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SQUIDCO Email Update, December 3, 2021

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December 3, 2021

"Jazz infers a style,
But creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it.
—Wadada Leo Smith


   Creative Artists

• Jerome Bryerton/Damon Smith
• Jack Cooper/Jeff Tobias
• Crazy Doberman
• Dunmall/Impett/Ball/Rogers/Gibbs
• Dunmall/Thoumire/Edwards/Gibbs
• Euphorium_freakestra
• Friends & Neighbors
   (Roligheten/Johansson/Gronberg/Rune Strom/Ostvang)
• Guillaume Gargaud
• Barbara Golden
• Darius Jones
• Eric La Casa
• Okkyung Lee
• Joe McPhee
• Mirror Unit (Georg Wissel/Tim O'Dwyer)
• Ikue Mori/Brian Marsella/Sae Hashimoto
• David Myers Lee
• New Old Luten Quintet
• Omegatre (Colafiglio/Romano/Cicala)
• Sten Sandell/Lisa Ullen
• Udo Schindler/Wilbert De Joode
• Wadada Leo Smith/Vijay Iyer/Jack Dejohnette
• Wadada Leo Smith Great Lakes Quartet
• Ken Vandermark
• Moreno Veloso
• Theresa Wong
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Astral Spirits
Balance Point Acoustics
Clean Feed
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Creative Sources
Euphorbia Records
Euphorium
FMR

     
fo'c'sle
New Focus Recordings
Northern Spy
pulsewidth
Swarming
Tum
Tzadik
    





   Jazz & Improvisation

Bryerton, Jerome / Damon Smith : There Must be a Reason for Generating Sounds... [CD + BOOKMARK]
(Balance Point Acoustics)

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, drummer Jerome Bryterton & double bassist Damon Smith toured & recorded with legendary German multi-reedist Wolfgang Fuchs, who was a great influence on both musicians, here presenting a tribute to the late improviser through 11 recordings titled with quotes from Fuchs, and released with a bookmark from an improvisation workshop in Oakland.
   
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Cooper, Jack / Jeff Tobias : Tributaries [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)

Two side-long tracks of minimal improvisation from NY saxophonist Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers) and UK guitarist Jack Cooper (Ultimate Painting); "Wicken" and "Debden" are named for and inspired by the tributaries of the River Cam in North Essex, revealing themselves in steady progressions and subtle application of instrumental technique in a beautifully flowing reflection.
   
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Dunmall, Paul / Jonathan Impett / Andrew Ball / Paul Rogers / Phillip Gibbs: Undistracted
(FMR)

A 2004 quintet recording from Victoria Rooms in Bristol with the core of long-time collaborators Paul Dunmall on tenor sax, Paul Rogers on bass and Philip Gibbs, performing with two improvisers also well known for their work in compositional forms--Jonathan Impett on trumpet and Andrew Ball on piano--bringing unique perspectives to their far-ranging, advanced improvisation.
   
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Dunmall, Paul / Simon Thoumire / John Edwards / Phillip Gibbs: Brothers In Music
(FMR)

2021 reissue of this 2004 release on the DUNS label bringing together a uniquely voiced quartet with Paul Dunmall on tenor & soprano saxophones, virtuoso concertina player Simon Thoumire, John Edwards on double bass and Philip Gibbs on guitar, with both Dunmall & Thoumire performing on bagpipes on two tracks; a welcome reissue to a distinctive and thought-provoking album.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Euphorium_freakestra: 2 Trios & 2 Babies
(Euphorium)

Two drummerless trios meet two drummers in this incredible 2006 concert at naTo, in Leipzig, one from trumpeter Matthias Mainz, cello player Matthias Lorenz and bass player Michael Haves, the other from Fabian Niermann on tenor saxophone, Konrad Gruneberg on double bass and Oliver Schwerdt on the grand piano, the drummers Christian Lillinger & Gunter Baby Sommer.
 
Squidco Pick
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Friends & Neighbors (Roligheten / Johansson / Gronberg / Rune Strom / Ostvang): The Earth Is #
(Clean Feed)

Referencing 60s free jazz (the band's name is from an Ornette Coleman album) and structuring their tunes with melodic heads that develop into intricate structures giving the players room for impressive soloing, this is the 5th album from the Scandinavian quintet of Andre Roligheten (winds), Thomas Johansson (trumpets), Oscar Gronberg (piano), Jon Rune Strom (bass), and Tollef Ostvang (drums).
 
