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Squidco Email Update + Winter Hat Sale, January 9, 2026

Squidco Weekly Update

Essential Artists

• Byron Coley/Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore
• Peter Evans/Being & Becoming
• Eventless Plot
• Fohn Ensemble (Foschla/Duerinckx/Northover)
• Fortrexx
• Leo Genovese
• Eric La Casa/Seijiro Murayama
• Otherlands Trio (Crump/Jones/McPherson)
• Reeder/Seward/Weathers
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Fala Mariam/Andre Hencleeday/Seu Barradas
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Jung-Jae Kim/Guilherme Rodrigues/Eric Bauer/Stephen Flinn
• Rotor (Rodrigues/Torres/Santos)
• Udo Schindler/Jordina Milla
• Udo Schindler/Paul Rogers/Ardhi Engl
• Nate Wooley

Essential Labels

577 Records
Creative Sources
Discreet Archive
Ecstatic Peace Library
Editions Glomar

Intakt
Love Earth Music
More Is More
Swarming

Winter Hat Sale

Winter Hat Sale: January 9 - January 11

From January 9th to January 11th, we are reducing the price on selected in-stock ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd to $7.95 for single albums, $8.95 for double CDs and First Visit releases!

Shop the Winter Hat Sale!

These exceptional prices give our customers a chance to fill in their collection of these important and extraordinary albums of creative improvisation, composition, and the merging of both. Take a close look, as some titles are limited in quantity, and this sale ends Sunday, January 11th!

In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store. Orders must be placed through our shopping cart. Price shown is discounted price. Sale ends Sunday January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last. Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Coley, Byron / Mats Gustafsson / Thurston Moore: Now Jazz Now: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings (1960-80) [BOOK]
(Ecstatic Peace Library )

Drawing from deeply personal listening histories, this richly illustrated volume assembles 100 essential free jazz and improvisation recordings from 1960-80, presenting album art, notes, and reflections that frame the music as non-hierarchical and interlinked, offering an immersive guide for adventurous listeners interested in the lineage, spirit, and lived culture of creative freedom.

Squidco Pick

$45.99

Evans, Peter / Being & Becoming: Ars Ludricra [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(More Is More)

Expanding their language through dense composition and open improvisation, this iteration of Peter Evans's ensemble moves fluidly between explosive dynamics, electronic textures, orchestral color, and rhythmic propulsion, as brass, vibes, synths, and percussion interlock in a restless, polyphonic music driven by play, risk, and a continually evolving collective imagination.

Squidco Pick

$24.95

Eventless Plot: Unlearning Noise
(Discreet Archive)

Blending field recordings, percussion, tapes, and modular synthesis with Marina Katsarou's voice and text and Eva Matsigou's flute, Eventless Plot reshape urban sound into a finely detailed electroacoustic work that invites listeners to reconsider noise as a living, expressive presence, revealing the shifting textures, hidden meanings, and poetic potential embedded within the everyday sonic fabric of the city.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Fohn Ensemble (Foschla / Duerinckx / Northover): Fohn Ensemble
(Creative Sources)

Bringing together clarinets, sopranino, baritone, and soprano saxophones with kyotaku (a Japanese bamboo flute) and resonant percussion, this trio shapes a highly attentive improvisation where breath, extended techniques, and shifting timbres unfold through close listening, moving fluidly between fragile textures, explosive gestures, and an organic, imaginary folklore that emerges from collective intuition.

Squidco Pick

$16.95

Genovese, Leo: Solo Brooklyn
(577 Records)

Performing solo piano at the 2025 New York Forward Festival, Leo Genovese delivers a strikingly fluid and exploratory set where abstract, dreamlike themes move freely between lyricism, volatility, and spontaneous invention, revealing a deeply personal improvisational language shaped by risk, intuition, and the raw immediacy of live performance.

$16.00

Otherlands Trio (Crump / Jones / McPherson): Star Mountain
(Intakt)

Uniting bassist Stephan Crump, drummer Eric McPherson with alto saxophonist Darius Jones, this trio channels a deeply connected improvisational language built on evolving vamps, elastic grooves, and shared momentum, as Jones's emotionally direct alto moves freely through shifting forms shaped by trust, vulnerability, and a collective pursuit of intensity without hierarchy or hesitation.

Squidco Pick

$18.95

Reeder / Seward / Weathers: Two Meditations From The Underground
(Editions Glomar)

Moving between breath, resonance, and memory, the trio of Kory Reeder, Ryan Seward, and Andrew Weathers present two immersive works — one dedicated to Jeph Jerman, the other to Jan & Herb Conn — where cello, reed organ, radio, sine tones, and winds unfold as haunted exterior meditations, funneling lived experience into tangible sound while blurring the boundaries between cave, church, and unseen interior spaces.

