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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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Squidco & The Squid's Ear

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August 21, 2026

"If you are receptive to hearing through the ears,
You would be mistaken to think it is the only way you hear."
— Barry Guy

 Essential Artists

• Angles 4 (Kuchen/Haker-Flaten/Stahl/Nordeson)
• Irene Aranda (Malfon/Aranda/Yamasaki)
• B:A:N:S BAND (Agnel/Butcher/Niggenkemper/Solberg)
• Believe (Farrar/Manojlovic/Thomas/Pike)
• Christiane Bopp
• Enso (Benjamin Dwyer/Rafal Mazur/Ramon Lopez)
• Glass Triangle (Parkins/Rasmussen/Sawyer)
• Golding/Brice/Prevost
• Frank Gratkowski/Sebi Tramontana/Steve Beresford
• Barry Guy/Roberto Ottaviano
• Leap Of Faith
• Joe Morris/Rob Brown/Anna Webber/Matthew Rousseaux
• Musicworks
• Neurodivergent Orchestra (aka The Wacky Banter Orchestra)
• Matthew Putman/Hill Greene/Francisco Mela
• Evil Clown Shorties

 Essential Labels

577 Records
Evil Clown
Fundacja Sluchaj!

 Matchless
Musicworks
Relative Pitch

 New Releases & Price Reductions

Jazz & Improvisation
Squidco Pick
 Angles 4 (Kuchen / Haker-Flaten / Stahl / Nordeson): Angles 4 [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Martin Küchen reunites the Håker Flaten/Nordeson core of Angles 3 with longtime Angles 6/8/9 vibraphonist Mattias Ståhl, revisiting older compositions in a lean quartet setting where volatile bass-and-drum momentum meets metallic resonance around Küchen's stark saxophone themes, distilling the larger ensemble's power into a clearer, more spacious and sharply focused form.
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Aranda, Irene (Malfon / Aranda / Yamasaki): May [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Pianist Irene Aranda brings together saxophonist Don Malfon and vocal artist Ami Yamasaki for a first trio recording built from three radically individual approaches to sound, merging prepared and extended piano techniques, Malfon's highly developed acoustic saxophone vocabulary and Yamasaki's echolocation-inspired voice into an unpredictable improvisational exchange of breath, resonance, friction and silence.
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Squidco Pick
 B:A:N:S BAND (Sophie Agnel / John Butcher / Pascal Niggenkemper / Stale Liavik Solberg): Foam & Mesh
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

The debut recording from B:A:N:S Band brings Sophie Agnel's radically extended piano together with John Butcher's exploratory saxophones, Pascal Niggenkemper's highly physical double bass and Ståle Liavik Solberg's responsive percussion in two long-form collective improvisations of texture, resonance, density and silence, captured live at Austria's 2024 Artacts Festival.
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Believe (Farrar / Manojlovic / Thomas / Pike): Nature's God [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

The second volume from Australian quartet BELIEVE's 2023 sessions at Golden Retriever Studio, with Peter Farrar on alto sax, Novak Manojlovic on piano, Clayton Thomas on double bass and Laurence Pike on drums, extending their intensely responsive collective improv through five pieces balancing free jazz, dense interaction, percussion-rich textures and moments of finely suspended restraint.
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Bopp, Christiane: Rever, murmurer, dire [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

French trombonist Christiane Bopp strips the instrument down to breath, metal, vibration, and raw physical gesture, using voice, mutes, and extended techniques to transform the trombone into an unpredictable field of whispers, drones, fractured melodies, and sudden eruptions, creating deeply intimate improvised music that moves between delicate precision and overwhelming force.
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Squidco Pick
 Enso (Benjamin Dwyer / Rafal Mazur / Ramon Lopez): Rhizoming
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

Irish guitarist Benjamin Dwyer, Polish bass guitarist Rafal Mazur and Spanish percussionist Ramon Lopez form Enso, a trio devoted to spontaneous collective improvisation, drawing on the idea of the single unbroken gesture to create fluid, continuously transforming music in which guitar, bass, drums and tabla interweave through close listening, shifting relationships and a kinetic sense of motion.
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Squidco Pick
 Glass Triangle (Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer): 3 X 1 [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen and Ryan Sawyer return for Glass Triangle's third album, expanding the electric harp, alto saxophone and percussion language of their earlier releases with voice, preparations and bells, while distilling their volatile free improvisation into shorter, sharply focused pieces balancing texture, space, momentum and spontaneous collective change.
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Squidco Pick
 Golding / Brice / Prevost: High Laver Levitations Vol 4: Sound-Out - jazz is dead, long live jazz
(Matchless)

Binker Golding, Olie Brice and Eddie Prévost reduce their earlier Secret Handshake with Danger collaboration to an elemental saxophone, bass and drums trio, bringing contemporary London jazz into Prévost's High Laver Levitations series through vigorous free improvisation where pulse, melody, resonance and abstraction continually test and renew the boundaries of jazz.
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Gratkowski, Frank / Sebi Tramontana / Steve Beresford: Almost This
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

Frank Gratkowski's reeds, Sebi Tramontana's trombone and Steve Beresford's piano meet in freely improvised music built on decades of individual experience and mutual trust, moving between playful exchange, dissonance, lyricism and near-organization in a Köln studio session that reveals three instantly recognizable voices continually reshaping their collective language.
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Guy, Barry / Roberto Ottaviano: Synantisi
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

