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SQUIDCO Email Update September 8, 2023

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UPDATE
September 8, 2023

"All art tears the borders apart"
—Hermann Nitsch

   Essential Artists


• Allemano/Oberg/Bauer/Fischerlehner
• Alva Noto
• John Blum
• Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink/Albert Mangelsdorff
• Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink
• John Butcher/Dominic Lash/Emil Karlsen
• Alvin Lucier
• Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra
• Simon Nabatov
• Cadmila Nebbia
• Hermann Nitsch
• Bill Orcutt
• Mark Reboul/Roberta Piket/Billy Mintz
• Simulacrum (Peck/onBass/Moores/Simches)
• Squid
• Superposition (Todd A. Carter/Michael Hartman)
• Turbulence Orchestra
• Benjamin Vergara
• John Zorn Incerto Quartet
   (Marsella / Smith / Lage / Roeder)



Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Bead Records
Cien Fuegos
Creative Sources
ESP-Disk
Evil Clown
Important Records
International Anthem
Kettle Hole Records

     
Noton
Palilalia
Relative Pitch
Trost Records
Tzadik
Unbroken Sounds
Warp Records
    

 





   Jazz & Improvisation

Allemano / Oberg / Bauer / Fischerlehner: Sog
(Creative Sources)

Four improvisations titled for the way nature deals with water (The Whirlpool, The Vortex, The Whirlwind, Maelstrom) from the quartet of Lina Allemano on trumpet, Uwe Oberg on piano, Matthias Bauer on doublebass and Rudi Fischerlehner on drums & percussion, heard in this well-flowing, well-recorded and energetically upbeat set at Zentrifuge in Berlin in 2022.
 
Squidco Pick
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Blum, John: Nine Rivers
(ESP-Disk)

An outrageously powerful improvised exposition of nine rivers from New York pianist John Blum, performing live in a solo concert as part of the 2013 Crosscurrent Festival in Pecara, Italy, Blum's commanding technique and density making clear his influence by former mentors Cecil Taylor and Borah Bergman, as he rolls and roars rapidly through each torrent.
   
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Brotzmann / Van Hove / Bennink / Albert Mangelsdorff: Outspan No 1 [VINYL]
(Cien Fuegos)

Recorded a month after Outspan No 1, this album was captured live at 1974 Ost-West-Festival in Nurnberg, Germany from the legendary, masterfully amusing and absolutely serious trio of Peter Brötzmann on alto saxophone, tenor saxophone & clarinet, Fred Van Hove on piano, and Han Bennink on drums, clarinet, homemade junk, everything & anything.
 
Squidco Pick
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Brotzmann / Van Hove / Bennink: Outspan No 2 [VINYL]
(Cien Fuegos)

Recorded a month after Outspan No 1, this album was captured live at 1974 Ost-West-Festival in Nurnberg, Germany from the legendary, masterfully amusing and absolutely serious trio of Peter Brötzmann on alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet, Fred Van Hove on piano, Han Bennink on drums, clarinet, homemade junk, everything, anything.
 
Squidco Pick
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Butcher, John / Dominic Lash / Emil Karlsen: Here and Now
(Bead)

RESTOCKED! Impeccably recorded in the studio, the long-running and varied collaborations of saxophonist John Butcher, double bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Emil Karlsen come together for the first time as a trio, recording eight succinct improvisations of remarkable technique and nearly telepathic dialog, allowing space for each player to display their masterful skill.
 
Squidco Pick
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Mazurek, Rob & Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers
(International Anthem)

A compact version of the Exploding Star Orchestra, trumpeter & composer Rob Mazurek's octet with guitarist Jeff Parker, drummer Gerald Cleaver, pianists Angelica Sanchez & Craig Taborn, flutist Nicole Mitchell, vocalist Damon Locks and percussionist Mauricio Takara present a far-ranging set of electric jazz, Miles-atmospheres and lyrically compelling music.
 
