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Arguelles, Julian Trio: Ground Rush (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock British tenor saxophonist Julian Arguelles in a trio with NY drummer Tom Rainey and bassist Michael Formanek, a strong group feel led by one of contemporary jazz' unique voices. |
Asher, Meira / JC Jones: Myelination 2 (Kadima -- Israel ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock Spontaneous organic interactions over sounds from the vibrations of the myelin sheath, the protective insulating cover of the nervous system, from bassist JC Jones and vocalist, no-input mixer and Doepfer synthesizer player Meira Asher. |
Braxton, Anthony : Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock On the 30th anniversary of the Victo Festival Anthony Braxton took to the stage for a magnificent solo performance on the alto sax, performing 8 spontaneous compositions and an 8+ minute version of "Body and Soul", seamlessly crossing lyrical and complex approaches to the horn using his unique intervallic, trimbral and diagrammatic language, a stunning and embraceable accomplishment. |
Chadbourne, Eugene: Country All The Way (Chadula -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A mix of songs and instrumentals, with 11 country classic covers, recorded in the studio and on tour from 2017-2018 in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, and the UK including one track from Cafe Oto, in the company of Titus Waldenfels (guitar), Thilo Kuhn (keys), Schroeder (drums), Gary Cherwonka (pedal steel) and Steven De Bruyn (harmonica). |
Duboc, Benjamin: Primare Cantus (Ayler -- France ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $39.55 In Stock A 3 CD set from bassist Benjamin Duboc: a solo disc of low register improv; plus 2 discs in duo and trio settings with Didier Lasserre, Sylvain Guerineau, Jean-Luc Petit, Pascal Battus, Sophie Agnel & Christian Pruvost. |
Dulin, Tucker / Ben Owen: Cat Guarding Geese (erstwhile -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock An electroacoustic composition of environment & sound punctuated with subtle percussion and electronic interventions, developed from field recordings, performances on Roosevelt Island, and studio recordings in Brooklyn by the duo of Tucker Dulin on bells, bowl, can, cymbal, lentils, mallet & whistle and Ben Owen on paper mic, speaker boxes, op amps & cassette. |
Gregorio, Guillermo / Pandelis Karayorgis / Steve Swell: Window and Doorway (Driff Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The trio of Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Steve Swell (trombone) and Pandelis Karayorgis (piano) use their unique selection of instruments to play an original set of composition and improv. |
Guilbeault, Normand Ensemble: Live at Upstairs 2008. Hommage a Mingus (Ambiances Jazz -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The Normand Guilbeault Ensemble with Jean Derome, Matthieu Belanger, &c. continue to create incredible interpretations of the music of Charles Mingus. |
JeJaWeDa (Bishop / Blonk / Walter / Smith): Pioneer Works Vol. 1 [CD + BOOKLET] (Balance Point Acoustics -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The 1st of two volumes from the quartet of Jeb Bishop on trombone & electronics, Jaap Blonk on voice & electronics, Weasel Walter on percussion, and Damon Smith on double bass, each player an innovator and leader on their own, together bringing unique elements of virtuoso quirk and passionate mastery, merging voice, electronics and acoustics in profoundly unusual ways. |
Kira Kira (Tamura / Spence / Fujii / Takemura): Bright Force (Libra -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock Since 2007 Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and Australian keyboardist Alister Spence have collaborated on performance and recording in several configurations, including work with Tony Buck, Raymond McDonald, Jim O'Rourke, &c.; this energetic and otherworldly quartet session with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and drummer Ittetsu Takemura was recored live Knuttel House, in Tokyo, 2017. |
Kovac, Boris: Anamnesis: Ecumenical Mysteries (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock "Anamnesis: Ecumenical Mysteries was Yugoslavian saxophonist/composer Boris Kovac's first release out of Europe (on the Canadian label Disques Victo). It was also his first work recorded in Yugoslavia following the war that forced him t... |
L.U.M.E. (Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble): Las Californias (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock L.U.M.E., aka the Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble directed by pianist Marco Barroso, is a big band with a chamber ensemble feeling, Barroso's upbeat and melodically sophisticated compositions driving the band by borrowing from a variety of jazz, funk and even cartoon-like styles to create a richly complex and compelling set of tunes that twist, turn and surprise. |
