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UPDATE
December 23, 2022
"The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away."
—Pablo Picasso
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Essential Artists
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• Brulez les meubles (Beaudoin / Normand / Derome / Hollenbeck)
• Dimitriadis/Dorner/Freedman/Parkins/Williams
• Kaja Draksler/Susana Santos Silva
• Henry Fraser/Camilo Angeles/Jason Nazary
• Jurg Frey + Apartment House
• Barry Guy and Friends
• Bryn Harrison
• Martin Iddon
• Irarrazabal/Baldwin
• Evan Johnson
• Karayorgis/McBride/Gray
• London Jazz Composers Orchestra
• Thelonious Monk Special Offer
• Odd Person
• Perry Robinson/Michael Marcus/Jay Rosen
• Rodrigues/Henkel/Rodrigues/Muller
• Susana Silva Santos
• Ricardo Toscano Trio
• Wake Up!
(Carter/Moss/Ughi/Richardson)
• Torbjorn Zetterberg (Zetterberg/Agnas/Hogberg)
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Essential Labels
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Another Timbre
Clean Feed
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Creative Sources
Driff Records
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Intakt
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
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Nonlocal Research
Not Two
Relative Pitch
Self Released
thanatosis produktion
Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc
Tripticks Tapes
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Brulez les meubles (Beaudoin / Normand / Derome / Hollenbeck): L'appel du vide
(Tour de Bras / Circum-Disc)
With a common passion for the jazz guitar, from Jim Hall to Bill Frisell, from Rene Thomas to Brandon Ross, the core duo of Canadian improvisers, guitarist Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonniere and bassist Éric Normand, are joined by drummer Tom Jacques for a set of original compositions plus a Paul Bley piece, one by Gilles Vigneault, and two collective improvisations.
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Dimitriadis / Dorner / Freedman / Parkins / Williams: BeingFive
(Relative Pitch)
Hand selected by Montreal clarinetist Lori Freedman and assembled during a 2022 residency in Berlin, the BeingFive quintet brought together ea-improvisers Yorgos Dimitriadis (percussion), Axel Dorner (trumpet), Andrea Parkins (accordion & objects) and Christopher Williams (double bass) for a workshop approach to creating sonic environments of incredible depth and expressiveness.
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Draksler, Kaja / Susana Santos Silva: Grow
(Intakt)
A series of spontaneous converstations captured live at the 2021 Copenhagen Jazz Festival at KoncertKirken, the second duo album between trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and pianist Kaja Draksler, using extraordinary and extended techniques to create lovely rolling textures or spacious sonic environments, passing between moods and approaches in natural and captivating ways.
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Fraser, Henry / Camilo Angeles / Jason Nazary: Aqrabuamelu
(Tripticks Tapes)
Mapping an improvisational framework onto a myriad of musical forms with contributions from each member, the trio of bassist Henry Fraser (NYC), drummer Jason Nazary (NYC) and flautist Camilo Angeles (PERU/CDMX) have collaborated in a number of configurations over the years, forming this specific and uniquely voiced trio in 2021 to record this mysteriously beautiful album.
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Guy, Barry and Friends: Krakow 2018 [5 CD BOX SET]
(Not Two)
Two days of concerts in 2018 at Alchemia Club, in Krakow, Poland and a recording at Radio Krakow the next day from English composer, band leader and a bass player Barry Guy, in varying configurations at Alchemia of duos & trios with some of Europe & the UK's leading improvisers, culminating in an 11-piece ensemble at Radio Krakow performing the large work "For To End Yet Again".
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Irarrazabal / Baldwin: Grips [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)
Chilean double bassist, vocalist, improviser & composer Amanda Irarrázabal and Brooklyn double bassist Nat Baldwin in a live performance first-time meeting at the IRL concert space during Irarrázabal's week-long tour through NYC, this concert a profound meeting of deep strings, bowed, plucked and mutated through unique technical approaches to their instruments.
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Karayorgis / McBride / Gray: The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project
(Driff Records)
The long-running Boston trio of Pandelis Karayorgis on piano, Nate McBride on bass and Luther Gray on drums explore the music of Hasaan Ibn Ali through four compositions transcribed by Karayorgis from Hasaan's so-called "lost" Atlantic album Metaphysics, interleaved with six of the band's favorite tracks from Thelonious Monk and three tracks from Monk peer Elmo Hope.
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London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Krakow 2020 [6 CD BOX SET]
(Not Two)
To celebrate its 50th year since bassist Barry Guy assembled the London Jazz Orchestra for its first 1970 performance on BBC Radio, the now multinational band convened in Poland in 2020 for a series of concerts at Alchemia Club and Manggha Hall in configurations of duos to quintets, culminating in a full ensemble performance of two magnificently powerful works: "Flow" and "Harmos-Krakow".
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MONK SPECIAL OFFER - Save $6!: "Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings" & "Live Five Spot 1958, Revisited"
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Buy both Thelonius Monk albums on ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd — "Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings" & "Live Five Spot 1958, Revisited" — for one special price and save $6!!
