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SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS

March 14, 2008

About 50 new titles this time around, including the addition of the US label KMB Jazz, and the Portugese based Ruby Red Editora with great improv and avant-rock titles.

Note also our 2008 Winter Hat (Hut) Sale, which runs one week through March 21. At the end of this mailing are several new reviews and a new radio show on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$17.95 Buy	Bell, Clive / Saade, Bechir: An Account of My Hut: Improvisations for Shakuhachi and Ney (Another Timbre)
	Shakuhachi duets from veteran player Clive Bell and Lebanese improviser Bechir Saade recorded in England, 2007; lyrical, haunting and unexpected.

$17.95 Buy	Blondy, Frederic / Lehn, Thomas: obdo (Another Timbre)
	Interactions of acoustic and electronic sounds as Lehn's synthesizer processes the sound of Blondy's piano, while Blondy's piano feeds into Lehn's synth to interfere and affect it.

$17.95 Buy	Braxton, Anthony: Solo (Pisa) 1982 (Golden Years Of New Jazz (Leo))
	A solo performance from saxophonist Anthony Braxton recorded live at Pisa, performing original compositions and work by Coltrane, Monk, Gillespie, &c.

$14.95 Buy	Brown Ensemble, Rob: Crown Trunk Root Funk (Aum Fidelity)
	Frequent William Parker sideman alto saxophonist Rob Brown on his 1st Aum Fidelity solo record, studio recordings of the ensemble he put together for the 2006 Vision Festival.

$16.95 Buy	Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit: Alive (Ruby Red Editora)
	Buffalo based free improv unit with Steve Baczkowski and Mike Allard on sax, Michael Hermanson on trombone, Leif Ingvar Nicklas on bass, Ravi Pdmanabha on drums & percussion.

$14.95 Buy	Campbell Ensemble, Roy: Akhenaten Suite: Live at Vision Festival XII (Aum Fidelity)
	Trumpeter Campbell in an extended work inspired by Amenhotep IV, Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt, commissioned by and performed at the 2007 Vision Festival.

$17.95 Buy	Eastley / Halliwell / Parker / Wastell: a life saved by a spider and two doves (Another Timbre)
	Three extended improvisations documenting the first meeting of an exciting and unexpected electro-acoustic quartet with a unique sound and instrumentation.

$11.95 Buy	Evil Eye : Doin' It All For My Baby (KMB Jazz)
	Hard edged and incredibly skilled NY jazz players Wooley, Moritz, Filiano and Pride in their 2nd studio recording, mixed by Jamie Saft; great baby pig insert page.

$15.95 Buy	Fasteau, Kali Z. / Jordan, Kidd : Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland (Flying Note)
	Intermingling free & traditional jazz with wide-ranging world influence, Fasteau's ecstatic music here is taken from a live set in Finland in 2006 with Kidd Jordan and Newman Jordan.

$14.95 Buy	Flinn, Stephen: Architect of Adversity (Creative Sources)
	Arizona based percussionist Flinn, who has worked with Tim Perkis, Noah Phillips, in a solo work for drums, percussion and voice.

$14.95 Buy	Gjerstad Trio, Frode: Mothers & Fathers & (Circulasione)
	Gjerstad's trio with Oyvind Storesund and Paal Nilssen-love has Gjerstad playing some down & dirty bass saxophone alongside clarinet and alto work.

$16.95 Buy	Harmonize Most High: Babylon (Ruby Red Editora)
	Debut album from the free/psychedelic jazz collective Harmonize Most High led by Daniel Carter in a quintet with Robert Ryan on guitar and keys.

$12.95 Buy	Hinds, Killick Erik / Stagner, Bob / Palmer, Dennis: A.S.A.P. Wings (Shaking Ray Records)
	Shaking Rays avant improv/rock/indescribable music expands to a trio with the addition of guitarist Killick Erik Hinds, 7 tracks with a Residents cover!

$11.95 Buy	Hooker, William / Mateen, Sabir : Dharma (KMB Jazz)
	2004 duo performance of two of Downtown New York's finest, William Hooker and Sabir Mateen, playing with relentless energy and creativity at CBGB's.

