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 Dec. 6, 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.
December 6
Carola Bauckholt - Crank and Cloud – Orchestral Works - performances by Tirol Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava, Basel Sinfonietta, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Ensemble Resonanz, and WDR Symphony Orchestra (World Edition)
Blessed are the Hearts that Bend - A gentle death/a sudden birth (Spectral Industries)
TJ Borden and Steve Flato - In the Garden of Eating (Full Spectrum)
Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love - Butterfly Mushroom (Trost; recorded 2015)
Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink - Brötzmann/Van Hove/Bennink (FMP; 2024 remaster)
John Butcher/Phil Durrant/Mark Wastell - Around the Square, Above the Hill (Confront)
Marcelo Cugliari - Void Sessions (Unfathomless)
Alvin Curran - ARCHEOLOGY // ARCHEOLOGIA (Room40)
Alexandre David - Photogrammes - Quatuor Bozzini, Plaisirs du clavecin, Orchestre de l’Agora (Collection QB)
Ethel with Allison Loggins-Hull - Persist - compositions by Allison Loggins-Hull, Xavier Muzik, Migiwa Miyajima, Sam Wu, and Leilehua Lanzilotti (Sono Luminus)
Beat Furrer - FURRER 70 (6 CDs, 3 videos, 2 books) - Klangforum Wien (Klangforum Wien)
Ana Gamboa & Thomas Pizzini - Out! (Zoar)
Globe Unity Orchestra - Hamburg ’74 (FMP; 2024 remaster)
Vinny Golia Quintet - Can You Outrun Them? (Big Ego)
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra - LOLO80 (Adjacent)
HxH (Lester St. Louis and Chris Williams) - East River Transverse II (self-released)
Rebekka Karijord - Archives of Longing - Andrew Yee (OONA)
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)
Giovanni Mancuso & Alberto Collodel - Braxtonality (Zoar)
Nathan McLaughlin - Optics//Motion II (Aural Canyon)
Jolanda Moletta and Karen Vogt - Suspended Between Worlds (Longform Editions)
The Nighttime Ensemble - The Nighttime Ensemble (Longform Editions)
Out Of/Into - Motion I (Blue Note)
Cole Peters - A Recasting of Indices (Unfathomless)
Patrick Quinn - Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1 (Topos Press)
Reign of Ferns - Out Beyond Is (Longform Editions)
Elliott Sharp - Hudson River Compositions 1973-74 (Zoar)
Edward Smaldone - What no one else sees… - performances by Brno Philharmonic/Mikel Toms, Niklas Sivelöv, Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Mikel Toms, Søren-Filip Brix Hansen, Den Kongelige Livgardes Musikkorps/Giordano Bellincampi, and Opus Zoo Woodwind Quintet (New Focus)
Ju-Ping Song - Monad - compositions by Lois V. Vierk, Molly Joyce, Kate Moore, and Rahilia Hasanova (Starkland)
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)
Martin Tétreault - Vraiment plus de Snipettes!!! (Ambiances Magnétiques)
Unionen - Unionen (We Jazz)
Various artists - Mandatory Liberation, Vol. 1 - performances by Ashcan Orchestra, Thee Reps, Megafortress, Weston Olencki, Powers/Rolin Duo, thingNY, Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, Derek Baron, and more (Gold Bolus + Strategy of Tension)
Mark Wastell - Cello-Intern XVIII (scatterArchive)
Andrew Weathers - AW Walks in Two Different Commerce Spaces (Hymns)
Sanae Yamada - Flowering Tree (Longform Editions)
Eri Yamamoto - Let’s Keep Walking (AUM Fidelity)
Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (Important)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
December 9
Paul Dunmall Quartet - Here Today Gone Tomorrow (RogueArt)
N O Moore + Eddie Prévost - Scratched Earth (scatterArchive)
December 10
☆ Patrick Shiroishi - the afterlife is letting go (Touch)
December 13
Sophie Agnel, Michael Zerang - Draw Bridge (Relative Pitch)
☆ Luciana Bass - Desatornillándonos (Relative Pitch)
ES Trio - The Foreign in Us (Relative Pitch)
David Lang - poor hymnal - The Crossing/Donald Nally (Cantaloupe Music)
Nicola Miller - Living Things (Cacophonous Revival)
☆ Klaus Ospald - Escribí - performances by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Teodoro Anzellotti, Edicson Ruiz, WDR Sinfonieorchester, and Ensemble Modern (bastille musique)
☆ Chuck Roth - Document 1 (Relative Pitch)
Spencer Zahn - Statues Live (Leaving)
David Zucchi - Mandi (people|places|records)
December 15
Giuliano d’Angiolini - )))((( (Elsewhere)
December 16
Thomas Rohrer + Philip Somervell - FOLWEN (scatterArchive)
December 17
Niloufar Shiri + Isaac Otto Hayes - OSHI (Infrequent Seams)
December 20
Paul Pinto - Water Music (Gold Bolus)
December 21
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Zodiac (Hooker Vision)
Winter 2025.
