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UPDATE
October 2, 2020
"If you are going to break rules,
You better know what the rules are.
And then you can find a way to find your own space in your own place.
There are many ways to the same end."
—Joe McPhee
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Creative Artists
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• Acid Mothers Temple
• Crank Sturgeon
• Clara de Asis/Mara Winter
• Lucio Capece / Werner Dafeldecker
• Eventless Plot (Vasilis Liolios/Yiannis Tsirikoglou/Arias Gatas)
• Kraig Grady
• Hayward Versus Harmergeddon
• I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues
(Jon Irabagon/Mike Pride/Mick Barr/Ava Mendoza)
• Solo Kabako Dja
• Konrad Strumpfel & The Set
• Oliver Leith/George Barton/Siwan Rhys
• Lisbon String Trio/Luis Lopes
• Joe McPhee
• Motorpsycho
• Maja S.K. Ratkje
• Red List Ensemble
• The Residents
• Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Faustino/Pinheiro/Carneiro
• Keith Rowe/Mark Wastell
• Suspensao
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Essential Labels
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Another Timbre
Confront
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Creative Sources
God Unknown Records
Hopscotch Records
Important Records
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Irabbagast Records
Music a la Coque
Ralph Records
Rune Grammofon
Space Age
Tribe Tapes
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Capece, Lucio / Werner Dafeldecker: Iteration
(Another Timbre)
Two sets of profound composure and restraint, captured at a concert in Munich in May 2019 by Berlin improvising instrumentalists -- Werner Dafeldecker (double bass) and Lucio Capece (bass clarinet, slide saxophone, feedback and room amplification) -- invoking moods of Polwechsel through focused structures of intense precision of dense interaction.
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I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues (Jon Irabagon / Mike Pride / Mick Barr / Ava Mendoza): Volume 3: Anatomical Snuffbox
(Irabbagast Records)
Dedicated to Willem Breuker, NY tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon's 3rd volume in his I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues series adds guitarist Ava Mendoza to the band of Mike Pride on drums and Mick Barr on guitar as they dish up a powerful 46 minute collective free improvisation of savage and dense, exceptionally complex improvisation; not for the faint of heart!
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Lisbon String Trio / Luis Lopes: Isotropy
(Creative Sources)
Isotropy - having a physical property which has the same value when measured in different directions - is the collaboration between the Lisbon String Trio of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Miguel Mira (cello) and Alvaro Rosso (double bass) with Luis Lopes, here on acoustic guitar, in a 2 part extended improvisation recorded live at the 2020 Small Format Materials Festiva.
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McPhee, Joe : Black Is The Color: Live in Poughkeepsie and New Windsor, 1969-70 [2CDS]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Unreleased material from Joe McPhee's archives, three live settings of the saxophonist and pocket trumpeter in upstate NY: a quartet with vibraphonist Ernie Bostic and the rhythm section of Tyrone Crabb and Bruce Thompson live at Vassar College; live in New Windsor with saxophonist Reggie Marks; and an outdoor concert at Poughkeepsie's Lincoln Centre.
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Red List Ensemble: Scope
(Creative Sources)
The Berlin-based electroacoustic Red List Ensemble founded by cellist Guilherme Rodrigues in a studio recording of the 3-part "Scope", improvised music created in real time using extensive techniques to create and raise tension in a game of contrasts, exploring orchestration in micro-groups through organization of surfaces that are opposed in terms of timbre and sound texture.
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Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Faustino / Pinheiro / Carneiro: The Book of Spirals
(Creative Sources)
Not your average Creative Sources releases, the father/son collaboration of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello are joined by 2/3 of Red Trio — Hernani Faustino on double bass and Rodrigo Pinheiro on piano — with Pedro Carneiro on marimba, for an impressively active set of Swirling, Whirling and Twirling improvisations.
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Rowe, Keith / Mark Wastell: Live At I-And-E [VINYL RSD]
(Confront)
Performing at The Printing House, in Dublin, Ireland, the duo of Keith Rowe on guitar & electronics and Mark Wastell on amplified textures & electronics are heard in their final set of the evening, louder and more gestural, taking the audience on a long musically referential journey of theme, statement and variations, seemingly traditional yet using unique strategies.
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Suspensao: Sfumato
(Creative Sources)
A substantial live work from the 2019 CreativeFest XIII at O'Culto da Ajuda in Lisbon from the improvising ensemble Sfumato lead by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, fulfilling the title of the album in great tension and suspense as the 11 members improvise, generating waves of activity between concentrated and meditative moments, an incredible example of power and restraint.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Crank Sturgeon: Anxiety Detectors Kit [CASSETTE]
(Tribe Tapes)
California-based sound experimenter and noise artist Crank Sturgeon, aka Matt Anderson, in a limited 2-sided C32 cassette release detailed with red foil and artwork printed onto transparent film, each side a strangely diverse journey in noise, voice, sound collage and unusual improvisation, inexplicable, generally indescribable, and joyfully weird.
