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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Metallica - Kill 'em All (Remastered Deluxe Box Set) (Megaforce/Blackened; 1983/2016)
Kansas - Two for the Show (Kirshner/Legacy; 1978/2008)
Bob Bellerue - Radioactive Desire (Elevator Bath; due Aug. 20, 2021)
---__--__ (Seth Graham & more eaze) - The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Orange Milk; due Sept. 10, 2021)
Seth Graham - Gasp (Orange Milk; 2018)
more eaze - towards a plane (Aural Canyon; 2020)
More Eaze & Claire Rousay - if i don't let myself be happy now then when? (Mondoj; 2020)
Yaz Lancaster - Woodcuts (self-released; 2020)
Yaz Lancaster - ko’u inoa (self-released; 2020)
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti - ko'u inoa; Maurice Ravel - Violin Sonata No. 2: II: "Blues"; John Adams - Road Movies: "Relaxed Groove"
Garlands - Vulneraries Vol. 6 (self-released; 2021)
Peter Evans - Being & Becoming (More Is More; 2020)
Peter Evans Ensemble - Horizons (More Is More; 2020)
Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - "Knot of Spirit" (light-years; 2021)
Steve Roach - Point to Point (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2021)
Alex Groves - Curved Form (No. 11) - Gabriella Swallow (self-released; due Aug. 6, 2021)
Pita - Get Out (Mego/Editions Mego; 1999/2008)
R/S - One (Snow Mud Rain) (Erstwhile; 2007)
Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe - Afternoon Tea (Ritornell/Black Truffle; 2000/2009)
Miles Davis - 1973/6/19 Tokyo Japan (ROIO; 1973)
NPVR - 33 33 (Editions Mego; 2021)
Pita - Seven Tons for Free (Mego; 1996)
KTL - I (Editions Mego; 2006)
Fennesz - Endless Summer (Mego/Editions Mego; 2001/2021)
Fenn O'Berg - The Magic Sound of Fenn O’Berg (Mego; 1999)
MIMEO - Sight (Cathnor; 2012)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen (ECM; 1982)
Jeffrey Alexander Trio - All Tomorrow's After Parties @ Berkeley Arts, Berkeley, CA - June 4, 2016 (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2021)
William Parker - Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity; 2021)
William Parker - Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity; 2021)
Judith Hamann - A Coffin Spray (Superpang; 2021)
Prague Quiet Music Collective - Prague Quiet Music Archives, vol. i (self-released; 2021)
Kory Reeder - The Desert
Jürg Frey - circular music no. 2 - Lote (self-released; 2021)
Keith Rowe/Mark Wastell - Live at I-and-E (Confront; 2006/2021)
King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2020 (DGM/Panegyric; 2020)
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
EDIT July 28: Because of COVID-related restrictions, violinist Pekka Kuusisto is unable to travel to the U.S. His July 29 duo concert with Nico Muhly at Caramoor has been canceled, and the program for the July 30 orchestral concert by The Knights has been amended: Anna Clyne's Prince of Clouds will replace Muhly's concerto Shrink.
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals (Late Music; due Sept. 10, 2021)
Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-; due Sept 17, 2021)
Saxophone Player - New Solo Album (Totally Unaccompanied Horn) (Different Label; due Oct 2021)
King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2019 (DGM/Panegyric; 2019)
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One (Charisma/Virgin; 1970/2005)
John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due August 2021)
Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works (Sahel Sounds; 2021)
King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2020 (DGM/Panegyric; 2020)
Glorious Depravity - Ageless Violence (Translation Loss; 2020)
Natalie Holt - Loki: Volume 1 (Episodes 1-3) (Marvel Music; 2021)
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang – Live on Copacabana Live (Rolling Stones/Universal; 2021)
Sunwatchers - II (Trouble in Mind; 2018)
Whit Dickey/William Parker/Matthew Shipp - Village Mothership (Tao Forms; due Oct. 15, 2021)
Matthew Shipp - Codebreaker (Tao Forms; due Nov. 5, 2021)
Jane in Ether - Spoken/Unspoken (Confront Recordings; 2021)
eldritch Priest - Many Traceries (Rat-drifting; 2021)
Golden Melody Awards - Golden Melody Awards (Rat-drifting; 2021)
The Draperies - La Historia del Sombrero (Rat-drifting; 2021)
James Brown - Live at the Apollo (King; 1963/2004)
Parliament - Live: P Funk Earth Tour (Casablanca; 1977)
Pluto Juice (Dayna Stephens & Anthony Fung) - Pluto Juice (Contagious Music; 2021)
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (Columbia; 1983)
Judas Priest - Battle Cry (Columbia; 2016)
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio (Sanctuary/EMI; 2002)
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2016 (DGM/Panegyric; 2016)
John Cage - Number Pieces - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due late July 2021)
Simon H. Fell/Alex Ward/Mark Wastell - Bailey: With Apologies to G. Brecht (Confront; 2021)
Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals (Late Music; due Sept. 10, 2021)
Maya Beiser - Maya Beiser x Philip Glass (Islandia; due July 23, 2021)
Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other (Charisma/Virgin; 1970/2005)
King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2017 (DGM/Panegyric; 2017)
Kevin Drumm - Sundays (self-released; 2021)
David Grubbs & Ryley Walker - A Tap on the Shoulder (Husky Pants; due Sept. 10, 2021)
Steven Bernstein - Tinctures in Time (Community Music, Vol. 1) (Royal Potato Family; due Sept. 3, 2021)
Louis Andriessen - Theatre of the World - Leigh Melrose, Lindsay Kesselman, Marcel Beekman, Steven van Watermeulen, Mattijs van de Woerd, Cristina Zavalloni, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Reinbert de Leeuw (Nonesuch; 2017)
King Crimson - The Elements of King Crimson – Tour Box 2018 (DGM/Panegyric; 2018)
The Underflow - Instant Opaque Evening (Blue Chopsticks; 2021)
Tom Hamilton - Elegy for Eric Richards (self-released; 2021)
Gregg Belisle-Chi - Koi: Playing the Music of Tim Berne (Relative Pitch; 2021)
Matt Mitchell - FØRAGE (Screwgun; 2017)
Tim Berne - Fulton Street Maul (Columbia/Screwgun; 1987/2016)
David Fulmer - Sky's Acetylene - New York Philharmonic musicians (New Focus; due Aug. 6, 2021)
Julia Eckhardt - Time Suspension (Back and Forth) (Takuroku; 2021)
Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 54 (previously released as Old News No. 6) (Editions Mego/Steamroom; 2011/2021)
Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 55 (previously released as Old News No. 9) (Editions Mego/Steamroom; 2013/2021)
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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