Night After Night

Playlist (Every stolen interlude).

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

Walt McClements - On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl; 2025)

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Songs (Mexican Summer; 2025)

Wang Fan - Five Primary Elements (Badhead; 2024)

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition) (Deutsche Grammophon; 2004)

Max Richter - In A Landscape (Deutsche Grammophon; 2024)

IQ - The Marquee, London, England, Oct. 4, 1983 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1983)

IQ - The Marquee, London, England, Feb. 23, 1984 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1984)

IQ - The Marquee, London, England, Aug. 19, 1984 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1984)

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve (Nuclear Blast; 1995/2013)

IQ - The Marquee, London, England, July 13, 1985 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1985)

IQ - The Marquee, London, England, Dec. 9, 1987 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1987)

Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts (Nonesuch; due June 13, 2025)

Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind (Red Hook; due June 20, 2025)

R.E.M. - Monster (Warner Bros./Craft Recordings; 1994/2025)

Arena - The Theory of Molecular Inheritance (Verglas Music; 2022)

IQ - Ever – 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Giant Electric Pea; 1993/2018)

Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture (Toff; 1996/2024)

Jadis - Prog Magazine Presents: Discovering Jadis (Various/Prog; 2025)

Solstice - Silent Dance – The Definitive Edition (Equinox/Festival Music; 1984/2007)

Solstice - New Life – The Definitive Edition (Progressive International/Festival Music; 1993/2007)

Marillion - The Marquee, London, England, Dec. 29, 1982 from Script for a Jester's Tear – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1983/2020)

Peter Brötzmann Trio - Hurricane (Old Heaven Books; 2025, recorded 2015)

Julius Hemphill - Blue Boyé (Mbari/Screwgun; 1977/1998)

Pendragon - Not of This World (Toff; 2001/2021)

IQ - Razzmatazz II, Barcelona, Spain, March 21, 2025 (ROIO/YouTube; 2025 part 1, part 2)

IQ - A Show of Resistance (IQ Archive Collection; 2020)

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3 in F - Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Fabio Luisi (DSO Live; 2023)

Playlist (Secret histories and lost abilities).

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

King Crimson - Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, Sept. 15, 2014 (Nugs.net; 2024)

Raven Chacon - Voiceless Mass - Present Music (New World; due Apr. 18. 2025)

Ensemble Ex Materia - A/B (Arpaviva; due Apr. 25, 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

HxH - Stark Phenomena (OFNOT; due April 4, 2025)

Cecil Taylor - Indent (Unit Core/Freedom; 1973/1977)

Deuter - Silence Is the Answer/Buddham Sharnam Gachchami (Kuckuck; 1981)

Bob Dylan - Tulsa Theater, Tulsa, OK, March 25, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Sofie Agnel & John Butcher - RARE (Les Disques Victo; 2025)

John Cage - Chamber Works 1943–1951 - Apartment House (Another Timbre; due Apr. 17, 2025)

Phish - LivePhish, Vol. 2 7/16/94 (Sugarbush Summerstage, North Fayston, VT) (Elektra; 2001)

Dead & Company - Sphere at the Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, NV, March 20, 2025 (Archive.org; 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 15, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

IQ - Dominion (Giant Electric Pea; 2025)

Potamos (Harris Lambrakis, Gilad Atzmon, Vironas Ntolas, Xrisostomos Boukalis, Nikos Sidirokastritis) - Potamos (Aesthetiko Musicians Collective; 2025)

The Grassy Knoll - III (Antilles; 1998)

Dead & Company - Sphere at the Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, NV, March 21, 2025 (Archive.org; 2025)

Dead & Company - Sphere at the Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, NV, March 22, 2025 (Archive.org; 2025)

Playlist (Hauling on yesterday).

