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SQUIDCO Email Update May 7, 2015

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May 7, 2015
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Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

3acreTract(s)
A389 Recordings
Another Timbre
Astral Spirits
Bolt
Bridge Records
Circum-Libra
Clean Feed

     
Echo Beach
KARLRECORDS
Libra
Monotype
New Atlantis
Rarenoise Records
Tapu Record
The Wire
Tour de Bras
 
      Creative Artists
    

• Baloni
• Michel Banabila /
     Oene Van Geel
• Boxhead Ensemble
• Burroughs, William S.
• Common Objects:
     Butcher /
     Davies /
     Davies /
     Patterson
• Frank Denyer
• Earnear
• Morton Feldman
• Fraufraulein (Billy Gomberg & Anne Guthrie)
• Johannes Frisch /
     Ralf Wehowsky
• Satoko Fujii
     Orchestra Berlin
• Satoko Fujii
     Tobira
• Full Of Hell /
     Merzbow
      
• Mats Gustafsson /
     Merzbow /
     Balazs Pandi /
     Thurston Moore
• Nick Hennies
• Kaze
• Philippe Lauzier /
     Eric Normand
• Ava Mendoza
• Jamie Newton
• Maja Ratkje S. K.
• RED Trio
• Shit & Shine
• Skuggorna Och Ljuset /
     Magnus Granberg
• Yasunao Tone /
     Talibam! /
     Sam Kulik
• Transmit (Buck /
     Mayas /
     Dougherty /
     Welburn)
• Tredici Bacci /
     ENPSE
• Upsilon Acrux
• The Wire


Squid Bubble




   Jazz & Improvisation

Baloni: Ripples [VINYL]
(Clean Feed)

The trio of Belgian reedist Joachim Badenhorst, French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot, and French-German bassist Pascal Niggenkemper formed the Baloni trio in Brooklyn in 2008, presenting a blend of chamber and free jazz; reserved to frenetic playing that consistently surprises.
 
Squidco Pick
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Boxhead Ensemble: La Hora Magica [CASSETTE with download code]
(Astral Spirits)

A soundtrack of sorts, organized from improvised recordings between Boxhead Ensemble leader Michael Krassner and Adam Busch (Manishevitz, Sonoi) and Wil Hendricks (Califone, Simon Joyner, Lofty Pillars, etc), creative and immersive music to get lost in.
   
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Common Objects: Butcher / Davies / Davies / Patterson: Whitewashed with Lines [2 CDs]
(Another Timbre)

A double CD featuring two extended live performances by the electroacoustic quartet of John Butcher (sax), Angharad Davies (violin), Rhodri Davies (harps) & Lee Patterson (amplifed devices), one an improv from Durham in 2013, the other a graphic score from Newcastle, 2014.
 
Squidco Pick
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Earnear: earNear
(Tour de Bras)

Intricate interactions in free improv from the Portugese trio of violist Joao Camoes, cellist Miguel Mira (Open Field String Trio, Nuovo Camerata), and pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro (Red Trio), focused on the balance between contrasting counterpoint, polyrhythms and fluid soundscapes.
 
Squidco Pick
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Fraufraulein (Billy Gomberg & Anne Guthrie): Extinguishment
(Another Timbre)

Three exquisite electro-acoustic compositions by the New York-based duo of Anne Guthrie (french horn, electronics, recordings) and Billy Gomberg (bass guitar, recordings), using a combination of field recordings, electronics and improvisations on French horn and bass guitar.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Fujii, Satoko Orchestra Berlin: Ichigo Ichie
(Libra)

Pianist Satoko Fujii's large ensemble blending masterful Japanese and Euro players like Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Natsuka Tamura with Matthias Schubert, Gebhard Ullmann, &c., with Fujii's compositions amazingly flexible frameworks that lend themselves to great soloing and ensemble playing.
 
Squidco Pick
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Fujii, Satoko Tobira: Yamiyo Ni Karasu
(Libra)

Pianist Satoko Fujii's Tobira ("door") expands the original trio configuration of Todd Nicholson on bass and Takashi Itani on drums, with trumpeter/husband Natsuki Tamura, playing inventive free improvisation with sophistication in melodic heads and superb soloing.
 
Squidco Pick
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Gustafsson, Mats / Merzbow / Balazs Pandi / Thurston Moore: Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper [2 CDs]
(Rarenoise Records)

The followup to "Cuts" by Japanese noisemaker Merzbow (aka Masami Akita), Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and Hungarian drummer Balazs Pandi, adding Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore to create a supergroup of vicious sonic improvisation spanning 4 nations.
   
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Kaze: Uminari
(Circum-Libra)

Natsuki Tamura & Christian Pruvost on trumpets, Satoko Fuji on piano and Peter Orins on drums for a quartet where all members are active compositional contributors, creating a powerful ensemble sound with strong soloing using modern creative techniques; excellent!
 
Squidco Pick
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Lauzier, Philippe / Eric Normand: Not the Music / do
(Tour de Bras)

The Canadian duo of reedist Philippe Lauzier and bassist Eric Normand freely improvise in sound environments that are both introspective and precarious, using subtle and aberrant approaches to playing that evoke unusual aspects of their instruments in oddly refined dialog.
   
