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UPDATE
May 1, 2020
"A series of notes may not sound like a conventional melody
Yet likely have a musical logic internal all their own."
—Bob Gluck
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Creative Artists
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• Artefact Agency
(Jeans / Luebber / Susnjar)
• Rhodri Davies
• The Dinner Party
(Adrian Northover/Pierpaolo Martino/Vladimir Miller)
• Bob Gluck (w/ Wolper/Azmeh/Filiano/Tabbal)
• Burton Greene/Guillaume Gargaud
• The Guiseppi Logan Project
• Guiseppi Logan
• McPhee/Rempis/Reid/Lopez/Nilssen-Love
• Rempis/Rosaly Duo
• The Runcible Quintet
(Metcalfe/Edwards/Magliocchi/Thompson/Northover)
• Tamio Shiraishi
• Mako Sica/Hamid Drake
• Tipple (Gjerstad/Norton/Watson)
• Sabu Toyozumi/Simon Tan/Rick Countryman/Yong Yandsen
• Virtual Company
(Fell/Wastell/Bailey/Gaines)
• Matt Weston
• Wet Ink Ensemble
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Essential Labels
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7272music
Aerophonic
Astral Spirits
Carrier Records
Chant Record
ChapChap Records
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Confront
FMR
Improvising Beings
Mad King Edmund
Relative Pitch
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Artefact Agency (Jeans / Luebber / Susnjar): Artefact I, II And III
(FMR)
The collaborative Australian electric jazz trio of Simon Jeans on guitar, Johannes Luebber on keyboards, and Daniel Susnjar on drums, who create semi-composed sonic structures that are used for collective improvisation and also live film scores and contemporary dance works, present 3 "Artefacts" using multiple structures of passionate and melodically inspired playing.
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Davies, Rhodri : Transversal Time
(Confront)
Assigning different times systems--standard time, decimal and hex time--to different musicians, harpist Rhodri Davies develops an electroacoustic improvisational environment of unusual perception and sensation, performed live in Cardiff in 2018 with Ryoko Akama, Sara Hughes, Sofia Jernberg, Pia Palme, Andre Parkinson, Lucy Railton, Pat Thomas, & Dafne Vicente.
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Dinner Party, The (Adrian Northover / Pierpaolo Martino / Vladimir Miller): Wednesday Afternoon
(FMR)
Comprised of Anglo-Russian pianist Vladimir Miller (Moscow Composers Orchestra), Italian double-bassist Pierpaolo Martino (Mondegreen, Howl and Machine3) and British saxophonist Adrian Northover (The Remote Viewers, London Improvisers Orchestra), this collective improv trio brings a lyrical and melodic approach to their performances of graceful and cultivated conversation.
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Gluck, Bob (Wolper / Azmeh / Filiano / Tabbal): Early Morning Star
(FMR)
NY pianist & composer Bob Gluck's band with Gluck on piano, Andrea Wolper on voice, Kinan Azmeh on clarinet, Ken Filiano on bass, and Tani Tabbal on drums, blends passionate songs of social justice with captivating improvisational interplay, balancing a love of beautiful melody and sonic innovation, powerful rhythms, and exhilarating interactions between players.
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Greene, Burton / Guillaume Gargaud: Magic Intensity
(Chant Record)
Renowned pianist and composer Burton Greene joins French composer and improvising guitarist Guillaume Gargaud performing on acoustic guitar, for four duo improvisations recorded at Tilo's Ark, in Weesp, The Netherlands in 2019, in crisp & often rapid dialog that uses space and reflective moments well, the duo joined by Tilo Baumheier on flute for three pieces.
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Logan, Guiseppi: ...And They Were Cool
(Improvising Beings)
The second album between the late saxophonist Giuseppi Logan and guitarist Ed Pettersen after the former learned of the Logan's reappearance in the early 2000s, is this collective session with Logan on sax & piano, Jessica Lurie on sax & flute, Larry Roland on double bass, and Ed Pettersen on guitar, originally released in 2013 on the Improvising Beings label.
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Logan, Guiseppi: The Giuseppi Logan Project
(Mad King Edmund)
Rediscovered playing in NYC's Tompkins Square park in 2009, iconic saxophone player Giuseppi Logan enjoyed a second life in performing and recording up until his passing in 2020, heard here covering Coltrane, Ellington, and collective improvisation in a quintet with Cooper-Moore (piano), Larry Roland (acoustic bass), Ed Pettersen (guitar) and Tracy Silverman (electric violin).
