For the Record: The Master List
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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 Sept. 23, 2023.
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 version of the list, which will be continuously updated, is for paying subscribers only—with thanks.
(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.
andPlay - Translucent Harmonies - compositions by Catherine Lamb and Kristofer Svensson (Another Timbre)
John Aylward - Oblivion - Lukas Papenfusscline, Cailin Marcel Manson, Tyler Boque, Nina Guo, Laura Williamson, Issei Herr, Greg Chudzik, Daniel Lippel, John Aylward, Tianyi Wang, Stratis Minakakis (New Focus)
Seamus Cater - A History of Musical Pitch (Another Timbre)
Moniek Darge/Vanessa Rossetto - Dream Soundies (Erstwhile)
Eventless Plot - Schemata (tsss tapes)
Jürg Frey - String Trio - Apartment Building (Another Timbre)
Madison Greenstone - Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness (Relative Pitch)
David Grubbs - From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
Yotam Haber - Bloodsnow - performances by Taylor Ward, Don-Paul Kahl, Talea Ensemble, and American Wild Ensemble (Sideband)
Laurel Halo - Atlas (Awe)
International Contemporary Ensemble - New Moons I: Music from Luna Composition Lab 2023 - compositions by Lucy Chen, Hannah Chen, Lili M. Namazi, Elaina Stuppler, and Isabelle Tseng (Luna Composition Lab)
AF Jones and Andrew Weathers - Stewburner (Gertrude Tapes)
Catherine Lamb - parallaxis forma - Lotte Betts-Dean, Exaudi, Explore Ensemble (Another Timbre)
Graham Lambkin/James Rushford - Gondolas (Erstwhile)
Bruce Levingston - Without Words - compositions by Felix Mendelssohn and Price Walden (Sono Luminus)
Norman W. Long - Re-Membering/Re-Presencing (Rural Situationism)
John McGuire - Vanishing Points/A Cappella (Unseen Worlds)
Weston Olencki/Anna Webber - Several (Astral Spirits)
Taku Sugimoto - 4 Improvisations (self-released)
Ivan Vukosavljević - Slow Roads - performances by Tineke Steenbrink, Francesca Ajossa, Jan Hage, and Lise Morrison (Elsewhere)
Upcoming releases.
(☆ - new since previous update)
September 28
☆ Filera (Wilfrido Terrazas, Carmina Escobar, Natalia Perez-Turner) - Filias/Fobias (Infrequent Seams)
September 23
Jessica Ackerley, Yuma Uesaka, Colin Hinton - Petting Zoo (Waveform Alphabet)
September 29
☆ Marja Ahti - Tender Membranes (Black Truffle)
☆ Assembly Quartet - (RE)Mix - compositions by Avner Dorman, Alfred Schnittke, and Bill Ryan (AMP Recordings)
Vilhelm Bromander - In this forever unfolding moment (Thanatosis)
Lainie Fefferman - White Fire (Gold Bolus)
Daniel Fishkin - Dark Listening - performances by Daniel Fishkin, the Daxophone Consort, Science Ficta Viola da Gamba Consort, and ensemble mise-en (Tripticks Tapes)
Hollow Deck (Mia Friedman and Andy Allen) - Over East (Triptick Tapes)
Jlin - Perspective (Planet Mu)
Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (Northern Spy)
Dominique Lawalrée - De Temps en Temps - Nicolas Horvath (Collection 1001 Notes)
Wolfgang Muthspiel - Dance of the Elders (ECM)
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… (Constellation)
Todd Sickafoose - Bear Proof (Secret Hatch)
Maria Elena Silva - Dulce (Astral Spirits/BIG EGO)
☆ Tender Crust - Convexity (Full Spectrum)
Christopher Tignor - The Art of Surrender (Western Vinyl)
October 6
Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0 - Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning Expanded (Erased Tapes)
Nathan Davis - Neutral Buoyant (Infrequent Seams)
Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly - Hopeful Monster (No Hay Discos)
Thomas Larcher - The Living Mountain - performances by Sarah Aristidou, Alisa Weilerstein, Aaron Pilsan, Luka Juhart, Andrè Schuen, Daniel Heide, and Münchner Kammerorchester/Clemens Schuldt (ECM New Series)
Jeff Lederer - Balls of Simplicity: Notated Works 1979–2021 - Morningside Tone Collective (Little (i) Music)
Jeff Lederer with Mary LaRose - Schoenberg on the Beach (Little (i) Music)
George Lewis - Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts - Joelle Lamarre, Gwendolyn Brown, Julian Terrell Otis, International Contemporary Ensemble/David Fulmer (New Focus)
Jordan Martins - Fogery Nagles (Astral Spirits)
Jessica Pavone - Clamor (Out of Your Head)
Ethan Philion - Gnosis (Sunnyside)
Rick Reed - The Symmetry of Telemetry (Elevator Bath)
Brad E. Rose - I’m Scared of Dying (Room40)
John Zorn - Nothing Is As Real As Nothing (Tzadik)
October 13
Ellen Arkbro - Sounds While Waiting (Superior Viaduct; vinyl pressing, previously available digital-only)
Doug Bielmeier - Music for Billionaires (New Focus)
Adam Birnbaum - Preludes (Chelsea Music Festival)
☆ Diego Caicedo - Seis Amorfismos (Burning Ambulance)
Petra Hermanova - In Death’s Eyes (Unguarded)
Bridget Kibbey - Crossing the Ocean - compositions by Kinan Azmeh, Du Yun, Paquito d’Rivera, Avner Dorman, Kati Agócs, and David Bruce (Pentatone)
YuEun Kim, Mina Gajić, Coleman Itzkoff - Sonic Alchemy - compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arvo Pärt, and Pēteris Vasks (Sono Luminus)
Mendoza Hoff Revels - Echolocation (AUM Fidelity)
Nicole Mitchell & Alexander Hawkins - At Earth School (Astral Spirits)
Billy Mohler - Ultraviolet (Contagious Music)
Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley - Polarity 2 (Burning Ambulance)
Aditya Prakash - Isolashun (New Amsterdam)
Maria Valencia - Compendio de Alofonías Abisales (Relative Pitch)
October 16
☆ Adam Pultz - Wade (Carrier)
October 20
Tristan Allen - Tin Iso and the Dawn (RNVG Intl.)
