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UPDATE
May 27, 2022
"Sometimes I'd think I was making music
Through the wrong end of a magnifying glass."
—John Coltrane
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Creative Artists
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• Rob Brown/Juan Pablo Carletti
• John Coltrane
• Erica Dicker/Dennis Sullivan
• Sture Ericson/Pat Thomas/Raymond Strid
• Francois Houle/Marco von Orelli
• Anna Kaluza/Jan Roder
• Lazro/Minor/Madiot/Chiesa/Marion
• Louis-Michel Marion/Francoise Toullec
• Merzbow/Arcane Device
• David Myers Lee
• OORT
• Michael Pisaro-Liu/Primoz Sukic
• Quatuor Bozzini
• Renzoku (Kondo/Kaiser/Goodman/Oswald)
• George Russell
• Taku Sugimoto
• Superimpose: Muller/Marien (w/ Butcher/Jernberg/Wooley)
• Linnea Talp
• Tolimieri/Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Stepanov
• Rutger Zuydervelt/Hugo Dijkstal/Peter Hollo
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Collection QB
Creative Sources
Edition FriForma
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Important Records
Inexhaustible Editions
Machinefabriek
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Meenna
Metalanguage
NoBusiness
pulsewidth
Relative Pitch
Thanatosis Produktion
Tour de Bras
Tubapede
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This weekend the US celebrates Memorial Day,
remembering those who passed before us and who honored our nation.
In memory of those who came before us,
and in the remembrance of the many great musicians who have left their mark
in the wealth of recorded history that we enjoy,
we're offering our customers the following discounts store-wide through Monday, May 30th:
• Buy any new CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD, Book or Magazine
Take 10% off that item's price
• Buy 5 or more CDs, Vinyls, Cassettes, DVDs, Books or Magazines
Take 15% off those item's prices
Shop at Squidco
In-stock items only, orders must use our shopping cart. Insurance, shipping, and gift certificates items excluded.
Discounts applied at checkout time.
Sold out items will disappear from the store.
Sale ends Monday, May 30, 2022 at midnight EST (GMT-5).
Discounted items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Brown, Rob / Juan Pablo Carletti: Fertile Garden
(NoBusiness)
Two extended dialogs between New York City saxophonist Rob Brown and Argentinian-born NY-based drummer Juan Pablo Carletti, a member of the Rob Brown Quartet and associate with Tony Malaby, Daniel Levin, &c., here in energetic exchanges that bring out the depth of experience and skill from Brown and the quick-witted response from the younger generation drummer.
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Coltrane, John: Favorites Live (Naima / My Favorite Things 1963 / A Love Supreme 1965) Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Well-recorded performances of Coltrane's most noted works--"Naima", "My Favorite Things" and "A Love Supreme"--in superb concerts from Berlin in 1963 and Antibes in 1965 with his classic quartet of pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, revealing the expansion and freedom these compositions receive through the flexibility of live performance.
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Ericson, Sture / Pat Thomas / Raymond Strid: Bagman LIve at Cafe Oto
(577 Records)
The first trio collaboration between London pianist and innovator Pat Thomas and Swedish improvisers, Sture Ericson on saxophones, and Raymond Strid on drums, performing live at Cafe OTO in London in 2019 for four improvised soundscapes about the fictional character "Bagman", using extended and prodigious technique with both disruptive and melodic intentions.
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Houle, Francois / Marco von Orelli: Make That Flight
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Canadian improvising clarinetist François Houle and Swiss trumpeter Marco von Orelli are heard live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, in Basel, Switzerland, 2020 for eleven dialogs reminiscent of the work of John Carter and Bobby Bradford, though uniquely in their own modern language of chamber-oriented jazz through original compositions from both artists.
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Kaluza, Anna / Jan Roder: Am Frankfurter Tor
(Relative Pitch)
Collaborating since 2004, Berlin alto saxophonist Anna Kaluza and double bassist Jan Roda--a member of Kaluza's Quartet with trombonist Christof Thewes and drummer Kay Lübke--in a studio album of duo improvisations, documenting their live performances in the same configuration since 2020 through ten succinct dialogs of informed affinity.
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Lazro, Daunik / Jouk Minor / Thierry Madiot / David Chiesa / Louis-Michel Marion: Sonoris Causa
(NoBusiness)
This single extended performance brings together a collective of improvisers playing low range instruments in order to build an acoustic sonic sculpture, from the quintet of Daunik Lazro on baritone saxophone, Jouk Minor on contrabass sarrusophone, Thierry Madiot on bass trombone & telescopic tubes, and both David Chiesa and Louis-Michel Marion on 5-string double bass.
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Marion, Louis-Michel / Francoise Toullec: Apocalyptic Garden
(Creative Sources)
A strangely agitated garden sculpted from melody, dissonance and instrumental abberation through profound technique and unusual approaches to their instrument, by French double bassist Louis-Michel Marion and pianist Françoise Toullec, bringing a sense of wonder and turbulent environment through a shared passion balancing ominous space with astute activity.
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OORT: Meridian
(Tour de Bras)
Each track of the Meridian, or Eastern desert land's traditional noon-time middle of the day, represents various stages, chronologically understood, of the day of an ανθρωπός (human), represented through deep double bass, drums, objects and electronics from Turin, Italy improvisers Michele Anelli and Nicholas Remondino.
