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![]() World Heritage, The: Live At Goodman (Magaibutsu -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The World Heritage in their 5th release recorded live at Tokyo's Akihabara Goodman in 2012, amazing improvised instrumental rock from Tatsuya Yoshida (drums), Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar), Natsuki Kido (guitar), Yuji Katsui (violin) and Mitsuru Nasuno (bass). |
![]() World Heritage, The: Travelling Silk Road (Magaibutsu -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Live recordings of drummer Yoshida Tatsuya's World Heritage band from Koenji HIGH in 2009, condensing and editing the show into one incredible hour of sophisticated rock improvisation. |
![]() Dust Dive, The : Asleep or Awake Walk (Own Records -- Belgium ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Scarcity Of Tanks: Fear Is Not Conscience (Total Life Society Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock New York/Ohio skronkers Scarcity of Tanks with Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus plus Kid Millions in a hard free rock free improv blast. |
![]() Mendoza, Ava / Maxime Petit / Will Guthrie: [7-inch VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock An excellent instrumental 7-inch from the trio of Ava Mendoza on guitar, Maxime Petit on bass and Will Guthrie on drums, recording in the studio in France, four rocking pieces showing the band's chops, quirky asides, and aggressive yet clean playing style. |
![]() Yes Deer: Get Your Glitter Jacket [VINYL] (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Norwegian & Danish freejazz-noise-rock trio Yes Deer of Anders Vestergaard on drums, Karl Bjora on guitar and Signe Dahlgreen on sax, in their second album of high energy, cacophonous and brutally joyful (they say "enthusiastic despair") collective improvisation. |
![]() Fond of Tigers: Uninhabit (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 4th album in 14 years from this instrumental Vancouver 7-piece avant rock band exploring both heavy and beautiful sonic environments; the band shares members with The Tony Wilson 6Tet, Dark Blue World, Aeroplane Trio, with Drip Audio leader Jesse Zubot on violin. |
![]() Gorilla Mask (Van Huffel / Fidezius / Fischerlehner): Iron Lung (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Hard-edged and tightly controlled free jazz from the trio of Peter Van Huffel on alto sax, Roland Fidezius on electric bass, and Rudi Fischerlehner on drums, blending jazz & punk sensibilities in works with great technical twists and turns over savagely lyrical music. |
![]() Foussat, Jean-Marc : L'oiseau [VINYL] (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock An amazing album of electronic experimentation from multi-instrumentalist Jean-Marc Foussat, dedicating the album to the late painter and son Victor Foussat, through two extended and far-ranging works that blends concrete sounds with intense playing and sonic environments. |
![]() Tononi, Tiziano And Southbound: Trouble No More... All Men Are Brothers (Long Song Records -- Italy ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Italian drummer and percussionist Tiziano Tononi leads a large ensemble performing the music of American Rock Band The Allman Brothers, who Tononi cites as a major influence in his life for both their style, and for incorporating jazz, blues, southern rock and New Orleans cross-rhythms. |
![]() Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere: 02 (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock An absolutely impressive album blending advanced/progressive rock forms with improvisation, starting from collective improvisation and layering in the studio to create a sophisticated psychedelic music, the second album from this ensemble that is headed by Martin Archer (reeds & keys), Chris Bywater (keys & synth), and Steve Dinsdale (drums & percussion). |
![]() Humcrush (Storlokken / Stronen): Enter Humcrush (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock After a six year break the Humcrush duo of Stale Storlokken on keys and Thomas Stronen on drums & electronics return with this studio album of rhythmic angularities and experimental sound worlds, drawing on their experiences with bands including Supersilent, Food, Elephant9, Time is a blind guide, Meadow and Motorpsycho. |
![]() Korekyojinn Acoustic: Kaleidoscope (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Korekyojin trio of Tatsuya Yoshida on percussion, Kido Natsuki on guitar and Mitsuru Nasuno on fretless bass, plus violinist Miyamoto Rei on several tracks, take their intricate and exuberant rock into acoustic territory with this impressive album, which includes acoustic takes on "Arabesque", "Careless Heart", "Four Holes in the Sky", &c. |
