SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS
September 26, 2008
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Welcome to Autumn (in the top half of the globe, anyway - welcome to Spring to the rest of you!) This has been an exceptional two weeks of releases, with 46 new titles:
In improvisation we start with Fred Frith and Daniell Palardy Rogers on Ambiances Magnetiques, plus the Geggie Project; 6 new Clean Feeds including Sean Conly, Harris Eisenstadt, Memorize the Sky; we start filling out the Ogun label with the Blue Notes box set, and Mike Osborne's trio; Tzadik releases John Zorn's 20th(!) Filmworks, and the hard driving music of Yoshie Fructher; on Auris Media the incredible trio of Yoshida, Krutogolov and Assif Tsahar. Rock/RIO/&c. bring us the first new issue from Henry Cow in 30 years, "Live in Stockholm" on , plus the Recommended Records Sampler remastered; Jason Willet's oddball Megaphone collection; and the eclectic song styling of Hilde Marie Kjersem on Rune Grammofon; and 3 new Chadbourne remasters from original cassette-only releases.
Electro-acoustic/experimental releases include Otomo and Xavier Charles on Textile; 3 issues on Utech including Nadja's "Trembled" remastered and extended; Ikeda Ryoji's "Matrix" is reissued, and his soundtrack to "See You At Regis Debray" is released; guitarists Elliot Sharp and Antoine Berthiaume meet on Ambiances Magnetiques. In the compositional world there are two new Hat [Now] Art titles, particularly Christian Wolff's early piano works; Tzadik issues early Peter Garland compositions, plus Paola Prestini's "Body Maps". Vinyl releases this time are Jim O'Rourke's contribution to the Touch 7" series; and Peter Evans and Walter Weasels' quartet on UGExplode. To round out the mailing is the latest issue of The Wire with a free Wire Tapper CD, and John Cage's "Composition in Retrospect" book.
At the end of this mailing are 9 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.
Improvisation:
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$17.95 Buy | Bik Bent Braam: Extremen
(BBB) | | "Extremen" investigates Bik Bent Braam's outer limits with an approach of no play list, no bandleader, no set tempi, making each performance an adventure. |
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$69.95 Buy | Blue Notes: McGregor / Pukwana / Moyake / Feza, Dyani /Moholo: The Ogun Collection
(Ogun) | | The Blue Notes, precursors to Brotherhood of Breath, escaped racial pressures in South Africa by migrating to the UK, creating a small but vital catalog in the mid 60s. |
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$15.95 Buy | Conly, Sean: Re:Action
(Clean Feed) | | Double bassist Sean Conly in a New York based quartet with saxophonists Michael Attias & Tony Malaby and drum legend Pheeroan Aklaff. |
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$12.95 Buy | Continuum: Yttrium
(Zorpin Music) | | Chris Conway's Continuum, fusing electronic music, jazz, ambient, minimal and more in unique ways, on the first release for their Zorpin Music label. |
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$14.95 Buy | Damian Nisenson Trio +3: En concert
(Malasartes) | | Argentinian sax player, composer & actor Damian Nisenson with Pierre Tanguay, Ziya Tabassian, Luzio Altobelli, and Denis Plante playing live in Montreal at the end of 2007. |
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$15.95 Buy | Eisenstadt, Harris: Guewel
(Clean Feed) | | Drummer Eisenstadt in a NY based African influenced quintet with trumpeters Taylor Ho Bynum and Nate Wooley, Mark Taylor on French Horn and Josh Sinton on baritone sax. |
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$15.95 Buy | Fight the Big Bull: Dying will be Easy
(Clean Feed) | | Matthew White's collective Fight the Big Bull nonet utilizes the history of jazz in compsitions that refer to Blind Willie Johnson, Charles Mingus, Art Ensemble, &c. &c. |
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$14.95 Buy | Frith, Fred & Danielle Palardy Roger: Pas de deux nouveau
(Ambiances Magnetiques) | | Live recordings from this great pair of improvisors, selected from their performances at Festival des musiques de creation in Saguenay and at La Sala Rossa in Montreal. |
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$12.95 Buy | Fruchter, Yoshie: Pitom
(Tzadik) | | Avant-garde rock meets the Jewish tradition in Pitom, a shredding Jewish instrumental band led by Washington DC to Brooklyn transplat Yoshie Fruchter. |
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$17.95 Buy | Guus Janssen: Out of Frame
(Geestgronden) | | A solo piano gem by Dutch pianist Janssen, featuring his quirky mix of styles ranging from his Baroque heroes Jan Sweelinck, Scarlatti and Bach, to Lennie Tristano and Bert Kaempfert. |
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$14.95 Buy | John Geggie: Geggie Project
(Ambiances Jazz) | | Using double bass player John Geggie's compositions as a point of departure, this creative trio covers much terrain with its lyrical and sonic landscapes. |
