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SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS

May 9, 2008

Another fine set of releases, most notably a cluster of Clean Feeds; three great releases on Emanem including Phil Minton's latest donut; 2 new ones from Fred Frith (& John Zorn) on Recommended Records; 2 on Ayler including a trio with William Parker; and Fieldwork on Pi Records. We've also added a few new items to our used CD section, and other items found in our "Just In" section.
At the end of this mailing are 15 new reviews on The Squid's Ear.

Improvisation:

$14.95  Buy Berne, Tim: Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)
(Winter & Winter)
Tim Berne's tribute to his former teacher Julius Hemphill (World Saxophone Quartet) in a septet including Herb Robertson, Mark Dresser, Joey Baron, &c. (in stock for the first time)

$14.95  Buy Berne's Caos Totale, Tim : Nice View
(Winter & Winter)
Berne's 2nd JMT release with his Caos Totale group with Steve Swell, Herb Robertson, Mark Dresser, Bobby Previte and Marc Ducret in 3 Berne compositions.(in stock for the first time)

$21.95  Buy By Any Means: Live at Crescendo
(Ayler)
William Parker's amazing, gutsy jazz trio with Charles Gayle on alto sax and Rashied Ali on drums, live in 2007 at the Club Crescendo, Sweden.

$18.95  Buy Caetitu (Gibson / Weston / Mattos / Blume): Caetitu
(Emanem)
Live recordings from LOFT in Cologne, 2007 of this quartet of collective improvisers including Brazilian saxophonist Yedo Gibson and pianist Veryan Weston.

$15.95  Buy Coleman, Ornette : The Art of the Improvisers
(Water)
Remastered reissue of this underrated Atlantic album recorded from '59-'61, essentially variations of his quartet including Jimmy Garrison and Scott Lafaro.

$15.95  Buy Coleman, Ornette : Twins
(Water)
Originally recorded in '59 and not released until '71, these recordings of his Quartet include tracks with Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard and an early version of "Free Jazz".

$13.95  Buy Cosottini, Miro / Miano, Tonino: The Curvature of Pace
(Impressus Records)
The first release on the pianist and composer Tonino Miano's new Impressus label is a like-minded, far ranging and imaginitive duo with trumper Mirio Costonnin.

$15.95  Buy Dessen Trio, Michael : Between Shadow and Space
(Clean Feed)
Trombonist Michael Dessen in a trio of works drawing inspiration from Pablo Neruda's "Ars Poetica", with the computer used as a 4th voice in several tracks.

$13.95  Buy Fieldwork: Door
(Pi Recordings)
The NY trio of Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer and new drummer Tyshawn Sorey in their 3rd Pi release, with wide influences from M-Base, Ornette Coleman, Art Ensemble, &c.

$15.95  Buy Frith, Fred / Zorn, John: The Art of Memory II
(Recommended Records)
Idiosyncratic improvisation with a strange set of tools from two master musicians, fascinating recordings from 1983-85 in the blossoming downtown NY scene.

$15.95  Buy Fujii, Satoko: Indication
(Libra)
Pianist Satoko Fujii in eight solo compositions and a traditional Japanese folk song, recorded in New York City, 1996 and remastered in 2004.

$15.95  Buy Knuffke Quartet, Kirk : Big Wig
(Clean Feed)
Trumpter Kirk Knuffke's New York working band with Reuben Radding, Jeff Davis and Brian Drye showing influences of Lester Bowie, Lacy, &c. in free swinging compositions.

$15.95  Buy Lopes, Luis : Humanization 4tet
(Clean Feed)
Debut recording for Portugese guitarist Luis Lopes' Humanization 4Tet with Rodrigo Amado on tenor sax, exciting free-form jazz with a powerful rhythm section.

$18.95  Buy Minton, Phil: No Doughnuts in Hand - 37 Solo Vocal Improvisations
(Emanem)
Minton's 3rd release in his doughnut reduction series, solo vocal work in Minton's unique and inimitable style that he hopes will cheer you up in these troubled times.

$15.95  Buy Sandell, Sten / Stahl, Mattias: Grann Musik (Neighbour Music)
(Clean Feed)
The piano and vibraphone duo of Sten Sandell and Mattias Stahl in improvisations that borrow from both Sun Ra and contemporary classical such as Cage, Cowell, Xenakis, &c.

$12.95  Buy Secret Chiefs 3: Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
(Tzadik)
Book 9 of Zorn's Book of Angels, arrangements of Masada compositions by mad alchemist Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3) drawing upon an astonishing array of musical styles.

