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![]() Jon Doe One (d'Hoine / De Backer): Sol Invictus [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An album celebrating the unconquerable sun, imagined through rhythm, reeds, bass and sonic landscape, composed by Antwerp double bassist Hannes d'Hoine with multi-reedist Hanne De Backer on bass clarinet & baritone saxophone, slowly unfolding in light and dark tones and steady momentum, neither ambient nor excessive but richly building arrangements through which light emerges. |
![]() Wegmann, Judith / Marlies Debacker / Lukas Biner / Nicolas Wolf: Things In Between (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Featuring two pianists--Judith Wegmann and Marlies Debacker--and two percussionists--Lukas Briner and Nicolas Wolf (a duo who play concerts in the dark under the name of Night Shadow Noise)--in collective improvisations of two pianists or as a quartet of duel pianists and drummers, for seven exciting and sophisticated recordings of instant composition. |
![]() Inlay Ensemble (Price / Bishop / St Jacques): Songs for Habitual People (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Led by Sydney, Australia double bassist and composer Elsen Price, the Inlay Ensemble with violist Carl St. Jacque and violinist Susie Bishop merges contemporary composed and improvisational styles in an album with each piece reflecting a distinct mood based off a single motif, creating unique perspectives that the ensemble develops through improvisation. |
![]() Moller, Andre O. / Hans Eberhard Maldfeld: Out Of A Matrix (Partially) (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer Andre O. Moller's work for solo double bass, performed by Hans Eberhard Maldfeld, was inspired by Moller's fascination in just tuning & rational frequency relations and an admiration for the work of Hans Eberhard Maldfeld, presented compositionally as a group of 7 pieces for 5-stringed double bass and pre-produced playback, creating a virtual double bass choir. |
![]() Hope, Cat: Decibel (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock A diverse set of works from Australian composer Cat Hope, employing acoustic instrumentation--strings, keys, flutes, reeds & percussion--along with electronics and field recordings, in chamber configurations from duos to quintets, performed by the Western Australia Decibel new music ensemble for which Hope is both director and a performer. |
![]() Musicworks: #141 WINTER 2021/2022 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Winter 2021/22 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine explores the creative ideas of artists engaged in beautiful, daring musical acts of innovation, celebration, and resistance--Alanna Stuard, Yves Charuest, Roxanne Nesbitt, New Age Doom & Lee Scratch Perry--plus Beny Esguerra, Jessica McMann, Juro Kim Feliz, Backward Music; and recorded & live reviews, features, &c. &c. |
![]() Studio Dan / Anthony Coleman: ...Im Gebirg (ROS -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock In 2019, the Ensemble Studio Dan commissioned Downtown New York composer and pianist Anthony Coleman for a new work, fluctuating in fascinating ways between contemporary music and jazz forms, premiered at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival and also presented in Vienna at the Jeunesse Special 2019, live at Porgy and Bess, from which this album was superbly recorded. |
![]() Studio Dan / Christian F. Schiller: HOHNOR [CD-EP] (ROS -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A chamber music piece for two harmonicas and an ensemble of strings, brass and drums, written by Austrian composer Christian F. Schiller, originally premiered at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York in 2017 by the Austrian new music ensemble Studio Dan directed by Daniel Riegler, who perform the work again in the studio in Vienna in 2019 for this album release. |
![]() Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Lunar Error: Plafond De Verre (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The French Lunar Error Ensemble employ acoustic and electric instruments including reeds, piano, percussion, electric guitars, synth & computers to create complex drone and sonic environments, here performing Jean-Luc Guionnet's work for micro-variations and harmonic interference, a slowly building and massive work recorded in the resonance of the Protestant temple, in Reims. |
![]() Drifting Box Celebration : Noeud-Col (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $9.85 ![]() ![]() In Stock Since 2010 the French band Drifting Box Celebration has blurred the lines between jazz, free improvisation and contemporary compositional music, led by drummer and composer Sylvain Marty and here with Stephane Arbon on double bass, Franck Pilandon on saxophones, Clement Gibert on clarinet & saxophone, David Audinet on trombone and Alexandre Peronny on cello. |
