Tuesday, February 17, 2026

• Yellow Swans, At All Ends
• Ornette Coleman, Forms and Sounds: The Music of Ornette Coleman
• Paul Motian, Time and Time Again
• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, I Wonder If I Was Screaming
• Charles Tyler, Eastern Man Alone
• Roland Kirk, Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
• Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929–1963 (disc 1)
• Henry Cow, Vol. 4 & 5: Trondheim (disc 2)
• Frank Zappa, Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar (disc 1)
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub
• Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Monday, February 16, 2026

• John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 6)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• Yellow Swans, Going Places
• Warne Marsh, Ne Plus Ultra
• Henry Cow, Vol. 6: Stockholm & Göteborg
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Sunday, February 15, 2026

• Richard Strauss, Elektra (Solti, Nilsson) (disc 1)
• Morton Feldman, Beckett Material (Wergo)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 2)
• Hella, Hold Your Horse Is
• Tom Waits, Small Change
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

Saturday, February 14, 2026

• Lol Coxhill, Diverse
• Henry Cow, Ex Box: Collected Fragments 1971-1978
• Frank Zappa, Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar (disc 1)
• Tom Waits, Heartattack and Vine
• Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Friday, February 13, 2026

• Charles Ives, Concord Sonata (Aimard/Graham)
• Alvin Lucier, String Noise (disc 1)
• Kevin Drumm, Crowded
• Yellow Swans, At All Ends
• Voice Crack, shock_late
• Eddie Harris, Playin’ with Myself
• Herbie Hancock, The Prisoner
• Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience
• Henry Cow, Vol. 1: Beginnings
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip
• The Promise Ring, Nothing Feels Good
• Peter Ivers, Terminal Love
• Van Dyke Parks, Discover America

Thursday, February 12, 2026

• Helmut Lachenmann, Klaviermusik (Col Legno)
• The Paul Motian Trio, At the Village Vanguard
• Noah Howard, The Black Ark
• Andrew Hill, Compulsion
• Eddie Harris, Plug Me In
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Henry Cow, In Praise of Learning
• Television, Television
• The Stooges, The Stooges
• Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

• Yellow Swans, Going Places
• Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
• Charles Tyler, Eastern Man Alone
• Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 1)
• Herbie Hancock, Sextant
• Henry Cow, A Cow Cabinet of Curiosities
• Frank Zappa, Uncle Meat (disc 2)
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
• Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
• Herbie Hancock, Crossings
• Bitchin Bajas, Bajas Fresh
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Brian Eno, Another Green World
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)
• John Fahey, The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

Monday, February 9, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Steve Reich, Tehillim (ECM)
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

Sunday, February 8, 2026

• Robert Beatty, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata
• John Butcher & John Edwards, Optic
• Eddie Harris, Live at Newport
• Herbie Hancock, The Prisoner
• Herbie Hancock, Fat Albert Rotunda
• Frank Zappa, Absolutely Free
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III

Saturday, February 7, 2026

• Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
• Herbie Hancock, Sunlight
• Herbie Hancock, Sound-System
• Total 1 (Kompakt)
• Public Image Ltd., Compact Disc
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)

Friday, February 6, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Les Noces / Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Bobby Hutcherson, Patterns
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• Frank Zappa, Läther (disc 1)
• High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now

January 2026 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan (1913)

visual:

• Tom Gauld, Physics for Cats (2025)
• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (2017)

nonfiction:

• Jamie Stewart, Anything That Moves (2023)
• Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (2021)

movies:

• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (2025)
• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet (2025)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

Thursday, February 5, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Ballets - Vol. I (Sony) (disc 3)
• Joe Morris / Ken Vandermark / Hans Poppel, Like Rays
• Eddie Harris, High Voltage
• Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
• Herbie Hancock, Monster
• Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, I Wonder If I Was Screaming
• Jan Garbarek, Esoteric Circle
• Sonny Simmons, Staying on the Watch
• Thelonious Monk, Straight, No Chaser
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 2)
• Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Swiss Movement
• Herbie Hancock, Sunlight
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III
• Xiu Xiu, Fabulous Muscles
• Sly & Robbie, Rhythm Killers (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Talking Heads, Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live
• Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (disc 3)

