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SQUIDCO Email Update, March 5, 2021

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UPDATE
March 3, 2021

"We can invent ourselves anew
If we only invest ourselves as deeply as possible in the situation as we find it."
—Fred Lonberg-Holm


   Creative Artists

• Joshua Abrams
• Ashbury Stabbins Duo
• Cyclone Trio
   (Massimo Magee/Tim Green/Tony Irving)
• Paul Dunmall/Percy Pursglove/Olie Brice/Jeff Williams
• Signe Emmeluth
• Gabby Fluke-Mogul
• Instant Composers Pool
• Catherine Lamb
• Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Marek Malinowski Trio
• MKM (Norbert Moslang/Jason Kahn/Gunter Muller)
• Hafez Modirzadeh (Davis/Sorey/Taborn)
• Hermann Nitsch
• Periferiya
   (Kobi/Korber/Liedwart/Muller/Myasoedov/Shershenkov)
• Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The Maxx
• The Underflow (Gustafsson/Grubbs/Mazurek)
• Van Dykes Park
• Vario 34
    (Christmann/Frangenheim/Gustafsson/Lehn/Lovens)
• Various Artists curated by Nick Vander
• Dan Weiss Starebaby
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

577 Records
Aguirre Records
Another Timbre
Blue Chopsticks
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Mikroton Recordings

     
MNJ
Notice Recordings
Orbit577
Pi Recordings
Relative Pitch
Tochnit Aleph
West Hill Records
    





   Jazz & Improvisation

Abrams, Joshua: Natural Information [VINYL]
(AGUIRRE RECORDS)

Joshua Abrams' (Town & Country, Matana Roberts & Chad Taylor, &c) 2010 album in an infectious groove-based album built around the guimbri, a 3-stringed animal hide bass used by the Gnawa of North Africa, performed with Chicago all-stars Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone, Emmett Kelly on guitar, Frank Rosaly on drums, and Noritaka Tanaka on drums.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $29.95      Listen          

 
Ashbury Stabbins Duo: Fire Without Bricks
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

A lost gem from of British free sax and drums & percussion duo of saxophonist Larry Stabbins and percussionist Roy Ashbury, originally released in 1976 on the Bead Label, their interplay including masterful and extended techniques from Stabbins and an array of chimes, chains, wood blocks, shakers, and bowed cymbals augmenting Ashbury's kit; captivating dialog.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Cyclone Trio (Massimo Magee / Tim Green / Tony Irving): The Clear Revolution
(577)

An exciting album of free jazz from the Australia/London-based Cyclone Trio, their name apt in the feverish interaction between saxophonist Massimo Magee and dual drummers Tony Irving and Tim Green on the opening work, the album patterned like a storm that slows introspectively for a quiet eye, then drums up a final gale force that dissipates to a sort of calm; brilliant.
 
Squidco Pick
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Dunmall, Paul / Percy Pursglove / Olie Brice / Jeff Williams: Palindromes
(West Hill Records)

Capturing their 2nd gig together, double bassist Olie Brice and trumpeter Percy Pursglove invited two prominent improvisers who had never played together before — drummer Jeff Williams and tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall — to join them for a 2020 concert at Cafe Oto in London, presented into two palindromic-ally named and profound improvisations: "Tattarratta" 1 & 2.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Emmeluth, Signe: Hi Hello I'm Signe
(Relative Pitch)

A single piece recorded live for Ingebrit Haker Flaten's 2020 Sonic Transmissions Festival finds the Danish saxophonist in an extended improvisation of varying moods, applying a diverse set of methods and technical approaches to the horn, from quiet meditate work to full-throated exuberance, in a remarkably personal journey of confident exposition.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Fluke-Mogul, Gabby: Threshold
(Relative Pitch)

Applying extended techniques from rubbing & scraping to sawing and striking, New York violinist Gabby Fluke-Mogul presents a bold solo violin album of 6 pieces with titles like "Bruise" or "Teeth", drawing an incredible gamut of unusual sounds from the violin and its body, occasionally adding vocal utterance, all laid out with a wonderfully quirky sense of timing.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Instant Composers Pool: Incipient ICP, 1966-71 [2 CDs]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Founded in 1967 by pianist Misha Mengelberg, drummer Han Bennink, and saxophonist & clarinetist Willem Breuker, this double CD documents the earliest years of the ICP collective through live & studio recordings from 1966-71, with an impressive cast of jazz and contemporary compositional players creating a delightfully diverse set of approaches to improvisation.
 
Squidco Pick
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Lonberg-Holm, Fred: Lisbon Solo [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)

Using a variety of extended techniques, Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm conjures a barrage of multiphonics, interwoven timbral excursions and minuscule textural knots lined along the peripheral architecture of these pieces, captured live in the studio at at Namouche Studios, in Lisbon in 2019 for a series of 10 fascinating and distinctive free improvisations.
   
