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Essential Artists

• Sofia Borges/Ada Rave
• Berlinde Deman
• Laurent Estoppey/Daniel Levin
• Pierre Favre/Sergio Armaroli/Andrea Centazzo/Francesca Gemmo
• The Gate
• Jean-Luc Guionnet
• Halls Of the Machine
• Jason Kahn
• Jason Kahn
• Daniel Levin
• Zeena Parkins/Cecilia Lopez
• Michael Pisaro-Liu
• Laura Singh Ann Quintet (w/Clark/Hopkins/Lilley/Miller)
• Jasper Stadhouders/Jaap Blonk
• Ben Stapp
• Taborn/Cline/Gilmore
• Maria Valencia/Matt Moran/Brandon Lopez
• Eri Yamamoto/Matthew Shipp

Essential Labels

577 Records
Confront
Copy This!
ears&eyes Records
Editions
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Imploding Sounds

Kontrans
Mahakala Music
Out Of Your Head Records
Potlatch
Pyroclastic Records
Relative Pitch

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Borges, Sofia / Ada Rave: The Unseen Pact
(Relative Pitch)

Recorded in their first meeting, percussionist Sofia Borges and saxophonist Ada Rave forge a vivid, intuitive dialogue of fire and reflection, blending spontaneous storytelling with fierce lyricism and dynamic restraint; their improvisations unfold like ritual acts of empathy and resistance, where every strike, breath, and silence reveals an unspoken pact between sound and spirit.

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Deman, Berlinde: Plank 9
(Relative Pitch)

Exploring the resonant depths of the serpent, a low-pitched lip-reed aerophone, and her own voice through effects and extended techniques, Belgian musician Berlinde Deman crafts an intimate and deeply personal sound world where breath, tone, and distortion intertwine, her slow and deliberate process unfolding like a meditative journey toward balance, discovery, and quiet transformation.

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Estoppey, Laurent / Daniel Levin: Sumac
(ears&eyes Records)

An intimate and exploratory duo encounter between saxophonist Laurent Estoppey and cellist Daniel Levin, born from the Sanctuary Series in Durham, where mutual trust fuels a fearless dive into the unknown, weaving shifting timbres, extended techniques, and raw dialogue into a deeply personal improvisational terrain defined by risk, resonance, and discovery.

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Favre, Pierre / Sergio Armaroli / Andrea Centazzo / Francesca Gemmo: The Art Of Sound(s) (first visit)
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

A contemplative meeting of Pierre Favre, Sergio Armaroli, Andrea Centazzo, and Francesca Gemmo, exploring percussion, vibraphone, and piano in spacious improvised forms that privilege resonance over rhythm, weaving subtle dynamics and reflective timbres into an existential soundscape where silence, decay, and shimmering overtones converge in quietly radical dialogue.

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Guionnet, Jean-Luc : L'Epaisseur de l'air Live
(Potlatch)

Recorded live at Les Instants Chavirés in Montreuil, France, across two sessions in 2023 and 2024, alto saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet's second solo release on Potlatch captures his intensely physical exploration of breath, resonance, and spatial acoustics, rendering sound as an emotional and architectural phenomenon where perception, geometry, and air intertwine in a vivid study of "the thickness of the air."

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Kahn, Jason: All Across The Universe
(Editions)

Drawn from field recordings made in Tainan, Taiwan and recomposed in Zurich, this album by Jason Kahn transforms ambient hums, distant voices and architectural resonances into a contemplative sonic map where place becomes material, silence pulses with hidden motion and listening itself is foregrounded as gesture, inviting deep immersion rather than narrative resolution.

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Kahn, Jason: When Your Way Gets Dark
(Editions)

Recorded live in Tainan, Taiwan, the ever-inventive Jason Kahn strips his sound to acoustic guitar, harmonium, and voice, weaving fragile melodies and raw textures into an intimate, exploratory performance that bridges his electroacoustic sensibility with an unvarnished eccentric vocal presence of remarkable immediacy and tension, at times invoking a Basho-like spirit.

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Levin, Daniel : Solo
(ears&eyes Records)

A profound statement of non-idiomatic improvisation from cellist Daniel Levin, exploring the full tactile and sonic range of his instrument through shifting timbres, raw textures, and lyrical abstraction, forging spontaneous form in real time as intuition replaces memory and each gesture navigates vulnerability, intensity, and the transformative pursuit of musical freedom.

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Parkins, Zeena / Cecilia Lopez: Redshifts
(Relative Pitch)

Harnessing Zeena Parkins's electric and acoustic harps and ebow-piano alongside Cecilia Lopez's custom-built RED speaker-wire instrument and electronics, this live Brooklyn set fashions a singular sonic architecture where plucked strings, feedback networks and sustained fields fold into one expansive, sculptural conversation of improvisation and invention.

