SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS
March 5, 2009
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An exceptional couple of weeks, with new releases on Tzadik, Clean Feed, ESP, Smalltown Super Jazz, Cryptogramphone,
plus two complementary releases from Fred Frith on Intakt, Marc Ducret's amazing orchestra on Illusions,
Eugene Chadbourne on Rossbin, two resurrections from the Tokyo cassette underground on PSF, two from Oren Ambarchi on Black Truffle, and the 180 GM red vinyl
reissue of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica!
At the end of this mailing are 14 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.
Improvisation:
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$15.95 Buy
 listen | Blake, Michael / Kresten Osgood: Control This
(Clean Feed) | | A set of saxophone & drums duo from Ex-Loung Lizard Blake and Copenhagen/NY drummer Osgood, free and melodic music with great rhythmic and harmonic diversity. |
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Brotzmann, Peter / Paal Nilssen-Love: Sweetsweat
(Smalltown Super Jazz) | | Brotzmann and Nilssen-Love team up again for a duo of beauty, raw power and incredible rhythmic counterpoint, recorded live in concert in Norway by Frode Gjerstad. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Cherry, Don: Live At Cafe Montmartre Volume Three
(ESP) | | The 3rd volume in trumpeter & free jazz legend Don Cherry's live recordings at Copenhagen's Cafe Montmarte, here with Gato Barbieri, Karl Berger, Bo Stief and Aldo Romano. |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Cline, Alex: Continuation
(Cryptogramophone) | | Drummer Alex Cline in a quintet with Peggy Lee, Myra Melford, Scott Walton and Jeff Gauthier, subtle music of timbre, texture and mood from an amazing group of players. |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Cline, Nels: Coward
(Cryptogramophone) | | An album of solo overdubs from guitarist Nels Cline, gorgeous melodic, technical and textural work showing an introspective and gorgeous aspect to his compositions and improvisations. |
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$17.95 Buy
listen | Ducret, Marc: Le Sens de la Marche
(Illusions) | | Guitarist Marc Ducret in an amazing 11 piece orchestra performing complex and shifting compositions with great melodic and unusual twists and turns - highly recommended! |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Dunmall, Paul Sun Quartet: Ancient and Future Airs
(Clean Feed) | | Saxophonist & bagpipe player Dunmall's amazing Sun Quartet with Tony Malaby, Mark Helias and Kevin Norton performing live in NYC the day after Dunmall's Vision 2008 Fest show. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Flow Trio (Belogenis / Morris / Downs): Rejuvenation
(ESP) | | The first studio release for the trio of tenor saxophonist Louis Belogenis, bassist Joe Morris and drummer Charles Downs, profound NY free improvisation. |
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$19.95 Buy
listen | Frith, Fred: Big Picture
(Intakt) | | Two cycles of compositions from Fred Frith: "The Big Picture - For Saxophone Quartet and Two Improvising Soloists" and his legendary 90s copositions: "Freedom in Fragments". |
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$19.95 Buy
listen | Frith, Fred: Still Urban
(Intakt) | | A commissioned work by Stanser Musik-Tage created during Frith's residency at the Benediktinerinnen-kloster Maria-Richenbach and premiered at the Festival on April 22, 2004. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Gurvich, Uri: The Storyteller
(Tzadik) | | Debut CD New York/Israeli alto saxophonist Uri Gurvich, a student of Joe Lovano and Herb Pomeroy; passionate and virtuosic music from a talented composer and player. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Har-You Percussion Group: Songs From The Ghetto Youth
(ESP) | | One result of NYC's Harlem Youth Act of 1964 was this young latin-jazz band, percussion heavy and compelling funky grooves with soulful vocals, remastered for new millenium. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Maroney, Denman Quintet: Udentity
(Clean Feed) | | Hyperpianist Denman Maroney in a quintet with Ned Rothenberg, Dave Ballou, Reuben Radding and Michael Sarin, complex and rewarding structured & multi-tempo music. |
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$14.95 Buy
listen | Mayas / Buck: gold
(Creative Sources) | | Necks drummer and percussion Tony Buck in a duo from December 2007 performing at the dOeK Festival in Bimhuis, Amsterdam with extended technique pianist Magda Mayas. |
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Mcphee, Joe / Paal Nilssen-Love: Tomorrow Came Today
(Smalltown Superjazz) | | Saxophonist & trumpeter Joe McPhee spent a day with drummer Paal Nilssen-Love improvising direct to tape to create these tracks of power, rhythm, melody & beauty. |
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$17.95 Buy
listen | Parker, Evan / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten : Brewery Tap
(Smalltown Super Jazz) | | The duo of free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker & Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten playing live at Oslo Jazzfestival August 13, 2007 at the Belleville venue. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Rodriguez, Roberto Juan: The First Basket
(Tzadik) | | Charming and imaginative music for a film that follows the Jewish basketball experience from ash cans placed on the stoops of brownstones to Madison Square Garden. |
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listen | Sadeh & The Voyagers, Daphna: Reconciliation
(Tzadik) | | Daphna Sadeh's first contribution to Tzadik is a brilliant and hypnotic mix of Jazz, Western Classical, Middle Eastern/Arabic Taqsim and Sephardi/Ashkenazi music. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Trinity: Breaking the Mold
(Clean Feed) | | Tenor saxophonist Kjetil Moster's Trinity with Ingebrigt Haker Flatn, Morten Qvenild & Thomas Stronen live at the 2006 Molde International Jazz Festival. |
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listen | Waters, Patty: Sings
(ESP) | | Digital remaster of Patty Waters' '65 debut album, showing both sides of her vocal prowess as a sensitive ballad singer and an out and outrageous vocal improviser. |
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listen | Who Trio: Less is More
(Clean Feed) | | WHO is Gerry Hemingway, Michel Wintsch & Banz Oester, a trio who have toured for many years, creating music of diverse compositional sensibilities & uncommon sensitivity.
