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SQUIDCO Email Update + 15% Summer Sale, August 3, 2018

     Squidco & The Squid's Ear
 
UPDATE
August 3, 2018

"My main goal is to serve the music,
and not myself."
—Henry Kaiser

Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Balance Point Acoustics
Banned Production
Confront
Creative Sources
Edition Wandelweiser Records
Fitschgetau

     
Libra
Marginal Frequency
Nakatani-Kobo
New World Records
Umlaut Records
      Creative Artists
    
• Ahmed (Thomas / Gerbal / Grip / Wright)
• Astra Choir performs: Morton Feldman; Will Ogdon
   Pauline Oliveros; Earle Brown
   Warren Burt; Robert Carl
• Felicie Bazelaire/Bertrand Denzler
• The Bertch Quartet
• Colectivo maDam w/Ernesto Rodrigues & Miguel Mira
• Andrew Coltrane
• Jacques Demierre/Anouck Genthon
• Tim Feeney
• Free Music Septet
• Golia/Kaiser/Moses/Smith/Walter
• Toshi Ichiyanagi with Eye Music
• Lisbon String Trio & Eduardo Chagas
• Mahobin (Fujii/Anker/Tamura/Mori)
• Tatsuya Nakatani
• Pascal Niggenkemper
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Eduardo Chagas
• Marianne Schuppe
• Sissy Spacek
• Trio La Soustraction des Fleurs
  (Vrod/Aurier/Lemetre)
• Mark Weaver/Tatsuya Nakatani

Squid Bubble
    

 

Squidco 15% Summer Sale

The summer is in full swing, and in the heat of the moment we're looking to reduce inventory on a set of great albums that you probably haven't seen in a sale list before. So we've put 100 releases on sale at 15% OFF their retail price! The items listed are CDs and LPs from all major categories in our catalog, from labels including Clean Feed, Edition Rz, Mikroton, Nakatani-Kobo, Shhpuma, Unsounds, &c. &c.

Have a good look at this list of great records, but hurry, because this sale ends Sunday, August 5, 2018 at midnight! *



Click here to see the sale list

* Prices shown are discounted prices. Customers must use our shopping cart. In stock items only. Sale items are not eligible for reward points. Sale ends Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 23:59 EST




   Jazz & Improvisation

Ahmed (Pat Thomas / Antonin Gerbal / Joel Grip / Seymour Wright): New Jazz Imagination [VINYL]
(Umlaut Records)

Ahmed Abdul-Malik was a jazz bassist and oud player, a member of bands led by Art Blakey, Earl Hines, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk and whose own albums fused aspects of Arabic and East African musics; the band Ahmed of Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal, and Seymour Wright revisit and rethink his compositions and influence, as heard in this massive and elucidating recording.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 
Bazelaire, Felicie / Bertrand Denzler: Basse Seule
(Confront)

A series of etudes and pieces for double bass composed by Bertrand Denzler specifically for Paris-based cellist and double bass player Felicie Bazelaire, presenting 7 etudes and 2 named compositions based on systems that require Bazelair to reveal the complexity of certain characteristics of the double bass within the framework of a solo performance.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Bertch Quartet, The: For Oumuama
(Creative Sources)

Guitarist Henk Zwerver, bassist Raoul van der Weide and percussionist George Hadow, frequent collaborators in the Amsterdam free improv scene, join with Berlin saxophonist & clarinetist Edith Steyer to make up the Bertch Quartet, their debut album a great and embraceable example of subtle, collective free improvisations that merge traditional and non-idiomatic forms.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Colectivo maDam / Ernesto Rodrigues / Miguel Mira: Coluro
(Creative Sources)

The Spanish free improvising quartet Colectivo maDam of Ruben Gutierrez on electronics, objects, Tomas Gris on acoustic guitar, Guillermo Torres on fluguelhorn, and David Area on electronics are joined by Lisbon improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Miguel Mira on cello for this 3-part work, the first recorded live at Espacio B, Madrid, the 2nd & 3rd recorded in the studio.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Feeney, Tim: Burrow [CASSETTE]
(Marginal Frequency)

Meridian percussionist and frequent collaborator with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski, Tim Feeney presents a fascinating solo album of "four improvised poundings" using "a drum, a pair of sticks, a metal plate, a pair of dowels, a heavy cymbal, a large room, a small squirrel, a static listening, a punishing listening, a boring listening, a quickening listening".
   