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

Dante Boon, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - 3x distance(s) - Paul Beaudoin (kvieto; 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Marillion - Early Stages: Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987 (EMI; 2008)

[Ahmed] - Giant Beauty (fönstret; 2024)

Johann Sebastian Bach - The Art of Fugue - Phantasm (Linn; 2025)

Sarah Davachi - The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music; 2024)

Sarah Davachi - Barons Court (Students of Decay; 2015)

claire rousay - sentiment (Thrill Jockey; 2024)

more eaze & claire rousay - no floor (Thrill Jockey; 2025)

Goose - GLC Live at 20 Monroe, Grand Rapids, MI, Feb. 15, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Mary Kouyoumdjian - Witness - Kronos Quartet (Phenotypic Recordings; 2025)

Austin Wulliman - Escape Rites - JACK Quartet (Sono Luminus; due May 9, 2025)

World Saxophone Quartet - Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music (Black Saint; 1986)

Stephan Crump - Slow Water (Papillon Sounds; 2024)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D minor - Catriona Morison, Pueri gaudentes, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov (Pentatone; 2025)

Natalia Lafourcade - Un canto por México, Vol. 1 (Sony Music México; 2020)

Big Big Train - Bard (Treefrog/English Electric; 2002/2025)

Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky (Timeroom; 2025)

Steve Roach - Micro Climates (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Big Big Train - Scop (English Electric; 2025, recorded 2001–24)

Alexandre Navarro - Netlabels Works 2004–2008 (self-released; 2023)

Rapoon - From Shadows Sleep (self-released; 2025)

Big Big Train - The Stoller Hall, Manchester, England, Sept. 25, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Chantal Michelle - ℎ− 2− ℎ− − 2 ℎ− (Dinzu Artefacts; 2024)

Lea Bertucci - Hold Music (Dinzu Artefacts; 2024)

Dire Wolves - Milwaukee, WI 4-13-2019 (self-released; 2020)

RL Huber - Hafgufa (self-released; due March 28, 2025)

Oromet - Oromet (Transylvanian Recordings; 2023)

Tentacult - Untamed Revulsion (Transylvanian Recordings; 2025)

Niveous - Endless Snowfall (Transylvanian Recordings; 2025)

King Crimson - Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, Sept. 15, 2014 (Nugs.net; 2024)

Playlist (Bouncing gently 'round the room).

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

Günter Schlienz - Zeitmaschine (Grisaille; 2025)

[Ahmed] - New Jazz Imagination (Umlaut; 2017)

[Ahmed] - Super Majnoon (Otoroku; 2023)

[Ahmed] - [Ahmed] (A Cheeseboard Production; 2022)

[Ahmed] - Nights on Saturn (communication) (Astral Spirits; 2022)

[Ahmed] - Wood Blues (Astral Spirits; 2024)

Phish - Moon Palace Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico, Jan. 29, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025)

Phish - Live Phish 01 12/14/95 Broome County Arena, Binghamton, NY (Elektra; 2001)

[Ahmed] - Giant Beauty (fönstret; 2024)

Taylor Deupree - Sti.ll (arr. Joseph Branciforte) (Nettwerk/greyfade; 2024)

Dream Brigade (Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok) - Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams; 2025)

Altus - Legends of Altus: Book 1 (self-released; 2025)

Gerald Clayton - Ones & Twos (Blue Note; due Apr. 11, 2025)

Cole Pulice - Land's End Eternal (Leaving; due May 9, 2025)

Ringdown (Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan) - Lady on the Bike (Nonesuch; due May 9, 2025)

IQ - Zeche, Bochum, Germany, June 17, 2010 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2010)

Bent Knee - Say So (Cuneiform; 2016)

Sofia Gubaidulina - Offertorium - Gidon Kremer, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit; Hommage à T.S. Eliot - Christine Whittlesey, Gidon Kremer, Isabelle van Keulen, Tabea Zimmermann, David Geringas, Alois Posch, Eduard Brunner, Klaus Thunemann, Radovan Vlatković (Deutsche Grammophon; 1989)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - "Daze" from From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound; due May 9, 2025)