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Robinson, Perry / Michael Marcus / Jay Rosen: The New York Clarinet Society - COCO
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
Performing on the family of clarinets, reedists Michael Marcus and Perry Robinson recorded this album in 2016 in New Haven with drummer Jay Rosen, performing three Marcus and one Rosen composition, weaving their playing in a balanced triangle of sound, Rosen's diverse rhythmic approaches — mallets, drum kit, brush work — adding warmth and energy to a well-balanced album.
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Rodrigues, Ernesto / Brad Henkel / Guilherme / Rodrigues / Matthias Muller : Wing Elegy
(Creative Sources)
A four-part suite from the Creative Sources string core of violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigue, recording in Berlin in 2021 with free jazz trombonist Matthias Muller and trumpeter Brad Henkel, through each movement approaching their playing through a balance of nonidiomatic and free jazz, subtly understated and meticulously intricate.
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Toscano, Ricardo Trio: Chasing Contradictions
(Clean Feed)
A swinging album of modern jazz from the Portuguese trio of Ricardo Toscano on alto sax, Romeu Tristao on double bass and Joao Pereira on drums, recording in 2021 concert at Theatro Sao Luiz in Lisbon, featuring two original Toscano compositions, one from drummer Joao Pereira, a traditional fardo song and the effusive Thelonious Monk tune "Played Twice".
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Wake Up! (Daniel Carter / David Moss / Federico Ughi / Demian Richardson): Wake Up!
(Self Released)
Recorded in Brooklyn in 2009 from the Downtown New York working band of David Moss on bass, Federico Ughi on drums, Matthew Putman on piano, Daniel Carter on saxophone and Demian Richardson on trumpet, this album was self-released by the artists, to Wake Up! the world through solid grooves and hard playing electric jazz of intensely spirited soloing.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Odd Person: Myths of the Crystal Plateau [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Nonlocal Research)
A mesmerizing album of rich percussion and synthetic sound floors from Odd Person, aka August Treager (Bicephalic, Somnaphon), in seven trance-like compositions based around grooves that slowly evolve in character while accompanied by haunting asides of ghostly melodic figures, casting a decidedly world music flavor to original music that transcends location.
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Silva, Susana Santos: All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing
(thanatosis produktion)
Aside from her exceptional trumpet work in free improvisation settings, Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos, currently based in Stockholm, is also an electro-acoustic composer, these six compelling compositions merging field recordings--particularly birds, waters and yes, a phone--along with her trumpet playing and Irish flute, the album title a reference to John Cage's book Silence.
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Zetterberg, Torbjorn (Zetterberg / Agnas / Hogberg): Opinions [VINYL]
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Known as a jazz bassist, Torbjörn Zetterberg mostly steps away from the big strings for a series of multitrack studio compositions on a variety of instruments electronic & acoustic, plus samples and voice, all performed by Zetterberg himself (with Konrad Agnas and Anna Hogberg adding input on a couple of tracks); powerful, urgent, impressive works from a truly well-rounded musician.
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Compositional
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Frey, Jurg + Apartment House: Borderland Melodies
(Another Timbre)
Three chamber works in single and multiple movements by minimalist composer Jurg Frey, exploring time & duration, form & shape and a balance of material, performed by a core quartet from the UK ensemble Apartment House, orchestrated for clarinet and bass clarinet, violin and cello, the final work adding piano, viola and percussion in a septet reworking of a 2014 composition.
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Harrison, Bryn: A Coiled Form
(Another Timbre)
A remarkable, intense and startlingly virtuosic solo performance from Berlin violinist Sarah Saviet in a long-form extension of an originally 15-minute work commissioned by Saviet of UK composer Bryn Harrison, developed together to allow the score to be variable in length through performer choices to re-sequence the events and repetition of the composition.
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Iddon, Martin: Naiads
(Another Timbre)
With titles taken from different kinds of water nymphs in Greek mythology, composer Mark Iddon's four-part work is a hauntingly beautiful set of compositions of seeming siren calls and rich percussion, realized by an octet configuration of the UK ensemble Apartment House, with two pianists (Philip Thomas and Mark Knoop), three strings, clarinet, flute and percussion.
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Johnson, Evan: L' Art De Toucher
(Another Timbre)
Five works from US composer often based in Amsterdam, Evan Johnson, in solo, duo and trio settings including a triptych titled "L'art de toucher" in three configurations, demonstrating his unique approach to writing using disparate musical influences from modern to Baroque, mated to anarchic experimentalism and a Wandelweiser sensibility; fascinating!
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Squidco Gift Certificates are the perfect answer to the hard-to-buy for, eclectic music collector.
This year tell your friends and family that you'd like the gift of creative music!
Click for Gift Certificates!
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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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Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear
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John Franek:
about the color of the moon
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Reid / Kitamura / Bynum / Morris:
Geometry of Trees
(Relative Pitch)
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Derviche:
Murs Absurdes
(Ayler Records)
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Various Artists:
Amsterdam . Berlin . Moscow . Losoncy
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)
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Anna Kaluza / Jan Roder:
Am Frankfurter Tor
(Relative Pitch)
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Guillaume Gargaud and Patrice Grente:
Intuition's Days
(Open Systems)
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Lucio Capece / Katie Porter:
Phase To Phase
(Ftarri)
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Eva-Maria Houben:
4 for Four
(Edition Wandelweiser)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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