![]() Ellestad, Mark: Discreet Angel (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three chamber works by Calgary, Canadian composer Mark Ellestad composed between 1988 and 1994 and recently retrieved by the composer, including the title track, a graceful solo guitar work performed by Christián Alvear; a meditative piece for pump organ & Hardanger fiddle performed by the composer; and a large work for violin and cello performed by Apartment House. |
![]() Shim, Kunsu: LUFT.INNERES (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Six chamber works for strings by Korean composer and Fluxus performance artist Kunsu Shim, performed by the Luna String Quartet, "specialists in quiet music", along with six short pieces written for Kunsu by composer friends and collaborators, including Arnold Marinissen, Ammon Wolman, Alwynne Pritchard, Nicolaus A. Huber, Gerhard Stabler and Anton Lukoszeviez |
![]() Andric, Andreja: Winter Solstice (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Their association stretching back to their time together in music school, pianist Anita Tomasevich is the perfect interpreter of Serbian composer Andreja Andric's December, exploring a single minor chord in each of six movements, challenging the performer to explore shades of tone color by working through gradual changes; plus Meditation (II) for 2 pianists. |
![]() Fox, Christopher: Hieroglyphs (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three works from English composer Christopher Fox performed by the five-member Ensemble SEV, with two renderings of his work "This is the Wind" along with three duos, each combining two of a set of six "Paralogos", a solo work for violin--"Planes and Folds"--and the title piece "Hieroglyph" about decoding the incomprehensibility of unfamiliar music. |
![]() Houben, Eva-Maria : John Muir Trails (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four compositions depicting the John Muir Trails, a high-quality set of biking trails near Madison and Milwaukee two hours from Chicago, composed by Eva-Maria Houben and performed by the West Coast percussion duo DesoDuo of Katie Eikam and Kevin Good, portraying the trails through bowed cymbals, marimba & vibraphone along with field recordings from the outdoor ambiance. |
![]() Seuthe, Marei: Microcosms (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock A member of London Improvisers Orchestra, Wuppertaler Improvisationsorchester, and Insub Meta Orchestra Geneva, cellist Marei Seuthe is primarily involved with classical chamber music, contemporary music, music theatre, but here exposes her playing in a solo sonic exploration of microscopic intent performed on every inch of the cello. |
![]() Gerard, Pierre: A Simple Eye (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Putting less focus on the strings and more into sonic environments, French guitarist Pierre Gerard releases a set of eight abstract compositions for voice, guitar, cello, piano, violin, bass clarinet, electronics & field recordings, intended for random playing, employing silence and active sections to catch the passive or background listener off guard. |
![]() Naegelen, Karl / Toma Gouband / Sylvain Darrifourcq: Cartographie de rythmes - Vitesse Approchante (Umlaut Records -- Sweden / France / Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Five varied and fascinating percussion duos under the title "Rhythm Mapping - Approximating Velocity" from French composer Karl Naegelen and performed by the duo of Sylvain Darrifourcq and Toma Gouband, both using traditional drums and percussion along with objects and vegetal lithophones (a collection of plants and stones); an innovative, upbeat and compelling album. |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 2 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (7272music -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd installment in percussionist Matt Weston's opera for percussion and electronics in a limited cassette + download, a cantankerous set of recordings that alternate disruption with introspectively unusual techniques realized through graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores, each piece a narrative exploring mental health struggles as they develop over time. |
![]() Bondi, Cyril : Ce Qu'il Nous Restera (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Insub.Meta director Cyril Bondi developed this work to question the life course of an artist--their starting point, daily routines and essence--realized through sound and narration in an intimate soundscape of six artists who converge, converse, accompany and answer each other, accompanied by sounds made during warm-ups, rituals and rehearsals. |
![]() Monach, Greta: Fonerga (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Playful in its seriousness, the sound poetry of Greta Monach (1928-2018), an early proponent of computer generated concrete poetry, and known for her notated sound poem series for four voices, "Fonerga", is performed by University of Victoria voice artists Cathy Fern Lewis, Laura Brandes, Daniel Brandes and Christopher Butterfield; awe-inspiring and exotically amusing. |
