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SQUIDCO Email Update + Cassette Sale, November 4, 2022

     Squidco & The Squid's Ear
 
UPDATE
November 4, 2022

"To me it's terrible to play without the passion of music.
It's the passion that connects,
Not the academic correctness.
The passion brings out the magic."
—Andrew Hilll



   Creative Artists

• Ackerley/Shiroishi/Williams/Stewart/Nazary
• Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger
• Cameron/Smith/Cunningham
• Countryman/Bucher/Yandsen
• Rhodri Davies
• Rhodri Davies/Nikos Velitotis
• Greg Davis
• Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Orrell
• Phillip Golub
• Andrew Hill
• Dave Knott
• Thelonious Monk
• Nandor Nevai w/ Tim Dahl/Trevor Dunn
• The NU Band (Wessel/Heberer/Fonda/Grassi)
• Ivo Perelman/Tim Berne/James Carter/Tony Malaby
• Marek Pospieszalski Quartet (Pospieszalski/Stemeseder/Mucha/Andrzejewski)
• Tamio Shiraishi
• Street Tentacle ( Chan/Wang/Bryerton)
• Various Artists
• Philipp Wachsmann/Matthew Hutchinson
• Matt Weston
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

577 Records
7272music
All The Wow & Twice The Flutter
Amgen Records
Balance Point Acoustics
Bead
Clean Feed
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
FMR

     
Greyfade
gwasg amgen
Klanggalerie
Mahakala Music
Not Two
Psykomanteum
Relative Pitch
Storm Cellar
    

 

Squidco Cassette Sale Cassette tapes continue to be released at a wonderful rate, and we find more and more albums on that format that fit our customer's interest, the majority of which come with a download code for convenience. To celebrate the persistence of this album format, this weekend all of our cassettes are on sale!

• Buy any cassette, take 10% off its price.
• Buy 3 or more cassettes, take 15% of their price.

But hurry, this sale ends Sunday, November 6th.

Click to See All Cassettes

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. Order items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points. Sale ends Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 23:59 EST (GMT-5).





   Jazz & Improvisation

Ackerley, Jessica / Patrick Shiroishi / Chris Williams / Luke Stewart / Jason Nazary: SSWAN: Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster [VINYL]
(577 Records)

Rugged, experimental and avant jazz in the debut album from the SSWAN group of Patrick Shiroishi on saxophones, Chris Williams on trumpet, Jessica Ackerley on electric guitar, Luke Stewart on bass and Jason Nazary on drums, the group focused first on sound and velocity rather than pitch and harmonic information as they carve out a unique space between free jazz and free improv.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $18.99      Listen          

 
Arnal, Jeff / Curt Cloninger: Drum Major Instinct
(Mahakala Music)

Finding common ground through independent work in Asheville, NC, drummer Jeff Arnal and modular synth experimenter Curt Cloninger started exchanging musical ideas, developing their concept to add powerful rhythmic elements into patterned energetic synthetics, building a language to improvise together and rework their material into these rich and exciting compositions.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Cameron / Smith / Cunningham: Time Without Hours [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Storm Cellar)

The of trio of Lisa Cameron on percussion, Damon Smith on double bass and Alex Cunningham on violin, continue their work after 2020's Dawn Throws Its First Knife with this cassette and download releases of five collective improvisations, using extended techniques amidst cogent conversation, from assertively exciting to darkly moody atmospheric interplay.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Countryman / Bucher / Yandsen: The Malasia Live Fact Session
(FMR)

Two 2022 live free jazz sessions from Malaysia, the first a saxophone duo between US ex-pat based in The Philippines, Rick Countryman on alto and Malaysian tenor saxophonist Yong Yandsen, appropriately recorded at The Saxophone Store in Kula Lumpur; then 5 trio improvisations recorded in concert at Live Fact in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia on the same tour.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Davies, Rhodri / Nikos Velitotis: Hotel Art Head [BOOK]
(gwasg amgen)

A curious book of images from artists including Rhodri Davies, John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Richard Dawson, &c. photographed in a location familiar to a touring musician--a budget hotel room--pictured laying on the bed with each artist's head covered by that room's hotel wall painting, from typically insipid to perplexingly unexpected.
   
