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

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus (Milan; 2024)

Steve Roach – Early Years – The Passage – 1980 (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Steve Roach – Full Moon Prophesy – The Last Days in Los Angeles 1989 (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Steve Roach – Factors Unknown (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2025)

Kris Davis Trio – Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic; 2024)

Twelfth Night – Marquee Club, London, England, Aug. 23, 1983 (ROIO; 1983)

IQ – The IQ Weekender 2024 – Feb. 16 & 17, 2024, Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg (IQ Archive Collection; 2024)

Thme – Anti Atlas (laaps; due Jan. 27, 2025)

Spencer Zahn – Sunday Painter (Cascine; 2020)

Chris Forsyth/Dave Harrington/Ryan Jewell/Spencer Zahn – First Flight (Algorithm Free; 2020)

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Pigments (Merge; 2022)

Spencer Zahn, Dave Harrington, Jeremy Gustin – A Visit to Harry's House (Cascine; 2023)

Spencer Zahn – Statues Live (Leaving; 2024)

Derek Bailey/Paul Lovens/Jon Rose – Podewil (The Jon Rose Archive; 2025, recorded 1992)

more eaze & claire rousay – no floor (Thrill Jockey; due March 21, 2025)

The Living Earth Show, Terry Berlier, & Sarah Hennies – A Kind of Ache (Earthy; 2025)

Sasha Berliner – Fantome (Outside In Music; due March 28, 2025)

jeong lim yang – Synchronicity (Sunnyside; due Jan. 31, 2025)

Mariska Baars/Niki Jansen/Rutger Zuydervelt – Hardanger (laaps; 2024)

Cosimo Fiaschi/Nicolò Francesco Faraglia – Variazioni (Superpang; 2024)

Various artists – Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 4 (Ariadne; 2023, recorded 1943–64)

Insub Meta Orchestra – Exhaustion/Proliferation (Sawyer Editions; 2025)

Morton Feldman + Tobias Hume – Intermissions – Luciana Elizondo, Guy Vandromme, Fabio Gionfrida (Sawyer Editions; 2025)

Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek – Greyhound Days (Mondoj; due March 7, 2025)

Crux Duo – My Place – compositions by Harriet Steinke, Nick Russoniello, Anne Cawrse, Erik Griswold, Elena Kats-Chernin, Martin Bresnick, and Leonard Bernstein (ABC Classics; due Jan. 17, 2025)

Christopher Cerrone – Don’t Look Down – Sandbox Percussion (Pentatone; due Feb. 21, 2025)

Chris Williams Quintet – Live (cow: Music; 2022)

Daniel Wyche & Patrick Shiroishi – Hopeful Intervals (cow: Music; 2024)

Steve Lehman – Demian as Post-Human (Pi Recordings; 2005)

Steve Lehman Quintet – On Meaning (Pi Recordings; 2007)

Steve Lehman Octet – Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi Recordings; 2009)

Steve Lehman Trio – Dialect Fluorescent (Pi Recordings; 2012)

Sélébéyone – Sélébéyone (Pi Recordings; 2016)

Lili Boulanger – Psaume 24; Romualdas Gražinis – Sutartiné; Anton Bruckner – Psalm 150; Symphony No. 6 in A – Mary Elizabeth Williams, Choeur de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Stage+; 2024)

Hannah Kendall – O Flower of Fire; Franz Liszt – Totentanz; Erik Satie – Gnossiennes – No. 3; Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra – Alice Sara Ott, London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (Stage+; 2023)

IQ – Live on The Road of Bones (IQ Archive Collection; 2015)

Pendragon – The Window of Life (Toff; 1993/2006)