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Jazz & Improvisation
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Bouchons D'Oreilles / Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra: split [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
A split tape, side A is the Bouchons D'Oreilles duo of Lukasz Kacperczyk (synth) and Mateusz Wysocki (laptop) focusing on improvisation through electronics; side B is the Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra which includes Kacperczyk, focusing on instant composition.
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Brotzmann, Peter Group: Alarm [VINYL]
(Cien Fuegos)
Peter Brotzmann's 9-piece ensemble for the 164th NDR-JAZZWORKSHOP with the South African rhythm team of Harry Miller (bass) and Louis Moholo (drums), plus Frank Wright & Willem Breuker(sax), Hannes Bauer & Alan Tomlinson (trombone) and Alexander Von Schlippenbach (piano).
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Ducret, Marc Trio + 3 (Chevillon / Echampard + Monniot / Blaser / Martinez): Metatonal
(Ayler)
Guitarist Marc Ducret expands his trio of bassist Bruno Chevillon and drummer Eric Echampard with saxophonist Christophe Monniot, trumpeter Frabrice Martinez, and trombonist Samuel Blaser for a tour de force of dynamic and quickly shifting improv that both shreds and reflects.
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Frith, Fred / Michel Doneda:
(Vand'Oeuvre)
Since 2007 NEXMAP has produced "Binary Cities", a performance series bringing together artists from different cities; in 2009 they brought guitarist Fred Frith and saxophonist Michel Doneda together in San Francisco for the first time for an incredible night of improvisation.
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Hag with Dan: S/T [CASSETTE]
(Prom Night Records)
Hag is the trio of Sean Ali (bass), David Grollman (snare drum) and Brad Henkel (trumpet), joined for this, their 2nd release, by Dan Peck (The Gate) on tuba, using their instruments and objects in unusual ways to make a "joyfully frenetic dance of decadent noise".
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Kowalkowski, Jeff Trio (w/ Harrison Bankhed / Avreaayl Ra): Trio
(New Atlantis)
Pianist Jeff Kowalkowski is a long-standing fixture on the Chicago creative jazz scene; here he is joined by veterans of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, drummer Avreeayl Ra and bassist Harrison Bankhead for an inventive album of free improv.
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Made to Break: Before the Code [VINYL]
(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).
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Mazzarella / Haker Flaten / Ra: Azimuth (Live at Constellation) [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
The first meeting of the trio of Nick Mazzarella (sax), Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (double bass) & Avreeayl Ra (drums) performing live at Chicago's Constellation club in 2014, an adventurous and sophisticated album spanning three generations of free improvisation.
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Premature Burial (Peter Evans, Matt Nelson, Dan Peck): The Conjuring [VINYL]
(New Atlantis)
Taking their name from an Edgar Allen Poe story and the title a reference to James Wan's 2013 film, the trio of Peter Evans on piccolo trumpet, Matt Nelson on saxophone & effects, and Dan Peck on tuba & effects, recorded in a church to add ambience to their sinister and superb improv.
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Survival Unit III: Straylight (Live at Jazzhouse Copenhagen) [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)
The long-running trio of Joe McPhee on sax and pocket trumpet, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello & electronics and Michael Zerang on drums, performing live at Jazzhouse Copenhagen, Denmark in 2013 for a classic Survival Unit set of open-ended and cathartic creative jazz.
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Swell's, Steve Kende Dreams (Swell/ Brown / Crothers / Parker / Taylor): Hommage A Bartok
(Silkheart)
Trombonist Steve Swell presents an homage to composer Bela Bartok, applying jazz techniques to the composer's music to find something new and unexpected, in an amazing quintet with Connie Crothers (piano), William Parker (bass), Chad Taylor (drums) & Rob Brown (sax).
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The Hero of Warchester: S/T [CASSETTE]
(Prom Night Records)
Two saxes and a synth in long-form improvisations from the trio of Berlin-based synth player/mask-designer Liz Kosack and Brooklyn-based saxophonists Nathaniel Morgan and Anna Webber, using sophisticated approaches to the blending and contrasting of tones, rhythm and sound.
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Thymolphthalein : Mad Among The Mad
(Immediata)
Six rich and varied electro-acoustic instrumental works from an amazing quintet of brilliant improvisers: Anthony Pateras (keys); Will Guthrie (drums & percussion); Natasha Anders (bass & computer); Clayton Thomas (double bass) and Jerome Noetinger (tapes & electronics).
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Twins of El Dorado: Verses [CASSETTE]
(Prom Night Records)
New York's Twins of El Dorado is a voice-trumpet duo exploring the concept of the art song and the intersection of text and music as a songbook concept, performed by Joe Moffett (trumpet), Nathaniel Morgan (alto sax), Cole Kamen-Green (trumpet), and Kristin Slipp (voice).