$15.95  Buy Sharp, Elliott / Fields, Scott: Scharfefelder
(Clean Feed)
The 3rd Clean Feed Guitar Series brings Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields together for a mixture or conventional notation, graphic notation, and structures for improvisation.

$18.95  Buy Spontaneous Music Ensemble & Orchestra: Trio & Triangle
(Emanem)
Reissue of John Stevens' 1982 SME + SMO album using musicians positioned in triangular configurations; and 2 tracks from a live trio recording of a 1978 concert in Newcastle.

$17.95  Buy Tone Dialing: Rigop Me
(Evil Rabbit)
The trio of Jorrit Dijkstra, Paul Pallesen and Steve Heather, combining elements of free improvisation, minimalism, and the aesthetics of glitch electronics.

$15.95  Buy Trion, Gyldene : Live at Glenn Miller Café
(Ayler)
The Swedish trio of Jonas Kullhammar on sax, Torbjörn Zetterberg on bass and Daniel Fredriksson drums live at Glenn Miller Cafe in 2007 in a mix of originals and standards.

$15.95  Buy Zingaro / Regef / DeJoode String Trio: Spectrum
(Clean Feed)
Portuguese violinist Carlos "Zíngaro" in a string trio work committed to reinventing chamber music through improvisation that bridges contemporary classical music.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:

$14.95  Buy Chop Shop: Oxide
(23Five)
Sound artist Chop Shop (Scott Konzelmann) working with the happy accidents of water damaged oxide (cassette tapes) and their affect on his leaden drone music.

$16.95  Buy Deupree, Taylor : Northern
(12K)
12K & Deupree remastered and extended his Northern release using new technology to modify and remix many of the pices for more clarity and spaciousness.

$15.95  Buy Haino, Keiji / Akita, Masami: Kikuri - Pulverized Purple
(Victo)
Avant noise guitarist Haino Keiji and experimental sound artist Masami Akita (Merzbow) in a powerful and varied live set at the Victoriaville, May 2007.

$14.95  Buy Murray, Brendan: Commonwealth
(23Five)
Meticulous audio work of slowly shifting drones using subtle harmonics from heavily processed guitar and analog synthetics, a sincere tribute to classic minimalism.

$21.95  Buy Nadja / Baker, Aidan / Buckareff, Leah: Trinity
(Die Stadt)
Limited edition CD from Nadja, with one group track and one piece each from Nadja members Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff, released with a live performance in Bremen, 2008.

$23.95  Buy Tietchens, Asmus: AUS FREUDE AM ELEND
(Die Stadt)
The 11th release in Die Stadt's reissue series of Asmus Tietchens albums from 1980-91, this based on the human voice as a primary sound source.

Rock/RIO/Prog:

$17.95  Buy Basho, Robbie: Bonn Ist Supreme
(Bo Weavil Recordings)
Live solo guitar from Robbie Basho performing in Germany, 1980, including 'Redwood Ramble,' 'California Raga', &c, part of Bo Weavil's wooden guitar series.

$15.95  Buy Frith, Fred: Technology of Tears
(Recommended Records)
Fred's '88 SST release, one of his finest instrumental releases, with Tenko, John Zorn, Christian Marclay in an intense mix of melodic, rhythmic and technological brilliance.

$10.95  Buy Jandek: Glasgow Friday
(Corwood Industries)

Compositional:

$17.95  Buy Cage, John: Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras - Music For Piano
(Hungaroton Classic)
This 1987 release presents two large works from John Cage, "Thirty Pieces For Five Orchestras (1981)" and "Music For Piano Nos 4-19., 21-84." (1952-56).

$17.95  Buy Reich, Steve : Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ
(Hungaroton Classic)
Three early works from Steve Reich written in 1973 and 1985, performed the Amadinda Percussion Group.

Vinyl:

$21.95  Buy Liles & Fovea Hex, Andrew: Gone Every Evening 7"
(Die Stadt)
Limited edition 7" single featuring two collaborative pieces by Andrew Liles & Fovea Hex, with Fabrizio Palumbo as special guest, unsettling and strange songs.

$109.95  Buy My Cat Is An Alien / Mats Gustafsson: Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV
(Opax)
The 4th volume in the "Cosmic Debris" series of split art LPs with MCIAA, this time with Swedish radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson on tenor & slide sax with electronics.

