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Essential Artists

• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
• Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin
• Derek Bailey/John Stevens
• Borah Bergman/Anthony Braxton/Peter Brotzmann
• Loren Connors/Alan Licht
• Paul Dunmall
• Elaine Mitchener
• Hedvig Mollestad Trio
• Evan Parker/Bill Nace
• Eiko Shibashi/Jim O' Rourke
• Shifa (Musson/Thomas/Sanders)
• Larry Stabbins/Mark Sanders
• Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii
• Thomas/Lash/Orrell

Essential Labels

Confront
Discus
Drag City
Libra
Mixtery

Open Mouth
Otoroku
Rolling Heads
Rune Grammofon

Squidco Cost Sale

This weekend we're offering a sale on our website, where your price is OUR COST for a selection of more than 150 CDs from our catalog of Jazz & Improvised Music, Experimental, Composed, and Rock-Based forms. This is our 3rd "Summer Sale" which we run to make space on our shelves and to help us bring in new releases for the busier seasons to come. A number of these items will not be restocked after this sale but will either be removed from our catalog or will go to special order status.Take a look through this set of albums, but hurry! This sale ends Sunday, September 14th at midnight.

Shop The Cost Sale

Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, prices shown are the discounted price. In-stock items only, items will disappear from the store if they sell out. Sale items are not eligible for reward points. Sale ends Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 23:59 EST, GMT-5.

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Ambarchi, Oren / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin: Ghosted III [VINYL]
(Drag City)

Guitarist Oren Ambarchi, bassist Johan Berthling, and drummer Andreas Werliin return for their third ghost, expanding their collective language with looser and more immediate performances, their intricate focus and rhythmic precision balanced by playful excursions through ambient neo-jazz, post-kraut, minimal funk, and prog-like energy through an ever-evolving sonic architecture.

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$23.95

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Bailey, Derek / John Stevens: The Duke of Wellington
(Confront)

Seminal figures in the evolution of free or nonidiomatic improvisation, guitarist Derek Bailey and percussionist/pocket trumpeter John Stevens are heard in a 1989 London performance vividly captured by Michael Gerzon at The Duke of Wellington, their restless and enthusiastic interplay shifting from angular invention to lyrical reflection in a compelling document of their remarkable rapport.

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$14.95

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Bergman, Borah / Anthony Braxton / Peter Brotzmann: Eight By Three
(Mixtery)

An extraordinary 1996 Mixtery Studio encounter between pianist Borah Bergman, Anthony Braxton on a wide range of reeds, and Peter Brötzmann on saxophones, clarinet, and tárogató, balancing ferocious torrents of free jazz interplay with moments of surprising lyricism and abstraction, as three titans of improvisation push their individual voices into a thrilling collective dialogue.

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$14.95

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Dunmall, Paul: Away With Troubles And Anxieties!
(Discus)

Delivering his sixth Discus Music release in two years, saxophonist Paul Dunmall leads a dynamic nonet drawn largely from Birmingham's thriving scene, joined by guests Martin Archer, Corey Mwamba, and John Ball, their first-take performances balancing sharply honed compositions with spontaneous invention in a powerful suite that shifts between bluesy themes, lyrical reflection, and collective fire.

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Mitchener, Elaine: Solo Throat [VINYL]
(Otoroku)

Recorded at Hackney Road Studios in London, vocalist, composer, and movement artist Elaine Mitchener presents her first solo LP, drawing on the works of African-American and African-Caribbean poets Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson, and N.H. Pritchard, creating twelve vocal compositions that disrupt semantic sense through phonetic freedom, silence, and multiphonics.

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$34.95

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Mollestad, Hedvig Trio: Bees In The Bonnet
(Rune Grammofon)

Reuniting after four years, guitarist Hedvig Mollestad with Ellen Brekken and Ivar Loe Bjørnstad deliver six tracks that fuse hard rock riffing, progressive jazz, and psychedelic exploration, balancing raw power with nuanced improv, from searing grooves and shifting meters to poignant balladry, in seamless interplay of exhilaration and deep expression.

