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SQUIDCO Email Update February 19, 2016

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UPDATE
February 19, 2016

"Jazz is not supposed to be something
that is required to sound like jazz."
-Wayne Shorter

Squid Bubbles

Essential Labels

BeCoq
Black Truffle
Collection QB
Cuneiform
Further Records
Greenleaf Music
hatART
Holidays Records
Ignoring Gravity Music
Improvising Beings

Kye
Lovely Music
Music a la Coque
Rarenoise Records
Recommended Records
RogueArt
The Wire
Touch
Tzadik
Unrock

Creative Artists

• AMM
• Robert Ashley
• Sir Bishop Richard /
     Ava Mendoza
• Philip Corner
• Decimus
• Dave Douglas &
     Monarch Art Ensemble
• Fennesz
• Jean-Marc Foussat /
     Les Autres
• Jean-Luc Guionnet /
     Thomas Bonvalet
• Lo Flopper
• Simon Martin
     (w/ Quasar,
     Bozzini Quartet,
     Trio de guitares
     contemporain)
• Joe McPhee
     Survival Unit III
• MMM Quartet
     (Joelle Leandre,
     Fred Frith,
     Alvin Curran,
     Urs Leimgruber)

• Ed Palermo Big Band
• Jeff Parker /
     Rob Mazurek
• Parkins /
     Wooley /
     Westera /
     Vuletic
• Hasse Poulsen /
     Tom Rainey
• Quasar
     (quatuor de
     saxophones)
• Allen Ravenstine
• Rova Channeling
     Coltrane
• Slobber Pup
• Sun Ra Arkestra
• Hugues Vincent /
     John Cuny
• Walabix invite Maris
• The Wire
• John Zorn

Squid Bubble

Squidco Inventory Sale II

We're still fighting the good fight for more space on our shelves! In the past few weeks we've reduced the price on a new set of more than 300 items, and this weekend we're offering those same items for an additional 10% off those already-reduced prices. Take a close look at these releases, which draw from titles across our catalog in all major categories and formats. But hurry, because this sale ends Sunday, February 21!

See All Inventory Sale Items

Sale ends Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 23:59 EST (GMT-5). While quantities last. Sale items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.

Jazz & Improvisation

AMM: AMMMusic [VINYL]
(Black Truffle)

The first vinyl reissue of the classic 1966 debut album from AMM, AMMMusic with Keith Rowe's beautiful pop art cover and the terse aphorisms by the group that served as its original liner notes, an amazing achievement in non-idiomatic and forward-thinking improvisation.

Squidco Pick

$21.95

Douglas, Dave & Monarch Art Ensemble: Fabliaux
(Greenleaf Music)

An oustanding suite composed and led by trumpeter Dave Douglas for the for Monash Art Ensemble, an improvising chamber orchestra including some of Melbourne, Australia's finest players, scored for four winds, four brass, four strings, four percussion, and electronics.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Foussat, Jean-Marc / Les Autres: Alternative Oblique [4 CD Box Set]
(Improvising Beings)

A 4 CD anthology released on Jean-Marc Foussat's 60th birthday, presenting an amazing diversity of material from 40 years of recording, including early experiments, the development of his unique language, improv with Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Matthias Mahler, Joe McPhee, Paul Lovens, &c.

Squidco Pick

$35.95

Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Thomas Bonvalet : Loges De Souffle
(BeCoq)

Thomas Bonvalet takes the banjo into unusual territory with Jean-Luc Guionnet performing on the organ at the protestant temple of Bergerac, France, in a beautifully terrifying album recorded during the MONC cultural arts centre's festival of avant-garde culture in 2010.

$12.95

Lo Flopper : Lo Flopper [CASSETTE]
(Music a la Coque)

Experimental "childrens jazz" in a 2-sided cassette from this Italian septet, the first side a free-form structured live performance, the second an unusual set of experiments using toys, balloons, objects, synths over strange rhythms and sound - a fun and odd release.

$5.95

McPhee, Joe Survival Unit III: Barrow Street Blues [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Holidays Records)

Joe McPhee's Survival Unit in their 3rd iteration as the trio of McPhee on alto sax and alto clarinet, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello & electronics, and Michael Zerang on drums, in a tribute to the memory of Ornette Coleman recorded live in 2004 at Claudia Cassidy Theater in Chicago.

$33.95

MMM Quartet (Joelle Leandre, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Urs Leimgruber) : Oakland/Lisboa
(RogueArt)

Rich, subtle and unusual improv from the MillsMusicMafia (MMM) Quartet of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Fred Frith on electric guitar, Alvin Curran on keys, and Urs Leimgruber on sax, recording these spiritual and detailed improvisations live at Jazz em Agosto in Portugal.

$15.95

Parker, Jeff / Rob Mazurek: Some Jellyfish Live For Ever [VINYL]
(RogueArt)

Chicago guitarist Jeff Parker and cornetist Rob Mazurek have collaborated for more than 20 years in a variety of ensembles, heard here in their first ever duo, condensing their creative use of lyrical, textural and technical skills into this outstanding album.

