2009 Favorites

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.

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Performances:

• 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.

Exhibitions:

• Scores @ Lawrimore Projects, Seattle WA.
• Dominique Skoltz – Dislock_ @ Mutek 10, Montreal QC.
• Jennifer Steinkamp – Orbit @ Acme, Los Angeles CA.

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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!)

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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)

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