Bryn Harrison - Time Becoming (Neu; 2021)

repetitions in extended time - Plus-Minus Ensemble/Mark Knoop; How Things Come Together - Ensemble Contrechamps/Vimbayi Kaziboni

King Crimson - Supper Club New York, NY, Nov. 12, 2000 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Kaisa's Machine - Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music; 2025)

Fuubutsushi - Harmony of Irrelevant Facts (Whited Sepulchre; 2025)

Amy Denio - Varieté (Klanggalerie; 2025)

Ted Reichman - The Border Land – Selected Film Music 2020-2023 (self-released; 2025)

Steven Wilson - The Overview (Fiction; 2025)

nudo - alma blindada (Halcyon Veil; 2024)

David Murray Quartet - Birdly Serenade (Impulse!; due Apr. 25, 2025)

David Parsons/Stephen Hill - Deep Tones (David Parsons Retrospective, Part 2) (Hearts of Space; 2025)

Augusta Holmès - La Nuit et l'Amour, Interlude de l'ode symphonique Ludus pro Patria - Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra/Patrick Davin (Marco Polo; 1994)

William Grant Still - Threnody in Memory of Jean Sibelius - Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Avlana Eisenberg (Naxos; 2022)

Augusta Holmès - Symphonic Poems - Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Michael Francis (CPO; 2024)

Steve Reich - Jacob's Ladder - Synergy Vocals, New York Philharmonic/Jaap van Zweden; Traveler's Prayer - Synergy Vocals, Colin Currie Group (Nonesuch; 2025)

Various artists - Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered (Pentatone; 2024)

Violin Concerto - Joshua Bell, INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska; Cello Concerto - Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies

Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note; 2025)

IQ - Zeche, Bochum, Germany, June 17, 2010 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2010)

David Parsons/Stephen Hill - Long Tones (David Parsons Retrospective, Part 2) (Hearts of Space; 2025)

Steve Lacy - "Brilliant Corners" and "Off Minor" (unreleased/Playback with Lewis Porter!; 1961)

Steve Lacy with Don Cherry - Evidence (New Jazz; 1962)

Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd - Monk's Dream (Verve; 2000)

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging (Blue Note; due March 28, 2025)

Goose - Everything Must Go (No Coincidence; due April 25, 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Playlist (A warning in between the memories).

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

Noor Zehra Kazim - The Sound of Sagar Veena (Old Heaven Books; 2025)

Hipwell + Kasperkiewicz - Hemispheres (Woodford Halse; 2025)

Jürg Frey - String Quartets - Quatuor Bozzini (Edition Wandelweiser/Collection QB; 2006/2025)

Jürg Frey - String Quartet No. 3; Unhörbare Zeit - Quatuor Bozzini, Lee Ferguson, Christian Smith (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019)

Jürg Frey - String Quartet No. 4 - Quatuor Bozzini (Collection QB; 2023)

Ted Reichman - The Border Land - Selected Film Music 2020-2023 (self-released; 2025)

David Murray Octet - Ming (Black Saint; 1980)

Henry Threadgill Sextett - You Know the Number (RCA Novus; 1987)

Various artists - Anton Bruckner: From the Archives, Vol. 6 (Ariadne; 2025, recorded 1950–66)

Symphony No. 8 in C minor - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Eugen Jochum; Psalm 150 - Hilda Ceska, Vienna Akademie Kammerchor, Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Henry Swoboda; Symphony No. 9 in D minor - Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Wolfgang Sawallisch

Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B minor, BWV 232 - Julie Roset, Beth Taylor, Lucile Richardot, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Christian Immler, Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (Harmonia Mundi; due Apr. 4, 2025)

Erik Wøllo - Where the River Widens (Projekt; 2025)

Steve Roach - Micro Climates (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

fraufraulein (Billy Gomberg & Andy Guthrie) - greater honeyguide (mappa; due Apr. 3, 2025)

Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Terán - Orbweaver (Outside Time; due Apr. 18, 2025)

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life (ECM; due March 21, 2025)

Chaya Czernowin - Seltene Erde & Atara (Kairos; 2025)

Seltene Erde: alchimia communicationis - Uli Fussenegger, Klangforum Wien/Johannes Kalitzke; Atara - Sofia Jernberg, Holger Falk, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien/Christian Karlsen

Felipe Lara - Chamber Works for Strings (Kairos; 2025)

Corde Vocale - Mivos Quartet; Prisma - Duo Diorama; Postcard - Joshua Rubin, Modney; Sonare - Parker Quartet; Archi Elastici - Mivos Quartet, Hannah Levinson; Tran(slate) - JACK Quartet, EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR Freiburg

Joe Russo's Almost Dead - The Eastern, Atlanta, GA, Feb. 14, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Nov. 29, 2008 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2008)

IQ - Zeche, Bochum, Germany, June 17, 2010 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2010)

Erik Wøllo - Solastalgia (Projekt; 2024)

Andy Guthrie - Blemished (Modern Concern; 2023)

Flutter Ridder (Espen Friberg & Jenny Berger Myhre) - Flutter Ridder (Students of Decay; 2025)

Ace Bandage - Jones Bar, Ridgewood, NY, Apr. 5, 2024 (Archive.org; 2024)

Solstice - Clann (Progrock.com's Essentials; due Apr. 4, 2025)

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - snakeoil ok (Screwgun; 2025, recorded 2013)

Gyða Valtýsdóttir & Úlfur Hansson - AUGA (Sono Luminus; 2025)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Peter Moore - Beyond - compositions by Thomas Adès, Jonathan Dove, Matthew Aucoin, and Nico Muhly (Orchid Classics; 2025)

Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant (InsideOut Music; 2025)

King Crimson - Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 12, 2014 (DGMLive; 2024)

David Parsons/Stephen Hill - Long Tones (David Parsons Retrospective, Part 1) (Hearts of Space; 2025, first broadcast 2003)

Various artists - Anton Bruckner: From the Archives, Vol. 5 (Ariadne; 2024, recorded 1955–62)

Symphony No. 6 in A - NDR Symphony Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi; Te Deum - Wilma Lipp, Elisabeth Höngen, Nicolai Gedda, Walter Kreppel, Vienna Singverein, Vienna Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan; Symphony No. 7 in E - South German Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hans Müller-Kray

Byron Adams - Stabat Mater - Ellen Leslie, St. Mary's Chamber Orchestra/Eric Choate (YouTube; 2024)

Brook Pridemore with Ace Bandage - Bar Freda, Ridgewood, NY, Apr. 19, 2024 (Archive.org; 2024)

Ace Bandage - Bar Freda, Ridgewood, NY, Apr. 20, 2024 (Archive.org; 2024)

Playlist (The dawn of an ending).

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

Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause - The Quiet Sun (Dinzu Artefacts; due May 3, 2025)

Kari Watson - enclosures (Sawyer Editions; due Jan. 10, 2025)

enclosures - Lovemusic Collective; Splittings - Daniel T. Lewis; Three Places for String Quartet - Quatuor Diotima; Shelf Life - ~Nois Saxophone Quartet; For Maaria - Ben Melsky

Francisco del Pino/Charlotte Mundy – The Sea (Notice Recordings; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Chaz Underriner – Moving (Deadland; due March 13, 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Dream Brigade (Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok) - Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams; due March 14, 2025)

Various artists/Andy Beta - Beta World Peace with Matthew McDermott @ The Lot Radio 02-21-2025 (Soundcloud; 2025)

Swans - "I Am a Tower" from Birthing (Young God/Mute; due May 30, 2025)

Pierre Boulez - Livre pour Quatuor - Quatuor Diotima (Pentatone; due March 21, 2025)

