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The Squid's Ear Magazine
Record Store Day 20% Vinyl Sale April 17-19!

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March 17, 2025

"Improvised music accepts extreme and absurd parts of all of us [...]
Daring to be truly yourself and risking failure
Is rewarded with attention and respect;
We all want to see the extraordinary happening before our eyes."
—Hannah Marshall

 Essential Artists

• John Bruschini (Bruschini/Nolet/Aries/Reed/Hirschfield)
• Barry Chabala/Clara Byom
• Efternoler/Friis/Borchert
• Eva Novoa
• Floridis/Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Vorfeld
• Goal Weight (Maggie Cox/Jennifer Gersten)
• Leap Of Faith
• Hannah Marshall
• Neurodivergent Orchestra
• Re-Ghoster Extended
• Rodrigue/Radich/Mar
• Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Santos/Trinite
• Schouten/Courtois/Borges/Baux
• Simulacrum
• Suspensao
• Trilla/Bromander/Zethson/Kuchen
• John Zorn/Brian Marsella
• John Zorn/The Gnostic Trio
(Frisell/Wollesen/Emanuel)

 Essential Labels

577 Records
Cathexis Records
Creative Sources
Evil Clown

 Konnekt
Relative Pitch
Squid Note Records
Tzadik
Squidco RSD Sale

To celebrate Record Store Day (April 18, 2026), this weekend we're taking 20% off all vinyl releases — LPs, 10", and 7" records — across the store!

Dive into a great selection of vinyl releases spanning our core categories — Improv & Jazz, Electronic & Experimental, Contemporary, and Rock forms — with titles that reflect the depth, diversity, and adventurous spirit of the Squidco catalog.

This special sale runs all weekend, from Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19, and with many of these albums available in limited quantities, now is the time to explore and secure something truly exceptional for your collection!


Click Here to Shop the 20% Off Vinyl Sale


In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store. Orders must be placed through our shopping cart. Price shown is discounted price. Sale ends Sunday, April 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last. Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.





 New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation
Bruschini, John (Bruschini / Nolet / Aries / Reed / Hirschfield): As You Were
(Cathexis Records )

Blending avant-garde sensibilities with groove-driven electric jazz, guitarist John Bruschini leads a New York quintet through compositions that shift from soulful ballads to funk-infused energy, balancing expressive lyricism and dynamic interplay with a flexible ensemble that bridges fusion, improvisation, and melodic depth.
Buy $13.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 Chabala, Barry / Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost
(Squid Note Records)

Blending acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects, Barry Chabala and Clara Byom craft a deeply intuitive duo session that moves between unedited studio improvs and expanded "extractions," weaving folk-inflected fragments, graphic score realizations and haunting textures into a raw yet lyrical free improv language shaped by trust, contrast and evolving interplay.
Buy $10Listen
Efternoler, Anne / Maria Laurette Friis / Johanna Borchert: We Are. Profoundly. Predisposed. To Drowning.
(Relative Pitch)

Recorded in Copenhagen studio and live settings, the trio of Anne Efternøler, Maria Laurette Friis, and Johanna Borchert craft an intimate free improv dialogue where voice, trumpet, flute, and prepared piano transform personal reflections on relationships and daily life into fluid, emotionally resonant textures, balancing vulnerability, abstraction, and a quietly life-affirming poetic interplay.
Buy $13.95Listen
Eva Novoa: Solo (I) [VINYL]
(577 Records)

On her first solo piano recording, Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Eva Novoa explores an intimate and adventurous sonic palette across six original pieces, combining grand piano with Fender Rhodes, electric harpsichord, gongs, percussion, voice, and whistling, creating a rhythmically charged and cinematic performance that expands the expressive possibilities of the solo format.
Buy $14.4Listen
Floridis, Floros / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Michael Vorfeld: Dots And Dashes
(Creative Sources)

The quartet of Floros Floridis, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, and Michael Vorfeld crafts a sparse and texturally open electroacoustic performance where pointillistic percussion replaces bass grounding, allowing clarinet-centered lines, subtle string interplay, and crackling electronics to unfold in shifting, time-dilated continuities in a refined, contemporary approach to free improv.
Buy $16.95Listen
Goal Weight (Maggie Cox / Jennifer Gersten): Keep Telling Yourself That
(Relative Pitch)

A debut release from New York-based duo Goal Weight, bassist Maggie Cox and violinist Jennifer Gersten deliver a wildly inventive session of acoustic string free improv, merging gut-strung resonance and prepared violin textures into a raw, playful, and sharply expressive dialog that balances abrasive sonorities with lyrical interplay and a mischievous, genre-defying spirit.
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Leap Of Faith: Matter Self Organizes
(Evil Clown)

