An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately.

Van der Graaf Generator – Do Not Disturb (Esoteric Antenna; 2016)

Eli Keszler – Last Signs of Speed (Empty Editions; due Nov. 17, 2016)

Linda Catlin Smith – Dirt Road – Mira Benjamin, Simon Limbrick (Another Timbre; 2016)

Joseph Kudirka – Beauty and Industry – Apartment House (Another Timbre; 2015)

Tod Dockstader – From the Archives (Starkland; due Nov. 18, 2016)

Sarah Davachi – Vergers (Important; 2016)

Yes – Tales from Topographic Oceans (Panegyric; 1973/2016)

Ocean Viva Silver – The Sleep in Opera (Sublunar Society; 2016)

Centipede – Septober Energy (BGO Records; 1971/2000)

Tom Jackson/Ashley-John Long/Benedict Taylor/Keith Tippett – Four Quartets (Confront; 2016)

Taku Sugimoto – Mada – Ryoko Akama, Cristián Alvear, Cyril Bondi, D’Incise (Caduc; 2016)

John Edwards/Mark Sanders/John Tilbury – A field perpetually at the edge of disorder (Fataka; 2014)

Nate Wooley – Polychoral – Peter Evans (Mnóad; 2016)

Bent Knee – Leak Water EP (self-released, limited edition; 2016)

Richard Wagner – Tristan und Isolde – Astrid Varnay, Ramón Vinay, Ira Malaniuk, Gustav Niedlinger, Ludwig Weber, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Eugen Jochum (Archipel; 1953/2004)

Death – Scream Bloody Gore (Relapse; 1987/2016)

Laraaji – Essence/Universe (All Saints; 1987/2013)

Kansas – The Prelude Implicit (Inside Out Music; 2016)

Steve Flato – Harm Reduction (Studious Avoidance; 2015)

Vanessa Rossetto – The Way You Make Me Feel (Unfathomless; 2016)

The Orb – COW/Chill Out World! (Kompakt; 2016)