Nathan Davis - Earthworks - Sylvia Milo, Nathan Davis (Sono Luminus; due Apr. 25, 2025)

Jeong-Bisio Duo with McPhee & Rosen - Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk'; 2025)

Larry Ochs, Joe Morris, Charles Downs - Every Day – All the Way (ESP-Disk'; 2025)

Béla Bartók - Duke Bluebeard's Castle - Rinat Shaham, Gábor Bretz, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis (Pentatone; due Apr. 4, 2025)

Huang Ruo - Book of Mountains and Seas - Gert Mortensen, Michael Murphy, Hsiao-tung Yuan, Ars Nova Copenhagen/Paul Hillier (Naxos; due Apr. 20, 2025)

Lake Mary - Slow Grass (Whited Sepulchre; 2022)

David Murray Quartet - Francesca (Intakt; 2024)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 15, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Albert Ayler Quartet with Don Cherry - European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (Ezz-thetics; 2020, deleted and expanded on First Visit Archive; 2025)

Matthew Shipp - Symbol Systems (No More/Hat Hut; 1995/2018)

Ellery Eskelin Trio New York - About (or On) (First Visit Archive; 2025, recorded 2011 & 2013)

Poppy H - Treadwater Fury (Fort Evil Fruit; due March 7, 2025)

Macie Stewart - When the Distance is Blue (International Anthem; due March 21, 2025)

Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise in the Fold (Night Time Stories; 2025)

Dayna Stephens - Hopium (Contagious Music; 2025)

PainKiller - The Equinox (Tzadik; 2025)

Big Big Train - The Stoller Hall, Manchester, England, Sept. 25, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory; due May 23, 2025)

Playlist (Completely immersed in darkness).

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

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

IQ - The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 15, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

moe. – The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 8, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Kevin Sun - lofi at lowlands (Endectomorph; due May 9, 2025)

History Dog (Shara Lunon, Luke Stewart, Lesley Mok, Chris Williams) - Root Systems (Otherly Love; due May 9, 2025)

Steven Kazuo Takasugi - Il Teatro Rosso - No Hay Banda (No Hay Discos; due April 18, 2025)

Brandon Lopez - nada segrada (Relative Pitch; 2025)

Phish - Moon Palace Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico, Jan. 29, 2025 (LivePhish; 2025)

Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse; 2004)

Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka - Left Up on the Tree (self-released; 2025)

claire rousay - january and feburary 2025 (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2025)

Wendy Eisenberg - "I Don't Miss You" (Joyful Noise; 2025)

Cradle of Filth - The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm; due March 21, 2025)

Christopher Cerrone - Don’t Look Down - Sandbox Percussion (Pentatone; 2025)

Laura Cocks - FATHM (Out of Your Head/Relative Pitch; 2025)

Jon Irabagon - Server Farm (Irabbagast; 2025)

Paul Paccione - Sea and Sky - Western Illinois University Singers, WIU Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hughey (Soundcloud; 2019)

Paul Paccione - Planxty Cage - Michael Campbell (Soundcloud; 2014)

Big Big Train - Empire (English Electric; 2020)

Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore; 2025)

Knoll - As Spoken (self-released; 2025)

Autolith - Artificial Heaven (self-released; 2024)

Chat Pile - Cool World (The Flenser; 2024)

Hawkwind - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Cherry Red; 2024)

Georgia Sea Island Singers featuring Bessie Jones & John Davis - Before This Time Another Year (Lomax Archives; 2025, recorded 1959 & 1960)

Various artists - Blues Unbound: Classics from the Lomax Archive (Lomax Archive; 2025, recorded 1941–78)

Fish - Albert Hall, Manchester, England, Feb. 21, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Playlist (Those everlasting songs).

