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SQUIDCO Email Update February 17, 2023

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UPDATE
February 17, 2023

"Can there be a decent society without Art?"
—Chris Cutler


   Essential Artists

• Susan Alcorn/Patrick Holmes/Ryan Sawyer
• Michel Banabila
• Jimmy Bennington Colour And Sound
• Patrick Brennan S0nic 0penings
• Cecile Cappozzo Quintet
    (Cappozzo/Cappozzo/Bellanger/Grente/Ziemniak)
• Chris Cutler
• Day & Taxi (Gallio/Jeger/Hemmingway)
• Bruno Duplant
• Beatriz Ferreyra
• Satoko Fujii/Otomo Yoshihide
• Henry Cow
• Dave Liebman
    (w/ Peter Evans/Leo Genovese/John Hebert/Tyshawn Sorey)
• Maggie Nicols/Mark Wastell
• Mali Obomsawin (Harris/Elhajli/Burik/Campbell/Ho Bynum)
• Rasmussen/Flaherty/Rowden/Corsano
• Rodrigues/Parrinha/Madeira/Faustino/Oliveira
• Skein (Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode)
• Scott Thomson
    (w/ Yves Charuest, Karen Ng, Jean Derome, John Oswald)
• Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay
• Philipp Wachsmann/Lawrence Casserley
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Ambiances Magnetiques
Ayler
Bead
Cadence
Cellar Live
Clean Feed
Confront
Creative Sources

     
Klanggalerie
Out Of Your Head Records
Recollection GRM
Relative Pitch
ReR Megacorp
Sublime Retreat
Tapu Records
    





   Jazz & Improvisation

Alcorn, Susan / Patrick Holmes / Ryan Sawyer: From Union Pool
(Relative Pitch)

Taking the dual role of soaring guitar lines and savagely deep string foundations, Susan Alcorn joins clarinetist Patrick Holmes and drummer Ryan Sawyer for this invigorating 2022 concert at Union Pool in Brooklyn, their unique instrumentation providing clarity to each performer's contribution through their dynamic and often wildly energetic collective interplay.
 
Squidco Pick
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Bennington, Jimmy Colour And Sound: Church Bells - Live at Green Mill
(Cadence)

A live concert on a Sunday afternoon in 2017 at Green Mill in Chicago from the lyrically informed post-bop quintet Jimmy Bennington Colour And Sound, led by drummer Bennington with Fred Jackson, Jr. on alto saxophone & soprano saxophone, Artie Black on tenor saxophone, Dustin Laurenzi on tenor saxophone and Mike Harmon on bass.
   
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Brennan, Patrick S0nic 0penings: Tilting Curvaceous
(Clean Feed)

Patrick Brennan's compositions propose a series of groove instances or cells, each laying out a contrasting polyrhythm in bass & treble so that at least two melodic lines can be played over them simultaneously and the series looped, cleverly accomplished with Brian Groder on trumpet, Rod Williams on piano, Hilliard Greene on bass, Michael TA Thompson on drums and Brenann on sax.
   
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Cappozzo, Cecile Quintet (Cappozzo / Cappozzo / Bellanger / Grente / Ziemniak): Hymne d'Automne
(Ayler)

The core trio of Cécile Cappozzo (piano), Patrice Grente (double bass) and Etienne Ziemniak (drums) release their second Ayler album, expanded to a quintet with Jean-Luc Cappozzo on trumpet and Guillaume Bellanger on saxophone, performing six works connected like a suite that flow beautifully through Cappozzo's warm compositions, including a piece dedicated to Carla Bley.
   
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Day & Taxi (Gallio / Jeger / Hemmingway): Live in Baden
(Clean Feed)

For 35 years saxophonist & composer Christoph Gallio has directed the exemplary Swiss jazz group Day & Taxi, here in a trio format with bassist Silvan Jeger and drummer Gerry Hemingway, Gallio on soprano, alto & C melody saxophones, heard in this 2021 live performance at Stadtbistro Isebahnli, in Baden, Germany for nine diverse, creative and delightfully quirky pieces.
 
Squidco Pick
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Fujii, Satoko / Otomo Yoshihide: Perpetual Motion
(Ayler)

Expanding their instruments into sonic sculpture, this first meeting between acclaimed Japanese improvisers Satoko Fujii, performing inside and out of the piano, and electric guitarist Otomo Yoshihide, demonstrates their incredible compatibly as heard in these live recordings at Tokyo's Pit Inn, part of an annual festival organized by Fujii & trumpeter Natsuki Tamura.
 
