For the Record: March 3, 2023.
For the Record: March 3, 2023.
It's Bandcamp Friday... here's a timely round-up of new and forthcoming objects of desire for your shopping lists.
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It's Bandcamp Friday again today, and hopefully you've been stashing all of your must-buy new and upcoming releases into your wishlist so that indie artists and labels make a little bit more cash.
Straight from the source, here's a list of this year's remaining officially designated Bandcamp Fridays.
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2023 on April 7th, May 5th, August 4th, September 1st, October 6th, November 3rd, and December 1st.
No word yet on whether the annual Juneteenth fundraiser will return for a fourth time this year, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it.
New Amsterdam RecordsChristian Roberge
Truth be told, two of my foremost selections for this week (Missy Mazzoli and John Zorn) aren't available on Bandcamp. But there's still plenty of strong new music to check out this week, and most likely your email inbox is awash in temptations.
At the top of my personal wish list are Behind the Wallpaper, a distinctive and beguiling collaboration among composer Alex Temple, composer-vocalist Julia Holter, and Spektral Quartet, on New Amsterdam, and Postcards from Hereafter, a new album from Brussels ethno-chamber-prog consort Razen, new from Important Records.
From the same label comes a welcome reissue of The Well & The Gentle, a crucial 1985 recording by Pauline Oliveros with Relâche. Another worthy archival release is Off-Hour Wait State, an inventive Tom Hamilton project featuring great collaborators like Thomas Buckner and Roscoe Mitchell, originally issued in 1996 on O.O. Discs and newly self-released in digital formats.
Among recent releases worth going back to pick up, Sage, Suddenly by Andrew Weathers has been especially absorbing just lately, and Slow Poem for Stiebler, performed by Biliana Voutchkova and Sarah Davachi for Another Timbre, is exceptionally beautiful.
Brand-new from Voutchkova, in collaboration with Boris Hauf's Shameless Records, is Zelzele, a compilation meant to raise funds for relief efforts in Syria and Türkiye. I've not heard it yet, but it boasts a strong lineup (Clara Levy, Miya Masaoka, Joan Jeanrenaud, more)… and honestly, you hardly need anyone's recommendation for this cause.
And, looking ahead, there's a new batch of brilliant albums coming April 10 on the always rewarding Elsewhere label. Why not go ahead and order those today?
New this week.
Kate Carr - false dawn (Flaming Pines)
Jonathan Fitzgerald - Luminesence - compositions by Gulli Björnsson, Alison Isadora, Victor Arul, Eve Beglarian, and Moses Kington-Walberg (New Focus)
Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double - March On (self-released)
Tom Hamilton - Off-Hour Wait State (self-released; 1996 O.O. Discs release new to digital)
Nyokabi Kariuki - Feeling Body (cmntx)
Roland Kayn - Rathan (Reiger-records-reeks; recorded 2004)
Gregory Kramer - Veils of Transformation 1972-1980 (Important)
Missy Mazzoli - Dark with Excessive Bright - performances by Peter Herresthal, Arctic Philharmonic/Tim Weiss, and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/James Gaffigan (BIS)
Chris Mercer - Trapdoors and Hidden Messages (Sideband)
Weston Olencki - Solo Horn (self-released)
Pauline Oliveros - The Well & The Gentle (Important)
david papapostolou - onze min (self-released)
Powers/Pulice/Rolin - Prism (cachedmedia)
Razen - Postcards from Hereafter (Important)
Spektral Quartet, Julia Holter & Alex Temple - Behind the Wallpaper (New Amsterdam)
Various artists - ZELZELE (Shameless)
John Zorn - New Masada Quartet, Vol. 2 (Tzadik)
Coming soon.
March 17
Marie Kruttli - Transparence (Intakt)
Aaron Leaney featuring Guy Thouin - Lockdown (Astral Spirits)
Aruán Ortiz Trio - Serranías: Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt)
John Zorn - 444 (Tzadik)
March 24
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily - Love in Exile (Verve)
Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem for Jazz (International Anthem)
Beam Splitter - Split Jaw (Tripticks Tapes)
Dave Douglas & Elan Mehler - If There Are Mountains (Greenleaf Music; previously available on limited-edition vinyl from Newvelle)
Evan Lindorff-Ellery - Swollen Air (Tripticks Tapes)
Playbackers (Neil "Cloaca" Young, Arkm Foam, Stella Silbert) - Playbackers Record (Tripticks Tapes)
March 27
Christian Wolff - For Trumpet Player - Nate Wooley (Pleasure of the Text)
March 31
Ingrid Laubrock - The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic)
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem)
April 7
Laurence Crane - Natural World - Juliet Fraser, Mark Knoop (Another Timbre)
Adrian Demoč - Neha - performances by Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Marián Lejava and Ostrava New Orchestra/Petr Kotik (Another Timbre)
Magnus Granberg - Evening Star, Vesper Bell - Apartment House (Another Timbre)
Pauline Oliveros - Sound Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre)
Steve Swell's Fire Into Music - For Jemeel – Fire from the Road (RogueArt; recorded 2004-05)
April 10
Giovanni di Domenico/Silvia Tarozzi/Emmanuel Holterbach - L’occhio del vedere (Elsewhere)
Jürg Frey - Continuité, fragilité, résonance - Quatuor Bozzini, Konus Quartett (Elsewhere)
Germaine Sijstermans/Koen Nutters/Reinier van Houdt - Circles, Reeds, and Memories (Elsewhere)
April 14
Olivia De Prato - Panorama - compositions by Missy Mazzoli, Jen Shyu, Angélica Negrón, Miya Masaoka, and Samantha Fernando (New Focus)
gabby fluke-mogul & Nava Dunkelman - Likht (Relative Pitch)
Matt Mitchell - Oblong Aplomb (Out of Your Head)
Vasco Trilla/Ra Kalam Bob Moses - Singing Icons (Astral Spirits)
April 21
Thomas Adès - Dante - Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel (Nonesuch)
Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, Dean Roberts - May 99 (Blank Forms)
John Zorn - Multiplicities, Vol. 2 (Tzadik)
April 22
Éliane Radigue - Occam - Hepta I; Occam XX - Ensemble Dedalus, Ryoko Akama (Montagne Noire)
April 28
Bill Orcutt - Jump On It (Palilalia)
May 5
yMusic - YMUSIC (StorySound)
Spring 2023
Henry Threadgill Ensemble - The Other One (Pi Recordings)
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