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UPDATE
July 29, 2022
"Nothing should be off limits
Except for not being able to play your horn."
—Kirk Knuffke
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Creative Artists
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• Axioms
• Bauer/Graewe/Lindberg
• Peter Brotzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink
• Lucio Capece/Katie Porter
• Daniel Carter/Evan Strauss/5-Track/Sheridan Riley
• Dredd Foole & The Din
• Fade In (Calcagno/Barcelona/Luparia)
• Miha Gantar
• Elisabeth Harnik
• Hydra Ensemble (Almeida/Hitz/Gregov/Zuydervelt)
• Kirk Knuffke Trio (w/ Bisio/Shipp)
• Landaeus Trio (Nilsson/Landaeus/Aman)
• Joe McPhee/Evan Parker
• Hermann Nitsch
• Akira Sakata/Takeo Moriyama
• Craig Shepard
• Torben Snekkestad/Soren Kjaergaard
• Space Quartet (Toral/Antunes/Morao/Torres)
• Steamboat Switzerland (Blume/Pliakas/Niggli)
• Tarbaby feat. Oliver Lake
• Uruk (Duthoit/Hautzinger/Drake/Zerang)
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
A New Wave of Jazz
Clean Feed
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Evil Clown
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Ftarri
Inexhaustible Editions
Random Acoustics
Tao Forms
Trost Records
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Axioms: Discourse
(Evil Clown)
Featuring the poetry and words of Cecil Taylor-associated poets Albey OnBass and Jane SpokenWord, the Boston collective improvising band Axiom of David Peck on reeds, winds and percussion, Steve Niemtiz on drums & percussion and Glynis Lomon on cello & aquasonic + OnBass & SpokenWord, focus on "Discourse", wakefullness and freedom in an age of social unrest.
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Bauer / Graewe / Lindberg: Sottobosco
(Random Acoustics)
Performing live at Porgy & Bess in Vienna, Austria in 2018, the trio of Conrad Bauer on trombone, Georg Graewe on piano and John Lindberg on double bass present eight free improvisations based around compositionsal structures from all three musicians, their tight interaction, intent listening and powerful technical skills a testement to their long history in European Free Jazz.
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Brotzmann, Peter / Fred Van Hove / Han Bennink: Jazz in der Kammer Nr.71
(Trost Records)
Recorded for radio for the series Jazz in der Kammer Nr 71, this 1974 concert was the first in East Germany for Peter Brötzmann, Fred Van Hove, and Han Bennink, bridging the divided German states through an energetic set of improvisations that extended traditional jazz with outrageous approaches to improv in an exciting, quirky and profoundly masterful set of European Free Jazz.
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Fade In (Calcagno / Barcelona / Luparia): Live Fast, Die A Legend
(Clean Feed)
With one foot in 60s free jazz and the other in contemporary improvisation, the pianoless Italian trio Fade In of Federico Calcagno on bass clarinet & clarinet, Pietro Elia Barcellona on contrabass and Marco Luparia on drums perform original compositions, spirited pieces with inventive elements, solid melodic foundation and surprising twists and turns.
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Gantar, Miha: Introducing [5 CD Box]
(Clean Feed)
An introduction to Amsterdam-based, Slovenian pianist & composer Miha Gantar in a specially priced 5-CD box, performing his diverse and sophisticated compositions in a variety of configurations from solo, duo, trio, quartet & large ensemble, with notable participants including Gerry Hemingway, Christian Lillinger and Axel Dorner; liner notes by Nate Wooley.
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Harnik, Elisabeth: Superstructure - Holding Up A Bridge
(Trost Records)
Two works from Austrian pianist and composer Elisabeth Harnik sharing a subtle and complex aesthetic balancing acoustics & electronic instruments through extended approaches while accommodating composed and improvisation sections: Holding Up A Bridge commissioned by Viennese ensemble Studio Dan; and Superstructure performed by ALL Ears Area Ensemble.
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Hydra Ensemble (Almeida / Hitz / Gregov / Zuydervelt): Vistas
(A New Wave of Jazz)
The second album from the Hydra Ensemble (Goncalo Almeida on double bass, Lucija Gregov on cello, Nina Hitz on cello, Rutger Zuydervelt on electronics) is a live recording with no audience from the Worm club in Rotterdam during the pandemic, reaching deeper into their masterful world of darkly intense chamber improv and electronics, slowly yielding to a spaciously brighter ending.
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Knuffke, Kirk Trio (w/ Bisio / Shipp): Gravity Without Airs [2 CDs]
(Tao Forms)
A mix of original compositions and collective improvisations from the NY trio of cornetist Kirk Knuffke, bassist Michael Bisio and pianist Matthew Shipp, in a double album of exemplary creative jazz from three players steeped in both tradition and forward-thinking approaches to improvisation, filled with spectacular playing from enthusiastic to introspective; a superb release.
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Landaeus Trio (Nilsson / Landaeus / Aman): A Crisis Of Perception
(Clean Feed)
Active collaborators for six years at the time of this recording, this is the first time Swedish improvisers Cornelia Nilsson on drums, Johnny Aman on double bass and Mathias Landaeus on piano & keys have recorded together as a trio, performing seven engagingly lyrical compositions from leader Landaeus, on several tracks adding an unusual edge through the use of synths.