$19.95

Parkins / Wooley / Westera / Vuletic: Fugitive Beautee
(Ignoring Gravity Music)

Bojan Vuletic composed these works based on lines from Baudelaire's "Les fleurs du mal", a remarkable set of songs sung by Vera Westera over the excellent musicianship of Zeena Parkins on harp, Nate Wooley on trumpet, and Bojan Vuletic handling the odd instrument.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Poulsen, Hasse / Tom Rainey: Open Fist
(BeCoq)

New York Drummer Tom Rainey met French guitarist Hasse Poulsen to record this album of dynamic duos in the studio, building works that ebb and flow between aggressive sound and reflective harmony, an impressive display of technical, lyrical, and powerful playing.

$12.95

Rova Channeling Coltrane: Electric Ascension - Live At The 2012 Guelph Festival + "Cleaning The Mirror - A Documentary by John Rogers" [Blu Ray + DVD + CD]
(RogueArt)

Rova led by saxophonist Larry Ochs expands their translation of John Coltrane's "Ascension" in this amazing 3 disc CD/DVD/BluRay set of their cathartic performance at the 2012 Guelph Jazz Festival with a stellar lineup including Mazurek, Frith, Cline, Mori, Drake, &c &c.

Squidco Pick

$31.95

Slobber Pup: Pole Axe
(Rarenoise Records)

Slobber Pup, the New York trio of Joe Morris (guitar), Jamie Saft (keys), and Balazs Pandi (drums) is joined by Norwegian saxophonist Mats Gustafsson for three incendiary pieces of free improv with an electric edge and a visceral approach that is absolutely hair-raising!

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Slobber Pup: Pole Axe [VINYL]
(Rarenoise Records)

Vinyl edition of the LP listed above.

Squidco Pick

$29.95

Sun Ra Arkestra: Sunrise In Different Dimensions [VINYL 2 audiophile LPs + 4 postcards]
(hatART)

The ultimate 180 gram audiophile repressing of this essential album of Sun Ra and his Arkestra performing live in Switzerland in 1980, originally an LP, then a CD, and now restored and expanded to 2 LPs in the original box packaging, with 3 new tracks and 4 post cards.

Squidco Pick

$69.95

Vincent, Hugues / John Cuny : Tagtraum
(Improvising Beings)

Free improvising cellist Hugues Vincent and pianist John Cuny in a studio release of 9 subtle duos using space, time, unusual techniques, and intensive listening to develop succinct, unique and sometimes curious dialogs of spontaneous skill.

$12.95

Walabix invite Maris: Walabix invite Maris
(BeCoq)

The French quartet or Quentin Biardeau on sax, Gabriel Lemaire on sax and clarinet, Valentin Ceccaldi on cello, Adrien Chennebault on drums and guest trumpeter Bart Maris in a set of composed, structured, and freely improvised pieces, with an ear to lyricism.

$12.95

Zorn, John: The Hermetic Organ Vol. 4 - ST. Barts, NYC
(Tzadik)

John Zorn's 4th volume of ritualistic organ improvisations, this recital was recorded at midnight on the eve of Halloween on St. Bart's organ, the largest in New York City, a massive sound of "contrasts, colors, bells, drones, counterpoint and simultaneity".

$13.95

Experimental/Electronic

Decimus: Decimus 7 [VINYL]
(Further Records)

Former No-Neck Blues Band guitarist and synth player Pat Murano in his 7th Decimus album, a quirky and rich album of drones and unexpected/aberrative sound, played out on two side-long pieces dedicated to the zodiac of Roman poet and rhetorician Decimius Magnus Ausonius.

$21.95

Fennesz: Mahler Remix [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Touch)

Based on samples from Gustav Mahler's symphonies, Fennesz recorded these sublimely elegant "remixes" live at RadioKulturhaus, Vienna in 2011, one of three performances of this commissioned work performed with the visual artist Lillevan, and now on a double LP.

$20.95

Ravenstine, Allen: The Pharaoh's Bee
(Recommended Records)

The original Pere Ubu keyboardist Allen Ravenstine in a limited edition release of analog electronics, an extraordinary album of rich sound taking unexpected twists and turns while showing the power of the EML synthesizer, coupled with a theremin.

$15.95

Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Bishop, Sir Richard / Ava Mendoza: Ivory Tower (Hanuman) [VINYL]
(Unrock)

The third installment in Unrock's string-related Saraswati Series brings Sun City Girls guitarist Sir Richard Bishop together with NY avant guitarist Ava Mendoza for an album of twisted takes on the blues, improv, and unusual music history.

$25.95

Palermo, Ed Big Band: One Child Left Behind
(Cuneiform)

Alto saxophonist/arranger Ed Palermo leads his 18-piece big band in a set of road-tested arrangements of Frank Zappa classics, along with a Neil Young ballad, a Leiber and Stoller piece, and a Los Lobos tune, all with technical and lyric prowess and surprising twists and turns.

