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 26, 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.
Cristina Altamura and Adam Sliwinski - the bitKlavier Commissions - compositions by Pascal Le Boeuf, Annika Socolofsky, Jenny Beck, Bora Yoon, Chris Douthitt, Noah Fishman, Nate May, Molly Herron, and Lainie Fefferman (Many Arrows Music)
Barry Chabala/David Forlano/Drew Gowran - Juno (Confront)
Tina Davidson - Barefoot - Jasper String Quartet, Natalie Zhu (New Focus)
Rhodri Davies/Pierre Gerard - la montagne change (Ftarri)
Ehnarhre - El Perro (Fiadh Productions)
Fletina - Serrof (Unfathomless)
Dave Harrington - Skull Dream (Maximum Overdub)
James Ilgenfritz - Proprioceptions III: Inasmuch and Insofar (Infrequent Seams)
Devin Maxwell - Timebending (Infrequent Seams)
Christopher McFall - I Throw the Switch on the Midnight Snake (Unfathomless)
Sergio Merce - Prosa (Hitorri)
Obscuress (Christina Carter and Spencer Dobbs) - Namesake (Texas Archives)
Raphael Rogiński - Žaltys (Unsound)
Gil Sansón - Dunning-Kruger Effect (Full Spectrum)
Taku Sugimoto/Wakana Ikeda/Pere Xirau - Ftarri 16 07 2023 (Meenna)
Dan Trueman - Preludes for bitKlavier - Cristina Altamura and Adam Sliwinski (Many Arrows Music)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
August 2
ayrtbh - Synthetic Weather Reporter (Aloe)
Zack Clarke - Plunge (Orenda)
Hubbub - abb abb abb (Relative Pitch)
Evan Lindorff-Ellery - Cymbals and Night (Aloe)
The Merian Ensemble - The Book of Spells - compositions by Clarice Assad, Nicole Chamberlain, Jennifer Higdon, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Soon Hee Newbold, Kimberly R. Osberg, and Lynne Plowman (Navona)
Onceim - Laminaire (Relative Pitch)
Darian Donovan Thomas - A Room With Many Doors: Night (New Amsterdam)
Pat Thomas & BleySchool - Where? (577 Records)
August 6
Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, William Parker, Francisco Mela - Shine Hear, Vol. 2 (577 Records)
August 9
Bosque Vacio (Leena Lee and Guillermo Guevara) - Cantera Oriente (Flaming Pines)
Leo Chadburn - The Primordial Pieces (Library of Nothing)
☆ Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony Levin - The Good Feelings (577 Records)
Krononaut (Leo Abrahams & Martin France) - Krononaut II (Palomino)
Lux Quartet (Myra Melford, Allison Miller, Dayna Stephens, Scott Colley) - Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird)
☆ Chico Mello/Helinho Brandão - Chico Mello/Helinho Brandão (Black Truffle, originally released 1984)
August 13
Alex Cunningham, Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Lisa Cameron - Meshes of Light (Infrequent Seams)
August 16
Jessica Ackerley - All of the Colours Are Singing (AKP Recordings)
Gerald Cleaver - The Process (Positive Elevation)
Etelin (Alex Cobb) - Patio User Manual (Beacon Sound)
Chuck Johnson - Sun Glories (Western Vinyl)
Andrew Livingston - Clock Orchard (Gold Bolus)
Frank London - Brass Conspiracy (Tzadik)
Matt Mitchell - Zealous Angles (Pi Recordings)
August 20
C6Fe2RN6 - C6Fe2RN6 (Astral Spirits)
August 21
John Blum Quartet featuring Marshall Allen - Deep Space (Astral Spirits)
August 23
☆ Anna Clyne - Shorthand - performances by Avi Avital, Colin Jacobsen, Pekka Kuusisto, Yo-Yo Ma, and The Knights/Eric Jacobsen (Sony Classical)
Bryce Dessner - Solos - performances by Anastasia Kobekina, Colin Currie, Katia Labèque, Lavinia Meijer, Nadia Sirota, Pekka Kuusisto, and Bryce Dessner (Sony Classical)
Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko - Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE Records)
☆ Splinter Reeds - Dark Currents - compositions by Michael Gordon and Paula Mathussen (Cantaloupe Music)
August 27
Philip Ellis Foster - The Cosmos Project (Infrequent Seams)
August 30
Laurie Anderson - Amelia (Nonesuch)
Barker/Parker/Irabagon - Bakunawa (Out of Your Head)
Loren Connors & David Grubbs - Evening Air (Room40)
☆ Happy Apple - New York CD (Sunnyside)
Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds (Moon Glyph)
Ellen Reid - Big Majestic (New Amsterdam)
☆ Vasco Trilla - The Bell Slept Long in its Tower (thanatosis)
Miguel Zenón - Golden City (Miel Music)
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September 1
Eventless Plot/Yorgos Dimitriadis - Entanglements (Innovo Editions)
September 6
☆ amelia courthouse - broken things (Spinster)
Timothy Archambault - Onimikìg (Ideologic Organ)
BASIC (Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi, Mikel Patrick Avery) - This Is BASIC (No Quarter)
Patricia Brennan - Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
Lukas De Clerck - The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas (Ideologic Organ)
☆ EZRA - Earth to EZRA (Cantaloupe Music)
Aiden Hellmuth - Good Intentions (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Roland Kayn - The Ortho-Project (Frozen Reeds; 15-CD ltd. edition boxed set)
Jeff Snyder - Loom (Carrier)
September 13
☆ Allan Gilbert Balon - The Magnesia Suite (Recital)
Gelsey Bell - mɔɹniŋ [morning//mourning] (Gold Bolus)
Sarah Davachi - The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music)
Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder (American Dreams)
Davóne Tines & The Truth - ROBESOИ (Nonesuch)
Tulpas - Atisbo (Astral Spirits)
September 15
Jason Kao Hwang - Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound Recordings)
September 20
☆ more eaze - lacuna and parlor (Mondoj)
Tallā Rouge - Shapes in Collective Space - compositions by Karl Mitze, Kian Ravaei, Gemma Peacocke, inti figgis-vizueta, Gala Flagello, and Akshaya Avril Tucker (Bright Shiny Things)
September 25
Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano 2 (InFiné)
September 27
Kris Davis - Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
☆ Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/Kit Downes - Breaking the Shell (Red Hook)
Travis LaPlante - The Golden Lock - Travis LaPlante, Erika Dohi, Charles Overton, Lizzie Burns, Eduardo Leandro (New Focus)
☆ Ben Monder - Planetarium (Sunnyside)
Yngel - Silva (130701)
September 30
Nichunimu - Calados (577 Records)
October 4
☆ Darius Jones - Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
☆ Nichunimu (Benjamin Vergara, Nicolás Carrasco, Matías Mardones) - Calados (577 Records)
October 11
☆ Jenny Scheinman - All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
October 18
Brandon Seabrook - Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic)
Fall 2024
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
Winter 2024
Peter Garland - Plain Songs: “Love Comes Quietly” (after Robert Creeley) - Carson Cooman (Cold Blue)
Thank you.