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UPDATE
December 6, 2019
"Void can be found in a stream of loud noises
Whilst intensity in a flow of silence."
—Ryoko Akama
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Creative Artists
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• Ryoko Akama / Apartment House
• Almeida/Duynhoven/Klein
• Daniel Bernardes/Drumming GP
• John Coltrane Quartet
• Adrian Democ/Apartment House
• Frank Denyer
• Avram Fefer Quartet (w/ Marc Ribot/Eric Revis/Chad Taylor)
• Gorilla Mask
• Jon Heilbron
• Egil Kalman/Fredrik Rasten
• Kimchi Moccasin Tango (Nyberg/Bjora/Andersen)
• Jose Lencastre Nau Quartet
• Louis Moholo Octet
• Tatsuya Nakatani
• Octopus
• Tim Stine Quartet
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Essential Labels
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Another Timbre
Clean Feed
Creative Sources
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
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Nakatani-Kobo
Otoroku
Shhpuma
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Almeida / Duynhoven / Klein: Live at the Bimhuis
(Clean Feed)
This is the 2nd release by this trio on Clean Feed, with Tobias Klein (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet), Goncalo Almeida (double bass) and Martin van Duynhoven (drums) captured live at Bimhuis in Amsterdam in 2017, taking on compositions by Ornette Coleman alongside original compositions from all three players in a free jazz mode.
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Bernardes, Daniel / Drumming GP: Liturgy of the Birds - in memoriam Olivier Messiaen
(Clean Feed)
Pianist Daniel Bernardes pays homage to French composer Olivier Messiaen, augmenting his piano trio of Antonio Augusto Aguiar on bass and Mario Costa on drums with the Drumming GP Ensemble of Miquel Bernat on marimba, Jeffrey Davis & Pedro Gois on vibraphones, and Joao Dias on glockenspiel, a wonderful merging of contemporary percussive composition and modern jazz.
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Coltrane, John Quartet: Impressions Graz 1962
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Taking his quartet on a European tour in the fall of 1962, Coltrane's band with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on double bass, and Elvin Jones on drums performed in Graz, Austria at Stefaniensaal, the concert beautifully recorded by ORF Steiermark and here released as the first of two volumes, showing both Coltrane's lyrical origins and expanding free inclinations.
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Fefer, Avram Quartet (w/ Marc Ribot / Eric Revis / Chad Taylor): Testament
(Clean Feed)
For this album saxophonist Avram Fefer opened up his working unit by adding legendary Marc Ribot on guitar, expanding the sound of the trio with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Chad Taylor, while digging deep into North African inspired spiritual hymns with beatiful melodies, many taken from some of his previous trio records but adding new shape and sonic explorations.
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Gorilla Mask: Brain Drain
(Clean Feed)
The 4th album from German saxophonist Peter Van Huffel's Gorilla Mask, the 3rd on Clean Feed, is another powerful blending of jazz and rock forms in restless and profoundly determined music, energetic but intelligently structured, with great riffs and melodic grooves from Roland Fidezius (electric bass) and Rudi Fischerlehner (drums and percussion).
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Gorilla Mask: Brain Drain [VINYL]
(Clean Feed)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Kimchi Moccasin Tango (Nyberg / Bjora / Andersen): Yankee Zulu
(Clean Feed)
Three active Norwegians musicians based in Oslo-- guitarist Karl Bjora (Yes Deer, Megalodon Collective), drummer Dag Erik Knedal (Saka, Akode) and saxophonist Karl-Hjalmar Nyberg (Left Exit, Megalodon Collective)--in their debut album as a performing trio, showing both assertive collective playing in a free jazz mode and deeply introspective exploration.
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Lencastre, Jose Nau Quartet: Live in Moscow
(Clean Feed)
The collective free jazz Nau Quartet led by alto saxophonist Jose Lencastre with Red Trio pianist and bassist Rodrigo Pinheiro and Hernani Faustino and drummer Joao Lencastre are caught live at Moscow's DOM Cultural Center for this album of thoughtfully informed improvisation, using open and spontaneous structures as they evolve each conversation in organic ways.
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Moholo, Louis Octet: Spirits Rejoice! [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
Featuring an incredible lineup of masterful players from 1970's London creative jazz scene--Harry Miller & Johnny Dyani (bass), Keith Tippett (piano), Evan Parker (sax), Nick Evans & Radu Malfatti (trombone), and Kenny Wheeler (trumpet)--South African drummer Louis Moholo's debut album brings both joy and spirituality to freedom and lyricism, a joyful achievement.
