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SQUIDCO Email Update + Cost+$1 Sale, August 21, 2025

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UPDATE
August 21, 2025

"If you're doing something right,
Then you will seem "wrong" at least part of the time.
You have to understand when and how you should stick to your convictions."
—Karl Evangelista

 Essential Artists

• A Magic Whistle
• Jean-Jacques Avenel/Daunik Lazro
• Caspar Brotzmann Massaker
• Eugene Chadbourne/Jair-Rohm Parker Wells
• Euphotic (Leonard/Djill/Day)
• Karl Evangelista's Apura + Andrew Cyrille
• Foster/Crawford/Sullivan
• Jean-Marc Foussat
• Gjerstad/von Schlippenbach/Magnus Narvesen
• Chester Hawkins
• Magda Mayas/Jim Denley
• Hal McGee
• Katie Porter
• The Racing Pisshorses
• S*Glass
• Sifter (w/ Lisa Mezzacappa)
• Thrash the Flash (Dufourd/Foussat)
• Tatsuya Yoshida/Martin Escalante

 Essential Labels


577 Records
Confront
Copy This!
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Fou Records
Intangible Arts


Public Eyesore
Queen Bee Records
Relative Pitch
self-released
Wash and Wear Records



    



Frends of Squid Cost+1 Sale

Squidco Cost + $1 Sale: August 21 - August 24

From Thursday through Sunday only, grab more than 200 CDs across Jazz & Improvised Music, Experimental, Composed, and Rock-Based styles at a blowout price — OUR COST + $1! Most of these titles won't be restocked, moving instead to special order or disappearing from our catalog altogether. Don't miss this chance to pick up rare gems at unbeatable prices — sale ends Sunday, August 24th at midnight!


Shop The Cost + $1 Sale

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, August 24, 2025 at 23:59 EST, GMT-5.



 New Releases





   Jazz & Improvisation

Avenel, Jean-Jacques / Daunik Lazro: Duo
(Fou Records)


The duo of bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel and alto saxophonist Daunik Lazro are captured live in 1980 at the Massy Library in France in an essential document of French free music, a marvel of liberated improvisation where Lazro's uncompromising voice meets Avenel's inspired and multifaceted playing, captured with clarity by engineer Jean-Marc Foussat in a performance both intense and deeply authentic.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Brotzmann, Caspar Massaker: It's A Love Song [VINYL + CD]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)


The legendary power trio of Caspar Brötzmann on long-scale electric guitar and voice with Saskia von Klitzing on drums and Eduardo Delgado Lopez on bass in two monumental live renditions of All This Violence, recorded in Vienna and Dresden, unleashing waves of searing guitar tone, crushing rhythm, and visceral intensity that move from furious protest to stark, haunted beauty.
   
     Buy      $24.95      Listen          

 
Chadbourne, Eugene / Jair-Rohm Parker Wells : Fed Up With Bass [2 CDs]
(Public Eyesore)


The monumental 2-CD collaboration between Eugene Chadbourne and Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells submerges the listener in an expansive world of sound where acoustic and electric guitars meet upright and electric basses, modular processing, and sound design, with guest poet John Sinclair, shifting between ferocious intensity and spacious, patient passages in an exploration beyond melody and form.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Euphotic (Leonard / Djill / Day): Clastic
(Confront)


The cross-continental trio of Cheryl E. Leonard, Tom Djll, and Bryan Day create an improvised electro-acoustic environment of equal voices, blending trumpet with attachments and electronics, invented instruments, homemade synths, driftwood, shells, bones, feathers, and field recordings in a dynamic performance recorded in Albany, NY and San Pablo, CA, mastered by Thomas Dimuzio.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Evangelista's, Karl Apura + Andrew Cyrille: Bukas
(577 Records)


West Coast Bay Area guitarist Karl Evangelista leads his Apura ensemble — Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), Francis Wong (tenor sax), Rei Scampavia (keys, electronics), and Lewis Jordan (alto sax) — joined by drum legend Andrew Cyrille in a powerful statement of free improvisation, blending expressive intensity and forward-looking vision with deeply rooted passion and creative openness.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.00      Listen          

