I decided to try moving the annual best of the year lists to the blog
and see if this works better. This way, anyone can feel free to add
their personal lists whenever they want in the comments section.
I'm usually exposed to hundreds and hundreds of releases every year,
so one can imagine how challenging it can be to decide on 20 (or 40).
Often, I find that many of my favorite releases acquired during any
given year actually were from previous years, so this always makes me
wonder what I missed from the current year that will end up on next
year's list since I always create two separate lists for current and older
releases. As usual, I do not include a/O releases because it's obvious
that I think highly of them and they would take up space in my list
that could be used for other label's releases. Below my lists, you will
find those of different friends/colleagues/customers of a/O.
DALE LLOYD (and/OAR)
Favorite 2009 releases (alphabetical):
- ÆRA: Paean No. 1 (Faith Strange Recordings) first edition CDR
- GILLES AUBRY: s6t8r (Winds Measure Recordings) CD
- JUAN JOSE CALARCO: Darsena Intera (Mystery Sea) CDR
- CELER: Levitation And Breaking Points (self released) 3" CDR x 3
- CELER: Compositions For Cassette (Digitalis) cassette
- YANNICK DAUBY: Songs Of The Frogs Of Taiwan (Kalerne) CD
- RICHARD GARET & ANDY GRAYDON: Subtracted / Untitled [Altbau] (White_Line) 3" CDR
- BILLY GOMBERG & OFFTHESKY: Flyover Sounds (Experimedia) CDR
- GRAHAM HALLIWELL & LEE PATTERSON: Terrain (Confront) CDR
- LISSOM: Nest Of Iterations (Dragon's Eye Recordings) CDR
- MEW: No More Stories (Columbia) CD
- MOTH ELECTRET: Tocasin (Diophantine) CD
- SETH NEHIL: Flock And Tumble (Sonoris) CD
- YUI ONODERA & THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC: Radiance (Basses Frequencies) CD
- TOMAS PHILLIPS: Six Notes (Koyuki) 3" CDR
- ROBERT RICH & FARYUS: Zerkalo (Faria) CD
- TARAB: Take All The Ships From The Harbour And Sail Them Straight Into Hell (23Five) CD
- PETER THOMAS: Chariots Of The Gods? (Polydor Germany) CD re-issue with bonus tracks
- WAN-SHUEN TSAI & YANNICK DAUBY: Village, Vestiges (La CoLLombier) CD + book
- EDWARD WILLIAMS: Life On Earth (Trunk Records) CD
Favorite 2009 acquisitions from previous years (alphabetical):
- ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: UTP_ (Raster-Noton) CD + DVD
- ANDERS DAHL: RGB Tapes (Conv) CDR
- FRANK DENYER: Music For Shakuhachi (Another Timbre) CD
- TAYLOR DEUPREE & KENNETH KIRSCHNER: May (Room40) CD
- DUNGEN: Ta Det Lugnt (Kemado) CD x 2
- MORTON FELDMAN: Crippled Symmetry (Col Legno) CD x 2
- MORTON FELDMAN: For Philip Guston (Wergo) CD x 4
- FENNESZ: Black Sea (Touch) CD
- FRITZ HAUSER & MICHAEL ASKILL: Space (Celestial Harmonies) CD
- TOSHIO HOSOKAWA: Deep Silence (Wergo) CD
- ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO: Anatomy Of Place (Monotype Rec) CD
- STEFANO PILIA: Action Silence Prayers (Die Schachtel) CD
- POPOL VUH: Die Nacht Der Seele - Tantric Songs (SPV) CD
- ELIANE RADIGUE: Adnos I - III (Table Of The Elements) CD x 3
- ANN SIDEN: Man's Need Of Comfort Is Without End (Firework Edition) CD