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Histoire du Soldat (Markevitch)
• David S. Ware, From Silence to Music
• Lee Konitz, Stereokonitz
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
• Eddie Harris, Come On Down!
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• High Rise, Disturbance Trip (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (disc 2)
• KC and the Sunshine Band, The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band

Monday, February 2, 2026

• Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
• Sonny Rollins, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (disc 6)
• High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Tom Waits, Heartattack and Vine
• Herbie Hancock, Monster

Sunday, February 1, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Ballets - Vol. I (Sony) (disc 3)
• Edgard Varèse, Amériques/Offrandes/Hyperprism/Octandre/Arcana (Erato)
• Jimmy Giuffre, Graz Live 1961
• Paul Bley, Blood
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
• Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
• Herbie Hancock, Sunlight
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)
• Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Black Uhuru, Liberation: The Island Anthology (disc 2) (feat. Sly Dunbar)

Saturday, January 31, 2026

• J.S. Bach, The Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould 1981)
• Igor Stravinsky, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, Four Etudes (Antal Dorati)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 3)
• Munehiro Narita, Narita
• Tim Daisy & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Current 23
• Jimmy Giuffre, Free Fall
• The Contemporary Jazz Quintet, Actions 1966-67
• Arthur Doyle, Alabama Feeling
• Sonny Sharrock, Black Woman
• The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Communication
• Paul Bley, Touching
• Herbie Hancock, Directstep
• Black Uhuru, Liberation: The Island Anthology (disc 1) (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Grace Jones, Living My Life (feat. Sly Dunbar)

Friday, January 30, 2026

• J.S. Bach, The Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould 1955)
• Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
• Iannis Xenakis, Electroacoustic Works (disc 1)
• John Duncan, Yeah
• Kevin Drumm, Humid Weather
• Zoviet France, Eostre
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyōbin
• Kyoaku No Intention, Kyoaku No Intention (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• Sinéad O’Connor, Throw Down Your Arms (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Grace Jones, Nightclubbing (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Herbie Hancock, Monster

Thursday, January 29, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Les Noces / Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 1)
• Walter Marchetti, In terram utopicam
• Rolf Julius, Für einen kleinen See
• Flowertops, Hybrid Tea Rose
• Zoviet France, Misfits, Loony Tunes & Squalid Criminals
• Mnemonists, Horde
• Peter Brötzmann & Keiji Haino, The intellect given birth to here (eternity) is too young (disc 3)
• Mette Rasmussen & Nate Wooley, Mette Rasmussen & Nate Wooley, May 16, 2019
• Herbie Hancock, Sunlight
• Frank Zappa, Lumpy Gravy (Primordial)
• High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Wretched Self, Wretched Self III
• Xiu Xiu, Fabulous Muscles
• Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette (feat. Sly Dunbar)

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, Four Etudes (Antal Dorati)
• Jürg Frey, Composer, Alone (Elsewhere) (disc 1)
• Rolf Julius, Music for a Distance
• Granite City Recordings, Voyeur Electronics
• Robert Beatty, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata
• Ken Vandermark, October Flowers for Joe McPhee
• Herbie Hancock, Mr. Hands
• Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Stephan Wittwer, Der rechte Weg
• Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
• Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera (feat. Sly Dunbar)

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
• Hans Werner Henze, Streichquartette 1–5 (Wergo, Arditti String Quartet) (disc 2)
• Rolf Julius, (Halb) Schwarz
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyōbin
• Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Memories of a Tunicate
• New York Contemporary Five, Vol. 1
• Kyoaku No Intention, Kyoaku No Intention (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Black Uhuru, Showcase (feat. Sly Dunbar)
• Herbie Hancock, Monster
• Sylvester, 12 x 12 Collection
• Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, Le Pacha (soundtrack)

