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SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS

July 3, 2008

52 releases this time, starting with a fistful of new Vandermark releases: Atomic/School Days on Okka, Vandermark and Ab Baars on Wig, and the Vandermark "Musician" DVD on Facets. Other additions to our catalog include 3 new Intakt titles, esp. Barry Guy and Von Schlippenbach titles; Tzadik releases from Lukas Ligetti, Keeril Makan, Klez-Edge (Burton Greene) and Paul Shapiro; Mats Gustafsson's take on Duke Ellington on QBICO; the excellent organ fueled Elephant9 trio; 2 new Chadbourne titles esp. live at The Kitchen with John Zorn and Tom Cora; 2 great releases on the DMG/Arc label: Curlew's 1st and one live, and Supersilent's Bjorkenheim at The Stone with William Parker and Hamid Drake; Bill Cole on Boxholder; the latest Signal to Noise on For4Ears and Martin Baumgartner's odd audio world; a new round of Creative Sources releases; MEV, Mueller, and a new Parmegiania Box; Janek Schaefer on Line; several Innova titles including a Pharaoh's Daughter reissue; and many new Vinyl LPs.

At the end of this mailing are several new reviews on The Squid's Ear. Happy Indepence Day!

Improvisation:
$16.95 Buy	Atomic/School Days: Distil (Okka)
	A 2 CD set of a 2006 concert in Chicago from the melding of Atomic and School Days, with Jeb Bishop, Ken Vandermark, Magnus Broo, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, &c.

$17.95 Buy	Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark, Ab : Goofy June Bug (Wig)
	Reed players Ab Baars and Ken Vandermark recorded live in Amsterdam after a 20 concert tour through Europe, in a quartet wtih Wilbert de Joode and Martin van Duynhoven.

$17.95 Buy	Bergin, Sean / Bicudo, Rogerio: Tale of Three City's (Pingo)
	Brazilian guitarist Bicudo and wind player Sean Bergin meet in a musical friendship that brings together Satie, Pixinguinha and Coltrane on the same release!

$13.95 Buy	Bjorkenheim / Parker / Drake: dmg @ the stone December 26, 2006 (DMG ARC)
	Scorch Trio's guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim in a live trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake at the Stone in NYC, two incredible sets, the best of which are captured on this CD.

$15.95 Buy	Branca, Glenn: Symphony #5 (Atavistic)
	2008 repress of Branca's 1984 Symphony No. 5, "Describing Planes Of an Expanding Hypersphere", a dense work using guitar & mallete guitar, drums, bass, keyboards & violin.

$16.95 Buy	Cole, Bill Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs For Sam (Boxholder)
	World wind player Bill Cole in a 7 piece band including William Parker and Cooper-Moore playing live at The Vision Festival in NYC, 2001 on pieces based around the proverbs from the Yorubas of Nigeria.

$19.95 Buy	Curlew: Curlew + Live at CBGB 1980 (DMG ARC)
	Incredible double CD (re)issue of the first Curlew record (George Cartwright, Tom Cora, Bill Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis, Bill Bacon) with bonus cuts, and a live CD from CBGB in 1980 with Denardo Coleman on drums.

$14.95 Buy	Dixon Orchestra, Bill: 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur (Aum Fidelity)
	Legendary trumpeter, composer and educator Bill Dixon in a 17 piece orchestra playing original compositions live at the 12th Vision Festival in New York City.

$16.95 Buy	Elephant9: DodoVoodoo (Rune Grammofon)
	The debut album for this new Norwegian power trio, who have been touring for the last 2 years, wild improv/rock music with a strong organ sound from SuperSilent's Ståle Storløkken.

$14.95 Buy	Flaherty, Paul / Colbourne, Randall: Bridge Out! (Family Vineyard)
	A decade since releasing a dozen duo album in the 80's, saxophonist Flaherty and percussionist Colbourne reunite for an album of coiling sax lines and polyrhythmic patterns.

$14.95 Buy	Giesriegl / Gasser / Sayer / Fischer: vist ag (Creative Sources)
	An incredible quartet of voice and strings with an attitude of electro-acoustic sound production, immense journeys in sound crossing the areas of conflict between meditation and impulsiveness.

$19.95 Buy	Guy / Crispell / Lytton: Phases Of The Night (Intakt)
	Barry Guy's 3rd trio release with Marilyn Crispell and Paul Lytton in music inspired by the painting so by Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Wilfredo Lam and Yves Tanguy.

$19.95 Buy	Hassler, Hans : Sehr Schnee Sehr Wald Sehr (Intakt)
	Swiss accordionist Hans Hassler in his first solo acccordion release blending folk music, classical interpretation and free jazz in 15 original compositions.

$12.95 Buy	Irabagon's, Jon Outright!: Outright (Innova)
	Debut CD by alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon, who has played with Matt Grason's Motel Project and Clean Feed's RIDD Quartet, in a set of 7 original compositions.

