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Essential Artists

• Carla Bley
• Cimota (Lonning/Reinertsen/Wiik/Haker Flaten/Hulbaekmo)
• Daggerboard The Skipper & Mike Clark
• Amy Denio
• Directives
• Ewen/Smith/Walter
• Pierre Favre Trio (Favre/Schweizer/Mraz)
• Homogenized Terrestrials
• Eva-Maria Houben (Nate Wooley)
• Matthew Langford/Andrew Weathers
• Le UN
• Simon Nabatov
• Pascal Niggenkemper/Ensemble Tuvalu
• Turbulence Orchestra
• Udo Schindler/Sergio Armaroli
• Trevor Watts/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez
• Christine Wodrascka/Bernard Santacruz
• Matthew Wright (Jerberg/Ensemble Klang/Spheric Totemic)

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Edition Wandelweiser Records
Editions Glomar
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False Walls
Klanggalerie

Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
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Sonic Transmissions Records
Subran Music
UnRec
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New Releases

Jazz & Improvisation

Bley, Carla: Joyful Noise (Live In Hamburg 1984) [2 CDs]
(Made in Germany Music)

A 1984 live recording from Carla Bley captures her ten-piece ensemble in a vibrant NDR Jazzworkshop performance, blending sly humor, unconventional harmonies, and inventive orchestration, as a stellar lineup channels tightly focused interplay and exuberant energy into a richly expressive, witty, and dynamically charged large ensemble set.

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Squidco Pick

Cimota (Lonning / Reinertsen / Wiik / Haker Flaten / Hulbaekmo): [Cimota] [VINYL]
(Sonic Transmissions Records)

A Norwegian quintet led by Håvard Wiik, bringing together Eivind Lønning, Espen Reinertsen, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Hans Hulbækmo in a dynamic set that balances composed structures with free improv, blending post-bop lyricism, intricate ensemble interplay, and spacious, timbre-focused passages into a fluid and contemporary jazz expression.

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Daggerboard The Skipper & Mike Clark: Dagger Board The Skipper and Mike Clark
(Wide Hive)

Led by Headhunters drummer Mike Clark and bassist Henry Franklin, this richly orchestrated large-ensemble session blends jazz, funk, fusion, Afro-Latin rhythm, and chamber textures through ten original compositions featuring vibrant arrangements, fluid improvisation, and an expansive Bay Area ensemble including violin, cello, trombone, saxophone, guitar, piano, percussion, and French horn.

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Squidco Pick

Ewen / Smith / Walter: Untitled (2)
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Reuniting more than a decade after their explosive 2011 debut, guitarist Sandy Ewen, bassist Damon Smith, and percussionist Weasel Walter deliver a fiercely focused free improv session recorded with vivid clarity, balancing dense collective eruptions, microscopic textural detail, and deeply evolved ensemble interplay shaped in part through years performing together in Roscoe Mitchell's quartet.

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Squidco Pick

Favre, Pierre Trio (Favre / Schweizer / Mraz): Bird Food
(Songs)

Captured in 1968 in Zurich and long shelved before its recent discovery, this early trio session brings Pierre Favre, Irene Schweizer, and George Mraz together in a concise, fiery set of attentive free jazz, balancing Ornette Coleman's title piece with Schweizer's compositions, where dynamic interplay and acute listening reveal a nascent yet fully engaged collective voice.

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Langford, Matthew / Andrew Weathers: Stipple
(Editions Glomar)

A site-responsive duo recording from trumpeter Matthew Langford and saxophonist Andrew Weathers, using an emptied pool's reflective acoustics to shape a restrained and textural free improv of breath, resonance, and ambient detail, where sustained tones and environmental sound merge into a focused exploration of space, duration, and the physical limits of performance.

