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June 6, 2008

A great couple of weeks with: 3 new releases on Satoko Fujii's Libra label; 4 new releases on Tzadik including the latest Phantom Orchard and the 2nd set of Elliot Sharp String Quartets; 3 new Canterbury oriented improv releases on Reel Recordings; Hugh Hopper and Yumi Hara on Moon June; Sun Ra's All Stars in a 5 CD set; Nasuno Mitsuru with Otomo and Samm Bennett on Doubtmusic; 5 slabs of Veal from Jamie Saft's excellent dark NY improvising label; a new Ecstasy Mule maxi-single; and the summer issue of Signal to Noise to read while listening to all this great new music!

Also, you'll notice that we've been working hard on providing audio samples and edits for most of our listings, so that you can preview each release. You'll find the audio player on the right side of a listing, which expands when you click on it, to play either a 2 minute sample or a series of edits for that listing.

Last, at the end of this mailing are 19 new reviews on The Squid's Ear. You'll also notice that the author of each review is listed on the home page, and that a comprehensive list of reviews is now available in the "Reviews" menu option at the top left of every Squid's Ear page. We're always looking for new writers, so please contact us if you're interested in becoming a paid reviewer for the 'Ear.

Improvisation:
$14.95 Buy	Beta Popes: Live Hate (Veal)
	Even more hate filled underground improvised metal from the power trio of Jamie Saft, Bobbie Previte and Skerik, captured live in the UK at Subtone in 2005.

$14.95 Buy	Beta Popes: White Hate (Veal)
	Metal influenced dark improvisation from Jamie Saft, Bobbie Previte, and skronky 'saxophonics' player Skerik, tortured music for a torturous age.

$16.95 Buy	D'Andrea, Franco : My One and Only Love (Red)
	Italian pianist D'Andrea, who formed the Modern Art Trio in 1986 and has worked with many American jazz greats, in a trio with Mark Elias and Barry Altschul.

$6.95 Buy	Ecstasy Mule: Ecstasy Mule Contemplates Hunting and Drinking When the Rainbow is Enuf (Batterrie)
	Ecstasy Mule's demented improv blues in a maxi-single presenting 3 version of "Missouri Couple seeks Law Against Hunting + Drinking" from 3 NYC performances.

$10 Buy	Ecstasy Mule: Twofer Special (Batterrie)
	Ecstasy Mule's two release "Sings Songs of Love & Redemption" and "Ecstasy Mule Contemplates Hunting and Drinking When the Rainbow is Enuf" for one special price.

$15.95 Buy	Fujii Trio, Satoko : Trace A River (Libra)
	Satoko Fujii's excellent trio with Mark Dresser on bass and Jim Black on drums: spiritous, technically impressive, melodically and conceptually adventurous music not to miss!

$15.95 Buy	Gato Libre: KURO (Libra)
	Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii's Gato Libre in their fourth seductive album of jazz based on European folk melodies with some of the coolest accordion playing on the planet.

$19.95 Buy	Joneleit, Jens: In-Between: blues pieces (NEOS Music)
	Nine solo blues pieces inspired by Famoudou Don Moye from multi-instrumentalist Joneleit, multitracking drum, bass and piano recorded live without editing.

$15.95 Buy	Junk Box (Tamura / Fujii / Hollenbeck): Cloudy Then Sunny (Libra)
	Satoko Fujii's latest Junk Box with Natsuki Tamura and John Hollenbeck is an amazing jazz album of extended technique, instrumentation and expressive, dramatic ideas

$19.95 Buy	Kalashnikov: Bang Bang (Veal)
	Double CD of bleak and sinister metal-oriented improv from the duo of Jamie Saft on keys and bass and Mike Pride on drums and hostile and freakish vocals.

$14.95 Buy	Miller Trio, Steve : Meets Elton Dean (Reel Recordings)
	Steve Miller's trio with Tony Moore and Eddie Prevost met Elton Dean in 1985 in Kentish Town to record these 1st 2 tracks, the 3rd from a private session in Hertfordshire, 1976.

$14.95 Buy	Osborne, Mike: Force Of Nature (Reel Recordings)
	Legendary alto saxophonist Mike Osborne only recorded from the 60's to the early 80's, but his legacy is proven again in these live recordings of his Quartet from Germany and London.

$14.95 Buy	Soft Heap: Al Dente (Reel Recordings)
	Soft Machine meets Gilgamesh and Hatfield in the North in these excellent 1978 live recordings of Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Alan Gowen and Pip Pyle at the Phoenix Club.

$44.95 Buy	Sun Ra All Stars: Milan, Zürich, West Berlin, Paris (Transparency)
	Six hours from 5 concerts in high-quality recordings from the 1982 Sun Ra All Stars with Lester Bowie, Don Cherry, Philly Joe Jones, Archie Shepp, &c.!

$16.95 Buy	Sun Ra: Creator Of The Universe: Lost Reel Collection Vol. 1 (Transparency)
	Two discs of Sun Ra from 1971: a concert at the Warehouse in San Francisco, and a recording of Sun Ra speaking to a class at UC Berkeley during his teaching residency there.

$16.95 Buy	Sun Ra: Dance of the Living Image: Lost Reel Collection Volume Four (Transparency)
	Sun Ra always a tape recorder running, especially in rehersals, and these recordings are from an otherwise undocumented yet legendary trip to Mexico in 1974.

$14.95 Buy	Swami LatePlate: Doom Jazz (Veal)
	Slow moving heavily doomed jazz from Swami LatePlate (Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte), foreboding music showcasing Saft's sense of drama and Previte's incredible aplomb.

