For the Record: The Master List
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 Nov. 2, 2024.
For the Record 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.
These listings are not comprehensive—nor could they be! To submit a forthcoming recording for consideration, email information to nightafternight@icloud.com.
All opinions expressed herein are solely my own, and do not express the views of any employer.
New this week.
November 1
Bang/Duch/Honoré/Toop/Wastell - Wunderkammer (Confront)
Florence Cats - We are now approaching Mo i Rana (Hitorri)
Dave Douglas - Gifts Trio Live (Greenleaf Music; subscriber exclusive)
Limpe Fuchs/Mark Fell - Dessogia/Queetch/Fauch (Black Truffle)
Florian Hecker - Resynthese FAVN (Blank Forms Editions)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord (Blank Forms)
Pierre Henry - Labyrinthe ! (Recollection GRM)
Taizo Hida - The Rain Traces Its Outline (Ftarri Classical)
Taizo Hida - Yunagi (Ftarri Classical)
Ken Ikeda/Roger Turner - an Asura in Spring (Ftarri)
The Jazzmen (featuring Joe McPhee) - Nineteen Sixty-Six (Corbett vs. Dempsey; recorded 1966)
David T. Little - Dark Hymnal (Cantaloupe Music)
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė - ALETHEIA: Choral Works - Latvian Chamber Choir/Sigvards Kļava (Ondine)
Roberta Michel - Hush - compositions by Jane Rigler, Victoria Cheah, Jen Baker, Mert Mert Morali, and Angélica Negrón (New Focus)
Berke Can Özcan & Jonah Parzen-Johnson - It Was Always Time (We Jazz)
Bernard Parmegiani & François Bayle - Divine Comédie (Recollection GRM)
Dan Román - DVXNS - Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Neuma)
Sachiko M - Sine Wave Solo at Ftarri 2022 (Hitorri)
Elliott Sharp - Mandorle: New Music for Mandolin (Zoar)
Tomin - A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem)
Christopher Trapani - Noise Uprising - Sophia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg, Zwerm (New World)
Drew Whiting - All In - compositions. by Drew Whiting, Pamela Z, John Mayrose, and Yaz Lancaster (Neuma)
Works (Michel Gentile, Daniel Kelly, Rob Garcia) - Scouring for the Elements (Connection Works)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
November 8
☆ Mattie Barbier - paper blown between the spaces in my ribs (Dinzu Artefacts)
Sarah Davachi and Dicky Bahto - Music for a Bellowing Room (Late Music)
Day Dream (Steve Rudolph, Drew Gress, Phil Haynes) - Duke & Strays Live (CornerStoreJazz)
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985–1990 (Freedom to Spend)
Rafael Anton Irisarri - FAÇADISMS (Black Knoll)
☆ Moons (Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, Christine Tavolacci) - Moons (Editions Verde)
Leo Okagawa - Lower the Tone Arm (Flaming Pines)
☆ Aki Onda - 99 Cent Dreams (Dinzu Artefacts)
Pancrace - Papotier (Penultimate Press)
claire rousay - The Bloody Lady (VIERNULVIER)
November 11
☆ Rob Mazurek Quartet - Color Systems (RogueArt)
November 15
Ka Baird - Ictum Exercises (Polyrhythmic Studies) (Astral Spirits)
Kyle Brenn - the shape of a child (Cantaloupe Music)
Donnacha Dennehy - Land of Winter - Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson (Nonesuch)
David Dunn - Music, Language and Environment: Environmental Sound Works 1973–1985 (Nyahh)
Joe Fonda Quartet - Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song)
Foster Bennett Wick - Carne Vale (Relative Pitch)
John Hollenbeck - Colouring Hockets - John Hollenbeck, Patricia Brennan, Marcio Doctor, Matt Moran, NDR Bigband/JC Sanford (Flexatonic)
Ethan Iverson - Playfair Sonatas - performances by Miranda Cuckson, Makoto Nakura, Carol McGonnell, Mike Lormand, Taimur Sullivan, and Tim Leopold (Urlicht AudioVisual)
