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• Zoh Amba
• Albert Ayler
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• Marion Brown/Burton Greene Quartet
• Miles Davis 3rd Quintet
• +DOG+
• Paul Dunmall
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• Lob Instagon
• Pharaoh's Daughter
• The Remote Viewers

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ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd

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Jazz & Improvisation

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Ayler, Albert: Reference: Albert Ayler, Spirits & Spirits Rejoice [CD + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)

Uniting Albert Ayler's 1964 New York sessions for Spirits (Debut) and Spirits Rejoice (ESP, with Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Call Cobbs, Henry Grimes, Gary Peacock, Sunny Murray, Normand Howard and Earle Henderson, this remastered edition captures Ayler's volatile balance of spiritual song, sculptural horn lines, churning bass motion, ecstatic fanfare and free jazz intensity.

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Beiderbecke, Bix: Reference: Bix Beiderbecke, 1924 to 1928 [2 CDs]
(ALAY)

Gathering 45 small-group recordings from 1924-1928, this restored 2-CD reference traces Bix Beiderbecke's singular cornet and piano artistry alongside Frankie Trumbauer, Miff Mole, Don Murray, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti and others, revealing a poised, lyrical and formally lucid voice whose economy, harmonic curiosity and graceful invention helped shape early jazz beyond its dance-band conventions.

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Blake, Ran: Voices
(Tzadik)

Ran Blake, in his 90s and still one of American music's most singular pianists, performs a solo program of jazz, folk, gospel, film noir and even holiday music, bringing his darkly lyrical, deconstructive approach to melodies reshaped through memory, silence and shadow, in a profound late-career statement of mystery, tenderness and deep patience.

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Brown, Marion / Burton Greene Quartet: Reference: Capricorn Moon, Why Not & With Burton Greene Quartet [2 CDs + POSTCARD]
(ALAY)

Gathering key 1965-66 New York sessions, this 2-CD set traces alto saxophonist Marion Brown's emergence in the free jazz vanguard through Capricorn Moon, Why Not? and Burton Greene quartet recordings, with Alan Shorter, Bennie Maupin, Stanley Cowell, Henry Grimes, Sirone, Rashied Ali and others shaping music of lyrical urgency, open-form momentum and evolving collective freedom.

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Davis, Miles 3rd Quintet: Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe [2 CDs + 2 POSTCARDS]
(ALAY)

Documenting Miles Davis' 1969 "lost" third quintet live in Berlin, Stockholm and Rotterdam with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, this 2-CD set captures the post-In a Silent Way ensemble reshaping material headed toward Bitches Brew, balancing lyricism and abstraction through open forms, electric-piano clusters, volatile rhythmic invention and Davis' fiercely exploratory trumpet.

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Dunmall, Paul: Afraid To Speak
(Discus)

Returning to a stripped-down free-blowing setting, Paul Dunmall leads a responsive group with Corey Mwamba on vibraphone, Steven Saunders on electric guitar, Dave Kane on double bass, Miles Levin on drums and Xhosa Cole guesting on flute and piccolo, creating five incisive yet finely detailed improvisations of saxophone fire, resonant texture, electric abrasion and collective momentum.

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Grew, Stephen: Pianoply
(Discus)

Stephen Grew performs a completely improvised solo piano session on Sansom Studios' bright-toned Yamaha, recorded in three unedited sections divided only by tea breaks, using the studio setting to explore a different acoustic focus from his church and concert recordings, balancing clarity, momentum, lyric fracture and spontaneous structure, with the closing piece offered in tribute to drummer Tony Bianco.

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

A first-meeting trio of Teresa Hackel on recorders and voice, Stefan Strasser on piano and synth, and Mia Zabelka on violin, voice and electronics, recorded live in Cologne for Strasser's 60th birthday, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, strings, keys, electronics and vocal resonance merge into a patient, tactile field of discovery, response, and newly formed collective language.

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Squidco Pick

Hemingway, Gerry / Izumi Kimura / Frank Gratkowski / Christian Weber: Live At Bau 4
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Gerry Hemingway leads a site-specific quartet with pianist Izumi Kimura, multi-reedist Frank Gratkowski and bassist Christian Weber, weaving composed structures, extended techniques, improvisational formations and wood-scrap percussion from Bau 4 itself into a tribute to the venue's founders, balancing melodic fragments, rhythmic propulsion, microtonal color and vivid ensemble transformation.

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Jeffery, Hilary (w/ Delius / Dunmall / Jeffery / Poulou): Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett
(Discus)

Rooted in Keith Tippett's late brass suite Winter's Welcome, Hilary Jeffery reimagines the material through multi-tracked brass, computer and improvisational expansions with Julie Tippetts' voice, Tobias Delius' tenor saxophone and clarinet, Paul Dunmall's saxophones and Eleni Poulou's synthesizer and music box, creating a prism-like tribute of resonant harmony, memory, song and exploratory transformation.

