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SQUIDCO Email Update + Memorial Day Sale, May 27 2022

     Squidco & The Squid's Ear
 
UPDATE
May 27, 2022

"Sometimes I'd think I was making music
Through the wrong end of a magnifying glass."
—John Coltrane



   Creative Artists

• Rob Brown/Juan Pablo Carletti
• John Coltrane
• Erica Dicker/Dennis Sullivan
• Sture Ericson/Pat Thomas/Raymond Strid
• Francois Houle/Marco von Orelli
• Anna Kaluza/Jan Roder
• Lazro/Minor/Madiot/Chiesa/Marion
• Louis-Michel Marion/Francoise Toullec
• Merzbow/Arcane Device
• David Myers Lee
• OORT
• Michael Pisaro-Liu/Primoz Sukic
• Quatuor Bozzini
• Renzoku (Kondo/Kaiser/Goodman/Oswald)
• George Russell
• Taku Sugimoto
• Superimpose: Muller/Marien (w/ Butcher/Jernberg/Wooley)
• Linnea Talp
• Tolimieri/Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Stepanov
• Rutger Zuydervelt/Hugo Dijkstal/Peter Hollo



Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

577 Records
Collection QB
Creative Sources
Edition FriForma
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Important Records
Inexhaustible Editions
Machinefabriek

    
Meenna
Metalanguage
NoBusiness
pulsewidth
Relative Pitch
Thanatosis Produktion
Tour de Bras
Tubapede

    

     Squidco Memorial Day Sale

    

This weekend the US celebrates Memorial Day, remembering those who passed before us and who honored our nation. In memory of those who came before us, and in the remembrance of the many great musicians who have left their mark in the wealth of recorded history that we enjoy, we're offering our customers the following discounts store-wide through Monday, May 30th:

• Buy any new CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DVD, Book or Magazine
    Take 10% off that item's price

• Buy 5 or more CDs, Vinyls, Cassettes, DVDs, Books or Magazines
    Take 15% off those item's prices


Shop at Squidco


In-stock items only, orders must use our shopping cart. Insurance, shipping, and gift certificates items excluded. Discounts applied at checkout time. Sold out items will disappear from the store. Sale ends Monday, May 30, 2022 at midnight EST (GMT-5). Discounted items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.





   Jazz & Improvisation

Brown, Rob / Juan Pablo Carletti: Fertile Garden
(NoBusiness)


Two extended dialogs between New York City saxophonist Rob Brown and Argentinian-born NY-based drummer Juan Pablo Carletti, a member of the Rob Brown Quartet and associate with Tony Malaby, Daniel Levin, &c., here in energetic exchanges that bring out the depth of experience and skill from Brown and the quick-witted response from the younger generation drummer.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Coltrane, John: Favorites Live (Naima / My Favorite Things 1963 / A Love Supreme 1965) Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)


Well-recorded performances of Coltrane's most noted works--"Naima", "My Favorite Things" and "A Love Supreme"--in superb concerts from Berlin in 1963 and Antibes in 1965 with his classic quartet of pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, revealing the expansion and freedom these compositions receive through the flexibility of live performance.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Ericson, Sture / Pat Thomas / Raymond Strid: Bagman LIve at Cafe Oto
(577 Records)


The first trio collaboration between London pianist and innovator Pat Thomas and Swedish improvisers, Sture Ericson on saxophones, and Raymond Strid on drums, performing live at Cafe OTO in London in 2019 for four improvised soundscapes about the fictional character "Bagman", using extended and prodigious technique with both disruptive and melodic intentions.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $13.99      Listen          

 
Houle, Francois / Marco von Orelli: Make That Flight
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)


Canadian improvising clarinetist François Houle and Swiss trumpeter Marco von Orelli are heard live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, in Basel, Switzerland, 2020 for eleven dialogs reminiscent of the work of John Carter and Bobby Bradford, though uniquely in their own modern language of chamber-oriented jazz through original compositions from both artists.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Kaluza, Anna / Jan Roder: Am Frankfurter Tor
(Relative Pitch)


Collaborating since 2004, Berlin alto saxophonist Anna Kaluza and double bassist Jan Roda--a member of Kaluza's Quartet with trombonist Christof Thewes and drummer Kay Lübke--in a studio album of duo improvisations, documenting their live performances in the same configuration since 2020 through ten succinct dialogs of informed affinity.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Lazro, Daunik / Jouk Minor / Thierry Madiot / David Chiesa / Louis-Michel Marion: Sonoris Causa
(NoBusiness)


This single extended performance brings together a collective of improvisers playing low range instruments in order to build an acoustic sonic sculpture, from the quintet of Daunik Lazro on baritone saxophone, Jouk Minor on contrabass sarrusophone, Thierry Madiot on bass trombone & telescopic tubes, and both David Chiesa and Louis-Michel Marion on 5-string double bass.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Marion, Louis-Michel / Francoise Toullec: Apocalyptic Garden
(Creative Sources)