Expanding from the long-running Leap of Faith core duet, bringing together a sextet of reeds, brass, cello, bass, percussion, and electronics in a fluid electroacoustic improvisation where shifting instrumental doublings, richly varied global percussion, and evolving textures drive a continuous transformation of sonority, creating a deeply immersive and dynamically unfolding exploration of collective free improv.
Buy $12.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 Marshall, Hannah: Grazing
(Relative Pitch)

Presenting two extended solo performances recorded at Cafe Oto, cellist Hannah Marshall draws on classical training, theatre, and jazz to shape a deeply immersive free improv work, where patient explorations of tone evolve into tense constellations of harmonics and release through propulsive bowing, balancing immediacy, physicality, and a thoughtfully unfolding sonic narrative.
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Neurodivergent Orchestra: The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight
(Evil Clown)

Expanding the Evil Clown universe with a humor-driven electroacoustic improvisation, the Neurodivergent Orchestra blends dense ensemble interplay, electronics, and an extraordinary array of instruments with fully improvised spoken-word banter, where playful, absurdist narrative threads intertwine with dynamic sonic exploration to create a richly textured, unpredictable, and engaging collective performance.
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Squidco Pick
 Re-Ghoster Extended: Dreaming With The Lights On [VINYL]
(Konnekt)

Recorded live at the Archipel Festival, this quintet of Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Jerome Noetinger, Fritz Welch, and Nate Wooley delivers an intense electroacoustic performance where composed frameworks erupt into explosive, immersive interactions, as voice, trumpet, piano, percussion, and electronics collide in dense, mutating textures that are disorienting, consuming, often volatile, yet consistently exhilarating.
Buy $15Listen
Rodrigue, Ernesto / Maria Radich / Maria do Mar : Ethereal Sighs
(Creative Sources)

Recorded live in Lisbon, violist Ernesto Rodrigues joins vocalist Maria Radich and violinist Maria do Mar in a free improv trio where close-range string interplay and crackle box electronics create high-register tension, while voice moves within the texture through whispers and cries, shaping an intimate, spatially focused performance balancing density, restraint, and evolving interaction.
Buy $16.95Listen
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Carlos Santos / Monsieur Trinite: Untitled Dream
(Creative Sources)

Framed as a shifting, dreamlike improvisation, this electroacoustic quartet led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, with cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, Carlos Santos on electronics, and percussionist Monsieur Trinité, unfolds a fluid free improv session that dissolves into evolving textures, balancing tension, restraint, and collective interplay within an immersive sonic landscape.
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Schouten / Courtois / Borges / Baux: Open Space
(Relative Pitch)

Inspired by Georges Perec's Espèces d'espaces, this quartet with Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois, Sofia Borges, and Pierre Baux merges spoken voice, clarinet, cello, and percussion in a fluid free improv framework, shaping text into a sonic architecture where silence, gesture, and sound interact in a richly textured, theatrical exploration of space and narrative.
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Simulacrum: Modeling Personas
(Evil Clown)

The Simulacrum ensemble expands its electroacoustic palette on Modeling Personas, bringing together a fluid septet of winds, strings, percussion, and extensive electronics in a dense and highly textural session where layered improvisations, shifting instrumental permutations, and rich sonic experimentation create a dynamic and immersive exploration of timbre, form, and collective interplay.
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Squidco Pick
 Suspensao: Something Ancient Listens Within Us. The Light Has Forgotten Its Name But Will Remain.
(Creative Sources)

Bringing together an octet of long-associated improvisers led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, this single extended work unfolds as a fluid, introspective collective statement of shifting timbres and spectral harmonies with moments of tension and release, forging a deeply personal and evolving free improv narrative shaped by continuity, interaction and shared intuition.
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Trilla, Vasco / Vilhelm Bromander / Alex Zethson / Martin Kuchen: Up North
(Creative Sources)

Blending solo and ensemble free improv, percussionist Vasco Trilla joins Vilhelm Bromander, Alex Zethson, and Martin Kuchen in a Stockholm session where drones, elastic bass textures, and intricate percussive detail evolve through responsive interplay, culminating in a resonant solo performance that reflects a dynamic exploration of texture, tension, and transformation.
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Squidco Pick
 Zorn, John / Brian Marsella: The Bagatelles Vol. 7
(Tzadik)

Performing thirteen selections from John Zorn's 2015 Bagatelles collection, pianist Brian Marsella delivers a dynamic solo recital that navigates angular, atonal forms and moments of striking lyricism, blending classical precision with jazz spontaneity to create an intimate, virtuosic, and emotionally resonant interpretation of Zorn's expansive compositional language.
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Squidco Pick
 Zorn, John / The Gnostic Trio (w/ Frisell / Wollesen / Emanuel): Sing Me Now Asleep
(Tzadik)

Reuniting Bill Frisell, Kenny Wollesen, and Carol Emanuel as The Gnostic Trio, John Zorn presents a refined set of compositions that blend chamber minimalism, early music influences, and ambient textures, where delicate interplay, spacious forms, and a touch of electronics from Ikue Mori yield a serene, introspective, and subtly cinematic exploration of tone and atmosphere.

