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April 25, 2008

Another incredible fortnight here at Squidco, with 58 new releases listed! Hightlights include 4 new NEOS titles; several ESP reissues; Ken Vandermark's Fireroom; Larry Ochs Mirror World; 2 new erstwhile releases; several new Tzadik issues; Cage DVDs now in stock; several new books including Arcana and Arcana II edited John Zorn, and a great book+CD from Alessandro Bosetti. Silver Apples on LP, along with Sun City Girls/J Spaceman; 3 ways to an Imaginational Anthem; 2 more from Alfred Harth's CDR label; and a new Terp African series release. Also note our 2008 Spring Cleaning Sale which runs until May 1.

At the end of this mailing are several new reviews and a radio show on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$19.95 Buy	Adkins Quartet, Michael: Rotator (Hatology)
	New York tenor saxophonist and composer Michael Adkins with his quartet including Paul Motian on drums in a set of 9 original compositions.

$12.95 Buy	Bent Spoon Duo, The: out there in the sea (Bug Incision Records)
	Bug Incision's Bent Spoon Duo, in a release as part of the Micro Editions Series, in a performance of Chris Dadge and Scott Munro live in Vancouver, Feb 2008.

$12.95 Buy	Beresford, Steve : Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
	These beautiful and evocative cues were originally written for a series of films and television shows ranging from a black and white film on William Blake to a television show about fishing in stock for the 1st time.

$26.95 Buy	Braxton, Anthony : (GTM) 2006 (Important Records)
	GTM stands for Ghost Trance Music and this four CD box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded in quartet with Carl Testa, Aaron Siegal, and Max Heath.

$12.95 Buy	Cherry, Don : Live at the Cafe Montmartre 1966 Volume Two (ESP)
	The 2nd volume in trumpeter Don Cherry's live date at the Cafe Montmarte, Paris, 1966, in a quintet with Gato Barbieri & Karl Berger, playing a Suite for Albert Ayler, &c.

$12.95 Buy	Coleman, Ornette : Town Hall, 1962 (ESP)
	Coleman's landmark Christmas Eve, 1962 concert with David Izenzon, Charles Moffett and a string ensemble, performing his first harmolodic chamber music.

$12.95 Buy	Cymerman, Jeremiah: In Memory of the Labyrinth System (Tzadik)
	Brooklyn-based clarinetist and conceptualist who works to create a new language for the clarinet through extended techniques, microphone placement and studio editing.

$16.95 Buy	Day, Kiku / Kaiser, Henry: Zen Kaiju (Balance Point Acoustics)
	A clash of Zen and violent Kaiju, which refers to the beast Gojira (Godzilla), through the meditative work of Kiku Day and the experimental energy of Henry Kaiser.

$15.95 Buy	Fire Room: Broken Music (Atavistic)
	A trio project between Chicago reed player extraordinaire Ken Vandermark and frequent collaborators percussion Paal Nilssen-Love and electronics artist Lasse Marhaug.

$15.95 Buy	Kaiser, Henry: Domo Arigato Derek-Sensei! (Balance Point Acoustics)
	Available again: Henry Kaiser's 2006 tribute to Derek Bailey with recordings from Bailey himself, and an amazing list of collaborators including Noyes, Centazzo, Ochs, Oswald, &c.

$12.95 Buy	Lowe, Frank : Black Beings (ESP)
	Reissue and remaster of this 1973 album from Frank Lowe with William Parker, Joseph Jarman and "The Wizard", restoring 15 minutes of material thought to have been lost.

$19.95 Buy	Mengis Gruppe 6, Manuel: The Pond (Hatology)
	Swiss trumpter Manuel Mangis and his Gruppe 6 in 4 extended original compositions of post-Bop acumen and rollicking audacity in intrepid improvisation.

$12.95 Buy	New York Eye & Ear Control: New York Eye & Ear Control (ESP)
	Canadian Michael Snow assembled this stellar group of Ayler, Cherry, Tchicai, Peacock, Murray, Rudd for the soundtrack to his art film Walking Woman.

