Monday, October 13, 2025

• Ustad Bismillah Khan, The Shehnai’s Humble Master (disc 2)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations / 32 Variations / 6 Variations / Bagatelles (Glenn Gould) (disc 1)
• Franz Schubert, Late String Quartets, String Quintet (Emerson String Quartet) (disc 1)
• Mark Fell, Psychic Resynthesis (disc 1)
• Jürg Frey, Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit: Räume 1-8 (disc 1)
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Henry Kaiser, The Deep Unreal
• Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
• Wire, Mind Hive
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, October 12, 2025

• Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto, Love, Love
• Sister John Angela, Burns Canyon
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
• Wire, Not About to Die (Studio Demos 1977–1978)
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Saturday, October 11, 2025

• Thelonious Monk, Straight, No Chaser
• Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• Wire, 10:20
• The Feelies, Rewind
• Al Green, The Belle Album

Friday, October 10, 2025

• Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, Automaginary
• Steve Lacy, The Beat Suite
• David Murray, Ming
• John McLaughlin, Devotion
• Dome, Dome 2
• Crass, Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day
• The Feelies, Time for a Witness

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 5)
• Music Before Revolution (disc 4)
• Alvin Curran / Roberto Laneri / Giancarlo Schiaffini / Frances-Marie Uitti / Tony Ackerman / Bruno Tommaso, The Beat 72 Lost Date
• Crass, Penis Envy
• The Feelies, Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy, I Have Made a Place

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
• Gene Coleman, Exploratorium
• Sophie Agnel & Michael Zerang, Draw Bridge
• Darren Johnston & Tim Daisy, Crossing Belmont
• Cecil Taylor, The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973 (disc 2)
• Ornette Coleman, Croydon Concert
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Crass, The Feeding of the 5000
• The Feelies, Rewind
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Al Green, The Belle Album
• Lead Belly, The Definitive Leadbelly (disc 3)

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• Pierre Henry, Apocalypse de Jean (disc 1)
• Kevin Drumm, Eremition 3
• AMM, Fine
• Darren Johnston, Life in Time
• Wayne Shorter, Native Dancer
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
• Crass, Best Before 1984
• Bohannon, Bohannon

Monday, October 6, 2025

• Salamat Ali Khan, Metamusik Festival Berlin ’74
• Éliane Radigue, Ψ 847 (disc 1)
• Taku Sugimoto, Opposite
• Cecil Taylor, Respiration
• Marion Brown, Porto Novo
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 2)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
• Slovenly, We Shoot For the Moon
• Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
• Galaxie 500, Today
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, October 5, 2025

• Kory Reeder, Homestead (Apartment House)
• Alan Watts, This Is It
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 1)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic
• The Feelies, Rewind
• The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Al Green, The Belle Album
• Billboard’s Top Rock ’n’ Roll Hits: 1969

August/September 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal (1949)
• Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)
• Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat (1972)
• Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (2024)
• Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951)
• Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
• Stephen King, Carrie (1974)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912) *

nonfiction:

• Jane Giles, The Cinema of Jean Genet: Un chant d’amour

movies:

• Jean Genet, Un chant d’amour (1954) *
• Chuck Jones, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965) *
• Saul Bass, Phase IV (1974)
• Eliza Hittman, Beach Rats (2017)
• Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride (1987)
• Eugenio Martín, Horror Express (1972)
• Steve Scott, Rough Cut (1979)
• Fatty Arbuckle, Coney Island (1917)
• Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (2024)

* = re-read/re-view

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads and my Letterboxd

Saturday, October 4, 2025

• Walter Marchetti, Natura Morta (Cramps)
• Alvin Lucier, String Noise (disc 2)
• Olivia Block, Breach
• Kevin Drumm, The Real Sound of Small Talk
• Brent Gutzeit, Micro-Regressions
• Andrew Cyrille / Jeanne Lee / Jimmy Lyons, Nuba
• Allan Holdsworth, Metal Fatigue
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Paul McCartney, McCartney II
• Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
• Enya, Watermark

