The Night After Night Archives

Playlist (Here All Life Abounds).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Metallica - Kill 'em All (Remastered Deluxe Box Set) (Megaforce/Blackened; 1983/2016)

Kansas - Two for the Show (Kirshner/Legacy; 1978/2008)

Bob Bellerue - Radioactive Desire (Elevator Bath; due Aug. 20, 2021)

---__--__ (Seth Graham & more eaze) - The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Orange Milk; due Sept. 10, 2021)

Seth Graham - Gasp (Orange Milk; 2018)

more eaze - towards a plane (Aural Canyon; 2020)

More Eaze & Claire Rousay - if i don't let myself be happy now then when? (Mondoj; 2020)

Yaz Lancaster - Woodcuts (self-released; 2020)

Yaz Lancaster - ko’u inoa (self-released; 2020)

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti - ko'u inoa; Maurice Ravel - Violin Sonata No. 2: II: "Blues"; John Adams - Road Movies: "Relaxed Groove"

Garlands - Vulneraries Vol. 6 (self-released; 2021)

Peter Evans - Being & Becoming (More Is More; 2020)

Peter Evans Ensemble - Horizons (More Is More; 2020)

Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - "Knot of Spirit" (light-years; 2021)

Steve Roach - Point to Point (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2021)

Alex Groves - Curved Form (No. 11) - Gabriella Swallow (self-released; due Aug. 6, 2021)

Pita - Get Out (Mego/Editions Mego; 1999/2008)

R/S - One (Snow Mud Rain) (Erstwhile; 2007)

Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe - Afternoon Tea (Ritornell/Black Truffle; 2000/2009)

Miles Davis - 1973/6/19 Tokyo Japan (ROIO; 1973)

NPVR - 33 33 (Editions Mego; 2021)

Pita - Seven Tons for Free (Mego; 1996)

KTL - I (Editions Mego; 2006)

Fennesz - Endless Summer (Mego/Editions Mego; 2001/2021)

Fenn O'Berg - The Magic Sound of Fenn O’Berg (Mego; 1999)

MIMEO - Sight (Cathnor; 2012)

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen (ECM; 1982)

Jeffrey Alexander Trio - All Tomorrow's After Parties @ Berkeley Arts, Berkeley, CA - June 4, 2016 (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2021)

William Parker - Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity; 2021)

William Parker - Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity; 2021)

Judith Hamann - A Coffin Spray (Superpang; 2021)

Prague Quiet Music Collective - Prague Quiet Music Archives, vol. i (self-released; 2021)

Kory Reeder - The Desert

Jürg Frey - circular music no. 2 - Lote (self-released; 2021)

Keith Rowe/Mark Wastell - Live at I-and-E (Confront; 2006/2021)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2020 (DGM/Panegyric; 2020)

Goings On About Town, July 26, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

EDIT July 28: Because of COVID-related restrictions, violinist Pekka Kuusisto is unable to travel to the U.S. His July 29 duo concert with Nico Muhly at Caramoor has been canceled, and the program for the July 30 orchestral concert by The Knights has been amended: Anna Clyne's Prince of Clouds will replace Muhly's concerto Shrink.

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Playlist (Louder Than an Atom Bomb).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals (Late Music; due Sept. 10, 2021)

Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-; due Sept 17, 2021)

Saxophone Player - New Solo Album (Totally Unaccompanied Horn) (Different Label; due Oct 2021)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2019 (DGM/Panegyric; 2019)

Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One (Charisma/Virgin; 1970/2005)

John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due August 2021)

Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works (Sahel Sounds; 2021)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2020 (DGM/Panegyric; 2020)

Glorious Depravity - Ageless Violence (Translation Loss; 2020)

Natalie Holt - Loki: Volume 1 (Episodes 1-3) (Marvel Music; 2021)

The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang – Live on Copacabana Live (Rolling Stones/Universal; 2021)

Sunwatchers - II (Trouble in Mind; 2018)

Whit Dickey/William Parker/Matthew Shipp - Village Mothership (Tao Forms; due Oct. 15, 2021)

Matthew Shipp - Codebreaker (Tao Forms; due Nov. 5, 2021)

Jane in Ether - Spoken/Unspoken (Confront Recordings; 2021)

eldritch Priest - Many Traceries (Rat-drifting; 2021)

Golden Melody Awards - Golden Melody Awards (Rat-drifting; 2021)

The Draperies - La Historia del Sombrero (Rat-drifting; 2021)

James Brown - Live at the Apollo (King; 1963/2004)

Parliament - Live: P Funk Earth Tour (Casablanca; 1977)