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$15.95 Buy | Memorize the Sky: In Former Times
(Clean Feed) | | With a sound that fits in the ea-improv world, the acoustic trio of Matt Bauder, Zach Wallace and Aaron Siegel provides a fresh and unique voice in the world of free improvisation. |
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$15.95 Buy | Nordstrom, Fredrik: Live in Coimbra
(Clean Feed) | | Fredrick Nordstrom's 60s inspired jazz places itself in the Ornette Coleman heritage, with references also to Blue Note artists like Bobby Hutcherson. |
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$18.95 Buy | Osborne, Mike Trio: All Night Long
(Ogun) | | First released in 1976 making its CD debut with 26 extra minutes, Osborne's trio with Louis Moholo and Harry Miller is a full-on and passionate live performance. |
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$15.95 Buy | Tetterapadequ: And the Missing "R"
(Clean Feed) | | Tetterapadequ, an anagram of "De Patter Quartet (but with a missing 'R') is named after the De Pater Jazz Club in The Netherlands where this collective improv quartet was born. |
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$15.95 Buy | Yoshida, Tatsuya with Igor Krutogolov & Assif Tsahar: Live in the Head
(Auris Media) | | Six amazing and startling improvisations and 7 composed and improvised tracks recorded in Te-Aviv from the trio of Tatsuya Yoshida, Igor Krutogolov & Assif Tsahar. |
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$12.95 Buy | Zorn, John: Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
(Tzadik) | | John Zorn's 20th(!) Film Works is music for a documentary on the 19th century writer Sholem Aleichem performed with Rob Burger, Mark Feldman, Greg Cohen, Carol Emanuel, and Erik Friedlander. |
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Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
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$14.95 Buy | Berthiaume Antoine, Elliott Sharp: BASE
(Ambiances Magnetiques) | | Two guitarists from New York's Downtown and Montreal's Actuelle scenes in 11 guitar improvisations, experimental sounds constructed and deconstructed. |
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$16.95 Buy | Experimental Audio Research (EAR): Beyond The Pale
(SPACE AGE) | | Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3), Eddie Prevost (AMM), Kevin Sheilds (My Bloody Valentine) and Kevin Martin (God) in complex and sophisticated dronescapes. |
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$19.95 Buy | Ikeda, Ryoji: Matrix
(Touch) | | The final element in Ikeda's trilogy that began with "+/-" and "0-degrees C", distinctive sonic fields and microsounds probing our relationshop to time and space. |
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$20.95 Buy | Ikeda, Ryoji: See You At Regis Debray
(Syntax) | | Ryoji Ikeda's soundtrack to CS Leigh's "See You At Regis Debray", a story about fugitive Red Army leader Andreas Baader's encounter with French intellectual Regis Debray. |
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$13.95 Buy | Klangmutationen: Schwarzhagel
(Utech Records) | | Hailing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, these underground experimentalists join Eastern and Western music with influences as diverse as Last Exit and Masayuki Takayanagi. |
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$13.95 Buy | Nadja: Trembled
(Utech Records) | | Nadja's 2006 CDR, part of the URSK, remixed and remastered, including a rare performance of Swans "No Cure for the Lonely" and a second version of "Tremble". |
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$16.95 Buy | Otomo Yoshihide - Xavier Charles: Difference Between the Two Clocks
(Textile Records) | | Recorded Charles's 1st Japanese tour in 2005, these duos with Otomo Yoshihide on guitar and Xavier Charles on clarinet explore the relationship between sound and silence. |
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$13.95 Buy | Stargazer's Assistant, The: Shivers and Voids
(Utech Records) | | Guapo drummer David J. Smith' Stargazer's Assistant in an ominous and intricate work of warmly detailed and emotional soundwork using rock instrumentation, tape and voice. |
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$11.95 Buy | Steinbruchel: Mit Ohne
(12K) | | Taken from an installation by Yves Netzhammer and Steinbruchel entitled "The feeling of precise instability when holding things" in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2007. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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$13.95 Buy | Barr, Brad: The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar
(Tompkins Square) | | Guitarist Brad Barr's solo debut, lovely and distinctive playing on original numbers and covers including Ernesto Lecuona, Kurt Cobain and Le Trio Ferret. |
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$12.95 Buy | Chadbourne, Eugene / Various: Pee Wee on the Way