![]() Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
![]() Samworth, Ron (Samworth / Adler / JP Carter / Naylor / Peggy Lee / James Meger): Dogs Do Dream (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $9.72 ![]() ![]() In Stock Presented at the Vancouver International Improvisation Festival and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, guitarist Ron Samworth's conceptual work explores the life and dreams of a dog, with narration from Barbara Adler and an incredible ensemble including cellist Peggy, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, trumpeter JP Carter, drummer Dylan van der Schyff, etc. |
![]() Sick Boss (Schmidt / Meger / Peggy Lee / JP Carter / Naylor / Page): Sick Boss (Drip Audio -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A richly refined and sophisticated album drawing on improvisation, experimenation and rock elements from the collaborative Vancouver ensemble Sick Boss of core members guitarist Cole Schmidt, bassist James Meger and drummer Daniel Gaucher, with guests including guitarist Tony Wilson, cellist Peggy Lee, trumpeter JP Carter, synth player Tyson Naylor, &c. &c. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: 03 (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The improvising rock group Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, led by Martin Archer, Chris Bywater, and Steve Dinsdale, in their 3rd album of innovative improvisation, haunting hypnotic grooves and blasts of sheer exuberance, with the band augmented by strings and trombone to give them a larger and more intense sound. |
![]() Martel, Frank / L'Ouest Celeste: Ye - Yi - You - Ya (Monsieur Fauteux -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Novak, Ryan: Balloon Proportions (RY/NO Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Multi-instrumentalist improviser Novak, who has worked with Tim Daisy and Tatsuya Nakatani, in an eclectic and complex solo release of colliding genres. |
![]() Savoldelli, Boris: Biocosmopolitan (MoonJune -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Vocalist Savoldelli in an exquisitely-crafted album of overdubbed vocal work, with help from trumpeter Paolo Fresu and bassist Jimmy Haslip; elaborite harmonies, interlocking rhythms, exultant influences. |
![]() Shiurba, John: Triplicate (Spool -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer John Shiurba with an impressive West Coast octet including vocalists Lara Bruckmann & Morgan Guberman, trumpeter Tom Djll, drummer Gino Robair, and bassist Matthew Sperry, &c. conducting them through five twisted compositions. |
![]() Drake, Bob: Antiquities [6-CD BOX SET] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $40.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock Collecting multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Bob Drake's albums Little Black Train, The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors, XIII Songs and a Thing, The Shunned Country, and Bob's Drive-In in a solid box set, with a bonus CD, a specially curated collection of outtakes and oddities from this amazing avant-rocker, a member of Thinking Plague, 5uu's, Hail and The Science Group. |
![]() Marteau Rouge (Pauvros / Sato / Foussat): ... Un Jour Se Leve [VINYL] (Fou Records -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $10.75 ![]() ![]() In Stock The free improvising trio of Makoto Sato on drums, Jean-Francois Pauvros on guitar and Jean-Marc Foussat on synthesizer & voice in a studio album of unique electro-acoustic dialog recorded in Paris in 2013. |
![]() Orfield, Sue Band: Bonk (self-released -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Tiptons saxophonist Sue Orfield's Band performs original music that spans many genres from blues rock and funk to jazz and bluegrass with a little ethnic vibe thrown in. |
![]() St-Jean (Babin / Falaise / Labbe / Leclerc): Projectionnistes, Les: Copie zero (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Claude St-Jean's band, Les Projectionnistes (Tommy Babin, Bernard Falaise, Pierre Labbe, Remi Leclerc), plays an ecletic mix of songs ranging from alternative jazz, rock, and improv. |
![]() Talibam! & Sam Kulik: Discover AtlantASS [CD & Graphic Book] (Belly Kids -- Great Britain ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock NY's Talibam! team up with artist graphic artist Sam Kulik to tell the absurd and fantastic story of a young teen named Franklin who gets abducted by a revolutionary jazz fish into the undersea world of Atlantis. |