Pluto Juice (Dayna Stephens & Anthony Fung) - Pluto Juice (Contagious Music; 2021)

James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (Columbia; 1983)

Judas Priest - Battle Cry (Columbia; 2016)

Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio (Sanctuary/EMI; 2002)

Goings On About Town, July 19, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Playlist (Keeping Time Down Here Below).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2016 (DGM/Panegyric; 2016)

John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due late July 2021)

Simon H. Fell/Alex Ward/Mark Wastell - Bailey: With Apologies to G. Brecht (Confront; 2021)

Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals (Late Music; due Sept. 10, 2021)

Maya Beiser - Maya Beiser x Philip Glass (Islandia; due July 23, 2021)

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other (Charisma/Virgin; 1970/2005)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2017 (DGM/Panegyric; 2017)

Kevin Drumm - Sundays (self-released; 2021)

David Grubbs & Ryley Walker - A Tap on the Shoulder (Husky Pants; due Sept. 10, 2021)

Steven Bernstein - Tinctures in Time (Community Music, Vol. 1) (Royal Potato Family; due Sept. 3, 2021)

Louis Andriessen - Theatre of the World - Leigh Melrose, Lindsay Kesselman, Marcel Beekman, Steven van Watermeulen, Mattijs van de Woerd, Cristina Zavalloni, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Reinbert de Leeuw (Nonesuch; 2017)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2018 (DGM/Panegyric; 2018)

The Underflow - Instant Opaque Evening (Blue Chopsticks; 2021)

Tom Hamilton - Elegy for Eric Richards (self-released; 2021)

Gregg Belisle-Chi - Koi: Playing the Music of Tim Berne (Relative Pitch; 2021)

Matt Mitchell - FØRAGE (Screwgun; 2017)

Tim Berne - Fulton Street Maul (Columbia/Screwgun; 1987/2016)

David Fulmer - Sky's Acetylene - New York Philharmonic musicians (New Focus; due Aug. 6, 2021)

Julia Eckhardt - Time Suspension (Back and Forth) (Takuroku; 2021)

Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 54 (previously released as Old News No. 6) (Editions Mego/Steamroom; 2011/2021)

Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 55 (previously released as Old News No. 9) (Editions Mego/Steamroom; 2013/2021)

Goings On About Town, July 5 & 12, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Playlist (Another Loop in a Line).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

King Crimson - Audio Diary 2014-2018 (DGM/Panegyric; 2019)

Michael Harrison - Seven Sacred Names - Michael Harrison, Roomful of Teeth, Tim Fain, Ashley Bathgate, Caleb Burhans, Payton MacDonald, Ina Filip, and Ritvik Yaparpalvi (Cantaloupe; 2021)

Dire Wolves Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band - Bolinas (Pome Pome Tones subscriber exclusive; 2021)

Claire Rousay - Live (self-released subscriber exclusive; 2021)

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Grays Ferry Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 18 June 2021 (self-released subscriber exclusive; 2021)

Kevin Drumm - Neighbors (self-released; 2021)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2014 (DGM/Panegyric; 2014)

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - If We Were Landscapes (self-released; 2021)

Grant Evans - Taciturn, Moribund (Flag Day; 2021)

John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due late July 2021)

King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2015 (DGM/Panegyric; 2015)

Enslaved - Utgard – The Journey Within (Cinematic Tour 2020) (Nuclear Blast; 2021)

Ryley Walker - Course in Fable (Husky Pants; 2021)

Gabriella Smith/Gabriel Cabezas - Lost Coast (Bedroom Community; 2021)

Tom Hall - Failed Attempts at Silence (Superpang; 2021)

Konx-om-Pax - Cabin Fever EP (Superpang; 2021)

Voice of Eye - Hearts in Darkness (self-released; 2021)

Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Vol. 2) (Ndeya; 2020)

Mario Pavone/Dialect Trio +1 - Blue Vertical (Out of Your Head; 2021)

Tangerine Dream - Live at the Rainbow, London – 27th October 1974 (Virgin; 2020)

Eventless Plot - Anisixia (Edition Wandelweiser; 2021)

Enslaved - The Rise of Ymir (Verftet Online Festival 2020) (Nuclear Blast; 2021)

Goings On About Town, June 28, 2021.

