SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS October 24, 2008

Two great weeks of releases plus a previous 3rd week of catching up in this larger than usual list!

In improvisation we have 3 new releases from Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura; 5 new Clean Feed releases; 2 Mike Reed releases on CIMP; William Parker's Petit Oiseau; Lori Freedman on Barnyard; Ravi Padmanabha in a trio with Robert Dick and Steve Baczkowski; Barry Altschul, Joe Fonda & Billy Bang's Fab Trio; plus two new Doubtmusic titles - Nambajazz and Blacksheep. Experimental/electroacoustic releases brings Merzbow's wooden boxed Eucalypse; the next Henri Pousseur on Sub Rosa; Greg Kelley's Self-Hate Index; Fennesz' 2nd release reissued; Tim Hecker and Adan Baker; and two Marko Ciciliani releases. Tom Carter and Hush Arbors lead in our rock offerings; plus drastic rockers Moha!; and Kawabata Makoto and Michishita Shinsuke's Basement Echo. In vinyl we're happy to see DNA on DNA beautifully reissued; plus Andrew Lile's limited LP is finally released.

This weekend we'll be selling Squidco's wares at the WFMU Record and CD Fair. This year our table will be a bit different than previous years, as we're concentrating on the record part of the Fair's name by bringing our entire vinyl catalog with us. In addition we're bringing out a lot of specials that you won't find in the online store, plus discounted items and other unusual products. Anyone in the NY metropolitan area should come out to this amazing show, there's none other like it on the East coast, with bands, DJs, videos, art, books, DVDs, and more vinyl and CDs than you can shake a tonearm at! Make sure to stop by and say hello, we love to put a face to our customers' names!