     Buy      $6.95      Listen          

 
Free Music Septet: Meandros e Vertentes
(Creative Sources)

A live recording from the acoustic septet Free Music 7tet of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Luiz Rocha (clarinets), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Eduardo Chagas (trombone), and (piano), Hernani Faustino (double bass) and Paulo Ferreira Lopes (drums), performing at O'Culto da Ajuda for five improvisations, from active free improv to lowercase exploration.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Golia / Kaiser / Moses / Smith / Walter: Astral Plane Crash
(Balance Point Acoustics)

The West Coast Plane Crash trio of Henry Kaiser (guitar), Damon Smith (bass) and Weasel Walter (drums) is extended with Vinny Golia (reeds) and Ra-Kalam Bob Moses (drums) for two absolutely impressive improvisations that show forcefully restrained and coherent playing that follows an intuitive narrative only possible from such skilled and virtuosic musicians.
 
Squidco Pick
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Lisbon String Trio & Eduardo Chagas: Tactile
(Creative Sources)

A live performance at O'Culto da Ajuda in Lisbon from the Lisbon String Trio of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Mira on cello, and Alvaro Rosso on contrabass, joined in this concert by Creative Sources frequenct collaborator Eduardo Chagas (Variable Geometry Orchestra, IKB, Suspensao, &c), a large work of microscopically detailed and concentrative acoustic improv.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Mahobin (Fujii / Anker / Tamura / Mori): Live at Big Apple in Kobe
(Libra)

Continuing the celebration of pianist Satoko Fujii's 60th birtday by releasing one CD each month, this quartet brings an excellent set of electroacoustic improvisation to the collection in a quartet with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, New York saxophonist Lotte Anker, and New York electronic artist and former DNA drummer Ikue Mori, performing live at Tokyo's Big Apple in 2018.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Nakatani, Tatsuya: Yama Yaki
(Nakatani-Kobo)

Recorded in his home state of New Mexico, Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani presents a 46 minute continuous improvisation of acoustic percussion, a perfect reflection of his solo performance sets, Nakatani alternating between extremely rapid interactions and reflective and atmospheric environments, always creative and quick-witted through staggeringly impressive playing.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 
Niggenkemper, Pascal: Sound Within Sound | Wuppertal Diary [2 CDs]
(Fitschgetau)

Adventurous double bassist Pascal Niggenkemper was artist in residence at Wuppertal in the fall of 2017, presenting concerts with a diverse set of masterful improvisers from Europe and the US, excerpts of which are meticulously programmed in this 2-CD collection, organized by artistic endeavor and intent, from the spacious/introspective to wildly lively encounters; recommended.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $20.95      Listen          

 
Rodrigues, Ernesto / Eduardo Chagas: Holes and Cracks
(Creative Sources)

A lowercase duo of intense focus and concentrative dialog from Creative Sources label leader Eernesto Rodrigues on viola and trombonist Eduardo Chagas, a member of IKB, Variable Geometry Orchestra, Suspensao, &c., through five recordings using primarily extended techniques and close proximity miking to create unusual textural and alien soundcscapes of great tension and release.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Trio La Soustraction des Fleurs (Vrod / Aurier / Lemetre): Airs de Moyenne Montagne [2 CDS]
(Umlaut Records)

Combining folk and ethnic rhythms in traditional popular forms, the Trio La Soustraction of des Fleurs of Jean-Francois Vrod on violin & voice, Frederic Aurier on violin & voice, and Sylvain Lemetre on zarb & voice focuses on the music of the mountains of the Massif Central, melodic music with unique timbres, forms, pre-texts, and a richly complex set of musical objects.
   
     Buy      $23.95      Listen          

 
Weaver, Mark / Tatsuya Nakatani: Weaver Nakatani
(Nakatani-Kobo)

A live recording of a 2018 improvisation between Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and tuba & dijeridu performer and THE ROOST Creative Music Series concert organizer Mark Weaver, through eleven concise dialogs illustrating the unique and diverse approaches of each player, finding middle ground through unusual technique and compatible creative drive.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Coltrane, Andrew : F.T.W. [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)

Detroit sound artist Andrew Coltrane recorded this work of complex noise and feedback in Detroit in 2011, recording to 4-track cassette with instrumenation including saxophone, flute, bowed strings, voice, synthesizer, tape loops, short wave, field recordings, and electronics, creating a thickly detailed album of unpredictable yet uniquely organized sound.
   
