SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS
December 18, 2008
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Clean Feed releases lead this mailing, with 4 new titles and a 4 Corners DVD; 2 new Hatology releases; Bill Gilonis is the common demoninator on the 2 new Ad Hoc CDs; Art Yard issues a new Sun Ra in Egypt (Horizons); 2 new CDs on Gerry Hemingway's Auricle label; 3 great London free jazz releases on Reel Recordings; Frederik Nordstrom and Magnus Broo on Moserobie; John Zorn's "Crucible" and Filmworks XXII on Tzadik; Chadbourne/Blechdom and Snow/Licht/Onda on Victo; we add the Silber label to our catalog; David Sylvian's installation piece "Naoshima"; 3 mysterious Utech releases; Faruq Bey and Arthur Doyle LPs on QBICO; Fennesz' Black Sea on LP; and the latest Wire and Signal to Noise magazines to read while listening!
In the next mailing we'll have the latest round of releases from the excellent Quebec label Ambiances Magnetiques, including releases by Joanne Leandre and Ensemble SuperMusique (Derome, Hetu, Labrosse, Roger, Tanguay, Tetrault). To mark the occasion we're reducing the price on 28 of our best selling and most interesting Ambiances Magnetiques releases - only $9.95 each! Sale ends December 31, 2008.
Squid's Ear readers, we have more than 17 reviews ready to be published but the holiday schedule got the better of us... reviews will begin to be posted starting this weekend, and we'll list them all in this email forum in two weeks!
Please note: Squidco will be closed for the holidays from December 24 - December 28. Our website will still take orders during that time, which will ship starting on December 29. Have a Happy and Harmonious Holiday!
Improvisation:
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$15.95 Buy
 listen | Adams, Steve Trio: Surface Tension
(Clean Feed) | | Multi-reed and wind player Steve Adams, a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet, in 2000 recordings from San Francisco with his trio of Ken Filiano and Scott Amendola. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Broo, Magnus Quartet: Painbody
(Moserobie Music) | | Trumpter Magnus Broo's creative quartet in a set of original compositions that pay homage to Don Cherry while presenting their own forward pointing and impressive music. |
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$14.95 Buy
listen | Butcher / Hemingway: Buffalo Pearl
(Auricle) | | Percussionist Hemingway with John Butcher on tenor and soprano sax performing live in 2005, demonstrating their extended language in a brilliant and eccentric dialog. |
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$19.95 Buy
listen | Clusone 3: Soft Lights And Sweet Music
(Hatology) | | Michael Moore, Ernst Reijseger and Han Bennink's excellent Clusone 3 trio in a reissue of their 1993 album playing mostly Irving Berlin compositions. |
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Command All Stars: Curiosities
(Reel Recordings) | | In a group including Keith Tippett, Elton Dean, Nick Evans and produced by Robert Fripp, this is London free jazz from the early 70's at its finest! |
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Downes Open Music, Bob: Crossing Borders
(Reel Recordings) | | Previously unreleased improvised recording from the late '70s by wind and multi-instrumentalist Bob Downes, with Brian Godding, John Stevens, Barry Guy, &c. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Flatlands Collective, The: Maatjes
(Clean Feed) | | Recorded after a tour in Netherlands, Germany & Belgium, Jorrit Djikstra's Flatlands Collective crosses Europe and Chicago with players Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Fred Lonberg-Holm, &c. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Johnston, Darren: Edge Of The Forest
(Clean Feed) | | Bay area trumpeter and bandleader Johntson in a set of original compositions performed with Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Devin Hoff and Smith Dobson. |
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listen | Lantner, Steve Quartet: Given - Live In Munster
(Hatology) | | Pianist Steve Lantner's Quartet with Joe Morris, Luther Gray and Allan Chanse performing live at the 21st International Jazzfestival Munster in Germany. |
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Miller, Harry's Isipingo: Full Steam Ahead!
