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 May 5, 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.
May 9.
Corneliu Cezar - Ziua Fără Sfârșit (Metaphon)
Amanda Ekery - Árabe (self-released)
Esthesis Quartet - Sound & Fury (Sunnyside)
History Dog (Shara Lunon, Chris Williams, Luke Stewart, Lesley Mok) - Root Systems (Otherly Love)
Ivor Kallin - Bagpipe Practice Room (scatterArchive)
Catherine Lamb - interius/exterius - Ghost Ensemble (greyfade)
Ramon Lopez - 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt)
Merzbow - The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue (Room40; recorded 1996)
Cole Pulice - Land’s End Eternal (Leaving)
Ringdown (Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan) - Lady on the Bike (Nonesuch)
Jacobo Vega-Albela - Un-Belonging (577 Records)
Austin Wulliman - Escape Rites - JACK Quartet (Sono Luminus)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
May 16.
Nicolas Finch, NouLou Chamber Players - Cellostatus - compositions by Alyssa Weinberg, Dorian Wallace, and Ljova (Bright Shiny Things)
Ben Frost - Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions (Mute)
Joy Guidry - Five Prayers (Jaid)
David Handler - Life Like Violence (Cantaloupe Music)
Alexander Hawkins - Song Unconditional (Intakt)
Concepcion Huerta - El Sol de los Muertos (Umor Rex)
Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson - Contact (TBC Editions)
Alex Paxton - Delicious - performances by Dreammusics Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain (NEC), GBSR Duo, and Explore Ensemble (New Amsterdam)
May 23.
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons - Live in Philadelphia (Ars Nova Workshop/Otherly Love)
Brooklyn Rider - The Four Elements - compositions by Colin Jacobsen, Dan Trueman, Andreia Pinto Correia, Henri Dutilleux, Akshaya Tucker, Dmitri Shostakovich, Conrad Tao, and Osvaldo Golijov (In a Circle)
Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
Ayman Fanous & Joe Morris - Zuhour (Infrequent Seams)
Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Adam Rudolph - Beingness (Meta)
☆ Matt Mitchell - Sacrosanctity (Obliquity)
Evan Parker & Bill Nace - Branches (Otoroku)
Huang Ruo/David Henry Hwang - An American Soldier - Brian Vu, Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Hannah Cho, Alex DeSocio, American Composers Orchestra/Carolyn Kuan (Platoon)
David Van Tieghem - Even As We Speak: The Music of David Van Tieghem (Phantom Limb; originally released 1984–89)
☆ Ryan Vigil - Vigil, Vol. 1 - performances by Lilit Hartunian and John McDonald (New Focus)
May 26.
Paula Shocron + Pablo Díaz - live in Münster (scatterArchive)
May 27.
☆ claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - quilted lament (Mappa)
May 30.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (Blank Forms Editions)
The Beverage Station (Lainie Fefferman & Jascha Narveson) - Little Gray Cells (Gold Bolus)
Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation - This Time (Sunnyside)
☆ James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
Hanne Lippard, Ellen Arkbro, Hampus Lindwall - How do I know if my cat likes me? (Blank Forms Editions/La Becque Editions)
Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp - Realism (ESP-Disk’)
Qasim Naqvi - Endling (Erased Tapes)
☆ Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - Гільдеґарда (Hildegard) (Unsound)
Yoga Nugraha Usmad - Gurnida (Phantom Limb)
June 2025.
June 4.
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Bristol) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Leicester) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Sheffield) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Southampton) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
June 6.
Elisabeth Klinck - Chronotopia (Hallow Ground)
☆ Daniel Pesca - Walk with me, my joy - performances by Sarah Frisof, Dieter Hennings, Christine Lamprea, Ian Rosenbaum, and Daniel Pesca (New Focus)
Andrew Schiller - Rumble Rubble Ripple (Endectomorph Music)
Dan Weiss Quartet - Unclassified Affections (Pi Recordings)
June 13.
Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
Juri Seo - Obsolete Music - Latitude 49 (New Amsterdam)
The Westerlies - Paradise (Westerlies Music)
June 20.
Susana López - Materia Vibrante (Elevator Bath)
Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
Peretsky - It Doesn’t Get Cold in October Anymore (Whited Sepulchre)
Curtis J. Stewart - Seasons of Change (Bright Shiny Things)
June 27.
Tim Barnes - Lost Words (Quakebasket)
Tim Barnes - Noumena (Quakebasket)
☆ Joane Hétu - Elle a son mot à dire - Ensemble SuperMusique (Ambiances Magnétiques)
☆ Sarah Nemtsov - Tzimtzum - Ensemble Nikel, WDR Sinfonieorchester/Peter Rundel (bastille musique)
☆ Stephen O’Malley - But remember what you have had (Portraits GRM)
☆ Pan American & Kramer - Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea (Shimmy-Disc)
Tropos - Switches (Endectomorph Music)
☆ Owen Underhill - Songs and Quartets - Daniel Cabena, Jeremy Berkman, Quatuor Bozzini (Collection QB)
☆ Zimoun - Harmonium I-VI (Room40)
July 2025.
July 4.
Darragh Morgan - For Violin and Electronics, Volume II - compositions by Shiva Feshareki, Zack Browning, Robin Rimbaud, Donnacha Dennehy, Ibukun Sunday, Andrew Poppy, Mira Calix, Irene Buckley, and Frank Lyons (Diatribe)
July 11.
☆ Siavash Amini - Caligo (Room40)
Alan Niblock, John Butcher, Mark Sanders - Tectonic Plates (577 Records)
July 18.
☆ Norman Westberg - Milan (Room40)
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.