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de Asis, Clara / Mara Winter: Repetition Of The Same Dream
(Another Timbre)
During pandemic lockdowns, flutist Mara Winter and experimentalist Clara de Asís explored locations of natural resonance to capture this mix of composition and improvisation, delicate and detailed recordings of diverse intent, using harmonically rich tones and textures that resonate in mysterious and haunting ways of beautiful dream-like secrets and reveries.
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Ratkje, Maja S.K.: Mara [VINYL PICTURE DISK]
(Important Records)
A live recording using the natural resonance of Pfarrkirche, Lockenhaus during the 2018 Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus from avant vocalist and improviser Maja S. K. Ratkje, using layers of voice processed by software created by Øyvind Brandtsegg, plus sung parts from the Norwegian traditional "Hanen sten på stabburshella" and the American traditional "Mining for Gold".
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo [VINYL 2 LPs RSD]
(SPACE AGE)
Acid Mothers Temple's Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo was first released on CD in 2007 by Ace Fu Records, here re-mastered for vinyl, "Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo" being a phrase expounded by a 13th century Japanese Buddhist monk called Nichiren translating loosely to "I devote myself to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra" or "... the Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus Flower Teaching".
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Hayward Versus Harmergeddon: Hayward Versus Harmergeddon [VINYL]
(God Unknown Records)
A dynamic collaboration between This Heat/Massacre legendary drummer Charles Hayward and the Dungeness improvising sound duo Harmergeddon of Polyphoniefae and Nathan Greywater, who use photophonics, electromagnetic fields and consumer electronic junk to create detailed and interactive sound environments that propel Hayward into exultant rhythmic territory.
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Kabako, Solo Dja: Solo
(Hopscotch Records)
Blind guitarist and singer Solo Dja Kabako is an important figure in Burkina Faso in West Africa, whose talent took him from begging on the streets as a kid to being a treasured artist in his country, here in an album recorded in his home in Ougadougou by saxophonist Assif Tsahar after a festival where they met; a record of warm, sincere music and song.
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Konrad Strumpfel & The Set: refrescoscopio [CASSETTE]
(Music a la Coque)
An unissued album from Bavarian experimenter & songwriter Konrad Strumpfel and "The Set", the Czech duo of Herbert Lukundra & Josif Afkak, who added their contributions to Strumpfel's work which had been sent to them by post, the strengthening of the "Iron Curtain" between the USSR & Europe in the late 80s then prohibiting the release of their collaboration.
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Motorpsycho: The All Is One [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Rune Grammofon)
Led by Bent Sæther, Hans Magnus Ryan and Kjell Runar Jenssen, this Norwegian prog-oriented improvising rock band is perhaps one of the finest active currently, here in a double album featuring music from 2 sessions, the 1st at Black Box Studio in France with Reine Fiske (Dungen), and the 2nd at Ocean Sound Studio in Norway with Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist) and Ola Kvernberg (Steamdome).
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Residents, The : Icky Flix: The Original Soundtrack Recording [2LP Vinyl RSD]
(Ralph Records)
Colored vinyl double LP Record Store Day release of the soundtrack to the eyeballed band's 2001 "Icky Flix" DVD, 20 re-worked classic Residents tracks, originally released as a 14-track soundtrack CD, here in an extended edition that includes 6 additional tracks, "reimaginings" not included on the original version of the album.
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Compositional
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Eventless Plot (Vasilis Liolios / Yiannis Tsirikoglou / Arias Gatas): Parallel Worlds
(Another Timbre)
With 20 years of performance history, the "Eventless Plot" trio of Thessaloniki, Greece — Vasilis Liolios (Psaltery, percussion, electronics), Yiannis Tsirikoglou (electronics) and Arias Gatas (piano, percussion, electronics) — present three chamber works, performed with other other Greek instrumentalists; extraordinary works of embracing creativity and depth.
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Grady, Kraig: Monument Of Diamonds
(Another Timbre)
Microtonal composer Kraig Grady in a work for specially adapted brass instruments (Kris Tiner, trumpets; Subhraag Singh-saxophones; Emmett Kim Narushima-trombones) and organ (Terumi Narushima) using a the Meta-Slendro tuning, an obscure 17-tone scale, to create an expansive and organic work assembled from recordings of each musician playing meditations on single notes.
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Leith, Oliver / George Barton / Siwan Rhys : Good Day Good Day Bad Day Bad Day
(Another Timbre)
UK composer Oliver Leith presents a work in 8 movements for piano, keys and percussion performed by Siwan Rhys (keys) and George Barton, an invocation of everyday life through a personal and often idiosyncratic orchestration reflective of personal ritual & habits; our good and our irrational, often contradictory impetus, portrayed through quirky and embraceable episodes.
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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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Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro:
Barricades
(Elsewhere)
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Dave Sewelson:
More Music for a Free World
(Mahakala Music)
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Polwechsel & Klaus Lang:
Unseen
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Bin Li:
I am also here
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said,
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In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release.
• You can see the newest additions to our catalog in our Just In Stock Section.
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New Releases section.
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"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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