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SQUIDCO Email Update + Summer Hat Sale, June 20, 2025

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Essential Artists

• Adams/Mezzacappa/Levis
• Dan Brown/Dan Reynolds
• Dave Burrell/Sam Woodyard
• Sylvie Courvoisier
• Lao Dan
• Das B (Kerbaj/Majkowski/Mayas/Buck)
• Eventless Plot | Francesco Covarino
• Mary Halvorson Septet
• Hemphill Stringtet, The
• Darius Jones
• Matt Mitchell
• Timothy McCormack
• Nil by Nose
• Rodrigues/Mira/Flak/Varela/Guimaraes
• Ferdinand Schwarz
• Irene Schweizer/Rudiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink
• Havard Skaset
• The Touchables
• Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis
• Carlos Zingaro/Bruno Parrinha/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Joao Madeira

Essential Labels

4DaRecord
Another Timbre
Aum Fidelity
Conrad Sound
Creative Sources
Firehouse 12 Records
Innovo Editions
Intakt
Love Earth Music

Nakama Records
NoBusiness
Obliquity
Out Of Your Head Records
Queen Bee Records
Relative Pitch
Sacred Realism
thanatosis/Corbett Vs Dempsey

Summer Hat Sale

Summer Hat Sale: June 19 - June 26

From June 19 to June 26th, ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd has authorized us to reduce the price of 63 albums for savings of up to $10 on each. That's 63 single or double CD albums priced from $7.95 to $9.95 !

Sixty Three albums at an exceptional price gives our customers a chance to fill in their collection of these important and extraordinary albums of creative improvisation, composition, and the merging of both. A number of these albums have never been on sale before, so take a close look, as some titles are limited in quantity, and this sale ends Thursday, June 26th!

Click Here to Shop the Summer Hat Sale

In 2019 Switzerland's Hat Hut label initiated their latest line, ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd, releasing new albums of improvisation and contemporary compositional music, and mixtures of the same.

In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store. Orders must be placed through our shopping cart. Price shown is discounted price. Sale ends Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last.

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Adams / Mezzacappa / Levis: Never But Dream The Days
(Queen Bee Records)

A focused and highly collaborative session from multi-reedist Steve Adams, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, and drummer Jason Levis, whose long-standing connections through the Bay Area's creative music scene — including Mezzacappa and Levis's duo B and their co-led Experimental Band — inform these concise and sensitive 2022 improvisations with a compositional approach to form and balance.

$14.95

Burrell, Dave / Sam Woodyard: The Lost Session, 1979 Paris
(NoBusiness)

Unearthed from Dave Burrell's personal archive, this long-rumored 1979 Paris session with legendary Ellington drummer Sam Woodyard finally emerges, presenting a rare and intimate duo performance sourced from a cassette dub of the original tape — an essential historical document capturing two master musicians in a spontaneous and deeply expressive exchange.

$16.95

Courvoisier, Sylvie: To Be Other-Wise
(Intakt)

Only the second solo album from Swiss-born pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier, now based in New York, presenting twelve studio recordings that explore the full range of the piano inside and out, recorded in Germany and showcasing the breadth of her expressive power and spontaneous creativity, shaped by decades of work in innovative transatlantic ensembles.

Squidco Pick

$17.95

Dan, Lao: To Hit a Pressure Point
(Relative Pitch)

Recorded solo in Hangzhou, China, saxophonist and suona player Lao Dan merges Chinese folk motifs with the raw energy of punk, the spontaneity of free jazz, and the abrasiveness of noise and rock forms, creating a fiercely expressive and unpredictable improvisational landscape driven by aesthetic tension and fearless experimentation.

