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UPDATE
December 10, 2021
"If you take the creation of music
And the creation of your own life values
As your overall goal,
Then living becomes a musical process."
—Cecil Taylor
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Creative Artists
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• Diaphane (Loriot/Costa/Hubsch/Loher)
• Jordan Dykstra/Koen Nutters
• Kazemde George
• Killick!
• Robbie Lee
• Luis Lopes Love Song
• Ava Mendoza
• PEK Solo
• Michael Pisaro-Liu
• Dave Rempis/Avreeayl Ra
• Georgia Rodgers/Apartment House
• Schindler/Stemkowoski
• Udo Schindler/Etienne Rolin/Luc Laine
• You Jin Sung/Vincent Laju
• Cecil Taylor
• This Is It! (Fujii/Itani/Tamura)
• Flin van Hemmen
• Guy Vandromme/Bruno Duplant
• Mars Williams Presents
• John Zorn Chaos Magick
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Essential Labels
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Aerophonic
Another Timbre
Astral Spirits
Astral Spirits / Soul What Records
Creative Sources
elsewhere
Evil Clown
FMR
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Greenleaf Music
Habitable Records
Libra
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Neither/Nor Records
Relative Pitch
Shhpuma
Tzadik
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Diaphane (Loriot / Costa / Hubsch / Loher): Paris
(Neither/Nor Records)
A live album at the Cafe de Paris in 2019, and the recording debut of the international quartet Diaphane of Frantz Loriot on viola, Raphael Loher on piano, Carl Ludwig Hübsch on tuba and Carlo Costa on percussion, heard here in an extended and fully free improvisation using unusual techniques and objects to extend the pallet of their acoustic instruments.
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George, Kazemde: I Insist
(Greenleaf Music)
A solid modern jazz album in the Blue Note tradition with a Latin angle, the title a reference to Max Roach's 1960 protest album We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, evoked through strongly melodic tunes composed by Brooklyn saxophonist Kazemde George and performed with vocalist Sami Stevens, keyboardist Isaac Wilson, bassist Tyrone Allen II, and drummer Adam Arruda.
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Killick!: Imbricate
(Habitable Records)
A series of real-time improvised performances from Athens, Georgia guitarist Killick Hinds, made with strings and occasional computer augmentation, an album he describes as to date his fullest expression of the Appalachian Trance Metal/Piedmont Shaman Rock concept that he has been developing for years, these works inspired by Zaila Avant-garde, Paolo Angeli and Bali.
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Lee, Robbie: Prismatist
(Relative Pitch)
With a history of both improvisation and rock, NY saxophonist and sound artist (Creature Automatic, Love As Laughter) concentrates on the sopranino saxophone in this solo album, performing acoustic feats of impressive technical skill, and on many tracks performing with tuning forks and live electronics, sequenced in a compelling journey of contrasts and wonder.
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Mendoza, Ava: New Spells
(Relative Pitch)
A joint release between Astral Spirts and Relative Pitch, guitarist Ava Mendoza conjures five assertive and rugged "spells" performed on solo electric guitar, passionate works of raw technical skill and bold power as she improvises over two songs composed by herself, alongside pieces written for her from Devin Hoff, Trevor Dunn and John Dikeman.
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Mendoza, Ava: New Spells [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
Cassette w/ Download Code edition of the CD listed above.
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PEK Solo: Decision Boundary
(Evil Clown)
With exotic instrumentation including clariphone, tarota, nadaswaram, mussette, flutes, clarinets, English horn, medieval pipe, whistles, concertina and gongs, Boston improviser David Peck performs over elements captured on a loop station, all decisions made in real time as he evolves this extended improvisation, creating a diverse and unusual recording.
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Rempis, Dave / Avreeayl Ra: Bennu [VINYL]
(Aerophonic)
The first recorded document of longtime collaborators performing as a duo, Dave Rempis (alto & tenor saxophones) and Avreeayl Ra (drums & percussion), in a thoughtfully building and muscular sax/drum pairing of both meditative and joyful free playing, captured at Constellation in Chicago after months where both players were unable to perform in person; exceptional!
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Schindler / Stemkowoski: Related Unigue Items
(FMR)
Recorded at the 2019 Salon fur Klang+Kunst, in Krailing/Munich, this consummate and creative meeting of multi-reed & brass improviser Udo Schindler and double bassist Thomas Stempkowski was performed as a dedication to bassist Simon H. Fell who passed from cancer in 2020; sadly Stempkowski also died during the production of this album, making this both a farewell and a memorial.
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Schindler, Udo / Etienne Rolin / Luc Laine: In Search Of Surprise
(FMR)
Unique voicing through the orchestration of saxophones, basset horn, glissotar (a modern continuous pitch wind instrument) and vibraphone, heard in this recording at the international artist house Villa Waldberta, in Feldafing-Munich, Germany, for seven recordings that blend free jazz forms with chamber jazz approaches with remarkable sophistication and composure.
