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 Feb. 18, 2025.
For the Record is a weekly column that 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.
To submit a forthcoming recording for consideration, email details to nightafternight@icloud.com at least 10 days before release date.
All opinions expressed herein are solely my own, and do not express the views of my employer.
New this week.
February 21.
Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen & Kristofer Svensson - For Violin, Snare & Kacapi (Kuyin)
Frank Carlberg - Dream Machine (Red Piano)
Christopher Cerrone - Don’t Look Down - Sandbox Percussion (Pentatone)
Laura Cocks - FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Head)
Nina Garcia - Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ)
Jon Irabagon - Server Farm (Irabbagast)
Fred Frith & Shelley Burgon - The Life and Behavior (Relative Pitch)
Jim Hobbs & Timo Shanko - The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch)
Jacqueline Kerrod & Joe Morris - Morpeth Contemporary 2024 (Relative Pitch)
Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim and Joey Chang - Muzosynth Orchestra: Vol. 1 (self-released)
Oksana Linde - Travesías (Buh; recorded 1986–94)
Brandon Lopez - nada sagrada (Relative Pitch)
Jeff Myers - Goodnight (Neuma)
Julek ploski - Give Up Channel (Mappa)
Pulse - Pulse (New Focus)
Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
Takahashi Rose - Morning Music (scatterArchive)
The Young Mothers - Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
February 2025.
February 25.
Stefano Pilia - Lacinia (die Schachtel)
February 28.
☆ ⎤⎤⎤ (Chantal Michelle & Grace Villamil) - Live at Opus 40 (Notice Recordings)
Artemis - Arboresque (Blue Note)
☆ Kinan Azmeh and CityBand - Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido)
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito - Endless Season (577 Records)
☆ Francisco del Pino/Charlotte Mundy - The Sea (Notice Recordings)
☆ Nat Evans - Grief Scroll (self-released)
Reiko Füting - distant: violin. sound - performances by Miranda Cuckson, Doori Na, Jing Yang, Longleash, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Quartet121, Noise Catalogue, and SchallSpektrum (New Focus)
David Grubbs - Whistle from Above (Drag City)
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner - The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi Recordings)
☆ Devin Maxwell - Selfies (Infrequent Seams)
Matt McBane - Buoy (Gradient Music)
Mystery Sonata (Mina Gajić & Zachary Carrettin) - Aequora - compositions by Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Daníel Bjarnason, and Pall Ragnar Palsson (Sono Luminus)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - UBIQUE - Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods (Sono Luminus)
☆ Mark Turner - We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music)
☆ Julie Walkington & Jim Howard - Beyond the Treeline (Elsden Music)
Simón Willson - Bet (endectomorph music)
March 2025.
March 1.
Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Richard Valitutto (elsewhere)
Vanessa Rossetto - Pictures of the Warm South (Erstwhile)
March 4.
Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)
March 7.
Anouar Brahem - After the Last Sky (ECM)
Kate Carr - Rubber Band Music (Flaming Pines)
Claire Cope’s Ensemble C - Every Journey (Adhyaropa)
Pablo Diáz - son esos ecos (scatterArchive)
Violeta García - IN/OUT (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
☆ Nicole McCabe - A Song to Sing (Colorfield)
Green Mitchell Trio - Nature Channel (Queen Bee)
Billy Mohler - The Eternal (Contagious Music)
Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek - Greyhound Days (Mondoj)
March 8.
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma II (Erstwhile)
March 14.
Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson - Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
☆ dream brigade (Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok) - dream brigade (Infrequent Seams)
Judith Hamann - Aunes (Shelter Press)
Sean Hickey - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Vladimir Rumyantsev (Sono Luminus)
Kaisa’s Machine - Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music)
Mary Kouyoumdjian - Witness - Kronos Quartet (Phenotypic Recordings)
Owls - Rare Birds (New Amsterdam)
Steve Reich - Collected Works (Nonesuch; 27CD box including first recordings of Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer)
Gregory Spears - Seven Days - Pedja Mužijević (Bright Shiny Things)
March 21.
François J. Bonnet - Banshee (Portraits GRM)
Sarah Davachi - Basse Brevis (Portraits GRM)
Christopher Irniger Pilgrim - Human Intelligence Live (Intakt)
☆ Lucy Liyou - Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk)
Molto Ohm - FEED (New Focus)
more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Thrill Jockey)
Nick Storring - Mirante (We Are Busy Bodies)
March 28.
Sasha Berliner - Fantôme (Outside In Music)
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio - Dream a Dream (Libra)
Ingrid Laubrock - Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging (Blue Note)
Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
Nils Vigeland - Perfect Happiness - Jing Yang (New Focus)
April 2025.
April 1.
Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block - I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea (Room40)
April 4.
Jordan Glenn’s BEAK - The Party (Queen Bee)
Hemphill Stringtet (Curtis Stewart. Sam Bardfeld, Stephanie Griffin, Tomeka Reid) - The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
David Longstreth - Song of the Earth - Dirty Projectors, s t a r g a z e (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch)
Matthew Muñeses & Riza Printup - Pag-ibig Ko, Vol. 1 (Irrabagast)
April 11.
Michael Daugherty - Blue Electra - Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony Orchestra/David Allan Miller (Naxos)
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson (Decca)
Larum (Chet Doxas & Micah Frank) - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen, Part Two (Puremagnetik)
☆ Fred Moten & Brandon López - Revision (Tao Forms)
☆ Theresa Wong - Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
April 18.
☆ Joel Harrison - Guitar Talk, Vol. 2: Music for Two Guitars (AGS Recordings)
David Shea - An Eastern Western: Collected Works (Room40)
April 25.
Anzû Quartet - adjust - compositions by Ken Thomson and Anna Webber (Cantaloupe)
Michael Sarian - Esquina (Greenleaf Music)
May 2025.
May 2.
Peter Evans & Petter Eldh - Jazz Fest (More Is More; stream “Roulette” here)
Eric Shorter - Shorter Bendian Shields (577 Records)
May 6.
Jacobo Vega-Albela - Un-Belonging (577 Records)
May 9.
☆ Catherine Lamb - interius/exterius - Ghost Ensemble (greyfade)
☆ Merzbow - The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue (Room40; recorded 1996)
May 16.
David Handler - Life Like Violence (Cantaloupe Music)
Thank you.
Ben Monder's track 1973 has the guitar solo of the decade. What a record. Can't wait to listen again and again.