For the Record: The Master List
Keeping tabs on new and pending recordings of interest to the new-music community, on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, and digital-only formats.
Updated Jan. 24, 2025.
For the Record is a weekly column that rounds up details about new and pending recordings of interest to the new-music community – contemporary classical music and jazz, electronic and electroacoustic music, and idioms for which no clever genre name has been coined – on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, digital-only formats… you name it.
(This page used to be only for paid subscribers, and maybe one day in the future that could be true again. But it’s not, now.)
This list of release dates is culled from press releases, Amazon, Bandcamp, and other internet stores and sources, social-media posts, and online resources such as Discogs. Dates cited typically correspond to initial U.S. release, and are subject to change. Links to Amazon – used when all else fails – do not imply endorsement.
To submit a forthcoming recording for consideration, email details to nightafternight@icloud.com at least 10 days before release date.
All opinions expressed herein are solely my own, and do not express the views of my employer.
New this week.
January 24.
January 24.
Rob Brown - Walkabout (Mahakala Music)
Britta Byström - Ink-Wash on Paper (OUR Recordings)
Kate Carr and Matt Atkins - Organelles (Flaming Pines)
Gloria Cheng - Root Progressions - compositions by Anthony Davis, Jon Jang, James Newton, Arturo O’Farrill, Linda May Han Oh, and Gernot Wolfgang (Biophilia)
François Couturier & Dominique Pifarély - Preludes and Songs (ECM)
Dromedaries (Keir Neuringer, Shayna Dulberger, Julius Masri) x Alexoteric - The Burning Bright Light (Karlrecords)
David First - Sound Meditation 1 (self-released)
Billy Gomberg - collage, january (self-released)
Jacob Kirkegaard - snowblind (Helen Scarsdale)
Clemens Kuratle Ydivide - The Default (Intakt)
Satoko Fujii GEN - Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra)
Emily Mikesell & Kate Campbell Strauss - Give Way (ears&eyes)
New Thread Quartet - Saxifraga - compositions by Scott Wollschleger, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Victoria Cheah (New Focus)
Derek Rogers - Communitarianism, idealized (self-released)
Mike Shiflet - Recent Widow (Extended) (self-released)
Nick Storring - Humbucker Music (Falt)
Natsuki Tamura/Keiji Haino – What happened there? (Libra)
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
January.
January 29.
Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet - Situation (Play On)
January 31.
Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch)
The Ancients (Isaiah Collier, William Parker, William Hooker) - The Ancients (Eremite)
Edwin Alexander Buchholz - Cage. Pisaro. Frey. Beuger (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
John Cage - branches - daswirdas (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1999)
Jürg Frey - Beuger. Cage (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
Jürg Frey - Wolff. Lucier. Schlothauer. Frey (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
Pierre Gerard - Full Yellow Cylinder (Eliane Tapes)
☆ Julia Hülsmann Quartet - Under the Surface (ECM)
Kenny Wheeler Legacy - Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music)
Joachim Kühn - Échappée (Intakt)
Brandon López & DoYeon Kim - Syzygy, Vol. 1 (577 Records)
Radu Malfatti - die temperatur der bedeutung - Radu Malfati; das profil des schweigens - Wandelweiser String Quartet (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1998)
Chico Mello & Silvia Ocougne - Musica Brasileira De(s)composta (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
Clemens Merkel - Maderna. von Schweinitz. Beuger. Stiegler (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
Peter Rehberg - Liminal States (Editions Mego)
Sarah Belle Reid + Vinny Golia - Accidental Ornithology (Infrequent Seams)
[something’s happening] - Buzz (Flaming Pines)
Stein Urheim - Speilstillevariasjoner (Hubro)
Herman van San - Sextet. Microstructure. Sectionen - Barbara Deleu, Dimitri Baetman, Peter Merckx, Dirk Noyen, Dries Geeraert, Koen Kessels, Götz Hartmann, Rosemarie Keller, Dirk Hegemann, Walter Keller, Wolfram Hertel, Wolfgang Düthorn (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1999)
☆ Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton - live at pioneer works, 26 october 2023 (ESP-Disk’)
Christian Wolff - Stones - Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
jeong lim yang - Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
Alfred Zimmerlin - Kammermusik - Marianne Aeschbacher, Marlyse Capt, Jean-Jacques Dünki, Jürg Frey, Susanna Hefti, Tobias Moster (Edition Wandelweiser; originally released 1996)
Also in January.
Apartment House - GOMBERT - compositions by Nicolas Gombert and James Weeks (Another Timbre)
Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone - Penumbra (Another Timbre)
Jürg Frey - Longing Landscape - Prague Quiet Music Collective (Another Timbre)
Bryn Harrison - Towards a slowing of the past - Mark Knoop & Roderick Chadwick (Another Timbre)
Teodora Stepančić - OA | FG (Another Timbre)
February 2025.
February 2.
Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey - Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj)
February 3.
Territorial Gobbing (Theo Gowans) - Hermit Card (scatterArchive)
Watt (Jean Dousteyssier, Jean-Brice Godet, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Julien Pontvianne) - Watt - compositions by Léo Dupleix, Caroline Marçot, Karl Naegelen, and Watt (Montagne Noire)
February 7.
