Music Tracking 2023

These are 2023 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range, ~ indicates the grade is for a previous release of the album). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The prioritization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • AMM: Last Calls () [07-01] - jazz
  • Steve Arguelles/Francesco Bigoni/Benoit Delbecq/Francesco Diodati: Weave4 (Parco della Musica) [10-27] - jazz
  • Sergio Armoli & Evan Parker: Dialog (Now-Ezz-Thetics) [09-08] - jazz
  • Astroruft Noise: Blazing/Freezing (577) - jazz
  • Wilma Baan: Look at Me Now! (ECN Music) [07-28] - jazz
  • Kelsea Ballerini: Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) (Black River) [08-11] - country
  • Cyro Baptista: Chama (Ropeadope) [05-05] - jazz
  • Ryan Beatty: Calico () [04-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Doug Beavers: Luna (Circle 9) [06-30] - jazz
  • Kris Berg: Perspective (Summit) [08-11] - jazz
  • David Binney: Action (self-released) [08-18] - jazz
  • (Blade of) Carlstedt Moltzer Torn: The Flowering AM (1k) [03-24] - jazz
  • Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias/Bobby Previte: 2*3*23 (Radio Legs) [02-03] - jazz
  • Freddie Bryant: Upper West Side Love Story: A Song Cycle (Tiger Turn) [07-07] - jazz
  • Tony Buck: Environmental Studies (Room40) [07-01] - jazz
  • Bush Tetras: They Live in My Head (Wharf Cat) [07-28]
  • John Butcher: The Art of Noticing (Matchless) - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Adriana Camacho/Federico Ughi: Trabajadores De Energi (577) [10-27] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Electric Telepathy Vol 2 (577) [10-06] - jazz
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito/Eric Plaks/Zach Swanson/Jon Panikkar: Open Question Vol 2 (577) [11-03] - jazz
  • Adriano Clemente: The Coltrane Suite and Other Impressions (Dodicilune) [05-23] - jazz
  • Jeff Cosgrove/John Medeski/Jeff Lederer: History Gets Ahead of the Story () [07-17] - jazz
  • Jeff Cosgrove/Jeff Lederer/Mark Lysher: Welcome Home (self-released) [10-20] - jazz
  • Jeff Cosgrove/Noah Preminger/Kim Cass: Confusing Motion for Progress () [10-20] - jazz
  • Christopher Dell/Christian Lillinger/Jonas Westergaard: Beats II (Plaist) [07-07] - jazz
  • Chris Dingman: Journeys Vol 2 (self-released) [02-03] - jazz
  • Marc Ducret: Ici (Ayler) [05-07] - jazz
  • Paul Dunmall/Paul Rodgers/Tony Orrell: That's My Life (577) - jazz
  • Edition Redux: Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic) [12-22] - jazz
  • John Ellis Quartet: Bizet: Carmen in Jazz (Blue Room Music) [12-22] - jazz
  • Khalil Epi: Romena (Shouka, EP)
  • Fat Tony: I Will Make a Baby in This Damn Economy () - hip-hop
  • Foodman: Uchigawa Tankentai (Hyperdub, EP) [11-10]
  • Jean-Marc Foussat/Urs Leimgruber/Carlos "Zingaro": L'Aile D'Icare (Fou -22) [2022-12-15] - jazz
  • Jurg Frey (Quatuor Bozzini/Konus Quartett): Continuite, Fragilite, Resonance (Elsewhere) [04-01] - jazz
  • Peter Garland: The Basketweave Elegies () [02-10]
  • Sally Gates/Trevor Dunn/Greg Fox: Deliriant Modifier (Riverworm) [10-23] - jazz
  • Kate Gentile/International Contemporary Ensemble: B i o m e i.i (Obliquity) [05-19] - jazz
  • Tania Giannouli: Solo (Rattle) [07-07] - jazz
  • Anne Gillis + XT: Our/s Bouture(s) (Art Into Life) [06-24] - jazz
  • Bendik Giske: Bendik Giske () [06-09] - post-minimalism
  • Riccardo Gola: Cosmonautica (Jando) [04-28] - jazz
  • Vinny Golia: Movement Two: Syncretism: For the Draw (Nine Winds) - jazz
  • Vinny Golia: Even to This Day: Music for Orchestra and Soloists, Movement Two: Syncretism: For the Draw . . . (Nine Winds) - jazz
  • Benny Green: Solo (Sunnyside) [05-12] - jazz
  • Matt Greenwood: Atlas (self-released) [01-20] - jazz
  • Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band: All This This Here (Fundacja Sluchaj) [07-10] - jazz
  • Elisabeth Harnik/Zlatko Kaucic: One Foot in the Air (Catalytic Sound) [05-04] - jazz
  • The Hatch Expansion: Texas Edition (Sonic Transmissions/Astral Spirits) [08-25] - jazz
  • Jean-Marc Hebert: L'Origine Eclatee (self-released) - jazz
  • Xaver Hellmeier: X-Man in New York (Cellar Music) [11-17] - jazz
  • Magos Herrera: Aire (Sunnyside) [05-05] - jazz
  • Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Happy Ending (Rough Trade) [02-03]
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Third Page: Resonance (Edition -22) [2022-11-18] - jazz
  • Ramona Horvath Trio: Carmen's Karma (Camille Productions) [11-03] - jazz
  • The Hot Toadies Jazz Band: The Hot Toadies Jazz Band (Prohibition Productions) [07-28] - jazz
  • Francois Houle & Benoit Delbecq: Poise (Afterday) [08-04] - jazz
  • Tony Hymas/Catherine Delaunay: No Borders (Nato) [10-13] - jazz
  • Icona Pop: Club Romantech (Ultra/Ten) [09-01] - dance-pop
  • Kazuo Imai Quartet: Has the Future Become the Past (Jinya Disc -22) [2022-11-09] - jazz
  • Imani Winds/Harlem Quartet/A.B. Spellman/Alex Brown/Edward Perez/Neal Smith: Jeff Scott: Passion for Bach and Coltrane (Imani Winds Media) [09-15] - jazz
  • Jantra: Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds From the Fashaga Underground (Ostinato) - Sudan
  • Anne Jezini: Em Fuga () - Brazil
  • Larry June & Cardo: The Night Shift (The Freeminded) [11-10] - hip-hop
  • Kah-Lo: Pain/Pleasure (Epic) [09-07] - African
  • Kenzo B: Top 2, Not 2 (Warner Bros)
  • Kirk Knuffke/Joe McPhee Quartet + 1: Keep the Dream Up (Fundacja Sluchaj) [04-10] - jazz
  • Hans Koch/Frantz Loriot/Jonas Kocher: Stranger Becoming (Neither/Nor -22) - jazz
  • Hans Koch & Christine Abdelnour: FFlair (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Martin Kuchen/Sophie Agnel: Detour Tunnels of Light (Thanatosis) - jazz
  • Clara Lai: Corpos (Phonogram Unit) [04-07] - jazz
  • Daunik Lazro/Benjamin Duboc/Mathieu Bec: Standards Combustion (Dark Tree) [12-01] - jazz
  • The Peggy Lee Band: A Giving Way (Songlines) - jazz
  • Urs Leimgruber: Air, Vol 1 (Creative Works) [09-01] - jazz
  • Jeffrey Lewis: 2022 Tapes! Slices of Water (and Song Junk) (self-released) [03-03] - folk
  • Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim: Starling (self-released) [06-02] - jazz
  • Luis Lopes: Lisbon Paris: Stereo Noise Solo (Shhpuma) - jazz
  • Michelle Lordi: Two Moons (Imani) [10-06] - jazz
  • Aksak Maboul: Une Aventure De VV (Songspiel) (Made to Measure Vol 48) (Crammed Discs) [03-03] - art pop
  • Major Lazer & Major League DJz: Piano Republik (Mad Decent)
  • Royce Martin: Memories on Morgan Street (Rivermont) [10-13] - jazz
  • Simon Mary & Krystal Mundi: Modal Morning (Label Ouest) [10-13] - jazz
  • Shawn Maxwell: Story at Eleven (self-released) [03-24] - jazz
  • Madison McFerrin: I Hope You Can Forgive Me (MadMcFerrin Music) [05-12] - alt r&b
  • Benet McLean: Green Park (Sea Mammal) [11-24] - jazz
  • Joe McPhee/Evan Parker: Sweet Nothings for Milford Graves (Corbett vs Dempsey -22) - jazz
  • Joe McPhee and Bill Orcurtt: A Mouth at Both Ends ( Issue) - jazz
  • Medium Build: Health (self-released -EP) [01-25]
  • Kid Millions & Sarah Bernstein: Forest Park Live (Island House) - jazz
  • Nicole Mitchell & Alexander Hawkins: At Earth School (Astral Spirits) [10-13] - jazz
  • Matt Moran/Sarah Elizabeth Charles/Curtis Hasselbring: Audible Spirits (Diskonife) [05-26] - jazz
  • Ian Munsick: White Buffalo () - country
  • Ted Nash/Kirsten Lee Sergeant: Holidays (Sunnyside) [11-24] - jazz
  • Camila Nebbia: La Permanencia De Los Ecos (577) [11-04] - jazz