     Buy      $15.95          

 
Davies, Rhodri: For Simon H. Fell
(Amgen Records)

Influenced by bassist Simon H. Fell since first hearing him in 1994 in a quartet with Peter Brotzmann, harpist Rhodri Davies approached Fell to work together, enjoying 20 years of collaborations in many group settings; in 2020 Simon H. Fell became seriously ill and passed in June of that year, this extended improvisation being Rhodri Davies' heartfelt tribute to the great improviser.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Dunmall, Paul / Paul Rogers / Tony Orrell: That's My Life
(577 Records)

A prime example of the early Bristol, UK jazz scene and saxophonist Paul Dunmall's association with it, this trio born out of the band Spirit Level where Dunmall and drummer Tony Orrell first worked, and double bassist Paul Rogers with whom Dunmall would go on to work in Mujician, here in two live recording with Dunmall on soprano and in a burning Coltrane mode; exceptional!
 
Squidco Pick
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Hill, Andrew: Point Of Departure To Compulsion!!!!!
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Remastering pianist Andrew Hill's distinct and exemplary albums issued on Blue Note Records in 1965 & 1967: Point of Departure, illustrating Hill's complex and exciting compositions in a front line with Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham and Tony Williams & Richard Davis; and the percussively rich Compulsion with John Gilmore, Freddie Hubbard, Cecil McBee, & Joe Chambers.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Monk, Thelonious: Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

The foundational work of composer and pianist Thelonious Monk is heard in these six remastered studio sessions for Blue Note Records recorded between 1947 to 1952, performing twenty three original compositions in bands from trios to sextets with a who's who of emerging jazz leaders including Art Blakey, Max Roach, Lou Donaldson, Kenny Dorham, and Milt Jackson.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $17.95      Listen          

 
Nevai, Nandor w/ Tim Dahl / Trevor Dunn: << The Die Motherfucker Volume 2>>
(Psykomanteum)

Drummer and conductor Nandor Nevai's NY trio with bassist Tim Dahl and bassist Trevor Dunn in the fifth iteration of his _ ("UNDRSKOR") project, championing a novel fusion-idiom referred to as 'Neauxtheque' which may be said to invoke "Danger Classical", the Martial Pop subgenre of Industrial and the virtuosic demands of Technical Death Metal.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
NU Band, The (Wessel / Heberer / Fonda / Grassi): Renual
(Not Two)

The continued evolution and renewal of the Nu Band anchored by the rhythm section of drummer Lou Grassi and bassist Joe Fonda, with Thomas Heberer in his 2nd album with the band taking the palce of late trumpeter Roy Campbell, and guitarist Kenny Wessel taking the place of late saxophonist Mark Whitecage; superb melodic free playing with compositions from all four members.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Perelman, Ivo / Tim Berne / James Carter / Tony Malaby: (D)IVO
(Mahakala Music)

Led by Ivo Perelman on tenor saxophone, (D)ivo brings four of New York City's finest improvising saxophonists together for an outrageous quartet session, with Tony Malaby on soprano saxophone, Tim Berne on alto saxophone and James Carter on baritone saxophone, their unique styles and masterful skills creating a thrilling and intricate weaving of profound reed expression.
 
Squidco Pick
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Pospieszalski, Marek Quartet (Pospieszalski / Stemeseder / Mucha / Andrzejewski): Durer's Mother
(Clean Feed)

Following saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski Octet album on Clean Feed interpreting Polish composers of the 20th Century, he continues his work in a quartet setting with original compositions inspired by 19th & 20th Century composers, including Schubert, Britten & Lachenmann, performed with Elias Stemeseder on piano, Max Mucha on double bass and Max Andrzejewski on drums.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Shiraishi, Tamio: Moon
(Relative Pitch)

Known for his resonant solo alto saxophone work, often recording with the New York City subways, this album presents ten unusual duos between Tamio Shiraishi and improvisers on piano, voice, cello, electronics, bass, guitar and sax, with Tim Dahl, Steve Baczkowski, Mico, Mike Sidnam, Austin Sley Julian, Nina Dante, Tara Fenamore, Leila Bordreuil, Chris Libutti, and Ami Yamasaki.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Street Tentacle ( Chan / Wang / Bryerton): Preserves
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Assertively probing like a squid raging out of the sea, Street Tentacle is the trio of Chicago tenor saxophonist Jeff Chan, guitarist Da Wei Wang also on electronics, and drummer Jerome Bryerton on drums, cymbals, gongs, bowed metal & assorted percussion, in five assertive improvisations of an everything including the kitchen sink style; daunting and domineering!
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Wachsmann, Philipp / Matthew Hutchinson: Startle The Echoes
(Bead)

Beginning their collaboration during the 1970s in the Chamberpot Ensemble, the duo of violinist Philipp Wachsmann and keyboard and electronic improviser Matthew Hutchinson are heard in live recording from three London Concerts in 2002 & 2003, Wachsmann's violin extended via live signal processing and transformations, extending their dialogs in expansive ways.
   