$15.95  Buy Various Artists: The Best LP [VINYL]
(RRR)
RRR collection of noise and power electronics from new artists including Cathode Terror Secretion, Halfings, &c., each LP uniquely covered adn with 10 inserts.

Book:

$13.95  Buy Jarry, Alfred: Exploits And Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
Jarry's anarchic and absurdist novel, which fueled the imagination of Soft Machine, Duchamp, &c. in a '96 repress that is now back in print.

$13.95  Buy Jarry, Alfred: The Supermale Book
An absurd and informed book about a man's physical potential for love, fueled with concepts like Perpetual Motion Food, wonderfully bending and abusing the literary forms of the day.

DVD:

$33.95  Buy Magma: Mythes et Legendes, Volume 4
(Seventh)
Fourth DVD volume capturing the best of Magma's retrospective performances at Paris' Le Triton club in May 2005 to showcase the band's 35 years of work.

THE SQUID'S EAR

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, covering improvisational, avant, and experimental music from around the world.

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(Ambiances Magnetiques)

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(Ambiances Magnetiques)

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(Die Stadt)

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SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS

May 23, 2008

A shorter list as we catch up from vacations and go into the Memorial Day Weekend. Highlights this time around include the new Scorch Trio on CD & LP, and our addition of Paal Nilssen-Love's PNL label, including his latest duo with Broo Magnus; 5 Japanese facsimile releases of Art Zoyd's original LPs; 5 new Cuneiform titles including new Lars Hollmer and Wadada Leo Smith CDs; 2 new Hatology releases including a new Dave Liebman and Ellery Eskelin CD and a Matthew Shipp reissue; 3 additional titles from Alfred Harth's Laubhuette CDR label; and a strange vocal duo LP from Jaap Blonk and DylanNyoukis.
There are also a large number of items in stock but still working their way to this news letter. The next issue of this mailing list will also list several new reviews on The Squid's Ear that will be published over the next two weeks.
Last, it seems that inflation is now a way of life and the US Post Office has announced annual changes to their postal rates, which started May 15. Consequently we've made some minor changes to our shipping policies, which you can read about here. Our new rates aren't significantly different than before: US media mail is a flat rate of $2.25 for any size order, and international and US 1st Class orders have Squidco picking up additional shipping costs over 6 items. We're always happy to quote actual shipping costs for any customer should you have any concerns, so please feel free to contact us.

Improvisation:

$16.95  Buy Asheim, Nils Henrik / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Late Play
(PNL)
Percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love in duet with organist Nils Henrik Asheim for dark onimous works of dramatic tension and tactile, scraping and thunderous drumming.

$16.95  Buy Broo, Magnus / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Game
(PNL)
Versatile and prolific drummer Paal Nilssen-Love's 3rd release on his PNL label is a duo with trumpeter Broo Magnus, 6 extended and dynamic improvisations.

$18.95  Buy Choi Sun Bae: Solo
(Laubhuette)
26 free improvisations from Korean trumpeter Choi Sun Bae demonstrating a masterful control and range over the instrument in traditional and unique approaches to the horn.

$16.95  Buy Cohn / Lane / Sage / Siwula / Shimizu: Wire
(Konnex)
Spontaneous compositions from this New York quintet with an excellent lineup of seasoned improvisors, recording live in The Studio downtown in NYC.

$14.95  Buy Cosmologic: Eyes in the Back of My Head
(Cuneiform)
Cosmologic (Robinson/Dessen/Walton/Hubbard) makes or interprets music in the vein of Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Coltrane, &c, here in their 4th release of original compositions.

$14.95  Buy Flying Luttenbachers, The : Trauma
(Ugexplode)
CD reissue of this 2001 studio album originally released as a double colored vinyl LP from the furious free jazz trio of Weasel Walter, Michael Colligan and Kurt Johnson.

$14.95  Buy Halvorson, Mary / Walter, Weasel: Opulence
(Ugexplode)
First time meeting between East Coast guitar diva Mary Halvorson and West Coast drumming iconoclast Weasel Walter for 8 tracks of telepathic improvisation.

$18.95  Buy Harth, Alfred : Vor Gang
(Laubhuette)
Described simply as "Alfred Harth plays acoustic guitar", this is a guttural approach to the instrument using scrapes, thumps and all manner of unusual attacks to make his statements.