- VOLKER STAUB: Suarogate (Wergo) CD
- TAUS (Tim Blechmann & Klaus Filip): The Organ Of Corti (L'innomable) CD
- TOSHI TSUCHITORI: Dotaku / Sanukaito / Sounds Of Prehistoric Cave / Jomonko (Victor) 4 separate CDs
- YOSHI WADA: The Appointed Cloud (EM Records / Omega Point) CD
- V/A: Bauhaus Reviewed 1919 - 1933 (LTM) CD
- V/A: Japanese Masterpieces For The Shakuhachi (Lyrichord) CD
DVDs (alphabetical):
- LUIS BUÑUEL: Simon Of The Desert (Criterion) DVD
- ILDIKÓ ENYEDI: Simon Magus (Navigator) DVD
- ZOLTÁN HUSZÁRIK: Szindbad (Mokep) DVD
- JEAN PAINLEVÉ: Science Is Fiction: 23 Films (Criterion) DVD x 3
- RICHARD SCHENKMAN: The Man From Earth (Anchor Bay) DVD
- PETER WEIR: The Truman Show (Paramount) DVD
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STEVEN HESS (Dropp Ensemble, Haptic, On)
Best of list for 2009:
- ARVO PÄRT: In Principio (ECM)
- SUPERSILENT: 9 (Runegrammofon)
- KTL: IV (Editions Mego)
- LOKAI: Transition (Thrill Jockey)
- GÜNTER MÜLLER: CYM_BOWL (Mikroton)
- ELEH: Retreat (Important)
- STEPHAN MATHIEU + TAYLOR DEUPREE: Transcriptions (Spekk)
- ROBERT HAMPSON: Vectors (Touch)
- NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS: White Lunar (Mute)
- ELIANE RADIGUE: Triptych (Important)
- WILLIAM BASINSKI: 92982 (2062)
- STEVEN R. SMITH: Cities (Immune)
- JON HASSELL: Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street (ECM)
- WILLIAM FOWLER COLLINS: Perdition Hill Radio (Type)
- SUNN O))): Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
Movie:
- THE ROAD (Dir. John Hillcoat)
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KEVIN WIENKE (Alluvial Recordings)
- PHILL NIBLOCK: Touch Strings (Touch) CD x 2
- LEIF ELGGREN: Death Travels Backwards (Errant Bodies) DVD
- THOMAS KÖNER: La Barca (Fario) CD
- WILLIAM BASINSKI: 92982 (2062) CD
- GIANCARLO TONIUTTI: The Early Tape Years (VOD) LP x 3 + 10" Boxset
- JOHN DUNCAN: Live In Brussels 2007 (AQM) CDR
- MILES DAVIS: The Complete Columbia Album Collection CD x 70 + DVD (Columbia /Legacy)
- JESU OPIATE: Sun (Caldo Verde) CD
- ANDREW CHALK: The Cable House (Faraway Press) LP
- SPIRACLE: Ananta (Helen Scarsdale Agency) CD x 2
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ADAM SONDERBERG
Top 11 + 3 in Alphabetical order:
- GILLES AUBRY: s6t8r (Winds Measure Recordings) CD
- JEAN BAUDRILLARD: Le Xerox et l'Infini (Tapeworm) cassette
- CANNIBAL CORPSE: Evisceration Plague (Metal Blade) CD
- RICHARD GARET: Four Malleable (and/OAR) CD x 2
- DAVID GRUBBS: Hybrid Song Box.4 (Blue Chopsticks) CD
- JEPH JERMAN: Vinyl (Easy Discs) CDR
- PHILIP JULIAN: Low Activity Computer Solo (Free Software Series) FLAC
- PATRICK KOSK: Mondweiß (Edition RZ) CD
- MORRISSEY: Years of Refusal (Attack) CD
- NURSE WITH WOUND: The Surveillance Lounge (Dirtier) CD
- CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE / CHRISTOPH HEEMANN – Saiten in Flammen (Streamline) LP
- POLWECHSEL / JOHN TILBURY: Field (Hatology) CD
- ELAINE RADIGUE: Naldjorlak (Shiin) CD
- ERIK SATIE: 42 Vexations (Sub Rosa) CD
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BILL MAJOR
Best 2009
- ALFRED HARTH: Red Canopy (?)
