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 Dec. 20, 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.
Baldini/Dafeldecker/Strüver - Prismatic (Room40)
Luís Lopes Humanization 4tet - Saarbrücken (Clean Feed)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Zodiac (Hooker Vision; due Dec. 21)
Rie Nakajima/David Toop - Music for Voilà (Box)
Camila Nebbia, Dietrich Eichmann, John Hughes, Jeff Arnal - Chrononaux (Generate)
Paul Pinto - Water Music (Gold Bolus)
Thomas Rohrer + Philip Somervell - FOLWEN (scatterArchive)
Dan Rosenboom, Joshua White, Billy Mohler & Shawn Baltazor - The Left Edge: Live at Vine (Orenda)
Elliott Sharp & Bobby Previte - Poppo – Eternal Performance (Zoar; recorded 1985)
Niloufar Shiri + Isaac Otto Hayes - OSHI (Infrequent Seams)
Ueno Takashi - More ARMS (Room40)
David Torn - finally the sweetness (self-released)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
January 2025.
January 3
Dem - Absolutely (Carrier)
Avi C. Engel - Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Elephant Shrew Editions)
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra - LOLO80 (Adjacent)
January 10
William Basinski & Richard Chartier - Aurora Terminalis (Line)
Thea Farhadian - Tattoos and Other Markings (Other Minds)
Philip Glass - Aguas da Amazonia - Constance Volk, Third Coast Percussion (Rockwell)
Will Mason Quartet - Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus)
Sirius Quartet - Incantations - compositions by Gregor Huebner, Fung Chern Hwei, Sunjay Jayaram, and Jeremy Harman (Navona)
Sun & Rain (Nathaniel Morgan, Travis Laplante, Andrew Smiley, Jason Nazary) - Waterfall (Out of Your Head)
Nate Wooley - Henry House (Ideologic Organ)
January 15
Juno 3 (Han-earl Park, Lara Jones, Pat Thomas) - Proxemics (Buster and Friends)
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
January 17
Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch)
Tim Berne (Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey) - Yikes (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
☆ Exceptet - tree lines - compositions by Katherine Balch, Paul Kerekes, and Sarah Goldfeather (New Focus)
Mark Kirschenmann - Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet with Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams)
James McVinnie - Dreamcatcher - compositions by Nico Muhly, Meredith Monk, Laurie Spiegel, John Adams, inti figgis-vizueta, Gabriella Smith, Giles Swayne, Bryce Dessner, and Marcos Balter (Pentatone)
☆ Stemeseder Lillinger + Craig Taborn - Umbra III (Intakt)
January 24
Britta Byström - Ink-Wash on Paper (OUR Recordings)
Kate Carr and Matt Atkins - Organelles (Flaming Pines)
Gloria Cheng - Root Progressions - compositions by Anthony Davis, Jon Jang, James Newton, Arturo O’Farrill, Linda May Han Oh, and Gernot Wolfgang (Biophilia)
Clemens Kuratle Ydivide - The Default (Intakt)
☆ Satoko Fujii GEN - Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra)
☆ Natsuki Tamura/Keiji Haino – What happened there? (Libra)
January 31
Pierre Gerard - Full Yellow Cylinder (Eliane Tapes)
Kenny Wheeler Legacy - Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music)
Joachim Kühn - Échappée (Intakt)
Brandon López & DoYeon Kim - Syzygy, Vol. 1 (577 Records)
Peter Rehberg - Liminal States (Editions Mego)
Sarah Belle Reid + Vinny Golia - Accidental Ornithology (Infrequent Seams)
☆ [something’s happening] - Buzz (Flaming Pines)
☆ Stein Urheim - Speilstillevariasjoner (Hubro)
Jeong Lim Yang - Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
February 2025.
February 1
Matt McBane - Buoy (Gradient Music)
February 3
☆ Territorial Gobbing (Theo Gowans) - Hermit Card (scatterArchive)
☆ Watt (Jean Dousteyssier, Jean-Brice Godet, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Julien Pontvianne) - Watt - compositions by Léo Dupleix, Caroline Marçot, Karl Naegelen, and Watt (Montagne Noire)
February 7
Max Andrzejewski - Summen - Ensemble Resonanz (SN Variations)
Christopher Dammann - Christopher Dammann Sextet (Out of Your Head)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble/Martina Batič - O Listen! - compositions by Else Marie Pade and Uroš Krek (OUR Recordings)
Philip Golub - Loop 7 (Greyfade)
Gyan Riley - Winter Sun (self-released)
February 14
Benjamin Appl - Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág (Alpha Classics)
Peter Brötzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble/Jason Adasiewicz - The Quartet (Otoroku)
Stephen Davis Unit - The Gleaming World (577 Records)
☆ duo B. (Lisa Mezzacappa & Jason Levis) - Luminous Axis (Queen Bee)
Lei Liang - Dui - performances by Maya Beiser, Wu Man, Steven Schick, Cho-Liang Lin, Zhe Lin, Mark Dresser, and loadbang (Islandia)
John Patitucci - Spirit Fall (Edition)
February 18
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito - Endless Season (577 Records)
February 20
Julek ploski - Give Up Channel (Mappa)
February 21
Laura Cocks - FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Head)
Nina Garcia - Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ)
Jon Irabagon - Server Farm (Irabbagast)
Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
February 28
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)
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)
March 2025.
March 4
Dennis Egberth - The Dennis Egberth Dynasty (577 Records)
March 7
☆ Claire Cope’s Ensemble C - Every Journey (Adhyaropa)
☆ Green Mitchell Trio - Nature Channel (Queen Bee)
March 14
☆ Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson - Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
Sean Hickey - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Vladimir Rumyantsev (Sono Luminus)
Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
Steve Reich - Collected Works (Nonesuch; 27CD box including first recordings of Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer)
March 21
☆ more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Other Minds)
March 28
☆ Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio - Dream a Dream (Libra)
April 2025.
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)
☆ Matthew Muñeses & Riza Printup - Pag-ibig Ko, Vol. 1 (Irrabagast)
April 11
☆ Ingrid Laubrock - Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
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.