  • Negarit Band: Origins (Buda Musique) [11-24] - ethio-jazz
  • Willie Nelson: Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Legacy) [12-15] - country
  • New Age Doom/Lee "Scratch" Perry: Remix the Universe (We Are Busy Bodies)
  • The Nude Party: Rides On (New West) [03-10]
  • Bill O'Connell: Live at Montauk (Savant) [06-23] - jazz
  • Weston Olencki/Anna Webber: Several (Astral Spirits) [09-22] - jazz
  • Orchestre National de Jazz Montreal: Wayne Shines/Miles Smiles (ONJ) [03-08] - jazz
  • Greg Osby: Minimalism (Inner Circle) - jazz
  • Kassa Overall & Various Artists: Shades 3 (self-released) - jazz
  • Tony Oxley/Stefan Holker: The New World (Discus Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • The Palomar Trio: The Song in Our Soul (Turtle Bay) [11-17] - jazz
  • Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas: Juno 3 (Ramble) [09-01] - jazz
  • Anthony Pateras: A Dread of Voids (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Mat Maneri/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Joe Morris/Matt Moran: Seven Skies Orchestra (Fundacja Sluchaj -2CD) [10-15] - jazz
  • Lucas Pino: Covers () - jazz
  • PJEV/Kit Downes/Hayden Chisholm: Medna Roso (Red Hook) [05-05] - jazz
  • Playfield: Magic Heart Vol2 (577) [11-19] - jazz
  • Potsa Lotsa XL: Chamber Works (Trouble in the East) [12-15] - jazz
  • Eddie Prevost/NO Moore/Henry Kaiser/Binker Golding/Olie Brice: The Secret Handshake With Danger Volume Two (577) [11-17] - jazz
  • Yvonne Rogers: Seeds (Relative Pitch) [09-01] - jazz
  • Raphael Roginski: Talan () [09-07]
  • Charley Rose Trio: Dada Pulp (Menace) [10-27] - jazz
  • Daniel Rotem: Wave Nature (Colorfield) [04-07] - jazz
  • Kyle Roussel: Nola a La Mode (self-released) [04-01] - jazz
  • Heikki Ruokangas: Karu (Orbit577) [10-03] - jazz
  • Saint Abdullah & Eomac: Chasing Stateless (Planet Mu)
  • Akira Sakata/Toshimaru Nakamura/Raiga Hayashi: Kinjo No Tabibito (Meenna) [08-13] - jazz
  • Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins: Movement (Heartcore) [11-13] - jazz
  • The John Santos Sextet & Friends: Filosofía Caribeña Vol. 3: A Puerto Rico Del Alma (Machete) - jazz
  • Ian Shaw: Greek Street Friday (Silent Wish) [09-01] - vocal jazz
  • Andrew Smiley/Kate Gentile: Flagrances (Obliquity) [07-28] - jazz
  • Cecilia Smith: The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project, Vol 1 (Innova) [05-05] - jazz
  • Soft Machine: Other Doors (MoonJune) [06-30] - jazz
  • Vahagn Stepanyan: A New Chapter (self-released) [05-19] - jazz
  • SurdelSur Ensemble: Hernandez-Sanjuro-Nebbia (Ears & Eyes) [09-22] - jazz
  • Charu Suri: Rags & Ragas (self-released) [09-08] - jazz
  • Susanna: Baudelaire & Orchestra (SusannaSonata) [07-28] - vocal jazz
  • Ohad Talmor: Back to the Land (Intakt) - jazz
  • Gregory Tardy: In His Timing (WJ3) [11-24] - jazz
  • Andy Taylor: Man's a Wolf to Man () [09-15]
  • Sam Taylor: Let Go (Cellar -22) [2022-10-21] - jazz
  • Trickster: Live in Brooklyn (Cygnus) [08-15] - jazz
  • Vasco Trilla: A Constellation of Anomaly (Thanatosis Produktion) [06-02] - jazz
  • Elio Villafranca: Standing by the Crossroads (ArtistShare) [02-01] - jazz
  • JD Walter: What the World Needs Now (Arkadia) [05-19] - jazz
  • Whatitdo Archive Group: Palace of a Thousand Sounds (Record Kicks)
  • Lucy Wijnands: Something Awaits (self-released) [06-30] - vocal jazz
  • Nate Wooley: Four Experiments (Pleasure of the Text) [09-26] - jazz
  • Jack Wright/Ben Bennett: Augur (Palliative) [03-03] - jazz
  • Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band: Stone Stone Stone (Little Stone) [08-31] - jazz
  • Nicole Yun: Matter (Kanine)
  • Drew Zaremba: Reunion (Next Level) - jazz
  • Funk N' Beats Vol 1 (Curated by Boca 45) (Bomb Strikes)

Reissues, Etc.

