Best Albums of 2007

[user_5216]

Also just remembered Propagations by Denzler/Baron/Guionnet & Rives on Potlatch - another overlooked disc of high quality.

I agree with Fear & Panic that Pollen (Wassermann/Barrett) was good too, but can't agree with your dismissal of Hum (Davies/Davis/Rebello/Saade) on another timbre, which would be one of my top five of the year. The Muta disc on Sofa was also exxcellent, but I think someone else has mentioned that somewhere above. I personally like Rhodri Davies best when he's playing with a bit of edge; much preferable to the dreamy sweetness of his solo on Confront that someone sle chose imho.

[tadk]

(no order)

Les Klebs "Les Klebs"
MIMEO "Sight"
Otomo Yoshihide "Prisoner"
Panda Bear "Person Pitch"
Pulga "Pulga Loves You"
Bhob Rainey, Ralf Wehowsky "I Don't Think I Can See You Tonight"
C-Schulz, F.M.Randomiz "Das Ohr am Gleis"
Supersilent "8"
David Toop "Sound Body"
Mitsuhiro Yoshimura "And So On"

[user_1338]

FWIW here is mine. Much more 'jazzy'

In no order

Keith - The Room (Erstwhile)
MIMEO - sight (Cathnor)
Mitsuhiro Yoshimura projects - and so on and with Taku Sugimoto - not BGM and so on ( (h)ear rings)
Marc Baron / Bertrand Denzler / Jean-Luc Guionnet / St?phane Rives ? Propagations (Potlatch)
Toshimaru Nakamura & Lucio Capece ? IJ [Formed]
Axel D?rner & Toshimaru Nakamura ? Vorhernach [Ftarri]
R/S ? One (Erstwhile)
John Butcher - The Geometry of Sentiment (Emanem)
fORCH - spin networks (Psi)
VA - Free Zone Appleby 2006 (Psi)
The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12)
Vandermark, Lane, Broo, Nilssen-Love - 4 Corners (Clean Feed)
Alexander von Schlippenbach - Twelve-Tone Tales (volumes I and II), Intakt (Last year?)


Re-issues
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Quintessence (1973-4) (Emanem)
Evan Parker - Hook, Drift & Shuffle (Psi)
Andrew Hill ? compulsion (Blue Note)
Andrew Hill - Change (Blue Note)
Sun Ra ? Strange Strings
Charles Mingus - Cornell 1964, (Blue Note)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Frameworks (Emanem)
Noah Howard - The Black Ark (Bo' Weavil)

New to me
Jimmy Giuffre 3 ? Free Fall (Columbia)

[Richard Pinnell]

FWIW here is mine. Much more 'jazzy' )

Nice to see a fellow Thames Valleyer with good taste here! Welcome

[tadk]

Something else I think was overlooked, at least here, was Pollen by Ute Wassermann and Richard Barrett--in some ways it harks back to the voice and electronics pieces made in the Milan electronic studios by Berio and Maderna in the 50s and early 60s, but it has a more playful, dizzying and microscopic quality. There's something about the interpenetration of the human voice and electronics that can strike a particular nerve, as it does here.

I entirely agree with you. This disc deserves to be well-known (at least here).

[Richard Pinnell]

I agree about the Nono (that Edition RZ CD was released this year as well, wasn't it?)..

No it was 2006 FWIW. I excluded the Prometeo recording as I chose not to include new recordings of older music, but its a wonderful new version.

[_duif]

gunter christmann et al - vario 44 (edition explico)

Where'd you folks get your copy of this one? (I sent G?nter an e-mail -- twice -- but never received a response.

same here, so I just gave up on it.

[jon abbey]

gunter christmann et al - vario 44 (edition explico)
I wasn't sure about this one at first, especially the group pieces, but there's a few excellent trios and duos. The et al here, incidentally, is John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, Dorothea Sch?rch, John Russell and Roger Turner. For some stupid reason they only released a "limited edition" of 200 or 250 copies, so it was understandably overlooked in that sense--I don't think it was reviewed or announced anywhere that prominently either.

yeah, I e-mailed him to ask about distributing this and the rest of edition explico, but never got an answer.

