Jakob Ullmann:
Solo I / Solo IV (Another Timbre)

Jakob Ullmann's Solo I and Solo IV are realised together as two ultra-quiet, long-form works in which graphic notation, fixed pitch sequences, and subtle performance choices guide quarter-tone flute and double bass through slowly shifting regions of colour and resonance, blending live sound with tailored playback to create a fragile, immersive acoustic environment. ... Click to View

Eldritch Priest :
Dead-Wall Reveries (Another Timbre)

Three chamber works from Canadian composer Eldritch Priest trace his distinctive blend of lyric drifting and restless detail, from a fragile, noise-tinged string quartet to a reflective solo piano piece and a shifting, daydream-like ensemble work, each drawing on his interest in improvisation, ambiguity, and melodies that wander with deliberate aimlessness. ... Click to View

Marja Ahti:
Visiting Cloud (Two Translations) (Another Timbre)

Acoustic ensemble realizations of two electroacoustic works by Marja Ahti, in which members of the Italian ensemble Blutwurst translate her drifting textures, elemental timbres, and spatial sensibilities into slow, finely detailed instrumental environments, expanding the original works into patient, resonant soundworlds shaped by pitch nuance, breath, and sustained collective focus. ... Click to View

Melaine Dalibert / David Sylvian:
Vermilion Hours (Ici d Ailleurs)

A refined collaboration between pianist Melaine Dalibert and David Sylvian, transforming Dalibert's algorithmic piano works through subtle, impressionistic electronic treatments that deepen their harmonic resonance, creating a luminous and contemplative soundworld shaped by spectral motion and quiet atmospheric detail. ... Click to View

Eric La Casa / Jerome Noetinger:
Off Tracks (erstwhile)

Compositions from Éric La Casa and Jérôme Noetinger built from site recordings made while exploring buildings emptied of their activities, crossing spaces abandoned by their occupants and drifting through the ghostly traces of vanished presence, revealing a mysterious electroacoustic force that lingers within the shifting textures of these emptied environments. ... Click to View

Fredrik Rasten w/ Asterales:
Fuse Modulations (thanatosis produktion)

Guitarist-composer Fredrik Rasten joins the Berlin quartet Asterales to explore slowly shifting just-intonation harmonies in four movements where quarter-tone bass flute, synthesizer, double bass, and fretless electric guitar weave sustained microtonal textures into a resonant, deeply attentive study of modulation, timbre, and collective harmonic precision. ... Click to View

Kory Reeder:
In Place (thanatosis produktion)

Three works from American composer Kory Reeder's Grid Series bring piano and two violas into sparse, quietly shifting environments where structured pitch fields, performer agency, and subtle repetition form reflective sound spaces that balance structure and spontaneity, inviting deep listening through poised restraint and the poetic tension between silence and tone. ... Click to View

Laura Cetilia:
Gorgeous Nothings (elsewhere)

Three intimate chamber works from composer-cellist Laura Cetilia unfold in finely sculpted layers of cello, voice, violin, and vibraphone, blending delicate harmonics, quiet resonance, and attentive presence into a spacious, quietly immersive soundworld that bridges classical lineage with exploratory clarity and luminous restraint. ... Click to View

Shoko Numao:
The Siwnin Sails (elsewhere)

A debut solo album of eight songs for voice and guitar from Japanese singer-songwriter Shoko Numao, blending poetic introspection, translucent vocal timbres, and quietly expressive melodies shaped through years of performance, as she crafts intimate, subtly shifting pieces that balance lyrical clarity with a gentle, atmospheric sense of stillness. ... Click to View

John Zorn:
The Song of Songs [CD + CD BOOK] (Tzadik)

A rich all-vocal rendering of the Bible's sensual Song of Solomon, featuring five distinguished female voices with narration by Barbara Hannigan and Mathieu Amalric, and guided by Jeremy Fogel's new translation, this lush limited-edition CD book highlights one of Zorn's most evocative and beautifully realized creations in a single extended work. ... Click to View

John Zorn (Marsella / Smith / Roeder):
Nocturnes (Tzadik)

Exploring the tradition of night music with subtle, dreamlike elegance, Zorn's latest piano-trio work — the fourth in his series with Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, and Ches Smith after Suite for Piano, Ballades, and Impromptus — unfolds as a lyrical and expressive creation performed with seemingly telepathic, virtuosic, and finely nuanced interplay. ... Click to View