(Chadula) | | CD issues of classic cassette titles from various Chadbourne, bands and affiliations, including Shockabilly, Butthole Surfers, Henry Kissenger Trio, Gilbert & Bean, &c. |
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$12.95 Buy | Chadbourne, Eugene: Constellation Rake
(Chadula) | | Eugene Chadbourne's electric rake ensemble, with Chadbourne's hopeful comment on the back: "Perhaps now The Rake will be taken seriously" ! |
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$12.95 Buy | Chadbourne, Eugene: The Beat Goes On
(Chadula) | | Eccentric tape collage from the CD re-master of Doc Chad's original cassette issue of "The Beat Goes On", strange, twisting and turning fragmented journeys of the familiar and bizarre. |
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$13.95 Buy | Charalambides: Branches
(Wholly Other) | | Spatial and sonically rich rock excursions with haunting vocals from the duo of Christina and Tom Carter, beautifully developed works for a quiet afternoon. |
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$18.95 Buy | Fisher, Morgan: The Hybrid Kids 1+2: Two Collections of Classic Mutants
(Cherry Red) | | In 1978, inspired by punk, Mott the Hoople's keyboardist turned away from the majors and, under various psuedonyms created these two astonishing albums of bizarre cover versions. |
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$15.95 Buy | Henry Cow: Stockholm
(Recommended Records) | | The 1st new Henry Cow release in 30 years, live concerts from '76-77 Swedish radio shows, remixed and remastered - 16 tracks including recordings with Georgie Born. |
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$16.95 Buy | Jackie O Motherfucker: Freedomland
(Very Friendly) | | A collection of live recordings from Portland, Oregon's improvising rock band Jackie-O's 2005 & 2006 tours, compiled by founding member Tom Greenwood. |
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$9.95 Buy | Jandek: Glasgow Sunday 2005
(Corwood Industries) | | Taken from Jandek (aka the representative from Corwood) in two tracks from his performance at Glasgow, with Loren Connors, Alan Licht, and Heather Leigh Murray. |
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$17.95 Buy | Kjersem, Hilde Marie: A Killer For That Ache
(Rune Grammofon) | | First album under her own name for singer/songwriter Hilde Marie Kjersem, lovely and sophisticated songs with ecclectic orchstration and intricate styling. |
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$26.95 Buy | Various Artists: Recommended Records Sampler
(Recommended Records) | | Originally released in 1982, this is a collection of specially commissioned and (at the time) newly recorded pieces by the most interesting groups and individuals then in the ReR catalogue. |
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$14.95 Buy | Willett, Jason: Sounds Of Megaphone Unlimited
(MTG) | | 20-track collection of unreleased material from Jason Willett spanning the years 1995-2007, including work with members of Half Japanese, Boredoms, Ruins, &c. &c. |
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Compositional:
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$15.95 Buy | Garland, Peter: Three Strange Angels
(Tzadik) | | Peter Garland, one of the most personal voices in the second generation of West coast minimalists, in early compositions drawing inspiration from Native American and Mexican ritual music. |
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$12.95 Buy | Prestini, Paola: Body Maps
(Tzadik) | | Founder of the VisionIntoArt collective in a group of compositions for multiple celli, voices and percussion, clarinets, electronics, a moody piece for solo piano. |
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$19.95 Buy | Transatlantic Swing: Works For Piano
(Hat [now] ART) | | American pianist John Snijders performing the music of European composers Christopher Fox, Ivo Van Emmerik, Richard Rijnvos, James Rolfe, and Luca Francesconi. |
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$19.95 Buy | Wolff, Christian: Early Piano Pieces
(Hat [now] ART) | | Early works from avant-garde composer Christian Wolff, including pieces for prepared piano influenced by John Cage's ideas for the same instrument. |
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Book:
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$15.95 Buy | Cage, John: Composition In Retrospect Book
(Exact Change) | | Written in his characteristic "mesostics", John Cage examines the central issues of his work: Indeterminacy, nonunderstanding, inconsistency, imitation, variable structure, contingency. |
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$8.95 Buy | Wire, The: #296 October 2008 MAG
(Wire) | | The Wire Magazine plus Wire Tapper CD. Richie Hawtin on the cover, invisible jukebox with Kwabata Makoto, CD includes tracks by Mike Osborne, MoHa! &c. &c. |
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