Playlist (Through these endless days).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 11–17, 2026.

PhishNew Year’s Eve 1995: Live at Madison Square Garden (JEMP; 2005)

Yvonne RogersThe Button Jar (Pyroclastic; 2026)

King CrimsonColonial Theatre, Boston, MA, Sept. 15, 2014 (Nugs.net; 2025)

King CrimsonUniversity, Liverpool, UK, May 8, 1981 (Nugs.net; 2026)

isadora yaraMy Body Is a River (self-released; 2025)

Zoë KeatingThe Edge of All We Know (Original Soundtrack) (020202 Music; 2026)

Floating CaveContinuum I (self-released; 2023)

Safie FlatoMicrotonal Guitar (2026 Remaster) (Tape Drift; 2026, originally released 2021)

Aliya UltanLooks Far Woman (Kou; due June 26, 2026)

Taiga UltanShade Zero (Kou; due June 26, 2026)

Bhob Rainey & Ralf WehowskyI don’t think I can see you tonight (Sedimental; 2007)

Grateful DeadGreek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 7/15/1988 (Play Dead/Nugs.net; 2026)

John ZornAlea lacta Est (Tzadik; 2026)

PhishLivePhish 04: 6.14.00 Drum Logos, Fukuoka, Japan (Elektra; 2001)

Various composersRachel Baptist: Ireland’s Black Syren – Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra/Peter Whelan (Linn; 2024)

▸ Compositions by George Frideric Handel, Niccolò Pasquali, Francesco Geminiani, and Henry Purcell

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 in C minor – WDR Symphony Orchestra/Semyon Bychkov (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2020, recorded 1999)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 7 in E – WDR Symphony Orchestra/Marie Jacquet (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2026, recorded 2025)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 in E-flat (“Romantic”) – WDR Symphony Orchestra/Marek Janowski (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2022, recorded 2021)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No .2 in C minor – SWR Symphonieorchester/Jonathan Nott (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2025, recorded 2021)

Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni AntoniniHaydn 2032, Vol. 19: Trauer (Alpha; 2026)

▸ Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 44, 52 & 108; Arvo Pärt – Da pacem Domine; Samuel Scheidt – Ludi musici I: No. 5, Paduan a 4

Bruce SoordGhosts in the Park (Kscope; 2026)

Peter GabrielLive at WOMAD 1982 (Real World; 2026)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 5 in B-flat – SWR Symphonieorchester/John Storgårds (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2022, recorded 2021)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 6 in A – SWR Symphonieorchester/Pablo Heras-Casado (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2025, recorded 2024)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 7 in E – NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2025)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 in C minor – WDR Symphony Orchestra/Philippe Jordan (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2025, recorded 2024)

Suzanne CianiCIANI/ORKEST – Metropole Orkest/Simon Dobson (AKP Recordings; due June 4, 2026)

Robert Fripp 80th Birthday Marathon:

King CrimsonIn the Court of the Crimson King (Atlantic/DGM; 1969)

King CrimsonIn the Wake of Poseidon (Atlantic/DGM; 1970)

King CrimsonLizard (Atlantic/DGM; 1970)

King CrimsonIslands (Atlantic/DGM; 1971)

King CrimsonLarks’ Tongues in Aspic (Atlantic/DGM; 1973)

King CrimsonStarless and Bible Black (Atlantic/DGM; 1974)

King CrimsonRed (Atlantic/DGM; 1974)

Robert FrippExposure (Polydor/DGM; 1979/2022)

Robert FrippGod Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners (Polydor; 1980)

Robert FrippThe League of Gentlemen (Polydor; 1981)

King CrimsonDiscipline (Warner Bros./DGM; 1981)

King CrimsonBeat (Warner Bros./DGM; 1982)

King CrimsonThree of a Perfect Pair (Warner Bros./DGM; 1984)

King CrimsonTHRAK (Virgin/DGM; 1995)

King CrimsonThe ConstruKction of Light (Virgin/DGM; 2000)

King CrimsonThe Power to Believe (Sanctuary/DGM; 2003)

Jakszyk, Fripp & CollinsA Scarcity of Miracles (Discipline Global Mobile; 2011)

PhishNassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, Apr. 3, 1998 (LivePhish; 1998)

Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 in D minor (completed by Gerd Schaller) – Philharmonie Festiva/Gerd Schaller (ARD Klassik/YouTube; 2025, recorded 2024)


Title key: King Crimson“Exiles”

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