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SQUIDCO Email Update & Hat Hut Sale November 12, 2015

     Squidco & The Squid's Ear
 
UPDATE
November 12, 2015
"I feel you can look at things from a lot of different angles,
and I try to do that always.
So everything is many things at the same time."
-Peter Kowald

Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Alga Marghen
Balance Point Acoustics
Bolt
Clean Feed
Fire Records
Gilgongo Records
Herbal International
Important Records
Northern Spy

    
Open Mouth
Palilalia
Rapid Moment /
   At War With False Noise
   Decimation Sociale
   Pilgrim Talk
Red Toucan
Strut
The Thing Records
Trost Records

 
      Creative Artists
    

• Dave Ballou
• Greg Campbell /
      Greg Kelley /
      Bill Nace /
      Wally Shoup
• Scott Clark 4tet (
     Clark /
      Ralston /
      Miller /
      Scott)
• Philip Corner
• Bram De Looze (
     D Looze /
      St-Louis /
      Levin /
      Van Hemmen /
      Van Der Werf /
      Verheyen /
      Ullmann)
• Desert Sweets:
     Vinkeloe, Biggi /
      Mark Weaver /
      Damon Smith
• Dikeman
     Noble
     Serries
     Trio
• Kaja Draksler /
      Susana Santos Silva
• Glowicka
• Peter Kowald /
      Damon Smith
• Zygmaunt Krauze
• Goh Kwang Lee
• Daniel Levin /
      Mat Maneri


      

• Luis Lopes /
      Jean-Luc Guionnet
• Made to Break
• Thurston Moore /
      John Moloney:
     Caught On Tape
• Bill Orcutt /
      Jacob Felix Heule
• Duane Pitre
• Power Trio (
     Raon /
      Sa /
      Martins)
• Lee Ranaldo
• Regler
• Claudio Rocchetti /
      Klaus Janek
• Simon Rose /
      Stefan Schultze
• Sun Ra and
     His Intergalactic
     Research Arkestra
• The Thing
• Pere Ubu
• John Wiese
• Nate Wooley Quintet (
     Wooley /
      Sinton /
      Moran /
      Opsvik /
      Eisenstadt)



Squid Bubble




   Jazz & Improvisation

Ballou, Dave : Solo Trumpet
(Clean Feed)


Baltimore brass player and composer Dave Ballou, know for Either/Orchestra, Meridian Art Ensemble, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble, Satoko Fujii ensembles, &c, in an intimate, diverse, and informed solo album performed on Bb trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, and mutes.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Campbell, Greg / Greg Kelley / Bill Nace / Wally Shoup: One End to the Other [VINYL]
(OPEN MOUTH)


Captured during a tour of the Pacific Northwest, the quartet of Bill Nace on electric guitar, Greg Campbell on drums & horns, Greg Kelley on trumpet and electronics, and Wally Shoup on alto sax recorded this wonderfully thick improv set at Gallery 1412 in Seattle, Washington.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 
Clark, Scott 4tet (Clark / Ralston / Miller / Scott): Bury My Heart
(Clean Feed)


Jazz drummer and composer Scott Clark leads his Richmond, VA 4Tet of Cameron Ralston (bass), Jason Scott (sax) and Bob Miller (trumpet) on a lyrical and passionate suite exploring Clark's Native American roots, referencing Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee".
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
De Looze, Bram (D Looze / St-Louis / Levin / Van Hemmen / Van Der Werf / Verheyen / Ullmann): Septych
(Clean Feed)


Young Belgian pianist & composer Bram De Looze in a new Septych (septet) orchestrated with two cellos, three horns, piano and drums from a tremendous set of players: Daniel Levin, Gebhard Ullmann, Robin Verheyen, Lester St-Louis, Bo Van Der Werf and Flin Van Hemmen.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Desert Sweets: Vinkeloe, Biggi / Mark Weaver / Damon Smith: A Place Meant For Birds
(Balance Point Acoustics)


