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The Squid's Ear Magazine
The Squid's Ear Magazine
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UPDATE
October 9, 2026

"There's definitely a sense of rebellion in this music,
Of going against cultural norms [...]
It dares you to be courageous enough
To bear your humanity and your relationship with the music. "
— Luke Stewart

 Essential Artists

• Derek Bailey / John Stevens
• Adam Bohman/Sue Lynch/Crystabel Efemena Riley
• Christiane Bopp
• Chansons Du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand/Elliott Sharp)
• Dai Koelakanth
• Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin
• Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore
• Bren't Lewiis Ensemble
• Francisco Mela
• Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp
• Rabbit Rabbit Radio (Carla Kihlstedt/Matthias Bossi)
• Secondson
• Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet (w/ Vandermark/Wilkerson/Baker/Ra)
• Sun Ra/Merzbow
• Ten-Toh-Maru (Fujii/Nakamura/Tenko)
• Michael Thieke/Beat Keller
• David Toop/Ecka Mordecai/Christian Kobi
• Tungu/Henry Kaiser

 Essential Labels

577 Records
Aural Terrains
Cold Spring Records
Confront
Ftarri
Klanggalerie
Krim Kram
Libra

 Meenna
Otoroku
Relative Pitch
RogueArt
Rune Grammofon
Silver Current
Squid Note Records

 New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation
Squidco Pick
 Bailey, Derek / John Stevens: The Duke of Wellington
(Confront)

BACK IN PRINT! Seminal figures in the evolution of free or nonidiomatic improvisation, guitarist Derek Bailey and percussionist/pocket trumpeter John Stevens are heard in a 1989 London performance vividly captured by Michael Gerzon at The Duke of Wellington, their restless and enthusiastic interplay shifting from angular invention to lyrical reflection in a compelling document of their remarkable rapport.
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Bohman, Adam / Sue Lynch / Crystabel Efemena Riley: Lynboril Lisinopril
(Otoroku)

Drawn together through London's Horse Improvised Music Club, Adam Bohman on amplified objects and strings, Sue Lynch on tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute, and Crystabel Efemena Riley on drums and metallics shape a buoyant, finely balanced trio language of crystalline winds, tactile percussion and eccentric object sound, playful and airy even as the interaction intensifies.
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Bopp, Christiane: Rever, murmurer, dire [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

French trombonist Christiane Bopp strips the instrument down to breath, metal, vibration, and raw physical gesture, using voice, mutes, and extended techniques to transform the trombone into an unpredictable field of whispers, drones, fractured melodies, and sudden eruptions, creating deeply intimate improvised music that moves between delicate precision and overwhelming force.
Buy $13.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 Chansons Du Crepuscule (Helene Breschand / Elliott Sharp): Une Lumiere Tenac
(Klanggalerie)

The second duo album from French harpist Helene Breschand and New York guitarist Elliott Sharp, pairing harp and guitar in an angular, hard-edged exchange that moves freely between composed and improvised forms, with Sharp's extended sonic language and Breschand's theatrical, Dada-tinged vocal presence giving the music a restless, expressionistic character.
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Squidco Pick
 Fujii, Satoko Orchestra Berlin: Second Attempt
(Libra)

Satoko Fujii's Orchestra Berlin with saxophones, trumpets, trombone, synthesizer, bass and dual drums builds a five-part suite from cued fragments, collective improvisation and open-form structures, balancing composed materials with spontaneous ensemble invention, including a striking section performed with newspapers that extends Fujii's ongoing exploration of freedom within large-ensemble composition.
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Lewiis, Bren't Ensemble: Dumb Tangerine Dream
(Krim Kram)

Collecting four long-form pieces recorded in Fair Oaks, California from 2019-2021, the Bren't Lewiis Ensemble expands its surreal musique-concrète language into spacious improvisations of loops, electronics, distressed guitar, voices, found sound and acoustic debris, balancing eerie drift with the group's characteristic burbles, squeaks, abrupt edits and absurdist interventions.