Squidco Pick
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Nabatov, Simon: Extensions
(Unbroken Sounds)

Based in Cologne but including improvisers from Europe, Australia and South America, pianist Simon Nabatov extends his quartet concept into a sextet (hence the title), allowing greater flexibility in the band's collective free improvisations with influences of chamber jazz, as heard in two sophisticated improvisations capture live in 2022 at Salon de Jazz, in Cologne, Germany.
 
Squidco Pick
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Nebbia, Cadmila: Una Ofrenda A La Ausencia
(Relative Pitch)

Working in her native Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Berlin, tenor saxophonist Camila Nebbia (Habitable Records) presents sixteen succint, diverse and authoritative solo recordings captured in the studio in Bueno Aires, a mix of assertive harmonic statements and lyrical, often introspective works, at times narrating over her playing or adding effects.
   
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Reboul, Mark / Roberta Piket / Billy Mintz: Seven Pieces / About an Hour / Saxophone, Piano, Drums
(ESP-Disk)

A sophisticated album of collective free jazz recorded in Brooklyn in 2004, from the trio of husband and wife improvisers Roberta Piket on piano and Billy Mintz on drums, with under-recorded saxophonist Mark Reboul rounding out the trio, as the three present "Seven Pieces" in "About an Hour" of stunningly elegant, implicitly melodic and impressively creative playing.
 
Squidco Pick
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Simulacrum (Peck / onBass / Moores / Simches): Semblance
(Evil Clown)

An offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble, Simulacrum features 3 the core members of that band--David Peck on winds, horns, percussion and electronics, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar & electronics--substituting Joel Simches for Woods to provide maximum real-time signal processing for this extended and diverse set of free improv, jazz and soundscape.
   
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Turbulence Orchestra: Dynamos
(Evil Clown)

Turbulence projects are orchestrated for multiple horn players drawn from the Leap of Faith Orchestra, here using David Peck's Broad Palate concept to introduce multiple sonorities, in an octet of four trumpeters (Ellwood Epps, Bob Moores, Vance Provey and John Fugarino), one lower brass (Duane Reed) and three reeds (Peck, Michael Caglianone and Jared Holaday).
   
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Vergara, Benjamin: The Impossibility Of A Single Sound
(Relative Pitch)

A "subterranean homage to trumpet players of the caliber of Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Miles Davis, Lester Bowie, Tomasz Stanko, Wadada Leo Smith, Jaimie Branch and Chet Baker", in six improvisations of unusual technique and creative concept from Chilean trumpeter Benjamin Vergarda, known for his work with Fred Frith, Keefe Jackson, &c, and director of the Festival of Experimental Music Relincha.
   
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Zorn, John Incerto (Marsella / Smith / Lage / Roeder): Full Fathom Five
(Tzadik)

Zorn expands the canon for his lyrical jazz quartet Incerto of Brian Marsella on piano, Ches Smith on drums & Haitian Tanbou, Julian Lage on guitar and Jorge Roeder on bass, composing a suite of seven subtle and passionate nocturnes inspired by the night imagery of Shakespeare, merging jazz and chamber forms with a Downtown NY sensibility; gorgeous.
   
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   Experimental/Electronic

Alva Noto: This Stolen Country of Mine [VINYL 2 LPs]
(Noton)

The soundtrack to the 2022 German documentary film This Stolen Country of Mine directed by German filmmaker Marc Wiese about Ecuadorian resistance fighters and journalists opposed to the sale of the country's resources to Chinese investors, in 19 subtle, elegantly passionate electronic works from sound artist Carsten Nicolai, aka Alva Noto.
   
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Superposition (Todd A. Carter / Michael Hartman): Glaciers
(Kettle Hole Records)

Members of the Chicago free improvising, collaborative band TV Pow--Todd A. Carter and Michael Hartman--as a duo are Superposition, recording improvisations and composed improvisations primarily on piano, Rhodes, organ, and synthesizers, then mixing, adding and editing them into appealing tracks that merge electronics, jazz forms and soundscape.
   
