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UPDATE
June 30, 2023
"Jazz is freedom.
You think about that."
—Thelonious Monk
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Essential Artists
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• Ilia Belorukov
• Edoardo Cammisa
• Constellation Ensemble
• Carlo Costa/John McCowen
• Sylvian Guerineau/Jean Rougier
• Interstellar Nao (Rick Countryman/Garbriel Lauber/Itzam Cano/Juan Castanon)
• Martin Kuchen/Sophie Agnel
• Matthias Muller/Pawel Doskocz/Emilio Gordoa
• Markus Reineke/Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
• Rempis/Haker-Flaten/Daisy/Rosaly
• Research (Dvorak/Weston/Brown/Serle)
• Udo Schindler/Peter Jacquemyn/Georg Karger
• Tamarisk
• Vasco Trilla
• Ken Vandermark/Hamid Drake
• Phil Venable
• Matt Weston
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Essential Labels
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7272music
Aerophonic
Astral Editions
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Creative Sources
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FMR
Soul City Sounds
Sublime Retreat
thanatosis produktion
Tripticks Tapes
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Squidco Independence Day /Independent Music Sale!
- Buy any new CD, LP, DVD, Cassette, Magazine or Book
Take 10% off its retail price
- Buy 4 or more CDs, LPs, DVDs, Cassettes, Magazines or Books
Take 15% off their retail price!
Tuesday, 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.
Now more than ever it's important to consider the intentions of those around the globe who have
and who are struggling
for personal freedom, and reflect on how me must continue to protect and 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, acoustic and electronic, and hybrids of compositional, experimental and improvised music.
This year we are celebrating from Friday June 30th to Sunday, July 2nd 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 Sunday, July 2nd!
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 2, 2023 at midnight EST (GMT-5).
Sale items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Constellation Ensemble: Dove Morde La Teranta
(FMR)
Referencing the traditional dance of Salento named for the tarantula, this Italian 9-piece improvising ensemble spent several days developing the unique orchestration, melodies and themes of these eight pieces, recorded after the OSIMU festival held in Taviano, using an acousmatic recording device to optimize the details of their insightful and often biting conversations.
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Costa, Carlo / John McCowen: Pianissimo Etc [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)
Powerfully rich sounds from two NY-based instrumentalists — John McCowen on contrabass clarinet & Carlo Costa on bass drum & percussion — in a three-part work of acoustic improvisations, McCowen sounding deceptively electronic through overtones and masterful harmonic technique, while Costa's bass drum provides deep foundations as he mysteriously layers percussive distractions; phenomenal!
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Guerineau, Sylvian / Jean Rougier: Pensees
(Creative Sources)
Both members of the Didier Lasserre Trio, French double bassist Jean Rougier and legendary French free free jazz multi-reedist Sylvain Guerineau performing on tenor sax & bass clarinet, distill their work into a duo formation for six innately lyrical free improvisations, a beautiful complement to Guerineau's 2022 duo album with double bassist Fred Marty, Parodies.
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Interstellar Nao (Rick Countryman / Garbriel Lauber / Itzam Cano / Juan Castanon): 4tet
(FMR)
The second Interstellar Nao album recorded at No Somos Nada Distro Cafe in Mexico City presents the previous day's concerts from their first FMR album Live at No Somos Nada, expanding the trio of Philippine-based saxophonist Rick Countryman, Swiss drummer living in Mexico City Gabriel Lauber and Lauber's collaborator in the group Zero Point, Mexico City native double bass player Itzam Canois, with guitarist Juan Castañón, founder of Impromuzak Collective.
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Kuchen, Martin / Sophie Agnel: Detour Tunnels of Light
(thanatosis produktion)
Delicately caustic interactions of reeds, piano and percussion using the natural resonance of the Borlunda Church in Eslöv, Sweden, from the freely improvising duo of Martin Küchen and Sophie Agnel, Küchen adding electronics and Agnel performing inside and out of the piano while supplementing her palette with objects, both using space and patience as their allies.