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Volcano the Bear: Commencing [VINYL 5 LP BOX SET + DOWNLOAD]
(Miasmah)
England's wonderfully eccentric improvising band Volcano the Bear in a stunningly beautiful 5 LP box set of known and unreleased tracks, with individual covers & linernotes for each track, plus 50 page book of photos, artwork, flyers & stories from the band's 20 years.
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Ware, David S. / Apogee: Birth of a Being (Expanded) [2 CDs]
(Aum Fidelity)
Remastering and reissuing the essential 1st studio recordings by saxophonist David S. Ware as a leader, recorded in 1977 in NY and originally issued on Hat Hut, with a 2nd disc of material from those sessions, in a trio with Marc D. Edwards (drums) and Cooper-Moore (piano).
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Experimental/Electronic
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Casti, Fabrizio / Elio Martusciello: Chamber Rites
(Die Schachtel)
Italian experimental composer Fabrizio Casti meets Elio Martusciello (Taxonomy, Blast 4tet, Ossatura), pairing prepared piano with electroacoustic sound environments for a piece based on sharing emotions, on audio-visual exchange, and on the practice of radical improvisation.
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di Domenico, Giovanni / Jim O'Rourke: Arco [VINYL]
(Die Schachtel)
The 1st release in Die Schactel's Zeit Composers series in vinyl format is the duo of Belgium-based composer Giovanni di Domenico and the chameleonic Jim O'Rourke, in an immersive work for sustained tones and drones focusing on slowly shifting tone and overtones.
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Machinefabriek W/ Anne Bakker: Deining
(Machinefabriek)
Deining, meaning "heave" or "commotion", is a long composition from the duo of Rutger Zuydervelt on sine tones and violinist Anne Bakker, who bows each string, sliding slowly from the lowest note to the highest and in reverse, creating an hallucination of shifting tones.
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Various Artists: Pole Reports from Space [2 CDs]
(Bolt)
An excellent introduction to the Polish Radio Experimental Studio led by Joseph Patkowski, through music associated with space imagery and science fiction, with works from Krzysztof Penderecki, Zdenek Liska, Arturas Bumsteinas, Edward Artemeiv, Marcin Cichy, and Sultan Hagavik.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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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.
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Compositional
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Allen, Susan plays Cage, John / Gloria Coates / Alexander Tcherepnin /James Tenney: Postcard from Heaven
(New World Records)
Works for harp composed from 1948 to 2014, from composers John Cage, James Tenney, Alexander Tcherepnin, and Gloria Coates, using techniques from traditional to e-bow, in scores and conceptual settings, presenting a wealth of unique approaches to this ancient instrument.
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Bardeau / Couratier / Lecinte / Lemaire: Quaturo Machaut
(Ayler)
Taking their name from composer Guillaume de Machaut, Quentin Biardeau directs his saxophone quartet as they reinterpret his 1365 polyphonic mass "Messe de Nostre Dame", using the resonance of the the Abbey of Noirlac, France to enhance these beautifully paced compositions.
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Cabaret Contemporain: Moondog
(Sub Rosa)
The 5-piece French band Cabaret Contemporain revisits the music of New York "Viking of 6th Avenue" Moondog, with two Scandinavian vocalists focused on Moondog's songs, using electro music with acoustic prepared instruments--piano, electric guitar, drums, and 2 doublebasses.
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Cabaret Contemporain: Moondog [VINYL]
(Sub Rosa)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Pateras, Anthony / Erkki Veltheim: Entertainment = Control
(Immediata)
Acoustic hallucinations for violin and piano from the duo of violinist Erkki Veltheim and pianist Anthony Pateras, exploring spectral techniques throughout extended temporal structures to generate unrelenting harmonic waves that create a singular psycho-harmonic texture.
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Books & Magazines
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Wire, The: #381 November 2015 [MAGAZINE+CD]
(The Wire)
November 2015 issue of The UK's most interesting music magazine, with articles on Magma, The Necks, Rabit, Kamasi Washington, Weather Leigh, Jam City, plus a 20 track Various Artists with tracks from Zulus, Steve Beresford and Panos Ghikas, Geoff Dugan, &c. &c.
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Wire, The: #382 December 2015 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)
December 2015 issue of the Wire, with Annette Peacock on the cover, plus Powell; United Bible Studie; Invisible Jukebox: Attila Csihar (The Sunn O))); Global Ear: Yogyakarta; David Kanaga; Christine Sun Kim; Manongo Mujica; Harry Bertoia (Grand designs); &c. &c.
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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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Henry Kaiser / Damon Smith:
Relations
(Balance Point Acoustics)
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Thomas Heberer / Pascal Niggenkemper:
Miner's Pick
(FMR)
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Nate Wooley Quintet:
(Dance to) The Early Music
(Clean Feed Records)
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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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-Don Van Vliet
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