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Squidco Distribution Sale!
290 Albums at Distribution Prices Until Sunday, June 14!

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Essential Artists

• Khabat Abas / Ivor Kallin
• Ishmael Ali (Ishmael/Wilkerson/Wilkes/Baker/Tong/Harris)
• Ricardo Arias/Jaap Blonk
• Aries House Zaes
• Butoh Sonics
• Tom Challenger/Evan Parker
• Thanos Chrysakis
• Jurg Frey/Apartment House
• Hearsay (Allen Moore, Ishmael Ali, Bill Harris)
• Jane in Ether (Klein Mayas/Voutchkova)
• Doyeon Kim (w/Sorey/Maneri/Fraser)
• Manuel Linhares
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Maria Radich/Maria do Mar
• Elliott Sharp/Eric Mingus
• Sonic Youth
• Street Rat
• Unsub

Essential Labels

577 Records
Amalgam
Another Timbre
Aural Terrains
Confront
Creative Sources
Editions Verde

False Walls
Kontrans
Love Earth Music
Sonic Youth Records
Tao Forms
zOaR Records

Squidco Distribution Price Sale !

This weekend, we're offering a special sale on 290 items reduced to our distribution price — bringing you substantial savings on each. Many of these works have never been discounted before, featuring albums primarily from our catalog of Jazz & Improvised Music. Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore and own these remarkable albums at unbeatable prices — Many of the items in this sale are limited or last copies, so hurry! This sale ends Sunday, June 14th at midnight.

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Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, prices shown are the discounted price. In-stock items only, items will disappear from the store if they sell out. Sale items are not eligible for reward points. Sale ends Sunday, June 14th, 2026 at 23:59 EST, GMT-5.

New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Abas, Khabat / Ivor Kallin: Tapsalteerie, Depicted in Echo
(Confront)

Cellist Khabat Abas and violist Ivor Kallin engage in a taut, exploratory duo dialogue built from extended techniques, fractured vocalizations, and deliberate use of space, where cantankerous textures, unconventional pacing, and carefully placed silences shape a curiously absorbing improvisation that balances raw intensity with focused restraint.

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Ali, Ishmael (Ishmael / Wilkerson / Wilkes / Baker / Tong / Harris): Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper [VINYL]
(Amalgam)

Composed and led by cellist Ishmael Ali, this wide-ranging studio set moves between raw solo explorations, collaborative improvisations and groove-driven ensemble pieces, blending cello, voice and electronics with a multi-generational Chicago lineup to create an eclectic yet cohesive sound world that balances experimental risk, melodic intimacy and playful collective interaction.

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Arias, Ricardo / Jaap Blonk: Lucht - Improvisers
(Kontrans)

A duo of breath and air, recorded in Bogotá in 2025, Colombian sound artist Ricardo Arias and vocalist Jaap Blonk explore microscopic improvisations using balloons, fragments, and extended voice, where fragile textures, elastic tones, and near-silence merge human and object into a tactile, minimal, subtly uncanny, and occasionally absurdist sonic dialogue.

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Squidco Pick

Challenger, Tom / Evan Parker: May Spring Last a Lifetime
(False Walls)

The first duo recording from tenor saxophonists Tom Challenger and Evan Parker, captured at Arco Barco in Ramsgate and later resequenced into six sections, reveals two deeply attuned improvisers using shared instrumental language to question control, memory, silence and exchange, expanding the sound of two tenors into a shifting field of breath, resonance, overlap and acoustic invention.

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Hearsay (Allen Moore, Ishmael Ali, Bill Harris): Glossolalia [CASSETTE]
(Amalgam)

The trio Hearsay — turntablist Allen Moore, cellist/guitarist Ishmael Ali, and drummer Bill Harris — craft a restless and texturally rich improvisational set that bends time through fractured grooves, looping vinyl gestures, and agile acoustic interplay, balancing rhythmic tension, abstract sound manipulation, and aural exploration with striking restraint and spontaneity.

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Squidco Pick

Jane in Ether (Klein Mayas / Voutchkova): Oneiric
(Confront)

The Berlin trio of Miako Klein (recorders), Magda Mayas (piano), and Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice) further refine their fully improvised approach into an immersive sonic practice, where sustained textures, extended techniques, and collective restraint blur individual voices into a cohesive, ever-shifting sound world, captured at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Kunst in Berlin.

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Squidco Pick

Kim, Doyeon (w / Sorey / Maneri / Fraser): Wellspring
(Tao Forms)

Seoul-born gayageum virtuoso and vocalist DoYeon Kim makes a striking bandleader debut with a quartet of Tyshawn Sorey on drums, Mat Maneri on viola and Henry Fraser on bass, merging Korean string and storytelling traditions with contemporary improvisation in a forceful, deeply expressive set of compositions and group interactions that move from bristling acoustic intensity to communal, humanist resonance.