     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 
Malinowski, Marek Trio: Scratching Fork
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Working together since 2015, the Polish guitar trio of Marek Malinowski on guitar, Robert Rychlicki-Gasowski on double bass & bass guitar, and Wojciech Zadruaynski on drums, present Marek Malinowski's embraceable mix of lyrically inclined modern jazz compositions with an explorative side, balancing structure with free space for sprightly spontaneity; a trio to keep track of.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
MKM (Norbert Moslang / Jason Kahn / Gunter Muller): Bangalore [VINYL]
(Mikroton Recordings)

A stunning album of electroacoustic improv that truly pushes the envelope, from the MKM trio of Gunter Muller on iPods & electronics, Jason Kahn on modular synthesizer, mixer & radio, and Norbert Moslang on cracked everyday electronics, three masters of the form in their 5th Mikroton release after decades working together in configurations on labels like For4Ears.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $23.95      Listen          

 
Modirzadeh, Hafez (Davis / Sorey / Taborn): Facets
(Pi Recordings)

Using an unusual re-tuning of the piano, saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh enlists three inventive pianists--Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, and Craig Taborn--for a set of melodically-oriented duos, Modirzadeh using alternate fingerings and embouchure adjustments to achieve intervals between major and minor, together freeing the improvisers to explore new tonal possibilities.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & The Maxx: Live [VINYL]
(MNJ)

The Norwegian big band Trondheim Jazz Orchestra joins together with the Swedish-origin trio The MaXx (Oscar Gronberg-keyboards, Petter Kraft-guitar & saxophone, Tomas Jarmy-drums) to develop and perform this monumental work of modern electric jazz, an abstract rock opera written specifically to leverage the power of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $21.95      Listen          

 
Underflow, The (Gustafsson / Grubbs / Mazurek): Instant Opaque Evening [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Blue Chopsticks)

The followup to their 2019 Corbett vs. Dempsey album and formalizing their trio name as "The Underflow", is an epic double LP of diverse and inspired free-ea from the trio of Mats Gustafsson on flute, fluteophone, baritone saxophone & live electronics, David Grubbs on electric guiar & voice, and Rob Mazurek on piccolo trumpet, wooden flute, electronics, percussion & voice.
 
Squidco Pick
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Vario 34 (Christmann / Frangenheim / Gustafsson / Lehn / Lovens): Vario 34-3
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Since 1979 cellist & trombonist Günter Christmann has led around 50 variations of "Vario", inviting musicians, actors, dancers, & filmmakers to partake; Vario 34--Christmann, Paul Loven (percussionist), Mats Gustafsson (sax), Thomas Lehn (live-electronics), and Alexander Frangenheim (bass)--first performed in 1993, and these Berlin recordings are from their 3rd meeting in 2018.
 
Squidco Pick
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Various Artists curated by Nick Vander: Walk My Way, Volume Three
(Orbit577)

The third of a five volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from Sergio Sorrentino, Christian Vasseur, Charbel Haber, Misha Marks, Henry Kaiser, Nick Ashwood, Emil Palme, Taus Bregnhoj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Colin Robinson, and Martin Huba.
   
     Buy      $14      Listen          

 
Weiss, Dan Starebaby: Natural Selection
(Pi Recordings)

The follow-up to NY drummer/composer Dan Weiss's 2018 release Starebaby is an unconventional compounding of electric jazz, doom metal, electronic music, and improvisation, performed with Matt Mitchell on piano & Prophet 6, Craig Taborn on piano, Fender Rhodes & synthesizers, Ben Monder on guitars, and Trevor Dunn on electric bass.
 
Squidco Pick
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   Experimental/Electronic

Periferiya (Kobi / Korber / Liedwart / Muller / Myasoedov / Shershenkov) : Boundary Scan [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Mikroton Recordings)

A Russian-Swiss collaboration between Boris Shershenkov (St. Petersburg), Kurt Liedwart and Mikhail Myasoedov (Moscow), Thomas Korber (Zurich), Christian Kobi (Berne) and Christian Muller (Biel), recording in the remote Vallée de Joux, on the border between Switzerland & France, leveraging diverse approaches to sound to create these six detailed electroacoustic improvisations.
   
     Buy      $29.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Van Dykes Park: The Histories (Old Black Joe) [7'' Vinyl]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Philadelphia-based artist David Hartt invited songwriter & composer Van Dyke Parks to make an original arrangement of the Stephen Foster song "Old Black Joe" as part of his 2020 installation piece titled "The Histories (Old Black Joe)"; the B-side is a beautiful arrangement of "Souvenir de la Havane" by the pioneering pre-jazz American Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
   
     Buy      $7.95          

 




   Compositional

Lamb, Catherine : Muto Infinitas
(Another Timbre)

A 50-minute minimalist composition for quartertone bass flute and double bass in just intonation from composer Catherine Lamb, who refers to the tuning structure as "rational" intonation, the piece unmetered as the melody emerges almost imperceptibly; recorded in Andreaskirche, Berlin in 2019 and performed by Rebecca Lane (flute) and Jon Heilbron (bass).
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Nitsch, Hermann: Musik der 155. Aktion [2 CDs]
(Tochnit Aleph)

Recording of the premiere performance of Hermann Nitsch's large-scale symphony for full orchestra, brass ensemble and choir, in five movement, composed for the 155th Action of the Orgien-Mysterien-Theater, and performed in 2018 as the first action to be staged in the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, coinciding with the occasion of Nitsch's 80th birthday.
   
     Buy      $26.95      Listen          

 
 

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Adrian Democ / Apartment House:
Hlaholika
(Another Timbre)

Bertrand Gauguet / John Tilbury:
Contre-Courbes [2 CDs]
(Akousis Records)

Gerrit Hatcher:
Knowledge About The Future
(Kettle Hole Records)


Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer:
Glass Triangle
(Relative Pitch)

Reut Regev / Igal Foni:
Two Much Never Enough
(Relative Pitch)

Michael Winter / Liminar:
Single Track
(Another Timbre)


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