Squidco Pick
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Gargaud, Guillaume: 17 Compositions
(New Focus Recordings)

A compilation of improvised steel-string acoustic guitar works framed by pitch and intervallic restrictions, from French composer and guitarist Guillaume Gargaud, 17 succinct pieces that evade standard jazz vocabulary while integrating influences from Messiaen to Webern to Cecil Taylor, paced in contemplative and sophisticated style.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Jones, Darius: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) [PINK VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Northern Spy)

Drawing on compositions from black artists who have created something uniquely their own--Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Georgia Anne Muldrow--alto saxophonist Darius Jones pulls from the depths of emotion and vulnerability in five solo tracks recorded in Portland, deeply felt blues reflecting the black experience in America and the pain of isolation.
   
     Buy      $21.95      Listen          

 
Jones, Darius: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Northern Spy)

Drawing on compositions from black artists who have created something uniquely their own--Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Georgia Anne Muldrow--alto saxophonist Darius Jones pulls from the depths of emotion and vulnerability in five solo tracks recorded in Portland, deeply felt blues reflecting the black experience in America and the pain of isolation.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
Lee, Okkyung: Na-Reul (나를 )
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Extremely personal and passionate, cellist Okkyung Lee recorded this album after separation from her instrument for months as she traveled to Korea to be with her dying father during pandemic; the 9 pieces are layered with strings, instrument sounds, voice and with profound timing, creating an intensely beautiful album reflecting the anguish and loss of the time.
 
Squidco Pick
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McPhee, Joe: Route 84 Quarantine Blues
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

One of Corbett vs. Dempsey's Black Cross Solo Sessions, Joe McPhees approaches his album recorded during pandemic lockdown in his home through tenor sax, voice, water, objects and field recordings, the center of the album a cycle of compositions by Charles Mingus, alongside works by Carla Bley and influences by Joni Mitchell, and a virtual symphony of saxes on the title track.
 
Squidco Pick
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Mirror Unit (Georg Wissel / Tim O'Dwyer): Sonic Rivers
(FMR)

Following their Creative Sources album Wind Makes Weather, alto saxophonists Tim O'Dwyer and Georg Wissel, both employing preparations on their instruments, improvise a confluence of sonic rivers evoking, exploring and reflecting waterways from around the world, captured in concert at the cinema hall of the cultural center Alte Feuerwache, in Cologne.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Mori, Ikue / Brian Marsella / Sae Hashimoto: Archipelago X
(Tzadik)

Part of Tzadik's Spectrum series, the Downtown NY trio of electroacoustic improviser and composer Ikue Mori, pianist Brian Marsella performing on electric keyboards and synths, and classical percussionist Sae Hashimoto on a wealth of marimbas, drums, bells, shakers and chimes, composed these intricately fascinating works by exchanging tracks composed in their home studios.
 
Squidco Pick
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New Old Luten Quintet: Big Pauer
(Euphorium)

Opening with a powerful solo set from pianist Elan Pauer, this album was released on the occasion of Pauer's 80th birthday, revealing itself to be the incredible free jazz quintet of of Pauer, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky on clarinet & shepherds' flutes, both John Edwards & Robert Landfermann on double bass, and Christian Lillinger on drums & percussion.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Omegatre (Colafiglio / Romano / Cicala): Terre Rare
(Creative Sources)

Since 2005 Italian guitarist Tommaso Colafiglio has led the Omegatre trio, composing and arranging all works on this album with drummer & percussionist Leo Cicala, peformed with Paolo Romano on double bass and electric bass, presenting seven electric jazz compositions that flow with the sophistication and grace each brings through years of collaborative and independent evolution.
   
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Sandell, Sten / Lisa Ullen: Double Music
(Clean Feed)

The first duo album by pianists Sten Sandell and Lisa Ullén, recorded in their home country of Sweden, performing eight freely improvised piano works which include the two-part "Double Music" and two-part "Onyx", each recording contrasting complex interplay of discord and harmony with beautiful passages of introspection and intellectual depth; a remarkable merging of masterful talent.
 
Squidco Pick
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Schindler, Udo / Wilbert De Joode: Participation & Interplay [LowToneStudies]
(FMR)

Concentrating on the lower end of their instruments, Udo Schindler and double bassist Wilbert de Joode improvise live at DasKihotzky_wagnisARt and at the 99th Salon für Klang+Kunstover in Munich, for 10 parts of their "[LowToneStudies]", Schindler performing on bass clarinet, f-tuba and tubax (a contrabass saxophone), occasionally complementing their lower end with soprano sax.
   