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi: Toshiko's Blues: Quartet & Trios 1953-1958 (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • Jean-Jacques Avenel/Siegfried Kessler/Daunik Lazro: Ecstatic Jazz: Crypte Des Franciscains Béziers 12 Février 1982 (Fou) [02-12] - jazz
  • Anthony Braxton/Roland Dahinden/Hildegard Kleeb: Four Compositions (Wesleyan) 2013 () [09-22] - jazz
  • Peter Brotzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink/Albert Mangelsdorff: Outspan No 1/2 (1974, CienFuegos) [09-08] - jazz
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet: Debut in the Netherlands 1958: The Lost Recordings (The Lost Recordings) [02-03] - jazz
  • William S Burroughs: Nothing Here Now but the Recordings (1980, Dais) [04-28] - spoken word
  • Don Byas: Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic) - jazz
  • Kenny Cox & the Contemporary Jazz Quintet: Multidirection (1969, Third Man/Blue Note) [09-22] - jazz
  • Bill Dixon With Archie Shepp: 7-Tette & Orchestra Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Dr John: The Montreux Years (1986-2012, BMG) [04-19] - gris gris
  • Dror Feiler: Maavak (Music & Noise 1980-2023, Volume 1 & 2) (Ideal) [10-10] - jazz
  • Paul Flaherty/Jim Matus/Larry Derdeyn: Wednesday Weld (2006, 577) [07-21] - jazz
  • Joe Fonda: From the Source (1998, Fundacja Sluchaj) [12-15] - jazz
  • Dredd Foole & the Din: We Will Fall 1983 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [07-21] - rock
  • Dredd Foole & the Din: See God 1985-1986 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [11-10] - rock
  • Joe Henderson: The Complete "An Evening With Joe Henderson" (1987, Red) [05-05] - jazz
  • Leon Keita: Leon Keita (Analog Africa) -
  • Steve Lacy: The Ictus Archives Vol 1 (1976, Ictus) - jazz
  • Brother Joe May: Singles, Album Tracks and Live Recordings 1949-1962 (Acrobat -4CD) [03-19] - gospel
  • The Moldy Peaches: Origin Story: 1994-1999 (Org Music -22) [2022-08-04] - antifolk
  • Art Pepper: The Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings (1981, Omnivore -7CD) [10-20] - jazz
  • Plastic People of the Universe: Passion Play Live 1978 ()
  • Max Roach: Members, Don't Git Weary (1968, Arc/Atlantic) [07-14] - jazz
  • Brinsley Schwarz: Thinking Back: The Anthology 1970-1975 (-7CD) - pub rock
  • Archie Shepp: Derailleur: The 1964 Demo (Triple Point) [12-08] - jazz
  • Nina Simone: Four Women: Complete Recordings 1964-1967 (Verve) [12-03] - jazz
  • Al Smith: In Session 1952-1958: Fooling Around Slowly (Jasmine) [03-17] - r&b
  • Soft Machine: The Dutch Lesson (1973, Cuneiform) [04-28] - prog rock
  • Pauline Anna Strom: Echoes, Spaces, Lines (RVNG Intl) [10-23] - electronic
  • Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (1958, Cosmic Myth) [06-16] - jazz
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Ellingtonia Vol 2 (1951-87, Enterplanetary Koncepts) [03-03] - jazz
  • Superchunk: Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2002-2023 ()
  • McCoy Tyner: The Montreux Years (1981-2009, BMG) [06-23] - jazz
  • Dionne Warwick: The Complete Scepter Singles 1962-1973 (Real Gone -3CD) - rock
  • Bie Records Meets Shika Shika (Shika Shika Collective)
  • Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo De Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog Africa) -
  • I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 (Fli/Buddle) - country
  • The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray 1920-1922 (Archeophone) - jazz
  • Shake That Thing: The Blues in Britain 1963-1973 (Cherry Red) - blues
  • She's Got the Power! Female Power Pop, Punk & Garage (Ace)
  • The Soul of Congo: Treasures of the Ngoma Label (1948-1963) (Planet Ilunga -3CD) [10-04] - African
  • Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84 (Soul Jazz)
  • Spiritual Jazz 15: A Tribute to 'Trane () - jazz

Priority Counts

  • Priority 2: 190
  • Priority 3: 0

Total: 190