Squidco Pick

$9.95

Rodrigues, Ernesto / Fala Mariam / Andre Hencleeday / Seu Barradas: February Find
(Creative Sources)

Captured live as part of the Creative Sources Improvised Music Series in Lisbon, this quartet performance brings viola, crackle box, alto trombone, piano, and percussion into a finely balanced improvisation where texture and restraint guide the music's unfolding, revealing a deeply interactive dialogue shaped by close listening, fragile electronics, and quietly evolving sonic relationships.

$16.95

Rodrigues, Ernesto / Jung-Jae Kim / Guilherme Rodrigues / Eric Bauer / Stephen Flinn: Crossing The Floor
(Creative Sources)

Emerging from Ernesto Rodrigues' post-Cage investigations, this quintet with Jung-Jae Kim, Guilherme Rodrigues, Eric Bauer, and Stephen Flinn shapes sparse, deeply relational music where strings, winds, electronics, and percussion hover in spectral balance, forming a quiet "ghost dance" of held tones and subtle motion that blurs interior and exterior spaces while sculpting time through restraint and resonance.

$16.95

Rotor (Rodrigues / Torres / Santos): Pulses and Paradox
(Creative Sources)

Recorded live at Sistema Smop in Lisbon across two performances in late 2023, the trio of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola, crackle box), Nuno Torres (alto saxophone), and Carlos Santos (digital electronics) are captured sustained improvisations where acoustic timbre and electronic gesture converge in an expansive dialogue that alternates between subtle textural pulses and unpredictable sonic paradoxes.

Squidco Pick

$16.95

Schindler, Udo / Jordina Milla: The Dew That Flies
(Creative Sources)

Captured live in Bavaria in February 2025, these six improvisations pair frequent collaborators German wind instrumentalist Udo Schindler and Catalan pianist Jordina Milla in a series of dialogues where timbre, texture, and spontaneous interplay shape an immersive, poetic sound world influenced by Sylvia Plath's Ariel, blurring the line between composition and open improvisation.

$16.95

Schindler, Udo / Paul Rogers / Ardhi Engl : Ephemeral Essences Of LowTone Studies (For Trio)
(Creative Sources)

Recorded live in Munich in December 2024, this trio performance brings together Udo Schindler, bassist Paul Rogers, and sound-builder Ardhi Engl in an expansive LowTone Studies session where shifting instrumental roles, theatrical interplay, and esoteric timbral variety generate a richly dynamic music rooted in transition, texture, and collective exploration.

Squidco Pick

$16.95

Wooley, Nate: A Fine Rain Anoints The Canal Machinery
(Discreet Archive)

In a subtly detailed journey, Nate Wooley layers field recordings, trumpet, piano, sine tones, whistling, and bodily sound into a stark, reflective work that probes the uneasy coexistence of nature, machinery, and human presence, shaping a quietly political soundscape in which environmental detail, isolation, and mechanical intrusion collide in fragile, contrapuntal tension.

$15.95

Experimental/Electronic

Fortrexx: Breathless
(Love Earth Music)

Under the Fortrexx moniker, Squidco's own Phil Zampino, aka CHANGES TO blind, shapes field recordings, samples, and electronics into subliminal sonic environments that drift and mutate beneath conscious attention, forming enveloping sound tapestries that fill silence without intrusion and function fluidly at low or high volume for contemplation, altered states, or quiet immersion.

$12.95

La Casa, Eric / Seijiro Murayama: Paris Public Spaces 2
(Swarming)

Recorded across various public spaces in Paris, this collaborative work extends the practice of Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama as they document subtle vocal interventions and field recordings that explore attentive listening, bodily presence, and sonic autonomy, positioning sound-making as a quiet, animist act of witness within complex urban environments.

$15.95

MARANATA (Wesseltoft / Stiberg / Escalante): Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch)

MARANATA (Wesseltoft / Stiberg / Escalante): Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch)

Birgit Ulher
The Squid's Ear Interview

Joe McPhee / Susanna Gartmayer / John Edwards / Maria Portugal: Monster (Klanggalerie)

Joe McPhee / Susanna Gartmayer / John Edwards / Maria Portugal: Monster (Klanggalerie)

Ivo Perelman / Tyshawn Sorey: Paralell Aesthetics (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Ivo Perelman / Tyshawn Sorey: Paralell Aesthetics (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

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)

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.

Die 3 Diven: RCHTN MTNCHTN (Creative Sources)	Stephen Flinn / Sylvain Monchoce / Jung-Jae Kim : Quark (Creative Sources)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Claudia Risch / Grgur Savic / Guilherme Rodrigues: Past Dreams In Rust (Creative Sources)
Ernesto Rodrigues / Erhard Hirt / Guilherme Rodrigues: Munster (Creative Sources)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Jung-Jae Kim / Guilherme Rodrigues / Eric Bauer / Stephen Flinn: 5 In The Afternoon [2CDs] (Creative Sources)	Signal Lapidaire (Sanchez / Loubatiere): Signal Lapidaire (Creative Sources)
Studer / Strinning / Weber: Cut (Creative Sources)

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