Friday, October 3, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Les Signes Passagers (Elsewhere)
• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• Kevin Drumm, Eremition II
• Gescom, Minidisc
• Merzbow, Nil Vagina for Mice (7")
• Yan Jun, Voice Solo
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Squarepusher, Numbers Lucent
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Iron Lung, Adapting // Crawling
• Crass, 1979 John Peel Session
• Codeine, Barely Real
• Bohannon, Essential Dance Floor Artists Vol. 4
• Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Ain’t That a Bitch

Thursday, October 2, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Eremition
• Francisco Meirino, Recordings of Voltage Errors, Magnetic Fields, On-Site Testimonies & Tape Tension
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• Marion Brown, Porto Novo
• Omar Souleyman, Jazeera Nights
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Unrest, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
• Chrome, Red Exposure
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together
• Billboard’s Top Rock ’n’ Roll Hits: 1969

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• Sun Ra, Calling Planet Earth (disc 2)
• Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two, Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume II
• Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
• Bohannon, Phase II

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

• Sun Ra, Calling Planet Earth (disc 2)

Monday, September 29, 2025

• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Sunday, September 28, 2025

• Bohannon, Phase II

Saturday, September 27, 2025

• Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
• McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ (disc 2)
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Bohannon, Bohannon

Friday, September 26, 2025

• Bohannon, Gittin’ Off

Thursday, September 25, 2025

• The Haters, Clici-Clic 1992
• Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser, Wireforks
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 2)
• The Weird Weeds, I Miss This
• Bohannon, Summertime Groove

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

• Lou Gare, No Strings Attached
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 1)
• Joseph Jarman, Song For
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Obscuress, Maltha
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Frank Zappa, Trance-Fusion
• Bohannon, The Collection
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

• Lasse Marhaug, Science Fiction Room Service
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Aphex Twin, Chosen Lords
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You
• Tall Dwarfs, Stumpy
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)

Monday, September 22, 2025

• Farmers Manual, fsck
• Keith Jarrett, Nude Ants (disc 2)
• Frank Zappa, Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar (disc 2)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
• Neu!, Neu! ’75
• The Weird Weeds, I Miss This
• Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies, Live Classics, Vol. 1
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You

Sunday, September 21, 2025

• Amelia Cuni, Parampara Festival 13.3.1992
• Éliane Radigue, Éliane Radigue (Ensemble Dedalus / Ryoko Akama)
• Leif Elggren, Talking to a Dead Queen
• Bill Evans, Trio 64
• Henry Flynt & C.C. Hennix, Dharma Warriors
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 2)
• Obscuress, Maltha
• Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
• Bohannon, On My Way
• Al Green, Let’s Stay Together

Saturday, September 20, 2025

• India: Festival Music of Kerala (JVC)
• Daniel Lentz, Missa Umbrarum
• The Elephant Table Album (disc 1)
• Keith Jarrett, Nude Ants (disc 1)
• The League of Gentlemen, John Peel Broadcast 17/11/80
• Frank Zappa, Trance-Fusion
• Chrome, Half Machine Lip Moves
• Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure
• Bohannon, Insides Out
• Pat Benatar, Greatest Hits
• Enya, Watermark

Friday, September 19, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Lieues d’Ombres (Reinier van Houdt, piano) (disc 2)
• The Blue Humans, Clear to Higher Time
• Roswell Rudd, Roswell Rudd
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
• Frank Zappa, Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar (disc 1)
• The Weird Weeds, I Miss This
• Tall Dwarfs, Weeville
• Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies, Live Classics, Vol. 1
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Al Green, Call Me

Thursday, September 18, 2025

• Cornelius Cardew, We Sing for the Future
• Jürg Frey, Les Signes Passagers (Keiko Shichijo, fortepiano)
• Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 40
• Costin Miereanu, Poly-Art Recordings 1976–1982 (disc 3)
• Olivia Block, Breach
• Étant Donnés, Aurore
• Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits
• The Blue Humans, Live — N.Y. 1980
• Obscuress, Maltha
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