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   Experimental/Electronic

Davis, Greg: New Primes [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Greyfade)

Using custom-written software to translate prime number sequences into a tonal palette of rich, compatible sounds, Vermont-based electronic musician and sound artist Greg Davis investigates the compositional properties of those numbers by paring the representation of each sequence into a network of pure sine tones which interact with fascinating harmonic and rhythmic structures.
   
     Buy      $22.95      Listen          

 
Knott, Dave: Making Fire With Frogs [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(All The Wow & Twice The Flutter )

Sound artist and electroacoustic improviser Dave Knott (aka Vague Johnson) presenting compositions created from the sounds of frogs, toads, insects, periodic sounds of fire and snapping branches; "a microphone attached to a reed brings the listener to the water's edge of these swampy sounds"; an album to transform your dull room into a swampy wonderland.
   
     Buy      $7.95      Listen          

 
Various Artists: Elliott Sharp Presents I Never Metaguitar 6
(Klanggalerie)

Elliott Sharp's impressive series "Never Metaguitar" with releases on Clean Feed and Klanggalerie continues in this 6th volume of 18 remarkable and diverse approaches to the stringed instrument, effected and not, with contributors including Dougie Bowne, Wendy Eisenberg, Charles K. Noyes, André Cholmondele, Toto Alvarez, Zona Zanjeros, David Torn, &c. &c.
 
Squidco Pick
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Weston, Matt: Sparky 5 [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(7272music)

The 5th installment in percussionist & composer Matt Weston's serialized opera for percussion ensemble + electronics, a set of narratives and counter-narratives that explore mental health struggles as they develop over time in varying circumstances, realized through a combination of site-specific graphic, multidimensional and instantaneous scores.
   
     Buy      $7.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Golub, Phillip: Filters [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(Greyfade)

Approaching the concept of endless repetition, New York composer and pianist Phillip Golub (Tropos, Sarafand Ensemble, Cecil McBee) presents his debut solo piano album, a contemplative set of system-based looping phrases that open up to improvisational variety in live performance, here in four renderings that defy the categorization of a "loop".
   
     Buy      $22.95      Listen          

 
 

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 Stay Current With Squidco

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.

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


 


The Attic (Amado / Almeida / Govaert):
Love Ghosts
(NoBusiness)

John Berndt:
New Logic For Old Saxophones
(Creative Sources)

Samuel Blaser / Consort In Motion:
A Mirror To Madchaut
(Songlines)


Blue Reality Quartet (McPhee, Joe / Michael Marcus / Jay Rosen / Warren Smith):
Ella's Island
(Mahakala Music)

David Boyce / Phillip Greenlief:
Mystery School
(Creative Sources)

Brulez les meubles (Beaudoin / Normand / Derome / Hollenbeck):
L'appel du vide
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)


Brulez les meubles (Beaudoin / Normand / Derome / Hollenbeck):
Tardif
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)

Brulez les meubles (Beaudoin / Normand / Derome / Hollenbeck):
Tardiff [VINYL]
(Tour de Bras / Ramble)

Yves Charuest / Michel Ratte / Peter Kowald:
Montr​eal, 1985 [VINYL]
(Tour de Bras / Ramble)


Hugo Costa / Raoul van der Weide / Onno Govaert :
Land Over Water
(Creative Sources)

Rhodri Davies:
Dwa Dni
(Amgen Records)

Jean Derome (Derome / Hetu / Robichaud / Servant / Jacques / Bastien / Normand / Side):
Rose Drummond
(Ambiances Magnetiques / Tour de Bras)


Devenir-Ensemble :
Resonances Manifestes
(Creative Sources)

Dionee (Beriault / Servant / Normand):
Attrape-mouches
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)

Cenk Ergun:
Inseln
(Sacred Realism)


Chad Fowler / William Parker / Anders Griffen:
Broken Unbroken
(Mahakala Music)

Chad Fowler / William Parker / Anders Griffen:
Thinking Unthinking
(Mahakala Music)

Sylvain Guerineau / Fred Marty:
Parodies
(Creative Sources)


Franz Hautzinger / Eric Normand :
Unbelievably Late
(Tour de Bras / Inexhaustible Editions )

Franz Hautzinger / Mazen Kerbaj:
Abu Tarek
(Creative Sources)

Imaginary String Trio, The (Wachsmann / Guastalla / Lash):
Imaginary Trio
(Bead)


Isotope Ensemble:
Uranium
(Creative Sources)

Edward Jordan 'Kidd' / Joel Futterman / William Parker / Hamid Drake:
A Tribute to Alvin Fielder (Live at Vision Festival XXIV)
(Mahakala Music)

