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UPDATE
January 12, 2024
"In jazz, you always go on an adventure,
With yourself, with your fellow musicians and with your own instrument.
It's a challenge every time,
Where you are forced to jump over your own shadow.
Otherwise it wouldn't be jazz!"
—Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
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Essential Artists
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• Awkward Geisha/Eugene Chadbourne
• Derek Bailey/Simon H. Fell
• Bucher/Countryman/Gaerlan
• +DOG+/Bastard Noise
• Dunmall/Brackenbury/Brice/Bianco
• Nick Dunston
• Joe Fonda (Fonda/Braxton/Bufalino/Dodd/Robertson/Alexiev)
• Frequency Distasters (Beresford/Magaletti/Martino)
• Felice Furioso/Jorge Nuno/Felipe Zenicola
• Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola
• Elisabeth Harnik/Steve Swell
• Interstellar Nao Quartet (Countryman/Castanon/Cano/Lauber)
• Dominic Lash/Stale Liavik Solberg
• Jose Lencastre/Hernani Faustino/Vasco Furtado
• Mercury (Caloia/Freedman)
• New Old Luten Trio (Petrowsky/Pauer/Lillinger)
• Maggie Nicols
• Maggie Nicols
• Evan Parker/George Lewis
• Evan Parker/Paul Lytton
• Perelman/Wooley/Moran/Maneri/Lonberg-Holm/Morris
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Essential Labels
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Clean Feed
Confront
Euphorium
FMR
Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
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Love Earth Music
Otoroku
Phonogram Unit
Tripticks Tapes
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From Thursday through Sunday we're reducing the price on 75 albums from Relative Pitch records, all on sale for $10 each, a savings of more than 25% off their regular retail price. Albums in the sale include some of the finest creative improvisers around the globe, with a special emphasis on New York performers. Sales like these help us to continue to bring in new music and new additions to our catalog. So take a look through this great set of albums, but hurry! This sale ends Sunday, January 14th at midnight!
Click To See the Relative Pitch Sale
In-stock items only. Sold out items will disappear from store.
Orders must be placed through our shopping cart.
Price shown is discounted price.
Sale ends Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST. While quantities last.
Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points.
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New Albums This Week
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Bailey, Derek / Simon H. Fell: At Sound 323 [VINYL 180gm WHITE 2 LPs]
(Confront)
The full performance of legendary improvising guitarist Derek Bailey's 2001 exhilarating duo with bassist Simon H. Fell at Sound 323, originally released as a mini-CD and voted record of the year in 2002 by The Wire, then released on CD and now as a deluxe 2 LP set on 180gm White Vinyl.
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Bucher / Countryman / Gaerlan: The Cosmic Stream
(FMR)
Captured as a live stream recording in 2023 at Tonehouse Studios in Singapore, after 26 days of touring South East Asia by the 12 year collaborative trio of Swiss drummer Christian Bucher, American ex-pat living in the Philippines Rick Countryman on alto sax and Filipino bassist Johnny Gaerlan, a great free jazz session summing up a satisfying tour.
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Dunmall / Brackenbury / Brice / Bianco: Prema
(FMR)
Part of a series at Birmingham, UK's East Jazz Club by saxophonist Paul Dunmall with some of the UK's finest improvisers, here in a quartet of two string players—Olie Brice on bass and Faith Brackenbury on violin—plus long-time collaborator Tony Bianco on drums, the title Prema referring to divine love or higher love, as heard in this tremendous, extended performances.
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Fonda, Joe (Fonda / Braxton / Bufalino / Dodd / Robertson / Alexiev): From The Source
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
A unique 1995 studio album from bassist Joe Fonda, remastered reissued to bring to life this septet with Anthony Braxton on reeds & winds, Herb Robertson on trumpet, Grisha Alexiev on drums, Vickie Dodds on vocals, and integrating tap dancer Brenda Bufalino as a full percussive voice into the ensemble's unique merging of jazz and dance, and of the healing arts and the performing arts.
