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SQUIDCO Email Update + CD Overstock Sale April 5, 2024

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UPDATE
April 5, 2024

"My aesthetic is one of complete faith
In what happens when you make decisions in the moment."
—John Butcher

   Essential Artists

• Michel Banabila
• Josh Berman/Eli Wallace/Ishmael Ali/Bill Harris
• Anthony Braxton
• John Butcher + 13
• Chorale Joker/Ensemble SuperMusique
• Directives
• Joel Futterman
• Joao Gato/Bruno Parrinha
• Hevleticus (Samuel Blaser/Daniel Humair/Heiri Kanzig)
• IKZ (Dammann/Davis/Niekrasz/Summerfield)
• Sean Lennon Ono
• Christof Migone/Alexandre St-Onge
• Paul Newland
• Phantom Orchard (Ikue Mori/Zeena Parkins)
• Danya Pilchen
• Rotem Geffen
• Mars Williams/Katinka Kleijn/Rob Kassinger



Squid Bubbles  Essential Labels

Amalgam
Ambiances Magnetiques
Another Timbre
Aubjects
Blaser Music
Edition Wandelweiser Records
New Braxton House

    
Phonogram Unit
Soul City Sounds
Tapu Records
thanatosis produktion
Tzadik
Weight of Wax

    

    
Friends of Squid CD Cost + 10% Sale

As part of our Spring Cleaning Sales, we're offering our customers a selection of more than 150 Compact Disc albums at our cost + 10% ! The albums are drawn from our catalog of improvised, composed, experimental and rock forms, including some very popular titles.

A number of these albums are our last copies and will be closed out of our catalog or go into special order status when the sale is complete. Take a good look at this list of albums before the sale ends on Sunday, April 7th!



Click Here to see the list of Sale Items!

Price shown is discounted price. Orders must be placed through our shopping cart. Discounted items will not receive Squidco Reward Points. Sold out items will disappear from the store. Sale ends Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST.

    





   Jazz & Improvisation

Berman, Josh / Eli Wallace / Ishmael Ali / Bill Harris: An-Ill Fitting Garment [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]
(Amalgam)


Cornetist Josh Berman, drummer Bill Harris, and cellist Ishmael Ali meet with NY pianist Eli Wallace in Chicago, recording live in the studio for a session that focuses on acoustic interplay using unusual techniques, inside piano playing, textural percussion with scrapes & drags and melodic & harmonic fragments, Fitting quite well in a set of interesting moods and motion.
   
     Buy      $7.95      Listen          

 
Braxton, Anthony: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022
(New Braxton House)


Documenting six live performances with Anthony Braxton's Lorraine Trio featuring trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, accordionist/vocalist Adam Matlock, and Anthony Braxton, plus four studio recordings featuring Braxton, saxophonist James Fei, and bassists Zach Rowden and Carl Testa, in a solid box set of 10 CDs in five gatefold wallets with a 28 page booklet of notes by Anthony Braxton.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $120      Listen          

 
Butcher, John + 13: Fluid Fixations
(Weight of Wax)


Commissioned for the 2021 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, John Butcher's fantastic work for 14 improvisers of unique approach employs what Butcher refers to as "psychological orchestration"--imagining how each performer might respond to particular ideas & their sonic company--the score, which includes photographic imagery, directing specific solos, duos & small groupings.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Chorale Joker / Ensemble SuperMusique: Demantibule•es
(Ambiances Magnetiques)


Merging members of Ensemble SuperMusique with a subset of the ensemble Chorale Joker, Joane Hétu presents four premieres that explore our experiences during the pandemic, SuperMusique focused on electronics and synthetic instruments and offset by a wind quintet, the music and vocal interactions often explosive, reflecting on our mental states during an overwhelming cultural malady.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
Futterman, Joel: Perspicacity
(Soul City Sounds)


Five extended improvised piano solos from Joel Futterman recording in his home base of Virginia Beach, each an incredible journey in free playing that quotes and comments on the history of jazz piano, living up to the album's title through insight, perceptiveness, wit and intuition, Futterman's technique and mastery expressing narratives of amazing confidence and solid direction.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $13.95      Listen          

 
Gato, Joao / Bruno Parrinha: Two
(Phonogram Unit)


Two Portuguese saxophonists of different generations both playing on alto sax--Bruno Parrinha, an established and extraordinary player involved with many projects on Clean Feed and Creative Sources, and Joćo Gato, leader of Apophenia Quartet--present 11 improvisations recorded in the studio, their voices intertwining amid masterful technique and creative impulse.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Hevleticus (Samuel Blaser / Daniel Humair / Heiri Kanzig): Our Way
(Blaser Music)


A trio of all-star European jazz performers from three generations — drummer Daniel Humair (85), bass player Heiri Kanzig (66) and trombonist Samuel Blaser (42) — in their second album after 2020's album 1291, for a mixture of original compositions and standards including Monk's "Jackie-ing" & "Bemsha Swing", Ellington's "Creole Love Song" & "Tiger Rag".
   
