For the Record: July 26, 2024.
A quiet end to a busy week—with dozens of listings for new and 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, 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.
It’s been an intense, busy week in multiple ways, and the needle is pointing to empty today. If we’re connected on the two social-media platforms I still use, you know why already; if not, I’ll say something about what’s going on next week.
Maybe you need a break, too. What say we put on some good music and drift away, just like Dobie Gray said we could?
There are a lot of exciting options available on the new Bandcamp page the excellent saxophone ensemble PRISM Quartet opened this morning, and even more listed below. This group’s range is extraordinary, encompassing contemporary classical music, jazz projects, and more besides. Poke around!
Be good to yourself.
New this week.
Cristina Altamura and Adam Sliwinski - the bitKlavier Commissions - compositions by Pascal Le Boeuf, Annika Socolofsky, Jenny Beck, Bora Yoon, Chris Douthitt, Noah Fishman, Nate May, Molly Herron, and Lainie Fefferman (Many Arrows Music)
Barry Chabala/David Forlano/Drew Gowran - Juno (Confront)
Tina Davidson - Barefoot - Jasper String Quartet, Natalie Zhu (New Focus)
Rhodri Davies/Pierre Gerard - la montagne change (Ftarri)
Ehnarhre - El Perro (Fiadh Productions)
Fletina - Serrof (Unfathomless)
Dave Harrington - Skull Dream (Maximum Overdub)
James Ilgenfritz - Proprioceptions III: Inasmuch and Insofar (Infrequent Seams)
Devin Maxwell - Timebending (Infrequent Seams)
Christopher McFall - I Throw the Switch on the Midnight Snake (Unfathomless)
Sergio Merce - Prosa (Hitorri)
Obscuress (Christina Carter and Spencer Dobbs) - Namesake (Texas Archives)
Raphael Rogiński - Žaltys (Unsound)
Gil Sansón - Dunning-Kruger Effect (Full Spectrum)
Taku Sugimoto/Wakana Ikeda/Pere Xirau - Ftarri 16 07 2023 (Meenna)
Dan Trueman - Preludes for bitKlavier - Cristina Altamura and Adam Sliwinski (Many Arrows Music)
Upcoming releases.
August 9
Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony Levin - The Good Feelings (577 Records)
Chico Mello/Helinho Brandão - Chico Mello/Helinho Brandão (Black Truffle, originally released 1984)
August 23
Anna Clyne - Shorthand - performances by Avi Avital, Colin Jacobsen, Pekka Kuusisto, Yo-Yo Ma, and The Knights/Eric Jacobsen (Sony Classical)
Splinter Reeds - Dark Currents - compositions by Michael Gordon and Paula Mathussen (Cantaloupe Music)
August 30
Happy Apple - New York CD (Sunnyside)
Vasco Trilla - The Bell Slept Long in its Tower (thanatosis)
September 6
amelia courthouse - broken things (Spinster)
EZRA - Earth to EZRA (Cantaloupe Music)
September 13
Allan Gilbert Balon - The Magnesia Suite (Recital)
September 20
more eaze - lacuna and parlor (Mondoj)
September 27
Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/Kit Downes - Breaking the Shell (Red Hook)
Ben Monder - Planetarium (Sunnyside)
October 4
Darius Jones - Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
Nichunimu (Benjamin Vergara, Nicolás Carrasco, Matías Mardones) - Calados (577 Records)
October 11
Jenny Scheinman - All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.