![]() TSIGOTI: Read Between The Lines...Think Outside Them (Post Consumer -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock The TSIGOTI quarter brings together Italians Jacopo Andreini on guitar, Andrea Caprara on drums, and Piero Spitilli on bass with California pianist Thollem McDonas for critical avant punk with a technically brilliant flair. |
![]() Humcrush (Storlokken / Stronen): Enter Humcrush [VINYL] (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $20.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock After a six year break, the Humcrush duo of Stale Storlokken on keys and Thomas Stronen on drums & electronics return with this studio album of rhythmic angularities and experimental sound worlds, drawing on their experiences with bands including Supersilent, Food, Elephant9, Time is a blind guide, Meadow and Motorpsycho. |
![]() Walk With The Penguin: Charm (Amorfon -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Japanese steelpan player Yoshio Machida leads this pan-national pop band in their second album, blending electronics and popular forms of music referencing and using electronic and acoustic rock, funk, synthpop, and spoken word, with the majority of the band Serbian artists, and guest musicians including Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (Jim O'Rourke), Paranel, and Misha. |
![]() Murayama, Seijiro: Broken Iteration [2 CDs] (Herbal International -- Malaysia ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock A 2-CD release from Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama, performing solo on "objects" which combines clearly percussive objects and other electroacoustic items of obscure origin, creating active, rich and curious sonic environments that envelop the listener. |
![]() Baker / Glover: Love, Approximately (Bad Architect Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bridging folk traditions with modern aesthetics, the duo of Evan Baker on guitar and Austin Glover on violin, both contributing songs, sing about everyday events, music, and life, the songs having a bluesy and even early Kinks feel at times, made unique through a cappella moments and languid instrumental sections. |
![]() XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbot): Pah' (Pleasure of the Text Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock The duo of Paul Abbot on drum kits, percussion & computer, and Seymour Wright on alto saxophone and feedback, in a massive edge-of-your seat live recording from London's Cafe Oto in 2015, a mix of brutal and beautiful playing with unexpected and surprising twists. |
![]() Archer, Martin & Engine Room Favourites: Safety Signal From A Target Town (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Saxophonist Martin Archer composed the five works on this, the 3rd release for Engine Room Favorites, his AACM-influenced big band with a tremendous orchestration of horns with drums, vibes, piano and bass, here with their most complex yet melodic and rich release yet, including melodic elements of folk music, powerful rhythms from prog-oriented rock, and free improv and jazz. |
![]() Hawkins, Chester: Magnetisk Nord (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.05 ![]() ![]() In Stock Chester Hawkins' curiosity for Denmark resulted in his renting an apartment in central Kobenhavn, bringing along his electronically modified lapsteel guitar, wind and reed instruments, tabletop noise-boxes, mobile synthesizer apps and a shortwave radio, which he joined with field recordings from the capital region, creating this magnificent loveletter to Denmark. |
![]() Lubelski, Samara / Bill Nace: S/T (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Issuing on CD the duo album of violinist Samara Lubelski and guitarist Bill Nace, originally released on Nace's Open Mouth label early in 2018, presenting a series of psychedelic textural works, Lubelski creating vibrant and reiterating structures that Nace uses as a foundation for swells and expressive emanations; hypnotic and mesmerizing. |
![]() Surruralists, Les (Bull / Normand / Grossman / Jacques / Berirau): La Way Qu'a Do (Tour de Bras -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Slyly crossing modern improv and EAI approaches in a surreal take on early bottleneck, banjo and slide blues styles from the Quebec quintet of Arthur Bull on harmonica, voice, guitar & electronics, Eric Normand on banjo, voice & bass, Ben Grossman on "old wheel", Anne-Francoise Jacques on engines, and Gabriel Rochette on trombone; sincere and eccentric. |
