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SQUIDCO Email Update June 2, 2023

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UPDATE
June 2, 2023

"Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise...
But a way of life."
—Lester Bowie

   Essential Artists

• Art Ensemble Of Chicago
• Donatoni/Xenakis/Bonfill/Chrysakis/Hodgkinson
• Kevin Drumm
• Marc Ducret
• Flak/Rodrigues/Parrinha/Rodrigues
• Satoko Fujii
• Milford Graves w/ Arthur Doyle/Hugh Glover
• Illegal Crowns
• Peggy Lee Band
• Allen Lowe And The Constant Sorrow Orchestra
• Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble
• David Myers Lee
• Natural Information Society Community Ensemble
• Evan Parker
• Pere Ubu
• Mike Pride
• Wayne Shorter
• Clifford Thornton /Arthur Jones Trio
• Henry Threadgill Ensemble
• Three-Layer Cake (Pride/Watt/Seabrook)
• Chris Williams Quintet (w/ Shiroishi/White/Revis/Brown)
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

A Sunken Mall
Astral Spirits
Aural Terrains
Ayler
Black Editions Archives
Cherry Red
Creative Sources
Eremite
ESP-Disk

     
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Libra
Out Of Your Head Records
Pi Recordings
Play Loud! Productions
pulsewidth
Rarenoise Records
Relative Pitch
Songlines
    





   Jazz & Improvisation

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Les Stances a Sophie [VINYL]
(Play Loud! Productions)

Recording in France in 1970, the Art Ensemble of Chicago (Malachi Favors on bass, Joseph Jarman on saxophone, Roscoe Mitchell on saxophone, Lester Bowie on trumpet) recorded the soundtrack to director Moshé Mizrahi's movie Les stances à Sophie, joined by vocalist Fontella Bass, releasing a classic and exciting album that stands as a great testament to the versatility of its players.
 
Squidco Pick
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Ducret, Marc: ICI
(Ayler)

With a booklet of images showing the riverside location of the first performances of French guitarist Marc Ducret's sophisticated compositions reflecting tidal river flows & fluctuations by season, the four meticulous recordings on this album were captured in the studio with Fabrice Martinez on trumpet, flugelhorn & tuba, Christophe Monniot on saxophones and Samuel Blaser on trombone.
 
Squidco Pick
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Flak / Guilherme Rodrigues / Bruno Parrinha / Ernesto Rodrigues: Aeon
(Creative Sources)

The cosmological concept of the aeon, the conflict between matter and spirit, is explored in eight "Chronicles" of collective free improvisation using impressive technique and concentrative interaction from the Portuguese quartet of Flak on acoustic guitar, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet and Ernesto Rodrigues on violin.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Fujii, Satoko: Torrent (Piano Solo)
(Libra)

The ninth solo album from pianist Satoko Fujii, the most recent in a "torrent" of solo releases over the last six years, this album a remarkable display of force and beauty in improvised playing on the keyboard and inside the piano, captured live at IYO Yume Mari Kan Bunka Hall in six improvisations of cascading notes and introspective passages; spectacular!
 
Squidco Pick
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Graves, Milford w/ Arthur Doyle / Hugh Glover: Children of the Forest [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Black Editions Archives)

From the Milford Graves Archival Series is this double LP of previously unreleased recordings in a trio with Hugh Glover on sax, percussion, klaxon horn & vaccine trumpet and Arthur Doyle on sax & flute; then a duo with Glover; then Graves solo; taken from three 1976 sessions in Grave's own basement workshop for 8 burning, passionate and ecstatic free jazz improvisations.
   
     Buy      $39.95      Listen          

 
Illegal Crowns : Unclosing
(Out Of Your Head Records)

The 3rd stellar album of modern jazz recorded in the studio after a five-city tour from the quartet of Tomas Fujiwara on drums, Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet & flugelhorn, Mary Halvorson on guitar and Benoit Delbecq on piano, performing three compositions each from Halvorson, Fujiwara and Delbeq, illustrating their distinctive approach to creative improvisation.
 
