SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS November 7, 2008

Thanks to all those who came out to the WFMU Record Collector's fair, a fun and unusual time was had by all! We're back to business, a good thing as many great releases are coming out as we get into the fall season.

In improvisation Peter Brotzmann and Fred Lonberg-Holm team up on the brain of a dog; Mats Gustafsson performs an incredible concert in Lithuania to start the NoBusiness label; the Huntsville trio with Ingar Zach issue their latest on Rune Gramoffon; Hans Tammen's extended Third Eye Orchestra on Innova is stocked; the great '77 Art Ensemble's "Les Stances A Sophie" soundtrack and the DVD release of the movie itself are reissued; we add Tony Malaby's excellent trio on Songlines; we marvel at the great Trio X 7-CD 2006 Tour box; and Tzadik releases Zorn's 21st Filmworks, and Zakaraya's latest.

In rock we have Pere Ubu's masterpiece Dub Housing's 30th anniversary remaster; No-Neck Blues Band's swirlingly bizarre Clomein; the song side of Arthur Russell; Mother Gong live in Amsterdam at the Unconventional Gong Gathering; Jon Larsen's "Jimmy Carl Black Story" (aside sad news of Jimmy Carl Black's passing on November 1); Kan Mikami and Furusawa on PSF; and Christina Carter's moody and intelligent songs on Kranky.

Experimental/electroacoustic releases bring NYC's bizarre Brown Wing Overdrive on Tzadik; Coh's Strings; and Keiji Haino's latest hurdy-gurdy release. Compositional releases find a remarkable Jon Cady modern opera; Mamoru Fujieda's latest plant patterns on Tzadik; and Mark Applebaum's Sock Monkey on Innova; plus John Tilbury's extensive book on Cornelius Cardew.

Several Sublime Frequency releases; Philip Jeck's Live in Liverpool LP; Honest Jon's eclectic collection of restored '78s from around the world on CD and double LP; Pakistan's last sarod player, Asad Qizilbash; and the infectious rhythms of legless African drummer Sidiki round out two great weeks of releases!

Last but not least, at the end of this mailing are 10 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:
$18.95  Buy	Art Ensemble of Chicago: Les Stances A Sophie (Soul Jazz Records)
	Reissue of this excellent Art Ensemble album, recorded in France in 1970, a super-heavy and funky version of the Ensemblewith Fontella Bass on vocals.
$14.95  Buy	Brotzmann / Lonberg-Holm: The Brain Of The Dog In Section (Atavistic)
	The duo of Peter Brotzmann and cellist/electronics artists Fred Lonberg-Holm in a live recording from Chicago's Hideout, unusual, forceful and intimate improvisation.
$16.95  Buy	Gustafsson, Mats: Vilnius Explosion (NoBusiness)
	An incredible concert in Lithuania, inspired by Cuban artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres and developed from Gustafsson's passion for vinyl and the web.
$19.95  Buy	Huntsville: Eco, Arches & Eras (Rune Grammofon)
	The Norwegian trio of Ivar Grydeland, Tonny Kluften & Ingar Zach in a 2-CD release of studio tracks, and a live performance at the 2007 Kongsberg Jazz Festival.
$11.95  Buy	Judith Berkson: Lu-Lu (Peacock)
	Solo debut by Brooklyn composer, vocalist and pianist Judith Berkson, featuring four originals, four standards and a Schubert, sung in unique and intimate ways.
$15.95  Buy	Malaby, Tony/Cello Trio: Warblepeck (Songlines)
	Saxophonist and composer Tony Malaby teamed up with NY drummer John Hollenbeck and avant garde cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm to create this fun and experimental album.
$15.95  Buy	Return Of The New Thing: Traque (Ayler)
	Live recordings in France from the Festival Jazz at Mulhouse in France, 2000 from the quartet of Dan Warburton, Francois Fuchs, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Edward Perraud.
$12.95  Buy	Rose, Jon: Double Indemnity (Hermes Discorbie)
	Jon Rose's twisted performance at the Les Cordes de Saint Ouen string festival in Paris, on a concept of conjoined twins playing the Ronsenberg 10-string double violin.
$18.95  Buy	Scott, Raymond and His Orchestra: This Time With Strings (Basta)
	Musician and electronic inventor Raymond Scott started with his jazz "novelty" band, here reworking his most famous works for an expanded orchestra with strings.
$12.95  Buy	Tammen, Hans: Third Eye Orchestra (Innova)
	Hans Tammen's brings an incredible set of players inc. Mark Feldman, Briggan Krauss, Robert Dick, Marty Ehrlich, &c for a work of compositional and interpretive processes.
$129.95  Buy	Trio X: 2006 U.S.Tour Ltd.Ed.Box (CIMPOL)
	This limited edition box documents seven concerts of Trio X (McPhee/Duval/Rosen) on seven individually CDs with a 32-page booklet of tour notes and photos.
$12.95  Buy	Zakarya: The True Story Concerning Martin Behaim (Tzadik)
	Zakaraya's 4th CD for Tzadik presents an imaginary film score about Martin Behaim, the 15th century cosmographer who was the first to represent the world as a sphere.
$12.95  Buy	Zorn, John: Filmworks XXI: Belle De Nature / The New Rijksmuseum (Tzadik)
	Two very different film scores for two very different movies: one, a French S/M erotica; and two, a documentary about the renovation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
$12.95  Buy	Brown Wing Overdrive: ESP Organism (Tzadik)
	"This bizarre trio of musical misfits creates acoustic/electronic compositions that will keep you on the edge of madness until the last frightening sound."
$20.95  Buy	COH: Strings (Raster Music)
	"Strings" is COH's reconciliation of the aesthetics of digital sound with more traditional musical instruments, enriching their respective domains with each other's qualities.
$19.95  Buy	Haino, Keiji: Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto (PSF)
	Haino's latest hurdy-gurdy release is a dense album of textures created using this historic stringed folk instrument in ways that few of its players could conceive.

