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SQUIDCO Email Update March 17, 2016

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UPDATE
March 17, 2016
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Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Alvin Curran
Balance Point Acoustics
Clean Feed
Discombobulate
Edition Wandelweiser Records
Fataka
Important Records

     
Kontrans
Magaibutsu
Mappa
Pi Recordings
Rarenoise Records
Shhpuma
Sub Rosa
Tzadik
 
      Creative Artists
    

• Harry Bertoia
• Jaap Blonk
• John Cage
• Cage. Schlothauer
• Joao Camoes /
     Jean-Marc Foussat
• Alvin Curran
• Sandy Ewen /
     Damon Smith
• Jurg Frey
• Fvrtvr
• Andre Goncalves
• Alexander Hawkins /
     Evan Parker
• Jeph Jerman
• Henry Kaiser /
     Steve Parker /
     Damon Smith /
     Chris Cogburn
• Julie Kjaer 3
     (Kjaer /
     Edwards /
     Noble)
• Korekyojinn
     (Yoshida Tatsuya)
• Phil Minton
• MV Carbon


      
• Roy Nathanson &
      Friends
      (O'Farrill,
      Ribot,
      Fowlkes,
      Coleman,
      Melford,
      Hollier)
• Michael Pisaro
• Henri Pousseur
• Eric Revis
• Roswell Rudd /
     Jamie Saft /
     Trevor Dunn /
     Balazs Pandi
• Starlite Motel (Alberts /
     Saft /
     Haker-Flaten /
     Nilssen)
• Twenty One Quartet
     (Vicente /
     De Joode /
     Govaer)
• Dan Weiss
     Large Ensemble
• Christian Wolff
• John Zorn


Squid Bubble




   Jazz & Improvisation

Blonk, Jaap : Songs of Little Sleep
(Kontrans)

Dutch vocalist and electronic artist Jaap Blonk takes on insomnia in 13 short works celebrating sleeplessness, including one piece for Dada sound poet Raoul Hausmann, and other "songs" using effective electronics and bizarre vocal utterances to accompany your own sleepless nights.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Camoes, Joao / Jean-Marc Foussat: A La Face du Ciel
(Shhpuma)

Portugese violist Joao Camoes, living in Paris, in a duo with Jean-Marc Foussat on electronics and voice, which he approaches like those of the acoustic improvised music and free jazz; the two present two long works where Foussat processes and extends Camoes' sound.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Ewen, Sandy / Damon Smith: Background Information [CASSETTE]
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Houston based guitarist Sandy Ewen met BPA label leader, bassist Damon Smith, to record these open-minded improvisations in the studio, with Smith also using 7 string electric upright bass, laptop, and field recordings played in real time.
   
     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 
Goncalves, Andre: Currents and Riptides
(Shhpuma)

Andre Gonvalves, known for the ADDAC System brand of modular synthesizers and several devices for electronic music, in a solo album combining analog and digital sounds and tools, processing of field recordings and ready-made materials, a rich and beautiful work.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Hawkins, Alexander / Evan Parker: Leaps in Leicester
(Clean Feed)

Established players on the London and European Free Jazz scene from two generations, saxophonist Evan Parker and pianist Alexander Hawkins come together for a duo of remarkable insight, technical skill, and inventive dialog from two masterful players.
 
Squidco Pick
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Kaiser, Henry / Steve Parker / Damon Smith / Chris Cogburn : Nearly Extinct
(Balance Point Acoustics)

An exceptional example of collective free improvisation in the traditions of American and European styles from a quartet of Austin and West Coast players: Henry Kaiser on electric guitar; Steve Parker on trombone; Damon Smith on double bass; and Chris Cogburn on drums.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $10.95      Listen          

 
Kjaer, Julie 3 (Kjaer / Edwards / Noble): Dobbeltgaenger
(Clean Feed)

Alto saxophonist Julie Kjaer, a Denmark native living in the UK and active on the London Improv scene, in a trio with two of the most active London players - Steve Noble on drums and John Edwards on bass - for a live album at Vortex Jazz Club in 2015.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Minton, Phil : A Doughnut's End [VINYL w/ Download code]
(Fataka)

Phil Minton continues his unique vocal "donut" series with this LP, a perverse set of utterances, vocal sounds, "songs" and other technically challenging and entertainingly bizarre pieces that challenge the abilities of voice and the concepts of improvisation.
   
