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UPDATE
October 26, 2017

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."
—Jules Combarieu

Essential Labels

Amorfon
Another Timbre
Astral Spirits
Balance Point Acoustics
Doubtmusic
Evil Clown

Fou Records
Immediata
Intakt
NoBusiness
Potlatch
Touch
Trost Records

Creative Artists

• 176 (Chris Abrahams / Anthony Pateras)
• Billington / Shippy / Wyche
• John Butcher / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter
• Marilyn Crispell / Gerry Hemingway
• Pascale Criton
• Melaine Dalibert
• Arrington De Dionyso / Ted Byrnes
• Harris Eisenstadt / Mivos Quartet
• Fouick: Blick & Jean-Marc Foussat
• Philip Jeck
• Yoshio Machida / Constantin Papageorgiadis
• Rob Mazurek
• Metal Chaos Ensemble
• Thurston Moore / Umut Caglar
• Toshimaru Nakamura / Jun Numata
• Nakatani / Kawabata / Chou
• Anthony Pateras / Erkki Veltheim
• Mette Rasmussen / Tashi Dorji / Tyler Damon
• Turbulence Doom Choir
• Walk With The Penguin
• Katharina Weber / Fred Frith / Fredy Studer

As we plan our celebration of Squidco's favorite day of the year, All Hallows' Evening, Allhalloween, All Saints' Eve, or simply, Halloween, this weekend we're pleased to offer a frighteningly good 10 to 15% off the retail price of all CDs, LPs, Cassettes, DVDs and Books!

• Buy any CD, LP, Cassette, DVD, Book or Magazine, Take 10% off

• Buy 5 or more CD, LP, Cassette, DVD, Book or Magazine, Take 15% off

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But hurry, because this sale ends Sunday, October 29, 2017!

Orders must be placed through our shopping cart, discount is applied at checkout time on payment screen. In-stock items only, gift certificates and shipping insurance excluded. Out of stock items will be hidden in the store during the sale. Order items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points. Halloween Sale ends Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 23:59 PM EST (GMT-5).

Jazz & Improvisation

Billington / Shippy / Wyche: [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD CODE]
(Astral Spirits)

A Chicago trio that blends jazzrock, noise and experimental approaches to free improvisation, from drummer Ben Billington (Tiger Hatchery), guitarist Daniel Wyche (US Maple, Invisible Things), and guitarist Mark Shippy (US Maple, Invisible Things), an upbeat and unflagging display of sound in three recordings that lace a consistently controlled chaos.

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Butcher, John / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter: The Catastrophe of Minimalism
(Balance Point Acoustics)

A great trio of free improvising innovators--John Butcher on soprano and tenor sax, Damon Smith on double bass, field recordings and lloopp, and Weasel Walter on percussion--for a live set at 21 Grand Oakland in California, 5 improvisations with unexpected twists and turns, never overly agressive but always absorbing in their unique approach to their instruments.

Squidco Pick

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Crispell, Marilyn / Gerry Hemingway: Table of Changes (Live)
(Intakt)

Both former alumni of Anthony Braxton ensembles, the partnership of Marilyn Crispell on piano and Gerry Hemingway on drums is captured live in 2013 during their 2013 European tour, with tracks from Austria, France, and Amsterdam including the Europa Jazz Festival in Le Mans, France, for 11 highly attuned improvisations of masterful playing and dialog.

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De Dionyso, Arrington / Ted Byrnes: The Ballot or The Bullet [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD CODE]
(Astral Spirits)

Olympia, WA based (but always on tour) saxophonist Arrington De Dionyso (Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa) and Los Angeles based percussionist Ted Byrnes (Sissy Spacek, LAFMS), in an unabating album of assertive free improvisation that borrows on Dionyso's interest in Indonesian trance music as Byrnes uses an unusual set of percussive accents over heavy drums.

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Fouick: Blick & Jean-Marc Foussat: Mastic Boreal
(Fou Records)

Primarily a creative filmmaker, Blick here provides narrative improvisation--phonemes, gutturals, word fragments, and spoken word--over improvising keyboardist Jean-Marc Foussat's Synthi AKS, creating expansive landscapes or curious audio aberrations, through four recordings demonstrating a diverse set of sonic environments interweaving voice and sound.

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Mazurek, Rob : Chimeric Stoned Horn [CD]
(Astral Spirits)

Astral Spirits first CD release comes with a pair of 3D glasses, to allow the listener to view Mazurek's 3D lithographs that cover this album of piccolo trumpet explorations with electronics, voice and percussion, a deeply personal and spiritual album from the Chicago trumpeter, released in conjunction with Mazurek's art opening "Constellation Scores" at URDLA in France.

