SQUIDCO Email Update February 8, 2008

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SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS Feburary 8, 2008

Improvisation:
$18.95  Buy	Barkingside (Ward / Hawkins / Lash / May): (Emanem)
	A quartet of four excellent young improvising musicians based in London and Oxford, none of whom have ever been to the outer London suburb of Barkingside.
$12.95  Buy	Cherry, Don: Tibet [VINYL] (Picc-A-Dilly)
	Don Cherry's 1973 open-eared meeting of free jazz and world music using instrumentation from Africa, Tibet, China, India, &c. in exotic cultural cross-connections.
$15.95  Buy	Coxhill / Hayward / Hopper / Robinson: Clear Frame (Recommended Records)
	Eight strong pieces of rock-inflected improvisation from the powerhouse quartet of Hayward, Hopper, Cohill and Robinson, with guest Robert Wyatt on cornet!
$15.95  Buy	Double Duo (Verploegen / Mengelberg / Tamura / Fujii): Crossword Puzzle (Libra)
	A challenging live quartet made of two duos: trumpet & piano, with Satoko Fujii & Misha Mengelberg at the former and Angelo Verploegen & Natsuki Tamura at the latter.
$17.95  Buy	Ensemble Naeil (Harth / Hyoung / Young / Sun Bae): Live at SCUM 2003.06.15 (Laubhuette)
$13.95  Buy	Ganelin, Slava / Volkov, Vladimir: Ne Slyshno (Auris Media)
	Composer and pianist Slava Ganelin meets Russian double bass player Vladimir Volkov for a surprising and impulsive release of spontaneous studio improvisations.
$15.95  Buy	Gauci's Basso Continuo, Stephen : Nididhyasana (Clean Feed)
	Tenor saxophonist Gauci & trumpeter Nate Wooley with the dual bass backbone of Mike Bisio and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten in original compositions using extended instrumental techniques.
$15.95  Buy	Gayle, Charles / Parker, William / Ali, Rashied: Touchin' On Trane (JAZZWERKSTATT)
	Excellent Coltrane tribute album with influences from many of Trane's albums, played by an incredible trio of New York's finest free jazz musicians.
$18.95  Buy	Grosse Abfahrt: Everything That Disappears (Emanem)
	Grosse Abfahrt (Great Departure) mates Bay Area musicians with European free improvisers, here playing live @ Mills College with Frederic Blondy, Le Quan Ninh.
$29.95  Buy	Harada, Yoriyuki / Bae, Choi Sun / Harth, Alfred : Homura (Off Note)
	Double CD & DVD release, recordings of Alfred Harth, Harada Yoriyuki and Choi Sun Bae in Seoul, 2007, with liner notes in Japanese & English
$18.95  Buy	Harth, Alfred: Akupunktur In Gruen (Laubhuette)
$18.95  Buy	Harth, Alfred: Bits from 5 years (Laubhuette)
$12.95  Buy	Ibarra, Susie: Drum Sketches (Innova)
	NYC drummer Susie Ibarra's 1s solo CD with compositions inspired by her native Philippines using drums, percussion, gongs, xylophones, & field recordings.
$15.95  Buy	Kapital Band 1: Playing By Numbers (Mosz Records)
	The 2nd release from Kapital Band 1 (Nicholas Bussmann & Martin Brandlmayr) sets aside electronics in favor of acoustic instruments in compositions that play by the numbers.
$15.95  Buy	Koh / Fujii / Reichman: Yamabuki (Libra)
	The trio of Japanese art-folk singer Koh Yamabuki with pianist Satoko Fujii and accordionist Ted Recihment in emotional, inventive and delicately beautiful music.
$15.95  Buy	Lacy / Crispell / Mengelberg / Gumpert / Miller / Van Hove: Five Facings (JAZZWERKSTATT)
	A series soprano sax & piano duos between Lacy & Marilyn Crispell, Misha Mengelberg, Ulrich, &c. recorded live in 1996 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
$15.95  Buy	Lake / Tchicai / Osgood / Westergaard: (Passin' Thru Records)
	Recorded shortly after this quartet toured Denmark in 2003, the music on this set is often reminiscent of early Coleman, Shepp and other free jazz masters of the '60s.
$13.95  Buy	Last Exit: Headfirst Into The Flames: Live In Europe (DMG ARC)
	Last Exit's 1989 limited edition release on MuWorks is considered by many fans to be their finest hour, and ironically, their least available work. Until now!
$13.95  Buy	Leandre / Crispell / Campbell, Jr. / Maneri - The Stone Quartet: DMG @ The Stone, December 22, 2006 Volume 1 (DMG ARC)
	The first in a series of live releases from DMG's New Music Magic Mystery Festival at The Stone in December 2006, a superb set with Joelle Leandre directing.
$15.95  Buy	Lehman Quartet, Steve : Manifold (Clean Feed)
	Steve Lehnman's Quartet live playing original compositions that merge spontaneity, formalism, reflection, and extreme technical precision.
$14.95  Buy	Lucker, Bjorn: Aquarian Drum Song (Creative Sources)
	Björn Lücker's three part Aquarian Drum Song is a fascinating and understated journey through the elements of drums, percussion, cymbals, tympani and piano.
$15.95  Buy	Malaby, Tony : Tamarindo (Clean Feed)
	Tony Malaby's trio with William Parker & Nasheet Waits shows his great stylistic diversity in original compositions, making this his finest release to date.
$14.95  Buy	McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath, Chris : Eclipse at Dawn (Cuneiform)
	A previously unissued and spectacular 1971 live session of Chris McGregor's British/South African jazz unit Brotherhood of Breath, with liner notes and photos.
$14.95  Buy	Mezei Solo, Szilard : When Spring (Gyorfree)
	Solo viola and double bass compositions from Voivodina Hungarian composer, violinist, viola player, and double bass player Szilárd Mezei.
$14.95  Buy	Mezei Trio, Szilard : Trembling of the Puppy (Gyorfree)
	Debut release from Serbian violist and composer Mezei Szilard balancing Braxtonesque counterpoint with folk influences in enthusiastic and explosive music.
$14.95  Buy	Mezei, Szilard / Ervin Malina Duo: Fuzet / Zosit (Gyorfree)
	Original compositions and adaptation of folk songs from the duo of Hungarian violist Szilard Mezei and Slovokian bassist Ervin Malina in 2005 live recordings.
$15.95  Buy	MI3: Free Advice (Clean Feed)
	The Boston free jazz piano trio MI3 switch from electronics to acoustics in this set that mixes obscure Ellington and Sun Ra numbers with edgy originals.
$14.95  Buy	Muche, Matthias / Zoubek, Philip / Tang, Achim: Sator-Rotas (Creative Sources)
	An acoustic transcription of Marcus Schmicker's electronic composition, the palindrome Sator Rotas (A-Musik, 1999)
$19.95  Buy	Sharp, Elliott : Tectonics Errata Vol. 1 (NEOS Music)
