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Squidco Email Update September 11, 2026

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Essential Artists

• Marty Ehrlich
• Chad Fowler/Eri Yamamoto
• Frith/Kreusch/Kreusch
• Joao Madeira/Miguel Mira
• David Moss
• Secondson
• Elliott Sharp
• Tyshawn Sorey/Pat Thomas
• Dead Mallard

Essential Labels

4DaRecord
Aural Terrains
Galileo Music Communication
Love Earth Music
Mahakala Music

Otoroku
Out Of Your Head Records
Yatak Records
zOaR Records

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Squidco Pick

Ehrlich, Marty: OPEN AIR: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill [2CDs]
(Out Of Your Head Records)

Marty Ehrlich directs a rotating cast of leading reed players through the forty known saxophone quartet compositions of Julius Hemphill, combining works written for the World Saxophone Quartet with previously unrecorded pieces recovered through Ehrlich's archival research, revealing Hemphill's singular language of layered counterpoint, blues-rooted melody, rhythmic invention, and chamber precision.

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Fowler, Chad / Eri Yamamoto: Polkadots & Moonbeams
(Mahakala Music)

Alto saxophonist and flutist Chad Fowler joins pianist Eri Yamamoto for an intimate duo session balancing composed material with spontaneous song forms, moving between grief, memory, tenderness and celebration through deeply lyrical improvisation, including Fowler's elegiac "Ash" and the standard "Polkadots and Moonbeams," recorded by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios.

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Squidco Pick

Frith, Fred / Cornelius Claudio Kreusch / Johannes Tonio Kreusch: Pink / Neon [2 CDs]
(Galileo Music Communication )

Meeting in the studio in Germany, Fred Frith's electric guitar & effects combine with Johannes Tonio Kreusch's classical & prepared guitars and brother Cornelius Claudio Kreusch's piano & keyboards in an expansive trio improvisation balancing drones, atmospheric textures and volatile interaction, moving fluidly between meditative restraint, abstract sound exploration and explosive free improv.

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Squidco Pick

Frith, Fred / Cornelius Claudio Kreusch / Johannes Tonio Kreusch: Pink / Neon [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Galileo Music Communication )

Vinyl 2 LP edition of the CD listed above.

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Madeira, Joao / Miguel Mira : 21 07 12 - 02 05 24
(4DaRecord)

Portuguese string improvisers João Madeira on double bass and Miguel Mira on cello move from extended solo statements into a long-form duo and encore, using bowed drones, elastic pizzicato, harmonics, friction, percussive attacks and resonant textures to shape a patient, highly controlled exchange of shifting lyrical forms, contrasts, irregular cadences and finely detailed acoustic interaction.

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Moss, David: Dense Band (Remastered)
(Yatak Records)

David Moss leads a remarkable cross-section of New York's 1980s Downtown scene with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Tom Cora, Arto Lindsay, Christian Marclay and Jules Moss, merging percussion, theatrical vocals, electronics, turntables and improvisation with tightly constructed rhythmic forms in a volatile collision of experimental rock, noise, free improvisation and infectious groove, newly remastered for its 40th anniversary.

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Moss, David: Full House (Remastered)
(Yatak Records)

David Moss revisits a key document of New York's early-1980s Downtown scene, joining Arto Lindsay, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Phil Minton and others in nineteen concise, rapidly shifting studies that fuse percussion, reeds, guitars, turntables, electronics, manipulated voice, groove and free improvisation into a restless collage of experimental composition and performance.

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Sharp, Elliott: OCTAL: Book Five for 8-string guitarbass
(zOaR Records)

Returning to his custom Koll 8-string guitarbass for the fifth volume of the Octal series, Elliott Sharp builds improvisations from concepts in physics, language and philosophy, using a prime-number-derived tuning system alongside preparations, slides, EBow and spring bows to exploit the instrument's broad bass-to-guitar range, resonant body and richly layered electroacoustic color.

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Squidco Pick

Sorey, Tyshawn / Pat Thomas: Red Sulphur
(Otoroku)

In their first meeting, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Pat Thomas deliver a fiercely dynamic live improvisation at Cafe OTO, moving through dense clusters, inside-piano resonance, metallic percussion, brushes, string slides and sudden silences with remarkable precision, building a volatile dialogue that shifts between thunderous rhythmic density, delicate texture and sharply focused spontaneous interplay.

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Experimental/Electronic

Secondson: Turn Back
(Aural Terrains)

Welsh composer Secondson reduces his electroacoustic palette to tape recorder and turntable for two extended works exploring repetition, degradation, vinyl surface noise and analogue resonance, creating slowly evolving environments between musique concrete, drone and minimalism from a 2023 session at Sail Loft Studios in Cardiff, UK.

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Dead Mallard: All Ducks Go To Hell
(Love Earth Music)

Using microphone, tractor, shovel and tape, Henry and Ken's Dead Mallard project turns rural machinery and found objects into raw electroacoustic noise on a winter 2026 recording from Pennsylvania, extending the absurdist farm-equipment experimentation of their self-titled debut through mechanical drone, object percussion, environmental resonance and tape manipulation.

