The Night After Night Archives

Playlist (A thirst that would make the ocean proud).

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

Bob Dylan - Tough Guy Angels: The Larry & Charlie Harmonies, Vol. II (ROIO compilation; 2023)

Ivan Vukosavljević - Slow Roads - Tineke Steenbrink, Francesca Ajossa, Jan Hage, Lise Morrison (Elsewhere; 2023)

Michael Pisaro-Liu - A room outdoors - Guy Vandromme, Adriaan Severins, Luciana Elizondo, Fabio Gionfrida (Elsewhere; due Nov. 1, 2023)

JJJJJerome Ellis - Compline in Nine Movements (NNA Tapes; due Dec. 8. 2023)

Philharmonia Zürich/Simone Menezes - Amazônia (Alpha; 2023)

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Floresta do Amazonas - Camila Provenzale; Philip Glass - Metamorphosis 1 (from Aguas da Amazonia)

Philip Glass - Symphony No. 11, from Contemporary American Composers - Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Muti (CSO Resound; 2023)

Sarah Davachi - Long Gradus (excerpt), from Long Gradus - Quatuor Bozzini (Late Music; due Nov. 3, 2023)

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) (Columbia/Legacy; 2023)

Various artists - The Secret Museum of Mankind: Atlas of Instruments – Fiddles, Vol. 1 (Jalopy; 2023)

Various artists - The Raga Guide: A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas (Nimbus; 1992)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version) - Bruckner Orchester Linz/Markus Poschner (Capriccio; 2021)

Liz Story - Live at Yavapai (Jazz Bird; 2023)

Blut aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab (Debemur Morti Productions; 2023)

Wormhole - Almost Human (Season of Mist; 2023)

American Music Club - Our First Trip to Nottingham (self-released; 2021)

Franz Schubert - Schwanengesang; Ludwig van Beethoven - An die ferne Geliebte - Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida (Decca; 2023)

Franz Liszt - Freudvoll und Leidvoll - Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch (Sony Classical; 2021)

Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific (Metal Blade; 2023)

Raminta Šerkšnyté - Midsummer Song; De Profundis - Kremerata Baltica/Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla; Songs of Sunset and Dawn - Lina Dambrauskaitė, Justina Gringytė, Tomas Pavilionis, Nerijus Masevičius, Jauna Muzika, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra/Giedrė Šlekytė (Deutsche Grammophon; 2019)

Playlist (Sing forth a chant for wings).

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

Arooj Aftab/Vijay Iyer/Shahzad Ismaily - Love in Exile (Verve; 2023)

Cassandra Miller - Traveller Song/Thanksong (Black Truffle; 2023)

Traveller Song - Plus-Minus Ensemble; Thanksong - Juliet Fraser, Quatuor Bozzini

Kory Reeder - Texas: Vol. III (self-released; 2023)

In the Summer - Kory Reeder, Joseph Reding, Nico Clark; As if you'd see the Light - Cong Quartet; Adjacent Spaces - Yi Liu, Minju Lee, Zoltan Csikos; Apricots - Mia Detweiler, Kathy Crabtree, Mike Moore, Kourtney Newton; Auburn Shade - Kaitlin Miller, Alaina Clarice, Kathy Crabtree; Hymnus - Kory Reeder, Joseph Reding, Kathy Crabtree, Nico Clark; Landscape, Winter 2019 - Amorsima Trio; Ordered Parchment - Amorsima Trio; Postscript - Kory Reeder, Alaina Clarice, Nico Clark

Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - LP2 (greyfade; due Dec. 8, 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Particles (Eastgate; 2017)

Tangerine Dream - Jeanne d'Arc (Eastgate; 2006)

Bob Dylan - Tough Guy Angels: The Larry & Charlie Harmonies, Vol. I (ROIO compilation; 2023)

Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, Paul Frick - Behind Closed Doors (self-released; 2020)

Tangerine Dream - Supernormal – The Australian Concerts 2014 (Eastgate; 2015)

Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate/Quantum Key (Kscope; 2018)

Goose - Leader Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA, Sept. 13, 2023 (Nugs.net livestream; 2023)

Tomb Mold - Servants of Possibility (20 Buck Spin; 2023)

