The Squid's Ear Magazine
June 2026


 
Bradford, Bobby / Mark Dresser / Hafez Modirzadeh: Sonic House Reunion
Bradford, Bobby / Mark Dresser / Hafez Modirzadeh:
Sonic House Reunion

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


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Reuniting cornetist Bobby Bradford, bassist Mark Dresser and Hafez Modirzadeh on b'kongofon and tenor saxophone, this chamber-scaled trio session unfolds through five collective pieces that balance Bradford's warm, incisive lyricism, Dresser's resonant five-string bass language and Modirzadeh's pitch-bending reed work in a quietly radical exchange of free jazz, color and space.

Brown, Marion (Brown / Hampel / Phillips / McCall): Live in Europe 1968 & 1972
Brown, Marion (Brown / Hampel / Phillips / McCall):
Live in Europe 1968 & 1972

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


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Alto saxophonist Marion Brown leads a remarkable quartet with Gunter Hampel on vibraphone, Barre Phillips on bass and Steve McCall on drums, revealing two rare European performances from 1968 and 1972 in which lyrical free jazz, chamber-like openness, shimmering percussion, bass mobility and Brown's searching melodic voice converge with quiet intensity.

Buechi / Hellmuller / Jerjen (Feat Kristina Brunner / Andreas Gabriel): Pink Mountain Sagas
Buechi / Hellmuller / Jerjen (Feat Kristina Brunner / Andreas Gabriel):
Pink Mountain Sagas

(Intakt -- Switzerland )


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Swiss vocalist Sarah Buechi, guitarist Franz Hellmuller and bassist Rafael Jerjen expand their trio with Kristina Brunner on Schwyzerorgeli, Andreas Gabriel on violin, Marianne Domide on alphorn and Emmanuel Krucker on Hackbrett, merging jazz, experimental song and lively Swiss folk traditions in a vivid homecoming to the alpine Glarus region, its legends, dramas and rugged mountain atmospheres.

Carter, Daniel / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi: Keeping It In Context
Carter, Daniel / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi:
Keeping It In Context

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


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Captured live in the studio in 1996, this powerful quartet brings Daniel Carter on saxophones, flute and trumpet together with Sabir Mateen on saxophones, flute and clarinet, William Parker on bass and Lou Grassi on drums and percussion for three expansive collective improvisations, balancing raw free jazz fire, lyrical exchanges and deep intuition.

+DOG+: The Garden
+DOG+:
The Garden

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A new solo work from Steve Davis's long-running +DOG+ project, recorded in Sudbury, Massachusetts across 2025 and 2026, continuing the Love Earth Music founder's exploration of experimental noise, drones, abrasion and collage-like electronics in a raw sound environment where distortion, density and unstable resonance bloom into a tangled, immersive field of sonic growth and decay.

+DOG+: The Garden [VINYL]
+DOG+:
The Garden [VINYL]

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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A new solo work from Steve Davis's long-running +DOG+ project, recorded in Sudbury, Massachusetts across 2025 and 2026, continuing the Love Earth Music founder's exploration of experimental noise, drones, abrasion and collage-like electronics in a raw sound environment where distortion, density and unstable resonance bloom into a tangled, immersive field of sonic growth and decay.

Douglas, Dave / GIFTS (w / Lewis / Bhatia / Chang / Reid): Transcend
Douglas, Dave / GIFTS (w / Lewis / Bhatia / Chang / Reid):
Transcend

(Greenleaf Music -- USA )


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Dave Douglas expands his GIFTS Quintet with Tomeka Reid on cello alongside James Brandon Lewis, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, drawing on the spiritual openness of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts in a powerful electro-acoustic jazz setting where trumpet, tenor, guitar, cello and drums merge lyricism, electronics and high-energy interplay into a reverent, forward-looking ensemble statement.

