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SQUIDCO Email Update + Cassette Sale, March 24, 2023

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UPDATE
March 24, 2023

"Curiosity is a rare commodity,
But it's the kind of thing we need to cultivate."
—Jim Black

Cassette tapes continue to be released at a surprising 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, starting today through the weekend all of our cassettes are on sale!

• Buy any cassette, take 15% off its price.
• Buy 5 or more cassettes, take 20% of their price.

But hurry, this sale ends Sunday, March 26th.

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, March 26, 2023 at 23:59 EST (GMT-5).

Essential Artists

• Ljug Aldrig
• Martin Archer (w/ John Jasnoch/Sarah Farmer/Lee Boyd Allatson)
• Axioms (PEK/SpokenWord/Lomon/onBass/Simches)
• Marco Baldini
• Christian Bucher/Rick Countryman
• Cartwright/Hirsh/Fowler/Parker/Hurt
• Paul Dunmall/Liam Noble/John Edwards/Mark Sanders
• Duo User 52 (Udo Schindler/Etienne Rolin)
• Ensemble Dedalus + eRikm
• EUPHORIUM_freakestra (feat Wadada Leo Smith/Barre Phillips)
• Jim & The Schrimps
Jim Black/Asger Nissen/Julius Gawlik/Felix Henkelhausen)
• Friedrich Kettlitz
• Sunik Kim
• Eden Lonsdale
• Musicworks
• Pauline Oliveros
• Udo Shindler/Nikolaius Neuser/Georg Karger
• Star City Survivor
• Julia Strzalek/Cornelia Nilsson
• Three-Layer Cake (Pride/Watt/Seabrook)

Squid Bubbles

Essential Labels

Another Timbre
Discus
Euphorium
Evil Clown
FMR
FRIM Records
Important Records
Intakt

Mahakala Music
Musicworks
Notice Recordings
Rarenoise Records
Relative Pitch
Soul City Sounds
thanatosis produktion

Jazz & Improvisation

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

After participating in the Birmingham Improvisors Orchestra, wind improviser Martin Archer, bass guitarist John Jasnoch and violin & electronic musician Sarah Farmer were joined in the studio by drummer Lee Boyd Allatson to record this mix of compositions, graphic scores and free improv, merging AACM-style free jazz with contemporary chamber-oriented improv.

$14.95

Axioms (PEK / SpokenWord / Lomon / onBass / Simches): Illusion and Reality
(Evil Clown)

Two vocalists associated with Cecil Taylor's final trio--Albey onBass and Jane SpokenWord--join Evil Clown leader David Peck (PEK) on reeds, winds and a large collection of percussive devices, and Glynis Lomon on cello & aquasonic, for an extended work of critical poetry and spoken word, merging truth and abstraction through free improv and pointed expression.

$12.95

Bucher, Christian / Rick Countryman: The Force Of Gravity
(FMR)

Documenting the continued growth and evolution of the longer than a decade collaboration between American alto saxophonist living in the Philippines Ricky Countryman and Swiss drummer Christian Bucher, performing in the Strawberry Jams studio in Quezon City for thirteen succinct improvisations titled with stellar analogies, from pensive music to excitingly dynamic interplay.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Cartwright, George / Steve Hirsh / Chad Fowler / Christopher Parker / Kelley Hurt: Notice That There
(Mahakala Music)

Meeting in Minneapolis, home of saxophonist & guitarist George Cartwright (Curlew), the quintet of Cartwright, Steve Hirsh on drums, Chad Fowler on stritch, Kelley Hurt on voice and Christopher Parker on piano have many collaborative and friendly connections, heard in their easy-going and informed dialog, with some quirks & comments tossed in to personalize these excellent studio sessions.

$13.95

Dunmall, Paul / Liam Noble / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: One Moment
(FMR)

Some of the finest London and Birmingham improvisers, the free improvising quartet of saxophonist Paul Dunmall with pianist Liam Noble, drummer Mark Sanders and bassist John Edwards, continue their work together with this exceptional live performance at the Eastside Jazz Club, Birmingham Conservatoire in an extended, far-ranging and engaging collective concert.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

Duo User 52 (Udo Schindler / Etienne Rolin): Plastic Narratives
(FMR)

Confidently forceful German free improvisation with an eccentric approach, from multi-instrumentalist Udo Schindler on clarinets, cornet & tuba and artist & improviser Etienne Rolin on basset horn, Glissotar (a continuous wind instrument) & a Bansuri flute, as they improvise over Schindler's poem (jetzt/now) from his cycle frequenz schaukelt / frequency swings.