![]() Chadbourne, Eugene Contemporary Rock Band: Sounds Of The Now Generation (Chadula -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Doc Chad took his Contemporary Rock Band, here as a quintet with Schroeder on drums, Fisten Titus Waldenfels on fiddle, Jan Fitsen on bass, and Marcello Del Bosco on drums, on a tour of Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, here presenting the best of the tour with recordings of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, plus a solo piece recorded on a vintage acoustic guitar. |
![]() Das Rad (Archer / Robinson / Dinsdale): Das Rad (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Influenced by progressive rock, kosmiche, and fusion forms, the UK trio Das Rad of Nick Robinson on guitars & electronics, Martin Archer on sax, reeds, winds, keys and electronics, Steve Dinsdale on drums and percussion, and Julie Archer on voice, bringing 70s sounds to modern sensibilities and superb creative playing, a great achievement. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Four (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Declaring Terry Riley, Magma, Krautrock, and Sun Ra as influences, this is the fourth album from wind and keyboard player Martin Archer's Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, an augmented six-piece UK ensemble whose rock affinities also embrace improvisation and minimalism, a heady mix of virtuosic playing with melodic intention and extremely detailed tapestries of sound; dreamy and elegiac. |
![]() Gourdon, Yann / Maxime Petit / Jean-Luc Guionnet: Soli - Fanzine [3 CD + BOOK] (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $35.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A strange and bizarrely beautiful "fanzine" of three CDs, one each from hurdy gurdy drone artist Yann Gourdon, bass guitarist Maxime Petite, and Jean Luc Guionnet on organ, with illustration by artists Fredox, Celine Guichard, and 38Fillette; an odd and absorbing package. |
![]() Killing Spree (Metzger / Daniel / Galichet): Boko Boko Tour (Ayler -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A heavy album merging free improvisation, blues and rock forms from the French Killing Spree trio of Matthieu Metzger on alto saxophone & electronics, Sylvain Daniel on electric bass & effects, and Gregoire Galichet on drums, living up to the band name in dark malice captured live at Club Soto in Kyoto, Japan during their 2018 Japanese tour; vengeful. |
![]() Surplus 1980 Collectiv Ensembl With G.W. Sok : Forget All This (Music a la Coque -- Italy ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Surplus 1980 Collectiv Ensembl takes the current members of drummer Moe! Staiano's Surplus 1980 along with associated musicians, including Kyle Bruckmann, John Shiurba, Vicky Grossi, Paul Costuros, &c, with vocals from Dutch vocalist G.W. Sok (The Ex), in an album of avant post-punk rock, sophisticated but determined and pointed music, an unusual hybrid of impressive styles. |
![]() Electric Bird Noise: Hearn-Roberts-Strong-Watts (Silber -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Guitarist Electric Bird Noise, aka Brian Lea McKenzie, continues his string of slightly off-center rock albums, primarily instrumental work, this album including a muscular quartet with Jason Hearn on drums, Bradley Wayne Roberts on bass, Steve Strong on drums, plus an Alan Watts narration; 8 dramatic tracks using loops, effects, backward tracking and other aural trickery. |
![]() Hawkins, Chester: Natural Causes - Original Music For Pale Trees, A Film By Tim Ashby [VINYL] [Used Item] (Intangible Arts -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $8.10 ![]() ![]() In Stock Washington, DC based electronic experimenter Chester Hawkins (Blue Sausage Infant) was commissioned by director Tim Ashby to compose this work for the soundtrack to his feature-length film "Pale Trees", Hawkin's music illustrating the film's gradient of psychological colors from darkness, rage, and vengeance through a mix of kosmische drone in a Tangerine Dream vein. |
![]() Mattin : Songbook #5 [VINYL] [Used Item] (Disembraining Machine -- Australia ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.39 ![]() ![]() In Stock Mattin takes 5 spontaneous 5-minute songs from 5 musicians, and a 25 minute concert structured by 5 instructions based on those song titles, then records vocals for the 5 songs as a singing lecture, then superimposes all 3 to create the five 5-minutes songs on this album. |
![]() My Cat Is An Alien: Robert Opalio/Maurizio Opalio [VINYL] [Used Item] (Important Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $19.44 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split LP with each side featuring a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed space guitar improvising band My Cat Is An Alien. |
