For the Record: September 20, 2024.
Sarah Davachi performs in NYC tonight, plus more eaze, Patrick Shiroishi, Tallā Rouge, Anthony Vine, and 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, 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.
In this space last week I heralded the arrival of The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir, the gorgeous new album by Sarah Davachi. In the next newsletter I provided the usual batch of New York City live-music event listings… only to discover maybe an hour or so after publishing that Davachi is performing at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village—tonight. I added that information to the website, but I’m repeating it here again for anyone who might have missed it:
Sarah Davachi
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St., Greenwich Village
Friday, Sept. 20 at 7pm; $25–$30, advance $20–$25
lpr.comHard on the heels of The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir, a supremely gorgeous collection of modern music for old and new keys – pipe organs, Mellotron, and the like – composer, performer, and arcane-instrument scholar Sarah Davachi comes to LPR for an album-release celebration. Presumably she’s playing alone, but she’s sharing the bill with Randall Dunn, a revered engineer and producer as well as a sound artist in his own right.
Randall Dunn’s 2022 album, Gatha / for life cycles, is really good! I’m glad to have learned about it. For more happenings around the city tonight and over the next few days, see the Night After Night Watch Master List.
Bonus tracks.
Plenty of fine new recordings out today! So while I try to find enough time to write something about the clutch of intriguing new Bandcamp and streaming-audio alternatives (like Ampwall) popping up lately, I’ll urge you to find enough time to explore lacuna and parlor by more eaze, Glass House by Patrick Shiroishi, Shapes in Collective Space by Tallā Rouge, and Sound Spring by Anthony Vine.
I’m also deeply impressed with Resonating Earth, a potent collection of piano works by a broad range of contemporary composers, lovingly performed by Carolyn Enger—and while I’m hardly neutral, having written the liner notes, I reckon there’s something for everyone in this beautiful, meaningful recital.
New this week.
Kyle Bruckmann - Duty Cycle/Active Cultures (Already Dead)
crys cole - Making Conversation (Black Truffle)
The Crossing + PRISM Quartet - Ways You Went - compositions by Martin Bresnick and Mason Bates (Navona)
Caroline Davis - Portals, Volume 2: Returning (Intakt)
Caroline Enger - Resonating Earth - compositions by Caroline Shaw, Iman Habibi, John Cage, John Luther Adams, Marcos Balter, Meredith Monk, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Philip Glass, Sean Hickey, and Wolfgang Rihm (Métier)
Gates/Hirsh/Carter - Phosphene (Mahakala Music)
Eva-Maria Houben - the voice - Eva-Maria Houben (kvieto)
Jason Kao Hwang - Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound Recordings)
Illusion of Safety - Float (Full Spectrum)
Arthur Levering - OceanRiverLake - performances by Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose, Lydian String Quartet, Donald Berman, Sarah Brady, and Maarten Stragier (New Focus)
Jon Madof - Urim (self-released)
more eaze - lacuna and parlor (Mondoj)
Simon Moullier - Elements of Light (Candid)
Nichunimu (Benjamin Vergara, Nicolás Carrasco, Matías Mardones) - Calados (577 Records)
Bernard Parmegiani - Complete Works 07 (Maison ONA)
Arun Ramamurthy Trio - New Moon (Greenleaf Music)
Patrick Shiroishi - Glass House (Otherly Love)
Tallā Rouge - Shapes in Collective Space - compositions by Karl Mitze, Kian Ravaei, Gemma Peacocke, inti figgis-vizueta, Gala Flagello, and Akshaya Avril Tucker (Bright Shiny Things)
Anthony Vine - Sound Spring (Kuyin)
Upcoming releases.
September 27
Tim Brady - Imagine Many Guitars (Redshift Music)
September 28
Michael J. Park - Performing Memories (Redshift Music)
October 4
Leihelua Lanzilotti - forever forward in search of the beautiful - performances by Leihelua Lanzilotti, Gahlord Dewald, Brian Horton, Roomful of Teeth, Argus String Quartet, and more (New Focus)
October 11
Grand Electric (Mark Dancigers and Aaron Wunsch) - Dawn (Bright Shiny Things)
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse - Broken Aquarium/The Viscosity (Astral Editions)
Angel Lin - All of These Are in Me (Full Spectrum)
October 18
John Luther Adams - An Atlas of Deep Time - South Dakota Symphony Orchestra/Delta David Gier (Cantaloupe Music)
Robert Curgenven - AGENESIS (Cloudchamber Recordings)
Anna Webber - simpletrio2000 (Intakt)
October 25
Giacomo Merega & Joe Morris - Opus Dichotomous (Infrequent Seams)
November 1
Pierre Henry - Labyrinthe ! (Recollection GRM)
Bernard Parmegiani & François Bayle - Divine Comédie (Recollection GRM)
Tomin - A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem)
November 15
Joe Fonda Quartet - Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song)
Find many more upcoming releases in For the Record: The Master List, here.
Photographs by Steve Smith, except where indicated.