	Elliot Sharp's 3rd Tectonics CD, Errata delved deeply into chaos and glitches, saturated timbres and hyper-pixillated rhythms.
$19.95  Buy	Sharp, Elliott / Orchestra Carbon: SyndaKit Vol. 2 (NEOS Music)
	Composed in 1998 for Orchestra Carbon, SyndaKit utilizes a collection of biological metaphors to create an ever-shifting rhythmic and timbral matrix.
$28.95  Buy	Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Bare Essentials 1972-3 (Emanem)
	1972-73 previously unreleased SME duo recordings of John Stevens on percussion & cornet and Trevor Wattson soprano sax from the cassette archives of Trevor Watts.
$18.95  Buy	Sun Bae, Choi / Harth, Alfred : 08+15 Celebration (Laubhuette)
$15.95  Buy	Taylor, Cecil / Oxley, Taylor: Leaf Palm Hand (JAZZWERKSTATT)
	Reissue of the 1988 FMP duo release of pianist Cecil Taylor and drummer Tony Oxley recorded live during Improvised Music II in Berlin.
$14.95  Buy	Uhler, Birgit / Rodrigues, Ernesto / Santos, Carlos: Doppelganger (Creative Sources)
	Delicate nuance and fascinating textures from the minimal improvisations of trumpeter Birgit Uhler, violist Ernesto Rodriguez and live sampling from Carlos Santos.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$11.95  Buy	Baja: Wolfhour (Other Electricities)
	Daniel Vujanic's Baja creates 'free electronics' fusing folk, free jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound, eerie chamber music & unusual textures.
$16.95  Buy	Death In June / Rice, Boyd: Scorpion Wind (Soleilmoon)
	Death in June's Douglas P. and industrial innovator Boyd Rice (NON) collaborated on this obscure & melodic soundwork in 1996, originally released under the name Scorpion Wind.
$11.95  Buy	Dot Tape Dot: Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002 - 2007) (Other Electricities)
	Charming and well-woven constructions of acrobatic sonics using organic and electronic elements to create robust, lively and lovely guitar-fueled music.
$14.95  Buy	Fega, Roberto: Un Geco Nella Mia Casa (Creative Sources)
	Electronic improvisations from Formian reed & electronics artist Fega, a member of Taxonomy with Elio Martusciello, as well as IATO and IXEM, Pangolino Orchestra, &c.
$13.95  Buy	Kahn / Korber / Moslang / Muller / Weber / Yamauchi: Signal to Noise Vol. 4 (For4Ears)
	The ea-improv supergroup "Signal Quintet" meets saxophonist Kastura Yamauchi for studio recordings from the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
$13.95  Buy	Kahn / Moslang / Muller / Aube: Signal To Noise Vol. 5 (For4Ears)
	Four improvisations from members of the MKM-trio with Akifumi Nakajima aka AUBE, one of the pioneers and great masters of electronic music in Japan.
$16.95  Buy	Kosugi, Takehisa: Catch-Wave (World Psychedelia)
	Takehisa Kosugi, a pioneer of Japanese avant-garde music, in a gray-area reissue of his 1975 Catch-Wave LP of heavily-processed violin, voice, radio and oscillators.
$16.95  Buy	Mueller, Jon: Metals (Table of the Elements)
	Drummer Jon Mueller pays a tangential electro-acoustic homage to heavy metal music in loud, minimal yet detailed music, a powerful statement.
$23.95  Buy	Organum: Omega (Die Stadt)
	The third and final part of the Organum trilogy that started with Sanctus (Robot Records - RR35) and Amen (Die Stadt - DS95).
$19.95  Buy	Rapoon: From Shadows Sleep (Essence Music)
	Droning tape loops, patterns, ethnic samples and hypnotic sonic rituals referring to music that hibernates in shadows, unformed until it is heard.
$17.95  Buy	Speare, Jed: Sound Works 1982-1987 (Family Vineyard)
	A 2 CD collection of Speare's long-form musique concrete compositions, reflecting his investigation and expressive analogue sound/field constructions.
$14.95  Buy	Willits, Christopher / Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Ocean Fire (12K)
	A sublime soundtrack for the ocean in cascading tones and textured harmony using Sakamoto's prepared piano and Willit's pioneering guitar/computer clusters of notes.
$16.95  Buy	Zoviet France: Digilogue (Soleilmoon)
	Zoviet France's '96 release was recorded using a mixture of failing analogue equipment and high-end digital equipment, injecting indeterminacy as a compositional parameter.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$19.95  Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno: Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno (Essence Music)
	The first of two carefully planned, limited edition AMT and the Cosmic Inferno quartet releases on Essence-Music, a dark slab of experimental psychedelic hell.
$19.95  Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: 41st Century Splendid Man Returns (Essence Music)
	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. with Cotton Casino on vocals and special guest Tatsuya Yoshida, a reissue of the Tumult 12" picture disc.
$19.95  Buy	Allen, Daevid: Good Morning! (Esoteric Recordings)
	Daevid's Allen 1976 Virgin solo album, his first after leaving Gong, written in Mallorca and recorded with Gilli Smyth, a work filled with humility and charm.
$14.95  Buy	Beat Circus: Dreamland (Cuneiform)
	Brian Carpenter's 9 piece ensemble inc. Alec K. Redfearn, Briggan Krauss, &c. delivering gothic stories of children, dreams, fatherhood, revenge, redemption, and murder.
$12.95  Buy	Condor Moments: And Though We're Told We've Got It All, The All We've Got Is Freezing Cold.. (What Delicate)
	Complex, twisted, technically interesting and eminantly enjoyable, eclectic and humorous rock mining a vast set of styles with ease; recorded and mixed by Bob Drake.
$29.95  Buy	Eye, Yamataka: Re... Remix? (Commons)
	Japanese-exclusive compilation of remix works by Yamataka Eye! including work done for Gong, Ken Ishii, OIIOO, Walrus, Zeebra, Wrench, Atami, NXS, &c.
$12.95  Buy	Skell, Eldridge the Rude Staircase : Sookie Jump (What Delicate)
	Mysterious but amazing rock band that twists and turns around unusual ideas and themes, with a Chris Cochrane vocal style, mixed and mastered by Bob Drake.
$43.95  Buy	Yoshimio: Yunnan Colorfree (Commons)
	Double CD/DVD release of Yoshimi from Boredoms/OOIOO with Kim Gordon on vocals, a soundtrack/movie of the women of Yunnann in Southern China.
$13.95  Buy	Zoambo Zoet Workestrao: "Every Day In Every Sense I Less Regress" (Manufracture)
	Slovenia's Zoambo Zoet Workestrao plays unusual and humorously complex rock often identified in the RIO vein, much like Ne Zhdali or Begnagrad.

