SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS September 12, 2008

New ESP titles lead this mailing, with the trio of Chris Speed, Chris Cheek & Stephane Furic Leibovici, plus Gunter Hampel, Lowell Davidson, and Karel Velebny reissues; Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog and Rudresh Mahanthappa on Pi Recordings; Frode Gjerstad's excellent Circulasione Totale Orchestra dedicated to John Stevens; Joelle Leandre & Barre Phillips on Kadima; and Eri Yamamoto on Aum Fidelity. In Electroacoustic releases we have Noah Creshevsky & If Bwana on Pogus; two new Dumitrescu & Ana Marie Avram releases on Editions Moderne; Machinefabriek + Stephen Vitiello on 12K; Merzbow's reworked Rainbow Electronics; and more Paradigm issues added. In the rock world we have Kevin Ayers private recordings; a new Faun Fables EP; and reissues of: Faust IV; French, Frith Kaiser & Thompson; The Yodeling Astrologer; Miniatures 1+2; and Charles Manson singing; plus an Acid Mothers Temple DVD. Marcel Duchamp and John Cocteau fill out the week, with the Fall issue of Signal to Noise to read while listening to it all!

At the end of this mailing are 19 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$12.95  Buy	Chris Speed, Chris Cheek, Stephane Furic Leibovici: Jugendstil (ESP)
	Compositions by bassist Stephane Furic Leibovici with exceptional collaborators, following Leibovici's strategies of non-repetetive organic compositions; liner notes by Kevin Whitehead.
$14.95  Buy	Circulasione Totale Orchestra: Open Port (Circulasione)
	A massive composition recorded in Norway from a great group of European improvisers led by Frode Gjerstad with Paal Nilssen-Love, Bobby Bradford, Lasse Marhaug, Louis Moholo, &c. &c.
$15.95  Buy	ESA Trio: Gagliardi / Filiano / Grassi: Kenbillou (CIMP)
	Bill Gagliardi's latest venture teams him with his old partner, Lou Grassi, and the phenomenal bassist, Ken Filiano, a trio of powerful playing and reflective spirit.
$12.95  Buy	Hampel, Gunter Group: Music From Europe (ESP)
	Recorded in Holland in 1966, "Music From Europe" was a strong statement of European free jazz from one of its first and strongest leaders, Gunter Hampel.
$14.95  Buy	Houle / Leandres / Strid: 9 Moments (Red Toucan)
	Live and studio recordings from these three virtuosos performers, mixing free improv and chamber sensibilities in unlikely musical frameworks with great humor and wit.
$15.95  Buy	Leandre, Joelle and Barre Phillips: A L'Improviste (Kadima)
	Beautifully recorded and packaged duo of these two great bassists and improvisers performing live at Radio France for Anne Montaron's radio show.
$12.95  Buy	Lowell Davidson Trio: (ESP)
	Pianist Lowell Davidson's only commercial release was this '65 album, which Ornette Coleman urged ESP to record, of his trio with Milford Graves and Gary Peacock.
$14.95  Buy	Maneri, Joe / Peter Dolger: Peace Concert (1964) (Atavistic)
	1964's "Peace Concert" features a duo between alto saxophonist Joe Maneri (father to Mat) and drummer Peter Dolger, rescued by Ken Vandermark's father, Stu.
$16.95  Buy	Mcgregor Septet, The Chris: Up To Earth (Fledg'ling)
	Joyous improvised music drawing on South African roots and European free jazz from Chris McGregor and a group including Evan Parker, Louis Moholo, Barre Philllips, &c.
$14.95  Buy	Ribot, Marc Ceramic Dog: Party Intellectuals (Pi Recordings)
	Debut recording from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band joining Downtown NY mayhem makers Marc Ribot and Shahzad Ismaily, with West Coast drummer Ches Smith.
$14.95  Buy	Rudresh Mahanthappa: Kinsmen (Pi Recordings)
	Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's "Kinsmen" is a groundbreaking project that melds jazz with South Indian music into a single organic whole.
$12.95  Buy	Velebny, Karel: SHQ (ESP)
	European free improvisation recorded in Germany, 1968 from Czech reed & vibist Karel Velebny in a set that mixes free & melodic post-bop rhythms.
$14.95  Buy	Yamamoto, Eri Trio: Redwoods (Aum Fidelity)
	Pianist Eri Yamamoto with her regular trio of bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi, beautiful and melodic jazz with subtlety and finesse.
$13.95  Buy	Various Artists: Albuzerxque Vol.5 (ZERX)
	The 5th Zerx (J.A. Deane) compilation, an excellent and eclectic mix of artists an styles including pieces by Deane, David Moss, Tom Guralnick, &c.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$10.95  Buy	Albert JZ: s/t (Set Projects)
	A black screen DVD with 4 hours of CD quality audio, long improvisations from Set Project's Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks, Rachel Thompson and Jonathan Zorn.