$18.95  Buy Harth, Alfred / Foster, Joseph / and 5 more with Choi Sun Bae: Live at LaubhetteStudio
(Laubhuette)
Nine minimal and scrabbly works from Harth and trumpeter Foster employing every aspect of their instruments, inside and out; then 5 more in trio with Korean trumpeter Choi Sun Bae.

$15.95  Buy Jamal, Khan / Taylor, Dylan: Fire & Water
(CIMP)
Philly associates Khan Jamal & Dylan Taylor in a set of standards and originals including work by Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Coltrane, &c., playing vibes, balafon, bass and cello.

$19.95  Buy Liebman, David / Eskelin, Ellery: Renewal
(Hatology)
DaveLiebman & Ellery Eskelin unite again with Tony Marino and Jim Black in an exceptional NY quartet of freedom and spontaneity framed within underlying jazz structures.

$16.95  Buy Marhaug, Lasse / Nilssen-Love, Paal: Stalk
(PNL)
Paal Nilssen-Love with Lasse Marhaug, recorded and edited by Fe-mail/Spunk Hild Sofie Tafjord to create 6 fascinating free-form compositions of sound and texture.

$16.95  Buy New (Edwards / Noble / Ward): Deadeye Tricksters
(Bo Weavil Recordings)
The European trio of notable free jazz players Steve Noble on drums, John Edwards on bass and Alex Ward on guitar incorporates language, ritual, myth, and laughter.

$14.95  Buy Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Forked Tongue
(Cuneiform)
The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble plays New Orleans style jazz, performing in Sun Ra inspired costumes while jamming on originals & covers from Ornette Coleman to Billy Idol.

$13.95  Buy Schumacher, Stanley and the Music Now Ensemble: Uber Brass
(Musikmacher)
The Music Now Ensemble is Stanley Schumacher's shifting collective exploring aspects of improvisation, here presenting an all brass trio with Nate Wooley and David Hofstra.

$16.95  Buy Scorch Trio: Brolt
(Rune Grammofon)
The 3rd album from the power trio of Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Raoul Björkenheim is a masterful example of passionate improvisation and breathtaking interplay.

$19.95  Buy Shipp Trio, Matthew : The Multiplication Table (re-issue)
(Hatology)
Reissue of Matthew Shipp's '97 trio release with Susie Ibarra and William Parker in a set of original numbers, along with Strayhorns "A Train", an Ellington Jam, and "Autumn Leaves".

$14.95  Buy Smith, Wadada Leo: Tabligh
(Cuneiform)
Trumpet legend Wadada Leo Smith in a quartet with Vijay Iyer, Shannon Jackson and John Lindberg playing music from free improv to late 60's Miles.

$18.95  Buy Van Hove, Fred: Journey
(psi)
Fred Van Hove's 52 minute solo piano performance at the Jazz à Mulhouse summer festival 2007 reveals one of the giants of improvised music at the height of his creative powers.

Rock/RIO/Prog:

$25.95  Buy Art Zoyd: 3 (Symphonie Pour Le Jour, 1976 version)
(Belle Antique)
Reissue of the first self-released Art Zoyd LP from 1976, a legendary and impressive chamber rock record of unusual and complex music years ahead of its time.

$25.95  Buy Art Zoyd: Génération Sans Futur
(Belle Antique)
Art Zoyd's 3rd LP from 1980 now with Daniel Denis on drums is an impressive album of complex, dramatic music with shifting time signatures, tones and unlikely twists and turns.

$25.95  Buy Art Zoyd: Musique pour l'Odyssée
(Belle Antique)
Three years after Art Zoyd's 1st release, this album presents a slightly different lineup for a set of cinematic journeys in complex classical rock compositions.

$33.95  Buy Art Zoyd: Phase IV
(Belle Antique)
Art Zoyd's 4th release was this double LP originally released on Recommended Records, an album with great rhythmic and compositional drive using an intense sonic palette.

$25.95  Buy Art Zoyd: Symphonie Pour Le Jour Où Brûleront Les Cités
(Belle Antique)
A different version of the 1st Art Zoyd LP with a differing lineup, impressive chamber rock of unusual, startling and complex music from members of the RIO movement.

$14.95  Buy Hollmer, Lars: Viandra
(Cuneiform)
Keyboardist and Samla Mammas Viandra is an album of sophisticated and often demented melodic compositions with great warmth, intimacy, and even innocence.

