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The return of the cassette has been well embraced by our customers, and the last year has seen our cassette collection increase substantially. To celebrate Cassette Day
on Saturday, October 17, from now until Sunday we're offering our customers 15% OFF the regular price of all in-stock cassettes!
Discount applied at checkout time, discounted items are eligible for reward points. Sale ends Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 23:59 EST (GMT-5).
Click here to see our Cassette Category!
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Blancarte, Tom / Peter Evans / Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen / Dan Peck: The Gauntlet of Mehen
(Destiny Records)
The quartet of bassist Tom Blancarte and saxophonist/vocalist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (The Home of Easy Credit), Dan Peck on tuba (The Gate, also with Blancarte) and trumpeter Peter Evans, for an album inspired by the collaborative gameplay of the classic arcade game, Gauntlet.
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Carter, John Trio: Echoes from Rudolph's [2 CDs]
(NoBusiness)
Between 1973 and '76 Sunday afternoons at Rudolph's Fine Art Center hosted the superb John Carter Trio with son Stanley Carter on bass and Chris Carter on cymbals; these live recordings were originally released in a limited LP in 1977, now reissued with a rare '77 radio broadcast.
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Fell, Mark Feat. Rhodri Davies & Okkyung Lee: A Pattern for Becoming [CASSETTE]
(The Tapeworm)
A piece by Mark Fell for seven moving speakers and solo improvising instrumentalist (Rhodri Davis and Okkyung Lee), conceived for and performed at Harmonic Series at Southbank Centre in the Blue Room at Royal Festival Hall, 2015.
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Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden: Frictions / Frictions Now
(NoBusiness)
Two studio recordings recorded 2 years apart (1969, 1971) of "Frictions", a 6 part work, and the additional 2 part "Frictions Now" from the quartet of Michael Sell (trumpet), Dieter Scherf (sax & winds), Gerhard Konig (guitar & flutes) and Wolfgang Schlick (percussion).
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Hauf / Heather / Siewert / Weber: The Peeled Eye [VINYL with Download Code]
(Shameless)
Ominous free jazz from the quartet of Boris Hauf (baritone sax), Martin Siewert (guitar), Christian Weber (electric bass) and Steve Heather (drums), thick and tremendously informed improv with a rock-tilted ear toward the sonic aspects of their instruments.
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Kuchen, Martin / Johan Berthling / Steve Noble: Night In Europe
(NoBusiness)
Swedish saxophonist Martin Kuchen (Angles, Trespass Trio, All Included) with UK drummer/percussionist Steve Noble and double bassist John Berthling in a searing album of free improvisation performed live at Glenn Miller Cafe in Stockholm in 2014.
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Metzger, Paul: 1300 [VINYL]
(Nero's Neptune)
Unconventional guitarist Paul Metzger in his ninth solo album, and third for Nero's Neptune, performing on a revamped Yamaha guitar guitar and 23-string banjo, both of whcih include percussive elements, for dexterous playing informed by global influences.
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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk
(Hot Cup)
Recorded and mixed on analog tape, MOPDtK combines historical jazz lineage and the 21st century perspective of MOPDtK's members (Jon Irabagon; Ron Stabinsky; Moppa Elliott; Kevin Shea), with each piece dedicated to an individual who influenced their compositional process.
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Postmarks (Boris Hauf / D Bayne / Martin Siewert): National Parks [Vinyl]
(Monotype)
The duo of saxophonist Boris Hauf and pianist D Bayne team up with guitarist Martin Siewert in this collection of tracks inspired by different U.S. national parks and their representation in iconic posters.
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Schott, John: Actual Trio
(Tzadik)
San Francisco Bay Area guitarist John Schott (Junk Genius, T.J. Kirk, Tom Waits) in his 3rd release on Tzadik with his trio of Dan Seamans on bass and John Hanes on drums, 8 upbeat compositions including one for James Blood Ulmer; lyrical pieces with tight interplay.
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Vandermark, Ken / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Resistance
(Bocian)
Live recordings from the duo of frequent collaborators Ken Vandermark on sax & reeds and Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics performing at Chicago's Heaven Gallery in 2013, for a superb set with surprising twists and turns and a great range of dynamics and approaches.
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Vandermark, Ken / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Resistance [VINYL]
(Bocian)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Wright, Frank Quartet: Church Number Nine [VINYL]
(Calumet)
An obscure and amazing album originally released in 1973 on the French Calumet label from the free improvising quartet of Frank Wright (tenor sax), Noah Howard (alto sax), Mohamed Ali (drums) and Bobby Few (piano), an inspired release under the influence of Coltrane and Ayler.
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Zorn, John: Inferno
(Tzadik)
The 3rd album from Zorn's trio of John Medeski (organ), Kenny Grohowski (drums) and Matt Hollenberg (guitar) in a long-form composition inspired by the work of Swedish poet, painter, alchemist and occultist August Strindberg, 7 pieces of dark, driving, ecstatic improv.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Buttner, Gregory: Pochen
(Herbal International)
Composer Gregory Buttner captured recordings from the 19th century French Performance Arts Forum in St. Erme, Picardy in 2011, using the house as a sound generator, resonant space and instrument, organizing the recordings into this excursive and exploratory composition.
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Coppice: Matches
(Category of Manifestation)
The experimental Chicago duo of Joseph Kramer & Noe Cuellar in a release of various collaborative processes between 2009-2015 using a wide range of compositional structures and recorded in various locations using instruments and objects related to bellows and electronics.
