SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS August 29, 2008

This weekend marks the US Labor Day holiday, the unofficial end to summer, which this season has brought us a lot of great music! In this mailing you'll find several new Tzadik titles, especially the latest Book of Angels by Medeski, Martin and Wood, the trio of Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves and William Parker, plus a new Teiji Ito CD; Ambiances Magnetiques releases an amazing new Les Poules; Ad Hoc Records (Recommend USA) releases a new K-Space, and complex rockers The Red Masque; Guapo's Black Oni is reissued on a deluxe double LP; Formed Records issues Vorwolf and SLW; Roscoe Mitchell's Nonaah is reissued with additional tracks; Ray Russell's early and little known Turn Circle is reissued; Cage and Ottes are brought together on Wergo; and don't miss the Gas book and a new edition of The Wire! We also found a cache of older FMP titles that you'll see listed below.

CUNEIFORM SALE! Late in September we'll be stocking Cuneiform Records' latest set of excellent releases, including Richard Pinhaus, Merzbow, Isotope, Deus Ex Machina, and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. So for the first week of September we're offering the following Cuneiform titles at 30% off their regular price. This sale ends September 7th, so don't delay!

Last but not least, at the end of this mailing are several new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$12.95  Buy	Braxton / Graves / Parker: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
	Three of the most important virtuoso instrumentalists in improvisation in an historic and intense musical meeting, recorded and mixed by Bill Laswell.
$14.95  Buy	Les Poules: Hetu, Labrosse, Roger: Phénix (Ambiances Magnetiques)
	24 miniature works from the fantastic and intense improvising trio of Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse and Danielle Palardy Roger, inspired by the eternal revival of the legendary Phoenix.
$15.95  Buy	McCaslin, Donny Trio: ...Recommended Toos... (Greenleaf Records)
	Tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin's 7th album, his first for Dave Douglas' Greenleaf label, is a smoking album of hard hitting and muscular trio work.
$12.95  Buy	Medeski Martin & Wood: Zaebos: The Book of Angels Volume 11 (Tzadik)
	Medeski Martin and Wood performing John Zorn's lyrical Book of Angels Masada material, twelve exhilarating arrangements that shred and burn with passion.
$22.95  Buy	Mitchell, Roscoe: Nonaah (NESSA)
	Perhaps Roscoe Mitchell's finest album outside of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, first solo and then groupings with Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Joseph Jarman, Richard Abrams, George Lewis, &c.
$15.95  Buy	Natsuki Tamura - Trumpet, Satoko Fujii - Pian: Clouds (Libra)
	With each track named after a type of cloud, Satoko Fujii and partner Natsuki Tamura's delicate and engaging impressionistic colors and rumblings.
$15.95  Buy	Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Hada Hada (Libra)
	Thunderous and intense free improvisation from Natsuki Tamurao's Quartet with Satoko Fujii playing sythesizer. 2003 release, first time in stock at Squidco.
$19.95  Buy	Russell, Ray Quartet: Turn Circle (Dutton)
	Recorded in 1968 and arguably Ray's finest jazz album this mixes compositions by such notable figures as Wayne Shorter and Charles Lloyd along with Ray Russell originals.
$17.95  Buy	Shipp / Brown / Parker: Magnetism (Bleuregard)
	From ferocious to introspective improvisation from the trio of Matthew Shipp, Rob Brown and William Parker, playing the 20 movements of Shipp's "Magnetism".
$12.95  Buy	Vorwolf: Snake's Eyes (Formed Records)
	Two percussionists - Michael Vorfeld & Christian Wolfarth - meet as Vorwolf in this dialog of extended techniques mixing tonal and rhythmic ideas into unusual language.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$12.95  Buy	Amacher, Maryanne: Sound Characters Volume 2 (Tzadik)
	Maryanne's 2nd "Sound Character" album on the Tzadik label is the recording of her sound installation at the Esplanade of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
$13.95  Buy	Beins / Capece / Davies / Nakamura: SLW (Formed Records)
	SLW (Sound Like Water) brings together masters of understated improvisation from Japan, Germany, Wales, and Argentina to make ever-morphing intricate and expressive sound.
$14.45  Buy	Carrier Band: Voice Coil (Deep Listening)
	The Carrier Band - Pauline Oliveros (accoridion and Expanded Instrument System), Peer Bode (Bode Vocoder) and Andrew Deutsch (live mixing) - in a live improvisation from 2003.
$16.95  Buy	Haigh, Robert: Written On Water (Crouton)
	A beautiful release from piano minimalist and electronics innovator Robert Haigh, slow merging of clusters that create spacious counter rhythms within repetitive melody.
$15.95  Buy	K-Space: Infinity (Ad Hoc)
	A revolutionary approach to album release, a Mac or PC program which assembles K-Space's (Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder, Gendos Chamzyryn) tracks differently each time it's played.
$15.95  Buy	Lopez, Francisco: Technocalyps (Alien8 Recordings)
	The soundtrack to director Frank Theys film of the same name, an assertive and effective work of deeply breathing sound, extraneous accent and dark industrial tones.
$12.95  Buy	Maximin, Berangere: Tant que les Heures Passent (Tzadik)
	French electroacoustic artist Berangere Maximin six seductive and beautiful environmental landscapes with a keen sense of detail and subtle sense of surprise.
$16.95  Buy	Morphogenesis: In Streams: Volume 1, 1996 - 1999 (Paradigm)
	Electro-acoustic improvisers and studio musicians Clive Graham, Adam Bohman, Ron Briefel, Clive Hall, Michael Prime amd Roger Sutherland in 3 live and 1 studio compositions.
$12.95  Buy	Mr. Dorgon: Valerie Solanas
	Solo intuitive + counter intuitive musics from the electroacoustic world of Mr. Dorgon, 8 eccentric and interesting compositions recorded live in San Francisco, 2007.
$19.95  Buy	O'Rourke, Jim: Long Night (Streamline (Drag City))
	A double CD of a long and inspired, shape changing and shifting drone work created by O'Rourke early in his career in 1990 and only now being released!
$13.95  Buy	oSone: Passerelle (And/OAR)
	A sound performance by oSone (Dauby, Havard, Germain) where sounds from the performance's building were channeled and recorded using large transducers.
$13.95  Buy	Various Artists: Psychogeographical Dip (GD Stereo)
	The first in a series of compilations based on the concept of psychogeographical recordings in electroacoustic music, here describing abandoned McCarren Park in Brooklyn.
$13.95  Buy	Various Artists: The Architecture of the Incidental (GD Stereo)
$11.95  Buy	Vitiello, Stephen: with Eighth Black Bird (Institute For Electronic Arts)
	Vitiello recorded each member of eight blackbird separately performing his instructions, then deconstructed, delayered, and reconstructed, creating these amazing compositions.
$16.95  Buy	Z'ev Vs Pita: Colchester (Editions Mego)
	Two heavyweights of experimental music in their first recording together, A mesmerizing and intense collision of Z'EV's acoustic percussion work and PITA's computer manipulation.