$13.95

Das B (Mazen Kerbaj / Mike Majkowski / Magda Mayas / Tony Buck): Love
(thanatosis produktion / Corbett Vs Dempsey)

Inspired by John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, the second album from the Berlin-based quartet Das B — Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet), Mike Majkowski (bass), Magda Mayas (piano), and Tony Buck (percussion) — subverts the tribute format with a radical re-imagining built on free improvisation, textural exploration, and structural homage, resulting in a deeply immersive and conceptually rich work.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Das B (Mazen Kerbaj / Mike Majkowski / Magda Mayas / Tony Buck): Love [VINYL]
(thanatosis produktion / Corbett Vs Dempsey)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

Squidco Pick

$16.95

Eventless Plot | Francesco Covarino: Methexis [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Innovo Editions)

A textural and quietly immersive collaboration between Italian percussionist Francesco Covarino and Greek trio Eventless Plot, combining modular synth, field recordings, percussion, and tapes in an intricate 2024 live studio session that continues the exploratory cassette ethos of Covarino's TSSS label through Innovo Editions' equally intimate and tactile aesthetic.

$12.95

Halvorson, Mary Septet: Illusionary Sea [2 LPS]
(Firehouse 12 Records)

Mary Halvorson leads her Septet with Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet), Jon Irabagon (alto sax), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Jacob Garchik (trombone), John Hebert (bass) & Ches Smith (drums) through 6 original compositions and a Robert Wyatt cover!

Squidco Pick

$34.95

Hemphill Stringtet, The: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)

Celebrating the profound compositional legacy of Julius Hemphill through inventive string adaptations of his saxophone quartet and sextet works, violinists Curtis Stewart and Sam Bardfeld, violist Stephanie Griffin, and cellist Tomeka Reid channel Abdul Wadud's expressive spirit, transforming Hemphill's blues-inflected jazz into vividly textured chamber improvisations with lyrical intensity.

$21.95

Jones, Darius: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)
(Aum Fidelity)

The seventh chapter in Darius Jones' visionary Man'ish Boy series, this powerful trio recording with Gerald Cleaver and Chris Lightcap presents five new compositions and a Lomax-arranged spiritual, confronting themes of Black mental health, trauma, and healing through richly expressive alto saxophone, deep rhythmic interplay, and emotional resonance.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Jones, Darius: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Aum Fidelity)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

Squidco Pick

$21.95

Matt Mitchell: Sacrosanctity
(Obliquity)

Fully improvised and recorded in the same session as his previous solo album, Illimitable, pianist Matt Mitchell's solo performance explores shifting structures and emotional densities with a remarkable clarity of form and spontaneity, blending jazz intuition, classical modernism, and abstract rhythm into a deeply focused and personal sonic journey.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Rodrigues, Ernesto / Miguel Mira / Flak / Tiago Varela / Manuel Guimaraes: Genius Loci
(Creative Sources)

Continuing Rodrigues' post-Cage series of single-track acoustic improvisations, this 2025 quintet with Miguel Mira, Flak, Tiago Varela, and Manuel Guimaraes blends viola, cello, electric guitar, fan organ, melodica, and piano in an evolving tapestry of mysterious breath, subtle continuity, and fragile sonic space recorded live in Lisbon with profound delicacy and restraint.

$16.95

Schweizer, Irene / Rudiger Carl / Johnny Dyani / Han Bennink : Irenes Hot Four
(Intakt)

A stunning 1981 live performance at at Internationales Jazzfestival Zurich, from pianist Irene Schweizer's short-lived but explosive quartet with Rüdiger Carl, Johnny Dyani, and Han Bennink, blending theatrical flair, fierce intensity, bold humor, and spontaneous surprises in a powerhouse set that channels the spirit of Mingus, the wit of Waller, and the raw energy of punk jazz.

Squidco Pick

$17.95

Touchables, The : Svart/Hvitt
(Conrad Sound)

A remarkable 2016 recording from the nine-member Norwegian ensemble The Touchables, blending composed and improvised elements in four extended acoustic works, drawing from chamber music, minimalism, and sound to create slowly evolving textures with strings, winds, bass, handbells, and percussion in a stark, resonant, and deeply immersive sonic environment.

$14.95

Wildhagen's, Andreas Spiralis : Beauty No Beauty
(Nakama Records)

The debut of drummer and composer Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis quartet, with Kasper Vaernes, Anja Lauvdal, and Adrian Myhr, blending lyrical motifs and spontaneous improvisation through fluid and evolving structures, contrasted by moments of stark repetition, in a powerful and politically conscious reflection on beauty, chaos, and the transformative role of art.