Peter Garland - Plain Songs: “Love Comes Quietly” (after Robert Creeley) - Carson Cooman (Cold Blue)
January 2025.
January 3
Dem - Absolutely (Carrier)
☆ Avi C. Engel - Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Elephant Shrew Editions)
January 10
William Basinski & Richard Chartier - Aurora Terminalis (Line)
Philip Glass - Aguas da Amazonia - Constance Volk, Third Coast Percussion (Rockwell)
☆ Will Mason Quartet - Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus)
Sirius Quartet - Incantations - compositions by Gregor Huebner, Fung Chern Hwei, Sunjay Jayaram, and Jeremy Harman (Navona)
Sun & Rain (Nathaniel Morgan, Travis Laplante, Andrew Smiley, Jason Nazary) - Waterfall (Out of Your Head)
Nate Wooley - Henry House (Ideologic Organ)
January 15
Juno 3 (Han-earl Park, Lara Jones, Pat Thomas) - Proxemics (Buster and Friends)
John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik)
January 17
Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch)
Tim Berne (Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey) - Yikes (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
Mark Kirschenmann - Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet with Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams)
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)
January 24
☆ Britta Byström - Ink-Wash on Paper (OUR Recordings)
☆ Clemens Kuratle Ydivide - The Default (Intakt)
January 31
☆ Pierre Gerard - Full Yellow Cylinder (Eliane Tapes)
☆ Joachim Kühn - Échappée (Intakt)
Brandon López & DoYeon Kim - Syzygy, Vol. 1 (577 Records)
Peter Rehberg - Liminal States (Editions Mego)
☆ Sarah Belle Reid + Vinny Golia - Accidental Ornithology (Infrequent Seams)
Kenny Wheeler Legacy - Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music)
February 2025.
February 1
Matt McBane - Buoy (Gradient Music)
February 7
Christopher Dammann - Christopher Dammann Sextet (Out of Your Head)
☆ Danish National Vocal Ensemble/Martina Batič - O Listen! - compositions by Else Marie Pade and Uroš Krek (OUR Recordings)
Philip Golub - Loop 7 (Greyfade)
February 14
Benjamin Appl - Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág (Alpha Classics)
John Patitucci - Spirit Fall (Edition)
February 18
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito - Endless Season (577 Records)
February 21
Laura Cocks - FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Head)
☆ Nina Garcia - Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ)
Jon Irabagon - Server Farm (Irabbagast)
Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit (Thrill Jockey)
February 28
☆ David Grubbs - Whistle from Above (Drag City)
March 2025.
March 14
Adam O’Farrill - For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
April 2025.
April 4
Hemphill Stringtet (Curtis Stewart. Sam Bardfeld, Stephanie Griffin, Tomeka Reid) - The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
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.