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Jazz & Improvisation
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4tet (Jing / Wintsch / Oester / Pfammatter): Different Song - Step Into The Future
(Leo)
An unconventional blend of instruments creates different, but captivating, sounds and structures by 4tet, a quartet of Chinese musician Jing (pipa, guqin) and Swiss jazz and free improvisers Wintsch, Oester, and Pfammatter.
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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Evocations
(Leo)
A collection of seven live recordings of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra playing with a sound similar to Sun Ra in compositions that allow each player of the 24-piece band time to showcase their talent.
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Falzone, James Allos Musica: Lamentations
(Allos Musica)
Chicago clarinetist James Falzone's longstanding Allos Musica ensemble with oud player Ronnie Malley and Tim Mulvenna on hand drums and percussion, playing collective improvisations inspired by Arabic musical forms.
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Falzone, James Allos Musica: The Sign and the Thing Signified
(Allos Musica)
An eclectic collection of compositions from clarinetist James Falzone based on his longstanding interest in semiotics, performed with improvisers Katherine Young, Amy Cimini (Architeuthis Walks on Land), Tim Mulvenna, Kevin Davis and Brian Dibble.
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Fester (Ali / Grollman): Sip and Bite
(Prom Night Records)
Fester is the duo of Brooklyn bassist Sean Ali and Manhattan drummer David Grollman, using extended and unusual techniques to create mesmerizing and riveting improvisations, here in 19 short works.
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Five Dollar Ferrari (Henkel / Carlson): F$F!
(Prom Night Records)
One composition each from Downtown NY guitarist Dustin Carlson and trumpeter Brad Henkel, building works that use minimal development, advanced techniques, and spoken word that yields surprising and cathartic performances.
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IKB: Monochrome Bleu Sans Titre
(Creative Sources)
Referencing the work of French artist and composer Yves Klein, this large group of Creative Sources regulars perform the 4 part Monochrome Bleu Sans Titre, a subtle and rich work of acoustic and electronic improvisation.
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KLANG: Brooklyn Lines...Chicago Spaces
(Allos Musica)
Klang's 4th release takes the quartet of James Falzone (clarinet), Tim Daisy (drums), Jason Roebke (bass) & Jason Adasiewicz (vibes) into more abstract territory in works inspired by aesthetics such as graffiti, pavement, iron work, &c.
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KLANG: Other Doors
(Allos Musica)
Chicago's innovative Klang quartet's with James Falzone (clarinet), Jason Adasiewicz (vibes), Jason Roebke (bass) and Tim Daisy (drums) + guests in their 3rd recording, an album paying respect to Benny Goodman on his 100th birthday.
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KLANG: Tea Music
(Allos Musica)
The debut recording by Chicago-based clarinetist/composer James Falzone's quartet, KLANG with vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tim Daisy, drawing on influences including Jimmy Giuffre's early small groups.
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Kruglov / Lapin / Yudanov: Impulse
(Leo)
Alexey Kruglov (saxophones), Alexey Lapin (piano), and Oleg Yudanov (drums, percussion) play a mixture of composed and free improvised pieces in a collective that pushes the envelope of new Russian improvised music.
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Kuehne, Valerie / Joey Molinaro: Split [7-inch vinyl]
(Inverted Music Company)
Two unusual takes on string instruments in a split 7" release with two pieces each from New Yorkers Joey Molinaro on electric violin & viola + percussion & voice; and Valerie Kuehne on cello and voice.
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Lonberg-Holm / Strid: Discus and Plumbing
(Peira)
Recorded while bassist Fred Lonberg-Holm was touring Sweden, the meeting of the Chicago mainstay with in-demand Swedish drummer Ramond Strid deploys a variety of techniques and tools in a masterful dialog of free improvisation.
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Mcphee, Joe & Chris Corsano: Scraps and Shadows [VINYL]
(Roaratorio)
The second release from the duo of Joe McPhee and Chris Corsano, seven pieces from ballads to combustible free playing in an album dedicated to Fred Anderson, Paul Flaherty, Han Bennink, Kidd Jordan, &c.
