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August 7, 2026

"Beautiful melodies and harmonies
Come about as the result of chance procedures
Just as often as chaos does."
— Eugene Chadbourne

 Essential Artists

• Axioms
• Lenny Bruce
• Jaki Byard
• Eugene Chadbourne
• Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe
• J.J. Gregg/Ravi Albright
• Henry Grimes/Marzette Watts
(w/ Robinson/Lancaster/Sharrock/Thornton/Berger/Moses &c)
• K Trio (Kei/Takao/Yoichi)
• Mnemonist Orchestra
• Fats Navarro
• Chris Potter (feat Bill Frisell)
• Ike Quebec
• Rabbit Rabbit Radio (Carla Kihlstedt/Matthias Bossi)
• Simulacrum
• The Stateless Trio
• John Tilbury
• Turbulence

 Essential Labels

577 Records
Acrobat
ALAY
Another Timbre
Chadula
Edition Records

 Enlightenment
Evil Clown
IntangibleCat
Klanggalerie
Libra
Squid Note Records

 New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation
Axioms: Existential Generalizations
(Evil Clown)

Uniting Jane SpokenWord's poetry with Albey onBass's fretless bass and voice, Axioms expands into a quintet as PEK, Michael Caglianone, and John Fugarino deploy reeds, brass, electronics, percussion, and resonant studio instruments around the text, yielding a dense but attentive improvisation that moves between contrapuntal detail, ritual color, and sudden collective turbulence.
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Squidco Pick
 Byard, Jaki: The Classic 1960s Albums [4 CDs]
(Enlightenment)

Collecting eight Jaki Byard albums from 1960-67, this 4-CD set follows the pianist and occasional alto saxophonist through his extraordinary synthesis of ragtime, stride, swing, bop and free jazz, joined across varied sessions by Booker Ervin, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Joe Farrell, Richard Williams, Ron Carter, Roy Haynes, Alan Dawson and others in music of encyclopedic reach, sharp humor and restless invention.
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Chadbourne, Eugene: May Day
(Chadula)

Eugene Chadbourne marks May Day with a solo program of labor songs, originals and political parodies drawn from folk and country traditions including Utah Phillips and Merle Haggard, using acoustic guitar, banjo and voice to combine working-class history and protest with caustic humor, spontaneous reinvention and the unruly experimental instincts that have long distinguished his song performances.
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Squidco Pick
 Fujii, Satoko Orchestra Kobe: After the Storm
(Libra)

Satoko Fujii conducts her 14-piece Orchestra Kobe through a four-part work composed during the pandemic as an optimistic vision of shared humanity, joining layered reeds and brass with Takumi Seino's volatile guitar, Keishiro Saito's bass and dual drummers Yoshikazu Isaki and Hiromasa Sadaoka in a sweeping progression from stately melody and intimate subgroups to dissonant mass, fiery improvisation and a jubilant final theme.
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Gregg, J.J. / Ravi Albright: Minto & Elsewhere [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(IntangibleCat)

Drawing on live performances shaped by changing audiences, weather, and landscape, J.J. Gregg's sitar and Ravi Albright's tabla unfold through intricate rhythmic cycles, resonant drones, and spacious melodic exploration, balancing North Indian classical traditions with an open improvisational sensibility that lets environmental sound and spontaneous interaction become part of the music's quietly immersive flow.
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Squidco Pick
 Grimes, Henry / Marzette Watts (w/ Robinson / Lancaster / Sharrock / Thornton / Berger / Moses &c): The Call
(ALAY)

Reissuing Henry Grimes' concise, darkly lyrical 1965 trio album with clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Tom Price alongside Marzette Watts' turbulent 1966 octet session, this remastered edition contrasts free improvisation with a dense collective of Byard Lancaster, Clifford Thornton, Sonny Sharrock, Karl Berger, Juini Booth and J. C. Moses, Grimes the link between two vital expressions of 1960s freedom
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K Trio (Kei / Takao / Yoichi): Parientes De La Vida
(577 Records)

Japanese K Trio unites Kei's poetry with Takao Miyazaki's electric guitar and objects and Yoichi Ichikawa's piano, objects and subjective stereophonic recording, preserving performances from three differently scaled rooms as language, improvisation and environmental resonance interrupt and reshape one another, shifting between intimate spoken detail, unstable acoustic perspective and exploratory sound.
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Navarro, Fats : Reference: Nostaligia w/ Tadd Dameron and Charlie Rouse / Dexter Gordon / Ernie Henry / Art Blakey
(ALAY)

Restoring New York sessions from 1947 to 1949, this collection places Fats Navarro's brilliant, cleanly articulated trumpet within Tadd Dameron's harmonically refined bebop writing, joined by Charlie Rouse, Dexter Gordon, Ernie Henry, Leo Parker, Wardell Gray, Cecil Payne, Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke and others as the ensembles move between intricate modern lines, swing-rooted lyricism and early Afro-Cuban color.
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Squidco Pick
 Potter, Chris (feat Bill Frisell): Alive With Ghosts Today
(Edition Records)

