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UPDATE
April 23, 2021
"These days we're permeable,
Open to the influence of what's happening in music
All over the world"
—Bertrand Denzler
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Creative Artists
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• [Ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright)
• Sergio Barco Cote
• Max Bober
• Lisa Cameron/Sandy Ewen
• Denzler/Rodrigues/Moimeme
• E. Jason Gibbs/Nat Baldwin
• Inclusion Principle (Perez/Archer)
• IST (Davies/Fell/Wastell) + John Butcher/Phil Durrant
• Dirar Kalash
• Hans Koch/Paul Lovens
• Lumpeks (Laurain/Borel/Koziel/Beliah)
• Magill/Hatcher/Kirchen/Kirshner
• Neumann/Gutvik/Haker-Flaten/Nilssen-Love
• Opto S
• Erica Pomerance
• Michael Sarian/Matthew Putman
• Wadada Smith Leo/Douglas R. Ewart/Mike Reed
• Mike Taylor
• Thollem (w/ Alex Cline/Susan Alcorn)
• Werckmeister
(Eichenberger/Ludwig Hubsch/Nillesen/Zoubek)
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Astral Spirits
Bolt / Umlaut
Confront
Creative Sources
Discus
Edition Wandelweiser Records
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ESP
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Kettle Hole Records
Orbit577
PNL
Tour De Bras
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This weekend, from Friday April 23rd through Sunday, April 25th,
we're offering our customers a set of more than 100 titles on the UK-based FMR (Future Music Records) label
at $9.95 each, a $5 savings! FMR has an excellent and thoroughly modern catalog of improvisation and composition that
bridges acoustic, electroacoustic, lyrical and inexplicable music, primarily from the
UK and European jazz and free improvisation scenes. Many of the items in this sale are our last copy in stock and will
go into special order status after this, so take a close look at this list of excellent albums at a great price!
View Sale List of FMR CDs
FMR sale ends Sunday, April 25, 2021 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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[Ahmed](Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright): Nights on Saturn (Communication) [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)
The Ahmed quartet of Pat Thomas on piano, Joel Grip on bass, Antonin Gerbal on drums, and Seymour Wright on alto saxophone, continue their explorations of the compositions and arrangments of double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, who played with Blakey, Monk, Randy Weston, and whose own work fused jazz with Arabic and African music in unique ways.
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Cameron, Lisa / Sandy Ewen: See Creatures Too [2 CASSETTES]
(Astral Spirits)
From the depths of the deepest electroacoustic sea, the duo of Lisa Cameron on berimbauophone, percussion & devices and Sandy Ewen on guitar & devices release the second of their "Sea Creatures" series: two cassettes of dark aquatic audio, one recorded in the studio and the other during their 2019 Texas tour celebrating the release of the first album.
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Denzler / Rodrigues / Moimeme: Immobility and Movement
(Creative Sources)
An exquisite and mysterious album of free improvisation merging acoustic and subtle electroacoustic elements, from the trio of Bertrand Denzler on tenor saxophone, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Abdul Moimeme on electric guitar & objects, recording in the studio for this extensive work in four parts that transitions between moments of transfixing sound and cautious motion.
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E. Jason Gibbs / Nat Baldwin: Microstates
(Orbit577)
After a year of collaboration where Gibbs and Baldwin developed a common language and shared aesthetic to explore time, space, texture, frenetic energy, and the limits of their instruments and technique, double basssist Nat Baldwin and guitarist E. Jason Gibbs recorded this fascinating set of free improvisations at Apohadion Theatre, in Portland, Maine.
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Inclusion Principle (Perez / Archer): The Leaf Factory Fallback
(Discus)
The duo of Herve Perez (Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, AXIS) and Discus label leader Martin Archer, both saxophonists and sound artists using a collection of software instruments, organs, computer instruments and field recordings in a live-in-the-studio recording of remarkable electroacoustic performance, blurring free jazz and abstract sound in fascinating ways.
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IST (Davies / Fell / Wastell) + John Butcher / Phil Durrant: A More Attractive Way [5 CD BOX SET + 20 page booklet]
(Confront)
A comprehensive album of live performances from IST (Rhodri Davies: harp, preparations; Simon H. Fell: double bass, preparations; Mark Wastell: violoncello, preparations) between 1996 and 2000, beginning with their concert at Club Orange in London and including concerts in London, Billericay, Norwich and Cambridge, with a 20 page booklet of photos and text from the band & collaborators.
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Kalash, Dirar: Of Quietude
(Discus)
Pianist Dirar Kalash is a Palestinian performer, whos concerts combine free improvisation, text, sound, image, video and movement; opportunities to record and perform are rare, but on a visit to the UK in 2020 Simon Reynell (Another Timbre) was able to record these two extended and exemplary improvisations at St Paul's Hall at the University Of Huddersfield.
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Koch, Hans / Paul Lovens: Nephlokokkygia 1992
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
1992 live performances demonstrating masterful freedom in improvisation, recorded while on their first tour as a duo after working together in larger ensembles, from Hans Koch on clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor & soprano saxophones, and Paul Lovens on drums, cymbals, gongs & musical saw, in four live improvisations from Bulgaria presented in the order recorded.