Lepage, Robert Marcel: Canard Branchu (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A rich work for clarinets, bass and drums orchestrated for six musicians including Actuelle core players Lori Freedman, Pierre Tanguay, and Lepage himself, through 14 works that may have something to do with a swamp. |
Marion, Louis-Michel / Francoise Toullec: Apocalyptic Garden (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A strangely agitated garden sculpted from melody, dissonance and instrumental abberation through profound technique and unusual approaches to their instrument, by French double bassist Louis-Michel Marion and pianist Françoise Toullec, bringing a sense of wonder and turbulent environment through a shared passion balancing ominous space with astute activity. |
Martel, Pierre-Yves: Continuum (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A solo work from Pierre-Yves Martel performing two works for the viola da gamba, bringing this fretted renaissance-era ancestor to the violin into the 21st century through two slowly evolving and sonically fascinating pieces. |
Mystical Weapons (Sean Lennon / Greg Saunier): Crotesque [VINYL] (Northern Spy -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Sean Lennon & Greg Saunier (Mystical Weapons) are joined by multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Shahzad Ismaily for this one-sided, 19.50 minute art LP with an original illustration by Sean Lennon screen-printed on the B side. |
Novoa, Eva: Novoa / Kamaguchi / Cleaver Trio - Vol. 1 [VINYL CLEAR] (577 Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $23.35 In Stock Spanish pianist based in NYC Eva Novoa has since 2017 led this international but definitely NY-oriented piano trio of Japanese bassist based in NY Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Gerald Cleaver, here in her first album on 577, her sixth as a leader, presenting eight Novoa compositions of restlessly probing, dynamically interactive and inherently melodic free improvisation. |
Ongon: In Dispersione [VINYL] (Loup editions -- Italy ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $18.85 In Stock Antonio Bertoni's solo Ongon project, trying to remove the mistreatment that the Moroccan Gnawa Music suffers due to the heavy western productions, as he performs on the trance-inducing bass instrument guimbri, his hypnotic and exotic music set into a rich weaving of electronics, samples and concrete synthesis built ad hoc by Bertoni himself; reference Natural Information Society. |
Parrini, Emanuele: The Blessed Prince (Long Song Records -- Italy ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Violinist Emanuele Parrini leads his quartet with Dimitiri Grechi Espinoz on alto sax, Giovanni Maier on double bass, and Andrea Melani on drums, performing Parrini's 3 part "The Blessed Prince", and original compositions from bassist Maier; lyrical and innovative modern jazz. |
Ratchet Orchestra: Hemlock (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock The Ratchet Orchestra is a large ensemble of 30 fringe musicians from Montreal headed by director Nicolas Caloia whose compositions allow for improvised chamber jazz and showcase the talents of the orchestra's most passionate players. |
Reason, Dana / Peter Valsamis: Border Crossings (Red Toucan -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock The duo of pianist Dana Reason and drummer & sampler player Peter Valsamis in an album crossing boundaries of jazz, classical, and creative new music from two exceptional players involved in a rich dialog. |
Roger, Danielle Palardy : Cannibale [Used Item] (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $9.00 In Stock Composer/percussionist Danielle Palardy Roger's musical satire about capitalism, performed with some of Montreal's finest improvisers using conventional & unconventional instruments and voice, captured live at the Gesu Amphitheater, in Montreal in 2018: Michel F Cote, Andre Duchesne, Joane Hetu, Elizabeth Lima, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Alexander St-Onge, and Ida Toniato. |
Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock "As Frogworth says in one review: 'Two giants of Australian avant-garde music getting together here, dedicating their record to Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, whose house in Paddington, Sydney is used for residencies/sabbatic... |
Threadgill, Henry Zooid: This Brings Us To, Volume II (Pi Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Threadgill's 2nd Volume with Jose Davila, Liberty Ellman, Elliot Humberto Kavee, and Stomu Takeishi, intelligent and cutting-edge music exploring the boundaries of composition & improvisation. |
Various Artists: 910 Noise Presents: Douceur Violente (ACK Recordings -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock 910 Noise presents: Douceur Violente A 14 track compilation of electronic and noise artists from Wilmington, North Carolina. |