A strangely agitated garden sculpted from melody, dissonance and instrumental abberation through profound technique and unusual approaches to their instrument, by French double bassist Louis-Michel Marion and pianist Françoise Toullec, bringing a sense of wonder and turbulent environment through a shared passion balancing ominous space with astute activity.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
OORT: Meridian
(Tour de Bras)


Each track of the Meridian, or Eastern desert land's traditional noon-time middle of the day, represents various stages, chronologically understood, of the day of an ανθρωπός (human), represented through deep double bass, drums, objects and electronics from Turin, Italy improvisers Michele Anelli and Nicholas Remondino.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Renzoku (Kondo / Kaiser / Goodman / Oswald): Jump
(Metalanguage)


Revealing 40 years of collaborations between late trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and West Coast guitarist Henry Kaiser, in configurations of duos between Kondo & Kaiser--most notably a beautiful and extended 2016 improvisation--then earlier duos from 1978, a 1980 trio with pianist Greg Goodman, a 1979 trio with saxophonist John Oswald, ending with a wonderfully idiosyncratic 2020 duo.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $10.95      Listen          

 
Russell, George: Ezz-thetics & The Stratus Seekers, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)


Essential to any collection charting the transition from Birth of the Cool era jazz to the modern explosion of harmonic and compositional forms, are pianist George Russell's two most essential albums from 1961 & 1962--Ezz-thetics and The Stratus Seekers--in a sextet & septet including Eric Dolphy, Don Elliss, Steve Swallow, &c., remastered to reveal their vital clarity.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Superimpose: Matthias Muller / Christian Marien (w/ John Butcher / Sofia Jernberg / Nate Wooley) : With [3 CDs]
(Inexhaustible Editions)


A three disc box set of impressive collective improvisations recorded in the studio by the Superimpose duo of Matthias Muller on trombone and Christian Marien on drums & percussion, joined on the first disc by John Butcher on tenor and soprano saxophones, then with improvising vocalist Sofia Jernberg for the 2nd disc, and on disc 3 with trumpeter Nate Wooley.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $44.95      Listen          

 
Tolimieri / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Stepanov: Inner Lines
(Creative Sources)


Six "Segments" A to F of powerful restraint and extended technique, recorded at Ausland in Berlin, Germany from the free improvising quartet of Quentin Tolimieri on piano, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Fyodor Stepanov on double bass, the close associations between the Rodrigues' and Tolimieri & Stepanov evident through their shared aesthetic.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Erica Dicker / Dennis Sullivan: Blood Luxury [CASSETTE w/ DOWNOAD]
(Tubapede)


Delicate abrasions and corruption of their instruments from the NY duo of Erica Dicker (Till by Turning) on violin and Dennis Sullivan (Radical 2), 9 works of improvised soundscape and avant-raw chamber music through prepared strings, tapes, looped feedback, resonant metals, modified snares and liberally bowed surfaces, richly constrained and luxuriously blood-curdling.
   
     Buy      $7.95      Listen          

 
Merzbow / Arcane Device: Merzbow & Arcane Device
(Important Records)


Two innovative sonic luminaries--Japan's Masami Akita, aka Merzbow, and New York City's David Lee Myers, aka Arcane Device--remix each other's work, bringing Myer's unique approach to feedback and ethereal electronics to harness Akita's agressive sounds, and in reverse, Akita's sense of disruptive sonics explode Myer's more contemplative feedback music.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Myers, David Lee: Xenography
(pulsewidth)


Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned, an apt description of the rich dialects sculpted from feedback sources and expertly routed through circular circuits of sound processors by New York sound artist David Lee Myers, AKA Arcane Device, captured and layered into these astounding electronic compositions.
   
     Buy      $11.95      Listen          

 
Pisaro-Liu, Michael / Primoz Sukic : Mind Is Moving (IX)
(Edition FriForma)


The 9th piece in composer Michael Pisaro's "Mind Is Moving" series, which initiated on the Wandelweiser label with Pisaro himself performing on guitar, here with Slovenian guitarist Primož Sukič (ICTUS Ensemble, The Third Guy) rendering this subtle work of slow-moving tones, harmonics and silence, electric guitar, radio & stones, a work of thoughtful space and intersected playing, slowly unfolding where each gesture and note carries significance to the composition.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Talp, Linnea: Arch Of Motion
(thanatosis produktion)