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MMM Quartet (Frith / Leandre / Leimgruber / Curran): Live At The Metz' Arsenal
(Leo)
Master improvisers Joelle Leandre (double bass), Fred Frith (guitar), Alvin Curran (electronics, piano) and Urs Leimgruber (saxophones) in a new quartet for a live, abstract recording that moves at a fast past.
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Morgan / Minissali / Grollman: Yolt
(Prom Night Records)
A trio of NY free improvisers using unusual and advanced techniques - David Grollman (percussion); Weston Minissali (synth); Nathaniel Morgan (alto sax) - performing a 6-part series of "Yolts".
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Nabatov, Simon: Solo - Spinning Songs Of Herbie Nichols
(Leo)
A solo album by New York jazz pianist Simon Nabatov playing the works of the late Blue Note NY jazz pianist Herbie Nichols, recorded live in LOFT, Cologne in 2007.
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Natura Morta: (Loriot / Ali / Costa)
(Prom Night Records)
Natura Morta is a NY-based trio for viola, bass, and drums dedicated to exploring musical structures and relationships through collective all-acoustic improvisation that stretches from heated silences to relentless drones to frantic hyperactivity.
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Parker / Schlippenbach / Guy / Lovens / Lytton: 2X3=5
(Leo)
Two trios of powerful musicians, Parker/Guy/Lytton and Schlippenbach/Parker/Lovens, come together for a 77 minute-long collective performance of live improvisation full of vivacity and zest.
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Rubin, Harold and Ariel Shibolet and Between the Strings: One Voice and Live at the Tel Aviv Museum [2 CDs]
(Kadima)
Repackaging two earlier Kadima releases, clarinetist Harold Rubin's "solo album One Voice" and soprano saxophonist Ariel Shibolet's "Live At The Tel Aviv Museum" with Between the Strings.
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Silverman, Ken: Visionaries
(SoundSeer)
Performing on solo electric & acoustic guitars, oud, charango and synthesizer, NYC guitarist Ken Silverman dedicates this album to musicians such as T-Bone Walker, Hamza El Din, Jimmy Page, Robert Fripp, &c.
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Sunshine Soldier: (Henkel / Carlson / Stardrum)
(Prom Night Records)
Taking a hard edge on Downtown NY playing, this limited release presents two extended studio improvisations from the trio of trumpeter Brad Henkel, baritone guitarist Dustin Carlson, and drummer Booker Stardrum.
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Swirm: (Henkel / Grollman / Amat)
(Prom Night Records)
The New York duo Swirm of Brad Henkel (trumpet) and David Grollman (percussion) in a unique blend of virtuosic free improvisation, subtle sound exploration, and performance art, here adding free vocalist Laurie Amat for 6 compositions named by color.
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Testa, Carl: Uncertainty
(Uncertainty Music)
Connecticut based bassist, bass clarinetist, electronicist, and Braxton almnus Carl Testa in an album of original compositions with James Antonucci (reeds), Bill Carbone (percussion), and Gergely Kiss (clarinet).
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Vox Arcana: Aerial Age
(Allos Musica)
The second release from prolific Chicago-based drummer/composer Tim Daisy's two year-old working trio, Vox Arcana with Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello & electronics and James Falzone on clarinet.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Decimus: Decimus 11 [VINYL]
(Digitalis)
Founding member of No Neck Blues Band, Pat Murano's Decimus project releases its 11th of 12 anticipated LPs, a strange and disturbing record of guitar and sound work that juxtaposes menace and beauty.
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Karkowski, Zbigniew: Nerve Cell_0 (For Cello And Computer)
(Sub Rosa)
A juxtaposition of multiple sounds on adjacent strings from cellist Anton Lukoszevieze and sound artist Zbigniew Karkowski, creating fluctuating and rhythmical beatings in an ecstatic and epic vista of sound intended for loud playback.