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Squidco Pick

Nabatov, Simon: Getting Personal [2 CDs]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Pianist and composer Simon Nabatov leads two extraordinary ensembles featuring Frank Gratkowski, Angelika Niescier, Ina Stock, and Lucia Mense through deeply personal compositions balancing chamber-jazz lyricism, contemporary classical textures, and adventurous free improv, transforming introspective and emotionally charged themes into richly layered collective expression.

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Squidco Pick

Niggenkemper, Pascal / Ensemble Tuvalu: D'Une Rive A L'Autre [CD+DVD]
(Subran Music)

Bassist Pascal Niggenkemper leads Ensemble Tuvalu in an immersive CD+DVD work inspired by the climate-threatened Pacific island nation, uniting brass, reeds, accordions, strings, voices, and resonant sound installations in a genre-crossing meditation on ecology, displacement, and community, with the audience surrounded by the ensemble in performance and the DVD capturing a live concert realization.

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Turbulence Orchestra: Molecular Diffusion
(Evil Clown)

Gathering seven horn players, bass, percussion, electronics, with real-time signal processing, David Peck's Turbulence Orchestra delivers a large-ensemble free improv performance balancing dense brass and reed eruptions with richly varied percussion, electronics, and found-sound textures, evolving through steadily transforming sonorities and broad-spectrum collective interplay.

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Udo Schindler / Sergio Armaroli: Transalpine Sound Bridges (Munich-Milano) [2 CDs]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Through exchanged realtime recordings rather than direct performance, multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler and vibraphonist/percussionist Sergio Armaroli create an intimate two-CD session of exploratory free improv, with Schindler responding on soprano saxophone, clarinets, flutes, and cornet to Armaroli's vibraphone pieces in a fluid virtual dialog inspired by the alpine passage between Munich and Milan.

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Squidco Pick

Watts, Trevor / Barry Guy / Ramon Lopez: The First Touch
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Reconnecting generations of European free improv, legendary saxophonist Trevor Watts joins longtime collaborator Barry Guy and percussionist Ramon Lopez for a fiercely interactive trio session balancing ecstatic energy, disciplined abstraction, and deeply responsive interplay, as decades of shared musical history erupt into vivid collective expression, explosive rhythmic momentum, and emotionally charged spontaneity.

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Wodrascka, Christine / Bernard Santacruz: Oblic
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

The duo of pianist Christine Wodrascka and bassist Bernard Santacruz create an intricate and mercurial dialog of free improv, balancing lyrical abstraction, percussive tension, and elastic interplay as the two musicians continuously reshape parallel narratives through intimate exchanges, textural contrasts, and restless sonic transformations that drift between delirious energy, shadowy atmospheres, and moments of fragile silence.

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Squidco Pick

Wright, Matthew (Jerberg / Ensemble Klang / Spheric Totemic): Cracked Glaze
(False Walls)

Commissioned for Ensemble Klang's Musical Utopias festival, Matthew Wright leads a twelve-piece ensemble with Sofia Jernberg and Spheric Totemic in a large-scale work structured around a slowly descending tonal "spine," where notated layers and timed frameworks intersect with free improv, while live sampling and post-production deepen the shifting interplay between form, texture, and sonic perspective.

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Experimental/Electronic

Directives: Reconsolid [CASSETTE]
(Aubjects)

A solo work from D. Petri assembling three cassette-based recordings from 2016-2017, blending abstract guitar voicings with prepared tapes across partially and fully improvised performances, where lo-fi textures and fragmented structures reflect memory reconsolidation, reshaping emotional resonance through layered, obscured, and reassembled sonic material.

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Squidco Pick

Homogenized Terrestrials : Shadows Think Twice
(Aubjects)

An electronic project from Phillip Klampe following his album The Contaminist, this 16-track release assembles cerebral atmospheres and surreal soundscapes from layered textures and abstract tonal fragments, where familiar and obscure elements blur into shifting, otherworldly environments that invite immersive listening and subtle psychological dislocation.

