and/OAR releases are obviously among the favorites during any given year,
but they are not included in my annual lists.
Top 20 From 2010 (alphabetical by first letter):
- ANDREW CHALK: The Cable House (Faraway Press) CD
- ANDY GRAYDON: Geomancy (mAtter) CD + DVD
- CEDRIC PEYRONNET + TOY BIZARRE ORCHESTRA: kdi dctb 216 [DATA] series (Kaon) 3" CDR x 12
- DANIELLE BAQUET-LONG [AKA Chubby Wolf]: Ornitheology (Digitalis) CT
- ERIC LA CASA: Zone Sensible 2 / Dundee 2 (Room40) CD
- ERNIE ALTHOFF: Colour Chart (Antboy Music) CDR
- FRANCISCO LOPEZ: Machines (Elevator Bath) CD x 2
- JANA WINDEREN: Energy Field (Touch) CD
- LASSE-MARC RIEK: Harbour (Herbal) CD
- LETHE: Catastrophe Point 7 & 8 (Invisible Birds) CD x 2
- MAX EASTLEY: Installation Recordings [1973-2008] (Paradigm Discs) CD x 2
- MICHAEL NORTHAM: Solar Night (Mirror Tapes) CT
- MURAL: Nectars Of Emergence (Sofa) CD
- TRISTRAM CARY: It's Time For Tristram Cary (Trunk) CD
- NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK & JUAN JOSE CALARCO: Lack Affix (Unfathomless) CD
- PIETRO GROSSI: Combinatoria (Die Schachtel) CD x 2
- RICHARD CHARTIER: A Field For Mixing (Room40) CD
- SEIJIRO MURAYAMA & ERIC LA CASA: Supersedure (Hibari Music) CD
- SETH NEHIL: Furl (Sonoris) CD
- THOMAS TILLY / TÔ: Cables & Signs (Fissur) CD
Top 2010 Acquisition Favorites From Previous Years (alphabetical by first letter):
- ARZA ANAIAK: Txalaparta '75 Iraila (Cramps / Strange Days) CD
- CRAIG KUPKA: Clouds - New Music For Relaxation (Folkways) CDR
- DALE GORFINKLE & ROBBIE AVENAIM: Sonic Systems Laboratory (Splitrec) CD
- FRANCISCO SEMPRUN & MICHEL CHRISTODOULIDES: Metamorphoses (Unidisc) LPR
- FREDERIC NOGRAY: Nelki (Prele) CD
- GIACINTO SCELSI: Quattro Pezzi Per Orchestra / Anahit / Uaxuctum (Accord) CD
- HIROKI SASAJIMA: Nine (self released) CDR
- JACQUES LASRY: Chronophagie (Columbia) LPR
- JOHN MITCHELL: The Way of Eiheiji (Folkways) CDR
- JORGE REYES: The Flayed God (Staalplaat) CD
- JOSEF ANTON RIEDL: Klangregionen 1951-2007 (Edition RZ) CD x 2
- KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Musik Im Bauch (Deutsche Grammophon) LPR
- MARC BEHRENS: Sleppet (Cronica) CD
- MICHIKO TOYAMA: Waka And Other Compositions (Folkways) CDR
- MIGUEL ANGEL CORA: En Rouge Et Noir (Cramps / Strange Days) CD
- NINO ROTA: Fellini Satyricon (United Artists) LPR
- PETR KOTIK: First Record (Cramps / Strange Days) CD
- ROLAND KAYN: Electronic Symphony 1-3 (Rieger-Records-Reeks) CD x 2
- VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Tomorrow People (Trunk) CD
- VARIOUS ARTISTS: Folk Music From Sweden: Lockrop & Vallatar (Caprice) CD
Other Favorite Discoveries From Previous Years, But No Physical Copy Yet:
- Akio Suzuki: "Suzuki Type- Glass Harmonica" (Gelbe Musik) CDR
- Alain Kremski: Musiques Rituelles Pour Cloches Et Gongs (Auvidis) LPR
- Dr. Jeffrey Thompson: Sri Yantra (Center for Neuroacoustic Research) CD
- Joel Andrews: The Violet Flame (The Group, Inc) LPR
- Marie-Claude Robert: Supranatural (Editions Montparnasse) LPR
- Master Wilburn Burchette: Psychic Meditation Music (Burchette Brothers) LPR
- Pierre Henry: Spatiodynamisme (Éditions Du Griffon) 7"
- Peter Van Riper: Room Space - New Music For Saxophones (VRBLU) LPR
- Sergio Montori & Gian Paolo Chiti: Quadri Antichi (Duse Records) LPR
- Tchen Gi-Vane: Song Of Une Noyade Et Le Shadow (S3TI Production) CD