![]() Schiller, Christoph: 24 Stucke Fur Ein Tasteninstrument (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock 24 short works for clavichord from German composer Christoph Schiller and performed by French keyboardist Ed Williams (Heard Of Bears, TANDEM, Grand 8 Ensemble), slowly developing pieces that bring clusters of notes like falling leaves that slowly fade into silence, thoughtful works of space around unanticipated clusters, presented as groups of "Fuge" variations. |
![]() Underriner, Chaz: Meditations (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer and sound artist Chaz Underriner composed these eight meditation in 2021 during residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the NYU Music Technology studios, recorded at Stetson University in Florida with an ensemble including four vocalists, cello, piano, percussion, electronics and field recordings; beautifully introspective and thought provoking works. |
![]() Now Orchestra & Marilyn Crispell: Pola (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock "... I regard the NOW Orchestra as one of the finest large creative ensembles active in the last decade. The combinations of high levels of individual creativity and virtuosity with a strong sense of collectivity is a rare and treasured combination that the NOW Orchestra manifests very strongly..."-George Lewis, Earshot Jazz |
![]() Zethson, Alex Ensemble: Some Of Them Were Never Unprepared [VINYL] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $22.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Exploring how a composition can provide a sense of weightlessness, and influenced by the music of gamelan, krautrock, Tony Conrad & Arnold Dreyblatt, composer Alex Zethson structured these works to influence the 13 performers in his ensemble into a state of intense focus and listening as they strike, bow and pluck their instruments, creating an ecstatic sense of infinite motion. |
![]() Quatuor Bozzini: Tom Johnson: Combinations (Collection QB -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Montreal string quartet Quatuor Bozzini (Alissa Cheung-violin, Clemens Merkel-violin, Stephanie Bozzini-viola, Isabelle Bozzini-cello) continue their investigation of avant composers, focusing on American composer Tom Johnson through three works or minimalist precision: "Combinations for String Quartet"; "Tilework" and "Four-Note Chords in Four Voices". |
![]() Ceccarelli, Isaiah: Toute Clarte m'est Obscure (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A profound contemporary work integrating improvisation into composed forms from Montreal composer and percussionist Isaiah Ceccarelli and performed by an ensemble of 16 Musique Actuelle improvisers and performers, beautifully balanced between diverse instrumental passages and texts inspired by different poetical and musical forms of the past; sublime. |
![]() Bakker, Anne / Rene Aquarius / Rutger Zuydervelt: Hallucine (Consouling Sounds -- The Netherlands ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composed from a combination of violin, percussion, vocals, field recordings & electronics by Rutger Zuydervelt, who initially merged unrelated recordings from violinist Anne Bakker (also on harmonica, kazoo & saw) and percussionist & sound artist Rene Aquarius, all three then overdubbing and editing the work to create this fascinating tapestry of hallucinogenic sound. |
![]() Zuydervelt, Rutger / Hugo Dijkstal / Peter Hollo: BERG (Music for a film by Joke Olthaar) (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two versions of the soundtrack to the Dutch movie BERG composed by Rutger Zuydervelt, the first rearranging the tracks to the piece to create a long-form work that maintains the meditative qualities of the movie; then an early score proposal and more active concept than the final work, developed with recordings of improvisations from cellist Peter Hollo. |
![]() Scholz, Kristine: Plays Otte And Cage (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd solo album from Sweden-based pianist and Merce Cunningham-collaborator Kristine Scholz, performing on a 1921 Steinway & Sons Model A piano, recording four movements from composer Hans Otte's seminal work "Das Buch der Klänge" (1979-82), and an interpretation of John Cage's "Music for Piano 4-19", compatible pieces from two contemporary and visionary composers. |
![]() Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions. |
![]() Quartetski (Ceccarelli / Falaise / Lauzier / Martel): Cage (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Quartetski--the Montereal quartet of Isaiah Ceccarelli on percussion & synthesizer, Bernard Falaise on electric guitar, Philippe Lauzier on bass clarinet & synthesizer and Pierre on Yves Martel on electric bass, perform John Cage's 1992 Numbers work "Four6" and "One7", a variation on "Four6", an incredible and insightful interpretation of this fascinating work. |
