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UPDATE
January 18, 2024
"For me, being on stage is surviving."
—Michael Zerang
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Essential Artists
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• Adam Hopkins
• Beche ta motte (Falasie/Cote/Gaudet-Asselin)
• Olie Brice/Rachel Musson/Mark Sanders
• Delta Saxophone Quartet
• +DOG+
• Michel Doneda/Alexander Frangenheim
• ErikM/vrrrbitch
• Karl Evangelista (feat. Alex Hawkins/Tatsu Aoki/Michael Zerang)
• The Gate
• Evelyn Glennie/Szilard Mezei POLAR QUARTET
• Russ Johnson/Tim Daisy/Max Johnson
• Juice Machine
• Leap Of Faith
• Szilard Mezei Flute & Strings Trio
• Peter Orins (Orins/Pruvost/Dang/Pym)
• Playfield
• Pedro Sousa Alves/Rodrigo Pinheiro/Gabriel Ferrandini
• Anais Tuerlinckx/Jonas Gerigk/Burkhard Beins
• Kelsey Wilson
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Confront
Evil Clown
FMR
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Love Earth Music
Marthasville Fine Audio Recordings
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Out Of Your Head Records
Phonogram Unit
Tour de Bras
Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Tubapede
West Hill Records
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New Albums This Week
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Adam Hopkins: Crickets + Grounded [VINYL 180g]
(Out Of Your Head Records)
5th anniversary LP reissue of bassist Adam Hopkins' 2018 album, a great example of the Downtown / Brooklyn scene, using jazz as a jumping-off point to merge free playing, fusion, and rock into an enthusiastic and technically brilliant album of original compositions performed with the sextet of Anna Webber, Ed Rosenberg, & Josh Sinton on sax, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar, and Devin Gray on drums.
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Beche ta motte (Falasie / Cote / Gaudet-Asselin): Sont des Racines
(Tour de Bras)
The title referring to roots alongside the subtitled comment "agricultural improvisations" in this 2022 free improv recording from the Bêche ta motte (dig your mound) trio of Quebec luminaries Bernard Falaise on guitar, Michel F Cote on percussion & synths and Thomas Gaudet-Asselin on double & electric bass, in twelve succinct experimental improvisations of unusual rhythmic and sonic natures.
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Brice, Olie / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders: Immense Blue
(West Hill Records)
From the fertile London free improv scene comes this substantial concert recorded at the Vortex Jazz Club in 2022 by the trio of Olie Brice on double bass, Rachel Musson on tenor saxophone and Mark Sanders on drums, three highly compatible players from two generations of improvisers in three extended improvisations of energetic free jazz balanced by contemplative exploration.
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Delta Saxophone Quartet: Late Music
(FMR)
Marking their 40th anniversary with this 8th album, London's lyrically sophisticated Delta Saxophone Quartet in varying sax configurations of Christian Forshaw, Graeme Blevins, Howard McGill, Kathryn McGuiness, Andy Tweed, Tim Holmes and Chris Caldwell, reflect on their history in a diverse set of pieces including covers of Joy Division, David Bowie, The Durutti Column, &c.
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Doneda, Michel / Alexander Frangenheim: Mumaration
(FMR)
An alliterative title for the expressive interactions between French soprano and sopranino saxophonist Michel Doneda and German double bassist Alexander Frangenheim, heard recently with Roger Turner on NAIL in Ulrichsberg (Concepts of Doing), and here concentrated as a duo recording studio improvisations of remarkable technique and concentrative focus through six fascinating dialogs.
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Evangelista, Karl (feat. Alex Hawkins / Tatsu Aoki / Michael Zerang): What Else Is There?
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Meeting in the studio in Chicago, the quartet of Oakland guitarist Karl Evangelista, UK pianist Alexander Hawkins, midwestern bassist Tatsu Aoki and Chicago drummer Michael Zerang combine Evangelista's open-ended compositions with a series of dialogic free improvisations around the concepts of music and family, instrumentally answering the question posed by the album's title.
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Glennie, Evelyn / Szilard Mezei POLAR QUARTET: Capt's Look
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Originally working together in avant percussionist Evelyn Glennie's improvisation Core-tet Project, Serbian violist and composer Szilard Mezei comes together again with his quartet of Bogdan Rankovic on reeds, Ervin Malia on double bass and Ivan Burka on vibraphone to present this 2022 meticulous chamber improvisation concert at Gradska Koncertna Dvorana / City Concert Hall.
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Johnson, Russ / Tim Daisy / Max Johnson: Live at the Hungry Brain
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
A patiently evolving collective performance at Chicago's Hungry Brain from the trio of New Yorkers--trumpeter Russ Johnson and bassist Max Johnson--and Chicago drummer Tim Daisy, whose arsenal of percussive devices adds unexpected asides to the trio's confident free jazz explorations, Johnson adding lyrical lines as the band moves as one through two extended improvisations.
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Leap Of Faith: Geodetic Drift
(Evil Clown)
Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) of David Peck on clarinets, saxophones, double reeds & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, using a huge arsenal of instruments to improvise works featuring transformations across highly varied sonorities, joined here by trumpeters Bob Moores & John Fugarino, and percussionist Michael Knoblach.
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Leap Of Faith: The Origin Of Mass
(Evil Clown)
The second album of collective free improvisation from Leap of Faith expanded by Chinese musicians, from the core duo of multi-reedist David Peck and cellist Glynis Lomon, here with Chinese improviser, Boston-based Beijing guzheng player Jiaxin Wan, alongside trumpeter Bob Moores, for two exotic improvisations of patiently evolving global elements.