$24.95 Buy	Ochs, Larry / Rova Special Sextet / OrkestRova: The Mirror World (for Stan Brakhage) (Metalanguage)
	Larry Ochs tribute to filmmaker Stan Brakhage in a two disc set of live performances, first with a large 'Orkestrova', then with a Rova Special Sextet.

$15.95 Buy	Open Loose (Helias / Rainey / Malaby): Strange Unison (Radio Legs)
	The superb improvising New York based trio of Helias, Rainey and Malaby in their fifth release as Open Loose in a set of nine orginal compositions.

$17.95 Buy	Patchen, Kenneth / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: Rebel Poets of America (El Records)
	1957 studio recordings of Beat poets Kenneth Patchen & Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading works using unusual literary structures read over cool bop-inspired jazz.

$19.95 Buy	Sharp, Elliott: Rheo~Umbra (NEOS Music)
	An expanded version of Elliot Sharp's Orchestra Carbon in a 1997 live recording of the through-composed and algorithmic Rheo~Umbra composition's premier performance.

$19.95 Buy	Sharp, Elliott: Spring & Neap - RE:ITERATIONS (NEOS Music)
	Spring & Neap, an algorithmically based work written for the 1996 Tokyo Music Merge Fesitval; and the Fibonacci-series based Re:Iterations orchestrated for the Soldier String Quartet.

$16.95 Buy	Westbrook, Mike: Mama Chicago (Jazzprint)
	Mike Westbrook's 1979 jazz cabaret release, a tribute to Chicago, with lyrics by Kate Westbrook and Michael Kustow, with great vocal and instrumental soloists.

$16.95 Buy	Westbrook, Mike: Waxeywork Show and all THAT jazz (Jazzprint)
	Mike & Kate Westbrook's new Village Band with two works: The Waxeywork show, an original lyrical work; and all THAT jazz, arrangements of Monk, Mingus, Jelly Roll, &c.

$12.95 Buy	Yuganaut: This Musicship (ESP)
	Steve Rush, Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann take the trio format to new heights in music inspired by Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago as well as Miles Davis.

$12.95 Buy	Zitro, James : Zitro (ESP)
	Drummer Zitro's debut as a leader during his period working with Sonny, recorded in NYC, 1967 with a full front line playing original compositions.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$23.95 Buy	Aubry / Krebs / Ermke / Schick: Berlin Electronics (Absinth Records)
	Four 3" CDs, one each from electro-acoustic artists Annette Krebs, Gilles Aubry, Ignaz Schick, and Andrea Ermke, in a limited hand-painted acryl foldover.

$18.95 Buy	Harth, Alfred 23: micro-saxo-phone (Laubhuette)
	Alfred 23 Harth playing live in the studio in a detailed expedition of various sonic approaches to the saxophone using contact mics and 2 Kaoss Pads.

$18.95 Buy	Harth, Alfred: Ballet Music (Laubhuette)
	Electroacoustic compositions for the ballets "That Person Then" and "Mercury" of "on & off", with Choi Sun Bae on trumpet and electronics.

$25.95 Buy	Hub, The : Boundary Layer (Tzadik)
	Triple CD of electro-acoustic improvisers The Hub (Bischoff/Brown/Perkis/&c), a document covering 3 decades of activity with photos, tech diagrams and writings.

$13.95 Buy	Lambkin, Graham / Lescalleet, Jason: The Breadwinner (erstwhile)
	Recorded at Graham Lambkin house, the duo treated the entire building and surrounding grounds as a studio in "musical settings for common environments and domestic situations".

$13.95 Buy	Nakamura, Toshimaru / English (Foster, Joe / Jones, Bonnie): One Day (erstwhile)
	EA-improv minimalist Toshimaru Nakamura with English (Joe Foster/Bonnie Jones) in a recording made in Tokyo while the three were touring South Korea and Japan in 2007.