![]() Hayward, Charles : (Begin Anywhere) (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock This Heat and Camberwell Now drummer, songwriter, vocalist, experimenter and sociological observer Charles Hayward steps away from his drums for an intimate album of song, performing on piano with minimal accompaniment as he presents new songs and new versions of songs including pieces from Camberwell Now; powerfully fragile, insightful, fascinating. |
![]() Killick: Stay-At-Home Monk [VINYL] (H(i)nds(i)ght -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Varying the instrument and proportions of acoustic or electric presentation straddling the foreground/background dynamic for each track, Appalachian Trance Metal guitarist Killick presents his first vinyl LP to extend his vast CD discography; a worthy and curious album of solo guitar, acoustic and electroacoustic work that belongs in any guitar enthusiast's collection. |
![]() Blue Sausage Infant: Flight of the Solstice Queens (Zeromoon -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Chester Hawkins' long-running BSI project now based in DC, layering groove based (kraut)rock with unearthly sound sources, plundered samples, and all form of unmentionable sound. |
![]() Pinhas, Richard / Tatsuya Yoshida: Ascension (Magaibutsu Limited -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The collaboration between Magaibutsu label leader, Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Korekyojinn, Koenji, The World Heritage, &c) on drums, keyboards & voice, and Heldon mastermind Richard Pinhas on guitar & effects, continues with this CD of live material from their 2014 Japanese tour, extending the 2015 "Live in Japan" album, including the 8-part "Ascension". |
![]() Frith, Fred / Hardy Fox: A Day Hanging Dead Between Heaven And Earth (Klanggalerie -- Austria ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Fred Frith's solo career started on the West Coast Ralph Records label, home of The Residents; Frith met Residents front man Hardy Fox in passing in 1991, making recordings on a Pacific beach using Fox's Walkman, which they brought to a multi-track studio to record the basis for an ultimately unreleased album, now revived decades later as Fox rediscovered this fascinating material. |
![]() Mattin : Songbook #5 [VINYL] [Used Item] (Disembraining Machine -- Australia ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.50 ![]() ![]() In Stock Mattin takes 5 spontaneous 5-minute songs from 5 musicians, and a 25 minute concert structured by 5 instructions based on those song titles, then records vocals for the 5 songs as a singing lecture, then superimposes all 3 to create the five 5-minutes songs on this album. |
![]() Ahab Rex: Blood on Blonde [Used Item] (Lens Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.70 ![]() ![]() In Stock |
![]() Various Artists (including Talibam!): Getting Rid of the Glue [VINYL] (Pendu Sound Recordings -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock First in a series of themed LP dedicated to improv / experimental / & noise music, this LP including Talibam!, Fessenden, Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter, &c. |
![]() Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
![]() KNW : NORTH ov GOD (Psykomanteum -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock An album of ecstatic noise improv with an experimental edge from the trio of Ulrich Krieger on tenor saxophone & contrabass clarinet, Nandor Nevai on "throats" & drums, and Wolcott on oscillator & electronics, viciously assertive music in seven track of mostly succinct statements composed or conceived by each of the band members; cathartic. |
![]() No Mor Musik: No Mor Musik (ugEXPLODE -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock This puzzling display of punk/jazz surrealism is masterminded by Nondor Nevai on drums and vocals, featuring Weasel Walter on bass and legendary journeyman Kenny Millions (aka Keshavan Maslak) on guitar and reeds, a sort of unholy fusion between extreme metal, bludgeoning noise rock, free jazz, black humor and true stream-of-consciousness improvisation. |
![]() Drake, Bob: The Gardens of Beastley Manor (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bob Drake takes his listeners on a 22 piece instrumental journey through a "Beastley" garden of confident melodic foundation anBob Drake takes his listeners on a 22 piece instrumental journey through a "Beastley" garden of confident melodic foundation and experimental forays, captured by day and night, a tour de force of conception and execution. |