     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 
IKZ (Chris Dammann / Kevin Davis / John Niekrasz / Toby Summerfield): I Saw The Cryptic Problem Of My Generation Destroyed
(Amalgam)


Four improvisations that start as dense and scrabbly electroacoustic improv and then transport into beautiful sonic interaction from the Chicago collaborative quartet of Chris Dammann (Scott Clark) on double bass, Kevin Davis (Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore) on cello, John Niekrasz (Poor School, The Naked Future) on drums and Toby Summerfield (Larval, Algernon, Scott Clark) on guitar.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 
Phantom Orchard (Ikue Mori / Zeena Parkins): Hit Parade of Tears
(Tzadik)


Distilling their ensemble to its original duo configuration, New York improvisers Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori reflect on the stories of Japanese author Izumi Suzuki through ten mysteriously eclectic and beautifully developed compositions of harp (acoustic and electric), electronics, percussion, harmonium, ondes martenot, and much more; wonderful, imaginative and evocative work.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Williams, Mars / Katinka Kleijn / Rob Kassinger: Two Or Three
(Amalgam)


Three performances of Pauline Oliveros' compositions for two or three instruments, performed by the same trio who premiered the work in 2017 at the commission of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNow Series--Mars Williams on reeds, Katinka Kleijn on cello and Rob Kassinger on bass--these versions performed live in 2018 at Elastic Arts along with two collective improvisations.
   
     Buy      $9.95      Listen          

 




   Experimental/Electronic

Banabila, Michel: The Unreal Realm
(Tapu Records)


A collection of works from Netherlands composer Michel Banabila, including a piece developed with saxophonist Dave Liebman and previously released only digitally; a work with Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek); a work with Pierre Bastien; and excerpts from scores for Yin Yue's choreography in two works: "Somewhere" for New York Live Arts and "Timeless Tide" for BalletMet.
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $8.95      Listen          

 
Directives: Glimmer
(Aubjects)


A series of instrumental compositions from D. Petri (Dog Hallucination), structured as songs of a rhythmic nature using synths, samples, field recordings and effects, eight embraceable and upbeat work with layers of detail, influenced by Petri's love of explorative electronic music including YMO or Tom Ellard, or labels like Mille Plateau and Raster.
   
     Buy      $12.95      Listen          

 
Migone, Christof / Alexandre St-Onge: undoundone
(Ambiances Magnetiques)


Since 1997 the duo of Montreal sonic experimenters Christof Migone and Alexandre St-Onge, both members of Klaxon Gueule, have performed under the name "Undo", here declaring themselves "undone", presenting nine tracks of of live & studio recordings from 1997-2013 of often bizarre yet ever innovative cracked electronics, acoustics, voice, and inexplicable sound; weird and wonderful!
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $14.95      Listen          

 




   Rock/R.I.O./Prog

Lennon, Sean Ono: Asterisms [VINYL]
(Tzadik)


The chameleonic styles of Sean Ono Lennon are in full force on this instrumental record, merging rock, jazz, experimental and cinematic styles in captivating ways, performed with the spectacular ensemble of Devon Hoff (bass), Yuka Honda (electronics), Johnny Mathar (drums), João Nogueira (Wurlitzer), Ches Smith (drums), Michael Leonhart (trumpet) & Mauro Refosco (percussion).
 
Squidco Pick

     Buy      $29.95      Listen          

 
Rotem Geffen: The Night Is The Night
(thanatosis produktion)


Singer, songwriter and pianist Nelly Klayman-Cohen, aka Rotem Geffen, explores the fringes of dreamy pop music with lyrics in German, English and Hebrew that explore themes of memory, love, grief, loss, and the night as a vibrating room, with collaborators including Alexander Zethson on keyboards, Isak Hedtjar on clarinets and winds, Vilhelm Bromander on double bass, &c.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Rotem Geffen: The Night Is The Night [VINYL]
(thanatosis produktion)


Vinyl edition of the CD listed above.
   
     Buy      $24.95      Listen          

 




   Compositional

Newland, Paul: Things That Happen Again
(Another Timbre)


A portrait of UK interdisciplinary composer Paul Newland's music through five pieces dating from 2009 to 2023 performed by members of London's Apartment House ensemble, including a string quartet, two different trio combinations, a short work for solo piano, and a score for open instrumentation, realised in this recording by a septet.
   
     Buy      $15.95      Listen          

 
Pilchen, Danya : Two Songs. Anne, Germaine, Koen, Seamus, Danya
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)


Two "songs" from a series of works by Netherlands composer and pianist Danya Pilchen, exploring the possibilities of making and experiencing time through attentive listening, these works focused on creating a dialogue between two measures of time, performed with Anne La Berge on flute, Germaine Sijstermans on clarinet, Seamus Cater on harmonica and Koen Nutters on double bass.
   
     Buy      $12.95      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.


 


Marco Baldini:
Maniera
(Another Timbre)


Michel Banabila / Stijn Huwels / Cok Van Vuuren :
One Moment In Time [CASSETTE]
(Tapu Records)


Anthony Donofrio :
These Calm Words
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)


Nomi Epstein:
Shades
(Another Timbre)


Ethnic Heritage Ensemble:
Open Me, A Higher Consciousness Of Sound And Spirit
(Spiritmuse Records)


Simon Hanes:
Tsons of Tsunami
(Tzadik)


JAKAL (Fred Lonberg-Holm / Keefe Jackson / Julian Kirshner):
Peroration
(Amalgam)


Kimmel.Ali.Harris (Jeff Kimmel / Ishmael Ali / Bill Harris):
Flora Oblique [CASSETTE]
(Amalgam)


Jorge Nuno:
Labirinto
(Phonogram Unit)


Felix Profos / Peter Conradin Zumthor:
Grund
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)


Ruben Turba / Minami Saeki:
The Gift
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)


Florian Wittenburg :
Regenprasseln
(Edition Wandelweiser Records)


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