Monday, January 26, 2026

• Four Strings (Maya Bennardo, violin)
• Hans Werner Henze, Streichquartette 1–5 (Wergo, Arditti String Quartet) (disc 1)
• Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 7)
• Clark Terry, Mumbles
• Herbie Hancock, Sunlight
• Richard Whaling, Entropy
• Flowertops, Hybrid Tea Rose
• High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Les Rita Mitsouko, The No Comprendo
• Bob Dylan, Infidels (feat. Sly Dunbar)

RIP Sly Dunbar

Sunday, January 25, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, Four Etudes (Antal Dorati)
• Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
• Ken Vandermark, October Flowers for Joe McPhee
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 2)
• Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
• Herbie Hancock, Secrets
• Bohannon, Music in the Air
• Cerrone, Cerrone’s Paradise

Saturday, January 24, 2026

• Igor Stravinsky, Les Noces / Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 1)
• Martin Siewert & Martin Brandlmayer, Too Beautiful to Burn
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
• Herbie Hancock, Monster
• Bohannon, Dance Your Ass Off
• Tortoise, Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
• Cabaret Voltaire, Red Mecca
• Stephan Wittwer, Der rechte Weg
• Pink Floyd, London 1966/1967
• Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Public Image Ltd., Happy?
• Cerrone, Love In C Minor
• Sylvester, The Original Hits

Friday, January 23, 2026

• Laura Cetilia, Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
• Flowertops, Hybrid Tea Rose
• Olivia Block, 132 Ranks
• Fred Van Hove, Church Organ
• Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones)
• Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry, It Is Revealed
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 7)
• Herbie Hancock, Mr. Hands
• Kyoaku No Intention, Kyoaku No Intention (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Granite City Recordings, Folk Electronics
• Richard Whaling, Entropy
• Cabaret Voltaire, The Voice of America
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Low, Things We Lost in the Fire
• Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee
• Les Rita Mitsouko, The No Comprendo
• Bohannon, Insides Out

Thursday, January 22, 2026

• Sunny Murray, Sonny’s Time Now
• Herbie Hancock, Secrets
• Bohannon, Music in the Air
• High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Ministry, The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
• Public Image Ltd., Second Edition
• Cerrone, Cerrone 3: Supernature
• Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, Le Pacha (soundtrack)

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

• Mick Jagger, “Invocation of My Demon Brother”
• Stephan Wittwer, Der rechte Weg
• Fred Van Hove, Verloren Maandag
• Warne Marsh, Ne Plus Ultra
• Giorgio Gaslini, Oltre
• Herbie Hancock, Mr. Hands
• The Flying Luttenbachers, Retrospektiw III (1991-1995)
• Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Public Image Ltd., Compact Disc
• Cerrone, Love In C Minor
• Bohannon, Dance Your Ass Off

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• Lee Patterson, Egg Fry #2
• David Jackman, Machine Guns (7")
• Gescom, Minidisc
• Ken Vandermark, Two Days in December (disc 1)
• Sonny Simmons, Staying on the Watch
• Anthony Braxton, Seven Standards 1985 Vol. 1
• Chick Corea, Return to Forever
• Granite City Recordings, Folk Electronics
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Les Rita Mitsouko, The No Comprendo

Monday, January 19, 2026

• Rolf Julius, Musik für die Ohren
• John Wiese, Black Magic Pond
• Günter Christmann / Maarten van Altena / Paul Lovens, Weavers
• Ornette Coleman, Croydon Concert
• Jimmy Giuffre, Graz Live 1961
• Perry Robinson, Funk Dumpling
• Oscar Peterson Trio, Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One
• The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
• Herbie Hancock, Secrets
• Kyoaku No Intention, Astral Projection (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Public Image Ltd., Paris au Printemps
• Cerrone, Cerrone 3: Supernature
• Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, Le Pacha (soundtrack)

Sunday, January 18, 2026

• Robert Beatty, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata
• Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyōbin
• Bengt Frippe Nordström, Natural Music
• Ken Vandermark / István Grencsó / Róbert Benkő, Burning River Melting Sea (Égő Folyó Olvadó Tenger)
• Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
• Public Image Ltd., Commercial Zone
• Bohannon, On My Way

