roots in the downtown avant-garde that reach back to the first generation of Studio Henry mavericks. For her first, long awaited Tzadik CD, she has put together a program as eclectic and varied as her own career. From fragile solo piano pieces and a powerful new string quartet to several songs featuring her own heartfelt vocals, John Brown's Bodyis the best place [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Michael Keith writes: "In the fall of 2003 I went to see a group featuring Roger Turner - Konk Pack - here in Toronto. He is beyond exciting to watch and listen to, and has since become without a doubt as much an influence on my playing as the usual other guitarists/horn players etc... I asked Mr Turner if he would like to do another gig while he was in town and he agreed. We played at a small venue in Toronto's west end called Mitzi's Sister, where we were joined by two long time improvisers [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"With "Sequel," trombonist, composer, and computer artist George Lewis presents a seminal work that breaks new ground in the borderland between acoustic and electronic music. In a unique effort of synthesis Lewis sought "to create a site of hybridity between electronic and acoustic sound worlds, and diverse aesthetic directions," putting together an ensemble of eight musicians from different sound cultures to participate in the NEWJazz Meeting Baden-Baden in November 2004. Over the course [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"With "Sequel," trombonist, composer, and computer artist George Lewis presents a seminal work that breaks new ground in the borderland between acoustic and electronic music. In a unique effort of synthesis Lewis sought "to create a site of hybridity between electronic and acoustic sound worlds, and diverse aesthetic directions," putting together an ensemble of eight musicians from different sound cultures to participate in the NEWJazz Meeting Baden-Baden in November 2004.
Documenting pianist Misha Mengelberg & The ICP Orchestra: " Music fragments and statements give a clear insight in Mengelbergs original way of thinking and way of working. Old film material shows how Mengelberg developed from classic composing by jazz influences to become the godfather of Dutch improvised music."-[from the back cover] Guests with ICP & Misha Mengelberg include Dave Douglas, Anthony Braxton and Peter Van Bergen.
"Thanks to three perfectly balanced and complementary musicians, Roscoe Mitchell finds all necessary space to spread his genius. Bringing all necessary understanding and vigour to his music, Harrison Bankhead on bass and Vincent Davis on drums take this recording to the top. Like he gets us used to, Roscoe Mitchell has improvisation and composition intimately cohabit with perfect control. They don't come up against each other but complement one another with spontaneity, sophistication, smoothness, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"As for the quintet record, Moore pairs himself with a list of (likely) unfamiliar, but no less accomplished Dutch players: trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Paul Berner, and drummer Owen Hart, Jr. The program offers a reflective, restrained sensibility that highlights both ensemble and solo work and smolders much more than it burns. Moore's melodic concentration appears immediately on the quiet elegance of "Osiris" or the splendid lyricism of the pensive "Here, Right Now". [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Simon Nabatov and Tom Rainey have been playing together in different bands since 1990 -- trios with Mark Helias or Drew Gress, quintet including Mark Feldman, Herb Robertson and Mark Helias, Matthias Schubert Quartet, NDR Big Band and Klaus König Band. In August 2005 they made a recording produced by the NDR Radio in Hamburg. It was a joyous reunion after a two-year break, and the very first time the two played in duo. The result is a set of free improvised pieces with concise dramaturgical [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Originally released in 1970-with catalogue number Incus 1, thus launching Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley's famous label-this is a long awaited and historic reissue. When Parker and Bailey went their separate ways in 1987, Parker took his Incus recordings and other archived material with him. Since the advent of Psi, most of his Incus recordings have been re-released there, with others mooted (Circadian Rhythm?). However, there was a long-standing agreement between Parker and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Originally released in 1970-with catalogue number Incus 1, thus launching Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley's famous label-this is a long awaited and historic reissue. When Parker and Bailey went their separate ways in 1987, Parker took his Incus recordings and other archived material with him. Since the advent of Psi, most of his Incus recordings have been re-released there, with others mooted (Circadian Rhythm?).
However, there was a long-standing agreement between Parker and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The Persons are a loose-knit collective of improvising and jazz musicians who have come together under the banner of World Surf Music in 1989. Here, Vatcher and Moore create tunes that can only be described as popular, riff-driven music, such as surf, as read through Middle and Far Eastern folk traditions, and pop, with electric guitar interplay, and a jazzman's sense of adventure. Sonic textures are created in near song-like forms and built into towering dynamic statements that are as much [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The amazing Rova Saxophone Quartet on a series of shorter works, including one piece by Fred Frith ("Kick It") and a piece dedicated to Charles Mingus. Their impressive resume stretches back to 1977, and it shows in the creative output and amazing sound this group produces - outstanding!