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Muller, Matthias / Pawel Doskocz / Emilio Gordoa: Aural Accidentals [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)
On the last day of the 2021 Spontaneous Music Festival at the Dragon Club in Poznań, Poland, the trio of Berlin trombonist Matthias Muller was joined by younger generation Polish guitarist Pawel Doskocz on prepared electric guitar and fellow Berlin drummer and electroacoustic improviser Emilio Gordoa for these two extended sonic adventures recorded in near-darkness.
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Reineke, Markus / Jukka-Pekka Kervinen: Einhegung
(Creative Sources)
Eight free improvisations from the German duo of Markus Reineke on contrabass, bass recorder, objects & electronics, and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen on electric guitar, violin, virtual bass clarinet & electronics, creating an unusual language that merges electronics with acoustic instrumentation in quirky yet natural ways, each track named impressionistically.
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Rempis / Haker-Flaten / Daisy / Rosaly: Harvesters [2 CDs]
(Aerophonic)
The Rempis Percussion Quartet in their French debut after 15 years of touring elsewhere through Europe, with Dave Rempis on sax, both Tim Daisy & Frank Rosaly on drums and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten on bass, performing an exuberant concert recorded at Le Petit Faucheux in Tours, with trumpeter Jean-Luc Cappozzo joining for one extended improv, plus a live workshop for young immigrants and a rare studio session.
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Research (Dvorak / Weston / Brown / Serle): Laws of Motion
(FMR)
The first album from 1982 by drummer Geoff Serle's band Research, combining free improvisation with rock forms, electric and acoustic, or as he described it: "an electro-funk industrial jazz unit", configured as the quartet of trumpeter Jim Dvorak, a member of Mujician & Brotherhood of Breath, bassist Dan Brown from The Fixx, and legendary pianist Veryan Weston.
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Schindler, Udo / Peter Jacquemyn / Georg Karger: Hybride Synergetics [LowToneStudies]
(FMR)
Reedist Udo Schindler continues his exploration into the double bass and low-tone reed instruments, here on bass & contrabass clarinets contrasted only with his soprano saxophone, in a 2022 live recording from MUCCA_Kommandozentrate in Munich of the five-part improvisation "Hybride Synergetic" in a trio with double bassists Peter Jacquemyn and Georg Karger.
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Tamarisk: Plays A Word For Wind [CASSETTE]
(Astral Editions)
Recorded inside and using the resonance of a large grain silo at the Tablelands Center for Bio-Regional Art in Texas, the trio of vocalist Christina Carter (Charalambides), guitarist Andrew Weathers and bassist David Menestres recorded this haunting, swirling, long-form improvisation, a complement to their Waveform Alphabet release Plays a Word for Sun.
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Trilla, Vasco: A Constellation of Anomaly
(thanatosis produktion)
Continuing his imaginative approach to percussion, Barcelona improviser Vasco Trilla's sixth solo album sees him expanding his rhythmic and tonal range through a fascinating collection of instruments, including bowed Russian flat bells, electrified music boxes, a zither processed through snare drums as resonators, Iranian round bells mixed with gamelan strips, &c.
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Vandermark, Ken / Hamid Drake: Eternal River [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Focused on the music of Don Cherry and recorded at Corbett vs. Dempsey's gallery space on the closing day of an exhibit of art by Cherry's partner Moki Cherry (whose tapestry "Spirit" is the LP's cover) this concert finds drummer Hamid Drake, who lived with the Cherry family in Sweden, and Ken Vandermark on tenor sax, reworking medleys of Cherry's tunes from across his discography.