![]() Banabila, Michel: Movements (music for dance) [VINYL 2 LPs + DOWNLOAD] (Tapu Records -- Netherlands ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock 2nd Offering: Electroacoustic composer Michel Banabila compiles his dynamic works for dance & movement in this beautifully pressed limited double LP, presenting two 2019 works--'Dragonfly II' for "A Trace of Inevitability" (Yin Yue - Pennsylvania Ballet), and "Illicit Acquirement" for "Enough" (Patrick O"Brien - CUNY Dance Initiative)--and six prior pieces featuring his work with Conny Janssen Danst & Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. |
![]() Kalman, Egil / Fredrik Rasten: Weaving a Fabric of Winds [VINYL] (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $20.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Swedish bass player Egil Kalman, here on modular syntheizer, joins Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten, for a lovely album of drifting electronics and beautifully entwining acoustic guitar, unhurriedly developing environments of warm, slowly evolving chord structures that show influences from players like Catherine Lamb or the Wandelweiser collective. |
![]() Moser, Michael: Antiphon Stein [2 Vinyl LPs] (Edition Rz -- Austria ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $26.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A site-specific sound installation in the nave and choir of Minoritenkirche in Krems/Stein that engages with the architecture and sound of this church space from composer Michael Moser working with Berndt Thurner, Klaus Lang, Hannah Schwegler and Nik Hummer. |
![]() Scherchen, Hermann: Orchesterproben Ludwig Van Beethoven 6. Sinfonie [VINYL] (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock An historical recording of Hermann Scherchen directing the RTSI Orchestra in a rehearsal of Beethoven's 6th Symphony, 1964, one of the works Scherchen is most associated with. |
![]() Svendsen, Christian Meaas : Avin [VINYL LP] (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $20.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Known more for his double bass work, Christian Meaas Svendsen releases a stunningly beautiful album of unusually orchestrated pop songs with an 8-piece band of Nordic improvisers and performers, a dramatic album of tension and release which, despite lyrics in Norwegian, draws all listeners in through inventive and innovative musical structures. |
![]() Akchote / Halvorson / Frisell: Loving Highsmith [2 CDs] (Ayler Records -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $21.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The soundtrack to the documentary Loving Highsmith about thriller novelist Patricia Highsmith, with music composed by Belgium guitarist Noël Akchoté along with pieces by Cole Porter, Mancini, Johnny Mercer, Frank Sinatra, Hildegard von Bingen, Carl Fischer, &c, presented in two CDs, one each of duets between Akchoté and New York guitarists Mary Halvorson and Bill Frisell. |
![]() Blaser, Samuel / Oscar Stranoy / Luciano Berio: Ensemble Songs & Sarah Maria Sun : Folk Songs (Blaser Music -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.05 ![]() ![]() In Stock The project and ensemble "Songs" brings together Swiss trombonist & composer Samuel Blaser and pianist & composer Oscar Strasnoy, taking the instrumentation and concept of Lucio Berio's Folksongs and expanding it into Blaser's "Worksongs", a set of songs around Mississippi Delta blues, and Strasnoy's "Chanzuns Popularas Rumanchas" based on the traditional music of the Canton of Grisons. |
![]() Sugimoto, Taku: Octet (Meenna -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Part of Japanese composer Taku Sugimoto's Solo for Strings series, these works focus on bowed stringed instruments played only with natural harmonics, arranged with clarinets and flute, using long tones and repetition that allow the performer decisions on their length, performed by a Berlin-based octet including Catherine Lamb, Johnny Change, Samuel Dunscombe, &c. |
![]() International Nothing, The (Fagaschinski / Thieke): Just None of Those Things (Ftarri -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using harmonic intersections and extraneous sonic emanations from two clarinets, the duo of Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke (also of The Magic I.D.) continue their long-standing International Nothing project of composed works through patient interactions of powerfully focused technique, here in their fifth album presenting a 42-minute work of delicate, dark beauty. |
![]() Ashwood, Nick: Unfolding/Overlay (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Dedicated to Cor Fuhler, Tasmanian guitarist Nick Ashwood's extended composition is a thoughtfully introspective work of rich sonority, shifting harmonics and abstract tones generated through guitar bowing, recorded live to tape in two continuous recordings, the second overlaying the first as the work unfolds in a meditative and beautifully pensive manner. |
