For the Record: The Master List
Keeping tabs on new and pending recordings of interest to the new-music community, on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, and digital-only formats.
Updated April 13, 2024.
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 page used to be only for paid subscribers, and maybe one day in the future that could be true again. But it’s not, now.)
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.
New this week.
April 12
[Ahmed] - Giant Beauty (fönstret)
Daniel Bachman - Quaker Run Wildfire (10/24/23–11/17/23) for Fiddle and Guitar (Longform Editions)
Olivia Block - The Mountains Pass (Black Truffle)
Dave Douglas - GIFTS (Greenleaf Music)
Daniel Elms - Collected Works 2018-22 - performances by BBC Concert Orchestra/Robert Ames and Manchester Collective (Bedroom Community)
Ephemeris (Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Carol Liebowitz, Tom Blancarte, John Bernard Wagner) - Ephemeris (Marsken)
Chuck Johnson - Cypress Suite (Longform Editions)
Piotr Kurek - The night we slept under an overhanging cliff (Longform Editions)
Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses - The Crop Circles Suite, Part One (Mahakala Music)
Paolo Marchettini - Ebony Chants (New Focus)
Chantal Michelle - ℎ− 2− ℎ− − 2 ℎ− (Dinzu Artefacts)
Weston Olencki festuring Jules Reidy - I Went to the Dance (Longform Editions)
Hannah Selin - Dream Journal & The Apocalypse (Gold Bolus)
Ryan Seward & Andrew Weathers - Laminar Interiors (Editions Glomar)
Mike Shiflet - Tetracosa Ensemble, Volumes 1-4 (self-released)
Mike Shiflet - Tetracosa Ensemble, Volumes 5-8 (self-released)
Mike Shiflet - Tetracosa 2024, Volumes 1-4 (self-released)
Mike Shiflet - Tetracosa 2024, Volumes 5-8 (self-released)
Patrick Shiroishi - A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest (Sub Pop)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Symphony No. 5 - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOPsound)
Upcoming releases
☆ - new since previous update
April 19
James Díaz - [speaking in a foreign language] - Julia Jung Un Suh (New Focus)
Bill Frisell - Orchestras (Blue Note)
☆ Patrick Giguère - Intimes exubérances - Cheryl Duvall (Redshift Music)
Michael Zev Gordon - The Impermanence of Things - performances by BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Carolin Widmann, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Huw Watkins, London Sinfonietta, and Ian Dearden (NMC Recordings)
Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg - Musho (Intakt)
Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening (ECM)
Camila Nebbia & Patrick Shiroishi - We Speak in Rivers (Superpang)
Manja Ristić - Ma (Line)
Brandon Ross Phantom Station - Off the End (Sunnyside)
claire rousay - sentiment (Thrill Jockey)
Márta Sanchez - Perpetual Void (Intakt)
Alex Sopp - The Hem & The Haw (New Amsterdam)
April 22
Stacy Garrop - Terra Nostra - Michelle Areyzaga, Leah Dexter, Jesse Donner, David Govertsen, Uniting Voices, Northwestern University Chorale, Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra/Stephen Alltop (Çedille)
Bobby Previte - Pathways for Drum Set (Open World; limited edition physical release, no streaming)
April 23
Jules Archive - Platonic Tales (Hidden Harmony)
April 26
John Adams/Peter Sellars - Girls of the Golden West - Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic/John Adams (Nonesuch)
Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf, Christian Euman - Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? (Bright Shiny Things)
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin - Ghosted II (Drag City)
Lainie Fefferman - Here I Am - performances by Lainie Fefferman, Charlotte Mundy, Meaghan Burke, Mellissa Hughes, Martha Cluver, Caroline Shaw, and Transit (New Focus)
Carlo Giffoni - Dream Walker (Ideologic Organ)
Kenneth Kirschner - Three Cellos - Christopher Gross (greyfade)
Christina Kubisch & Trondheim Voices - Stromsänger (Important)
Scott McLaughlin - we are environments for each other - Mira Benjamin, Zubin Kanga (Huddersfield Contemporary Records)
Rama Parwata - Ceases (Cassauna)
Tomeka Reid Quartet - 3+3 (Cuneiform)
☆ James Romig - Ring (Parallax Music Press)
Elif Yalvaç - Vection (Éliane Tapes)
April 30
Alexis Marcelo’s Nananom Xu - Cantilever (Infrequent Seams)
May 1
Samuel Reinhard - For Piano and Shō - Paul Jacob Fossum, Haruna Higashida (elsewhere)