Various: Amsterdam . Berlin . Moscow . Losoncy [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A double album of experimental works and songs, virtual meetings curated by composer Dante Boon, recorded in the performer's individual cities as ensembles formed from musicians who have never met, including the Moscow duo The Same Ensemble of Sasha Elina and Kirill Shirokov, Amsterdamn's Seamus Cater's Tree Space, Berlin's Konzert Minimal, and sound artist Gabi Losoncy. |
West, Brodie Quintet: Meadow of Dreams [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock The third release from the Toronto-based Brodie West Quintet of Evan Cartwright on drums, vibraphone & guitar, Josh Cole on bass, Nick Fraser on drums, Tania Gill on piano and Brodie West on alto saxophone, performing Brodie's uniquely inclusive and sometimes atypically metered compositions, leading to fascinating solo and group interplay from reflection to fire. |
Wood, Dorian / Thor Harris (w/ Carla Bozulich / Jarboe / Patrick Shiroishi / Heather Trost): You Are Clearly In Perversion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Editions -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock A ritualistic narrative work from multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood and percussionist Thor Harris (Swans), with Carla Bozulich and Jarboe contributing their voices in an ensemble of contemporary and experimental arrangement, alongside guests David Coulter, Heather Trost, Jeremy Barnes, Michael Corwin, Ignacio Carvajal, Andrea Calderon, Elizabeth Warren and Patrick Shiroishi. |
Boulez, Pierre & John Cage: Structures & Music For Piano (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock John Cage and Pierre Boulez met in 1949, forging a long and valuable musical friendship, as seen through the parallels in these works by both composers, performed by Pi-Hsien-Chen & Ian Pace. |
Cage, John: Empty Words [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock John Cage's "Empty Words" (1974) is drawn from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, written in four parts: Part I omits sentences, Part II omits phrases, and Part III omits words. Part IV, which omits syllables, leaves us nothing but a virtual lullaby of letters and sounds. |
Riley, Terry: The 3 Generations Trio (Angelica -- Italy ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Recorded during the 2013 Angelica Festival at Teatro Comunale, Terry Riley's 3 Generations Trio bring Riley on synth, piano and Indian influenced vocals together with son Gyan on guitar and Tracy Silverman on electric violin for an immersive and meditative performance. |
Smith, Linda Catlin: Wanderer (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Eight sophisticated chamber pieces composed by Linda Catlin Smith and realized by the Canadian Apartment House ensemble, including a solo piano performed by Philip Thomas, a piano duo with Thomas and Mark Knoop, and works for percussion & cello, 2 quintet pieces for strings, percussion and winds, and two 7-piece conducted works with two percussionists, strings and brass. |
Tenney, James (Ensemble Open Music Gera): Acoustic Phenomena / Hymnic Sounds (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Recording in Altes Wannenbad Gera, in Gera, Germany, an ensemble of performers associated with Ensemble Open Music Gera and Ensemble Zeitkratzer perform James Tenney's work exploring concepts of tuning systems, sound/noise, consonance/dissonance, sound/silence, and organisation of time, in three pieces that use a climax-oriented form Tenney refers to as "swell pieces". |
Butterfield, Christopher: Souvenir (Reshirt -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Following his collaboration with Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini, British Columbia-based composer Christopher Butterfield draws on members of Aventa Ensemble and the Victoria Symphony to perform four works of "knotty contrapuntal figures and an ever-changing instrumental palette", mischievous works of interesting progression and percussive punctuation. |
Musicworks: #146 Fall 2023 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Fall 2023 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine, with Julie Richards on the cover in an article exploring the legacy of little known Black female composers; plus articles on Maria Chavez and her turntable art; Michele Geister use of '80s music TV; composer Trevor Grahl; Mustafa Rafiq; Evan Dysart; plus reviews, essays and a CD of tracks from the aforementioned artists. |
Cater, Seamus: A History of Musical Pitch (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Investigating the experimental legacy of Victorian polymath Alexander J. Ellis, author of the 1880 paper, The History of Musical Pitch, composer Seamus Cater uses 74 tuning forks tuned to represent Elliss research of just ratios of 480Hz, in three compositions focusing on the most consonant tones of the system, and balancing them through minimalist chamber work from a 7-piece ensemble. |