$14.95

Zingaro, Carlos / Bruno Parrinha / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Joao Madeira: Enleio
(4DaRecord)

Reuniting violinist Carlos Zingaro and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm with bassist João Madeira and bass clarinetist Bruno Parrinha, Enleio captures a dynamic Lisbon session of free improvisation rich in textural interplay, pointillist gestures, and evolving sonic dialogues, blending expressive restraint with bursts of manic energy across four nuanced and immersive pieces.

$13.95

Experimental/Electronic

Nil by Nose: Pictures On Trains Repainted
(Love Earth Music)

A collage of reinterpretations based on original tracks composed by Nil by Nose to accompany graffiti-covered train videos, this remix album features a diverse range of experimental artists reimagining those quick, raw compositions into a wildly creative and unpredictable audio journey through sound, decay, rhythm, and noise.

$9.95

Skaset, Havard: 8:15
(Conrad Sound)

Guitarist Håvard Skaset (Sult, MoE) delivers a grim and compelling solo work of guitar, synth, and tape compositions with a 24-page book of abstract b&w art, exploring themes of disappearance and destruction, building intense drone-based soundscapes punctuated by moments of stark introspection, in a minimalist and historically charged reflection on human malice and memory.

$14.95

Composed & Contemporary

Brown, Dan / Dan Reynolds: Live At The Grange Hall [unauthorized][CASSETTE]
(Sacred Realism)

A unique document of Don Brown and Dan Reynolds' unconventional compositional practice, recorded live to tape in 2008 with an 8-piece ensemble performing four decades-spanning works at Multnomah Grange #71, this unauthorized cassette release captures a pivotal moment in Portland's experimental scene, offering singular music with deep references and no clear precedent.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

McCormack, Timothy: Mine But For Its Sublimation
(Another Timbre)

Composed for and performed by pianist Jack Yarbrough, Timothy McCormack's mine but for its sublimation is a resonant and formally immersive solo piano work that explores gesture, vulnerability, and transformation through precise touch, spatial decay, and evolving harmonic tension, revealing a deeply personal and physical engagement with the piano's sonic possibilities.

$15.95

Schwarz, Ferdinand: Listening Time
(Another Timbre)

A contemplative composition by Ferdinand Schwarz for the Oslo-based ensemble AREPO, Listening Time unfolds as a patient, microtonal exploration of harmonic stasis and collective structure, blending just intonation, fragile textures, and co-composed material in a deep listening experience that merges composed form with improvisational sensibility and communal artistry.

$15.95

Summer Hat Sale Albums

Hat Hut @ 50

Armaroli, Sergio (w/ Fritz Hauser):
Prismo - $7.95

Ayler, Albert:
Live Greenwich Village To Love Cry, Revisited - $7.95

Ayler, Albert Quartets:
Spirits To Ghosts Revisited (remastered) - $7.95

Ayler, Albert Quintet 1966:
Berlin, Lorrach, Paris & Stockholm. Revisited [2 CDs] - $7.95

Ayler, Albert Trio:
New York Eye And Ear Control, Revisited - $7.95

Brown, Marion:
Capricorn Moon To Juba Lee (remastered) - $7.95

Brown, Marion:
Three For Shepp to Gesprachsfetzen Revisited - $7.95

CALATO / John Cage:
Variations + Four6 - $7.95

Coleman, Ornette:
Free Jazz To Ornette! Revisited - $7.95

Coltrane, John:
Chasin The Trane, Revisited - $7.95

Coltrane, John Quartet:
My Favorite Things Graz 1962 - $7.95

Coltrane, John Quartet:
Newport, New York, Alabama, 1963, Revisited - $7.95

Eichenberger, Markus / Christoph Gallio:
Unison Polyphony - $7.95

Ensemble 5 (Geisser / Blumer / Staub / Morgenthaler / Dell):
The Human Factor - $7.95

