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The Squid's Ear Magazine
This weekend: 577 Colored Vinyl Sale — and — Squidco $10 Sale

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UPDATE
October 31, 2025

"Just keep in mind your objective
And everything will be cool."
—Joe McPhee

 Essential Artists

• Armaroli/Piccolo/Sharp
• Dan Banks/Trevor Taylor/Jose Canha
• Carter/Holmes/Putman/Greene/Ughi
• Fieldwork (Iyer/Lehman/Sorey)
• Fujii/Tamura/Yoshida/Takeharu
• Ayako Kanda/Elliott Sharp
• Daniel Levin
• Joe McPhee
• Eva Novoa Trio (w/ Carter/Mela)
• Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley
• Eliane Radigue
• Henry Threadgill
• Jacobo Vega-Albela
• Dan Weiss (w/ Evans/Okazaki/Brennan)

 Essential Labels


577 Records
Amgen Records
Burning Ambulance Music
Corbett vs. Dempsey

Dodicilune
Erototox Decodings
FMR
Libra
Pi Recordings
Smeraldina-Rima


577 Holiday Color Sale

577 Holiday Colors Sale!

Before Black Friday, we're adding some holiday color to your listening with 16 newly listed colored-vinyl LPs from 577 Records — available here for the first time and introduced at just $15.95 each, saving you $9 per album; after the sale, they will be priced at $24.95 each. Add some hue to your holiday with these excellent releases, but hurry: this special runs only through Sunday, November 23rd at midnight.

See All 577 Holiday Color Albums


Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, discount is shown in product listings and in your shopping cart. In-stock items only, sold out items will disappear from the store. Order items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points. Sale ends Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 23:59 PM EST (GMT-5)

Squidco Cost Sale

Squidco $10 Album Sale!

From Friday, November 21 to Sunday, November 23, we're dropping the price of nearly 100 albums across our jazz & improv, rock, and contemporary categories to just $10 each — many at more than 50% off their regular retail price. Take a good look and grab your favorites while you can; quantities are limited!

See All $10 Sale Items


Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, discount is shown in product listings and in your shopping cart. In-stock items only, sold out items will disappear from the store. Order items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points. Sale ends Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 23:59 PM EST (GMT-5)

 New Releases
   Jazz & Improvisation

Armaroli / Piccolo / Sharp: Imaginary Songbook [2 CDs]
(Dodicilune)

Through 64 succinct works, the trio of Sergio Armaroli (vibraphone), Steve Piccolo (electric bass, voices, electronics), and Elliott Sharp (guitars, soprano saxophone) unravels and reimagines the jazz tradition in fascinating fragments where familiar melodies, riffs, and harmonic cues flicker through an inventive, experimental interplay that blurs memory, abstraction, and improvisational wit.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $19.95 Listen

 
Banks, Dan / Trevor Taylor / Jose Canha: UpsideDown | InsideOut
(FMR)

An inventive and lyrical contemporary piano trio session from Dan Banks (piano), Trevor Taylor (drums) and José Canha (bass), where agile post-bop themes unravel into spacious free improvisations, balancing lyrical reflection with muscular rhythmic drive as the group twist melodies, textures and momentum through constantly shifting perspectives.
   
Buy $14.95 Listen

 
Carter, Daniel / Patrick Holmes / Matthew Putman / Hilliard Greene / Federico Ughi: Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2
(577 Records)

Longtime collaborators Daniel Carter, Patrick Holmes, Matthew Putman, Hilliard Greene, and Federico Ughi deepen their singular "telepathic" language in extended, impressionistic improvisations that merge chamber-like clarity, eerie lyricism, and freely shifting rhythms, creating one of the ensemble's darkest and most atmospheric explorations to date.
   
Buy $16 Listen

 
Fieldwork (Iyer / Lehman / Sorey): Thereupon
(Pi Recordings)

Seventeen years after their last recording, the New York trio of Steve Lehman (alto saxophone), Vijay Iyer (piano, Rhodes), and Tyshawn Sorey (drums) reunite with dense, high-impact compositions and fearless interplay, blending complexity with groove as they reaffirm their status as one of the most vital ensembles in contemporary improvised music.
 
Squidco Pick

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Fieldwork (Iyer / Lehman / Sorey): Thereupon [VINYL]
(Pi Recordings)

Seventeen years after their last recording, the New York trio of Steve Lehman (alto saxophone), Vijay Iyer (piano, Rhodes), and Tyshawn Sorey (drums) reunite with dense, high-impact compositions and fearless interplay, blending complexity with groove as they reaffirm their status as one of the most vital ensembles in contemporary improvised music.
 