Philip Jeck - rpm - contributions from Fennesz, Gavin Bryars, Chris Watson, Rosy Parlane, Cris Cheek, Claire M Singer, Faith Coloccia, David Sylvian & Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jah Wobble & Deep Space, Drums Off Chaos, Chandra Shukla, and Jana Winderen (Touch)
Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt - Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties (Earshift Music)
☆ Dan Lippel - Adjacence - compositions by Dan Lippel, Mario Davidovsky, Ken Ueno, Peter Gilbert, Nico Muhly, Tonia Ko, Peter Adriaansz, Tyshawn Sorey, Carl Schimmel, Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Tania León, Bernadette Speach, and Charles Wuorinen (New Focus)
Ava Mendoza - The Circular Train (Palilalia)
Oaagaada - Music Of (We Jazz)
Zeena Parkins - Dam Against the Spring Tide (Relative Pitch)
Elori Saxl - Earth Focus (Original Score) (Western Vinyl)
Kate Soper - The Romance of the Rose - Ty Bouque, Phillip Bullock, Ariadne Greif, Anna Schubert, Devony Smith, Kate Soper, Lucas Steele, Wet Ink Ensemble/Eric Wubbels (New Focus)
Trance Map (Evan Parker & Matthew Wright) - Horizons Held Close (Relative Pitch)
Dan Trueman - The Seventeenth Hotel (Many Arrows Music)
November 18
michaela turcerová - alene et (mappa)
November 20
Mauricio Moquillaza - Mauricio Moquillaza (Buh)
November 21
☆ Mariska Baars/Niki Jansen/Rutger Zuydervelt - Hardanger (laaps)
November 22
Haptic - Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (Line)
Human Error (Jeremy Barnes) - Human Error (Astral Spirits)
Denman Maroney - Nits Musica (Cuneiform)
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
Squanderers (Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs, Kramer) - If a Body Meet a Body (Shimmy-Disc)
November 29
☆ Abdou - Gouband - Warelis - Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch)
☆ Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch)
☆ Ornella Noulet - Promise of Faithfulness (Relative Pitch)
☆ Ryoko Ono - The Days (Relative Pitch)
Evan Parker - The Heraclitean Two-Step (False Walls)
Passepartout Duo - Argot (self-released)
November 30
Eventless Plot/Francesco Covarino - Methexis (Innovo Editions)
December 6
☆ Blessed are the Hearts that Bend - A gentle death/a sudden birth (Spectral Industries)
Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love - Butterfly Mushroom (Trost; recorded 2015)
Alvin Curran - ARCHEOLOGY // ARCHEOLOGIA (Room40)
Ethel with Allison Loggins-Hull - Persist - compositions by Allison Loggins-Hull, Xavier Muzik, Migiwa Miyajima, Sam Wu, and Leilehua Lanzilotti (Sono Luminous)
Out Of/Into - Motion I (Blue Note)
Adam Tendler - Inheritances - compositions by Laurie Anderson, Missy Mazzoli, John Glover, Pamela Z, Scott Wollschleger, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Timo Andres, inti figgis-vizueta, Nico Muhly, Marcos Balter, Mary Prescott, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Devonté Hynes (New Amsterdam)
☆ Ju-Ping Song - Monad - compositions by Lois V. Vierk, Molly Joyce, Kate Moore, and Rahilia Hasanova (Starkland)
Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (Important)
December 13
☆ Sophie Agnel, Michael Zerang - Draw Bridge (Relative Pitch)
December 15
☆ Giuliano d’Angiolini - )))((( (Elsewhere)
Winter 2024–25
Peter Garland - Plain Songs: “Love Comes Quietly” (after Robert Creeley) - Carson Cooman (Cold Blue)
January 3
Dem - Absolutely (Carrier)
January 10
☆ Philip Glass - Aguas da Amazonia - Constance Volk, Third Coast Percussion (Rockwell)
January 15
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
January 17
☆ 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)
February 21
☆ Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
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.