Frey, Jurg / Apartment House: String Trio (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Reworking a piece for string trio originally commissioned by the Concertgebouw Brugge and premiered by the Goeyvaerts Trio as part of the 2019 SLOW Festival, this new version expands on the original composition to bring elegant calmness and clarity to the work, performed by UK's Apartment House members Mira Benjamin on violin, Bridget Carey on viola and Anton Lukoszevieze on cello. |
Lamb, Catherine: Parallaxis Forma (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Two works for voice and chamber orchestra performed by the UK Explore Ensemble under the direction of Nicholas Moroz, and a multi-tracked vocal work by Lotte Betts-Dean, rich and understated works of rich harmonics and atmospheric overtones composed by Catherine Lamb, placing phonetic vocals in space and ambiance, eschewing words for tone, texture and motion; mesmerizing. |
Lamb, Catherine / Kristofer Svensson: Translucent Harmonies - two duos for violin and viola, performed by andPlay (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock The New York-based andPlay duo of violinist Maya Bennardo and violist Hannah Levinson perform two extended works commissioned for their performance series, Translucent Harmonies: first an acoustic rendering of Catherine Lamb's "Prisma Interius VIII (Melodic Duo)"; then Kristofer Svensson's work of contrasts, surprises, modulations, and transformations. |
Zubot, Josh Strings: Strings (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock The debut of Vancouver & Montreal violinist Joshua Zubot's string ensemble with fellow violinists Jesse Zubot & Meredith Bates, cellist Peggy Lee and acoustic bassist James Meger, performing ten Zubot compositions informed by his involvement in diverse musical styles, each allowing room for improvisation as he takes the string ensemble into unique and unorthodox territory. |
Cutler, Chris: Compositions And Collaborations 1972-2022: In A Box [10 CD / DVD / BOOKLET BOX SET] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $67.45 In Stock An amazing collection and reflection on the work of percussionist, composer and connector Chris Cutler of Henry Cow fame and founder of the highly influential Recommended Records label and distribution service, through 10 CDs, 1 DVD and two books of documentation, artwork, photographs, published and unpublished texts in a sturdy box, with over five hours of unreleased materials. |
Feldman, Morton: Piano Three Hands, Intermission 5, Vertical Thoughts 2, Extensions 3, Four Instruments, Intermission 5, Piano Piece 1956 A + B, Intersection 3, Instruments 1 (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $15.25 In Stock A collection of Feldman compositions primarily for piano as recorded by his earliest interpreters: Cornelius Cardew, John Tilbury, David Tutor, Cantilene Chamber Players, and Feldman himself. |
Pavone, Jessica: Clamor (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock With a septet of women improvisers and contemporary performers, composer and violinist Jessica Pavone's long-form collective improv compositions are titled after innovations made by women throughout history to circumvent obstructions to their freedoms, revealed through string and bassoon orchestration that balances harmony, dissonance, drone and disruptive experimentation. |
Remondino, Nicolas / Ocra Rosa: Each Falling Stick Is A Necessary Gesture, Every Sonic Action Being Perfectly Voluntary And With Its Own Dignity (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Italian percussionist, sound artist, improviser and composer Nicholas Remondino expresses the sentiment of the 18 recordings on this solo album of prepared drum improvisations through a single sentence, each piece flowing into the next through unusual punctuation, gestures and intersections, as the listener is carried along curious landscapes of extraordinary technique. |
Chrysakis, Thanos / Chris Cundy / Peer Schlechta / Ove Volquartz: Archangel (Aural Terrains -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock The follow-up to Music for Two Organs and Two Bass Clarinets, combining the collective work of clarinetists Chris Cundy, (bass clarinets, soprano ocarina) & Ove Volquartz (bass clarinets), Thanos Chrysakis (chamber organ & voice) and Peer Schlechta (pipe organ), recorded in the natural resonance of the Neustadter Kirche church in Hofgeismar, Germany. |
Frey, Jurg / Reinier van Houdt: Lieues d'Ombres (3CDs) [Used Item] (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $20.00 In Stock Translating to League of Shadows, Swiss composer Jürg Frey's sublime twilight compositions for solo piano are performed by Dutch pianist Reinier van Houdt, presenting seven of Frey's works written from 1984-2018, including one previously unreleased composition, in all 20 movements spread over 3 CDs ranging in time from 1:47 to 40:34, a significant addition to both musician's oeuvres. |
