A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
John Luther Adams - Become Ocean - Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot (Cantaloupe Music; 2014)
John Luther Adams - Inuksuit - ensemble/Doug Perkins (Cantaloupe Music; 2013)
Kate Carr - I Ended Out Moving to Brixton (Flaming Pines; 2018)
Franco Battiato - Clic (Bla Bla; 1974)
Luciano Cilio - Dialoghi del presente (EMI Italy; 1977/2018)
Johnny Chang - V.T. plausible tunings - Johnny Chang, Samuel Dunscombe, Michiko Ogawa, Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble (SoundCloud; 2018)
Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton - Music for David Mossman (Live at Vortex London) (Intakt; 2018)
Alexander von Schlippenbach Globe Unity Orchestra - Globe Unity – 50 Years (Intakt; 2018; listen here)
John Butcher/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter - The Catastrophe of Minimalism (Balance Point Acoustics; 2017)
Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Vol. 26: Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM 11/17/71 (Grateful Dead/Rhino; 2018; listen here)
Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks 2018 Bonus Disc: Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI 12/14/71 (Grateful Dead/Rhino; 2018)
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3 in A minor - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2017)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie - Paul Crossley, Tristan Murail, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (EMI Classics; 1987/2005)
Gustav Holst - The Planets; Colin Matthews - Pluto, the Renewer; Kaija Saariaho - Asteroid 4179: Toutatis; Matthias Pintscher - Towards Osiris; Mark-Anthony Turnage - Ceres; Brett Dean - Komarov's Fall - Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle (EMI Classics; 2006)
Michael Tippett - The Rose Lake - London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (LSO website; 2018)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2018)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2016)
Archie Shepp - Montreux One (Arista Freedom; 1976)
Haptic - ten years under the earth (Unfathomless; 2017)
Taylor Ho Bynum - THB Bootlegs Volume V: Pop Songs (THB Music; 2018)
Midori Takada - Through the Looking Glass (RCA Red Seal Japan/WRWTFWW/Palto Flats; 1983/2017)
Sarah Hennies - Gather & Release (Category of manifestation:; 2016)
d'incise - Ufer/cm. (INSUB.; 2018)
Maria de Alvear - De puro amor & En amor duro - Eve Egoyan (World Edition; 2018)
> De puro amor; En amor duro
David Tudor - A Second Wind for Organ (Odyssey; 1968) > Mauricio Kagel - Improvisation Ajoutée; Christian Wolff - For 1, 2 or 3 People; Gordon Mumma - Mesa
Shadowfax - The Dreams of Children (Windham Hill; 1984)
Dave Burrell - High (Douglas; 1969)
Henry Threadgill's Zooid - Pop Start the Tape, Stop (Hardedge; 2004)
Archie Shepp - Montreux Two (Arista Freedom; 1976)
Sonmi 451 - Panta Rei (Eilean; 2017)
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