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UPDATE
July 1, 2022
"Music has always been the antithesis of political power—
Jazz maybe more so
And free jazz even more."
—John Edwards
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Creative Artists
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• Artifacts (Nicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed)
• Baldrian Quartett
• Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver
• Osvaldo Coluccino
• Dave Douglas
• Mark Feldman/Katinka Kleijn
• Alexandra Grimal
• M (feat. Ben Stapp/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Marco Colonna/Steve Swell)
• Ikue Mori
• Cath Roberts/Olie Brice
• Charles Rumback
• Udo Schindler/Peter Jacquemyn
• Elliott Sharp/Tim Dahl/Weasel Walter
• Alan Silva/Itaru Oki/Richard Comte/Makoto Sato
• Ernstalbrecht Stiebler/Tilman Kanitz
• Strictly Missionary (Pitsiokos/Eisenberg/Lenz/Murray/Neuburg)
• Survival Unit III (McPhee/Lonberg-Holm/Zerang)
• Cecil Taylor (w/ Lyons/Dixon/Grimes/Silva/Cyrille)
• Phil Venable
• Marta Warelis
• Wubbels/Lee/Olencki
• John Zorn (Bill Frisell/Julian Lage/Gyan Riley)
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Another Timbre
Astral Spirits
Bruit
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
FMR
Greenleaf Music
Inexhaustible Editions
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Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
nunc.
Out Of Your Head Records
Relative Pitch
Soul City Sounds
Tzadik
ugEXPLODE
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SQUIDCO INDEPENDENT MUSIC SALE!
- Buy any new CD, LP, DVD, Cassette, Magazine or Book
Take 10% off its retail price
- Buy 6 or more CDs, LPs, DVDs, Cassettes, Magazines or Books
Take 15% off their retail price!
Monday, July 4th is Independence Day, the US holiday commemorating the
adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
It's a day to observe and respect the principles of independent liberty and personal rights
that are the cornerstones of modern culture. Given the unusual events of this year,
it seems more important than ever to consider the intentions of those who struggled
for personal freedom, and reflect on how me must continue to protect or secure those freedoms.
Freedom is also applied as a musical concept which has grown over the last two centuries,
leading to remarkable new approaches in improvised and composed music, from free jazz to
non-idiomatic improvisation, and hybrids of compositional, experimental and improvised music.
This year we are celebrating from Friday July 1st to Monday, July 4th with the discounts listed above. This is the last
across-the-board sale we're offering this summer, the remaining sales for the season will focus on labels,
sets of albums, and Friends of Squid sales. So take advantage of these discounts, from now until Monday, July 4!
Click here to Shop @ Squidco!
In-stock items only, items will disappear from the store if they sell out.
Orders must use our shopping cart.
Insurance, shipping, and gift certificates items excluded.
Product listings and shopping cart shows discounted prices.
Sale ends Monday, July 4, 2022 at midnight EST (GMT-5).
Sale items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Artifacts (Nicole Mitchell / Tomeka Reid / Mike Reed): ...and then there's this [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)
Confirming their place in Chicago's improv legacy, the second album from the Artifacts Trio of Nicole Mitchell on flute & electronics, Tomeka Reid on cello and Mike Reed on drums & percussion expand the AACM canon with compositions from each member, plus several insightful and lively collective improvisations and one piece each from Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams.
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Baldrian Quartett: Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy: Streichquartette - Entschlummern sollst Du, sollst entschlummern
(Bruit)
A tongue-in-cheek album packaged like a Deutsche Grammophon release of a string quartet by fictional composer Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdys (1878-1907), which is instead a superb live ea-improv performance at the 2018 Music Unlimited Festival in Austria by Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics), Kai Fagaschinski (clarinette), Jonas Kocher (accordion) & Christof Kurzmann (electronics).
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Carter, Daniel / Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! Vol. 2 [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(577 Records)
The 2nd of two studio albums from the quartet of Daniel Carter on saxophone & flute, Matthew Shipp on piano, William Parker on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums, recordings from the same sessions as the 1st volume with five shorter works, as the long-time collaborators and friends show their nearly telepathic rapport in adventurous and masterful modern jazz.
