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UPDATE
December 14, 2018
"It's like learning a language;
you can't speak a language fluently
until you find out who you are in that language,
and that has as much to do with your body
as it does with vocabulary and grammar."
—Fred Frith
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Creative Artists
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• Derek Bailey / Vertrek Ensemble
• Chicago Edge Ensemble (Phillips/Drake/Williams/Bishop/Pablan)
• Zack Clarke
• Francesco Cusa & The Assassins Meets Duccio Bertini
• Drone Trio (Davis/Frith/Greenlief)
• Hamar Trio (Holm/Faustino/Morao)
• Ikui Doki (Bernado/Mayot/Rinaudo)
• Frantz Loriot/Christian Wolfarth
• Szilard Mezei Tul A Tiszan Innen Ensemble
• Simon Nabatov String Trio
• Plant (Jim Denley/Eric Normand)
• Antonio Raia
• Les Surruralists (Bull/Normand/Grossman/Jacques/Berirau)
• Ricardo Toscano Quartet
• Sabu Toyozumi/Rick Countryman/Simon Tan
• Weasel Walter
• Heath Watts/M.J. Williams/Nancy Owens/Blue Armstrong
• The Way Ahead (Roligheten/Alberts/Barno/Aleklint/Stahl/Hoyer/Ostvang)
• Flavio Zanuttini Opacipapa
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Essential Labels
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Ayler
ChapChap Records
Clean Feed
FMR
Leo
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Shhpuma
Tour de Bras
Trost Records
Ugexplode
Volatile Records
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Bailey, Derek / Vertrek Ensemble: Departures
(Volatile Records)
After only their first album as a duo, the Edmonton, Canada duo Vertrek Ensemble of Vadim Budman on electric and acoustic guitar & cornet and Ron de Jong on percussion, travelled to London in 1998 to record a session with legendary free improviser Derek Bailey, this album of open-minded, uniquely voiced and beautifully captured improvisation the result.
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Chicago Edge Ensemble (Phillips / Drake / Williams / Bishop / Pablan): Insidious Anthem
(Trost Records)
Drawing together some of Chicago's finest improvisers--leader Dan Phillips on guitar, Mars Williams on saxophones, Jeb Bishop on trombone, Krzysztof Pabian on double bass, and Hamid Drake on drums--for their second album, a balance set of creative jazz tunes with solid compositions that lend themsevles to exultant soloing, unusual sonic moments, and great collective playing.
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Clarke, Zack: Mesophase
(Clean Feed)
Mesophase: matter that is neither liquid or solid, sharing properties of both; pianist and electronic artistZack Clarke's inspired album shares properties of improvisation, experimental/ea and through-composed music, performed with fellow NY-ers Chris Irvine (cello), Charlotte Greve (winds), Nick Dunston (double bass), and Leonid Galaganov (percussion, waterphone & shakuhachi).
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Cusa, Francesco & The Assassins Meets Duccio Bertini: Black Poker
(Clean Feed)
The Italian free improv quartet The Assassins (Francesco Cusa, drums; Giulio Stermieri, piano; Flavio Zanuttini, trumpet; Giovanni Benvenuti, sax) joins together with the classical chamber string ensemble, Florence Art Quartet (Daniele Iannaccone, violin; Lorenzo Borneo, violin; Agostino Mattioni, viola; Cristiano Sacchi, cello) in a wonderful hybrid of both approaches.
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Drone Trio (Davis / Frith / Greenlief): Lantskap Logic
(Clean Feed)
Recording in the Bay Area at the Mills College Chapel in Oakland, the Drone Trio of Fred Frith on electric guitar, Phillip Greenlief using extended techniques on alto & tenor saxophones, and Evelyn Davis on the Chapel's pipe organ, use the natural resonance of the chapel and their masterful skills as improvisors to evolve fervid and powerfully sonorous environments.
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Hamar Trio (Holm / Faustino / Morao): Yesterday Is Here
(Clean Feed)
Drawing from two live performances, one at Salao Brazil in Coimbra, the other at SMUP Parede, Lisbon, from the trio of Norwegian multi-reedist Klaus Ellerhusen Holm (Ballrog), and Portuguese double bassist Hernani Faustino (Red Trio) and drummer/percussionist Nuno Morao (The Selva), for four spontaneous improvisations of great depth and mastery.
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Ikui Doki (Bernado / Mayot / Rinaudo): Ikui Doki
(Ayler)
Winners of the Jazz Migration and tour JMF 2018, the chamber jazz trio of Sophie Bernado (bassoon), Hugues Mayot (saxophone & clarinet) and Rafaelle Rinaudo (harp & effects) share their passion for creative music that embraces composition and improvisation, springboarding off composers like Debussy while transferring warmth and vision into free jazz; magnificent.
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Loriot, Frantz / Christian Wolfarth: The Call [VINYL]
(Shhpuma)
Two unconventional and experimenting improvisers--French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot and Swiss percussionist Christian Wolfarth--in a deceptive album of acoustic improvisation that elusively takes on electric qualities in the hands of these two innovators, seducing the listener through unusual twists and turns of perfectly paced interactions.
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Mezei, Szilard Tul A Tiszan Innen Ensemble: Citromfa [2CDS]
(FMR)
Violist Szilard Mezei's Serbian jazz-folk group Tul a Tiszan Innen Ensemble is a twelve-piece band that functions as a small orchestra playing a range of complex to spacious compositions and arrangements from Mezei, using themes from Hungarian folk songs from Vojvodina to create expansive compositions over which the adept members of his ensemble improvise.