A live recording at the Outpost from a tour in 2013, the first time the Desert Sweets trio of Biggi Vinkelo on sax & flute, Mark Weaver on tuba and didgeridoo, and Damon Smith on double bass, reuniting after their 2001 recording for a beautiful album of intimate improvisation.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Dikeman Noble Serries Trio: Obscure Fluctuations
(Trost Records)


High-charged improvisation balancing between free jazz, avantgarde and minimalism from the trio of American saxophonist John Dikeman, Belgian guitar experimentalist Dirk Serries, and legendary English drummer Steve Noble, performing at Soundsavers in London, 2015.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Dikeman Noble Serries Trio: Obscure Fluctuations [VINYL]
(Trost Records)


Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $22.95      Listen          

 
Draksler, Kaja / Susana Santos Silva: This Love
(Clean Feed)


A live performance from Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, 2015 of Portugese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler, presenting six free improvisations that showcase both the technical skills and the strong creative powers of both improvisers.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Kowald, Peter / Damon Smith: Mirrors, Broken - But No Dust [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Balance Point Acoustics)


Recorded in 2001 at Gallery 2310 in Oakland, California, young Bay Area double bassist Damon Smith met German free improvising master Peter Kowald for two sets of lively, explorative and technically superb improvisations: "Broken Mirrors" and "Reflections".
 
Squidco Pick

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Levin, Daniel / Mat Maneri: Transcendent Function
(Clean Feed)


Two string masters--Mat Maneri on viola and Daniel Levin on cello--recording at The Village in Copenhagen, Denmark in an album titled for psychologist and philosopher Carl Jung, reflecting the balance between intuitive spontaneity and pre-established conditions.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Lopes, Luis / Jean-Luc Guionnet: Live at Culturgest
(Clean Feed)


Guitarist Luis Lopes (Humanization 4tet, Lisbon-Berlin Trio) is known for his mix of jazz, blues, rock; saxophonist Guionnet (The Fish, Hubub) for a mix of free jazz and electroacoustic experimentation; together live they create a riveting and unexpected hybrid of sound.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Made to Break: Before the Code
(Trost Records)


MTB continues to inspire, merging shake-your-ass jazz with experimental electracoustic elements, blending players from Chicago (reedist Ken Vandermark & drummer Tim Daisy) and Europe (bassist Jasper Stadhouders of Cactus truck & Christof Kurzmann on electronics).
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Power Trio (Raon / Sa / Martins): Di Lontan
(Clean Feed)


Guitarist Luis Jose Martins and pianist Joana Sa, known from their Shhpuma release "Almost a Song" and a release on Creative Sources, join again with harpist Eduardo Raon, with two Shhpuma releases, for a delicately complex, effervescent, and sometimes turbulent release.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Rose, Simon / Stefan Schultze: The Ten Thousand Things
(Red Toucan)


Free improvising saxophonist Simon Rose, on baritone and alto sax, meets composer/arranger Stefan Schultze on prepared piano for 11 exploratory works based around Schultze's "modules"--bits and pieces attached inside the piano--creating unusual platforms for free improvisation.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra: Planets of Life or Death: Amiens '73
(STRUT)


Originally released on LP for Record Store Day 2015, this is an unissued Sun Ra concert from Amiens, France in 1973 with a 19-piece Arkestra performing live at Maison de la Culture, a good quality capture of this intense, ritualistic and visceral concert from the band's prime.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Thing, The: Shake
(The Thing Records)


Wild free jazz grooves, another monster of an album from the trio of reedist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love with guests Anna Hogberg on alto sax and Goran Kajfes on cornet; intense, passionate, and precise.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $16.95      Listen          

 
Wooley, Nate Quintet (Wooley / Sinton / Moran / Opsvik / Eisenstadt): (Dance to) The Early Music
(Clean Feed)


Nate Wooley assembled his outstanding quintet of Josh Sinton on bass clarinet, Matt Moran on vibs, Eivind Opsvik on bass and Harris Eisenstadt on drums to present a non-ironic take on the early music of a trumpeter who inspired Wooley at an early age - Wynton Marsalis.
 