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   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Orcutt, Bill: Jump On It [VINYL]
(Palilalia)

Ten years having passed since his last solo acoustic guitar album, Bill Orcutt's new release focuses on a more lyrical, relaxed and reflective side to his playing, in ten succinct pieces recorded in the spring and summer of 2002 at San Francisco's community focal point for and member of Intersection for The Arts, The Living Room.
 
Squidco Pick
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Squid: O Monolith
(Warp Records)

The second full-length album from the UK genre-merging rock band Squid, in eight new songs of quirky imagistic and insightful lyrics and playing, surprising instrumental combinations and an experimental approach to layering sound, born from onstage improv experiments during their 2021 tour, recording this album at Peter Gabriel's studio at the end of that tour.
 
Squidco Pick
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   Compositional

Lucier, Alvin: One Arm Bandits
(Important Records)

Using only their right arms and never fingering the strings with their left hand, this recording of Alvin Lucier's "One Arm Bandits" was recorded in Lucier's own dining room, the hour-long piece in four parts exploring the relationship between bow direction changes and shifts in phase, scored for four cellists and performed by Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.
   
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Nitsch, Hermann: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater - Musik des 6 Tage Spiels 2022 [2 CDs]
(Trost Records)

Recorded in Schloss Prinzendorf shortly after the passing of composer and artist Hermann Nitsch, this realization of his six-day play festival of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, an aesthetic ritual of the glorification of existence, merging art, photography and color together, the music an essential element derived from the interplay of sound and colour through harmony or dissonance.
 
Squidco Pick
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 Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear


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Miles Davis with Tadd Dameron: Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Sergio Armaroli: I Dream I Was an Earopean (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd.)
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The Acrylic Rib (Albert Cirera / Olie Brice / Nicolas Field): As Far as November (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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 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.


 


Axioms:
Abstract Intensions
(Evil Clown)

da Rocha / Rodrigues / Levin / Madeira:
Hoya
(Creative Sources)

Jordan Dykstra:
14 Horse Bells
(Editions Verde)


Morgan Evans-Weiler :
Correspondences
(Editions Verde)

Expanse:
Swathe
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
Action As Thought, Thought As Action
(Evil Clown)


Leap Of Faith:
Coherent Alternatives
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
Degrees Of Freedom
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
Spectral Sequences
(Evil Clown)


Leap Of Faith:
Taxonomic Dilemma
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
The Energy Of Now
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
The Symbolic Method
(Evil Clown)


Leap Of Faith:
Time And Symmetry Entwined
(Evil Clown)

Leap Of Faith:
Transmutations
(Evil Clown)

Metal Chaos Ensemble:
Project Wildfire
(Evil Clown)


Metal Chaos Ensemble:
The Korova Milkbar
(Evil Clown)

Perturbations:
Deviations Of A System
(Evil Clown)

Rodrigues / Lonberg-Holm / Flak / Madeira / Oliveira:
The Giving Tree Moving On
(Creative Sources)


Rodrigues / Parrinha / Flak / Santos:
Die Zwitscher-Maschine
(Creative Sources)

Rodrigues / Parrinha / McDonas / Flak / Oliveira:
The Fleeting Nature Of Time
(Creative Sources)

Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres / von Schlippenbach / Kellers:
Conundrum
(Creative Sources)


Rodrigues / Stoffner / Parrinha / Madeira:
Altered Egos
(Creative Sources)

Rodrigues / Wassermann / Rodrigues:
L'Age De L'Oreille
(Creative Sources)

Simulacrum:
Reincarnations
(Evil Clown)


Simulcrum:
Meditations on Reality
(Evil Clown)

Turbulence:
Inversion
(Evil Clown)

Turbulence Orchestra:
Find The Loophole
(Evil Clown)


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