$12.95 Buy	Ratkje, Maja S.K.: River Mouth Echoes (Tzadik)
	Unorthodox vocalist and electroacoustic composer Maja Ratkje, half of FE-Mail, in a collection of compositions from chamber music to works for electronics and voice.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$13.95 Buy	Fahey, John: The Mill Pond Ep (Important Records)
	Beautifully packaged CD of guitarist John Fahey and Jeff Allman on electronics in an improvised duo, with a color book of photos of Fahey paintings.

$14.95 Buy	Nalle: The Siren's Wave (Locust)
	Glasgow avant folk trio in a kaleidoscopic mix of vintage oscillators, Moog synth, strings and buzzing harmonium with the rich and expansive vocals of Hanna Tuulikki.

$14.95 Buy	Spaceman, J. / Sun City Girls: Mister Lonely - Music From A Film By Harmony Korine (Drag City)
	The soundtrack to the Harmony Korine (Gummo, Kids) film Mister Lonely, in pieces performed either by J. Spaceman or Sun City Girl, with film dialog interspersed.

$25.95 Buy	Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem Vols. 1-3 3CD (Tompkins Square)
	Imaginational Anthem Volumes 1-3 brings together all 3 volumes of this essential acoustic guitar series devoted to acoustic guitar mavericks past and present.

$14.95 Buy	Various Artists: Imaginational Anthem Volume Three (Tompkins Square)
	The 3rd in a series devoted to acoustic guitar mavericks past and present, with artists Greg Davis, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Ben Reynolds, Shawn David McMillen, &c.

$15.95 Buy	Various Artists: Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me! - Female Blues Singers Rarities 1923 - 1930 (Sub Rosa)
	Second volume in Sub Rosa's Fundamental collection of rare and lost recordings from the 20-60s, here focusing on female blues singers from 1923-30.

Compositional:
$19.95 Buy	Cage, John: Seven / Quartets I-VIII (NEOS Music)
	Cage's Seven for a chamber orchestra in an improvisational framework; and Quartets I-VIII written in '76 for bicentennial using restructured American Chorales.

$19.95 Buy	Dediu, Dan: Piano Pieces (NEOS Music)
	Works from 1996-206 from Romanian pianist Dediu, pieces for four hands, the left hand (and...), parts of his Lévantiques cycle, and two other compositions.

$13.95 Buy	Goldstein, Malcolm : A Sounding of Sources (New World Records)
	Hailed as having "reinvented violin playing" and a NY peer to Tenney and Corner, this CD presents 4 compositions from composer/improvser Goldstein from the 80s & 90s.

$13.95 Buy	Horvitz, Wayne : Joe Hill: 16 Actions for Orchestra, Voices, and Soloist (New World Records)
	Wayne Horvitz' composition for legendary labor activist and organizer is a radio play of the man's life in words, instrumental music and songs.

$13.95 Buy	Levering, Arthur : Still Raining, Still Dreaming (New World Records)
	Arthur Levering in recordings of works from 2001-2002, compositions that stress clarity and lightness while working with dense elements of texture, tempo, & harmony.

$18.95 Buy	Palestine, Charlemagne: From Etudes to Cataclysms - For the Doppio Borgato (Sub Rosa)
	Charlemagne Palestine's massive Etudes to a Cataclysms uses the Doppio Borgato double piano where the 2nd 37-lower-note piano is played by the feet.

$12.95 Buy	Tangele (Lloica Czackis): The Pulse of Yiddish Tango (Tzadik)
	Tangele explores the nexus of Yiddish song and Tango with songs from European Ghettos and Concentration Camps, radically transformed by the composer Gustavo Beytelmann.

$19.95 Buy	Wolpe, Stefan: Lieder - Battle Piece (NEOS Music)
	Pieces from Wolpe between 1929-45, as an agitprop/workers composer, involved with the Bauhaus movement, setting poems by Kurt Schwitters, Walter Mehring, Erich Weinert, &c.

