Night After Night

Playlist.

Lea Bertucci & Leila Bordreuil - L'Onde Souterraine (Telegraph Harp)

Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 56 - Wet Ink Ensemble (Vimeo)

Lea Bertucci - Resonance Shapes (Obsolete Units)

Steve Lacy - Morning Joy (hatOLOGY)

Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omniscience (Metal Blade; due April 29)

Timothy McCormack - KARST - Ensemblekollektiv Berlin (Soundcloud)

Celer - I love you so much I can't even title this (Infraction)

Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day (Okrahoma)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions (hat Art)

Rush- Moving Pictures (Mercury)

Polwechsel & John Tilbury - Field (hatOLOGY)

Polwechsel - Archives of the North (hatOLOGY)

Mr. Lif - Don't Look Down (Mello Music Group)

Santigold - 99¢ (Atlantic)

Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights (Secretly Canadian)

Will Vinson - Perfectly Out of Place (5Passion; due May 6)

King Crimson - Stadttheater, Augsburg, Germany, March 27, 1974 (Starless, CD 12) (DGM)

Jonathan Harvey - String Quartets Nos. 1-4; String Trio - Arditti Quartet (Aeon)

Marcos Balter - meltDown Upshot; Pois que nada que dure, ou que durando…; Greg Saunier - Deerhoof Chamber Variations - Deerhoof, Ensemble Dal Niente/Michael Lewanski (New Amsterdam)

Chaya Czernowin - Afatsim - Sonor; String Quartet - Arditti Quartet; Die Kreuzung - Mayumi Miyata, Keizo Misoiri, Takashi Saito, Fumio Tamura; Dam Sheon Hachol - Arun Bharali, Erik Ulman, Mary Oliver, Conrad Bruderer, Frank Cox, Ulfar Haraldsson, Harvey Sollberger; Ina - John Fonville (Mode)

Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Prelude to Act I and "Good Friday Spell" from Act III; Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 3 in D minor - Berlin Philharmonic/Andris Nelsons (Digital Concert Hall)

Bob Bellerue - From Z to A, Not Yes and Not No (Alrealon Musique)

Yoshi Wada - Off the Wall - Yoshi Wada, Wayne Hankin, Marilyn Bogerd, Andreas Schmidt Neri (Saltern)

Albert Roussel - Le Festin de lʼaraignée, Symphonic Fragments from the Ballet-Pantomime; Karol Szymanowski - Violin Concerto No. 2; Jean-Philippe Rameau - Orchestra Pieces from Les Boréades - Daniel Stabrawa, Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle (Digital Concert Hall)

Album review: Abnormality, 'Mechanisms of Omniscience'

My review of the new second LP by Marlborough death-metal quintet Abnormality is in today's Globe. No surprise that I'd dig a record so efficiently brutal; still, it was fun to play Mechanisms of Omniscience enough times repeatedly one day, interspersed with dips into the band's back catalog (a demo, an EP, and an impressive debut LP) to work out why and then put it into words. And it was also pretty satisfying to file a review that included no reference at all to gender.

Right now, Abnormality - who I first wrote about back in December for a Globe round-up of acts to watch in 2016 - is on the road with Soulfly and Suffocation, playing Revolution in Amityville, NY, on Friday night and Fete Ballroom in Providence, RI, on Saturday. On Sunday the tour hits the Mill City Ballroom in Lowell, MA, expanding into a full-day event. Since I can't make it to any of those shows, I've got my fingers crossed that the band will hit Boston proper, soon and hard.

The week ahead, April 28, 2016

Horse Lords

The week ahead: Pop & rock
Thursday, April 28, 2016

DOPAPOD Last year’s three-night homestand by this charismatic Boston-born jam band ended with a nearly hourlong Pink Floyd cover that twisted through reggae, trance, and disco mutations. Will Dopapod attempt to top that feat? Find out here. April 28-30, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20, advance $18, three-show pass $50. The Sinclair, Cambridge. 617-547-5200, www.sinclaircambridge.com