$14.95  Buy Univers Zero: (Remastered)
(Cuneiform)
The remaster of the first album from innovative chamber rock/RIO band Univers Zero album, a fascinating and inventive combination of rock and compositional music.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:

$18.95  Buy Harth, Alfred : Achter Atem: Remix of Kang Taehwan's solo-album Seven Breath
(Laubhuette)
Alfred Harth's remix of Korean saxophonist Kang Tae Hwan's Seven breath, using sounds exclusively from Kang's alto to create formidable aural environments of great textural richness.

$16.95  Buy Jeck, Philip: Sand
(Touch)
Sand highlights Jeck's mastery of vinyl manipulation, personal and collective memories, a piece that is at once elegiac, celebrational, mournful and uplifting.

$14.95  Buy Sawako: Bitter Sweet
(12K)
New York/Tokyo based Sawako is a software designer and multimedia artist whose works intermix her music with inspiration ranging from nature, science, academia and poetic motion.

Compositional:

$24.95  Buy Ashley, Robert: Concrete
(Lovely Music)
Concrete follows from Ashley's preoccupation with the kind of speech that has not been explored in opera: the bizarre and unreal speech of marginal people.

$14.95  Buy Gaburo, Kenneth: Lingua II: Maledetto / Antiphony VIII
(Pogus)
2 works from Kenneth Gaburo (1926-93): Maledetto, a piece for 7 voices spoken, sung and shouted; and "Antiphony VIII", a counter-cultural percussionist and electronic tape work about nuclear war.

$14.95  Buy Wickham-Smith, Simon: Love & Lamentation
(Pogus)
Three mutated organized sound works from composer Wickham Smith: a work based on tape of a monastic recital; a piece manipulating language; and work for voice and electronics.

Vinyl:

$9.95  Buy Ambarchi, Oren: Destinationless Desire 7" [VINYL]
(Touch)
The 5th installment in Touch Records' 7" series is the ever-brilliant guitarist/electronic artist Oren Ambarchi of sonic transitions and textures.

$15.95  Buy Blonk, Jaap / Nyoukis, Dylan : Dubbletwee [VINYL]
(Ecstatic Peace)
Two startling voices meet in "relentless and rapacious slew of ululation and indescribable utterance": Jaap Blonk and Chocolate Monk's Dylan Nyoukis.

$24.95  Buy Scorch Trio: Brolt! [VINYL]
(Rune Grammofon)
The 3rd album from the power trio of Paal Nilssen-Love, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Raoul Björkenheim is a masterful example of passionate improvisation and breathtaking interplay.

Book:

$7.95  Buy Wire, The: #292 June 2008
On The Cover: Evangelista, interviews with Nihilist Spasm Band, People Like Us, and Yoshi Wada.

World:

$15.95  Buy Tzotziles: Psalms, Stories and Music
(Sub Rosa)
Reissue of this 1999 release of recordings from the Tzotzile community in Chiapas, Mexico, last descendants of the Mayan culture, in ritual music and audio fragments.

$15.95  Buy Various Artists: Radio Myanmar (Burma)
(Sublime Frequencies)
A fascinating set of diverse recordings, commercials, annoucements, &c. from Burma's The Union Solidarity & Development Association recorded in Yangon in 2007.

SQUIDCO/SQUID'S EAR NEWS

July 3, 2008

52 releases this time, starting with a fistful of new Vandermark releases: Atomic/School Days on Okka, Vandermark and Ab Baars on Wig, and the Vandermark "Musician" DVD on Facets. Other additions to our catalog include 3 new Intakt titles, esp. Barry Guy and Von Schlippenbach titles; Tzadik releases from Lukas Ligetti, Keeril Makan, Klez-Edge (Burton Greene) and Paul Shapiro; Mats Gustafsson's take on Duke Ellington on QBICO; the excellent organ fueled Elephant9 trio; 2 new Chadbourne titles esp. live at The Kitchen with John Zorn and Tom Cora; 2 great releases on the DMG/Arc label: Curlew's 1st and one live, and Supersilent's Bjorkenheim at The Stone with William Parker and Hamid Drake; Bill Cole on Boxholder; the latest Signal to Noise on For4Ears and Martin Baumgartner's odd audio world; a new round of Creative Sources releases; MEV, Mueller, and a new Parmegiania Box; Janek Schaefer on Line; several Innova titles including a Pharaoh's Daughter reissue; and many new Vinyl LPs.
At the end of this mailing are several new reviews on The Squid's Ear. Happy Indepence Day!