[AlbionMoonlight]

2007 was a great year in listening. I can't handle the finality of a numbered hierarchy, so I've compiled this list by trawling through the "Recently Added" playlist in iTunes going back exactly 12 months today. The grouping of albums below aren't all necessarily from 2007, but those that I heard in 2007. I've excluded classical recordings, but there would be a large chunk of Herreweghe Bach Cantata recordings in there if I had not.

Kommando Raumsciff Zitrone - First Time I Ever Saw Your Face

Lionel Marchetti - Red Dust

Taku Sugimoto - Live in Kansai

Choubi Choubi! - Folk and Pop Sounds From Iraq

The Trees Community - The Christ Tree

Katsura Yamauchi and Michel Doneda - La Drache

The Field - Form Here We Go Sublime

Tetuzi Akiyama / Jason Kahn - Til We Meet Again

Gui Boratto - Chromophobia

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline

Toru Takemitsu - Corona-Tokyo Realization (O'Rourke)

Kai Fagashinski & Bernhard Gal - Going Round in Serpentines

Luc Ferrari - Les Anecdotiques / Brise Glace / Far West News Episode 1

Woods - At Rear House

Greg Davis / Jeph Jerman - Ku

Group Doueh - Guitar Music from the Western Sahara

Studio - West Coast

Cambodian Cassette Archives - Khner Folk and Pop Music Vol. 1

Field Recordings From Mali - Bush Taxi Mali

5 Modules Series

Jean-Luc Guionnet - Tirets

Derek Bailey - Standards

Apt. J(ext)ie Irrchie - Night Wearing Feathers

Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Slide-Guitar

Eccentric Soul - The Capsoul Label (Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum and Durr!)

Music of Nat Pwe - Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar

Music of Indonesia 20 - Indonesian Guitars

Otomo Yoshihide - Prisoner Soundtrack

Shugo Tokumaru - Exit

MIMEO - Sight

White Magic - Dark Stars EP

Keith Rowe - The Room

Burial - Untrue

Asher - In Camera

Will Guthrie - Spear/Body and Limbs Still Look to the Light

Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68

eRikm/dieb13 - Chaos Club

eRikm - Sixperiodes

[Alastair]

Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Cool, good to see that people are still digging this.

[fearandpanic]

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Twelve-Tone Tales (volumes I and II), Intakt (Last year?)

Amazing music, in any case, whenever it was released (I forget). Really an incredible achievement to master a kind of spontaneous twelve-tone style that manages to revive some sparks from early freely atonal music. Definitely spent a good amount of time with that one when it came out (and since.)

fORCH - spin networks (Psi)

I was looking forward to this (Richard Barrett, Paul Obermayer, John Butcher, Rhodri Davies, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Wolfgang Mitterer, Ute Wassermann), since I like Furt; but ultimately I could never enjoy it much. Possibly it's just that it's so long and dense (concentrated), but after a great opening blast I think it runs out of steam pretty quickly, and Mitterer's piano playing just isn't that exciting (it's unfortunately a prominent feature.) The octet really does just seem like too much. There's a good, short duo of Davies's and Wassermann's (I think) harp tones and dripping voice-sounds. Maybe I'll have to come back to it later.

[user_5095]

Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Cool, good to see that people are still digging this.

wicked.

[Chaney]

Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Cool, good to see that people are still digging this.

wicked.

Possibly my most listened-to disk in 2007.

[Lucy Lamingtons]

order isn't important, especially with my still incompatible preferences for both eai, cheesy singer-songwriter stuff and a smattering of metal

1. Kan Mikami ? Barking practice /// White lines [PSF]

im still unsure of my favourite albums of 2007 mostly because i hardly listened to anything, but so far i think this is probably my favourite too. great record!

