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encouraged by the bestial billy bao's MAY 08, turning over in my head, here we go:

- Billy Bao - May 08
- Radu Malfatti/Klaus Filip - imaoto
- Keith Rowe - Erstlive 007
- robin hayward / rhodri davies / taku unami - valved strings calculator
- akauzazte danok - s/t
- Sugimoto, Taku, and Taku Unami. Tengu et Kitsune II.
- Capece, Lucio, Julia Eckhardt, Christian Kesten, Radu Malfatti, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Taku Sugimoto. Wedding Ceremony.

in a separate paragraph, I really enjoyed our three releases in taumaturgia

- julien skrobek - double entendre
- radu malfatti / taku unami - goat vs donquey
- ryu hankil - becoming typewriter

I certainly agree with 'Valved Strings Calculator' - easily a top 5 release for me this year!

But does the solo Keith Rowe release count? It was released December of last year wasn't it? Made a few people's lists back then too if I remember correctly...? I really like it a lot but hadn't heard it in time for my favourites of last year.

I haven't heard 'Imaoto' yet but it's on my Christmas list so I'll hopefully be able to listen in about 8 days...!

I also liked 'Tengu et Kitsune II' a lot but I'm not sure if it'd make my year end list... 'Goat vs. Donkey' and 'Becoming Typewriter' I only got recently too so couldn't process them in time to say whether they'd be in there - definitely like them but I don't find them easy listens!

Got home to 'Dogs in English Porcelain' last night as well and that may very well sneak in there... one listen on headphones and I was pretty engrossed!

Sorry, this is a bit of a pointless post. List to follow soon.. it's been a great year though!

Imaoto is a phenomenal record.

Daniel Jones wrote:But does the solo Keith Rowe release count? It was released December of last year wasn't it? Made a few people's lists back then too if I remember correctly...? I really like it a lot but hadn't heard it in time for my favourites of last year.

I think there's always leeway for end-of-the-year releases, depending on when you hear them. for instance, the latest batch of Another Timbres haven't arrived here yet, but that shouldn't preclude them from ever being eligible for a year-end list, too late for this year and too early for next.

My favorite things this year:

Israel Quellet - Soni Sclavus
Seth Nehil - Flock & Tumble
Michael Pisaro - Hearing Metal 1
irr. app. (ext.) - Kreiselwelle
Jason Kahn - Vanishing Point
Olivier Capparos & Lionel Marchetti - EQUUS
Pierre Berthet - Extended Loudspeakers
Jason Crumer - Walk With Me
nmperign - Ommatidia
Cory Allen - Hearing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Hears

I'm sure there's dozens of good records I haven't heard, as always.

Actually... the best thing I heard all year was my baby's heartbeat for the first time yesterday! Only thing to reduce me to a blubbering idiot anyway!

jon abbey wrote:I think there's always leeway for end-of-the-year releases, depending on when you hear them.

Totally impure, dude.

You know how much I love Best Of lists , but since people keep asking, these are the ten I sent in to Wire HQ (needless to say this was early November, and a LOT's happened since then.. the Stangl Fagaschinski would probably make the cut too if I did it today)
Again, as I said to Anne at The Wire, these are NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER
Ab Baars / Ig Henneman / Misha Mengelberg SLIPTONG Wig
Borah Bergman / Stefano Pastor LIVE AT TORTONA Mutable
Phil Durrant / Lee Patterson / Paul Vogel BUOY Cathnor
Peter Evans NATURE / CULTURE psi
Group Doueh GUITAR MUSIC FROM THE WESTERN SAHARA Sublime Frequencies
Grutronic ESSEX FOAM PARTY psi
Radu Malfatti / Klaus Filip IMAOTO Erstwhile
Keith Rowe ERSTLIVE 007 Erstwhile (see? it made my list too haha)
Christine Sehnaoui / Michel Waisvisz SHORTWAVE Al Maslakh
V.A. AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE Infrequency

Daniel Jones wrote:Actually... the best thing I heard all year was my baby's heartbeat for the first time yesterday! Only thing to reduce me to a blubbering idiot anyway!

congrats!

non-eai:
Propaghandi - Supporting Caste
Night Control - Death Control (not metal btw)
Drudkh - Microcosmos
+
The Jesus Lizard reissues

eai-ish:
Imaoto
Neuschnee
EL007 (counts)

most listened to in 2009:
One Day

best live show:
Oneida - August 15, Utrecht, NL

popsingles:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7fav7 ... subt_music
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ktc2 ... -new_music

Daniel Jones wrote:Actually... the best thing I heard all year was my baby's heartbeat for the first time yesterday! Only thing to reduce me to a blubbering idiot anyway!

Ohh man...