Last but not least, at the end of this mailing are 15 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$16.95  Buy	Blacksheep: s/t (Doubtmusic)
	With members of the Satoko Fujii Orchestra and Shibusashirazu Orchestra, the trio fo blacksheep create a balance of serious and humorous improvisation of great ability.
$12.95  Buy	Dick / Baczkowski/ Padmanabha: Doh Tala (Epoch Music)
	Indian percussionist Ravi Padmanabha in a trio with Robert Dick and Steve Baczkowski, dark and allurging improvistions borrowing from modern and ancient traditions.
$16.95  Buy	Fab Trio (Fonda / Altschul / Bang): A Night inParis (Marge)
	The Fab Trio (Barry Altschul, Joe Fonda, Billy Bang) in their 3rd release, live in Paris, 2008, an exceptional recording of collective improvisational thought and playing.
$12.95  Buy	Flaherty, Paul / Bill Nace / Thurston Moore: Paul Flaherty/Bill Nace/Thurston Moore (Ecstatic Peace)
	Northampton neighbors, free improv legend Paul Flaherty and guitarists Moore and Nace demonstrate the "threesome's focus and sonic storytelling, ferocious yet pensive."
$14.95  Buy	Freedman, Lori & Scott Thomson: Plumb (Barnyard)
	A recording of wide-ranging, freely improvised solos and duets by Montreal clarinetist and bass clarinetist Lori Freedman & Toronto trombonist Scott Thomson.
$17.95  Buy	Fujii, Satoko ma-do: Heat Wave (Not Two Records)
	Satako Fujii's new ma-do quartet, superb, lively, eclectic and absolutely exciting improvisation from this seemingly unstoppable and gifted pianist.
$15.95  Buy	Fujii, Satoko Orchestra New York: Summer Suite (Libra)
	Satoko Fujii's 15-piece Orchestra New York with an all-star cast including Ellery Eskelin, Tony Malaby, Herb Robertson, Steve Berstein, Joe Fiedler, &c. &c.
$17.95  Buy	Harth, Alfred / Kowald, Peter: Region 2 for Seconds 1998 (Laubhuette)
	Free improvisation from Alfred 23 Harth on reeds and the late Peter Kowald on bass, with odd percussion and vocals, idiosyncratic and excellent dialog!
$15.95  Buy	Horvitz Gravitas Quartet, Wayne : One Dance Alone (Songlines)
	Wayne Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet with Peggy Lee, Ron Miles and Sara Schoenbeck in adventurous chamber jazz combining elements of modern classical music.
$24.95  Buy	Kirili Et Les Nympheas: Hommage a Monet (Mutable)
	Improvised music by Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Buckner, Jerome Bourdellon & Dalila Khatir at Musee de l'Orangerie, and then a DVD by Jean-Paul Fargier of the same performance.
$15.95  Buy	Levin, Daniel Trio: Fuhuffah (Clean Feed)
	Cellist Daniel Levin's trio with Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and Gerald Cleaver in a set of original compositions from one of contempory jazz's masters of cello improvisation.
$16.95  Buy	Mcgregor, Chris Trio: Our Prayer (Fledg'ling)
	Another previously-unreleased gem from South African pianist/composer Chris McGregor and his cohorts in '60s UK free jazz.
$15.95  Buy	Morris, Joe / Barre Phillips: Elm City Duets 2006 (Clean Feed)
	Guitarist Joe Morris' continuing objective to record with his musical heroes results in this duo recording with the magnificent bassist Barre Phillips in a lively dialog.
$16.95  Buy	Motian, Paul / Trio 2000 + Two: Live At The Village Vanguard Vol II (Winter & Winter)
	The second volume of drummer Paul Motian's Trio 2000 + Two at the Village Vanguard, in performances with Chris Potter, Greg Osby, Mat Maneri, &c.
$12.95  Buy	New Art Saxophone Quartet: Guarda! (Meta Records)
	Klaus Pfister wrote these tracks inspired by the fascinating scenere of Guarda, a small village in the Lower Engadin (Switzerland), situated high up in the mountains.
$14.95  Buy	Parker, William Quartet: Petit Oiseau (Aum Fidelity)
	One of today's best working bands in jazz, Parker's Quartet with Rob Brown, Lewis Barnes & Hamid Drake in 8 new Parker compositions: melodic, rhythmic and unexpected music.
$16.95  Buy	Pedal: (Staubgold )
	Duo comtemplative and intricate improvisations for two pianos by Australians Chris Abrahams of The Necks and Simon James Phillips, leader of Assemblage.
$15.95  Buy	Peter Van Huffel / Sophie Tassignon: HuffLiGNoN (Clean Feed)
	Vocalist Sophie Tassignon & saxophonist Peter Van Huffel in a series of improvisations showing an intimate dialog amidst Tassignon's uniquely inventive vocal styling.
$15.95  Buy	Reed, Mike: Loose Assembley: Speed Of Change (482 Music)
	Loose Assembly's 2nd in an evolution of composition and instant composing, playing a mix of Reed originals and work by Max Roach and Ethiopian vibraphonist Mulatu Astatqe.
$15.95  Buy	Reed, Mike: People,Places+Things: Proliferation (482 Music)
	Drummer Mike Reed's quartet explores the world of hard- or post-bop music created from 1954-60, with music from John Jenkins, Sun Ra, Wilbur Campbell, Reed, &c.
$15.95  Buy	RIDD Quartet: Fiction Avalanche (Clean Feed)
	The Ridd Quartett is Jon Irabagon, Reuben Radding, Jeff Davis and Kris Davis, bringing a variety of approaches together into the free improvising of many dimensions.
$15.95  Buy	Sanchez, Angelica: Life Between (Clean Feed)
	Pianist and Wurlitzer player Angelic Sanchez in a great band with Tony Malaby, Marc Ducret, Drew Gress and Tom Rainey in a set of Sanchez original compositions.
$17.95  Buy	Spoon 3: Seductive Sabotage (Evil Rabbit)
	Free improvisation and song come together in the Amsterdam based trio of Jodi Gilbert, Albert van Veenendaal and Meinrad Kneer, using acoustic, electronic and little instruments.
$15.95  Buy	Tamura, Natsuki - Satoko Fujii: Chun (Libra)
	Intricately melodic and wonderfully ecstatic duos from trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii improvising on 9 Fujii compositions.
$18.95  Buy	Townhouse Orchestra (E.Parker/ Sandell / Flaten / Nilssen-Love): Belle Ville (Clean Feed)
	An all-star lineup for European free jazz with Evan Parker, Sten Sandell, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and Paal Nilssen Love on a double CD recorded live at Belleville.

