Steve Smith
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Shinobu Nemoto & Dave Seidel – Traveling in Stillness (self-released; 2022) Sepultura – Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation (Cogumelo Produções/Roadrunner; 1985-86/2004) Various artists – The Trailhead 69 (8/7/22) (Mixcloud; 2022) Ahem – Ahem (Housecraft; 2022) Eric Huebner – Earth: Music for Solo Piano by Stephen…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Steve Roach – One Day (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022) Bobby Previte – Nine Tributes (self-released; 2022) Webb Crawford – Joiners (Tripticks Tapes; due Sept. 2, 2022) Derek Bailey – Solo Guitar, Vol. 1 (Incus/Honest Jon's; 1971/2017) William Parker – Universal Tonality (Centering/AUM Fidelity;…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Metallica – MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, May 14, 2017 (Nugs.net; 2017) DOMi & JD Beck – NOT TiGHT (Apeshit/Blue Note; 2022) Amon Amarth “Get in the Ring” from The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade; due Aug. 5, 2022) Victoria Cheah – A…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Caroliner – Gut b/w Lower Intestinal Clocks (self-released; 1998) Artur Schnabel – Klavierquintett; Klaviersonate; Lieder – Irmela Roelcke, Sibylle Kamphues, Pellegrini-Quartett (CPO; 2013) Artur Schnabel – Complete Works for Solo Piano – Jenny Lin (Steinway & Sons; 2019) Vorlust – Lick the Flesh…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Various artists – Flotation Device 2022-06-19 – Commemorations (Mixcloud; 2021) The Dead – Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA, June 28, 2015 (Live Music Archive; 2015) Forrest Moody – abgeewigte linie – Jack Yarbrough (Sawyer Editions; 2022) Kory Reeder – Codex Vivere – Apartment…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… ::: July 4 All-American Music Spotlight ::: Aaron Copland – Symphony No. 3 – San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media; 2020) Louis Armstrong – The Best of the Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings (Columbia/Legacy; 2002) Various artists – RCA Country Legends:…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 in C minor (rec. March 15, 1949) – Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwängler (Archipel; 2021) Desiccation – Cold Dead Earth (Transylvanian Tapes; 2022) Aequoria – Dim (Transylvanian Tapes; 2022) Nicole Atkins – Memphis Ice (Single Lock; 2021) John Scofield…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Wild Up – Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy (New Amsterdam; due June 17, 2022) Brett Dean – Hamlet – Allan Clayton, Barbara Hannigan, Sarah Connolly, Rod Gilfry, Kim Begley, John Tomlinson, David Butt Philip, Jacques Imbrailo, Rupert Enticknap, Christopher Lowrey, Glyndebourne Chorus,…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… David Tudor – Rainforest IV – Composers Inside Electronics (Neuma; 2022, recorded 1977) Steve Roach/Jeffrey Fayman – Trance Spirits (Projekt; 2002/2022) Lucy Liyou – Welfare (Ijn Inc.; 2020) Xisle – The Gatherings 9 May 1992 (The Gatherings; 2020) Lucy Liyou – Practice (Full…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Steve Roach – Deep Night (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022) Michael Abels – Isolation Variation – Hilary Hahn (Deutsche Grammophon; 2022) Steve Roach – March 2022 Exclusive (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022) Forbidden – Forbidden Evil (Combat; 1988) Steve Roach – Now (self-released; 1982) Steve…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Survival Unit III – The Art of Flight: For Alvin Fielder (Astral Spirits; 2022) Josep Maria Guix – Images of Broken Light – Abel Tomàs, Arnau Tomàs, Josep Colom, London Sinfonietta/Geoffrey Paterson (Neu; 2019) Carcass – Reek of Putrefaction (Earache; 1988) Tangerine Dream…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Envy of None – Envy of None (Kscope; 2022) Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – Ravage (130701/FatCat; due May 27, 2022) Gerycz/Powers/Rolin – Beacon (self-released; 2022) Kiss – Off the Soundboard: Tokyo 2001 (UMe; 2022) Richard Strauss – Elektra – Nina Stemme, Elza van den Heever,…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Reinier van Houdt – drift nowhere past/the adventure of sleep (Elsewhere; due April 25, 2022) Tim Parkinson – archive: 2003 – performances by Parkinson Saunders, Craig Shepard/Tim Parkinson, Julia Eckhardt, and Jürg Frey (self-released; 2022) Sirone – Artistry (Of the Cosmos/moved-by-sound; 1979/2022) Jamaaladeen…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Roxy Music – Viva! (Island; 1976) Roxy Music – Heart Still Beating (Reprise; 1990) Roxy Music – Live at the Apollo (London 2001) (Warner Music Vision; 2002) Fossil Aerosol Mining Project – Real Time 3-20-22 (self-released; 2022) Demdike Stare – Embedded Content (DDS;…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Albert Ayler Quartet with Don Cherry – European Recordings Autumn 1964 revisited (ezz-thetics; 2022) Albert Ayler – Spirits Rejoice and Bells revisited (ezz-thetics; 2022) Anchor and Burden – Weigh Anchor (Iapetus; 2021) Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff – Punk Equinox (Dasa Tapes; 2022)…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Gurun Gurun – Uzu Oto (Buh; due March 11, 2022) Hideo Yamaki, Dave Douglas, Bill Laswell – Misogi (Greenleaf Music subscriber exclusive; 2022) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Sonatas & Rondos – Marc-André Hamelin (Hyperion; 2022) Amosphère – More Die of Heartbreak (更多的人死于心碎)…
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This week’s Night After Night Playlist includes choice sounds from Krallice, Lasse Marhaug/Jérôme Noetinger, Eva-Maria Houben, Isaiah Ceccarelli, and more—bend an ear.
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… George Lewis – Minds in Flux – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov (ROIO; 2021) Alvin Singleton – After Fallen Crumbs; Shadows; A Yellow Rose Petal – Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Louis Lane, Robert Shaw (Nonesuch/First Edition; 1989/2007) Philip Glass – Symphony No. 11 – Bruckner…
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Writing for Goings On About Town these last several years, I've most frequently emphasized noteworthy performances. But given the uncertainty about live events now, my final New Yorker contribution instead spotlights a favorite 2021 recording I didn't get to write about at the time it was released, by JACK Quartet on the Greyfade label. (Click…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Tangerine Dream – Croydon 1975 (from The Bootleg Box Set, Vol. 1) (Reactive/Esoteric; 2012) Paul Lewis – Brahms: Late Piano Works, Opp. 116-119 (Harmonia Mundi; due Jan. 21, 2022) Igor Levit – Life – compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Schumann,…
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