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Logan, Guiseppi: The Giuseppi Logan Project [VINYL]
(Mad King Edmund)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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McPhee / Rempis / Reid / Lopez / Nilssen-Love: Of Things Beyond Thule Vol. 2
(Aerophonic)
The remainder of the material from Thule V1, performed at Chicago's The Hungry Brain and haunt on a warm and intimate night in December of 2018 from the cross-generational grouping of stellar improvising musicians: Joe McPhee on pocket trumpet & tenor sax, Dave Rempis on alto & baritone saxophones, Tomeka Reid on cello, Brandon Lopez on bass, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums & percussion.
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Rempis / Rosaly Duo: Codes / Myths [2 CDs]
(Aerophonic)
Chicago percussionist Frank Rosaly relocated to Amsterdam in 2016, but his 20+ year collaboration & friendship with Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis continues, as evidenced in this live performance at Elastic Arts in 2018 during Rosaly's visit back to the Windy City, rewarding listeners with 2 CDs experiencing the two reacquaint through beautifully paced, adventurous dialog.
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Runcible Quintet, The (Metcalfe / Edwards / Magliocchi / Thompson / Northover): Three
(FMR)
Working their way backwards from "Five" in 2017 to the new "Three" in 2020, the UK creative improvising quintet of Daniel Thompson on acoustic guitar, Adrian Northover on saxophones, John Edwards on double bass, Marcello Magliocchi on drums, and Neil Metcalfe on flute are heard live at London's Iklectik in 2019 for three profoundly exploratory free improvisations.
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Shiraishi, Tamio: Sora
(Relative Pitch)
Japanese saxophonist living in NYC Tamio Shiraishi, an associate of Keiji Haino, has a unique approach to his solo work, often playing outdoors in concert with nature, or using the natural resonance of his performance space, recreating the sounds of wind, birds, water, and any other natural "noise" sounds, here in a live performance at Issue Project Room & 6 studio recordings.
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Tipple (Gjerstad / Norton / Watson): Cartoon Heart
(Relative Pitch)
The trans-Atlantic Tipple Trio of David Watson on guitar & smallpipes, Kevin Norton on percussion & drums, and Frode Gjerstad on saxophone, clarinet & alto flute in their 5th album since 2010, a studio recording from the NY area of 15 succinct and diverse approaches to free improvisation, each player shining uniquely and in extraordinary group interplay.
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Toyozumi, Sabu / Simon Tan / Rick Countryman / Yong Yandsen: Voices Of The Spirit
(ChapChap Records)
Recorded during a series of concerts reuniting alto saxphonist Rick Countryman with mentor and friend, drummer Sabu Toyozumi, this live concert at Tago Jazz Cafe in Philippines includes acoustic bassist Simon Tan and free improvising Malaysian tenor saxophonist Yong Yandsen, in an adventurous set of extended performances of intertwining reeds and rhythm; superb!
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Virtual Company (Fell / Wastell / Bailey / Gaines): Virtual Company
(Confront)
IST, configured as the duo of double bassist Simon H. Fell and cellist/percussionist Mark Wastell, performing a virtual quartet at London's Cafe OTO, using using pre-recorded fragments of solo work from late guitarist Derek Bailey and tap dancer Will Gaines, combined with sections of silence of unforeseeable length, and then combined with the live musicians; amazing.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Weston, Matt: Tell Us About Your Stupor [VINYL]
(7272music)
Innovative experimenter Matt Weston's latest LP is a live recording of two new electroacoustic songs mastered by Jason Lescalleet, inspired by the "revolutionary experimental filmmaker" Joseph Levitch, aka Jerry Lewis, using percussion, electronics & objects in unique, explosive, and unexpected ways to create a wonderfully chaotic audio image of the comedic master.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Sica, Mako / Hamid Drake: Balancing Tear [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)
A mix of studio and live recordings in the 2nd collaboration between Chicago's improvising rock trio Mako Sica of Przemyslaw Krys Drazek on trumpets & electric guitar, Brent Fuscaldo on bass and percussion, Chaetan Newell on piano & percussion, meeting with legendary drummer Hamid Drake for an album of expansive, psychedelically-tinged, lushly sonic improvisation.
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Compositional
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Wet Ink Ensemble: Glossolalia / Lines on Black
(Carrier Records)
A NY collective of composers, performers & improvisers dedicated to adventurous music, Wet Ink Ensemble perform saxophonist Alex Mincek's "Glossolalia", an investigation into linguistics through fragmented language; and Sam Pluta's "Lines on Black" written for the individual members of the ensemble in rigorously notated scores, electro-acoustic improvisation, and fixed media composition.
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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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Satoko Fujii / Joe Fonda:
Four
(Long Song Records)
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Ig Henneman/ Jaimie Branch / Anne La Berge:
Dropping Stuff and other Folk Songs
(Relative Pitch)
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Julius Eastman / Apartment House:
Femenine
(Another Timbre)
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Ryoko Akama:
Dial 45-21-95
(Another Timbre)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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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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