Squidco Pick
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Lee, Peggy Band: A Giving Way
(Songlines)

Rich in lyrical playing and creative freedom, Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee's 6th album expands on her goal to explore different strategies for improvisation within composition, featuring the unique voices of her ensemble including Brad Turner (trumpet), Jon Bentley (sax), Jeremy Berkman (trombone), Ron Samworth & Tony Wilson (guitars), Andre Lachance (bass) and Dylan van der Schyff (drums).
 
Squidco Pick
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Lowe, Allen And The Constant Sorrow Orchestra: America: The Rough Cut
(ESP-Disk)

Saxophonist Allen Lowe's statement on American music and American song form across the many genres and styles that make up the terrain, including jazz, the blues, gospel, honky tonk, heavy metal, hillbilly/minstrel song & medicine shows, &c.; diverse forms of popular music that reflect a commingled society, as Lowe blurs the sacred and the profane with a stellar ensemble of musicians.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Natural Information Society Community Ensemble: Since Time Is Gravity [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Eremite)

Expanding the rhythmically exuberant Natural Information Society led by Chicago bassist & guimbri player Joshua Abrams with core members Lisa Alvarado (harmonium), Mikel Patrick Avery (drums) & Jason Stein (bass clarinet), are Hamid Drake (percussion), Josh Berman & Ben Lamar Gay (cornets), Nick Mazzarella & Mai Sugimoto (alto sax & flute), Kara Bershad (harp) and Ari Brown (sax).
 
Squidco Pick
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Parker, Evan: NYC 1978
(Relative Pitch)

In 1978 after recording his acclaimed solo album Monoceros, saxophonist Evan Parker embarked on a solo tour of the US and Canada, in New York City performing at the legendary loft space Environ, his first-ever solo performance in NYC and a masterpiece of extended techniques, circular breathing and spectacular control on the soprano and tenor saxophones.
 
Squidco Pick
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Pride, Mike: I Hate Work [ORANGE VINYL 2xLP]
(Rarenoise Records)

A warmly lyrical, mostly instrumental album of modern jazz that surprisingly takes it's title from legendary punk band MDC, and its songs from their 1982 debut album Millions of Dead Cops, led by NY drummer Mike Pride and performed with Jamie Saft (keys), Brad Jones (bass), Mick Bar (guitars) and on a few songs, vocalists JG Thirlwell (Foetus), Sam Mickens (The Dead Science) and Dave Dictor from MDC itself.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Shorter, Wayne: Adams Apple To Super Nova Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Following the evolution in form and approach of composer and tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter from his 1966 Blue Note album Adam's Apple with Hancock, Workman and Chambers (including a pre-Miles "Footprints") to the 1969 Weather Report precursor Super Nova with John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharock, Miroslav Vitous, Chick Corea, and Jack DeJohnette.
 
Squidco Pick
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Thornton, Clifford / Arthur Jones Trio : Ketchaoua / Scorpio
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

Two powerfully intense 1969 free jazz recordings by American ex-patriots, saxophonist Arthur Jones and cornetist Clifford Thornton, recorded days apart in the same studio and released on BYG Records, Jones this reissue's connection with his own trio, and joining Thornton for four uniquely configured sessions that include Archie Shepp, Grachan Moncur III, Dave Burrell, and Sunny Murray.
 
Squidco Pick
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Threadgill, Henry Ensemble: The Other One
(Pi Recordings)

Composed by Henry Threadgill based on his observations of the exodus of people from New York City during the Covid pandemic and the debris left behind, this work titled "Valence" and dedicated to percussionist Milford Graves, is a chamber jazz piece in three movements was taken from recordings at Roulette of the second of two performances entitled "One" and "The Other One".
 
Squidco Pick
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Three-Layer Cake (Mike Pride / Mike Watt / Brandon Seabrook): Stove-Top [GREEN VINYL]
(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
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Williams, Chris Quintet (w/ Patrick Shiroishi / Joshua White / Eric Revis / Guillermo Brown): Live [CASSETTE]
(Astral Spirits)

Trumpeter Chris Williams in a limited white label cassette release of a post-processed/collaged live concert at Blue Whale in Los Angeles, 2018, performing on trumpet & electronics with a quintet of incredible free players: Patrick Shiroishi on saxophones & objects, Joshua White on piano, Eric Revis on acoustic bass & electronics and Guillermo Brown on drums & electronics.
   