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Enema Syringe: Upshutlenvolte [7-inch Vinyl]
(Fragment Factory)
Kai Parviainen's Enema Syringe in a 7" release recorded in 1987, 14+ minutes of raw and primitive staccato electronics edgy with a darkly disordered mental state, a stark testimony to the tenacity of his work, which continues into the 2010s.
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Eubanks, Bryan: The Bornholmer Suite
(Nueni)
Fifty tracks, one minute and three seconds long each, of open circuit electronics miniatures from sound and noise artists Bryan Eubanks, an unusual suite that challenges the senses and expectations of a suite of sound.
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Kwang, Goh Lee: Draw Sound [3-inch CD + BOOK]
(Herbal International)
An unusual release of drawings and coins - 98 tracks in 8 1/2 minutes, where each track is the sound of one or more coins dropping by the hand of sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, plus one track from Woody Sullender; the book has pencil drawings apparently inspired by the sound.
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Lopez, Francisco: La Selva [VINYL LP & USB CARD]
(Sub Rosa)
An immersion into the sound environments of a tropical rain forest in an ultimate mix from original recordings done at La Selva Biological Station during the rainy seasons of '95-96 from sound artist Francisco Lopez, released as a USB memory-card with non-audio etched vinyl.
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Piotrowicz, Robert / Lukas Jincka: Samoobrona [VINYL]
(Bolt)
Helmut Kajzar's theatrical play with themes of physicality and death with sound performed on synthesizers and electronics, in it's 4th recording including stage directions in the narrative (in Polish) with an insert providing English translations of a selection of dialog.
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Sten, Helge : Monochromes
(Bolt)
Supersilent's Helge Sten presents three works--"Quads", "Monochrome", and "Solitude Of Sounds" by Tomasz Sikorski--dark sound works based on sampling, time stretching, and other effects, that slowly move and fascinate the listener in subtle detail and determination.
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Various Artists: 30/4
(Fragment Factory)
Germany's Fragment Factory released this compilation to celebrate their 4th anniversary, with artists Joachim Montessuis, AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Philip Marshall, Krube., Michael Barthel, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Michael Muennich, Giuseppe Ielasi, Leif Elggren and Michael and Basil Esposito.
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Xu(e): Brown Jenkin
(Thirsty Leaves Music)
The long-standing collaborative project of Nicola Fornasari (also known as Xu) and Andrea Poli in a 10-track album of rhythmically propelled sound composed of radio, distortion, fuzz & ringmod, synth, software modules and samples; dark night brooding music.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Shit and Shine: Everybody's a Fuckin Expert [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Editions Mego)
Divided into 4 larger segments, Craig Clouse leads the otherwise anonymous Shit and Shine through a strangely aggressive album of free beats and aberrant sound, with one foot in the noise rock of London that it arose from and the other tripping the feet of electro music.
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Stepmother (Simonis / Visser / Gilonis / Kerman): Calvary Greetings [VINYL]
(Megaphone)
Bringing together members from RIO-oriented bands like Vril, AA Kismet, The Work, Hat Shoes, Hail, 5uus, Present, & Thinking Plague, Stepmother presents a strange conglomerate of styles in short songs with twisted elements, strange intent, and superb playing.
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Weathers, Andrew Ensemble: Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything
(Full Spectrum)
Experimental improvising in the 3rd studio release from Andrew Weathers and his Ensemble paying homage to America's myriad cultural traditions in sound tapestry and song, completing a trilogy that began in 2011 with "We're Not Cautious".
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Books & Magazines
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Wire, The: #379 September 2015 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)
On the cover: Julia Holter; Blurt; Music With My Insane Friend (Melbourne duo James Wilson and Simon Bereux); Invisible Jukebox: Arnold Dreyblatt; Ramzi; Iain Chambers; Kink Gong; Khyam Allami; Global Ear: Lima; plus live, print and recorded reviews, &c &c.
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Wire, The: #380 October 2015 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)
The cult of Sun Ra via Hieroglyphic Being, plus Gilles Peterson on his new Sun Ra comp and Art Yard's Peter Dennett; Ernest Berk: Musique Concrete Meets Modern Dance; Collateral Damage: Unsound's Mat Schulz; Epiphanies: Kristin Hersh; Global Ear: Budapest, Hungary.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews & Articles
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Jamie Drouin & Lance Austin Olsen:
Sometimes We All Disappear
(Another Timbre)
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Sabine Vogel:
Berlin Series No.4
(Another Timbre)
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Herbert Distel:
Travelogue
(Hat Hut Records)
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Birgit Ulher / Leonel Kaplan:
Stereo Trumpet
(Relative Pitch)
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In Stock and Ready to Ship
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We're never quite caught up with new releases that constantly come in our door, and
we don't like to rush a release to our homepage. That said,
the following releases have already been stocked at Squidco, and are able to be ordered.
In most cases we have images, often have samples, and some basic description of each release.
You can always see the latest new releases by checking our Just In Stock Section.
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Squidco Storefront
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Squidco has been in business as a mail-order store since 2002.
In 2010 we opened a storefront in downtown Wilmington, NC, giving customers access to our catalog
of more than 7,000 new items, plus hundreds of discounted, used, and promotional items
not listed on our website. We're open Mon-Fri, 12:00-6:00 PM, and other times by appointment,
so if you're in the North Carolina coastal region make sure to stop by and say hello,
we'd love to play some music for you!
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because:
"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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