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UPDATE
January 20, 2023
"Every form of music is capable of being vibrant, dynamic, uplifting,
And,
Needless to say,
The opposite."
—Fred Frith
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Essential Artists
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• Art Ensemble Of Chicago
• Albert Ayler Quintet
• Leo Chang/Lucie Vitkova
• Rhodri Davies
• Fred Frith/Susana Santos Silva
• Illusion Of Safety & Z'ev
• Samuel Leipold/Jurg Bucher/Luca Lo Bianco
• Joe McPhee/John Edwards
• Rempis/Harnik/Lonberg-Holm/Daisy
• Rodrigues/Hartyani/Kohn/Lin
• Elliott Sharp
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra
• Suspensao
• Wilfrido Terrazas/Mariana Carvalho/Abdul Moimeme
• Martina Verhoeven Quintet (w/ Serries/Webster/Almeida)
• Marco von Orelli/Sheldon Suter
• John Zorn
• John Zorn/Eugene Chadbourne
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Essential Labels
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Aerophonic
Amgen Records
Creative Sources
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Infrequent Seams Records
Klanggalerie
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Modern Harmonic
RogueArt
Tribe Tapes
Tripticks Tapes
Tzadik
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Save $6.00 each on a set of 51 CD's & LP's from 577 Records!
This weekend 577 Records has authorized us to reduce the price of 51 albums from a selection of CDs and LPs,
dropping the price of each by $6 each!
• CDs will decrease in price from $13.95 to $7.95
• LPs will reduce in price from $18.95 to $12.95!
That's 51 albums at an exceptional price,
25 of which have never been on sale before, and are at the lowest price at which we've ever listed them.
Take advantage of this chance to fill in your collection of these
important and extraordinary albums of modern creative jazz & improvisation...
but hurry! This sale ends Sunday, January 22nd!
Click Here to Shop the 577 Sale
In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store.
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart.
Sale ends Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last.
Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris [2 CDs]
(RogueArt)
Celebrating 50 years since formed as a quintet in Paris, original Art Ensemble members saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and percussionist Famoudou Don Moye present this live concert at Maison des Arts de Creteil in France with an oustanding chamber jazz ensemble including trumpeter Hugh Ragin, flutist Nicole Mitchell, bassist Jaribu Shahid, cellist Tomeka Reid and violinist Jean Cook.
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris [VINYL 2 LPs]
(RogueArt)
Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
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Ayler, Albert Quintet: Lost Performances 1966, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
In 1966 tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler toured northern Europe with his ensemble of Donald Ayler on trumpet, Michel Samson on violin, William Folwell on double bass & Beaver Harris on drums, a stellar group performing some of Ayler's most substantial compositions, heard in concerts in Rotterdam and Helsinki, and in the soundtrack to a film recorded in Munich.
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Chang, Leo / Lucie Vitkova: Religion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)
Unusually orchestrated, spacious and exotic free improvisation from New York-based musicians Lucie Vítková, originally from Czech Republic and performing on accordion, hichiriki (a Japanese double reed flute), synth & harmonica, and Korean-born improviser Leo Chang performing on VOCALNORI (Amplified Gongs via Voice) and Piri (a Korean double reed instrument).
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Davies, Rhodri: Over Shadows
(Amgen Records)
An extended solo titled for author Redell Olsen's book secure portable space (Reality Street), performed on Lever harp and EBows by UK electroacoustic improviser Rhodri Davies, recorded at Old School, Bracon Ash, in Norfolk in 2004 by Graham Halliwell and edited by Benedict Drew and John Wall, creating a richly evolving work of haunting plateaus and valleys.
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Frith, Fred / Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons To Rest
(RogueArt)
An evocative album of sublime improvisation between guitarist Fred Frith and trumpeter Susana Santo Silva, recorded live for France Musique/Radio France at Motoco, Mulhouse as part of Festival Météo in 2021, the two inspiring remarkable force and assertive direction in a darkly spirited conversation of deep introspection and cathartic exorcism; magnificent!
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Leipold, Samuel / Jurg Bucher / Luca Lo Bianco: Ostro
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Exploring the trio format of clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and his groundbreaking drumless trio, clarinetist & saxophonist Jürg Bucher and guitarist Samuel Leipold, both members of the Swiss Jazz Orchestra, joined with double bassist Luca Lo Bianco to perform this set of Leipold compositions, alongside Giuffre's "Afternoon" and "Three Clarinet Pieces I" by Stravinsky.
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McPhee, Joe / John Edwards: Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (for James Baldwin And John Coltrane)
(Klanggalerie)
The incredible first meeting between legendary saxophonist Joe McPhee and double bassist John Edwards is this performance at the 2019 Artacts festival in Austria, a powerfully reflective free jazz concert with McPhee speaking & preaching about the loss of giants John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and James Baldwin, as they stand upon their shoulders through free music.
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Rempis / Harnik / Lonberg-Holm / Daisy: Earscratcher
(Aerophonic)
Formed in 2019, the quartet of Dave Rempis on alto sax, Elisabeth Harnik on piano, Fred Lonberg Holm on cello and Tim Daisy on drums celebrate Elisabeth Harnik's 50th birthday in 2020, originally planned as part of a European tour that year but prevented by pandemic, instead recording this well-balanced and often unbridled 2022 concert at Alte Gerberei, St. Johan in Tirol, Austria.
