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UPDATE
January 14, 2022
"Something new has been added,
A new art of sound.
Am I wrong in calling it music?"
—Pierre Schaeffer
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Creative Artists
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• Arcane Device
• Aaron Breylin Foster/Luke Martin
• Courvoisier/Halvorson
• Whit Dickey/William Parker/Matthew Shipp
• Friedrichsschwerdt
• Leo Genovese
• Eva-Maria Houben
• Konstrukt feat. Thurston Moore
• Ming Bau Set
(Gerry Hemingway/Vera Baumann/Florestan Berset)
• New Old Luten Trio
• William Parker (Parker/Carter/Drake)
• Andrea Parkins
• Michael Pisaro-Liu
• Rodrigues/Parrinha/Hencleeday/Valinho
• Vanessa Rossetto/Lionel Marchetti
• Sara Schoenbeck
• Matthew Shipp
• Simulacrum
• Florian Wittenburg
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Aum Fidelity
Creative Sources
Edition Wandelweiser Records
erstwhile
Euphorium
Evil Clown
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Infrequent Seams Records
KARLRECORDS
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
No Rent
pulsewidth
Pyroclastic Records
Tao Forms
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This weekend Relative Pitch Records has authorized us to reduce the price of 113 albums to $8.95, a $5 savings on each — these are the lowest price at which we've ever listed these albums! This sale give our customers a chance to fill in their collection of these important and extraordinary albums of modern creative improvisation from one of New York's most interesting labels. But hurry, this sale ends Sunday, January 16th!
Click Here to shop the Relative Pitch Sale
In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store.
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart.
Price shown is discounted price.
Sale ends Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last.
Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.
Orders with Relative Pitch sale items will ship around Friday, January 22nd.
This weekend 577 Records has authorized us to reduce the price of 50 albums to $9.95 each for CDs and $14.95 for vinyl LPs, a $4 savings on each! Take a look at this extraordinary collection of albums, featuring many NY artist associated with the Vision Festival, alongside spectacular improvisers from around the world and a five-volume collection of guitar performances. But hurry, this sale ends Sunday, January 16th!
Click Here to shop the 577 Sale
In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store.
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart.
Price shown is discounted price.
Sale ends Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last.
Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.
This weekend we've put 23 albums from Hopscotch Records on sale for $9.95 each, a $4 savings ! Featuring artists and bands including Assif Tsahar, Cooper-Moore, Matthew Shipp, Steve Dalachinsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, Digital Primitives, Peter Kowald, Augusti Fernandez, Susia Ibarra, &c, &c., this label is an essential participant in modern creative jazz history. But hurry, this sale ends Sunday, January 16th!
Click Here to shop the Hopscotch Sale
In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store.
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart.
Price shown is discounted price.
Sale ends Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last.
Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Courvoisier / Halvorson: Searching For The Disappeared Hour
(Pyroclastic Records)
The second collaboration between pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson, six years after Crop Circles and a product of their tours together and the result of their both writing compositions specifically for their duo project, showing a level of communication that allows incredible inventiveness and moments of poignant exchange; exceptional.
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Dickey, Whit / William Parker / Matthew Shipp: Village Mothership [VINYL]
(Tao Forms)
An exemplary piano trio of compatriots who have collaborated in configurations since the 1980s--drummer Whit Dickey, bassist William Parker and pianist Matthew Shipp--three New York legendary free players in their first record as a trio since 1992's Circular Temple, here in six studio group improvisations demonstrating their easy confidence in profound collective conversation.
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Friedrichsschwerdt: Gay - Wir Saunawirt
(Euphorium)
The curious album of Friedrich Kettlitz, co-founder of Euphorium_Freakestra, reciting his poems (in German) set in 25 miniature recordings, also performing on english worker's flute, pling, metal kettle, felt head mallet, temple bell, in a duo with Oliver Schwerdt on piano, as well as small percussive devices, voice, slide whistles, a zither, and little cubic cardbox.
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Genovese, Leo: Ritual
(577 Records)
Essentially a piano trio, Portuguese pianist and composer Leo Genovese leads his trio with Demian Cabaud on bass and renowned drummer Jeff Williams (Lookout Farm, Dave Liebman), also joined by Argentinian vocalist Nadia Larcheron for four pieces, Genovese's compositions using interesting structures that balance warmly lyrical and experimental approaches to modern jazz.
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Konstrukt feat. Thurston Moore: Turkish Belly [VINYL]
(KARLRECORDS)
A blistering set of improvisations featuring two electric guitarists--Konkstrukt's own Umut Caglar and NY Sonic improviser Thurston Moore--performing live at SalonIKSV in Istanbul, Turkey, blurring acoustics and electronics as the quintet creates intrepid environments for an intense journey in free improvisation, howling and biting along the way.
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Ming Bau Set (feat Gerry Hemingway / Vera Baumann / Florestan Berset): Yakut's Gallop
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Meeting regularly since 2018, these three Luzern, Switzerland improvisers have developed a shared language of collective creative improv, the best known of the three being drummer & percussionist Gerry Hemingway working with two younger generation musicians, acoustic & electric guitarist Florestan Berset and vocalist Vera Baumann, here in their first wonderfully paced album.
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New Old Luten Trio: Short Night [3'' CD]
(Euphorium)
A 3" CD-EP of the New Old Luten Trio, expanded into a quintet by the addition of two double bassists--John Edwards and Robert Landfermann--to the lineup of Euro Free Jazz reedist Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, pianist Elan Pauer (aka Oliver Schwerdt) and drummer/percussionist Christian Lillinger, in the warm-up set before the concert yielding the album Tumult!.
