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SQUIDCO Email Update + Last Copy Sale, November 7, 2025

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UPDATE
November 7, 2025

"To improvise well, you have to forget everything;
So to compose well, you have to forget everything, too."
—Sylvie Courvoisier

 Essential Artists

• Cherry, Don / Krzysztof Penderecki
• Nathan Clevenger Group
• Sylvie Courvoisier/Wadada Leo Smith
• Don Ellis
• Fred Frith/Maria Portugal
• Mary Halvorson Amaryllis
• Insect Life
• Leap Of Faith
• Donny McCaslin
• Neurodivergent Orchestra
• Evan Parker/Joelle Leandre
• Ohad Talmor w/Chris Tordini/Eric Mcpherson + Guests
• Turbulence Orchestra & Sub-Units
• Webber/Morris Big Band

 Essential Labels


577 Records
Editions
Enlightenment
Evil Clown
Intakt


Intuition
Nonesuch
Out Of Your Head Records
Queen Bee Records
RogueArt



Squidco's Cost Sale!

Every so often, we make space on our shelves by selling the last copies of items we won't restock once they're sold out. These items will either be removed from our catalog entirely or become available by special order only. For this sale, we've reduced these items to the rounded price of our cost + $1.00!

This is your chance to pick up exceptional music at the absolute lowest price we can offer. For many of these items, it's also your last opportunity to buy them from Squidco. This list starts with 200 CDs, LPs, cassettes, box sets, books, and magazines, each with just one copy left in stock. So hurry — once an item sellsout, it's gone from the store!

See All Last Copy Items


Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, discount is shown in product listings and in your shopping cart. In-stock items only, gift certificates and shipping insurance excluded. Order items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points. Sale ends Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 23:59 PM EST (GMT-5)

 New Releases





   Jazz & Improvisation

Cherry, Don / Krzysztof Penderecki: Actions [VINYL 180g]
(Intuition)


Recorded live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival in 1971, this extraordinary collaboration between Don Cherry, Krzysztof Penderecki, and The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra merges free jazz with avant-garde composition, blending fiery improvisation, unconventional orchestrations and global influences into a powerful experience that challenges traditional genre boundaries.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $29.95      Listen          

 
Clevenger, Nathan Group: Astrolabe
(Queen Bee Records)


Reinventing his compositional voice, Clevenger charts a reflective and lyrical suite for a deep Bay Area ensemble, the writing balancing chamber-like colour and improvisational space as reeds, low flutes, brass, cello, vibes, marimba, drums and bass articulate an expansive journey of personal discovery and renewed purpose.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Courvoisier, Sylvie / Wadada Leo Smith: Angel Falls
(Intakt)


Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and legendary trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith meet in a deeply focused duo session, their through-composed material unfolding with stunning restraint, architectural clarity, and a quiet but potent freedom, as each phrase, gesture, and interval feels acutely calibrated in a shared space of mystery, immediacy, and poetic intent.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Ellis, Don: The 1960s Albums [4 CD BOX SET]
(Enlightenment)


Collecting eight albums from the early to late '60s, this generous four-CD set surveys the groundbreaking work of trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Don Ellis, tracing his evolution from post-bop experiments with shifting metric structures into large-ensemble innovation infused with global rhythms, expanded instrumentations, and a fiercely exploratory imagination.
   
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 
Frith, Fred / Maria Portugal: Matter
(Intakt)


Uniting from different continents and generations, guitarist and vocalist Fred Frith and drummer, percussionist, and vocalist Maria Portugal meet in Cologne for four improvised stretches that blend song form, rhythmic invention, exploratory textures, and creative voice work, revealing a shared musical language that dissolves genre boundaries into a vivid, unpredictable exchange.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Halvorson, Mary Amaryllis: About Ghosts
(Nonesuch)


Expanding her Amaryllis ensemble with the addition of saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles, guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson presents eight new works, balancing spectral beauty and sly unease as vibraphone, layered brass, flexible grooves, and her singular harmonic distortions cohere into a richly orchestrated and restlessly inventive large-ensemble statement.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Insect Life: Insect Life
(577 Records)


Born from weekly sessions in Oakland, this adventurous sextet of winds, cello, drums, and electronics channels old-school improvisational spirit into a modern orchestral sound that feels both cosmic and grounded, as spontaneous grooves, abstract textures, and Zachary James Watkins' remix work expand their collective language into a vibrant, deeply inventive debut.
   