"Jamie Saft and his dynamic trio presents a sparkling interpretation of the work of Bob Dylan. A lifelong Dylan enthusiast, Saft is the perfect man to take on this challenging project and his choice of compositions, spanning over four decades of activity, is as creative as the arrangements themselves. Featuring several guest vocalists including Mike Patton and Antony, this is a deep and meaningful tribute to one of the world's greatest living songwriters, a Jew whose influence resounds in the work [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Just after having released their critically acclaimed new album "Garage", The Thing teams up with their old friend Joe McPhee and Norwegian garage rockers Cato Salsa Experience. The meeting between The Thing and Cato Salsa Experience started at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival in Norway last year, when The Thing was offered the chance to invite their favourite rock band Cato Salsa Experience, for a special collaboration. This mini album is recorded live at Kongsberg Jazzfestival. The concert was such [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Sometimes there are special occasions for no special reason, even without a "round" birthday - as at the Cultural and Congress Center in Lucerne (KKL) on October 8, 2005: Irène Schweizer performed in one of the world's best classical-music concert halls, bringing her own culture and people along and raising the temperature of this perfectly cool space for a few hours.A first, long improvisation called "First Choice." For twenty minutes, Irène Schweizer unwound for the evening, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Sometimes there are special occasions for no special reason, even without a "round" birthday - as at the Cultural and Congress Center in Lucerne (KKL) on October 8, 2005: Irène Schweizer performed in one of the world's best classical-music concert halls, bringing her own culture and people along and raising the temperature of this perfectly cool space for a few hours.
A first, long improvisation called "First Choice." For twenty minutes, Irène Schweizer unwound for the evening, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Robert Barry (legendary core member of Sun Ra's ARKESTRA circa 1950s/60s), Ken Vandermark (V5/ Spaceways Inc./B61/(((POWERHOUSE SOUND))), and Tim Daisy (V5/Rempis Percussion Trio/Triage) dig deep and find the spirit willing and no resistance while conjuring their second studio effort as SIA. Superb Homages and collages to and by Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Dotson/Ra, Ed Blackwell- and Herbie Nichols' sublime "House Party Starting" complete & compliment five SIA originals"-Atavistic
Reissue of the 1977 Incus LP, and the first recording of the 'string' version of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble which lasted until 1992. "The Spontaneous Music Ensemble were a loose collection of free improvising musicians convened beginning in the mid-1960s by the late South London-based jazz drummer/trumpeter John Stevens and tenor sax player Trevor Watts. Over the course its history, collaborators included Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Roger Smith, John Butcher and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Reissue of the 1977 Incus LP, and the first recording of the 'string' version of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble which lasted until 1992.
"The Spontaneous Music Ensemble were a loose collection of free improvising musicians convened beginning in the mid-1960s by the late South London-based jazz drummer/trumpeter John Stevens and tenor sax player Trevor Watts.
Over the course its history, collaborators included Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Roger Smith, John Butcher and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Territory Band is reed man Ken Vandermark's 8 piece project showing his compositional skills in free improv settings for a large group. This is the 5th Territory Band release, a triple CD of live material from October, 2005.
Bassist Bertram Turetzky in a tribute album to his favorite bassists, in dedication or by cover. "Bertram Turetzky is a contemporary double bass soloist, teacher and author of The Contemporary Contrabass, a book that looks at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass. He plays jazz, classical, and contemporary music. Turetzky has also been instrumental in commissioning a large number of modern works for the double bass and is the most recorded contrabass soloist in America."-Wikipedia
"Louisville's own pan-idiomatic world music and improvising ensemble is proud to present "Recent Fossils" - a 3 CD set of recordings featuring newly-composed music for homemade instruments, studio recordings with internationally-known guest improvisors, and a rare live recording of the pioneering minimalist composition "In C" by Terry Riley.""CD1: "The Dig" - Compositions for homemade gamelan (tuned percussion orchestra of Indonesia) and other world instruments, featuring over a dozen [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Louisville's own pan-idiomatic world music and improvising ensemble is proud to present "Recent Fossils" - a 3 CD set of recordings featuring newly-composed music for homemade instruments, studio recordings with internationally-known guest improvisors, and a rare live recording of the pioneering minimalist composition "In C" by Terry Riley."
