For the Record: The Master List
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 Nov. 14, 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.
November 15
Ka Baird - Ictum Exercises (Polyrhythmic Studies) (Astral Spirits)
Karen Borca/Paul Murphy - Entwined (Relative Pitch)
Kyle Brenn - the shape of a child (Cantaloupe Music)
Donnacha Dennehy - Land of Winter - Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson (Nonesuch)
David Dunn - Music, Language and Environment: Environmental Sound Works 1973–1985 (Nyahh)
E/I - explicit isolation - compositions by Szymon Gąsiorek (Mappa)
Joe Fonda Quartet - Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song)
Foster Bennett Wick - Carne Vale (Relative Pitch)
Beat Furrer - Spur - Claudia Chan, Thorsten Johanns, Quatuor Diotima (bastille musique)
Jacques Hétu - Symphony No. 5, Op. 81 - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Orchestre du Centre national des Arts du Canada, Orchestre symphonique de Québec/Alexander Shelley (Analekta)
John Hollenbeck - Colouring Hockets - John Hollenbeck, Patricia Brennan, Marcio Doctor, Matt Moran, NDR Bigband/JC Sanford (Flexatonic)
Ethan Iverson - Playfair Sonatas - performances by Miranda Cuckson, Makoto Nakura, Carol McGonnell, Mike Lormand, Taimur Sullivan, and Tim Leopold (Urlicht AudioVisual)
Philip Jeck - rpm - contributions from Fennesz, Gavin Bryars, Chris Watson, Rosy Parlane, Cris Cheek, Claire M Singer, Faith Coloccia, David Sylvian & Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jah Wobble & Deep Space, Drums Off Chaos, Chandra Shukla, and Jana Winderen (Touch)
Lee R. Kesselman - Would That Loving Were Enough - Haven (Blue Griffin)
Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt - Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties (Earshift Music)
Dan Lippel - Adjacence - compositions by Dan Lippel, Mario Davidovsky, Ken Ueno, Peter Gilbert, Nico Muhly, Tonia Ko, Peter Adriaansz, Tyshawn Sorey, Carl Schimmel, Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Tania León, Bernadette Speach, and Charles Wuorinen (New Focus)
Ava Mendoza - The Circular Train (Palilalia)
Nokuthula Ngwenyama - Flow - Takács Quartet (Hyperion)
Oaagaada - Music Of (We Jazz)
Zeena Parkins - Dam Against the Spring Tide (Relative Pitch)
Adam Rudolph - Autumn Moon Meditation (Meta)
Alfredo Santa Ana - Before the World Sleeps - Miranda Wong (Redshift Music)
Elori Saxl - Earth Focus (Original Score) (Western Vinyl)
Michael J. Schumacher - Living Room Pieces (Chaikin; limited edition music box)
Stefan Smulovitz - Bow and Brush: 12 Scores of Nadina Tandy (Redshift Music)
Kate Soper - The Romance of the Rose - Ty Bouque, Phillip Bullock, Ariadne Greif, Anna Schubert, Devony Smith, Kate Soper, Lucas Steele, Wet Ink Ensemble/Eric Wubbels (New Focus)
Trance Map (Evan Parker & Matthew Wright) - Horizons Held Close (Relative Pitch)
Dan Trueman - The Seventeenth Hotel (Many Arrows Music)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
November 18
☆ Dominic Lash + Pat Thomas - Elements and Properties (scatterArchive)
michaela turcerová - alene et (mappa)
November 19
☆ Moth Bucket - Vagary Suite (Notice Recordings)
☆ Weirs and Magic Tuber Stringband - The Crozet Tunnel (Notice Recordings)
November 20
Mauricio Moquillaza - Mauricio Moquillaza (Buh)
November 21
Mariska Baars/Niki Jansen/Rutger Zuydervelt - Hardanger (laaps)
November 22
☆ Eternities (Katie Porter & Bob Bellerue) - Landscape Music 5 (MMLI)
Haptic - Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (Line)
Human Error (Jeremy Barnes) - Human Error (Astral Spirits)
Denman Maroney - Nits Musica (Cuneiform)
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
Squanderers (Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs, Kramer) - If a Body Meet a Body (Shimmy-Disc)
November 29
Abdou - Gouband - Warelis - Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch)
Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch)
Ornella Noulet - Promise of Faithfulness (Relative Pitch)
Ryoko Ono - The Days (Relative Pitch)
Evan Parker - The Heraclitean Two-Step (False Walls)
Passepartout Duo - Argot (self-released)
November 30
Eventless Plot/Francesco Covarino - Methexis (Innovo Editions)
December 6
Blessed are the Hearts that Bend - A gentle death/a sudden birth (Spectral Industries)
Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love - Butterfly Mushroom (Trost; recorded 2015)
Alvin Curran - ARCHEOLOGY // ARCHEOLOGIA (Room40)
Ethel with Allison Loggins-Hull - Persist - compositions by Allison Loggins-Hull, Xavier Muzik, Migiwa Miyajima, Sam Wu, and Leilehua Lanzilotti (Sono Luminus)
☆ Ryan MacEvoy McCullough & Andrew Zhou - sedgeflowers | MANTRA - compositions by John Liberatore, Angus Lee, Dante De Silva, Aida Shirazi, LJ White, Andrew Zhou, Christopher Castro, Laura Cetilia, Christopher Stark, and Karlheinz Stockhausen (False Azure)
Out Of/Into - Motion I (Blue Note)
Adam Tendler - Inheritances - compositions by Laurie Anderson, Missy Mazzoli, John Glover, Pamela Z, Scott Wollschleger, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Timo Andres, inti figgis-vizueta, Nico Muhly, Marcos Balter, Mary Prescott, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Devonté Hynes (New Amsterdam)
Ju-Ping Song - Monad - compositions by Lois V. Vierk, Molly Joyce, Kate Moore, and Rahilia Hasanova (Starkland)
☆ Mark Wastell - Cello-Intern XVIII (scatterArchive)
Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (Important)
December 13
Sophie Agnel, Michael Zerang - Draw Bridge (Relative Pitch)
December 15
Giuliano d’Angiolini - )))((( (Elsewhere)
December 16
☆ Thomas Rohrer + Philip Somervell - FOLWEN (scatterArchive)
Winter 2024–25
Peter Garland - Plain Songs: “Love Comes Quietly” (after Robert Creeley) - Carson Cooman (Cold Blue)
January 3
Dem - Absolutely (Carrier)
January 10
Philip Glass - Aguas da Amazonia - Constance Volk, Third Coast Percussion (Rockwell)
January 15
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
January 17
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)
February 21
☆ Jon Irabagon - Server Farm (Irabbagast)
Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
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.