Squidco Pick
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Liebman, Dave (w/ Peter Evans / Leo Genovese / John Hebert / Tyshawn Sorey): Lost In Time, Live At Smalls
(Cellar Live)

Part of the SmallsLIVE Living Masters series, masterful saxophonist Dave Liebman leads the stellar quintet of Peter Evans on trumpet, Leo Genovese on piano, John Hebert on bass & Tyshawn Sorey on drums through three Liebman compositions titled for their ordinal position, relaunching a highly focused Liebman post-pandemic with this stunning live concert at Smalls Jazz Club.
 
Squidco Pick
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Nicols, Maggie / Mark Wastell: And John
(Confront)

The first meetings between UK free improvising vocalist Maggie Nicols and percussionist Mark Wastell, heard in two concerts at the Hundred Years Gallery in London, dedicated to Spontaneous Music Ensemble founder John Stevens, Wastell using two of Steven's cymbals and both using a a variety of percussive devices, in two unconventional and extended dialogs of warm camaraderie.
   
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Obomsawin, Mali (Harris / Elhajli / Burik / Campbell / Ho Bynum): Sweet Tooth
(Out Of Your Head Records)

Wabanaki bassist, composer and songwriter Mali Obomsawin presents a compositional suite that highlights the art and culture of her people, binding together blues, jazz, hymns and folk songs with an ensemble of exceptional NY improvisers: Savannah Harris (drums), Miriam Elhajli (guitars, voice), Allison Burik (reeds), Noah Campbell (sax) and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet & flugelhorn).
   
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Rasmussen / Flaherty / Rowden / Corsano: Crying in Space
(Relative Pitch)

A muscular album of free improvisation from the quartet of Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone, Paul Flaherty on alto & tenor saxophones, Zach Rowden on contrabass and Chris Corsano on drums & percussion, recording live at Firehouse 12 in New Haven, starting like an Albert Ayler hymn and evolving through overlapping lines of controlled and sometimes wonderfully chaotic collective conversation.
   
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Rodrigues, Ernesto / Bruno Parrinha / Joao Madeira / Hernani Faustino / Jose Oliveira: Unpoem
(Creative Sources)

Performing live at SMUP, in Parede, Portugal in 2022, the bass-oriented chamber quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet, Joao Madeira on double bass, Hernani Faustino on double bass and Jose Oliveira on percussion balance jazz and contemporary compositional approaches to their sophisticated and extremely detailed improvisations.
 
Squidco Pick
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Skein (Kaufmann / Gratkowski / de Joode): Spectra & Affrays
(Klanggalerie)

Describing their improvisation as a chemical reaction of positive and negative ions, the central trio of the ensemble Skein--Achim Kaufmann (piano), Frank Gratkowski (winds) and Wilbert de Joode (bass)--are heard in this incredible 2018 concert at Konfrontationen Festival as a septet with Tony Buck (drums), Richard Barrett (electronics), Liz Allbee (trumpet) and Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar).
 
Squidco Pick
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Thomson, Scott (w/ Yves Charuest / Karen Ng / Jean Derome / John Oswald): Pal o'Alto
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

In a nod to alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, Montreal trombonist Scott Thomson brings together four exceptional Canadian alto saxophonists with whom he has worked and who motivate his improvisational drive, heard here in four duos: two with Toronto alto saxophonists John Oswald and Karen Ng, and two with Montreal alto saxophonists Jean Derome and Yves Charuest.
   
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Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay: Si tu partais
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

The long-standing Montreal trio of saxophonist Jean Derome, here on alto & baritone sax, flute and voice, bassist Norman Guilbeault and drummer Pierre Tanguay, frequent collaborators through a vast set of creative improv/Actuelle projects, continue their research into the history of jazz with compositions including those from Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, &c.
 
Squidco Pick
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Wachsmann, Philipp / Lawrence Casserley: Garuda
(Bead)

Both members of Evan Parker's Electro Acoustic-Ensemble and Colourscape, the ea-improv duo of Philipp Wachsmann on violin & viola and Lawrence Casserley using a signal processing instrument and percussion, are heard in these 2012 studio recordings in Buckinghamshire in 9 wide-ranging dialogs exploring permutations of playing, processing and transforming their instruments.
   
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   Experimental/Electronic

Banabila, Michel: Hidden Patterns
(Tapu Records)

Netherlands keyboardist, sound artist and composer Michel Banabila's work is explored through 14 recent projects in different configurations with 10 collaborators including guitarist Anton Goudsmit, violinist Oene van Geel, clarinetist Gareth Davis, cellist Peter Hollo, &c.; beautifully dramatic works of great depth and texture with rich and often haunting melodies.
   
