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UPDATE
November 10, 2022
"[Improvisation is] the moment when I'm constantly bouncing
Between the right and the left side of my brain.
It's both frightening and exciting
Because you are in control and, at the same time,
You're not."
—Okkyung Lee
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Creative Artists
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• Hugo Costa/Raoul van der Weide/Onno Govaert
• Jean Derome
(Derome/Hetu/Robichaud/Servant/
Jacques/Bastien/Normand/Side)
• Dionee (Beriault/Servant/Normand)
• 'Kidd' Jordan/Futterman/Parker/Drake
• Kaluza/Steyer/Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Mengersen
• Kirk Knuffke/Michael Bisio
• Okkyung Lee/Jerome Noetinger/Nadia Ratsimandresy
• Lisbon String Trio & Bruno Parrinha
• Michael Marcus (w/ F. Lacy/Mateen/Rosen)
• MMM Trio (Mascolo/Mira/Maglioccho)
• Neumann/Smith/Graham/Rosenthal/Fujiwara/Ewen
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp
• Udo Schindler/Eric Zang Eriksson
• Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi
• Masayuki Takayanagi JoJo/Nobuyoshi Ino/Masabumi PUU Kikuchi
• Bernardo Tinoco/Tom Maciel
• Gebhard Ullmann/Steve Swell/Hilliard Greene/Barry Altschul
• Philipp Wachsmann/Michael Bunce
• Theresa Wong
• XT (Wright/Abbott)
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Essential Labels
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Ambiances Magnetiques/Tour de Bras
Balance Point Acoustics
Bead
Clean Feed
Creative Sources
ESP-Disk
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FMR
fo'c'sle
Mahakala Music
NoBusiness
Otoroku
Tour de Bras/Circum-Disc
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From today through weekend we're reducing the price of more than 200 compact disc albums to $10 each, a savings of up to 30% off their regular retail price. The sale includes albums from all of our major categories — Improvised & Jazz; Avant Composition; Experimental & Electronic; Rock & Related — with an incredible set of groups and leaders from around the world.
That's more than 200 albums at an exceptional price, so take advantage of these great prices, but hurry - this sale end Sunday, November 13th!
In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store.
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart.
Price shown is sale price.
Sale ends Sunday, November 13, 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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Costa, Hugo / Raoul van der Weide / Onno Govaert : Land Over Water
(Creative Sources)
A collective trio in the free jazz idiom from Hugo Costa on alto saxophone, Raoul van der Weide on double bass & percussion objects and Onno Govaert on drums, recording in the studio in Rotterdam for two extended and two succinct improvisations, building their conversations from solo playing that gradually yields to group dialog of evolving intensity.
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Derome, Jean (Derome / Hetu / Robichaud / Servant / Jacques / Bastien / Normand / Side): Rose Drummond
(Ambiances Magnetiques / Tour de Bras)
A tribute to controversial and outrageous Quebec sculptor and installation artist Rose Drummond, through a collection of unusual, diverse, absurdist and absolutely remarkable instrumental & vocal songs drawn from saxophonist and composer Jean Derome's musical career, performed with Musique Actuelle luminaries including Michel F Coté, Joane Hétu, and Éric Normand.
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Dionee (Beriault / Servant / Normand): Attrape-mouches
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)
Exploring the Venus Flytrap (dionée attrape-mouche) through a trio of electroacoustic improv, with the acoustic elements from Clarisse Beriault on oboe and acoustic bass and Robin Servant on accordion, bassist Éric Normand providing the electric foundation to their sly and savage improvisations, all three using electronics & effects to emulate the thigmonastic carnivore.
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Jordan, Edward 'Kidd' / Joel Futterman / William Parker / Hamid Drake: A Tribute to Alvin Fielder (Live at Vision Festival XXIV)
(Mahakala Music)
Recorded at Vision Festival XXIV in June of 2019, legendary drummer Alvin Fielder's friends and long time partners Kidd Jordan on tenor saxophone, Joel Futterman on piano and William Parker on contrabass are joined by drummer/percussionist Hamid Drake for an emotional and potent swinging free jazz tribute to Fielder, who passed away in January of that year.
