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 11, 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.
Any opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not express the views of my employer.
Upcoming releases.
☆ new since previous update
July 2025.
July 14.
PER-SON-ELL (Martin Klapper, Sture Ericson, Rex Casswell) - Volume 3 (scatterArchive)
July 18.
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - Hiraeth (Unsound)
Thomas Ciufo - The Rising Moon (Neuma)
Emily Duncan - Woolf at the Door - compositions by Randall Woolf (Neuma)
☆ Ross Lee Finney - Landscapes Remembered - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
☆ Shuying Li - The Last Hive Mind - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)
Phillip Schroeder - Radiance Within (Neuma)
Thee Reps - Cryptocartography (Gold Bolus)
☆ Vines (Cassie Wieland) - I’ll be here (Vines Music)
Norman Westberg - Milan (Room40)
Shannon Wettstein - Con Grazia: A Century of Italian Piano Music - compositions by Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luciano Berio, Franco Donatoni, Salvatore Sciarrino, Sonia Bo, Silvia Bianchera, Ivan Fedele, and Giuliano Bracci (Neuma)
July 20.
☆ Julia Eckhardt - Blanca (Another Timbre)
☆ Morton Feldman - Intermission 6 - Antti Tolvi (Another Timbre)
☆ Magnus Granberg - The Willow Bends and So Do I - Skogen (Another Timbre)
☆ James Opstad - Drift - performances by Apartment House, Heather Roche, and GBSR Duo (Another Timbre)
☆ Marc Sabat - Bach Tunings - Sara Cubarsi & Xenia Gogu (Another Timbre)
July 25.
John Also Bennett - Στον Ελαιώνα / Ston Elaióna (Shelter Press)
Bitterviper (Nikos Veliotis, Taku Unami, Sarah Hennies, David Grubbs) - Bitterviper (Blue Chopsticks)
Shelley Burgon - The In Between (Thin Wrist)
Incapacitants - Chwalfa (Otoroku)
Sarah Nemtsov - Tzimtzum - Ensemble Nikel, WDR Sinfonieorchester/Peter Rundel (bastille musique)
Ryan Packard - Garden Variety (Dinzu Artefacts)
Tobias Picker - Nova - performances by Peter Serkin, The Manhattan Quartet, Emmanuel Ax, Lynn Harrell, Fred Sherry, and others (Bright Shiny Things)
Shelter Collective feat. Peni Candra Rini - Improvisations 1 (Out of Your Head)
Six Microphones - Environmental Studies (Line)
Pat Thomas - Sufi Women (scatterArchive)
Various artists - The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental and Irrelevant Music from 1970’s San Diego - compositions and performances by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galas, Warren Burt, David Dunn, Robert Turman, Joji Yuasa, KIVA, Ernie Morgan, Peter Gordon, Kathy Acker, Alexina Louie, Kenneth Gaburo, and more (Nyahh)
July 28.
Akhira Sano - D-R (laaps)
July 29.
Kory Reeder - In Place - Kory Reeder, Kathleen Crabtree, Michael Moore (thanatosis)
August 2025.
August 1.
Maya Beiser - Salt - compositions by Missy Mazzoli, John Tavener, Meredith Monk, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Clarice Jensen, Claudio Monteverdi, Yedidya Admon, and Henry Purcell (Islandia Music)
Caimin Gilmore - BlackGate (New Amsterdam)
Eyvind Kang - Riparian (Kou)
Jessika Kenney - Uranian Void (Kou)
Chloe Kim - Ratsnake (Kou)
Charmaine Lee - Tulpa (Kou)
Felicity Mangan - String Figures (Elevator Bath)
Anthony Vine - Reliquary Grammar (Celestial Excursions)
August 8.
Joe Hisaishi - Joe Hisaishi Conducts - compositions by Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich, performances by Ella Taylor, the Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo, and Future Orchestra Classics (Deutsche Grammophon)
Concepción Huerta & Jiyoung Wi - Concepción Huerta & Jiyoung Wi (Aurora Central)
Mary Kouyoumdjian/Royce Vavrek - Adoration - Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Silvana Quartet/Alan Pierson (Bright Shiny Things)
Jonathan Moritz Trio Secret Tempo - Love You to Death (Infrequent Seams)
August 15.
Chicago Underground Duo - Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
Jon Irabagon & PlainsPeak - Someone to Someone (Irabbagast)
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol - Lessons from Nightingales: Songs of Sufi Mysteries - Blue Heron & Dünya/Scott Metcalfe (Blue Heron)
Lingyuan Yang - Cursed Month (Chaospace)
August 22.
Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson - GLOW: Music for Trio...Add Voice (Silver Sphinx)
Michael Foster/Webb Crawford/Joey Sullivan - Against Proper Objects (self-released)
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s (Exit) Knarr - Drops (Sonic Transmissions)
Hand to Earth - Ŋurru Wäŋa (Room40)
Linda May Han Oh - Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
☆ Squanderers (Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs, Kramer) - Skantagio (Shimmy-Disc)
August 29.
Thomas Ankersmit - The Dip (Students of Decay)
Caroline Davis and Dustin Carlson - Sprites (Out of Your Head)
Jorge Espinal - Bombos y cencerros (Buh)
Jacob Garchik - Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke - Pareidolia (Drag City)
Brad Mehldau - Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
BJ Nilsen - True than Nature (Ideologic Organ)
riverrun - A Secret Cove (Hinney Beast; ltd. 50 unique copies)
Dan Rosenboom - Coordinates (Orenda)
Daniel Bernard Roumain/Marc Bamuthi Joseph - Forgiveness - Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Albany Symphony/David Alan Miller (Bright Shiny Things)
☆ Darian Donovan Thomas - A Room with Many Doors: Day (New Amsterdam)
September 2025.
September 2.
Richard Hronský - Pohreb (mappa)
David Lee Myers - Terrenus (Crónica)
September 5.
Alessandro Bosetti - Carnaval 2 - Reinier van Houdt (three:four)
Dave Douglas - Alloy (Greenleaf Music)
Gray/Pirog/Ballou - Live at FEMA (Out of Your Head)
okkyung lee - just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities (Shelter Press)
Ned Rothenberg - Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic)
☆ Matthew Ryals with effe effe - Exalge (Infrequent Seams)
Michael Thieke/Yorgos Dimitriadis - Diaphanies (Granny)
September 12.
Oren Ambarchi & Fredrik Rasten - Dragon’s Return (Viernulvier)
Lawrence English - WhiteOut (Room40)
☆ Tomas Fujiwara - Dream Up (Out of Your Head)
September 19.
☆ Noah Garabedian - Quartets and Solos (Contagious Music)
Lex Korten - Canopy (Sounderscore)
September 26.
Anna Clyne - Within Her Arms; Abstractions; Restless Oceans; Color Field - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop (Naxos)
M. Sage - Tender / Wading (RVNG Intl.)
Sō Percussion - 25x25 (Cantaloupe Music; 8CD anniversary box set, trailer here, contents & liner notes here)
Trio of Bloom (Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore) - Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)
October 2025.
October 24.
Patricia Brennan - Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
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.