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February 5, 2021

"If you are receptive to hearing through the ears,
You would be mistaken to think it is the only way you hear."
—Barry Guy

Creative Artists

• ALSO (Siewert / Ernst)
• Apiary (Daniell/Hess/Mills/Stein)
• Harry Bertoia
• Crispell/Prevost/Smith
• Curran/Laneri/Schiaffini
• Luc Ex
• Full Blast
• Guillaume Gargaud/Eero Savela
• GGRIL + Jean-Luc Guionnet
• Gratkowski/Kaufmann/de Joode/Buck
• Barry Guy
• Milasius/Kutavicius/Naujokaitis,
featuring The Lithuanian Young Composers Orchestra
• RED trio and Celebration Band
• Regenorchester XII
• Takayanagi JoJo/Ino/PUU Kikuchi
• Cecil Taylor Quintet (feat. Sjostrom/Honsinger/Hauta-aho/Lovens)
• Wooley/Mockunas/Guy/Gotesmanas

Essential Labels

Eargong Records
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Matchless
NoBusiness
Plus Timbre

Sombient
The Tapeworm
Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Trost Records

Jazz & Improvisation

ALSO (Siewert / Ernst): Live in Celovec
(Trost Records)

Picking up where their "Live at Wirr" album left off, this new recording finds the Viennese free improvising electroacoustic duo of Martin Siewert on guitar & electronics and Katharina Ernst on drums & toys performing live at the 2018 New Adits festival in Celovec, Austria for five resourceful and diverse dialogs, from intensely tumultuous to delicately thoughtful.

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ALSO (Siewert / Ernst): Live in Celovec [VINYL]
(Trost Records)

Vinyl Edition of the CD listed above.

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Apiary (Daniell / Hess / Mills / Stein): Apiary Cassette [CASSETTE]
(The Tapeworm)

Formed in Chicago in 2009, Apiary brought together David Daniell (guitar), Steven Hess (drums), Joseph Clayton Mills (electronics), and Jason Stein (bass clarinet), interweaving disparate strands of Chicago's improvised music community, seamlessly incorporating their influences-ranging from jazz to minimalism to noise-into a whole that was dense and hypnotic.

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$14.95

Crispell / Prevost / Smith: ConcertOTO
(Matchless)

American pianist Marilyn Crispell joined London Improviser's Orchestra saxophonist & clarinetist Harry Smith and AMM drummer Eddie Prévost for this 2012 concert at London's Cafe OTO, playing in a melodic free jazz mode of passionate interaction and deep communication, resulting in an unforced and naturally masterful set of thoughtfully lyrical improvisation.

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Curran, Alvin / Roberto Laneri / Giancarlo Schiaffini: Beat 72 Lost Date
(Eargong Records)

Sounding current in the modern age of free improvisation, this 1973 recording of a live concert at Teatro Beat 72 in Rome, led by outstanding performers, trumpeter Alvin Curran (MEV), clarinetist Roberto Laneri (Prima Materia) and trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini (Gruppo di improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza), stands as a testament to the free improv movement they helped to expand.

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Curran, Alvin / Roberto Laneri / Giancarlo Schiaffini: Beat 72 Lost Date [VINYL]
(Eargong Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

Squidco Pick

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Ex, Luc: Music Of Inevitable Sounds
(Trost Records)

Bassist Luc Klaasen, aka Luc Ex from the seminal rock back The Ex, leads the 11-piece acoustic ensemble Music Of Inevitable Sounds, Klaasen writing pieces to create musical landscapes that are based upon a specific concrete element, such as the sound of ventilators, concrete mixers, people talking loudly into their phones, building sites, robots, &c.

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Full Blast: Farewell Tonic [VINYL]
(Trost Records)

A fierce display of raw free improvisation from a concert that closed the open-minded and essential New York City venue Tonic in 2007, from the the Full Blast trio of Peter Brotzmann on reeds, Marino Pliakas on electric bass, and Michael Wertmuller on drums, playing to a receptive and excited crowd, with Brotzmann speaking to the audience before the final burner.

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Gargaud, Guillaume / Eero Savela: Helsinki
(Plus Timbre)

A lovely album of friendly improvisation in the 1st meeting of French guitarist Guillaume Gargaud, who works in improvised music and composition for contemporary dance and film, and Finnish trumpeter Eero Savela, whose work is in dance, theater, circus and media art, this concert at the former mental hospital Lapinlahti finding the two exploring with lyrical insightfulness.

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GGRIL + Jean-Luc Guionnet: Tatouages Miroir
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)

Jean-Luc Guionnet composes for the Le Grand Groupe Régional d'Improvisation Libérée (GGRIL) directed by bassist Éric Normand, with an 11-piece ensemble recording in the studio for a work of tension and release through fitful sections that explores contrast and unison, space and contraction, guided by a wonderful sense of mystery and surprise.