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Nabatov, Simon String Trio: Situations
(Leo)
As much a composed work as a work of improvisation, pianist and composer Simon Nabatov's String Trio with Garteh Lubbe on viola and Ben Davis perform six Nabatov compositions, chamber jazz works that express in both buyouantly intricate and languourosly beautiful abstraction, each piece leaving room for each player to improvise and express themselves.
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Plant (Jim Denley / Eric Normand): II
(Tour de Bras)
Separated by 1,000 KMs and speaking a different language, the collaboration of Quebec bassist Eric Normand and Australian saxophonist Jim Denley, both dedicated experimenters, share a common aesthetic in free improvisation as they release their third album: five dialogs using reeds, electric bass, drums, objects and tools to create unusual sonic conversations.
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Raia, Antonio: Asylum
(Clean Feed)
Naples tenor saxophonist Antonio Raia's album of solo saxophone improvisations employs a mix of traditional and unusual techniques in 12 concise pieces that fragment "scraps" of melody into a diverse ruminating streams, recorded at the city's Filangeri Asylum by sound artist Renato Fiorito, using ten microphones to capture the unique qualities of the space.
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Raia, Antonio: Asylum [VINYL]
(Clean Feed)
Vinyl edition of the album listed above.
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Surruralists, Les (Bull / Normand / Grossman / Jacques / Berirau): La Way Qu'a Do
(Tour de Bras)
Slyly crossing modern improv and EAI approaches in a surreal take on early bottleneck, banjo and slide blues styles from the Quebec quintet of Arthur Bull on harmonica, voice, guitar & electronics, Eric Normand on banjo, voice & bass, Ben Grossman on "old wheel", Anne-Francoise Jacques on engines, and Gabriel Rochette on trombone; sincere and eccentric.
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Toscano, Ricardo Quartet : Feat. Joao Pedro Coelho, Romeu Tristao & Joao Lopes Pereira
(Clean Feed)
Saxophonist Ricardo Toscano's Quartet with Joao Pedro Coelho on piano, Romeu Tristao on bass, and Joao Lopes Pereira on drums, a great example of modern Portuguese mainstream jazz that pays homage to the masters of bop and the Blue Note era, in a lyrical album of Toscano original compositions, alongside a rendering of Herbie Hancock's "The Sorcerer".
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Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman / Simon Tan: Preludes And Prepositions
(ChapChap Records)
Three extended free improvisations recorded in 2017 in Cubao Quezon City from the trio of Rick Countryman on alto saxophone, Simon Tan on acoustic bass, and Japense first generation free improviser Sabu Toyozumi on drums & Erhu (a 2-stringed Chinese instrument), as the trio take their listeners on a marathon session of inspired and playing.
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Watts, Heath / M.J. Williams / Nancy Owens / Blue Armstrong : Sensoria
(Leo)
Saxophonist Heath Watts' 3rd Leo release is an album of free improvisation with three Montana jazz mavens--Blue Armstrong on double bass, MJ Williams on trombone, piano & melodica, and Nancy Owens on violin--in nine recordings of sophisticated and intelligent interaction that naturally evolves new directions of irrepressibly enjoyable and diverse conversation.
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Way Ahead, The (Roligheten / Alberts / Barno / Aleklint / Stahl / Hoyer / Ostvang): Bells, Ghosts And Other Saints
(Clean Feed)
An incredibly informed and modern album of free jazz drawing on an Albert Ayler influence from the Norwegian and Swedish septet of Andre Roligheten on tenor saxophone, clarinet, Kristoffer Alberts on alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, Niklas Barno on trumpet, Mats Aleklint on trombone, Mattias Stahl on vibraphone, Ola Hoyer on double bass, and Tollef Ostvang on drums.
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Zanuttini, Flavio Opacipapa: Born Baby Born
(Clean Feed)
Italian trumpeter Falvio Zanuttini (Arbe Garbe) leads his bassless trio with Piero Bittolo Bon on alto sax and Marco D'Orlando on drums through 8 Zanuttini compositions, exciting free jazz with a lyrical bent and a playful attitude, the unique orchestration driving the players into post-bop territory with great parallel interaction in the horns and swinging drums - impressive!
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Experimental/Electronic
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Walter, Weasel : Curses
(Ugexplode)
Drummer/percussionist and electronic artist Weasel Walter's solo album presents 99 tracks that represent 4 large movements of "detailed abstract madness", titled "Curse Against Humanity", "Casting Destruction", "Ode To The Death Of Enemies", and "Cursed in Eternity", each a vicious and intensely captivating set of elusive movement in accord and discord; fascinating.
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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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Jaap Blonk:
Irrelevant Comments
(Kontrans)
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Axel Dorner / Mia Dyberg / Pierre Bore / Ernesto Rodrigues / Tristan Honsinger / Guilherme Rodrigues:
Laura
(Creative Sources)
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Fred Lonberg-Holm and the Amphibians of the Everglades featuring Gustavo Matamoros:
Bow Hard at the Frog
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
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Karl Berger:
In a Moment
(Tzadik)
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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.
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New Releases section.
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• Ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.
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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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-Don Van Vliet
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