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Duplant, Bruno: Le Jour D'apres
(Sublime Retreat)

A dark journey into a nocturnal world of synthetic tones and urban environments, emerging from footsteps and impressions of the passing world imbued through vaporous and skewed progressions, like moonlight piercing through a veil, from French composer and electroacoustic artist Bruno Duplant in an extended work dedicated to Belgian pianist Guy Vandromme.
   
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   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Cutler, Chris: It Makes Sense To Me [2 CDs]
(ReR Megacorp)

An excellent 50 year overview of the work of drummer & composer Chris Cutler, best known for his work with Henry Cow and his label ReR Megacorp, but also heard here in groupings including Art Bears, Cassiber, News From Babel, Aqsak Mabou, Duck and Cover, Peter Blegvad, Rene Lussier, The Work, Pere Ubu, The (ec) Nudes, Domestic Stories, Cutler/Frith, Cutler/Parkins, &c.
 
Squidco Pick
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Henry Cow: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao And The Lions Of Desire
(ReR Megacorp)

Expanding on the history of Henry Cow in new recordings discovered after the 19-CD Cow Redux box, including: a well-recorded concert at the the first Glastonbury Fayre in 1972, the earliest recordings of the quartet of Martin Ditcham, Fred Frith, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson; a 1978 grouping with Phil Minton; unrecorded compositions from 1977 in Bilbao; and a 1976 Chaumont Concert.
 
Squidco Pick
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   Compositional

Ferreyra, Beatriz: Senderos de luz y sombras [VINYL]
(Recollection GRM)

Translating to Paths of Light and Shadows, Argentine electronic composer Beatriz Ferreyra's 16-channel piece is inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and uncanny motions of the unconscious mind; a major work of exploration through electronics and acoustic transformation, presented in two parts: "Abysmal Paths" and "Forgotten Paths".
 
Squidco Pick
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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.


 


Kasper Agnas:
Grain Live
(FRIM Records)

Martin Archer (w/ John Jasnoch / Sarah Farmer / Lee Boyd Allatson):
Wasp Honey
(Discus)

Sergio Armaroli (Armaroli / Minton / Schiaffini / Turner):
I Dream I Was An Earopean
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)


Chris Burn / Matt Hutchinson:
Untuning The Sky
(Bead)

Gerald Cleaver / Brandon Lopez / Hprizm:
In The Wilderness
(Positive Elevation / 577 Records)

Miles Davis w/ Tadd Dameron:
Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)


Bruno Duplant / Seth Nehil:
The Memory Of Things
(Sublime Retreat)

Moss Freed / Union Division:
Micromotives [2 CDs]
(Discus)

Frode Gjerstad / Kalle Moberg / Paal Nilssen-Love:
Time Sound Shape
(PNL)


Frank Gratkowski / Simon Nabatov:
Tender Mercies
(Clean Feed)

Growlers Choir:
LIVE au FIMAV
(Les Disques Victo)

Killick Hinds / Francesca Remigi:
Empowered Kind
(Habitable & H(i)nds(i)ght Records)


Koch / Loriot / Kocher:
Stranger Becoming
(Bruit Editions + Neither / Nor Records)

Large Unit (Paal Nilssen-Love):
Clusterfuck
(PNL)

Large Unit (Paal Nilssen-Love):
New Map
(PNL)


Marilyn Lerner / Nicole Rampersaud:
Brass Knuckle Sandwich
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

Light.Box + Emil Karlsen:
The Undanced Dance
(Bead)

O Carro de Fogo de Sei Miguel:
Um Um Um, E Nao Ha Forma De Morrer
(Shhpuma)


Ouat (Simon Sieger / Joel Grip / Michael Griener):
The Strange Adventures of Jesper Klint [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Umlaut Records)

Afonso Pais / Tomas Marques:
The Inner Colours of Boglins Outline
(Clean Feed)

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


Lauritz Skeidsvoll / Isach Skeidsvoll:
Chanting Moon, Dancing Sun - Live at Molde International Jazz Festival
(Clean Feed)

Julia Strzalek / Cornelia Nilsson:
Scenery Somewhere
(FRIM Records)

Marianne Svasek :
Marwa
(thanatosis produktion)


Keith Tippett / Julie Tippett:
Couple In Spirit: Sound on Sound
(Discus)

David Vales:
Beta Vulgaris
(Sublime Retreat)

Vertical Squirrels (Daniel Fischlin / Ajay Heble / Lewis Melville / Ted Warren / Dong-Won Kim / Gary Diggins):
Le gouffre / The Chasm: Live from Silence, Guelph (Ontario)
(Ambiances Magnetiques)


Zenial:
Lancelot's Delusions
(Sublime Retreat)


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