Compositional:
$21.95  Buy	Berio / Boulez: Dialogue, Chemins, Récit... (AEON)
	Saxophonist Vincent David and The Ensemble Quaerendo Invenietis gives unusual performance of the works Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, and Anton Webern.
$23.95  Buy	Cage / Otte: Orient/Occident (Wergo)
	This live recording in honor of Hans Otte's 80th birthday pays homage to 'the beautiful piano sound' of 20th centry music by alternately presenting works by John Cage and Ottes.
$59.95  Buy	Feldman, Morton: For Philip Guston (Wergo)
	Feldman's extraordinary 4 hour trio for flute, percussion and piano was written in memory of his friend American painter Philip Guston, referencing John Cage, who introduced them.
$12.95  Buy	Ito, Teiji: Watermill (Tzadik)
	The music for Jerome Robbins' 1972 ballet is one of Teiji Ito's profound achievements, drawing upon Chinese, Tibetan, African, Native American and Japanese ceremonies.
$12.95  Buy	Pateras, Anthony: Chromatophore (Tzadik)
	Australian composer and performer Anthony Pateras in an eclectic mix of ensemble pieces that blend instrumental virtuosity and electro acoustic sonorities.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$15.95  Buy	The Red Masque: Fossil Eyes (Ad Hoc)
	Chamber rock prowess with heavy crimson-cow-esque drama and power, a complex journey through 11 songs from a band that's as technically impressive and they are studio savvy.

Vinyl:
$24.95  Buy	Guapo: Black Oni [VINYL] (Hlava)
	Deluxe 180gm LP edition of British avant/chamber rock band Guapo's second release in the epic trilogy that began with "Five Suns", wrapped in gleaming black plastic.

Book:
$44.95  Buy	Voigt, Wolfgang: Gas Book w/CD (Raster-Norton)
	Beautiful 128 page colour coffee table book of the art and sound of Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink, Studio1 or Grungerman), including a CD of his Gas music project.
$7.95  Buy	Wire, The: #295 September 2008 (Wire)
	Wire #295, September 2008 with Trevor Watts, Ultra-red, Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair's invisible jukebox, Ghedalia Tzartes, &c. &c.

$19.95  Buy	Bauer / Nozati / VanHove: Organo Pleno (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Brötzmann, Peter: Die LIke a Dog Quartet (Kondo / Parker / Drake): Aoyama Crows (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Brotzmann, Peter Solo: 14 Love Poems (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Brotzmann, Peter Tentet: The Marz Combo Live in Wuppertal (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Dixon / Bauer / Koch / Oxley: Berlin Abbozzi (FMP)
$15.95  Buy	Gayle / Parker / Ali: Touchin' On Trane (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Lacy, Steve plus Crispell / Mengelberg / Gumpert / Van Hove / Miller: Five Facings (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Parker, William: Fractured Dimensions (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Parker, William, In Order To Survive: Posium Pendasem (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Sclavis / Montera: Roman (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	September Band: The Vandoeuvre Concert (FMP)
$15.96  Buy	Taylor, Cecil Ensemble: Almeda (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Taylor, Cecil Ensemble: Always a Pleasure (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	Taylor, Cecil Quartet: Incarnation (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	The Feel Trio (Taylor / Parker / Oxley): Celebrated Blazons (FMP)
$19.95  Buy	The New Flags: Live at the Total Music Meeting 2002, Berlin (All (FMP))
$19.95  Buy	Xu Feng Xia: Difference and Similarity (FMP)