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SQUIDCO Email Update June 9, 2023

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UPDATE
June 9, 2023

"When improvising I always try and split the difference
Between what the music is telling me it needs
And me telling the music what it needs".
—Matt Mitchell

   Essential Artists

• Antoine Beuger/Anastassis Philippakopoulos
• BolZagO (Andrea Bolzoni/Francesco Zago)
• Bertrand Denzler (Beliah/Heilbron/Majkowski/Shirey)
• Dietrichs (Camille Dietrich/Don Dietrich)
• Mark Dresser
• Nick Dunston
• Fred Frith/Nuria Andorra
• Aaron Leaney/Guy Thouin
• Leap Of Faith
• Melting Mind (Genta/Mazzani/Vanzan/Poggi)
• Matt Mitchell
• Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra & Space Trio
• The Names (Nutters/Frasch/Khorkhordina/Park/Tolimieri)
• Orasique (Don Malfon/Fernando Barrios/Marco Albert/Misha Marks)
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Bruno Parrinha/Guilherme Rodrigues
• Rodrigues/Rodrigues/Madeira/Parrinha/Trinite
• Brandon Seabrook
• Alan Skidmore
• Lina Tullgren/Alec Toku Whiting
• Chris Williams/Patrick Shiroishi
Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Astral Spirits
Confront
Creative Sources
Eh?
erstwhile
Evil Clown

     
Klanggalerie
Out Of Your Head Records
Pyroclastic Records
Relative Pitch
Waveform Alphabet
Wide Hive
    





   Jazz & Improvisation

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

Since 2016 pianist Francesco Zago and guitarist & live electronics artist Andrea Bolzoni (The Night Watch, Stormy Six) have collaborated, focused on guitar improvisation, proposing a dialog between lyricism and psychedelic music, here in a 10-part work of fluid & ethereal sounds informed by contemporary music and creative improv, a unique journey presenting a strong narrative sense.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

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

Definitely of the Borbetomagus mold, the duo of tenor saxophonist Don Dietrich and cellist Camille Dietrich, his daughter who grew up under the influence of that band's relentlessly aggressive free jazz, here in a live performance at Tubby's in Kingston, New York for four burning improvisations that take apart a tree, leaving the audience to catch the fragments; terrifyingly intense!
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Dresser, Mark: Tines of Change
(Pyroclastic Records)

A foundational member of the early Downtown NY scene, now West Coast-based double bassist Mark Dresser expands the sonic properties of his instrument in 12 succinct and forceful improvisations, expanding 4- & 5-string basses through metal tines, bowed and plucked, along with magnetic pickups amplifying nearly inaudible sounds from the strings and the instrument; awe inspiring!
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Dunston, Nick: Spider Season
(Out Of Your Head Records)

A new trio from NY bassist & composer Nick Dunston, featuring Kalia Vandever on trombone & effects, and Do Yeon Kim on gayageum (a traditional Korean plucked zither), a uniquely orchestrated band performing Dunston's original (and humorously titled) compositions, on some of which each performer uses effects to create sonic environments; a creatively inventive configuration.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

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

Interdisciplinary Spanish percussionist Núria Andorrà whose background includes contemporary music and improvisation with performers including Agustín Fernández, Joëlle Léandre, Mats Gustafsson, Nate Wooley, and Joe Morris joins Fred Frith in Santa Maria de Palautordera for studio and concert recordings of eleven far-ranging dialogs of unusual and imaginative technique and concept.
   
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

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

A collaboration between Montreal saxophnist Aaron Leaney (Ratchet Orchestra, Nebula) with legendary free jazz drummer and founder of Le Nouveau Jazz Libre de Quebec in 1967, Guy Thouin, performing on a wealth of winds, percussions and bells, their music infused with a rich spiritual and natural feeling of world elements, lyrical playing and folkloric rhythms.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $19.95      Listen          

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

A 2022 recording at Evil Clown Headquarters, in Waltham, MA of the duo offshoot of the Leap of Faith Orchestra--David Peck on reeds & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice--with guests, trumpeter Vance Provey, saxophonist Michael Caglianone, modular synth player Eric Woods and Albey on bass, with Joel Simches performing real-time signal processing.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Mitchell, Matt: Oblong Aplomb [2 CDs]
(Out Of Your Head Records)

Expanding on pianist/composer Matt Mitchell's 2013 duo album Fiction with Ches Smith is this double-duo release over 2 CDs, one CD with Smith performing on drums, gongs, percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tam-tam & timpani, and one CD with drummer/percussionist Kate Gentile, performing Mitchell's fascinatingly convoluted works that integrate composition with improvisation.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $18.95      Listen          

 
Mitchell, Roscoe Orchestra & Space Trio: At The Fault Zone Festival
(Wide Hive)

Adapting Roscoe Mitchell's large work "Distant Radio Transmission" for the 2022 Fault Zone Festival in a large ensemble conducted by Steed Cowart, along with four other compositions performed in varying configurations from very large ensemble, two pieces from the Space Trio of Mitchell, Thomas Buckner & Scott Robinson, and a duo with pianist Sarah Cahill and violinist Kate Stenberg.
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

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

A mix of chaos, awe and humorously inspired improvisation from the quartet of Don Malfon on alto saxophone, Fernando Barrios on drums & objects, Marco Albert on voice and Misha Marks on latarra (a form of home-built guitar), recording in Colonia Buenavista de San Pedro Ixtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico for 7 peculisar and absorbing improvisations.
   