Electroacoustic/Experimental:
$14.95  Buy	Astro / Hasegawa, Hiroshi: The Echo From The Purple Dawn (Important Records)
	Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa creates an engaging and versatile album that drifts from spaced out to extreme drone forms.
$15.95  Buy	Baker, Aidan And Tim Hecker: Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8 Recordings)
	"Fantasma Parastasie" pairs Aidan Baker of the Ambient Doom band Nadja and spectral communicator Tim Hecker in an 8 movement work of melody, dissonance and noise.
$17.95  Buy	Ciciliani, Marko: 81 Matters in Elemental Order (Evil Rabbit)
	81 short tracks performed on the no-input mixer without multitracking or processing, intended to be played in a random sequence.
$17.95  Buy	Ciciliani, Marko: Tullius Rooms (Unsounds)
	Large scale composition for piano, electronics and ambient recordings by Marko Ciciliani with a diverse musical landscape of sounds performed by Ciciliani and Josh Dillon.
$15.95  Buy	Fennesz: Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56' 37" (Touch)
	Much-needed reissue of Fennesz's 2nd solo album, recorded in his garden at the title's geographic location in Vienna, a gorgeous record of guitar aberrations and laptop glitch.
$15.95  Buy	Karkowski, Zbigniew And Daniel Menche: Unleash (Alien8 Recordings)
	The debut collaboration between Zbigniew Karkowski and Daniel Menche is heavy, a gruelingly brutal blast of noise from two serious experimenters of sound.
$12.95  Buy	Kelley, Greg: Self-Hate Index (Senata Productions)
	Kelley's 4th solo CD, studio recordings of real-time trumpet solo improvisations, mutated and manipulated with effects, via close-micing, and environmental noise.
$14.95  Buy	Merzbow: Dolphin Sonar (Important Records)
	Merzbow's protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan: filtered blasts of pummel and sound slaughter.
$25.95  Buy	Merzbow: Eucalypse (Soleilmoon)
	Japan's preeminent sound arist Merzbow in a CD release packaged in a deluxe hand-crafted wound wooden box with a swiveling lid containing 4 full-color cards.
$15.95  Buy	Pousseur, Henri: Electronic Experimental and Microtonal 1953-1999 (Sub Rosa)
	The 5th part of Sub Rosa's complete experimental and electronic music by composer Henri Pousseur, 5 rare pieces that come from 5 decades of composition.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$14.95  Buy	Carter, Tom: Shots At Infinity 1 (Important Records)
	Part of guitarist Tom Carters joint CD/LP release, this CD is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007.
$12.95  Buy	Hush Arbors: Hush Arbors (Ecstatic Peace)
	With accolades from Ben Chasyny and David Tibet, Keith Wood and Leon Dufficy are an excellent song-writing band with an emphasis on great rhythms and guitar work.
$14.95  Buy	Makoto, Kawabata / Shinsuke, Michishita: Basement Echo (Important Records)
	The historical meeting of 2 generations of the Japanese underground: Kawabata Makoto of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke of LSD March.
$16.95  Buy	Moha!: One-way Ticket To Candyland (Rune Grammofon)
	3rd full-length from Norway's rock & noise spastics MoHa an "extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz (The Wire)".
$17.95  Buy	Nambajazz (Yasuhiro / Seiichi): The Gun (Doubtmusic)
	Yamamoto Seiichi (ROVO, PARA, Rashinban, Omoide Hatoba, Orquesta Nudge!, &c.) and Yoshigaki Yasuhiro in a duo of exultant improvised rock performedon guitar and drums.
$13.95  Buy	Nar, Hiroshi With Nishinihon: Hiroshi Nar With Nishinihon (Lexicon Devil)
	Limited edition release of a rare live meeting between power trio Nishinihon with Kawabata Makoto and Hiroshi Nar of the legendary Japanese psch-garage band Les Rallizes Denudes.