Compositional:
$12.95  Buy	Brant, Henry : The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 4: Meteor Farm, A Spatial Concert of Ceremonies (Innova)
$12.95  Buy	Brant, Henry : The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 5: Autumn Hurricanes (Innova)
$14.95  Buy	Cage, John: The Number Pieces 4 - Three; Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment (Mode Records)
	First recording of Cage's numbered piece written for the Trio Dolce, an intrepretive score taking into account the range of the recorder.
$13.95  Buy	Rosenboom, David : Future Travel, And Out Come the Night Ears (New World Records)
$14.95  Buy	Scelsi, Giacinto: The Works For Double Bass (Mode Records)
	The 7th volume in Mode's Scelsi Edition contains the first complete recordings of Scelsi's music for doublebass.

Books, Magazines, DVD:
$7.95  Buy	Wire, The: #288 February 2008 MAG
$19.95  Buy	Acid Mothers Temple: Acid Mothers Temple Festival Volume 5 [DVD] (Acid Mothers Temple)
	Acid Mothers Temple Festival Volume 5, with Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) and Kuriyama Jun (Ex. Ox) Live at Tokuzo Nagoya, December 2006.
$19.95  Buy	Gergis, Mark / Bishop, Alan (Directors): Sumatran Folk Cinema DVD (Sublime Frequencies)
	A film by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls, a psychedelic collage of images and sounds from the heart and soul of the Sumatran Island's musical culture.
$19.95  Buy	Mayet, Hisham (Director): Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway DVD (Sublime Frequencies)
	Hisham Mayet 2005 film captures Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh Morocco, some of the last great street music on Earth from the Trans-Saharan Highway.

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