S.A.W. - Hydragate (M.I.G. Music; 2023)

Neuland - Neuland (Neuland; 2019)

Johannes Schmoelling - Iter Meum (Viktoriapark; 2023)

Liz Story - The Essential Liz Story (Sony Legacy; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014 (Eastgate; 2014)

Tangerine Dream - Edgar Allan Poe’s The Island of the Fay (Eastgate; 2011)

Tangerine Dream - The Angel of the West Window (Eastgate; 1991)

Tangerine Dream - James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake (Eastgate; 1991)

Paul Haslinger - Exit Ghost (Artificial Instinct; 2020)

Paul Haslinger - The YouTube Effect (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Node; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Franz Kafka: The Castle (Eastgate; 2013)

Bob Dylan - Tough Guy Angels: The Larry & Charlie Harmonies, Vol. II (ROIO compilation; 2023)

Playlist (One moment just passes through).

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

Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (Ohr/Esoteric; 1970/2012)

M. Nageswara Rao - The Pulse of Tanam: Ghana Raga Panchakam (Ragas of South India) (Nonesuch; 1969)

Bahauddin Dagar - Ragas Bihag & Ragvardhani - Berlin February 19th 2023 (Sacred Realism; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (Ohr/Esoteric; 1971/2011)

King Crimson - Le Club, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Oct. 25, 1981 (DGMLive; 2023)

Tristan Allen - Tin Iso and the Dawn (RVNG Intl.; due Oct. 20, 2023)

Tangerine Dream - The Cinematographic Score GTA 5 (Eastgate; 2014)

Beam Splitter - Split Jaw (Tripticks Tapes; 2023)

Wadada Leo Smith - Fire Illuminations (Kabell; 2023)

Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International; due Oct. 6, 2023)

Charles Gayle/William Parker/Rashied Ali - Touchin' on Trane (FMP/Jazzwerkstadt; 1993/2007)

Charles Gayle Trio - Spirits Before (Silkheart; 1989)

Charles Gayle, John Edwards, Mark Sanders - Seasons Changing (Otoroku; 2019)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E - London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (LSO Live; due Sept. 22, 2023)

Anna Webber - Shimmer Wince (Intakt; due Oct. 20, 2023)

Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (Virgin; due Sept. 29. 2023)

Bloodmist - San Juan de Ocotán (5049; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Zeit (Ohr/Esoteric; 1972/2011)

Chris Abrahams/Oren Ambarchi/Robbie Avenaim - Placelessness (Ideologic Organ; 2023)

Goose - Autumn Crossing (self-released; 2023)

Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra - Inspiration (RCA Victor; 1999)

Phish - Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO, Aug. 31, 2023 (LivePhish; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Atem (Ohr/Esoteric; 1973/2011)

Wadada Leo Smith - String Quartets Nos. 1-12 - RedKoral Quartet, Wadada Leo Smith, Alison Bjorkedal, Anthony Davis, Lynn Vartan, Stuart Fox, Thomas Buckner (TUM; 2022)

Tangerine Dream - Raum (Kscope; 2022)

Liz Story - The Essential Liz Story (Sony Legacy; 2023)

Brian Lavelle - Wavecrash 1 (self-released; 2023)

Anniversary (2023).

Photograph: Jin S. Lee for 9/11 Memorial & Museum

 

Fall and all attendant memories
Crowd the day with unrelated histories
Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies
To hang around each corner
Hang around each street.

Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitries
Carrying words as strangers exchange pleasantries
Do they intrude upon your private reveries
As they meet you on each corner
Meet you on each street.

Watch for daily braveries
Notice newfound courtesies
Finger sudden legacies
As they clean up every corner
Wash down every street.

Mark the month and all its anniversaries
Put away the draft of all your eulogies
Clear the way for all your private memories
As they meet you on each corner
Meet you on each street.

Make the time for all your possibilities
They live on every street.

