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SQUIDCO Email Update and Cost+$1 Sale, December 19, 2025

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Essential Artists

• Axioms
• Ilia Belorukov/Alex Riva
• Peter Evans/Mike Pride
• Jurg Frey
• HobbyHouse (Mia Dyberg/Axel Filip)
• Tom Jackson/Daniel Thompson
• Don Malfon/Vasco Trilla
• Kelsey Mines/Erin Rogers
• Kelsey Mines/Vinny Golia
• Camila Nebbia (feat/ Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok)
• Zeena Parkins
• Eliane Radigue
• Simulacrum
• Uneven Eleven (Segers/Hawyard/Kawabata)
• Adia Vanheerentals
• Various Artists

Essential Labels

Amgen Records
Confront
Discus
elsewhere

Evil Clown
Notice Recordings
Relative Pitch

Squidco Cost + $1 Sale

Squidco Cost + $1 Sale: December 19 - 21

This weekend we're offering a sale on our website, where your price is OUR COST + $1 for a selection of more than 150 CDs, LPs and Cassettes from our catalog of Jazz & Improvised Music, Experimental, Composed, and Rock-Based forms. A number of these items will not be restocked after this sale but will either be removed from our catalog or will go to special order status. Take a look through this great set of albums, but hurry! This sale ends Sunday, December 21st 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, December 21, 2025 at 23:59 EST, GMT-5.

Squidco Gift Certificates!

Squidco Gift Certificates

Squidco Gift Certificates are the perfect answer for the hard-to-buy-for, eclectic music collector. This year, tell your friends and family you'd love the gift of creative music!

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New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Axioms: Fundamental Statements
(Evil Clown)

A tightly focused and interactive trio session pairing spoken word with expansive instrumental color,bringing Jane's incisive poetry into close dialogue with Albey onBass's grounded sonorities and David Peck's wide-ranging reeds, electronics, and resonant objects, revealing an articulated improvisational language where text, texture, and collective intuition lock together.

$12.95

Evans, Peter / Mike Pride : A Window, Basically [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Concentrating their work from the Pulverize the Sound trio, trumpeter Peter Evans and drummer Mike Pride reveal a ferocity that pushes free improvisation to its extremes, balancing explosive virtuosity with kaleidoscopic percussive interaction through dense sound clusters, fractured grooves, unexpected silences, and wild exploration, in seven high-risk dialogs tempered by moments of striking clarity.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

HobbyHouse (Mia Dyberg / Axel Filip): HobbyHouse [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

This self-titled debut from the Berlin-based duo of Danish alto saxophonist Mia Dyberg and Argentine drummer Axel Filip explores freely improvised jazz through spontaneous structures and shifting sonic playgrounds, with a sharp focus on timbral nuance, textural interplay, and an upbeat creative immediacy that unfolds into vivid, evolving sound narratives rooted in exploratory expression.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Jackson, Tom / Daniel Thompson: Dark Kitchen
(Confront)

An intimate, immersive duo recording in which Tom Jackson's finely articulated clarinet and Daniel Thompson's responsive, highly attuned guitar create a richly expressive terrain of spontaneous sound, channeling the spirit of free improvisation's pioneers in a deeply communicative exchange of timbre, space, and dynamic nuance.

$13.95

Malfon, Don / Vasco Trilla: Towers of Silence
(Confront)

A deeply immersive duo performance from saxophonist Don Malfon and percussionist Vasco Trilla, this exploratory session unfolds as a richly textured dialogue of breath, resonance, and rhythm, where haunting tones, shifting densities, and subtle dynamics blur the lines between experimental jazz, ambient improvisation, and abstract sound sculpture, revealing a finely balanced interplay of intensity and restraint.

$13.95

Mines, Kelsey / Erin Rogers: Scratching At The Surface [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

This duo release pairs bassist Kelsey Mines and saxophonist Erin Rogers in a deeply interactive exploration of free improvisation, where resonant low-end textures and expressive reeds weave concise, atmospheric vignettes shaped by bold contrasts, emotional clarity, and an immersive sense of motion that balances raw energy with carefully sculpted space.