     Buy      $8.95          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Drumm, Kevin: Battering Rams [VINYL]
(A Sunken Mall)

An album of transporting drones and industrial soundscapes from Chicago experimental artist Kevin Drumm, drawing the listener into his soundspace slowly through distracted studio clatter and then journeying deep into textures and tones, maintaining a natural quality to synthetic and obscure sources in this fine addition to his expansive discography.
   
     Buy      $29.95      Listen          

 
Myers, David Lee: Partikelrauschen
(pulsewidth)

Referring to the music on this album from New York feedback and electronic pioneer David Lee Myers as "firmly rooted in the electronic music of the 1950s-1960s", over nine tracks we are taken on an otherworldly journey of detailed particulate electronic adventures, sometimes swooping, vertiginous, monstrous and unpredictable, each track captured live in Myer's Pulsewidth studio.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

McLaughlin, Elijah Ensemble: III [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)

The third album in Chicago 6- & 12-string guitarist Elijah McLaughlin's numbered album series of original compositions, rich flowing works of lyrical textures augmented with environmental field recordings and tape loops, performed with Jason Toth on upright bass, Katinka Kleijn on cello, effects, Joel Styzens on hammered Dulcimer and Adler Scheidt on piano.
   
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

 
Pere Ubu: Trouble On Big Beat Street
(Cherry Red)

The 19th Pere Ubu album brings members from the history and offshoots of the band that initiated in Cleveland with vocalist David Thomas, melded with members Keith Moline and Andy Diagram from Pale Boys, legendary drummer Chris Cutler (Wooden Birds & Pere Ubu), clarinetist & guitarist Alex Ward and bassist Michel Templem, for 17 wide-ranging songs, often eccentric, but always uniquely Ubu.
   
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Donatoni, Franco / Iannis Xenakis / Xavier Bonfill / Thanos Chrysakis / Tim Hodgkinson : Music For Trombones, Bass Clarinets & Horn
(Aural Terrains)

Five interpretations of works by contemporary composers Franco Donatoni, Iannis Xenakis, Xavier Bonfil, Thanos Chrysakis and Tim Hodgkinson performed by a stellar set of performers in varying configurations, including bass clarinetist Jason Adler, trombonist Christian Larsen, bass clarinetist Yoni Silver, clarinetist Hodgkinson, horn player Julian Faultless, &c.
   
     Buy      $16.95      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.


 


BolZagO (Andrea Bolzoni / Francesco Zago):
Music from the Lounge
(Creative Sources)

Brent Cordero / Peter Kerlin:
A Sublime Madness [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)

Dietrichs (Camille Dietrich / Don Dietrich):
Catch the Leaves
(Relative Pitch)


Euphotic (Bryan Day / Tom Djll / Cheryl E. Leonard):
Isopleths
(Public Eyesore)

Fred Frith / Nuria Andorra:
Dancing Like Dust
(Klanggalerie )

Glass Triangle (Zeena Parkins / Rasmussen / Sawyer):
Blue and Sun-lights
(Relative Pitch)


Sylvian Guerineau / Jean Rougier:
Pensees
(Creative Sources)

Aaron Leaney / Guy Thouin:
Lockdown [VINYL]
(Astral Spirits)

Leap Of Faith:
Ordered And Disordred Localities
(Evil Clown)


Melting Mind (Genta / Mazzani / Vanzan / Poggi):
At Grnd Zero
(Relative Pitch)

Orasique (Don Malfon / Fernando Barrios / Marco Albert / Misha Marks):
Ixtlahuaca (CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD)
(Eh?)

Markus Reineke / Jukka-Pekka Kervinen:
Einhegung
(Creative Sources)


Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres / Serries:
Brecht
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Bruno Parrinha / Guilherme Rodrigues :
Signes Emergents
(Creative Sources)

Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Joao Madeira / Bruno Parrinha / Monsieur Trinite:
Derive
(Creative Sources)


Lina Tullgren / Alec Toku Whiting:
Unfamiliar Ceilings
(Astral Spirits)

Werckmeister (Markus Eichenberger / Carl Ludwig Hubsch / Philip Zoubek / Etienne Nillesen):
Two Movements
(Creative Sources)

Chris Williams / Patrick Shiroishi:
Sans Soleil II [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Spirits)


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