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Recent Top Sellers

Composed & Contemporary

Tilbury, John: At Home [4 CDs]
(Another Timbre)

Spanning home recordings from 2018 to 2026 with selected archival material, this four-CD set closes John Tilbury's recording career through piano, clavichord, organ and voice, joined by Keith Rowe, Klaus Filip and six pianists in music ranging from Elizabethan songbooks and contemporary compositions to quiet improvisation and reflection.

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Jazz & Improvisation

Mela, Francisco feat. Matthew Shipp / William Parker: Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 1
(577 Records)

A member of pianist McCoy Tyner's Trio and Joe Lavano's Quartet, New York drummer Francisco Mela's own career as a leader is heard in this energetic trio album with two of NY's finest--pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist William Parker--recording in the studio in Brooklyn in 2020 for two extended and powerful collective improvisations and a brief "Dark Light".

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Michaeli, Milton / Asaf Shchori / Hamid Drake: Universal Butterfly
(577 Records)

Bridging generations of creative music, pianist Milton Michaeli, double bassist Asaf Shchori, and drummer Hamid Drake form a vividly responsive trio, blending original compositions and improvisation into music shaped by jazz and Latin traditions, deep grooves, bowed textures, lyrical bass movement, spiritual rhythm, and inspirations from Sun Ra and Ras Michael.

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Squidco Pick

Davis, Miles 3rd Quintet: Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe [2 CDs + 2 POSTCARDS]
(ALAY)

Documenting Miles Davis' 1969 "lost" third quintet live in Berlin, Stockholm and Rotterdam with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, this 2-CD set captures the post-In a Silent Way ensemble reshaping material headed toward Bitches Brew, balancing lyricism and abstraction through open forms, electric-piano clusters, volatile rhythmic invention and Davis' fiercely exploratory trumpet.

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Squidco Pick

Grimes, Henry / Marzette Watts (w/ Robinson / Lancaster / Sharrock / Thornton / Berger / Moses &c): The Call
(ALAY)

Reissuing Henry Grimes' concise, darkly lyrical 1965 trio album with clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Tom Price alongside Marzette Watts' turbulent 1966 octet session, this remastered edition contrasts free improvisation with a dense collective of Byard Lancaster, Clifford Thornton, Sonny Sharrock, Karl Berger, Juini Booth and J. C. Moses, Grimes the link between two vital expressions of 1960s freedom

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Squidco Pick

Williams, The Tony Emergency w/ John McLaughlin / Larry Young: Emergency!
(ALAY)

A restored edition of Tony Williams Lifetime's incendiary 1969 trio debut with John McLaughlin on guitar and Larry Young on organ, documenting one of jazz-rock fusion's earliest and most audacious statements, where Williams' radical rhythmic designs, Young's dense harmonic force, and McLaughlin's searing electric vocabulary collide in urgent, psychedelic, genre-defying improvisation.

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Squidco Pick

Verona Sextet (Armaroli / Buck / Gemmo / Mayas / Piccolo / Sharp): Leap And Bounds
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

The Verona Sextet develops fluid stream-of-consciousness improvised music of shifting textures, fractured rhythms, resonant percussion and electroacoustic detail, merging Sergio Armaroli's vibraphone, Tony Buck's drums, Francesca Gemmo and Magda Mayas on piano and prepared piano, Steve Piccolo's electronics and voice, and Elliott Sharp on guitar and soprano saxophone.

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Squidco Pick

B:A:N:S BAND (Sophie Agnel / John Butcher / Pascal Niggenkemper / Stale Liavik Solberg): Foam & Mesh
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

The debut recording from B:A:N:S Band brings Sophie Agnel's radically extended piano together with John Butcher's exploratory saxophones, Pascal Niggenkemper's highly physical double bass and Ståle Liavik Solberg's responsive percussion in two long-form collective improvisations of texture, resonance, density and silence, captured live at Austria's 2024 Artacts Festival.

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Gratkowski, Frank / Sebi Tramontana / Steve Beresford: Almost This
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

Frank Gratkowski's reeds, Sebi Tramontana's trombone and Steve Beresford's piano meet in freely improvised music built on decades of individual experience and mutual trust, moving between playful exchange, dissonance, lyricism and near-organization in a Köln studio session that reveals three instantly recognizable voices continually reshaping their collective language.

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Squidco Pick

Morris, Joe / Rob Brown / Anna Webber / Matthew Rousseaux: Counter Spectacle
(Fundacja Sluchaj!)

Joe Morris leads alto saxophonist Rob Brown, tenor saxophonist/flutist Anna Webber and drummer Matthew Rousseau in a quartet balancing composed structure with spontaneous free improvisation, recorded live at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, where Morris's idea of a "continuous beginning" drives music shaped by collective interaction, change, freedom, hope and possibility.