![]() Higgins, Tyler (w/ Monticello / Stevens): Broken Blues (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Blues with a strong sonic sense in Atlanta, GA guitarist Tyler Higgin's 2nd release on Shhpuma, his trio again featuring drummer Paul Stevens, and here adding bassist Gabriel Monticello, known for symphonic, jazz and rock forms, bringing masterful skill to this album that richly blends blues, gospel, folk, jazz and rock forms with passion and style. |
![]() Hayward, Charles : Crossfade Estate (Klanggalerie -- E.U. ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded in 2005 with an ensemble of like-minded instrumentalists and then edited and collaged for the next year and a half, this was a project of Charles Hayward during his time at The Albany in Deptford, London, using their digital recording suite to create a large work using a variety of strategies and developed in a dramatic story form, issued here for the 1st time. |
![]() Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Five (Discus -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 5th album from the UK collective improvising progressive rock band of reedist Martin Archer, drummer Steve Dinsdale, bassists Lorin Halsall & Terry Todd, percussionist Walt Shaw, keyboardist Andy Peake, violinist Yvonna Magda and string player & vocalist Jad Todd, merging acoustic and electronic instruments in rich and often dreamlike forms that flow with spirited refinement. |
![]() Taylor, Mike: Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $16.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Found dead in the Thames River in 1969, pianist & composer Mike Taylor left a legacy of two solid & lyrical jazz albums, of which the complete Trio album and one track from Pendulum are remastered; but he was also a songwriter for the Eric Clapton/Ginger Baker/Jack Bruce band Cream, of which three Taylor compositions with lyrics and vocals by Baker are included. |
![]() Drake, Bob: Planets & Animals (Recommended Records -- UK ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Bob Drake continues to tug on the heart-strings of prog in short but smart songs that reference the best of the last few decades of prog/psych/avant rock forms, Drake as always handling all parts in a great balance of guitar, electronic & acoustic instruments, including some newly invented instruments; includes a fold-out poster in Bob Drake style from Joe Mruk. |
![]() TtD (Nasuno Mitsuru / Tatsuya Yoshida): Teneleven the Duo (Fourth Hand Record -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $14.35 ![]() ![]() In Stock Concentrating the Teneleven quintet to a duo in the core of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei, Korekyojinn) and bassist & electronic device guru Mitsuru Nasuno (Altered States, Fushitsusha, Ground Zero), for eleven tracks of energetic interactive rock improvisations, alternating between "TdD" pieces of burning improvisations and introspective "Afterglows". |
![]() Plan Kruutntoone: Wat Doen De Handen [VINYL + DOWNLOAD] (esc.rec. -- Netherlands ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $20.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fifth album from Amsterdam avant rock band Plan Kruutntoone led by Hans Visser on guitar, banjo & voice, and drummer/percussionist Chris MŸller, is a diverse set of recording that bring a sense of isolation and introspection, including spoken word pieces with Samuel Beckett text fragments, and a string quartet composed by Hans Visser; unique and singular. |
![]() Killing Popes, The (Steidle / Mobus / Nicholls / Downes / Donkin): Ego Kills (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock An incredibly inventive album of 21st century jazz incorporating a twisted wealth of rock and electronic elements, in the 2nd album from Killing Popes led by drummer Oli Steidle and keyboardist Dan Nicholls, with Frank Mobus (guitar) and Phil Donkin (bass), Philipp Gropper (saxophone), Jelena Kuljic (voice & sampler) plus Natalie Sandtorv & Liv Nicholls on voice. |
![]() J. & F. Band, The (Fonda / Tononi / Durante / Grissom / Irabagon / Parrini / Rodgers / Sharrard)N: Me and the Devil (Long Song Records -- Italy ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock A powerful and effusive jazz rocking and danceable album of instrumentals and songs from the Italian/International J & F Band of drummer Tiziano Tononi, bassist Joe Fonda, plus guitarists David Grissom, Bobby Lee Rodgers & Scott Sharrard, keyboardist Pee Wee Durante, violinist Emanuele Parrini and saxophonist Jon Irabagon, recording in New Haven, CT; get it on! |
