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SQUIDCO Email Update July 15, 2022

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July 15, 2022

"Seeing the bigger picture
Opens your eyes to what is the truth."
—Wadada Leo Smith


   Creative Artists

• Angles
• Sergio Armaroli/Steve Piccolo/Elliott Sharp
• Ab Baars/Kaja Draksler/Terrie Exx
• Michel Banabila
• Banks/Ison/Canha/Taylor
• Raymond Byron
• Jean D.L./Rutger Zuydervelt
• Joel Futterman/Chad Fowler
• Larsson Hiroui Andreas
• Imaginary String Quintet
   (Phipp Wachsmann/Leahy/Gustralla/Taylor/Hope-Jones)
• Jones Jones
   (featuring Ochs/Tarasov/Dresser)
• Ingrid Laubrock/Andy Milne
• Phill Niblock
• RedGreenBlue
   (Giallorenzo/Kirchen/Packard/LaMar- Gay)
• RGG featuring Grzywacz/Majewski/Strycharski
• Secret People (Moorgan/Carlson/Gentile)
• Wadada Smith Leo
• Federico Ughi/Daniel Carter
• WeFreeStrings (Burnham/Laster/Waterman/Filiano)
• Yamamoto/Fowler/Parker/Hirsh
• Felipe Zenicola/Jose Lencastre/Joao Valinho
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

577 Records
Astral Spirits
Clean Feed
ESP
FMR
Inexhaustible Editions
Intakt

     
Leo Records
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Mahakala Music
Out Of Your Head Records
Tapu Records
thanatosis produktion
Touch
Tum
    





   Jazz & Improvisation

Angles: A Muted Reality
(Clean Feed)

The chameleonic configuration of Angles is here an octet, in a powerfully building and passionate set of three recordings performed by Martin Kuchen (alto sax), Magnus Broo & Goran Kajfes (trumpets), Mats Aleklint (trombone), Mattias Stahl (vibraphone), Alexander Zethson (piano & synth), Konrad Agnas (drums) and Johan Berthling (double bass); exemplary.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Armaroli, Sergio / Steve Piccolo / Elliott Sharp: What Went Wrong
(Leo Records)

The fifth album on Leo Records for vibraphonist Sergio Armaroli, and his second with NY guitarist, saxophonist & electronic artist Elliott Sharp and bassist Steve Piccolo, using lyrical interpretations of jazz standards as a jumping off point for experimental and unusual approaches to improvisation, a unique balancing point in a fascinating collection.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Baars, Ab / Kaja Draksler / Terrie Exx: When The Hills Run Across The Fields - Live In Nickelsdorf
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Drawing on previous collaborations between Amsterdam pianist Kaja Draksler and wind player Ab Baars, here on tenor sax, clarinet & shakuhachi, and two duo albums between Baars and guitarist Terrie Ex, this meeting as a trio took place at the 2018 Konfrontationen Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria for a diverse journey from uniquely introspective to wildly energetic conversation.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Banks / Ison / Canha / Taylor : Luminos 2
(FMR)

The 2nd release from the UK collective quartet of Jose Canha on double bass, Trevor Taylor on drums, percussion, Dan Banks on piano and Josh Ison on saxophone, exploring the intersection between freely improvised music and free-jazz, drawing out energetic and subtle moments in lyrical interactions through energetic and focused momentum with a full range of character.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Futterman, Joel / Chad Fowler: Timeless Moments
(Mahakala Music)

The first duo collaboration between pianist Joel Futterman and saxophonist Chad Fowler, performing on stritch--a straight alto saxophone--in a nine-part studio journey drawing on a history of jazz styles, from blues to free, in lyrical and actively introspective dialogs, building to an intense conclusion of rapidly cathartic interaction and a final, pensive release.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Imaginary String Quintet (Philipp Wachsmann / David Leahy / Bruno Gustralla / Trevor Taylor / Catherine Hope Jones): Wood: Paper, Paint, Sound
(FMR)

Free string improvisations from Philipp Wachsmann on violin, David Leahy on double bass and Bruno Gustralla on cello, creating subtle and spacious intersections of strings that focus on unusual techniques, melodic fragments spliced over resounding bowing, plucking and instrument errata, while percussionist Trevor Taylor adds sparse punctuation; inscrutably authoritative improv.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Jones Jones (feat. Larry Ochs / Vladimir Tarasov / Mark Dresser): Just Justice
(ESP)

The eccentrically named group "Jones Jones" is the trio of Lithuanian drummer Vladimir Tarasov, NY/West Coast bassist Mark Dresser and Rova Saxophone Quartet saxophonist Larry Ochs, since 2008 expressing humor and vexation at the world in sometimes meditative and sometimes explosive collective free improvisation, here in their 4th outstanding album and their 1st in the studio.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Laubrock, Ingrid / Andy Milne: Fragile
(Intakt)

Following her duo albums on Intakt with pianists Aki Takase and Kris Davis, New York saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock collaborates with pianist Andy Milne (Dapp Theory, M-Base Collective) for ten beautifully empathetic, delicate and sophisticated dialogs, Laubrock performing on tenor & soprano saxophones and Milne at times using preparations.
   