- MARAL YAKSHIEVA & ANTHONY BRAXTON: Improvisations (Solyd Records)
- DROPP ENSEMBLE: Safety (and/OAR / either/OAR)
- JOHN BUTCHER GROUP: somethingtobesaid (Weight Of Wax)
- JACK WRIGHT QUARTET: Tenterhooks (Bug Incision Records)
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WILL LONG (Celer / Floor Sugar)
- ELAINE RADIGUE: Triptych (Important) CD
- CHRISTOPHE CHARLES: Undirected / Dok (Ritornell) CD
- ANDREY KIRITCHENKO - Misterrious (Spekk) CD
- MESO MESO: Spoon (Yacca) CD
- ASUNA: live video at Syofukiji Temple (YouTube)
- AKI ONDA: Bon Voyage!: Cassette Memories Vol. 2 (Improvised Music From Japan) CD
- DALE LLOYD: Akasha For Record (Elevator Bath) LP
- SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE: RTZ (Drag City) CD
- BILLY GOMBERG: Comme (and/OAR / mOAR) CD
- CHUBBY WOLF: Meandering Pupa (CW) CDR
- FM3: Buddha Machine II (FM3)
- MIKA VAINIO: Vandal (Raster-Noton) LP
- FJORDNE :The Setting Sun (Kitchen) CD
- PAWN: Glass + Breath (Dynamophone) CDR
- HIROKI SASAJIMA: Nine (Self-released) CDR
- COREY FULLER: Seas Between (Dragons Eye Recordings) CDR
- EVOL: Fart Synthesis (Presto!?) cassette
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KURT LIEDWART (Mikroton Records)
No particular order. These are which I played a lot during the year.
1. CHRISTOF KURZMANN & BURKHARD STANGL: Neuschnee (Erstwhile) CD
2. JASON KAHN: Vanishing Point (23five) CD
3. WERNER DAFELDECKER, CHRISTOF KURZMANN, JOHN TILBURY & STEVIE WISHART: Violet (Mikroton) CD
4. BURKHARD STANGL & KAI FAGASCHINSKI: Musik — Ein Porträt In Sehnsucht (Erstwhile) CD
5. GÜNTER MÜLLER WITH ALAN COURTIS, PABLO RECHE, SERGIO MERCE, GABRIEL PAIUK: Buenos Aires Tapes (Monotype) CD x 2
6. DAVID SYLVIAN: Manafon (Samadhisound) CD + Book
7. CAPECE, ECKHARDT, KESTEN, MALFATTI, NAKAMURA & SUGIMOTO: Wedding Ceremony (Cathnor) CD
8. RHODRI DAVIES, MICHEL DONEDA, LOUISA MARTIN, PHIL MINTON & LEE PATTERSON: Midhopestones (Another Timbre) CD
9. THE AFTERNOON SAINTS: The Shirley Jangle (Kraak) LP x 2
10. PHOSPHOR: Phosphor II (Potlatch) CD
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SEAN O'BRIEN (SPIRIT HOUSE Eastside Radio 89.7FM, Sydney, Australia)
22 in no particular order, all great listening:
1. M SQUARED RARE RECORDINGS 1978-1983: (Vinyl On Demand) LP x 6
2. GERM STUDIES: For Guzheng & DX7 (Splitrec) CD x 2
3. JIM DENLEY & KIM MYHR: Systems Realignment (and/OAR / either/OAR) CD
4. THE NECKS: Silverwater (Fish Of Milk) CD
5. ROIL: Meaning (Rufus) CD
6. CANDLESNUFFER: Mimosa (hellosQuarerecordings) CD
7. JOHN BUTCHER GROUP: somethingtobesaid (Weight of Wax) CD
8. AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC (Sub Rosa) CD x 2
9. DAVID SYLVIAN: Manafon (samadhisound) CD
10. JON HASSELL: Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street (ECM) CD
11. ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: utp (Raster-Noton) CD x 2
12. TU'M: Monochromes Vol. 1 (12k / L-ne) CD
13. OREN AMBARCHI: Intermission 2000-2008 (Touch) CD
14. BIOSPHERE: Wireless (Touch) CD
15. BROADCAST & THE FOCUS GROUP: Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp) CD
16. PEOPLE BAND: 69/70 (Emanem) CD x 2
17. TOMOKO SAUVAGE: Ombrophilia (and/OAR /either/OAR) CD
18. POLWECHSEL & JOHN TILBURY: Field (Hat Hut) CD
19. GHANA SPECIAL: Modern Highlife, Afro-sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 (Soundway) CD x 2
20. ROB MAZUREK QUINTET: Sound Is (Delmark) CD
21. LAURA ANDEL ORCHESTRA: Doble Mano (Rossbin Records) CD
