For the Record: Feb. 16, 2024.
Quick lists of new recordings out this week (and last week, too), plus dozens of listings for upcoming releases.
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 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! 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.
The lead-in.
I didn’t post a For the Record column last week, mainly because of overextension. Here are seven noteworthy albums that came out during the week leading up to Friday, Feb. 9, in case you missed any of them:
Tessa Brinckman - Take Wing, Roll Back - compositions by and collaborations among Tessa Brinckman, Norio Fukushi, Andile Khumalo, Todd Barton, Cara Stacey, and Shirish Korde (New Focus)
Simon Hanes - Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik)
Kali Malone - All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
National Arts Centre Orchestra/Alexander Shelley - Truth in Our Time - compositions by Philip Glass, Nicole Lizée, YAO, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Orange Mountain Music)
Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks - Music for Two Flutes (Hideous Replica)
Joel Ross - Nublues (Blue Note)
Torn/Rainey/Berne/Dunn - DISCO TENT/RAVENS LOW & READY 2 (Screwgun)
I’m glad to finally have Truth in Our Time for Glass’s fascinating Symphony No. 13, the only one previously unavailable in a recording, though the program clearly is better suited to a concert than to an album.
New this week.
Kate Carr - cosmic sunday #7 (self-released)
The Choir Invisible (Charlotte Greve, Vinnie Sperrazza, Chris Tordini) - Town of Two Faces (Intakt)
Ekmeles - We Live the Opposite Daring - compositions by Jeffrey Gavett, Zosha Di Castri, James Weeks, Hannah Kendall, Shawn Jaeger, and Erin Gee (New Focus)
Grant Evans - Ragweed Chess Museum Volume Two (Hooker Vision)
Matthew Goodheart & Broken Ghost Consort - Five Apparitions (Infrequent Seams)
Nathalie Joachim - Ki moun ou ye (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch)
James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Transfiguration (Intakt)
Riley Mulherkar - Riley (Westerlies)
Bernard Parmegiani - Complete Works 01 (Maison ONA)
Kory Reeder - Texas: Vol. VI – Grids (Part 2) (self-released)
Ted Reichman - vie en rose (Puremagnetik)
Lisa Ullén - Heirloom (fönstret)
Nate Wooley - Moths - Laura Cocks, Madison Greenstone, Eric Wubbels (Editions Verde)
Cody Yantis - Opticks (Flaming Pines)
More than 10 hours on the road between yesterday and today, plus a good five more hours of talking (some on the record, some not) means I very nearly missed posting new releases this week, too. But there are some very strong titles out today that warrant prompt mention, so here’s a quick heads-up, at least.
Obvious stand-outs among this fresh batch are the strong, personal statements from Nathalie Joachim and Riley Mulherkar, both of whom have record-release events coming up: Mulherkar this Sunday at Littlefield, and Joachim on March 15 at Carnegie Hall. I’m also eager to spend some quality time with the new Ekmeles release, which boasts an amazingly varied program.
But be sure you make time for two extra special new arrivals: Moths, Nate Wooley’s uncanny chamber piece for flutist Laura Cocks, clarinetist Madison Greenstone, and pianist Eric Wubbels (who also sings and plays autoharp), and Ted Reichman’s gorgeously simple, simply gorgeous vie en rose.
Upcoming releases.
February 23
India Gailey - Problematica - compositions by Sarah Rossy, Nicole Lizée, Joseph Glaser, Andrew Noseworthy, Fjóla Evans, and Thanya Iyer (People Places Records)
March 8
Taylor Deupree - Aer (Nettwerk)
Eva-Maria Houben + John Hudak - Paloma Wind (Line)
David Leon - Bird’s Eye (Pyroclastic)
March 15
Dave Sewelson/Ava Mendoza - Of It But Not Is It (Mahakala Music)
Matthew Shlomowitz - Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders, Volumes 2 and 4 - Apsara, Quartet Laboratoire (Carrier)
March 22
Cassie Kinoshi’s seed. - gratitude (International Anthem)
March 29
Alex Weiser - in a dark blue night - Annie Rosen, chamber ensemble (Cantaloupe Music)
April 5
Melissa Aldana - Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
James Rushford - Turzets (Blank Forms)
April 8
[Ahmed] - Giant Beauty (fönstret)
April 12
Dave Douglas - GIFTS (Greenleaf Music)
April 19
Alex Sopp - The Hem & The Haw (New Amsterdam)
May 3
Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio - Unknown Rivers (Pi Recordings)
May 10
Joy Guidry - AMEN (Whited Sepulchre)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.