     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
RedGreenBlue (Paul Giallorenzo / Charlie Kirchen / Ryan Packard / Ben LaMar Gay): The End and The Beginning [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)

After a 4-week residency in 2018 at The Burlington in Chicago, the quartet of Paul Giallorenzo (keys & electronics), Charlie Kirchen (bass), Ryan Packard (drums, electronics) and Ben LaMar Gay (cornet & electronics) workshopped their exploratory approach to free electric improv for 6 months before recording this mesmerizing version live at Chicago's Hungry Brain.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
RGG feat. Marta Grzywacz / Artur Majewski / Dominik Strycharski: October Suite
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

The Polish piano trio RGG of Lukasz Ojdana on piano, Maciej Garbowski on bass and Krzysztof Gradziuk on drums & percussion are joined by vocalists Marta Grzywacz, trumpet player Artur Majewski and block flutes virtuoso Dominic Strycharski to close out the 2020, 15th Ad Libitum Festival in Warsaw Poland, presenting seven improvisations in a beautifully informed journey.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Secret People (Moorgan / Carlson / Gentile): Secret People
(Out Of Your Head Records)

A determined set of electric jazz from the Brooklyn, NYC trio of Nathaniel Morgan (Buckminster) on alto saxophone, Dustin Carlson on guitar & bass and Kate Gentile on drums & vibraphone, bringing driving rock and experimental music approaches to their improvisations, a uniquely voice and tenacious trio of unorthodox improvisers.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $11.95      Listen          

 
Smith, Wadada Leo: The Emerald Duets [5 CD BOX SET]
(Tum)

Part of his 80th Anniversary celebration and subtitled "The Art Of The Trumpeter And Drummers", this 5-CD box set brings legendary improviser Wadada Leo Smith together with four long-time collaborators and masterful drummers--Andrew Cyrille, Jack DeJohnette, Pheeroan akLaff and Han Bennink--with Smith performing on both piano and trumpet.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $79.95      Listen          

 
Ughi, Federico / Daniel Carter: Astonishment
(577 Records)

Recently discovered last copies of this album, presenting the very first time that Federico Ughi and Daniel Carter played together, recorded in Queens, NY around 2001, the drummer also performing on live sampling and voice, and the multi-instrumentalist Carter on saxophones, trumpet, flute and clarinet; an essential element in their now long history of collaboration.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
WeFreeStrings (Burnham / Laster / Waterman / Filiano): Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage
(ESP)

Formed in 2011, this 2nd album from WeFreeStrings led by violist and composer Meland Dyer is at its core the trio of Dyer, violinist Gwen Laster and bassist Ken Filiano, expanded on two of the four pieces with cellist Alex Waterman, violinist Charles Burnham and drummer Michael Wimberly, in an impressive collection of exquisite string interactions influenced by social issues.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Yamamoto, Eri / Chad Fowler / William Parker / Steve Hirsh: Sparks [2 CDs]
(Mahakala Music)

Four of New York's most versed free jazz players--Eri Yamamoto on piano, Chad Fowler on stritch & Saxello, William Parker on bass and Steve Hirsh on drums--aim for a form of Spontaneous Folk Music through post-bop/free jazz idioms, recording in the studio for naturally lyrical music that builds from a beautiful glimmer to a passionate fire of masterful interaction.
 
Squidco Pick
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Zenicola, Felipe / Jose Lencastre / Joao Valinho: MAGMA
(FMR)

Determined and ardent playing like the powerful creep of lava flow as the Brazilian & Portuguese trio of Felipe Zenicola (Chinese Cookie Poets, Paal Nilssen-Love) on bass, Jose Lencastre (Lencastre Nau Quartet) on saxophones and João Valinho (Creative Sources) on drums evolve their tumultuously articulate journey through a molten world of smoldering free jazz.
   
