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UPDATE
June 28, 2024
"It is unbelievable what kind of sound possibilities you can find
In a little piece of metal."
—Tony Oxley
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Essential Artists
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• Beger/Taubenfeld/Hazan/Drake
• Maria Bertel
• Borca/R. Brown/W. Parker/Workman/Nicholson/Murphy/Ibarra/Taylor-Baker
• Borderlands Trio (Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric Mcpherson)
• Anthony Davis/Kyle Motl/Kjell Nordeson
• Elton Dean (w/ Dunmall/Watts/Rogers/Levin)
• Adrian Democ
• Euro Herc
• Tom Jackson/T.J. Borden
• Andrew Lisle/Dirk Serries
• Musicworks Magazine
• Tony Oxley Quintet
• Samuel Reinhard
• Manja Ristic/Joana Guerra/Veronica Cerrotta
• Salter Ensemble
(Belorukov/Harnik/Kocher/Grom/Beiner/Klammer/Kutin/Lang/Tomazin/Badrutt)
• The Sea Trio (Satoh/Yoshihide/Turner)
• Sunny Five (Berne/Ducret/Torn/Hoff/Smith)
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Essential Labels
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Astral Spirits
Bruit Editions / Zavod Sploh
Confront
Corbett vs. Dempsey
elsewhere
Intakt
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Musicworks
NoBusiness
Ogun
Relative Pitch
Tsss Tapes
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Part II !
The second part of our Distribution Price Sale,
this weekend we're reducing the retail
price of more than 220 items to our distribution price, a significant savings on
each. Many of these items have never been sold at a discount previously, and
are drawn from our catalog of Jazz & Improvised Music, Contemporary
Compositional, Experimental and Rock-Based forms.
The items in this sale include Cassettes, CDs, LPs,
Books and a Box Set, selected from labels around the globe, including some of our
most key artists and groups. Take a look through this great set of albums, but
hurry! This sale ends Sunday, June 30th at midnight.
Click Here to see the list of Sale Items!
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, prices shown are the discounted price.
In-stock items only, items will disappear from the store if they sell out.
Sale items are not eligible for reward points.
Sale ends Sunday, June 30th, 2024 at 23:59 EST, GMT-5.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Beger / Taubenfeld / Hazan / Drake: Cosmic Waves
(NoBusiness)
Two studio sessions of ebullient improv from the quartet of Israeli tenor saxophonist Albert Beger, bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld, double bassist & guimbri player Shay Hazan, and Chicago drummer Hamid Drake, from hard-blowing collective interplay to introspective discourse, ending with Beger's reflective composition "Astral Visit"; a perfectly balanced album of modern jazz.
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Bertel, Maria: Monophonic
(Relative Pitch)
Taking the trombone into unusual territory, Danish composer and trombonist Maria Bertel, a member of Fire! Orchestra and Jooklo Danish Group, uses amplification to emphasize unusual and sometimes aberrant aspects of the bone, each of ten solo pieces focusing on various aspects of sound, noise, alien utterance and drone that she coaxes out of the instrument.
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Borca / R. Brown / W. Parker / Workman / Nicholson / Murphy / Ibarra / Taylor-Baker: Good News Blues
(NoBusiness)
A vital member of groups led by Jimmy Lyons, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Joe Morris and William Parker, bassoonist Karen Borca is heard in two Vision Festival performances under her own name performing her own compositions in trio, quartet and quintet formations with luminaries Rob Brown, William Parker, Reggie Nicholson, Susie Ibarra, Todd Nicholson, Paul Murphy and Newman Taylor-Baker.
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Borderlands Trio (Stephan Crump / Kris Davis / Eric Mcpherson): Rewilder [2 CDs]
(Intakt)
Seven years into their collaboration, the creative and innovative piano trio initiated by bassist Stephan Crump with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Eric McPherson explore spontaneous free playing on a double CD of lyrically inclined, inventive interplay, borrowing from jazz, contemporary forms and sometimes funky grooves with a patiently rewarding approach to conversation.
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Davis, Anthony / Kyle Motl / Kjell Nordeson: Vertical Motion [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)
Bassist Kyle Motl organized this 2018 studio session with pianist Anthony Davis and drummer Kjell Nordeson in San Diego, Nordeson and Motl having worked together for several years, their session with Davis focused on the pianist's literary-influenced compositions, the synergy in their trio playing of energetic and introspective interaction absolutely exemplary.
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Dean, Elton (w/ Dunmall / Watts / Rogers / Levin): Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company
(Ogun)
Elton Dean's 1989 performance at the Covent Garden Jazz Saxophone Festival in London is reissued, bringing to light the powerful performance from saxophonists Dean on alto sax & saxello, Paul Dunmall on tenor & baritone saxophones, Trevor Watts on alto saxophone, Simon Pickard on tenor saxophone, plus the rhythm section of Paul Rogers on double bass and Tony Levin on drums.
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Jackson, Tom / T.J. Borden: Parr's Ditch
(Confront)
London clarinetist Tom Jackson, active in both free improvisation and contemporary classical music, meets with cellist Tyler J. Borden, who concentrates on the extremes of his instrument through unusual and extended techniques, interpret one of London's "lost rivers"--Parr's Ditch--in three extended, interpretative improvisations of powerful impressions.