Chrysakis, Thanos / Chris Cundy / Peer Schlechta / Ove Volquartz: Archangel [Used Item] (Aural Terrains -- UK ) Price: $11.00 In Stock The follow-up to Music for Two Organs and Two Bass Clarinets, combining the collective work of clarinetists Chris Cundy, (bass clarinets, soprano ocarina) & Ove Volquartz (bass clarinets), Thanos Chrysakis (chamber organ & voice) and Peer Schlechta (pipe organ), recorded in the natural resonance of the Neustadter Kirche church in Hofgeismar, Germany. |
Merce, Sergio: Traslasierra (expanded landscape) (Hitorri -- Japan ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A beautiful album of expanded landscapes performed on electronically modified Electronic Wind Instrument, field recordings, virtual instruments and synthesizer from Argentinian sound artist Sergio Merce, his characteristically patient pacing and use of space creating dramatic and beautiful sonic environments that hint at warm narratives in a seductive excursion. |
Vukosavljevic, Ivan: Slow Roads (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Eight compositions for solo 1/4 comma meantone organ by Serbian composer Ivan Vukosavljevic and performed by organists Tineke Steenbrink, Francesca Ajossa, Jan Hage, Lise Morrison, recorded in 2022 on five different historic organs, dating from the early 16th to mid-17th centuries, captured in medieval churches located in the countryside of northern Netherlands. |
Alcorn, Susan / Septeto del Sur: Canto (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Recording in Maria Pinto, Chile, steel guitarist Susan Alcorn combines Chilean folk and nueva cancion with free improvisation and contemporary classical in an expansive set of 5 original compositions and a group arrangement of the Victor Jara's "El Derecho de Vivir en Paz", the achingly beautiful themes paying tribute to the victims of Augusto Pinochet's regime. |
Pavone, Jessica: Clamor [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $20.65 In Stock With a septet of women improvisers and contemporary performers, composer and violinist Jessica Pavone's long-form collective improv compositions are titled after innovations made by women throughout history to circumvent obstructions to their freedoms, revealed through string and bassoon orchestration that balances harmony, dissonance, drone and disruptive experimentation. |
Butterfield, Christopher: Souvenir [Used Item] (Reshirt -- Canada ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Following his collaboration with Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini, British Columbia-based composer Christopher Butterfield draws on members of Aventa Ensemble and the Victoria Symphony to perform four works of "knotty contrapuntal figures and an ever-changing instrumental palette", mischievous works of interesting progression and percussive punctuation. |
Frey, Jurg / Keiko Shichijo: Les Signes Passagers (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Written by Jurg Frey in 2021 and commissioned by Amsterdam-based pianist Keiko Shichijo, this solo work using the unique audio characteristics of the fortepiano was premiered by Shichijo in 2022 at the Concertgebouw Brugge during the SLOW Festival and performed again at November Music 2022, this recording captured at Concertgebouw Brugge in the presence of the composer. |
Pisaro-Liu, Michael (Guy Vandromme / Adriaan Severins / Luciana Elizondo / Fabio Gionfrida): A Room Outdoors [2 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.95 In Stock Two realizations of Michael Pisaro-Liu's 2006 work for sustaining instruments, harmonium & field recordings, recorded first at Wild Gallery, in Brussels with Guy Vandromme (keyboards) and Adriaan Severins (field recordings and synthesizer); then at the Museo Archeologico San Lorenzo, in Cremona, Italy with Luciana Elizondo (viola da gamba) and Fabio Gionfrida (field recordings), in collaboration with Guy Vandromme (Indian harmonium). |
Zorn, John (Medeski / Marsella / Hollenberg / Grohowski): Parrhesiastes (Tzadik -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $16.15 In Stock The fifth album from John Zorn's Chaos Magic Ensemble of Brian Marsella on Fender Rhodes Piano, John Medeski on organ, Kenny Grochowski on drums and Matt Hollenberg on guitar, in three free flowing works that display Zorn's perceptive merging and the band's enormous skill, contrasting lyrical electric jazz with turbulent rock forms and disciplined contemporary structure. |
Weston, Matt: This Is Broken [VINYL] (7272music -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Two extended works for percussion & electronics from Matt Weston, a curious coupling of resonant interactions that is likely a mysterious mixture of preparation, improvisation and composition, augmented with electronics and modified in the mix through studio manipulation, making for fascinating journeys through enigmatic punctuation and sound. |
