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UPDATE
August 11, 2023
"What is the point of making music
If it does not relate in some way
To our existence and development as human beings?."
—Eddie Prévost
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Essential Artists
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• Agnese Amico
• AMM (Rowe/Prevost + Tilbury)
• Butcher/Charbin/Kanngiesser/Prevost
• Jordan Dykstra
• Frog Squad
• Kenneth Jimenez/Michael Attias/Francisco Mela
• Izumi Kimura/Gerry Hemingway
• Joke Lanz/Dieb13
• Joanna Mattrey
• David Mirarchi
• Parrini/Salamon/Trilla
• Marek Pospieszalski Octet
• Sharp/Lopez/Kaiser/Amendola
• Liba Villavecchia Trio
• Widdershins (Coleman/Ederer/Malone/Mills/Gold/Hill/Kordik)
• Dorian Wood/Thor Harris
(w/ Carla Bozulich/Jarboe/Patrick Shiroishi/Heather Trost)
• Yarde/Wright/Wilkinson/Smith/Lynch/Chat
• Tatsuya Yoshida x Kentaro Nakao
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Astral Editions
Clean Feed
Editions Verde
Erototox
Klanggalerie
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
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Magaibutsu Limited
Mahakala Music
Matchless
Notice Recordings
Unbroken Sounds
zOaR Records
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Yarde / Wright / Wilkinson / Smith / Lynch / Chat: A Company of Others
(Matchless)
To celebrate drummer/percussionist Eddie Prévost's 80th birthday, Café Oto hosted four concerts once a week in June, 2022, each a differing configuration from Prévost's history; this first concert brings together Prévost with four horn players, NO Moore on guitar and Marcio Matttons on double bass, for varying duos, trios and full ensemble performances.
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Butcher / Charbin / Kanngiesser / Prevost: The Art Of Noticing
(Matchless)
This 2nd concert brings together Prévost, Marjolaine Charbin (piano), Ute Kanngiesser (cello) and John Butcher (sax), the same group that recorded the contemporary album Sounds of Assembly on the Meena label.
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Widdershins (Coleman / Ederer / Malone / Mills / Gold / Hill / Kordik): Widdershins
(Matchless)
The third concert presents combinations of improvisers from Prévost's weekly workshop series through diverse groupings from trio to septet.
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AMM (Rowe / Prevost + Tilbury): Last Calls
(Matchless)
This final concert reconvened for an extended improvisation between Prévost & guitarist Keith Rowe, with a "Postscript" from pianist John Tilbury recorded at his home in January, 2023.
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Amico, Agnese: Alalie
(zOaR Records)
Recorded live using the natural resonance of an apse in Giudecca, Venice, Sicilian-Norwegian contemporary & improvising violinist Agnese Amico performs on the Hardanger Fiddle, the traditional instrument of Norway that provides resonating strings under four violin strings, for 10 works inspired by historic popular songs while expressing a sensation of alalie.
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Dykstra, Jordan: A Known Unknown [CDr w/ Score Booklet]
(Editions Verde)
A fascinating conceptual work on CD and printed score that attempts to sonically represent celestial events through guided improvisations, providing the performers an abstract of the main musical ideas and options on how to execute them, exploring microtonal sounds, harmonic interactions and sound as moments within physical boundaries, here in a studio realization in Zurich.
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Dykstra, Jordan: Globes (Original Soundtrack Album)
(Editions Verde)
The original score composed by Brooklyn violist and multi-instrumental Jordan Dykstra for the documentary movie Globes directed by Nina de Vroome, exploring the relationship between bees and humans through their history and affect on the global economy and our cultures, realized in a diverse set of contemporary musical forms from orchestral to electronica.
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Frog Squad: Special Noise
(Mahakala Music)
Frog Squad is a Memphis, TN ensemble led by guitarist & composer David Collins, whose compositions provide song templates for improvised music under the influence of traditional jazz and jazz/rock fusion, psychedelic, contemporary and experimental forms, here in eleven works filled with compellingly strong melodic elements and surprisings twists and turns.
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Jimenez, Kenneth / Michael Attias / Francisco Mela: Caribu
(577 Records)
Formed at Michael Attias's Washington Heights, Manhattan apartment by three improv compatriots, the trio of Kenneth Jiminez on bass, Michael Attias on saxophones and Francisco Mela on drums & voice incorporate free and experimental jazz forms with heartfelt tradition, in five collective improvisations captured in the studio, plus Paul Motian's "From Time to Time".
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Kimura, Izumi / Gerry Hemingway: Kairos
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
After their trio album Illuminated Silence with bassist Barry Guy, Japanese-born, Irish-based pianist Izumi Kimura and US drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway living in Switzerland distill their improvisations into these deeply personal, highly concentrative and masterful dialogs, in five spontaneous compositions, one work from each performer, and a traditional work.