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Douglas, Dave: Overcome [VINYL]
(Greenleaf Music)
Beginning with a reimagining of the Civil Rights anthem "We Shall Overcome", trumpeter Dave Douglas' album is an emotional and powerful statement of human engagement towards justice--Racial justice; Climate justice; Voting justice; Gender justice--performed with Ryan Keberle on trombone, Fay Victor on voice, Camila Meza on voice, guitar, Jorge Roeder on bass and Rudy Royston on drums.
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Feldman, Mark / Katinka Kleijn: Sine Nomine
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Blurring free improvisation and compositional strategies in this encounter at the "First Meeting Series" at FAB Music Studio Chicago between New York violinist Mark Feldman and Chicago cellist Katinka Kleijn, a remarkable concert in two parts showing imaginative skills of phenomenal technical expertise and experience, instant compositions of the highest order.
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Grimal, Alexandra: Refuge
(Relative Pitch)
Recorded using the natural resonance from the base of a stone double spiral staircase in the Castle of Chambord, France, improvising soprano saxophonist Alexandra Grimal explores her own personal language and the affect the ambience brings to her adept playing, through beautifully melodic lines, long arpeggiations, or short bursts of penetrating utterance.
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Mori, Ikue: Tracing The Magic
(Tzadik)
A large work from Downtown New York improviser and innovator Ikue Mori, seven piece dedicated to women artists whose vision found them creating into their 80's & 90s, performed in an ensemble with Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg, Zeena Parkins, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Erik Friedlander, David Watson, Makigami Koichi, Charmaine Lee & Sae Hashimoto.
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Roberts, Cath / Olie Brice: Conduits
(Relative Pitch)
Recording in real-time during the pandemic, UK improvisers, baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts (Favourite Animals, Madwort Sax Quartet) and double bassist Olie Brice (Olie Brice Quintet, Tobias Delius, &c) recorded these extended improvisations simulateously at their homes, beautifully paced and intently listening as they keep the conversation going despite a world of restrictions.
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Rumback, Charles: Seven Bridges [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
Merging disparate styles into music that is clearly jazz-based, warm and beautifully structured, Chicago drummer and composer Charles Rumback's 7th album as a leader assembles a large group of luminaries including Jim Baker, Ron Miles, Jason Stein, and Greg Ward for a set of instrumentals and songs that are effusive but never sentimental, a beautiful balance.
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Schindler, Udo / Peter Jacquemyn: Fragile Eruptions
(FMR)
Live recordings of two sessions of fully free and uniquely creative duo improvisations by Udo Schinlder on clarinets, saxophone and brass, and Peter Jacquemyn on double bass & voice, recorded on November 29th, 2019 at the 98th Salon für Klang+Kunst Kralling/Munich by Udo Schindler (part one) & on the next day at Galerie arToxin by Gottfried Düren (part two).
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Sharp, Elliott / Tim Dahl / Weasel Walter: Kompromat
(ugEXPLODE)
A scorching studio recording from 2011 recently discovered in the archives from the trio of Elliott Sharp on guitar, Tim Dahl on bass guitar, Weasel Walter on drums, a raging album of free improvisation in the Downtown NY style from three players steeped in expressing instrumental agitation with clarity and conviction - a truly burning power trio!
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Silva, Alan / Itaru Oki / Richard Comte / Makoto Sato: Celebration
(nunc.)
Recorded live in Paris in 2019 as a celebration of improvising keyboardist Alan Silva's 80th birthday, and released with a dedication to the memory of trumpeter Itaru Oki, the quartet completed with guitarist Richard Comte and drummer Makoto Sato, in a 3-part improvisation that is sadly the final recording for Oki, standing as a great example of his voice.
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Stiebler, Ernstalbrecht / Tilman Kanitz: The Pankow-Park Sessions, Vol.1
(Another Timbre)
Six potent duo improvisations for cello and piano by composer & pianist Ernstalbrecht Stiebler and fellow-Berlin resident Tilman Kanitz, who have been developing their dialog together for several years in studio, focusing much of their momentum on pitch and harmony, their work all the more remarkable for Stiebler only having begun improvising in his mid-80s.