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Renzoku (Kondo / Kaiser / Goodman / Oswald): Jump
(Metalanguage)
Revealing 40 years of collaborations between late trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and West Coast guitarist Henry Kaiser, in configurations of duos between Kondo & Kaiser--most notably a beautiful and extended 2016 improvisation--then earlier duos from 1978, a 1980 trio with pianist Greg Goodman, a 1979 trio with saxophonist John Oswald, ending with a wonderfully idiosyncratic 2020 duo.
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Russell, George: Ezz-thetics & The Stratus Seekers, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Essential to any collection charting the transition from Birth of the Cool era jazz to the modern explosion of harmonic and compositional forms, are pianist George Russell's two most essential albums from 1961 & 1962--Ezz-thetics and The Stratus Seekers--in a sextet & septet including Eric Dolphy, Don Elliss, Steve Swallow, &c., remastered to reveal their vital clarity.
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Superimpose: Matthias Muller / Christian Marien (w/ John Butcher / Sofia Jernberg / Nate Wooley) : With [3 CDs]
(Inexhaustible Editions)
A three disc box set of impressive collective improvisations recorded in the studio by the Superimpose duo of Matthias Muller on trombone and Christian Marien on drums & percussion, joined on the first disc by John Butcher on tenor and soprano saxophones, then with improvising vocalist Sofia Jernberg for the 2nd disc, and on disc 3 with trumpeter Nate Wooley.
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Tolimieri / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Stepanov: Inner Lines
(Creative Sources)
Six "Segments" A to F of powerful restraint and extended technique, recorded at Ausland in Berlin, Germany from the free improvising quartet of Quentin Tolimieri on piano, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Fyodor Stepanov on double bass, the close associations between the Rodrigues' and Tolimieri & Stepanov evident through their shared aesthetic.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD]
(Tubapede)
Delicate abrasions and corruption of their instruments from the NY duo of Erica Dicker (Till by Turning) on violin and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2), 9 works of improvised soundscape and avant-raw chamber music through prepared strings, tapes, looped feedback, resonant metals, modified snares and liberally bowed surfaces, richly constrained and luxuriously blood-curdling.
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Merzbow / Arcane Device: Merzbow & Arcane Device
(Important Records)
Two innovative sonic luminaries--Japan's Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, and New York City's David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device--remix each other's work, bringing Myer's unique approach to feedback and ethereal electronics to harness Akita's agressive sounds, and in reverse, Akita's sense of disruptive sonics explode Myer's more contemplative feedback music.
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Myers, David Lee: Xenography
(pulsewidth)
Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned, an apt description of the rich dialects sculpted from feedback sources and expertly routed through circular circuits of sound processors by New York sound artist David Lee Myers, AKA Arcane Device, captured and layered into these astounding electronic compositions.
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Pisaro-Liu, Michael / Primoz Sukic : Mind Is Moving (IX)
(Edition FriForma)
The 9th piece in composer Michael Pisaro's "Mind Is Moving" series, which initiated on the Wandelweiser label with Pisaro himself performing on guitar, here with Slovenian guitarist Primož Sukič (ICTUS Ensemble, The Third Guy) rendering this subtle work of slow-moving tones, harmonics and silence, electric guitar, radio & stones, a work of thoughtful space and intersected playing, slowly unfolding where each gesture and note carries significance to the composition.
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Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion
(thanatosis produktion)
Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions.
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Zuydervelt, Rutger / Hugo Dijkstal / Peter Hollo: BERG (Music for a film by Joke Olthaar)
(Machinefabriek)
Two versions of the soundtrack to the Dutch movie BERG composed by Rutger Zuydervelt, the first rearranging the tracks to the piece to create a long-form work that maintains the meditative qualities of the movie; then an early score proposal and more active concept than the final work, developed with recordings of improvisations from cellist Peter Hollo.
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Compositional
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Quatuor Bozzini: Michael Oesterle: Quatuors
(Collection QB)
German-born Canadian composer living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec Michael Oesterle has a long relationship with the Quatuor Bozzini beginning with their first commission 25 years ago, here in four works including a tribute to English mathematician Alan Turing, the large-scale "String Quartet No. 4", and a piece inspired by Quebec poet Nicole Brossard's book Mecanique jongleuse.
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Sugimoto, Taku: Octet
(Meenna)
Part of Japanese composer Taku Sugimoto's Solo for Strings series, these works focus on bowed stringed instruments played only with natural harmonics, arranged with clarinets and flute, using long tones and repetition that allow the performer decisions on their length, performed by a Berlin-based octet including Catherine Lamb, Johnny Change, Samuel Dunscombe, &c.
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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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Eva-Maria Houben:
3 Trios
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Korekyojinn (Yoshida / Nasuno / Natsuki):
Mesopotamia
(Magaibutsu Limited)
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Fish Wool (feat. Susana Santos Silva/Yedo Gibons/Vasco Trilla):
Live in Cerkno
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Paul Dunmall / Jonathan Impett / Andrew Ball / Paul Rogers / Phillip Gibbs:
Undistracted
(FMR)
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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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so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region please email us to set up a time to stop by and say hello,
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because:
"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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