Squidco Pick

$14.95

EUPHORIUM_freakestra (feat Wadada Leo Smith / Barre Phillips): Free Acoustic Supergroup (Chicago New York Berlin, Dresden Luzern Leipzig) [2 CDs]
(Euphorium)

The incredibly creative EUPHORIUM_freakestra as a mid-size ensemble performing at naTo in Leipzig, Germany are joined by legendary free jazz players, Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet and Barre Phillip on double bass, extending the incredible assemblage of players including Oliver Schwerdt, Axel Dorner, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Urs Leimgruber, Christian Lillinger, Gunter Baby Sommer & Michael Haves.

Squidco Pick

$21.95

Jim & The Schrimps (Jim Black / Asger Nissen / Julius Gawlik / Felix Henkelhausen): Ain't No Saint
(Intakt)

"Jim" is US drummer & composer Jim Black working in Berlin, and The Shrimps are the trio of bassist Felix Henkelhausen and the two-sax front line of Germans, Asger Nissen on alto and Julius Gawlik on tenor, finding a rapport and common approach to free improv, they formed to perform & record Black's assertive compositions influenced by the tradition of Black American jazz.

Squidco Pick

$17.95

Kettlitz, Friedrich : Rabolgs Bergwand [4 CDs]
(Euphorium)

Having collaborated with EUPHORIUM_freakestra and Gunter Baby Sommer, narrator and actor Friedrich Kettlitz presents a 4-CD set of sound poetry using a language that pretends to be German but expands upon his native tongue, his deep voice carrying innuendo, humor, seriousness and articulate expression that fascinates regardless of the listener's own language.

$24.95

Oliveros, Pauline: The Well & The Gentle [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Important Records)

Reissuing two essential, major works from improviser, conceptualist, accordionist and composer Pauline Oliveros--The Well & The Gentle--recorded in 1984 with participation including fellow accordionist Guy Klucevsek, The Well recorded in the studio in Pennsylvania, The Gentle using the resonance of the drinking watertank Severin of Cologne in West Germany.

Squidco Pick

$41.95

Shindler, Udo / Nikolaius Neuser / Georg Karger: Rhapsodic Topologies
(FMR)

Performing at the Gallery arToxi in Munich, 2022 as part of clarinet & cornetist Schindler's LowToneStudies series, the free improvising trio of Schindler, Nikolaus Neuser on trumpet and Georg Karger on double bass perform four extended conversations of meticulous momentum and superb technique, at times repurposing, extending or modifying their instruments.

$14.95

Star City Survivor : Orbital Decay
(Soul City Sounds)

Electric free improvisation with a caustic edge, stellar burns with titles like "Broken Navigation" or "The Sun is a Ball of Hate", from the North Carolina duo of guitarist Phil Venable (Tragic Assembly) and NY/NC drummer Tommy Jackson, who explore the atmospheric drag on their far-reaching dialogs through propulsive energy burns and moments of dark stellar voids.

$11.95

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

Recording in a former hospital funeral chapel in Sweden--Stockholm's Kapellet--the drum and sax duo of alto saxophonist Julia Strzalek and drummer Cornelia Nilsson focuses on melody and clear articulation in a dialog that finds their passion in calmly unfolding conversation, consistently illuminating their instrumental and instant-compositional mastery.

$14.95

Three-Layer Cake (Mike Pride / Mike Watt / Brandon Seabrook): Stove-Top
(Rarenoise Records)

Circumventing pandemic lockdowns, the trio of Brandon Seabrook on guitar, banjo & tapes, Mike Pride on drums, marimba, glockenspiel, bells & organ and Mike Watt on bass recorded their contributions in separate studios and file-shared to create this genre-merging album of free improv, rock, experimental and inexplicable forms; an inspired and seriously unique album of challenges overcome.