Squidco Pick

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   Experimental/Electronic

Kwang, Goh Lee: _, And Vice Versa
(Herbal International)


A series of unusual electronic constructions from Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, Herbal International's label boss, a diverse set from indistinct squiggly sound to full-on noise, with lengths from 31 seconds to 37 minutes; unusual, peculiar, and fascinating.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Ranaldo, Lee: Ambient Loop for Vancouver
(Important Records)


An hypnotic and lyrical long-form composition from guitarist Lee Ranaldo with contributions from Alan Licht on guitar, Christian Marclay on turntables, and William Hooker on drums, a beautifully shifting and unusually punctuated work of gorgeous sound.
 
Squidco Pick

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Rocchetti, Claudio / Klaus Janek : Reisenotizen Aus Dem Land Der Mitte
(Herbal International)


A cohesive work of processed bass, field recordings, and feedback developed during the tour of Klaus Janek and Claudio Rocchetti through China, Hong Kong and Malaysia, at times adding Li Zenghui, Yan Jun, Stephen Roach, Feng Hao, Liu Xinyu, Torturing Nurse and Sin:Ned.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Wiese, John: Deviate from Balance
(GILGONGO RECORDS)


Recorded throughout Europe/UK, Australia, and the US, John Wiese's first album since 2011 includes scored ensemble pieces with over 20 musicians on each, participants including Joseph Hammer, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C Spencer Yeh, Joe Preston, &c.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Moore, Thurston / John Moloney: Caught On Tape: Full Bleed
(Northern Spy)


Under the name "Caught on Tape", Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore and John Moloney from Sunburned Hand of the Man deliver a set of heavy duos that swing through quiet dynamics and thick riffs, evoking both free/out jazz and beautiful SY-like rock moments.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Orcutt, Bill / Jacob Felix Heule: Colonial Donuts
(PALILALIA)


San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Bill Orcutt on electric guitar and drummer Jacob Felix Heule recored this album in Orcutt's living room in 2015 after 3 years performing together, presenting 13 duets of stylistically diverse approaches to free improvisation.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Regler: Regel #4 (HNW)
(Rapid Moment / At War With False Noise / Decimation Sociale / Pilgrim Talk)


Anders Bryngelsson and Mattin make up Regler, a project of varying genres performed on rock instruments, following sets of rules to create conceptual sound works; Regler #4 deals with harsh noise walls, generating a 30 minute piece of thick, savage sound.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Ubu, Pere : Carnival Of Souls [LP Gold Vinyl Ltd Ed]
(Fire Records)


David Thomas continues the Pere Ubu project with band members playing a mix of rock elements and synths, electronics and computers, adding alienation and oddity to this soundtrack to Herk Harvey's 1962 low-budget shocker "Carnival of Souls".
   
     Buy      $28.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Corner, Philip: PoorManMusic [VINYL]
(Alga Marghen)


Historical recording of a previously unpublished Fluxus work from composer Philip Corner, a composition presented as the audience is being seated, and composed of sounds that can only be made with one's own body; plus a recording of the piece "Pulse Polyphony".
   
     Buy      $25.95          

 
Glowicka: Seven Sonnets
(Bolt)


Seven sonnets from William Shakespeare in a 50-minute song cycle that unfolds as an evocative journey using the perceptive words written in 1609 as a basis for compositions for quartet and countertenor, bringing depth and new appreciation to The Bard's sentiments.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Krauze, Zygmaunt : Hommage a Strzeminski
(Bolt)


Composer Zygmaunt Krause pays hommage to Polish art theoretician, painter, pioneer of the Constructivist avant-garde, and creator of the theory of Unism, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, through pieces performed by the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Silesian String Quartet, &c.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Pitre, Duane: Feel Free: Live at Cafe OTO [VINYL]
(Important Records)


Duane Pitre's Feel Free is a generative music system, a sound bank with a computer and here with five strings players--James Blackshaw, Guillaume Viltard, Jennifer Allum, Oliver Barrett, Jesse Sparhawk-- performing at Cafe Oto during Pitre's 2012 European solo tour.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
 

