Favorites From 2010

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

Michelangelo Antonioni - Trilogy And Epilogue

artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS

title: Michelangelo Antonioni - Trilogy And Epilogue

catalog number: and/36

format: CD x 2

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_and_36.html

- ASHER

- OLIVIA BLOCK

- MARC BEHRENS

- JUAN JOSÉ CALARCO

- ALAN COURTIS

- EKG (Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel)

- LAWRENCE ENGLISH

- FHIEVEL

- COREY FULLER

- RICHARD GARET

- MARIHIKO HARA

- I8U

- JASON KAHN

- DALE LLOYD

- ROEL MEELKOP

- PALI MEURSAULT (with Ici-Même)

- BEN OWEN

- GABRIEL PAIUK

- J. WINSTON PHILLIPS

- TOMAS PHILLIPS

- ANTTI RANNISTO

- ADAM SONDERBERG

- STEINBRÜCHEL

- LUIGI TURRA

- TYLER WILCOX

Jim Denley & Kim Myhr: Live In Munich

catalog number: either/live1

artist: JIM DENLEY & KIM MYHR

title: Live In Munich

format: CDR

link: http://www.and-oar.org/pop_either_live1.html

A special limited edition release that will mostly be available

at their 2010 tour performances. Only a small number of

copies will be available in the and/OAR Diffusion shop.

The discs are professionally made in digipaks.

Olivia Block & Kyle Bruckmann: Teem

catalog number: either/4

artist: OLIVIA BLOCK & KYLE BRUCKMANN

title: Teem

format: CD

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_either_4.html

Bruckmann and Block’s creative relationship dates back to the

recording of Block’s 1999 release Pure Gaze, shortly after both

artists entered into Chicago’s vibrant experimental music

community. Their decision to create a collaborative duo ensued,

but remained in the realm of good intentions until shortly before

Bruckmann’s relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area.

They then began playfully stockpiling sounds from a myriad of

sources, collecting field material, and recording duo improvisations

in various spaces using hallway intercom systems and unorthodox

microphone placements, among other processes and techniques.

This initial activity was followed by five years of collaborative

editing, processing and mixing, resulting in the emergent expanse

that is Teem.

Ernst Karel: Heard Laboratories

catalog number: and/35

artist: ERNST KAREL

title: Heard Laboratories

format: CD

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_and_35.html

Heard Laboratories is a sonic ethnography of scientific research environments

at Harvard University, made using Schoeps cardioid mics in ORTF stereo

configuration and a Sound Devices audio recorder. The sounds of equipment,

devices, and activities draw attention to the physical processes underlying

scientific research, the work underway which provides a ground for our highly

technologized society. In the name of human progress, enormous resources

are devoted to and consumed by such activities, which are both hidden and

taken for granted. Heard Laboratories brings this background to the fore.

More info and samples can be found at the link above.

Canadian debut of John Grzinich's new film

John Grzinich's new film entitled, "Sound Aspects Of Material Elements"

(scheduled for future DVD release on a/O) is having its Canadian debut

in Calgary this month, so be sure to check it out!

John should be on hand to chat and answer questions.

http://films.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/soundaspects

Vincent Paillard: untitled

catalog number: either.p33

artist: VINCENT PAILLARD

title: untitled

format: MP3

link: www.and-oar.org/pop_eitherp33.html