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August 14, 2008

Two busy weeks at Squidco, starting with 4 new Clean Feeds and 4 new CIMP titles; Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan and William Parker live on Eremite; Stephen Gauci on Ayler; two new Hatology reissues; Matthew Shipp and Steve Swell titles on Not Two; Raster-Noton releases Byetone, Kangding Ray, two Ikeda Ryoji CDs, two Alva Noto CDs, and Coh covering Cosey; Mode releases the latest Lydia Kavina theremin CD; SoSeditions with beautifully packaged CD and DVD releases; a new Albert Marcouer CD; 3 new NEOS titles; Dust-to-Digital's Black Mirror; and Rick Reed's Dreamz LP.

At the end of this mailing are 13 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

SUMMER SALE! Our third 2008 Summer Sales starts today, offering more than 25% off selected new items in our "BOOK", "DVD", "WORLD" & "MISC" category. While stock in individual titles last, so have a good look today!

Summer Sale: "BOOK", "DVD", "WORLD" & "MISC"

Improvisation:
$20.95 Buy	Anderson / Drake / Jordan / Parker: 2 Days In April (Eremite)
	Double CD set documenting two 1999 concerts in Amherst & Boston by this summit gathering of american free jazz heavies, 2 continuous long form group improvisations.

$15.95 Buy	Chris Kelsey: Crookedest StraightLine V.2 (CIMP)
	Saxophonist Chris Kelsey's Quartet with John Carlson on trumpet, Francois Grillot on bass and Jay Rosen on drums in a set of 7 original Kelsey compositions.

$15.95 Buy	Conference Call: Poetry In Motion (Clean Feed)
	The first studio album in 8 years from pianist Michael Jefry Stevens and bassist Joe Fonda, with Gebhard Ullman and George Schuller, performing accomplished and impressive modern improvisation.

$15.95 Buy	David Haney + Andrew Cyrille: Clandestine (CIMP)
	Pianist David Haney and dummer Andrew Cyrille, joined on 1 track by Dominic Duval, in a set of original compositions recorded in Gilbert Recital Hall, NYC.

$15.95 Buy	David Haney + Andrew Cyrille+ Dominic Duval: Conspiracy A Go Go (CIMP)
	The counterpart to the CIMP duo album of Haney and Cryille, "Clandestine", here in trio with Dominic Duvall making a power trio of great interchange and dialog.

$16.95 Buy	Doyle's Free Jazz Soul Orchestra, Arthur : Bushman Yoga (Ruby Red Editora)
	Arthur Doyle with his Free Jazz Soul Orchestra including Ed Wilcox (Temple of Bon Matin) in live shows complete with African love calls, scat-singing duets and sound poetry.

$17.95 Buy	Embryo: Live At Burg Herzberg Festival 2007 (World in Sound)
	40 years after their appearance at the 1st Burg Herzberg Festival and Embryo is still there, as heard in this 2007 set with a strong line up playing electric Kraut-jazz-rock.

$15.95 Buy	Ernie Krivda: the Art of the Trio (CIMP)
	Tenor saxophonist Ernie Krivda in a trio with Peter Dominguez on bass and Ron Godale on drums, playing a set of original Krivda compositions from the Spirit Room.

$19.95 Buy	Gauci, Stephen: Live at Stockholm (Ayler)
	Two sets of New York tenor saxophonist Stephen Gauci and an impressive rhythm section playing with alternately Broo Magnus and Mats Aleklint, live at the Glenn Miller Cafe in Stockholm, 2007.

$15.95 Buy	Lane / Grassi / Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly (Clean Feed)
	A superb trio of NY improvisers and composers whose collective work bridges the divide between free playing and jazz tradition, a kind of avant swinging bebop.

$15.95 Buy	Mauger (Mahanthappa / Dresser / Hemingway): The Beautiful Enabler (Clean Feed)
	Braxton alumni and improv heavyweights Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway with rising star Rudresh Mahanthappa in an exceptionally creative studio release.

$19.95 Buy	McPhee, Joe / Lisle, Ellis / Plimley, Paul: Sweet Freedom - Now What? (Hatology)
	The trio of Joe McPhee, Lisle Ellis and Paul Plimley in this important '95 reissue, playing music from and for Max Roach in a drum-less trio, a remarkable album!

$14.95 Buy	Parker, William: Double Sunrise Over Neptune (Aum Fidelity)
	An orchestral work premiered at the 2007 Vision Festival XII with an excellent lineup performing a work based on William Parker's concept of universal tonality.

$16.95 Buy	Return of the New Thing: Alchemy (Not Two Records)
	The quartet of Dan Warburton, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Francois Fuchs and Edward Perraud in a set of dynamic tracks that balance intensity and sonic interest.

$16.95 Buy	Shipp Quartet, Matthew : Cosmic Suite (Not Two Records)
	Pianist Matthew Shipp's Quartet with Whit Dickey, Joe Morris and Daniel Carter in a nine part "Cosmic Suite", an upbeat work of connected and interweaving themes.