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Parker, William (Parker / Carter / Drake): Painters Winter
(Aum Fidelity)
A 2nd season from composer, improviser & bassist William Parker, after his 2000 Thirsty Ear release Painter's Spring, this new trio album with drummer Hamid Drake, wind player Daniel Carter performing on trumpet, flute and reeds, and Parker himself on bass, trombonium & shakuhachi, paint the season with sound as they celebrate the winter through visionary jazz music.
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Rodrigues / Parrinha / Hencleeday / Valinho: Flat Music
(Creative Sources)
Two extended acoustic improvisations of reductionist approaches recorded in the studio in Parede, Portugal in 2021 from the quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet, Andre Hencleeday on piano and Joao Valinho on percussion, guided by a poem from Rodrigues as they slowly and exquisitly explore a "Closed Window" and an "Open Window".
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Schoenbeck, Sara: Sara Schoenbeck
(Pyroclastic Records)
A document of bassoonist Sara Shoenbeck's collaborations recorded between 2019-2021 in recording studios across North America, showing the inspired curiosity she brings to improvisation through a diverse set of duos performed with Harris Eisenstadt, Nicole Mitchell, Nels Cline, Roscoe Mitchell, Matt Mitchell, Mark Dresser, Wayne Horvitz, Peggy Lee and Robin Holcomb.
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Shipp, Matthew: Codebreaker [VINYL]
(Tao Forms)
A fascinating solo piano record from New York free improvising luminary Matthew Shipp, a contemplative album that surprised even the pianist himself as he thoughtfully dissected harmonics to wring melodic fragments that bring sense to discursive streams of thought, his playing both investigational and charming, drawing an unlikely comparison to Bill Evans.
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Simulacrum: Hyperreality
(Evil Clown)
An offshoot of the Boston-area collective Metal Chaos Ensemble featuring multi-reedist PEK, also on percussion & electronics, Eric Woods on analog synth and Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar and electronics, with guests Grant Beale on guitar & electronics and William Middlemiss Jr on guitar and electronics, in an electronic and clamorous extended improvisation.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Arcane Device: n28 [2 CDS]
(pulsewidth)
The darker side of David Lee Myer's Arcane Device project, six lettered works from his Noisewall Sessions 2020-2021, using feedback and controlled glitch, delicate noise and drone in long-form extended improvisations; six incredible sonic journeys, each copy of the 2-CD album a in an individual and numbered monoprint package, each copy unique from the other.
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Arcane Device: Ruins
(No Rent)
Four mysteriously untitled and extended works of electronics subtitled Impressions From the Next Era, using feedback, aberrant sound, glitch, rich synthetics, bi-directional sound and indescribable sonic sources to fuel David Lee Myer's latest in his long-running and essential listening project Arcane Device; shimmering, inscrutable, and awe-inspiring.
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Parkins, Andrea: Two Rooms From The Memory Palace
(Infrequent Seams Records)
Using piano, synthesizer, electronic feedback, field recordings and amplified objects, sound artist Andrea Parkins' long-cycle installation composition explores time and space in an 8-channel, multi-room work designed so that adjacent acoustical spaces respond to each other, creating shifting and unexpected sonic juxtapositions; CD package include a link to "The Third Room".
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Pisaro-Liu, Michael: Revolution Shuffle [2 CDs]
(erstwhile)
Alarmed by the warning signs of social deterioration, political overreach and planetary damage warning of an imminent need for revolutionary change, composer and sound artist Michael Pisaro-Liu sought and plundered references in sound from historic and current sources, producing 53 tracks that are arranged to tell a story in a mosaic form; an incredible achievement.
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Rossetto, Vanessa / Lionel Marchetti: The Tower (The City)
(erstwhile)
Three distinct compositions from the collaborative work of sound artists Vanessa Rossetto and Lionel Marchetti, the first a wonderfully complex work of musique concrète and acousmatic sources guided by the composers' instincts; "The Tower" expands their concepts through the addition of 18 voices, while the final track features the violin of Anouck Genthon.
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Compositional
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Breylin, Aaron Foster / Luke Martin: Recursive Retent
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Excerpting part of an eight-hour performance recorded over an amplified live environment of a text score for two pianists using one piano, each positioned at the opposite registers of the piano, one player creating a block of note phrases using intervals of a 2nd or 3rd with each note allowed to decay before the next, repeated by the other player following a set of rules.
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Houben, Eva-Maria : 3 Trios
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
"Trios" refers to the relationship of two keyboards and the pedals of an organ, as performed by accomplished American composer Carson Cooman as he patiently unfolds Eva-Maria Houben's three minimal compositions exploring the relationships between three melodic lines or three-tone chords, presented on the Organ Probsteikirche St. Ludgerus, in Billerbeck, Germany.
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Wittenburg, Florian : Kranenburg Tree
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Using a metasynth, a software instrument that allows the user to draw or paint music, and a photograph of a small tree observed at a former train station in the German town of Kranenbur, composer Florian Wittenburg generates complex sound structures from the simple structures of the tree's branches used as a template for four rich sonic sketches.
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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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Assif Tsahar / William Parker / Hamid Drake:
In Between The Tumbling A Stillness
(Hopscotch Records)
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Charlotte Keeffe:
Right Here, Right Now
(Discus)
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Paul Dunmall / Mark Sanders:
Unity
(577 Records)
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Roscoe Mitchell:
Dots - Pieces for Percussion and Woodwinds
(Wide Hive)
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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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Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2003.
In 2010 we moved to Wilmington, NC, giving regional and visiting customers access to our catalog
of more than 7,000 items, which includes hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items
not listed on our website. We're open for you to visit by appointment during weekday afternoons,
so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region please email us to set up a time to stop by and say hello,
we'd love to play some music for you!
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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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