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 7, 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.
Altus - Legends of Altus: Book 1 (self-released)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Peter Moore - Beyond - compositions by Thomas Adès, Jonathan Dove, Matthew Aucoin, and Nico Muhly (Orchid Classics)
Tim Berne's Snakeoil - snakeoil ok (Screwgun)
Anouar Brahem - After the Last Sky (ECM)
Kate Carr - Rubber Band Music (Flaming Pines)
Chaya Czernowin - Seltene Erde & Atara - performances by Uli Fussenegger, Klangforum Wien/Johannes Kalitzke, Sofia Jernberg, Holger Falk, and ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien/Christian Karlsen (Kairos)
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)
Jürg Frey - String Quartets - Quatuor Bozzini (Collection QB)
Violeta García - IN/OUT (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Richard Valitutto (elsewhere)
Jump Off This Bridge - Quarks (Zoar)
Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics)
Felipe Lara - Chamber Works for Strings - performances by Mivos Quartet, Duo Diorama, JACK Quartet, Joshua Rubin, Modney, Parker Quartet, Hannah Levinson, amd EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR (Kairos)
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)
Tim Parkinson - Two More Arias from The Waiting Rooms - Francesca Fargion, Martha MacBean, Tim Parkinson, Angharad Davies (self-released)
Ivo Perelman with Ken Vandermark & Joe McPhee - Oxygen (Mahakala Music)
Poppy H - Treadwater Fury (Fort Evil Fruit)
Dave Seidel - Semiautonomous Etudes (Mystery Bear)
Elliott Sharp - Crowds And Power - Live at The Kitchen - NYC - 1982 (Zoar)
Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek - Greyhound Days (Mondoj)
Gyða Valtýsdóttir & Úlfur Hansson - AUGA (Sono Luminus)
Andrew Weathers - Two Recordings (Editions Glomar)
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 20.
☆ Ishmael Ali/Aaron Quinn - Sometimes Cats Have Puppies (Tripticks Tapes)
☆ Cecilia Lopez and Wenchi Lazo - Desposable (Tripticks Tapes)
☆ Paulownia (Yoona Kim, Anwei Wang, Marie Carroll) - Paulownia (Tripticks Tapes)
March 21.
François J. Bonnet - Banshee (Portraits GRM)
☆ Pierre Boulez - Éclat-Multiples - Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Contrechamps/Michael Wendeberg (bastille musique)
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.
☆ Sophie Agnel - Song (Relative Pitch)
Sasha Berliner - Fantôme (Outside In Music)
☆ Bloomers (Anne Efternøler, Maria Dybbroe, Carolyn Goodwin) - Cyclism (Relative Pitch)
Chris Cochrane Collapsible Shoulder Big Band - Live 2019: A Map of Books (Cuneiform)
☆ Denley Gorfinkel Farrar - Vents (Relative Pitch)
☆ The Dietrichs - No Bahdu (Relative Pitch)
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 3.
☆ fraufraulein (Billy Gomberg & Andy Guthrie) - greater honeyguide (mappa)
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)
☆ Lucy Railton - Blue Veil (Ideologic Organ)
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)
☆ Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Terán - Orbweaver (Outside Time)
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)
☆ Gilles Sivilotto - handmade - Isabelle Duthoit, zeitkratzer (zeitkratzer)
May 2025.
May 2.
Peter Evans & Petter Eldh - Jazz Fest (More Is More; stream “Roulette” here and “The Berm” here)
☆ Eli Keszler - Eli Keszler (LUCKYME®)
☆ Kommun - Kalpa (Thanatosis)
Eric Shorter - Shorter Bendian Shields (577 Records)
Julia Ulehla and Dálava - Understories (Pi Recordings)
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.