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Essential Artists

• Autophagia
• Josh Berman Trio
• Samuel Blaser Quartet
• Charles Downs Quartet (w/Paz/Saft/Morris)
• Expanse
• Satoko Fujii
• Hajstra (Ilnicka/Doskocz/Trilla)
• Jon Irabagon
• Henry Kaiser
• Le GGRIL + DDK
• Leap Of Faith Orchestra
• Michael Marcus Quartet (Marcus/Williams/Rodriguez/Mednard)
• Meketa Power Electronics/Cut
• Milton Michaeli/Asaf Shchori/Hamid Drake
• Tyshawn Sorey (w/O'Farrill/Shim/Korten/Allen II/Victor)
• TRAC (Teddy Ryles/Alexander Cooper)
• Nils Wohlrabe/Karin Johansson/Hasse Westling

Essential Labels

577 Records
Blaser Music
Bu Lang Tribute Cake
Corbett vs. Dempsey
ESP Disk
Evil Clown
Libra

Love Earth Music
Metalanguage
OUTERDISK
Pi Recordings
Tour de Bras
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Jazz & Improvisation

Squidco Pick

Berman, Josh Trio: Everybody Else's Life, Too
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Cornetist Josh Berman's trio with Jason Roebke on bass and Chris Corsano on drums brings Chicago's jazz lineage into sharp contemporary focus, balancing compact composition and expansive interaction through playful, adventurous music that draws on early jazz, AACM-rooted invention, melodic swing, textural abstraction, and volatile rhythmic exchange.

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Squidco Pick

Blaser, Samuel Quartet: Rosina
(Blaser Music)

Drawing on Italian folk melodies, family memory, and the legacy of Blaser's maternal grandmother, Resistance fighter Rosina Pierina Scarpioni, trombonist Samuel Blaser joins Russ Lossing on piano, Masa Kamaguchi on bass, and Billy Mintz on drums in a deeply personal quartet session of open spaces, raucous interplay, lyrical intimacy, and contemporary improvisation shaped by heritage, song, and identity.

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Squidco Pick

Blaser, Samuel Quartet: Rosina [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Blaser Music)

Cassette + Download edition of the CD listed above.

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Squidco Pick

Downs, Charles Quartet (w / Paz / Saft / Morris): Inner
(ESP Disk)

A long-overdue first sole-leader album from drummer Charles Downs, formerly Rashid Bakr, bringing his deep history with Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, Other Dimensions in Music, and the New York avant-garde into a collective quartet with Hery Paz on saxophone, Jamie Saft on piano, and Joe Morris on bass for five improvisations of fire, lyricism, angular reflection, and seasoned rapport.

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Expanse: Amplitudes
(Evil Clown)

Returning Expanse to its quieter, more spacious origins, David Peck, Kelsey Gallagher, David Welans, Eric Dahlman, and Michael Knoblach shape a lower-dynamic session of reeds, flutes, trumpet, overtone voice, electronics, bells, gongs, found percussion, and invented objects, allowing subtle textures, restrained sonorities, and eccentric timbral details to speak with unusual clarity.

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Squidco Pick

Fujii, Satoko: Bunker Ulmenwall Orchestra [2 CDs]
(Libra)

A rediscovered 2014 live recording captures Satoko Fujii leading a specially assembled Bielefeld orchestra of professionals and young regional musicians through her monumental Shiki and works by Andreas Kaling, Natsuki Tamura, Luise Volkmann, and Fujii, blending conduction, written structure, collective improvisation, electronics, dual drums, and volatile large-ensemble energy.

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Hajstra (Ilnicka / Doskocz / Trilla): In The No Time
(Tour de Bras)

Formed from the evolving duo of electric guitarist Pawel Doskocz and drummer Vasco Trilla and expanded in 2023 with flutist Zofia Ilnicka, Hajstra creates a responsive trio language of free improvisation, drones, ambient collage, extended instrumental technique, and richly shifting soundscapes, where each gesture is transformed into fluid, abstract narrative.

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Irabagon, Jon : Raw Dog (solo for contrabass saxophone)
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Returning to Chicago with a fierce solo recital for contrabass saxophone, Jon Irabagon explores the instrument's cavernous depth, reverberant resonance, and agile extremities through unaccompanied improvisations and lesser-known works by Julius Hemphill and Anthony Braxton, revealing both the deep blues gravity and structural ingenuity of their music.

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Squidco Pick

Kaiser, Henry: Gateway To Strangeness (solo guitar)
(Metalanguage)

A limited artist-released solo guitar recording from Henry Kaiser on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harp guitar, and seven guitars laid across a table, presenting concise to medium-length explorations of resonance, distortion, extended-string sonority, tabletop texture, and improvisational invention from one of creative music's most idiosyncratic and restless guitarists.