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Nakatani, Tatsuya: Rock Garden
(Nakatani-Kobo)
Twelve percussion solos from incomparable Japanese percussionist living in Consequence, New Mexico, Tatsuya Nakatani, a dramatic presentation starting with bowed and resonant cymbals and developing into active sections of intense drumming using bowls and found objects to create complex and unique percussive environments filled with detail, mystery and excitement.
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Nakatani, Tatsuya: Rock Garden Extended [CASSETTE]
(Nakatani-Kobo)
Extended cassette edition of the CD listed above.
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Octopus: Cyanea
(Creative Sources)
A concise and essential concert from the Octopus octet, recorded in performances at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal during the Creativefest XII, the ensemble of mostly acoustic instrumentation (cello, viola, flute, clarinet, classical guitar, piano, percussion and synthesizer) carefully evolving a shade of blue in subtle details of tense restraint.
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Stine, Tim Quartet: Knots
(Clean Feed)
After his debut on Astral Spirits, Chicago-based guitarist Tim Stine assembled this quartet with Nick Mazzarella on saxophone, Matt Ulery on bass, and Quin Kirchner on drums, all skilled as bandleaders themselves, to realize Stine's avant compositions, precise harmonically and rhthmically interesting works with a Threadgill feel in surprising shifts of direction.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Kalman, Egil / Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds
(Shhpuma)
Swedish bass player Egil Kalman, here on modular syntheizer, joins Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten for a lovely album of drifting electronics and beautifully entwining acoustic guitar, unhurriedly developing environments of warm, slowly evolving chord structures that show influences from players like Catherine Lamb or the Wandelweiser collective.
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Kalman, Egil / Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds [VINYL]
(Shhpuma)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Compositional
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Akama, Ryoko / Apartment House: Dial 45-21-95
(Another Timbre)
Nine compositions from Ryoko Akama commissioned by Another Timbre while she was doing research at the Krzysztof Kieslowski archive in Poland, the scores based on fragments of notes and objects from that archive, realized here by the Apartment House ensemble as a beautiful set of floating works invoking "clouds, as shape, as light, as colour, as body, as element".
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Democ, Adrian / Apartment House: Ziadba
(Another Timbre)
London's Apartment House in a quintet configuration performs four chamber works by Slovakian composer Adrian Democ, plus the Czech ensemble Ostravska Band / Fama Q performing one composition; gentle music of deceptive simplicity, using color, shade and hue through unique orchestration, his works built upon creative foundations steeped in historic reference.
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Denyer, Frank: The Boundaries of Intimacy
(Another Timbre)
A set of varied compositions from Frank Denyer, most of them of a delicate acoustic intimacy, with works for female singers & flute, two works for koto, a string quartet, one for flute and electronics and the two-part "Frog" for a bowed stringed instrument of Denyer design, the "sneh"; uncategorizable music of sublime imagination and unusual approaches.
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Denyer, Frank: The Fish That Became The Sun (Songs Of The Dispossessed)
(Another Timbre)
A uniquely epic work in 14 parts by composer Frank Denyer, with a large ensemble of 40 musicians, many playing specially built instruments made from discarded materials, with other instrumentation including sitar, mandolin and hammered dulcimer, 4 male vocalists, 4 female vocalists, 4 players of adapted organ pipes, crumhorns, bowed wine glasses, 3 double basses, a contrabassoon, &c. &c.
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Heilbron, Jon: Puma Court
(Another Timbre)
Two compositions from Berlin-based Australian composer-instrumentalist Jon Heilbron scored for two double basses and two hardanger fiddles--violins with extra sympahetic strings-- in his two part "Puma Court", a slowly-evolving work that develops uniquely rich acoustic environments of interacting harmonies & timbres, punctuated with subtle percussive elements.
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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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Simon Nabatov / Barry Guy / Gerry Hemingway:
Luminous
(NoBusiness)
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Ilia Belorukov/Gabriel Ferrandini:
Disquiet
(Clean Feed)
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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble:
Be Known Ancient/Future/Music
(Spiritmuse)
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Christophe Rocher / Joe Fonda / Harvey Sorgen:
New Origin
(Not Two Records)
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In Stock and Ready to Ship
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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.
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Squidco Workspace
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-Don Van Vliet
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