On the Record rounds up details about new and pending recordings of interest to the new-music community: contemporary classical music and jazz, electronic and electroacoustic music, and idioms for which no clever genre name has been coined, on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, digital-only formats… you name it.

This list of upcoming release dates is culled from press releases, Amazon and other online record stores, social-media posts, and similar resources. Dates cited correspond to U.S. release of physical recordings where applicable, and are subject to change. (Links to Amazon, where used, do not imply endorsement.)

These listings are not comprehensive—nor could they be! To submit a forthcoming recording for consideration, email information to steve@nationalsawdust.org.

Juliana Barwick
Photograph: juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com

New This Week

Julianna Barwick – Circumstance Synthesis (RVNGIntl.)
Mike Weis – In Low Light (Music for the Winter Solstice) (Notice)

Coming Soon

(☆ – newly listed this week)

January 3

☆ William Kentner Anderson – Der Weg ins Freie – performances by William Anderson, Bowers Fader Duo, Vox n Plux, Cygnus Ensemble, and others (Furious Artisans)
Ekmeles – A Howl, That Was Also a Prayer – compositions by Taylor Brook, Erin Gee, and Christopher Trapani (New Focus)
☆ Miguel Farías – Up and down – performances by Laurent Bruttin, Ensemble Contrechamps, Ensemble Zero, PHACE, and Ensemble Vortex (Kairos)
☆ Various artists – Les Espaces Électroacoustiques II – compositions by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, and Gottfried Michael Koenig (Col Legno)
☆ Claude Vivier – Chamber Music and Music for Piano Solo – performances by Alessandro Soccorsi, Thies Roorda, Joseph Puglia, Sietse-Jan Weijenberg, Niels Meliefste, and Pepe Garcia (Brilliant Classics)

January 10

Brunhild Ferrari/Jim O’Rourke – Le Piano Englouti (Black Truffle)
Anna Höstman – Harbour – Cheryl Duvall (Redshift Music)
Tony Irving & Massimo Magee – Vitriol and the Third Oraculum (577 Records)
☆ Paul Moravec – Sanctuary Road – Laquita Mitchell, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Joshua Blue, Malcolm J. Merriweather, Dashon Burton, Oratorio Society of New York Chorus and Orchestra/Kent Tritle (Naxos)

January 17

Various artists – Modulation Necklace: New Music from Armenia – compositions by Artur Avanesov, Ashot Zohrabyan, Michel Petrossian, and Artashes Kartalyan (New Focus)

January 24

David Cieri – La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (original film score) (Ropeadope)
Charles Curtis – Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 – compositions by Charles Curtis, Éliane Radigue, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Alison Knowles, Richard Maxfield, and others (Saltern)
Robert Haigh – Black Sarabande (Unseen Worlds)
☆ Colin Stetson – The Color Out of Space (original film score) (Milan)

January 31

Alex Dowling – Reality Rounds (Carrier)
Ross Goldstein – Timoka (self-released)
Alex Hills – OutsideIn – performances by Aisha Orazbayeva, 12 Ensemble/James Weeks, EXAUDI/James Weeks, Jacob Brown, and 4|12 Collective/Adam Hickox (Carrier)
Jason McMahon – Odd West (Shinkoyo)
Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis – Deep Listening (Important; vinyl reissue of 1989 New Albion release, with bonus material)
Dan Rosenboom – Absurd in the Anthropocene (Gearbox/Orenda)

February 7

Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman – Whoadie (577 Records)
Wolff Parkinson White – Favours (self-released)

February 21

CP Unit – One Foot on the Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown (Ramp Local)
Dave Sewelson – More Music for a Free World (Makahala Music)

February 28

Bernard Schimpelsberger – Glansvit (Geist im Kino)
Leo Takami – Felis Catus & Silence (Unseen Worlds)

March 6

LEYA – Flood Dream (NNA Tapes)