Your life is going to change forever. In mostly a good way..(At least it's not twins! )


Congratulations!

Daniel Jones wrote: Actually... the best thing I heard all year was my baby's heartbeat for the first time yesterday!

Sweet, best entry on a best-pre-natal-sounds thread. Congratulations, Daniel.

congrats, daniel!

i don't usually love year-end lists, mostly because i feel like there's always tons and tons of things i've never heard (still haven't bought my own copy of imaoto, though i've heard it; buoy is on the way, etc.), but i've near-literally constantly had this one in my cd player (i have a 5-disc changer):

annette krebs and rhodri davis - kravis rhonn project (AT)

just gorgeous. lush sounds, excellent placement, perfect balance of surprise/new syntax and pure musical pleasure.

dan - gonna go read your review of grutonic now. first mention i heard was by damon in another thread last week.

-jesse

oh, and i'll second goat vs. donkey. quite a lot to chew on, a lot of angles to consider it from. very engaging listen.

-j.

I am voting for Lee Patterson's Egg Fry.

Thanks everyone - I'm very happy!

So my list, in no particular order, is as follows...

Phil Durrant/Lee Patterson/Paul Vogel - Buoy
Stasis Duo - 3
Patrick Farmer - Apis mellifera, moved to and fro
Barry Chabala - An Unrhymed Chord (for 25 guitars)
Robin Hayward/Rhodri Davies/Taku Unami - Valved Strings Calculator
Andrea Neumann & Ivan Palacky - Pappeltalks
Jez riley French - Audible Silence
Lee Patterson - Seven Vignettes
Thomas Korber & Utah Kawasaki - Pocket Size Isolationism
and I suppose the Keith Rowe CD counts too then!

Lots of good 3" releases too and I'm sure I've missed something or other...

Will Guthrie~ Spike-s [Picca-disk]

Radu Malfatti/Klaus Filip~ Imaoto [Erstwhile]

Ryu Hankil, Jin Sangtae, Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Park Seungjun, Joe Foster,
Noid, Klaus Fliip, Dieb13, Kai Fagaschinski, Bonnie Jones,Mats Gustafsson,
Taku Sugimoto, Taku Unami, Iida Katsuaki, Toshimaru Nakamura ~ Relay: Archives 2007-2008 [Manual]

Vanessa Rossetto~ Dogs In English Porcelain [Music Appreciation]

Burkhard Stangl/Kai Fagaschinski~ Musik-Ein Portrait In Sehnsucht [Erstwhile]

Phil Durrant/Lee Patterson/Paul Vogel~ Buoy [Cathnor]

Keith Rowe~ Erstlive 007 [Erstwhile]

Asher Thal-Nir~ Miniatures [Sourdine]

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Fantastic releases on 3" this year:

Ryu Hankil/Bryan Eubanks~ 777 [Cathnor]

Daniel Jones//Jez riley French/Ivan Palackey~ Tierce [Engraved Glass]

Mike Shiflet~ Supreme Trading [Dokuro]

no one's mentioned Keith Rowe/Sachiko M - Contact yet, that's the one i've been spinning the most in the second half of this year (the first half being taken up almost entirely by Rowe/Unami - ErstLive006).

i'm pretty sure the rest of my favorites have already been mentioned:

Krebs/Davies - Kravis Rhonn Project
Hayward/Davies/Unami - Valved Strings Calculator
Malfatti/Unami - Goat vs Donkey
Ryu Hankil - Becoming Typewriter
V.A. - Relay: Archives 2007-2008
Yoshida/Nakamura - Soba To Bara (Edit:this one hasn't been mentioned yet, surprisingly)
Nmperign - Ommatidia
Unami/Noid - ㄱ + : * (Edit:i knew i was forgetting something!)

other good ones that i've only had for a short time:
Moniek Darge - Soundies
Graham Lambkin - Softly Softly Copy Copy
Rowe/Nakamura - ErstLive008 (i guess i'm going against the grain a little by saying that ErstLive007 is the one i like the least of the four AMPLIFY sets, though they are all pretty amazing)

i haven't gotten imaoto or Musik - Ein Porträt in Sehnsucht yet, but the excepts i've heard on Godbeni imperializem and elsewhere have been pretty stunning.

also

slept on classics of last year:
Greg Kelley - Self-Hate Index
Christine Sehnaoui/Michel Waisvisz - Shortwave

and

superb and essential compilations/re-issues:
The Shadow Ring - Life Review (1993-2003)
Incapacitants - Box is Stupid

I think Goat Donkey is pretty slight compared to Imaoto, to be honest, and the recording quality does not do the music justice. I can't see what you're all getting so excited about. The only Unami disc this year I've really enjoyed is the Hayward thing on Hibari.

..that Krebs Davies on Another Timbre is nice though