For the Record: April 11, 2025.
A new album by Larum and guests, a forthcoming release by Mary Halvorson, and more new arrivals and future releases of interest.
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, Â 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! If you’d like to submit a forthcoming recording for consideration, please email information to nightafternight@icloud.com. (Streams and downloads preferred.)
All opinions expressed herein are solely my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
New this week.
April 11.
Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen - Resonant Flows (Sawyer Spaces)
Gerald Clayton - Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
Ed Cooper - HEKATE’S VOICES (Sawyer Spaces)
Michael Daugherty - Blue Electra - Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony Orchestra/David Allan Miller (Naxos)
Ash Fure - ANIMAL (Smalltown Supersound)
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson (Decca)
Shaul Kohn - Melonheads (Sawyer Spaces)
Larum (Chet Doxas & Micah Frank) - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen, Part Two (Puremagnetik)
Fred Moten & Brandon López - Revision (Tao Forms)
Christopher Tyler Nickel - Mass; Te Deum - Catherine Redding, Vancouver Chamber Choir/Kari Turunen, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra/Clyde Mitchell (Avie)
Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs - EVERY DAY → ALL THE WAY (ESP-Disk’)
Sam Sadigursky - The Solomon Diaries Vol. IV (Adhyâropa)
Sam Sadigursky - The Solomon Diaries Vol. V (Adhyâropa)
Tom Soloveitzik & Microcanonical ensemble - two waves, drawn on paper (Sawyer Spaces)
Third Coast Percussion - Standard Stoppages - compositions by Jlin, Tigran Hamasyan, Zakir Hussain, Jessie Montgomery, and Musekiwa Chingodza (Cedille)
Manfred Werder - 2008(3) (Sawyer Spaces)
Theresa Wong - Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
Alex Zethson/Johan Jutterström - It Could/If I (Astral Spirits/Thanatosis)
Upcoming releases.
April 18.
Richard Festinger - Then and Now: Chamber Music of Richard Festinger - performances by Calefax, Cygnus & John Ferrari, Collage New Music, Windscape, Alan R. Kay, and Michael Nicolas (New Focus)
April 25.
Fung Chern Hwei - Free Fall (Adhyâropa)
Annea Lockwood - On Fractured Ground/Skin Resonance (Black Truffle)
April 27.
Adam Lion - When a Line Bends (self-released)
May 2.
Wet Ink Ensemble - Action, Choice, Thought - compositions by Eric Wubbels, Mariel Roberts Musa, Alex Mincek, and Sam Pluta (Carrier)
May 5.
Ivor Kallin - Bagpipe Practice Room (scatterArchive)
May 26.
Paula Shocron + Pablo DÃaz - live in Münster (scatterArchive)
June 13.
Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
June 20.
Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.