$13.95

Mines, Kelsey / Vinny Golia: Collusion and Collaboration [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Distilling their work from the Chamber Quintet, this intimate duo recording pairs Vinny Golia's varied woodwinds with Kelsey Mines' resonant bass and subtle vocalizations, unfolding a carefully balanced exchange of gentle and sharp gestures shaped by classical-leaning abstractions, where attentive interplay allows fluid musical forms to emerge with clarity inside open improvisational space.

$13.95

Nebbia, Camila (feat/ Marilyn Crispell / Lesley Mok): A Reflection Distorts Over Water [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Recorded at Nevessa Studio in New York, Camila Nebbia joins Marilyn Crispell and Lesley Mok in a fiercely intuitive trio session blending open scores and full improvisation, where elastic group interplay, textural sensitivity, and eruptive momentum allow the music to breathe as a single organism while leaving space for sharply defined individual voices to emerge.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Parkins, Zeena: Lament For The Maker [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Marking the closing of Mills College and the end of Zeena Parkins' long association with its experimental community, this solo release presents three commissioned works alongside the ongoing acoustic piece berlin bedroom, unfolding a deeply reflective exploration of harp and electronics that honors artistic lineage, collective devotion, and the Bay Area's enduring spirit of experimental music-making.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Simulacrum: Replicants
(Evil Clown)

A densely layered electro-acoustic ensemble improvisation in which expanded electronics, tightly integrated horns, and richly colored percussion generate a constantly evolving sonic field, balancing muscular collective energy with intricate textural detail as shifting instrumental roles and deep ensemble cohesion drive a forward-moving exploration of sound and form.

$12.95

Vanheerentals, Adia: Taking Place [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Asked to rethink the solo sax format, Adia Vanheerentals transforms this release into a series of site-responsive improvisations, engaging the soprano sax in active dialogue with surrounding environments — echoing spaces, incidental sounds, and ambient noise — using extended techniques, breath & texture to shape concise statements where location is a partner in an open improvisational framework.

$13.95

Various Artists: Evil Clown Shorties Vol 6 (2025)
(Evil Clown)

A lively sampler of Evil Clown's expansive improvisational universe, this collection assembles fourteen concise, high-energy performances drawn from livestream sessions across multiple ensembles, where shifting instrumental combinations, dense textures, and spontaneous interaction distil the label's long-form aesthetic into sharply focused bursts of collective invention.

$12.95

Experimental/Electronic

Belorukov, Ilia / Alex Riva: Wrestling For Futility [CASSETTE w/DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)

A bristling electro-acoustic duo encounter in which Ilia Belorukov's restless modular synthesis collides and intertwines with Alex Riva's recorder work and effects, generating playful yet volatile improvisations that shift between lo-fi textures, glassy winds, and surging electronic fragments, as tension, friction, and timbral curiosity drive the music through constantly mutating sonic terrain.

Squidco Pick

$9.95

Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Uneven Eleven (Segers / Hawyard / Kawabata): Live In Brighton
(Discus)

A ferocious meeting of three seasoned innovators, this live set from Charles Hayward (drums, vocals), Guy Segers (bass), and Kawabata Makoto (guitar) channels decades of rock, punk, psychedelia, and free improvisation into an explosive power trio performance, where raw energy, shifting polyrhythms, and searing intensity collide in a fiercely immediate and unfiltered sonic assault captured on stage in Brighton in 2013.

Squidco Pick

$16.95

Composed & Contemporary

Frey, Jurg : Composer, Alone [3 CDs]
(elsewhere)

Recording at the historic Muziekcentrum van de Omroep in Hilversum, Dutch pianist Reinier van Houdt performs twelve solo piano works spanning more than three decades of Swiss composer Jürg Frey's output, revealing an evolving yet remarkably consistent compositional voice through performances of great restraint, sensitivity, and quiet intensity, balancing fragility, warmth, and crystalline clarity.

$27.95

Radigue, Eliane: Asymptote Versatile (1963-64)
(Amgen Records)

An historic world-premiere recording of Éliane Radigue's earliest surviving work, performed at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, where a stellar ensemble realizes her flexible "sonic proposition" through evolving textures, mathematical spirals and dynamic transformations that foreshadow her later visionary soundworld.

Squidco Pick

$19.95

Michel Doneda / Frederic Blondy: Points of Convergences (Relative Pitch)

Michel Doneda / Frederic Blondy: Points of Convergences (Relative Pitch)

Larry Stabbins / Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus)

Larry Stabbins / Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus)

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)

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