[aldo]

No particular order, new and reissue

Anthony Pateras - Chasms
Courtis ? Las sales fundentes
Michael Prime - Borneo
RST - Axes
Pumice ? Peebles
Daphne Oram - Oramics
David Tudor ? Music for piano
Tarab ? Wind keeps even dust away
V/a ? Artefact of Australian Experimental music (1930-1973)
A.M. - Orla
Michel Henritzi - Keith Rowe serves imperialism
Harley Gaber ? The winds rise in the North
Kuniharu Akiyama ? Obscure tape music from Japan vol. 6
Takayanagi Masayuki new direction for the art ? Complete La Grima
Eliane Radigue ? Jetsun mila
Bernard Parmegiani ? Chants magn?tiques
The Terminals - Last days of the sun
Henri Chopin ? La plaine des respirs
KTL ? KTL2
Christine Groult ? La condition captive

to add some that I just listened recently and that are good
Jean Luc Guionnet / Seijiro Murayama - Le bruit du toit
Richard Francis - Together alone, together apart
Eric Cordier - Osorezan
eRikm/dieb13 - Chaos Club

[user_1224]

There are at least a dozen 2007 releases that I have only just recently received or ordered but that I suspect I'll like as much as these. I've combined both new and reissues...

Maurizio Bianchi - Symphony for a Genocide
Pedro Carneiro - Improbable Transgressions
Henri Chopin - La Plaine des Respirs
Josef Christof and Steffen Schleiermacher - Charles Ives and Ivan Wyschnegradsky: Quarter-Tone Pieces
fORCH - Spin Networks
Ryu Hankil, Jin Sangtae, Taku Unami and Mattin - 5 Modules III
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run
Annea Lockwood - Early Works 1967-1982
Radu Malfatti - Rain speak soft tree listens
The Magic Carpathians & Lechistan's Electric Chair - Mirrors
Lasse Marhaug - Tapes 1990-1999
Phil Minton and Veryan Weston - Ways: A Songbook
Brendan Murray and Seth Nehill - Sillage
Nono - Prometeo, Tragedia dell'ascolto
Phono_phono - s/t
Michael Prime - Borneo
Pumice - Pebbles
RLW - The Pleasure of Burning Down Churches
Keith Rowe - The Room
R/S - One (Snow Mud Rain)
Willem Tanke - Meditations for Lent
Tartar Lamb - Sixty Metonymies
Elaine Radique - Jetsun Mila
Petri Rainer - Trubaduurimusiikkia
Taku Sugimoto and Moe Kamura - Saritote
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
David Tudor- Music For Piano
Ute Wassermann and Richard Barrett - Pollen
Various Artists - Tokyo Flashback 6
Vodka Soap - Oceansion Island
Wold - Screech Owl
Mitsuhiru Yoshimura - And So On

[user_1338]

FWIW here is mine. Much more 'jazzy' )

Nice to see a fellow Thames Valleyer with good taste here! Welcome

thanks very much. Very happy to be here

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fORCH - spin networks (Psi)

I was looking forward to this (Richard Barrett, Paul Obermayer, John Butcher, Rhodri Davies, Paul Lovens, Phil Minton, Wolfgang Mitterer, Ute Wassermann), since I like Furt; but ultimately I could never enjoy it much. Possibly it's just that it's so long and dense (concentrated), but after a great opening blast I think it runs out of steam pretty quickly, and Mitterer's piano playing just isn't that exciting (it's unfortunately a prominent feature.) The octet really does just seem like too much. There's a good, short duo of Davies's and Wassermann's (I think) harp tones and dripping voice-sounds. Maybe I'll have to come back to it later.

I agree it is long. I've found that breaking it down into its "bite size chunks" and approaching each of those separately has helped me. But then thats often the only way I can make some kind of sense of bigger pieces (unless I approach them as textural pieces - if that makes sense)

[user_1434]

everyone seems to have the same malfatti disk on there list if they have one from his series on it. I remember liking it on audition but could barely here it because of noise around me. Where could a man pick up a copy of it. Am i right in assuming erstdist is sold out of them? is there a direct contact to radu?>
j

[Jesse]

Other lists:

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[Richard Pinnell]

everyone seems to have the same malfatti disk on there list if they have one from his series on it. I remember liking it on audition but could barely here it because of noise around me. Where could a man pick up a copy of it. Am i right in assuming erstdist is sold out of them? is there a direct contact to radu?>
j

http://www.wandelweiser.de/b-boim.html

There are two new b-Boim releases due this week also.