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Metal Chaos Ensemble: Intermetallic Compounds
(Evil Clown)

A massive and metallic improvisation from the Boston area trio of David Peck, Andria Nicodemou, and Yuri Zbitnoff, using metal, drums, bells, aquasonic, daxophone, guzheng, vibes, bells, sax, clarinet and reeds in an intense journey that absorbs the listener and then draws them into a turbulent world of active sound, receding again at journey's end; amazing.

Squidco Pick

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Nakamura, Toshimaru / Jun Numata: The First Album
(Doubtmusic)

A duo improvisation recorded at Shichoshitsu Jinbo-cho, in Tokyo, Japan between no-input mixing electracoustic improviser Toshimaru Nakamura and Doubtmusic label leader and member of mn and MNK, Jun Numata on guitar, oscilator, radio, in a varied and turbulent affair of extreme electronics, sound and noise that takes the listener on a wild ride.

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Nakatani / Kawabata / Chou: Perigee [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD CODE]
(Astral Spirits)

Perigree: when the moon is closest to the earth: this unique album of free improvisation joins world traveling percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, guitarist Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner, etc) and cellist Henna Chou in an album of mystical sound, from bowing percussion, long string tones, muted riffs and disquieting rhythm; consummate and cathartic.

Squidco Pick

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Rasmussen, Mette / Tashi Dorji / Tyler Damon: To The Animal Kingdom
(Trost Records)

Three young improvisers, Danish alto saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, US drummer Tyler Damon and US guitarist Tashi Dorji in an exhilarating album of free jazz recorded at Array Space, in Toronto, Canada, in three extended dialogs of creative, exploratory and powerful collective improvisation, a great new trio of players to keep an eye on.

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Turbulence Doom Choir: Energy Cascades
(Evil Clown)

One of the Boston area's incredible, eclectic collective organizations from David PEK's Evil Clown is Turbulence Doom Choir, a quintet with three brass players, drums, reeds, and a variety of percussive, wind instruments, game calls, &c., presenting large scale improvisations of uniquely evolving approaches, instrumentation, and heavy rhythms, a powerful brew.

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Weber, Katharina / Fred Frith / Fredy Studer: It Rolls
(Intakt)

Blending a sense of chamber music into free improvisation that references jazz, the trio of pianist Katharnia Weber, guitarist Fred Frith and drummer Fredy Studer merge the most outrageous of techniques into a comprehensible whole, engaging the listener in surprising twists and turns that are sophisticated, extraordinary, and wonderfully unpredictable.

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Experimental/Electronic

Jeck, Philip: Iklectik
(Touch)

Named for the IKLECTIK performance space in London, England, Jeck's four part piece creates beautiful atmospheric passages which transition with field recordings, muted spoken word, symphonic-like passages, and other obscure sources, occasionally increasing in assertiveness but never leaving an exotic dream state of beautiful tonal environments.

Squidco Pick

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Machida, Yoshio / Constantin Papageorgiadis: Music from the SYNTHI 100
(Amorfon)

Japanese artist Yoshio Machida and Belgian artist Constantin Papageorgiadis recorded these 12 tracks on an EMS Synthi 100 keyboard, a modular analogue/digital hybrid synth designed in 1971 of which 31 were constructed, this one being on loan from Gent University in Belgium, here manipulated without keyboards to create these rich electronic "Generations" and "Experiments".

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Pateras, Anthony / Erkki Veltheim: The Slow Creep Of Convenience
(Immediata)

Anthony Pateras performs on pipe organ alongside Erkki Veltheim on electric violin, presenting a single extended work joining both instruments as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes, as the duo investigate spectral phenomena in sound; includes a 24 page illuminating booklet interviewing both artists.

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Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Moore, Thurston / Umut Caglar: Dunia [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)

Recorded in Istanbul, Turkey, guitarist Thurston Moore teams up with Konstrukt guitarist Umut Caglar to record these three rich and twisting pieces, each guitarist extracting unique performances from the other over three pieces that draw on technique and effects to create fragile and heavy sonic environments, an impressive album of modern guitar potential.

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Walk With The Penguin: Charm
(Amorfon)

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.