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Sung, You Jin / Vincent Laju: Kairos
(Creative Sources)
Exotic improvisation from Korean musician based in Berlin, You Jin Sung, performing on the gayageum, a large traditional Korean plucked zither sometimes augmented with electronics, in a duo with French cellist Vincent Laju, both performers using tension and space contrasted with moments of intensity through six improvisations of cross-cultural, contemporary conversation.
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Taylor, Cecil : Music From Two Continents feat Stanko, Rava, Franf Wright, Lyons, Borca, Barker, Hampel
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
A truly wild concert of free jazz from Cecil Taylor's transatlantic orchestra, captured live at the 1984 Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw, Poland, bringing together impressive improvisers from the US--William Parker, John Tchicai, Jimmy Lyons, Karen Borca, Frank Wright, & Henry Martinez--with European Free Jazz leaders Tomasz Stank, Enrico Rava, Conrd Bauer & Günter Hampel.
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This Is It! (Fujii / Itani / Tamura): Mosaic
(Libra)
Circumventing pandemic lockdowns, the trio of husband & wife, pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, recorded this album at their home in Kobe, Japan using an internet connection to perform in real time with drummer/percussionist Takashi Itani in Tokyo, their joyful and sophisticated improvisation a testament to close listening and magnificent communication.
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Williams, Mars Presents: An Ayler Xmas Vol.5
(Astral Spirits / Soul What Records)
This year's An Ayler Xmas is the 5th in the series from saxophonist Mars Williams, mashing holiday classics with works by saxophonist Albert Ayler, with the amazing sextet of Josh Berman on cornet, Jim Baker on piano, viola & Arp Synth, Brian Sandstrom on bass, guitar & trumpet, Steve Hunt on drums, Peter Maunu on violin and Kent Kessler or Krzysztof Pabian on bass.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Dykstra, Jordan / Koen Nutters: In Better Shape Than You Found Me
(elsewhere)
The first album from the duo of American composer & violinist Jordan Dykstra and Dutch composer Koen Nutters, developed by exchanging material of ambient & spacious nature using slow chord development, field recordings, viola, pitch pipe, crotales, piano EBow and electronic programming, the resulting work diverse and constantly evolving through fascinating details.
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Lopes, Luis Love Song: Emmentes
(Shhpuma)
The third release in Portuguese guitarist Luís Lopes' Love Song Project is a solo album performed on a nylon-stringed acoustic guitar, six beautifully peaceful and introspective improvisations revealing a calm side to Lopes' often assertive electric guitar work, instead allowing harmonics and notes express his curiosity of life and love of music.
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Pisaro-Liu, Michael: Tombstones (performed by Barbara Dang & Muzzix)
(elsewhere)
Applying techniques that Michael Pisaro uses in his audio compositions to song formats, this album presents 11 new versions of songs from his 2013 Human Ear Music album, here reworked for clarity and recorded under the artistic direction of the Lille-based pianist Barbara Dang and six members of the Muzzix collective (Bellefont, Cruz, Orins, Pruvost & Pruvost).
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van Hemmen, Flin: You Can Know Where the Bombs Fell
(Neither/Nor Records)
Based in NY but born the Netherlands, sound artist Flin Van Hemmen's title refers to observations from his hometown of Nijmegen, the concept focusing his work, with many samples originating from his previous Casting Spells & The Coves album, along with new field recordings and studio work, resulting in richly detailed worlds of sound and momentum.
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Compositional
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Rodgers, Georgia / Apartment House: September
(Another Timbre)
Eight chamber works of interestingly structured and exquisitely restrained character, composed between 2016 and 2021 by UK composer Georgia Rodgers, performed by the Apartment House ensemble in configurations of acoustic duos, trios & quartets, one solo piece for piano & electronics, one solo work for electronics and the title piece in 3 parts by a quintet.
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Vandromme, Guy / Bruno Duplant: l'infini des possibles (12 etudes pour piano) [2 CDs]
(elsewhere)
Twelve etudes for solo piano by French composer Bruno Duplant and interpreted by pianist Guy Vandromme, each etude consisting of eight lines of lowercase letters a-g representing white keys, with accents, uppercase shifts, apostrophes, &c. affecting those letters, the performer given an "infinity of possibilities" through choices of combinations and repetions of the score.
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Zorn, John: The Ninth Circle
(Tzadik)
Chaos Magick, composer John Zorn's quartet with Brian Marsella on Fender Rhodes, piano & Mellotron, John Medeski on organ, Kenny Grohowski on drums and Matt Hollenberg on guitar, merge contemporary classical with jazz, funk, rock, blues, film soundtrack, and noise improvisation on a journey of 9 compositional Cantos into Orpheus' ninth concentric Circle of Hell.
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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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Frode Gjerstad / Isach Skeidsvoll:
Twenty Fingers
(Relative Pitch)
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Catherine Jauniaux / Jean-Sebastien Mariage / Xavier Charles:
L'Amour
(Ayler)
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Jeremy Baysse:
In C (Terry Riley)
(Creative Sources)
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Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble:
Warszawa 2019
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Stay Current With Squidco
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we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said,
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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.
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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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