![]() Fages, Ferran: From Grey To Blue (Inexhaustible Editions -- Slovenia ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Written by Catalan composer Ferran Fages for pianist Lluïsa Espigolé following a quote by Catalan author Carles Camps Mundó — "Barely anything: deformities of silence" — this delicate work of resonance, space and suspense slowly unfolds, the score giving Espigolé choices for timing and placement as each meaningful note or combination subsides. |
![]() Quatuor Bozzini: Michael Oesterle: Quatuors (Collection QB -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock German-born Canadian composer living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec Michael Oesterle has a long relationship with the Quatuor Bozzini beginning with their first commission 25 years ago, here in four works including a tribute to English mathematician Alan Turing, the large-scale "String Quartet No. 4", and a piece inspired by Quebec poet Nicole Brossard's book Mecanique jongleuse. |
![]() Cicala, Leo : Punto Di Accumulazione (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock ... |
![]() Davis, Emily / Christopher Riggs / George Romaine: Extinction Burst (Bug Incision Records -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Chicago-based guitarist Christopher Rigg, founder of the Holy Cheever Church Records, developed this set of pieces called "extinction bursts", performed with Emily David on drums and George Romaine on piano, a work he refers to as "maximalist harsh free jazz wall", using a lurching and squealing guitar figure over which David and Romaine overlay slow progressions. |
![]() Eichler, Hendrick: Dimensions (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Active in the modern creative music scene around Germany and The Netherlands, drummer/percussionist Hendrik Eichler explores a variety of "Dimensions" and "Transcendence" in solo percussive playing, using traditional and extended techniques, from highly active to deeply introspective moods, assisted at time through digital technology. |
![]() Farmer, Patrick : Wild Horses Think Of Nothing Else The Sea - Tape Readings [2 CASSETTES + TEXT] (Winds Measure -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During 2012 Patrick Farmer walked half of the Welsh Coast, writing a series of observations, which on this release are read in environmental settings by Antoine Beuger, Jeph Jerman, Bruno Guastalla, Sally Ann McIntyre, Holly Pester, Daniela Cascella, & Michael Pisaro-Liu. |
![]() Ferrer, Violeta / Raymond Boni: Poemas De Federico Garcia Lorca Y Poemas Populares Espanoles (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Raymond Boni performs on guitar and harmonica, using a fascinating set of approaches, for poems from Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, chosen from Lorca's "Romancero Gitano" (Gypsy Ballads), and read with substantial depth by actress Violeta Ferrer. |
![]() Greenlief, Phillip : Barbedwire: 37 Graphic Scores For Trio Volume One (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Four trios perform selections from composer and reedist Phillip Greenlief's BARBEDWIRE - 37 Graphic Scores For Trio, featuring John Bischoff, Kyle Bruckmann, Mark Clifford, Evelyn Davis, Tim Decillis, Gabby Fluke Mogul, Jane Rigler, and Tim Perkis, each composition a unique sonic sculpture, creating a diverse set of unique recordings realized by consummate performers. |
![]() Hannesson, Mark: Undeclared (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock "Undeclared" refers to a 2006 drone attack in Pakistan that struck a school, killing more than 80 civilians including 70 children, which took place on a day that was intended for a peace agreement; Hanneson pays homage to the victims by finding a sound for each of them, rendering the piece 3 times by himself via electronics, by Rene Holtkamp on guitar, and by Antoine Beuger on children's glockenspiel. |
![]() Hughes, Sarah: I Love This City And Its Outlying Lands [SINGLE SIDED CASSETTE] (Mappa -- Slovokia ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A contemplative solo work of subtle nuance and laden atmospheres, slowly drifting through a virtual landscape of dampened details, from London composer and improviser Sarah Hughes, performing on zither, piano, Hammond organ, sine tones, white noise, electric harpsichord, and objects, using an eBow to draw sustained tones over which delicate progressions advance. |
![]() Korn, Christoph : Ich Spreche Diesen Text (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two conceptual compositions from Christoph Korn: the first, "Ich Spreche Diesen" (I appeal to this) where spoken word is placed in a loop and then slowly erased by custom software using aleatory procedures; then "Stille" (Silent), a Cage inspired work. |
![]() Krausbauer, John: Beats (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock John Krausbauer's composition employs 3 West Coast accordionists (Krausbauer, Kate Short and Aaron Oppenheim) in an extended compositional framework allowing for improvisation, of hallucinatory, shimmering sound that accentuates the intersections of tone and harmonics; minimalist and entrancing in the mode of Pauline Oliveros, Wada, Palestine, Radigue, &c. |