$16.95 Buy	Swell, Steve Presents Rivers Of Sound Ensemble: News From the Mystic Auricle (Not Two Records)
	Steve Swell in a quintet with Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Hilliard Green and Klaus Kugel in an album dedicated to the great music of Sam Rivers.

$15.95 Buy	Trio Viriditas: Live at Vision Festival VI (Clean Feed)
	The excellent trio of Alfred Harth on sax, Kevin Norton on percussion, and the late Wilber Morris on bass, performing at the 2001 Vision Festival VI in New York City.f

$19.95 Buy	Westbrook / Rossini: Westbrook-Rossini (Hatology)
	Mike & Kate Westbrooks 1986 album of Gioacchino Rossini interpretations, with Lindsay Cooper on sopranino sax, huge works that impart improv and humor into magnificent compositions.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$19.95 Buy	Atoui, Tarek: Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat)
	Lebanese electro-acoustic musician Tarek Atoui works with abstract sound worlds, soundscaping and applying often broken or asymmetric rhythmic elements.

$14.95 Buy	Boxhead Ensemble: Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back (Atavistic)
	Reissue plus bonus tracks of this 1997 soundtrack album from Chicago outside artists Boxhead Ensemble featuring Jim O'Rourke, David Grummbs, Ken Vandermark, &c. &c.

$16.95 Buy	Byetone: Death of a Typographer (Raster Music)
	Dark glitchy beat work from Raster-Noton cofounder Olaf Benders, minimal and edgy pieces influenced by the Berlin winter, music of slow metamorphoses.

$16.95 Buy	COH (Ivan Pavlov / Cosey Fanni Tutti): COH Plays Cosey (Raster Music)
	COH Plays Cosey is the first part of an ongoing collaborative project between Stockholm's Ivan Pavlov/COH and the UK's Cosey Fanni Tutti (CTI, Throbbing Gristle)

$16.95 Buy	Cusack, Peter & Eastley, Max: Day for Night (Paradigm)
	Created over 25 years, these works are based on location recordings layered with the live or recycled sounds of Eastley's delicate and elegant kinetic sound sculpture.

$14.95 Buy	Dockstader, Tod: Quatermass (Starkland)
	Three major musique concrete works from Dockstaders early 60's output: Water Music; Two Moons of Quatermass; and Quatermass, sophisticated and distinctive music.

$16.95 Buy	Greenham, Lily : Lingual Music (Paradigm)
	Danish born UK sound poet Lily Greenham, a part of the Wienner Gruppe'sf experimental theatre, in a double CD of incredible sound and text based compositions.

$16.95 Buy	Ikeda, Ryoji: 1000 Fragments (Raster Music)
	Ryoji Ikeda's 1st solo album, starting with a series of plunderous tv, radio, historic, &c. sound fragment works, while introducing the meticulous electronic work to come.

$16.95 Buy	Ikeda, Ryoji: Test Pattern (Raster Music)
	Part of Ikeda's "datamatics" multimedia project, exploring perceptions of the data that permeates our world, this work converts raw data files to sound with fascinating results.

$16.95 Buy	Kangding Ray: Automne Fold (Raster Music)
	Kangding AKA David Letellier in his second Raster-Noton release, darkly organic electronics and pulsating rhythms in odd and shifting meters and subliminal interaction.

$15.95 Buy	Kavina, Lydia : Music from the Ether (Mode Records)
	Russian theremin virtuoso Kavina presents first recordings of original compositions from composers like Percy Grainger, Jorge Antunes, &c.

$15.95 Buy	Kavina, Lydia: Spellbound! - Theremin works by Grainger, Neuwirth, Rosza, Shore, Wolff (Mode Records)
	More first recordings from Russian theremin virtuoso Kavina, premiere recordings of Howard Shore's Suite from "Ed Wood"; Ogla Neuwirths "Bahlamms Fest"; 3 pieces from Percy Grainger, &c.

$14.95 Buy	Krebs, Annette / Nakamura, Toshimaru: siyu (SoSEDITIONS)
	2 improvisations recorded in Berlin, 2005, the lowercase duo of Annette Krebs on guitar, tapes and objects and Toshimaru Nakamura on the no-input mixing board.

$14.95 Buy	Lockwood, Annea: A Sound Map of the Hudson River (Lovely Music)
	An aural journey of New York's immense Hudson River made from field recordings of distinct areas, each with its own sonic texture formed by the surround terrain.

$19.95 Buy	Modern Shit: Will Make You Ill (Alga Marghen)
	Originally a private Alga Marghen release of the early 80s, Lempke & Amos augment 2 independent non-stop recordings with tracks plundered from bad pop bands making oddball brilliance.

$16.95 Buy	Noto, Alva : Transform (Raster Music)
	Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai)'s 2001 release initiated his "transall" series of minimal glitch and subsonic experimental music, skeletal beat-patterns and deep emissions.

$16.95 Buy	Noto, Alva: Unitxt (Raster Music)
	Electronic conceptualist Alva Noto in a series of rhythmic "units", or a grid represented in sound codes and pieces of spoken word; then software translated to aif files.