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Pharaoh's Daughter: Songs of Desire
(Tzadik)

Basya Schechter's Pharaoh's Daughter transforms the Biblical Song of Songs into an expansive multilingual cycle of sacred love and earthly desire, sung in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic, Spanish and French, with oud, guitar, ney, qanun, saz, trumpet, violin, bass, keyboards, percussion and layered voices shaping an 18-year project of devotion, sensuality and pan-Mediterranean resonance.

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Squidco Pick

Remote Viewers, The: Winter Library Vol 1
(Remote Viewers)

The first volume in The Remote Viewers' Winter Library series, this live London quartet recording brings David Petts and Adrian Northover together with John Edwards and Steve Beresford, reworking material from The Remote Code into an acoustic chamber of tenor and soprano saxophones, resonant bass, objects and toys, balancing angular themes, brittle textures, oblique melody and free improvisational exchange.

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Experimental/Electronic

+DOG+: Angel Wings [VINYL]
(Love Earth Music)

A family-centered +DOG+ vinyl release led by Steve Davis with Lob Instagon, Edward Giles, Mackenzie Kourie, Chuck Foster, Bobby Almon and Jack Szymczak, shaping eleven compact pieces of experimental noise, drone, abrasion and collage into a reflective sequence where harsh electronics meet themes of memory, witness, animals, forgiveness, hope, and everyday love.

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Dysmorfic +DOG+: To The Usual Atomic Rhetoric Vol. 1
(Love Earth Music)

Italian avant-grind duo Dysmorfic pair Davide Buccedi's volatile drumming with Tom Conte's fretted and fretless bass, then fold in Steve Davis' +DOG+ electronics for five compact assaults where grindcore velocity, prog-jazz dislocation and harsh ambient noise collide, turning riffs into unstable events and brief tracks into dense, abrasive miniatures of rhythm, texture, tension, resistance, and rupture.

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+Felladog+: III
(Love Earth Music)

The third electronics-only collaboration from Cleveland sound artist Jim Szudy and Steve Davis' +DOG+ unfolds as ten compact-to-extended pieces of industrial drone, electroacoustic noise, distortion, scrape and low-frequency pressure, continuing +Felladog+'s harsh but carefully shaped language of rusted texture, buried signal, abrupt rupture, and immersive sonic decay.

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Lob Instagon: Blues For Nobody
(Love Earth Music)

Lob Instagon gathers poems, sound art, loops and live Instagon recordings into a headphone-minded collage of spoken word, outsider blues, experimental jazz fragments and noise texture, with Lob's compositions and performances joined by Dan Shinder, Rooster Sanchez, Lattney Brian Jones, Mingus Murado and Ruben Riera in a rough-edged, playful document of Thee Instagon Foundation's ongoing creative magick.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Amba, Zoh: Eyes Full
(Matador)

Zoh Amba turns away from the ecstatic saxophone improvisations that first brought them attention, taking up voice and acoustic guitar for a raw singer-songwriter album of blues-tinged Appalachian folk, joined by longtime collaborator Kevin Hyland on electric guitar and Dirty Three drummer Jim White, whose loose, intuitive pulse supports songs of tenderness, hardship, and spiritual searching.

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Amba, Zoh: Eyes Full [VINYL]
(Matador)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

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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: Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: Core of Existence

The sixth entry in Ivo Perelman's expanding Duologues series, and the sixth album in Squidco's digital label Squid Note Records, pairs his searching tenor saxophone with Damon Smith's commanding double bass, a freely improvised exchange of raw physical immediacy and deep listening, where intertwining lines, extended techniques and spontaneous form turn dialogue itself into the core of the music.

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Also Available Now

Barry Chabala & Clara Byom — Bella's Ghost
Acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects in a raw yet lyrical free improv duo.

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

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

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

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

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Coming to Squid Note Records in August
The Stateless Trio (Countryman / Hirsh / Bates:
In The Sunrise of Some Other World

The in September, a new duo album of Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!

Tore Elgaroy and Henry Kaiser: The Sound of the Stars (New Noise)

Daniel Carter / Steve Hirsh: Convocation (Mahakala Music)

Steve Beresford / Pierpaolo Martino / Mark Sanders: Be S-Mart (Confront)

Melaine Dalibert / David Sylvian: Vermilion Hours (Ici dailleurs)

Agusti Fernandez / Artur Majewski / Albert Cirera / Ramon Prats: Som-hi! (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Julia Eckhardt: Blanca (Another Timbre)

Lori Goldston: Open Space (Relative Pitch)

Arkady Gotesman: Music For An Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness)

Nicolas Collins / Birgit Ulher: Spark Gap (Relative Pitch)

Albert Ayler Quintet: Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 And Newport 1967 Live First Release (Thingamajig)

Merzbow / Mats Gustafsson / Balasz Pandi: Cuts Cut (Victo)

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: Core of Existence (Squid Note Records)

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