![]() Kurka, Irene : Chants (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Soprano vocalist Irene Kurka performs two works works by Antoine Beuger, and one each by Christopher Fox, Eva-Maria Houben, and Thomas Stiegler, accompanied by Antoine Beuger on flute for his composition "Chants de Passage"; 5 beautiful, unhurried works that bring the delicate beauty of each compositions, and of Kurka's refined voice, to a resonant foreground. |
![]() Martin, Luke: So Softly That It Came, A Wild Dim Chatter, Meaningless (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Luke Martin began this work with a field recording at Mentryville Park in Southern California, which was transcribed by himself and Amy Golden, Ben Levinson, Davy Sumner, and Ryan Gaston using Martin's system of notating silence, then combined into the final score for this recording. |
![]() Meyer, Sabina / Marco Dalpane : Cabaret Per Nulla (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Pianist Marco Dalpane and soprano Sabina Meyer create a virtual cabaret of songs using the music of Erik Satie and John Cage, interlacing pieces by each in a delicate set of songs that draw the two composers together through a surprising commonality, the lyrics provided from texts written by J. Peladan, C. Mendes, H. Pacory, J.P. Contamine de Latour, &c.; lovely. |
![]() Mina, Asi: Bialo (Bolt -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Sound interpretations of Miron Bialoszewski's poetry, whose work focuses on the mundane aspects of the everyday life, usually from an autobiographical perspective and using an overtly colloquial language, interpreted by vocalist Mina Asi, aka Asia Bronisławska, speaking and singing over understated keyboard work. |
![]() Musicworks: #123 Fall 2015 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Features: The Expanding Universe of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; Yamantaka // Sonic Titan; The Retro Aesthetic of Le Revelateur; JOYFULTALK (Drip Audio); Muuixx; Hard Rubber Orchestra; Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville; Allison Cameron and Contact; plus live and recorded reviews. |
![]() Musicworks: #128 Summer/Fall 2017 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Summer 2017 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine, with a CD featuring tracks from selected artists covered in the magazine; Bekah Simms; Senyawa; Pantayo, HanHan, and Luyos MC; Brodie West; Artificiel; Another Timbre's Canadian Composers Series; Vicky Chow; Festival de International Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, 33rd Edition reviewed; &c. &c. |
![]() Musicworks: #132 Fall 2018 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The final issue of the premier Canadian new music magazine Musicworks' 40th anniversary year, with Darcy Spidle on the cover, plus articles on Luke Nickel, Lina Allemano, Andre Cormier, Joseph Shabason, Thanya Iyer, the Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, plus a 9 track CD with music from Darcy Spidle, Shabason, Iyer, Luke Nickel & Heather Roche, &c. &c. |
![]() Musicworks: #134 Fall 2019 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Fall 2019 issue of Canada's premier music magazine covering contemporary, improvisation and experimental music, plus reviews of recordings, books, and events; this issue has articles on Ana Sokolovic, Charlie Morrow, Nadah El Shazly, Laraaji, Amy Brandon, William Kuo, Sami Blanco, Silla and Rise, Mystery & Wonder Records, including a CD with tracks from the same. |
![]() Musicworks: #136 Spring 2020 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Spring 2020 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine covering improvised, composed and experimental music, with reviews of recordings and live events and extensive articles, this issue featuring Anthony Pateras, Xuan Ye, sound artist April Aliermo and composer Lieke van der Voort; with a 15 track CD of work from those and other featured artists. |
![]() Musicworks: #137 Fall 2020 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Fall 2020 issue of Canada's finest new music magazine, focusing on guitars--hollow, heavy, bowed, cracked, pedalled, flung, trusty companions & feedback demons; Plus articles on Casey Koyczan, Susan Alcorn, Amy Brandon, Aidan Baker, Eliza Kavtion, C. Diab, Markus Lake, Catherine Debard, Cloud Chamber, &c; and an 11-track CD with music from the aforementioned. |
![]() Musicworks: #138 Winter 2020/2021 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The final issue of 2020 is is dedicated to the art of conversation in music and about music during the age of pandemic; with Debby Friday on the cover, plus articles about Victoria-based composer Anna Höstman, Tehran-born Araz Salek, Tkarón:to-based saxophonist and composer Olivia Shortt, with a CD including tracks from those artists, plus reviews, articles, &c. |