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Lanz, Joke / Dieb13 : Musical Education
(Klanggalerie)
A startling and energetically exciting collision of cleverly eclectic sound sources when Swiss turntablist and sound artist Joke Lanz met Austrian improviser and turntablist Dieb13 (Dieter Kovacic) for this amazing 2020 concert at GrillX in Vienna, using three turntables to create an incredible collage of sounds from the humorous to the awe inspiring.
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Mattrey, Joanna : Soulcaster [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Notice Recordings)
Taking the title from Brandon Sanderson's book series The Stormlight Archive, where a soulcaster is an instrument that transforms one object or life form into another; Joanna Mattrey transforms her viola and a tromba marina, aka a nuns' fiddle, with preparations, objects and unusual approaches through technique, creating a remarkable set of 11 unique and inventive improvisations.
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Mirarchi, David: Ink Folly, Orchid Gleam
(Unbroken Sounds)
Composer, poet and saxophonist David Mirarchi seeks to transform the written word into melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and structural materials, using experimental compositional techniques, here recording in Brooklyn with trio of bassist Mathias Hojgaard Jensen and drummer Eliza Salem for a two part work transmuted from a two-part poem contrasting city life and nature.
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Parrini / Salamon / Trilla: Eating Poetry
(Clean Feed)
Spontaneous compositions with an emphasis on strings and exploratory, unusual approaches to group dynamic, from the trio of Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon on 6- and 12-string guitars, Italian violinist Emanuele Parrini and Spanish percussionist & drummer Vasco Trilla, in seven conversations of consummate skill, balancing intense concentration with vigorous and inspired exchanges.
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Pospieszalski, Marek Octet: No Other End Of The World Will There Be
(Clean Feed)
Continuing his project dedicated to 20th century Polish composers, saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski leads his creative octet through open and collectively improvised arrangements of works from six Polish female composers — Barbara Buczek, Elżbieta Sikora, Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and Marta Ptaszyńska — in wide-ranging and often startling impressions of the original works.
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Sharp / Lopez / Kaiser / Amendola: Minus X - A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis
(Erototox)
A tribute to the music of composer Iannis Xenakis through 12 new works referencing and reconstructing the original works of Xenakis, the title of each piece an anagram that reflects the elements of its source, realized by Elliott Sharp on bass, guitars & synth, Brandon Lopez on bass guitars and mandocello, Henry Kaiser on guitars and Scott Amendola on drums & percussion.
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Villavecchia, Liba Trio: Birchwood
(Clean Feed)
The second Clean Feed release from Spanish saxophonist Liba Villavechia's trio with drummer/percussionist Vasco Trilla and double bassist Alex Reviriego, a lively working ensemble heard in three new Villavechia compositions, plus two collective improvisations, and a work from New York composer, improviser and influence on the leader, Thomas Chapin's "Anima".
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Experimental/Electronic
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Wood, Dorian / Thor Harris (w/ Carla Bozulich / Jarboe / Patrick Shiroishi / Heather Trost): You Are Clearly In Perversion [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD]
(Astral Editions)
A ritualistic narrative work from multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood and percussionist Thor Harris (Swans), with Carla Bozulich and Jarboe contributing their voices in an ensemble of contemporary and experimental arrangement, alongside guests David Coulter, Heather Trost, Jeremy Barnes, Michael Corwin, Ignacio Carvajal, Andrea Calderon, Elizabeth Warren and Patrick Shiroishi.
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Yoshida, Tatsuya x Kentaro Nakao: T.h.e.d.i.e.i.s.c.a.s.t
(Magaibutsu Limited)
Captured during their 2023 tour, the super-energetic, instrumental Japanese avant-rock duo of drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei, &c) and bassist Kentaro Nakao (Number Girl, &c) selected the best of their rugged and bewilderingly skillfull improvisations from three concerts at Bordland in Sendai, at Crates in Morioka and at Sublime in Aomori.
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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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The Names (Nutters / Frasch / Khorkhordina / Park / Tolimieri):
The Alte Munze Sessions
(Waveform Alphabet)
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McPhee, Joe Quartet +1 Kirk Knuffke:
Keep The Dream Up
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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Dietrichs (Camille Dietrich / Don Dietrich):
Catch The Leaves
(Relative Pitch)
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Eden Lonsdale:
Clear and Hazy Moons
(Another Timbre)
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Marc Ducret:
Palm Seat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne
(Screwgun/Out of your Head)
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J.A. Deane / Jason Kao Hwang:
Uncharted Faith
(Tone Science)
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Daniel Carter and Jim Clouse:
Playing Retention
(Mahakala Music)
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Marco Baldini:
Vesperi
(Another Timbre)
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Art Ensemble of Chicago:
The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris
(RogueArt)
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Satoko Fujii:
Torrent
(Libra)
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Bruno Duplant:
Le Jour D'apres
(Sublime Retreat)
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Susan Alcorn / Patrick Holmes / Ryan Sawyer:
From Union Pool
(Relative Pitch Records)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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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.
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• You can ask to have us email you when Upcoming Releases are in stock.
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"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
-Don Van Vliet
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