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Smith, Wadada Leo / Vijay Iyer / Jack Dejohnette : A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday
(Tum)

One of two albums marking trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's 80th birthday, and showing his creative and technical skills still in peak form, here in a trio for the first time uniting independent collaborators, pianist & keyboardist Vijay Iyer and drummer Jack DeJohnette, in compositions from each of the performers plus one collective improvisation.
 
Squidco Pick
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Smith, Wadada Leo Great Lakes Quartet: The Chicago Symphonies [4 CD BOX SET]
(Tum)

Inspired by Don Cherry's 1966 Symphony For Improvisers and intended to illustrate the profound cultural contributions Chicagoans & Midwesterners have made, trumpeter Leo Smith's presents four expansive symphonies, three performed with Henry Threadgill (sax & flute), John Lindberg (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums), the fourth with Jonathon Haffner (sax) plus Smith, Lindberg and DeJohnette.
 
Squidco Pick
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Vandermark, Ken: The Field Within a Line
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

One of Corbett vs. Dempsey's Black Cross Solo Sessions, Ken Vandermark recorded these twelve succinct, insightful and technically superb solo recordings at his home during pandemic lockdowns, part of a new book of compositions for solo reed instruments, each piece dedicated to an artist across multiple disciplines, including Joe McPhee, Anthony Braxton, Samuel Beckett, &c.
 
Squidco Pick
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   Experimental/Electronic

Crazy Doberman: "Everyone Is Rolling Down A Hill" ... [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)

The Indiana collective Crazy Doberman in a 15-performer configuration including core members Tim Gick and Drew Davis, merging jazz and indescribable approaches to free improvisation with a mix of acoustic & electronic instruments, building their pieces from mysteriously cantankerous rumination to ecstatic grooves and much in-between.
   
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La Casa, Eric: Everyday Unknown 4 & 5
(Swarming)

Exploring the details of everyday life as he examines the relationship between his environment and himself, microscopic audio explorer Éric La Casa investigates sounds beyond the threshold of auditory hearing, capturing barely perceptible sonic manifestations with incredible clarity and detail, constructing engaging works from these surprising and intriguing sounds.
 
Squidco Pick
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Myers, David Lee: Room In A Moon House
(pulsewidth)

A series of "Rooms" and related electronic environments from New York sound artist David Lee Myers, whose long running Arcane Device project runs parallel to these nearly ambient works that Myers intimates are for intimate environments, developed through deft use of Eurorack electronics, feedback, sampling and other elegant electronic processes.
   
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   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Veloso, Moreno: Every Single Night
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Brazilian singer Moreno Veloso recorded these songs from a songbook developed from his favorite artists, inspired while singing his children to sleep during pandemic, selecting lyrical songs that he performs accompanying himself on acoustic nylon-string guitar, recording the album in a corner of his living room, giving the album a beautiful intimacy and sincerity.
   
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   Compositional

Golden, Barbara: Not Dead Yet [CD]
(fo'c'sle)

Bay Area experimental music scene legend and multi-disciplinary artist Barabara Golden celebrates her 80th birthday presents works created between 1980-2020, including performances by Robert Ashley, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, WIGband with Johanna Poethig, George Lewis, William Winant, Mary Oliver and texts by Melody Sumner Carnahan.
   
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Golden, Barbara: Not Dead Yet [CD+ 10 Postcards]
(fo'c'sle)

Bonus edition of Barbara Golden's CD including 10 color postcards of watercolors from the artist's journal.
   
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Wong, Theresa: Venice Is a Fish
(Euphorbia Records)

Five pieces composed as a diary manifest in song from Bay Area cellist and singer Theresa Wong, reflecting on her time in Venice through labyrinthine melodic and rhythmic pathways, adding piano and the Japanese 5-string tonkori instrument to add exotic flavor to each eclectic song, blurring genres as Wong's impressions and expression lets each song lead where it must.
 
