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July 27, 2018

"Creativity is not a special gift,
But a kind of birthright.
—John Lewis

Essential Labels

Creative Sources
FMR
Intakt

Matchless
Mikroton Recordings
Not Two

Creative Artists

• 9!
• Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky
• Angelica Castello/Jerome Noetinger
• Chesterfield (Burkhard Stangl/Angelica Castello)
• Marco Colonna/Agusti Fernandez/Zlatko Kaucic
• Welf Dorr Unit
• Julius Eastman/Kukuruz Quartet
(Bartels/Collenberg/Keller/Rickli)
• Dave Gisler Trio
• Jasna Jovicevic Sextet
• Kurt Liedwart/Julien Ottavi/Keith Rowe
• Kurt Liedwart/Petr Vrba
• Ramon Lopez/Percy Pursglove/Rafal Mazur
• Joe McPhee/John Edwards/Klaus Kugel
• MKM (Muller/Kahn/Moslang)
• Gunter Muller/Kurt Liedwart/Norbert Moslang
• Yui Onodera/Stephen Vitiello
• Pitch Splitter Orchester, The
• Elliott Sharp Carbon
(feat. Zeena Parkins/Bobby Previte)
• Trio Sowari

On Friday, July 27, Phil gets older (again!) To celebrate, he's offering Squidco customers a list of more than 300 items that he's put on sale AT COST! Help Phil celebrate his advancing age and have a look at this list of excellent titles. But don't wait too long--this sale ends Sunday, July 29th, 2018 at midnight!

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Jazz & Improvisation

9!: None (-t)
(Matchless)

The transnational ensemble of acoustic improvisers Nathaniel Catchpole on tenor saxophone, Elk calls, Jamie Coleman on trumpet, Alex James on piano, Ross Lambert on guitar, pocket trumpet, preparations, John Lely on piano, Sebastian Lexer on piano, Marianthi Papalexandri on moving objects, Eddie Prevost on percussion, and Seymour Wright on alto saxophone.

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Baron, Joey / Robyn Schulkowsky: Now You Hear Me
(Intakt)

An astounding album of dual drums and percussions from Downtown NY legend Joey Baron and contemporary composition innovator and collaborator Robyn Schulkowsky, their second album together after a 15 year history that has included a residency at Grand Central Station, tours in South America, Europe, and China, and performances using the sculptures of artist Eduard Habicher.

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Castello, Angelica / Jerome Noetinger: Disturbio
(Mikroton Recordings)

A study on vibrating surfaces in an album of active environments in the debut album from the duo of Angelica Castello and Jerome Noetinger, both using tapes, samples, loops, radios and electronics, with Noetinger on revox and Castello on Paetzold flute, presenting seven staggering and awe-inspiring works, each wild canvases of sound from atmospheric to tectonic.

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Colonna, Marco / Agusti Fernandez / Zlatko Kaucic: Agrakal
(Not Two)

Agrakal is the trio of Marco Colonna (clarinet), Augusti Fernandez (piano), and Zlatko Kaucic (percussions), three musicians able to cross cultures and attitudes and develop a new language of abstract collective jazz, Fernandez being the pivot point between the trio, having previously recorded and toured as a duo with both Colonna and Kaucic.

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Dorr, Welf Unit: Blood
(Creative Sources)

Combining free jazz spontaneity with the urgency of funk and rock, NY-based German saxophonist and bass clarinetist Welf Dorr (Funk Monk) presents his Unit with drummer Joe Hertenstein, bassist Dmitry Ishenko and guitarist Dave Ross, in an energetic album of tunes that combine determination and passion with upbeat grooves balanced by beautiful ballad work.

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Gisler, Dave Trio: Rabbits on the Run
(Intakt)

An eclectic guitar trio album from Dave Gisler and his trio of Raffaele Bossard on bass and Lionel Friedli on drums, an impressive display of skill and style from languorous ECM-dreaming lyricism to hard driving and gritty electric hard bop, a collection characterized by its determination in a variety of settings and approaches to improvisation.