$14.95

Compositional

Ashley, Robert: Crash [2 CDs]
(Lovely Music)

The autobiographical account of an older man from age 1 to 84 in Robert Ashley's 2014 work for six voices, performed in six 15-minute acts of quickly spoken articulations reflecting on three characters, while the other singers perform as a vocal orchestra.

$25.95

Corner, Philip: OM Entering. and Once Enterd [VINYL]
(Kye)

Fluxus composer Philip Corner in an album presenting four previously unreleased recordings with the Barton Workshop taken from live performances in the Netherlands, and South Korea, between 2000-2007.

$18.95

Martin, Simon (w/ Quasar, Bozzini Quartet, Trio de guitares contemporain): Hommage a Leduc, Borduas et Riopelle
(Collection QB)

Composer Simon Martin pays hommage to Quebec painters Ozias Leduc, Paul-Emile Borduas, and Jean-Paul Riopelle in contemplative works for each artist, performed by the ensembles Quatuor Bozzini, Quasar quatuor de saxophons, and Trio de guitares contemporain.

$13.95

Quasar (quatuor de saxophones): Du souffle
(Collection QB)

Montreal saxophone quartet Quasar (Jean-Marc Bouchard, Marie-Chantal Leclair, Mathieu Leclair, & Andre Leroux) in their 3rd incredible album of contemporary saxophone compositions, presenting 14 rich and varied compositions, including commissioned and premier works.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Zorn, John: Madrigals (For Six Female Voices)
(Tzadik)

Composer John Zorn presents two books of "Madrigals" scored for six acappella female voices, rich and seductive compositions intertwining voices in beautiful, electrifying and riveting ways through 10 works inspired by the 19th century British poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

$13.95

Books & Magazines

Wire, The: #383 January 2016 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)

Rewind 2015: Records of the year charts plus opinion, analysis, musings and reflections; Invisible Jukebox: Gnod; Global Ear: Zagreb; Marc Baron; Inner Sleeve (Noveller on Sonic Youth's Goo videos); Collateral Damage: Ergo Phizmiz; plus reviews, articles, &c &c.

$9.95

Wire, The: #384 February 2016 [MAGAZINE]
(The Wire)

On The Cover: Alan & Sir Richard Bishop; 22a Records; The Primer: This Heat And Beyond: A user's guide to the recordings and spin-off groups from Camberwell Now to Monkey Puzzle Trio; Breadwoman; ZA!; Bastard Assignments; Bizarre Rituals; Puce Mary; Josephine Foster; &c. &c.

$9.95

The Squid's Ear

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.

Recent Reviews & Articles

Alessandro Bosetti / Chris Abrahams: A Heart That Responds from Schooling (Unsounds)

Alessandro Bosetti / Chris Abrahams:
A Heart That Responds from Schooling
(Unsounds)

Joyful Talk: Muuixx (Drip Audio)

Joyful Talk:
Muuixx
(Drip Audio)

Common Objects: Whitewashed with Lines (Another Timbre)

Common Objects:
Whitewashed with Lines
(Another Timbre)

Marcio Mattos: SOL(os) (Emanem)

Marcio Mattos:
SOL(os)
(Emanem)

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.

The Artaud Beats : Logos (Recommended Records)	Thomas Borgmann / Max Johnson / Willi Kellers: One For Cisco [VINYL] (NoBusiness)	Jean-Luc Cappozzo / Didier Lasserre: Ceremony's A Name For The Rich Horn [VINYL EP] (NoBusiness)
Circuit (Dunmall / Taylor / Gibbs): Electro Acoustic Ensemble (FMR)	Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up: After All Is Said (482 Music)	Fvrtvr: Following Shapes to the Edge of a Drift (Discombobulate)
Mary Halvorson: Meltframe (Firehouse 12 Records)	Staffan Harde : Staffan Harde (Corbett vs. Dempsey)	William Hooker: Light (1975 - 1989) [4 CD Box Set] (NoBusiness)
Boris Kovac: Times of Day: Concerto Suite for Sax and Chamber Ensemble (Recommended Records)	Ingrid Laubrock : Ubatuba (Firehouse 12 Records)	Marilyn Lerner / Ken Filiano / Lou Grassi: Live At Edgefest [VINYL] (NoBusiness)
Joe McPhee : Alone Together: The Solo Ensemble Recordings 1974 & 1979 (Corbett vs. Dempsey)	Nicole Mitchell / Tomeka Reid / Mike Reed: Artifacts (482 Music)	MV Carbon : The Sun Will Turn On You (Discombobulate)
Wadada Smith Leo: Red Chrysanthemums \| Solos 1977 (Corbett vs. Dempsey)	Sun Ra: Joyful Noise [BLU-RAY] (MVD)	Vladimir Tarasov / Liudas Mockunas / Eugenijus Kanevicius: Intuitus [VINYL 2 LPs] (NoBusiness)

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