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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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May 29, 2026

"I just want the music to be more than the music."
I want the energy of it and the sound of it to create a space,"
In which you can have a deep experience."
—Myra Melford

 Essential Artists

• Bennardo, Maya / Erik Blennow Calalv / Kristofer Svensson
• John Cage (Wegmann/Debacker)
• Clifford Brown
• Columbia Icefield (Wooley/Alcorn/Mendoza/Sawyer)
• James Creed M. (To Your Ear Collective)
• Michael Foster/Christian Weber/Michael Griener
• Marco Fusi/Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
• Joel Futterman/William Parker
• Christoph Gallio
• Edu Haubensak
• Klaus Lang/Apartment House
• Machinefabriek
• Myra Melford/Satoko Fujii
• Ava Mendoza
• Matthias Muche Bonecrusher
• Ivo Perelman/Damon Smith
• Reuben/Hanslip/Lash/Hession
• Marta Warelis (w/Gay/Baars/Ng/Haker Flaten/Rosaly)

 Essential Labels

Another Timbre
Bead
Burning Ambulance Music
Enlightenment
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd

 Machinefabriek
Out Of Your Head Records
Relative Pitch
RogueArt
Squid Note Records

 New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation
Clifford Brown: The Ultimate Collection [4 CDs]
(Enlightenment)

A 4-CD survey of Clifford Brown's essential 1953-1956 Blue Note and EmArcy recordings, tracing his masterful trumpet voice through early leader dates, string settings, vocal and ensemble sessions, and the classic Max Roach quintet with Harold Land, Sonny Rollins, Richie Powell and George Morrow, capturing a foundational hard bop figure at astonishing creative strength.
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Squidco Pick
 Columbia Icefield (Wooley / Alcorn / Mendoza / Sawyer): A Silence Opens
(Out Of Your Head Records)

A deeply elegiac final statement from Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield, with Susan Alcorn's pedal steel, Ava Mendoza's guitar and voice, and Ryan Sawyer's drums joining Wooley's trumpet, amplifier, voice, whistling and footwork in music shaped by grief, memory and gratitude, responding to the deaths of Ron Miles and Alcorn through expansive, emotionally weighted improvisation.
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Foster, Michael / Christian Weber / Michael Griener: Selections from the Gutter
(Relative Pitch)

NYC saxophonist Michael Foster joins Swiss bassist Christian Weber and Berlin drummer Michael Griener for a visceral trio session of free improv charged with noir tension, drawing on American crime novelist David Goodis-inspired titles as the group moves through fractured momentum, suspenseful restraint and explosive exchanges shaped by deep rhythmic instinct and structural awareness.
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Fusi, Marco / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Suite
(Bead)

Italian violinist and viola d'amore explorer Marco Fusi meets Canadian bass guitarist and electronics performer Pierre Alexandre Tremblay in a first free improvisation recorded at Huddersfield, where bowed resonance, baroque memory, electric bass vibration and electronic transformation merge into a tactile electroacoustic dialogue of gesture, space, memory and shifting emotional tension.
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Futterman, Joel / William Parker: Transcendent Universe
(Burning Ambulance Music)

Joel Futterman and William Parker continue a collaboration of more than forty years in an hour of spontaneous composition, the pianist's heavy, high-energy approach meeting Parker's deeply grounded bass in two extended movements and a brief coda that balance ecstatic force, romantic beauty, collective listening and a rapturous sense of spiritual, improvised communion.
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Gallio, Christoph: XOXO, Birds & Dogs
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Swiss saxophonist Christoph Gallio presents two complementary works: a 2016 Lucerne set of concise, aphoristic exchanges with Raphael Loher on piano and effects, and a 1988 NYC electroacoustic session with Matthew Ostrowski on ARP synthesizer and sampling and Alfred Zimmerlin on cello and effects, balancing wit, beauty, abstraction and sharply focused improvisational form.
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Squidco Pick
 Melford, Myra / Satoko Fujii : Katarahi
(RogueArt)

Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii meet in a rare two-piano encounter rooted in decades of friendship, their live performance unfolding as the heart-to-heart conversation suggested by the title, with both artists so deeply attuned that individual lines dissolve into a shared language of spontaneous form, lyrical intensity, emotional openness and beautifully balanced collective invention.
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Squidco Pick
 Mendoza, Ava : Alive Alone, Alive Together
(Burning Ambulance Music)

Merging solo performances from the US and Italy with fiery duets alongside drummer Hamid Drake at Antwerp's Summer Bummer Festival, guitarist/vocalist Ava Mendoza delivers eight live tracks of charged blues, rock, free improv and psychedelic intensity, her bold electric sound moving from raw riffs and declarative vocals to spiralling abstraction and ego-free guitar heroics.

