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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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Squidco & The Squid's Ear

UPDATE
August 14, 2026

"Art, for me,
And especially music,
As I understand it,
Has the power to offer an alternate experience of being in the world."
— Kassel Jaeger

 Essential Artists

• Sophie Agnel / Joke Lanz
• Lao Dan Chicago Quartet
• Amir ElSaffar/New Quartet
• Eventless Plot | Francesco Covarino
• Eventless Plot | Haarvol
• Eventless Plot | Yorgos Dimitriadis
• Hartmut Geerken/Chris Trent
• Mats Gustafsson/Kimmo Pohjonen
• Tom Jackson/Daniel Thompson
• Kassel Jaeger
• Leap Of Faith
• Nick Mazzarella
• Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez
• Shoko Numao
• Perturbations
• Schlippenbach Trio
• Josh Sinton
• Sonic Fiction Special (Gratkowski/Strobl/Graewe/Hemingway) feat. Earl Howard
• Sopa Boba
• Laura Strobl/Georg Graewe/Mark Sanders
• Adia Vanheerentals
• Verona Sextet (Armaroli/Buck/Gemmo/Mayas/Piccolo/Sharp)
• Otomo Yoshihide/Kei Matsumaru

 Essential Labels

Art Yard
Black Truffle
Cien Fuegos
Confront
Corbett vs. Dempsey
elsewhere
Evil Clown
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
FiP recordings

 Innovo Editions
Klanggalerie
Maqam Records
Random Acoustics
Relative Pitch
Sub Rosa
Tao Forms
Trost Records

 New Releases & Price Reductions

Jazz & Improvisation
Agnel, Sophie / Joke Lanz: Ella
(Klanggalerie)

An exciting meeting of French pianist Sophie Agnel, known for her extended and prepared piano techniques, and Swiss turntablist Joke Lanz, renowned for his work in noise, experimental music, and performance art, presenting a dynamic and playful duo of spontaneous improvisation blending percussive textures, sonic collage, and energetic interaction revealing a sense of humor and awe.
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Squidco Pick
 Dan, Lao Chicago Quartet: Klotski
(Trost Records)

Bringing Chicago-based Chinese multi-instrumentalist Lao Dan together with pianist Mabel Kwan, bassist Joshua Abrams, and percussionist Michael Zerang, this 2024 quartet set moves through volatile collective improvisation, contrasting Dan's searing tenor saxophone with the crystalline colors of Chinese flute and suona amid dense, responsive ensemble interplay.
Buy $18.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 Dan, Lao Chicago Quartet: Klotski [VINYL]
(Trost Records)

Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
Buy $35.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 ElSaffar, Amir / New Quartet : Live at Pierre Boulez Saal [VINYL]
(Maqam Records)

Blending Arabic maqam with jazz-inflected improvisation, ElSaffar's new quartet — joined by Tania Giannouli, Ole Mathisen, and Tomas Fujiwara — delivers an intense and expressive live performance whose spontaneous, newly composed material unfolds with lyrical depth, microtonal color, and dynamic interplay, captured at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal with additional alternate takes.
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Eventless Plot | Francesco Covarino: Methexis [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Innovo Editions)

A textural and quietly immersive collaboration between Italian percussionist Francesco Covarino and Greek trio Eventless Plot, combining modular synth, field recordings, percussion, and tapes in an intricate 2024 live studio session that continues the exploratory cassette ethos of Covarino's TSSS label through Innovo Editions' equally intimate and tactile aesthetic.
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Squidco Pick
 Eventless Plot | Haarvol: The Subliminal Paths [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Innovo Editions)

An intimate, restrained electroacoustic collaboration between Eventless Plot and Haarvöl, unfolding in two extended, meditative movements that explore a nuanced dialogue between piano, field recordings, tapes, and electronic expression, gradually revealing layered sonic detail and immersive depth through spacious, dramatic momentum.
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Squidco Pick
 Eventless Plot | Yorgos Dimitriadis: Entanglements [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Innovo Editions)

A rich electroacoustic dialogue recorded in Greece, Entanglements teams the hybrid percussion/modular-objects trio Eventless Plot with Berlin sound sculptor Yorgos Dimitriadis, layering responsive drum gestures, electronics, tape, samplers, and modular synth in a live performance that blurs composition and improvisation into immersive, intricate sonic interplay.
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Gustafsson, Mats / Kimmo Pohjonen: Two Balls Are Enough
(Trost Records)