Compositional/Avant:
$16.95  Buy	Caine, Uri: The Classical Variations (Winter & Winter)
	Bringing together Uri Caine's decade-long series of ambitious and sometimes idiosyncratic explorations of classical repertoire from Bach to Mahler.
$16.95  Buy	Cale, John: Process (Syntax)
	John Cale's soundtrack for CS Leigh's film "Process", an effectively sparse and dark album of piano and resonant electronics to complement the movie's theme of despair.
$16.95  Buy	Feldman, Morton: Turfan Fragments (Dog w/a Bone)
	"The Turfan Fragments", manuscripts hidden during the war along Asian/European Silk Road, was composed for a small chamber orchestra using a subdued dynamic field of chromatic pulses and blurs.
$17.95  Buy	Harth, Alfred: Sam Lang / S. "Low" Lee 1985 (Laubhuette)
	A 1985 compostion from Alfred 23 Harth, a 43 minute tonal study with percussive complement, used for a minimalist video installation in Germany.

Vinyl:
$16.95  Buy	Astro / Hasegawa, Hiroshi: Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple [VINYL] (Important Records)
	Hiroshi Hasegawa of the legendary Japanese noise band C.C.C.C. has continued his Astro side project long after C.C.C.C.'s demise, creating harsh and blissful drone music.
$15.95  Buy	Carter, Tom: Shots At Infinity 2 [VINYL] (Important Records)
	Part of guitarist Tom Carters joint CD/LP release, this LP is comprised of two long live tracks from Nemo Bidstrup's record store and Burnt Hills' basement jam zone.
$19.95  Buy	DNA: DNA on DNA [VINYL]
	New York's seminal No Wave band, Previously released on CD, now issued on a limited edition double LP featuring 3 newly-discovered songs and two live recordings.
$33.95  Buy	Liles, Andrew: Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) [2 VINYL LPs] (Dirter Productions)
	Extremely limited double LP from sound artist Liles with help from Danielle Dax, Edward Ka-Spel, Daniel Padden, Rose McDowall, &c. &c., a diverse and anticipated release.
$18.95  Buy	Moha!: One-way Ticket To Candyland [VINYL] (Rune Grammofon)
	LP edition of the 3rd full-length from Norway's rock & noise spastics MoHa an "extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz (The Wire)".
$16.95  Buy	Wirkus, Paul / Mapstation: Forest Full Of Drums [VINYL] (Staubgold )
	Debut collaborative release by Mapstation (Stefan Schneider) and Paul Wirkus, creating works in and with the actual elements of their outdoor recording environment.

Book:
$8.95  Buy	Wire, The: #297 November 2008 (Wire)
	Still the finest new music magazine around, with articles on Anthony Braxton, Dick Raaijmakers, Gino Robair, Ken Jacobs, invisible jukebox with Hal Willner, &c. &c.

Miscellaneous:
$15.95  Buy	Group Inerane: Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger) (Sublime Frequencies)
	Group Inerane is the now sound of the Tuareg Guitar Revolution sweeping across the Sahara Desert, inspired by rebel musicians that started this music as a political weapon.
$15.95  Buy	Various Artists: Le Groupe Surrealiste Revolutionnaire, Dotremont et Broodthaers (Vol 3) (Sub Rosa)
	Sub Rosa's collection of avant-garde aural archives, this 3rd volume talks about surrealism from 1939 through 1987 with Dumont, Simon, Broodthaers, &c. &c.

In Stock but Not Fully Cataloged:
$19.95  Buy	Furusawa, Ryojiro & Kan Mikami: Buriki/Tin (PSF)
$19.95  Buy	Haino, Keiji: Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto (The 21st Century Hard-y-Guide-Y Man) (PSF)
$23.95  Buy	Maher Shalal Hash Baz With Masami Shinoda: Koshi Kudake No Inu (PSF)
$15.95  Buy	Qizilbash, Asad: Sarod Recital/Live In Peshawar (Sub Rosa)
$18.95  Buy	Scott, Raymond and His Orchestra: This Time With Strings (Basta)
$69.96  Buy	Tilbury, John: Cornelius Cardew - A Life Unfinished Book (Matchless)
$129.95  Buy	Trio X: 2006 U.S.Tour Ltd.Ed.Box (CIMPOL)
$16.95  Buy	Ya Ho Wha 13: Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony (Cold Sweat)