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Compositional

176 (Chris Abrahams / Anthony Pateras): Music In Eight Octaves
(Immediata)

In 2005 Australian pianists Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Anthony Pateras multi-tracked 4 takes in each octave of the piano, superimposing them over each other to create a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of pianistic energy, layers of piano creating a hypnotic and dizzying set of textures and unexpected sonic intersections.

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Criton, Pascale : Infra
(Potlatch)

Four fascinating compositions by Pascale Criton exploring microtonalities on instruments tuned in 1/16th tone (violin, viola, guitar) based on gestural processes developed in close collaboration with the musicians: one duo with Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, one solo piece with Deborah Walker, and two pieces performed by Dedalus Ensemble.

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Dalibert, Melaine : Ressac
(Another Timbre)

Two beautiful piano solos in an open-ended modular form, written and performed by the young French composer Melaine Dalibert, who also played on Giuliano d'Angiolini's "Cantilena", using space, sustain and unhurried progressions to create hypnotic and resonant environments that captivate in ways reminiscent of Morton Feldman.

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Eisenstadt, Harris / Mivos Quartet: Whatever Will Happen That Will Also Be [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)

NY free jazz drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt brings his talents to the compositional world with this four movement suite performed by the Mivos Quartet of Olivia De Prato, Josh Modney, Victor Lowrie and Mariel Roberts, a creative composition blending melodic and textural approaches to the strings in a bold rendering of Eisenstandt's work.

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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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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 see the newest additions to our catalog in our Just In Stock Section.

• You can see the latest fully cataloged items in our store by using our New Releases section.

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David Area / Tomas Gris / Ernesto Rodrigues : Chorismos (Creative Sources)	Autochthon: A (Creative Sources)	Olivia Block : Olivia Block (Another Timbre)
John Cage : Winter Music (Another Timbre)	Xavier Camarasa / Jean-Marc Foussat: Dans les Courbes (Fou Records)	Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert: Out Of Silence (FMR)
Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman / Evan Parker / Ikue Mori: Miller's Tale (Intakt)	Fabrice Favriou / Jean-Luc Petit / Julien Touery : Fabrice Favriou Jean-Luc Petit Julien Touery (Fou Records)	Jurg Frey : Collection Gustave Roud [2 CDs] (Another Timbre)
Frode Gjerstad / Sabir Mateen: Good Question (FMR)	Kevin Good : Listen (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Barry Guy / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Lytton: Deep Memory (Intakt)
Mark Helias / Tom Rainey / Tony Malaby: The Signal Maker (Intakt)	Hybrid Ear: Nuda (Creative Sources)	Insub Meta Orchestra: 13 & 27 (Another Timbre)
Isotope Ensemble: Yttrium (Creative Sources)	Irene Kurka : Chants (Edition Wandelweiser Records)	Laubrock Ingrid Anti-House (w/ Halvorson, Davis, Hebert, Rainey, Noriega): Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt)
Leap of Faith Orchestra: Supernovae (Evil Clown)	Leap of Faith Orchestra: The Expanding Universe (Evil Clown)	Lisbon String Trio / Carlo Mascolo : Intonarumori (Creative Sources)
Lisbon String Trio / Karoline Leblanc: Liames (Creative Sources)	Lisbon String Trio / Luiz Rocha: Akuanduba (Creative Sources)	Matthias Muche / Ernesto Rodrigues / Nicola L. Hein / Miguel Mira / Carlos Santo: Klang (Creative Sources)
Munich Rat Pack (Schindler / Kolb / Tramontana): Sound Notes For Wind Trio Plus (FMR)	Davide Piersanti / Hui-Chun Lin / Sergio Castrillon / Ulf Mengersen / Klaus Kurvers: Discoveries (Creative Sources)	Redox: Orbitals (Creative Sources)
Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Alexander Frangenheim: Underwater Music (Creative Sources)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Carlos Santos: Piano (Creative Sources)	Ernesto Rodrigues / Nuno Torres / Carlos Santos / Stale Liavik Solberg : Soon (Creative Sources)
Schlippenbach Trio (Schlippenbach / Evan Parker / Lovens): Warsaw Concert (Intakt)	Elliott Sharp / Mary Halvorson / Marc Ribot: ERR Guitar (Intakt)	Chris Speed / Zeno De Rossi: Ruins [Ltd Ed of 100] (Skirl)
Aki Takase / Paul Ayumi : Hotel Zauberberg (Intakt)	Un Coup de Des: Volcan Evaporado (Creative Sources)

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SQUIDCO Email Update + Halloween Sale, October 26, 2017