Playlist.
A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately.
Spotify jukebox does not correspond precisely with the listed selections that follow, but maintains the playlist’s continuity and personality.
Olivia Block – Dissolution (Glistening Examples; 2016)
Jennifer Higdon – Color Through – Trio Solisti (Vimeo; 2017)
David Maslanka – Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble; Symphony No. 8 – Stephen Parsons, Adriana La Rosa Ransom, Illinois State University Wind Symphony/Stephen K. Steele (Albany)
Quatuor Bozzini – À Chacun Sa Miniature (Edition QB; 2011)
> Michael Berger – Promnesopoeia No. 1; Eric KM Clark – Microquartet No. 1; André Cormier – Petit quatuor; Benton Roark – Refractions 1; Cléo Palacio-Quintin – Archipel imaginaire II; Sally Norris – 40:24:20:10; Jeff Morton – Free Tango Lessons Wednesday; Anna Höstman – Slanted Birds; Simon Martin – Miniature pour quatuor à cordes; Marie-Pierre Brasset – Dyea; Sabrina Schroeder – Slip Trains; Guillaume Primard – GE 40 W 28398; Pierre-Olivier Roy – Glitching Gumboots; Eldritch Priest – Kalliphobia; Christopher Reiche, The Length of this Piece is not Arbitrary — Painting a Portrait of Glass; Cassandra Miller – Swainson’s Thrush; Taylor Brook – Florescences; Andrea Young – Une âme turquoise; Mirko Sablich – Little Hidden Time Trail; Daryl Jamieson – Monkish Fire; Darren Miller – Waveforms for String Quartet; Alex Eddington – Talking with Strangers; Margareta Jeric – Con fuoco; Kimberly Codner – Something Happy that Breathes Freedom; Ghislain Lecroulant – Moving Pictures; Michal Novotny – Trois à quatre en quatre quatre; David Litke – As Ink Bleeds; Heber Schünemann – QB; Emilie Cecilia LeBel – Tincture; Daniel Brandes – The Rooms are Furnished in a Most Peculiar Manner; Olivier Girouard – Sur un fil
Oren Ambarchi – Hubris (Editions Mego; 2016)
Olivia Block – untitled (Another Timbre; due Sept. 2017)
Insub Meta Orchestra – 13 & 27 (Another Timbre; due Sept. 2017)
> Cyril Bondi & d’incise – 13 unissons; 27 times
John Cage – Winter Music – Mark Knoop, Catherine Laws, Philip Thomas, John Tilbury (Another Timbre; due Sept. 2017)
Third Coast Percussion – The Book of Keyboards (New Focus; 2017)
> Philippe Manoury – Le Livre des Claviers; Métal
David Kirkland Garner – Dark Holler – American Contemporary Music Ensemble (New Focus; 2017)
Wolf Eyes – No Hate (self-released; 2017)
Impetuous Ritual – Blight Upon Martyred Sentience (Profound Lore; 2017)
Disentomb – Misery (New Standard Elite; 2014)
Marti Epstein – Hypnagogia – Ludovico Ensemble (Ludovico Ensemble; 2015)
> Hothouse; Grand Island; A Little Celestial Tenderness; Hypnagogia
Claire M. Singer – Live at Union Chapel (Spitfire Audio; 2017)
Ruven Nunez – Altar of Sun (Sounds of the Dawn; 2017)
Günter Schlienz – Book of Dreams (Cosmic Winnetou/Zoharum; 2015/2017)
Kate Carr – The Story Surrounds Us (Helen Scarsdale; 2017)
Mulatu Astatke – Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village; 2013)
King Crimson – Weeley Festival, Clacton, England, Aug. 28, 1971 (DGMLive; 2012)
Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings; 2017)
Lili Boulanger – Psalm 130 “Du fond de l’abîme”; Psalm 24 “La terre appartient à l’Éternel”; Psalm 129 “Ils m’ont assez opprimé dès ma jeunesse”; Vieille prière bouddhique; Pie Jesu – Alain Fauqueur, Oralia Dominguez, Raymond Amade, Michel Sénéchal, Pierre Mollet, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur, Orchestre Lamoreux/Igor Markvitch (Everest; 1960)
High Aura’d – No River Long Enough Doesn’t Contain a Bend (Debacle; due Oct. 27, 2017)
Ex Eye – Ex Eye (Relapse; 2017)
Steve Roach – Core (Timeroom Editions; 2001/2017)
W-2 – Fanatics (Astral Spirits; 2017)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Nice Guys (ECM; 1979)
Billy Hart Quartet – One Is the Other (ECM; 2014)
Michael Pisaro – fields have ears – Philip Thomas (Another Timbre; 2010)
> fields have ears 1; fade; fields have ears 4 – Philip Thomas, Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes, Dominic Lash, members of edges ensemble
Annea Lockwood – Tiger Balm/Amazonia Dreaming/Immersion (Black Truffle; 2017)
Steven Wilson – To the Bone (Caroline; 2017)
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (Candlelight; 1997)
Áine O’Dwyer – Gallarais (MIE Music; due Sept. 15, 2017)
Long Distance Poison – Rheomodes (Oxtail Recordings; 2017)