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Rodrigues / Hartyani / Kohn / Lin: Hunter Underwater
(Creative Sources)
A joint release with the Berlin record label Maybee Records run by cellist Hui-Chun Lin & Shuichi Chino and Creative Sources, this 2021 concert at Berlin's Kuhlspot Social Club brings together four cellist for an incredible and somewhat vicious display of free improvising string interaction using incredible technique, texture, and intent listening; wild!
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Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Prophet [YELLOW VINYL]
(Modern Harmonic)
Perhaps the only recordings on the Sequential Circuits "Prophet" analog synthesizer by Sun Ra, starting with an extended solo performance that bridges jazz tradition and future spacewaves, followed by full Arkestra performances on a set of concepts around "The Prophet", with both Marshall Allen and John Gilmore at the helm above a cosmically percussive heavy ensemble.
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Suspensao : Fluxus
(Creative Sources)
The sixth release by Creative Sources' detailed electroacoustic improvising group Suspensão led by violist Ernesto Rodrigues, with Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Nuno Torres on alto sax, Antonio Chaparreiro on electric guitar, Carlos Santos on computer and Jose Oliveira on percussion & inside piano, is this impressive performance at "Temporada Miso Music 2009" in Lisbon.
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Terrazas, Wilfrido / Mariana Carvalho / Abdul Moimeme : Livro das Grutas
(Creative Sources)
A uniquely configured electroacoustic trio recording live in the studio in Lisbon in 2018 between Mexican flutist and founding member of the improv collective Generación Espontánea, Wilfrido Terrazas, and Portuguese improvisers Mariana Carvalho on prepared piano and Abdul Moimeme using two electric guitars and objects, balancing introspective moments with periods of uninhibited excitement.
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Verhoeven, Martina Quintet (w/ Serries / Webster / Almeida): Driven: Live At Roadburn 2022
(Klanggalerie)
Netherlands pianist Martina Verhoeven's quintet with Goncalo Almeida on double bass, Onno Govaert on drums, Dirk Serries on guitar and Colin Webster on saxophone is captured live in their debut performance at the Roadburn Festival 2022 Paradox in Tilburg for an extended 2-part improvisation of both dense and thrilling interaction and deep introspection, a spectacular and informed set.
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von Orelli, Marco / Sheldon Suter: Draw From The Source
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
A series of extraordinary sound painting from the Swiss duo of trumpeter Marco von Orelli and percussionist Sheldon Suter, von Orelli also performing on cornet, prepared slidetrumpet & little bells while Suter works with drums, cymbals, prepared zithers, gong & singing bowls, creating detailed aural environments that evoke bewitching twilight spaces.
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Zorn, John / Eugene Chadbourne: John Zorn's Olympiad Vol. 3 - Pops Plays Pops - Eugene Chadbourne Plays The Book Of Heads
(Tzadik)
The third volume in John Zorn's "Olympiad" series is this solo performance in 2007 at the Kompo Cultural Center in Gyungee, Korea by Zorn associate and eccentrically eminent improviser Eugene Chadbourne, performing on electric and acoustic guitars as he interprets 15 compositions for improvisers from John Zorn's seminal 1976 series: The Book of Heads.
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Experimental/Electronic
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Illusion Of Safety & Z'ev : Illusion Of Safety & Z'ev [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tribe Tapes)
After the collaboration of Illusion of Safety and Z'EV which culminated in a performance at Enemy in Chicago in 2007, Z'EV approached IOS member Daniel Burke to collaborate on an album, providing Burke with a number of short acoustic recordings which Burke developed into these compositions merging his own field recordings, sampling, electro-acoustics, and Eurorack modular synth.
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Compositional
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Sharp, Elliott: Filiseti Mekidesi [2 CDs]
(Infrequent Seams Records)
Elliott Sharp's opera is a visceral meditation about the universal search for a safe neutral place, told through text reflecting moments and situations in cosmic and human history that resonate with current events of great urgency, and through creative sound performed by the vocal group Voxnova Italia, and the instrumental ensemble Musikfabrik.
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Zorn, John: Les Maudits
(Tzadik)
An outrageous interpretation of Alfred Jarry's fictional character Ubu performed with with the International Contemporary Ensemble and core Downtown New York performers Ikue Mori, Ches Smith and Zorn himself, using Zorn's quick cut approach to composition; presented along with a work inspired by French poet Charles Baudelaire and an elegy to painter Paul Gauguin.
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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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Tamio Shiraishi:
Moon
(Relative Pitch)
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Tatsuya Nakatani / Shawn Hansan / Michael Stover / Jeff Harshbarger:
Kansas City Ship
(Nakatani-Kobo)
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John Lely:
Meander Selection
(Another Timbre)
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Craig Shepard:
Trumpet City
(Inexhaustible Editions)
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Eddie Prevost:
Collider: Or, Whose Drum is it, Anyway?
(Matchless)
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Dominic Lash / Pat Thomas:
New Oxford Brevity
(Spoonhunt)
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Arcane Device:
Mechanismos
(Pulsewidth)
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Carl Kruger:
Top 2022 Album List
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Roue Libre (Lanau / Comte / Biardeau):
Titanomakhia
(nunc.)
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Tatsuya Nakatani / Donald Miller / Rob Cambre / Emmalee Sutton:
Moisant Stock Yards
(Nakatani-Kobo)
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RGG feat. Marta Grzywacz / Artur Majewski / Dominik Strycharski:
October Suite
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Philz:
Top 2022 Album List
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Stay Current With Squidco
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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.
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