Rock/RIO/Prog:
$14.95  Buy	Carter, Christina: Original Darkness (Kranky)
	Charalambides mainstay Christina Carter in an album of intelligent, sensitive and moody songs that bare issues of self and our place the world.
$19.95  Buy	Furusawa, Ryojiro & Kan Mikami: Buriki/Tin (PSF)
$16.95  Buy	Larsen, Jon: The Jimmy Carl Black Story (Zonic Entertainment)
	The latest chapter in Jon Larsen's surrealistic adventure in space together with the musicians from the Frank Zappa band with Jimmy Carl Black on voice and telephone.
$16.95  Buy	Mother Gong: O Amsterdam (U.S. OF DIST.)
	A live concert of Mother Gong performed at the Unconventional Gong Gathering in 2006, sung and spoken by Gilli Smyth, with a band including Didier Malherbe, Tim Hall, &c.
$14.95  Buy	No-Neck Blues Band: Clomeim (Locust)
	A studio album from New York's cryptic and experimental No-Neck Blues Band, sculpted from several days of recording to create these haunting and unusual pieces.
$13.95  Buy	Pere Ubu: Dub Housing - 30th Anniversary Edition (COOKING VINYL)
	Ubu's 1978 masterpiece remastered, with Herman's guitar and Ravenstine's idiosyncratic synth work only outdone by David Thomas' eclectic, bizarre and clever vocal style.
$16.95  Buy	Russell, Arthur: Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika Records)
	The ever versatile Downtown NY cellist, composer and producer Arthur Russell in a suprising set of unreleased pop, folk and country songs from his vast catalog.
$14.95  Buy	Various Artists: Radio Phnom Penh (Sublime Frequencies)
	Fascinating collection of Cambodian radio tracks from record companies that re-mix and overdub pre-Khmer Rouge era pop and rock tracks in bizarre combinations.
$16.95  Buy	Ya Ho Wha 13: Penetration, An Aquarian Symphony (Cold Sweat)
	Ya Ho Wha 13's 1974 release combines symphonic & psychedelic rock leanings with chanting, atonal vocalizing, drumming, melodic whistling, and other unexpected sources.

Compositional/Avant:
$12.95  Buy	Applebaum, Mark : Sock Monkey (Innova)
	Composer Mark Applebaum in a mischievous release showing his broad scope of interests, performing with The Paul Dresher band, Meridian Ensemble, sfSound, &c. &c.
$11.95  Buy	Cady, Jason: Post-Madonna Prima Donna (Peacock)
	A one act opera about language from keyboardist Jason Cady, performed by a group including Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson, Aaron Siegel, Amy Cimini, &c.
$12.95  Buy	Fujieda, Mamoru: Patterns of Plants II (Tzadik)
	Mamoru Fujieda's 3rd release for Tzadik continues his exploration of the creativity of, by, and about plant life in evocative music using violin, koto and sho.
$12.95  Buy	Rose, Jon: The Violin Factory (Hermes Discorbie)
	Massed string orchestra, Chinese violin making, live sampling in a crazed and hypnotic industrial process on this CD of an interactive new media performance from the inimitable Jon Rose.