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   Experimental/Electronic

Banabila, Michel: Movements (music for dance) [VINYL 2 LPs + DOWNLOAD]
(Tapu Records)

2nd Offering: Electroacoustic composer Michel Banabila compiles his dynamic works for dance & movement in this beautifully pressed limited double LP, presenting two 2019 works--'Dragonfly II' for "A Trace of Inevitability" (Yin Yue - Pennsylvania Ballet), and "Illicit Acquirement" for "Enough" (Patrick O"Brien - CUNY Dance Initiative)--and six prior pieces featuring his work with Conny Janssen Danst & Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
D.L., Jean / Rutger Zuydervelt: Scramblings
(Inexhaustible Editions)

Using electric & acoustic guitars and autoharp over spacious electronics and field recordings, Belgium musician & video artist Jean De Lacoste and Rotterdamn sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, create broad pallets of ringing sounds over which acoustic instruments intone, with cellist Fransesco Guerri joining on one of 8 gently unfolding "Scramblings".
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Hiroui, Larsson Andreas: Seduced By (A) Last Year
(thanatosis produktion)

Seeking to combine the interdisciplinary practices of Swedish percussionist, artist and philosopher Larsson Andreas Hiroui and his ensemble of Johanna Arve and Johan Jutterstrom into a single method, this extended work compiles their collective history into digital archives that are presented in a layered set of spoken observations and instrumental improvisations.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Byron, Raymond: Bond Wire Cur [VINYL]
(ESP)

New Weird American Movement/Freak Folk singer/songwriter Raymond Byron Magic Raposa (Castanets, Raymond Byron and the White Freighter) writes in both an Americana style, and also in idiosyncratic, imaginative and unusual terms, using strong and unlikely images around ambiguous subjects that make his songs curiously repeatable, here in 20 succinct songs.
   
     Buy      $23.95          

 




   Compositional

Niblock, Phill: Working Touch [USB CARD]
(Touch)

A massive archive of drone & ambient composer Phill Niblock's films and music, from recordings made between 2013 and 2016 in festivals and studios around the world, orchestrated with primarily acoustic instruments using rich and closely related harmonics, paired with moving images of people from around the world engaged in work; hypnotic and engrossing.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $36.95      Listen          

 
Smith, Wadada Leo: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 [7-CD BOXSET]
(Tum)

Since 1965 Wadada Leo Smith has developed string quartets influenced by a diverse set of composers including Ornette Coleman, Claude Debussy, Howlin' Wolf, Scott Joplin, Olly Wilson, &c. heard here in 12 Quartets from 3 major periods of his work, compositions exploring the African-American experience, with scores that leave room for interpretation and expression from his players.
 
Squidco Pick
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Squidco Autumn Hat Sale

This weekend ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd has authorized us to reduce the price of 35 albums in their 1000 and 1100 series to just $7.95, a $10 savings on each, if the customer buys 5 or more CDs from the sale. These are the lowest price at which we've ever listed these albums!

That's 35 albums at an exceptional price, giving our customers a chance to fill in their collection of these important and extraordinary albums of modern creative improvisation, composition, and the merging of both. But hurry, this sale ends Thursday, July 21st!


Click Here to shop the Summer Hat Sale


In 2019 Switzerland's Hat Hut label initiated their latest line, ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd, releasing new albums of improvisation and contemporary compositional music, and mixtures of the same.

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 Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last. Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.





 

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


 Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear


Quatuor Bozzini: Tom Johnson: Combinations (Collection QB)
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Eventless Plot: Anisixia (Edition Wandelweiser)
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Jean-Luc Guionnet / Lunar Error: Plafond De Verre (BeCoq)
Jean-Luc Guionnet / Lunar Error: Plafond De Verre (BeCoq)


 




 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.


 


AAVD Trio (Alexander Adams / Danny Andrade / Daniel Van Duerm):
Anti Glow
(Amalgam)

Abhorrent Expanse (Polipnick / Fratzke / Courage / Glenn):
Gateways To Resplendence
(Amalgam)

Ali / Foster / Lopez / Wallace:
The Inflatable Leviathan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)


Axioms:
Discourse
(Evil Clown)

Jim Baker / Brandon Lopez / Bill Harris:
Dura
(Amalgam)

Nat Baldwin:
Autonomia II: Recombinations [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLAOD]
(Traced Objects)


Nat Baldwin :
The Red Barn [CASSETEE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)

Maya Bennardo / Erik Blennow Calaly / Kristofer Svensson:
Two Skies
(thanatosis produktion)

Alan Bjorklund's Amygdala:
History Lesson
(577 Records)


Samuel Blaser / Consort In Motion:
A Mirror To Machaut
(Songlines)

Lucio Capece / Katie Porter:
Phase To Phase
(Ftarri)

Daniel Carter / Jim Clouse:
Playing Retention
(Mahakala Music)


Richard Comte:
Derive de la base et du sommet
(nunc.)

Richard Comte:
Endless Tapes [CASSETTE]
(nunc.)

Richard Comte:
Travel Patterns [EP]
(nunc.)


Richard Comte / Julien Pontvianne:
Sunken Music
(nunc.)

Richard Comte / Sebastien Lespinasse:
Traverser Noir
(nunc.)

