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Aug 27-30: All Used Albums are 20% Off!

Ambiances Magnetiques $10 Sale
100+ Albums At 10$ each!

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• Bohman/Lynch/Riley
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• Money
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• Theo Nugraha/+DOG+
• Elliott Sharp
• Frank Trompeter/Richard Gilman-Opalsky
• Mikolaj Trzaska/John Edwards/Mark Sanders
• Ute Wassermann

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Otoroku
Sonoris
Thin Wrist
zOaR Records

Ambiances Magnetiques $10 Sale: August 28 - 30

This weekend, we're setting the price of every in-stock single-CD album on the Canadian Ambiances Magnetiques label to $10, including many titles that have never been discounted before. Born from a collective of extraordinary musicians, the adventurous label has long moved freely between improvisation, jazz, contemporary composition and experimental forms. The sale begins with more than 100 albums, and many are the last copies on our shelves, so take a good look through the list before they're snatched up!

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In stock items only. Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, discounted price is the price shown. Sale items are not eligible for reward points. Quantities are limited, albums will disappear from the store when sold out. Sale ends Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 23:59 PM EST (GMT-5).

This weekend, through Sunday, August 30th, all used CDs in our catalog are on sale at 20% off their listed price! Most items in our used collection are lightly used copies that we used to catalog the new albums listed on our site, and unless otherwise noted, are in near mint condition. So have a good look through our used CD category, where you'll find some great albums selling at 20% off of their pre-sale price!

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20% Discounts end Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 23:59 EST (UTC-4). Prices shown are discounted price. While quantities last, sold out items will disappear from the store. Customers must place orders using our shopping cart to receive discounted prices. Sale items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Bohman, Adam / Sue Lynch / Crystabel Efemena Riley: Lynboril Lisinopril
(Otoroku)

Drawn together through London's Horse Improvised Music Club, Adam Bohman on amplified objects and strings, Sue Lynch on tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute, and Crystabel Efemena Riley on drums and metallics shape a buoyant, finely balanced trio language of crystalline winds, tactile percussion and eccentric object sound, playful and airy even as the interaction intensifies.

Buy $15.95

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Squidco Pick

Miguel, Sei: Viva! O Carro de Fogo de Sei Miguel [2 CDs]
(Clean Feed)

Featuring Sei Miguel on trumpet and direction with Fala Mariam, Nuno Torres, Pedro Lourenco, Bruno Silva, Andre Goncalves, Raphael Soares and Luis Desirat, documenting the final performances of O Carro de Fogo in two 2023 Portuguese concerts, where spacious ensemble architecture, microtonal phrasing and tightly controlled collective interplay affirm Miguel's singular late-period vision.

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Norbiga, Gladys: Kiss Me When I Die
(Love Earth Music)

Philadelphia sound artist, writer and Street Rat creator Gladys Nobriga transforms a 2020 book of original poetry into an intimate sound work, combining the texts with audio created in 2023-24 through a practice rooted in found objects, contact microphones, analog textures and raw performance, connecting written language, physical materials and deeply personal experimental sound.

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Sharp, Elliott: OCTAL: Book Five for 8-string guitarbass
(zOaR Records)

Returning to his custom Koll 8-string guitarbass for the fifth volume of the Octal series, Elliott Sharp builds improvisations from concepts in physics, language and philosophy, using a prime-number-derived tuning system alongside preparations, slides, EBow and spring bows to exploit the instrument's broad bass-to-guitar range, resonant body and richly layered electroacoustic color.

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Squidco Pick

Trompeter, Frank / Richard Gilman-Opalsky : Antifascist Freedom Music
(Mahakala Music)

Drawing on a 20-year musical partnership, Chicago-born saxophonist Frank Trompeter joins drummer, percussionist and wood flutist Richard Gilman-Opalsky for an impassioned studio duo of free jazz and creative improvisation, moving from melodic and swinging exchanges to raw, turbulent intensity shaped by deep familiarity, spontaneous interplay and an explicitly antifascist spirit.

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Squidco Pick

Trzaska, Mikolaj / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: Because It Happens [VINYL]
(gusstaff records)

Reuniting Polish reedist Mikolaj Trzaska on alto saxophone and bass clarinet with the long-integrated British rhythm team of bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders, this live Cafe OTO performance unfolds as spontaneous collective composition, shifting fluidly between eruptive free-jazz intensity, textured restraint, lyrical exchanges and rapidly redirected momentum.

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Wassermann, Ute: Chimeric [VINYL]
(Thin Wrist)

Expanding the voice into a mutable electroacoustic ecosystem, Ute Wassermann combines breath, multiphonics, growls, whispers and animal-like calls with bird whistles, jaw harps, hydrophones, drums and brass megaphones, creating six vividly spatial pieces where body, object and environment continually merge, fracture and reform.

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Experimental/Electronic

Drumm, Kevin: The Mild Temper [6 CD BOX SET]
(Sonoris)

Across six CDs and more than six hours, Kevin Drumm develops a vast electroacoustic environment of drones, micro-acoustic detail and shifting frequency structures, balancing stasis and motion through gradual transformations in density, resonance and spatial depth, for an immersive study in the physical and perceptual qualities of sound; mastered by Jim O'Rourke.

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Lanz, Joke / Matthew Taggart: Collaborations [7-inch VINYL']
(Love Earth Music)

Swiss turntablist and Sudden Infant founder Joke Lanz joins Fargo-based PCRV electronics artist Matthew Taggart for a compact 7-inch collaboration, bringing Lanz's volatile cut-up language and musique concrète instincts into contact with Taggart's improvised harsh electronics, abrupt textures and noise structures for an intensely concentrated meeting of two underground experimental practices.

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Money: 5 [2 CDs]
(Love Earth Music)

Steve Davis returns to his cryptic Money project with a fifth installment, extending the Love Earth Music series' stark world of dark ambient electronics, glitch, low-frequency vibration and slow-moving noise, an intentionally reduced and enigmatic counterpart to his +DOG+ work where repetition, suspended textures and uneasy electronic stasis become the organizing language.

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Nugraha, Theo / +DOG+: Split
(Love Earth Music)

Indonesian sound artist Theo Nugraha shares a split with Steve Davis' long-running +DOG+ project, pairing Nugraha's 15-minute "Dokset" with +DOG+'s equally expansive "April" in a meeting of Samarinda's experimental noise culture and an American project active since 1991, joining two independent approaches to electronics, improvisation, texture and underground 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 from Squid Note Records

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

John Tilbury: At Home [4 CD BOX] (Another Timbre)

LDL (Leimgruber/Demierre/Lehn): The Eerie Glow Of Jellyfish (Relative Pitch)

Magda Mayas' Filamental: Murmur (Relative Pitch)

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

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)

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

Ryoji Ikeda: Supercodex (Raster-Norton)

Motif with Axel Dorner: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)

Mary Halvorson / Hubert Bergmann: MixTour (Mudoks Records)

Olivia Block: Olivia Block (Another Timbre)

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

Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2003. In 2010, we moved to Wilmington, NC, providing regional and visiting customers access to our catalog of over 9,000 items, including hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items not listed on our website. We're open for visits by appointment during weekday afternoons, so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region, please email us to set up a time — we'd love to play some music for you!

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