Schiller, Christoph / Carlo Costa: Spinet and Drums (Neither/Nor Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Three "Card Pieces", short series of pitch collections in a timeline with no other parameter spelled out, performed in a minimalist approach by Swiss spinet player Christoph Schiller and New York drummer & improviser Carlo Costa, where metallic strings are offset by organic and ringing responses, with a final work "Sottobosco" expanding their palette and pace. |
Darge, Moniek / Vanessa Rossetto: Dream Soundies (erstwhile -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Bringing together two generations of sound artists and field recording specialists--Belgian composer Moniek Darge, known for her ethnomusicologist "soundies" from global locations; and American sound composer Vanessa Rossetto transforming everyday occurrence--for a meeting at Lincoln Center in NYC to record the city and reshape its sound into four impressionistic sonic reveries. |
Lucier, Alvin: Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II [VINYL] (Black Truffle -- Australia ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $30.55 In Stock The Swiss-based Ever Present Orchestra, dedicated to the presentation of later works by composer Alvin Lucier written for this orchestra and centered on pieces for the electric guitar, in two works of differing characteristics: "Arrigoni Bridge" for 3 lap steel electric guitars + violin, sax & cello; and "Flips" for two guitars, bass and glockenspiel. |
Gate, The: Scum [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tubapede -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.05 In Stock A heavy and wild ride in the 9th album from New York's The Gate of composer and tuba player Dan Peck, bass player Tom Blancarte and percussionist Brian Osborne, concise pieces of heavy melodic elements, dark riffs and an ominous attitude, intersecting with plundered asides and anxious pauses, a strong addition to their discography and an engrossing collection of deep disturbance. |
Fishkin, Daniel : Dark Listening [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Tripticks Tapes -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $8.95 In Stock Taking the viola da gamba and the daxophone into uncharted (dark) territories, composer Daniel Fishkin (who studied with daxophone inventor Hans Racheil) presents four works leveraging interference & frequency patterns, performed with an exceptional set of specialists on each instrument, and Fishkin's own 20-foot long instrument, The Lady's Harp, creating long, sustained tones. |
Zubot, Josh Strings: Strings [Used Item] (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Price: $10.00 In Stock The debut of Vancouver & Montreal violinist Joshua Zubot's string ensemble with fellow violinists Jesse Zubot & Meredith Bates, cellist Peggy Lee and acoustic bassist James Meger, performing ten Zubot compositions informed by his involvement in diverse musical styles, each allowing room for improvisation as he takes the string ensemble into unique and unorthodox territory. |
Kim, Sunik: Potential [VINYL] (Otoroku -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock Manipulating orchestral elements via midi composition at physically impossible speeds, LA musician Sunik Kim unleashes two side-long works of synthetic mayhem organized in strangely consumable blocks, with collisions and breath-catching pauses until the commotion drops over the compositional cliff once again; reflecting our current chaotic society? Mayhap. |
Zorn, John: The Hermetic Organ Volume 11 - For Terry Riley (Tzadik -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Performing on the 7,466 pipe Æolian-Skinner organ at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, one of the first American classic-style organs and among the largest church organs in the West, John Zorn continues his solo organ series with this tribute to Terry Riley in two extended improvisations, part of his 70th birthday celebration as part of Fred Barnes's concert series. |
Inoue, Satoko / Jo Kondo: Presents Jo Kondo's Works for Piano, 2015-2020 (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock The third album of piano works from Japanese composer Jo Kondo performed by pianist Satoko Inoue, known for her interpretations of Morton Feldman, John Cage, Luc Ferrari, &c., here performing Kondo works written between 2013 and 2020 that apply different methods and approaches to form and interpretation, including works that incorporate improvisation and choices left to the performer. |