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Gratkowski, Frank / Achim Kaufmann / Wilbert de Joode / Tony Buck: Flatbosc & Cautery
(NoBusiness)

A superb mix of propulsive free jazz and pensively introspective free improv from the quartet of Frank Gratkowski on alto saxophone, clarinets & flutes, Achim Kaufmann on piano, Wilbert de Joode on bass, and Tony Buck (The Necks) on drums & percussion, recorded in a live concert at Loft, in Koln, Germany in 2018 for six inspired collective improvisations.

Squidco Pick

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Guy, Barry : Irvin's Comet [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)

One of London's most significant and prominent free improvising double bassists, from Spontaneous Music Ensemble to London Jazz Composers Orchestra and innumerable projects with some of the globe's finest improvisers, entered the studio in 2019 to record this exceptional and diverse solo album of advanced forms and remarkably creative imagination.

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Milasius, Juozas / Tomas Kutavicius / Dalius Naujokaitis, featuring Lithuanian Young Composers Orchestra: Live At Willisau, 1993 [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)

A raucous and passionate concert led by the trio of Juozas Milasius on guitar, Tomas Kutavicius on piano, and Dalius Naujokaitis on drums, with the Lithuanian Young Composers Orchestra assisting on voice, cymbals, clapping, and "trampling", creating moments of adventurous disorder that lead to beautiful passages of heartfelt playing, in what must have been a marvel to experience.

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RED trio and Celebration Band: Suite 10 Years Anniversary [2 CDs]
(NoBusiness)

The Red Trio of pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro, bassist Hernâni Faustino and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini mark their 10th anniversary as a trio on this 2-CD set of an outstanding concert in Lisboa, PT, joining forces with the 13-member Celebration Band, whose members include John Butcher, Ernesto Rodrigues, Luis Vicente, Sei Miguel, Rodrigo Amado, Mattias Stahl, Carlos Santos, &c.

Squidco Pick

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Regenorchester XII: Relics
(Trost Records)

Franz Hautzinger formed the orchestra in 1995 as an ensemble for experimental music, developing into an advanced improvising band that incorporates a shifting and diverse set of styles, heard here at Klangspuren Festival in 2019 with Hautzinger on trumpet, Christian Fennesz on guitar & laptop, Otomo Yoshihide on guitar & turntables, Luc Ex on bass, and Tony Buck on drums.

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Takayanagi, Masayuki JoJo / Nobuyoshi Ino / Masabumi PUU Kikuchi: Live At Jazz Inn Lovely 1990
(NoBusiness)

A 1990 concert at Jazz Inn Lovely, in Nagoya, Japan in configurations of duos and trios, from free improvising legends Masayuki Takayanagi on guitar, Nobuyoshi Ino on bass, and Masabumi Kikuchi on piano, with a 16 page booklet of photos from private collections and a detailed essay from Kohjiro Tanaka in English & Japanese providing background on the performance.

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Taylor, Cecil Quintet (feat. Harri Sjostrom / Tristan Honsinger / Teppo Hauta-aho / Paul Lovens): Lifting The Bandstand
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Though not well documented, free jazz legendary pianist Cecil Taylor's working band for 3 years in the late nineties was this quintet of Harri Sjostrom on soprano saxophone, Tristan Honsinger on cello, Teppo Hauta-aho on double bass, and Paul Lovens on drums, cymbals & gongs, heard in this energetic concert at Tampere Jazz Happening in Finland, 2018.

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Wooley, Nate / Liudas Mockunas / Barry Guy / Arkadijus Gotesmanas: NOX [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)

An exceptional album of demanding collective free improvisation from the transatlantic quartet of Nate Wooley on trumpet, Liudas Mockunas on contrabass clarinet and saxophones, Barry Guy on bass, and Arkadijus Gotesmanas on drums & percussion, recorded in the studio in Vilnius, Lithuania while Wooley and Guy were artists in residence for the 2019 Improdimensions.

Squidco Pick

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Experimental/Electronic

Bertoia, Harry: Glowing Sounds [VINYL]
(Sombient)

The 3rd release from sound sculptor and experimenter Harry Bertoia's tape archive, and the first to be released with specific instructions from the artist, this album containing three versions of a composition recorded in 1975, each transferred at different tape speeds as specified by Bertoia, creating profoundly different effects of drone and overtone.

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$26.95

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Werner Durand: Schwingende Luftsaulen 3 (ANTS Records)	Georg Graewe / Sonic Fiction Orchestra: Fortschritt und Vergnugen (Random Acoustics)	The Locals (Thomas, Ward / Thomas / Lash / Hasson-Davis): The Locals Play The Music Of Anthony Braxton (Discus)
William Parker: Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World (Volumes 1-10) [10 CD BOX SET] (Centering Records)	Udo Schindler / Damon Smith / Karina Erhard: The Munich Sound Studies Vol 1 (FMR)	Udo Schindler / Jaap Blonk: Lakefront Discussions (FMR)
Schindler. Udo / Damon Smith / Jaap Blonk: The Munich Sound Studies Vol 2 & 3 (FMR)	Jeam Van Schouwburg Nichel / Lawrence Cassserely / Yoko Miura: Arcturus Sverdrup Balance On Tour (FMR)	John White: Electric Music [2 CDs] (ANTS Records)

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