![]() J. & F. Band, The : Cajun Blue (Long Song Records -- Italy ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Following their first record with this powerful blues rock & jazz album, the Italian/US J & F Band of Tiziano Tononi (drums), Joe Fonda (bass), drummer/percussionist Jaimoe and Pach, Peewee Durante (keys), Alberto Mandarini (trumpet), Beppe Caruso (trombone) and Gianluigi Paganelli (tuba), with guest guitarist David Grissom and vocalist Lamar Williams Jr. |
![]() Sharp's, Elliott Terraplane: Kick It Six (zOaR Records -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock The title referencing a Blind Willie McTell entreaty to himself, Elliott Sharp's contemporary blues project Teraplane truly "kicks" in 8 burning pieces of concentrated guitar work from Sharp, solo and in overdub, recording in Studio zOaR while performing on electric guitar, vong co guitar, lap steel guitar, console steel guitars, mandocello, mandola, basses & drum programming. |
![]() je'raf: Throw Neck (Amalgam -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Reminding of Downtown NY bands in the vein of No Safety or Curlew, this Chicago/NY 7-piece blurs rock, jazz and funk forms with intelligent and often satirical lyrics, upbeat and joyful music that defies categorization through groove-based songs that playfully critique while keeping it all danceable and fun, in a wonderfully talented and enjoyable album. |
![]() Mako Sica (feat Tatsu Aoki / Thymme Jones / Jacob Fawcett) : Garland of Heads [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock With virtually the same lineup as their Feeding Tube album Ourania, the Chicago-based duo of Mako Sica--Brent Fuscaldo (electric bass, voice, harmonica & percussion) and Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (electric trumpet, electric guitar & mandolin)--again join with Tatsu Aoki on bass & shamisen and Thymme Jones on keyboards, trumpet, balloon & voice, subbing drummer Jacob Fawcett. |
![]() Crazy Doberman: "Everyone Is Rolling Down A Hill" ... [VINYL] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Indiana collective Crazy Doberman in a 15-performer configuration including core members Tim Gick and Drew Davis, merging jazz and indescribable approaches to free improvisation with a mix of acoustic & electronic instruments, building their pieces from mysteriously cantankerous rumination to ecstatic grooves and much in-between. |
![]() Moon-Liters / Millennium Development Goals (D. Liedel): Nerve Agent! (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock Essentially written by Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist D. Liedel, who handles most of the parts on this unusual blend of rock, electronics, jazz, pop punk and a number of unlikely genres, presenting strange songs that take sharp turns into twisted realms, neatly layering each piece into a heady brew that's hard to pin down, but a great deal of fun trying. |
![]() Mendoza, Ava: New Spells (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A joint release between Astral Spirts and Relative Pitch, guitarist Ava Mendoza conjures five assertive and rugged "spells" performed on solo electric guitar, passionate works of raw technical skill and bold power as she improvises over two songs composed by herself, alongside pieces written for her from Devin Hoff, Trevor Dunn and John Dikeman. |
![]() Mendoza, Ava: New Spells [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock A joint release between Astral Spirts and Relative Pitch, guitarist Ava Mendoza conjures five assertive and rugged "spells" performed on solo electric guitar, passionate works of raw technical skill and bold power as she improvises over two songs composed by herself, alongside pieces written for her from Devin Hoff, Trevor Dunn and John Dikeman. |
![]() Huvudbry: Det ar ingen ordning pa allting [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Drummer Hampus Ohman-Frolund (Apuh!) leads the Huvudbry septet of structured rock forms, with an intriguing orchestration of trumpet, lap steel, double bass, guitars, keyboard and voice, using intervals of unusual sonic experimentation and field recordings to create a unique album that bassist Mats Dimming refers to as "A mix of Captain Beefheart, Yann Tiersen & Swedish House Mafia". |
![]() Huvudbry : Piggelin-rundan [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock Essentially a solo album from composer and improviser based in NYC Hampus Öhman-Frölund, this extended work uses a zither as its basis, augmented by a MicroKorg and the voice of Huvudbry bandmate Avery Leigh Draut, using no set tempo and framed and inspired around a picture of the woods near where Öhman-Frölund grew up; really lovely and inspired work. |