Squidco Pick

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Fujii / Tamura / Yoshida / Takeharu: Burning Wick
(Libra)

Founded in 2001 and reunited after their last album in 2007, the quartet of Satoko Fujii (piano), Natsuki Tamura (trumpet), Hayakawa Takeharu (bass), and Tatsuya Yoshida (drums) unleashes a high-energy blend of avant jazz-rock, shifting from atmospheric fragments to dense, electric-edged turbulence, driven by sharp contrasts, ferocious rhythms, and the group's volatile, genre-bending interaction.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.95 Listen

 
Kanda, Ayako / Elliott Sharp: Hi-Gengo
(Erototox Decodings)

Exploring a vivid spectrum of sound, the duo of Ayako Kanda (voice) and Elliott Sharp (baritone guitar, electronics) pairs Kanda's kaleidoscopic shifts between linguistic and nonverbal expression with Sharp's baritone guitar textures and electronic detail in an improvisational dialogue that moves fluidly between abstraction, color, and visceral intensity.
   
Buy $12.95 Listen

 
Levin, Daniel: Living
(Smeraldina-Rima)

A compelling and distinctive live solo recording from cellist Daniel Levin at Firehouse 12 in 2015, using extended bowing, percussive techniques, and resonant microtonal detail to explore the cello's outer limits, presented in Smeraldina-Rima's distinctive packaging with a handmade screen-printed fold-out poster and heavy-duty printed sleeve.
   
Buy $24.95 Listen

 
McPhee, Joe : Defiant Jazz: a Joe McPhee Taster [VINYL]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

A vinyl-only sampler spanning 1970-2007, showcasing Joe McPhee's fiercely inventive spirit through funk-driven grooves, spiritual jazz depth, fiery collaborations with Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing, and intimate duo interplay with Paal Nilssen-Love - a defiant, time-jumping portrait of one of improvised music's most dynamic voices.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $26.95 Listen

 
Novoa, Eva Trio (w/ Daniel Carter / Francisco Mela): The Freedom Suite, Vol. 2
(577 Records)

Brooklyn pianist Eva Novoa joins saxophonist Daniel Carter and drummer Francisco Mela for the second volume of The Freedom Suite , a set of twelve pieces blending piano, Rhodes, harpsichord, gongs, and vocals with Carter's multi-reed brilliance and Mela's Cuban-inflected drumming, creating an urgent, intimate, and fluidly improvised dialogue of words, sound, and fearless imagination.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $16.00 Listen

 
Novoa, Eva Trio (w/ Carter / Mela): The Freedom Suite, Vol. 2 [VINYL]
(577 Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $20.00 Listen

 
Perelman, Ivo / Nate Wooley: Polarity 4
(Burning Ambulance Music)

Continuing their ever-evolving duo series, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpeter Nate Wooley expand their intuitive, exploratory language with a bold new dimension, including the duo's first-ever use of overdubbing to create layered, prismatic improvisations that push their Polarity collaboration into strikingly multidirectional terrain.
 
Squidco Pick

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Perelman, Ivo / Nate Wooley: Polarity
(Burning Ambulance Music)

Tight interaction in an incredible weaving of creative ideas and technical prowess from the duo of tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpeter Nate Wooley, the two New York-based improvisers recording in the studio in Brooklyn in 2020 for ten dialogs, a perfect distillation of their work together after four CDs in larger group efforts; captivating.
 
Squidco Pick

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Perelman, Ivo / Nate Wooley: Polarity 2
(Burning Ambulance Music)

The second installment from New York saxophonist Ivo Perelman and trumpeter Nate Wooley demonstrates the strong affinity between the two players, highlighting their impressive mastery of their instruments with a creative drive and quick responsiveness that sparks unique dialogs, full of powerful and sometimes unconventional technique and expression; a truly gratifying and remarkable set of improvisations.
 
Squidco Pick

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Perelman, Ivo / Nate Wooley: Polarity 3
(Burning Ambulance Music)

Ten improvisations in the 3rd release of New York trumpeter Nate Wooley and tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman's Polarity series, their dialogs an incredible weaving of creative ideas and technical prowess that started in 2020 after recording a series of larger group albums, their affinity and cooperative approach to instrumental dialog exceptional and exemplary.
 
Squidco Pick

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Threadgill, Henry: Listen Ship
(Pi Recordings)

Composer Henry Threadgill conducts a suite for six acoustic guitars and two pianos, bringing together Bill Frisell, Miles Okazaki, Brandon Ross, Gregg Belisle-Chi, Jerome Harris, Stomu Takeishi, Maya Keren, and Rahul Carlberg in an intricately orchestrated work whose intervallic syntax and meticulous counterpoint entwine with unexpected timbres to reveal his singular and sublime vision.
   