Cordoba (Brianna Tong / Eric Novak / Cam Cunningham / Zach Bain-Selbo / Khalyle Hagood / Zach Upton-Davis):
Specter
(Amalgam)


Gareth Davis / Machinefabriek:
Standards (of Sorts)
(Sublime Retreat)

Fade In (Calcagno / Barcelona / Luparia):
Live Fast, Die A Legend
(Clean Feed)

Flak (w / Alves / Rebelo / Rodrigues / Lopes):
Magpie Live
(Shhpuma)


Chad Fowler / WC Anderson:
Lacrimosa
(Mahakala Music)

Miha Gantar:
Introducing [5 CD Box]
(Clean Feed)

Bill Harris:
Blinking Glue
(Amalgam)


Bill Harris:
ONOMAT
(Amalgam)

Hippie Diktat:
Gran Sasso
(nunc.)

Hippie Diktat:
Gran Sasso [VINYL]
(nunc.)


Kelley Hurt / Chad Fowler / Christopher Parker / Bernard Santacruz / Anders Griffen:
Nothing But Love, the Music of Frank Lowe
(Mahakala Music)

Hydra Ensemble (Almeida / Hitz / Gregov / Zuydervelt):
Vistas
(A New Wave of Jazz)

Edward Jordan 'Kidd' / Joel Futterman / William Parker / Hamid Drake:
A Tribute to Alvin Fielder (Live at Vision Festival XXIV)
(Mahakala Music)


Amirtha Kidambi / Luke Stewart:
Zenith/Nadir [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)

LAMIEE . / Drolo Ensemble:
The Deafening Moment Of The Whistle After The Noise
(Shhpuma)

Landaeus Trio (Nilsson / Landaeus / Aman):
A Crisis Of Perception
(Clean Feed)


Travis Laplante :
Wild Tapestry
(Out Of Your Head Records)

Leap Of Faith:
Coherence Disturbed
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
Revealing The Essence
(Evil Clown)


Yaroslav Likhachev Quartet:
Occasional Sketches
(Clean Feed)

Lisbeth Quartett (Greve / Schmiedel / Muellbauer / Baumgartner):
Release
(Intakt)

Machinefabriek w/ Anne Bakker:
Wisps
(Not On Label (Machinefabriek Self-released) ‎)


Wills McKenna / Norman W. Long / Ishmael Ali / Bill Harris:
Anemoi [2 CDs]
(Amalgam)

Metal Chaos Ensemble:
Inferno
(Evil Clown)

Allen Moore / Ishmael Ali / Bill Harris:
Hearsay
(Amalgam)


Christopher Parker / Kelley Hurt:
No Tears Suite
(Mahakala Music)

Physique (Sam Scranton / Neil Quigley):
Curve Tote
(Amalgam)

Quatuor Umlaut (Karl Naegelen / Morton Feldman):
Calques
(Umlaut Records)


Roue Libre:
Titanomakhia EP
(nunc.)

David Schnug Trio:
David Schnug Trio
(577 Records)

Craig Shepard:
Broken Silence
(Music For Contemplation, Inc.)


Craig Shepard:
Trumpet City [2 CDs]
(Inexhaustible Editions)

Juhani Silvola:
Wolf Hour Roundelay
(Shhpuma)

Gunter Sommer Baby / The Lucaciu 3:
Karawane
(Intakt)


Pedro Sousa Alves (w/ Simoes / Silva / Abras / Ferrandini):
Ma Estrela
(Shhpuma)

Space Quartet (Toral / Antunes / Morao / Torres):
Freedom of Tomorrow
(Clean Feed)

Success Pistols (Finer / Bevins / Davidovici / Hong):
First Shot
(Amalgam)


Tarbaby feat. Oliver Lake:
Dance Of The Evil Toys
(Clean Feed)

Ziv Taubenfeld's Full Sun:
Out Of The Beast Came Honey
(Clean Feed)

Stefan Thut:
Among
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Brianna Tong / Johanna Brock / Andrew Scott Young / Ishmael Ali:
Akjai
(Amalgam)

Turbulence:
Roughness Of Surfaces
(Evil Clown)

Federico Ughi:
The Space Within
(Slam Productions)


Fabrice Villard / Pierre-Stephane Meuge:
Musique Logique
(nunc.)

Rutger Zuydervelt / Bruno Duplant:
Synchronicite
(Sublime Retreat)


 Squidco Workspace

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Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2003. In 2010 we moved to Wilmington, NC, giving regional and visiting customers access to our catalog of more than 7,000 items, which includes hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items not listed on our website. We're open for you to visit by appointment during weekday afternoons, so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region please email us to set up a time to stop by and say hello, we'd love to play some music for you!

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