Playlist (Stay a while in the present tense).

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

Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey - Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj; due Feb. 4, 2025)

Patrick Higgins - Versus (Other People; 2024)

IQ - IQ30 (IQ Archive Collection; 2011)

Albert Ayler Quintet - At Slugs' Saloon 1966 Revisited (Ezz-thetics; 2022)

Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal - Sunday (Loyal Label; 2024)

numün - Opening (Centripetal Force; due Jan. 31, 2025)

Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late Quartets - Calidore Quartet (Signum Classics; 2023)

IQ - Even Live (Big Electric Tree; 2018)

Big Big Train - Folklore (English Electric; 2016)

Pekka Kuusisto - First Light: Muhly & Glass - Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (Pentatone; 2021)

Lei Liang - Dui - Wu Man, Steven Schick, Mark Dresser, Maya Beiser, loadbang, Cho-liang Lin, Zhe Lin (Islandia; due Feb. 14, 2025)

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - UBIQUE - Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods (Sono Luminus; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Mystery Sonata (Mina Gajić & Zachary Carrettin) - Aequora - compositions by Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Daníel Bjarnason, and Pall Ragnar Palsson (Sono Luminus; due Feb. 28, 2025)

IQ - De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Holland, Dec. 16, 2016 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2016)

Silvia Colasanti - Il canto di Atropo; La Rosa que no canto; Chaos; To Muddy Death (Dynamic; 2012)

Silvia Colasanti - String Quartets - Quartetto Noûs (Brilliant Classics; 2020)

Lea Bertucci - Of Shadow and Substance (Cibachrome Editions; 2023)

David Lynch - Eraserhead (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Sacred Bones; 2012)

Toto - Dune (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Universal; 1984)

Michael Tippett - Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage; Mark-Anthony Turnage - Guitar Concerto ("Sco"); Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D - John Scofield, London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Stage+; 2025)

Marillion - Season's End – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1989/2023)

Marillion - Holidays in Eden – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1991/2022)

Marillion - Brave – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1994/2018)

Sarah Hennies - SOVT - Richard Valitutto (elsewhere; due March 1, 2025)

IQ - Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, June 21, 1985 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 1985)

IQ - o2 Academy, London, England, Dec. 8, 2012 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2012)