Pairing Mats Gustafsson's saxophones, flutes, electronics and assorted winds with Kimmo Pohjonen's electro-acoustic accordion and voice, this debut duo album moves between composed and improvised terrain, fusing forceful rhythmic drive, extreme dynamics and electronic transformation with unexpected passages of folk-inflected lyricism and spacious, highly responsive interplay.
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Jackson, Tom / Daniel Thompson: Dark Kitchen
(Confront)

An intimate, immersive duo recording in which Tom Jackson's finely articulated clarinet and Daniel Thompson's responsive, highly attuned guitar create a richly expressive terrain of spontaneous sound, channeling the spirit of free improvisation's pioneers in a deeply communicative exchange of timbre, space, and dynamic nuance.
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Leap Of Faith: Conditional Expectations
(Evil Clown)

Reuniting the long-running Leap of Faith core of PEK and cellist Glynis Lomon with brass multi-instrumentalist John Fugarino, this intimate 2026 trio improvisation ranges across reeds, cello, brass, electronics, percussion and voice, shaped in real time by Joel Simches into a dense but highly responsive chamber-scale exploration of shifting timbres and ensemble relationships.
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Squidco Pick
 Mazzarella, Nick: Siena Sessions
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Joining alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella with bassist Silvia Bolognesi and drummer Cristiano Calcagnile, with trumpeter Emanuele Marsico added on two pieces, this 2025 Siena session moves through previously unrecorded originals, open improvisation, piquant balladry, and freebop heat with supple interaction, melodic clarity, and a finely balanced blend of precision and freedom.
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Moten, Fred / Brandon Lopez: Revision [VINYL]
(Tao Forms)

Poet and theorist Fred Moten joins bassist Brandon Lopez in their first duo recording, a powerful and searching dialog of voice, text, and bass, recorded at Greyfade Studios, where Moten's incisive spoken word and Lopez's deeply expressive playing fuse into an evocative exploration of Black cultural production, resistance, and creative solidarity.
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Perturbations: Aberrations
(Evil Clown)

Centering Joel Simches' real-time signal processing within a compact improvising unit, this 2026 Perturbations session joins PEK and Michael Caglianone on reeds with brass multi-instrumentalist John Fugarino, moving through spacious, continuously transforming textures of winds, electronics, percussion, and auxiliary instruments shaped by aggressive live electronic manipulation.
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Squidco Pick
 Schlippenbach Trio: Elf Bagatellen [DOUBLE VINYL]
(Cien Fuegos)

Capturing the Schlippenbach Trio, one of European free jazz's foundational ensembles, in a more distilled and compositionally focused mode, this 1990 session with Evan Parker on soprano & tenor saxophones, von Schlippenbach on piano, and Paul Lovens on drums and cymbals unfolds through eleven concise improvisations of taut interplay, fractured lyricism, and chamber-like precision.
Buy $54.95Listen
Squidco Pick
 Sinton, Josh: Couloir & Book Of Practitioners Vol. 2 Book "W" [2 CDs]
(FiP recordings)

Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton continues his deep engagement with Steve Lacy's saxophone etudes in this 2-CD release, presenting fifteen spontaneous solo improvisations on Couloir, alongside a meticulous yet personal interpretation of Lacy's Book of Practitioners Vol. 2 "W", a suite of six structured études that explore sonic character through repetition, variation, and improvisation.
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Squidco Pick
 Sonic Fiction Special (Gratkowski / Strobl / Graewe / Hemingway) feat. Earl Howard: Banding Patterns
(Random Acoustics)

Reducing Georg Graewe's Sonic Fiction concept to an agile chamber group with Frank Gratkowski, Laura Strobl and Gerry Hemingway, joined by Earl Howard on electronics and alto saxophone, this 2025 Cologne session unfolds through nine intricate improvisations where acoustic counterpoint, extended timbres and electronic transformation continually reshape the ensemble's shifting sonic relationships.
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Strobl, Laura / Georg Graewe / Mark Sanders: Acutance
(Random Acoustics)

Bringing violist Laura Strobl together with pianist Georg Graewe and drummer Mark Sanders, this 2025 Vienna session presents eleven freely improvised chamber pieces in which fleeting melodies, abstract gestures, and sharply contrasted textures coalesce into poised, intricate forms, highlighting the trio's acute responsiveness and the viola's distinctive role within the ensemble.
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Vanheerentals, Adia: Taking Place [CD + DOWNLOAD]
(Relative Pitch)

