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

Walt McClements – On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl; 2025)

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs (Mexican Summer; 2025)

Wang Fan – Five Primary Elements (Badhead; 2024)

Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition) (Deutsche Grammophon; 2004)

Max Richter – In A Landscape (Deutsche Grammophon; 2024)

IQ – The Marquee, London, England, Oct. 4, 1983 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1983)

IQ – The Marquee, London, England, Feb. 23, 1984 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1984)

IQ – The Marquee, London, England, Aug. 19, 1984 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1984)

Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve (Nuclear Blast; 1995/2013)

IQ – The Marquee, London, England, July 13, 1985 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1985)

IQ – The Marquee, London, England, Dec. 9, 1987 (ROIO/Collected Underground; 1987)

Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch; due June 13, 2025)

Amina Claudine Myers – Solace of the Mind (Red Hook; due June 20, 2025)

R.E.M. – Monster (Warner Bros./Craft Recordings; 1994/2025)

Arena – The Theory of Molecular Inheritance (Verglas Music; 2022)

IQ – Ever – 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Giant Electric Pea; 1993/2018)

Pendragon – The Masquerade Overture (Toff; 1996/2024)

Jadis – Prog Magazine Presents: Discovering Jadis (Various/Prog; 2025)

Solstice – Silent Dance – The Definitive Edition (Equinox/Festival Music; 1984/2007)

Solstice – New Life – The Definitive Edition (Progressive International/Festival Music; 1993/2007)

Marillion – The Marquee, London, England, Dec. 29, 1982 from Script for a Jester’s Tear – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1983/2020)

Peter Brötzmann Trio – Hurricane (Old Heaven Books; 2025, recorded 2015)

Julius Hemphill – Blue Boyé (Mbari/Screwgun; 1977/1998)

Pendragon – Not of This World (Toff; 2001/2021)

IQ – Razzmatazz II, Barcelona, Spain, March 21, 2025 (ROIO/YouTube; 2025 part 1, part 2)

IQ – A Show of Resistance (IQ Archive Collection; 2020)

Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F – Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Fabio Luisi (DSO Live; 2023)