$12.95 Buy	Klez-Edge: Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters (Tzadik)
	Burton Greene Klez-Edge brings together Greene's free jazz leanings and the influence of his Klezmokum band in a new ensemble of virtuosic spontaneity and humor.

$14.95 Buy	Mezei Ensemble, Szilard : Sivatag (Creative Sources)
	Extending his own ensemble into a 10 piece orchestra of impressive range and tonal colors, Szilard Mezei presents 3 compositions that bridge modern classical and improvisational music.

$14.95 Buy	Mezei, Szilard / Markos, Albert: Korom (Creative Sources)
	Free ranging and captivating improvisations between Hungarian violist Szilard Mezei and cellist Albert Markos, a remarkable duo of the string's potential.

$16.95 Buy	Noonan's, Sean Brewed by Noon: Live From New York And Beyond (Institute For Electronic Arts)
	CD & DVD of NY drummer Sean Noonan playing jazz with a global vistion in a powerhouse band that includes Mat Maneri, Marc Ribot, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma!

$14.95 Buy	Orange: In The Midst of Chaos (DESTIJL)
	Saxophonist Paul Flaherty's debut album from 1978 with the free jazz group Orange featuring Barry Greika on guitar, Bob Laramie on bass and Glen Peterson on drums.

$19.95 Buy	Schlippenbach Trio: Gold Is Where You Find It (Intakt)
	After 35 years of recording together the Schlippenbach trio with Evan Parker and Paul Lovens continues its intensive collaborative work with this new studio album of original compositions.

$12.95 Buy	Shapiro, Paul: Essen (Tzadik)
	Paul Shapiro's tribute to 1940s Yiddish Jazz with covers of novelty songs originally recorded by Slim Gaillard and Cab Calloway as well as Yiddish classics.

$15.95 Buy	Thornton, Clifford New Art Ensemble: Freedom & Unity (Atavistic)
	Recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral, this '69 release features Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Joe McPhee's 1st appearance on LP (McPhee adds 2 bonus tracks from his personal archive!)

$14.95 Buy	Weber, Christian: Walcheturm Solo (Cut)
	A concert from one of Europe's most active and innovative acoustic bass players, Weber's "Walcheturm Solo" was recorded in the resonant halls of the Zurich art space Walcheturm.

$14.95 Buy	Yamamoto, Eri: Duologue (Aum Fidelity)
	Japanese born NY based pianist Eri Yamamoto, part of William Parker's Raining on the Moon ensemble, in an album of duos with Parker, Federico Ughi, Hamid Drake, and Daniel Carter.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$14.95 Buy	Baumgartner, Martin : Shoot's Huft (For4Ears)
	Three large works from Viennese sound artist Baumgartner, who composes obsessive journeys in tonal transitions with great detail and activity, using noise, quirk and dreamstate.

$14.95 Buy	Ikeshiro / Shelton: Ry-om III (Creative Sources)
	Ry-om is a london-based duo creating improvised experimental electronic music, noise and acoustic soundscapes using laptops, guitars, feedback loops, synths, instrumental samples and vocals.

$14.95 Buy	Kahn / Korber / Moslang / Muller / Chulki / Yukie / Sangtae / Hankil / Joonyong / Miryung / : Signal to Noise Volume 6 (For4Ears)
	The 6th volume of this series finds Kahn, Korber, Moslang & Mueller in varying groupings with 6 musicians from the South Korean avant sound community with rewarding results.

$12.95 Buy	Ligeti, Lukas: Afrikan Machinery (Tzadik)
	Drummer, improviser and composer Ligeti in a release of electronics and the"Marimba Lumina" to create 7 electronic and percussive works of polyrhythms and hypnotic textures.

$18.95 Buy	MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva): Friday (Alga Marghen)
	MEV started in 1966 in advance of today's ea-improv scene, Rzewski, Curran, Teitelbaum, Catalid and Carius creating improv structures using live electronics, as this 1969 album well demonstrates.

$16.95 Buy	Mueller, Jon / Kahn, Jason: Topography (Xeric)
	Crouton and Xeric bring live recordings of Jon Mueller and Jason Kahn in a rich textural work influenced by interactions with the environments of each tour location.

$94.95 Buy	Parmegiani, Bernard: L'Oeuvre Musicale en 12 CD (INA GRM)
	Bernard Parmegiani, French composer of musique concrete and a member of the GRM group, in a 12 CD box of 33 compositions from 1964 to 2007 with a 92 pages booklet.

$14.95 Buy	praed: The Muesli Man (Creative Sources)
	Paed and Raed make "praed", the very unusual electro-acoustic duo behind The Muesli Man, 40 tracks of electronics, bass, clarinets, & tapes (with japanese subtitles!)