![]() Center For Whatever: Boogie Spiderland [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock The first collaboration between Brooklyn-based experimental improvising drummer Hampus Ohman-Frolund (Apuh!) and guitarist John Lindaman (True Love Always), blurring rock forms and experimental electronics into a hybrid space rock that takes unexpected twists and turns, with the goal to produce compelling psychedelic inspired sound; headphones recommended! |
![]() Center For Whatever: Ensorcelled [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Huvudbry Recordings -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $7.15 ![]() ![]() In Stock An intensely experimental journey in sound through guitars, electronics and percussion from the Brooklyn-based duo of John Lindaman and Hampus Ohman, a diverse set of pieces improvised using sound sculpting, noise and melodic elements, creating a great balance between darkness and light amidst solid conceptual and technical approaches to their instruments. |
![]() Yoshida, Tatsuya / Dairo Suga: Root (Doubtmusic -- Japan ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $15.25 ![]() ![]() In Stock Driven by a passionate intensity, this first meeting of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Korekyojinn, Koenji Hyakkei, &c) and pianist Dario Suga at 7th Floor in Shibuya, Japan begins at high speed, the sheer technical brilliance of both players dazzling, their unbridled energy eventually yielding to passages of introspection that recur to fervor and fraternity; exceptional! |
![]() Borbetomagus / Shaking Ray Levis: Coelacanth [10" VINYL] (Agaric -- USA ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $13.45 ![]() ![]() In Stock 1991 collaboration between Shaking Ray Levis and Borbetomagus in an exquisite mix of over-amplified and otherwise bewilderingly fierce free improv. |
![]() Skeleton Crew (Frith / Cora / Parkins): Free Dirt (Live) [2 CDs] (Klanggalerie -- Germany ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $20.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock One of the most intense and unusual of the 80s Downtown NY groups merging rock and improvisation with strong attitudes and incredible musical concepts, these live recordings, including songs never before released, are taken from American and European concerts by the trio of guitarist Fred Frith, cellist Tom Cora, and either electric harpist Zeena Parkins or reedist Dave Newhouse. |
![]() 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. |
![]() Gross, Jean-Philippe / Golden Oriole: Optical Cadillac / Golden Oriole [VINYL 10-inch] (BeCoq -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $12.55 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split 10" vinyl album of two very different works: first French sound artist Jean-Philippe Gross in a sonic assault of garish rhythmic electronic persistence and noise; then the Golden Oriole instrumental rock duo of Kristoffer Riis on guitar and Thore Warland on drums in a compelling work of grooving structure with diverse percussive interaction. |
![]() Carnalisme (Gargaud / Grente / Ziemniak): De Profundis (nunc. -- France ) Squidco Freedom Sale Price was Price: $11.65 ![]() ![]() In Stock Formed by double bassist Patrice Grente and drummer Etienne Ziemniak in 2010, the French band Carnalisme, meaning "This fuzzy, troubled and slippery place, which everyone owns and no one can spot", produce a raucous blend of hard rock and free improvisation, here in their 4th release and joined by guitarist Guillaume Gargaud for a profoundly blistering album. |
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Ayler, Albert: Summertime To Spiritual Unity, Revisited
Bley, Paul Trios: Play Annette Peacock, Revisited
Taylor, Mike: Trio, Quartet & Composer, Revisited
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Huy (Junji / Kazuhisa / Yoshida): Huy
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Korekyojinn: Fall Line
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Shimizu, Kazuto / Yoshida Tatsuya / Nasyuno Mitsuru: SYN LIVE
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Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: 03
Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire
Kaiser, Henry / Rome Yamilov: The Lenoir Investigation
Atsushi / Tatsuya / Makoto: Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour 2022
Futterman, Joel / William Parker: Why
Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kawabata Makoto: Reverse Fault
Gorilla Mask (Van Huffel / Fidezius / Fischerlehner): Iron Lung
XT (Seymour Wright / Paul Abbot): Pah'