Playlist (so that I can be free).

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

Jim O'Rourke – Steamroom 40 (Steamroom; 2018)

Leon Kirchner – Lily – Diana Hoagland, Columbia Chamber Soloists/Leon Kirchner; String Quartet No. 2 – Lenox String Quartet (Columbia Masterworks; 1974)

Anthony Braxton – Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint; 1986)

Bright Duplex – Strawberry Trust (Thor’s Rubber Hammer; 2009)

piece for two trombones by Weston Olencki

Weston Olencki – piece for two trombones (self-released; 2018)

The March Flog by Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm – The March Flog (self-released; 2018)

Passagen by Matthias Urban

Matthias Urban – Passagen (Experimedia; 2018)

Dislocations by pascal savy

Pascal Savy – Dislocations (Experimedia; 2018)

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 5 in D; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; The Lark Ascending – Sarah Chang, London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink (EMI Classics; 1996)

Taking Auspices by Erica Dicker

Erica Dicker – Taking Auspices (Tubapede; 2018)

Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band – Playground (ECM; 1980/2008)

Arthur Blythe – Basic Blythe (Columbia; 1988)

same place by gil sansón & bruno duplant

Gil Sansón & Bruno Duplant – same place (idealstate; 2013)

Wolfgang Rihm – Jagden und Formen – Ensemble Modern/Dominique My (Deutsche Grammophon; 2002)

Various artists – Musical Offering (Melodiya; 1990)
> Oleg Buloshkin – Sacrament; Sofia Gubaidulina – Vivente-non Vivente; Eduard Artemiev – Mosaic; Twelve Looks at the World of Sound; Edison Denisov – Birds' Singing; Alfred Schnittke – Stream

Various artists – Phantom Images (Huddersfield Contemporary Records; 2018)
> Katherine Young – For Daphne and Delia II; Chris Mercer – Phantom Image; Charmaine Lee & Sam Pluta – quarks; Aaron Cassidy – I, for example, …

Monty Adkins & Paulina Sundin – Beyond Pythagoras (Huddersfield Contemporary Records; 2018) > Emergence – Stockholm Saxophone Quartet; Spectral Shards; Splintered Echoes – Johnny Axelsson; Rondures – Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

DREAMTIME RETURN (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition) by Steve Roach

Steve Roach – Dreamtime Return (Fortuna/Projekt; 1988/2018)

Composition 30 by Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton – Composition No. 30 – Cory Smythe (New Braxton House; 2011)

Serpentines by Ingrid Laubrock

Ingrid Laubrock – Serpentines (Intakt; 2016)

Susan Alcorn – Evening Tales (Mystra; 2016)

Jason Lescalleet – Electronic Music (RRRecords; 2003)

Jason Lescalleet's Due Process – Combines XIX, XX (We Break More Records; 2003)