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Frequency Distasters (Beresford / Magaletti / Martino): Naize
(Confront)
An expressive piano trio from Steve Beresford on piano, Italian-born, UK-based drummer/percussionist Valentina Magaletti, and Italian Bassist Pierpaolo Martino, Beresford using piano preparations, electronics & toys to expand the palette of their instrumentation, all three bringing a wealth of experience in jazz, free improv and experimental sound to their solid conversations.
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Furioso, Felice / Jorge Nuno / Felipe Zenicola : Sameer
(Phonogram Unit)
Focused on unusual rhythms at the intersections of electrified bass and guitars, the trio of Italian improviser Felice Furioso on drums & percussion, Portuguese electric guitarist Jorge Nuno and Brazilian electric bassist Felipe Zenicola (Chinese Cookie Poets) turn in seven generally growling and aggressively paced works under the umbrella of experienced prejudice.
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Greenlief, Phillip / Scott Amendola: Stay with it
(Clean Feed)
Their first duo album, Collect My Thoughts released in 1995 on Nine Winds, these live improvisations captured at Berkeley's The Shinebox in 2017 show the two West Coast collaborators--Phillip Greenlief on alto & tenor saxophones plus clarinet, and drummer/percussionist Scott Amendola--'staying with it' in an energetic set of five informed dialogs.
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Harnik, Elisabeth / Steve Swell: Welcome to the Troposphere
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
An explorative album of collective free improvisation from the transatlantic duo of German pianist Elisabeth Harnik and New York trombonist Steve Swell, following up on their 2020 album Tonotopic Organisation, this 2022 live concert at Offene Ohren, in Munich brings listeners current to both improvisers immense creative drive, masterful skill, and their mutual, exuberant rapport.
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Interstellar Nao Quartet (Countryman / Castanon / Cano / Lauber): Odisea
(FMR)
A wild odyssey in collective free jazz referencing the 16th century trade ships "La Nao de la China" from four players improvising in the studio in Mexico City for three extended, energetic exchanges of acoustic and electric excitement, from Philippine-based alto saxophonist Rick Countryman, Jalisco guitarist Juan Castanon, and Mexican bassist & drummer Itzam Cano & Gabriel Lauber.
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Lash, Dominic / Stale Liavik Solberg: Hey Kye
(Confront)
John Butcher mastered this live recording immaculately captured by Alex Ward at the Vortex in London in 2022 between two exceptional free improvisers, Dominic Lash on electric guitar and Ståle Liavik Solberg on drums & percussion, their three-part dialog sliding in and out of jazz, non-idiomatic and experimental modes in quick-witted and masterful exchanges.
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Lencastre, Jose / Hernani Faustino / Vasco Furtado : Forces In Motion
(Phonogram Unit)
The second trio release from alto saxophonist Jose Lencastre, Hernâni Faustino (Red Trio) here on electric bass and drummer Vasco Furtado, three Portuguese improvisers whose continued work together adds strength to their collective improvisation, heard in five pieces recorded live in the warm space of the Espírito Santo Church in Caldas da Rainha in Western Portugal.
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Mercury (Caloia / Freedman): Skin
(Clean Feed)
From the fertile Montreal improv scene, the long-collaborating Mercury duo of double bassist Nicolas Caloia and clarinetist Lori Freedman on b-flat and bass clarinets are heard in eight rugged dialogs captured live as they seemingly flay the body through visceral dialog with titles including "Eyeball-Eyelid"; "Teeth-Tongue-Throat-Lip"; or "Ass-Brain".
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New Old Luten Trio (Petrowsky / Pauer / Lillinger): Trident Juncture
(Euphorium)
The last concert with late German saxophonist and wind-player Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, aka Luten Petrowsky, and his decade-long run with the New Old Luten Trio of younger generation improvisers, pianist Elan Pauer (aka Oliver Schwerdt) and drummer/percussionist Christian Lillinger, for a nearly 1-hour energetic performance at naTo, in Leipzig in 2016, "... And A Cutie for Good Bye".