HORSE LORDS This Baltimore quartet mixes egghead notions (just intonation, minimalist repetitions) with gangly guitar, art-blurt sax, and West African grooves, with infectious results; for proof, lend an ear to “Truthers,” the preview cut from new LP “Interventions.” The band tops a four-deep bill of emerging avant-rock acts. April 30, 8 p.m. Tickets: $10. Out of the Blue Too Gallery, Cambridge. www.facebook.com/events/1671771036378820

BOB MOULD “Patch the Sky,” released in March, finds this punk-rock veteran swinging for the fences with his customary mix of buzzy guitars, bubblegum melodies, and ferocious drive. Ted Leo, another indie-rock perennial, raises the curtain. May 1, 7 p.m. Tickets: $25. Paradise Rock Club. Paradise Rock Club. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

Eardrum buzz: Lea Bertucci

WHO: Lea Bertucci
WHAT: Axis/Atlas
WHEN: Wednesday, April 27, 8 p.m.
WHERE: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 230 The Fenway, Boston
HOW: Non-Event

I caught wind of composer/sound artist Lea Bertucci first when she was roughly half of TwistyCat, an improv combo that played lots around New York's artier fringes. I say roughly half, because in addition to Bertucci on bass clarinet and Ed Bear (formerly of Talibam!) on baritone saxophone, TwistyCat frequently incorporated a heavy visual component. I never caught the group while it was active, but there's some mighty fine live 2009 audio from WFMU here, and a trippy E.S.P. TV live video from 2011 here. (Bertucci still performs with Bear; the two are set to play Ende Tymes VI in Brooklyn on June 4.)

Resonance Shapes, Bertucci's first solo LP, appeared in 2013 on Obsolete Units, and provides a remarkable glimpse into an active, exciting imagination with its mix of bass clarinet, bowed vibraphone, percussion, and field recordings. It's rough and mysterious and deeply absorbing, and amazingly you can still own one of only 300 copies on Coke-bottle clear vinyl via Bandcamp. Also available: Light Silence, Dark Speech, a 33rpm 7-inch record of disembodied yet visceral alto-saxophone soliloquies on Swedish label Il Dische del Barone (200 copies; details here), and L'Onde Souterraine, a haunting album of electronically othered bass clarinet-and-cello duets recorded with Leila Bordreuil, issued by Telegraph Harp.

Axis/Atlas, new on cassette tape from Clandestine Compositions, is different than everything that came before it: a set of three gorgeously busy tape-collage assemblages in which to become lost. "In my compositions for tape, juxtapositions of environmental sources and manipulated instruments/objects form an ominous sound-world, where states of alienation, ambiguity and transcendence are examined," Bertucci wrote in a concise essay for The Out Door.

You should read the rest of what she wrote, and also what Marc Masters wrote about the tape; more importantly, you should make time to hear the music. And if you're in Boston on Wednesday night, you can catch sets by Bertucci and Forbes Graham in the SMFA Drawing Room, presented by the ever-invaluable Non-Event.

Playlist.

King Crimson - Jazz Club, Chesterfield, England, September 7, 1969 (DGMLive)

Caspa - "Floor Dem"/"My Pet Monster" (Digital Soundboy)

Rusko - "Cockney Thug" (Sub Soldiers) < NSFW

Miles Davis & Robert Glasper - Everything's Beautiful (Columbia/Legacy; due May 27)

Air - Air Song (Whynot)

Air - Air Raid (Whynot)

Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage (original film score) (Superior Viaduct)

Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (Earache)

Miles Davis - Decoy (Columbia)

Dennis González - Catechism (Music & Arts)

Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley - Soho Suites (Incus)

Robert Curgenven - Climata (Dragon's Eye)

Derek Bailey - New Sights, Old Sounds (Incus)

Prince - One Night Alone… Live! (NPG Records)

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 6 in D; Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 3; Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8 - Houston Symphony/Andrés Orozco-Estrada (Pentatone)

Dopapod - The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA, April 19, 2015 (Bandcamp)

Cecil Taylor - Looking (Berlin Version) Solo (FMP)

Miles Davis - Live Around the World (Warner Bros.)