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Lisle, Andrew / Dirk Serries: Vectorial Spaces [CD EP]
(Confront)
A three-part construction of intense and highly textured drone, waves of sound and spacial tension through the innovative use of snare, cymbals and a bowed acoustic guitar, from the duo of chameleonic Belgian improviser and experimental guitarist Dirk Serries (vidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning, A New Wave of Jazz) and collaborative UK drummer/percussionist Andrew Lisle.
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Oxley, Tony Quintet: Angular Apron
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
British percussionist Tony Oxley returned to this piece multiple times after debuting it in the early 1970s, drawing on both European improv and contemporary composed music, heard in this previously unreleased 1992 live performance with the superb quintet of legendary trumpeter & flugelhornist Manfred Schoof, UK pianist Pat Thomas, US bassist Sirone and UK saxophonist Larry Stabbins.
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Salter Ensemble (Belorukov / Harnik / Kocher / Grom / Beiner / Klammer / Kutin / Lang / Tomaži / Badrutt): Tri Dela
(Bruit Editions / Zavod Sploh)
Operating on the border between free improvisation and composition, the international electro-acoustic ensemble Šalter Ensemble present three incredible works composed by members of the ensemble -- Tomaž Grom; Jonas Kocher & Gaudenz Badrutt; and Elisabeth Harnik -- developed with the full ensemble, incorporating jazz, free improvisation, electronics & sound art.
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Sea Trio, The (Satoh / Yoshihide / Turner): Live in Munich & Bonn [2 CDs]
(Confront)
Their second recording after their 2015 trio album Live at Hall Egg Farm on Doubtmusic, the now properly named Sea Trio of Masahiko Satoh on piano, Otomo Yoshihide on electric guitar and Roger Turner on drums & percussion reunite for two impressive 2023 concerts of masterful and often fiery free improvisation, captured in Munich and Bonn, Germany.
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Sunny Five (Berne / Ducret / Torn / Hoff / Smith): Candid
(Intakt)
A mercurial album of electronic and acoustic collective free improv from the masterful quintet of Tim Berne on alto sax, David Torn and Marc Ducret on electric guitars, Devin Hoff on electric bass and Ches Smith on drums & electronics, the band intertwining and bending sound to the evolution of their improvisations, which twist and turn in alien jazz soundscape.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Euro Herc: Segnali [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)
"Turning discarded sounds into a form of stumbling poetry", Christian Schiefner (aka Chemiefaserwerk) and Michal Fundowicz (aka Turmeric Acid) use cassette tapes, objects and field recordings (eg. a kitchen timer, a kalimba pattern, a Polish instructional tape, Croatian field recording) to create fascinating transformations of sonic environments in two engaging aural journeys.
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Ristic, Manja / Joana Guerra / Veronica Cerrotta: Slani pejzazi [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)
TSSS Tapes brought together these three performers -- Belgrade violinist and sound artist Manja Ristić; Lisbon exploratory improviser and cellist Joana Guerra; and Argentine pianist and sound artist living in Rio de Janeiro, Veronica Cerrotta -- developing these two intensely detailed compositions of acoustic performance, field recordings and acousmatic sound.
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Compositional
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Democ, Adrian: Piano
(elsewhere)
Three meditative pieces by Eastern European composer Adrian Demoč, recorded at Czech Radio Ostrava and performed by Miroslav Beinhauer: 'Ma fin est mon commencement' and 'Gebrechlichkeit' which both provide flexibility to the performer; 'A Luca Marenzio ll', a reinterpretation of a previous trio work pivoting around the cello, uniquely interpreted here by Beinhauer.
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Reinhard, Samuel : For Piano and Sho
(elsewhere)
Two studies in the elongation of piano decay complemented by the harmonics and texture of the shō (a Japanese free reed instrument) using stillness and repetition in a two part extended work by NY-based Swiss comoposer Samuel Reinhard, performed by Copenhagen pianist Paul Jacob Fossum and Japanese Gagaku musician Haruna Higashida; an album of beautifully meditative pools of sound.
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Books & Magazines
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Musicworks: #148 Summer 2024 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)
Summer 2024 issue of Canada's new music magazine, with composer & sound designer Stefana Fratila on the cover; plus articles on Evan Parker & Matthew Wright; Big Ears review; Filipino-Canadian composer Juro Kim Feliz; Brunswick composer & sound artist Charles Harding; the Canadian Afro-Cuban duo behind the ensemble Okan; plus album reviews, essays and a CD of tracks from artists in the magazine.
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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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Mars Williams & Hamid Drake:
I Know You Are But What Am I?
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
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Giuseppe Doronzo / Andy Moor / Frank Rosaly:
Futuro Ancestrale
(Clean Feed)
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Sergio Armaroli / Evan Parker:
Dialog
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Matthew Shipp and Steve Swell:
Space Cube Jazz
(RogueArt)
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Jonas Cambien:
Maca Conu
(Clean Feed)
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Eric Dolphy:
At the Five Spot to Iron Man, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Evelyn Glennie / Szilard Mezei Polar Quartet:
Capt's Look
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Lazro / Zingaro / Papadimitriou / Bolcato:
Periferia
(Fou Records)
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Akira Sakata / Ken Ikeda:
Gauche
(Ftarri)
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Ivo Perelman / Mark Helias / Tom Rainey:
Truth Seeker
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Zakrocki, Garbowski Gradziuk:
Ballads & Blues
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Angharad Davies / Phil Julian:
Neutral Red
(Fataka)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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• 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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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
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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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"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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