22. HARMONIA & ENO '76: Tracks & Traces re-released (Gronland) CD
& a year of great concerts in Sydney, including:
1. HARMONIA, Basement, Sydney, January
2. PURE SCENIUS - ENO with the NECKS, Sydney Opera House, June
3. JON HASSELL, Sydney Opera House, June
4. MIDDLE HEAD PROJECT, Middle Head, Sydney, November
5. GERM STUDIES, Carriageworks, Sydney, December
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STEINBRÜCHEL
- GIUSEPPE IELASI: Aix (12k) CD
- LAWRENCE ENGLISH: A Colour for Autumn (12k) CD
- MARK WASTELL: After Hours (Cathnor) 3" CDR
- STEPHAN MATHIEU: The Key to the Kingdom (Dekorder) 10"
- RICHARD YOUNGS: Like a Neuron (Dekorder) LP
- ATILLA FARAVELLI: Beneath the Surface (Die Schachtel) CD
- HÄLSNINGAR FRAN SKOGEN: Compilation (Kning Disk) CD
- NILS FRAHM: The Bells (Kning Disk) CD
- RICKARD JÄVERLING: The Valleys (Kning Disk) CD + 7"
- BILLY GOMBERG: Comme (and/OAR / mOAR) CD
- FREDERIC NOGRAY: Nelki (Prele Records) CD
- ATOM TM: Liedgut (Raster Noton) CD
- IN THE COUNTRY: Whiteout (Rune Grammofon) CD
- SOISONG: XAj3z (Soisong) CD
- LOKAI: Transition (Thrill Jockey) CD
- NANA APRIL JUN: The Ontology of Noise (Touch) CD
- JACOB KIRKEGAARD: Labyrinthitis (Touch) CD
- WIXEL: Clouds (Self released, 2009 series) CDR x 12
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ERIC LANZILLOTTA (Dissonant Plane / Ri Be Xibalba / Anomalous Records)
- AFCGT: AFCGT (Uzu Audio) LP
- LAURIE SCOTT BAKER: Gracility (Musicnow) CD x 2
- L. BERNER: Blackout Nights (Zen Enthusia) cassette x 2
- SIR RICHARD BISHOP: The Freak Of Araby (Drag City) CD
- CRYSTAL HELL POOL: Wind Blows Through Me (Crippled Symmetry Recordings) CDR
- DROPP ENSEMBLE: Safety (either/OAR / and/OAR) CD
- LUC FERRARI: Labyrinthe De Violence / DANCE (Alga Marghen) 12"
- IBLISS: Supernova (Garden Of Delights) CD
- THE INNER SPACE: Agilok & Blubbo (Wah-Wah Records Sound)
- DEMIAN JOHNSTON: Forever (Dead Accents) cassette
- DEMIAN JOHNSTON: Still (Dead Accents) cassette
- DAVE KNOTT: Sweet Little Guitar Ditties (self released) CD
- R MILLIS: 120 (Etude Records) CD
- HIROAKI MINAMI: Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol.10: Electronic Symphony No. 1 (Edition Omega Point) CD
- ELAINE RADIGUE: Triptych (Important) CD
- ELAINE RADIGUE: Vice Versa, Etc. (Important Records) CD x 2
- MATT SHOEMAKER: The Sunken Plethora Consumes All (Mystery Sea) CDR
- OMAR SOULEYMAN: Dabke 2020: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Syria (Sublime Frequenices) CD
- SPERM: Shh! Heinäsirkat (De Stijl) LP
- SUN CITY GIRLS: Napoleon & Josephine [Sun City Girls Singles Volume 2] (Abduction) CD
- AKIO SUZUKI: Ki-date (Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi) DVD
- GIANCARLO TONIUTTI: The Early Tapes Period (Vinyl-On-Demand) LP x 3 + 10"
- UNICAZÜRN: Temporal Bends (uZu Music) CD
- SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH: A Seventh Persimmon (Tape Drift Records) CDR
- ZAÏMPH: Serpent's Bite (Heavy Blossom) CD
- V/A: 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies) CD
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INVISIBLE BIRDS
- ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: utp (Raster-Noton) CD + DVD
- ALVA NOTO: Xerrox Vol. 2 (Raster-Noton) CD
- WILLIAM BASINSKI: 92982 (2062) CD
- RAN BLAKE: Driftwoods (Tompkins Square) CD
- BILL CALLAHAN: Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle (Drag City) CD
