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UPDATE
November 3, 2017
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones."
—John Cage
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Essential Labels
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Another Timbre
Creative Sources
Edition Wandelweiser
FMR
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Fou Records
Intakt
Victo
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Creative Artists
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• Block, Olivia
• Anthony Braxton
• John Cage
• Xavier Camarasa / Jean-Marc Foussat
• Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert
• Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman / Evan Parker / Ikue Mori
• Fabrice Favriou / Jean-Luc Petit / Julien Touery
• Fouick: Blick & Jean-Marc Foussat
• Jurg Frey
• Frode Gjerstad / Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
• Kevin Good
• Barry Guy / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton
• Insub Meta Orchestra
• Isotope Ensemble
• Irene Kurka
• Laubrock Ingrid Anti-House (w/ Halvorson, Davis, Hebert, Rainey, Noriega)
• Szilard Mezei / Tim Trevor-Briscoe / Nicola Guazzaloca
• Matthias Muche / Ernesto Rodrigues / Nicola L. Hein / Miguel Mira / Carlos Santo
• Yoko Muira / Jean Michel Van Schouwburg
• Munich Rat Pack (Schindler / Kolb / Tramontana)
• Redox
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017
(Victo)
On the 30th anniversary of the Victo Festival Anthony Braxton took to the stage for a magnificent solo performance on the alto sax, performing 8 spontaneous compositions and an 8+ minute version of "Body and Soul", seamlessly crossing lyrical and complex approaches to the horn using his unique intervallic, trimbral and diagrammatic language, a stunning and embraceable accomplishment.
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Camarasa, Xavier / Jean-Marc Foussat: Dans les Courbes
(Fou Records)
Matching two distinct keyboards--Xavier Camarasa's piano with Jean-Marc Foussat's synthi AKS--two improvisers present two extended works roughly translating to "The Immensity of The Instincts" and "There, or all is water ...", contrasting between melodic and otherworldly sounds, a complex tapestry that guides and excites the listener in an unusual convergence.
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Carrier, Francois / Michel Lambert: Out Of Silence
(FMR)
Freely improvised music from the masterful duo of Canadian saxophonist Fracois Carrier and drummer/percussionist Michel Lambert, performing live at Ryan's Bar in Stoke Newington, London in 2015, seven tracks showing the depth of discussion between these two long collaborating musicians, supporting and pushing each other to great heights.
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Courvoisier, Sylvie / Mark Feldman / Evan Parker / Ikue Mori: Miller's Tale
(Intakt)
Collective improvisation from a quartet of masters -- NY based Sylvie Courvoisier on piano, Mark Feldman on violin, Ikue Mori on electronics, and London improviser Evan Parker on soprano and tenor sax -- for four pieces as a quartet and five duos of varying configurations, folding back the structure of the band through more intimate conversations; simply excellent.
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Favriou, Fabrice / Jean-Luc Petit / Julien Touery : S/T
(Fou Records)
Translating to "Fever Counts" and "At Lightening", the trio of Jean-Luc Petit on bass clarinet and alto & sopranino sax, Fabrice Favriou on electric guitar, and Julien Touery on piano and objects create impressive improvisations, the first a disruptive piece of detailed electracoustic colective interaction, the second a swelling work of sonic landscape.
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Fouick: Blick & Jean-Marc Foussat: Mastic Boreal
(Fou Records)
Primarily a creative filmmaker, Blick here provides narrative improvisation--phonemes, gutturals, word fragments, and spoken word--over improvising keyboardist Jean-Marc Foussat's Synthi AKS, creating expansive landscapes or curious audio aberrations, through four recordings demonstrating a diverse set of sonic environments interweaving voice and sound.
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Gjerstad, Frode / Fred Lonberg-Holm: The Houdan
(FMR)
A live recording from Kongsberg Jazzfestival in 2017 between frequent collaborators, Norwegian improviser Frode Gjerstad on reeds and Chicago improviser Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics, their second FMR album as a duo, alongside their work in the Cello Quartet and VCDC, showing the progression of their dynamic and fascinating dialog.