Book:
$69.95  Buy	Tilbury, John: Cornelius Cardew - A Life Unfinished Book (Matchless)
	John Tilbury's close friendship and performance history with musical genius Cornelius Cardew fuels this detailed biography of Cardew's epic life and character.

Miscellaneous:
$12.95  Buy	Conde, Sidiki: Sidiki (Innova)
	African Sidiki Conde lost the use of his legs at 14 to polio, yet found his inner rhythm and voice, which are heard in his infectious, complex and joyous music.
$15.95  Buy	Qizilbash, Asad: Sarod Recital/Live In Peshawar (Sub Rosa)
	Asad Qizilbash has been the only master of the sarod in Pakistan since 1992, keeping this traditional instrument and its music alive as this live performance demonstrates.
$15.95  Buy	Various Artists: Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom (Sublime Frequencies)
	Back in print: This 2 CD set on the Sun City Girl's Sublime Frequencies label is an exhaustive collection of Thai Radio transmissions recorded over a 15-year period from 1989 to 2004.
$16.95  Buy	Various Artists: Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive (Honest Jon's Records)
	Thirty amazing tracks recorded and released on 78s between 1903-57, everywhere from England (Percy Grainger) to the court of the Japanese emperor five years earlier.

DVD:
$23.95  Buy	Art Ensemble of Chicago: Les Stances A Sophie DVD (PAL Format) (Soul Jazz Records)
	1st time DVD release of this long lost 1970 cult classic of French New Wave cinema with an Art Ensemble of Chicago soundtrack, plus a 27: interview with Joseph Jarman.
$25.95  Buy	Kropinski, Uwe: The Man Is A Guitar (Jazzwerkstatt)
	Guitarist Kropinski in a DVD performing his amplified acoustic guitar, a modified stell/nylon-string guitar with additional frets allowing unusual chords and sounds.
$23.95  Buy	Maher Shalal Hash Baz With Masami Shinoda: Koshi Kudake No Inu (PSF)
	A document of a 1987 show by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, who's music takes Japanese traditional music and applies it to a unique rock language, live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo.

Vinyl:
$15.95  Buy	Jeck, Philip: Suite: Live In Liverpool [VINYL] (Autofact)
	Turntablist and electronic composer Jeck's live recording of Suite is at once elegiac, celebrational, mournful and uplifting, fusing industrial and symphonic textures.
$21.95  Buy	Various Artists: 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground [VINYL] (Sublime Frequencies)
	Rai music developed in the 70's but was overlooked in Algerian history due to censorship; presented here in this limited edition collection from that scene's history.
$19.95  Buy	Various Artists: Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive [2 VINYL LPs] (Honest Jon's Records)
	Thirty amazing tracks recorded and released on 78s between 1903-57, everywhere from England (Percy Grainger) to the court of the Japanese emperor five years earlier.

In Stock but Not Fully Cataloged:
$19.95  Buy	Anker, Lotte: Alien Huddle (INTAKT)
$14.95  Buy	Chadbourne, Eugene: Auspicious Fish: Postage Paid Duets Vol.1 (APPRISE)
$19.95  Buy	Crispell, Marilyn: Sibanye (we Are One): Duets (INTAKT)
$14.95  Buy	Flynt, Henry: C Tune (Locust)
$14.95  Buy	Flynt, Henry: Dharma Warriors (Locust)
$15.95  Buy	Kaufmann, Achguapoim: Starmelodics (NUSCOPE)
$19.95  Buy	Laubrock, Ingrid: Sleepthief (INTAKT)
$14.95  Buy	Legendary Pink Dots, The: Alchemical Playschool (Soleilmoon)
$19.95  Buy	Petrowsky, Ernstludwig: The Salmon (INTAKT)
$14.95  Buy	Robertson, Herb: Each Part A Whole (Rubyflower)
$19.95  Buy	Schami, Rafik: Abbara (Intakt)
$16.95  Buy	Toral, Rafael: Space Elements Vol. 1 (Staubgold )
$17.95  Buy	Ya Ho Wha 13: Sonic Portation (MVD)