A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Bent Knee - Land Animal (Inside Out/Sony; 2017)
Derek Bailey - Solo - London 1985 (YouTube; 1985)
Derek Bailey - Playing for Friends on 5th Street (Straw2Gold Pictures/YouTube; 2004)
Ekin Fil - Windblow (Longform Editions; 2018)
Cham - Pocco (Longform Editions; 2018)
Steam Vent - * Swells (Longform Editions; 2018)
Marha Ahti - Entering a Cloud (Longform Editions; 2018)
Charlotte Hug - Son-Icon Music: Orchestral and Choral Works (Fundacja Słuchaj; 2018)
> Nachtplasmen - Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble/Charlotte Hug; Inn Camino - Via-Nova-Chor Munich
Gérard Pesson – Musique de chambre, Cantates – Marion Tassou, EXAUDI, L’Instant Donné (NoMadMusic; 2018)
> La lumière n’a pas de bras pour nous porter; Cassation; Rébus; Cinq chansons; Bruissant divisé; La vita è come l’albero di Natale; Etant l’arrière-son; John Taverner – In nomine (arr. Gérard Pesson); Instant Tonné; La lumière n’a pas de bras pour nous porter (arr. Frédéric Pattar); Cantate égale pays No. 1; Cantate égale pays No. 2; Cantate égale pays No. 3
Banabila & Machinefabriek - Entropia (Eilean; due Jan. 3, 2019)
Christian Wolff/Antoine Beuger - Where Are We Going, Today (Erstwhile; 2018)
Kevin Drumm - June Spill (self-released; 2018)
Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr. - The Wages of Being Black Is Death (PTP; 2018)
Robert Honstein - An Economy of Means (New Focus; 2018)
> An Economy of Means - Doug Perkins; Grand Tour - Karl Larson
Olivia de Prato - Streya (New Focus; 2018)
> Samson Young - Ageha, Tokyo; Victor Lowrie - Streya; Ned Rothenberg - Percorso Insolito; Taylor Brook - Wane; Reiko Füting - Tanz Tanz; Missy Mazzoli - Vespers for Violin
Tyshawn Sorey - Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings; 2017)
Mary Halvorson - Code Girl (Firehouse 12; 2018)
Jeff Snyder – Concerning the Nature of Things (Carrier; 2018)
> Concerning the Nature of Things - Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Crouch, Wet Ink Ensemble; Fictitious Forces - Jason Treuting, Yumi Tamashiro, Eric Cha-Beach; Substratum - Susan Alcorn, Mivos Quartet/Mike Mulshine; Undeciphered Writing - Sideband/Jascha Narveson; Ghostline - Sideband/Jeff Snyder
Natalie Braginsky - 2018 (self-released; 2018)
Natalie Braginsky - the harvest is past, the summer is ended (self-released; 2018)
Natalie Braginsky - erupt in silence (self-released; 2018)
Anthony Braxton - 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12; 2016)
Anthony Braxton - GTM (Syntax) 2017 - Tri-Centric Choir (New Braxton House; due Jan. 25, 2019)
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