- ELEGI: Varde (Miasmah Recordings) CD
- ELEH / NANA APRIL JUN: Observations & Momentum (Touch) CD
- AMBROSE FIELD & JOHN POTTER: Being Dufay (ECM) CD
- FIRE: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (Rune Grammofon) CD
- GRIZZLY BEAR: Veckatimest (Warp) CD
- HARMONIA & ENO '76: Tracks & Traces re-released (Gronland) CD
- JON HASSELL: Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street (ECM) CD
- TIM HECKER: An Imaginary Country (Kranky) LP
- LETHE: Catastrophe Point #5 (Intransitive Recordings) CD
- STEPHAN MATHIEU: The Key to the Kingdom (Dekorder) 10"
- MOUNTAINS: Choral (Thrill Jockey) CD
- MOUNTAINS: Etching (Thrill Jockey) LP
- PHILL NIBLOCK: Touch Strings (Touch) CD x 2
- NILS ØKLAND: Monograph (ECM) CD
- ADAM PACIONE: Still Life Series (Bee Eater Recordings) 3" CD
- ARVO PÄRT: In Principio (ECM) CD
- ELAINE RADIGUE: Triptych (Important Records) CD
- ELAINE RADIGUE: Vice Versa, Etc. (Important Records) CD x 2
- COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD: For Tomorrow (Bee Eater Recordings) 3" CD
- MATT SHOEMAKER: Erosion of the Analogous Eye (Helen Scarsdale Agency) CD
- MATT SHOEMAKER: The Sunken Plethora Consumes All (Mystery Sea) CD
- SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE: Luminous Night (Drag City) CD
- STEVEN R. SMITH: Cities (Immune) CD
- TAMARU: Figure (Trumn) CD
- RICHARD YOUNGS: Under Stellar Stream (Jagjaguwar) CD
- MIROSLAV VITOUS & MICHAEL PORTAL: Remembering Weather Report (ECM) CD
- YOSHI WADA: Earth Horns With Electronic Drone (Edition Omega Point) CD
- ROBERT WYATT: Box Set (Domino) CD x 14
- TOWNES VAN ZANDT: Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Fat Possum Records) LP
An extended list is here: theartofmemory.blogspot.com/2009/12/pre-2010.html
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BARTOLOMÉ SANSON (Kaugummi)
- ROBEDOOR: Pagan Drugs (Ketchup Cavern)
- ANTIQUE BROTHERS: Season’s Feast (Not Not Fun)
- BARN OWL: The Conjurer (Root Strata)
- HIGH WOLF: Incalpulco (Winged Sun)
- SILVESTER ANFANG II: untitled (Aurora Borealis)
- EMERALDS: untitled (Wagon)
- SUN ARAW: Heavy Deeds (Not Not Fun)
- YOGA: Megafauna (Holy Mountain)
- SUPER MINERALS: Clusters (Stunned)
- POCAHAUNTED: Passage (Troubleman Unlimited)
- HEAVY WINGED: Walking, Shaking (Aurora Borealis)
- POCAHAUNTED: Radioshow @ Amsterdam (unrealesed)
- BEAR BONES, LAY LOW: Vallee De Dith (Kraak)
- SILVER BULLETS: Free Radicals (Stunned)
- SOCIAL JUNK: Born Into It (Digitalis)
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DANIEL CROKAERT (MYSTERY SEA/UNFATHOMLESS)
non exhaustive list of some zenithal 2009 audio-journeys (alphabetical order)
- JIM HAYNES: Sever (Intransitive) CD [special edition version with “Severed” 3”CDR bonus disc]
- JAMES McDOUGALL: Double Tilde (Mandorla) MP3
- STEVE RODEN: Ecstasy Showered Its Petals With The Full Peal Of The Bells (Ferns) 3”CD
- JANA WINDEREN: Heated – Live In Japan (Touch) CD
- ALIO DIE: Tempus Rei (Hic Sunt Leones) CD
- GILLES AUBRY: s6t8r (Winds Measure Recordings) CD
- MAX BELLANCOURT: The Stone Tape (Dead Sea Liner) CDR
- JUAN JOSÉ CALARCO & DAVID WELLS: Foce (SiRiDisc) CDR
- LOREN CHASSE/ADAM SONDERBERG & KATHERINE YOUNG: Characters At Water Margin/Speech Acts (Compost & Height) 3”CDR
- CHUBBY WOLF: L'histoire (Gears Of Sand) CDR
- JONATHAN COLECLOUGH & ANDREW LILES: Burn (October Editions) CDR
- JONATHAN COLECLOUGH: Flutter (October Editions) 2CDR
- STEPHEN CORNFORD: Two Works For Turntable (Permanent Gallery) 7”