Buy $14.95 Listen

 
Threadgill, Henry (Ross / Frisell / Besile-Che / Okazaki / Harris / Takeishi / Keren / Carlberg): Listen Ship [VINYL]
(Pi Recordings)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
Buy $19.95 Listen

 
Vega-Albela, Jacobo: Un-Belonging
(577 Records)

Drawing on a cross-continental journey of change and discovery, drummer and composer Jacobo Vega-Albela debuts with an expressive set of trio, quartet, and quintet pieces blending contemporary jazz with post-bop, rock, Latin, and modern classical influences, offering a vivid and deeply personal statement shaped by close collaborators and heartfelt narrative drive.
   
Buy $16.00 Listen

 
Weiss, Dan (w/ Evans / Okazaki / Brennan): Unclassified Affections
(Pi Recordings)

Drummer and composer Dan Weiss brings together Peter Evans (trumpet), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), and Miles Okazaki (guitar) in a set of compositions written for their distinct voices, shifting from meditative calm to intense peaks, weaving intricate contrapuntal textures and improvisations into a mysterious and transcendent collective sound.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $14.95 Listen

 
Weiss, Dan (w/ Evans / Okazaki / Brennan): Unclassified Affections [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Pi Recordings)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
 
Squidco Pick

Buy $28.95 Listen

 




   Composed & Contemporary

Radigue, Eliane: Asymptote Versatile (1963-64)
(Amgen Records)

An historic world-premiere recording of Éliane Radigue's earliest surviving work, performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, where a stellar ensemble realizes her flexible "sonic proposition" through evolving textures, mathematical spirals and dynamic transformations that foreshadow her later visionary soundworld.
 
Squidco Pick

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The Squid's Ear

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine,
featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.



Lawrence Casserly / Emil Karlsen: Aspects Of Memory (Bead Records)
Lawrence Casserly / Emil Karlsen: Aspects Of Memory (Bead Records)

Magda Mayas / Jim Denley: One Another (Relative Pitch)
Magda Mayas / Jim Denley: One Another (Relative Pitch)


Steve Swell
The Squid's Ear Interview

Irene Schweizer / Rudiger Carl / Johnny Dyani / Han Bennink: Irene's Hot Four (Intakt)
Irene Schweizer / Rudiger Carl / Johnny Dyani / Han Bennink: Irene's Hot Four (Intakt)

Sylvain Kassap / Steve Swell / Benjamin Duboc / Chad Taylor: Edges (RogueArt)
Sylvain Kassap / Steve Swell / Benjamin Duboc / Chad Taylor: Edges (RogueArt)

Mats Gustafsson / Ken Vandermark / Tomeka Reid / Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart)
Mats Gustafsson / Ken Vandermark / Tomeka Reid / Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart)

Elliott Sharp / Scott Fields: Réimsí Géara (Reimsi Geara) (Relative Pitch)
Elliott Sharp / Scott Fields: Réimsí Géara (Reimsi Geara) (Relative Pitch)


Queen Bee, Mezzacappa and The Bay Area

Thanos Chrysakis: Psyche (Eternal Music Projects)
Thanos Chrysakis: Psyche (Eternal Music Projects)

Fred Frith / Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (Relative Pitch)
Fred Frith / Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (Relative Pitch)

CHANGES TO blind: Volume 9: I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist (Squidco)
CHANGES TO blind: Volume 9: I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist (Squidco)

Michel Doneda / Le Quan Ninh / Nuria Andorra: El Retorn De L'Escolata (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Michel Doneda / Le Quan Ninh / Nuria Andorra: El Retorn De L'Escolata (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))



 Stay Current With Squidco

We're never quite caught up with new releases that constantly come in our door, and we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said, the following releases have already been stocked at Squidco, and are able to be ordered. 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 .

• You can see the latest fully cataloged items in our store by using our New Releases section.

• You can see Recently Restocked items on this page.

• You can ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.



Nels Cline / Elliott Sharp :
Open The Door
(Public Eyesore)

Anthony Coleman :
Sounding Board
(zOaR Records)

Jurg Frey :
Composer, Alone [3 CDs]
(elsewhere)


Sarah Hennies:
SOVT
(elsewhere)

Eric La Casa / Jerome Noetinger:
Off Tracks
(erstwhile)

Amanda Monaco (w/ Michael Attias / Sean Conly / Satoshi Takeishi) :
Deathblow [VINYL]
(Genevieve Records)


Shoko Numao:
The Siwnin Sails
(elsewhere)

Samuel Reinhard :
For 10 Musicians
(elsewhere)

Elliott Sharp:
Mare Crisium
(zOaR Records)


What Is Music:
Volume 1 Liquid Metal Dreaming
(MusicNow)




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