Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Franco Battiato, Pollution
  • Fennesz, The Last Days of May
  • Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes
  • Don Peake, The Hills Have Eyes (soundtrack)
  • Franco Battiato, Pollution
  • Loose Fur, Born Again in the USA
  • Magic Hour, Heads Down
  • Chrome, Half Machine Lip Moves
  • Y. Bhekhirst, Hot in the Airport
  • Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (3)
  • Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
  • Yma Sumac, Miracles
  • Willie Colón, Lo Mato
RIP Willie Colón

Monday, March 2, 2026

Monday, March 2, 2026

Steelwool Trio, International Front
  • Steelwool Trio, International Front
  • Jon Hassell/Brian Eno, Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
  • Herbie Hancock, Sound-System
  • Massacre, Funny Valentine
  • Gastr del Sol, Camoufleur
  • Loose Fur, Loose Fur
  • Franco Battiato, Fetus
  • Peter Gabriel, Security
  • Chrome, Alien Soundtracks
  • Killing Joke, Fire Dances
  • Smog, Julius Caesar
  • Portishead, Third
  • Beck, Mellow Gold
  • Paul McCartney, McCartney

February 2026 reading & viewing

William Friedkin, To Live and Die in L.A., 1985

fiction:

  • Tony Duvert, Odd Jobs (1978)

poetry:

  • William Minor, Sketches and Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy (2025)

nonfiction:

  • Josh Peterson, Granite City Blues (2019)

movies:

  • William Friedkin, To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
  • Fred Halsted, Sex Garage (1972)

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

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Josh Berman, Paul Lytton, Jason Roebke, Trio Discrepancies
  • Éliane Radigue, Vice Versa, Etc...
  • Merzbow, Nil Vagina for Mice
  • Josh Berman / Paul Lytton / Jason Roebke, Trio Discrepancies
  • The Durutti Column, LC
  • Jim O’Rourke, Halfway to a Threeway
  • Peter Gabriel, So
  • Smog, Burning Kingdom
  • Nick Drake, Pink Moon
  • Fairport Convention, What We Did on Our Holidays
  • Los Lobos, Colossal Head
  • John Lee Hooker, I’m John Lee Hooker
  • Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Maya Bennardo, Rustlings, Elsewhere
  • Arnold Schoenberg / Jean-Claude Éloy / Henri Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical)
  • Éliane Radigue, Jouet électronique / Elemental I
  • Peter Plonsky, Op. 30 Hairy Vibe + Double Identity
  • Maya Bennardo, Rustlings (Elsewhere)
  • Rempis / Adasiewicz / Abrams / Damon, Propulsion
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 10)
  • Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams
  • Mimir, Mimir (1990)
  • Andreas Martin & Christoph Heemann, Lebenserinnerungen eines Lepidopterologen (disc 1)
  • Shane Parish, Autechre Guitar
  • Jim O’Rourke, Eureka
  • Smog, Dongs of Sevotion
  • Souled American, Fe
  • Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 2)
  • Cerrone, Love In C Minor

Friday, February 27, 2026

Friday, February 27, 2026

Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, ECM
  • Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (ECM)
  • Éliane Radigue, Chry-ptus (disc 1)
  • Chas Smith, Nakadai
  • Andreas Martin & Christoph Heemann, Lebenserinnerungen eines Lepidopterologen (disc 2)
  • U.S. Maple, Talker
  • Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart
  • John Cale, The 1975 John Peel Session
  • Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier
  • Cerrone, Cerrone’s Paradise

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Laetitia Sonami / Éliane Radigue, A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX
  • Adrián Demoč, Flute (Manuel Zurria, Elsewhere)
  • Laetitia Sonami / Éliane Radigue, A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX
  • Jim O’Rourke & Christoph Heemann, Plastic Palace People Vol. 1
  • Jimmy Lyons, Other Afternoons
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 9)
  • Mimir, The Single
  • Panic Boner, Psychic Hygiene
  • U.S. Maple, Sang Phat Editor
  • The Durutti Column, LC
  • Joy Division, Closer
  • Gastr del Sol, Camoufleur
  • Los Lobos, Colossal Head
  • Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture
  • Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 5
  • Éliane Radigue, Biogenesis
  • Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 5
  • Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison, Illumination!
  • The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (disc 1)
  • Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932–1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (disc 8)
  • Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience (feat. Sly Dunbar)
  • U.S. Maple, Acre Thrills

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Éliane Radigue, Opus 17
  • Anton Webern, Symphony/6 Pieces/Concerto et al (Craft) (Naxos)
  • Elliott Carter, A Nonesuch Retrospective (disc 4)
  • Éliane Radigue, Opus 17 (disc 2)
  • The Hafler Trio, Dislocation
  • Yellow Swans, Going Places
  • Steve Lacy, The Forest and the Zoo (feat. Louis Moholo-Moholo)
  • Henry Cow, Vol. 3: Hamburg
  • The Stooges, Fun House
  • U.S. Maple, Purple on Time
  • Tom Waits, Bad as Me
  • The Cure, Faith
RIP Éliane Radigue