Max Andrzejewski - Summen - Ensemble Resonanz (SN Variations)
Christopher Dammann - Christopher Dammann Sextet (Out of Your Head)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble/Martina Batič - O Listen! - compositions by Else Marie Pade and Uroš Krek (OUR Recordings)
Philip Golub - Loop 7 (Greyfade)
Onilu (Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor) - Onilu (Eremite)
Gyan Riley - Winter Sun (self-released)
Aaron Siegel & Tracy K. Smith - I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It - vocal ensemble, Longleash (Gold Bolus)
February 10.
Ernesto Díaz-Infante - pocket strings (scatterArchive)
February 14.
Benjamin Appl - Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág (Alpha Classics)
Peter Brötzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble/Jason Adasiewicz - The Quartet (Otoroku)
Stephen Davis Unit - The Gleaming World (577 Records)
duo B. (Lisa Mezzacappa & Jason Levis) - Luminous Axis (Queen Bee)
Lei Liang - Dui - performances by Maya Beiser, Wu Man, Steven Schick, Cho-Liang Lin, Zhe Lin, Mark Dresser, and loadbang (Islandia)
Shawn E. Okpebholo - Songs in Flight - Rhiannon Giddens, Will Liverman, Reginald Mobley, Karen Slack, Paul Sánchez, Julian Velasco (Cedille)
John Patitucci - Spirit Fall (Edition)
Simone Porter - ad tendo - compositions by Reena Esmail, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andrew Norman, Hildegard von Bingen, and Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (Bright Shiny Things)
February 17.
Takahashi Rose - Morning Music (scatterArchive)
February 20.
Julek ploski - Give Up Channel (Mappa)
February 21.
Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen & Kristofer Svensson - For Violin, Snare & Kacapi (Kuyin)
☆ Frank Carlberg - Dream Machine (Red Piano)
Christopher Cerrone - Don’t Look Down - Sandbox Percussion (Pentatone)
Laura Cocks - FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Head)
Nina Garcia - Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ)
Jon Irabagon - Server Farm (Irabbagast)
☆ Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim and Joey Chang - Muzosynth Orchestra: Vol. 1 (self-released)
Oksana Linde - Travesías (Buh; recorded 1986–94)
Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
February 25.
☆ Stefano Pilia - Lacinia (die Schachtel)
February 28.
☆ Artemis - Arboresque (Blue Note)
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito - Endless Season (577 Records)
Reiko Füting - distant: violin. sound - performances by Miranda Cuckson, Doori Na, Jing Yang, Longleash, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Quartet121, Noise Catalogue, and SchallSpektrum (New Focus)
David Grubbs - Whistle from Above (Drag City)
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner - The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi Recordings)
Matt McBane - Buoy (Gradient Music)
Mystery Sonata (Mina Gajić & Zachary Carrettin) - Aequora - compositions by Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Daníel Bjarnason, and Pall Ragnar Palsson (Sono Luminus)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - UBIQUE - Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods (Sono Luminus)
☆ Simón Willson - Bet (endectomorph music)
March 2025.
March 1.
☆ Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Richard Valitutto (elsewhere)
☆ Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures of the Warm South (Erstwhile)
March 4.
Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)
March 7.
☆ Anouar Brahem - After the Last Sky (ECM)
☆ Kate Carr - Rubber Band Music (Flaming Pines)
Claire Cope’s Ensemble C - Every Journey (Adhyaropa)
Green Mitchell Trio - Nature Channel (Queen Bee)
☆ Billy Mohler - The Eternal (Contagious Music)
Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek - Greyhound Days (Mondoj)
March 8.
☆ Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma II (Erstwhile)
March 14.
Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson - Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
Judith Hamann - Aunes (Shelter Press)
Sean Hickey - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Vladimir Rumyantsev (Sono Luminus)
Kaisa’s Machine - Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music)
☆ Mary Kouyoumdjian - Witness - Kronos Quartet (Phenotypic Recordings)
Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
Steve Reich - Collected Works (Nonesuch; 27CD box including first recordings of Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer)
Gregory Spears - Seven Days - Pedja Mužijević (Bright Shiny Things)
March 21.
☆ François J. Bonnet - Banshee (Portraits GRM)
☆ Sarah Davachi - Basse Brevis (Portraits GRM)
☆ Molto Ohm - FEED (New Focus)
more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Other Minds)
☆ Nick Storring - Mirante (We Are Busy Bodies)
March 28.
Sasha Berliner - Fantôme (Outside In Music)
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio - Dream a Dream (Libra)
Ingrid Laubrock - Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
Nils Vigeland - Perfect Happiness - Jing Yang (New Focus)
April 2025.
April 1.
☆ Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block - I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea (Room40)
April 4.
Jordan Glenn’s BEAK - The Party (Queen Bee)
Hemphill Stringtet (Curtis Stewart. Sam Bardfeld, Stephanie Griffin, Tomeka Reid) - The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
David Longstreth - Song of the Earth - Dirty Projectors, s t a r g a z e (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch)
Matthew Muñeses & Riza Printup - Pag-ibig Ko, Vol. 1 (Irrabagast)
April 11.
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson (Decca)
April 25.
☆ Michael Sarian - Esquina (Greenleaf Music)
May 2025.
May 16.
☆ David Handler - Life Like Violence (Cantaloupe Music)
Thank you.
Ben Monder's track 1973 has the guitar solo of the decade. What a record. Can't wait to listen again and again.