Amir ElSaffar / New Quartet:
Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqam Records)

Blending Arabic maqam with jazz-inflected improvisation, ElSaffar's new quartet — joined by Tania Giannouli, Ole Mathisen, and Tomas Fujiwara — delivers an intense and expressive live performance whose spontaneous, newly composed material unfolds with lyrical depth, microtonal color, and dynamic interplay, captured at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal with additional alternate takes. ... Click to View

Amir ElSaffar / New Quartet :
Live at Pierre Boulez Saal [VINYL] (Maqam Records)

Blending Arabic maqam with jazz-inflected improvisation, ElSaffar's new quartet — joined by Tania Giannouli, Ole Mathisen, and Tomas Fujiwara — delivers an intense and expressive live performance whose spontaneous, newly composed material unfolds with lyrical depth, microtonal color, and dynamic interplay, captured at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal with additional alternate takes. ... Click to View

Ziv Taubenfeld Full Sun (Taubenfeld / Moore / Buis / Ku / Chientaroli / Heggen / Govaert):
Nomads (Full Sun Records)

Recorded live at the Bimhuis, Ziv Taubenfeld's Full Sun gathers Michael Moore, Joost Buis, Yung-Tuan Ku, Nico Chientaroli, Rozemarie Heggen, and Onno Govaert for a slow-unfolding suite steeped in polyphonic colors, lyrical interplay, and spirited homage to Jimmy Lyons, Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, and Misha Mengelberg, shaping a warm, exploratory, and deeply communal sonic journey. ... Click to View

Sophie Agnel:
Learning [VINYL] (Otoroku)

Recorded in two powerful live sets at Café OTO, Sophie Agnel's first solo LP channels her post-recovery reinvention into a fiercely physical language for prepared piano, unleashing dense sound masses, interior textures, and sudden moments of clarity as she reshapes the instrument into a raw, personal terrain of gesture, resonance, and fearless exploration. ... Click to View

Amanda Monaco (w/ Michael Attias / Sean Conly / Satoshi Takeishi) :
Deathblow [VINYL] (Genevieve Records)

Long delayed but bursting with life, guitarist Amanda Monaco's freebopping quartet — Michael Attias, Sean Conly, and Satoshi Takeishi — delivers a sharp, melodic, and mischievously adventurous set, blending playful grooves, quick-turn interplay, and Monaco's distinctive compositional voice into a vibrant, high-spirited vinyl debut from her Deathblow project. ... Click to View

Jurg Frey with ensemble]h[iatus:
Je Laisse A La Nuit Son Poids D'ombre (Another Timbre)

A brooding work for ten musicians, Jürg Frey's crepuscular score intertwines Japanese haiku and poems by Anne Perrier through hushed voices, fragile instrumental colors, and suspended textures, inviting ensemble]h[iatus, led by Le Quan Ninh and Martine Altenburger, into a slowly unfolding landscape where uncertainty, breath, and quiet tension shape a haunting world on the edge of darkness. ... Click to View

Santiago Fischer Diez :
Songs (Another Timbre)

Blending acoustic trio writing, subtle electronics, and everyday vocal gestures, Argentine composer Santiago Diez Fischer's decade-spanning set of five works for Gyre Ensemble shapes a raw, sculptural, and "punk-poetic" sound world where baritone sax, accordion, and percussion merge with the composer's vocal and electronic interventions to reveal music poised deliberately between rough material and refined form. ... Click to View

Rempis / Adasiewicz / Corsano:
Dial Up (Aerophonic)

Two fiercely intuitive trio sessions drawn from concerts in Chicago and Milwaukee by Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz, and Chris Corsano, capturing the group's Chicago-forged, ego-free interplay as they shift effortlessly between surging, full-throttle improvisation and finely detailed, pointillistic exploration, always prioritizing collective motion over individual display. ... Click to View

Yong Yandsen:
Mud (Armageddon Nova)

Harnessing extreme tenor-sax techniques, Yong Yandsen - known for his collaborations with Christian Meaas Svendsen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Rick Countryman, Sabu Toyozumi, &c. - delivers a solo album that immerses listeners in wet, murky textures and grainy, pressure-driven timbres, shaping breath, multiphonics, and noise into an uncompromising sound world that deepens his distinctive improvisational voice. ... Click to View