- STEPHEN CORNFORD : Air Guitar (Sculpture Recordings) CDR
- ROBERT CURGENVEN/JEZ RILEY FRENCH : Largo Affettuoso – Aria II, 8th movement/pelure #6 (Compost & Height) 3”CDR
- ROBERT CURGENVEN : Silent Landscapes (Recorded Fields) CDR
- C.S.K.A.: Tapesong (Low Point) 3”CDR
- EARLABS 3: Helix (Entr'acte) CD
- ENTIA NON & SYLVIE WALDER: Bewilderment (Resting Bell) MP3
- ENTIA NON: Disinter (Sentient Recognition Archive) CDR
- ERIC LA CASA/TARAB: Les Vibrations Dans La Masse De Son Roulement/Utility (Compost & Height) 3”CDR
- PATRICK FARMER: Apis Mellifera, Moved To And Fro (Organized Music From Thessaloniki) CDR
- FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC: Ctok (Still*Sleep) CDR
- FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC: Pictures From Sand : Boiling Line (Still*Sleep) CDR
- RICHARD GARET & BRENDAN MURRAY: Of Distance (Unframed) CD
- HANDS OF SAND: A Quiet Reverie (BLURB) Book + CDR
- HAPSBURG BRAGANZA: Hatchling (Idiosyncratics) CD
- IAN HOLLOWAY: She Loves The Sky (Quiet World) CDR
- IAN HOLLOWAY & BANKS BAILEY: A Brief Sojourn (Quiet World) CDR
- HUM: Le Pilote De L'onde Vive (Self Released) 3”CDR
- JGRZINICH: Time's Arrow Landing (Maheeli Editions) MP3
- PETER JØRGENSEN: To (Monotype) CD
- FERGUS KELLY: Fugitive Pitch (Room Temperature) CDR
- FERGUS KELLY: Swarf (Room Temperature) 3”CDR
- DALE LLOYD: Akasha_For Record (Elevator Bath) PICTURE DISC LP
- FRANCISCO LÓPEZ: Untitled #228 (Ini,Itu) LP
- JAMES McDOUGALL: An Opening In The Canopy (Compost & Height) MP3
- JAMES McDOUGALL: Kin Kin (Q-Tone) MP3
- BEN FLEURY-STEINER & CHRISTOPHER McFALL: The Dirty & The Clean (Con-v) MP3
- CHRISTOPHER McFALL: Red Is The Color Of Price By Relation (Moving Furniture) CDR
- NATHAN McNINCH: When You Went Into Churches (mOAR) MP3
- JUAN ANTONIO NETIO: Divisions Of Space (Experimedia) MP3
- MICHAEL NORTHAM: beliefs, like a ruined piece of paper lost at the bottom of an infinite pocket (Semperflorens) MP3
- MICHAEL NORTHAM & SEIJIRO MURAYAMA: Moriendo Renascor (XING-WU) CD
- YANN NOVAK: The Breeze Blowing Over Us (Infrequency) CDR
- YANN NOVAK & JAMES DROUIN: + room- room (Henry Art Gallery) CD
- BEN OWEN: Two (Gruenrekorder) CDR
- LEE PATTERSON: Seven Vignettes (Shadazz) CD
- CÉDRIC PEYRONNET & TOY.BIZARRE ORCHESTRA: Kdi dtcb 216 – the Data series (Kaon) 3”CDR
- JONAS RUCHENHEVER: Somber (The Pyngwen Society) CDR
- HIROKI SASAJIMA: Monogenic (Sentient Recognition Archive) CDR
- HIROKI SASAJIMA: Renz (Q-Tone) CDR
- HIROKI SASAJIMA: Nine (Self Released) CDR
- SEASONS (PRE-DIN): Stars And Lights : We Fall Together (Thy-rec) CDR
- MATT SHOEMAKER: Erosion Of The Analogous Eye (Helen Scarsdale Agency) CD
- MATT SHOEMAKER: Wayward Set (Human Faculties) CDR
- PHILIP SULIDAE: Southwest (Audiotalaia) MP3
- NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK: The Chiasmus (Sentient Recognition Archive) CD
- SUBLAMP: Breathletters (Dragon's Eye) CDR
- PHILIP SULIDAE: The Cause Of Others (Ripples) CDR
- SEATTLE PHONOGRAPHERS UNION: S/t (Mimeomeme / and/OAR) CD
- TARAB: Take All The Ships From The Harbour, And Sail Them Straight Into Hell (23Five) CD
- TZESNE: Crossing TierraHueca (Taâlem) 3”CDR
- MIRKO UHLIG: Gyokuro (Gears Of Sand) CDR
- DAVID VELEZ: Impulsive Habitat (Test Tube) MP3
- DAVID VELEZ & JAMES McDOUGALL: Sonoridades Industriales (Ripples) CDR
- ESTHER VENROOY & HELEEN VAN HAEGENBORGH: Mock Interiors (Entr'acte) CD – late discovery !
