
A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 19–25, 2025.
Heather Stebbins – On Separation (Outside Time; due May 30, 2025)
Bob Dylan – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre Phoenix, AZ, May 13, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)
Ivo Perelman + Matthew Shipp String Trio – Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms; due June 20, 2025)
Timothy McCormack – mine but for its sublimation – Jack Yarbrough (Another Timbre; 2025)
Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley – Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance Music; due July 11, 2025, recorded 1988)
Derek Bailey/Tony Oxley – Soho Suites (Incus; 1997, recorded 1977 & 1995)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Sea.Hear.Now Festival, Asbury Park, NJ, Sept. 15, 2024 (Nugs.net; 2024)
David Grubbs – Whistle from Above (Drag City; 2025)
Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom 66 (Steamroom; 2025)
Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders – Synchronous Orbit (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube; due June 15, 2025)
Brooklyn Rider – The Four Elements – compositions by Colin Jacobsen, Dan Trueman, Andreia Pinto Correia, Henri Dutilleux, Akshaya Tucker, Dmitri Shostakovich, Conrad Tao, and Osvaldo Golijov (In a Circle; 2025)
Makoto Kawashima – arteria (Relative Pitch; 2025)
Anthony Braxton – Trillium X (Prague version) – Eva Esterková, Anežka Matoušková, Jana Vondrů, Andrea Pietrová, Barbora Jirásková, Elmaz Mrkvičková, Štěpán Janoušek, Vojtěch Šembera, Michael Robotka, Aleš Janiga, Martin Kotulan, František Sliž, Hildegard Kleeb, PMP Orchestra/Roland Dahinden (PMP; 2025)
Palm Cinema – Palm Cinema II (self-released; 2025)
Philip Glass – Symphony No. 11 – Bruckner Orchester Linz/Dennis Russell Davies (Orange Mountain Music; 2018)
Bitterviper (Nikos Veliotis, Taku Unami, Sarah Hennies, David Grubbs) – Bitterviper (Blue Chopsticks; due July 25, 2025)
Thee Reps – Cryptocartography (Gold Bolus; due July 18, 2025)
Matthew Evan Taylor – Life Returns – Matthew Evan Taylor, Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya, Metropolis Ensemble/Andrew Cyr (Navona; 2025)
Maya Beiser – Salt – compositions by Missy Mazzoli, John Tavener, Meredith Monk, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Clarice Jensen, Claudio Monteverdi, Yedidya Admon, and Henry Purcell (Islandia Music; due Aug. 1, 2025)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Land of Hope and Dreams (Nugs.net; 2025)
Linda May Han Oh – Strange Heavens (Biophilia; due Aug. 1, 2025)
Ganavya – Nilam (Leiter; 2025)
claire rousay – “True” (self-released; 2025)
Robert Rich – May We Find Our Way (self-released; 2025)
Michael Stearns – Live at Solar Culture – Crossing Thresholds from the Earth to the Infinite (self-released; 2025)
David Mitchell – Turiyans (self-released; 2025)
The Velvet Underground – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes (Polydor; 2001)
Leave a comment