Squidco Pick
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Ryoko Akama:
Songs For A Shed
(Another Timbre)

Pedro Alves Melo Omniae Large Ensemble:
Lumina
(Clean Feed)

Brussel / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Kurvers:
Fantasy Eight
(Creative Sources)


Crazy Doberman:
Illusory Expansion [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)

Michelangelo Decorato / Leo Cicala:
Thauma
(Creative Sources)

Diaphane (Loriot / Costa / Hubsch / Loher):
Paris
(Neither/Nor Records)


Jordan Dykstra / Koen Nutters:
In Better Shape Than You Found Me
(elsewhere)

EUPHORIUM_freakestra:
Dal Ngai
(Euphorium)

Euphorium_freakestra:
Die Abenteuer des Birg Borgenthal
(Euphorium)


Euphorium_freakestra:
Grande Casino [3 CDS]
(Euphorium)

Morton Feldman / Apartment House:
Piano and String Quartet
(Another Timbre)

Freakestra:
Das Besuchte Getrank (Eine Suite Fur Zwei Unendliche Parallelen. Sie Treffen Sich.)
(Euphorium)


Gallio / Girod / Ulrich:
Day & Bus
(Creative Sources)

Kazemde George:
I Insist
(Greenleaf Music)

Frank Gratkowski / Elisabeth Harnik:
Bullungga
(Klanggalerie)


George Hadow / Dirk Serries:
Chapel
(Creative Sources)

Hatcher / Maunu / Kirshner:
Live at Splice Series
(Kettle Hole Records)

Martin Iddon:
Sapindales
(Another Timbre)


IKB:
Titanus Giganteus
(Creative Sources)

Inlay Ensemble (Price / Bishop / St Jacques):
Songs for Habitual People
(Creative Sources)

Jorge's Orbe (Marti / Arrizabalaga / Amakawa):
Playas
(Creative Sources)


Martin Kuchen Kuchen / Michaela Antalova:
Thunder Before Lightning [VINYL]
(Clean Feed)

Leap Of Faith:
Lattice
(Evil Clown)

Ligia Liberatori / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Davide Piersanti:
Radical Flowers
(Creative Sources)


Lonberg-Holm / Moimeme / Santos:
Transition Zone
(Creative Sources)

Luis Lopes Love Song:
Emmentes
(Shhpuma)

Andrew McIntosh :
A Moonbeam Is Just A Filtered Sunbeam
(Another Timbre)


Metal Chaos Ensemble:
Tinier Even Then Science
(Evil Clown)

Moon-Liters / Millennium Development Goals (D. Liedel):
Nerve Agent!
(Shhpuma)

NAD:
dangereuXorcisms
(CKC)


Alan Niblock:
Scratching the Surface
(FMR)

PEK Solo:
Decision Boundary
(Evil Clown)

PEK Solo:
Requiem for Raymond
(Evil Clown)


PEK Solo / A Quartet Of PEKS:
Strange Beauty Out of Chaos
(Evil Clown)

PEK Solo / An Orchestra of PEKs:
Stretching the Fabric of Space
(Evil Clown)

Michael Pisaro-Liu :
Tombstones (performed by Barbara Dang & Muzzix)
(elsewhere)


Georgia Rodgers / Apartment House:
September
(Another Timbre)

Rodrigues / Parrinha / Hencleeday / Valinho:
Flat Music
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Stephan Bleier :
Anamorphose
(Creative Sources)


Heikki Ruokangas / Landon George:
Stagnant Rapture
(Habitable Records)

Schindler / Stemkowoski:
Related Unigue Items
(FMR)

Udo Schindler / Etienne Rolin / Luc Laine:
In Search Of Surprise
(FMR)


Brode Schirmer Unit (w/ Jan Roder / Mattias Brode):
Berlin, Germany
(FMR)

Pablo Schvarzman / Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert / Diego Calicedo :
Glow
(FMR)

Oliver Schwerdt / Gunter Sommer :
Dry Swing / Tandem Spaces
(Euphorium)


Simulacrum:
Hyperreality
(Evil Clown)

Strictly Missionary (Pitsiokos / Eisenberg / Lenz / Murray / Neuburg):
Heisse Scheisse [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)

You Sung Jin / Vincent Laju:
Kairos
(Creative Sources)


The Rite Of Trio (Silva / Louro / Alves):
Free Development Of Delirium
(Clean Feed)

This Is It! (Fujii / Itani / Tamura):
Mosaic
(Libra)

Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions:
Compilation Cassette [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)


Flin van Hemmen :
You Can Know Where the Bombs Fell
(Neither/Nor Records)

Guy Vandromme / Bruno Duplant:
l'infini des possibles (12 etudes pour piano) [2 CDs]
(elsewhere)

Vernacular (Caswell / Kulcsar / Washington):
The Little Bird [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)


Virtual Balboa / Greg Kelley:
Petricho
(Creative Sources)

Mia Zabelka / Glen Hall:
The Quantum Violin
(FMR)


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