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UPDATE
February 28, 2020
"Minimalism,
Music that eliminates a lot of things in a quite objective way,
Leads you to a concentrated inner experience"
—Philip Corner
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Creative Artists
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• Ryoko Akama / Anne-F Jacques
• Ben Bennett/Zoots Houston/Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Eugene Chadbourne
• Philip Corner
• Dijkstra/Bishop/Karayorgis/McBride/Gray
• Edu Haubensak/Tomas Korber
• Sven-Ake Johansson
• Karayorgis/McBride/Smith/Gray/Rosenthal
• Keune/Russell/Schneider/Lovens
• Last Dream Of The Morning (Butcher/Edwards/Sanders)
• Sue Lynch/Dawid Frydryk/Dave Fowler/John Edwards
• Metal Chaos Ensemble
• Sabina Meyer/Marco Dalpane
• Snekkestad/Fernandez/Guy
• Turbulence
• Judith Wegmann
• Mike Weis
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Essential Labels
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ANTS Records
Cien Fuegos
Driff Records
Evil Clown
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ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Feeding Tube Records
FMR
Notice Recordings
Trost Records
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This weekend, from Friday February 28th through Sunday, March 1st,
all used CDs in our catalog are on sale at 20% off their listed price!
View Our List of Used CDs
20% Discounts end Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 23:59 EST (GMT-4).
Prices shown are discounted price. While quantities last, sold out items will disappear from the store.
Customers must place orders using our shopping cart to receive discounted prices.
Sale items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Bennett, Ben / Zoots Houston / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Pinkie No [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)
Captured live at Chicago's Elastic Arts, the trio of Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Ben Bennett on percussion, and Zoots Houston on synthesizer, work on a nearly microscopic level as they use extended techniques and unusual synthetic timbres, transforming from abrasive and gritty to broad tonal environments, from monumental sound to moments of pin drops; fascinating.
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Chadbourne, Eugene: Solo Guitar Volume 4-1/3 [VINYL]
(Feeding Tube Records)
The final volume in the 4-LP set of Eugene Chadbourne's solo guitar recordings made while living in Calgary, Canada during the 70s, this 4th volume presenting four extended pieces blurring improvisation and experimental approaches to the instrument, alongside unusual percussive and sound devices, a quirky and technically amazing period of Doc Chad's incredible career.
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Dijkstra / Bishop / Karayorgis / McBride / Gray: Cutout
(Driff Records)
The Boston-based quintet Cutout of Jorrit Dijkstra on saxophones, Jeb Bishop on trombone, Pandelis Karayorgis on piano, Nate McBride on bass, & Luther Gray on drums, in a set of free jazz pieces and virtual suites from original compositions and "instant-arranging" techniques from all band members, applying fresh ideas to superb playing with great camaraderie.
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Johansson, Sven-Ake: Schlingerland / Dynamische Schwingungen [VINYL]
(Cien Fuegos)
Originally issued in 1972 on the FMP label, drummer Sven-Ake Johansson follows his instincts in polyrhythmic drum improvisation, demonstrating the prowess that makes him such a capable sideman of Peter Brotzmann, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, &c., through three direct and compelling statements of powerful rhythms that layer time signatures and tempos, dynamics and pulse.
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Karayorgis / McBride / Smith / Gray / Rosenthal: CliffPools
(Driff Records)
Merging two Boston-based trios--Cliff of bassist Damon Smith, drummer Eric Rosenthal and pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, and Pools of bassist Nate McBride, drummer Luther Gray, and Karayorgis--performing Karayorgis compositions with collective input from all five, creating profoundly great music in a shared language fueled by long collaborative relationships.
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Keune / Russell / Schneider / Lovens : Nothing Particularly Horrible (Live In Bochum '93)
(FMR)
Bringing together British and German free improvisers for this 1993 concert during the Ruhr Jazz Festival, the quartet of John Russell on guitar, Hans Schneider on bass, Paul Lovens on drums & percussion, and Stefan Keune on saxophones, find their convincing collective voice from previous pairings of the improvisers, including News from the Shed & Stefan Keune Trio.
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Last Dream Of The Morning (Butcher / Edwards / Sanders): Crucial Anatomy
(Trost Records)
The trio of British free improvisation innovators--John Butcher on saxophones, John Edwards on double bass, and Mark Sanders on percussion--in their 2nd album under the "Last Dream Of The Morning" moniker after their Relative Pitch album, captured live at Cafe Oto in 2018 displaying their incredible affinity to creative freedom through technically superb playing.