Asked to rethink the solo sax format, Adia Vanheerentals transforms this release into a series of site-responsive improvisations, engaging the soprano sax in active dialogue with surrounding environments — echoing spaces, incidental sounds, and ambient noise — using extended techniques, breath & texture to shape concise statements where location is a partner in an open improvisational framework.
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Squidco Pick
 Verona Sextet (Armaroli / Buck / Gemmo / Mayas / Piccolo / Sharp): Leap And Bounds
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

The Verona Sextet develops fluid stream-of-consciousness improvised music of shifting textures, fractured rhythms, resonant percussion and electroacoustic detail, merging Sergio Armaroli's vibraphone, Tony Buck's drums, Francesca Gemmo and Magda Mayas on piano and prepared piano, Steve Piccolo's electronics and voice, and Elliott Sharp on guitar and soprano saxophone.
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Yoshihide, Otomo / Kei Matsumaru: Shutsumin
(Trost Records)

Uniting Otomo Yoshihide on guitar and turntable with alto/soprano saxophonist and electronic musician Kei Matsumaru, this live Tokyo duo moves fluidly between free jazz, noise and electroacoustic abstraction, their quicksilver exchanges, abrasive textures and sudden shifts of density evoking the album's theme of the unstable, hallucinatory passage between sleep and wakefulness.
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Experimental/Electronic
Squidco Pick
 Jaeger, Kassel: Fernweh [VINYL]
(Black Truffle)

A major work in Kassel Jaeger's catalog, blending musique concrète and electronic synthesis into a drifting, immersive soundscape across two LP sides, shifting through abstract environments rich with elusive textures and hidden detail, as subtle rhythms and concrete sounds evoke a sense of motion, memory, and a yearning that echoes the meaning behind the album's title: a deep longing to travel.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
Sopa Boba: That Moment
(Sub Rosa)

Blending spoken word, modern classical strings, and harsh modular synths, Belgian/Dutch ensemble Sopa Boba crafts a striking electronic-orchestral oratorio based on Moldavian writer Nicoleta Esinencu's That Moment, unraveling a dark, satirical narrative of capitalist excess through seven gripping movements that merge caustic irony with haunting sonic textures.
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Composed & Contemporary
Numao, Shoko: The Siwnin Sails
(elsewhere)

A debut solo album of eight songs for voice and guitar from Japanese singer-songwriter Shoko Numao, blending poetic introspection, translucent vocal timbres, and quietly expressive melodies shaped through years of performance, as she crafts intimate, subtly shifting pieces that balance lyrical clarity with a gentle, atmospheric sense of stillness.
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Books & Magazines
Squidco Pick
 Geerken, Hartmut / Chris Trent: Omniverse Sun Ra (Expanded And Revised 3rd Edition: 2026) [BOOK]
(Art Yard)

Originally published in 1994, Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent's comprehensive reference of Sun Ra includes a pictorial and annotated discography, essays and photo documents, photographs; this 3rd edition adds new photographs, photo documents, and essays.
Buy $79.95




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 from Squid Note Records
The Stateless Trio: In the Sunrise of Some Other World

The Stateless Trio: In the Sunrise of Some Other World

Developed through remote, spontaneously layered exchanges between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Minnesota, Rick Countryman's alto flute, replacing his customary alto saxophone, joins Richard Allan Bates' electric bass and effects and Steve Hirsh's reflective drumming in an organically connected improvisation of spacious textures, subtle rhythmic tension, and lyrical interaction.

Listen / Buy

The Squid Note Records Catalog
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.

Listen / Buy

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.

Listen / Buy

Coming to Squid Note Records in September:
a new duo album from Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp!


The Squid's Ear

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



Ryoji Ikeda: Supercodex (Raster-Norton)
Ryoji Ikeda: Supercodex (Raster-Norton)

Motif with Axel Dorner: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)
Motif with Axel Dorner: Art Transplant (Clean Feed)

Mary Halvorson / Hubert Bergmann: MixTour (Mudoks Records)
Mary Halvorson / Hubert Bergmann: MixTour (Mudoks Records)

Olivia Block: Olivia Block ()
Olivia Block: Olivia Block ()

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

Thanos Chrysakis: Vita Morgana (Aural Terrains)
Thanos Chrysakis: Vita Morgana (Aural Terrains)

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

Kenny Wheeler Sextet: What Was (False Walls)
Kenny Wheeler Sextet: What Was (False Walls)

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

Marty Ehrlich / Julius Hemphill: Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch)
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)
Steve Swell / Ellen Christi: Songs from the Poetry Box (The Bodily Press)



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