Squidco Hat Hut 40% Anniversary Sale HatHut Records was founded in 1974 to document the work of saxophonist Joe McPhee. 40 years later, Werner X. Uehlinger's label has grown into a premier documenter of new jazz, classical and improvised music with over 300 titles in its catalogue, including releases by Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, and Cecil Taylor, as well as groundbreaking works by John Cage and Morton Feldman. As the scope of the effort expanded, the label introduced new divisions, and currently works under a variety of branches, including HatART hatOLOGY (for Jazz and related improvised music), hat[now]ART (to represent Contemporary Composition and New Music), and hatNOIR (to serve as a home for fresh, unpredictable, innovative, uncategorizable projects).

From now until Sunday, November 15, Hat Hut has authorized us to offer the following excellent discounts on their releases, including their Spring 2015 releases!


Sale ends Sunday, November 15 at 23:59 EST. Customers must buy 6 single Hat Hut CDs or 3 double Hat Hut CDs to receive discount. Discount applied at checkout time. Orders will be shipped as quickly as possible, but orders requiring stock from Switzerland will be sent after the sale has completed and additional stock has been received. Sale items are not eligible for Reward Points.

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 In Stock and Ready to Ship

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.


 

Rinus Alebeek van & Michael Libera:
play Alvin Lucier Chambers
(Bolt)

Derek Bailey:
Fairly Early with Postscripts
(Emanem)

Anthony Braxton / Derek Bailey:
First Duo Concert (London 1974)
(Emanem)

Fabrizio Casti / Elio Martusciello:
Chamber Rites
(Die Schachtel)

Giovanni di Domenico / Jim O'Rourke:
Arco [VINYL]
(Die Schachtel)

Rudolf Eb.er / Joke Lanz / GX Jupitter-Larsen / Mike Dando:
Wellenfeld
(Fragment Factory)

Game Of Patience:
Trial And Error
(Herbal International)

Thomas Heberer / Achim Kaufmann / Ken Filiano:
Interstices
(Nuscope)

Charlotte Hug:
Neuland
(Emanem)

Goh Kawng Lee / Julien Ottavi:
Pukul Berapa?
(Herbal International)

Kare Kolberg :
Attitudes
(Bolt)

Komuna// Warszawa:
plays Luc Ferrari Tautologos III
(Bolt)

Slawomir Kupczak :
Res Facta
(Bolt)

Goh Kwang Lee:
New Ear [2 CDs]
(Herbal International)

Steve Lacy Quintet:
Last Tour (2004)
(Emanem)

Ralf Meinz / Karolina Ossowska / Mikoelaj Paelosz:
play Giuseppe Tartini "La sonata il sol minore al terzo suono"
(Bolt)

MIRT:
Solitaire
(Bolt)

Evan Parker:
The Ayes Have It
(Emanem)

Evan Parker:
The Snake Decides [REPRESS]
(psi)

Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton:
At The Vortex
(Emanem)

Evan Parker / John Edwards / Mark Sanders:
The Two Seasons
(Emanem)

Evan Parker / Paul Rutherford / Hans Schneider / Paul Lytton:
Waterloo 1985
(Emanem)

Evan Parker / Schlippenbach / Lytton:
America 2003 [2 CDs] REPRESS
(psi)

Christopher Riggs / Carl Testa:
Sn (S to the power of n, or Sⁿ)
(Gold Bolus Recordings)

Paul Rutherford :
Chicago 2002
(Emanem)

Paul Rutherford :
The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie
(Emanem)

Tomasz Sikorski / Julius Eastman:
Unchained
(Bolt)

Trot A Mouse (Simon Jermyn):
Pictorial Atlas Of Mammals
(Skirl)

Van Hove / Jacquemyn / Smith:
Burns Longer
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Various Artists:
Pole Reports from Space [2 CDs]
(Bolt)

Veryan Weston / Jon Rose / Hannah Marshall:
Tuning Out [2 CDs]
(Emanem)

Zs (Hillmer / Fox / Higgins):
XE
(Northern Spy)



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