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listen | Zorn, John: Filmworks XXIII: El General
(Tzadik) | | Zorn's 23rd Filmworks presents Eleven cues recorded for a striking documentary focusing on the life of controversial Mexican dictator Plutarco Elias Calles. |
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Electroacoustic/Experimental:
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listen | Ambarchi, Oren: Persona
(Black Truffle) | | Remastered edition of the limited "Persona" release of 2000, Oren Ambarchi alone on guitar and effect pedals improvising on 3 sonically rich and tense tracks. |
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$15.95 Buy
listen | Ambarchi, Oren: Stacte.3
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listen | Chrysakis, Thanos: A Scar In The Air
(Aural Terrains) | | A continuation of Chrysakis' "inscapes" series, compositions based on the structural and aesthetic capacity of sonic matter using field-recordings, synthesized & acoustic sounds. |
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$18.95 Buy
listen | Merzbow: Camouflage
(Essence Music) | | Ferocious torrents of abused, imploding and exploding electronics, sharp, pulverizing and abrasive high frequencies, frenzied throbbing machine-screams... ah, Merzbow! |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Mountains: Choral
(Thrill Jockey) | | The duo of Brendon Anderegg & Koen Holtkamp in gorgeous sculpted works of improvisation in a Fennesz mold, mixing guitars, electronics, field recordings, orchestral work, &c. |
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listen | Nadja: Touched
(Alien8 Recordings) | | This is a re-recording of doom noise artists Nadja's debut full-length, also titled "Touched" & released on Deserted Factory in 2003, with one bonus track. |
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$14.95 Buy
listen | Powertrio: what we see while we walk and what we walk while thinking
(Creative Sources) | | Ignore the group name and focus on the sound: a series of quietly improvised and composed pieces from group and individual members using harp, guitar, pianos and electronics. |
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$19.95 Buy
listen | Schistosoma Japonica: Kankei UFO From Zanryu-Shinen
(PSF) | | Volume 2 in PSF's series to restore avant and experimental music released on cassette from the 80s & 90s Tokyo underground, here with Schistosoma Japonica. |
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$19.95 Buy
listen | Toukaseibunshi: Meta-Inorganic Matter Meta-Newlon
(PSF) | | Volume 2 in PSF's series to restore avant and experimental music released on cassette from the 80s & 90s Tokyo underground, here with Toukaseibunshi (Permeable Molecule). |
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$14.95 Buy
listen | Ulher / Metzger: blinzeln
(Creative Sources) | | Minimal sound sources and extraneous trumpet sounds using unusual techniques in a duo of subtle yet captivating recordings from these frequent collaborators. |
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Rock/RIO/Prog:
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$16.95 Buy
listen | Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno: Hotter Than Inferno / Live in Sapporo 2008
(Vivo Records) | | Insane psychedelic live recordings in two long tracks from Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, performing "Heart of Earth" and "Pink Lady Lemonade". |
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$13.95 Buy
listen | Chadbourne, Eugene: Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad
(Rossbin) | | At the request of Rossbin Chadbourne compiled this great CD of group & solo country improv experimental protest songs including frequent collaborators, family and friends. |
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$12.95 Buy
listen | Deluxx: The Tidy Boy
(Spirit of Orr) | | One part Sonic Youth, one part early Residents, Deluxx is the anomalous output of NY/Boston transplant Mark Peretta, a one-man band of crazy riffs and warped song-spieling. |
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listen | Mahogany Frog: Do 5
(MoonJune Records) | | Mahogany Frog's 5th release of psychedelic jazz-rock, an instrumental brew that is hard-hitting, challenging, experimental and noisy, and melodically catchy. |
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listen | Moore, Thurston : Sensitive/Lethal
(No Fun) | | Thick guitar sound and noise as only a guitarist from Sonic Youth can do it, in 2 extended and one brief track of drone hypnosis and tumultuous commotion. |
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