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Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: The Word For it Now
(FMR)
Recordings from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival in Scotland recorded in 2013 & 2015, the 20+ piece orchestra blending acoustic, electronic and vocal instruments into incredibly diverse and rich compositions, here presenting "A Peculiar Slumber" I & II, and the impressive and large work "A Bit in the Air", both exploring words and loss of control.
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Good, Kevin : Listen
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Kevin Good organized this composition from four field recordings collected near Avon, CT, isolating sounds that he found interesting and then attempting to recreate them on other instruments, finally adding the human voice sparsely utilized throughout the piece, all to promote the idea of listeners actively paying attention to the sounds of their environment.
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Guy, Barry / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton: Deep Memory
(Intakt)
Inspired by Irish painter Hughie O' Donoghue, bassist and composer Barry Guy takes the same trio from his albums "Odyssey" and "Ithaka"--pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Paul Lytton--on an impressionist album of expressive and emotional playing, with lyrical and explosive peformances that reflect a haunting music showcasing each player's skills; stunning.
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Isotope Ensemble: Yttrium
(Creative Sources)
An incredible example of Creative Sources/Ernesto Rodrigues' large electroacoustic ensembles, blending acoustic and electronic sources in slow moving and subtle improvised works of a large scale, here with 12 musicians layering string, brass, keys, percussion, synth and computer into a mysterious harmonic and hallucinatory convergence of powerful intention.
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Kurka, Irene : Chants
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Soprano vocalist Irene Kurka performs two works works by Antoine Beuger, and one each by Christopher Fox, Eva-Maria Houben, and Thomas Stiegler, accompanied by Antoine Beuger on flute for his composition "Chants de Passage"; 5 beautiful, unhurried works that bring the delicate beauty of each compositions, and of Kurka's refined voice, to a resonant foreground.
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Laubrock Ingrid Anti-House (w/ Halvorson, Davis, Hebert, Rainey, Noriega): Roulette of the Cradle
(Intakt)
Tenor and soprano saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's NY band with guitarist Mary Halvorson, pianist Kris Davis, bassist John Hebert, and drummer Tom Rainey in their 3rd album as Anti-House, with strong compositions pushing the quintet into great improvisational territory as the band pushes and pulls each other to create something greater than each player.
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Mezei, Szilard / Tim Trevor-Briscoe / Nicola Guazzaloca : Exuvia
(FMR)
An amazing example of extremely detailed collective free improvisation from the trio of Szilard Mezei on viola, Tim Trevor-Briscoe on alto & tenor saxophone, soprano clarinet, and bass clarinet, and Nicola Guazzaloca on piano, Mezei's strings adding a rapid-scatter of expressive playing, as the trio pitches forward and lays back for lyrical moments; astonishing!
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Muche, Matthias / Ernesto Rodrigues / Nicola L. Hein / Miguel Mira / Carlos Santo: Klang
(Creative Sources)
Recorded in Lisbon, Creative Sources core performers Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Mira on cello and Carlos Santos on synthesizer are joined by renowned German free improviser Matthias Muche on trombone and Cologne based guitarist Nicola L. Hein for two extended improvisations of actively subdued dialog that ebb and flow in commanding ways.
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Muira, Yoko / Jean Michel Van Schouwburg: On The Shore Of Dreams
(FMR)
The peforming duo of Tokyo pianist Yoko Miura on conventional piano, toy piano and melodica, and free improvising vocalist Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg are recorded in the studio for 14 succinct and unusual improvisations, Fou Records leader Jean-Marc Foussat recording the affair and providing electronics on one track; wonderfully weird and informed.