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RED Trio: Live in Munich [CASSETTE with download code]
(Astral Spirits)

Two excellent side-long tracks from an incredible show in Munich recorded in April 2014 from Portugal's free improvising Red Trio of Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano), Hernani Faustino (bass) and Gabriel Ferrandini (drums), their first release on a US label.
 
Squidco Pick
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   Experimental/Electronic

Banabila, Michel / Oene Van Geel: Music For Viola And Electronics II
(Tapu Record)

In the second volume of their collaboration, Banabila and Van Geel explore further into their neo-classical mix of viola improvisations, ambient textures, minimal compositions, and modular experiments.
   
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Burroughs, William S.: In Dub (Conducted by Dub Spencer & Trance Hill) [VINYL LP + CD]
(Echo Beach)

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill, with the support of the William S. Burroughs Foundation, set the spoken word performances of Beat-era legend William S. Burroughs in an album of fat dub beats and electronic grooves, recontextualizing WSB's unique, observant, and profound vision.
   
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Frisch, Johannes / Ralf Wehowsky: Which Head You're Dancing In?
(Monotype)

Deconstructed sounds from Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) on electronics & Johannes Frisch on double bass, citing Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" album as an (abstract?) influence, using noise, glitch, acoustics and jump-cut compositional styles that surprise but won't make you want to dance.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Hennies, Nick : Casts [CASSETTE with download code]
(Astral Spirits)

Percussionist and composer Nick Hennies presents four tracks featuring sine waves paired with speech, vibraphone, hi-hat and voice recorded over several years in Austin, TX and Ithaca, NY, contrasting electronics and percussion with the starkness of the human voice.
   
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Newton, Jamie: Driving Nails Into Fog
(3acreTract(s))

Jamie Newton works with sound using guitar, keyboards, field recordings, processing, and Kyoto croquet, here in a contemplative set of works merging drone and thick noise with indistinct rhythms and layers of concrete sounds.
   
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Newton, Jamie: Tone Wheel
(3acreTract(s))

Tonewheel organ meditations along with feedback and sound forms using processed guitar, keyboards and field recordings from sound artist Jamie Newton, 2 slowly evolving tonal works sandwiching three more turbulent pieces in a journey of drone, noise and reflection.
   
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Ratkje, Maja S. K. : In Dialogue with Eugeniusz Rudnik
(Bolt)

Two compositions from Eugeniusz Rudnik, and a large work from vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje performed live at The Polish Radio Experimental Studio using Rudnik's samples, her voice, and her own concrete elements in a virtual "dialog" with the composer.
   
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Shit & Shine: Chakin [CASSETTE]
(Astral Spirits)

Craig Clouse is joined by Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (The Thing), Pete Simonelli (The Enablers), King Coffey (Butthole Surfers) and Nate Cross (Marriage) in an album of improvisation overlayed onto the grooves, including a 17 minute jazz-meets-krautrock with narration.
   
     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 
Tone, Yasunao / Talibam! / Sam Kulik: Double Automatism [VINYL]
(KARLRECORDS)

After collaborating at the Museum of Modern Art's 2013 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde exhibit, NY's experimental duo Talibam! teamed up with Fluxus / electronic avant-gardist Yasunao Tone and trombonist Sam Kulik for this album of electronic sonic attacks.
   
     Buy      $22.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Full Of Hell / Merzbow: [VINYL]
(A389 Recordings)

A brutal grindcore album, unrelenting walls of noise from the collaboration of Masami Akita (Merzbow) with Full of Hell, layering guitar, electronics, bass, drums and vocals for a frighteningly intense album of succinct tracks.
   
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Mendoza, Ava: Unnatural Ways [VINYL]
(New Atlantis)

Virtuosic guitarist Ava Mendoza's Unnatural Ways, a Brooklyn-based trio with keyboardist Dominique Leone and drummer Nick Tamburro, in their debut LP of polyrhythmic, infectious and propulsive rock with declamatory vocals and insanely great playing.
 
Squidco Pick
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Transmit (Buck / Mayas / Dougherty / Welburn): Radiation
(Monotype)

Transmit revolves around the writing, drumming and guitar of Tony Buck, with the core line-up of Magda Mayas on keys, James Welburn on bass, and Brendan Doughety on drums, propulsive music of driving guitar, throbbing bass, chiming chords, swelling organ and propulsive drumming.
 
Squidco Pick
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Upsilon Acrux : Sun Square Dialect
(New Atlantis)

The 7th release from this exceptional Los Angeles experimental community rock band, featuring dual drums, dual guitars, and Fender Rhodes, instrumental music with unconventional rock structures of intricate and weaving lines and surprising twists and turns.
 
Squidco Pick
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Upsilon Acrux : Sun Square Dialect [VINYL]
(New Atlantis)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
 
Squidco Pick
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   Compositional

Denyer, Frank : Whispers
(Another Timbre)

Five idiosyncratic compositions by English composer Frank Denyer with performers including The Barton Workshop, Elisabeth Smalt, Juliet Fraser, Kiku Day and Frank Denyer himself, using shakuhachi, voice, muted strings, percussion and an axe striking a block of wood.
   