"CD1: "The Dig" - Compositions for homemade gamelan (tuned percussion orchestra of Indonesia) and other world instruments, featuring over a dozen [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Live recording from the amazing duo of Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love, dedicated to late bass player Bjørnar Andresen, who would of been 60 the day of the recording.
"Raoul van der Weide dedicates these ten contra bass solos to his friend and colleague, the composer and saxofonist Paul Termos who passed away in 2003. This personal connection ensures that 'Passages' is significantly more than the mere display of technical achievements or an exploration of sound. All the pieces are straightforward and frequently a poignant expression of a thoughtful, emotional being.Raoul van der Weide's major source of inspiration is David Izenzon, the nimble improviser [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Raoul van der Weide dedicates these ten contra bass solos to his friend and colleague, the composer and saxofonist Paul Termos who passed away in 2003. This personal connection ensures that 'Passages' is significantly more than the mere display of technical achievements or an exploration of sound. All the pieces are straightforward and frequently a poignant expression of a thoughtful, emotional being.
Raoul van der Weide's major source of inspiration is David Izenzon, the nimble improviser [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The music of Zakarya is an exciting blend of klezmer, new music and heavy metal guitars. Based in France, their first two CDs for Tzadik have established them as one of the leading bands of Radical Jewish Culture and have received raves worldwide from audiences and critics alike. For their third CD they have invited guitar virtuoso Marc Ribot to join them, and he takes the music to another level with his passionate, searing guitar work. Featuring spectacular arrangements, powerful new compositions, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Alumbrados investigations are as thorough and as reliable as researches by material scientists, but not as easily demonstrable to the general public. Spiritual powers lie dormant within every human being, and when awakened, they compensate for both telescope and microscope, they enable their possessor to investigate, instanter, things beyond the veil of matter, but they are only developed by a patient application and continuance in well doing extended over years, and few are they who have faith [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The fourth 'official' Coil CD. It replaces Backwards (scheduled for Trent Reznor's Nothing label) as the follow up to 1991's Love's Secret Domain. The speed and spontaneity of the recordings might have resulted in a leaner, more sparing production, but Musick is still hallmarked by the special care Coil take in minting new, idiosyncratic sounds. Working through sleep-deprived states, in which body and mind simultaneously register every slight, shuddering change caused by the mixing desk's variations [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
New 2006 repressing of Coil's 2000 release. "Jon Balance, Peter Christopherson and Thighpaulsandra release the follow up to the classic Musick To Play In The Dark Volume 1. This release sees Rose McDowall from Sorrow adding her pixie vocals to some of the proceedings. Comes in a digipak." "Coil return with their second record that seems to be devoted to all things lunar, hot on the heels of their excellent Astral Disaster. Like the last volume, the songs, seeming structured more by some startlingly [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This release is the third and last in the three-part Aerial series. Tod Dockstader is one of the all-time great figures in the world of musique concréte composition, with his "organized sound" works from the 1960s being amongst the most radical ever conceived - in league with Schaeffer, Henry, Stockhausen, and Varese. Aerial is a rare new work in the realm of shortwave radio, from one of America's most experimental composers. Volume 1 was released in March 2005 inside a slipcase. Volume 2 [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Interesting electronica release with a strong Kraftwerkian feel and excellent production. Chicago's Nathan Koch is the mastermind behind the music, an SF affiliate and gamer whose 8-bit aesthetic influences his drifting beats and swelling electronics. This is the 3rd release under the Emulsion name, along with a track on the David Bowie tribute record "Contamination."
Dark electro-acoustic constructions in an early work of the band as a trio, creating mysteriously sombre environments. Winter's End was the result of two years work of writing and recording, which shows in the sophistication and warmth of the sound they produce. They relate more to the industrial sund world, but without the dour gloominess - instead they create a hopeful darkness from which buoyant swells emerge, transporting the listener into captivating sound environments. A lovely record [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
A complement to his Creative Sources release, Light and Roundchair, this release finds Grundik composing with the feedback synthesizer. Minimally complex sounds in a quiet but interesting tonal world.