Saturday, January 17, 2026

• Philip Glass, Early Voice
• Morton Feldman, Beckett Material (Wergo)
• Walter Marchetti, La Caccia
• Granite City Recordings, Voyeur Electronics
• Robert Beatty, Solos
• Munehiro Narita, Narita
• Peter Brötzmann, Alarm
• Howard Riley, The Day Will Come
• Herbie Hancock, Mr. Hands
• Joy Division, Closer
• Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
• Bohannon, Stop & Go
• Cerrone, Cerrone’s Paradise
• Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, Le Pacha (soundtrack)

Friday, January 16, 2026

• Jaci Penelope, Healing Loops (Winter Meditations)
• Zoviet France, Popular Soviet Songs & Youth Music (disc 1)
• Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (disc 1)
• Bill Dixon, In Italy, Vol. 1
• Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
• Herbie Hancock, Secrets
• Bohannon, Bohannon
• Cerrone, Cerrone 3: Supernature
• Les Rita Mitsouko, The No Comprendo
• David Bowie, Hunky Dory

Thursday, January 15, 2026

• Indian ’70 (Canary)
• Granite City Recordings, Folk Electronics
• Ken Vandermark, October Flowers for Joe McPhee
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
• Kyoaku No Intention, Astral Projection (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, Le Pacha (soundtrack)
• Cerrone, Love In C Minor
• Bohannon, Phase II

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

• Rafael Toral, Constellation in Still Time
• Autechre, NTS Session 4 (disc 2)
• Zoviet France, Loh Land
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 2)
• Ramsey Lewis, Sun Goddess
• Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
• Tangerine Dream, Underwater Sunlight

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

• Roland Kayn, Simultan (disc 2)
• Laura Cetilia, Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
• brekekekexkoaxkoax, Sudden Empire of Tears
• Zoviet France, Shadow, Thief of the Sun
• The Haters, Future Cheers
• Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Memories of a Tunicate
• Rodrigo Amado, This Is Our Language
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 1)
• Bitchin Bajas, Inland See
• Munehiro Narita, Narita
• Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa (feat. Bob Weir)
• The Who, The Who Sell Out
• Les Rita Mitsouko, The No Comprendo
• Cerrone, Cerrone 3: Supernature

Monday, January 12, 2026

• Helmut Lachenmann, Gran Torso / Salut für Caudwell (Col Legno)
• Yan Jun, “Would You Stay Here Forever” (Amplify 2020)
• Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 7)
• Jandek, DiverseWorks (disc 1)
• Tortoise, Touch
• Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, Le Pacha (soundtrack)
• Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead (feat. Bob Weir)

Sunday, January 11, 2026

• Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes of Tuva (Dust-to-Digital)
• Igor Stravinsky, Les Noces / Mass (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Zoviet France, Loh Land
• Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
• Ken Vandermark, October Flowers for Joe McPhee
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 2)
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 3)
• Ramsey Lewis, Sun Goddess
• Herbie Hancock, Secrets
• Kyoaku No Intention, Astral Projection (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Grateful Dead, American Beauty (feat. Bob Weir)
• Fear, The Record
• Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
• Paul McCartney, McCartney II
• Bohannon, Insides Out

RIP Bob Weir

Saturday, January 10, 2026

• Jaci Penelope, Healing Loops (Winter Meditations)
• Zoviet France, Popular Soviet Songs & Youth Music (disc 1)
• Collectif et Cie (C.01 & C.02) (disc 2)
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 1)
• Thelonious Monk, Straight, No Chaser
• Oscar Peterson Trio, Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 2)
• Munehiro Narita, Narita
• Eddie Harris, Sings the Blues
• Cerrone, Cerrone 3: Supernature
• Bohannon, Phase II
• Gang of Four, Solid Gold
• The Who, The Who Sell Out
• The Continuing Tradition Volume 1: Ballads - A Folk-Legacy Sampler •

