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Essential Artists

• Ballister + Luke Stewart
• Luciana Bass/Ezekiel Jaime/Federico Isasti
• Duke Ellington Orchestra
• Jeph Jerman
• Jeph Jerman/Ted Byrnes
• Jason Kahn/Phil Durrant/Mark Wastell/Caius Williams
• Greg Kelley/Yoona Kim
• Oliver Mann/Stefano Pilia
• Camila Nebbia/Chris Corsano
• Ochibo No Ame 落穂の雨 (Kawashima/Inage/Yamagishi)
• Onilu (Chambers/Diehl/McIver/Villarreal
• Aaron Russell/Sandy Ewen
• Alister Spence
• Trio San (Fujii/Saito/Oshima)
• Benjamin Vergara/Eden Carrasco
• Vienna FLAMMeS (Koglmann/Schiske/Donhauser/Buhlmann/Mautner/Rohrer)
• The Williams Tony Emergency w/ John McLaughlin/Larry Young

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Squidco Pick

Ballister + Luke Stewart: Clocking the Wheel
(Aerophonic)

Joining Dave Rempis on saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums with bassist Luke Stewart, this live Ballister performance from Roulette expands the trio's ferocious long-running rapport into a dense, high-velocity quartet, Stewart locking with Nilssen-Love in elastic propulsion as cello and saxophone surge through explosive, telepathic collective improvisation.

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Bass, Luciana / Ezekiel Jaime / Federico Isasti: Vi La Pampa Arder
(Relative Pitch)

An intense Argentine free-improvising trio of Luciana Bass on guitar, Ezekiel Jaime on electric bass, and Federico Isasti on drums, shaping spontaneous forms from brittle textures, distorted low-end resonance, scattered rhythmic detail, and explosive collective energy, moving between sparse tension and combustible interaction in a fearless session of attentive, unstable, and deeply physical sound.

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Squidco Pick

Ellington, Duke Orchestra: From Fargo Live 1940
(ALAY)

A legendary 1940 live document of Duke Ellington's Blanton-Webster orchestra, captured in Fargo by Jack Towers and Richard Burris, with Ellington on piano, Johnny Hodges and Otto Hardwick on alto saxophones, Ben Webster on tenor, Harry Carney on baritone, Barney Bigard on clarinet, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance and Wallace Jones in the brass, Jimmy Blanton on bass, Sonny Greer on drums, and Ivie Anderson and Herb Jeffries on vocals.

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Squidco Pick

Kahn, Jason / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell / Caius Williams: Where The Stars
(Editions)

An electroacoustic quartet of Phil Durrant on amplified objects and electronics, Jason Kahn on voice, Mark Wastell on percussion, and Caius Williams on double bass, recorded in London in 2025, unfolding four extended improvisations where breath, resonance, friction, signal, and acoustic weight interact through restrained intensity, microscopic detail, and unstable collective form.

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Kelley, Greg / Yoona Kim : Distractions for Trumpet & Ajaeng
(Relative Pitch)

Bringing together Greg Kelley's extended-technique trumpet with Yoona Kim's non-traditional approach to the ajaeng, this Boston duo explores breath, bow, friction, resonance, and near-silence through taut improvisations where fragile tones, coarse strings, microscopic air bursts, and sudden ruptures forge a focused, unpredictable shared language.

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Squidco Pick

Nebbia, Camila / Chris Corsano: Six or Seven Ways Towards Becoming Undone
(Relative Pitch)

A fierce, spontaneous duo of Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone and Chris Corsano on drums, recorded in Berlin in 2025, merging Nebbia's searching lines, breath-driven textures and unstable lyricism with Corsano's explosive, highly detailed percussion language, moving between delicate abrasion, surging intensity, fragmented melody and raw improvised exchange.

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Ochibo No Ame 落穂の雨 (Kawashima / Inage / Yamagishi): Studio Recording
(Relative Pitch)

A fierce studio document from the Japanese free-improvising trio of Makoto Kawashima on alto saxophone, Louis Inage on bass, and Naoto Yamagishi on drums and percussion, moving through charged silences, abrasive eruptions, fractured melody, dark bass resonance, and scattered percussive force in a raw, intuitive exchange rooted in underground intensity and collective risk.

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Onilu (Chambers / Diehl / McIver / Villarreal: Jakuta's Dance
(577 Records)

A boundary-defying percussion quartet with the legendary Joe Chambers on vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, Kevin Diehl on sensory percussion drum kit, Craig McIver on marimba, vibraphone, drum kit and percussion, and Daniel Villarreal on drum kit, sensory percussion, bata okonkolo, conga, cajon and marimba, drawing on Yoruba-rooted ritual energy, avant-jazz, Latin folk and funk.

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Russell, Aaron / Sandy Ewen: Dissectologists [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Sedimental)

Longtime collaborators Aaron Russell and Sandy Ewen reunite on guitar and electronics for four works recorded between 2019 and 2025, merging abstract guitar approaches through synthesized drones, processed sound, feedback, and warm hypnotic fields, their distinct palettes unfolding in deftly paced textures that balance intimacy, resonance, and exploratory electronic abrasion.