"Imagine yourself riding on cells coasting through your body's veins. The sound of the heart grows stronger like a beating drum as you're pulled closer. Suddenly, you're embraced by this giant pulsating muscle and when you're finally released back into the veins you can hear it's sound fading slowly, but still growling with the same intensity that it has beat with for eternity. Jugularis is the soundtrack to this ride and like your heart it's packaged in blood: the ultimate symbol of life and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The three compositions on Gyre were formed from varied location-based sound actions, which were then processed and composed in the studio. These acoustic recordings bear the trace of empty barns, forests, fields and hills. Material origins of wood, glass, air and metal are transformed into abstraction. The result balances tangibility with disassociation, focused microscopy with breathy expanse, and raw physicality with ghostly glimmer. John Grzinich is a mixed media artist who has been [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The three compositions on Gyre were formed from varied location-based sound actions, which were then processed and composed in the studio. These acoustic recordings bear the trace of empty barns, forests, fields and hills. Material origins of wood, glass, air and metal are transformed into abstraction. The result balances tangibility with disassociation, focused microscopy with breathy expanse, and raw physicality with ghostly glimmer.
John Grzinich is a mixed media artist who has been [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Breathings was recorded one afternoon at Gabriel Paiuk's house in Buenos Aires on November 30, 2004. The recording and its title can best be summed up with Gabriel's thoughts, "I felt many times that the whole disc created a feeling of continuity in which each piece seemed to me like an extended 'breathing,' each piece as one single breath. Even a feeling of something in which one experiences the music through breathing."Gabriel Paiuk: As a composer Gabriel Paiuk works within the exploration [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Breathings was recorded one afternoon at Gabriel Paiuk's house in Buenos Aires on November 30, 2004. The recording and its title can best be summed up with Gabriel's thoughts, "I felt many times that the whole disc created a feeling of continuity in which each piece seemed to me like an extended 'breathing,' each piece as one single breath. Even a feeling of something in which one experiences the music through breathing."
Gabriel Paiuk: As a composer Gabriel Paiuk works within the exploration [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Peeesseye is Jaime Fennelly, Chris Forsyth & Fritz Welch, here with the help of like minded sound artists. Theirs is a fascinating mix of electronic, acoustic, field recording, harp, trumpet, noise, industrial sound, and otherwise indescribable sound in extensive compositions and improvisations. The music carries an evil undertone perfect for modern times, often starting with a drone progression that is progressively elaborated with guitar, electronic, voice, violin and various unmentionables. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Quintetavant is comprised of members Lionel Marchetti, Jérome Noetinger, Jean Pallandre, Marc Pichelin and Laurent Sassi, five leading lights of the French improvised, electronic, electroacoustic scene. This recording sees them combine electronic tape, analogue synths and a united love for strange sonorities. Like its predecessor, the vinyl-only release Floppy Nails on Mego, this is an exciting display of concrete improvisation. Taken from a live session at the Musique Action Festival, and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The six (or seven) pieces on these CDs document live performance works which span 1996 to the present. Most of the solo pieces are structured improvisations, in that they have a broad form which is repeated from performance to performance while the detail is always quite different. The collaborative pieces are less formalized and depend hugely upon the input of my co-performers. I am very grateful to have worked with them." -Matt Rogalsky
"Inspired by Tudor and others, the experimental music community in the 1970s adopted a new working method based on seat-of-the-pants electronic engineering. The circuit---whether homemade, self-hacked or store-bought but scrutinized to death---became the score. A generation later, aspects of the Tudor aesthetic have spread well beyond the avant-garde: hip-hop, house and other forms of dance music and electronica share a similar obsession with the quirks intrinsic to specific pieces of audio gear. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Originally released in 2001 on Mego. This was Tujiko Noriko's first international release (after the limited Japan only release 'Make Up And Soldier'). The initial response was one of surprise that such a record could be released on Mego (at the time the label was pigeonholed as label dealing in 'laptop music', whatever that is). Despite this, the overall reaction was very positive, although Brainwashed's Jon Whitney decided to declare the whole thing as 'Bullshit bullshit BULLSHIT!!!' and that [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal matières sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artists. The project began with a workshop on environmental sound collecting by Francisco López and led to the development of a collective sound project including an album, a sound installation, and a concert. This is the recording.""The artists create an immersive sound installation made up of fragments of Montreal, which propose a reflection and a questioning [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Montreal Sound Matter / Montréal matières sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artists. The project began with a workshop on environmental sound collecting by Francisco López and led to the development of a collective sound project including an album, a sound installation, and a concert. This is the recording."