Chris Potter's suite draws on abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to examine conviction, sacrifice and America's unresolved conflicts, with Bill Frisell's grainy guitar joined by Burniss Travis, Nate Smith, Sara Caswell, Rane Moore and Zekkereya El-magharbel in an American-rooted sound of blues, folk melody, spacious orchestration and rhythmic drive, balancing historical gravity with vivid ensemble color.
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Quebec, Ike: The Classic Blue Note Collection [4 CDs]
(Enlightenment)

Spanning Ike Quebec's Blue Note work from 1940s swing-era 78s through his early-1960s comeback, this four-CD set follows the tenor saxophonist's broad, breathy sound across blues, ballads, jukebox organ sessions, hard bop and Brazilian-inflected soul jazz, joined by Sir Charles Thompson, Earl Van Dyke, Skeeter Best, Milt Hinton, Sam Jones, J. C. Heard and others in performances of warmth, weight and direct emotional power.
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Simulacrum: Mimicry
(Evil Clown)

David Peck and John Fugarino move between reeds, brass, synthesizers, electroacoustic devices, and percussion alongside Robin Amos's keyboards and processed instruments, and Michael Knoblach's global percussion ,creating a long-form improvisation whose lean quartet framework supports rapid instrumental shifts, spacious electronic textures, resonant objects, and sharply contrasting sonorities.
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Squidco Pick
 The Stateless Trio: In the Sunrise of Some Other World
(Squid Note Records)

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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Turbulence: Windward Havoc
(Evil Clown)

A balanced sextet of reeds, brass, bass, percussion, electronics, and real-time processing, with PEK, John Fugarino, Eric Dahlman, David Welans, Scott Samenfeld, Michael Knoblach, and Joel Simches moving through continuous instrumental changes to shape an expansive improvisation of shifting sonorities, dense textures, resonant percussion, electroacoustic color, and boldly contrasting ensemble formations.
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Experimental/Electronic
Squidco Pick
 Mnemonist Orchestra: Mnemonist Orchestra
(Klanggalerie)

Reissuing the 1979 debut from the Colorado collective that evolved through Mnemonists into Biota, four extended improvisations place Hugh Ragin, William Sharp, John Herdt and a large ensemble amid brass, reeds, prepared piano, electric instruments, voices, found percussion and tapes mixed live into volatile intersections of free jazz, musique concrète, sound poetry and industrial texture.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
Squidco Pick
 Bruce, Lenny: Comedy & Controversy: The Original Albums 1958-61 [2 CDs]
(Acrobat)

Collecting most of Lenny Bruce's first four Fantasy albums from 1958-61, this 2-CD set captures the comedian's freewheeling blend of satire, social criticism, and taboo-breaking language as he targets religion, politics, show business, sexuality, and American hypocrisy, documenting the fearless improv style that reshaped stand-up comedy and made his obscenity battles a landmark in the history of free expression.
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Squidco Pick
 Rabbit Rabbit Radio (Carla Kihlstedt / Matthias Bossi): Volume 4: The Animal I Am
(Klanggalerie)

Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi's Rabbit Rabbit Radio return for their 4th volume of music poised between art rock, folk, chamber music, industrial texture and improvisation, joined by Jeremy Flower and Jon Evans as voice, strings, drums, electronics, guitars and bass shape finely crafted pieces on the border between popular music and art song, balancing experimental detail with direct emotional impact.
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Composed & Contemporary
Squidco Pick
 Tilbury, John: At Home [4 CDs]
(Another Timbre)

Spanning home recordings from 2018 to 2026 with selected archival material, this four-CD set closes John Tilbury's recording career through piano, clavichord, organ and voice, joined by Keith Rowe, Klaus Filip and six pianists in music ranging from Elizabethan songbooks and contemporary compositions to quiet improvisation and reflection.
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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.

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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 September:
a new duo album from Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!


The Squid's Ear

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



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

Double Helix Quartet (Jackson Jr. / Ali / Harris / Ra): Double Helix Quartet (Amalgam)
Double Helix Quartet (Jackson Jr. / Ali / Harris / Ra): Double Helix Quartet (Amalgam)

Marty Ehrlich / Julius Hemphill: Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch)
Marty Ehrlich / Julius Hemphill: Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch)


Pierre Favre
The Squid's Ear Interview

Steve Swell / Ellen Christi: Songs from the Poetry Box (The Bodily Press)
Steve Swell / Ellen Christi: Songs from the Poetry Box (The Bodily Press)

Ava Mendoza / Dave Sewelson: Of It But Not Is It (Mahakala Music)
Ava Mendoza / Dave Sewelson: Of It But Not Is It (Mahakala Music)

Szilard Mezei Octet: Only In Movies (FMR)
Szilard Mezei Octet: Only In Movies (FMR)

Lao Dan and Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness)
Lao Dan and Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness)

Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / John Edwards / Mark Sanders): Sharp Illusion ((Listen! Foundation) Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / John Edwards / Mark Sanders): Sharp Illusion ((Listen! Foundation) Fundacja Sluchaj!)



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