Improvisation:

$16.95  Buy Atomic/School Days: Distil
(Okka)
A 2 CD set of a 2006 concert in Chicago from the melding of Atomic and School Days, with Jeb Bishop, Ken Vandermark, Magnus Broo, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, &c.

$17.95  Buy Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark, Ab : Goofy June Bug
(Wig)
Reed players Ab Baars and Ken Vandermark recorded live in Amsterdam after a 20 concert tour through Europe, in a quartet wtih Wilbert de Joode and Martin van Duynhoven.

$17.95  Buy Bergin, Sean / Bicudo, Rogerio: Tale of Three City's
(Pingo)
Brazilian guitarist Bicudo and wind player Sean Bergin meet in a musical friendship that brings together Satie, Pixinguinha and Coltrane on the same release!

$13.95  Buy Bjorkenheim / Parker / Drake: dmg @ the stone December 26, 2006
(DMG ARC)
Scorch Trio's guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim in a live trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake at the Stone in NYC, two incredible sets, the best of which are captured on this CD.

$15.95  Buy Branca, Glenn: Symphony #5
(Atavistic)
2008 repress of Branca's 1984 Symphony No. 5, "Describing Planes Of an Expanding Hypersphere", a dense work using guitar & mallete guitar, drums, bass, keyboards & violin.

$16.95  Buy Cole, Bill Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs For Sam
(Boxholder)
World wind player Bill Cole in a 7 piece band including William Parker and Cooper-Moore playing live at The Vision Festival in NYC, 2001 on pieces based around the proverbs from the Yorubas of Nigeria.

$19.95  Buy Curlew: Curlew + Live at CBGB 1980
(DMG ARC)
Incredible double CD (re)issue of the first Curlew record (George Cartwright, Tom Cora, Bill Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis, Bill Bacon) with bonus cuts, and a live CD from CBGB in 1980 with Denardo Coleman on drums.

$14.95  Buy Dixon Orchestra, Bill: 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur
(Aum Fidelity)
Legendary trumpeter, composer and educator Bill Dixon in a 17 piece orchestra playing original compositions live at the 12th Vision Festival in New York City.

$16.95  Buy Elephant9: DodoVoodoo
(Rune Grammofon)
The debut album for this new Norwegian power trio, who have been touring for the last 2 years, wild improv/rock music with a strong organ sound from SuperSilent's Ståle Storløkken.

$14.95  Buy Flaherty, Paul / Colbourne, Randall: Bridge Out!
(Family Vineyard)
A decade since releasing a dozen duo album in the 80's, saxophonist Flaherty and percussionist Colbourne reunite for an album of coiling sax lines and polyrhythmic patterns.

$14.95  Buy Giesriegl / Gasser / Sayer / Fischer: vist ag
(Creative Sources)
An incredible quartet of voice and strings with an attitude of electro-acoustic sound production, immense journeys in sound crossing the areas of conflict between meditation and impulsiveness.

$19.95  Buy Guy / Crispell / Lytton: Phases Of The Night
(Intakt)
Barry Guy's 3rd trio release with Marilyn Crispell and Paul Lytton in music inspired by the painting so by Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Wilfredo Lam and Yves Tanguy.

$19.95  Buy Hassler, Hans : Sehr Schnee Sehr Wald Sehr
(Intakt)
Swiss accordionist Hans Hassler in his first solo acccordion release blending folk music, classical interpretation and free jazz in 15 original compositions.

$12.95  Buy Irabagon's, Jon Outright!: Outright
(Innova)
Debut CD by alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon, who has played with Matt Grason's Motel Project and Clean Feed's RIDD Quartet, in a set of 7 original compositions.

$12.95  Buy Klez-Edge: Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters
(Tzadik)
Burton Greene Klez-Edge brings together Greene's free jazz leanings and the influence of his Klezmokum band in a new ensemble of virtuosic spontaneity and humor.

$14.95  Buy Mezei Ensemble, Szilard : Sivatag
(Creative Sources)
Extending his own ensemble into a 10 piece orchestra of impressive range and tonal colors, Szilard Mezei presents 3 compositions that bridge modern classical and improvisational music.

$14.95  Buy Mezei, Szilard / Markos, Albert: Korom
(Creative Sources)
Free ranging and captivating improvisations between Hungarian violist Szilard Mezei and cellist Albert Markos, a remarkable duo of the string's potential.

$16.95  Buy Noonan's, Sean Brewed by Noon: Live From New York And Beyond
(Institute For Electronic Arts)
CD & DVD of NY drummer Sean Noonan playing jazz with a global vistion in a powerhouse band that includes Mat Maneri, Marc Ribot, and Jamaaladeen Tacuma!

