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SQUIDCO Email Update, December 12, 2025

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Essential Artists

• Sophie Agnel
• Marja Ahti
• Laura Cetilia
• Melaine Dalibert/David Sylvian
• Amir ElSaffar/New Quartet
• Santiago Fischer Diez
• Jurg Frey with ensemble]h[iatus
• Eric La Casa/Jerome Noetinger
• Amanda Monaco (w/ Michael Attias/Sean Conly/Satoshi Takeishi)
• Shoko Numao
• Eldritch Priest
• Fredrik Rasten w/ Asterales
• Kory Reeder
• Ziv Taubenfeld Full Sun (Taubenfeld/Moore/Buis/Ku/Chientaroli/Heggen/Govaert)
• Jakob Ullmann
• John Zorn - Song of Songs
• John Zorn (Marsella/Smith/Roeder)

Essential Labels

Another Timbre
elsewhere
erstwhile
Full Sun Records
Genevieve Records

Ici d Ailleurs
Maqam Records
Otoroku
thanatosis produktion
Tzadik

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Agnel, Sophie: Learning [VINYL]
(Otoroku)

Recorded in two powerful live sets at Café OTO, Sophie Agnel's first solo LP channels her post-recovery reinvention into a fiercely physical language for prepared piano, unleashing dense sound masses, interior textures, and sudden moments of clarity as she reshapes the instrument into a raw, personal terrain of gesture, resonance, and fearless exploration.

$24.95

ElSaffar, Amir / New Quartet: Live at Pierre Boulez Saal
(Maqam Records)

Blending Arabic maqam with jazz-inflected improvisation, ElSaffar's new quartet — joined by Tania Giannouli, Ole Mathisen, and Tomas Fujiwara — delivers an intense and expressive live performance whose spontaneous, newly composed material unfolds with lyrical depth, microtonal color, and dynamic interplay, captured at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal with additional alternate takes.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Monaco, Amanda (w/ Michael Attias / Sean Conly / Satoshi Takeishi) : Deathblow [VINYL]
(Genevieve Records)

Long delayed but bursting with life, guitarist Amanda Monaco's freebopping quartet — Michael Attias, Sean Conly, and Satoshi Takeishi — delivers a sharp, melodic, and mischievously adventurous set, blending playful grooves, quick-turn interplay, and Monaco's distinctive compositional voice into a vibrant, high-spirited vinyl debut from her Deathblow project.

$19.95

ElSaffar, Amir / New Quartet : Live at Pierre Boulez Saal [VINYL]
(Maqam Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.

Squidco Pick

$25.95

Rasten, Fredrik w/ Asterales: Fuse Modulations
(thanatosis produktion)

Guitarist-composer Fredrik Rasten joins the Berlin quartet Asterales to explore slowly shifting just-intonation harmonies in four movements where quarter-tone bass flute, synthesizer, double bass, and fretless electric guitar weave sustained microtonal textures into a resonant, deeply attentive study of modulation, timbre, and collective harmonic precision.

$13.95

Taubenfeld, Ziv Full Sun (Taubenfeld / Moore / Buis / Ku / Chientaroli / Heggen / Govaert): Nomads
(Full Sun Records)

Recorded live at the Bimhuis, Ziv Taubenfeld's Full Sun gathers Michael Moore, Joost Buis, Yung-Tuan Ku, Nico Chientaroli, Rozemarie Heggen, and Onno Govaert for a slow-unfolding suite steeped in polyphonic colors, lyrical interplay, and spirited homage to Jimmy Lyons, Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, and Misha Mengelberg, shaping a warm, exploratory, and deeply communal sonic journey.

Squidco Pick

$18.95

Zorn, John (Marsella / Smith / Roeder): Nocturnes
(Tzadik)

Exploring the tradition of night music with subtle, dreamlike elegance, Zorn's latest piano-trio work — the fourth in his series with Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith after Suite for Piano, Ballades, and Impromptus — unfolds as a lyrical and expressive creation performed with seemingly telepathic, virtuosic, and finely nuanced interplay.

Squidco Pick

$17.95

Experimental/Electronic

La Casa, Eric / Jerome Noetinger: Off Tracks
(erstwhile)

Compositions from Éric La Casa and Jérôme Noetinger built from site recordings made while exploring buildings emptied of their activities, crossing spaces abandoned by their occupants and drifting through the ghostly traces of vanished presence, revealing a mysterious electroacoustic force that lingers within the shifting textures of these emptied environments.

$13.95

Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Zorn, John: The Song of Songs [CD + CD BOOK]
(Tzadik)

A rich all-vocal rendering of the Bible's sensual Song of Solomon, featuring five distinguished female voices with narration by Barbara Hannigan and Mathieu Amalric, and guided by Jeremy Fogel's new translation, this lush limited-edition CD book highlights one of Zorn's most evocative and beautifully realized creations in a single extended work.