Suzanne Vega, "Anniversary" (from Beauty & Crime; Blue Note, 2007)

"Love Songs: A Creation Story in Four Acts and Four Voices"

John Zorn (Photograph courtesy National Sawdust)

"Love Songs: A Creation Story in Four Acts and Four Voices"
National Sawdust
Sept. 8, 2023

"We prefer pieces that play with the style and format of traditional profiles," the kind folks at National Sawdust told me when I agreed to write a preview story ahead of Love Songs, the new off-Broadway music-styled show by John Zorn and Jesse Harris that has its premiere performances at the Brooklyn venue on Saturday, Sept. 16, and Sunday, Sept. 17.

Challenge accepted.

Love Songs is a delicious piece, with gorgeous music by Zorn and stylish lyrics and book by Harris, and it'll be deliciously performed by singer Petra Haden with pianist Brian Marsella, bassist Jorge Roeder, and percussionist Ches Smith. I look forward to seeing the fully cast and staged version due for production at The New School sometime in 2024.

This current engagement is part of an ongoing year-long global celebration of Zorn's 70th birthday, which also includes further events at Roulette and Miller Theatre, and in Boston and Minneapolis. You'll find links in my preview, in the paragraph that starts "The setting is National Sawdust…"

And don't miss the interview Rebecca Slaman conducted with Jesse and Petra, also on the National Sawdust website. Beauty and chaos, indeed.

Playlist (So much vibe in the world).

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

Tarotplane - Murmuration (NPM; 2023)

King Crimson - "Jamie, Bill, David & John" (DGMLive; 2023, recorded 1972)

Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley - Polarity 2 (Burning Ambulance; due Oct. 13. 2023)

claire rousay - august 26th (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2023)

Christoph Schiller & Carlo Costa - Spinet and Drums (Neither/Nor; due Sept. 7, 2023)

Otto Willberg - The Leisure Principle (Black Truffle; 2023)

Bruce Levingston - Without Words (Sono Luminus; due Sept. 22, 2023)

Felix Mendelssohn - Songs without Words (selections); Price Warden - Songs without Words

Paramorph Collective - All we're made of is borrowed (Redshift; due Sept. 8, 2023)

Rodney Sharman (arr. Paramorph Collective) - Elegy; Margot George - Fruiting bodies; Linda Catlin Smith - Thought and Desire

Tangerine Dream - Rockoon – Edition J (Virgin/Moonpop; 1992/2020)

Tangerine Dream - Tournado – Edition J (TDI Music/Moonpop; 1997/2020)

Tangerine Dream - The Sessions I (Eastgate; 2017)

Steve Roach - The Desert Winds of Change - Live at Ambient Lounge August 1, 2023 (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2023)

George Walker - Sinfonia No. 2 - National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra; 2023)

Aruán Ortiz - Pastor's Paradox (Clean Feed; due Oct. 20, 2023)

Wayne Horvitz - Live Forever, Vol. 2: Horvitz, Morris, Previte Trio: NYC, Leverkusen 1988-1989 (self-released; 2023)

Catherine Lamb - parallaxis forma - Lotte Betts-Dean, Exaudi, Explore Ensemble (Another Timbre; due Sept. 24, 2023)

Seamus Cater - A History of Musical Pitch (Another Timbre; due Sept. 24, 2023)

Jürg Frey - String Trio - Apartment Building (Another Timbre; due Sept. 24, 2023)

andPlay - Translucent Harmonies (Another Timbre; due Sept. 24, 2023)

Catherine Lamb - Prisma Interius VIII; Kristofer Svensson - Vid stenmuren blir tanken blomma

Prairiewolf - Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force; 2023)

Wet Tuna - Trunk of Funk (self-released; 2023)

Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths (Relapse; 2023)

M. Nageswara Rao - The Ten Graces Played on the Vīṇa (Music of South India) (Nonesuch; 1970)

Playlist (Poetry in every line).

