For the Record: October 25, 2024.
New arrivals 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, 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.
Topspin.
Scary how fast this week got away. No time for anything resembling a review, just the warmest possible recommendations for new releases by Félicia Atkinson, Daniela Huerta, Alma Laprida, and Snowdrops. Among upcoming releases, if you’re into vintage electronic music, minimalist drone, or New Age meditation, or especially if you’re into all of the above, you won’t want to miss Agartha, the fascinating new archival project from Important Records delving into the personal journeys into mystery of Meredith Young-Sowers.
New this week.
Félicia Atkinson - Space As an Instrument (Shelter Press)
Body Meπa - Prayer in Dub (Hausu Mountain)
Elliot Cole - Left Hand Path (Long Echo)
Steve Coleman & Five Elements - PolyTropoi / Of Many Turns (Pi Recordings)
Alex Cunningham and Eli Wallace - The Terrible Habit of Theatre (Storm Cellar/Personal Archives)
Roland Dahinden - Theatre of the Mind - Gareth Davis (Moving Furniture)
Rich Halley 4 - Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle)
Ariel Horowitz - hearth - compositions by Ariel Horowitz, Ede Poldini/Fritz Kreisler, William Grant Still, and Karol Szymanowski (Bright Shiny Things)
Daniela Huerta - Soplo (Elevator Bath)
Charlotte Jacobs - a t l a s (New Amsterdam)
Ernst Karel/Bhob Rainey - 47 Gates (Erstwhile)
Alma Laprida - Pitch Dark and Trembling (Outside Time)
Giacomo Merega & Joe Morris - Opus Dichotomous (Infrequent Seams)
more eaze & kaho matsui - computer and recording works for girls (Full Spectrum)
Caroline Shaw - Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score) (Nonesuch)
Snowdrops (Christine Ott, Mathieu Gabry) - Singing Stones (Volume 1) (Gizeh)
Steve Swell’s Imbued with Light - Hommage à Galina Ustvolskaya (Silkheart)
Uncivilized - GUMMYZ (Ignore Heroes)
Various artists/Paola Prestini & Andrew Ousley - Live from National Sawdust: JOY (VIA Records)
Mark Wastell - Pre-existing Commitments (Confront)
Patrick Yim - One: New Music for Unaccompanied Violin - compositions by Ilari Kaila, Juri Seo, Takuma Itoh, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, Matthew Schreibeis, and John Liberatore (New Focus)
Upcoming releases.
November 1
Christopher Trapani - Noise Uprising - Sophia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg, Zwerm (New World)
November 4
Eventless Plot/Francesco Covarino - Methexis (Innovo Editions)
Limpe Fuchs/Mark Fell - Dessogia/Queetch/Fauch (Black Truffle)
November 15
Elori Saxl - Earth Focus (Original Score) (Western Vinyl)
December 6
Out Of/Into - Motion I (Blue Note)
Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (Important)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.