Evans, Bill Trio:
At The Village Vanguard 1961, Revisited - $7.95

Fox, Christopher:
Hieroglyphs - $7.95

Fox, Christopher:
Music For Piano - $7.95

Fraser, Nick Quartet:
If There Were No Opposites - $7.95

Gallio, Christoph / Roger Turner:
You Can Blackmail Me Later - $7.95

Gerszewski, Nikolaus:
3 Works For Strings, Giusto Chamber Orchestra - $7.95

Gillespie, Dizzy & Charlie Parker:
Live, Revisited - $7.95

Giuffre, Jimmy (w / Bley / Swallow):
Free Fall Clarinet 1962, Revisited - $7.95

Gottschick, Sebastian:
Notturni - $7.95

Haubensak, Edu / Tomas Korber:
Works For Guitar & Percussion by Buck-Wolfarth - $7.95

Hendriksen, Alex / Fabian Gisler:
The Song Is You - $7.95

Hendriksen, Alex / Fabian Gisler / Paul Amereller:
Lotus Blossom - $7.95

Hill, Andrew:
Point Of Departure To Compulsion!!!!! - $7.95

Hope, Cat:
Decibel - $7.95

Hope, Cat / Erkki Veltheim:
Works For Travelled Pianos - $7.95

Inoue, Satoko:
Presents Jo Kondo's New Works For Piano - $7.95

Inoue, Satoko / Jo Kondo:
Presents Jo Kondo's Works for Piano, 2015-2020 - $7.95

Ives, Charles E.:
Another Songbook - $7.95

Kaplan, Noah Quartet:
Out Of The Hole - $7.95

Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin and George Lewis:
S/T - $7.95

Kleeb, Hildegard / Roland Dahinden / Alexandre Babel:
Lines - $7.95

Koch, Hans / Christine Abdelnour:
FFlair - $7.95

Koglmann, Franz:
Near Blue - A Taste of Melancholy - $7.95

Koglmann, Franz Septet (w / Clark / Arcari / D'Agaro / Turkovic / Pasztor / Herbert):
Fruits Of Solitude - $7.95

Kunz, Christopher / Florian Fischer:
Die Unwucht - $7.95

Leipold, Samuel / Jurg Bucher / Luca Lo Bianco:
Ostro - $7.95

Lossing, Russ Trio:
Ways - $7.95

Lucaciu, Simon Trio:
STRG + X - $7.95

Mingus, Charles:
Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird, Revisited - $7.95

Monk, Thelonious:
Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings - $7.95

New York Contemporary Five:
Consequences Revisited - $7.95

Parker, Charlie:
Bebop Live [2 CDs] - $7.95

Parker, Charlie:
Selections From The DIAL Recordings - $7.95

Parker, Charlie:
Selections From The SAVOY Recordings - $7.95

Polwechsel / Klaus Lang:
Unseen - $7.95

Sanna, Claudio:
Compositori Sardi Contemporanei [2 CDs] - $7.95

Schmid, Silvan:
Augmented Space - $7.95

Shepp, Archie:
Blase And Yasmina Revisited - $7.95

Shipp, Matthew:
Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo - $7.95

Stoffner, Florian / John Butcher / Chris Corsano:
Braids - $7.95

Studer, Daniel:
Extended II - $7.95

Studer, Daniel (w/ Kimmig / Loriot / Zimmerlin / Zoubek):
Extended: For Strings & Piano - $7.95

Taylor, Cecil Mixed To Unit:
Structures Revisited - $7.95

Taylor, Mike:
Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited - $7.95

Von Orelli, Marco:
The Unasked Answer - $7.95

von Orelli, Marco / Sheldon Suter:
Draw From The Source - $7.95

von Orelli, Marco / Tommy Meier / Luca Sisera / Sheldon Suter:
Lotus Crash - $7.95

Wegmann, Judith:
Le Souffle Du Temps II - Reflexion - $7.95

Wegmann, Judith / Marlies Debacker / Lukas Biner / Nicolas Wolf:
Things In Between - $7.95