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

Bahauddin Dagar - Ragas Bihag & Ragvardhani - Berlin February 19th 2023 (Sacred Realism; 2023)

Bahauddin Dagar - Ahir Bhairav: Marghazi 2019 (Country & Eastern; 2020)

l a d y y b i r d d (Gina Izzo) - Tomorrow’s Yesterday (Innova; 2023)

Adam Swayne - 9/11: 20 Memorials on the twentieth anniversary of September 11th (Coviello Contemporary; 2021)

Karen Walwyn - Reflections on 9/11: III. "Anguish"; VI. "Burial"; Henry Cowell - Three Irish Legends: I. "The Tides of Manaunaun"; Fabric; Aeolian Harp; Kevin Malone - Sudden Memorials; Scott Joplin - Solace; David del Tredici - Gotham Glory: III. "Missing Towers"

Kammerorchester Basel/Giovanni Antonini - Haydn 2023, Vol. 14: "L'Impériale" (Alpha; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 53 in D; Symphony No. 54 in G; Symphony No. 33 in C; Sinfonia in D, Hob.IA:7: Allegro con spirit0

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 2 in C minor (1877 version) - Bruckner Orchester Linz/Markus Poschner (Capriccio; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Nick Norton - Music for Sunsets (people places records; due Sept. 15, 2023)

King Crimson - Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, June 19, 1974 (DGMLive; 2023)

Mark Reboul/Roberta Piket/Billy Mintz - Seven pieces / about an hour / saxophone, piano, drums (ESP-Disk’; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry - Our Daily Bread (ECM; 2023)

Lisa Bella Donna - Electronic Voyages (Behind the Sky; 2023)

Kory Reeder - Texas: Vol. II (self-released; 2023)

On a Clear Day - Alaina Clarice; Viola Solo: Black and Grey - Kathy Crabtree; Miya Ando - Alaina Clarice; this is a day that yawns like a caesura - Conner Simmons; Encore/Eulogy - Sebastian Stefanović

Anti-God Hand - Blight Year (American Dreams; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Beacon Theater, New York, NY, June 28, 1986 (ROIO; 1986)

John Zorn/Jesse Harris - Songs for Petra (Tzadik; 2021)

Ed Herrmann - Water Ways (Rural Situationism; 2023)

Prairiewolf - Paradise Found Records, Boulder, CO, July 1, 2023 (self-released; 2023)

Tarotplane - Murmuration (NPM; 2023)

Quicksails - Surface (Hausu Mountain; due Oct. 27, 2023)

MrDougDoug - SOS Forks AI REM II (Hausu Mountain; due Sept. 22, 2023)

Mukqs - Stonewasher (Hausu Mountain; due Sept. 22, 2023)

George Walker - Sinfonia No. 2 - National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra; 2023)

Playlist (Nodding out to rising bliss).

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

John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik; due Dec. 2023)

Johann Sebastian Bach - The French Suites - Mahan Esfahani (Hyperion; due Oct. 6, 2023)

Arovane - Seismograf (Dauw; 2023)

Kinan Azmeh & Brooklyn Rider - Starlighter (In a Circle; due Sept. 8, 2023)

Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (Northern Spy; due Sept. 29, 2023)

Cenk Ergün - Sonare & Celare - JACK Quartet (New Focus; 2020)

Keith Rowe/Gerard Lebik - Dry Mountain - Johnny Chang, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Bryan Eubanks, Kurt Liedwart, Xavier Lopez, Mike Majkowski, Emilio Gordoa (Inexhaustible Editions; 2023)

Phish - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Aug. 5, 2023 (LivePhish; 2023)

Clara Iannotta - Earthing - JACK Quartet (Wergo; 2020)

Dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii); You crawl over seas of granite; A Failed Entertainment; Earthing – dead wasps (obituary)

Léo Dupleix - Construire sur les ruines d’un passé encore fumant - Les Certitudes (Discreet Editions; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Vines - Birthday Party (self-released; 2023)

Nico Muhly - David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away) (Bedroom Community; due Sept. 8, 2023)

John Zorn/Jesse Harris - Songs for Petra (Tzadik; 2021)

Angelica Sanchez Tentet - Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 27, 2023)

Piotr Kurek - Smartwoods (Unsound; due Sept. 15, 2023)

Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current; 2023)

King Crimson - Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, April 26, 1974 (DGMLive; 2023)

Pascal Le Boeuf - Ritual Being (SoundSpore; due Aug. 25, 2023)

SLUGish Ensemble - In Solitude (Slow & Steady; due Sept. 15, 2023)

Awadigin Pratt - STILLPOINT - Roomful of Teeth, A Far Cry (New Amsterdam; due Aug. 25, 2023)