$16.95 Buy	Oliveros, Pauline: Electronic Works 1965 - 1966 (Paradigm)
	Three compositions from composer Pauline Oliveros dating from 1965 to 1966, displaying her early explorations into tape music, electronics, oscillators, filters, &c..

$16.95 Buy	Pomassl: Spare Parts (Raster-Norton)
	Sonic explorer Pomassl's works with digital errors, high and low tones, in his latest album deconstructing musical structure and testing the limits of hearing.

$8.95 Buy	Zaimph: Bird Of Prey/Inclination 7" [VINYL] (Arbor)
	Zaimph AKA Marcia Bassett in a 7" record of vocal mantras, delicate strumming and a hypnotically evolving base of looped piano, feedback, and strings.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$18.95 Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Acid Motherly Love (RIOT SEASON)
	The 3rd album on UK's Riot Season label for Acid Mother Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., with additional vocals making expansive and incredible psychedelic rock.

$19.95 Buy	Aural Fit: Aural Fit II (PSF)
	Loud, psychedelic bludgeoning rock in the mold of Stooges, Blue Cheer, TG, or Hight Rise from this Tokyo band first formed in 2004 and with a new lineup.

$16.95 Buy	Burnt Hills: Morning Glory (Ruby Red Editora)
	Hailing from Albany, NY, Burnt Hills plays a wild psychedelic mash of improvised rock, a thick stew of cosmic morning glory-induced hallucinogenic music.

$14.95 Buy	Crandell, Richard: In The Flower of Our Youth [VINYL] (Tompkins Square)
	Reissue of Richard Crandell's first solo guitar LP, originally released in 1980 on the Cutthroat label, with the tune "Rebecca" later covered by Leo Kottke.

$28.95 Buy	Marcoeur, Albert: Travaux Pratiques (Label Freres)
	New studio work of inspired, complex rock oriented songs and instrumentals, sophisticated, quirky, complex, and joyously eccentric pieces, recommended.

$17.95 Buy	Teenage Jesus &Amp; The Jerks: Shut Up and Bleed (Cherry Red)
	The seminal No-Wave band Teenage and Jesus and The Jerks, featured on Brian Eno's No New York LP, were lead by primal screamer and guitarist Lydia Lunch.

Compositional:
$17.95 Buy	Ives, Charles: A Radical In A Suit And Tie: Premiere Recordings (El Records)
	First time reissues of these Ives compositions as performed The American Recording Society Orchestra; the National Gallery Orchestra; and his Piano Sonata #1 with William Masselos.

$34.95 Buy	Nono, Luigi: Guai ai gelidi mostri / Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No. 2 (NEOS Music)
	Two large works from Italian composer Luigi Nono, recorded at Germany's Experimentalstudio des SWR under the direction of Andre Richard.

$19.95 Buy	Palestine, Charlemagne: Sharing A Sonority (Alga Marghen)
	Rare recordings from '67-'74 of experimental artist and composer Charlemagne Palestine performing with Terry Jennings; Robert Feldman; Tony Conrad and Rhys Chatham.

$18.95 Buy	Platz, Robert Hp : Piano Pieces (NEOS Music)
	Performances by Rolf Hind of Cologne composer Robert HP Platz, a structuralist in the same sphere as Stockhausen, Kagel; furiously intense musical invention.

$34.95 Buy	Rihm, Wolfgang : Piano Pieces (NEOS Music)
	Markus Bellheim performing the piano music of Wolfgang Rihm, whose kinetic works have been termed "new simplicity", a reaction to the avant garde of Boulez and Stockhausen.

Miscellaneous:
$15.45 Buy	Various Artists: Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics (1918-1955) (Dust-to-Digital)
	A compilation of 24 recordings by Ian Nagoski transferred and mastered from 78s made between 1918-1955 presenting an incredibly diverse and unique global view.

$13.95 Buy	Various Artists: The Master Musicians Of Jajouka (Genes CD Co.)
	A conceptual sister album to Brian Jones' "Pipes of Pan at Jajouka" LP from the early 70's, this reissue brings back to life the incredible primal call of Jajouka music.

DVD:
$29.95 Buy	Block / Gibson / Recorder : untitled (SoSEDITIONS)
	An untitled DVD work in unusual packaging, presenting a collaborative minimal visual work by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder created for a composition by Olivia Block.

$14.95 Buy	Cornelius, Adam / Various Artists: People Who Do Noise (Cold Hands)
	Interviews and performance footage make a portrait of noise artists, with Smegma, Daniel Menche, Pulse Emitter, Yellow Swans, Bryan Eubanks & Leif Sundstrom, &c. &c.

VINYL:
$20.95 Buy	Noto, Alva: Unitxt [VINYL] (Raster Music)
	Electronic conceptualist Alva Noto in a series of rhythmic "units", or a grid represented in sound codes and pieces of spoken word; then software translated to aif files.

$20.95 Buy	Reed, Rick: Dreamz/Blue Polz Picture Disc [VINYL] (Elevator Bath)
	Picture disc featuring 2 full-color reproductions of visual works by Rick Reed, complementing the droning intensity and unsettling beauty of these side-long compositions.

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