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Mela, Francisco : Carnaval De Oriente
(577 Records)

On his first solo recording, Cuban-born drummer and composer Francisco Mela transforms memories of Santiago de Cuba's annual carnival, Carnaval De Oriente, into an intimate meditation on family, place, joy and loss, performing drums, voice, glockenspiel, percussion and guitar in a fluid blend of vocal improvisation, original songs, spontaneous invention and ritual.
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Squidco Pick
 Perelman, Ivo / Matthew Shipp: Duologues 7: Distillation [5x5 ALBUM FACSIMILE WITH DOWNLOAD]
(Squid Note Records)

Marking three decades of collaboration, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp distill their remarkably intuitive improvisational language across two Park West Studios sessions recorded weeks apart, their spontaneous exchanges moving through melody, silence, density, rhythmic momentum and abrupt shifts of register with the immediacy of a conversation shaped by years of shared musical experience.
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Squidco Pick
 Stewart, Luke Exposure Quintet (w/ Vandermark / Wilkerson / BAker / Ra): In The Air And On The Ground
(RogueArt)

Bringing together DC double bassist Luke Stewart with Chicago mainstays Edward Wilkerson Jr., Ken Vandermark, Jim Baker and Avreeayl Ra, the Exposure Quintet blends collective improvisation with field recordings and samples, creating spacious, exploratory music combining saxophones, clarinets, strings, keyboards, bass and percussion with a strong sense of place.
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Sun Ra / Merzbow: Strange City [2 CDs]
(Cold Spring Records)

Rare and unreleased Sun Ra recordings from the Sun Ra archive are radically reworked by Masami Akita (Merzbow), merging Sun Ra's cosmic jazz language with dense layers of Japanese noise, feedback and electronic abrasion, collecting for the first time the material previously divided between the original vinyl and CD editions, along with the previously unreleased "Granular Jazz Part 5."
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Squidco Pick
 Ten-Toh-Maru (Fujii / Nakamura / Tenko): The One Who Walks Through The Night
(Meenna)

Vocalist Tenko, pianist Satoko Fujii and no-input mixing-board pioneer Toshimaru Nakamura form Ten-Toh-Maru for three extended free improvisations balancing wordless vocal expression, resonant and percussive piano textures, and finely controlled electronic feedback, unfolding through patient collective listening into sparse, ritualistic, abrasive and dreamlike sound environments.
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Thieke, Michael / Beat Keller: Last Breath's City Looks Kind Heart
(Ftarri)

Clarinetist Michael Thieke and guitarist Beat Keller explore microtonality, resonance and controlled feedback across six restrained improvisations, Thieke's breath-driven clarinet tones intertwining with Keller's feedbacker electric guitar in slowly shifting sustained textures where acoustic and electronic sounds blur, separate and recombine through minute changes in timbre, pitch and intensity.
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Toop, David / Ecka Mordecai / Christian Kobi: Moth Wings Beating Air Incised
(Meenna)

Recorded live at Cafe OTO in London, the first trio meeting of David Toop on flutes, objects, electronics, African fiddle and assorted sound sources, Ecka Mordecai on cello, and Christian Kobi on saxophones unfolds as a finely detailed improvisation of breath, friction, fragile resonance and charged silence, their distinct timbres continually merging into an elusive and organic sonic environment.
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Squidco Pick
 Tungu / Henry Kaiser : The Unexplained
(Klanggalerie)

The second collaboration between Ukrainian sound artist Tungu and guitarist Henry Kaiser, layering field recordings, samples and electronics with Kaiser's exploratory guitar across ten shifting electroacoustic environments, moving from atmospheric drift to fractured abstraction, with cellist Hui-Chun Lin joining the extended "Shadows That Slowly Catch Up."
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Experimental/Electronic
Dai Koelakanth: Don't Let Me Be A Burden
(Krim Kram)

A nearly hour-long solo construction from Dai Koelakanth, assembling frantic sound poetry, shouted and fractured speech, electronic noise, hiss, distorted textures and obsessive tape-style editing into a deliberately unstable audio collage, balancing abrasive outsider expression and absurd humor with an intensely personal approach to concrete poetry and radio-art composition.
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Secondson: Turn Back
(Aural Terrains)

Welsh composer Secondson reduces his electroacoustic palette to tape recorder and turntable for two extended works exploring repetition, degradation, vinyl surface noise and analogue resonance, creating slowly evolving environments between musique concrete, drone and minimalism from a 2023 session at Sail Loft Studios in Cardiff, UK.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
Kramer, Bonner / Thurston Moore: They Came Like Swallows: Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza
(Silver Current)

