SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS October 10, 2008

It's true, we fell behind in cataloging items for this mailing list - we blame Phil, who travelled South to attend his Mother's 70th birthday celebration (Happy Birthday Mom!) That didn't stop new items from roaring into the store, as you'll see in the "In Stock" section below. So this mailing presents 21 items fully cataloged with descriptions, track listings and samples, and 23 more in stock and ready to ship. Expect a larger mailing than usual next time around!

Highlights from this mailing include Cuneiform's latest releases, with the Birdsongs of the Mesozoic complete Ace of Hearts reissue, Isotope with Hugh Hopper, New York's Microscopic Septet, Deus Ex Machina, and Richard Pinhas/Merzbow's double CD. Ambiances Magnetiques releases the dark "10 Taxonomical Movements", while Creative Sources has a host of new releases including Mark O'Leary's "Fabrikraum", dis.playce, Scott Field's conceptual "Drawings", New Yorkers Jacob Wick and Andrew Greenwald in lowercase improv, and the powerful piano work of Jacques Demierre. Also on piano on Collection QB is Brigitte Poulin performing the work of 4 modern composers. Sun Ra is at the center of our mailing, with the 28(!) CD Detroit Residency box set, a new AUM Fidelity issue, and the "Live In Oakland" DVD (plus two other Transparency titles in stock); David Grubbs's great new album on Drag City is available on CD & LP; plus a new Acid Mothers Temple release and a Yoshi Wada reissue on EM Records. In all a small but vital set of additions to our catalog!

Improvisation:
$14.95  Buy	Fields, Scott: drawings (Creative Sources)
	A series of brief guitar improvisations based on the visual art of Thomas Hornung, who creates chalk artwork that usually takes less than 1 minute to create.
$14.95  Buy	Microscopic Septet, The : Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform)
	New York's idiosyncratic, compelling and fun-blowing jazz group in a set that embraces a wide spectrum of styles in capricious, quirky, and well-informed music.
$15.95  Buy	Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets Of The Sun (Atavistic)
	One of Sun Ra's late 60's Saturn LPs from his fertile "Solar" years, this classic was also one of his early New York release, reissued here with a rare LP length B-side.
$79.95  Buy	Sun Ra: The Complete Detroit Jazz Center Residency (Transparency)
	26 hours, 13 minutes and 16 seconds of Sun Ra's Detroit Jazz Center Residency from December 1980-January 1981, 28 CDs with eleven complete concerts.
$14.95  Buy	Wick / Greenwald: 37:55 (Creative Sources)
	New York improvising artists trumpeter Jacob Wick and percussionist Andrew Greenwald in 4 tracks of minimally dense and persuasively smeary compositions.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$14.95  Buy	dis.playce (Marcoll / Seidl): Habitat (Creative Sources)
	An organized sound work paying homage to German cartographer Karl Ortmann; and a piece built around the video installation "MSTM Wall" by British media artist Ian W. Coel.
$14.95  Buy	Few And Far Between (Wehrli / Ernst): due (Creative Sources)
	Subtle and reflective improvisations with electronics, flutes and melodica from these two active women of the European improvisation scene.
$14.95  Buy	O'Leary, Mark: Fabrikraum (Creative Sources)
	Mysterious and encompassing sound work from this 'post-jazzer' who's toured with Paul Bley, the Cikada String Quartet, and created electroacoustics with Terje Isungset.
$14.95  Buy	Taxonomy: Fega / Lella / Martusciello: 10 Taxonomical Movements (Ambiances Magnetiques)
	Fascinating compositions combining improvisation and organized sound from Martusciello, Lella, & Fega, using acoustic and electronic instruments to frightening effect.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$18.95  Buy	Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno: Pink Lady Lemonade (You're From Outer Space) (Riot Season)
	Acid Mother Temple's Cosmic Inferno in an amazing combination of 60's psychedelia and electronics. An excellent studio record from the prolific AMT.
$19.95  Buy	Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Dawn Of The Cycads (Cuneiform)
	Mission of Burma's side project, this excellent chamber rock band with Roger Miller & Erik Lindgren in a 2CD set reissuing their 3 Ace of Hearts releases and a live set from '87.
$19.95  Buy	Deus Ex Machina: Imparis (Cuneiform)
	This Italian sextet led by the strong vocals of Alberto Piras bridges prog, fusion, and RIO styles, here in a 2006 studio CD and a DVD with interviews and historic footage.
$14.95  Buy	Grubbs, David: An Optimist Notes The Dusk (Drag City)
	David Grubb's first solo record in 4 years is a set of stark and strong songs on dark subjects with well-informed instrumental sections, a great addition to his catalog.
$14.95  Buy	Isotope: Golden Section (Cuneiform)
	Isotope with Hugh Hopper were one of the early major British jazz-rock bands of the '70s, coming along chronologically just behind Soft Machine and Nucleus.
$16.95  Buy	Pinhas / Merzbow: Keio Line (Cuneiform)
	Early electronics artist Richard Pinhas (Heldon) meets the legendary Japanese noise artist Merzbow (Masami Akita) in a double CD of hypnotically jarring music.