Naoko Saito:
The Moon In Diffuse Reflection (Armageddon Nova)

Japanese alto-saxophonist Naoko Saito living in Tokyo presents a full solo effort, shaping airy subtones, soft breath, and tentative melodic fragments into a ghostly, introspective soundscape - a contemplative and quietly expressive improvisational voice that marks her emergence as a distinctive new presence on the Deathrash Armageddon roster. ... Click to View

Samuel Reinhard :
For 10 Musicians (elsewhere)

A four-part work for two pianos, clarinets, bass clarinets, violas, cello, and double bass, unfolding through quietly repeated dyads, chance-shaped harmonies, and sparse, non-directional gestures, as Reinhard's ensemble traces near-silent textures that accumulate, recede, and hover in a state of delicate, slowly evolving stillness. ... Click to View

Leap of Faith Orchestra:
Nonlocality Becoming Manifest (Evil Clown)

Boston's Leap of Faith Orchestra unleashes a sprawling large-ensemble improvisation as longtime Evil Clown collaborators sculpt shifting sonorities from an enormous array of winds, strings, percussion, electronics, and auxiliary instruments, creating dramatic transformations through deeply attuned, high-intensity collective interplay. ... Click to View

Expanse:
The Striking Of Solid Objects (Evil Clown)

A richly textural electro-acoustic improvisation from a seven-member Expanse lineup, unfolding through shifting combinations of horns, synthesizers, fretless bass, and a wide array of percussion and auxiliary instruments, all shaped by real-time processing into a vivid and dramatically evolving sonic landscape. ... Click to View

Expanse:
Hue Cycles (Evil Clown)

The Expanse ensemble navigates an electronics-leaning improvisation as horns, bass, percussion, and a wide array of auxiliary acoustic and electronic instruments merge into a continuously shifting sonic palette, with long-time Evil Clown collaborators shaping vivid transformations through deft doubling, real-time processing, and deeply seasoned interplay. ... Click to View

Neurodivergent Orchestra:
Monsters Gonna Monster (Evil Clown)

Blending freely improvised spoken-word banter from Evil Clown leader David Peck, with a wildly diverse mix of winds, strings, electronics, percussion, and humorous auxiliary instruments, as veteran Evil Clown players and newer voices shape an energetic, narrative-driven performance where playful text, shifting sonorities, and spontaneous interaction collide. ... Click to View

[ahmed] (Thomas / Grip / Gerbal / Wright):
Sama'a (Audition) [2 LPs] (Otoroku)

Reimagining and transforming Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Jazz Sahara in their first studio session, the [Ahmed] quartet of Pat Thomas, Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal, and Seymour Wright ignite four compact, single-take explorations that fuse percussive intensity, kaleidoscopic group interplay, and a fearless reshaping of tradition into dizzying, future-leaning improvisation. ... Click to View

Fred Frith & The Gravity Band :
s/t (Klanggalerie)

A vibrant 2014 large-ensemble performance recorded live in Nijmegen and Moers, with Fred Frith leading an extraordinary lineup including Marie Abe, Kasey Knudsen, Aaron Novik, Lisa Mezzacappa, Ava Mendoza, William Winant, Dominique Leone, Wobbly, Kaethe Hofstetter, and Jordan Glenn in dynamic, genre-blurring interpretations of his Gravity-era compositions. ... Click to View

Elliott Sharp:
Mare Crisium (zOaR Records)

Elliott Sharp unites six electric guitarists in a powerful, overtone-rich work built from droning harmonies, graphic scores, shifting rhythms, and open improvisation, transforming his long-running compositional ideas into a vibrant, resonant soundscape that channels the tension of our present moment into bold, electrifying musical energy. ... Click to View

Anthony Coleman :
Sounding Board (zOaR Records)

Alone with his newly acquired 1947 Steinway Model M, Downtown New York pianist Anthony Coleman crafts an intimate set of solo explorations that probe touch, resonance, and the piano's physical poetry, transforming his long-fraught relationship with the instrument into a deeply personal study of sound, nuance, and the possibilities revealed by playing at home. ... Click to View