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Oram, Daphne & Andrea Parker: Private Dreams and Public Nightmares
(Aperture)
Authorized to mine the immense BBC Daphne Oram archives, Andrea Parker and Daz Quayle created this intense and fascinating album by sampling and treating Oram's innovative work and sounds into a profound set of new collaborative works.
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Radigue, Eliane: Feedback Works 1969-1970
(Alga Marghen)
The complete documentation of Eliane Radigue's sound installations from 1969-1970, previously unpublished recordings from her feedback period using devices built in her own studio, influenced by Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrete.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Antony and The Johnsons: Cut the World [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Secretly Canadian)
A collection of live symphonic reworkings of recordings from four previous albums, plus a featured new song with lyrics and sound that portray Antony's views on nature and feminism.
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Captain Beefheart: The Spotlight Kid [VINYL]
(Reprise)
Beefheart's 1972 Warner release is a departure from the more bizarre work of Trout Mask, but still presents an unusual set of songs rendered by The Magic Band with classics like "Grow Fins" making this a welcome reissue.
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Hand to Man Band, The: You Are Always on Our Minds
(Post Consumer)
Bringing together pianist Thollem McDonas, Minuteman bassist Mike Watts, NY's Quakebasket percussionist Tim Barnes, and Bungles/Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich for an open-minded and uniquely diverse rock record.
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Hand to Man Band, The: You Are Always on Our Minds [YELLOW VINYL]
(Post Consumer)
Vinyl issue of the CD described above.
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Kazuhisa, Uchihashi And Yoshida Tatsuya: Barisshee
(Tzadik)
Magaibutsu drummer Yoshida Tatsuya and Innocence/Altered States guitarist Uchihashi Kazuhisa in a genre-shifting and inspired duo from two of Japan's most active rock improvisers.
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MARS: Live at Irving Plaza [VINYL]
(Feeding Tube Records)
The second volume of live Mars recordings from Feeding Tube recorded at the band's penultimate show, August 4 1978, with spectral help from Rudolph Grey on the side-long take of "NN End".
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Compositional
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Cage, John: John Cage Shock [VINYL 2 LPs]
(EM Records)
2 LP version of the John Cage Shock series compiled from 3 CD releases, featuring works: 26'55.988" for 2 Pianists and a String Player; Piano Music #7; 0'00"; Variations II - performed with David Tudor, Yoko Ono, John Cage, &c.
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Carrion, Ulises: The Poet's Tongue [VINYL]
(Alga Marghen)
First LP ever issued by Ulises Carrion who in 1975 created the legendary bookshop-gallery "Other Books & So", the first space dedicated exclusively to artists' publications such as artists' records, books, magazines, postcards.
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Gosfield, Annie With Kleier / Chiu / Falanga / Smith: Almost Truths And Open Deceptions
(Tzadik)
For her 4th Tzadik release composer Gosfield has put together a program of pieces inspired by 78rpm records, deterioration, junk dealers and baseball, plus a concerto for cello, a work for solo piano and broken shortwave radio, &c.
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Zorn, John: Rimbaud
(Tzadik)
A suite inspired by revolutionary French writer Arthur Rimbaud, including a chamber work, an electronic composition, a fully notated virtuosic piano piece accompanied by a free jazz rhythm section, and an outrageous file card piece.
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Books & Magazines
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Morris, Joe: Perpetual Frontier The Properties of Free Music [BOOK]
(Riti Publishing)
Joe Morris wrote this book to discuss aspects of free music, including responses to his questionnaire written by Joe McPhee, William Parker, Jamie Saft, Ken Vandermark, Marilyn Crispell, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Matthew Shipp, &c.
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Wire, The: #343 September 2012 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)
September 2012 issue of the UK's finest music magazine, with Josephine Foster; Laurie Spiegel; Penny Rimbaud & Gee Vaucher; Robert Hood; Terence Dwyer; Steve Beresford on Lol Coxhill; Collateral Damage Boiler Room; Peter Strickland; &c. &c.
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Squidco Labor Day Sale!
