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UPDATE
August 27, 2021
"We're not on the outside looking in,
We're on the outside looking out."
—John Zorn
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Creative Artists
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• Lucio Bonaldo
• Chansons du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand/Elliott Sharp)
• Tom Cora/David Moss
• Axel Dorner/Roger Turner/Ra Ra da Boff
• ForM
• Four Letter Words (Piet/Wark/Harris)
• Joe Harriott Quintet
• The J. & F. Band
• je'raf
• Jean Claude Jones (JC)/and friends
• Liuzzi/Massaro/La Volpe/Martusciello
• Brandon Lopez Trio
• Cecilia Lopez
• John Medeski
• Matt Mitchell/Kate Gentile
• Bill Nace
• PEK Solo
• Oliver Schwerdt
• Synkretika (Carl Stone/Elliott Sharp)
• Anna Webber
• John Zorn
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Essential Labels
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Amalgam
Aubjects
Creative Sources
Euphorium
Evil Clown
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Kadima
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Klanggalerie
Long Song Records
Open Mouth
Pi Recordings
Relative Pitch
Tzadik
zOaR Records
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Cora, Tom / David Moss: Cargo Cult Revival
(Klanggalerie)
Essential performers on the 80s Downtown NY scene, cellist Tom Cora and percussionist & vocalist David Moss released this album in 1983 on Fred Frith's Rift label, ten active and often absurd duo improvisation of informed interaction, intertwining strings, drums, odd rhythmic sources and strange vocal utterances, yielding to both serious improv and whimsical notions.
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Dorner, Axel / Roger Turner / Ra Ra da Boff: London Leipzig Berlin
(Euphorium)
Ra Ra da Boff is an alter ego for keyboardist Oliver Schwerdt, here performing on electric organ in a trio with trumpeter Axel Dörner and percussionist Roger Turner, the three turning free improvisation on its ear through extended and unusual approaches to their instruments in an impressionistic set of three impressive and slowly tumultuous extended conversations; exemplary!
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Four Letter Words (Piet / Wark / Harris): Blow
(Amalgam)
The Chicago trio of tenor saxophonist Jake Wark, pianist Matt Piet and drummer Bill Harris in a forceful and exuberant trio that grew out of the weekly free improvisation workshop "Sound of the City" at Constellation, initially a collective that developed a set of compositions from each member, presented here in their exceptional and exciting debut album.
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Harriott, Joe Quintet: Free Form & Abstract Revisited [2 CDs]
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Two essential early 60s release from famed UK saxophonist Joe Harriott, an innovator bringing free jazz concepts to the British audience with his quintet of Shake Kane on trumpet & flugelhorn, Pat Smythe on piano, Coleridge Goode on double bass and Phil Seaman on drums, referencing the new forms of jazz from US artists like Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman.
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Jones, Jean Claude (JC) / and friends: Nucleous
(Kadima)
The fifth in bassist, guitarist and Kadima label-leader JC Jones "Distance Series", works assembled through virtual sessions with associated artists, Jones performing on Spanish guitar which he plays as a lap guitar, on Nucleous creating a set of five unusual vocal works with internationally reknown vocalists Meira Asher, Esti Kenan-Ofri, Anat Pick and Josef Sprinzak.
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Liuzzi / Massaro / La Volpe / Martusciello: Elica Multisensory Improvisation
(Creative Sources)
A fascinating Italian project using improv techniques on voice, bass clarinet, prepared guitars & banjos and live electronics, allowing each musician to generate sounds by using their senses to listen and reflect on the world around them, from Elio Martusciello (live electronics), Chiara Liuzzi (voice), Francesco Massaro (reeds & electronics) & Adolfo La Volpe (guitars & objects).
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Lopez, Brandon Trio: Live at Roulette
(Relative Pitch)
Calling his music jazz and not jazz, bassist Brandon Lopez demands of his listeners to dance, as the quartet of Lopez, Steve Baczkowski on saxophones, Gerald Cleaver on percussion and Cecilia Lopez on synthesizer are heard in this energetic live concert at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, blurring free jazz with experimental sound that never loses its strong grooves.
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Lopez, Cecilia : Red (DB)
(Relative Pitch)
Argentinian sound artist based in NYC Cecilia Lopez engages fellow Brandon Lopez Trio double bassist Lopez and drummer Gerald Cleaver for a performance of improvisation, installation and architecture, using woven wire nets filled with instruments and hung from Roulette Intermedia's ceiling to act as a complex feedback organism with which the trio interacts.
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Medeski, John: Crawlspace
(Tzadik)
Music with "no restrictions, no guidelines, no imposed intention, no expectation" from keyboardist John Medeski, in an album that evolves static noise into rich and fascinating soundscapes, a blend of improvisation and composition using electric and acoustic keyboards, synthesizers, mellotron and early electronic gear, masterfully unfurled in riveting ways.
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Mitchell, Matt / Kate Gentile: Snark Horse [6 CD Box Set]
(Pi Recordings)
With a superb ensemble appearing in various combinations, including saxophonist Jon Irabagon, violist Mat Maneri, guitarists Ava Mendoza & Brandon Seabrook, &c. the duo of pianist/keyboardist Matt Mitchell and drummer Kate Gentile release an epic 6-CD box of recordings expanding on one-bar compositions and short electronic pieces divided into six volumes; stunning!