Arnold, Martin: Flax (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Commissioned in 2020 by pianist Philip Thomas, whose health prevented him from performing the work, Canadian composer Martin Arnold's 79-minute hypnotic solo work for piano emphasizes the keyboard's upper register in slow moving textural melodies influenced by innovative 50's & 60's bop pianists, performed in 2022 at the University of Huddersfield by pianist Kerry Yong. |
Denyer, Frank / Octandre Ensemble: Screens (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock An exceptional collection of works by composer Frank Denyer written between 1973 and 2021, especially the monumental 5-part "Five Views of the Path", performed by the UK Octandre Ensemble led by composer Christian Mason and conductor Jon Hargreaves, which focuses on modern composers with an emphasis on works of timbre and ritual, Denyer's work being an ideal match. |
Cicala, Leo : Punto Di Accumulazione [Used Item] (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $12.00 In Stock Previously played Squidco store copy, used for cataloging and samples, in excellent condition. |
Cahen, Robert: La nef des fous [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $26.95 In Stock Electroacoustic composer Robert Cahen studied at ORTF and CNSM in Paris under Pierre Shaeffer, turning to video work in the 1970s and applying musique concrete concepts to moving image, these compositions recorded at the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 show his mastery over sound and his expressive ability to morph transitions through rich sonic detail. |
Smith, Ches: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock A stunning album that effortlessly blends styles from jazz, electronics, minimalism and contemporary forms, rendered by an eclectic group of primarily NY artists including Nate Wooley, Jennifer Choi, James Brandin Lews, Oscar Noriega, Anna Webber, Shahzad Ismaily and Smith himself, in an exhilarating and well-balanced set of Smith compositions that inform and groove spectacularly! |
Guionnet / La Casa / Samartzis / Warburton: Parking (Collection Paris) (Swarming -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $12.55 In Stock Two improvisations by saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet & violinist Dan Warburton recorded in Paris & Melbourne parking garages 14 years apart, registering the behavior and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound within these unique spaces, edited by Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis as a 4-channel master by synchronizing two sets of independent stereo recordings. |
Elliott Sharp: SysOrk: Occam's Machete (zOaR Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $10.75 In Stock Assembling a world-class ensemble of 24 string players drawing from the Quartets JACK, Sirius, Flux, and Bergamot, here performing as SysOrk, Elliott Sharp's large-scale algorithmic composition provides simple instructions to the participants, creating a seething sonic tapestry of shifting, swirling tones and acoustic drones, exceptionally immersive and detailed. |
Ogura, Miharu: Ogura Plays Ogura (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Following her 2022 album Ogura Plays Stockhausen, Japanese born, Frankfurt-based pianist Miharu Ogura turns her attention to her own compositions, presenting five uniquely creative works unfolding in pacing that surprises the listener, balancing silence and clusters of layered patterns that move at differing speeds and rhythms, from simple clarity to labyrinthine entanglement. |
Baron, Marc / Mark Vernon: post-chance (erstwhile -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock Mailing unspooled 1/4" tape to each other along with a magnet to randomly erase part of each tape, Marc Baron & Mark Vernon captured these fragments and placed them into sequence based on the minute past the hour each was originally recorded, contrasting the degraded recordings with the original; an exacting but fascinating method of creating something unexpected and uniquely engaging. |
Derome, Jean: La Chaleur De La Pensee (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Concepts of community, dialog, sharing and transmission, or "recontre", are the linking ideas between these four works commissioned of Montreal composer and wind player Jean Derome, developed for four Quebec ensembles, these pieces combine contemporary and improvisational forms, the scores shaped by constraints from the combinatorial mathematics of Marin Mersenne. |
Gerszewski, Nikolaus: 3 Works For Strings, Giusto Chamber Orchestra (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $17.05 In Stock Giusto Chamber Orchestra performs three works for twelve strings by German composer and visual artist Nikolaus Gerszewski, whose music of shifting pitches, vibrations and volumes--compared with experimental sound & noise work--is influenced by composers Radulescu and Dumitrescu's spectral music, James Tenney's "swell form" and Cornelius Cardew's graphic scores. |