"The artists create an immersive sound installation made up of fragments of Montreal, which propose a reflection and a questioning [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"After almost forty years of creative activity, the name Enore Zaffiri still sounds "new", as his extraordinary artistic output has remained to a great extent unreleased. Pioneer of multimedia, electronic and ambient music (he founded the Turin Studio of Electronic Music in 1964) Zaffiri used the electronic instrument to find a new musical perspective based on a structuralist principle derived from Euclidean geometrics. In this works, dated between 1973 and 1988 he approche the combination of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Italian brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, split the sixth volume of their "From the earth to the Spheres" series with San Francisco's cult band Glands Of External Secretion. On this occasion the duo, formed in 1992 by Bananafish magazine founder Seymour Glass and indie-rock princess Barbara Manning, features the special collaboration of well-known guitarist improviser Nels Cline (now member of Wilco). The trio's track "Icebox" is a slow ascent from the realm of isolationism, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Japanese technical-hyperactive supreme rock band, Yoshida (Ruins) and company shot in 2 sets with an encore from the Tokyo nightclub Doors in the summer of 2005. Excellent complex interplay in a Magma mold.
Incredible complex and driving rock from Ruins drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, the 4th as a trio under the name Korekyojinn. These are incredible compositions, precise twisting-turning instrumental pieces with a momentum that should make Robert Fripp shudder. There are no weak links, with enormous strength drawn from Tatsuya's massive propulsion, Kido Natsuki's quick sinewy guitar lines, and Nasuno Mitsuru's unexpected pivots and fat bass sound. This is one amazingly tight and concentrated band that [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Recordings from Paris' Triton Club in May 2005, this is the 1st of 4 planned DVD releases in a retrospective of Magma's massive career. This first release covers early material, assisted by the return of Klaus Blazquiz on percussion and chants. Fueled by the powerful drumming of Christian Vander, this is a must have release for fans of the sprawling Magma catalog.
"These are four of the wildest sessions ever recorded by Italian space brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio at their famed Space Room in Torino, Italy. Cosmic guitar whirls and piano-toy action alongside a tribal, compulsive percussion-set which makes their space drones shake the air the way Xenakis would have made if he ever had directed a primitive tribe from another galaxy. If you never considered Pluto as one of your favourite hangouts, the 85 minutes of "Plutonian flames" will definitely break [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"New short film by visual artist / musician Roberto Opalio, one half of My Cat Is An Alien. Filmed on March 21st, 2006, the video represents a visionary, introspective view of the empty spaces over the city, Torino. Through a unique, hand-manipulated shot made in real-time, Roberto Opalio's poetic fragmentation and distortion of real objects recalls early film experiments by Man Ray, as well as a certain Warholian psychedelia in the use of filtered light as a main principle of creation / perception [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
The merger of Ruins and Omoide Hatoba, both well established bands in the Tokyo Avant-Rock scenes. Improvised rock of a high order, the collision of these three's take on jazz and rock is unexpected, frenetic, odd, and amazing.Yamamoto Seiichi (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rovo), Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojin, Zubi Zuva, AMT) and Tsuyama Atsushi (Akaten, Haco, Omoide Hatoba, AMT)
The merger of Ruins and Omoide Hatoba, both well established bands in the Tokyo Avant-Rock scenes. Improvised rock of a high order, the collision of these three's take on jazz and rock is unexpected, frenetic, odd, and amazing.
Yamamoto Seiichi (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rovo), Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojin, Zubi Zuva, AMT) and Tsuyama Atsushi (Akaten, Haco, Omoide Hatoba, AMT)
Ruins drummer Yoshida Tatsuya in an improvising duo with bassist/cellist Sato Kenji. A wide variety of genres are explored with gritty determination, showing prowess, awe, an odd sense of humor, and a serious creative impulse.
A Limited Deluxe Edition 2-Disc Set w/ 36-page booklet paying homage to Bowie.
This long-awaited reissue of the CRI recording of Earle Brown's (1926-2002) music is the best overview of his seminal early works. "It is obviously a great pleasure for me that CRI is re-releasing its 1974 recording of my work, and an even greater pleasure that I am able to add to the repertoire. The performance of Times Five and Novara (recorded in Holland) still seem very fine representations of the works and are performed brilliantly by the Dutch musicians. December 1952 as realized [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This long-awaited reissue of the CRI recording of Earle Brown's (1926-2002) music is the best overview of his seminal early works.
