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October 2, 2026

"[Music] is the vibration of the air
And all the poetic, social, cultural and political dimensions
That can result from the very act of listening."
— Antoine Chessex

 Essential Artists

• Julia Bilat
• Antoine Chessex/Dave Phillips
• Dinosaurs With Horns (Rick Potts/Joseph Hammer)
• Amanda Feery
• Joel Futterman/Ike Levin
• Paul Lytton/Eddie Prevost/Nate Wooley/Seymour Wright
• Jon Madof Trio (w/ Yoshie Fruchter/Nate Rappaport)
• Marteau Rouge/Daunik Lazro
• Ikue Mori
• Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One
• Lance Olsen Austin/Pierre Gerard
• Andrew Poppy
• Primitive Structures
• Marie Sarri Rose/Bruno Duplant
• Tenderlonious

 Essential Labels

22A
CLM
False Walls
Fataka
Fou Records

 Ftarri
Krim Kram
Relative Pitch
Tzadik

 New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation
Squidco Pick
 Perelman, Ivo / Matthew Shipp: Duologues 7: Distillation [5x5 ALBUM FACSIMILE WITH DOWNLOAD]
(Squid Note Records)

Marking three decades of collaboration, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp distill their remarkably intuitive improvisational language across two Park West Studios sessions recorded weeks apart, their spontaneous exchanges moving through melody, silence, density, rhythmic momentum and abrupt shifts of register with the immediacy of a conversation shaped by years of shared musical experience.
Buy $15Listen
Bilat, Julia: Selva Oscura
(Relative Pitch)

Polish cellist Julia Biłat presents ten live solo improvisations for acoustic cello, with voice on one track, using harmonics, rough bow textures, drones, percussion and silence in an intensely physical language shaped by years of intuitive exploration and Butoh practice, each piece named for a beetle species and tracing ideas of hidden space, transformation and metamorphosis.
Buy $13.95Listen
Futterman, Joel / Ike Levin: Liberation
(CLM)

Pianist Joel Futterman and tenor saxophonist Ike Levin mark their 16th recording collaboration in 25 years with three spontaneously created works balancing intensity and reflection, density and space, drawing on their long-developed improvisational rapport to move fluidly through free jazz, lyrical exchange, rhythmic momentum and layered interaction.
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Squidco Pick
 Lytton, Paul / Eddie Prevost / Nate Wooley / Seymour Wright : Parallels & Diagonals
(Fataka)

Recorded live at Cafe Oto, this first-time quartet of percussionists Paul Lytton and Eddie Prevost, trumpeter Nate Wooley and saxophonist Seymour Wright brings together overlapping histories of long-standing, renewed and entirely new collaborations, using those contrasting degrees of familiarity to shape a freely improvised performance of shifting alliances, layered interaction and distinct individual voices.
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Madof, Jon Trio (w/ Yoshie Fruchter / Nate Rappaport): Netzach
(Tzadik)

Guitarist Jon Madof leads bassist Yoshie Fruchter and drummer Nate Rappaport, with percussionist Moshe Sobol, in a powerful trio blending Jewish melodic traditions, surf guitar, jazz improvisation, post-rock, punk and metal, balancing lyrical passages, heavy riffs and open improvisation in a compact extension of Madof's work with Rashanim and Zion80.

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Squidco Pick
 Marteau Rouge / Daunik Lazro : Marteau Rouge
(Fou Records)

Reuniting after a nine-year hiatus, Marteau Rouge — Jean-Francois Pauvros, Jean-Marc Foussat and Makoto Sato — joins longtime associate Daunik Lazro on tenor saxophone for a live Montreuil performance of seven compact improvisations, merging distorted guitar, Synthi AKS electronics, percussion, voices and toys with Lazro's incisive tenor in a volatile mix of free jazz, noise and free rock.
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Squidco Pick
 Mori, Ikue: Enchanted and Delighted [CD + DVD]
(Tzadik)

NYC electronic composer and improviser Ikue Mori gathers music created from 2016-2025 into an imaginative CD/DVD work pairing her intricate electronic worlds with handmade dolls, puppets, animation and miniature sets, joined on pieces by Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura, Koichi Makigami, and Zeena Parkins in eight pieces moving through fantasy, science fiction, Japanese ghost imagery and detailed electroacoustic sound.
Buy $32.95Listen
Nebbia's, Camila The Hanged One: Limbo
(Relative Pitch)

Argentine tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia leads The Hanged One with Julia Biłat on cello, Arne Braun on guitar, Andres Marino on electronics, Vinicius Cajado on double bass and Lukas Akintaya on drums, navigating nine tightly composed yet volatile works where angular ensemble writing, free improvisation, electronics and rock-weighted rhythms continually fracture, regroup and transform.
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Tenderlonious : Africa / Brass Live
(22A)

Tenderlonious reimagines John Coltrane's Africa/Brass with pianist On-Ly, bassist Horatio Luna and drummer Tim Carnegie, reducing the original large ensemble to a searching quartet whose extended readings of Africa, Greensleeves and Blues Minor transform Coltrane's melodies and modal foundations through fiery improvisation, rhythmic elasticity and spacious collective interplay.
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Experimental/Electronic
Dinosaurs With Horns (Rick Potts / Joseph Hammer): Dinosaurs With Horns
(Krim Kram)

Restoring Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer's 1983 Dinosaurs With Horns cassette for its first CD release, Krim Kram presents fourteen wonderfully dislocated home recordings where Optigan loops, reel-to-reel manipulation, Casios, toy electronics, musical saw and thrift-store sound fragments collide in a woozy LAFMS-bred mixture of musique concrète, primitive sampling, mutant exotica and spontaneous lo-fi invention.
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Feery, Amanda : NEST
(Krim Kram)