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Munich Rat Pack (Schindler / Kolb / Tramontana): Hell Dunkel: Sound Notes For Wind Trio Plus
(FMR)
Live recordings from Pollat-Pavillion in Munich, Germany in 2015 from this seriously fun spontaneous collective improvising trio of Udo Schindler on reeds, cornet, euphonium, and monophonic analogue synthesizer, Philipp Kolb on trumpet, tuba and live electronics, and Sebastiano Tramontana on trombone, voice and whistling; expect the unexpected!
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Redox: Orbitals
(Creative Sources)
The trio of Kaja Farszky on marimba & percussion, Annette Giesriegl on voice and electronics, and Katharina Klement on piano for a gripping album of free/ea improvisation, splitting the release in 3 parts from a live concert in 2015 at Sonnenhang House Concerts Series in Kumberg/Austria, and 3 parts recorded at Croatian Radio in Zagreb in 2016.
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Compositional
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Block, Olivia : Olivia Block
(Another Timbre)
Olivia Block created this unique suite for piano and organ, played inside and out, over a span of several years, developing techniques inside the piano through rehearsals and performances, sketching the basic ideas out, including motivation, physical materials etc, leaving room for improvisation between the composed bits, here executed in Chicago in 2017.
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Cage, John : Winter Music
(Another Timbre)
John Cage's 1957 composition in a visceral realisation for four pianos, played by John Tilbury, Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop and Catherine Laws, using chance procedures to assign each of the pianist's five of the twenty pages of the score, the pianists agreeing on an overall duration of 40 minutes and preparing their parts independently, performed without rehearsal.
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Frey, Jurg : Collection Gustave Roud [2 CDs]
(Another Timbre)
A double CD with five beautiful pieces that engage with the work of the extraordinary French-Swiss poet Gustave Roud, with performers including Dante Boon, Stefan Thut, Andrew McIntosh and Jurg Frey himself, 10 compositions that Frey wrote in the manner that Roud would, roaming with a sketchbook and developing the pieces based on impressions of his surroundings.
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Insub Meta Orchestra: 13 & 27
(Another Timbre)
Coordinated and composed by d'incise and Cyril Bondi, this incredible Swiss-based collective of 30 to 40 experimental musicians was founded in 2010 and has presented concerts and recordings since; this CD presents two works, "13 unissons" splitting the orchestra into 13 subgroups; and "27 times" where each musician plays 27 times in 30 minutes; phenomenal.
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Relative Pitch Weekly Sale!
Until Thursday, November 9, 2017 Squidco & Relative Pitch are offering
the duo album
Joey Baron / Bill Frisell: Just Listen
at the special price of $9.95, a $4.00 savings!
Joey Baron / Bill Frisell: Just Listen
(Relative Pitch)
The duo of long-time collaborators guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Joey Baron, two of Downtown NY's finest players, performing 9 tracks of original numbers and work by Sam Cooke, Ray Noble, Ron Carter, and Charlie Parker.
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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 on The Squid's Ear
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Yorgos Dimitriadis:
Kopfkino
(Creative Sources)
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Giuliano d'Angiolini:
Cantilena
(Another Timbre)
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Architek Percussion:
Metatron
(Ambiances Magnetiques)
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Noetinger, Jerome / Anthony Pateras / Synergy Percussion:
Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All
(Immediata)
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In Stock and Ready to Ship
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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.
• Ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.
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• In the US, any order with 3 or more items choosing "Free Economy Shipping" option will ship for free!
• International customers, any order with 3 or more items choosing "Free Economy Shipping" option will ship for free!
In stock items only, orders with out of stock items will be held until all items are in stock.
Free shipping applies only to "Free Economy Shipping" option on the Shipping & Payment Screen at checkout time.
US orders will ship via USPS Media Mail with tracking.
1st Class and other shipping rates are unaffected by this offer.
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Squidco Workspace
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Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2002.
In 2010 we moved to Wilmington, NC, giving regional and visiting customers access to our catalog
of more than 7,000 items, which includes hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items
not listed on our website. We're open for you to visit by appointment during weekday afternoons,
so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region please email us to set up a time 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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