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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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June 5, 2026

"And when I play they know I exist,
And it leaves a space when I go."
—Sunny Murray

 Essential Artists

• [ahmed] (Thomas/Grip/Gerbal/Wright)
• Bobby Bradford/Mark Dresser/Hafez Modirzadeh
• Marion Brown (Brown/Hampel/Phillips/McCall)
• Buechi/Hellmuller/Jerjen (Feat Kristina Brunner/Andreas Gabriel)
• Daniel Carter/Sabir Mateen/William Parker/Lou Grassi
• +DOG+
• Dave Douglas/GIFTS (w/Lewis/Bhatia/Chang/Reid)
• Ghazal Faghihi
• Michael Formanek (w/ Hawkins/Halvorson/Fujiwara/O'Gallagher/Doxas/Almeida)
• Sylvia Lim
• Mephitick Ooze
• Money
• Sunny Murray/Sabu Toyozumi
• Quagmire/Christer Bothen
• Sheer Anxiety
• TRAC (Teddy Ryles/Alexander Cooper)
• John Zorn (w/ Julian Lage/Gavin Riley)

 Essential Labels

Another Timbre
Bu Lang Tribute Cake
Greenleaf Music
Intakt
Love Earth Music

 NoBusiness
Otoroku
Relative Pitch
Tzadik

 New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation
Squidco Pick
 [ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright): Play Monk [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)

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.
Buy $24.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 Bradford, Bobby / Mark Dresser / Hafez Modirzadeh: Sonic House Reunion
(NoBusiness)

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

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

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.
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Carter, Daniel / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi: Keeping It In Context
(NoBusiness)

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

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.
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Faghihi, Ghazal: Penumbra
(Relative Pitch)

The debut solo album from Iranian, Belgium-based clarinetist and improviser Ghazal Faghihi, a cycle of thirteen fully improvised pieces using clarinets, objects, Shruti box and electro-acoustic and interactive electronics to extend the instrument into fragile sound worlds of breath, resonance, texture and silence, moving through uncertainty in a shadowed space between order and chaos.

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

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.
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Murray, Sunny / Sabu Toyozumi: Sun's Blessings
(NoBusiness)

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.
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Quagmire / Christer Bothen: Rorane
(Relative Pitch)

Swedish clarinetist Christer Bothén joins Quagmire — Nina de Heney on double bass, Karin Johansson on prepared piano, piano and zither, and Henrik Wartel on drums — in a darkly textured free improv session of sculptural interplay, where deep clarinet lines, rumbling bass, metallic percussion and fragmented piano gestures form a shifting landscape of fragile intensity and balanced collective sound.
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Experimental/Electronic
+DOG+: The Garden
(Love Earth Music)

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.
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+DOG+: The Garden [VINYL]
(Love Earth Music)

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.
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Mephitick Ooze: The Path of Congealment
(Love Earth Music)

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.
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Money: 4 [2 CDs]
(Love Earth Music)

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.
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Sheer Anxiety: If You Want Blood You've Got It
(Love Earth Music)

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.
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TRAC (Teddy Ryles / Alexander Cooper): Cylinder Plus
(Bu Lang Tribute Cake)

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.
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Composed & Contemporary
Squidco Pick
 Lim, Sylvia: Flare
(Another Timbre)

Composer Sylvia Lim's quietly individualistic chamber works explore fragility, decay and timbral richness across solo, duo, trio and small ensemble settings, using prepared cello, resonant piano, clarinets, percussion and guitars to let intimate gestures, unstable sounds and microscopic details slowly unfold into hushed, tactile sound worlds.
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Squidco Pick
 Zorn, John (w/ Julian Lage / Gavin Riley): Seven Sonnets
(Tzadik)

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.
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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.

New Release: Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence
Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: 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

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman - Absorb

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman - Reflective

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

Listen / Buy

Daniel Levin - At Dropa House

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

Listen / Buy

Remergency - Wave Benders

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

Listen / Buy

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


The Squid's Ear

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



Julia Eckhardt: Blanca (Another Timbre)
Julia Eckhardt: Blanca (Another Timbre)

Lori Goldston: Open Space (Relative Pitch)
Lori Goldston: Open Space (Relative Pitch)

Arkady Gotesman: Music For An Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness)
Arkady Gotesman: Music For An Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness)

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

Albert Ayler Quintet: Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 And Newport 1967 Live First Release (Thingamajig)
Albert Ayler Quintet: Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 And Newport 1967 Live First Release (Thingamajig)

Merzbow / Mats Gustafsson / Balasz Pandi: Cuts Cut (Victo)
Merzbow / Mats Gustafsson / Balasz Pandi: Cuts Cut (Victo)

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: Core of Existence (Squid Note Records)
Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith: Duologue: Core of Existence (Squid Note Records)

Paul Rogers: Peace And Happiness (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Paul Rogers: Peace And Happiness (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Camila Nebbia (feat. Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok): A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch)
Camila Nebbia (feat. Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok): A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch)

Eric La Casa / Francisco Lopez: Collection Supranaturelle: Induction / Mutation (Swarming)
Eric La Casa / Francisco Lopez: Collection Supranaturelle: Induction / Mutation (Swarming)

Oliver Lake / Fred Hopkins / Phillip Wilson / Baikida Carroll / Michael Gregory Jackson: Live from Studio Rivbea (NoBusiness)
Oliver Lake / Fred Hopkins / Phillip Wilson / Baikida Carroll / Michael Gregory Jackson: Live from Studio Rivbea (NoBusiness)

James Opstad: Drift (Another Timbre)
James Opstad: Drift (Another Timbre)



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