May 2
Sofi Paez - silent stories (OPIA Community)
May 3
David Crowell - Point/Cloud - performances by Sandbox Percussion, Dan Lippel, Mak Grgić, and eco|tonal (Better Company)
Stefan Crump - Slow Water (Papillon Sounds)
Jeremiah Cymerman - Body of Light (5049 Records)
☆ Andrew Hulse - Fabric of Light (self-released)
Helmut Lachenmann - Mes Adieux - performances by Trio Catch, trio recherche, Karolina Öhman, and WDR Sinfonieorchester/Lin Liao (bastille musique)
Matt Mitchell - Illimitable (Obliquity)
Modney - Ascending Primes - performances by Anna Webber, Nate Wooley, Ben LaMar Gay, Cory Smythe, Charmaine Lee, Sam Pluta, David Byrd-Marrow, Dan Peck, Kate Gentile, Gabriela Díaz, Erica Dicker, Eddy Kwon, Kyle Armbrust, Joanna Mattrey, Mariel Roberts, and Lester St. Louis (Pyroclastic)
Steph Richards - Power Vibe (Northern Spy)
Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio - Unknown Rivers (Pi Recordings)
May 5
J. Pavone String Ensemble - Reverse Bloom (Astral Spirits)
May 10
Gelsey Bell & Erin Rogers - Skylighght (Chaikin)
Alvaro Daguer, Pablo Picco, Tomás Salvatierra & Mark Harwood - En el jardín de las Matemáticas (In the Garden of Mathematics) (Penultimate Press)
☆ Decoda - Decoda - compositions by Valerie Coleman, William Bolcom, and Reza Vali (Bright Shiny Things)
☆ Du.0 (Aimée Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood) - Thoughts from the Future - compositions by Emily Praetorius, Leah Asher, and Scott Wollschleger (Gold Bolus)
Joy Guidry - AMEN (Whited Sepulchre)
House of Gold - House of Gold - compositions by Isaiah Ceccarelli (Sofa Music)
Brad Mehldau - After Bach II (Nonesuch)
Brad Mehldau - Après Fauré (Nonesuch)
Ron Miles - Old Main Chapel (Blue Note; recorded 2011)
Elaine Mitchener - Solo Throat (Otoroku)
Shane Parish - Repertoire (Palilalia)
RLW - C.D. (Penultimate Press)
Wadada Leo Smith/Amina Claudine Myers - Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
Jason Treuting - Go Placidly with Haste (Cantaloupe Music)
May 17
John Luther Adams - Waves and Particles - JACK Quartet (Cold Blue)
Christopher Cerrone - Beaufort Scales - Lorelei Ensemble (Cold Blue)
Layale Chaker & Sarafand - Radio Afloat (In a Circle)
Andy Clausen - Few Ill Words: Solo Trombone at The Tank, Vol. 1 (Westerlies)
ETHEL & Layale Chaker - Vigil (In a Circle)
☆ Inna Faliks - Manuscripts Don’t Burn - compositions by Clarice Assad, Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, Veronika Krausas, Maya Miro Johnson, Mike Garson, Fanny Mendelssohn, Fazil Say, and Franz Schubert (Sono Luminus)
James Ilgenfritz - Stay Logged In on This Trusted Device (Infrequent Seams)
☆ David Murray Quartet - Francesca (Intakt)
☆ Weston Olencki - pearls ground down to powder (Full Spectrum)
Untight - Fair (self-released)
May 23
Han-earl Park, Yorgos Dimitriadis, and Camila Nebbia - Gonggong 225088 (Waveform Alphabet)
May 24
☆ Christer Bothén featuring Bolon Bata - Trancedance (Black Truffle; originally released 1984)
Richard Chartier - On Leaving (Touch)
☆ Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe - In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks)
☆ Sarah Hennies - Motor Tapes - performances by Ensemble 0, Talea Ensemble/James Baker, and Ensemble Dedalus (New World)
Mazz Swift - The 10000 Things: PRAISE SONGS for the iRiligious (New Amsterdam)
Kenny Warren - Sweet World (Out of Your Head)
Yarn/Wire - Yarn/Wire Currents 9 - compositions by Jessie Cox, Heather Stebbins, and Jordan Dykstra (Yarn/Wire)
May 28
Dickens, Dicker, Wallace - Trespassers (Infrequent Seams)
May 31
Robin Holcomb - One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies)
Mikel Rouse - Language Barrier (ExitMusic)
June 3
Children of the Sun - Ofamfa (moved-by-sound; originally released 1971)
June 7
Lisa Illean - arcing, stilling, bending, gathering - performances by Explore Ensemble, Juliet Fraser, GBSR Duo, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra (NMC Recordings)
June 14
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion - Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
June 28
☆ Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist (Drag City)
July 2024
☆ Michael Ranta - Transits, Vol. 1 - Sarah Hennies, Madison Greenstone, Katie Porter, Bard Conservatory Percussion Ensemble (Important)
Fall 2024
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
Thank you.