     Buy      $5.95      Listen          

 
Sissy Spacek: Basement [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)

The Los Angeles grindcore/noise band of Charlie Mumma, John Wiese, and Phil Blankenship in a cassette of brutal noise performed at Bronson, in Los Angeles California in 2014, both tracks using a similar explosive approach to sound, "Deja Vu" having more space between events while "Unfolding Universe" adds a thick noise floor that approaches white noise at time.
   
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   Compositional

Astra Choir, The: Morton Feldman; Will Ogdon; Pauline Oliveros; Earle Brown; Warren Burt; Robert Carl: We, Like Salangan Swallows...: A Choral Gallery of Morton Feldman and Contemporaries
(New World Records)

Melbourne, Australia's Astra Choir directed by John McCaughey use choral voice and appropriate instrumentation to interpret and present music from mediaeval to modern electronic and post-minimal music, here taking on compositions from Morton Feldman, Will Ogden, Pauline Oliveros, Warren Burt, Earle Brown, and Robert Carl.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Demierre, Jacques / Anouck Genthon: Teyerit
(Confront)

A series of unusual compositions originally written by Jacques Demmiere and Vincent Barras, here reworked by Demmiere and violinist Anouck Genthon, each piece focusing on sounds, breaths, frictions, silences, vowels and consonants, weaving and complementing each other through a mix of traditional, extended and unconventional techniques; fascinating.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Ichiyanagi, Toshi with Eye Music: Sapporo
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Written in 1963 for up to 15 peformers plus a conductor who may also make sound, Japanese composer and Fluxus artist Toshi Ichiyanagi's score has 16 pages marked with combinations of lines, dots and letters indicating duration, number of events, and moments of restraint, each player using a different page, with certain options of switching pages with another player during performance.
 
Squidco Pick
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Schuppe, Marianne: Nosongs
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Marianne Schuppe continues to reimagine songs and their relation to tone and melody, here in a series of 11 songs realized with voice, lute, and uber bows, creating delicate accompaniment to her lucid movements between pure sound and words, singing and speaking her lyrics of succinct phrases rich in subtle intimation and evocative imagery; beautiful.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
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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.

• You can see Recently Restocked items on this page.

• Ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.


 

Sebastien Beliah :
Nocturnes
(Umlaut Records)
Beuger.Boon.Susam:

(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Cyril Bondi / d'Incise:
Kirari-Kirari
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Stephen Cornford :
Battery Acid [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)
Crank Sturgeon:
Unctuous Pedunce [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)
The Haters:
Loud Luggage Booming Baggage [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)

Hal Hutchinson:
Factory Metal Sound [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)
Isotope Ensemble:
Barium
(Creative Sources)
Johan Lindvall:
Giraffe
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)

Sergio Merce:
Three Dimensions Of The Spirit
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
Mokita:
Mokita
(Creative Sources)
Musaeum Clausum:
Musaeum Clausum
(Umlaut Records)

PCRV:
Mobility [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)
Pregnant Spore:
I Am in Love with My Own Sins [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)
The Rita:
Vice Baron [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Andrew Lafkas / Bryan Eubanks:
0 Minutes And 0 Seconds
(Creative Sources)
Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Bruno Parrinha / Luis Lopes / Vasco Trilla:
Lithos
(Creative Sources)
Paolo Sanna:
Fluorite
(Creative Sources)

Small Cruel Party:
ἡσυχασμός (complacency) [CASSETTE]
(Banned Production)

 

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• In the US, any order with 3 or more items choosing "Free Economy Shipping" option will ship for free!

• International customers, any order with 3 or more items choosing "Free Economy Shipping" option will ship for free!

In stock items only, orders with out of stock items will be held until all items are in stock. Free shipping applies only to "Free Economy Shipping" option on the Shipping & Payment Screen at checkout time. US orders will ship via USPS Media Mail with tracking. 1st Class and other shipping rates are unaffected by this offer.



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