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McPhee, Joe / Evan Parker: Sweet Nothings (For Milford Graves)
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
A confluence of masterful playing through two soprano & two tenor saxophones plus one pocket cornet, as Evan Parker and Joe McPhee perform live in 2003 at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, weaving lines with intricately relaxed confidence and coming together for beautiful moments of lyrical connection.
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Sakata, Akira / Takeo Moriyama: Mitochondria [2 CDs]
(Trost Records)
An absolutely intense sax drum duo recorded in Chiba Prefecture, Japan at Kashiwa Church in 1986 between free improvising saxophonist Akira Sakata and drummer Takeo Moriyama, two influential performers whose work began in the Yosuke Yamashita Trio in the early 70's, here in concentrated form for 18 improvisations, including a burning version of Albert Ayler's "Ghosts".
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Snekkestad, Torben / Soren Kjaergaard: Another Way Of The Heart
(Trost Records)
Mysterious and beautiful, the compositions of Norwegian improvisers, saxophonist, trumpeter and clarinetist Torben Snekkestad and pianist Søren Kjærgaard, are influenced by the peaceful western coast of Norway where they recorded these 12 pieces, with titles adapted from the texts by Torben Ulrich in the work Meridiana: Lines Toward A Nonlocal Alchemy.
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Space Quartet (Toral / Antunes / Morao / Torres): Freedom of Tomorrow
(Clean Feed)
The first quartet album for electronic improviser Rafael Toral's Space Quartet is a live album from Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto in Coimbra, performed with Hugo Antunes on double bass, Nuno Morao on drums & percussion, Nuno Torres on alto saxophone & electronic instrument, with Toral using acoustic & electronic feedback to bring the classic jazz quartet lineup into new spaces.
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Steamboat Switzerland (Blume / Pliakas / Niggli): Terrifying Sunset [VINYL]
(Trost Records)
Contemporary German painter Albert Oehlen invited Steamboat Switzerland — Lucas Niggli on drums; Marino Pliakas on electric bass; Dominik Blum on drums& voice — to create music for his solo exhibition Tramonto Spaventoso at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, these extended compositions that connect to Oehlen's work the result, from dark ea-improv to hardcore Hammond free jazz.
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Tarbaby feat. Oliver Lake: Dance Of The Evil Toys
(Clean Feed)
The Tarbaby trio of pianist Orrin Evans, drummer Nasheet Waits and double bassist Eric Revis, is joined by trumpeter Josh Lawrence and as with previous albums, featuring acclaimed alto saxophonist Oliver Lake (+ percussionist Dana Murray on track) in an album mixing post-bop, free and lyrical approaches to jazz, with compositions from all four plus a Prince cover.
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Uruk (Duthoit / Hautzinger / Drake / Zerang): Ame: Live at Artacts
(Trost Records)
Two long-standing duos--Isabelle Duthoit on clarinet & voice and Franz Hautzinger on quarter tone trumpet plus Chicago percussionists Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang, both on percussion and frame drum--joined together in 2020 for a European tour, recording this wildly informed homage to the Mesopotamia city Uruk live at Artacts in Alte Gerberei, St. Johann, Austria.
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Uruk (Duthoit / Hautzinger / Drake / Zerang): Ame: Live at Artacts [VINYL]
(Trost Records)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Carter, Daniel / Evan Strauss / 5-Track / Sheridan Riley: The Uproar In Bursts Of Sound And Silence
(577 Records)
A collage of styles and experimentation developed over several years by bassist and multi-instrumentalist Evan Strauss, using long-form graphically notated conceptual compositions based on bird calls along with thematic material from Ursula K. Le Guin, expanded with narration and poetry from Daniel Carter and titled from an excerpt by Virginia Woolf.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Dredd Foole & The Din: Songs In Heat (1982)
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Documented previously on just one 7" record, the joining of Mission of Burma and post-punk vocalist Dredd Foole, aka Dredd Foole & The Din, is a focal point for Boston's early 80's DIY rock movement, here reissued, remastered and remixed from the original master tapes, along with the rest of that studio session, giving listeners the first full look at their searing and seminal work together.
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Compositional
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Capece, Lucio / Katie Porter: Phase To Phase
(Ftarri)
Rich harmonics and interstitial interactions between two bass clarinets, as Utah-based Katie Porter and Berlin-based Lucio Capece exchanged recordings to develop two compositions, the first focusing on expression in the context of freedom in time, the 2nd using strict time to explore the effects of overlapping-phasing; reference The International Nothing.
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Nitsch, Hermann: Weinviertel Sinfonie
(Trost Records)
Titled for the landscape and vineyards of his native Lower Austrian countryside, "Landschaft in Niederösterreich", this recording of composer Hermann Nitsch's serene and evocative Weinviertel Sinfonie for 27 string players in six parts was recorded in 2021 at the Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by Michael Mautner.
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Shepard, Craig: Trumpet City [2 CDs]
(Inexhaustible Editions)
Trumpet City is a 60 minute live-installation of 40 or more trumpets performing outdoors in a public space, first commissioned and presented by the Prasidialdepartement and the Musikpodium of the City of Zurich, these two realization are from recordings at 51st Street, in Manhattan, New York and at Meeker Avenue between Lorimer and Leonard Streets, in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear
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Eclectic Maybe Band:
Again Alors?
(Discus Music)
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Block Ensemble:
Hugs and Bugs
(Clean Feed)
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Martin Iddon:
Sapindales
(Another Timbre)
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Elliott Sharp: SysOrk:
ReGenerate
(zOaR)
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