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SQUIDCO Email Update March 20, 2014

Squidco & The Squid's Ear
UPDATE
March 20, 2014
"Composing is improvisation slowed down."
-Wayne Shorter

Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

5049 Records
Alga Marghen
Ambiances Magnetiques
Aural Terrains
Auricle
Black Truffle
Bo Weavil Recordings
Citystream
Dancing Wayang
Eunoria Records
Feeding Tube Records
Gravity Wave
Majmua Music

     
Marsken Records
NO LABEL
Northern Spy
Penumbra
PNL
Pogus
Potlatch
Relative Pitch
Roaratorio
Ten Speed Records
Tzadik
Winds Measure Recordings
 
      Creative Artists
    

• Oren Ambarchi
• Matthew Barnson
• David Behrman
• Chrysakis/
      Matthews/
      Pedreira
• Cloud Becomes
      Your Hand
• Cymerman/
      Hoffmann/
      Chase
• Scott Davidson
      with Shipp/
      Shorter/
      Bisio/
      Dickey
• Gerry Hemingway
• Alvin Lucier
• Joe McPhee
• McPhee/
      Smith/
      Kull
• Joe McPhee and
      John Snyder
• Sergio Merce
      
• N.E.W.
      (Noble/
      Edwards/
      Ward)
• Paal Nilssen-Love
      Large Unit
• Pisaro/Chabala
• Michael Pisaro
• Luke Polipnick Group
      (Luke/Linz/
      Wozniak/Pride)
• Quartetski Does
      Stravinsky
• Hal Rammel &
      Christopher Burns
• Sam Shalabi
• Matthew Shipp Trio
• Splatter with
      Rafal Mazur
• Sun Ra & His
      Astro-Infinity Arkestra
• Sweet Banditry
      (Jensen/Seabrook/
      Blancarte/Shea)
• John Zorn


Squid Bubble




   Jazz & Improvisation

Chrysakis, Thanos / Wade Matthews / Javier Pedreira: Garnet Skein
(Aural Terrains)

The trio of Thanos Chrysakis on synth, radio, gongs & laptop; Wade Matthews on synth & field recordings; and Javier Pedreira on guitar, in studio recordings of edgy electroacoustic improvisation using a wide sound palette of indescribable sources.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Cymerman, Jeremiah / Christopher Hoffmann / Brian Chase: Pale Horse
(5049 Records)

Two works for clarinet (Jeremiah Cymerman), cello (Christopher Hoffmann) and drums (Brian Chase), building dark intertwining structures that create the illusion of electronics out of acoustics sources in a phantasmal and encompassing audio journey.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Davidson, Scott with Shipp / Shorter / Bisio / Dickey: Dreamland
(NO LABEL)

Percussionist Scott Davidson, whose music is informed by jazz, classical Indian and Middle Eastern music, teamed up with pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist Michael Bisio, drummer Whit Dickey and reedist Lloyd Shorter for this album of world encompassing and rhythmic jazz.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Hemingway, Gerry: Kernelings [CD + DVD]
(Auricle)

Drummer Gerry Hemingway in a CD & DVD release, 15 audio tracks and accompanying video and interview, dividing the program into "mist, dust, light, and sex", highlighting aspects of this prominent percussionist that expand our understanding of his prodigious abilities.
   
     Buy      $24.95      Listen          

 
McPhee, Joe / Harold E. Smith / Mike Kull: Trinity [VINYL]
(Bo Weavil Recordings)

Saxophonist and pocket trumpeter Joe McPhee's followup to "Nation Time" with McPhee extending his language and group improvisation skills in a bass-less band with Mike Kull on piano & electric piano, and Harold E. Smith on percussion.
   
     Buy      $24.95          

 
McPhee, Joe and John Snyder: Pieces of Light [VINYL]
(Bo Weavil Recordings)

Reissue of McPhee's 1974 6-part meditation combining acoustic and electric sounds of horns, pocket cornet, tenor saxophone, flute, modified nagoya harp, ceramic wind chimes, bird chimes, bamboo wind chimes & voice performed with keyboardist John Synder on Arp synthesizer.
   
     Buy      $24.95          

 
McPhee, Joe Quartet: Underground Railroad [VINYL]
(Bo Weavil Recordings)

Joe McPhee started Craig Johnson CjRecord Productions label in 1969 with this excellent free jazz release featuring McPhee on cornet, pocket trumpet, and tenor, Reggie Marks on tenor, soprano, and flute, bassist Tyrone Crabb, and Ernest Bostic on drums.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $24.95          

 
McPhee, Joe: Nation Time [VINYL]
(Bo Weavil Recordings)

McPhee's 2nd CJR release mixes free jazz and R&B in earnestly funky and topical music, in a band with Mike Kull (piano), Tyrone Crabb (bass), and Ernest Bostic & Bruce Thompson (percussion), performed live at Vassar College plus one studio track.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $26.95          