From Saturday, September 1 at 00:00 AM (midnight) EST until Monday, September 3 at 11:59 PM EST
we are running our annual labor day sale! This year all items added to the store in the year 2011 or before will be 20% off.
That's more than 6,000 items on sale, including new, used and closeout items!
All items eligible for the sale will be marked with a prominent "Labor Day Sale Item" in their product information at the right
of their product description.
Take advantage of this great discount to save on releases that you might have missed the first time around,
so visit Squidco starting Saturday morning to save!
In stock items only. Discount applied at checkout time for all eligible items in your shopping cart.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews
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Paul Rutherford and George Haslam with the Samuli Mikkonen Trio:
RAAHE '99 (For Paul Rutherford)
(Slam)
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ErikM & Michel Doneda:
Razine
(Monotype)
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Samuel Blaser Quartet:
Boundless
(Hatology)
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Krebs / Mayas / Caddy:
Thread
(Another Timbre)
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The Vinny Golia Sextet:
Abstractions And Retrocausalities
(Ninewinds)
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Talibam! & Sam Kulik:
Discover Atlantass
(Belly Kids)
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In Stock and Ready to Ship
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Acid Mothers Temple:
Son Of A Bitches Brew
(Important Records) |
Ambarchi, Oren:
Audience of One [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Touch) |
Ambarchi, Oren:
Sagittarian Domain
(Editions Mego) |
Berman, Josh & His Gang:
There Now
(Delmark) |
Berthet, Christophe:
Malval
(Creative Sources) |
Beuger, Antoine :
s'approcher s'éloigner s'absenter (performed by Barry Chabala/Dominic Lash/Ben Owen)
(erstwhile) |
Bleak House:
Dark Poetry
(Creative Sources) |
Cage, John:
Roaratorio - An Irish Circus on 'Finnegans Wake'
(Wergo) |
Corner, Philip:
Coldwater Basin No. 2 [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Alga Marghen) |
Corner, Philip / Michel Vogel / Phoebe Neville:
Musiques des Ailes/Winged Music [VINYL]
(Ricerca Sonora) |
Gregorio / Roebke / Labycz:
Colectivos
(Peira) |
Kaiser, Henry & Killick Hinds:
Nikola Tesla High School
(H(i)nds(i)ght) |
Killick:
Bull****
(Solponticello Records) |
Killick:
Exsanguinette
(Solponticello Records) |
Killick:
The Amplifucker
(Solponticello Records) |
Lonberg-Holm's Fast Citizens, Fred:
Gather
(Delmark) |
Marzette Watts & Company:
Marzette Watts
(ESP) |
Of Montreal:
For Our Elegant Caste [7" VINYL]
(Polyvinyl Record Co.) |
Of Montreal:
Paralytic Stalks [2 LPs]
(Polyvinyl Record Co.) |
Pilesar:
Stereo Space
(Pilesar Music) |
Reines D'Angleterre:
Globe et Dynastie [VINYL]
(Bo Weavil Recordings) |
Rosaly, Frank:
Centering and Displacement [VINYL & CD]
(Utech Records) |
Sun Ra and His Arkestra:
The Second Stop Is Jupiter [VINYL]
(Norton Records) |
Taylor, Cecil / Pauline Oliveros:
Solo - Duo - Poetry [DVD]
(Curtis R. Priem Exp Media And Performing Arts Center) |
Urabe, Masayoshi:
Kampanerura
(Utech Records) |
Various Artists:
District of Noise Vol. 5
(Sonic Circuits) |
Wolff, Christian / Keith Rowe:
(erstwhile) |
Zepubicle:
Scientists Levitate Small Animals
(Solponticello Records) |
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Squidco Storefront
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Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2001.
In 2010 we opened a storefront in downtown Wilmington, NC, giving customers access to our catalog
of more than 6,000 new items, plus hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items
not listed on our website. We're open Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat, 12:00-6:00 PM,
so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region make sure to stop by and say hello,
we'd love to play some music for you!
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because:
"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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