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Mezei, Szilard Flute & Strings Trio: To Whom It May Concern
(FMR)
Joining again after their 2016 Szilard Mezei Flute & String Trio album White Flower with the collaborative duo of Serbian guitarist Maja Radovanlija and flautist Svetlana Novakovic, violist Mezei brings an enchanting set of compositions with sophisticated arrangements, flowing melodic passages and tonal colors, particularly the title track in memory of his father.
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Orins, Peter (Orins / Pruvost / Dang / Pym): Dead Dead Gang
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)
A musical work composed by French drummer Peter Orins inspired by Alan Moore's 2016 novel Jerusalem crossing geographical and temporal space, recorded during a residency with the Muzzix collective at La Malterie in Lill and performed with Maryline Pruvost on voice & indian harmonium, Barbara Dang on piano, and Gordon Pym on electronics & amplified objects.
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Playfield: Magic Heart
(577 Records)
The 2nd studio album from Daniel Carter's collective Playfield, which started with outdoor performances to allow NYC's auditory ambience to infiltrate and orchestrate their sound; here the octet ensemble brings in field recordings of diverse outdoor elements including cicadas, ice-cream trucks, &c., along with electronic effects to expand their take on free-flowing electric jazz.
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Sousa, Pedro Alves / Rodrigo Pinheiro / Gabriel Ferrandini : Cloud At Rest
(Phonogram Unit)
An exemplary album of thoughtful free improv from the trio of tenor saxophonist Pedro Alves Sousa with 2/3's of Red Trio--pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini--recorded after a five day residency at the Goethe-Institut Lisbon, the band finding new approaches to playing to distance themselves from the typically fast & energetic music they are often associated with.
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Tuerlinckx, Anais / Jonas Gerigk / Burkhard Beins: Au Crepuscle
(Confront)
Double bassist Jonas Gerigk invited two Berlin-based musicians--pianist Anaïs Tuerlinckx and percussionist Burkhard Beins--for a week of musical experiments and exploration at the venue Saxstall in Pohrsdorf/Tharandt, Germany, culminating in a well-recieved live performance; these two recordings are the result of their week of sonic investigation and improvisations.
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Experimental/Electronic
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+DOG+: The Family Music Book Vol. 4 [2 CDs]
(Love Earth Music)
Two CDs presenting a series of recordings captured live in venues throughout northeast America between 2021 and 2023, led by +DOG+ sound artist Steve Davis with Bobby Almon, Chuck Foster, Edward Giles, Jack Szymczak, LOB, Mackenzie Kourie, Ron Karlin, at venues and festivals including Sonorium at SATV, Buddyfest, Milwaukee's Jazz Gallery Center, &c. &c.
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ErikM / vrrrbitch : L'Horizon des Evenements
(Tour de Bras)
Like aberrant robots chattering, French sound artist ErikM and Czech multi-instrumentalist Petr Vrba aka vrrrbitch developed these compositions to function like vocal conversations of extreme discourse, set over effected synthetics, disruptions, dark rhythmic pulses and inexplicable sonic digressions, in seven powerfully compulsive quasi-conversations.
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Gate, The: Scum [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tubapede)
A heavy and wild ride in the 9th album from New York's The Gate of composer and tuba player Dan Peck, bass player Tom Blancarte and percussionist Brian Osborne, concise pieces of heavy melodic elements, dark riffs and an ominous attitude, intersecting with plundered asides and anxious pauses, a strong addition to their discography and an engrossing collection of deep disturbance.
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Juice Machine: Broken And Dilapidated
(Love Earth Music)
An apt description for the layers of sonic decay and deteriorated sounds, loops and errata that underpin each of the five tracks on this elusively restrained noise album, Juice Machine, aka Roger H. Smith (Chefkirk) and Heather Chessman, use mangled field recordings and concrete elements of blurred looping structures and aberrant interjection, each unique work a fascinating curiosity.
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Wilson, Kelsey: A Workmanlike Approach [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Marthasville Fine Audio Recordings)
Two distinctive works of sounds and noise from Atlanta sound artist and drummer Kelsey Wilson composing extended works using field recordings collected between 2020-2022, volume/feedback and synthesizers; first a howling and heavy journey in "Bootstrap Story"; then a rich and ringing birthday party for Nick Cave that ends with haunting bells and running water.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear
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Max Eastley / Terry Day / John Butcher:
Angles of Enquiry
(Confront)
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Alcorn / Lencastre / Faustino:
Manifesto
(Clean Feed)
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Bill Dixon w/ Archie Shepp, 7-Tette and Orchestra:
Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Lantskap Logic (Frith / Davis / Greenlief):
Hidden Danger Lets Me In
(Clean Feed)
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Allemano / Oberg / Bauer / Fischerlehner:
SOG
(Creative Sources)
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Paul Dunmall / Olie Brice:
The Laughing Stone
(Confront)
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Frode Gjerstad with Matthew Shipp:
We Speak
(Relative Pitch)
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Phil Zampino:
Top 2023 Album List
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Carl Kruger:
Top 2023 Album List
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Paul Dunmall:
Meditations For Clarinets
(FMR)
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Schindler / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres:
Conspiratorial And Fulminate Things Happen
(Creative Sources)
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Charlie Parker:
At Birdland 1950 Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd.)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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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.
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"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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