Kate Gentile - Find Letter X (Pi Recordings)
Hannah Marks - Outsider, Outlier (Out of Your Head)
Monocot - Leave to Cool (Astral Editions)
Aruán Ortiz - Pastor’s Paradox (Clean Feed)
Sybarite5 - Collective Wisdom - compositions by Curtis Stewart, Jessica Meyer, Pedro Giraudo, Jackson Greenberg, Michael Gilbertson, Komitas, and Punch Brothers (Bright Shiny Things)
Ohad Talmor - Back to the Land (Intakt)
Triola - Scapegoat (Constructive)
Anna Webber - Shimmer Wince (Intakt)
Anna Webber & Matt Mitchell - Capacious Aeration (Tzadik)
October 21
Taku Unami - bot box boxes (Erstwhile)
October 24
Ian Power - Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi - Anne Rainwater (Carrier)
October 27
Siavash Amini - eremos (American Dreams)
Jasper String Quartet - Insects & Machines – String Quartets of Vivian Fung (Sono Luminus)
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang - Azure (Ideologic Organ)
Quicksails (Ben Baker Billington) - Surface (Hausu Mountain)
Mike Reed - The Separatist Party (WeJazz/Astral Spirits)
Angelica Sanchez - Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic)
Tiger Village (Tim Thornton) - The Celebration (Hausu Mountain)
Ruiqi Wang - Subduing the Silence (Orchard of Pomegranates)
October 31
☆ James Ilgenfritz Quintet featuring J.D. Parran - Museum of Invisible Things (Infrequent Seams)
November 1
Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers - Keiko Shichijo (Elsewhere)
Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors - Guy Vandromme, Adriaan Severins, Luciana Elizondo, Fabio Gionfrida (Elsewhere)
November 3
☆ Sarah Davachi - Long Gradus (Late Music)
Allen Ginsberg - The Lion for Real, Re-Born (Allen Ginsberg LLC; originally issued 1989 on Great Jones)
Matmos - Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
Eric Moe - Strenuous Pleasures - performances by David Russell, Elliott Riley, counter)induction, Da Capo Chamber Players, and Horszowski Trio (New Focus)
☆ Nicole Rampersaud - Saudade (Ansible Editions)
Joe Santa Maria - Echo Deep (Orenda)
November 10
☆ Susan Alcorn Septeto del Sur - Canto (Relative Pitch)
☆ François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley - Cylene II (Drag City)
Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano (InFiné)
☆ Celia Hollander - 2nd Draft (Leaving)
☆ Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian, Ben Monder - Liminal Silence (Earshift Music)
Cecilia Lopez & Ingrid Laubrock - Maromas (Relative Pitch)
Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet - Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt)
☆ David Lee Myers & Toshimaru Nakamura - Elements (Surface World)
David Shapiro - Sumptuous Planet - The Crossing/Donald Nally (New Focus)
Patrick Shiroishi - I was too young to hear silence (American Dreams)
Yuhan Su - Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside)
Christopher Whyte - Cold Stability - compositions by Christopher Whyte, Toshio Hosokawa, Sarah Hennies, and Lou Harrison (New Focus)
☆ Mareike Wiening - Reveal (Greenleaf Music)
Miguel Zenón/Dan Tepfer - Internal Melodies (Main Door Music)
November 17
☆ Daniel Bachman - When the Roses Come Again (Three-Lobed)
Kate Carr - A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds (Room40)
☆ ellen o - sparrows and doves (Gold Bolus; new vinyl issue of 2014 release)
Loren Stillman - Time and Again (Sunnyside)
☆ Joshua Van Tassel - The Recently Beautiful (Backward Music)
November 28
☆ Luc Vitk - Environment (Infrequent Seams)
December 1
Ben Goldberg/Todd Sickafoose/Scott Amendola - Here to There (Secret Hatch)
☆ Guy Klucevsek - Hope Dies Last - performances by Guy Klucevsek, Todd Reynolds, Alan Bern, Nathan Koci, Will Holshauser, Jenny Lin, Bachtopus, The Smudges, and Jerome Kitzke (Starkland)
☆ Dave Wilson - Ephemeral (Thelonious)
December 8
Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - LP2 (greyfade)
☆ JJJJJerome Ellis - Compline in Nine Movements (NNA Tapes)
December 12
☆ Lily Guarneros Maase - teeth::bones (Infrequent Seams)
Also in December
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
Spring 2024
John Luther Adams - Waves and Particles - JACK Quartet (Cold Blue)
Christopher Cerrone - Beaufort Scales - Lorelei Ensemble (Cold Blue)
Thank you.