$14.95  Buy Orange: In The Midst of Chaos
(DESTIJL)
Saxophonist Paul Flaherty's debut album from 1978 with the free jazz group Orange featuring Barry Greika on guitar, Bob Laramie on bass and Glen Peterson on drums.

$19.95  Buy Schlippenbach Trio: Gold Is Where You Find It
(Intakt)
After 35 years of recording together the Schlippenbach trio with Evan Parker and Paul Lovens continues its intensive collaborative work with this new studio album of original compositions.

$12.95  Buy Shapiro, Paul: Essen
(Tzadik)
Paul Shapiro's tribute to 1940s Yiddish Jazz with covers of novelty songs originally recorded by Slim Gaillard and Cab Calloway as well as Yiddish classics.

$15.95  Buy Thornton, Clifford New Art Ensemble: Freedom & Unity
(Atavistic)
Recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral, this '69 release features Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Joe McPhee's 1st appearance on LP (McPhee adds 2 bonus tracks from his personal archive!)

$14.95  Buy Weber, Christian: Walcheturm Solo
(Cut)
A concert from one of Europe's most active and innovative acoustic bass players, Weber's "Walcheturm Solo" was recorded in the resonant halls of the Zurich art space Walcheturm.

$14.95  Buy Yamamoto, Eri: Duologue
(Aum Fidelity)
Japanese born NY based pianist Eri Yamamoto, part of William Parker's Raining on the Moon ensemble, in an album of duos with Parker, Federico Ughi, Hamid Drake, and Daniel Carter.

Electro-Acoustic/Electronic:

$14.95  Buy Baumgartner, Martin : Shoot's Huft
(For4Ears)
Three large works from Viennese sound artist Baumgartner, who composes obsessive journeys in tonal transitions with great detail and activity, using noise, quirk and dreamstate.

$14.95  Buy Ikeshiro / Shelton: Ry-om III
(Creative Sources)
Ry-om is a london-based duo creating improvised experimental electronic music, noise and acoustic soundscapes using laptops, guitars, feedback loops, synths, instrumental samples and vocals.

$14.95  Buy Kahn / Korber / Moslang / Muller / Chulki / Yukie / Sangtae / Hankil / Joonyong / Miryung / : Signal to Noise Volume 6
(For4Ears)
The 6th volume of this series finds Kahn, Korber, Moslang & Mueller in varying groupings with 6 musicians from the South Korean avant sound community with rewarding results.

$12.95  Buy Ligeti, Lukas: Afrikan Machinery
(Tzadik)
Drummer, improviser and composer Ligeti in a release of electronics and the"Marimba Lumina" to create 7 electronic and percussive works of polyrhythms and hypnotic textures.

$18.95  Buy MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva): Friday
(Alga Marghen)
MEV started in 1966 in advance of today's ea-improv scene, Rzewski, Curran, Teitelbaum, Catalid and Carius creating improv structures using live electronics, as this 1969 album well demonstrates.

$16.95  Buy Mueller, Jon / Kahn, Jason: Topography
(Xeric)
Crouton and Xeric bring live recordings of Jon Mueller and Jason Kahn in a rich textural work influenced by interactions with the environments of each tour location.

$94.95  Buy Parmegiani, Bernard: L'Oeuvre Musicale en 12 CD
(INA GRM)
Bernard Parmegiani, French composer of musique concrete and a member of the GRM group, in a 12 CD box of 33 compositions from 1964 to 2007 with a 92 pages booklet.

$14.95  Buy praed: The Muesli Man
(Creative Sources)
Paed and Raed make "praed", the very unusual electro-acoustic duo behind The Muesli Man, 40 tracks of electronics, bass, clarinets, & tapes (with japanese subtitles!)

$14.95  Buy Scarassatti / Filho / Bomfim: Sonax
(Creative Sources)
Working in an AMM vein, Sonax uses a mixture of self-made instruments, sound sculpture and live electronics to create otherworldly improvisation environments.

$14.95  Buy Schaefer, Janek: Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict]
(Line)
Schaefer's 2007 exhibition, inspired by the Jodoform system of secret musical messages used in WW II, using recordings played at varying speeds in response to audience motion.

$14.95  Buy Trayle, Mark : Goldstripe
(Creative Sources)
Goldstripe uses data read from the magnetic stripes of credit cards and bank cards to create a set of musical conditions for improvisation.