 
Foster / Crawford / Sullivan: Against Proper Objects
(Relative Pitch)


The debut of saxophonist Michael Foster, guitarist and banjo player Webb Crawford, and drummer Joey Sullivan, a free trio whose quirky yet technically impressive improvisations shift from sax shouts and overblown tones to frenetic banjo and guitar textures, driven by metallic percussion into a dense but dynamic interplay that combines raw energy with finely detailed, unpredictable explorations.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Foussat, Jean-Marc : Abbatage
(Fou Records)


Originally released in 1983 as Jean-Marc Foussat's sole solo statement for the next 18 years, Abattage is a frenetic musique concrète collage of Synthi AKS & VCS3 electronics, tapes, voice, guitar, piano and field recordings, reissued in a deluxe remastered edition with 32-page booklet that restores the intensity and inventiveness of his groundbreaking debut.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Gjerstad, Frode / Alexander von Schlippenbach / Dag Magnus Narvesen: Seven Tracks
(Relative Pitch)


A dynamic trio session from Frode Gjerstad on alto sax & clarinet, Alexander von Schlippenbach on piano, and Dag Magnus Narvesen on drums & percussion, their first collaboration unfolds in seven spontaneous improvisations that balance fierce intensity with lyrical openness, revealing a seasoned interplay that blends deep exploration with collective free jazz sensibility.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Mayas, Magda / Jim Denley: One Another
(Relative Pitch)


An immersive meeting of Berlin pianist Magda Mayas and Australian flutist Jim Denley, f following up on their 2017 Relative Pitch release, Tempe Jetz, as they weave flutes, piano, and percussive objects into a delicately balanced exchange where subtle gestures and resonant detail create a patient yet gripping exploration of texture, breath, and sonic space.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Porter, Katie : Conversation No. 1 / Collecting Rocks from the Places We've Been
(Relative Pitch)


A deeply introspective solo endeavor from New York bass clarinetist Katie Porter, blending live playing with layers of previously recorded bass clarinet for a slow-moving, richly textured improvisation; the artist creates an intimate, deep-register conversation that unfolds with emotional subtlety and immersive soundscapes.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Sifter (w/ Lisa Mezzacappa): Flake / Fracture
(Queen Bee Records)


A chordless Bay Area quartet with Rob Ewing on trombone, Beth Schenck on alto saxophone, Lisa Mezzacappa on acoustic bass, and Jordan Glenn on drums, performing original compositions from each member in playful, lyrical, and texturally rich improvisations that balance groove, swing, and exploratory ensemble interplay with an eclectic yet cohesive sound.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Thrash the Flash (Dufourd / Foussat): Viens !
(Fou Records)


A rare meeting across four decades as guitarist Marc Dufourd and synthesist Jean-Marc Foussat revisit their Axolotl roots, juxtaposing the raw collage of their 1982 improvisations — feedback, fractured rhythms, and spectral melodies — with a 2023 counterpart of folk-tinged guitar, toys, and electronics, a reflective dialogue on time, memory, and sound's restless possibilities.
   
     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Yoshida, Tatsuya / Martin Escalante: The Sound of Raspberry [VINYL]
(Wash and Wear Records)


A relentless duo of Japanese drummer, vocalist and electronic artist Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei), with Mexican saxophonist Martín Escalante on alto and voice, captured live in Tokyo in fourteen explosive improvisations of blistering energy, searing noise, and sudden precision shifts, balancing chaotic abandon with uncanny control.
   
     Buy      $22.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

A Magic Whistle: The Solar Cell [VINYL]
(Public Eyesore)


Recorded largely in an off-grid mountain hut, the fifth A Magic Whistle album finds Andy Puls uniting the chamber-folk intimacy and minimalist electronics of his earlier work into a vivid, wilderness-shaped soundscape where homemade sequencers, modular synths, guitars, whistles, and his resonant "Cascadian Sympathetic Steel" flow with field recordings and wordless voice.
   