     Buy      $7.95      Listen          

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

The trio of violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues and clarinetist Bruno Parrinha on alto & bass clarinets are captured live at Lisboa Incomum, during the 2022 Festival DME, performing two sophisticated chamber improv works, their titles translating to "The aging skies - it's all illusion" and "Pass The Bridges If It's Windy - The Flame Of The Solemnity".
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

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

Improvising over strings, winds & percussion from the Portuguese quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Joao Madeira on double bass, Bruno Parrinha on flute & bass clarinet and Monsieur Trinite on percussion, in a studio session of active, often pointillistic interaction offset with periods of introspection, reflecting concepts of Baudelaire & The Surrealists.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Seabrook, Brandon: brutalovechamp
(Pyroclastic Records)

Looking to create a sound realm that would reflect more life and less process, NY guitarist/banjo player Brandon Seabrook takes his 8-piece ensemble Epic Proportions on a truly epic journey through "lyrical melodies, dynamic improvisations and manic counterpoint", showing great evolution and development as a contemporary composer and player; "Brutal is beautiful".
 
Squidco Pick
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Skidmore, Alan: A Supreme Love [BOX SET 6 CDs]
(Confront)

A 6-CD box set of a truly remarkable saxophonist, Alan Skidmore, whose seven-decade career takes him from traditional jazz into Coltrane-influenced free jazz and crossing into avant and jazz-rock forms, including work with Harry Miller, Tony Oxley, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Wayne Shorter, Soft Machine, Paul Dunmall, &c. &c., an essential overview and testament to an incredible career!
 
Squidco Pick
     Buy      $49.95      Listen          

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

The duo of improvisers Lina Tullgren on violin and Japanese koto player based in Boston Alec Toku Whiting, joined on one track by Ted Reichman on synthesizer & pedals, Reichman also recording these studio sessions, as the duo apply unsual techniques with an ear toward sonic assault and unexpected twists & turns, particularly some especially aggressive interaction on "Polly Chainsaw".
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

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

The second chapter in the duo of West Coast improvisers Chris Williams on trumpet, cornet, objects & mutes and Patrick Shiroishi on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones plus snare drum, essentially a free jazz outing of six fascinating dialogs, from call and response to pointillistic interaction, a masterful display of assertive playing through intensive listening.
   
     Buy      $7.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

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

A brutal and complex concert of processed sopranino saxophone, electric guitar and electronics from the long-running Italian quartet Melting Mind of Virginia Genta, Michele Mazzani, David Vanzan and Matteo Poggi, recorded during a 2019 tour of France at Grnd Zero in Lyon, a 33 minute performance of thick noise & feedback layered with inexplicable detail.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Beuger, Antoine / Anastassis Philippakopoulos: Floating By
(erstwhile)

Wandelweiser founder and composer Antoine Beuguer and French composer Anastassis Philippakopoulos in a work for voice (Philippakopoulos) and breath (Beuguer), employing spaces of silence against utterance and sibilant expression, a patiently developing work that floats by in deceptively simple ways, captivating through each articulation that seems perfectly placed.
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Denzler, Bertrand (Beliah / Heilbron / Majkowski / Shirey): Low Strings
(Confront)

Following an exploration of the double bass in his 2018 Confront release Basse Seul, Swiss-French composer and saxophonist Bertrand Denzler again jumps into the deep end again with a quartet of accomplished double basssists--Sebastien Beliah, Jon Heilbron, Mike Majkowski, Derek Shirley--for two extended works of encompassing low-register tones.
   
     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Names, The (Nutters / Frasch / Khorkhordina / Park / Tolimieri): The Alte M​unze Sessions
(Waveform Alphabet)

Giving homage to creative musicians before them, the Berlin quintet of Koen Nutters (upright bas), Heather Frasch (flute), Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Han-earl Park (electric guitar) and Quentin Tolimieri (bass & soprano melodica)--explore the notion of integrating open improvisations around melody and modal harmonies into a post-musical, conceptual, and social framework.
   
     Buy      $14.95      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.


 


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

Sylvie Courvoisier / Cory Smythe:
The Rite of Spring - Spectre d'un songe
(Pyroclastic Records)

Giovanni Di Domenico / Silvia Tarozzi / Emmanuel Holterbach:
L'Occhio Del Vedere
(elsewhere)


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

Jurg Frey / Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett :
Continuite, Fragilite, Resonance
(elsewhere)

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


Sylvian Guerineau / Jean Rougier:
Pensees
(Creative Sources)

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

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


Germaine Sijstermans / Koen Nutters / Reinier van Houdt :
Circles, Reeds, and Memories
(elsewhere)

Tamarisk:
Plays A Word For Wind [CASSETTE]
(Astral Editions)

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


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