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 Sept. 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.
Marco Baldini - Fuochi (Dinzu Artefacts)
Allan Gilbert Balon - The Magnesia Suite (Recital)
Gelsey Bell - mɔɹniŋ [morning//mourning] (Gold Bolus)
Lea Bertucci - Hold Music (Dinzu Artefacts)
Sarah Davachi - The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music)
Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder (American Dreams)
Luc Ferrari - Complete Works 07 (Maison ONA)
Fictional Souvenirs (Butcher/Thomas/Solberg) - Volatile Object (Trost)
Henry Fraser - Breath Line (Dinzu Artefacts)
David Fulmer - immaculate sigh of stars - performances by Stefan Jackiw with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Matthias Pintscher, Horszowski Trio, Nathan Ben-Yehuda, León Bernsdorf, Jay Campbell, Conor Hanick, Parker Ramsay, Conrad Tao, and Mike Truesdell (New Focus)
Saviet/Houston Duo - a clearing (Marginal Frequency)
Jason Stein - Anchors (Tao Forms)
Davóne Tines & The Truth - ROBESOИ (Nonesuch)
Tulpas - Atisbo (Astral Spirits)
Gebhard Ullmann - Impromptus und Interationen - Vitalii Kyianytsia (Kairos)
Kristina Warren - Three Rivulets (self-released)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
September 15
Jason Kao Hwang - Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound Recordings)
September 20
Kyle Bruckmann - Duty Cycle/Active Cultures (Already Dead)
crys cole - Making Conversation (Black Truffle)
Caroline Davis - Portals, Volume 2: Returning (Intakt)
Gates/Hirsh/Carter - Phosphene (Mahakala Music)
Arthur Levering - OceanRiverLake - performances by Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose, Lydian String Quartet, Donald Berman, Sarah Brady, and Maarten Stragier (New Focus)
☆ Jon Madof - Urim (self-released)
more eaze - lacuna and parlor (Mondoj)
Nichunimu (Benjamin Vergara, Nicolás Carrasco, Matías Mardones) - Calados (577 Records)
Patrick Shiroishi - Glass House (Otherly Love)
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)
Anthony Vine - Sound Spring (Kuyin)
September 25
Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano 2 (InFiné)
September 27
Buechi–Hellmüller–Jerjen - Pink Mountain Sagas (Intakt)
Kris Davis - Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/Kit Downes - Breaking the Shell (Red Hook)
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s (Exit) Knarr - Breezy (Sonic Transmissions)
Travis LaPlante - The Golden Lock - Travis LaPlante, Erika Dohi, Charles Overton, Lizzie Burns, Eduardo Leandro (New Focus)
Ben Monder - Planetarium (Sunnyside)
☆ Raphael Rogiński - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes (Unsound; 2015 recording, expanded reissue)
Thumbscrew (Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara) - Wingbeats (Cuneiform)
Yngel - Silva (130701)
September 30
Mariel Roberts & Jacob Kirkegaard - Traverse (Infrequent Seams)
October 1
Toshiya Tsunoda/Taku Unami - Wovenland 3 (Erstwhile)
October 3
James Romig - The Fragility of Time - Matt Sargent (a wave press)
October 4
John Butcher, Florian Stoffner, Chris Corsano - The Glass Changes Shape (Relative Pitch)
Anna Butterss - Mighty Vertebrate (International Anthem)
Peni Candra Rini - Wani (New Amsterdam)
Devin Gray - Melt All the Guns II (Rataplan)
Concepción Huerta/Hara Alonso - towards the melancholy of a future (Superpang)
Darius Jones - Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
Audrey Lauro - Prose Métallique (Relative Pitch)
John McCowen - Mundanas VII-XI - John McCowen, Madison Greenstone (Mengi)
Megafortress (Bill Gillim) - Adversary (Strategy of Tension)
Jessica Pavone - What Happens Has Become Now (Relative Pitch)
☆ Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley - Polarity 3 (Burning Ambulance Music)
Reid, Kitamura, Bynum, Morris - Geometry of Phenomena (Relative Pitch)
☆ Andrew Tholl - The River Above, The River Below (Populist)
☆ Tungu - Irrational Thinking of the Subject (Burning Ambulance Music)
☆ Sharlene Wallace/Frank Horvat - Trees.Listen (I Am Who I Am)
Weird of Mouth (Craig Taborn, Mette Rasmussen, Ches Smith) - Weird of Mouth (Otherly Love)
Jamison Williams - The Lesser Key of Solomon-Bael (Relative Pitch)
October 8
Jason Robinson - Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape)
October 11
Jenny Scheinman - All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
Craig Shepard - On Foot: Aubervilliers (Infrequent Seams)
Tyshawn Sorey - The Susceptible Now (Pi Recordings)
Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood (Blue Note)
October 18
Michaël Attias - Quartet Music Vol. II: Kardamon Fall (Out of Your Head)
Tim Berne & Michael Formanek - Parlour Games (Relative Pitch)
☆ Randy Ingram - Aries Dance (Sounderscore)
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis - Music Is Connection (Alternate Side)
Lisel - The Vanishing Point (Ba Da Bing)
Wolfgang Muthspiel - Etudes/Quietudes (Clap Your Hands)
Camila Nebbia/Angelica Sanchez - in another land, another dream (Relative Pitch)
The Necks - Bleed (Northern Spy)
Jon Rose/Mark Dresser - Band Width (Relative Pitch)
Sébastien Roux - 50 frequency and amplitude modulated sine waves describing a landscape (Portraits GRM)
Brandon Seabrook - Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic)
Thollem - Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk’)
Flora Yin Wong - Trigram for Earth (Portraits GRM)
October 21
☆ Ernst Karel/Bhob Rainey - 47 Gates (Erstwhile)
October 25
Félicia Atkinson - Space As an Instrument (Shelter Press)
Body Meπa - Prayer in Dub (Hausu Mountain)
Elliot Cole - Left Hand Path (Long Echo)
Steve Coleman & Five Elements - PolyTropoi / Of Many Turns (Pi Recordings)
Rich Halley 4 - Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle)
Daniela Huerta - Soplo (Elevator Bath)
Charlotte Jacobs - a t l a s (New Amsterdam)
November 1
Florian Hecker - Resynthese FAVN (Blank Forms Editions)
November 8
Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985–1990 (Freedom to Spend)
☆ Rafael Anton Irisarri - FAÇADISMS (Black Knoll)
Leo Okagawa - Lower the Tone Arm (Flaming Pines)
Pancrace - Papotier (Penultimate Press)
November 15
Donnacha Dennehy - Land of Winter - Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson (Nonesuch)
Dan Trueman - The Seventeenth Hotel (Many Arrows Music)
Winter 2024–25
Peter Garland - Plain Songs: “Love Comes Quietly” (after Robert Creeley) - Carson Cooman (Cold Blue)
January 3
☆ Dem - Absolutely (Carrier)
January 15
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
Thank you.