$12.95 Buy	Ideal Bread, The: The Ideal Bread (KMB Jazz)
	This NYC quartet with Josh Sinton, Reuben Raddin, Tomas Fujiwara, & Kirk Knuffke pays tribute to the music of Steve Lacy through reworkings of his compositions.

$15.95 Buy	McPhee, Joe / Heward, John : Voices: 10 Improvisations (Mode Records)
	Extended improvisations on pocket trumpet, soprano saxophone, drums and kalimba from this meeting of NY based Joe McPhee and Montreal based John Heward.

$13.95 Buy	Moshe Quartet, Ras : Transcendence (KMB Jazz)
	New York City wind player Ras Moshe's first studio release in four years with six original compositions performed with Rashid Bakr, Shayna Dulberger and Dave Ross.

$16.95 Buy	Temple of Bon Matin: Flower Footed Ghost (Ruby Red Editora)
	Apocalyptic free-form jam logic from this free jazz unit including Ed Wilcox (Arthur Doyle), Vinne Paternostro, &c. in a set of deep south psychedelic improvisation.

$17.95 Buy	Thing With Ken Vandermark, The: Immediate Sound (Smalltown Super Jazz)
	The Thing (Gustafsson/Haker-Flaten/Nilssen-Love) join with Chicago reedist Ken Vandermark for climactic and telepathic improv of sax duels and grooves.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$15.95 Buy	Erikm (Luc Ferrari) / Thomas Lehn: Les Protorythmiques (Room40)
	For this live recording Lehn took Ferrari's place at the Musique Action Festival in 2005, playing with erik.m on material developed between Ferrari and erik.m.

$15.95 Buy	Hecker, Tim: Norbert, Sweden (Room40)
	21 minute EP of Tim Hecker's live performance at the Norberg Festival in Sweden, 2007, in layers of sound in a 'visceral oceanic sound wave.'"-Room40

$14.95 Buy	Heumen, Robert van : Fury (Creative Sources)
	Dutch improviser van Heumen (N Collective, OfficeR, &c.) in a dynamic and shifting solo work of laptop electronics, noise textures, and text.

$14.95 Buy	New Blockaders, The / Moore, Thurston / O'rourke, Jim : The Voloptulist (Hospital Productions)
	The New Blockaders in two extended tracks, one with Thurston Moore and the other with Jim O'Rourke & Chris Corsano; excellent freaky electro-acoustic noise.

$16.95 Buy	One Might Add: Sailing Team (Ruby Red Editora)
	Home made electronics and percussion in a uniquely psychedelic duo from Portugese underground musicians Alberto Arruda and Ruben Costa.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$16.95 Buy	Cohen, Charles / Wilcox, Ed: Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes (Ruby Red Editora)
	Ten improvised percussion duos between Charles Cohen's tactile analogue synth and Philadelphia based Ed Wilcox (Temple of Bon Matin) using an extended textural palette.

$10.95 Buy	Jandek: The Myth of Blue Icicles (Corwood Industries)
	Corwood Industies' representative Jandek puts out his 52nd(!) release, a strong and expressive studio album of songs played on acoustic guitar.

$19.95 Buy	Mats/Morgan Band : Heat Beats Live // Tourbook 1991-2007 (Cuneiform)
	Live CD & DVD covering 2 years of work from the complex improv rock team of Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren in performances from a duo to a quintet.

$16.95 Buy	Mitsuru Tabata: We All Gonna Face The Rising Sun (Ruby Red Editora)
	Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple and KK Null guitarist Mitusuru Tabata in a solo release of subtle loops, backward tapes, drones, and tripped out effects.

$17.95 Buy	OffonOff: Clash (Smalltown Super Jazz)
	Formed out of Original Silence, this fiery free improvising rock trio features Terrie from The Ex, Massimo from Zu and Paal Nilssen-Love.

$16.95 Buy	Piernik, Zdzislaw / Zabrodzki, Piotr : Namanga (Vivo Records)
	Unusual Polish chamber music from the Piotr Zabrodzki Ensemble playing Zabrodzki's original compositions; reference last years Yoshida/Zabrodzki release.

$14.95 Buy	Planeta Imaginario: Biomasa (Cuneiform)
	This Spanish 8 piece band mix rock and jazz in melodies with an distinctive Mediterranean sound, a blend of Chick Corea, Gilgamesh, and Hatfield and the North.