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Lopez, Ramon / Percy Pursglove / Rafal Mazur: Threefold
(Not Two)

Spanish drummer residing in France, Ramon Lopez leads this trio with British trumpeter Percy Pursglove and Polish bassist Rafal Mazur for an album alternating compositions from Lopez with collective improvisations, the trio patiently unfolding their conversations with a strong melodic bias that balances introspective playing with fiery technique.

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McPhee, Joe / John Edwards / Klaus Kugel: Journey to Parazzar
(Not Two)

Recorded at Metallurgov House Of Culture in the Ukraine as the 2nd concert of their tour, the trio of Joe McPhee (trumpet, alto saxophone), John Edwards (double bass), and Klaus Kugel (drums) present a masterful concert that includes a 29-minute "Re-Hairing In Zaporozhye" a 19-minute "To Rush At The Wind", and a wonderfully unconventional tribute to Cecil Taylor.

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MKM (Muller / Kahn / Moslang): Teplo_Dom
(Mikroton Recordings)

Since 1971 the trio of Norbert Moslang on cracked everyday electronics, Jason Kahn on analog synthesizer & radio, and Gunter Muller on ipods & electronics, aka MKM, have convened for free improvisations of rhythmic noise, samples and fractured electronics, here in three concert recordings, two from Russia at DOM Cultural Center and one at Art Space Teplo.

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Muller, Gunter / Kurt Liedwart / Norbert Moslang: Ground
(Mikroton Recordings)

Three masters of ea-improv with a wealth of history and experience--Gunter Muller on iPods, electronics, Kurt Liedwart on electronics, and Norbert Moslang on cracked everyday electronics-- performing at Ground Hodynka Gallery in Moscow during the 2017 Swiss Noise Festival, resulting in two dense, mysterious and information-packed electronic improvisations.

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Sharp, Elliott Carbon (feat. Zeena Parkins / Bobby Previte): Transmigration at the Solar Max
(Intakt)

NY bassist and saxophonist Elliott Sharp's Carbon project in a trio album with electric harpist Zeena Parkins and drummer Bobby Previte for what Sharp describes as "part cosmic turbulence and part roiling soundscape... the musicians building their activities on and against shifting electro-acoustic drones and matrices of rhythm, unisons splitting and refracting."

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Trio Sowari: Third Issue
(Mikroton Recordings)

Only their 3rd album since 2005, the trio of Phil Durrant (modular and software synthesizers), Bertrand Denzler (tenor saxophone) and Burkhard Beins (percussion and objects) went into the studio in Berlin to record four tracks that bring the distinct skills of each player into focus while accentuating the tremendous concentration and interplay each brings, a real achievement.

Squidco Pick

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Experimental/Electronic

Chesterfield (Burkhard Stangl / Angelica Castello): Consuelo
(Mikroton Recordings)

Expanding on Burkhard Stangl colo concert at the 2014 Reheat festival at Kleylehof based on Consuelo Velazquez's song "Besame Mucho", the duo of Stang and Angelica Castello recomposed it, mixing new pieces with old plus home recordings, accidental recordings, live performances, &c., creating a Chesterfield diary of songs, of noise, of longing and of dreaming.

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Liedwart, Kurt / Julien Ottavi / Keith Rowe: L'Or
(Mikroton Recordings)

Translating to "Gold", the trio of Kurt Liedwart on modular synthesizer abd cracked everyday homemade electronics, Julien Ottavi on computer, and Keith Rowe on guitar & electronics recorded this album during Poland's Sanatorium Of Sound 2017 festival, bridging EA Improv, noise, minimal electronics and contemporary music in two large works.