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Anna Clyne - Rewind - Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen (archival live recording)

Sarah Kirkland Snider - Something for the Dark - Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Giancarlo Guerrero (archival live recording)

Caroline Shaw - Lo - Caroline Shaw, North Carolina Symphony Orchestra/Edwin Outwater (archival live recording)

Andrew Norman - Switch - Colin Currie, Utah Symphony/Thierry Fischer (Reference Recordings)

Anthony Cheung - Lyra - New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert (archival live recording)

Julian Anderson - Eden - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (NMC)

Kristin Kuster - MOXIE - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop (archival live recording)

Per Nørgård - Symphony No. 7 - Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard (Da Capo)

Kati Agócs - Requiem Fragments - Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)

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Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 (Racket Records)

Cecil Taylor - Always a Pleasure (FMP) > Cecil Taylor - "Fifth Pleasure" (from Concrete) (Musica Jazz/FMP)

Michel van der Aa - Violin Concerto - Janine Jansen, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski; Hysteresis - Kari Kriikku, Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (Disquiet)

Cecil Taylor - Almeda (To Matie) (FMP)

Cecil Taylor - Nicaragua: No Pasaran - Willisau 83 Live (Nica)

Cecil Taylor - CT: The Dance Project (FMP)

Cecil Taylor - It Is In the Brewing Luminous (hat Art)

Horse Lords - "Truthers" (from Interventions) (Northern Spy; due April 29)

The ticket: Pop music, April 24, 2016

Julien Baker, by Ben Sklar/The New York Times

The ticket: Pop music
Sunday, April 24, 2016

JULIEN BAKER She just played Cafe 939 in January, and already this Memphis singer-songwriter, who specializes in sweetly voiced memories and intimacies, is back again to play a bigger room. Listen to her latest album, “Sprained Ankle,” and the appeal is instantly evident. April 24 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $15, advance $13. The Sinclair, Cambridge. 617-547-5200, www.sinclaircambridge.com 

THE RESIDENTS This quirky, quixotic California cabal comes to town with its 40th-anniversary tour show, the eerie, clamorous “Shadowland,” presented with a screening of “Theory of Obscurity,” a recent 87-minute documentary directed by Don Hardy Jr. April 25 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $40, advance $35. Royale Boston. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com 

VAN MORRISON The Irish bard of soul arrives on a tour that has elicited breathless hosannas for its mix of canonical depth and improvisational breadth. Officially both shows are sold out, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth paying attention for late releases and returns. April 26, 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $60-$250. Citi Wang Theatre. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

The week ahead, April 21, 2016

Slum Village

The week ahead: Pop & rock
Thursday, April 21, 2016

THE KING’S COURT TOUR: A TRIBUTE TO J. DILLA It’s been 10 years since James DeWitt Yancey, the gifted, influential Detroit hip-hop producer better known as J. Dilla, died of a rare blood disease at age 32. A prime mover behind neo-soul’s syncopated bump, Dilla is the subject of this potent tribute tour starring Slum Village, the groundbreaking crew with which he arrived, plus Detroit peers and proteges like Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson, and Black Milk. April 21, 8 p.m. $20, advance $16. Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge. 617-864-3278, www.mideastclub.com

TOM CARTER The museum’s 2ndSHIFT Music Series, a promising new venture curated by roots-music maven Michael Tarbox, hosts a solo set from the psych-folk guitarist responsible for one of 2015’s best things: “Long Time Underground,” a double-vinyl clutch of electric soliloquies teeming with revelation and reverie. April 21, 7:30 p.m. $20-$30, advance $15-$25. Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, Waltham. 781-893-5410, www.charlesrivermuseum.org

2016 ROCK & ROLL RUMBLE It all comes down to this last confrontation among two semi-final winners, Worshipper and Weakened Friends, and one last wild-card contender, usLights. Cheer on your favorite —  better yet, cheer ’em all —  then get worked up during a set by reconstituted hardcore institution Scissorfight while you wait to hear the outcome. April 22, 9 p.m. $20, advance $15. ONCE Lounge & Ballroom, Somerville. 617-285-0167, www.oncesomerville.com

Playlist.