The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)

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Playlist (The Heat and the Steam of the City).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Roger Sessions- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Esther Hinds, Florence Quivar, Dominic Cossa, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa (New World; 1977)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Pastoral Symphony (No. 3); Symphony No. 4 in F minor; Sarabande "Helen" - Elizabeth Watts, David Butt Philip; BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion; 2020)

Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Indra Thomas, Mihoko Fujimura, Steve Davislim, Matthew Rose, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis (LSO Live; 2008)

Memoriam - To the End (Reaper Entertainment; 2021)

King Crimson - Meltdown: Live in Mexico (DGM; 2018)

Genesis - Coliseum, Oakland, California, February 20, 1984 (ROIO; 1984)

Devin Gray - Melt All the Guns (Rataplan; 2021)

Viktor Orri Árnasson - Eilífur (Pentatone; due June 18, 2021)

Sandy Ewen/Keith Rowe/Damon Smith + Gooseberry Marmalade - Houston 2012 (Balance Point Acoustics; 2021)

Clíona Doris - Cantares de la Frontera (Louth Contemporary Music Society; 2021)

Peter Garland - Cantares de la frontera; Deirdre McKay - handwoven

Kevin Volans - Lenguas de Fuego - Mia Cooper, Anna Cashel, Joachim Roewer, William Butt, Silvija Scerbaviciute, Brian Dungan, Andrew Synnott (Louth Contemporary Music Society; 2021)

Robert Fripp - Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, England, June 2, 1997 (DGMLive; 2021)

Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders - Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders (Arrowhawk; due Aug. 6, 2021)

Genesis - San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy, May 19, 1987 (ROIO; 1987)

Vanessa Rossetto - Legends of American Theatre (Regional Bears; 2021)

Tom Johnson - Counting to Seven - Dedalus (New World; 2021)

Anthony Braxton - 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12; 2021)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (LSO Live; 2021)

King Crimson - Live in Vienna (DGM; 2018)

Clara Warnaar - Perfect Try (self-released; 2021)

Tony Malaby - Turnpike Diaries, Vol. 4 (self-released; 2021)

Skúli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell - Strata (Newvelle; 2021)

Lucy Railton & Kit Downes - Subaerial (SN Variations; due Aug. 13, 2021)

Nick Storring - Newfoundout (mappa; due July 16, 2021)

Playlist (Covered in Cellophane).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia; 2020)

Eiko Ishibashi - Torn Page (Longform Editions; due June 2021)

Golden Retriever - Sense of Place (Longform Editions; due June 2021)

Brett Naucke - Arctic Watch (Longform Editions; due June 2021)

Kelly Ruth - Persistence Beyond All Truth (Longform Editions; due June 2021)

Kenneth Kirschner & Joseph Branciforte - From the Machine: Volume 1 (greyfade; 2021)

Paul Obermeyer - splitting (strange strings; 2021)

Genesis - Forum, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, June 19, 1980 (ROIO; 1980)

Eartheater - Safely Contemplating a Temple Piercing (Fire Over Heaven; 2021)

Cranes: Matthias Müller, Eve Risser, Christian Marien - Formation < Deviation (Relative Pitch; 2021)

Michael Harrison - Seven Sacred Names - Michael Harrison, Roomful of Teeth, Tim Fain, Ashley Bathgate, Caleb Burhans, Payton MacDonald, Ina Filip, and Ritvik Yaparpalvi (Cantaloupe; due June 18, 2021)

Attacca Quartet - Real Life (Sony Classical; due July 9, 2021)

Enslaved - Utgard (Nuclear Blast; 2020)

Cheryl E Leonard - Schism (mappa; 2021)

Matt Weston - Four Lies in the Eavesdrop Business (self-released; 2021)

Jessica Ackerley - Morning/mourning (Cacophonous Revival; 2021)

Genesis - Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, October 30, 1981 (ROIO; 1981)

John Adams - Chamber Symphony; Common Tones in Simple Time; Son of Chamber Symphony - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOPsound; 2021)

Greg Belisle-Chi - Koi (Relative Pitch; due June 2021)

King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard - Live in Sydney '21 (self-released; 2021)

Nick Storring - Newfoundout (mappa; due July 2021)

Philip Glass - String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima” - Tana Quartet (Orange Mountain Music; 2021)

Pekka Kuuisisto/Norwegian Chamber Orchestra - First Light (Pentatone; due June 4, 2021)

Nico Muhly - Shrink (Concerto for Violin and Strings); Philip Glass/Foday Musa Suso - The Screens: The Orchard (Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly); Philip Glass (arr. Pekka Kuusisto) - String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima"

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor (D. 958); Piano Sonata No. 20 in A (D. 959); Impromptu in G-flat (D. 899, No. 3) - Inon Barnatan (Avie; 2013)

Johannes Brahms - Two Rhapsodies (Op. 79); Klavierstücke (Opp. 117-119) - Radu Lupu (Decca; 1987)