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Liedwart, Kurt / Petr Vrba: Punkt
(Mikroton Recordings)

The debut album of free electronic music explorers Kurt Liedwart on synthesizers, cracked homemade and everyday electronics, and Petr Vrba on synthesizers and electronics, where each track is built upon a permutating sonic foundation of well-paced compositions that transition between hypnotic abstract structural forms and textural and timbral experimentation.

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Onodera, Yui / Stephen Vitiello: Quiver
(Mikroton Recordings)

Tokyo-based electronic composer Yui Onondera (critical-path) and New York experimenter Stephen Vitiello use a variety of sound sources--electric violin, electric & acoustic guitars, field recordings, found objects, modular synthesizer, toy piano, &c--to create a set of 8 "Quivers" from trembling agitation to exquisite atmospheric repositories of sound.

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Pitch Splitter Orchester, The: Frozen Orchestra (Splitter)
(Mikroton Recordings)

The third and most ambitious release from Splitter Orchester, with an amazing mix of experimental and EA musicians including Boris Baltschun, Kai Fagaschinski, Michael Thieke, Burkhard Beins, Axel Dorner, Matthias Muller, Magda Mayas, &c. &c., in a slow moving work exploring fields of harmonic relationships consisting of pitch sets, a beautiful work of drone and depth.

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Compositional

Eastman, Julius / Kukuruz Quartet (Bartels / Collenberg / Keller / Rickli): Piano Interpretations
(Intakt)

The Swiss Kukuruz Quartet of 4 pianists--Duri Collenberg, Lukas Rickli, Philip Bartels, and Simone Keller--continue their explorations of the works of late NY composer & pianist Julius Eastman, a pioneering figure in minimalism and an influential member of the 1980s Downtown New York scene; here in four works: "Fugue No.7", "Evil Nigger", "Buddha" and"Gay Guerrilla".

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Jovicevic, Jasna Sextet: Flow Vertical
(FMR)

Hungarian composer, improviser and multi-reedist Jasna Jovicevic in an album researching sound vibrations and their direct impact on our body, energy, and creativity, performed with her contemporary chamber jazz sextet of bassoon, percussion, viola, violin and violincello, lyrical and joyful music "divided according to psychic centers in the human body".

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The: Astra Choir Morton Feldman; Will Ogdon; Pauline Oliveros; Earle Brown; Warren Burt; Robert Carl: We, Like Salangan Swallows...: A Choral Gallery of Morton Feldman and Contemporaries (New World Records)	Felicie Bazelaire / Bertrand Denzler: Basse Seule (Confront)	The Bertch Quartet : For Oumuama (Creative Sources)
Beuger.Boon.Susam: (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Cyril Bondi / d'Incise: Kirari-Kirari (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Colectivo maDam / Ernesto Rodrigues / Miguel Mira: Coluro (Creative Sources)
Stephen Cornford : Battery Acid [CASSETTE] (Banned Production)	Jacques Demierre / Anouck Genthon: Teyerit (Confront)	Tim Feeney: Burrow [CASSETTE] (Marginal Frequency)
Toshi Ichiyanagi with Eye Music: Sapporo (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Isotope Ensemble: Barium (Creative Sources)	Johan Lindvall: Giraffe (Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Lisbon String Trio & Eduardo Chagas: Tactile (Creative Sources)	Sergio Merce: Three Dimensions Of The Spirit (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Mokita: Mokita (Creative Sources)
Tatsuya Nakatani : Yama Yaki (Nakatani-Kobo)	Pregnant Spore: I Am in Love with My Own Sins [CASSETTE] (Banned Production)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Eduardo Chagas: Holes and Cracks (Creative Sources)
Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Andrew Lafkas / Bryan Eubanks: 0 Minutes And 0 Seconds (Creative Sources)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Bruno Parrinha / Luis Lopes / Vasco Trilla: Lithos (Creative Sources)	Paolo Sanna: Fluorite (Creative Sources)
Marianne Schuppe : Nosongs (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Mark Weaver / Tatsuya Nakatani: Weaver Nakatani (Nakatani-Kobo)

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