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Squidco Pick

Fujii, Satoko Orchestra Kobe: After the Storm
(Libra)

Satoko Fujii conducts her 14-piece Orchestra Kobe through a four-part work composed during the pandemic as an optimistic vision of shared humanity, joining layered reeds and brass with Takumi Seino's volatile guitar, Keishiro Saito's bass and dual drummers Yoshikazu Isaki and Hiromasa Sadaoka in a sweeping progression from stately melody and intimate subgroups to dissonant mass, fiery improvisation and a jubilant final theme.

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Squidco Pick

AMM (Prevost / Rowe / Tilbury): Phlegm
(Matchless)

A late-period live recording from AMM — Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, and John Tilbury — capturing their refined electroacoustic free improv language of near-silence, where percussion, electronics, and piano dissolve into a shared sonic field shaped by extreme restraint, microscopic detail, and a collective focus on texture, duration, and deep listening.

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Squidco Pick

Golding / Brice / Prevost: High Laver Levitations Vol 4: Sound-Out - jazz is dead, long live jazz
(Matchless)

Binker Golding, Olie Brice and Eddie Prévost reduce their earlier Secret Handshake with Danger collaboration to an elemental saxophone, bass and drums trio, bringing contemporary London jazz into Prévost's High Laver Levitations series through vigorous free improvisation where pulse, melody, resonance and abstraction continually test and renew the boundaries of jazz.

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Squidco Pick

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright): Play Monk [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)

After six albums reimagining Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal and Seymour Wright turn their transformative [Ahmed] project toward Thelonious Monk, atomising his compositions across two CDs into volatile, time-bending forms where piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone fracture and reassemble melody, rhythm and space through free jazz intensity, pulse and radical collective invention.

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Squidco Pick

Angles 4 (Kuchen / Haker-Flaten / Stahl / Nordeson): Angles 4 [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Martin Küchen reunites the Håker Flaten/Nordeson core of Angles 3 with longtime Angles 6/8/9 vibraphonist Mattias Ståhl, revisiting older compositions in a lean quartet setting where volatile bass-and-drum momentum meets metallic resonance around Küchen's stark saxophone themes, distilling the larger ensemble's power into a clearer, more spacious and sharply focused form.

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Squidco Pick

Glass Triangle (Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer): 3 X 1 [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen and Ryan Sawyer return for Glass Triangle's third album, expanding the electric harp, alto saxophone and percussion language of their earlier releases with voice, preparations and bells, while distilling their volatile free improvisation into shorter, sharply focused pieces balancing texture, space, momentum and spontaneous collective change.

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The Squid Note Records Catalog

Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith — Duologue 6: Core of Existence
Searching tenor saxophone and commanding double bass in an intensely focused, freely improvised dialogue.

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Remergency — Wave Benders
Avant-rock intensity meets free-jazz interplay in a dynamic trio setting.

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Daniel Levin — At Dropa House
Solo cello exploring extended techniques, theatrical gesture and resonant physicality.

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Joel Futterman — Reflective
Nineteen concise vignettes of sustain, staccato and shifting harmonic mirrors.

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Joel Futterman — Absorb
Solo piano shaped through deep-flowing narrative arcs and resonant detail.

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Barry Chabala and Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost

Barry Chabala & Clara Byom — Bella's Ghost
Acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects in a raw yet lyrical free improvisation duo.

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Coming to Squid Note Records in October:
Duologues 7: Distillation
A new duo album from Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!

Tom Challenger & Evan Parker: May Spring Last a Lifetime (False Walls)

Louis Armstrong: Reference: Louis Armstrong Hot Five & Hot Seven At 100 (ALAY)

John Tilbury: At Home [4 CD BOX] (Another Timbre)

LDL (Leimgruber/Demierre/Lehn): The Eerie Glow Of Jellyfish (Relative Pitch)

Magda Mayas' Filamental: Murmur (Relative Pitch)

Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres / Schlippenbach / Kellers: Nickelsdorf (Creative Sources)

Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer: Glass Triangle (Relative Pitch)

Gerry Hemingway / Izumi Kimura / Frank Gratkowski / Christian Weber: Live at Bau 4 (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Christoph Gallio: XOXO, Birds & Dogs (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd)

Ryoji Ikeda: Supercodex (Raster-Norton)

Motif with Axel Dorner: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)

Mary Halvorson / Hubert Bergmann: MixTour (Mudoks Records)

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.

Sofia Borges / Rieko Okuda / Peter Van Huffel: Lagrangian Points (4DaRecord)		Le Vice Anglais: allons-y (4DaRecord)
David Moss: Full House (Remastered) (Yatak Records)	My Face Is Dancing (Federico Ughi / Alberto Ughi / Martino Ughi / Benjamin Ughi): My Face Is Dancing [VINYL] (Positive Elevation / 577 Records)	Orchestre National De Jazz: With Carla [2 CDs] (ONJ Records)

Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2003. In 2010, we moved to Wilmington, NC, providing regional and visiting customers access to our catalog of over 9,000 items, including hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items not listed on our website. We're open for visits by appointment during weekday afternoons, so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region, please email us to set up a time — we'd love to play some music for you!

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