Book:
$29.95 Buy	Arcana II: Musicians on Music
	Edited by John Zorn, this second edition of Arcana compiles further essential writing by luminaries of contemporary improvisation and composition.

$29.95 Buy	Arcana: Musicians on Music
	Edited by John Zorn, Arcana is filled with manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes & critical papers on composing, playing, improvising, teaching, & thinking about music.

$17.95 Buy	Bosetti, Alessandro: African Feedback (BOOK + CD)
	Bosetti traveled African villages, playing avant/noise music and recording the villager's fascinating responses, presented here in text, photos and on CD.

$14.95 Buy	Higgs, Daniel A.I.U.: Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot (Thrill Jockey)
	Book + accompanying CD from Lungfish Higgs pairing visual art based around tarot and the great tree of Norse myth connecting all cosmological worlds, through ruptured guitar drone music.

$36.95 Buy	New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground 1978-88 (Soul Jazz Records)
	Covering the years 1975-1988, this book presents the collisions of art and music in NYC through photographs from Paula Court and texts from David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, &c.

$7.95 Buy	Wire, The: #291 May 2008
	Issue 291, May 2008 with Features on Franz de Waard, Dexplicit, Max Eastley, Jon Hassell, Kan Mikami, Dean Roberts, Wolfgang Voigt, Carl Craig, &c.

DVD:
$20.95 Buy	Cage, John / Lohner, Henning: Volume 36: One11 with 103 (Mode Records)
	"One¹¹, John Cage's only feature-length b&w film with no subject, created the year of Cage's death; and 103, an orchestral work accompanying One¹¹.

$20.95 Buy	Cage, John: The Works For Piano 7 (Mode Records)
	DVD-audio disc of Cage's piano works Chess Pieces and Sonatas and Interludes peformed by Margaret Leng Tan, with 3 documentary videos, adn Vittorio Rieti's Chess Serenade.

$20.95 Buy	Cage, John: Variations VII [DVD] (MICROCINEMA)
	Variations VII performed at 9 Evenings, a collaboration of NY artists and Bell Telephone Labs in 1966, is an indeterminate work using electronics systems.

$15.95 Buy	Tatsuya, Yoshida / Akira, Sotoyama: Drum Duo (Magaibutsu)
	Ruins drummer Yoshida Tatsuya meets Tipographica drummer Sotoyama Akira for a set of drum interactions and improvisations at shibuya o-nest in July, 2007.

Vinyl:
$34.95 Buy	New Blockaders, The / Das Synthetische Mischgewebe: The Monosyllabic Bicycles Tri-Coloured Quadruples LP/7" (Equation Records)
	LP/7" of electroacoustic artists New Blockaders nearly an hour of new sound collages and spheres by infamous nihilists The New Blockaders and sound artists Das Synthetische Mischgewebe.

$29.95 Buy	Silver Apples: Silver Apples [VINYL] (Phoenix Records)
	This unprecedented and unusual 1968 electronic pop record from the original DIY electronics duo of Simeon and Dave Taylor stayed in Billboard's Top 100 for 10 weeks!

$18.95 Buy	Spaceman, J. / Sun City Girls: Mister Lonely - Music From A Film By Harmony Korine [VINYL] (Drag City)
	The soundtrack to the Harmony Korine (Gummo, Kids) film Mister Lonely, in pieces performed either by J. Spaceman or Sun City Girl, with film dialog interspersed.

$23.95 Buy	Various Artists: Shadow Music of Thailand [VINYL] (Sublime Frequencies)
	Limited edition LP of 60s Thai guitar pop "Shadow Music" movement, with leading artists P.M. Pocket Music, The Son of P.M., P.M.7, Jupiter and Johnny Guitar.

World:
$18.95 Buy	Demissie, Zerfu : Akotet: Songs of the Begena (Terp African Series)
	Ethiopian master Zerfu Demissie on solo Begena, a large traditional framed string instrument, sought out for this recording Andy and Terrie Ex.

THE SQUID'S EAR

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