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

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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Reuben / Hanslip / Lash / Hession: Quartetics
(Bead)

Uniting Federico Reuben's laptop improvisation and live coding with Mark Hanslip's tenor saxophone, Dominic Lash's double bass and Paul Hession's drums, this first meeting of the quartet creates a vivid field of possibility, balancing glitching electronic textures, elegant reed detail, inventive bass work and nuanced rhythmic motion in exploratory free improv.
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Squidco Pick
 Warelis, Marta (w/ LaMar Gay / Baars / Ng / Haker Flaten / Rosaly): Still Life with Lemons
(Relative Pitch)

Marta Warelis leads her first sextet as composer and bandleader in a live Bimhuis performance with Ben LaMar Gay, Ab Baars, Karen Ng, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Frank Rosaly, shaping an energetic, interplay-driven music of multilayered reeds, trumpet electronics, piano, synth, bass and percussion into a joyous exploration of multiphonics, beat frequencies and Warelis' expanding compositional language.
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Experimental/Electronic
Squidco Pick
 Machinefabriek: Samen
(Machinefabriek)

Collecting Machinefabriek works from singles, EPs and compilations released between 2015 and 2025, Rutger Zuydervelt presents a 17-track, 76-minute continuous mix that serves as both a personal selection of favourites and an inviting entry point into his immersive world of ambient detail, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic texture.
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Composed & Contemporary
Bennardo, Maya / Erik Blennow Calalv / Kristofer Svensson : For A Lemon Tree
(Another Timbre)

Exploring Kristofer Svensson's 11-limit Just Intonation tuning for Prakāśa, violinist Maya Bennardo, bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calälv and Svensson on Indonesian kacapi shape a fragile, resonant chamber music of fully notated form and modal improvisation, where breath, string resonance, silence and unequal intervals create a quietly radiant field of melancholy and meditative depth.
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Squidco Pick
 Cage, John (Wegmann / Debacker): Two2 (1989) for 2 Pianos
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Judith Wegmann and Marlies Debacker perform John Cage's 1989 Two2, a late work for two pianos whose thirty-six short lines unfold through independent tempi, shared pauses and resonant decay, allowing the duo's deep experience in composed and improvised music to shape a live performance of patient asymmetry, concentrated listening and quietly radical spaciousness.
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Creed, James M. (To Your Ear Collective): Tending
(Another Timbre)

Presenting four recent works by James M. Creed performed by Standard Issue, To Your Ear Collective and Outline Ensemble, this debut on Another Timbre explores sparse notation, instrumental doubling, fragile homophony and gently shimmering ensemble textures, as overlapping groups of young UK experimental musicians sustain music of quiet uncertainty, collective attention and delicate, slowly forming resonance.
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Haubensak, Edu: Sequoia I-IV (for 6 Pianos)
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Swiss composer Edu Haubensak's 2019-2024 cycle for six scordatura pianos, performed by Simone Keller, Rafael Rütti, Asia Ahmetjanova, Stefan Kägi, Yoko Sawa and Stefan Wirth, builds a monumental field of microtonal resonance and harmonic colour, paying homage to Ivan Wyschnegradsky's Arc-en-ciel while linking Haubensak's mature tuning work to his 1979 Schwarz Weiss.
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Squidco Pick
 Lang, Klaus / Apartment House: Geschrieben In Wasser
(Another Timbre)

Klaus Lang's chamber works for Apartment House trace a patient, inwardly focused music of sustained tones, structural clarity and lyrical restraint, drawing from Pre-Raphaelite poetry, Basho's autumnal imagery and Keats' epitaph as clarinets, strings, piano and electric organ reveal slowly shifting architectures where beauty, stillness and sound become forms of quiet protest.
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Squidco Pick
 Muche, Matthias Bonecrusher: Densities - for 12 trombones & percussion
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Expanding Matthias Muche's BONECRUSHER into a 12-trombone ensemble with Etienne Nillesen on extended snare drum, this powerful ezz-thetics release explores the trombone as a massive yet highly detailed acoustic organism, moving between composition and improvisation through crackling chords, microtonal pressure, resonant overtones, dense brass clouds and fiercely sculpted collective sound.
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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.

View / Buy at Squidco

Also Available Now
Barry Chabala & 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 improv duo.

Listen / Buy

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


The Squid's Ear

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



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

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

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

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

Paul Rogers: Peace And Happiness (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Paul Rogers: Peace And Happiness (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Camila Nebbia (feat. Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok): A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch)
Camila Nebbia (feat. Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok): A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch)

Eric La Casa / Francisco Lopez: Collection Supranaturelle: Induction / Mutation (Swarming)
Eric La Casa / Francisco Lopez: Collection Supranaturelle: Induction / Mutation (Swarming)

Oliver Lake / Fred Hopkins / Phillip Wilson / Baikida Carroll / Michael Gregory Jackson: Live from Studio Rivbea (NoBusiness)
Oliver Lake / Fred Hopkins / Phillip Wilson / Baikida Carroll / Michael Gregory Jackson: Live from Studio Rivbea (NoBusiness)

James Opstad: Drift (Another Timbre)
James Opstad: Drift (Another Timbre)

Taborn / Cline / Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic Records)
Taborn / Cline / Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic Records)

Fonda, Joe Quartet (w/ Wadada Leo Smith / Satoko Fujii / Tizano Tononi): Eyes On The Horizon (Long Song Records)
Fonda, Joe Quartet (w/ Wadada Leo Smith / Satoko Fujii / Tizano Tononi): Eyes On The Horizon (Long Song Records)

Jane in Ether (Klein / Mayas / Voutchkova): Oneiric (Confront)
Jane in Ether (Klein / Mayas / Voutchkova): Oneiric (Confront)



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Ghazal Faghihi:
Penumbra
(Relative Pitch)

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

Sylvia Lim:
Flare
(Another Timbre)


Quagmire / Christer Bothen:
Rorane
(Relative Pitch)


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