• Jürg Frey, l’air, l’instant - deux pianos
• Quentin Tolimieri, Monochromes (disc 1)
• Derek Bailey, This Guitar
• Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir
• The Paul Motian Trio, At the Village Vanguard
• Phil Minton Quartet, Up Umeå
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 2)
• Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica
• The League of Gentlemen, John Peel Broadcast 17/11/80
• The Weird Weeds, Hold Me
• Honey Radar, Reclining Psych-Out
• Bohannon, Gittin’ Off

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

• Gavin Bryars, Farewell to Philosophy
• Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 11 (Mizu No Nai Umi)
• Sharkiface, Climax in a Process
• Farmers Manual, fsck
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, Celebrating 25 Years on the Road (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)
• Frank Zappa, Trance-Fusion
• The Weird Weeds, I Miss This
• Tall Dwarfs, Weeville
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’

Monday, September 15, 2025

• Étant Donnés, Aurore
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Keith Jarrett, Birth
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
• F/i, Space Mantra
• Obscuress, Maltha
• Bill Callahan, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
• Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies, Live Classics, Vol. 1
• Bohannon, The Collection
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You

Sunday, September 14, 2025

• Bismillah Khan, Live In London, Vol. 2
• Quentin Tolimieri, Monochromes (disc 2)
• Jürg Frey, String Trio (Apartment House)
• Kory Reeder, In Place
• Conlon Nancarrow, Studies for Player Piano (1750 Arch) (disc 2)
• Kevin Drumm, Disintegrating Day to Day Incorporeal Matters
• Hands To, Scrine
• Haptic, Scilens
• Derek Bailey & John Stevens, Playing
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 4)
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 1)
• F/i, Blue Star + Merge Parlour
• The League of Gentlemen, John Peel Broadcast 17/11/80
• Honey Radar, Reclining Psych-Out
• Bohannon, On My Way

Saturday, September 13, 2025

• Bismillah Khan, The Beloved’s Call: Festive Shehnai
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• Tim Daisy & Håvard Wiik, Slight Return
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• Willem Breuker Kollektief, 1985 Tour 7″ •
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 3)
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’
• Tall Dwarfs, Weeville
• The Weird Weeds, Hold Me
• Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 3)

Friday, September 12, 2025

• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
• Francisco Meirino, Notebook (Techniques of Self-Destruction)
• Peter Brötzmann & Jason Adasiewicz, Mollie’s in the Mood
• Paul Motian, Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano, I Have the Room Above Her
• Roswell Rudd, Roswell Rudd (feat. Louis Moholo)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
• T.A.G.C. (The Anti Group Communication), Meontological Research Recording Record 2 (Teste Tones)
• F/i, Space Mantra
• The League of Gentlemen, Royal Exeter, Bournemouth 21/9/80
• Frank Zappa, Trance-Fusion
• Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies, Live Classics, Vol. 1
• Toto, Toto
• Bohannon, Summertime Groove
• Al Green, I’m Still in Love with You

Thursday, September 11, 2025

• J.S. Bach, French Suites (Glenn Gould)
• Terry Riley, Shri Camel
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 1)
• Kevin Drumm, Comedy
• Bhob Rainey, From Null Lands Led, Starrily
• Natural Information Society, Since Time Is Gravity
• Tony Bevan, Luggage
• Haazz & Company, Unlawful Noise (feat. Louis Moholo)
• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Kabalaba
• Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus
• Keith Jarrett, Nude Ants (disc 2)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 4)
• Sir Richard Bishop, Tangier Sessions
• The League of Gentlemen, John Peel Broadcast 17/11/80
• The Weird Weeds, Hold Me
• Tall Dwarfs, Stumpy
• Honey Radar, Reclining Psych-Out
• Revolting Cocks, Big Sexy Land
• Bohannon, Stop & Go

