A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Traveller by Warren Sampson

Warren Sampson – Traveller (Big Road Music/Love All Day; 1987/2018)

Steve Roach – Timeroom Livestream 10-24-2020: The Day After Tomorrow (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020)

Frederic Rzewski – Songs of Insurrection – Thomas Kotcheff (Coviello Classics; due Nov. 13, 2020)

Deathstar by Convulse

Convulse – Deathstar (Transcending; 2020)

Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera – Con Alma (National Sawdust Tracks; due Dec. 4, 2020)

Jakko M. Jakszyk – Secrets & Lies (Inside Out; 2020)

The Residents – Cube-E Box: The History of American Music in 3 E-Z Pieces (Torso/Cherry Red; 1989-90/2020)

Tachitipo by Zosha Di Castri

Zosha di Castri – Tachitipo (New Focus; 2019)

The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named – Ekmeles; Cortège – Talea Ensemble/Lorraine Vaillancourt; Quartet No. 1 – JACK Quartet; Dux – Julia Den Boer; La forma dello spazio – International Contemporary Ensemble/Lorraine Vaillancourt; Tachitipo – Yarn/Wire, Zosha di Castri

Rebecca Saunders – Musica Viva, Vol. 35 (BR-Klassik; 2020)

Still – Carolin Widmann, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov; Aether – Carl Rosman, Richard Haynes; Alba – Marcos Blaauw, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Peter Eötvös

Enno Poppe – Musica Viva, Vol. 36 (BR-Klassik; 2020)

Fett – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki; Ich kann mich an nichts erinnern – Bernhard Haas, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Matthias Pintscher

Through Luminous Eyes by Laraaji

Laraaji – Through Luminous Eyes (All Saints; 2020)

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 5 in D; Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress – Emily Portman, Kitty Whately, Marcus Farnsworth, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion; 2020)

Carcass – Despicable (Nuclear Blast; 2020)

Mark Kelly – Mark Kelly's Marathon (earMUSIC; due Nov. 27, 2020)

Steve Rothery – The Ghosts of Pripyat (Inside Out; 2015)

Steve Hogarth – Friends, Romans – H Natural with RanestRane (Poison Apple; 2017)

Linda Catlin Smith – Meadow – Mia Cooper, Joachim Rower, William Butt (Louth Contemporary Music Society; due Dec. 11 2020)