A summary of the "Best of the year" lists: what we listened to (and particularly liked) in 2009.
Great thanks to all friends for their kindness.
Great thanks to all friends for their kindness.
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Richard Garet
This is what I have been listening during 2009 and recently:
- andy graydon - geomancy ---- matter
- aki onda - cassette memories vol. 1, ancient and modern ---- phonomena audio arts & multiples
- aki onda - bon voyage ---- improvised music from japan
- asher - miniatures ---- sourdine
- christoph limbach - begin_ if _ (1) ---- contour editions
- coleclough and murmer - husk ---- icr distribution
- coelacanth - the glass sponge ---- 23five incorporated
- coelacanth and keith evans - wrack light in copper ruin ---- seal pool
- compilation - physical, absent, tangible ---- contour editions
- compilation - variations in white part 1 ---- white_line editions
- compilation - variations in white part 2 ---- white_line editions
- david velez and james mc dougall - sonoridades industriales ---- ripples
- dropp ensemble - safety ---- either/oar
- fourm - set . neutral --- white_line editions
- fourm - area ---- white_line editions
- fourm - method ---- white_line editions
- gill arno - nervatura/u ---- unframed recordings
- gilles aubry - s6t8r ---- winds measure recordings
- gil sansón - por la adversidad a las estrellas ---- contour editions
- isobel clouter and rob mullender - myths of origin - sonic ephemera from east asia ---- and/oar
- jason kahn - asher ---- and/oar
- jason kahn and takefumi naoshima - in a room ---- winds measure recordings
- jim haynes - telegraphy by the sea ---- the Helen scarsdale agency
- jim haynes - sever ---- intransitive recordings
- kamran sadeghi -- voltagemotion_1 ---- contour editions
- kamran sadeghi - through thickness ---- dragon’s eye recordings
- kenneth kirschner - filaments and voids ---- 12k
- kyle bobby dunn - a young person’s guide ---- low point
- kyle bobby dunn - fragments and compositions ---- sedimental
- mnortham - automnal 2003 ---- and/oar
- murmer - we share a shadow ---- the Helen scarsdale agency
- nicholas szczepanik - the chiasmus ---- basses frequences & sentient recognition archive
- osone - passerelle ---- and/oar
- paul devens - exwork ---- moab records
- revenant - topoló ---- pre le records
- seth nehil and matt marble - ecllipses ---- and/oar
- seth nehil - flock and tumble ---- sonoris
- shinkei and luigi turra - yu ---- non visual objects
- son of rose - divisions in parallel ---- dragon’s eye recordings
- son of rose - all in ---- blanket fields
- tomoko sauvage - ombrophilia ---- and/oar
- violet - violet ray gas and the playback singers ---- zeromoon & sentient recognition archive
- yukitomo hamasaki - d+p ---- matter
Andy Graydon
- Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments And Voids (12k) (technically 2008, but it was with me throughout '09)
- Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
- Ben Owen - Two (Gruenrekorder)
- Dam-Funk - Toeachizown (Stone's Throw)
- Gil Sansón - Por La Adversidad A Las Estrellas (Contour Editions)
- Mika Vainio - Black Telephone Of Matter (Touch)
- Dallas Simpson - The Alarming Blend Of Three Arches (Impulsive Habitat)
- Shinkei / Luigi Turra - Yu (Non Visual Objects)
- King Midas Sound - Waiting For You (Cargo)
- Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix (12k)
- Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura - Semi-Impressionism (Spekk)
- Richard Garet - Four Malleable (and/OAR)
- Jamie Drouin - A Three Month Warm Up (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
- Shinkei + mise_en_scene – Scytale (mAtter)
- Scott Allison + Ben Owen - Untitled (For Agnes Martin) (Winds Measure Recordings)
- Gilles Aubry - s6t8r (Winds Measure Recordings)
- David Sylvian - Manafon (Samadhisound)
i8u
- 1. Keiichiro Shibuya - For Maria (ATAK)
- 2. Mika Vainio - Aíneen Musta Puhelin (Touch)
- 3. Yann Novak & Jamie Drouin - +room-room @ Henry Art Gallery
- 4. Richard Chartier - Further Materials (l-ne)
- 5. Christof Kurzmann & Burkhard Stangl - Neuschnee (Erstwhile)
- 6. Guy Webster / Laurence English / Tom Hall - Big Sit (An exhibiton of sound @ Metro Arts)
- 7. Tomas Phillips - Six Notes (Koyuki-sound)
Dale Lloyd (and/OAR)
The first 5 were released in 2009 and the second 5 were released in previous years, but I acquired them in 2009.