 
Merce, Sergio: Microtonal Saxophone
(Potlatch)

Using an alto saxophone where the original mechanisms have been replaced with water, gas & compressed air taps, saxophonist Sergio Merce can microtonally move the tuning of any note and create multiphonics, allowing him to play several sonic layers while using circular breathing.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
N.E.W. (Noble / Edwards / Ward): Motion [VINYL]
(Dancing Wayang)

The London power jazz trio of Steve Noble on drums, John Edwards on double bass and Alex Ward on electric guitar, powerful and exhilarating free improvisation from a trio who for more than 10 years have developed a unique sound that blurs the lines of jazz & rock.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $32.95          

 
Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit: First Blow
(PNL)

Norway's younger generation of improvising musicians, acoustic and electronic, perform in percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit from their first EP, a live recording from Molde Jazzfestival 2013.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Nilssen-Love, Paal Large Unit: First Blow [VINYL EP]
(PNL)

Vinyl EP edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Polipnick, Luke Group (Luke / Linz / Wozniak / Pride): Episodes
(Eunoria Records)

Guitarist Luke Polipnick leads this quartet with double bassist Adam Linz, drummer Mike Pride and saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, new jazz with an electric edge from four adept players who start and stop with energetic and melodic aplomb.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Rammel, Hal / Christopher Burns: Scrawl
(Penumbra)

Focusing on amplified percussion via Hal Rammel's percussion palettes, and Chris Burns' work with electric guitar, this Milwaukee area duo has been improvising together for many year, as heard in this engaging dialog of unusual interjection and tone.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Shipp, Matthew Trio: Root Of Things
(Relative Pitch)

Pianist Shipp's long-standing trio with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey, complex and inspired compositions that makes modern creative approaches to jazz beautifully accessible and essential.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Splatter with Rafal Mazur: cloudseed
(Citystream)

Splatter's 3rd CD resulted from a meeting between the London-based quartet Splatter (Noel Taylor-clarinet; Anna Kaluza-sax; Tom Greenhalgh-drums; Pedro Velasco-electric guitar) and Polish bassist Rafal Mazur after their successful collaboration at Cafe Oto in 2010.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra: Other Strange Worlds [VINYL]
(Roaratorio)

In 1965 Sun Ra directed a select quintet of Arkestra players to pick up unusual stringed instruments and homemade percussion and to freely improvise, resulting in much of this fascinating record; the complement are tracks of exotic reeds and percussion.
   
     Buy      $21.95      Listen          

 
Zorn, John: The Alchemist
(Tzadik)

Zorn's sixth quartet is inspired by the hermetic Angelic actions of John Dee and is replete with the procedures of distillation, calcination, crystallization, sublimation, purification, rotation as well numerology, prayers, canons, contrapuntal complexity, &c.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Ambarchi, Oren: Stacte Karaoke [VINYL 12"]
(Black Truffle)

Oren Ambarchi's version of karaoke finds him playing over the rhythm section of ZZ Top in an unusual pairing of Texas balls-to-the wall rock and avant guitar playing.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Pisaro / Chabala: Black, White, Red, Green, Blue (Voyelles)
(Winds Measure Recordings)

Guitarist Barry Chabala's interpretation of composer Pisaro's piece, instructing the performer on structure and pitch but allowing the precise timing and sound to the player; plus a reworking of Chabala's recording taking advantage of cassette hiss and sine tones.
   
     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 
Shalabi, Sam: Music for Arabs
(Majmua Music)

Guitarist Sam Shalabi leads an arabic ensemble creating mood music to while the time away in a Cairo traffic jam, music that merges the ambiance and chaotic changes of a fast-paced musical world in indescribable and ecstatic ways.
   
     Buy      $11.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Cloud Becomes Your Hand: Rocks Or Cakes
(Northern Spy)

Drawing on personnel from the Downtown NY scene, both improv and rock, including CACAW, Sunshine Soldier, and VaVatican, Cloud Becomes Your Hand plays exuberant and complex music that focuses as much on instrumental as vocal music while surprising and delighting.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Cloud Becomes Your Hand: Rocks or Cakes [VINYL]
(Feeding Tube Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Sweet Banditry (Jensen / Seabrook / Blancarte / Shea): Farvefisen Blomstrer
(Marsken Records)

Bringing together members of Home of Easy Credit, Totem>, Talibam! and Seabrook Power Plant, Tom Blancarte & Dane Louise Jensen lead this incredible thrash jazz combo that's one part frighteningly great and one part melodically/sonically beautiful, and all parts amazing!
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Zorn, John: Psycomagia
(Tzadik)

Zorn's Abraxas quartet (Arm Bajakian-guitar, Eyal Maoz-guitar, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz-bass, Kenny Grohowski-drums) perform a new suite inspired by the magical writings of Giordano Bruno & Alejandro Jodorowski, from minimialist to intense ritual music.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Barnson, Matthew: Sibyl Tones
(Tzadik)

Utah-born but composing in New York, Matthew Barnson's work is expressive and dramatic, touching on European and American traditions, here with pieces composed for string quartet performed by London's Arditti Quartet and New York's JACK quartet.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Behrman, David: Wave Train [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Alga Marghen)

A repress of Behrman's 2002 album issuing works from 1959-68, including a piece with Gordon Mumma; sounds for a film by Robert Watts; a collaborative work with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma & Robert Ashley; and a work with David Tudor on piano and Christoph Caskel.
   