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

Jeff Greinke – Late Rain (Projekt; 2025)

Kaija Saariaho – Lumière et pesanteur – Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Kaija Saariaho Official/YouTube; 2024)

Alban Berg – Violin Concerto – Veronika Eberle, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai/Alpesh Chauhan (RaiPlay; 2022)

Olivier Messiaen – Les Offrandes oubliées – Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Myung-Whun Chung (France Musique; 2012)

Claude Debussy – La Mer – Phoenix Symphony/Karina Canellakis (ROIO/YouTube; 2018)

Goose – Miller High Life Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, Feb. 7, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Kory Reeder – Texas: Vol. XIII (self-released; 2025)

moe. – The Bellwether, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 7, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

IQ – Artrock Festival VII, Reichenbach, Germany, April 13, 2019 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2019)

Julie Walkington/Jim Howard – Beyond the Treeline (Elsden Music; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Chaz Underriner – Moving (Deadland; due March 13, 2025)

Larum (Chet Doxas & Micah Frank) – The Music of Hildegard von Bingen, Part Two (Puremagnetik; due April 11, 2025)

IQ – The Met, Bury, England, Jan. 1, 2017 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2017)

Goose – Miller High Life Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, Feb. 8, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Mark Turner – We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music; due Feb. 28, 2025)

⎤⎤⎤ (Chantal Michelle & Grace Villamil) – Live at Opus 40 (Notice Recordings; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Francisco del Pino/Charlotte Mundy – The Sea (Notice Recordings; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Catherine Lamb – interius/exterius – Ghost Ensemble (greyfade; due May 9, 2025)

Nat Evans – Grief Scroll (self-released; due Feb. 28, 2025)

whait (Wendy Eisenberg & more eaze) – Close Quarters (Longform Editions; 2025)

more eaze – lacuna and parlor (Mondoj; 2024)

Muslim Shaggan – Asar (honiunhoni; 2025)

Ruckus & Keir GoGwilt – The Edinburgh Rollick (Ruckus; due March 11, 2025)

IQ – Montgomery Hall, Wath-upon-Dearne, England, Jan. 12, 2008 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 2008)

Günter Schlienz – Zeitmaschine (Grisaille; 2025)

Lake Mary (feat. Heavy Gus) – “Neutral Crafting of Life” (Across the Horizon; 2025)

Stelth Ulvang – “Elvis” (Across the Horizon; 2025)

Bruce & Karen Licher – “Round Valley Walkabout” (Across the Horizon; 2025)

tsudatta – Blue-Gray (Dinzu Artefacts; 2025)

moe. – The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 8, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

 

Playlist (There's light left in the day).

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

Big Big Train - A Flare on the Lens: Live in London (InsideOut; 2024)

George Frideric Handel - The Eight Great Suites for Keyboard - Danny Driver (Hyperion; 2014)

Robert Schumann - Works for Solo Piano - Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion; 2024)

IQ - Resistance (Giant Electric Pea; 2019)

Steve Roach - February 2025 (Steve Roach exclusive; 2025)

Steve Roach - Patron 2024 (Steve Roach exclusive; 2025)

György Ligeti - The 18 Études for Solo Piano - Danny Driver (Hyperion; 2021)

IQ - IQ40: Forty Years of Prog Nonsense (self-released; 2022)

David Murray Octet - Ming (Black Saint; 1980)

David Murray Octet - Home (Black Saint; 1892)

David Murray Octet - Murray's Steps (Black Saint; 1983)

David Murray Octet - New Life (Black Saint; 1987)

David Murray Octet - Hope Scope (Black Saint; 1991)

David Murray Octet - Picasso (DIW; 1993)

Sarah Hennies - Motor Tapes (New World; 2024)

zeitgebers - ensemble 0; Clock Dies - Talea Ensemble/James Baker; Motor Tapes - Ensemble Dedalus

Incantation - Onward to Golgotha (Relapse; 1992)

Immolation - Unholy Cult (Listenable; 2002)

Vital Remains - Dechristianize (Century Media; 2003)

Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore; 2025)

David Murray Octet - Dark Star (The Music of the Grateful Dead) (Astor Place; 1996)