![]() Rosenthal, Dean: Stones/Water/Time/Breath (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Austria ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock American composer Dean Rosenthal's influential performance piece written in 2012 and performed more than 40 times throughout the world, a site-specific piece for any outside body of water with any number of performers, using stones to create percussive sounds in the water, here in five live performances from Newfoundland to New York to Wilbraham, MA (the composer's hometown). |
![]() [SNDNG STTNS] Kifpfmuller / Janek feat. Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues : Case Study: Sertao (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Since 2014 the collective [SNDNG STTNS] has explored theatrical situations between musictheatre, staging and composition with live music, instruments, recordings, samples, speach and live editing, this work featuring cellist Guilherme Rodrigues bridges the art of the brazilian "violeros" with contemporary music, acoustic and electronic composition and improvisation. |
![]() Svendsen, Christian Meaas : Avin (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Known more for his double bass work, Christian Meaas Svendsen releases a stunningly beautiful album of unusually orchestrated pop songs with an 8-piece band of Nordic improvisers and performers, a dramatic album of tension and release which, despite lyrics in Norwegian, draws all listeners in through inventive and innovative musical structures. |
![]() Valiente, Candelaria Saenz / Marcin Masecki: Hymnen (Bolt -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Based on the anthems of nations that have endured recent struggles, from the duo of Marcin Masecki on keys and Candelaria Saenz Valiente on vocals and percussion, embraceable songs with unusual structures paying tribute to the beautiful themes for each nation. |
![]() Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar Four (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fourth in the Elliot Sharp curated "Meta Guitar" series brings a wealth of diverse styles and approaches to the guitar, from Knox Chandler, Tashi Dorji, Monika Roscher, Rhys Chatham, Kalle Kalima, Ryan Choi, Marco Oppedisano, Bern Nix, Markus Reuter, Hahn Rowe, Pete Matthiessen, Robert Poss, Ron Anderson, Morgan Craft, Roberto Zorzi, and Erdem Helvacioglu. |
![]() Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Two (Orbit577 -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second of a five-volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from David Stackenas, Jessica Ackerley, Jorge Espinal, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Sebastian Sequoiah.Grayson, Sam Shalabi, Shinobu Nemoto and Nyctalllz. |
![]() Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Four (Orbit577 -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fourth of a five volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from Janet Feder, Martin Vishnick, Ikbal Lubys, Edward J. Gibbs, Joshua Weitzel, Guram Machavari, Eric Wong, Garth Erasmus, and Bill Horist. |
![]() Various Artists (curated by Nick Vander): Walk My Way, Volume Three (Orbit577 -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock The third of a five volume compilation series curated by Nick Vander, a testament to the incredible musical range of the guitar and the imaginative possibility of guitarists around the world, with tracks from Sergio Sorrentino, Christian Vasseur, CharbelHaber, Misha Marks, Henry Kaiser, Nick Ashwood, Emil Palme & Taus Bregnhøj-Olesen, Sharif Sehnaoui, Colin Robinson, Martin Huba |
![]() Verlaak, Maya: All English Music is Greensleeves (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Five fascinating works by the Belgian composer Maya Verlaak, realized by Apartment House and soloists Sarah Saviet & Mark Knoop, experimental compositions including a work of personal reflection based on "Alouette"; a conceptual game piece; a composition layering pre-recorded segments of "Greensleaves"; and two interactive acoustic & computer pieces. |
![]() Waeckerle, Emmanuelle : Ode (owed) to O [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock London-based composer Emmanuelle Waeckerle in a project of spoken word, flute and melodica with contributors including Antoine Beuger, using minimal and multiple narrations in texts that blend erotic literature, conceptual writing and verbal scores, presented as 2 Scores for voice(s) and instrument(s) based upon Pauline Reage's "Story of O". |
![]() Weston, Matt: Sparky 1 [CASSETTE] (7272music -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Matt Weston (Arthur Brooks Ensemble V, Arc Pair) initiates a series of limited cassette releases with this solo album, seven works of percussion using traditional and idiosyncratic percussive sources with a pensive pace and somewhat irascible attitude, each piece fully notated and executed live in the studio, using a similar aesthetic to link each work. |
![]() Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion [VINYL] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $22.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions. |
