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 April 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.
All opinions expressed herein are solely my own, and do not express the views of my employer.
New this week.
April 11.
Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen - Resonant Flows (Sawyer Spaces)
Gerald Clayton - Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
Ed Cooper - HEKATE’S VOICES (Sawyer Spaces)
Michael Daugherty - Blue Electra - Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony Orchestra/David Allan Miller (Naxos)
Ash Fure - ANIMAL (Smalltown Supersound)
Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson (Decca)
Shaul Kohn - Melonheads (Sawyer Spaces)
Larum (Chet Doxas & Micah Frank) - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen, Part Two (Puremagnetik)
Fred Moten & Brandon López - Revision (Tao Forms)
Christopher Tyler Nickel - Mass; Te Deum - Catherine Redding, Vancouver Chamber Choir/Kari Turunen, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra/Clyde Mitchell (Avie)
Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs - EVERY DAY → ALL THE WAY (ESP-Disk’)
Sam Sadigursky - The Solomon Diaries Vol. IV (Adhyâropa)
Sam Sadigursky - The Solomon Diaries Vol. V (Adhyâropa)
Tom Soloveitzik & Microcanonical ensemble - two waves, drawn on paper (Sawyer Spaces)
Third Coast Percussion - Standard Stoppages - compositions by Jlin, Tigran Hamasyan, Zakir Hussain, Jessie Montgomery, and Musekiwa Chingodza (Cedille)
Manfred Werder - 2008(3) (Sawyer Spaces)
Theresa Wong - Journey to the Cave of Guanyin (Room40)
Alex Zethson/Johan Jutterström - It Could/If I (Astral Spirits/Thanatosis)
Upcoming releases.
☆ - new since previous update
April 2025.
April 13.
FEN (Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Chee Wai, Yan Jun) - 4 x 4 (Meenna)
Seijiro Murayama/Attila Gyárfás - Red Queen Theory (Ftarri)
Quentin Tolimieri/Eric Wong - Erasures (Ftarri)
April 18.
Raven Chacon - Voiceless Mass - Present Music (New World)
☆ Richard Festinger - Then and Now: Chamber Music of Richard Festinger - performances by Calefax, Cygnus & John Ferrari, Collage New Music, Windscape, Alan R. Kay, and Michael Nicolas (New Focus)
Joel Harrison - Guitar Talk, Vol. 2: Music for Two Guitars (AGS Recordings)
Kneebody - Reach (GroundUP Music)
Rindert Lammers - Thank You Kirin Kiki (Western Vinyl)
Lucy Railton - Blue Veil (Ideologic Organ)
Gryphon Rue - I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water (self-released)
David Shea - An Eastern Western: Collected Works (Room40)
Steven Kazuo Takasugi - Il Teatro Rosso - No Hay Banda (No Hay Discos)
Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Terán - Orbweaver (Outside Time)
April 25.
Annie A (Time Is Away, Felicia Atkinson, Christina Petrie, Maxine Funke) - The Wind That Had Not Touched Land (A Colourful Storm)
Anzû Quartet - adjust - compositions by Ken Thomson and Anna Webber (Cantaloupe)
Ciompi Quartet - A Duke Moment - compositions by Stephen Jaffe, Anthony M. Kelley, and Scott Lindroth (New Focus)
Nathan Davis - Earthworks - Sylvia Milo, Nathan Davis (Sono Luminus)
Ensemble Ex Materia - A/B (Arpaviva)
Scott Fields & Elliott Sharp - réimsí géara (Relative Pitch)
Fire & Flux - Duet and Trio Live at Dumb Records (Relative Pitch)
Paul Flaherty - a willing passenger (Relative Pitch)
☆ Fung Chern Hwei - Free Fall (Adhyâropa)
Eliana Glass - E (Shelter Press)
Masayo Koketsu, Nava Dunkelman, Tim Berne - Poiēsis (Relative Pitch)
☆ Annea Lockwood - On Fractured Ground/Skin Resonance (Black Truffle)
David Murray Quartet - Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
D. Riley Nicholson - UP - Sarah Cahill & Regina Myers (self-released)
Michael Sarian - Esquina (Greenleaf Music)
Elori Saxl - Texada (Original Score) (Western Vinyl)
Gilles Sivilotto - handmade - Isabelle Duthoit, zeitkratzer (zeitkratzer)
April 27.
☆ Adam Lion - When a Line Bends (self-released)
April 29.
Jules Reidy & Sam Dunscombe - Edge Games (Futura Resistenza)
May 2025.
May 2.
Peter Evans & Petter Eldh - Jazz Fest (More Is More; stream “Roulette” here and “The Berm” here)
Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause - The Quiet Sun (Dinzu Artefacts)
Eli Keszler - Eli Keszler (LUCKYME®)
Kommun - Kalpa (Thanatosis)
Eric Shorter - Shorter Bendian Shields (577 Records)
Julia Ulehla and Dálava - Understories (Pi Recordings)
☆ Wet Ink Ensemble - Action, Choice, Thought - compositions by Eric Wubbels, Mariel Roberts Musa, Alex Mincek, and Sam Pluta (Carrier)
May 5.
☆ Ivor Kallin - Bagpipe Practice Room (scatterArchive)
Ramon Lopez - 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt)
May 6.
Jacobo Vega-Albela - Un-Belonging (577 Records)
May 9.
Esthesis Quartet - Sound & Fury (Sunnyside)
Catherine Lamb - interius/exterius - Ghost Ensemble (greyfade)
Merzbow - The Prosperity of Vice, The Misfortune of Virtue (Room40; recorded 1996)
Cole Pulice - Land’s End Eternal (Leaving)
Ringdown (Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan) - Lady on the Bike (Nonesuch)
Austin Wulliman - Escape Rites - JACK Quartet (Sono Luminus)
May 16.
Ben Frost - Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions (Mute)
David Handler - Life Like Violence (Cantaloupe Music)
Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson - Contact (TBC Editions)
Alex Paxton - Delicious - performances by Dreammusics Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain (NEC), GBSR Duo, and Explore Ensemble (New Amsterdam)
May 23.
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons - Live in Philadelphia (Ars Nova Workshop/Otherly Love)
Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
David Van Tieghem - Even As We Speak: The Music of David Van Tieghem (Phantom Limb; originally released 1984–89)
May 26.
☆ Paula Shocron + Pablo Díaz - live in Münster (scatterArchive)
May 30.
Ellen Arkbro - Nightclouds (Blank Forms Editions)
The Beverage Station (Lainie Fefferman & Jascha Narveson) - Little Gray Cells (Gold Bolus)
Hanne Lippard, Ellen Arkbro, Hampus Lindwall - How do I know if my cat likes me? (Blank Forms Editions/La Becque Editions)
Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp - Realism (ESP-Disk’)
Qasim Naqvi - Endling (Erased Tapes)
Yoga Nugraha Usmad - Gurnida (Phantom Limb)
June 2025.
June 6.
Elisabeth Klinck - Chronotopia (Hallow Ground)
Andrew Schiller - Rumble Rubble Ripple (Endectomorph Music)
Dan Weiss Quartet - Unclassified Affections (Pi Recordings)
June 13.
☆ Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
The Westerlies - Paradise (Westerlies Music)
June 20.
Peretsky - It Doesn’t Get Cold in October Anymore (Whited Sepulchre)
☆ Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
Curtis J. Stewart - Seasons of Change (Bright Shiny Things)
June 27.
Tim Barnes - Lost Words (Quakebasket)
Tim Barnes - Noumena (Quakebasket)
Tropos - Switches (Endectomorph Music)
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.