Jessie Montgomery - Rounds; Paola Prestini - Code; Alvin Singleton - Time Past, Time Future; Pēteris Vasks - Castillo Interior; Tyshawn Sorey - Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices; Judd Greenstein - Still Point

Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet - Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt; due Nov. 10, 2023)

Garcia Peoples - Tubby’s, Kingston, NY, June 24, 2023 (NYCTaper; 2023)

Anna Webber - Shimmer Wince (Intakt; due Oct. 20, 2023)

Chitti Babu - The Art of Vina II (World Music Library; 1995)

Riot Ensemble - Vestige (Coviello Contemporary; 2023)

Ashkan Behzadi - az hoosh mi; Michaela Catranis - the ghosts in these trees; Alex Groves - Three Forms; Elisabeth Lutyens - Requiescat; Naomi Pinnock - Vestige; Enno Poppe - Trauben; Peter Wilson - String Trio

Sarah Saviet - Spun (Coviello Contemporary; 2023)

Liza Lim - The Su Song Star Map; Lisa Streich - Falter; Evan Johnson - Wolke über Bäumen; Arne Gieshoff - spun; Lawrence Dunn - Habitual

Playlist (Now comes a chance to find ourselves).

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

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 6 in A - Staatskapelle Dresden/Eugen Jochum (Warner Classics; 1981)

King Crimson - Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, April 26, 1974 (DGMLive; 2023)

Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (Metal Blade; 2023)

Immolation - Acts of God (Nuclear Blast; 2022)

Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media; 2023)

Castrator - Defiled in Oblivion (Dark Descent; 2022)

Thelonious Monk Quartet/Nonet - Liederhalle Mainz, Germany, Nov. 8, 1967 (Lantower; 2022)

Ornette Coleman Quartet - Théâtre du Palais de Chaillot, October 1971 (Lantower; 2022)

fibril - the rot (Debacle; 2023)

claire rousay & more eaze - Never Stop Texting Me (Orange Milk; 2022)

Nick Zanca - Cacerolazo (Full Spectrum; 2021)

Alan Courtis & David Grubbs - Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves (Husky Pants; due Sept. 8, 2023)

---__--___ - The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Orange Milk; 2021)

Asemix - Asemix (Warm Winters Ltd.; 2021)

Asemix - Untitled (self-released; 2020)

George Walker - Sinfonia No. 3 - National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra; 2023)

Madhuvanti Pal - The Holy Mother (Sublime Frequencies; 2023)

Helmut Lachenmann - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Mode; 2014)

Opeth - Damnation (Music for Nations; 2003)

R.E.M. - "REM IS GOOD" (Luke O'Neil Spotify playlist; 2023)

Bob Dylan - More Live Fragments: Time Out of Mind Onstage 2008-2021 (ROIO compilation; 2023)

Annika Socolofsky - I Tell You Me - Annika Socolofsky, ~Nois, Phong Tran, Darian Donovan Thomas, No Plexus (Carrier; due Sept. 8, 2023)

Thomas Buckner - Spontaneous Musical Invention: Thomas Buckner Sings Robert Ashley (Recital; 2023)

Les Certitudes (Juliette Adam, Félicie Bazelaire, Léo Dupleix) - live at 26 chaises (Soundcloud; 2022)

Ellen Arkbro - Sounds while waiting (self-released; 2021)

Sarah Davachi - Cantus Figures Larus (Late Music; 2021)

Gothamist: Jonathon Heyward interview, Aug. 3, 2023.

Jonathon Heyward (Photograph: Laura Thiesbrummel)

"Conductor Jonathon Heyward is poised to make history in NYC and Baltimore"
Gothamist, Aug. 3, 2023

My final contribution to Gothamist is this extended version of an interview with conductor Jonathon Heyward – the new music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the newly announced music director of whatever the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will be called when it returns next summer – which I scripted and Tiffany Hanssen conducted. The slightly shorter version of the interview that aired on WNYC last weekend is embedded in this story, too.

Heyward is conducting the orchestra on Friday and Saturday nights, Aug. 4 and 5, at David Geffen Hall; details here.