$49.95

Composed & Contemporary

Ahti, Marja: Visiting Cloud (Two Translations)
(Another Timbre)

Acoustic ensemble realizations of two electroacoustic works by Marja Ahti, in which members of the Italian ensemble Blutwurst translate her drifting textures, elemental timbres, and spatial sensibilities into slow, finely detailed instrumental environments, expanding the original works into patient, resonant soundworlds shaped by pitch nuance, breath, and sustained collective focus.

$15.95

Cetilia, Laura: Gorgeous Nothings
(elsewhere)

Three intimate chamber works from composer-cellist Laura Cetilia unfold in finely sculpted layers of cello, voice, violin, and vibraphone, blending delicate harmonics, quiet resonance, and attentive presence into a spacious, quietly immersive soundworld that bridges classical lineage with exploratory clarity and luminous restraint.

$13.95

Dalibert, Melaine / David Sylvian: Vermilion Hours
(Ici d Ailleurs)

A refined collaboration between pianist Melaine Dalibert and David Sylvian, transforming Dalibert's algorithmic piano works through subtle, impressionistic electronic treatments that deepen their harmonic resonance, creating a luminous and contemplative soundworld shaped by spectral motion and quiet atmospheric detail.

$14.95

Fischer, Santiago Diez : Songs
(Another Timbre)

Blending acoustic trio writing, subtle electronics, and everyday vocal gestures, Argentine composer Santiago Diez Fischer's decade-spanning set of five works for Gyre Ensemble shapes a raw, sculptural, and "punk-poetic" sound world where baritone sax, accordion, and percussion merge with the composer's vocal and electronic interventions to reveal music poised deliberately between rough material and refined form.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Frey, Jurg with ensemble]h[iatus: Je Laisse A La Nuit Son Poids D'ombre
(Another Timbre)

A brooding work for ten musicians, Jürg Frey's crepuscular score intertwines Japanese haiku and poems by Anne Perrier through hushed voices, fragile instrumental colors, and suspended textures, inviting ensemble]h[iatus, led by Le Quan Ninh and Martine Altenburger, into a slowly unfolding landscape where uncertainty, breath, and quiet tension shape a haunting world on the edge of darkness.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Numao, Shoko: The Siwnin Sails
(elsewhere)

A debut solo album of eight songs for voice and guitar from Japanese singer-songwriter Shoko Numao, blending poetic introspection, translucent vocal timbres, and quietly expressive melodies shaped through years of performance, as she crafts intimate, subtly shifting pieces that balance lyrical clarity with a gentle, atmospheric sense of stillness.

$13.95

Priest, Eldritch : Dead-Wall Reveries
(Another Timbre)

Three chamber works from Canadian composer Eldritch Priest trace his distinctive blend of lyric drifting and restless detail, from a fragile, noise-tinged string quartet to a reflective solo piano piece and a shifting, daydream-like ensemble work, each drawing on his interest in improvisation, ambiguity, and melodies that wander with deliberate aimlessness.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Reeder, Kory: In Place
(thanatosis produktion)

Three works from American composer Kory Reeder's Grid Series bring piano and two violas into sparse, quietly shifting environments where structured pitch fields, performer agency, and subtle repetition form reflective sound spaces that balance structure and spontaneity, inviting deep listening through poised restraint and the poetic tension between silence and tone.

$13.95

Ullmann, Jakob: Solo I / Solo IV
(Another Timbre)

Jakob Ullmann's Solo I and Solo IV are realised together as two ultra-quiet, long-form works in which graphic notation, fixed pitch sequences, and subtle performance choices guide quarter-tone flute and double bass through slowly shifting regions of colour and resonance, blending live sound with tailored playback to create a fragile, immersive acoustic environment.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Elliott Sharp
The Squid's Ear Interview

Olie Brice Quartet (Brice / Musson / Hawkins / Glaser): All It Was (West Hill Records)

Olie Brice Quartet (Brice / Musson / Hawkins / Glaser): All It Was (West Hill Records)

Joe Fonda: Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Joe Fonda: Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

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)

Eric La Casa / Marc Baron: Contrefaccons (Swarming)

Eric La Casa / Marc Baron: Contrefaccons (Swarming)

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

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

John Butcher / John Edwards: This Is Not Speculation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

John Butcher / John Edwards: This Is Not Speculation (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

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

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

Lawrence Casserley / Emil Karlsen: Aspects Of Memory (Bead Records)

Lawrence Casserley / Emil Karlsen: Aspects Of Memory (Bead Records)

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

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

Steve Swell
The Squid's Ear Interview

Irene Schweizer / Rudiger Carl / Johnny Dyani / Han Bennink: Irene's Hot Four (Intakt)

Irene Schweizer / Rudiger Carl / Johnny Dyani / Han Bennink: Irene's Hot Four (Intakt)

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