Night After Night

Playlist (Veo a través del tiempo).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Michael Pisaro - Nature Denatured and Found Again (Gravity Wave; due Feb. 15, 2019)

Tom Carter - Raw Mono (self-released Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2019)

Caifanes - 25 Aniversario (Sony Music; 2013)

David Sanford - Black Noise - Matt Haimovitz, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound; 2019)
> Black Noise; Prayer: In Memoriam Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Scherzo Grosso

Bruno Duplant & David Vélez - Preservation (Dinzu Artefacts; 2017)

Bruno Duplant - deux trois choses ou presque (Engraved Glass; 2012)
> Manfred Werder - 2009-4; 2009-5; 2010-2

Manfred Werder - 20092 - Miguel Prado (self-released; 2012)

Manfred Werder - Stück 1998 - Cristián Alvear (Irritable Hedgehog; 2015)

Julius Eastman - The Zürich Concert (New World; 1980/2017)

Laura Cannell - The Sky Untuned (Brawl; due April 26, 2019)

Cecilia Lopez - Red/Machinic Fantasies (XI Records; 2018)

Edmund Finnis - The Air, Turning (NMC; 2019. Audio samples here.)
> The Air, Turning - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov; Elsewhere - Eloisa-Fleur Thom; Parallel Colour - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Richard Baker; Between Rain - London Contemporary Orchestra/Robert Ames; Four Duets - Mark Simpson, Víkingur Ólafsson; Shades Lengthen - Benjamin Beilman, Britten Sinfonia/Andrew Gourlay

Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity Quartet - WHENUFINDITUWILLKNOW (Golden; 2019)

Oliver Lake - Holding Together (Black Saint; 1976. Audio samples here.)

David Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith - Sun of Goldfinger (ECM; due March 1, 2019. Audio samples coming soon.)

Celer - Celer Plays Godflesh (Avalanche; 2019)

Michael Gregory Jackson - Gifts (Arista Novus; 1979)

Oliver Lake Trio - Zaki (hatOLOGY; 1979/2007)

Dead & Company - Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI 11/24/17 (Los Muertos/Rhino; 2019)

Goings On About Town, February 18 & 25, 2019.

My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the February 18/February 25, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates February 13-26. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.)

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Playlist (Mysteries Dark and Vast).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Andrea Borghi - Sostrato (Marginal Frequency; 2017)

Jeanne Lee with Ran Blake - The Newest Sound You Never Heard (A-Side; 1966-67/2019)

David Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith - Sun of Goldfinger (ECM; due March 1, 2019. Audio samples coming soon.)

Dead & Company - Playing In The Sand, Riviera Maya, MX 2/18/18 (Los Muertos/Rhino; 2019)

Pete Swanson - Eliminated Artist - Yarn/Wire (Distributed Objects; 2015)
> Corrections; Eliminated Artist

John Butcher with Toshimaru Nakamura - Cavern with Nightlife (Weight of Wax; 2004)

Jon Mueller - House Blessing (Rhythmplex; 2019)

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra; Gustav Holst - The Planets - Joseph Silverstein, New England Conservatory Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg (Deutsche Grammophon; 1971/2001)

Giovanni Lami & Glauco Salvo - Ife (Dinzu Artefacts; 2019)

Fabio Perletta - Hesitant (Dinzu Artefacts; 2019)

Giovanni Lami - Opale (Dinzu Artefacts; 2016)

John Adams - "I am old and I cannot sleep" (from Nixon in China) - Sanford Sylvan, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra/John DeMain (YouTube; 1987)

Sanford Sylvan - Beloved That Pilgrimage - David Breitman (Nonesuch; 1991)
> Theodore Chanler - Eight Epitaphs; Samuel Barber - Hermit Songs; Aaron Copland - Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

M. Lamar with the Living Earth Show - Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman (Negrogothic; due Feb. 15, 2019)

Gil Sansón/Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (Elsewhere; 2019)

Wang Lu - Urban Inventory (New Focus; 2018)
> Urban Inventory - Third Sound Ensemble/Patrick Castillo; Wailing - Holland Symfonia/Hans Leedners; Backstory - Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson; Cross-Around - Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne/Lorraine Vaillancourt; Cloud Intimacy - International Contemporary Ensemble/Ross Karre; past beyond - Ensemble Intercontemporain/Susanna Mälkki

Jonathan McHugh and Mark Wastell - The Great Hall (Confront; 2019)

The Residents - Eskimo (Ralph/Cherry Red; 1979/2019)

Luc Ferrari - Music Promenade (Wergo; 1969/2012)

David Behrman - On the Other Ocean (Lovely Music; 1978/2019. Audio samples here.)

Michael Pisaro - Nature Denatured and Found Again (Gravity Wave; due Feb. 15, 2019)