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

• Catherine Christer Hennix, The Electric Harpsichord
• Kevin Drumm, OG23
• Merzbow, Sedonis
• Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• Keith Jarrett, Nude Ants (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 3)
• Tim Barnes, Inside Energy
• Robert Fripp, The League of Gentlemen (2021 remix)
• Obscuress, Maltha
• The Weird Weeds, I Miss This
• Tall Dwarfs, Weeville
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

• Kevin Drumm, Humid Weather
• Chris Abrahams, Thrown
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 11)
• The Dead C, Horror Stories
• F/i, Space Mantra
• Bohannon, Essential Dance Floor Artists Vol. 4
• Steely Dan, Aja
• Toto, Toto

Monday, September 8, 2025

• Henry Cowell, Piano Music (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Manuel Mota, LPC
• Anima Sound, Musik für Alle
• Merzbow, New Takamagahara
• Ted Daniel, Ted Daniel Sextet
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 4)
• Frank Zappa, Trance-Fusion
• Bohannon, Insides Out
• Honey Radar, Reclining Psych-Out

Sunday, September 7, 2025

• Iannis Xenakis, Orchestral Works (Mode)
• Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 52
• Kevin Drumm, The Old Hag
• Étant Donnés, Ceux qu’on aime — Ce que je hais
• Haptic, Trebuchet
• Paul Motian, Sound of Love
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 3)
• MX-80 Sound, Big Hits
• Tall Dwarfs, Weeville
• Bobby Conn & the Glass Gypsies, Live Classics, Vol. 1
• Bohannon, Stop & Go

Saturday, September 6, 2025

• Dulal Roy & Himangshu Biswas, Santoor & Flute
• Precious Gems, Baba Yaga
• Etant Donnes, Aurore
• John Duncan, Abberrant
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 2)
• F/i, Space Mantra
• Christina Carter, Carried: Maltha Demos
• The Weird Weeds, Hold Me
• The Verlaines, Dunedin Spleen
• Honey Radar, Reclining Psych-Out
• Bobby Conn, Winners
• Bohannon, Gittin’ Off
• Toto, Toto

Friday, September 5, 2025

• Kunaichō Gakubu Ensemble, Gagaku Collection 2 (Victor, SLJ-59)
• Tim Daisy & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Current 23
• Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions (disc 4)
• Bohannon, Insides Out
• Steely Dan, Gaucho

Thursday, September 4, 2025

• Bohannon, The Collection
• Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
• Toto, Toto

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

• Henry Cowell, Piano Music (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Keith Tippett & Louis Moholo, No Gossip
• Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
• Paul Motian Band, Psalm
• Tim Barnes, Inside Energy
• Duet Emmo, Or So It Seems
• The Verlaines, Some Disenchanted Evening

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

• Squarepusher, Numbers Lucent
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Revolting Cocks, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
• Steely Dan, Aja
• Paul McCartney, McCartney II
• The Doobie Brothers, Greatest Hits

Monday, September 1, 2025

• Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore, Three Kinds of Happiness

Sunday, August 31, 2025

• Jeb Bishop, Centrifugal Trio

Saturday, August 30, 2025

• The Durutti Column, LC

Friday, August 29, 2025

• The Doobie Brothers, Greatest Hits

Thursday, August 28, 2025

• Gavin Bryars, Farewell to Philosophy
• Tim Daisy, New Works for Solo Percussion
• ICP Orchestra, Aan & Uit
• Squarepusher, Numbers Lucent

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

• Navajo Songs From Canyon De Chelly (New World)
• Toshi Tsuchitori, Jômonko: Pottery Drums of the Jomon Period
• Terry Riley, A Rainbow in Curved Air
• Henry Kaiser, The Deep Unreal
• Raphael Rogiński, Talàn
• Charles Mingus, Mingus
• Tim Barnes, Inside Energy
• The Durutti Column, LC

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

• Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman, Begin, Again
• Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
• Paul Motian Band, Psalm
• Tim Barnes, Noumena
• John Cale & Terry Riley, Church of Anthrax
• Mar, Ruin Is Rebirth
• Revolting Cocks, You Goddamned Son of a Bitch
• Christopher Cross, Ride Like the Wind: The Best of Christopher Cross