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Linhares, Manuel: Atlantico
(577 Records)

Vocalist and composer Manuel Linhares brings together a transatlantic ensemble with Glenn Zaleski, Or Bareket, Keita Ogawa, David Binney, Gil Silva, Hugo Caldeira, Felipe Jose and Antonio Loureiro, shaping jazz-rooted songs that move between New York urgency and Porto melancholy, blending Brazilian rhythmic language, avant-garde texture, folk and pop fragments into a fluid meditation on oceanic distance, memory and change.

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Rodrigue, Ernesto / Maria Radich / Maria do Mar : Ethereal Sighs
(Creative Sources)

Recorded live in Lisbon, violist Ernesto Rodrigues joins vocalist Maria Radich and violinist Maria do Mar in a free improv trio where close-range string interplay and crackle box electronics create high-register tension, while voice moves within the texture through whispers and cries, shaping an intimate, spatially focused performance balancing density, restraint, and evolving interaction.

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Sharp, Elliott / Eric Mingus: Wrench In The Works
(zOaR Records)

Eric Mingus and Elliott Sharp extend more than twenty-five years of collaboration from Terraplane and Songs From A Rogue State into a concentrated duo album of psychedelic punkfunk No Wave, with Mingus' commanding voice driven by Sharp's guitars, bass, synths, and drum programming in fourteen jagged songs of blues, politics, rupture, and electric urgency.

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Experimental/Electronic

Aries House Zaes: Network Friction [VINYL]
(Editions Verde)

Forged across continents in Amherst, Bern and Shenzhen, Annie Aries, Brian House and Marcel Zaes transform the glitches, delays and temporal distortions of online connection into rigorously structured rhythm, as locked vinyl grooves and network artifacts collide in a tightly choreographed performance that reframes digital failure as percussive invention.

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Butoh Sonics: Premonitions
(Love Earth Music)

The Arizona sound-art and performance collective of Ashiki on Butoh and percussion, Steve RampaNt Guardino on power acoustics, synths, electronics and circuit bending, Vic VOID on electroacoustics, sound sculpture, synths and electronics, and Parker Weston on synths, samples and prepared guitar, creating a ritualized field of industrial drone, dark ambient texture, prepared-guitar abrasion and unstable electroacoustic noise.

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Street Rat: Ticking Clock & The Aftershock
(Love Earth Music)

Philadelphia sound performer Gladys Nobriga's Street Rat project brings a raw solo noise document to Love Earth Music, with four 2025 studio pieces and a closing live recording from Calvary Center, using DIY electronics, object-based sound, physical gesture and abrasive texture to shape a stark, tactile and confrontational album of pressure, decay, rupture and aftermath.

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Unsub: Misprision
(Love Earth Music)

The cross-coastal duo of Los Angeles experimental artist FETUSK on guitar, drones, keys, bass, beats and screams with Massachusetts synthesist Steven Davis, recorded between The Womb and MDP Studios in 2025, creating six volatile works of industrial drone, damaged electronics, guitar abrasion, buried rhythm and dark ambient pressure for a dense, confrontational and immersive Love Earth Music release.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Sonic Youth: J'accuse Ted Hughes [VINYL]
(Sonic Youth Records)

The seventh entry in Sonic Youth's SYR series documents a pivotal experimental moment from the band's 2000 All Tomorrow's Parties performance, with Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley expanding a 20-minute "New Drone" into the voice-inflected J'accuse Ted Hughes, paired with a 2003 Echo Canyon studio work featuring Jim O'Rourke's bass, electronics and sound processing.

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Composed & Contemporary

Chrysakis, Thanos: Vita Morgana
(Aural Terrains)

Featuring Mexican flutist Wilfrido Terrazas performing works by Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis, this solo recital explores the expressive breadth of standard, alto and bass flutes through extended techniques, circular breathing, and richly layered timbres, as Chrysakis' compositions unfold as immersive sonic environments where breath, resonance, and subtle transformations.

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Squidco Pick

Frey, Jurg / Apartment House: Clarinet Quintet
(Another Timbre)

Composed between 2023 and 2025 after Jurg Frey withdrew from clarinet performance, this 54-minute chamber work places Heather Roche's clarinet within the string quartet of Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Bridget Carey and Anton Lukoszevieze, as Apartment House reveal a quietly extraordinary balance of stillness and motion, warm tonal color, intimate dialogue and a slow, organic passage toward unexpected transformation.

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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
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!

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2003. In 2010, we moved to Wilmington, NC, providing regional and visiting customers access to our catalog of over 9,000 items, including hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items not listed on our website. We're open for visits by appointment during weekday afternoons, so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region, please email us to set up a time — we'd love to play some music for you!

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