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Feldman, Morton: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
(Bridge Records)

Minimalist composer Morton Feldman's final and beautifully unfolding composition from 1987, "Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello", performed by Aleck Karis (piano), Curtis Macomber (voilin), Danielle Farina (viola) and Christopher Finckel (cello).
   
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Skuggorna Och Ljuset / Magnus Granberg: Would Fall From The Sky, Would Wither And Die
(Another Timbre)

A new composition by clarinetist and composer Magnus Granberg, the leader of the highly acclaimed ensemble Skogen, this time with a new, smaller group that includes percussionist Erik Carlsson, performing his beautiful, melancholic music.
   
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Tredici Bacci / ENPSE: Vai! Vai! Vai!/Concetti [CASSETTE with download code]
(Astral Spirits)

On the A side Simon Hanes leads a 14 piece ensemble in an homage to the late 60s/70s Italian soundtracks with a film score to a fictional film "Vai! Vai! Vai!"; on the B side, the improvising Ensemble for the Exploration of New Perspectives in Collective Sound Exploration.
   
     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 




   Books & Magazines

Wire, The: #375 May 2015 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)

Howard Mandel talks to Roscoe Mitchell about ancient and future Great Black Music and the AACM at 50. Plus: Harry Bertoia; Legowelt; Invisible Jukebox: RP Boo, Global Ear: Sound art in the UAE, Inner Sleeve: Mutamassik, Psykick Dancehall zine, Bites, Brood Ma, Family Elan, &c. &c.
   
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Shaking The Squid April 25, 2015





 In Stock and Ready to Ship

We're never quite caught up with new releases that constantly come in our door, and we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said, the following releases have already been stocked at Squidco, and are able to be ordered. In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release. You can always see the latest new releases by checking our Just In Stock Section.



Alva Noto:
Xerrox Vol. 3
(Raster-Noton)
Michel Banabila :
Float
(Tapu Record)
Michel Banabila :
Precious Images - Data Files 1999-2008 [2 CDs]
(Steamin' Soundworks)

Alessandro Bosetti / Chris Abrahams:
A Heart That Responds From Schooling
(Unsounds)
Arturas Bumsteinas :
Different Trains
(Bolt)
John Butcher / Andy Moor:
Experiments With A Leaf
(Unsounds)

Charles Evans / Liebman / Marino / Stabinsky:
On Beauty
(More Is More)
Beatriz Ferreyra :
GRM Works [VINYL]
(Recollection GRM)
Gintas K:
Blind Man Tales
(Bolt)

Jeph Jerman / Tim Barnes:
Matterings
(erstwhile)
Yannis Kyriakides + Andy Moor:
A Life Is A Billion Heartbeats
(Unsounds)
Eric La Casa / Taku Unami:
Parazoan Mapping
(erstwhile)

Graham Lambkin / Michael Pisaro:
Schwarze Riesenfalter
(erstwhile)
Philippe Lauzier :
Transparence
(Schraum)
Marcin Masecki :
Variations
(Bolt)

Mirt:
Khmer & Siam Recordings
(SAAMLENG)
Motorpsycho:
Demon Box [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Rune Grammofon)
Else Pade Marie & Jacob Kirkegaard :
Svaevninger
(Important Records)

Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra:
ggr[...]oooww!!! [VINYL]
(Important Records)
Papal Bull:
Argot Of Incomprehension
(Discombobulate / Sing ing Knives)
Shane Perlowin / Jacob Wick :
Objet A [CASSETTE]
(Prom Night Records)

Frank Perry:
Temple Of The Ancient Magical Presence
(FMR)
Eduardo Raon:
On the Drive For Impulsive Actions
(Shhpuma)
Michel Redolfi:
Pacific Tubular Waves/Immersion [VINYL]
(Recollection GRM)

Russell / Beresford / Edwards / Liavik Solberg:
Will It Float? [VINYL]
(VA FONGOOL)
Adriana Sa / To Trips / John Klima:
Timespine
(Shhpuma)
Nisse Sandstrom Quintet:
Live at Crescendo
(Moserobie Music)

Schlippenbach Trio:
Pakistani Pomade [VINYL]
(Cien Fuegos)
Matthew Shipp / Mat Walerian Duo:
The Uppercut: Live At Okuden
(ESP)
Joanna Sokolowska Halszka:
Msza
(Bolt)

Sprawl:
Sprawl [VINYL]
(Trost Records)
Stepmother (Simonis / Visser / Gilonis / Kerman):
Calvary Greetings
(Megaphone / Knock 'Em Dead)
TOTEM> (Eisenbeil / Blancarte / Drury):
Voices of Grain
(New Atlantis)

Candelaria Valiente Saenz / Marcin Masecki:
Hymnen
(Bolt)
Ian Watson / Susie Hodder-Williams :
The Tao Of Homeopathy
(FMR)
Colin Webster + Mark Holub:
Viscera
(New Atlantis)

Ingar Zach / Miguel Angel Tolosa:
Loner
(Sofa)



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