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Squidco Pick

Le UN: 25 Pieces Sans Vide [3 CDs]
(UnRec)

Documenting the expansive collective practice of the French improvising ensemble Le UN across three CDs recorded between 2021 and 2022, this large-scale set brings together 25 performers working in shifting formations through free improv unconstrained by score or direction, exploring acoustics, public spaces, environmental interaction, and richly textural electro-acoustic interplay.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Squidco Pick

Denio, Amy: Tutto Bene Vol. II
(Klanggalerie)

A wide-ranging solo and collaborative release from Amy Denio, this eclectic set blends voice, accordion, clarinet, guitars, bass, percussion, electronics, and field recordings across composed, improvised, and live performances, weaving jazz, avant-garde, and global influences into a playful, genre-blurring sonic journey rich in texture, storytelling, and inventive ensemble interplay.

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Composed & Contemporary

Houben, Eva-Maria (Nate Wooley): Chanting Ballads
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Commissioned for the for/with series, Eva-Maria Houben presents a long-form work for Nate Wooley's trumpet, voice, and whistling, where sparse, precisely placed tones unfold in a meditative arc, expanding from an early performance into a deeply considered exploration of pure timbre, attentive listening, and the subtle interplay between composition and free improv.

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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: Barry Chabala & Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost

Blending acoustic guitars, clarinets, accordion, voice and found objects, Barry Chabala and Clara Byom craft a deeply intuitive duo session that moves between unedited studio improvs and expanded "extractions," weaving folk-inflected fragments, graphic score realizations and haunting textures into a raw yet lyrical free improv language shaped by trust, contrast and evolving interplay.

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Also Available Now

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 in May
Ivo Perelman & Damon Smith — Duologue: Core of Existence

Ivo Perelman & Damon Smith — Duologue: Core of Existence

Continuing his expansive Duologues series, saxophonist Ivo Perelman joins bassist Damon Smith for a deeply interactive session where spontaneous form emerges through close listening and exchange, their lines intertwining with fluid lyricism and raw intensity, mapping a dynamic terrain of free improv that reflects both distinct voices and a shared, evolving musical language.

Pre-Order on Bandcamp

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

James Opstad: Drift (Another Timbre)

Taborn / Cline / Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic Records)

Fonda, Joe Quartet (w/ Wadada Leo Smith / Satoko Fujii / Tizano Tononi): Eyes On The Horizon (Long Song Records)

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

Ray Anderson / Joe Hertenstein Quartet feat. Michael Moore & Michael Formanek: The 7th Dinner Live (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Ivo Perelman / Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance Music)

Mike Westbrook: The Piano In The Room And The Blues (ALAY)

Martin Escalante / Charlie Mumma / Tete Leguia: This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear Records)

Jerome Deupree / Sylvie Courvoisier / Lester St. Louis / Joe Morris: Canyon (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Eldritch Priest: Dead-wall Reveries (Another Timbre)

Barry Chabala / Clara Byom: Bella's Ghost (Squid Note Records)

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.

Centrifugal Quartet (feat Mia Dyberg / Antonio Borgini / Michael Griener / Antonio Borghini): Industry (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))	Mandhira DeSaram / Steve Beresford / John Edwards: Felix (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))	HCK / STR / ZBL: Koln 60 (Creative Sources)
Amanda Irarrazabal : Imprimiendo (Relative Pitch)	JOSILEMI (featuring Joe Fonda / Silke Eberhard / Emil Gross): Hear This (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))	Mike Khoury: For Hind Rajab (Relative Pitch)
Lazro / Leandre / Lovens: For Baritone Sax, Double Bass and Drumset (Relative Pitch)	Cath Roberts / Olie Brice: Setpieces (Relative Pitch)	Turtle Boat (Chebolu / Burgoyne / DiPiero): Fear is Heavy, I've Got Plans ... (Amalgam)
VoiceAct (feat Jim Black): Bee Space (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))	Mike Westbrook Orchestra: The Cortege Live At The BBC 1980 [2CDs] (Cadillac Records)

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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