$14.95 Buy	Scarassatti / Filho / Bomfim: Sonax (Creative Sources)
	Working in an AMM vein, Sonax uses a mixture of self-made instruments, sound sculpture and live electronics to create otherworldly improvisation environments.

$14.95 Buy	Schaefer, Janek: Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (Line)
	Schaefer's 2007 exhibition, inspired by the Jodoform system of secret musical messages used in WW II, using recordings played at varying speeds in response to audience motion.

$14.95 Buy	Trayle, Mark : Goldstripe (Creative Sources)
	Goldstripe uses data read from the magnetic stripes of credit cards and bank cards to create a set of musical conditions for improvisation.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$14.95 Buy	Blackshaw, James: Litany of Echoes (Tompkins Square)
	Guitarist Blackshaw's sixth studio album in five years shows a mature approach to composition in sweeping and introspective works that incorporate piano and strings.

$12.95 Buy	Chadbourne / Black - The Jack and Jim Show 2007: THINK 69 (Chadula)
	Jimmy Carl Black and Eugene Chadbourne's Jack & Jim Show with a characteristically twisted repertoire in recordings from the best of their 2007 Think 69 tour, starting at The Stone in NYC.

$12.95 Buy	Pharaoh's Daughter: Daddy's Pockets (Innova)
	A much needed reissue of Pharaoh's Daughter's debut album, originally on Knitting Factory Works, 12 tracks of compelling Middle Eastern rhythms and songs.

$16.95 Buy	Silver Apples: Silver Apples (Ash International)
	New more deluxe edition of 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!

$12.95 Buy	The Chadbournes: The Kitchen Concert (Torture in the Eighties) (Chadula)
	The original Chadbournes (Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Mark Kramer and David Licht) playing the freakiest improv country music you ever heard at, the Kitchen in the early 80s.

Avant-Garde:
$12.95 Buy	Harrison, Joel: The Wheel (Innova)
	Joel Harrison's 5 movement suite for double quartet and guitar blends compositional and improvisational worlds in gripping music, with a band including Lindsey Horner, David Binney, Ralph Allessi, &c.

$12.95 Buy	Makan, Keeril : In Sound (Tzadik)
	Young American composer Keeril Makan with performances by the Kronos Quartet and Paul Dresher Ensemble in music that draws from a diverse set of global influences.

Vinyl:
$23.95 Buy	Cotton Museum: No Face in the Bog [VINYL] (QBICO)
	Reissuing Chris Pottinger's electronic madness on limited edition cows milk white vinyl, 4 electronic tracks of music from the meditative to the insane!

$21.95 Buy	Elephant9: DodoVoodoo [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon)
	The debut album for this new Norwegian power trio, who have been touring for the last 2 years, wild improv/rock music with a strong organ sound from SuperSilent's Ståle Storløkken.

$39.95 Buy	Gustafsson, Mats: Mats G Plays Duke E [VINYL] (QBICO )
	Radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson in a one-sided limited edition vinyl album of very personal versions of classic Duke Ellington songs.

$29.95 Buy	Krusi, Hans: Ex Hk. [VINYL] (Alga Marghen)
	An unusual set of recordings from the late outsider-art figure Hans Krusi, who mades these strange concrete pieces mixing mixing field recordings, percussive noise, radio folk songs, &c.

$17.95 Buy	Mueller, Jon: Strung [VINYL] (Table of the Elements)
	Part of TOE's Guitar Series, single-sided clear LPs with laser etched illustrations by Savage Pencil, Strung has Mueller scrambling the guitar in waves of sound.

$18.95 Buy	Nurse With Wound: The Bacteria Magnet [VINYL] (Dirter Productions)
	Nurse With Wound's 4 track limited edition LP brings 2 tracks from "Huffin Rag Blues" and 2 tracks exclusive to this LP, all in a twisted gloss sleeve and insert.

$23.95 Buy	Odd Clouds: Odd Clouds [VINYL] (QBICO)
	Chris Pottinger and Jamie Easter's 8-member Odd Clouds project in free-form rock, presented in a limited pictures disc of "bad trip" artwork by the two band leaders.

DVD:
$24.95 Buy	Jahn, Ebba: Rising Tones Cross (FILMPALS)
	This 2 hour film about jazz in New York through the city and the musicians who play there, with Charles Gayle, William Parker, Peter Kowald, Marilyn Crispell, &c.

$23.95 Buy	Vandermark, Ken : Musician [DVD] (FACETS)
	Documentary about Chicago's jazz phenomenon, saxophonist Ken Vandermark, with both a biography of the man and performances from The Vandermark 5, Territory Band, Bridge 61, CINC, &c.

Book:
$7.95 Buy	Wire, The: #293 July 2008 MAG (Wire)
	On the cover: Mark Steward, plus articles on Bill Dixon, Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton, &c. &c.

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