Rock/RIO/Prog:

$14.95  Buy Blackshaw, James: Litany of Echoes
(Tompkins Square)
Guitarist Blackshaw's sixth studio album in five years shows a mature approach to composition in sweeping and introspective works that incorporate piano and strings.

$12.95  Buy Chadbourne / Black - The Jack and Jim Show 2007: THINK 69
(Chadula)
Jimmy Carl Black and Eugene Chadbourne's Jack & Jim Show with a characteristically twisted repertoire in recordings from the best of their 2007 Think 69 tour, starting at The Stone in NYC.

$12.95  Buy Pharaoh's Daughter: Daddy's Pockets
(Innova)
A much needed reissue of Pharaoh's Daughter's debut album, originally on Knitting Factory Works, 12 tracks of compelling Middle Eastern rhythms and songs.

$16.95  Buy Silver Apples: Silver Apples
(Ash International)
New more deluxe edition of this unprecedented and unusual 1968 electronic pop record from the original DIY electronics duo of Simeon and Dave Taylor stayed in Billboard's Top 100 for 10 weeks!

$12.95  Buy The Chadbournes: The Kitchen Concert (Torture in the Eighties)
(Chadula)
The original Chadbournes (Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Mark Kramer and David Licht) playing the freakiest improv country music you ever heard at, the Kitchen in the early 80s.

Avant-Garde:

$12.95  Buy Harrison, Joel: The Wheel
(Innova)
Joel Harrison's 5 movement suite for double quartet and guitar blends compositional and improvisational worlds in gripping music, with a band including Lindsey Horner, David Binney, Ralph Allessi, &c.

$12.95  Buy Makan, Keeril : In Sound
(Tzadik)
Young American composer Keeril Makan with performances by the Kronos Quartet and Paul Dresher Ensemble in music that draws from a diverse set of global influences.

Vinyl:

$23.95  Buy Cotton Museum: No Face in the Bog [VINYL]
(QBICO)
Reissuing Chris Pottinger's electronic madness on limited edition cows milk white vinyl, 4 electronic tracks of music from the meditative to the insane!

$21.95  Buy Elephant9: DodoVoodoo [VINYL]
(Rune Grammofon)
The debut album for this new Norwegian power trio, who have been touring for the last 2 years, wild improv/rock music with a strong organ sound from SuperSilent's Ståle Storløkken.

$39.95  Buy Gustafsson, Mats: Mats G Plays Duke E [VINYL]
(QBICO )
Radical saxophonist Mats Gustafsson in a one-sided limited edition vinyl album of very personal versions of classic Duke Ellington songs.

$29.95  Buy Krusi, Hans: Ex Hk. [VINYL]
(Alga Marghen)
An unusual set of recordings from the late outsider-art figure Hans Krusi, who mades these strange concrete pieces mixing mixing field recordings, percussive noise, radio folk songs, &c.

$17.95  Buy Mueller, Jon: Strung [VINYL]
(Table of the Elements)
Part of TOE's Guitar Series, single-sided clear LPs with laser etched illustrations by Savage Pencil, Strung has Mueller scrambling the guitar in waves of sound.

$18.95  Buy Nurse With Wound: The Bacteria Magnet [VINYL]
(Dirter Productions)
Nurse With Wound's 4 track limited edition LP brings 2 tracks from "Huffin Rag Blues" and 2 tracks exclusive to this LP, all in a twisted gloss sleeve and insert.

$23.95  Buy Odd Clouds: Odd Clouds [VINYL]
(QBICO)
Chris Pottinger and Jamie Easter's 8-member Odd Clouds project in free-form rock, presented in a limited pictures disc of "bad trip" artwork by the two band leaders.

DVD:

$24.95  Buy Jahn, Ebba: Rising Tones Cross
(FILMPALS)
This 2 hour film about jazz in New York through the city and the musicians who play there, with Charles Gayle, William Parker, Peter Kowald, Marilyn Crispell, &c.

$23.95  Buy Vandermark, Ken : Musician [DVD]
(FACETS)
Documentary about Chicago's jazz phenomenon, saxophonist Ken Vandermark, with both a biography of the man and performances from The Vandermark 5, Territory Band, Bridge 61, CINC, &c.

Book:

$7.95  Buy Wire, The: #293 July 2008 MAG
(Wire)
On the cover: Mark Steward, plus articles on Bill Dixon, Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton, &c. &c.

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