- CELER: Levitation And Breaking Points (self released) 3" CDR x 3
- MOTH ELECTRET: Tocasin (Diophantine) CD
- EDWARD WILLIAMS: Life On Earth (Trunk Records) CD re-issue
- PETER THOMAS: Chariots Of The Gods? (Polydor Germany) CD re-issue
- GRAHAM HALLIWELL & LEE PATTERSON: Terrain (Confront) CDR
- MORTON FELDMAN: Crippled Symmetry (Col Legno) CD x 2
- ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: UTP_ (Raster-Noton) CD + DVD
- TOSHI TSUCHITORI: Dotaku / Sanukaito / Sounds Of Prehistoric Cave / Jomonko (Victor) 4 separate CDs
- YOSHI WADA: The Appointed Cloud (EM Records / Omega Point) CD
- FENNESZ: Black Sea (Touch) CD
Will Thomas Long (Celer)
- RdL - Decades away from Home (P-Vine)
- Eliane Radigue - Triptych (Important)
- Chubby Wolf - Meandering Pupa (CW)
- Andrey Kiritchenko - Misterrious (Spekk)
- Meso Meso - Spoon (Yacca)
- Moskitoo - Si Sol (See)
- Evol - Fart Synthesis (Presto!?)
- Corey Fuller - Seas Between (Dragon's Eye)
- Billy Gomberg/Anne Guthrie/Richard Kamerman - live
- Tomoko Sauvage - Ombrophilia (either/OAR)
- Stephan Mathieu - 10 Minutes (Touch)
- Sogar + Sebastien Roux - Rucksitz (Tsuku Boshi)
Christopher McFall
- 1. Xela - The Divine
- 2. Leyland Kirby - When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die
- 3. Anduin - Abandoned In Sleep
- 4. Elegi - Varde
- 5. Kreng - L’Autopsie Phénoménale de Dieu
- 6. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost In Reflections
Tanner Menard
- Asuna - Flowers - Music Related
- Nicholas Szczepanik - The Chiasmus - Basses Frequences + Sra
- Celer - Close Proximity And The Unhindered Care-All - Sra
- Counterspark - Existence - Archaic Horizon
- Hiroki Sasajima - Monogenic - Sra
- Ian Hawgood - Wolfskin - Hibernate
- Jeremy Bible + Jason Henry - Ound - Abgurd
- Ryonkt - Small Conversations - Experimedia
- Chubby Wolf - Meandering Pupa - Self Release
- Misound - Stanze Di Te - Slow Flow
- Mathieu Ruhlmann - Fourteen Worms For Victor Hugo - Gears Of Sand
- Segue - Into The Fall - Slow Flow
- Entia Non - Disinter - Sra
- Stephen Spera - 4{H²O} - Parvoart
- Of Cycling Light - Cition - Hlm
Brendan Murray
- Cold Cave - Love Comes Close (Heartworm)
- Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix (12k)
- Sun Circle - Live Tour (Autumn/Lichen)
- Jim Haynes - Sever (Intransitive)
- Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon (Hospital)
- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
- Mountains - Choral (Thrill Jockey)
- Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (No Fun)
- Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster)
- Russell Haswell - Wild Tracks (Editions Mego)
- Graham Lambkin - Softly Softly Copy Copy (Kye)
- The xx - s/t (Young Turks)
- The Sons Of God - live in Boston and NYC
Yann Novak (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
Releases:
- Shinkei + Luigi Turra – YU (Non Visual Objects)
- William Basinski – 92982 (2062)
- Steve Roden – Stars of Ice (New Plastic Music)
- Richard Chartier – Untitled (Angle.1) (Non Visual Objects)
- Tu m’ – Monochromes Vol.1 (LINE)
- i8u + Tomas Phillips – Ligne (ATAK)
- Pierre Gerard – Plateaux [for gilles deleuze] (Koyuki)
- William Basinski / Richard Chartier @ Resonant Forms Festival, Los Angeles CA.
- i8u @ Mutek 10, Montreal QC.
- Mem1 and Sublamp @ Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA.
- Steve Roden @ LACE, Los Angeles CA.
- Scores @ Lawrimore Projects, Seattle WA.
- Dominique Skoltz – Dislock_ @ Mutek 10, Montreal QC.
- Jennifer Steinkamp – Orbit @ Acme, Los Angeles CA.
Gil Sansón
A short list, hardly exhaustive. Ten records that made a lasting impression this past year, in no particular order:
- Lee Patterson - Seven Vignettes (Shadazz)
- Jason Kahn & Takefumi Naoshima - In a Room (Winds Measure Recordings)
- Richard Garet / Brendan Murray - Of Distance (Unframed)
- Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
- David Sylvian – Manafon (Samadhisound)
- Michael Pisaro - An Unrhymed Chord (for 25 acoustic guitars) performed by Barry Chabala (Confront)
- Phill Niblock - Touch Strings (Touch)
- Richard Garet - Four Malleable (and/OAR)
- Radu Malfatti - Wechseljahre Einer Hyäne (etlefeucomme)
- Tetuzi Akiyama & Toshimaru Nakamura - Semi-Impressionism (Spekk) (the first two tracks only!)