Lotte Anker / Kamil Piotrowicz / Jacob Anderskov: Antiworld I (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Lotte Anker / Kamil Piotrowicz / Jacob Anderskov: Antiworld I (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Killick Hinds
The Squid's Ear Interview

Isotope Ensemble: Caesium (Creative Sources)

Isotope Ensemble: Caesium (Creative Sources)

Satoko Fujii
The Squid's Ear Interview

Dennis Egberth: The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)

Dennis Egberth: The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)

Barry Chabala
The Squid's Ear Interview

Luciana Bass: Desatornilladonos (Relative Pitch)

Luciana Bass: Desatornilladonos (Relative Pitch)

Henry Kaiser
The Squid's Ear Interview

Jonathan Deasy: Le Sacre (Sublime Retreat)

Jonathan Deasy: Le Sacre (Sublime Retreat)

Dave Rempis
The Squid's Ear Interview

William Parker / Hugo Costa / Phillip Ernsting: Pulsar (NoBusiness)

William Parker / Hugo Costa / Phillip Ernsting: Pulsar (NoBusiness)

Sergio Armaroli Quintet (Sharp / Piccolo / Edwards / Sanders): Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Sergio Armaroli Quintet (Sharp / Piccolo / Edwards / Sanders): Introducing A Very Heavy Person, First Visit (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Stay Current With Squidco

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.

Abrasion Addict / Animal Machine: Split (Love Earth Music)	Akmee: Sacrum Profanum (Nakama Records)	Amy Cimini: See You When I Get There (Relative Pitch)
+DOG+: Our Beloved..... (Love Earth Music)	+DOG+: Peace (Love Earth Music)	+DOG+: The Light Of Our Lives (2CDRs) (Love Earth Music)
Dream Weapon: New Blue Lagoon (Eternal Music Projects)	Elka Bong: Without Walls (Love Earth Music)	Signe Emmeluth / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten / Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch)
Eternities: Rides Again [CASSETTE] (Sacred Realism)	Karl Evangelista Quintet feat. Bobby Bradford and William Roper: Solace Angles (Asian Improv)	Eventless Plot \| Haarvol: The Subliminal Paths [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Innovo Editions)
Graewe / Reijseger / Hemingway: Kammern I - V (Auricle)	Herzog / Muche / Nillesen: Anasynthesi (thanatosis produktion)	Kim Jae Jung: Shamanism (Relative Pitch)
Juice Machine: Yachats (Love Earth Music)	Makoto Kawashima : arteria (Relative Pitch)	Kommun: Kalpa (thanatosis produktion)
Le Vice Anglais (Pires / Parrinha): vas-y (4DaRecord)	Nakama (Holm / Roysum / Tanaka / Wildhagen / Svendsen): New World (Nakama Records)	Camila Nebbia / Kit Downes / Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch)
Fredrik Rasten w/ Asterales: Fuse Modulations (thanatosis produktion)	Kory Reeder: In Place (thanatosis produktion)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Maximilian Glass: Beyond The Mist And The Unforeseen Encounters (Creative Sources)
Paula Sanchez: Pressure Sensitive (Relative Pitch)	Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters, The (Rasmussen / Mitelli / Rezaei / Koenig): The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey)	Solar Cells: Warm Spell (Eternal Music Projects)
Christian Svendsen Meaas : Body Of Sound - Body Of Music (Nakama Records)	Thee Checkered Shoed Dude: A 'Lil Test Of That (Love Earth Music)	Unredeemable (Tracy Lisk / Andrea Pensado): Preverbal (Love Earth Music)
Various Artists: Archipelago (Bathysphere Records)	Mat Watson: Reflective Hits (Eternal Music Projects)	Carlos Zingaro / Flo Stoffner / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Joao Madeira: Na Parede (4DaRecord)

Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2003. In 2010, we moved to Wilmington, NC, providing regional and visiting customers access to our catalog of over 9,000 items, including hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items not listed on our website. We're open for visits by appointment during weekday afternoons, so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region, please email us to set up a time — we'd love to play some music for you!

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