Poll 2008: The Results

Best Artist:

1: Stephan Mathieu
2: Lawrence English
3: Fennesz
4: Janek Schaefer
5: Francisco López
6: Taylor Deupree
7: Kenneth Kirschner
8: Celer
9: Machinefabriek
10: Asher

Best Album:

1: Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schachtel)
2: Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch)
3: Tape - Luminarium (Häpna)
4: Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (Touch)
5: Kenneth Kirschner - Filaments & Voids (12k)
6: Loren Chasse - The Footpath (Naturestrip)
7: Mathieu Ruhlmann & Celer - Mesoscaphe (Spekk)
8: BJ Nilsen & Stillupsteypa - Passing Out (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
9: Janek Schaefer - Extended Play (Line)
10: Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern (Raster-Noton)

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Alan Cook

Best Album:

These are in no particular order...
1: Trio Sowari - Shortcut (Potlatch)
2: Seymour Wright - Seymour Wright of Derby (self-released)
3: Rhodri Davies/David Lacey/Dennis McNulty - Poor Trade (Cathnor)
4: Jeff Gburek - Virtuous Circles (A Question of Re-entry)
5: David Lacey/Paul Vogel - The British Isles (Homefront)
6: Choi Joonyong/Hong Chulki/Sachiko M/Otomo Yoshihide - Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (Balloon & Needle)
7: Annette Krebs/Toshimaru Nakamura - Siyu (Sosedition)
8: Annette Krebs - Berlin Electronics (Absinth)
9: Matt Davis/Matt Milton/Bechir Saade - Dun (Another Timbre)
10: Toshimaru Nakamura/English - One Day (Erstwhile)

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Diane Granahan (Invisible Birds, The Art Of Memory)

Best Artist:

1: Loren Chasse - The Footpath
2: Colin Andrew Sheffield - Signatures
3: Steve Roden - Vester Fields
4: Richard Skelton - Marking Time
5: Werner Durand - Remnants From Paradise
6: °Sone - Passerelle
7: Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody
8: Scott Sherk - Icelandic Air
9: Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto
10: Various - Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days

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Guillaume “Grisli” Belhomme (Le Son Du Grisli)

Best Artist:

1: Paul Bley
2: Ken Vandermark
3: Spring Heel Jack
4: Jean-Luc Guionnet, Toshimaru Nakamura

Best Album:

1: Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, William Parker : Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)
2: John Eckhardt : Xylobiont (Psi)

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James Devane (Website)

Best Album:

1: Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
2: Atlas Sound - Let The Blind...
3: Elian - And Then One Day It Was Over, Just Like That
4: Gas - Nah Und Fern
5: Janek Schaefer - Alone At Last
6: Ran Slavin - Nocturnal Rainbow Rising
7: Willits + Sakamoto - Ocean Fire
8: Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
9: Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

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Marian Gruszczyk (Weblog)

Best Artist:

1: Taylor Deupree
2: Richard Chartier
3: Fennesz
4:...Who Called So Loud
5: Lvmen
6: Lakmé
7: Kenneth Kirschner
8: Mark Fell
9: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
10: Death In June

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Matthew Swiezynski (The Art Of Memory)

Best Artist:

1: Yannick Dauby
2: Loren Chasse
3: Steve Roden
4: Colin Andrew Sheffield
5: Stephan Mathieu
6: Fennesz
7: Dale Lloyd
8: Tape
9: Richard Skelton
10: William Basinski

Best Album:

1: °Sone - Passerelle - and/Oar
2: Fennesz - Black Sea - Touch
3: Loren Chasse - The Footpath - Naturestrip
4: Colin Andrew Sheffield - Signatures - Invisible Birds
5: Stephan Mathieu - Radioland - Die Schachtel
6: Mathieu Ruhlmann & Celer - Mesoscaphe - Spekk
7: Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto - Touch
8: V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble - Do Nothing \'Til You Hear From M
9: Tape - Luminarium - Häpna
10: Level - Opale - Spekk

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Ten artists preferred by Spiritual Archives in 2008:

• Alfredo Costa Monteiro
  
• Arsenije Jovanović
• Celer
  
• Christine Sehnaoui
• Christopher McFall
• Joëlle Léandre
• John Butcher
• Martin Küchen
• Phil Minton
• Rhodri Davies

Albums suggested by Spiritual Archives:

• AMM - Trinity (Matchless)
• Anders Dahl - Doorbells (Bombax Bombax)
• Andy Graydon - Chora For (Leerraum [])
• Angles - Every Woman Is A Tree (Clean Feed)
• Arsenije Jovanović - Galiola - Works For Radio, 1967 - 2000 (FO A RM Projects, and/OAR, Alluvial)
• Bérangère Maximin - Tant Que Les Heures Passent (Tzadik)
• Brandon LaBelle & James Webb - Radio Flirt (Room40)
• Burkhard Beins / Lucio Capece / Rhodri Davies / Toshimaru Nakamura - SLW (Formed)
• Brendan Murray - Commonwealth (23five)
• Choi Joonyong / Hong Chulki / Sachiko M / Otomo Yoshihide - Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (Balloon & Needle)
• Christopher McFall - The City Of Almost (Sourdine)
• Darren Johnston - The Edge Of The Forest (Clean Feed)
• Eric La Casa & Cédric Peyronnet - La Creuse (Herbal International)
• Erik Carlsson / David Lacey / Paul Vogel / Martin Küchen - Chipshop Music (Homefront)
• Francisco López - Technocalyps (Alien 8)
• Gilles Aubry - Berlin Backyards (Crónica)
• Gilles Aubry / Andrea Ermke / Annette Krebs / Ignaz Schick - Berlin Electronics (Absinth)
• Janek Schaefer - Extended Play (Line)
• Joëlle Léandre & Akosh S. - Kor (Leo)
• John Butcher - Resonant Spaces (Confront)
• John Eckhardt - Xylobiont (Psi)
• John Zorn - The Last Supper: Filmworks XXII (Tzadik)
• Jos Smolders - Gaussian Transient (Megaphone) (Non Visual Objects)
• Jozef Van Wissem - A Priori (Incunabulum)
• Lawrence English / Jeph Jerman - Gradually You Feel The Tide At Your Neck / 9 (Compost And Height)
• Lawrence English & Tom Hall - Euphonia (Presto!?)
• Lotte Anker / Sylvie Courvoisier / Ikue Mori - Alien Huddle (Intakt)
• Lucio Capece & Sergio Merce - Casa (Organized Music From Thessaloniki)
• Luigi Turra - Texture.Vitra (Koyuki)
• Mathias Eick - The Door (ECM)
• Olivia Block / Sandra Gibson / Luis Recoder - Block Gibson Recorder (SoSEditions)
• Olivier Capparos & Lionel Marchetti - Livre Des Morts (Entr'acte)
• Otomo Yoshihide - Core Anode (Meenna)
• Phil Minton - No Doughnuts In Hand (Emanem)
• Point 4 - Panopticon (SOFA)
• Return Of The New Thing - Alchemy (Not Two)
• Rhodri Davies / David Lacey / Dennis McNulty - Poor Trade (Cathnor)
• Robert Van Heumen - Fury (Creative Sources)
• Seth Nehil & Matt Marble - Ecllipses (and/OAR)
• Steinbrüchel - Sustain (Koyuki)
• Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schachtel)
• Stereo Lisa - Anno Onno Monno (Jazzwerkstatt)
• TOOT - Two (Another Timbre)
• Trio Sowari - Shortcut (Potlatch)
• Tu M' - Is That You? (Crónica)

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