$16.95 Buy	Sekkutsu Jean / Makoto, Kawabata: (Vivo Records)
	The ultimate power trio of Sekkutsu Jean's duo of drummer Yoshida Tatsuya and bass player Sato Kenji with Acid Mothers Temple leader, guitarist Kawabata Makoto.

Compositional:
$17.95 Buy	Amadinda Percussion Group: 4'33" (Hungaroton Classic)
	Performances by the Amadinda Percussion Group of John Cage's "4'33", "Amores", and "Third Construction", the Cage/Harrison work "Double Music" and Chávez' "Toccata".

$17.95 Buy	Amadinda Percussion Group: Ragtimes, African Music (Hungaroton Classic)
	The Amadinda Percussion Group with composer István Márta on synthesizer performing pieces by Cage, Reich, and traditional African music.

$66.95 Buy	Auzet, Roland: Percussion(s) 3CD/DVD/Book (Mode Records)
	Composer/percussionist Auzet (Xenakis, Ferrari, &c.) in a deluxe 3 CD/DVD 'musical textbook' of performances, and a book on the history of percussion music.

$15.95 Buy	Cage, John: The Number Pieces 5 - Two (2) for 2 Pianos (Mode Records)
	Cage based Two2 on a Japanese poetic design of syllables expressed at least thirty-six times, on which pianists Haskins & Sheehan play time brackets of unpredictable harmonic structures.

$17.95 Buy	Cage, John: Works For Percussion, Vol. 5 (1936-1991) (Hungaroton Classic)
	The fifth volume of Cage percussion works from the German Amadinda Percussion Group, focusing on "lost" works from the Cage canon.

$17.95 Buy	Ear Ensemble: Hungarian Live Electronic Works (Hungaroton Classic)
	Electronic works from Hungarian artists written in the 90's at the request of the Ear (electroacoustic research) Ensemble for the specific configuration of their group.

Magazines, DVD, Vinyl LPs, &c.:
$4.95 Buy	Signal To Noise: Issue #49, Spring 2008
	The Spring 2008 issue has Diamanda Galas on the cover, with articles about Radio Massacre International, Elliot Carter, 50th Monterey Jazz Festival, Thrill Jockey, &c.

$19.95 Buy	Bishop, Sir Richard: God Damn Religion [DVD & CD] (Locust)
	Sun City Girl Richard Bishop's diabolical movie experiment in hypnotic mind control, God Damn Religion, on DVD, with a bonus CD of Elektronika Demonika.

$14.95 Buy	Borbetomagus / Shaking Ray Levis: Coelacanth [VINYL-Picture Disc] (Agaric)
	1991 collaboration between Shaking Ray Levis and Borbetomagus in an exquisite mix of over-amplified and otherwise bewilderingly fierce free improv.

$15.95 Buy	Chion, Michel: Requiem [VINYL] (Sub Rosa)
	An assistant to Pierre Schaefer, this reissues Michel Chion's electroacoustic masterpiece Requiem, originally released on INA-GRM in 1978.

$15.95 Buy	Corsano, Chris: The Young Cricketer [VINYL] (Family Recordings)
	Chris Corsano's solo drum improvisations with an extremely extended set of tools, a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul, limited edition of 600.

$14.95 Buy	Emeralds / Tusco Terror: Vaporizer / Feral Cousins Split LP (Ecstatic Peace)
	Split rock LP of Cleveland, OH's Emeralds adverturous rock using synth and guitar; and Akron's Tusco Terror, reckless confrontation and chaotic slipstreams.

$16.95 Buy	Illusion Of Safety: Sedation & Quell 10" [VINYL] (C.I.P.)
	Illusion of Safety releases its first 10" record of electronic synthesis, computer composition & manipulation, musical reference, and close microphone recording.

$19.95 Buy	Thompson, Mayo: Corky's Debt To His Father LP + 7" [VINYL] (Drag City)
	Mayo Thompson's (Red Krayola's) 1969 classic and eclectic Texas charmer, reissued with a 7" recording of his take on the John Cage classic "4'33".

THE SQUID'S EAR

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