Performed with Stockholm musicians including pianist Alexander Zethson, wind player Martin Küchen and trombonist Mats Äleklint, organist Linnéa Talp explores the areas of sound that emulate breathing, push/pull or back & forth motion, in eight beautifully paced recordings led by the organ's rich and microtonal vibrations & timbre and imbued by the contributor's subtle additions.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Zuydervelt, Rutger / Hugo Dijkstal / Peter Hollo: BERG (Music for a film by Joke Olthaar)
(Machinefabriek)


Two versions of the soundtrack to the Dutch movie BERG composed by Rutger Zuydervelt, the first rearranging the tracks to the piece to create a long-form work that maintains the meditative qualities of the movie; then an early score proposal and more active concept than the final work, developed with recordings of improvisations from cellist Peter Hollo.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Quatuor Bozzini: Michael Oesterle: Quatuors
(Collection QB)


German-born Canadian composer living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec Michael Oesterle has a long relationship with the Quatuor Bozzini beginning with their first commission 25 years ago, here in four works including a tribute to English mathematician Alan Turing, the large-scale "String Quartet No. 4", and a piece inspired by Quebec poet Nicole Brossard's book Mecanique jongleuse.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Sugimoto, Taku: Octet
(Meenna)


Part of Japanese composer Taku Sugimoto's Solo for Strings series, these works focus on bowed stringed instruments played only with natural harmonics, arranged with clarinets and flute, using long tones and repetition that allow the performer decisions on their length, performed by a Berlin-based octet including Catherine Lamb, Johnny Change, Samuel Dunscombe, &c.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
 

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

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• You can see Recently Restocked items on this page.

• You can ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.


 


Barnes / Jerman / Nordwall:
The Oortcloud [It Wasn't Until Weeks Later] [VINYL]
(STELLAGE)


David Bennett / Vilhem Bromander:
Within Reach Of Eventuality
(thanatosis produktion)


Charming Hostess:
The Ginzburg Geography
(Tzadik)


Child of Illusion (Pitsiokos / Santos Silva / Zetterberg):
Khimaira
(Relative Pitch)


Anthony Coleman / Brian Chase:
Arcades [VINYL]
(Chaikin Records)


Osvaldo Coluccino :
Absum
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Jean D.L. / Rutger Zuydervelt:
Scramblings
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Steve Dalachinsky / Federico Ughi:
I Thought It Was The End Of The World And Then The End Of The World Happened Again
(577 Records)


Bruno Duplant:
Nocturnes (3 Etudes)
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Ferran Fages:
From Grey To Blue
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Forkelid / Carlsson / Hielm:
Can't Hide [Vinyl]
(FRIM Records)


Yuko Fujiyama / Graham Haynes / Ikue Mori:
Quiet Passion
(Intakt)


Hydra Ensemble (Almeida / Hitz / Gregov / Zuydervelt):
Voltas
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Jeph Jerman:
Flapndr
(Input Error)


Jeph Jerman:
Sound From Films [CDR]
(Fidgety Editions)


Kitamura / Ho Bynum / Reid / Morris:
Geometry of Trees
(Relative Pitch)


Masayo Koketsu:
Fukiya
(Relative Pitch)


Gerard Lebik / Burkhard Beins:
An Alphabet Of Fluctuation
(Inexhaustible Editions)


London Jazz Composer's Orchestra:
Zurich Concerts
(Intakt)


Machinefabriek / Matt Wand / Nick Storring / Phil Macguire:
Prisma+
(Machinefabriek)


David Myers Lee:
Lustre
(pulsewidth)


Lee Patterson / Samo Kutin:
The Universal Veil That Hangs Together Like A Skin
(Edition FriForma)


Csaba Pengo:
Circles
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Rekon With Friends (Alga / Espvall / Billstrom / Vallgren / Jordansson / Ullen / Lloyd):
Rekon With Friends
(Creative Sources)


Howard Riley / Keith Tippett:
Journal Four
(NoBusiness)


Samuel Rodgers / Richard Scott:
Oxygen Room
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Quentin Rollet / Xavier Mussat:
Debordements
(Tour de Bras)


Patrick Shiroishi :
Hidemi [VINYL]
(American Dreams Records)


Elias Stemeseder :
Piano Solo
(Intakt)


Sun Ra Arkestra & Salah Ragab:
Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt
(STRUT)


Stefan Thut:
Among
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Tragic Assembly:
Instability
(Soul City Sounds)


Federico Ughi:
ULERS Two
(577 Records)


Federico Ughi / Daniel Carter:
Astonishment
(577 Records)


Birgit Ulher / Petr Vrba:
Schallschatten
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Phil Venable :
Bassworks, Vol 1
(Soul City Sounds)


Warble (Brad Henkel / Miako Klein):
Swarm
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Judith Wegmann / Bruno Duplant:
Univers Paralleles
(Inexhaustible Editions)


Matt Weston:
Sparky 3 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(7272music)


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