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Venable, Phil: Bringing The Light [CD EP]
(Soul City Sounds)
A new Free Jazz album inspired by Pharoah Sanders' Karma, from the North Carolina ensemble led by upright bassist, guitarist and Soul City Sounds label-leader Phil Venable with Crowmeat Bob on saxophone, Ken Moshesh on percussion and Tommy Jackson on drums, plus a work for spoken word with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and a song inspired by BLM with vocalist Jennifer Evans.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Belorukov, Ilia: Someone Has Always Come
(Sublime Retreat)
The third in Ilia Belorukov's series of electroacoustic compositions on Spina!Rec and Moving Furniture, here in a set of four compositions, each presenting detailed layers of acoustic and electronic instrumentation and field recordings captured throughout Europe and Russia, carefully placed over heavily laden synthetic drones that guide the motion of each piece.
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Cammisa, Edoardo: io_u,E
(Sublime Retreat)
Understated and enigmatic, the work of Northern Italian sound artist Edoardo Cammisa, aka Banished Pills, presents a very short work on decay, and then two expanded sound works composed from synthesisers, spring reverb, microphones, field recordings, no-input mixing, organ & sampler; the environments are murky but with movement, and engaging in their dark evening ambiance.
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Weston, Matt: Embrace This Twilight (DOUBLE VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD)
(7272music)
Percussionist and electronic artist Matt Weston describes these four tracks as "songs", each demonstrating aspects of his compositional methods — multidimensional graphic scores, implied and aural notation, site-specific structures and frameworks, physical and otherwise — creating immersive and dramatic sonic environments revealing his increasing sophistication as a composer.
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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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A sad moment was felt by free jazz fans last week upon hearing of the passing of saxophonist and multi-reedist, bandleader and European
free jazz pioneer Peter Brötzmann. For me, certain musicians seem that they could never die, and I had placed Brötzmann
in that category. Foremost because he always felt eternally young to me, despite his scruffy look; he was energetic, active, and was
constantly releasing new and interesting material. Constantly evolving, his most recent albums showed an expanded sophistication
to the music he had been releasing since his 1967 debut with Peter Kowald, For Adolphe Sax. I was taken by surprise, as were many.
Like many listeners, as a young man I found his earliest releases challenging and turbulent,
and while I respected albums like Machine Gun, it was years before
I understood, appreciated and could place Brötzmann's music in context. My lack of understanding had no relationship to the constant
development Brötzmann showed, and it was for me to catch up with his innovations and his energy, and years to
see the bigger picture of his artistic life. Thankfully by the time I started Squidco I had become, and remain, an enthusiast of
his lifetime of accomplishment.
Over Squidco & The Squid's Ear's 20 years we have published a number of reviews of albums with Brötzmann's name in the lineup,
and I list 11 of those reviews here in lieu of our usual list of recent reviews. Most of these albums are no longer in print, but the words
of our writers can do more justice than anything I could say about this legendary musician, and I share those words with you again.
Rest in peace Peter Brötzmann, your legacy is assured and your music will endure for generations to come.
Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang:
Tales Out of Time
(Hatology)
Peter Brotzmann / Fred Lonberg-Holm:
The Brain of the Dog in Section
(Atavistic)
Peter Brotzmann / Fred Lonberg-Holm:
Memories Of A Tunicate
(Relative Pitch)
Peter Brotzmann:
Solo + Trio Roma
(Victo)
Peter Brotzmann:
Lost & Found
(FMP)
Misha Mengelberg / Peter Brotzmann / Evan Parker /
Peter Bennink / Paul Rutherford / Derek Bailey / Han Bennink:
Groupcomposing
(Corbett vs Dempsey)
McPhee / Brotzmann / Kessler / Zerang:
The Damage Is Done
(Not Two)
Full Blast (Brotzmann / Pliakas / Wertmuller):
Black Hole
(Atavistic)
Brotzmann / van Hove / Bennink:
1971
(Corbett vs Dempsey)
Brotzmann / Kondo / Pupillo / Nilssen-Love:
Hairy Bones
(Okkadisk)
Brotzmann / Edwards / Noble:
Soulfood Available
(Clean Feed)
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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 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 10,000 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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