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Kaluza / Steyer / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Mengersen: Echoes In A Further Range
(Creative Sources)
This string and reed quintet presents a fluid approach to chamber-oriented improv with dexterous melodic and harmonic motion, utilizing contemporary and jazz idioms as they create something masterfully unique; from Anna Kaluza on alto sax, Edith Steyer on alto sax & clarinet, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Ulf Mengersen on double bass.
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Knuffke, Kirk / Michael Bisio: For You I Don't Want To Go
(NoBusiness)
An extended, warm and lyrically rich conversation between New York cornetist Kirk Knuffke and bassist Michael Bisio, recorded in the Park West Studio in Brooklyn, comfortably adept and filled with accomplished technical skill, their dialog flows easily through a variety of moods and topics, a joyful convergence of adventurous playing that never leaves the listener behind.
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Lee, Okkyung / Jerome Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy: Two Duos [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
Recorded during cellist Okkyung Lee's 2019 residency at OTO Cafe, this album presents two duos: the A side with Jerome Noetinger performing on tapes & electronics, processing Lee's cello live to create a virtual trio of incredible technical skill; the B side with a master of the historic keyboard Ondes Martenot, Nadia Ratsimandresy, in an uncommon dialog of strings and synthetics.
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Lisbon String Trio & Bruno Parrinha: Dada
(Creative Sources)
Lisbon String Trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Mira on cello and Alvaro Rosso on double bass continue their series adding a fourth player to their unique form of string improvisation, here with reeidst Bruno Parrinha on alto clarinetist for an extended expedition into highly articulate playing as they explore the dada rejection of logic, reason, and aestheticism.
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Marcus, Michael (w/ F. Lacy / Mateen / Rosen): Abstractions in Lime Caverns
(ESP-Disk)
Multi-reedist Michael Marcus brings together former Cosmosamatics players Jay Rosen on drums and Tarus Mateen-Marcoustico on acoustic bass with French Horn player Frank Lacy (SaxEmble), Marcus on soprano & tenor saxophones, alto tarogato, G clarinet and bass flute for a set of Marcus original compositions, exquisitely lyrical free jazz based in the tradition.
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MMM Trio (Mascolo / Mira / Maglioccho): Bridge In The Dark
(FMR)
The MMM Trio of Carlo Mascolo on prepared trombone, Miguel Mira on cello and Marcello Magliocchi on drums & percussion recorded this album during a concert series in Puglia, Italy, placing each musician in a separate room with headphones, promoting the close listening and concentrated interaction each brings to their unusual approach to free improvisation.
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Neumann / Smith / Graham / Rosenthal / Fujiwara / Ewen : Quartet:Quartet:Trio [2 CDs]
(Balance Point Acoustics)
A double album of electroacoustic improv sessions from Sommerville, MA, centered around electronic artist Andrew Neumann on the Buchla Music Easel--a complex additive analogue synth--heard in quartet and trio sessions with Forbes Graham (trumpet), Sandy Ewen (guitar & objects), Junko Fujiwara (cello), Damon Smith (double bass) and Eric Rosenthal (drums & percussion).
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Perelman, Ivo / Matthew Shipp: Fruition
(ESP-Disk)
An intimate and succinct set of conversations between two long time collaborators and compatible New York improvisers--tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp--recording at Park West Studios for their 18th album as a duo, making innately lyrical and technically creative decisions in a nearly telepathically manner informed by vast experience.
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Schindler, Udo / Eric Zang Eriksson: Blow & Swirl
(FMR)
Udo Schindler follows his duo album with drummer Eric Zwang-Eriksson @ Salon fur Klang+Kuns, Poetry?? Ein Wurfelwurf with this recording at BASIS_Sound_Space at MUCCA - Munich Center of Community Arts in Munich, Schindler on sopranino & tenor saxophones and the deep TUBAX, interacting with Eriksson's rapid-fire and uniquely voiced drum & percussion work.