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Lynch, Sue / Dawid Frydryk / Dave Fowler / John Edwards: Dial
(FMR)
A great example of British collective free jazz captured live at Iklectic in London in 2019 for two extended and wide-ranging performances--"Dial Tone I" & II--from the quartet of Sue Lynch (Remote Viewers, The Horse Improvised Music Club), Polish trumpeter based in London Dawid Frydryk, drummer Dave Fowler (Maggie Nichols) and the ever-active John Edwards on bass.
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Metal Chaos Ensemble: The Nameless City
(Evil Clown)
Exploring chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments, the Boston-area collective led by David Peck use gongs, chimes, bowls, and glockenspiel alongside PEK's horns and Yuri Zbitnoff's percussion, here in a sextet work merging acoustic instruments with deep electronics and groove-heavy elements of electric bass, synth, electric guitar, electric trumpet, and live signal processing.
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Snekkestad / Fernandez / Guy: The Swiftest Traveler
(Trost Records)
An exhilarating live concert from the international trio led by Scandinavian saxophonist Torben Snekkestad, with Spanish pianist Agusti Fernandez, and British double bass player Barry Guy, blurring the lines between free improvisation, free jazz, and contemporary classical music in quick-witted interaction and explorative, innovative sounds and textures.
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Snekkestad / Fernandez / Guy: The Swiftest Traveler [VINYL]
(Trost Records)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Turbulence: Son Of Cosmocentric
(Evil Clown)
Turbulence Cosmocentric Edition, the extended horn section for the Leap of Faith Orchestra with the core of PEK on winds & percussion, Yuri Zbitnoff on drums & percussion, plus guest Michael Caglianone on saxophones, sheng, game calls and percussion, in an extended piece that holds reflections of Sun Ra's work through powerful rhythms and diverse and unusual instrumental passages.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Akama, Ryoko / Anne-F Jacques: Evaporation [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)
Moving between "object stations" during their performance, Japanese improviser and sound artist Ryoko Akama (Lappetites) and Quebecois sound artist Anne-F Jacques create a flurry of minimal activity, intensely detailed and unidentifiable yet compatible sound using minimal electronics, activated objects, and Jacques' "contraptions and erratic devices".
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Weis, Mike: In Low Light (Music for the Winter Solstice) [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)
An album of ritualistic rhythm and hypnotic drumming with subliminal field recordings and environmental additions from Chicago drummer Mike Weiss (Zelienople), using mbira, tongue drum, dholak, changgo, bass drum, cymbals, gongs, singing bowls, bells, dharma bell, and moktak over 8 pieces that express, reflect and meditate on the 2018 winter solstice.
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Compositional
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Corner, Philip: Gamelan Coming & Going
(ANTS Records)
Gamelan Son of Lion partners Philip Corner and Evan Schwartzman perform this Fluxus composition where two pianists play piano notes on the chromatic scale in relationship to numbers counted out loud from 1 to 88, forward and backward, creating an unusual texture and counterpoint that when taken as a whole becomes hypnotic and obsessively absorbing; inexplicably interesting.
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Haubensak, Edu / Tomas Korber: Works For Guitar & Percussion by Buck-Wolfarth
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Active since 2010, the German duo of classical guitarist Christian Buck and improviser Christian Wolfarth occupies a space between music and sound art, as they perform two works each by Ed Haubensak and Tomas Korber, pieces that make use of time, microharmonies, multiphonics, unusual tuning systems, interference patterns, and other conceptual approaches to music.
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Meyer, Sabina / Marco Dalpane : Cabaret Per Nulla
(ANTS Records)
Pianist Marco Dalpane and soprano Sabina Meyer create a virtual cabaret of songs using the music of Erik Satie and John Cage, interlacing pieces by each in a delicate set of songs that draw the two composers together through a surprising commonality, the lyrics provided from texts written by J. Peladan, C. Mendes, H. Pacory, J.P. Contamine de Latour, &c.; lovely.
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Wegmann, Judith: Le Souffle Du Temps II - Reflexion
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Through preparations, computers, contact microphones, gongs, feedback and other tools, Swiss pianist, composer & improviser Judith Wegmann's work transform the sound of the piano into an otherworldly instrument, set against more traditional acoustic pieces of a reflective nature, together creating a conceptual set of ten pieces in a uniquely flexible approach.
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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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Russ Lossing Trio:
Ways
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Simon Nabatov Quintet (Nabatov / Malaby / Seabrook / Formanek / Cleaver):
Last Minute Theory
(Clean Feed)
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Mark Dresser Seven:
Ain't Nothing but A Cyber Coup & You
(Clean Feed)
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Hildegard Kleeb / Roland Dahinden / Alexandre Babel:
Lines
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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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.
• 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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