"It is obviously a great pleasure for me that CRI is re-releasing its 1974 recording of my work, and an even greater pleasure that I am able to add to the repertoire. The performance of Times Five and Novara (recorded in Holland) still seem very fine representations of the works and are performed brilliantly by the Dutch musicians. December 1952 as realized [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Debut release by composer and hammer dulcimer virtuoso Dan Joseph. Entitled Archaea, the recording consists of three recent extended chamber works performed by The Dan Joseph Ensemble with the composer on hammer dulcimer. Influenced most directly by the first generation minimalists, Joseph's works bring a welcome new voice to the idiom with his unique sense of timbre, intricate rhythms and unexpected formal turns. Equal parts East coast and West coast, Appalachian and Balkan, Rock and Baroque, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"A vibrant trio of string quartets by this multi-talented guitarist/composer who has written music for Merce Cunningham, the New York City Ballet, Guy Klucevsek, Aki Takahashi, the Bang on a Can All Stars and has performed with Otomo Yoshihide, Butch Morris, William Parker and David Moss. The first two pieces were originally commissioned by Ethel, and Lightning Slide by the Kronos Quartet, and all three present King's unique blend of popular music styles and classical traditions."-Tzadik
"During his lifetime, classically trained composer, cellist and disco legend Arthur Russell studied and performed with a wide variety of musicians and artists including The Flying Lizards, David Byrne, Rhys Chatham, Ali Akbar Khan, Allen Ginsberg, John Hammond, Peter Gordon, Jon Gibson, Jerry Harrison, Garret List, Frank Pagano, Andy Paley, Leni Pickett and Peter Zummo. In 1979, Russell, working under the name Dinosaur, wrote and produced "Kiss Me Again" - the first disco single to be released by [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Augusta Read ThomasGathering Paradise: Emily Dickinson SettingsJacob DruckmanSummer LightningStephen HartkeSymphony No. 3These are the world-premiere recordings of orchestral works by three of the most acclaimed contemporary American composers."Composing for voice is my first passion in life, and as a result the largest part of my catalogue is music for voice: solo voice, small groups of voices, small or large choirs, with and without orchestral or other kinds of accompaniments. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
These are the world-premiere recordings of orchestral works by three of the most acclaimed contemporary American composers.
"Composing for voice is my first passion in life, and as a result the largest part of my catalogue is music for voice: solo voice, small groups of voices, small or large choirs, with and without orchestral or other kinds of accompaniments. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), in the introduction to the first edition of his prophetic "symposium" titled American Composers on American Music (1933), described features of contemporary American music and outlined categories of composers. The first group he introduced-"Americans who have developed indigenous materials or are specially interested in expressing some phase of the American spirit in their works"-might be taken as a historical framework for the composers represented on this recording. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
A collection of Cornelius Cardew's published writings, edited by Eddie Prévost. With commentaries and responses from Richard Barrett, Christopher Fox, Brian Dennis, Anton Lukoszevieze, Michael Nyman, Eddie Prévost, David Ryan, Howard Skempton, Dave Smith, John Tilbury and Christian Wolff. Introduction by Michael Parsons. "The English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) was among the most adventurous, controversial and innovative musicians of his generation. After an initial [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
On the cover: Kool Keith (Hiphop's premier streetwise satirist and scatologist, Dr Octagon, is back - just one of the former Ultramagnetic MC's raft of comeback projects in 2006). Features: Excepter (Marc Masters talk contrarian circuits with the style-mashing New York Techno/rock quartet); Jason Lescalleet (This New England Improv sound manipulator's compositions capture the sound of decay); Digital Mystikz (Chris Sharp blags some rare facetime with DMZ's Mala and Coki, South London's dubstep dreamers); [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Very cute and colorful audio CD and book documenting the Audiotoop live event: "Bringing Audiotoop back home. That is what this book is about. Audiotoop is not 'just' a live event, held in a particular place at a given time. That's only one half of the story. The book is the other half. As much as Audiotoop is not a radioplay, it's not 'just' an event either. Audiotoop is like a biotop: it's an environment, completely packed with colours, sounds, people, and installations full of possibilities. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
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