     Buy      $24.95      Listen          

 
Hawkins, Chester: Apsis
(Intangible Arts)


Recorded while on tour in Arizona, Denmark, and Sweden, experimental composer Chester Hawkins transforms keyboards, live loops, field recordings, synths, lapsteel, and music box into immersive and hallucinatory soundscapes, weaving tense, meditative, and otherworldly excursions that trace the shifting orbits of inner and outer space in vivid, exploratory detail.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
McGee, Hal: Columbus Expedition [Cassette w/ Download]
(Copy This!)


A celebration of friendship, sound, and daily life, Hal McGee's cassette + download release assembles dictaphone recordings from his June 2025 trip to Ohio, capturing conversations with Chris Phinney, Jeff Chenault, and Jerry Kranitz, the ambience of cafés, shops, and the Arts Fair, collaborative studio and live performances, and voices from the city, composed into a strangely compelling audio diary.
   
     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 
S*Glass: Benign Neglect
(Public Eyesore)


Founding member of Bren't Lewiis Ensemble and Glands of External Secretion, and longtime driver of Bananafish magazine, Seymour Glass (as S*Glass) presents three 20-minute works of surrealist musique concrète, layering loops, cassettes, objects, organ, voice, and field recordings into unsettling yet strangely meditative sound collages that conjure fever dreams and altered states.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Racing Pisshorses, The: It Only Takes One To Stop An Ice Cream Truck [7'' VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
(self)


An archival punk document from JJ Gregg-better known now for his adventurous sitar work-this 1995 Seattle-area session with drummer Ryan Toliver captures the youthful energy of their Illinois-formed duo The Racing Pisshorses, recorded live to tape in under three hours and released here for the first time on 7" vinyl with download, a raw and spirited reminder of Gregg's formative years in DIY music.
   
     Buy      $6.95      Listen          

 


The Squid's Ear

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine,
featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.



Jean-Jacques Birge: Pique-nique Au Labo 4 (GRRR)
Jean-Jacques Birge: Pique-nique Au Labo 4 (GRRR)


Karl Evangelista
The Squid's Ear Interview

Giovanni Maier / Alexander Hawkins: Two For Keith (Long Song Records)
Giovanni Maier / Alexander Hawkins: Two For Keith (Long Song Records)


Josh Sinton
The Squid's Ear Interview

GPS (Guillermo Gregorio / Jeff Pearring / Charley Sabatino): Directions + Destinations (577 Records)
GPS (Guillermo Gregorio / Jeff Pearring / Charley Sabatino): Directions + Destinations (577 Records)

Kory Reeder / Apartment House: Homestead (Another Timbre)
Kory Reeder / Apartment House: Homestead (Another Timbre)

Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch)
Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch)

Motoharu Yoshizawa / Kim Dae Hwan: Way Of The Breeze (No Business)
Motoharu Yoshizawa / Kim Dae Hwan: Way Of The Breeze (No Business)


David Myers
The Squid's Ear Interview

John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell: Around the Square, Above the Hill (Confront)
John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell: Around the Square, Above the Hill (Confront)


Eddie Prevost
The Squid's Ear Interview

Stian Larsen / Colin Webster / Ruth Goller / Andrew Lisle: Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch)
Stian Larsen / Colin Webster / Ruth Goller / Andrew Lisle: Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch)



 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.





Angles 11:
Tell Them It's The Sound Of Freedom
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)


Erez Dessel:
PRO FAKE NO REJECT
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)


Martin Escalante :
Playing Harsh Noise on the Saxophone since 2012
(Wash and Wear Records)


Martin Escalante / Charlie Mumma / Tete Leguia:
This Molten Salt
(Wash and Wear Records)


Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Mars Williams / Jim Baker / Ed Wilkerson / Brian Sandstrom / Steve Hunt):
The Final Quintet [2 CDs]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)


Marcin Halat / Maciej Garbowski:
The Dialogues [2 CDs]
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)


Ivo Pereleman / Nate Wooley / Matt Moran / Mark Helias / Tom Rainey:
A Modicum Of the Blues
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)


Paul Rogers:
Peace And Happiness
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)




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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