Composer Amanda Feery, with guitarist/electronic musician Declan Synnott, builds a 43-minute electroacoustic "Mass for the Tenant" from organ recordings made at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork, choral recordings by 4 in a Bar, electronics, tin whistle and guitar, examining home as sanctuary and contested space through themes of displacement, occupation and belonging.
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Olsen, Lance Austin / Pierre Gerard: Mind Shadows
(Ftarri)

Lance Austin Olsen and Pierre Gerard construct three extended variations from guitars, voices, MIDI organ, shruti box, field recordings, sho and amplified objects, shaping sparse electroacoustic environments where speech, sustained tones and tactile sounds drift through layered edits, including material from Olsen's *Shadow Worlds*, in a study of texture, memory and transformation.
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Primitive Structures : A Merchant's Nightmare
(Krim Kram)

Berlin improvisational trio Primitive Structures - David Roeder, Kashual Plastik founder Frans Aembient and Timu - shape nine spontaneous pieces from degraded electronics, improvisatory guitar, fractured rhythms and blurred melodic fragments, moving through post-industrial ambience, deconstructed jazz, psychedelia and oblique soundtrack-like spaces with a distinctly woozy, half-dreaming logic.

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Sarri, Marie Rose / Bruno Duplant: Deux Etudes
(Ftarri)

Italian sound artist Marie Rose Sarri and French composer Bruno Duplant shape two extended electroacoustic studies from analog and digital sources, field recordings and acoustic/electronic devices, building dense but fluid environments where layered textures, shifting resonances and circulating sound events create a lively, continuously transforming sense of space.
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Composed & Contemporary
Chessex, Antoine / Dave Phillips : Vrhaltnis
(Krim Kram)

Drawing on live and studio recordings made in Switzerland in 2005 and 2006 and rediscovered nearly two decades later, Antoine Chessex and Dave Phillips reshape archival material into two extended works of musique concrete, noise and dense electronics, threaded with spectral voices from the Swiss Silvesterchlausen tradition and transformed through layering, decomposition and temporal dislocation.
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Squidco Pick
 Poppy, Andrew: The Beating of Wings: 40th Anniversary Edition
(False Walls)

Marking 40 years since its 1985 ZTT release, Andrew Poppy's landmark The Beating of Wings returns newly remastered by Stephan Mathieu, presenting four prescient post-minimal works where Poppy's piano, keyboards, voice and sampler, Glyn Perrin's electric piano, orchestral winds, brass and strings, guitar, bass, Fairlight and drum machine merge acoustic composition with the studio as a compositional instrument.
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The Squid Note Records Catalog
Out Now!
Duologues 7: Distillation
A new duo album from Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!

Perelman Shipp Distillation


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.

Listen / Buy

Remergency: Wave Benders

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

Listen / Buy

Daniel Levin: At Dropa House

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman: Reflective

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman: Absorb

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

Listen / Buy

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.

Listen / Buy





The Squid's Ear

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



Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Duologues 7: Distillation (Squid Note Records)
Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Duologues 7: Distillation (Squid Note Records)

Ishmael Ali (Ishmael / Wilkerson / Wilkes / Baker / Tong / Harris): Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper (Amalgam Records)
Ishmael Ali (Ishmael / Wilkerson / Wilkes / Baker / Tong / Harris): Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper (Amalgam Records)

Marta Warelis (w/ LaMar Gay / Baars / Ng / Haker Flaten / Rosaly): Still Life with Lemons (Relative Pitch)
Marta Warelis (w/ LaMar Gay / Baars / Ng / Haker Flaten / Rosaly): Still Life with Lemons (Relative Pitch)

Maya Bennardo / Erik Blennow Calalv / Kristofer Svensson: For a Lemon Tree (Another Timbre)
Maya Bennardo / Erik Blennow Calalv / Kristofer Svensson: For a Lemon Tree (Another Timbre)

Charles K. Noyes: Blue All (zOaR)
Charles K. Noyes: Blue All (zOaR)

Marco Fusi / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Suite (Bead Records)
Marco Fusi / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Suite (Bead Records)

Dominic Lash / Mark Wastell: Polyvalent Creativity (Confront)
Dominic Lash / Mark Wastell: Polyvalent Creativity (Confront)

Amanda Irarrazabal: Imprimiendo (Relative Pitch)
Amanda Irarrazabal: Imprimiendo (Relative Pitch)

Sylvia Lim: Flare (Another Timbre)
Sylvia Lim: Flare (Another Timbre)

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

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

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



 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.





Sindre Bjerga:
Most Of The World Is Empty Space
(Krim Kram)

Creep Of Paris:
Virgin Brood [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Krim Kram)

Dai Koelakanth:
Don't Let Me Be A Burden
(Krim Kram)


Morgan Evans-Weiler / Carlo Costa:
Object, Monochord, Circle
(Ftarri)

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin:
Second Attempt
(Libra)

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya:
Korekara
(Libra)


Andrew Jarvis M. / Diurnal Burdens :
Precedes
(Krim Kram)

David Lacey:
The Root, The Interim
(Krim Kram)

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble:
Dumb Tangerine Dream
(Krim Kram)


Pierre Gerard / Bruno Duplant:
Support Surface
(Ftarri)

Michael Thieke / Beat Keller:
Last Breath's City Looks Kind Heart
(Ftarri)


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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