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PEK Solo: For Alto (For Anthony Braxton)
(Evil Clown)
In 1969 alto saxophonist Anthony Braxton released an unprecedented solo saxophone album, For Alto, dedicating each piece to a composer or player, including Leroy Jenkins and John Cage; Boston improviser David Peck took this album as inspiration to create his own extended solo improvisation as a tribute to Braxton, performing on a classic Selmer Balanced Action saxophone.
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Schwerdt, Oliver: Storming Bauhaus [2CDs]
(Euphorium)
Eschewing his many monikers (Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff) pianist Oliver Schwerdt steps away from EUPHORIUM_freakestra, uses his given name, and takes the stage of the Bauhaus building in Dessau where such legends as Fred van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach have played, to record these four exemplary and extended, kinetic & free solo piano improvisations.
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Synkretika (Carl Stone / Elliott Sharp): Live in Tokyo
(zOaR Records)
One of the pioneers of live computer music, Carl Stone and guitarist, multi-reedist and electronic artist Elliott Sharp have had a long association sharing concert stages together, heard here in 2019 at Bar Ishee in Tokyo for a unique concert of syncretic improvisation, merging instrumental music with unusual concrete and acousmatic sonic manifestations.
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Webber, Anna: Idiom [2 CDs]
(Pi Recordings)
In various configurations of her ensemble--from trios to 12 performers--composer, saxophonist & flutist Anna Weber composed these six pieces based around specific wind techniques, including the use of multiphonics, alternate fingerings, buzzes, air sounds, key clicks & overblown notes, explored through an exuberant and embraceable balance of improvised and composed "Idioms".
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Zorn, John: Nostradamus: The Death of Satan
(Tzadik)
The Simulacrum trio of John Medeski on organ, Kenny Grohowski on drums and Matt Hollenberg on guitar, with prior releases Inferno, Unspeakable Depravity..., Beyond Good And Evil and Baphomet, continue composer John Zorn's investigation on the dark side of swinging jazz merged with rock & compositional attitudes, as he explores the written works of Antonin Artaud.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Bonaldo, Lucio: Concrete Union
(Creative Sources)
Using percussion, cymbals, various objects, computer and sound sculptures made by Bruno Girardi, Italian percussionist Lucio Bonaldo, known for the group L'imbroglio, presents a set of recordings performed live and direct, captured between 2018 & 2019, including a Sonorization of a literary passage taken from "Traviso" by Alberto Cellotto, and "Altken", an overdubbed work.
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Chansons du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand / Elliott Sharp): Aube
(zOaR Records)
A collection of original songs and interpretations inspired by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, from vocalist Hélène Breschand, also performing on harp, electronics & field recordings, in a duo with Elliott Sharp, who creates grooves and instrumental environments on guitar, synth, bass, drum programming & electronics, each song beautifully fractured and rich in detail.
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ForM: ForM
(Aubjects)
An album of electronic rhythmical work, glitch, soundscape experimentation and hallucinatory sound from Robert Newell, a member of Amalgamated, with fellow Amalgamated member Phillip Klampe assisting in contribution and production; 14 concise and diverse examples of twisted conceptual sound following a concept of life forming from the brine.
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je'raf: Throw Neck
(Amalgam)
Reminding of Downtown NY bands in the vein of No Safety or Curlew, this Chicago/NY 7-piece blurs rock, jazz and funk forms with intelligent and often satirical lyrics, upbeat and joyful music that defies categorization through groove-based songs that playfully critique while keeping it all danceable and fun, in a wonderfully talented and enjoyable album.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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J. & F. Band, The : Cajun Blue
(Long Song Records)
Following their first record with this powerful blues rock & jazz album, the Italian/US J & F Band of Tiziano Tononi (drums), Joe Fonda (bass), drummer/percussionist Jaimoe and Pach, Peewee Durante (keys), Alberto Mandarini (trumpet), Beppe Caruso (trombone) and Gianluigi Paganelli (tuba), with guest guitarist David Grissom and vocalist Lamar Williams Jr.
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Nace, Bill: One Note (Solo Guitar 2) [VINYL]
(Open Mouth)
An early recording of guitarist Bill Nace performing solo in Bennington, Vermont in 2007, originally released on cassette in 2008 on the Open Mouth label, here re-pressed on LP to re-introduce an earlier, wilder side to Nace's playing through brief pieces of diverse intention using an array of objects to transform his guitar into a tightly honed sonic device.
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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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Max Bober:
Somos
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
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Damon Smith / Peter Kowald / Joelle Leandre / Bertram Turetzky:
Bass Duos 2000-2007
(Balance Point Acoustics)
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Cecil Taylor Mixed to Unit:
Structures Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Marco Colonna & Alexander Hawkins:
Dolphy Underlined
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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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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In 2010 we moved to Wilmington, NC, giving regional and visiting customers access to our catalog
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"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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