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 March 5, 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 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.
March 7.
Anouar Brahem - After the Last Sky (ECM)
Kate Carr - Rubber Band Music (Flaming Pines)
Alabaster DePlume - A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem)
Pablo Diáz - son esos ecos (scatterArchive)
Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)
Ensemble C - Every Journey (Adhyaropa)
Violeta García - IN/OUT (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Richard Valitutto (elsewhere)
loadbang - A Garden, Adorned - compositions by Oscar Bettison, Raven Chacon, Yotam Haber, Christina J. George, and Laura Cetilia (New Focus)
Nicole McCabe - A Song to Sing (Colorfield)
Green Mitchell Trio - Nature Channel (Queen Bee)
Nickolas Mohanna - Speaker Rotation (AKP Recordings)
Billy Mohler - The Eternal (Contagious Music)
Poppy H - Treadwater Fury (Fort Evil Fruit)
Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek - Greyhound Days (Mondoj)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
March 2025.
March 9.
Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures of the Warm South (Erstwhile)
March 10.
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma II (Erstwhile)
March 13.
☆ Chaz Underriner - Moving (Deadland)
March 14.
Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson - Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
dream brigade (Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok) - dream brigade (Infrequent Seams)
☆ Hayes Greenfield - Gravity Unplugged (Sunnyside)
Judith Hamann - Aunes (Shelter Press)
Sean Hickey - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Vladimir Rumyantsev (Sono Luminus)
☆ Inturist - Tourism (Incompetence)
☆ Eunhye Jeong-Michael Bisio Duo with Joe McPhee and Jay Rosen - Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk’)
Kaisa’s Machine - Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music)
Mary Kouyoumdjian - Witness - Kronos Quartet (Phenotypic Recordings)
Owls - Rare Birds (New Amsterdam)
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)
Christopher Irniger Pilgrim - Human Intelligence Live (Intakt)
☆ Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life (ECM)
Lucy Liyou - Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk)
Molto Ohm - FEED (New Focus)
more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Thrill Jockey)
☆ Macie Stewart - When the Distance is Blue (International Anthem)
Nick Storring - Mirante (We Are Busy Bodies)
March 28.
Sasha Berliner - Fantôme (Outside In Music)
☆ Chris Cochrane Collapsible Shoulder Big Band - Live 2019: A Map of Books (Cuneiform)
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio - Dream a Dream (Libra)
☆ Carla Kihlstedt - 26 Little Deaths - Present Music (Cantaloupe Music)
Ingrid Laubrock - Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging (Blue Note)
Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
Nils Vigeland - Perfect Happiness - Jing Yang (New Focus)
March 29.
Miłosz Kędra - their internal diapasons (Pointless Geometry)
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.
Michael Daugherty - Blue Electra - Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony Orchestra/David Allan Miller (Naxos)
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson (Decca)
Larum (Chet Doxas & Micah Frank) - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen, Part Two (Puremagnetik)
Fred Moten & Brandon López - Revision (Tao Forms)
☆ Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs - EVERY DAY → ALL THE WAY (ESP-Disk’)
Theresa Wong - Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
April 18.
Joel Harrison - Guitar Talk, Vol. 2: Music for Two Guitars (AGS Recordings)
☆ Kneebody - Reach (GroundUP Music)
☆ Rindert Lammers - Thank You Kirin Kiki (Western Vinyl)
☆ Gryphon Rue - I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water (self-released)
David Shea - An Eastern Western: Collected Works (Room40)
☆ Steven Kazuo Takasugi - Il Teatro Rosso - No Hay Banda (No Hay Discos)
April 25.
☆ Annie A (Time Is Away, Felicia Atkinson, Christina Petrie, Maxine Funke) - The Wind That Had Not Touched Land (A Colourful Storm)
Anzû Quartet - adjust - compositions by Ken Thomson and Anna Webber (Cantaloupe)
☆ Nathan Davis - Earthworks - Sylvia Milo, Nathan Davis (Sono Luminus)
☆ Eliana Glass - E (Shelter Press)
Michael Sarian - Esquina (Greenleaf Music)
☆ Elori Saxl - Texada (Original Score) (Western Vinyl)
May 2025.
May 2.
☆ Julia Ulehla and Dálava - Understories (Pi Recordings)
Peter Evans & Petter Eldh - Jazz Fest (More Is More; stream “Roulette” here)
Eric Shorter - Shorter Bendian Shields (577 Records)
May 6.
Jacobo Vega-Albela - Un-Belonging (577 Records)
May 9.
Catherine Lamb - interius/exterius - Ghost Ensemble (greyfade)
Merzbow - The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue (Room40; recorded 1996)
May 16.
David Handler - Life Like Violence (Cantaloupe Music)
☆ Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson - Contact (TBC Editions)
May 23.
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons - Live in Philadelphia (Ars Nova Workshop/Otherly Love)
Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
June 2025.
June 20.
Peretsky - It Doesn’t Get Cold in October Anymore (Whited Sepulchre)
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.