     Buy      $23.95      Listen          

 
Nathanson, Roy & Friends (O'Farrill, Ribot, Fowlkes, Coleman, Melford, Hollier): The Nearness of you
(Clean Feed)

Jazz Passengers leader and saxophonist Roy Nathanson in an album of duos recorded live during a series of concerts at The Stone in NY, with collaborators including Marc Ribot, Curtis Fowlkes, Anthony Coleman, Arturo O'Farrill, Myra Melford, and Lucy Hollier.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Revis, Eric: Crowded Solitudes
(Clean Feed)

New York bassist Eric Revis' Trio with Kris Davis on piano and Gerald Cleaver taking over the drum position in an album that crosses the traditional piano trio concept with modern free parlance, for both lyrical and unconventionally creative moments.
 
Squidco Pick
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Rudd, Roswell / Jamie Saft / Trevor Dunn / Balazs Pandi: Strength & Power
(Rarenoise Records)

A New York quartet blending generations and styles in passionate, rich, and deeply layered improvisation from pianist Jamie Saft, trombonist Roswell Rudd, drummer Balazs Pandi, and drummer Trevor Dunn, free jazz drawing on diverse form and intense conversational skills.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Rudd, Roswell / Jamie Saft / Trevor Dunn / Balazs Pandi: Strength & Power [VINYL]
(Rarenoise Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $28.95      Listen          

 
Starlite Motel (Alberts / Saft / Haker-Flaten / Nilssen): Awosting Falls
(Clean Feed)

Scandinavian and American musicians join together to form this quartet, with Kristoffer Berre Alberts on saxes, Jamie Saft on organ and keys, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten on electric bass, and Gard Nilssen on drums & electronics, for an album of spacey and groove oriented jazz.
 
Squidco Pick
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Twenty One Quartet (Vicente / De Joode / Govaer): Live at Zaal 100
(Clean Feed)

Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente in a quartet with Amsterdam-based improvisers John Dikeman (sax), Wilbert De Joode (bass) and Onno Govaert (drums), captured during an energetic live performance at zaal 100 in Amsterdam in 2015 for superb free jazz.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Weiss, Dan Large Ensemble: Sixteen: Drummers Suite
(Pi Recordings)

The follow-up to drummer/composer Dan Weiss's release "Fourteen" presents a larger ensemble taking on jazz, world music, prog rock, contemporary classical music and more in compositions named for drummers, with a diverse orchestration of acoustic and unconventional instruments.
 
Squidco Pick
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Zorn, John: Flaga: The Book Of Angels Volume 27
(Tzadik)

The 27th volume in John Zorn's Book of Angels series, presenting his Masada compositions interpreted by superlative groups, here in a piano trio of lyrical and technical power: Craig Taborn (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Tyshawn Sorey (drums).
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Bertoia, Harry: Complete Sonambient Collection [11CD BOX SET]
(Important Records)

Sonic sculptor Harry Bertoia's 100th is celebrated by restoring his original LP releases from their master tapes in an 11-CD box printed with metallic inks, each CD in replica jackets, and including a 100-page book of essays, interviews, plus modern and archival photos.
   
     Buy      $97.95      Listen          

 
Blonk, Jaap : Polyphtong
(Kontrans)

An amazing album of vocal utterance and layered sound from Dutch improviser and experimenter Jaap Blonk, using spatial placement and movement extended by electronic means to focus on phonetic concepts, particularly the diphtong and approximant.
 
Squidco Pick
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Fvrtvr: Following Shapes to the Edge of a Drift
(Discombobulate)

Fritz Welch and Guido Hennebohl present a strange and discomforting album of electronic madness, as they "rattle them pots and pans, slap-the-cheek slurps and stick sharp elbows into a web of goof-off electronics" as they pursue the message of freedom.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
Jerman, Jeph : 34 degrees 111'3"N 111 degrees 95'4"W [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Mappa)

Sonic audiographer Jeph Jerman investigates an abandoned windmill in the Arizona desert via contact microphone, recording it three times to present its mysterious sonic properties at three different stages of its life and in differing weather conditions.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
MV Carbon : The Sun Will Turn On You
(Discombobulate)

New York City based, interdisciplinary artist and composer MV Carbon in an album of voice and sound, built of dark rhythm and sound, adding depth and innuendo to the simplest of songs.
   
     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Pisaro, Michael: Transparent City (Volumes 1 And 2)
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Composer Pisaro made a series 10 minute field recordings from different locations in Los Angels between 2004-2006, mixing them with sine tones and punctuating them with silence, mastered for home stereo playback to create a dynamic set of impressions of the city.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Pisaro, Michael: Transparent City (Volumes 3 And 4)
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

3rd and 4th volumes in Michael Pisaro's series documenting the sounds of Los Angeles through field recording compositions.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Pousseur, Henri: Early Experimental Electronic Music 1954-72
(Sub Rosa)

Henri Pousseur was associated with Pierre Froidebise and Andre Souris, and worked closely with Karlheinz Stockhausen through the 50s and 60s; this CD presents early electronic compositions from 1954-1972, a fascinating and diverse set of works from this important composer.
   