$14.45  Buy	Creshevsky, Noah / If, Bwana: Favorite Encores (Pogus)
	A split CD with 4 tracks from Creshevsky presenting his Hyperrealism electoracoustic music, and 3 conceptual works from Al Margolis' If, Bwana.
$18.95  Buy	Dumitrescu, Iancu - Ana Maria Avram: Live in Spark (MN) (Edition Modern)
	Cellist and percussionist of Hyperion with regular guests Gustavo Aguilar and Tim Hodgkinson, and local musicians Nina Eidsheim and Phil Curtis.
$18.95  Buy	Dumitrescu, Iancu - Ana Maria Avram: Spectrum XXI (Edition Modern)
	New compositions performed by The Hyperion Ensemble, featuring Chris Cutler, Tim Hodgkinson, &c. from Spectrum 2006 and 2007, recorded in Paris, Geneva and Brussels.
$22.95  Buy	Eno, Brian: Ambient 1: Music For Airports (Toshiba/EMI)
	Japanese facsimile reissue of Eno's first true "ambient" album, a term he coined to distinguish his minimalistic approach to composition, opening the concept to a larger public.
$13.95  Buy	J.A. Deane: Vehicle Vortex Vertigo (ZERX)
	Music made from hubcaps and assorted percussion, tapes, text, &c., part of an installation for a city-wide cultural provocation on the theme of auto transportation.
$14.95  Buy	Machinefabriek + Stephen Vitiello: Box Music (12K)
	Vitiello and Machinefabriek collaborated on these electroacoustic works by sending each other boxes of objects (egg cutters, broken records, &c) with which to create this music.
$14.95  Buy	Merzbow: Rainbow Electronics 2 (Dexter's Cigar)
	A remix of the material that made up the original "Rainbow Electronics" release on Jim O'Rourk'es Alchemy Records recorded between 1987-90.
$16.95  Buy	Morphogenesis: In Streams: Volume 2, 1997 - 2000 (Paradigm)
	Electroacoustic improvisers and studio musicians Clive Graham, Adam Bohman, Ron Briefel, Clive Hall, Michael Prime amd Roger Sutherland in 3 live and 1 studio compositions.
$13.95  Buy	Various Artists: The Architecture of the Incidental (GD Stereo)
	An excellent anthology of improvising electroacoustic artists using aleatory processes, inc. Gen Ken Montgomery, If Bwana, Francisco Lopez, Geoff Dugan, John Hudak, &c
$16.95  Buy	Wishart, Trevor: Journey Into Space (Paradigm)
	Trevor Wishart's large and fascinating first release, organized sound works composed between 1970-72 using a vast array of techniques, originally privately pressed as 2 LPs.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$16.95  Buy	Ayers, Kevin: What More Can I Say... (Reel Recordings)
	Private recordings and out-takes from Kevin Ayers with David Bedford, Mike Oldfield, Archie Leggett and Robert Wyatt, including an Ayers 'audio letter'.
$13.95  Buy	Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: 2001 Live Birds (Nearfest Records)
	A 2001 live concert from the North East Art Rock Festival, drawing on Birdsong's already long career of intelligent, tight and complex rock instrumentals.
$16.95  Buy	Blue Blokes 3: Stubble (Fledg'ling)
	"Some wonky string band twanging and banging on old time nomadicised English country blues and death folk" from a trio with members of PiL, 3 Mustaphas 3, Mekons, Sheriekback, &c.
$12.95  Buy	Charles Manson: Sings (ESP)
	What collection would be complete without a Charles Manson collection of songs? Proving that even maniacs like to sing (royalties go to Wojiech Frykowski's estate), with 12 bonus tracks.
$13.95  Buy	Faun Fables: A Table Forgotten (Drag City)
	The Faun Fables quartet led by Dawn McCarthy and Sleepytimer Nils Frykdahl in an EP shaped by the spirit, tools and movements of physical kitchen work.
$17.95  Buy	Faust: IV (Virgin (UK))
	The last of the original experimental rockers Faust's studio albums, in a double CD digital remaster including 3 Peel session tracks and 5 previously unreleased tracks.
$16.95  Buy	French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson: Invisible Means (Fledg'ling)
	Merging rock, folk, improv, avant-garde and comic opera, this CD reissues the 2nd album from this eclectic group, originally issued in 1990, here expanded with a live recording.
$12.95  Buy	MIJ (Jim Holberg): Yodeling Astrologer (ESP)
	Freak folk guitarist/song writer Jim Holberg was found by ESP founder Bernard Stollman in 1969 in Washington Square Park, NYC, who sent him to the studio for this LP the next day.
$18.95  Buy	Various Artists: Miniatures One + Two (Cherry Red)
	Two sequences of tiny masterpieces from 1980-2000, Morgan Fisher's conceptual masterpiece requested songs 1 minute or less from an incredibly diverse set of artists!