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Le GGRIL + DDK: Diffraction
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)

Bringing together Swiss-German trio DDK — Jacques Demierre on piano, Axel Dorner on trumpet, and Jonas Kocher on accordion — with Quebec's large improvising ensemble Le GGRIL, this expansive collaboration uses the ensemble as living material for a collective work of juxtaposition, superposition, sonic individuality, and shared compositional energy across a broad electroacoustic terrain.

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Leap Of Faith Orchestra: Fitness Payoffs
(Evil Clown)

Leap of Faith's core duo of David Peck on reeds, electronics, strings, percussion, and invented instruments with Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic, voice, and percussion expands to an eight-piece Evil Clown Orchestra with brass, reeds, guitar, bass, drums, electronics, and real-time processing, creating a high-energy improvisation of horn frenzy, dense counterpoint, shifting sonorities, and collective transformation.

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Squidco Pick

Marcus, Michael Quartet (Marcus / Williams / Rodriguez / Mednard): Next Stop Down
(ESP Disk)

Bringing Michael Marcus' reeds and tarogato into a quartet with pianist Rod Williams, bassist Ricky Rodriguez, and drummer Allan Mednard, this ESP-Disk release extends Marcus' post-bop and avant-jazz language through compositions shaped by funky Monk-like angles, tight rhythmic interplay, lyrical woodwind clarity, and the seasoned drive of players versed in blues, free jazz, and modern creative music.

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Michaeli, Milton / Asaf Shchori / Hamid Drake: Universal Butterfly
(577 Records)

Bridging generations of creative music, pianist Milton Michaeli, double bassist Asaf Shchori, and drummer Hamid Drake form a vividly responsive trio, blending original compositions and improvisation into music shaped by jazz and Latin traditions, deep grooves, bowed textures, lyrical bass movement, spiritual rhythm, and inspirations from Sun Ra and Ras Michael.

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Squidco Pick

Sorey, Tyshawn (w / O'Farrill / Shim / Korten / Allen II / Victor): Members... Don't! [2 CDs]
(Pi Recordings)

Reimagining Max Roach's 1968 call for perseverance through a contemporary lens, drummer and arranger Tyshawn Sorey leads Adam O'Farrill on trumpet and electronics, Mark Shim on tenor saxophone, Lex Korten on piano, Tyrone Allen II on bass, and Fay Victor on vocals in an expansive live suite of turbulent intensity, patient development, and shattering release.

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Squidco Pick

TRAC (Teddy Ryles / Alexander Cooper): Heavy Nano Ream Aria [2 CDs]
(Bu Lang Tribute Cake)

Extending their TRAC debut Cylinder Plus, Teddy Ryles and Alexander Cooper shape a 90-minute two-CD computer-music composition developed with custom source-filter modeling and cepstral-based transfer methods, transforming digital artifacts, modeled resonance, spectral detail, and unstable electronic textures into a long-form electro-acoustic study of timbre, residue, structure, and abstraction.

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Wohlrabe, Nils / Karin Johansson / Hasse Westling: Sonic Waves
(OUTERDISK)

Drawing on drone, ambient sound, and free improvisation, guitarist/electronics player Nils Wohlrabe joins Karin Johansson on piano, prepared piano, and toy piano, with Hasse Westling on double bass, shaping electronically processed ocean waves, resonant strings, and acoustic depth into an unpredictable, atmospheric soundscape of pulsing motion, shifting timbre, and expansive, wave-like momentum.

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Experimental/Electronic

Autophagia: Communicate
(Love Earth Music)

The solo noise project of Noah Jerge, also associated with the power-electronics project Mindcrawler, Autophagia turns communication into overload on this Love Earth Music release, using harsh electronics, damaged signal, feedback, density, and physical pressure to create a raw California underground statement where speech collapses into rupture and amplified confrontation.

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Meketa Power Electronics / Cut: Split
(Love Earth Music)

Pairing Carver and Steven Meketa's electronica, electronics, and harmonica as Meketa Power Electronics with Cut's solo composer/performer works, this Love Earth Music split moves through devotional power electronics, abrasive noise, breath-driven instability, and concentrated sound pressure, contrasting raw spiritual confrontation with direct, stripped-down underground sound construction.

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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.

Latest Release

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue 6: 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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Squid Note Records

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!

Pierre Favre
The Squid's Ear Interview

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

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

Szilard Mezei Octet: Only In Movies (FMR)

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!)

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)

Stay Current With Squidco

We're never quite caught up with new releases that constantly come in our door, and we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said, the following releases have already been stocked at Squidco, and are able to be ordered. In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release.

• 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.

Dionee: Mille-feuilles [VINYL] (Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)	Audrey Lauro / Christian Pruvost / Peter Orins: Dans-sons as we are (Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)	Joelle Leandre / Remy Belanger de Beauport: Jeux De Mains [VINYL] (Tour de Bras)
Tony Orzano / Bryan Rohmer / Jeremy Wexler: Blown Fuse (Sonic Index Works)	Virginie Reid: Mille Soleils A L'oeil Nu [VINYL] (Virginie Reid )	Turbulence: Adjacent Flow Rising (Evil Clown)

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