- V/A: In The Rhetoric Of Rupture & Reappropriation (Ripples) CDR
- V/A: Tori No Kaigi [San] (Trente Oiseaux) MP3
- V/A: Tori No Kaigi [Yon] (Trente Oiseaux) MP3
- DAVID WELLS: Efegin (SiRiDisc) MP3
- DAVID WELLS: 05 (SiRiDisc) MP3
- SIMON WHETHAM: Ratcha Anachak Thaï (Con-v) MP3
- JAMES WYNESS: Figure And Ground (Khora) CDR
- XIPHIIDAE: Transresonance Formation (Stunned) CDR
Other crescendos:
- Robert Curgenven @ Atelier Mommens (Bxl)
– Esther Venrooy performing “Vessel” @ Q-02 (Bxl)
- Jez Riley French @ Q-02 (Bxl)
– the birth of Impulsive Habitat netlabel
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EAMON SPROD (Tarab)
2009 favourites: five new & five old
Favorite 2009 (alphabetical):
- GILLES AUBRY: s6t8r (Winds Measure Recordings) CD
- LETHE: Catastrophe Point #5 (Instransitive) CD
- RAIONBASHI: In Teufel's Küche (Ignivomous/Absurd) 10" vinyl
- SEATTLE PHONOGRAPHERS UNION: Seattle Phonograpers Union (Mimeomeme / and/OAR) CD
- MIKA VAINIO: Aineen Musta Puhelin (Touch) CD
Favorite 2009 acquisitions from previous years (alphabetical):
- JOE COLLEY: Psychic Stress Soundtracks (Antifrost) CD 2005
- G*PARK: Yack Park (Zabriske Point) CD 1993
- G*PARK: Reuters (Tochnit Aleph) LP 2008
- THE NEW BLOCKADERS: Changez Les Blockeurs (VOD re-issue) LP 2004
- SMALL CRUEL PARTY: Islands Of Sleep (G.M.B.H.) LP 1998
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CARLO GIORDANO
Favorites list for 2009
- RHODRI DAVIES: Over Shadows (Confront)
- THOMAS KÖNER: La Barca (Fario)
- CM VON HAUSSWOLFF: Operations Of Spirit Communication (Die Stadt)
- ARVO PÄRT: Fratres (?)
- BIGLIETTO PER L'INFERNO: Un Biglietto Per l'inferno
- ERIC LA CASA: L'empreinte De L'ivresse (Digital Narcis)
- ERIC LA CASA: Quelque Chose De Cela, Le Désert (Collection Mémoires)
- ETANT DONNES: Royaume (Touch)
- FOVEA HEX: Allure (Die Stadt / Janet Records)
- JOHN WATERMANN: Dummyhead (?)
- LIONEL MARCHETTI: Noord Five Atlantica (Césaré)
- NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES: Legnica (Impulsy Stetoskopu)
- SIGUR RÓS: Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (EMI)
- STILLUPPSTEYPA: Has [Or Has Not] Happenned (Meme)
- TELEVISION POWER ELECTRIC: Argiiindar (Ertz)
- TROUM: Seeing-Ear Gods (Discorporeality Recordings)
- CLINT MANSELL: Requiem For A Dream OST (Nonesuch)
- ALAN LAMB: Primal Image (Dorobo)
- JÓNSI & ALEX: Riceboy Sleeps (Parlophone)
- BERNARDO PASQUINI: Opere per Organo e Clavicembalo [Lorenzo Ghielmi - performer] (?)