     Buy      $49.95          

 
Lucier, Alvin: Still and Moving Lines: Decibel Perform Compositions by Alvin Lucier
(Pogus)

Australian new music ensemble Decibel performing four works combining acoustic and electronic orchestration by composer Alvin Lucier, three of which are previously unrecorded: "Ever Present" (2002); "Carbon Copies" (1989); "Hands" (1994); "Shelter" (1967).
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Pisaro, Michael: Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds
(Gravity Wave)

Michael Pisaro & Greg Stuart collaborate on a work scored for bowed crotales and sine tones in 4 large pieces, a challenging work that provide hallucinatory overtones that shift with the listener's perspective.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Quartetski Does Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

Quartetski Does Stravinsky with drummer Isaiah Ceccarelli, guitarist Bernard Falaise, reedist Phillipe Lauzier, viole de gamaba player Pierre-Yves Martel and violinist Joshua Zubot reinterpret Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in honor of its 100th anniversary.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 




Squidco's 2014 Spring Cleaning Sale

Spring starts in the Northern Hemisphere today! To celebrate we're starting a series of weekly 2014 Spring Cleaning sales events, reducing selected titles by their release year by 14% ! The first sale will feature about 200 releases that we added to our catalog in 2013. Check back next week at this time to see 2012 & 2011 titles that have been reduced the same 14% - each week we'll include titles from previous sets of years until we reach our starting year of 2002. But hurry, the 2013 sale ends Sunday, March 23, 2014 at midnight EST!

Click here to see the sale list!

In-stock items only, orders must use our shopping cart, sale items are not eligible for reward points. Prices are rounded to the closest dime.





The Squid's Ear The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
 

   Recent Reviews




Dedalus:
Antoine Beuger / Jurg Frey
(Potlatch)


The Thing:
Boot!
(The Thing Records)

Ken Vandermark's TOPOLOGY Nonet featuring Joe McPhee:
Impressions of Po Music
(Okkadisk)


ADA Trio + Pat Thomas:
Live at Cafe Oto
(OTOROKU)





   In Stock and Ready to Ship




Akiyama, Tetuzi, Tim Barnes, Masafumi Ezaki:
Futuro
(Quakebasket)
Backer / Stackenas / Williamson / Solberg:
Eye of the Moose
(Creative Sources)
Barnes, Tim / Toshio Kajiwara / Marina Rosenfeld:
A Water's Wake
(Quakebasket)

Broken Consort:
done
(Quakebasket)
Coppice:
Big Wad Excisions
(Quakebasket)
Derome, Jean / Malcolm Goldstein / Rainer Wiens:
6 improvisations
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

Garcia, Margarida / Barry Weisblat:
Loran
(Quakebasket)
Hassler, Hans:
Hassler
(Intakt)
Iddon, Martin:
pneuma
(Another Timbre)

Kesten, Christian & Mark Trayle / Annette Krebs :
Berlin series No. 2
(Another Timbre)
Lepage, Robert Marcel :
Canard Branchu
(Ambiances Magnetiques)
Lepage, Robert Marcel :
Le lait maternel
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

Lucchese, Maria / Matthias Bauer:
Alchimia Organica
(Creative Sources)
MacLise, Angus:
Astral Collapse
(Quakebasket)
Mersault:
Mersault
(Quakebasket)

MusicWorks:
#118 Spring 2014 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Partial (Noe Cuellar and Joseph Clayton Mills):
LL
(Another Timbre)
Rainey, Tom With Ralph Alessi / Ingrid Laubrock / Kris Davis / Drew Gress:
Obbligato
(Intakt)

Rodrigues / Chaparreiro / Oliveira:
Paris
(Creative Sources)
Rodrigues / Gauguet / Guerreiro:
Early Reflections
(Creative Sources)
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / de Toni / Berthet / Ortis:
Trees
(Creative Sources)

Schweizer, Irene / Pierre Favre:
Live In Zurich
(Intakt)
Skogen (Magnus Granberg, Angharad Davies, Toshi Nakamura, Henrik Olsson, Ko Ishikawa, Anna Lindal, John Eriksson, Erik Carlsson, Leo Svensson Sander and Petter Wastberg):
Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long
(Another Timbre)
Takase, Aki La Planete:
Flying Soul
(Intakt)

Ward, Jason:
Euphoric Nightmares
(Ten Speed Records)



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