![]() Musicworks: #142 Summer 2022 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Summer 2022 issue of Canada's essential music magazine exploring improvised, compositional, experimental and other musical hybrids, this issue with composer Gayle Young on the cover, articles on violist Ig Henneman, composer Du Yun, Mark Ellestad, plus reviews, interviews and a 10-track CD with music from artists covered in the magazine. |
![]() Johnston, Darren: Edge Of The Forest (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bay area trumpeter and bandleader Johntson in a set of original compositions performed with Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Devin Hoff and Smith Dobson. |
![]() Takeda, Risa : The Sorcerer's Castle (Cbzm Records -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $10.04 ![]() ![]() In Stock An epic story in symphonic rock style from pianist, drummer and composer Risa Takeda, telling the fantastic tale of a dramatic confrontation between an Emperor and a Sorcerer, through eleven compositions of a contemporary classical and theatrical nature, using modern synthetic sources in active and complex orchestration as the plot advances. |
![]() Tolimieri, Quentin: Monochromes [3 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $26.05 ![]() ![]() In Stock Berlin-based composer & pianist Quentin Tolimieri's goal for the 15 compositions of "Monochrome" was to hear the acoustic piano differently, removing traditional structures of European harmony, each piece focused on a single or "monochromatic" theme that unfolds over an extended period of time, whether languorous or intensely active, each piece unique and self-contained. |
![]() van Houdt, Reinier : Drift Nowhere Past / The Adventure Of Sleep [2 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $21.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Interested in compositional work involving sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise & environment, Dutch composer Reinier van Houdt shares six works developed for erstwhile record's festival AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine, each piece focused on a specific day of the month; and a complementary set of four compositions about everyday recurring situations. |
![]() Chrysakis, Thanos / Jason Alder: Milieu Interieur (Aural Terrains -- UK / EU ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Employing multiphonics, circular breathing and unusual sonic phenomena of immense control over the lowest of clarinets--the bass clarinet and contra bass clarinet--UK-based multi-reedist Jason Alder performs the two-part "Milieu Interiuer" composition by Greek composer Thanos Chrysakis, along with three other Chrysakis compositions for solo and layered clarinets. |
![]() Villard, Fabrice / Pierre-Stephane Meuge: Musique Logique (nunc. -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock 25 pieces for solo saxophone in a tribute to and following the logical number games of minimalist composer Tom Johnson, composed by clarinetist and ensemble Dedalus member Farbrice Villard under the inspiration of Johnson's collection Rational Melodies, and performed by the extraordinary French clarinetist Pierre-Stephane Meuge (Counterpoise). |
![]() Pavone, Jessica: ...of Late (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Borrowing from traditional music notation, Jessica Pavone's compositions for her string ensemble with Aimée Niemann and Abby Swidler alternates between metered and time-based scores allowing the performers freedom to move between long tone sounds and clusters at the performer's chosen rate, responding to each other while creating a "collaboratively sewn musical fabric". |
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Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann): Triadic Memories [2 CDs]
Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann / Andreas Kunz): For John Cage [2 CDs]
Feldman, Morton (Philip Thomas): Piano [5 CD BOX SET]
Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017
Cage, John: Klang der Wandlungen [3 CDs]
Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies
Wegmann, Judith / Marlies Debacker / Lukas Biner / Nicolas Wolf: Things In Between
Feldman, Morton played by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas: Two Pianos And Other Pieces 1953-1969 [2 CDs
CALATO / John Cage: Variations + Four6
Futari (Satoko Fujii / Taiko Saito): Underground
Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Piano and String Quartet
Smith, Linda Catlin : Dirt Road
Akchote / Halvorson / Frisell: Loving Highsmith [2 CDs]
Lamb, Catherine / Harmonic Space Orchestra: Prisma Interius VII 7 VIII
Smith, Linda Catlin : Drifter [2 CDs]
Smith Quartet with John Tilbury: Morton Feldman: Music for Piano and Strings Volume 3 [DVD-AUDIO]
Frey, Jurg / Magnus Granberg: Early to Late
Cage, John / Apartment House: Number Pieces [4-CD BOX SET]
Frey, Jurg : Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014 [2 CDs]
Kira Kira (Tamura / Spence / Fujii / Takemura): Bright Force