- MANU HOLTERBACH: Aare Am Marzilibad (Erewhon)
- MINORU SATO: Perturbation Field And The Equilibrium (WrK)
- VACUUM BOYS: Songs From The Sea Of Love (Fire Inc)
- POPOL VUH: Affenstunde (?)
Film
- REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
- THE WRESTLER
- THE DARK KNIGHT
- ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
- DOUBT
- MATCH POINT
- QUANTUM OF SOLACE
- FRANKLYN
- WALTZ WITH BASHIR
- GATTICA
- INSIDE MAN
- MEMENTO
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YANN HASCOËT (Matière Brute)
- OREN AMBARCHI: Intermission 2000-2008 (Touch) CD
- CELAN: Halo (Exile On Mainstream) CD
- DROPP ENSEMBLE: Safety (and/OAR / either/OAR) CD
- EARLABS: 3 Helix (Entr'acte) CD
- ROBERT HAMPSON: Vectors (Touch) CD
- HAPTIC: The medium (Flingcosound System) 12"
- HAPTIC: Trebuchet (Entr'acte) CD
- KHANATE: Clean Hands Go Foul (Daymare) CD
- GÜNTER MÜLLER: Cym_Bowl (Mikroton) CD
- NARROWS: New Distances (Deathwish) 12"
- OXBOW: Songs For The French (Hydra head) 12"
- RADIAN: Chimeric (Thrill jockey) 12"
- TARAB: Take All The Ships From The Harbour And Sail Them Straight Into Hell (23five) CD
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FÉLICIA ATKINSON
Records
- MOUNTAINS: Choral (Thrill Jockey)
- SYLVESTER ANFANG: Sylvester Anfang II (Aurora Borealis)
- FOLLE EGLISE: Anna's Present (Kaugummi)
- EMERALD: What Happened (No Fun)
- DUCKTAILS: Ducktails (Not Not Fun)
- PAN AMERICAN: White Bird Release (Kranky)
- BARN OWL: The Conjurer (Root Strata)
- ALTAR EAGLE: Judo Songs (Digitalis)
- SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU: Touching Down Lightly (Creative Sources)
- GREGG KOWALSKI: Tape Chants (Kranky)
- BILL CALLAHAN: Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle (Drag City)
- POCAHAUNTED: Passage (Troubleman Unlimited)
Best Shows 2009
- Robbie Lee + Sawako @ Monkey Town, Brooklyn
- White Lichens @ Fondation Cartier, Paris
- Mountains + Benoit Pioulard @ Compilotheque, Bruxelles
- Le Ton Mité + Reiko & Tori Kudo @ Compilotheque, Bruxelles
- Brown Bird @ Brick Bat Books , Philadelphia
- Peter Broderick @ Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
- Pillars Of Fire @ Cinema 104, Pantin
- Paul Labrecque + Theo Angel, Espace en Cours, Paris
- Pocahaunted, Les Voutes, Paris
- Tomoko Sauvage + Andres Goncalves; Festival Electoni-k; Rennes
- Liars, Villette Sonique, Paris
- Sunn O))) + Jesus Lizard, Villette SOnique, Paris
- Omar SOuleyman, Instants Chavires, Montreuil
- Quatuor Bela / Moriba Koité, Corbel, Festival Nuits d'Ete
- Nlf trio, Botanique, Bruxelles
- Jerome Rothenberg, Charlemagne Palestine, Charlemagne Palestine 's house, Bruxelles
- Gregg Kowalski + Brethern of the free spirit, Schipp, Bruxelles
- Fennesz + Sparklehorse, Ghent
+ i am still listening a lot to Charalambides, Grouper, Neil Young, Smog, Sybille Baier, David Grubbs, John Fahey,MV and EE, Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz Brethern of the Free Spririt, Lau Nau, Celer, Jim O'Rourke, Liars, Larkin Grimm, Magik Markers, Tenniscoats, Fursaxa, Leonard Cohen, The Angels of light, Morton Feldman, Webern, Bach, Chopin.