A first recorded meeting between British bassist Barry Guy and Italian soprano saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano, bringing two master improvisers into a highly exposed duo setting where Guy's orchestral range of bowed, plucked and percussive bass techniques meets Ottaviano's agile soprano and voice in thirteen alert, rapidly evolving exchanges shaped by instantaneous response, restraint, lyricism and playful confrontation.
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Leap Of Faith: Independent Variables
(Evil Clown)

A sextet expansion of the long-running Leap of Faith core of David Peck and cellist Glynis Lomon, joined by John Fugarino, Bonnie Kane, Tom Swafford and John Loggia, drawing on deep shared histories and a vast arsenal of winds, strings, electronics and percussion to shape a continuously transforming 70-minute improvisation of dense ensemble interplay, contrasting sonorities and spontaneous structural invention.
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Squidco Pick
 Morris, Joe / Rob Brown / Anna Webber / Matthew Rousseaux: Counter Spectacle
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

Joe Morris leads alto saxophonist Rob Brown, tenor saxophonist/flutist Anna Webber and drummer Matthew Rousseau in a quartet balancing composed structure with spontaneous free improvisation, recorded live at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, where Morris's idea of a "continuous beginning" drives music shaped by collective interaction, change, freedom, hope and possibility.
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Musicworks: #154 Summer 2026 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)

Summer 2026 issue of Musicworks, featuring Anju Singh on sound art and bodily listening, [MONRHEA] on technology and ancestral knowledge, guitarist Arthur Bull's six decades of improvisation, drummer-composer John Hollenbeck and Mili Hong, plus Panayiotis Kokoras on his prize-winning Viper Snake, Toronto's Ministry of Phonic Services, reviews, and an accompanying compilation of works by featured artists.
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Neurodivergent Orchestra (aka The Wacky Banter Orchestra): Alien Sluts Need Snacks Too
(Evil Clown)

Neurodivergent Orchestra expands Evil Clown's improvisational language through a playful collision of horns, strings, electronics, percussion, real-time processing and spontaneously invented "wacky banter," shaping an alien-themed five-act narrative whose absurd humor, shifting textures and free interaction make theatrical storytelling an integral part of the ensemble's densely orchestrated improvisation.
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Putman, Matthew / Hill Greene / Francisco Mela: Bright Sun Outside
(577 Records)

Matthew Putman, Hilliard Greene and Francisco Mela reunite after Believe That Was Me for a second trio recording of spontaneous composition, balancing Putman's restless piano, Greene's fluid bass and Mela's drums and whistle in music that moves between abstraction, lyricism, turbulence and restraint, deepening a collective language rooted in free improvisation and attentive listening.
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Various Artists: Evil Clown Shorties Volume 8 (2026)
(Evil Clown)

The eighth Evil Clown "Shorties" collection gathers 14 compact improvisations drawn from 14 releases by nine ensembles and 28 musicians, offering a concise survey of the label's early-2026 activity as reeds, brass, strings, electronics, bass, percussion and spoken word cycle through rapidly changing configurations that distill Evil Clown's broad-palette approach into brief, sharply contrasting snapshots.
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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 from Squid Note Records
The Stateless Trio: In the Sunrise of Some Other World

The Stateless Trio: In the Sunrise of Some Other World

Developed through remote, spontaneously layered exchanges between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Minnesota, Rick Countryman's alto flute, replacing his customary alto saxophone, joins Richard Allan Bates' electric bass and effects and Steve Hirsh's reflective drumming in an organically connected improvisation of spacious textures, subtle rhythmic tension, and lyrical interaction.

Listen / Buy

The Squid Note Records Catalog
Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith — Duologue 6: Core of Existence
Searching tenor saxophone and commanding double bass in an intensely focused, freely improvised dialogue.

Listen / Buy

Remergency: Wave Benders

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

Listen / Buy

Daniel Levin: At Dropa House

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman: Reflective

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman: Absorb

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

Listen / Buy

Barry Chabala and Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost

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

Listen / Buy

Coming to Squid Note Records in October:
Duologues 7: Distillation
A new duo album from Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!

Perelman Shipp Distillation




The Squid's Ear

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



Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres / Schlippenbach / Kellers: Nickelsdorf (Creative Sources)
Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres / Schlippenbach / Kellers: Nickelsdorf (Creative Sources)

Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer: Glass Triangle (Relative Pitch)
Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer: Glass Triangle (Relative Pitch)

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

Christoph Gallio: XOXO, Birds & Dogs (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd)
Christoph Gallio: XOXO, Birds & Dogs (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd)

Ryoji Ikeda: Supercodex (Raster-Norton)
Ryoji Ikeda: Supercodex (Raster-Norton)

Motif with Axel Dorner: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)
Motif with Axel Dorner: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)

Mary Halvorson / Hubert Bergmann: MixTour (Mudoks Records)
Mary Halvorson / Hubert Bergmann: MixTour (Mudoks Records)

Olivia Block: Olivia Block (Another Timbre)
Olivia Block: Olivia Block (Another Timbre)

Matthew Wright (Jernberg / Ensemble Klang / Spheric Totemic): Cracked Glaze (False Walls)
Matthew Wright (Jernberg / Ensemble Klang / Spheric Totemic): Cracked Glaze (False Walls)

Thanos Chrysakis: Vita Morgana (Aural Terrains)
Thanos Chrysakis: Vita Morgana (Aural Terrains)

Tyshawn Sorey: Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (Dacamera Editions)
Tyshawn Sorey: Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (Dacamera Editions)

Kenny Wheeler Sextet: What Was (False Walls)
Kenny Wheeler Sextet: What Was (False Walls)



 Stay Current With Squidco

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• 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.



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