Squidco Pick

$13.95

Experimental/Electronic

Kim, Sunik: Raid on the White Tiger Regiment [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)

Named after one of the eight core revolutionary operas produced during the Cultural Revolution in Korea, composer & performer Sunik Kim constructed this fascinatingly dense and constantly surprising set of compositions using Max MSP and SuperCollider, including a live version constructed from phone and Zoom recordings of performances at Cafe OTO and at Counterflows, in Glasgow, Scotland.

$8.95

Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Aldrig, Ljug: Stabbings / Juiced [7'' VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
(thanatosis produktion)

Ljug Aldrig, aka Roosen, a visual artist, guitarist and vocalist from Stockholm, is heard in a 2-song 7" + download release performing with Dennis Egberth on drums, Alexander Zethson on keys, Anton Toorell on bass, guitars and Isak Hedtjarn on saxophone.

$14.95

Compositional

Baldini, Marco : Vesperi
(Another Timbre)

Influenced by the seemingly contradictory sources of 16th century Italian composers and their polyphonic compositions, Eliane Radigue, and North Indian classical, Italian composer Marco Baldini's beautifully dark works employ a slow, rarefied pace and subdued dynamics with a fascination for pianissimo playing, heard in eight chamber compositions for low strings and marimba.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Ensemble Dedalus + eRikm: Fata Morgana
(Relative Pitch)

Composed by erikM and performed with the Dedalus Ensemble, these pieces started through acousmographe recording of sounds outside of human hearing, transposed into notes and scored to be interpreted by musicians while immersed via headphone to mimic the sounds of cetaceans, then rearranged in the studio to create the annotated compositions heard on these carefully recorded compositions.

$13.95

Lonsdale, Eden: Clear and Hazy Moons
(Another Timbre)

Splitting the album between two ensembles, UK composer Eden Lonsdale's beautifully languid compositions are performed first by Apartment House, and then by the young Rothko Collective, the four pieces showing Lonsdale's development of writing for harmony, timbre and resonance into works focused on the passing of time and the integration of prominent melodic elements.

Squidco Pick

$15.95

Books & Magazines

Musicworks: #144 Winte 2022/2023 [MAGAZINE + CD]
(Musicworks)

The Winter 2022/23 issue of Canada's most interesting music magazine including a 15-track compilation CD of new and rediscovered music from artists featured in the magazine; SLOWPITCHSOUND on the cover, plus articles on Gordon Grdina, performance artist Kite, Toronto's Audiopollination music series, sound artist Seth A Smith, live and recorded reviews, &c. &c.

$15.95

The Squid's Ear

The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.

Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear

Disorder At The Border w/ Tobias Delius (D'Agaro / Maier / Kaucic): Kataklisma (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Disorder At The Border w/ Tobias Delius (D'Agaro / Maier / Kaucic): Kataklisma (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Joe Morris & Jeremy Brown: Magnitude (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Joe Morris & Jeremy Brown: Magnitude (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Blue Reality Quartet: Ella's Island (Mahakala Music)

Blue Reality Quartet: Ella's Island (Mahakala Music)

Michel Banabila: Singles (2020-2022) (Tapu Records)

Michel Banabila: Singles (2020-2022) (Tapu Records)

Rhodri Davies: Over Shadows (Amgen)

Rhodri Davies: Over Shadows (Amgen)

Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez / Gerald Cleaver: (Relative Pitch)

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Tim Parkinson: An Album (Another Timbre)

Tim Parkinson: An Album (Another Timbre)

Samuel Leipold / Jurg Bucher / Luca Lo Bianco: Ostro (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records, Ltd)

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

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Simon Lucaciu Trio: STRG + X (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

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Abhorrent Expanse: Gateways to Resplendence (Amalgam)

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Paul Bley Trios: Play Annette Peacock Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

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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.

Bergman / Robinson / Swell / Sage: QuartetsTriosDuos (Mahakala Music)	Tristan Kasten-Krause / Jessica Pavone: Images of One (Relative Pitch)	King Ubu Orchestru 2021: Roi (FMR)
Stefania Ladisa Strutture (w/ Adrian Northover / Marcello Magliocchi): Dal'Introspezione All' Interazione (FMR)	Marianne Svasek : Marwa (thanatosis produktion)

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