For the Record: September 13, 2024.
A quick tip sheet boosting necessities from Gelsey Bell, Lea Bertucci, Sarah Davachi, and Wendy Eisenberg, plus more 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.
Today’s newsletter arrives late, but here’s the gist: There are great new records out today by Gelsey Bell (who’s performing a Death of Classical showcase tonight and tomorrow night in Brooklyn), Lea Bertucci, Sarah Davachi, and Wendy Eisenberg. They are all strong, ambitious projects, and you shouldn’t miss any of them.
If you’ve got the time and appetite for more, I warmly recommend a clearing, the new album from the extraordinary duo of violinist Sarah Saviet and pianist Joseph Houston—sensational interpreters of music by manifold composers, here playing their own original repertoire. And I’m enjoying getting to know the fascinating work of Kristina Warren, a composer and sound artist from Providence, RI, via the new album Three Rivulets.
New this week.
Marco Baldini - Fuochi (Dinzu Artefacts)
Allan Gilbert Balon - The Magnesia Suite (Recital)
Gelsey Bell - mɔɹniŋ [morning//mourning] (Gold Bolus)
Lea Bertucci - Hold Music (Dinzu Artefacts)
Sarah Davachi - The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music)
Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder (American Dreams)
Luc Ferrari - Complete Works 07 (Maison ONA)
Fictional Souvenirs (Butcher/Thomas/Solberg) - Volatile Object (Trost)
Henry Fraser - Breath Line (Dinzu Artefacts)
David Fulmer - immaculate sigh of stars - performances by Stefan Jackiw with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Matthias Pintscher, Horszowski Trio, Nathan Ben-Yehuda, León Bernsdorf, Jay Campbell, Conor Hanick, Parker Ramsay, Conrad Tao, and Mike Truesdell (New Focus)
Saviet/Houston Duo - a clearing (Marginal Frequency)
Jason Stein - Anchors (Tao Forms)
Davóne Tines & The Truth - ROBESOИ (Nonesuch)
Tulpas - Atisbo (Astral Spirits)
Gebhard Ullmann - Impromptus und Interationen - Vitalii Kyianytsia (Kairos)
Kristina Warren - Three Rivulets (self-released)
Upcoming releases.
September 20
Jon Madof - Urim (self-released)
September 27
Raphael Rogiński - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes (Unsound; 2015 recording, expanded reissue)
October 4
Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley - Polarity 3 (Burning Ambulance Music)
Andrew Tholl - The River Above, The River Below (Populist)
Tungu - Irrational Thinking of the Subject (Burning Ambulance Music)
Sharlene Wallace/Frank Horvat - Trees.Listen (I Am Who I Am)
October 18
Randy Ingram - Aries Dance (Sounderscore)
October 21
Ernst Karel/Bhob Rainey - 47 Gates (Erstwhile)
November 8
Rafael Anton Irisarri - FAÇADISMS (Black Knoll)
January 3, 2025
Dem - Absolutely (Carrier)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.