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Lumpeks (Laurain / Borel / Koziel / Beliah): Lumpeks
(Bolt / Umlaut)
Bassist Sebastien Beliah leads this French-Polish quartet with Louis Laurain on cornet, Pierre Borel on alto saxophone, and Olga Koziel on voice & percussions, blending free jazz and traditional Polish music & songs with an experimental bent and the flourish of East European folk energy, a passionate mix that entertains and surprises the listener with unexpected twists & turns.
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Magill / Hatcher / Kirchen / Kirshner: Whole Abandoned Star
(Kettle Hole Records)
A live concert of collective free improvisation captured at Elastic Arts in Chicago in 2018 between Rob Magill on tenor & soprano saxophones, Gerrit Hatcher on tenor saxophone, Charlie Kirchen on bass, and Julian Kirshner on drums, an energetic and diverse concert in three conversations that allow for great discourse and extended soloing; numbered edition of 150 copies.
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Neumann, Calle / Ketil Gutvik / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love: New Dance
(PNL)
After the 2019 retrospective box-set of the late 90s, legendary band The Quintet, and after the sad passing of bassist Bjornar Andresen, saxophonist Carl Magnus Neumann, guitarist Ketil Gutvik and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love decided to form a new quartet, adding bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, commencing their organization with this outstanding 2020 live concert in Oslo.
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Sarian, Michael / Matthew Putman: A Lifeboat (Part I)
(577)
The first of two planned volumes of studio improvisations between Brooklyn trumpeter & flugelhorn player Michael Sarian and keyboardist Matthew Putman, recorded in Sarin's home studio during the 2020 pandemic, allowing freedom in exploration as they sought out cadences, rhythms and melodies, this 1st volume presenting the finest of their investigations.
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Smith, Wadada Leo / Douglas R. Ewart / Mike Reed: Sun Beans of Shimmering Light
(Astral Spirits)
Brass, winds and percussion bring a beautiful dialog of spiritually rich improvsations from the trio of Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, Douglas Ewart on reeds & wind instruments, and Mike Reed on drums, recording in the studio in 2015 for five contemplative, often meditative, yet always bold dialogs that use spacious and free timing that showcases each player's masterful skills.
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Taylor, Mike: Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Found dead in the Thames River in 1969, pianist & composer Mike Taylor left a legacy of two solid & lyrical jazz albums, of which the complete Trio album and one track from Pendulum are remastered; but he was also a songwriter for the Eric Clapton/Ginger Baker/Jack Bruce band Cream, of which three Taylor compositions with lyrics and vocals by Baker are included.
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Thollem (w/ Alex Cline / Susan Alcorn): Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions
(Astral Spirits)
In 2019 pianist Thollem McDonas toured the US -- 12 months and 25 albums worth of recordings -- joining collaborators from a vast spectrum of improvisers and performers, this album presenting two such recordings: one a duo with drummer/percussionist Alex Cline from a live concert in Santa Monica; the other a duo with guitarist Susan Alcorn recorded in Baltimore.
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Werckmeister (Eichenberger / Ludwig Hubsch / Nillesen / Zoubek): Musik
(Creative Sources)
With "fragments of alien melodies, bizarre call-and-response activities, boiling liquids, airy perturbations, clusters", the electroacoustic improvising quartet of Markus Eichenberger on clarinet, Carl Ludwig Hubsch on tuba, Etienne Nillesen on extended snare drum and Philip Zoubek on synthesizer, focus their listeners on their remarkably turbulent and rich interactions.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Barco, Sergio Cote: Pink Noise(s) In Prime Numbers
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
"An invitation into our perceptual periphery, where noise(s) — and perhaps we — can be somewhat disobedient" read the liner notes to Colombian composer Sergio Cote Barco's sound work, three compositions from extreme minimalism and silence to rich sound, each varying the topography and envelopes of sound, ostensibly performed by "electronic music".
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Opto S: Human Indictive / Live [VINYL]
(ESP)
This Brooklyn synth-driven rock band formed in 2018 between bassist and vocalist Argelis Liriano (The Boonies, Last Ones, Ghost Beaters) and drummer/percussionist Diana K (Hamish Kilgour Band, Giggle The Ozone, Ghost Beaters), and synth & guitar player Charles Dodson, drawing on influences such as Sun Ra, Suicide, Oneida, and Silver Apple.
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Pomerance, Erica: En Concert a la Commune le P'tit Quebec Libre [VINYL]
(Tour De Bras)
A live recording from a concert presented during the Workers' Festival at the Municipality of Petit Quebec Libre in 1972 by Quebec counter-culture folk singer and documentary film maker Erica Pomerance, know best for her 1968 ESP album You Used To Think, here performing solo on guitar & voice, with previously unpublished songs and pieces from her ESP album.
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Compositional
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Bober, Max: Somos
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Four works by Argentinian composer Max Bober living in Warsaw, Poland, performed in solo, duo and trio configurations by pianist Alejandro Peña Gutiérrez, flutists Francisco Rojas and Clara Peláez Hidalgo, and soprano Natalia Jarosiewicz; fragile works of depth and beauty that unfold gracefully.
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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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Angharad Davies / Klaus Lang / Anton Lukoszeviese:
Unfurling
(Another Timbre)
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Catherine Lamb:
Muto Infinitas
(Another Timbre)
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Bertrand Denzler/Joel Grip/Sven-Ake Johansson:
Zyklus 1
(Umlaut)
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Etienne Nillesen / Nicola Hein / Magda Mayas / Eve Risser / Marta Warelis:
Piano Trialogues
(Creative Sources)
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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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-Don Van Vliet
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