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Strictly Missionary (Pitsiokos / Eisenberg / Lenz / Murray / Neuburg): Heisse Scheisse [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)
Skronky multi-faceted NY Downtown-style improvisation with an electric edge from the quintet of Chris Pitsiokis on alto sax, winds, electronics & samples, Wendy Eisenberg on electric guitar, Richard Lenz on electric bass, Kevin Murray on acoustic & electronic drums and Nick Neuburg on percussion, rolling and rollicking through riffs and scrabbly exploration.
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Survival Unit III (McPhee / Lonberg-Holm / Zerang): The Art of Flight: For Alvin Fielder [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
A fully acoustic set of creative free improvisation from the Survival Unit III trio of Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Joe McPhee on tenor saxophone & pocket trumpet and Michael Zerang on percussion, performing at the 2018 The Instigation Festival in New Orleans in a set of concerts that also was drummer Alvin Fielder's last concert, to whom this album is dedicated.
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Taylor, Cecil (w/ Lyons / Dixon / Grimes / Silva / Cyrille): With (Exit) To Student Studies, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Changing approaches to his music with new quartet of Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Alan Silva on double bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums, pianist Cecil Taylor's incredible 1966 concert in Paris presented four extended compositions, here remastered and reissued with a track from a compilation LP--"With (Exit)"--extending his quartet with Bill Dixon on trumpet and Henry Grimes on double bass.
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Venable, Phil : Bassworks, Vol 1
(Soul City Sounds)
Three muscular and inventive solo improvisations on the acoustic upright bass from North Carolina bassist and composer Phil Venable, a member of Tragic Assembly and The Phil Venable - Paul Swest Duo, recorded in the studio in 2022, the three "Basswork" parts are mostly demonstrating his strong walking and plucking skills, at times applying objects to his strings.
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Warelis, Marta: A Grain of Earth
(Relative Pitch)
Working inside and out of the piano and sometime evoking wild sounds that seem to have no relationship to the instrument, Polish-born and Amsterdam-based pianist Marta Warelis explores the concepts of realities beyond our perception, and a thought that we are a part of a big organism where everything goes endlessly bigger and smaller in scale of size, time and speed.
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Wubbels / Lee / Olencki : Field of Action / contraposition [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)
Two collaborations in a split LP, and the continuation of a series of duo pieces for piano and other instruments that pianist and keyboardist Eric Wubbels has been pursuing since 2006: first an intensive 3-part "Field Of Action" with vocalist and noise artist Charmaine Lee; then "Contraposition" with trombonist Weston Olencki in a duo with Wubbels on prepared piano.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Coluccino, Osvaldo: Absum
(Inexhaustible Editions)
Composer, sound artist and poet Osvaldo Coluccino in a six-part electroacoustic composition for electronics, violin and objects, the title carrying several meanings: 1) not being there, being absent, 2) being free, 3) abstaining, opposing, being alien, 4) differing, being different, 5) (regarding places) being distant, being far away, 6) being inferior.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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M (feat. Ben Stapp / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Marco Colonna / Steve Swell): Broken Songs
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
A set of blues songs of a personal nature, concepts for a broken yet hopeful age, written and sung by improvising guitarist Marcin "M" Olak (Gadt/Osborne/Zakrocki/Olak, Agusti Fernandez) performed and expanded by a set of stellar improvisers: Ben Stapp on tuba, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Marco Colonna on flute and Steve Swell on trombone.
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Compositional
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Zorn, John (Bill Frisell / Julian Lage / Gyan Riley): A Garden of Forking Paths
(Tzadik)
The fifth set of compositions from John Zorn for the guitar trio of Bill Frisell, Julian Lage and Gyan Riley, these works inspired by the short stories of Argentine philosopher and writer Jorge Luis Borges, each of the nine pieces drawing on elements of folk, classical, jazz, bluegrass, world music and more, rendered impeccably by the masterful skills of all three guitarists.
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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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Fred Lonberg-Holm / Abdul Moimeme / Carlos Santos:
Transition Zone
(Creative Sources)
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Sam Rivers Trio:
Archive Series. Volume 6 - Caldera
(NoBusiness Records)
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Joel Futterman:
Creation Series
(NoBusiness)
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Satoko Fujii:
Piano Music
(Libra Records)
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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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because:
"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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