David Murray Octet - Octet Plays Trane (Justin Time; 2000)

Solstice - Return to Cropredy (self-released; 2024)

Solstice - Live at the Stables (self-released; 2023)

Shania Twain - The Woman in Me (Mercury; 1995)

^ Stetson tip: Don't Rock the Inbox

Lawrence English - Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40; 2025)

Fennesz - The Last Days of May (Longform Editions; 2025)

Tujiko Noriko - Echoes on the Hem (Longform Editions; 2025)

Natalia Beylis - Coy-Koy (Longform Editions; 2025)

whait (Wendy Eisenberg & more eaze) - Close Quarters (Longform Editions; 2025)

Goose - Miller High Life Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, Feb. 7, 2025 (Nugs.net; 2025)

Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano - Once Around the Room – A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM; 2022)

Jakob Bro - Taking Turns (ECM; 2024; recorded 2014)

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry - Our Daily Bread (ECM; 2023)

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry - Garden of Expression (ECM; 2021)

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry - Trio Tapestry (ECM; 2019)

IQ - J'ai Pollette D'arnu (Giant Electric Pea; 1991)

IQ - The Lost Attic (Giant Electric Pea; 1999)

Mayhem - Daemonic Rites (Century Media; 2023)

Tria Prima - Three Primes of Alchemy (self-released; 2025)

Playlist (Travel on in old accustomed ways).

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

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Symphonies Wq 175 & 183/4 - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Harmonia Mundi; 2020)

Owls - Rare Birds - compositions by Paul Wiancko, Dan Trueman & Monica Mugan, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, François Couperin, and Terry Riley (New Amsterdam; due March 14, 2025)

Francis Poulenc - La voix humaine; Sinfonietta - Véronique Gens, Orchestre National de Lille/Alexandre Bloch (Naïve; 2023)

Goose - "Give It Time" from Everything Must Go (No Coincidence; due Apr. 25, 2025)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Motets - Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (Harmonia Mundi; 2020)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (Harmonia Mundi; 2024)

IQ - Subterranea (Giant Electric Pea; 1997)

Branford Marsalis Quartet - "Spiral Dance" from Belonging (Blue Note; due March 28, 2025)

Pablo Díaz - son esos ecos (scatterArchive; due March 7, 2025)

IQ - The Seventh House (Giant Electric Pea; 2000/2017)

IQ - Dark Matter (Giant Electric Pea; 2004)

IQ - Frequency (Giant Electric Pea; 2009/2020)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky (Omni Sound; 2022)

Yes - Keys to Ascension (CMC International/Cherry Red; 1996/2025)

Yes - Keys to Ascension 2 (Purple Pyramid/Spirit of Unicorn Music; 1997/2025)

Susan Alcorn Quintet - Pedernal (Relative Pitch; 2020)

Susan Alcorn - The Heart Sutra (Ideologic Organ; 2020)

Butthole Surfers - Butthole Surfers + Live PCPPEP (Alternative Tentacles/Matador; 1983, 1984/2003)

Nick Dunston - COLLA VOCE: Praylewd (Out of Your Head; 2025)

Nick Dunston - COLLA VOCE (Out of Your Head; 2024)

Laura Cocks - FATHM (Out of Your Head/Relative Pitch; due Feb. 21, 2025)

Various artists - Desert Balm: A Compilation for MusiCares LA Relief Fund (Island House; 2025)

Sonic Youth - EVOL (SST/Goofin'; 1986)

Sonic Youth - Sister (SST/Goofin'; 1987)

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Blast First/Goofin'; 1988)

IQ - The Road of Bones (Giant Electric Pea; 2014)

Various artists/Jeff Conklin - The Trailhead 163 (2/2/25) (WVKR/Mixcloud; 2025)

Big Big Train - Merchants of Light (English Electric; 2018)

Big Big Train - A Flare on the Lens: Live in London (InsideOut; 2024)