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   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Korekyojinn (Yoshida Tatsuya): Arabesque [2nd SPECIAL EDITION with new bonus tracks]
(Magaibutsu)

The insanely great improvising rock trio of drummer Yoshida Tatsuya, guitarist Kido Natsuki, and bassist Nasuno Mitsuru, in the third edition of their 2004 album, with 4 different bonus tracks recorded live At Osaka Bridge: "Hash"; "Arabesque"; "Quicksilver"; and "Freestone".
 
Squidco Pick
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   Compositional

Cage, John: One9
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Edwin Alexander Buchholz performs this beautiful work by John Cage on accordion, originally written for the Japanese sho, where sounds are single tones and chords, up to six part harmonies, or as Cage wrote, "sounds brushed into existence as in oriental calligraphy".
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Cage. Schlothauer: For Seven Players
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Burkhard Schlothauer presents two works by John Cage written for septet, using indeterminacy in a score where each instrumental part is given twenty time brackets, allowing overlapping sounds which will be shaped depending on choices from each performer.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Curran, Alvin: The Alvin Curran Fakebook Book [BOOK]
(Alvin Curran)

An atypical autobiography from composer Alvin Curran, presenting notated compositions and a journey through his musical thought and practice as a multifaceted compendium, designed with photos, writings, and sketches, urging readers to adapt compositions to their own creative impulse.
   
     Buy      $39.95          

 
Frey, Jurg: String Quartets
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Composer Jurg Frey's 1988 work "String Quartet" realized by Nadia Francavilla, Clemens Merkel, Stephanie Bozzini and Isabelle Bozzini, exploring ideas of audibility: the moment when sound waves move in space and the air touches the body.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Wolff, Christian: Exercise 15
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Carl Ludwig Hubsch (tuba); Ole Schmidt (bass clarinet); Chris Weinheimer (bass flute); Robert Schleisiek (piano); and Tom Lorenz (vibraphone) interpret Christian Wolff's composition based on "Union Maid", a song from the 1920's, transforming the work through temporal expansion.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 


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 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.


 

Angry Waves (Takyanagi / Ino / Yamazaki):
Angry Waves / Vol.1 [w/ BONUS CD]
(Jinya Disc)
Angry Waves (Takyanagi / Ino / Yamazaki):
Angry Waves / Vol.2 [w/ BONUS CD]
(Jinya Disc)
Antoine Beuger :
Silent Harmonies In Discrete Continuity
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Tim Blechmann / Goh Lee Kwang:
DRONE
(Herbal International)
Jaap Blonk:
August Ananke - Eight Meditations on Just Intonations
(Kontrans)
Jaap Blonk:
Traces of Speech
(Kontrans)

John Cage:
Early Music
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Don Cherry & Jon Appleton:
Don/Jon [VINYL 7-inch]
(Cacophonic)
Anthony Davis / Paul Plimley / Al Neil / John Kameel Farah:
Past Piano Present | Live at Western Front 1985 - 2015 [VINYL LP with DOWNLOAD]
(Western Front New Music)

Elephant9 w/ Reine Fiske:
Silver Mountain [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Rune Grammofon)
Martin Kay:
Courtyards
(Herbal International)
Hans Koch / Thomas Peter:
Wucherungen
(Herbal International)

Ulrich Krieger:
/RAW:ReSpace/ [2 CDS]
(XI Records)
Goh Kwang Lee:
Innere Freuden / Internal Pleasures
(Herbal International)
Eric La Casa:
Soundtracks
(Herbal International)

Sebastian Lexer / Steve Noble:
Muddy Ditch
(Fataka)
Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band:
Jazz / The African Sound
(Jazzman Records)
Charlemagne Palestine :
Godbear [VINYL]
(Black Truffle)

Evan Parker / Seymour Wright:
Tie the Stone to the Wheel
(Fataka)
Kathryn Pisaro Gleasman:
Beuger.Cage
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Michael Pisaro :
Harmony Series 11 - 16
(Edition Wandelweiser Records )

Reinhold Friedl / Zeitkratzer:
KORE
(Zeitkratzer)
Reinhold Friedl / Zeitkratzer:
Kore [VINYL]
(KARLRECORDS)
Christian Wolff / Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble:
Stones
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Zeitkratzer / Keiji Haino:
Stockhausen: Aus Den Sieben Tagen
(Zeitkratzer)



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