Kaluza / Steyer / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Mengersen:
Echoes In A Further Range
(Creative Sources)


Kirk Knuffke / Michael Bisio:
For You I Don't Want To Go
(NoBusiness)

Okkyung Lee / Jerome Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy:
Two Duos [VINYL]
(Otoroku)

Lih Kadim (Jaka Berger / Marko Jenic / Jure Borsic / Andre Bost Ruda / Jost Drasler / Vid Drasler):
Sunday Sextet
(FMR)


Lisbon String Trio & Bruno Parrinha:
Dada
(Creative Sources)

Michael Marcus ( w/ F.Lacy / Mateen / Rosen):
Abstractions in Lime Caverns
(ESP-Disk)

Carlos Mascolo / Miguel Mira / Marcello Maglioccho:
Bridge In The Dark
(FMR)


Masing / Schwantke / Lin feat. Kakaduu:
Music With Birds [2 CDs]
(Creative Sources)

Sean Meehan:
Magazine
(Sacred Realism)

Kelsey Mines:
Look Like
(Relative Pitch)


Neumann / Smith / Graham / Rosenthal / Fujiwara / Ewen :
Quartet:Quartet:Trio [2 CDs]
(Balance Point Acoustics)

Owlman (Sama / Taubenfeld / Jan Willem van der Ham / Petruccelli / Sola / van Es / Ferreira / Govaert / Chientaroli):
Owlman
(Creative Sources)

Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp:
Fruition
(ESP-Disk)


Rodrigues / da Rocha / Parrinha / Oliveira:
Chiaroscuro
(Creative Sources)

Rodrigues / Hartyani / Kohn / Lin:
Hunter Underwater
(Creative Sources)

Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Madeira:
Cosmos
(Creative Sources)


Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Parrinha:
Sans Oublier Les Arbres
(Creative Sources)

Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Parrinha / Goncalves / Santos:
Quelque chose prie la patience des nuages
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Brad Henkel / Guilherme / Rodrigues / Matthias Muller :
Wing Elegy
(Creative Sources)


Ernesto Rodrigues / Bruno Parrinha / Joao Madeira / Hernani Faustino / Jose Oliveira:
Unpoem
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Carla Santana / Emedio Buchinho / Bruno Parrinha:
Distilling Silence
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Flak / Bruno Parrinha:
Definitive Bucolic
(Creative Sources)


Ernesto Rodrigues / Jose Lencastre / Miguel Mira / Hernani Faustino / Joao Lencastre:
Affinity Suite
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Michel Stawicki / Bruno Parrinha / Joao Madeira:
D'improvviso
(Creative Sources)

Guilherme Rodrigues / Dirk Serries:
The Sage Flower
(Creative Sources)


Udo Schindler / Ardhi Engl:
Basis_B(r)uchstucke
(Creative Sources)

Udo Schindler / Eric Zang Eriksson:
Blow & Swirl
(FMR)

String Theory:
Musica Povera
(Creative Sources)


Suspensao :
Fluxus
(Creative Sources)

Mototeru Takagi / Kim Dae Hwan / Choi Sun Bae:
Seishin - Seido
(NoBusiness)

Mototeru Takagi / Kim Dae Hwan / Choi Sun Bae:
Seishin - Seido [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)


Yuji Takahashi / Sabu Toyozumi:
The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane
(NoBusiness)

Masayuki Takayanagi JoJo / Nobuyoshi Ino / Masabumi PUU Kikuchi:
Live At Jazz Inn Lovely 1990 [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)

Tamarisk (Carter / Menestres / Weathers):
Plays a Word for Sun
(Waveform Alphabet)


Horace Tapscott Quintet:
Legacies For Our Grandchildren: Live In Hollywood, 1995
(Dark Tree Records)

Wilfrido Terrazas / Mariana Carvalho / Abdul Moimeme :
Livro das Grutas
(Creative Sources)

Bernardo Tinoco / Tom Maciel:
Nomad Nenufar
(Clean Feed)


TOC (Orins / Cruz / Ternoy):
Did It Again [4CDs]
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)

Toyozumi / Takahashi:
The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)

Gebhard Ullmann / Steve Swell / Hilliard Greene / Barry Altschul :
We're Playing In Here ? [VINYL]
(NoBusiness)


Philipp Wachsmann / Lawrence Casserley:
Garuda
(Bead)

Philipp Wachsmann / Michael Bunce:
Refractions In Air
(Bead)

Theresa Wong:
Practicing Sands
(fo'c'sle)


XT (Wright / Abbott):
Deorlaf X [VINYL]
(Otoroku)


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