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. 13, 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.
Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch)
Tim Berne (Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey) - Yikes (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
Crux Duo (Lloyd Van’t Hoff, Lisa Moore) - My Place - compositions by Harriet Steinke, Nick Russoniello, Anne Cawrse, Erik Griswold, Elena Kats-Chernin, Martin Bresnick, and Leonard Bernstein (ABC Classics)
Exceptet - tree lines - compositions by Katherine Balch, Paul Kerekes, and Sarah Goldfeather (New Focus)
Juno 3 (Han-earl Park, Lara Jones, Pat Thomas) - Proxemics (Buster and Friends)
Mark Kirschenmann - Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet with Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams)
James McVinnie - Dreamcatcher - compositions by Nico Muhly, Meredith Monk, Laurie Spiegel, John Adams, inti figgis-vizueta, Gabriella Smith, Giles Swayne, Bryce Dessner, and Marcos Balter (Pentatone)
Konrad Sprenger - Set (Black Truffle)
Stemeseder Lillinger + Craig Taborn - Umbra III (Intakt)
Joseph White - (The Game is) Hypnosis (Gold Bolus)
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
January.
January 24.
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)
Clemens Kuratle Ydivide - The Default (Intakt)
Satoko Fujii GEN - Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra)
New Thread Quartet - Saxifraga - compositions by Scott Wollschleger, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Victoria Cheah (New Focus)
Natsuki Tamura/Keiji Haino – What happened there? (Libra)
January 29.
Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet - Situation (Play On)
January 31.
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)
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)
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 1.
Matt McBane - Buoy (Gradient Music)
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)
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)
February 18.
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito - Endless Season (577 Records)
February 20.
Julek ploski - Give Up Channel (Mappa)
February 21.
Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen & Kristofer Svensson - For Violin, Snare & Kacapi (Kuyin)
☆ 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)
☆ Oksana Linde - Travesías (Buh; recorded 1986–94)
Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
February 28.
☆ 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)
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)
March 2025.
March 4.
Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)
March 7.
Claire Cope’s Ensemble C - Every Journey (Adhyaropa)
Green Mitchell Trio - Nature Channel (Queen Bee)
☆ Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek - Greyhound Days (Mondoj)
March 14.
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson - Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
Sean Hickey - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Vladimir Rumyantsev (Sono Luminus)
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)
March 21.
more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Other Minds)
March 28.
☆ Sasha Berliner - Fantôme (Outside In Music)
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio - Dream a Dream (Libra)
Ingrid Laubrock - Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
April 2025.
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)
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.