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Takahashi, Yuji / Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane
(NoBusiness)
Better known for his work in avant compositional forms, both his own and as an interpreter of Xenakis and Toru Takemitsu, pianist Yuji Takahashi joined Japanese free jazz legendary percussionist Sabu Toyozumi in 1998 for this fully improvised live concert at C・S・Aka Renga, in Yamaguchi City, Japan, released in a collaboration with the Chap Chap label.
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Takahashi, Yuji / Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Takayanagi, Masayuki JoJo / Nobuyoshi Ino / Masabumi PUU Kikuchi: Live At Jazz Inn Lovely 1990 [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)
A 1990 concert at Jazz Inn Lovely, in Nagoya, Japan in configurations of duos and trios, from free improvising legends Masayuki Takayanagi on guitar, Nobuyoshi Ino on bass, and Masabumi Kikuchi on piano, with a 16 page booklet of photos from private collections and a detailed essay from Kohjiro Tanaka in English & Japanese providing background on the performance.
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Tinoco, Bernardo / Tom Maciel: Nomad Nenufar
(Clean Feed)
Seeking to create an original repertoire for collective composition in a small group format, Portuguese wind improviser Bernardo Tinoco on alto & tenor saxophones, duduk & flute, and pianist Tom Maciel, also on synths and drum machine, sought to influence their playing with electronics and audio processing, on three tracks joined by drummer João Pereira.
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Ullmann, Gebhard / Steve Swell / Hilliard Greene / Barry Altschul : We're Playing In Here ? [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)
Substantial creative free jazz with compositions each from trombonist Steve Swell and reedist Gebhard Ullman, recording at Park West Studio in Brooklyn with Barry Altschul on drums and Hilliard Green on double bass, the structures of their compositions providing lyrical launch points for adept free soloing, amidst unusual and masterful technique and surprising asides; exceptional!
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Wachsmann, Philipp / Michael Bunce: Refractions In Air
(Bead)
Philipp Wachsmann's acoustic violin is routed through his own electronics and then fed into the Live Electronic Sampling & Transformations (LiSa) systems of Michael Bunche, processed and re-performed using time-based transformations shaped by gestural input or as static samples, creating new and unexpected trajectories, sounds snd forms for Wachsmann's playing.
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Wong, Theresa: Practicing Sands
(fo'c'sle)
A series of instrumental pieces and songs from Chinese-American composer, cellist, and vocalist Theresa Wong, inspired by the sounds of the natural world and a personal sense of "sonic genetic memory", her works merging composition and improvisation, the album recorded by Wong herself using specific microphone placement to bring out the warmth of her instrument and voice.
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Experimental/Electronic
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XT (Wright / Abbott): Deorlaf X [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
An unusual sax and drum duo from saxophonist Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott, taking recordings from a dozen years of their work together and assembling, mixing and re-recording them into these two impressive works of "mutated multiphonics and triggered percussion" offset with periods of reflection; startling, unexpected, amusing, awe inspiring.
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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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Paul Dunmall / James Owson / Tymoteusz Jozwiak:
This Time In Beautiful Space
(FMR)
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Chaz Underriner:
Meditations
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Daunik Lazro / Jouk Minor / Thierry Madiot / David Chiesa / Louis-Michel Marion:
Sonoris Causa
(NoBusiness)
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Martin Kuchen:
Utopia
(Thanatosis Produktion)
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Dominic Coles:
Everyone Thinks Their Dreams are Interesting
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Tyler Mitchell featuring Marshall Allen:
Dancing Shadows
(Mahakala Music)
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Kelley Hurt / Chad Fowler / Christopher Parker / Bernard Santacruz / Anders Griffen:
Nothing But Love: the Music of Frank Lowe
(Mahakala Music)
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Sun Ra Arkestra:
Nothing is ... Completed & Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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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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