The first full-length collaboration between Bonner Kramer and Thurston Moore, presenting seven requiems for the children of Gaza through a somber mix of improvised guitar, bass, keyboards, sampler and voices, moving between outsider rock, ambient drift, noise and abstraction with an elegiac, often haunted atmosphere shaped by spontaneous interaction and spacious electronic textures.
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Mollestad, Hedvig Weejuns: Bitches Blues [VINYL]
(Rune Grammofon)

Guitarist Hedvig Mollestad joins Stale Storlokken on organ and synth and Ole Mofjell on drums for six wide-ranging instrumental pieces balancing riff-driven rock weight, free improvisation, lyrical rubato passages and explosive ensemble interplay, extending Weejuns' chemistry through shifting dynamics, disciplined structures and moments of cathartic chaos.
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Squidco Pick
 Rabbit Rabbit Radio (Carla Kihlstedt / Matthias Bossi): Volume 4: The Animal I Am
(Klanggalerie)

Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi's Rabbit Rabbit Radio return for their 4th volume of music poised between art rock, folk, chamber music, industrial texture and improvisation, joined by Jeremy Flower and Jon Evans as voice, strings, drums, electronics, guitars and bass shape finely crafted pieces on the border between popular music and art song, balancing experimental detail with direct emotional impact.
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The Squid Note Records Catalog
Out Now!
Duologues 7: Distillation
A new duo album from Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!

Perelman Shipp Distillation


Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith: Duologue 6: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman / Damon Smith — Duologue 6: Core of Existence
Searching tenor saxophone and commanding double bass in an intensely focused, freely improvised dialogue.

Listen / Buy

Remergency: Wave Benders

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

Listen / Buy

Daniel Levin: At Dropa House

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman: Reflective

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

Listen / Buy

Joel Futterman: Absorb

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

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Barry Chabala and 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 improvisation duo.

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The Squid's Ear

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



Masayo Koketsu / Nava Dunkelman: Veins of Rain (Relative Pitch)
Masayo Koketsu / Nava Dunkelman: Veins of Rain (Relative Pitch)

Nicolas Gombert / James Weeks: G O M B E R T (Another Timbre)
Nicolas Gombert / James Weeks: G O M B E R T (Another Timbre)

Reuben / Hanslip / Lash / Hession: Quartetics (Bead Records)
Reuben / Hanslip / Lash / Hession: Quartetics (Bead Records)

Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Duologues 7: Distillation (Squid Note Records)
Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp: Duologues 7: Distillation (Squid Note Records)

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

Marta Warelis (w/ LaMar Gay / Baars / Ng / Haker Flaten / Rosaly): Still Life with Lemons (Relative Pitch)
Marta Warelis (w/ LaMar Gay / Baars / Ng / Haker Flaten / Rosaly): Still Life with Lemons (Relative Pitch)

Maya Bennardo / Erik Blennow Calalv / Kristofer Svensson: For a Lemon Tree (Another Timbre)
Maya Bennardo / Erik Blennow Calalv / Kristofer Svensson: For a Lemon Tree (Another Timbre)

Charles K. Noyes: Blue All (zOaR)
Charles K. Noyes: Blue All (zOaR)

Marco Fusi / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Suite (Bead Records)
Marco Fusi / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Suite (Bead Records)

Dominic Lash / Mark Wastell: Polyvalent Creativity (Confront)
Dominic Lash / Mark Wastell: Polyvalent Creativity (Confront)

Amanda Irarrazabal: Imprimiendo (Relative Pitch)
Amanda Irarrazabal: Imprimiendo (Relative Pitch)

Sylvia Lim: Flare (Another Timbre)
Sylvia Lim: Flare (Another Timbre)



 Stay Current With Squidco

We're never quite caught up with new releases that constantly come in our door, and we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said, the following releases have already been stocked at Squidco, and are able to be ordered. In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release.

• You can see the newest additions to our catalog in our Just In Stock Section.

• You can see the latest fully cataloged items in our store by using our New Releases section.

• You can see Recently Restocked items on this page.

• You can ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.





Sindre Bjerga:
Most Of The World Is Empty Space
(Krim Kram)

Creep Of Paris:
Virgin Brood [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Krim Kram)

Morgan Evans-Weiler / Carlo Costa:
Object, Monochord, Circle
(Ftarri)


Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya:
Korekara
(Libra)

Andrew Jarvis M. / Diurnal Burdens :
Precedes
(Krim Kram)

David Lacey:
The Root, The Interim
(Krim Kram)


Pierre Gerard / Bruno Duplant:
Support Surface
(Ftarri)


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