Formanek, Michael (w/ Hawkins / Halvorson / Fujiwara / O'Gallagher / Doxas / Almeida): New Digs
Formanek, Michael (w/ Hawkins / Halvorson / Fujiwara / O'Gallagher / Doxas / Almeida):
New Digs

(Intakt -- Switzerland )


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Bassist and composer Michael Formanek leads a trans-Atlantic septet with John O'Gallagher, Chet Doxas, Joao Almeida, Mary Halvorson, Alexander Hawkins on Hammond B3 and Tomas Fujiwara, unfolding a bold contemporary jazz architecture where braided horns, off-axis guitar, organ-driven momentum and elastic rhythms move between dense collective force and sharply focused small-group interplay.

Murray, Sunny / Sabu Toyozumi: Sun's Blessings
Murray, Sunny / Sabu Toyozumi:
Sun's Blessings

(NoBusiness -- Lithuania )


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Recorded live at Zippy Hall in Japan in 1999, this extraordinary duo unites pioneering free jazz drummer Sunny Murray (Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler) with Japanese free music innovator Sabu Toyozumi for two extended improvisations, their overlapping rhythmic languages creating a vivid exchange of rolling cymbal fields, sharp attacks, spacious resonance and explosive momentum.

TRAC (Teddy Ryles / Alexander Cooper): Cylinder Plus
TRAC (Teddy Ryles / Alexander Cooper):
Cylinder Plus

(Bu Lang Tribute Cake -- USA )


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The first release from TRAC, the duo of Teddy Ryles and Alexander Cooper, brings together their shared Oberlin TIMARA background and solo electro-acoustic practices in a rigorously processed work built from reconstituted digital artifacts, using spectral decomposition, deformation and iterative procedures to shape dense, unstable electronic forms where texture, residue and structure continually erode and recombine.

Zorn, John (w/ Julian Lage / Gavin Riley): Seven Sonnets
Zorn, John (w/ Julian Lage / Gavin Riley):
Seven Sonnets

(Tzadik -- USA )


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John Zorn continues his lyrical acoustic guitar writing with a Shakespeare-inspired book of seven intimate compositions for Julian Lage and Gyan Riley, whose long collaboration as interpreters of Zorn's music brings warmth, precision and conversational clarity to pieces that draw on early music, minimalism, contemporary classical forms, folk, jazz and soundtrack-like atmosphere.

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

(Otoroku -- UK )


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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.

Mephitick Ooze: The Path of Congealment
Mephitick Ooze:
The Path of Congealment

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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The Montague, Massachusetts noise project Mephitick Ooze delivers a forty-four-minute barrage of distorted, tortured sound in a harsh and challenging long-form work that moves glacially through ripped textures, overloaded frequencies and brief pockets of relief, shaping its abrasive force into a slow, deliberate arc of sonic pressure.

Money: 4 [2 CDs]
Money:
4 [2 CDs]

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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The mysterious Massachusetts project Money returns with a two-disc set of dark electronic glitch and oppressive texture, its four long tracks moving through distorted pulses, damaged surfaces, brutal eruptions and long stretches of seismic stasis, creating a difficult but focused sound world of innuendo, tension, disruption and slow-moving electronic pressure.

Sheer Anxiety: If You Want Blood You've Got It
Sheer Anxiety:
If You Want Blood You've Got It

(Love Earth Music -- USA )


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The Boston duo of Chris Strunk on snare drum and percussion and Andrea Pensado on electronics and voice unleash six live performances from 2018-2025, forging a raw and volatile language of harsh electronics, extreme vocal force, rattling percussion, snare-driven impact and free improvisational tension rooted in noise, physicality and underground experimental performance.



Best Sellers in This Category:

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

Brown, Marion (Brown / Hampel / Phillips / McCall): Live in Europe 1968 & 1972

Murray, Sunny / Sabu Toyozumi: Sun's Blessings

Bradford, Bobby / Mark Dresser / Hafez Modirzadeh: Sonic House Reunion

Carter, Daniel / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi: Keeping It In Context

Zorn, John (w/ Julian Lage / Gavin Riley): Seven Sonnets

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