Keith Rowe/John Tilbury - Enough still not to know (Sofa)

Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (Editions Mego < Bandcamp)

Diatribes - Great Stone/Blood Dunza (Aussenraum < Bandcamp)

1/3 Octave Band - The System Likes You and Wants to Be Your Friend (PseudoArcana < Bandcamp)

Herbie Hancock - Sextant (Columbia/Legacy)

Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas - Mariner (Indie Recordings)

Sarah Davachi - Dominions (JAZ Records < Bandcamp)

Venomous Concept - Kick Me Silly: VC 3 (Season of Mist < Bandcamp)

Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses (Earache < Bandcamp)

Henry Threadgill - In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi Recordings < Bandcamp)

Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble - Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi Recordings < Bandcamp)

Black Milk - Tronic (Fat Beats < Bandcamp)

Phat Kat - The Undeniable (Barak Entertainment)

Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio - Pakistani Pomade (UMS/Atavistic)

Various artists - Tempa. Allstars Vol. 1 (Tempa.)

AMM - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 14, 2000 (YouTube)

The ticket: Pop music, April 17, 2016

Tom Carter

The ticket: Pop music
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Due to space concerns, these listings were trimmed in print. These are the untrimmed versions.

MICHAEL HURLEY This roots-music maverick taped his 1964 debut LP on the same reel-to-reel machine used to capture Lead Belly’s last session; seems entirely plausible that some rare element stuck to a pinch roller might have saturated Hurley’s music in slightly warped form, the sweet tunes and the spooky ones alike. Nowadays the man called Snock lives out West, so his rare visits aren’t to be missed. April 17, 7:30 p.m. $17, advance $15. Davis Square Theatre, Somerville. 617-684-5335, www.davissquaretheatre.com

DREAM THEATER Nothing about “The Astonishing,” the new opus from this Berklee-polished prog-metal quintet, falls short of the title: a full-blown rock opera more than two hours long., it reveals chief conceptualist John Petrucci’s jones for “Jesus Christ Superstar,” Disney cartoons, and “Game of Thrones.” On disc(s) it boasts choirs, bagpipes, an orchestra, and more; live, projected animations set the post-apocalyptic stage as the band plays its epic in full. April 19, 7:30 p.m. $25-$75. Orpheum Theatre. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS Still cruising along on the momentum provided by “Made for Pleasure,” a disc of seductive, Meters-besotted jazz-funk jams that arrived late last year, this Leeds quartet slips into the Sinclair two days before the arrival of “The Nashville Session,” a new set of first-take recordings taped in the titular town. Look sharp: The infectiously scrappy Brooklyn sax ’n’ drums trio Moon Hooch opens. April 20, 7:30 p.m. $25, advance $22. The Sinclair, Cambridge.  617-547-5200, www.sinclaircambridge.com

TOM CARTER The museum’s 2ndSHIFT Music Series, a promising new venture curated by roots-music maven Michael Tarbox, hosts a solo set from the psych-folk guitarist responsible for one of 2015’s best things: “Long Time Underground,” a double-vinyl clutch of electric soliloquies teeming with revelation and reverie. April 21, 7:30 p.m. $20-$30, advance $15-$25. Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, Waltham. 781-893-5410, www.charlesriver museum.org

Playlist.

Black Milk - If There's a Hell Below (Computer Ugly < Bandcamp)

Guilty Simpson - Detroit's Son (Stones Throw < Bandcamp)

Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tic, Vol. 1 (Donut Boy)

J Dilla - Donuts (Stones Throw < Bandcamp)

Aube - Healsonar (G.R.O.S.S. < Bandcamp)

Aube - Flare (Iris Light Records < Bandcamp)

Aube - Flush (Iris Light Records < Bandcamp)

Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Hildegard Behrens, Reiner Goldberg, Matti Salminen, Bernd Weikl, Cheryl Studer, Hanna Schwarz, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra/James Levine (Deutsche Grammophon)

Cecil Taylor Unit - One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (hatOLOGY)

Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Weeks (Adversary Electronics)

Grant Evans - The Hyacinth (Adversary Electronics)

Bastian Void / Kyle Landstra - Bastian Void/Kyle Landstra (Lillerne < Bandcamp)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS (Western Vinyl < Bandcamp)

David First - Same Animal, Different Cages Vol. 1: Études for Acoustic Guitar (Fábrica < Bandcamp; due May 9)