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Spence, Alister: Always Ever
(Alister Spence Music)

A solo work from Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence, performing on piano with preparations and percussion across 16 wholly improvised pieces that expand the instrument beyond the keyboard, using accidents, texture, resonance and spatial detail as compositional forces in a deeply personal exploration of sound, perception and the piano's boundless acoustic possibilities.

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Trio San (Fujii / Saito / Oshima): Hibiki
(Jazz Door)

Uniting the intersecting musical worlds of Satoko Fujii on piano, Taiko Saito on vibraphone and marimba, and Yuko Oshima on drums, this live debut from Trio SAN draws on their histories in duos and first European tour to shape a delicate yet resonant collective language of shifting timbres, prepared piano colors, ringing percussion, and freely developing melodic forms.

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Vergara, Benjamin / Eden Carrasco: Secuelas [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)

Austere and intensely focused, this Chilean duo of Benjamin Vergara on trumpet and Eden Carrasco on alto saxophone draws on more than 20 years of collaboration in experimental music, noise, minimalism, free jazz and site-specific performance, shaping four improvisations where breath, timbre, camouflaged melody, droning blues and submerged cool-jazz gestures blur into textured acoustic abstraction

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Squidco Pick

Vienna FLAMMeS (Koglmann / Schiske / Donhauser / Buhlmann / Mautner / Rohrer): He Said Boler o'
(ALAY)

Led by Franz Koglmann's cool-toned trumpet and flugelhorn with Michael Mautner's motifs and electronics, Vienna FLAMMeS joins Lukas Schiske, Andreas Donhauser, Silvia Deixler, Max Buhlmann, and Josef Ka in a post-jazz sound world of fractured grooves, Canterbury echoes, reed color, guitar abrasion, spoken elements, and egalitarian improvisation shaped by Viennese modernism and collective risk.

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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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Experimental/Electronic

Jerman, Jeph / Ted Byrnes: Muir [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)

A tactile 12-part acoustic-object improvisation from Jeph Jerman and Ted Byrnes, using kalimba, snares, bells, broken cymbal, cans, concrete floor, pinecones, bowls, pot lids, water, hands and other found or homemade materials to build a restless sound world of rustle, scrape, metallic resonance, loose pulse and strange-beat movement, extending Jerman's found-sound practice through Byrnes' free percussion language.

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Jerman, Jeph: For Alvin Kelly [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)

A three-part solo cassette from Jeph Jerman, transforming found sounds, object textures, and electroacoustic detail into a patient study of friction, resonance, space, and decay, with the title possibly alluding to Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly's 1920s flagpole-sitting endurance feats, suggesting suspended listening, precarious balance, and heightened attention to an exposed sonic environment.

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Mann, Oliver / Stefano Pilia: Precious Moments [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tsss Tapes)

A tender, dreamlike collaboration between Stefano Pilia on guitars and Oliver Mann on vocals, expanded with Mick Turner's guitar, Zona MC's vocals and lyrics, and brass from Christopher Grace on trumpet, Freya Hombergen on horn and Jackson Bankovic on trombone, shaping nine intimate pieces where electro-acoustic texture, art-song fragility and experimental folk merge in a quiet meditation on friendship, memory and distance.

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Squid Note Records is our in-house label created to support adventurous new recordings. We launched Squid Note Records to release music we believe in — directly, carefully, and fairly. But we didn't set out with a formal plan to start a label. Squid Note grew from conversations with artists who trusted us and asked for a way to release work that might not otherwise find its audience.

So this isn't simply "our" label. It's something we are building together with the musicians themselves. The direction is shaped as much by the artists as by us — a collaborative effort grounded in mutual respect and shared commitment; each release is an equal partnership.

Latest Release

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence
The sixth entry in Ivo Perelman's expanding Duologues series, and the sixth album in Squidco's digital label Squid Note Records, pairs his searching tenor saxophone with Damon Smith's commanding double bass, a freely improvised exchange of raw physical immediacy and deep listening, where intertwining lines, extended techniques and spontaneous form turn dialogue itself into the core of the music.

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Also Available Now

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

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

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

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

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

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Coming to Squid Note Records in August
The Stateless Trio (Countryman / Hirsh / Bates:
In The Sunrise of Some Other World

The in September, a new duo album of Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!

Szilard Mezei Octet: Only In Movies (FMR)

Lao Dan and Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness)

Last Dream of the Morning (John Butcher / John Edwards / Mark Sanders): Sharp Illusion ((Listen! Foundation) Fundacja Sluchaj!)

Tore Elgaroy and Henry Kaiser: The Sound of the Stars (New Noise)

Daniel Carter / Steve Hirsh: Convocation (Mahakala Music)

Steve Beresford / Pierpaolo Martino / Mark Sanders: Be S-Mart (Confront)

Melaine Dalibert / David Sylvian: Vermilion Hours (Ici dailleurs)

Agusti Fernandez / Artur Majewski / Albert Cirera / Ramon Prats: Som-hi! (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Julia Eckhardt: Blanca (Another Timbre)

Lori Goldston: Open Space (Relative Pitch)

Arkady Gotesman: Music For An Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness)

Nicolas Collins / Birgit Ulher: Spark Gap (Relative Pitch)

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