Friday, January 9, 2026

• Collectif et Cie (C.01 & C.02) (disc 1)
• Zoviet France, Hessian
• The Necks, Disquiet (disc 1)
• Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet, The Year of the Elephant (feat. Jack DeJohnette)
• High Rise, Live (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• The United States of America, The United States of America (feat. Joseph Byrd)
• Bohannon, Keep on Dancin’

Thursday, January 8, 2026

• Zoviet France, Gris
• Bitchin Bajas, Inland See
• Tangerine Dream, Phaedra
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 2)
• Ken Vandermark, October Flowers for Joe McPhee
• Ramsey Lewis, Sun Goddess
• Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow
• Franco Battiato, Sulle Corde Di Aries
• High Rise, Dispersion (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Bohannon, Gittin’ Off

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

• Jaci Penelope, Healing Loops (Winter Meditations)
• Zoviet France, Loh Land
• Christian Wolff, Kompositionen 1950–1972 (disc 2)
• Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 1)
• Sun Ra, Continuation (disc 1)
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 6)
• Cecil Taylor, 2 Ts for a Lovely T (disc 9)
• High Rise, High Rise II (feat. Munehiro Narita)
• Sightings, Terribly Well
• Horsegirl, Phonetics On and On
• The Who, The Who Sell Out
• Bohannon, The Collection

RIP Munehiro Narita

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

• Zoviet France, Look into Me
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 5)
• Gerry Mulligan, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet
• Bohannon, Essential Dance Floor Artists Vol. 4

Monday, January 5, 2026

• Zoviet France, Shadow, Thief of the Sun
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 4)
• Fred Anderson, Back at the Velvet Lounge
• Ahmad Jamal, The Awakening
• Ramsey Lewis, Sun Goddess
• Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Totality
• Total 1 (Kompakt)
• The Red Krayola, Blues, Hollers and Hellos
• Simon Finn, Pass the Distance
• Bohannon, Summertime Groove

December 2025 reading & viewing

fiction:

• Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth’s Core (1914)
• C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny (2023)

nonfiction:

• Josh Peterson, Missing (2018)

movies:

• John Carpenter, Escape from New York (1981)
• Tim Burton, Beetlejuice (1988)
• Craig Brewer, Song Sung Blue (2025)

ratings (and occasional commentary) on my Goodreads

Sunday, January 4, 2026

• Congo: Femmes Pygmées de la Sangha (Ocora)
• Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Wind and Light (Elsewhere)
• Laura Cetilia, Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
• Zoviet France, Loh Land
• Tangerine Dream, Oedipus Tyrannus
• Bitchin Bajas, Inland See
• Jaci Penelope, Healing Loops (Winter Meditations)
• Steve Silverstein, Elastic Arts Concert 2016
• Kevin Drumm, Pretend to Place a Fake Brick Firmly on the Keys
• Haptic, The Medium
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 3)
• Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 7)
• The Who, The Who Sell Out

Saturday, January 3, 2026

• brekekekexkoaxkoax, Sudden Empire of Tears
• Zoviet France, Hessian
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 2)
• AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, Live at the Glenn Miller Café
• Perry Robinson, Funk Dumpling
• Available Jelly, Al(l)ways
• Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 1)
• Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
• Franco Battiato, Sulle Corde Di Aries
• The United States of America, The United States of America (feat. Joseph Byrd)
• The Who, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
• The Promise Ring, Nothing Feels Good

RIP Joseph Byrd

Friday, January 2, 2026

• The Haters, Fire (7")
• Zoviet France, Collusion
• Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship
• The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (disc 1)
• Ramsey Lewis, Sun Goddess
• Anthony Shakir, Frictionalism 1994–2009 (disc 1)
• Elliott Sharp‘s Carbon, Datacide
• Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun (disc 1)
• Butthole Surfers, Double Live (disc 2)
• Unwound, New Plastic Ideas
• Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?

Thursday, January 1, 2026

• Zoviet France, Shouting at the Ground
• Bitchin Bajas, Inland See
• Total 1 (Kompakt)
• Bailter Space, Robot World
• Butthole Surfers, Double Live (disc 1)
• Los Lobos, ...And a Time to Dance