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$18.95

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Parker, Evan / Bill Nace: Branches (Live at Cafe OTO)[VINYL]
(Open Mouth)

Meeting for the first time at Café OTO in 2024, soprano saxophonist Evan Parker and guitarist Bill Nace on electric taishogoto create an extraordinary improvised duo, Parker's circular-breathed torrents entwining with Nace's drone-soaked dynamism, from raw intensity to transcendent stillness in a performance of unbounded spirit, deep resonance, and ecstatic liberation.

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$35.95

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Shifa (Musson / Thomas / Sanders): Ecliptic
(Discus)

The trio of Rachel Musson on tenor saxophone, Pat Thomas on piano, and Mark Sanders on drums perform as Shifa, their 46-minute improvisation moving through fiery intensity and spacious reflection in a cohesive journey shaped by deep trust, attentive listening, and fearless exploration, captured live at London's Café Oto in 2023.

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Stabbins, Larry / Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring
(Discus)

Bringing together two major figures of UK improvisation, saxophonist Larry Stabbins - long associated with innovators like Mike Westbrook, Keith Tippett, and Robert Wyatt - and percussionist Mark Sanders (Paul Dunmall, John Butcher, Veryan Weston, &c) in 2024 Bristol sessions captured with stunning clarity, their 1st-take performances unfolding as thoughtful, exploratory dialogs of texture, rhythm, and timbre.

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Tamura, Natsuki / Satoko Fujii: Ki
(Libra)

The tenth duo recording from pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura presents eight compositions of slow, lyrical beauty-seven by Tamura and one by Fujii-crafted with exquisite restraint and intimacy, as the long-time collaborators sustain a dignified atmosphere of quiet intensity and emotional depth, shaping silence and subtle detail into music of profound elegance.

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$17.95

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Thomas / Lash / Orrell: Lifeline
(Discus)

Breaking away from their acoustic trio Bleyschool, the long-standing partnership of Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, and Tony Orrell reconfigure as Lifeline, trading piano, bass, and drums for keyboards, electroacoustic percussion, and electric guitar in a spontaneous studio performance that channels noise, dance, and rock energy into electrified free improv brimming with risk, tension, and surprise.

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Experimental/Electronic

Shibashi, Eiko / Jim O' Rourke: Pareidolia [VINYL]
(Drag City)

The fifth collaboration between composer-performers Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, reshaping material from their 2023 European tour into a vivid electroacoustic dialogue, layering live improvisations, acoustic fragments, and evolving digital textures into a kaleidoscopic sound world of subtle juxtapositions and fluid, unpredictable structures of color, resonance, and playfully reimagined form.

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$23.95

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: Black Mountain Side
(Rolling Heads)

With more than a hundred albums behind them, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO unleash another ecstatic journey, a studio album blending swirling psychedelia, trance-inducing drones, cosmic synths, and Kawabata Makoto's searing guitar with hurdy-gurdy textures from Tomo Katsurada, heavy bass from Taigen Kawabe and soaring vocal layers, a kaleidoscopic ritual of boundless imagination.

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$18.95

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Connors, Loren / Alan Licht: The Blue Hour
(Otoroku)

Celebrating three decades of collaboration, Loren Connors and Alan Licht performed at Café OTO in 2023, captured in their first set with Connors on piano before shifting to guitar, their improvisation unfolding with spacious warmth, melodic restraint, and shimmering textures that evoke Rothko-like hues, blending blues abstraction and lyrical fragments into a calm, luminous dialogue.

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$17.95

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Emil Karlsen
The Squid's Ear Interview

Ava Mendoza / Gabby Fluke-Mogul / Carolina Perez: Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance Music)

Jim Denley / Peter Farrar / Dale Gorfinkel: Vents (Relative Pitch)

Cecil Taylor / Tony Oxley: Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance Music)

Pellegrini Quartet: Luigi Nono Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima; Ludwig van Beethoven Streichquartett a-moll op. 132, First Visit (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd.)

Joel Futterman
Reflective

Joel Futterman
Absorb

Brandon Seabrook: Object Of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic Records)

Jean-Jacques Birge: Pique-nique Au Labo 4 (GRRR)

Karl Evangelista
The Squid's Ear Interview

Giovanni Maier / Alexander Hawkins: Two For Keith (Long Song Records)

Josh Sinton
The Squid's Ear Interview

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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