(Reel Recordings) | | South African bassist Harry Miller's Ispingo with Louis Moholo, Stan Tracey, Mongezi Feza, Mike Osbore and Nick Evans in London recordings 1975-76. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Nordstrom, Fredrik Quartet: Blue
(Moserobie Music) | | Tenor saxophonist Fredrik Nordstrom in a quartet playing original compositions, spirited and burning music with pieces dedicated to Charles Lloyd and Henrik Adolfsson. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | O'Gallagher, John Trio: Dirty Hands
(Clean Feed) | | New York alto saxophonist O'Gallagher's trio with Jeff Williams and Masa Kamaguchi recording during their tour through France and Portugal. |
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Sun Ra: Horizon
(Art Yard) | | In 1971 Sun Ra suddenly decided to take the Arkestra to Egypt, though he had no concerts planned; these remarkable recordings are from the Cairo Balloon Theatre. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Zorn, John: The Crucible
(Tzadik) | | The Moonchild trio with Joey Baron, Trevor Dunn, Marc Ribot and Mike Patton in another extreme and complex improvised journey into magic, alchemy and witchcraft. |
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Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:
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listen | Aarktica: No Solace in Sleep
(Silber Media) | | Jon DeRosa's ambient guitar drone project, a continuation of the sounds started by Ligetti and followed through by Glenn Branca, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, &c. |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | FINAL: Dead Air
(Utech Records) | | Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Ice, Painkiller, God, Jesu) in a cruel but subtle work of shifting and flowing sound, an austere and breathtaking work. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Gilonis, Bill Chantale Laplante: Zurich - Bamberg
(Ad Hoc Records) | | "Electro-acoustic Horrspiel" from Bill Gilonis (The Work, Hat Shoes) and Chantale LaPlante, fascinatingly filtered and personal sound collage work. |
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listen | If Thousands: I Have Nothing
(Silber Media) | | Slow, sorrowful, and lush dronescapes that unfold calmly and thoughtfully, the quiet before the storm, brimming with emotion and conviction. |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Keith Rowe: ErstLive 007
(erstwhile) | | Keith Rowe's solo set from the Amplify 2008 festival in Tokyo uses guitars and radio broadcasts; surprisingly this is Rowe's first ever solo set in Tokyo. |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Keith Rowe/Taku Unami: ErstLive 006
(erstwhile) | | A first meeting of guitar and electronics artist Keith Rowe with computer and string performer Taku Unami at the Amplify 2008: light festival in Tokyo. |
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listen | MWVM: Rotations
(Silber Media) | | Indie-ambient debut of guitar manipulation, layered drones, & electronics in the vein of early Remora & Aarktica. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Northern Valentine: The Distance Brings Us Closer
(Silber Media) | | Minimalist ambient work from Robert & Amy Brown, who have been recording and performing since '97, creating heartfelt, soulful & affecting sound. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Origami Artika: Trollebotn
(Silber Media) | | The unplugged industrial orchestra presents a collection of songs & folklore from the half-mythical landscape Trollebotn, deep in the mountains of Telemark, Norway. |
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listen | RST: Tomorrow's Void
(Utech Records) | | Gorgeous sound work using the electric guitar from New Zealand's Andrew Moon, "the gristle of the electrical grid harnessed and reconfigured as exquisite ostinato". |
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$7.95 Buy | Silber Records Sampler: Drones, Loves, Honesties, Sounds
(Silber Media) | | Get a low priced sample of all the sounds & musical styles on the Silber Media label: drone-pop to darkwave to post-rock to americana to soundscapes. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Snow / Licht / Onda: Five A's, Two C's, One D, One E, Two H's, Three I's...