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Squid Note Records is our in-house label created to support adventurous new recordings. We launched Squid Note Records to release music we believe in — directly, carefully, and fairly. But we didn't set out with a formal plan to start a label. Squid Note grew from conversations with artists who trusted us and asked for a way to release work that might not otherwise find its audience.

So this isn't simply "our" label. It's something we are building together with the musicians themselves. The direction is shaped as much by the artists as by us — a collaborative effort grounded in mutual respect and shared commitment; each release is an equal partnership.

New Release: Barry Chabala & Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost
Bella's Ghost (upcoming)

Blending acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects, Barry Chabala and Clara Byom craft a deeply intuitive duo session that moves between unedited studio improvs and expanded "extractions," weaving folk-inflected fragments, graphic score realizations and haunting textures into a raw yet lyrical free improv language shaped by trust, contrast and evolving interplay.

Listen / Buy on Bandcamp

Also Available Now
Joel Futterman - Absorb

Joel Futterman — Absorb
Solo piano, deep-flowing narrative arcs and resonant detail.

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman - Reflective

Joel Futterman — Reflective
Nineteen concise vignettes: sustain, staccato, and shifting harmonic mirrors.

Listen / Buy

Daniel Levin - At Dropa House

Daniel Levin — At Dropa House
Solo cello exploring extended techniques, theatrical gesture, and resonant physicality.

Listen / Buy

Remergency - Wave Benders

Remergency — Wave Benders
Avant-rock intensity meets free jazz interplay in a dynamic trio setting.

Listen / Buy

Coming in May
Ivo Perelman & Damon Smith — Duologue: Core of Existence
Ivo Perelman & Damon Smith (upcoming)

Ivo Perelman & Damon Smith — Duologue: Core of Existence

Continuing his expansive Duologues series, saxophonist Ivo Perelman joins bassist Damon Smith for a deeply interactive session where spontaneous form emerges through close listening and exchange, their lines intertwining with fluid lyricism and raw intensity, mapping a dynamic terrain of free improv that reflects both distinct voices and a shared, evolving musical language.

Pre-Order on Bandcamp



The Squid's Ear

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



Believe (Farrar / Manojlovic / Thomas / Pike): Spirits Of The Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch)
Believe (Farrar / Manojlovic / Thomas / Pike): Spirits Of The Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch)

Uneven Eleven (Segers / Hawyard / Kawabata): Live in Brighton (Discus)
Uneven Eleven (Segers / Hawyard / Kawabata): Live in Brighton (Discus)

Daniel Levin: At Dropa House (Squid Note Records)
Daniel Levin: At Dropa House (Squid Note Records)

Mike Osborne / Stan Tracey: Original (Cadillac)
Mike Osborne / Stan Tracey: Original (Cadillac)

John Edwards / Luis Vicente / Vasco Trilla: Choreography of Fractures (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
John Edwards / Luis Vicente / Vasco Trilla: Choreography of Fractures (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Zeena Parkins / Cecilia Lopez: Redshifts (Relative Pitch)
Zeena Parkins / Cecilia Lopez: Redshifts (Relative Pitch)

Peter Evans / Mike Pride: A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch)
Peter Evans / Mike Pride: A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch)


Daniel Levin
The Squid's Ear Interview

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

Eri Yamamoto / Matthew Shipp: Horizon (Mahakala Music)
Eri Yamamoto / Matthew Shipp: Horizon (Mahakala Music)

JEM3 (JT Lewis / Elliott Sharp / Marco Cappelli): Apices (Klanggalerie)
JEM3 (JT Lewis / Elliott Sharp / Marco Cappelli): Apices (Klanggalerie)

Oakland Reductionist Orchestra: West and East Baying (Queen Bee Records)
Oakland Reductionist Orchestra: West and East Baying (Queen Bee Records)



 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.





Ricardo Arias / Jaap Blonk:
Lucht
(Kontrans)

Casserley / Lash / Magee / Marks:
Livingry
(Creative Sources)

HCK / STR / ZBL:
Koln 60
(Creative Sources)


Masayo Koketsu / Nava Dunkelman:
Veins of Rain
(Relative Pitch)

Vadim Neselovskyi :
Perseverantia
(Tzadik)

Gerhard Uebele / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues :
Solitude
(Creative Sources)


Birgit Ulher / Jaap Blonk:
Breezes
(Kontrans)

Carlos Zingaro / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues :
'Pataphysique
(Creative Sources)

John Zorn (w/ Marsella / Roeder / Smith / Hashimoto):
Alea Iacta Est
(Tzadik)


John Zorn / John Medeski Trio:
The Bagatelles Vol. 8
(Tzadik)


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