Night After Night

Playlist (Rang Dizzy Inside).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti (Griselda/Daupe; 2021)

Federico Antonini - I was a teenage metalhead and all I have now is this tinnitus (Superpang; 2021)

Body Void - Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth (Prosthetic; 2021)

Apparition - Feel (Profound Lore; 2021)

Genesis - The Last Domino? (Atlantic/Rhino; 2021)

Punch Brothers - Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch; due Jan. 14, 2022)

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Elixor of Life (Centripetal Force; 2021)

Andrew Scott Young/Ryan Jewell/Ryley Walker - Post Wook (Husky Pants; due Dec. 3, 2021)

Garcia Peoples - Dodging Dues (No Quarter; due Jan. 14, 2022)

Six Organs of Admittance - The Veiled Sea (Three Lobed Recordings; 2021)

Ryley Walker - Course in Fable (Husky Pants; 2021)

Pat Metheny - Side Eye NYC (V1-IV) (Modern Recordings; 2021)

Spencer Zahn - Sunday Painter (Cascine; 2020)

Chris Forsyth/Dave Harrington/Ryan Jewell/Spencer Zahn - First Flight (Algorithm Free; 2020)

Chris Forsyth/Dave Harrington/Ryan Jewell/Spencer Zahn - First Flight REDUX (Harrington Dub) (Algorithm Free; 2021)

Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: 1 (Epitaph; 2021)

Tangerine Dream - Probe 6-8 (Kscope; 2021)

Edgar Froese - Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (Virgin; 1975)

Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam; 2021)

Genesis - United Center, Chicago, IL, Nov. 15, 2021 (ROIO; 2021)

Goings On About Town, December 6, 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 taking greater precedence 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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Playlist (Ripping Out the Radio).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Stephen Hough - Chopin Nocturnes (Hyperion; 2021)

Paul Hindemith - Nusch-Nuschi-Tänze; Sancta Susanna; Symphony "Mathis der Maler" - Ausrine Stundyte, Renée Morloc, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony/Marin Alsop (Naxos; 2021)

Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn - String Quartets - Takács Quartet (Hyperion; 2021)

Marillion - Size Matters (Racket; 2010)

King Crimson - Konserthuset, Oslo, Norway, June 4, 2003 (DGMLive; 2003/2021)

Divinity Roxx - Ready Set Go! (Divi Roxx Kids; 2021)

Miles Davis - Live Around the World (Warner Bros.; 1996)

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) (Kscope; 2013)

Victoria Sur - Nanas Consentidoras (self-released; 2020)

Cecil Taylor - The Complete Legendary Live Return Concert (Oblivion; 1973/due Feb. 15, 2022)

Cecil Taylor - Music from Two Continents (Fundacja Słuchaj; 1984/due Nov. 30, 2021)

Scott Blasco - One Day As a Thousand Years - R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog; due imminently)

C4 Trio - Back to 4 EP (GroundUP Music; 2021)

Exodus - Persona Non Grata (Nuclear Blast; 2021)

Carcass - Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast; 2021)

Khemmis - Deceiver (Nuclear Blast; 2021)

King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend (Live in Washington, D.C. and Albany, 2021) (DGM; 2021)

Bob Dylan - Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 (Sony Legacy; 2021)

James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet - Jesup Wagon (AUM Fidelity; 2021)

Goings On About Town, November 29, 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 taking greater precedence 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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Goings On About Town, November 22, 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 taking greater precedence 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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Goings On About Town, November 15, 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 taking greater precedence 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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Playlist (Here Is a Small Prize).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Serena Gabriel featuring Steve Roach - Seeing Inside (Soundquest Music; 2021)

Kate Moore - The Dam - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; due Nov. 5, 2021)

Graham Fitkin - Mesh - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Steve Martland - Re-mix - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

John Godfrey - S.U.S.Y.W.I.M.P.S. - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Anna Meredith - Nautilus - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Julia Wolfe - Big, Beautiful, Dark & Scary - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Michael Gordon & David Lang - Link - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Gang of Four - Live at Peppermint Lounge, New York City, NY, USA, 20th July 1982 (Matador; 2020)

Linda Buckley - Azure - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Kerry Andrew - The, What Is It? The Golden Eagle? - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Jlin - Black Origami - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

Anna Meredith - The Vapours - Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021)

John Zorn - Bagatelles, Vol. 6 - Brian Marsella Trio (Tzadik; 2021)

Bruno Duplant + Julien Heraud - D'eux (Grisaille; 2021)

Klein - Harmattan (Pentatone; due Nov. 19, 2021)

Jane Getter Premonition - Anomalia (Cherry Red; 2021)

Windhand - Levitation Sessions (The Reverberation Appreciation Society; 2020)

Steve Roach - Live in Paderborn Germany 1991 (Steve Roach Exclusive subscription release; 2021)

Porcupine Tree - The Incident (Kscope; 2009)

Clarice Jensen - Identifying Features (Original Film Score) (130701/Fatcat; 2021)

Nico Muhly - Gift of Fire (Original Film Score) - Nadia Sirota, Nico Muhly, Justin Peters (Bedroom Community; 2021)

Various artists - The Record of Singing: The Very Best of Volumes 1-4 (Warner Classics; 1899-1992/2009)

Jean Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6; Tapiola - London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Kajanus, Finnish National Orchestra/Georg Schnéevoigt (Divine Art; 1932, 1934/2005)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D - Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Bruno Walter (CBS/Sony; 1962/2019)

Steve Roach/Michael Stearns - Beyond Earth & Sky (Projekt; due Nov. 5, 2021)

Modern Lamps/Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Cutlass Obscura/Extrasolarity (Hooker Vision; 2021)

Possessed - Seven Churches (Combat/Century Media; 1985/2020)

Death - Scream Bloody Gore (Combat/Relapse; 1987/2016)

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick (Earache; 1991)

Motörhead - Everything Louder Forever (BMG; 2021)