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Singh, Laura Ann Quintet (w / Clark / Hopkins / Lilley / Miller): Mean Reds [VINYL]
(Out Of Your Head Records)

Blending incisive lyricism with modern chamber-jazz intensity, vocalist Laura Ann Singh leads a quintet with Scott Clark, Adam Hopkins, John Lilley, and Bob Miller through richly composed pieces that move from fragile introspection to assertive rhythmic drive, intertwining trumpet and saxophone lines with atmospheric bass and percussion in a deeply emotive, genre-fluid statement.

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Stadhouders, Jasper / Jaap Blonk: JaJaa! - Improvisers
(Kontrans)

A fierce live collision of Jaap Blonk's phonetic vocal and electronic inventions and Jasper Stadhouders' raw guitar improvisation, forging a surreal language of sputtered syllables, scraped strings, and disruptive humor, where meaning dissolves into texture and every gesture feels simultaneously unhinged and meticulously alive.

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Stapp, Ben: Uzmic Ro'Samg (Live Solo Tuba)
(577 Records)

A visionary solo exploration from tubist Ben Stapp, merging extreme extended techniques, circular breathing, and multiphonics with a science fiction narrative of consciousness and transformation, unfolding ten pieces that traverse volatile timbres, subterranean drones, and vocal-inflected abstractions in a deeply personal act of world-building beyond mere instrumental prowess.

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Taborn / Cline / Gilmore: Trio of Bloom
(Pyroclastic Records)

A formidable first meeting between keyboardist Craig Taborn, guitarist Nels Cline, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, where three singular voices of modern creative music converge in assertive, Downtown-NY-steeped, genre-defying interplay — originals, reimagined works, and spontaneous improvisations blooming into a vibrant, exploratory dialogue of texture, rhythm, and imagination.

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Valencia, Maria / Matt Moran / Brandon Lopez : Tarabita Espiral
(Relative Pitch)

Recorded live at IBeam in Brooklyn, the trio of María Valencia (alto saxophone, Bb clarinet), Matt Moran (vibraphone), and Brandon Lopez (bass, percussion) weave a richly textured improvisation of lyric tension and resonant space, where breath, metal, and wood converge in shifting layers of sound, balancing volatility with quiet reflection in an atmosphere of deep, intuitive dialogue.

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Yamamoto, Eri / Matthew Shipp: Horizon
(Mahakala Music)

A deeply personal collaboration between pianists Eri Yamamoto and Matthew Shipp, recorded live in the studio with Yamamoto in the left channel and Shipp in the right, as Yamamoto marks thirty years in New York with a set of original compositions for this occasion, their distinctive voices intertwining in an elegant, searching, and harmonically rich conversation of friendship, individuality, and creative life.

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Experimental/Electronic

Gate, The : Amost Live [CASSETTE + MAGAZINE]
(Imploding Sounds)

A cryptic live document from The Gate's expanded lineup — Dan Peck, Tom Blancarte, Brian Osborne and guests — casting subharmonic dread, electroacoustic rupture, and dirge-like trance into two versions of the same ritual, where Almost Live blurs performance and fabrication and the Marston Mix sinks the remains into deeper, uncharted gloom, accompanied by a fractured visual zine of equal disquiet.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Halls Of the Machine: All Tribal Dignitaries [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Copy This!)

A bold reinvention from Halls of the Machine, trading electronica atmospheres for a guitar-fueled rock ensemble where Mike Graff's riffs, Michael Jerome's driving percussion, and dual bass foundations collide with subtle string undercurrents, forging a dense, cinematic sound that balances raw physicality with lingering, haunted introspection.

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Composed & Contemporary

Pisaro-Liu, Michael: Within (2) / Appearance (2) [2 CDs]
(Confront)

This double-CD set finds Michael Pisaro and Michael Francis Duch probing the attentive meeting of electric guitar and double bass in extended, quietly rigorous works that privilege the fine gradations of sound, duration and silence, offering a minimal but richly textured listening experience rooted in subtle transformation rather than overt spectacle.

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Jaap Blonk
The Squid's Ear Interview

Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic Records)

Joe Henderson: Our Thing to In 'N Out Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd.)

Jason Kao Hwang
The Squid's Ear Interview

AMM and Sachiko M: Testing (Matchless Recordings)

Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins: 1953 To 1957 Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd.)

Mark Wastell
The Squid's Ear Interview

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

Frequency Disasters: Naize (Confront Recordings)

Tatsuya Nakatani
The Squid's Ear Interview

Sophie Agnel: Song (Relative Pitch)

Rhodri Davies: Telyn Wrachiod (Amgen)

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.

Jasper Stadhouders / Jaap Blonk:
JaJaa! - Improvisers
(Kontrans)

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