(Victo) | | New Yorkers Snow, Licht and Onda in their 2007 Victoriaville performance, an improvised set using sound from sparse to dense with mutated field recordings, synth, radio, &c. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Sparhawk, Alan: Solo Guitar
(Silber Media) | | Live recordings using guitar loops & reverb, allowing a greater immediacy & improvisation to the guitar work than a more orchestrated approach would allow. |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Sum Of R:
(Utech Records) | | Switzerland's Sum of R construct and deconstruct sound in ways that infest and cloud the interior of the mind using organic drones, loops, and melodic feedback. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Sylvian, David: When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
(Samadhi Sound) | | A delicate and gorgeous work commissioned for the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation realized by David Sylvian, Christian Fennesz, Clive Bell, Akira Rabelais, &c. |
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$14.95 Buy
listen | Tom & Gerry (Thomas Lehn & Gerry Hemingway): Kinetics
(Auricle) | | Thomas Lehn & Gerry Hemingway's 3rd "Tom & Gerry" release presents tracks recorded in Europe from 2003-2006, incredible electro-acoustic improvisations. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Vlor: A Fire Is Meant for Burning
(Silber Media) | | Minimalist guitar collaborations from members of Remora, Aarktica, Lycia, Rivulets, 6P.M., Red Morning Chorus, & Jessica Bailiff. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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listen | Black Happy Day: In the Garden of Ghostflowers
(Silber Media) | | A collaboration between Tara Vanflower & Timothy Renner bridging ambient music and americana using guitars, banjo & dulcimer with feedback & effects. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Chadbourne / Blechdom: The Chaddom Blechbourne Experience
(Victo) | | Eugene Chadbourne and Kevin Blechdom (aka Kristin Erickson) performing songs from their 2007 Victo performance, warped banjo rock instrumentals and songs.
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$16.95 Buy | Chrome: Alien Soundtracks
(Noiseville) | | The 2nd Chrome LP is an agressive and bizarre affair of industrial rock with samples, alien guitar playing and a strange approach to making music. |
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$16.95 Buy | Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves
(Noiseville) | | Agressive and twisted industrial rock from this San Francisco band released in 1979, using psychedelic jump cuts, sampling and a forward thinking and disturbing approach. |
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$16.95 Buy | Chrome: Third From The Sun
(Noiseville) | | The final proper album from Chrome is a "blend of straight-up rock crunch and crumbling weirdness", freaked out rock from this strange San Francisco band. |
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$14.95 Buy
listen | Gong: Camembert Electrique
(Charly) | | The classic Gong album from 1971 with Daevid Allen's pothead pixies in their full glory, mixing prog, space, improv, pop and intelligently humorous lyrics. |
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listen | Gong: Flying Teapot
(Charly) | | The first part of Gong's classic trilogy, Radio Gnome Invisible, this is a sophisticated, humorous and intelligent space/prog rock release of great value. |
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listen | Gong: You
(Charly) | | The 3rd part of Radio Gnome Invisible is a more jam and jazz oriented affair with Steve Hillage's role more prominent as Daevid Allen prepares to leave the band. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Hat Shoes, The: Differently Desperate
(Ad Hoc Records) | | Remastered '92 studio album bringing together Bill Gilons (The Work), Charles Hayward (This Heat), Tom Cora (Skeleton Crew) and Chatherine Janiuaux (Fluvial) in a pop-RIO masterpiece. |
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listen | Hotel Hotel: The Sad Sea
(Silber Media) | | Instrumental post rock inspired by a torturous ocean journey: the sounds of hurricanes funneled through violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals; nice squid cover! |
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Book:
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$4.95 Buy | Signal To Noise: Issue #52, Winter 2009
(Signal to Noise) | | Signal to Noise's Winter 2009 issue with articles about Cheer Accident, Bob Koester, Philip Gelb, Allen Lowe, Lou Reed and John Zorn, plus 250+ reviews. |
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$8.95 Buy | Wire, The: #299 January 2009
(Wire) | | Wire #299 with their Top 50 Records of the Year, Plus Animal Collective's Invisible Jukebox, Emeralds, Peverelist, Voice Crack on film, Hugo Wilcken on Joy Division &c. |
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DVD:
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$18.95 Buy | 4 Corners: Alive In Lisbon
(Clean Feed) | | 4 Corners with Ken Vandermark, Magnus Broo, Adam Land and Paal Nilssen-Love in a live DVD from a March 2007 gig in Portugal playing 5 extended tracks. (PAL format) |
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