Monday, February 23, 2026

Monday, February 23, 2026

Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes
  • John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (disc 7)
  • Schoenberg / Éloy / Pousseur, Transfigured Night / Equivalences / Madrigal III (Le Domaine Musical) •
  • Max Richter, From Sleep
  • Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes
  • Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Globe Unity
  • Duke Jordan, Flight to Denmark
  • U.S. Maple, Long Hair in Three Stages

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Giorgio Gaslini, Oltre
  • Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird / Fireworks / The Song of the Nightingale / Tango / Scherzo à la russe (Antal Dorati, London Symphony Orchestra)
  • Yellow Swans, At All Ends
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Sun Ra with Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
  • David Murray, Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club
  • Albert Ayler, At Slugs’ Saloon
  • Giorgio Gaslini, Oltre
  • Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan, Don Cherry, It Is Revealed
  • Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (disc 1)
  • Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 2)
  • Kyoaku No Intention, Astral Projection (feat. Munehiro Narita)
  • Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience
  • Cap’n Jazz, Analphabetapolothology (disc 2)
  • Los Lobos, Colossal Head
  • Edith Frost, Wonder Wonder
  • Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Lao Dan, Live at Willimantic Records
  • Yellow Swans, Going Places
  • Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Pareidolia
  • Joe Maneri / Barre Phillips / Mat Maneri, Tales of Rohnlief
  • Lao Dan, Live at Willimantic Records
  • John Coltrane, Meditations
  • Joe McPhee, Musings of a Bahamian Son (Poems and Other Words)
  • Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
  • Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks, Vol. 4 (disc 2)
  • Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
  • Harry Nilsson, Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture

Friday, February 20, 2026

Friday, February 20, 2026

Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub
  • Dreamies, Auralgraphic Entertainment
  • High Rise, Disturbance Trip
  • Tortoise, Touch
  • Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub
  • Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
  • Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians (ECM)
  • Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 2)
  • JD Allen, Love Stone
  • Herbie Hancock, Directstep
  • Sly & Robbie, A Dub Experience (feat. Sly Dunbar)
  • Sparks, Propaganda
  • Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle
  • Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man
  • Keith Jarrett, Hymns / Spheres (disc 1)
  • Sonny Simmons, Music from the Spheres
  • Andrew Hill, Passing Ships
  • Ahmad Jamal, Cross Country Tour: 1958–1961 (disc 2)
  • Coleman Hawkins, A Retrospective: 1929-1963 (disc 2)
  • Henry Cow, Vol. 7: Later and Post-Virgin
  • Herbie Hancock, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
  • Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

AALY Trio with Ken Vandermark, I Wonder If I Was Screaming
  • 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

Monday, February 16, 2026

Sly and Robbie, A Dub Experience
  • 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

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Morton Feldman, Beckett Material, Wergo
  • 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

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Tom Waits, Heartattack and Vine
  • 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

Friday, February 13, 2026

Yellow Swans, At All Ends
  • 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

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Helmut Lachenmann, Klaviermusik, Col Legno
  • 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

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Yellow Swans, Going Places
  • 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

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

High Rise, Disturbance Trip
  • 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

Monday, February 9, 2026

Vladislav Delay, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up
  • 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

Sunday, February 8, 2026

Frank Zappa, Absolutely Free
  • 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

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard
  • 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

Friday, February 6, 2026

Herbie Hancock, Directstep
  • 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

Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

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

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Tom Waits, Night on Earth: Original Soundtrack
  • 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

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird, Antal Dorati
  • 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

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

David S. Ware, From Silence to Music
  • 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

Monday, February 2, 2026

Herbie Hancock, Monster
  • 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

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Wretched Self, Wretched Self III
  • 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

Saturday, January 31, 2026

Igor Stravinsky, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, Four Etudes, Antal Dorati
  • 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

Friday, January 30, 2026

Kyoaku No Intention, Kyoaku No Intention
  • 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

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Walter Marchetti, In terram utopicam
  • 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

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Serge Gainsbourg, Aux armes et cætera
  • 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

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Black Uhuru, Showcase
  • 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

Monday, January 26, 2026

Maya Bennardo, Four Strings
  • 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

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Munehiro Narita, Ether: Solo Electric Guitar Works
  • 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

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Martin Siewert, Martin Brandlmayer, Too Beautiful to Burn
  • 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

Friday, January 23, 2026

Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones)
  • 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

Thursday, January 22, 2026

High Rise, Psychedelic Speed Freaks
  • 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

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Psychedelic Speed Freaks
  • 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

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Public Image Ltd., This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get
  • 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

Monday, January 19, 2026

Rolf Julius, Musik für die Ohren
  • 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

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Bengt Frippe Nordström, Natural Music
  • 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

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Granite City Recordings, Voyeur Electronics
  • 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

Friday, January 16, 2026

Les Rita Mitsouko, The No Comprendo
  • 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

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Colombier, Le Pacha
  • 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