A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
July 2-8, 2018
Stephen Cornford - Electrocardiographs of a Cathode Ray Tube (A Wave Press; 2018)
Glorias Navales - Glorias Navales Presenta El Blues de Istvan (A Wave Press; due Sept. 22, 2018)
Marianne Schuppe - nosongs (Edition Wandelweiser; 2018. Audio samples here.)
John Adams - Doctor Atomic - Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra/John Adams (Nonesuch; 2018)
Luciano Berio - Sinfonia; Pierre Boulez - Notations; Maurice Ravel - La valse - Roomful of Teeth, Seattle Symphony Orchestra/Ludovic Morlot (Seattle Symphony; due July 20, 2018)
Michael Pisaro/Reinier van Houdt - Shades of Eternal Night (Gravity Wave; 2018)
Philip Sulidae - Ramshead (Unfathomless; 2018)
John Tilbury/Keith Rowe/Kjell Bjørgengen - Sissel (Sofa; 2018)
David Lacey, Paul Vogel & Mark Wastell - Live at I&E (Confront; 2006)
Portal - ION (Profound Lore; 2018)
Cassandra Miller - O Zomer! (Another Timbre; due August 2018)
> O Zomer! - Apartment House; Philip the Wanderer - Philip Thomas; For Mira - Mira Benjamin; Duet for Cello and Orchestra - Charles Curtis, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov
Alex Jang - momentary encounters (Another Timbre; due August 2018)
> momentary encounters 5 - Heather Roche; any three players - Apartment House; a gray bent interior horizon - Cristián Alvear; distributed tourism - Apartment House
Lance Austin Olsen - Dark Heart (Another Timbre; due August 2018)
> Theseus’ Breath (2 realisations); Dark Heart; A Meditation on the History of Painting - Terje Paulsen, Gil Sansón, Ryoko Akama, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Katelyn Clark, Mira Benjamin, John Lely, Anton Lukoszevieze
Linda Catlin Smith - Wanderer - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due August 2018)
> Wanderer; Morning Glory; Stare at the River; Light and Water; Knotted Silk; Music for John Cage; Sarabande; Velvet
King Crimson – 2017 North American Tour “Hot Tickles” (DGMLive; 2017. More information here.)
Anthony Roth Costanzo - ARC: Glass/Handel (Decca Gold; due Sept. 22, 2018)
Robert Rich and Markus Reuter - Flood Expeditions: The Gatherings, 19 May 2018 (self-released; 2018)
William Selman - Musica Enterrada (Mysteries of the Deep; 2018)
James MacMillan - String Quartets - Royal String Quartet (Hyperion; due July 27, 2018. Audio samples here.)
> Visions of a November Spring (String Quartet No. 1); Why is this night different? (String Quartet No. 2); String Quartet No. 3
Certain Creatures - Nasadiya Sukta (Mysteries of the Deep; 2018)
Rapoon - Sanctus Equinox (Winter-Light; 2017)
Ingrid Laubrock - Contemporary Chaos Practices (Intakt; due November 2018)
Ziggurat - Ritual Miasma (Caligari; 2017)
Travis & Fripp - Travis & Fripp I (DGM iPhone app; 2018)
Graham Halliwell & Mark Wastell - At Bonnington (Confront; 2002/2018)
Francis Plagne & Crys Cole - Two Words (Black Truffle; due July 27, 2018)
Rutger Zuydervelt with Ilia Belorukov and René Aquarius - The Red Soul (Sofa; 2018)
Gabriel Kahane - Book of Travelers (Nonesuch; due Aug. 24, 2018)
Punch Brothers - All Ashore (Nonesuch; due July 20, 2018)
July 9-15
Various Artists - The Washington City Paper Guide to American Primitive (Spotify playlist; 2018)
Punch Brothers - All Ashore (Nonesuch; due July 20, 2018)
Lucy Railton - Paradise 94 (Modern Love; 2018)
King Crimson – 2018 European Tour “Hot Tickles” (DGMLive; 2017. More information here.)
Alex Mincek - Images of Duration (in Homage to Ellsworth Kelly) - Yarn/Wire (Northern Spy; due Aug. 24, 2018)
Lo! - Vestigial (Pelagic; 2017)
Big Heart Machine - Big Heart Machine (Outside In; due Aug. 24, 2018)
Morton Feldman - For John Cage - Aisha Orazbayeva, Mark Knoop (all that dust; 2018. Audio sample here.)
Matthew Shlomowitz - Avant Muzak -Håkon Stene, Asamisimasa (all that dust; 2018. Audio sample here.)
> Popular Contexts 7: Public Domain Music; Popular Contexts 8: Five Soundscapes for a Contemporary Percussionist; Avant Muzak
Hong Chulki/Will Guthrie - Mosquitoes and Crabs (Erstwhile; 2018)
Dead and Company – Citi Field, Flushing Meadows, NY, June 15, 2018 (Nugs.net; 2018)
Milton Babbitt - Philomel - Juliet Fraser (All That Dust; 2018. Audio sample here.)
Luigi Nono - La Fabbrica Illuminata - Loré Lixenberg (All That Dust; 2018. Audio sample here.)
Séverine Ballon - Inconnaissance (All That Dust; 2018. Audio sample here.)
Sean McCann - Fountains (extended version) (Roll Over Rover/Round Bale; 2010/2018)
Nima Aghiani - REMS (PTP; 2018)
Various artists - Paramount Blues: Lock and Key Blues (Black Swan; 2007)
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Atlantic; 1967)
Leonard Bernstein - Mass - Jubliant Sykes, Asher Edward Wulfman, Morgan State University Choir, Peabody Children's Chorus, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop (Naxos; 2009)
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