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Nicols, Maggie: Are You Ready? [2 CDs]
(Otoroku)
Reflecting on a magnificent career as an improviser, vocalist & organizer, including Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Les Diaboliques and the Feminist Improvising Group, Maggie Nichols releases two related CDs of solo vocal improv: a set of intimate & expresive songs performed on voice and piano; and a set of overdubbed free improvisations applying techniques going back to John Stevens/SME.
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Nicols, Maggie: Are You Ready? [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
Vinyl companion edition of the CD listed above.
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Parker, Evan / George Lewis: From Saxophone & Trombone [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
The first vinyl re-issue of the 1980 duo between UK saxophonist Evan Parker and US trombonist George Lewis, captured live at the Art Workers Guild in London, using the natural resonance of the space and phenomenal technique in an intense set of dialogs showing the mastery of each player and the forceful voice each of them brings to free improvisation.
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Parker, Evan / Paul Lytton: Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) [VINYL]
(Otoroku)
A much-needed reissue of saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer/percussionist Paul Lytton's first duo album, recorded in London at the loft of The Standard Essenco in 1972 and originally released on the Incus label, the duo approaching their instruments in fantastic and unusual ways in a dialog far ahead of its time, augmented with recordings and eccentric assemblages.
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Perelman, Ivo / Nate Wooley / Mat Moran / Matt Maneri / Lonberg-Holm / Joe Morris: Seven Skies Orchestra [2 CDs]
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
A rare setting for tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman in a larger ensemble: an exemplary sextet with trumpeter Nate Wooley and vibraphonist Matt Moran over a string section of Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, Joe Morris on bass and Mat Maneri on viola, recording a ten-part work sans drums or piano, allowing fascinating new orchestral possibilities performed with utmost creative mastery.
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Experimental/Electronic
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+DOG+ / Bastard Noise : Desecration Tales [VINYL]
(Love Earth Music)
Two long-standing experimental sound projects join together as Legendary Bastard Noise, aka Eric Wood and +DOG+, aka Steve Davis, combine for two extended and well-paced works of dark sonics and electronics, the first piece "Misery Milestone" a haunting and desolate soundscape with disruptive punctuation; the 2nd "Beneficiary: Earth" adds agonizing voice to a work of global arpeggiation and destruction.
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Dunston, Nick: Skultura [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Tripticks Tapes)
Bassist & composer Nick Dunston's Berlin band Skultura creates a uniquely experimental and fascinatingly sculpted approach to free jazz through layers of sound and serious playing punctuated by voice and concrete elements, each piece keeping the listener in anticipation of what might happen next, eased into serious jazz grooves, then whisked away in new directions; not to be missed!
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Rock/R.I.O./Prog
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Awkward Geisha / Eugene Chadbourne: Awkward Geisha / Eugene Chadbourne [7'' VINYL]
(Love Earth Music)
A split 7" vinyl between UK collage artist Ade Rowe, also known as Awkward Geisha, in a country & western song of improvised guitar & sax titled "Psycho"; and somewhat appropriately backed with a quartet of guitar, harmonica, mandolin & trumpet from avant country eccentric Eugene Chadbourne, poking fun through a song titled "Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother".
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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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Lantskap Logic (Frith / Davis / Greenlief):
Hidden Danger Lets Me In
(Clean Feed)
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Allemano / Oberg / Bauer / Fischerlehner:
SOG
(Creative Sources)
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Paul Dunmall / Olie Brice:
The Laughing Stone
(Confront)
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Frode Gjerstad with Matthew Shipp:
We Speak
(Relative Pitch)
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Phil Zampino:
Top 2023 Album List
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Carl Kruger:
Top 2023 Album List
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Paul Dunmall:
Meditations For Clarinets
(FMR)
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Schindler / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres:
Conspiratorial And Fulminate Things Happen
(Creative Sources)
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Charlie Parker:
At Birdland 1950 Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd.)
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Steve Swell / Joe McPhee / Chris Corsano:
Sometimes The Air Is
(Mahakala Music)
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Ilia Belorukov:
Someone Has Always Come
(Sublime Retreat)
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Paul Lytton / Erhard Hirt:
Borne On A Whim: Duets, 1981
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
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Stay Current With Squidco
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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.
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