Lokkegaard, Niels Lyhne / Quatuor Bozzini: Colliding Bubbles (Important Records -- USA ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Copenhagen composer Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard's long form work refers to units of compositional structure in systems of instruments, each a "bubble" that interacts and collides creating fluctuations, ruptures and tension release in an hypnotic sonic tapestry, performed by Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini on violins, viola, cellos and harmonica; mesmerizing. |
Chorale Joker / Ensemble SuperMusique: Demantibule•es (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $13.45 In Stock Merging members of Ensemble SuperMusique with a subset of the ensemble Chorale Joker, Joane Hétu presents four premieres that explore our experiences during the pandemic, SuperMusique focused on electronics and synthetic instruments and offset by a wind quintet, the music and vocal interactions often explosive, reflecting on our mental states during an overwhelming cultural malady. |
Profos, Felix / Peter Conradin Zumthor: Grund (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Since 2021 Swiss composer Felix Profos and drummer Peter Conradin Zumthor have performed as the duo Grund, Profos performing on harmonium and on the 1973 Italian organ Bontempi Pop3, Zumthor on bass drum, gong, bells & snare, their extended work on this self-titled album a tranquil and meditative work of slow transitions with moments of terse activity, receding with grace and serenity. |
Donofrio, Anthony: These Calm Words (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock An exquisite recording of composer Anthony Donofrio 1972 work for solo vibraphone captured at the University of Nebraska where Donofrio teaches and directs their new music ensemble, this extended work for solo vibraphone performed by Donofrio himself, living up to its title in a delicate advancement from clear playing to unusual vibraphone timbres and technique. |
Pilchen, Danya : Two Songs. Anne, Germaine, Koen, Seamus, Danya (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Two "songs" from a series of works by Netherlands composer and pianist Danya Pilchen, exploring the possibilities of making and experiencing time through attentive listening, these works focused on creating a dialogue between two measures of time, performed with Anne La Berge on flute, Germaine Sijstermans on clarinet, Seamus Cater on harmonica and Koen Nutters on double bass. |
Boon, Dante (Beuger / Boon / Elina / Holtkamp / Schuppe / Van der Ster): Duos (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock A collection of works from pianist & composer Dante Boon in diverse duos and virtual duo compositions that reflect on John Cage's "inner clock" concept from "Two2", each of Boon's compositions directing the players through systems of notation and counting unique to each player, varying the rules of how the two players eventually synchronize their performances. |
Turba, Ruben / Minami Saeki: The Gift (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock "for two musicians, or more each musician should think about the other (or one of the others, if you are more tan two) and choose five sounds. these sounds - mainly simple, mainly short - should be chosen having the other musician ... |
Wittenburg, Florian: Regenprasseln (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $11.65 In Stock Regenprasseln translates to "rain pattering". |
Newland, Paul: Things That Happen Again (Another Timbre -- UK ) Squidco RSD 2024 Sale! Price was Price: $14.35 In Stock A portrait of UK interdisciplinary composer Paul Newland's music through five pieces dating from 2009 to 2023 performed by members of London's Apartment House ensemble, including a string quartet, two different trio combinations, a short work for solo piano, and a score for open instrumentation, realised in this recording by a septet. |
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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]
Feldman, Morton : Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Frey, Jurg: String Quartet No. 3 / Unhorbare Zeit
Houben, Eva-Maria : Ensemble Works [2 CDS]
Feldman, Morton played by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas: Two Pianos And Other Pieces 1953-1969 [2 CDs
Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Piano and String Quartet
Smith, Linda Catlin : Dirt Road
Lee, Okkyung: Na-Reul (Black Cross Solo Sessions 3)
Akchote / Halvorson / Frisell: Loving Highsmith [2 CDs]
Wegmann, Judith / Marlies Debacker / Lukas Biner / Nicolas Wolf: Things In Between
Smith, Linda Catlin : Drifter [2 CDs]
Frey, Jurg / Magnus Granberg: Early to Late
Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies
Lamb, Catherine / Harmonic Space Orchestra: Prisma Interius VII 7 VIII
Cage, John / Apartment House: Number Pieces [4-CD BOX SET]
Smith Quartet with John Tilbury: Morton Feldman: Music for Piano and Strings Volume 3 [DVD-AUDIO]