$14.95 Buy	Whoopie Pie: Sweet (Veal)
	There's nothing 'sweet' about the thick power doom blues from the trio of Jamie Saft, Bill McHenry and Mike Pride, just thick Painkiller molded improv of the highest calibre.

$12.95 Buy	Zamir, Daniel: I Believe (Tzadik)
	Daniel Zamir's return to Tzadik after 5 years presents his complex musical vision in an exceptional quartet with Uri Cain, Greg Cohen and Joey Baron.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$14.95 Buy	Cluster: Berlin 2007 (Important Records)
	Before this massively successful concert in 2007 Roedelius and Moebius' Cluster has not played in Berlin since their 12 hour concert in the Europacenter in 1969.

$13.95 Buy	Dunn, Kyle Bobby: Fragments & Compositions (Sedimental)
	A collection of recordings drawn from spontaneous recording sessions with classical players, which Dunn used to focus on particular fragments to make these warmly minimal compositions.

$22.95 Buy	Mr. Dorgon: Coonskin Cap (Jumbo)
	Dorgon takes vinyl LPs on wobbly trips of obsessively delaying, gyrating and decaying obsessions on a variety of themes and ideas.

$12.95 Buy	Mr. Dorgon: Manjusri (Jumbo)
	Unusual, head-scratching works of sound & noise or cracked pludnerphonics with a good sense of pacing that lulls and befuddles on it's own schedule.

$12.95 Buy	Mr. Dorgon: My Hands Around Yer Neck (Jumbo)
	Sinister looping and shimmering works from Mr. Dorgon taking on the trumpet - or at least, a dead trumpeter: an unusual homage to cool dead player Miles Davis.

$16.95 Buy	Object: Asobi (Sensory Projects)
	Lawrence English's Asobi (Japanese for 'play') is a warmly glowing work of subtle rhythms and glistening electronics of interest to fans of Fennesz, Oval, &c.

$12.95 Buy	Phantom Orchard: Orra (Tzadik)
	Phantom Orchard's latest demonstrates the unique improvisational language and rapport built on decades of collaboration between downtown NY-ers Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins.

$19.95 Buy	Rabelais, Akira: Hollywood (Schoolmap)
	Akira Rabelais captured these sounds on Hollywood Boulevard between Betty Grable's and of Rod Serling's stars, which he used to create this fascinating composition.

$13.95 Buy	Schumacher, Stanley and the Music Now Ensemble : Sound Textures (Musikmacher)
	Musikmacher Production's 1st release brings together Stanley Schumacher, Hans Tammen, and Ricardo Arias in an adventurous program of rich electroacoustical textures.

$13.95 Buy	Wanke, Riccardo Dillon: Caves (Sedimental)
	An exploration of the relationship between different geometries of drones, concrete sounds, acoustic melodies and loops using guitars, sax and natural sound elements.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$12.95 Buy	Haino, Keiji / Tatsuya, Yoshida: Uhrfasudhasdd (Tzadik)


$13.95 Buy	Hopper, Hugh / Cawkwell, Yumi Hara : Humi Dune (MoonJune Records)
	Bassist Hugh Hopper with improvising pianist and vocaliser Yumi Hara Cawkwell in calmly violent music described as "21st century international Canterbury music".

$16.95 Buy	Mitsuru, Nasuno : Prequel October 1998 - March 1999 + 1 (Doubtmusic)
	Reissue with bonus material of Altered States bass player Nasuno Mitsuru's 1st release from '99, amzing underground material with Otomo, Samm Bennett, Numata Jun, &c.

$15.95 Buy	Scheinman, Jenny: Jenny Scheinman (The Vocal Album) (Koch)
	Violinist, improviser and songwriter Jenny Scheinman's s/t album is a collection of songs with Bill Frisell, Kenny Wollesen, &c as sidemen, singing songs by Dylan, Missippi John Hurt, &c.

Vinyl:
$23.95 Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Recurring Dream & Apocalypse Of Darkness [VINYL] (Important Records)
	Perhaps the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple yet, in a deluxe limited edition gatefold double LP with two bonus tracks.

$17.95 Buy	Collections Of Colonies Of Bees: Six Guitars [VINYL] (Table of the Elements)
	One sided clear vinyl release of Chris Rosenau and Jon Mueller's Collections Of Colonies Of Bees playing a piece for 6 guitars based on the ancient harmony of the perfect fifth.

$14.95 Buy	Lee, Okkyung: i saw the ghost of an unknown soul and it said... (Ecstatic Peace)
	Amazing New York improvising cellist and composer Okkyung Lee in an LP only releases of deep and resonant, furious and hushed string, bow and wood music.

$19.95 Buy	Nalle: The Siren's Wave [VINYL] (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.

$24.95 Buy	Zaimph: The Undetermined Dyad [VINYL] (Volcanic Tongue)
	Zaimph AKA Marcia Bassett in a guitar record that pushes the instrument into an encompassing and eerie world of effects, drones and transformative sound.

Compositional:
$12.95 Buy	Sharp, Elliott : String Quartets: 2002�2007 (Tzadik)
	Composer/performer/instrument builder Elliott Sharp's 2nd in a series of complete string quartets, inventive works blending computer science, fractals, improvisation and mathematics.

Book:
$4.95 Buy	Signal To Noise: Issue #50, Summer 2008
	The finest music magazine in the US, Signal to Noise's Summer 2008 issue is their 50th, with articles on Ellen Allien, WFMU, Sonic Youth, Keith Jarret, and STN's Favorite Things.

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