Playlist (Stay a while in the present tense).

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

Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn SoreyParallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj; due Feb. 4, 2025)

Patrick HigginsVersus (Other People; 2024)

IQIQ30 (IQ Archive Collection; 2011)

Albert Ayler QuintetAt Slugs' Saloon 1966 Revisited (Ezz-thetics; 2022)

Vinnie Sperrazza ApocryphalSunday (Loyal Label; 2024)

numünOpening (Centripetal Force; due Jan. 31, 2025)

Ludwig van BeethovenThe Late Quartets – Calidore Quartet (Signum Classics; 2023)

IQEven Live (Big Electric Tree; 2018)

Big Big TrainFolklore (English Electric; 2016)

Pekka KuusistoFirst Light: Muhly & Glass – Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (Pentatone; 2021)

Lei LiangDui – Wu Man, Steven Schick, Mark Dresser, Maya Beiser, loadbang, Cho-liang Lin, Zhe Lin (Islandia; due Feb. 14, 2025)

Anna ThorvaldsdottirUBIQUE – Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods (Sono Luminus; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Mystery Sonata (Mina Gajić & Zachary Carrettin) – Aequora – compositions by Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Daníel Bjarnason, and Pall Ragnar Palsson (Sono Luminus; due Feb. 28, 2025)

IQDe Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Holland, Dec. 16, 2016 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2016)

Silvia ColasantiIl canto di Atropo; La Rosa que no canto; Chaos; To Muddy Death (Dynamic; 2012)

Silvia ColasantiString Quartets – Quartetto Noûs (Brilliant Classics; 2020)

Lea BertucciOf Shadow and Substance (Cibachrome Editions; 2023)

David LynchEraserhead (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Sacred Bones; 2012)

TotoDune (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Universal; 1984)

Michael TippettRitual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage; Mark-Anthony Turnage – Guitar Concerto ("Sco"); Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 5 in D – John Scofield, London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Stage+; 2025)

MarillionSeason's End – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1989/2023)

MarillionHolidays in Eden – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1991/2022)

MarillionBrave – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1994/2018)

Sarah HenniesSOVT – Richard Valitutto (elsewhere; due March 1, 2025)

IQHammersmith Odeon, London, England, June 21, 1985 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 1985)

IQo2 Academy, London, England, Dec. 8, 2012 (ROIO/Collective Underground; 2012)

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