Compositional:
$17.95  Buy	Cocteau, Jean & Les Six: Once Upon a Time (El Records)
	Jean Cocteau was the literary spokesman for Les Six in Paris, 1919, who embraced 'primitive' musics like popular song and jazz and incorporated them into these infamous compositions.
$17.95  Buy	Duchamp, Marcel: The Entire Musical Work (Dog w/a Bone)
	From 1912-15 Marcel Duchamp worked with music, creating these 5 compositions; these 1987 recordings are from Peter Kotik's SEM Ensemble, including a piece using John Cage's voice.

DVD:
$18.95  Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno: Hotter Than Inferno - Live in Osaka 2007 (Acid Mothers Temple)
	A complete document of the final Osaka date on the summer 2007 'Hotter Than Inferno Western Japan Tour' (featuring Pikachu from Afrirampo).
$19.95  Buy	Soft Machine: Alive In Paris 1970 (Voiceprint)
	This DVD captures Canterbury legends Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt and extended with Lyn Dobson on winds, playing live in France and filmed for French television in 1970.
$34.95  Buy	Various Artists: Roulette TV (Einstein)
	Roulette TV, the excellent Downtown NY live performance series broadcast on Manhattan Public Access TV, compiled on DVD with artists Marilyn Crispell, Oliver Lake, David Behrman, &c. &c.

Vinyl:
$9.95  Buy	Moha!: Jeff Carey's MoHa! 7" [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon)
	7" single from Jeff Carey's MoHa! with N-Collective members Anders Hana & Morten J. Olsen, taken from their upcoming Moha! album.
$37.95  Buy	Pinhas, Richard and Merzbow: Keio Line [3 VINYL LPs] (Dirter Productions)
	A collaboration bringing together two electronic artists with vastly different histories, 6 LP tracks of transcendent sound that will suprise fans of either artist.

Book:
$4.95  Buy	Signal To Noise: Issue #51, Fall 2008 (Signal to Noise)
	Signal to Noise's Winter 2008 issue with articles about Keith Tippett and Howard Riley, Concordia Salus, Montreal's creative community, James Blackshaw & Jozef Van Wissem, &c.

In Stock but Not Fully Cataloged:
$16.95  Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno: Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno (Very Friendly)
$16.95  Buy	Cale, John: Process (Syntax)
$13.95  Buy	Charalambides: Branches (Wholly Other)
$16.95  Buy	Experimental Audio Research: Beyond The Pale (SPACE AGE)
$16.95  Buy	Feldman, Morton: Turfan Fragments (Dog w/a Bone)
$18.95  Buy	Fisher, Morgan: The Hybrid Kids 1+2: Two Collections of Classic Mutants (Cherry Red)
$20.95  Buy	Ikeda, Ryoji: See You At Regis Debray (Syntax)
$16.95  Buy	Jackie O Motherfucker: Freedomland (Very Friendly)
$11.95  Buy	Steinbruchel: Mit Ohne (12K)
$21.95  Buy	Stevie Moore: Demo 2003 + Bonus Track (Hlava)
$14.95  Buy	Willett, Jason: Sounds Of Megaphone Unlimited (MTG)