Spiritual Archives
- AFG - Plains (Conundrom)
- Andrea Parkins - Faulty (Broken Orbit) (Important)
- Andy Graydon - Geomancy (mAtter)
- Annette Krebs & Rhodri Davies - Kravis Rhonn Project (Another Timbre)
- Anouar Brahem - The Astounding Eyes Of Rita (ECM)
- Autistici - Complex Tone Test (Kesh)
- Burkhard Beins / Axel Dörner / Robin Hayward / Annette Krebs / Andrea Neumann / Michael Renkel / Ignaz Schick - Phosphor II (Potlatch)
- Celer - Breeze Of Roses (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
- Celer - Close Proximity And The Unhindered Care-All (Sentient Recognition Archive)
- Christof Kurzmann & Burkhard Stangl - Neuschnee (Erstwhile)
- Circulasione Totale Orchestra - Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon)
- Domenico Sciajno & Kim Cascone - Hyaline (Bowindo)
- Durán Vázquez - Home, Sweet Home (Crónica)
- EARLabs 3 - Helix (Entr'acte)
- Erstlaub - Broadcasting On Ghosht Frequencies (Moving Furniture Records)
- Franck Vigroux & Matthew Bourne - Call Me Madame (Good News From Wonderland) (D'autres Cordes)
- Haptic - The Medium (FSS)
- i8u + Tomas Phillips - Ligne (Atak)
- Jasper Leyland - Sediments (mOAR)
- Jean-Luc Guionnet - Non-Organic Bias (Herbal)
- Jean-Luc Guionnet / Eric La Casa / Philip Samartzis - Soleil D'artifice (Swarming)
- Jim Haynes - Sever / Severed (Intransitive)
- Joe Morris / Simon H Fell / Alex Ward - The Necessary And The Possible (Victo)
- John Zorn - Femina (Tzadik)
- Juan José Calarco - Dársena Interna (Mystery Sea)
- Kassap / Lavant / Lopez / Médioni / Tchamitchian - Ascension, Tombeau De John Coltrane (RogueArt)
- Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders - Fox Fire (Maya)
- Kinetix - Absolute Grey (Koyuki)
- Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn (12k)
- Lee Patterson - Seven Vignettes (Shadazz)
- Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos - Equus (Grand Véhicule) (Pogus)
- Lionel Marchetti & Yôko Higashi - Pétrole (Entr'acte)
- Lotte Anker / Craig Taborn / Gerald Cleaver - Floating Islands (ILK)
- Lucas Niggli & Peter Conradin Zumthor - Profos (NotTwo)
- Matt Shoemaker - The Sunken Plethora Consumes All (Mystery Sea)
- My Cat Is An Alien - Mort Aux Vaches (Mort Aux Vaches)
- Nokalypse - Wired & Mirrored (echOmusic)
- Oceans Of Silver & Blood - Live At Cafe Oto (Confront)
- Pinton / Kullhammar / Zetterberg / Nordeson - Chant (Clean Feed)
- Polwechsel & John Tilbury - Field (hatOLOGY)
- Porzellan - The Fourth Level Of Comprehension (hibernate)
- Rhodri Davies / Michel Doneda / Louisa Martin / Phil Minton / Lee Patterson - Midhopestones (Another Timbre)
- Richard Garet & Brendan Murray - Of Distance (Unframed)
- Robert Hampson - Vectors (Touch)
- Robert Millis - 120 (Etude)
- Seijiro Murayama & Soundworm - Space And Place (Ftarri)
- Seth Nehil - Flock & Tumble (Sonoris)
- Simon Scott - Navigare (Miasmah)
- Snake Figures Arkestra - Cooks & Devils (Zarek)
- Sophie Agnel - Capsizing Moments (Emanem)
- Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree - Transcriptions (Spekk)
- Tarab - Take All The Ships From The Harbour, And Sail Them Straight Into Hell (23five)
- The Beautiful Schizophonic - Erotikon (Crónica)
- Tom James Scott - School And Rivers (Bo'Weavil)
- Tomasz Bednarczyk - Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow (12k)
- VV.AA. - Treader Duos (Treader)
- Vandermark 5 - Annular Gift (NotTwo)
- Weightless - A Brush With Dignity (Clean Feed)
- Yui Onodera & The Beautiful Schizophonic - Radiance (Basses Frequences)
- Yves De Mey - Lichtung (Line)
