A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Frank Zappa – The Yellow Shark – Ensemble Modern/Peter Rundel (1993/2012; Barking Pumpkin/Zappa Family Trust)

Roman Grygoriv & Illia Razumeiko – IYOV – Maryana Golovko, Anna Marych, Oleksandra Mailliet, Andrey Koshman, Ruslan Kirsh, Anton Lytvynov, Elizaveta Kurbanmagometova, Janna Marchynskaya, Andrey Nadolskiy, Roman Grygoriv, Illia Razumeiko (YouTube; 2015)

Tetracosa, Volume One by Mike Shiflet

Mike Shiflet – Tetracosa, Volume One (self-released; 2018)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata and Partitas for unaccompanied violin – Johnny Gandelsman (In a Circle; 2018)

Celer – Above Polynesia (self-released; 2017. Bandcamp subscriber exclusive)

Ossification Palisades by PINKCOURTESYPHONE

Pinkcourtesyphone – Ossification Palisades (self-released; 2017)

Loss by MARCUS FISCHER

Marcus Fischer – Loss (12k; 2017)

euler ≈ ayler by llama/lama

llama/lama – euler ≈ ayler (Belts & Whistles; 2017)

Solstitium Fulminate by SUNN O)))

SUNN O))) – Solstitium Fulminate (Southern Lord; 2013)

hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd) by Rhodri Davies, Michael Duch, John Tilbury (Michael Pisaro)

Michael Pisaro – hinwandeln (zwischen himmel und erd) – Rhodri Davies, Michael Duch, John Tilbury (Never Come Ashore; 2017)

Experiment.3 by Gareth Hardwick

Gareth Hardwick – Experiment.3 (Low Point; 2017)

Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3 – Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta/David Zinman (Nonesuch; 1992)

The Rest Is Silence by Arash Akbari

Arash Akbari – The Rest Is Silence (Unknown Tone; 2017)

Simulated Music by Simon Cummings

Simon Cummings – Simulated Music (Interrobang; 2011)

Another Set Of Days Now Over by Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm – Another Set of Days Now Over (self-released; 2017)

Celer – Merita (self-released; 2017. Bandcamp private release)

Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa (ECM New Series; 1984)
> Fratres – Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett; Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten – Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Dennis Russell Davies; Fratres – The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic; Tabula Rasa – Gidon Kremer, Tatiana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Saulius Sendeckis

John Tavener – The Protecting Veil - Steven Isserlis (Virgin; 1992)
> John Tavener – The Protecting Veil – London Symphony Orchestra/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky; Benjamin Britten – Third Suite for Cello; John Tavener – Thrinos