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

Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause – The Quiet Sun (Dinzu Artefacts; due May 3, 2025)

Kari Watson – enclosures (Sawyer Editions; due Jan. 10, 2025)

enclosures – Lovemusic Collective; Splittings – Daniel T. Lewis; Three Places for String Quartet – Quatuor Diotima; Shelf Life – ~Nois Saxophone Quartet; For Maaria – Ben Melsky

Francisco del Pino/Charlotte Mundy – The Sea (Notice Recordings; due Feb. 28, 2025)

Chaz Underriner – Moving (Deadland; due March 13, 2025)

IQ – The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 14, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Dream Brigade (Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok) – Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams; due March 14, 2025)

Various artists/Andy Beta – Beta World Peace with Matthew McDermott @ The Lot Radio 02-21-2025 (Soundcloud; 2025)

Swans – “I Am a Tower” from Birthing (Young God/Mute; due May 30, 2025)

Pierre Boulez – Livre pour Quatuor – Quatuor Diotima (Pentatone; due March 21, 2025)

Nathan Davis – Earthworks – Sylvia Milo, Nathan Davis (Sono Luminus; due Apr. 25, 2025)

Jeong-Bisio Duo with McPhee & Rosen – Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk’; 2025)

Larry Ochs, Joe Morris, Charles Downs – Every Day – All the Way (ESP-Disk’; 2025)

Béla Bartók – Duke Bluebeard’s Castle – Rinat Shaham, Gábor Bretz, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis (Pentatone; due Apr. 4, 2025)

Huang Ruo – Book of Mountains and Seas – Gert Mortensen, Michael Murphy, Hsiao-tung Yuan, Ars Nova Copenhagen/Paul Hillier (Naxos; due Apr. 20, 2025)

Lake Mary – Slow Grass (Whited Sepulchre; 2022)

David Murray Quartet – Francesca (Intakt; 2024)

IQ – The Met, Bury, England, Feb. 15, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Albert Ayler Quartet with Don Cherry – European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (Ezz-thetics; 2020, deleted and expanded on First Visit Archive; 2025)

Matthew Shipp – Symbol Systems (No More/Hat Hut; 1995/2018)

Ellery Eskelin Trio New York – About (or On) (First Visit Archive; 2025, recorded 2011 & 2013)

Poppy H – Treadwater Fury (Fort Evil Fruit; due March 7, 2025)

Macie Stewart – When the Distance is Blue (International Anthem; due March 21, 2025)

Yazz Ahmed – A Paradise in the Fold (Night Time Stories; 2025)

Dayna Stephens – Hopium (Contagious Music; 2025)

PainKiller – The Equinox (Tzadik; 2025)

Big Big Train – The Stoller Hall, Manchester, England, Sept. 25, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)

Chris Cheek – Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory; due May 23, 2025)