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New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Squidco Pick

Armaroli, Sergio Quintet (w/ Sharp / Piccolo / Edwards / Sanders): Follow A Very Heavy Person, First Visit
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Inspired by John Cage and Kenneth Patchen's experimental radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, vibraphonist Sergio Armaroli joins Elliott Sharp on guitar and soprano saxophone, Steve Piccolo on speech and electronics, bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders in an episodic "audio graphic novel" of vivid verbal cues, shifting textures and freely improvised ensemble scenes.

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Chevillon, Bruno: Etats Des Lieux
(Songs)

French double bassist Bruno Chevillon presents only his second solo album in four decades, using bowed resonance, grainy harmonics, percussive attacks, low pizzicato and carefully measured silence to engage the long natural reverberation of a Paris church, treating its stone surfaces, ambient sounds and returning echoes as active partners in a rigorous and deeply expressive acoustic improvisation.

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Expanse: Sweep
(Evil Clown)

Working in Expanse's quieter, chamber-scaled sound world, David Peck, John Fugarino, Eric Dahlman and Michael Knoblach move among reeds, brass, voices, electronics, keyboards and an expansive array of percussion, creating a spacious improvisation of shifting textures, delicate metallic detail, restrained electronics and sudden bursts of color.

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Leap Of Faith : Initial Positions
(Evil Clown)

Drawn from two Masters of Sonic Revolution performances, this chamber-scaled Leap of Faith quartet brings David Peck's reeds and double reeds, Glynis Lomon's cello, aquasonic and voice, John Fugarino's brass, and Michael Caglianone's reeds and flute into compact, rapidly shifting improvisations shaped by timbral contrast, close ensemble listening and a more focused acoustic palette than the group's expansive studio sessions.

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Squidco Pick

Lewis, James Brandon Quartet (Lewis / Ortiz / Jones / Taylor): Omni
(Intakt)

Advancing James Brandon Lewis' "Molecular Systematic Music" into what he describes as a kind of twelve-tone gospel, this sixth quartet album joins his commanding tenor saxophone and compositions with Aruan Ortiz's incisive piano, Brad Jones' grounded bass and Chad Taylor's responsive drumming in spiritually charged music shaped by rigorous structure, lyrical force and deeply interactive ensemble dialogue.

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Mattrey, Joanna / Camila Nebbia / Camilo �ngeles / Violeta Garcia: Heavy Handed
(Relative Pitch)

An international quartet of Joanna Mattrey on viola, Camila Nebbia on tenor saxophone, Camilo Angeles on flute and effects, and Violeta Garcia on cello and effects, developing seven volatile collective improvisations where breath, bowed resonance, abrasive attacks and subtle electronics move between fragile chamber textures, urgent counterpoint and dense, rhythmically charged eruptions.

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Merivale, Finola / Catherine Sikora : Abhaile
(Relative Pitch)

Composer Finola Merivale surrounds Catherine Sikora's layered tenor saxophone, breath tones and multiphonics with electronics and field recordings gathered in County Cork, New York and other changing environments, creating three immersive electroacoustic works that move from stark detail to surging masses of sound while exploring landscape, displacement, memory and the unsettled meaning of home.

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Nite Bjuti (w/ Nicole Mitchell): Minwi
(Intakt)

Uniting Candice Hoyes' poetic vocals and electronics, Mimi Jones' bass, voice and pedals, and Val Jeanty's drums and electronic sound design, with guest flutist Nicole Mitchell and trumpeter Milena Casado, Nite Bjuti creates an Afrofuturist blend of Caribbean rhythms, improvised jazz, spoken imagery and layered electronics centered on diaspora, resilience, collective care and the continuing creation of home.

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Squidco Pick

OM (Leimgruber / Doran / Burri / Hemingway / Buck): Sudpol
(Intakt)

Continuing OM's fusion of rock energy and free improvisation after the death of founding drummer Fredy Studer, soprano saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran and bassist Bobby Burri are joined by percussionists Gerry Hemingway and Tony Buck for a live set of dense electroacoustic interplay, surging rhythmic force and open-ended collective invention, carrying the group's "ElectroAcoustiCore" language into a new era.

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Squidco Pick

Parker, Evan / John Zorn: Those Landings
(Tzadik)

Longtime friends and saxophone innovators Evan Parker on soprano and John Zorn on alto meet for their first dedicated studio collaboration, layering circular-breathed lines, multiphonics, whispers, cries and volatile gestures into five spacious works that treat the reeds as sources of breath, texture and atmosphere, balancing intimate beauty with finely controlled turbulence.

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Stoffner, Florian: Bijou
(Relative Pitch)

Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffner presents six concentrated solo improvisations that extend the textural precision of his work with John Butcher and Chris Corsano, using clipped notes, metallic resonance, muted attacks, harmonics and carefully measured silence to transform the electric guitar into an intimate field of fractured melody, tactile detail and spontaneous formal invention.

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Squidco Pick

Tres Hongos (Wick / Riordan / Rosaly): More Chips
(Relative Pitch)

Reuniting fourteen years after their first album, trumpeter Jacob Wick, pianist Marc Riordan and drummer Frank Rosaly revive Tres Hongos for eight live improvisations of fractured piano gestures, searching brass lines and continually reorganized percussion, moving through spacious suspensions, playful melodic exchanges and dense eruptions with the sharp reflexes and volatile rapport of a long-established trio.

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Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units: In The Path Of Typhoons [2CDs]
(Evil Clown)

Using David Peck's expanding system of color-coded Frame Notation, this fifth Turbulence Orchestra and Sub-Units performance gathers 19 musicians from the Evil Clown, western Massachusetts and Vermont improvising communities into a large-scale work of voices, reeds, brass, strings, keyboards, electronics and percussion, balancing preplanned entrances and ensemble events with organically unfolding collective invention.

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Turbulence: Adjacent Flow Rising
(Evil Clown)

Reduced by winter weather from a planned ten-piece orchestra to a sextet, this Turbulence session brings David Peck, Cliff White, John Fugarino, Eric Dahlman, Scott Samenfeld and Michael Knoblach into a broad-palette improvisation of reeds, brass, electric upright bass, electronics, percussion and invented objects, with Joel Simches' real-time processing shaping a long sequence of shifting sonorities.

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Squidco Pick

Ullmann, Gebhard / Uwe Oberg / Joe Fonda / Dieter Ulrich: New Conference Call
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Reconfiguring the long-running Conference Call quartet with pianist Uwe Oberg alongside tenor saxophonist Gebhard Ullmann, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer/bugler Dieter Ulrich, this first New Conference Call release moves through intricate compositions, spacious collective improvisation and volatile free-jazz exchanges, including tributes to Joe Maneri, Ornette Coleman and Jim Pepper.

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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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Squid Note Records

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!

Tyshawn Sorey: Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (Dacamera Editions)

Kenny Wheeler Sextet: What Was (False Walls)

Double Helix Quartet (Jackson Jr. / Ali / Harris / Ra): Double Helix Quartet (Amalgam)

Marty Ehrlich / Julius Hemphill: Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch)

Pierre Favre
The Squid's Ear Interview

Steve Swell / Ellen Christi: Songs from the Poetry Box (The Bodily Press)

Ava Mendoza / Dave Sewelson: Of It But Not Is It (Mahakala Music)

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)

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