     Buy      $16.00      Listen          

 
Leap Of Faith: Disentangling The Spin
(Evil Clown)


Improvised live at Evil Clown HQ in Massachusetts this chamber-sized quartet + live processing version of Leap of Faith spins from airy quietude to dense noise, each multi-instrumentalist shifting timbres and extended techniques through a fluid electro-acoustic soundworld of horns, reeds, percussion, signal processing and inventive instrumental colour.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
McCaslin, Donny: Lullaby For The Lost [VINYL]
(Editions)


With longtime collaborators Jason Lindner, Ben Monder, Tim Lefebvre, Zach Danziger, Nate Wood, Ryan Dahle, and Jonathan Maron, visionary saxophonist Donny McCaslin channels the raw intensity of improvised jams into a cinematic, high-energy sound world, blending jazz with rock, electronica, and soulful urgency, a fierce and timeless statement.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $27.95      Listen          

 
Neurodivergent Orchestra: The Point of Science is Making Things Explode
(Evil Clown)


Centred on improvised spoken absurdism about science and monsters, this Boston septet's playful humour drives a sprawling electro-acoustic free improvisation, each player shifting between wild sonorities, noise sources, rubber chickens and synthesised colour as PEK steers the Neurodivergent Orchestra through a gleefully chaotic sonic experiment.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Parker, Evan / Joelle Leandre: Long Bright Summer
(RogueArt)


Drawing on decades of fearless improvising, saxophonist Evan Parker and bassist Joëlle Léandre engage in an intense and unfiltered acoustic dialogue recorded live in France, their shared language enabling lightning reactions, extended techniques, surges of density and flow, hushed textural intimacy, and moments where Léandre's wordless voice merges seamlessly into their spontaneous interplay.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Talmor, Ohad w/Chris Tordini / Eric Mcpherson + Guests: Back To The Land [2 CDs]
(Intakt)


Drawing inspiration from rediscovered 1998 Ornette Coleman rehearsal tapes and the spirit of Dewey Redman, tenor saxophonist and composer Ohad Talmor opens a new artistic cycle with his core trio of Chris Tordini and Eric McPherson plus a remarkable array of guests, creating kaleidoscopic variations that merge composed forms, liberated improvisation, and subtly deployed electronics.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $25.95      Listen          

 
Turbulence Orchestra & Sub-Units: Crescendo of the Tempest [2 CDs]
(Evil Clown)


Conducted by PEK using an expanded system of graphic signs, cue windows and directional frames, this large Turbulence Orchestra realises a continuous narrative of shifting density, guided entrances and exits, and evolving instrumentation, the players responding in real time to PEK's visual triggers to create a vivid, shape-shifting electro-acoustic improvisation.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Out Of Your Head Records)


Five years after their debut, co-leaders Anna Webber and Angela Morris return with a 19-piece large ensemble recording that showcases their next-level compositional voices, unfolding through the "Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band" suite and a series of richly orchestrated works that balance drones, contrapuntal density, rhythmic blasts, and lyrical themes in an adventurous exploration of sound and structure.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $29.95      Listen          

 


The Squid's Ear

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




Queen Bee, Mezzacappa and The Bay Area

Thanos Chrysakis: Psyche (Eternal Music Projects)
Thanos Chrysakis: Psyche (Eternal Music Projects)

Fred Frith / Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (Relative Pitch)
Fred Frith / Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (Relative Pitch)

CHANGES TO blind: Volume 9: I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist (Squidco)
CHANGES TO blind: Volume 9: I Wave on a Fine Vile Mist (Squidco)

Michel Doneda / Le Quan Ninh / Nuria Andorra: El Retorn De L'Escolata (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Michel Doneda / Le Quan Ninh / Nuria Andorra: El Retorn De L'Escolata (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))


Rutger Zuydervelt a.k.a. Machinefabriek
The Squid's Ear Interview

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: S/T (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: S/T (Corbett vs. Dempsey)


Jaap Blonk
The Squid's Ear Interview

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

Joe Henderson: Our Thing to In 'N Out Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd.)
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)
AMM and Sachiko M: Testing (Matchless Recordings)



 Stay Current With Squidco

• 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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