Compositional:
$14.95  Buy	Demierre, Jacques: One Is Land (Creative Sources)
	A powerfully dense work, and a quiet and quirky piece for prepared piano from pianist Demmier, who's song titles are quotations from the poem "One Island" by Robert Lax.
$14.95  Buy	Poulin, Brigitte : Edifices naturels (Collection QB)
	For a decade, Brigitte Poulin has been commissioning and premiering works by composers who, she thought, could help better define our own piano culture.
$20.95  Buy	Wada, Yoshi: Off The Wall (EM Records)
	The long-awaited reissue of Wada's 1985 LP Off The Wall, recorded in Berlin and originally released on the FMP label, a minimalist masterpiece.

Vinyl:
$15.95  Buy	Grubbs, David: An Optimist Notes The Dusk [VINYL] (Drag City)
	David Grubb's first solo record in 4 years is a set of stark and strong songs on dark subjects with well-informed instrumental sections, a great addition to his catalog.
$29.95  Buy	Various Artists: Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista [VINYL] (Old Europa Cafe)
	Vinyl compilation devoted to Luigi Russolo the father of Futurist music, with tracks from Rapoon, Sacher Pelz, Merzbow, and GX Jupitter-Larsen (Haters).

DVD:
$14.95  Buy	Sun Ra Arkestra: Volume Six: Live in Oakland (Transparency)
	The 6th volume in Transparency's DVD series, Sun Ra's Arkestra in Oakland, 1991 with a more traditional sound that combines American jazz with African and Egyptian influences.

In Stock but Not Fully Cataloged:
$14.95  Buy	Astro / Hasegawa, Hiroshi: The Echo From The Purple Dawn (Important Records)
$15.95  Buy	Baker, Aidan And Tim Hecker: Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8 Recordings)
$14.95  Buy	Carter, Tom: Shots At Infinity 1 (Important Records)
$15.95  Buy	Carter, Tom: Shots At Infinity 2 [VINYL] (Important Records)
$12.95  Buy	Dick / Baczkowski/ Padmanabha: Doh Tala (Epoch Music)
$16.95  Buy	Fab Trio (Fonda Altschul Bang): A Night inParis (Marge)
$17.95  Buy	Harth, Alfred: Sam Lang / S. "Low" Lee 1985 (Laubhuette)
$17.95  Buy	Harth, Alfred / Kowald, Peter: Region 2 for Seconds 1998 (Laubhuette)
$15.95  Buy	Horvitz Gravitas Quartet, Wayne : One Dance Alone (Songlines)
$15.95  Buy	Karkowski, Zbigniew And Daniel Menche: Unleash (Alien8 Recordings)
$14.95  Buy	Makoto, Kawabata / Shinsuke, Michishita: Basement Echo (Important Records)
$16.95  Buy	Mcgregor, Chris Trio: Our Prayer (Fledg'ling)
$14.95  Buy	Merzbow: Dolphin Sonar (Important Records)
$16.95  Buy	Moha!: One-way Ticket To Candyland (Rune Grammofon)
$18.95  Buy	Moha!: One-way Ticket To Candyland [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon)
$16.95  Buy	Motian, Paul / Trio 2000 + Two: Live At The Village Vanguard Vol II (Winter & Winter)
$13.95  Buy	Nar, Hiroshi With Nishinihon: Hiroshi Nar With Nishinihon (Lexicon Devil)
$16.95  Buy	Pedal: (Staubgold )
$15.95  Buy	Reed, Mike: Loose Assembley: Speed Of Change (482 Music)
$15.95  Buy	Reed, Mike: People,Places+Things: Proliferation (482 Music)
$14.95  Buy	Sun Ra: Live at the Electric Circus (NYC 1968) and Newport Jazz Festival (RI 1969) (Transparency)
$14.95  Buy	Sun Ra: Untitled Recordings (Transparency)