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 July 24, 2026.

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.

Any opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not express the views of my employer.

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New this week.

Aaron Edgcomb (Photograph: Alex Koi)

Aaron Edgcomb - Sisters Songbook (self-released)

James Emery & Anthony Braxton - Articulations (self-released)

Hypercube - Trace - compositions by Marcel Castro Lima, Seong Ae Kim, Corie Rose Soumah, Farzia Fallah, and Charles Rudig (New Focus)

Brandon Locher - The Shadow Planets (Shared Materials)

Joanna Mattrey, Camila Nebbia, Camilo Ángeles, Violeta García - Heavy Handed (Relative Pitch)

Finola Merivale & Catherine Sikora - Abhaile (Relative Pitch)

Florian Stoffner - bijou (Relative Pitch)

John Tilbury - At home (Another Timbre)

Tres Hongos - More Chips (Relative Pitch)

Tu-Ner - Rendezvous Rodeo (7d Media)

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Upcoming releases.

☆ new since previous update

Dafnis Prieto, Henry Threadgill, and Vijay Iyer release Fifteen on Aug. 21. (Photograph: Michael Wilson for Nonesuch Records)

August 7.

Greg Sandow - Three Quartets - Terra String Quartet (Acis)

Linda Catlin Smith - The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023) Vol. 2 - The Underfolding and Early Works - Cheryl Duvall (Redshift Music)

August 21.

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - Fifteen (Nonesuch)

August 28.

Marty Ehrlich - Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)

Henry Threadgill - Cut You Where You Was (Pi Recordings)

September 11.

Janel Leppin - The Realist (Out of Your Head)

September 18.

John McCowen with Lucy Railton and Weston Olencki - Pressure Chords (Hallow Ground)

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Thank you.