Ok..'08. What was the best..

[Dohol]

Well...No one else has started this show off..

What's your list?

[jon abbey]

what's the rush? still three weeks plus to go...

[Yii]

i think it has been already mentioned on his post.

[William Hutson]

i'm not finishing any such list until i've heard the two new erstlive discs.

[will]

ahhh my holiday season just wouldn't be complete without the traditional "Hey let's start a best of thread" "What the hell there's 2/3/4 weeks left in the year" thread.
I bet that if everyone starts arguing now, and then someone posts whatever increasingly bonkers stuff the Wire gives the nod to, we'll all have something to keep us busy until at least early January.

The 5 Modules records that came out this year were awesome. so was Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves. So was the Lachenmann String Quartets disc on Kairos. I liked the shit that Chris and I put out on Formed. Jon Eckhardt's "Xlyobiont" was rad, at least the samples I heard on various websites, I should pick it up. Everything Toshimaru Nakamura was involved with, unless I'm forgetting something crappy. Both CRAX and the Rowe / Fuhler were great.

I was less into the Chamber Music 3cd set on Hibari etc., Jonathan Harvey's Body Mandala, and Sciarrino's Storie di altre storie.

I'm looking forward to the Erst stuff that's coming out now / soon, the wedding ceremony disc out on Cathnor, the Sciarrino orchestral works and Klangforum Wien multidisc things from Kairos, that's it?

As usual, I have no idea what year things were released or when I bought them, apologies if I posted this exact list last year or something.

[vegetable mind]

ill get back to you in a year

[Jesse]

Asher Thal-Nir Graceful Degradations

Jason Lescalleet/Graham Lambkin The Breadwinner

Cor Fuhler Slee

Christian Weber Walcheturm Solo

Toshimaru Nakamura/Annette Krebs Siyu

Vanessa Rossetto Whoreson In The Wilderness

Will Guthrie Unreleased 7" (fucking great, very suprising project)



Being unemployed from May '08 to the present, I didn't purchase many 2008 releases. I spent more time with stuff released between '98-'05, largely in the field recording area.
Not certain of the B-Boim release dates for 3 Backgrounds and Rain Speak..., I love those two Malfatti offerings. Same with the timing of Joda Clement's Motion & Rest (I think I am a latecomer to this one), very nice work.

edit: Same release date confusion for Angharad Davies/Tisha Mukarji's Endspace, a really strong date, highly recommended.

[franz bieberkopf]

Hoodstar was probably the best song on the Three 6 Mafia album.

i didn't really listen to music much tho.

[Yii]

Arek Gulbenkoglu / Adam Sussman - untitled disc


Christian Weber - Walchturm Solo


Choi Joonyong / Hong Chulki / Sachiko M / Otomo Yoshihide - Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves


Takahiro Hirama - thr eat rhy thm


Oda Kanichiro, Takefumi Naoshima, Mitsuteru Takeuchi, and Takahiro Hirama - 1 (2cd)


Stephane Rives -Much remains to be heard


Radu Malfatti - Kid Ailack 5


David Lacey / Paul Vogel - The British Isles


Seymour Wright - Seymour Wright of Derby


Jean-Luc Guionnet / Seijiro Murayama - Le Bruit Du Toit


Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston


Mitsuhiro Yoshimura / Masahiko Okura- Trio


Minoru Sato / Ami Yoshida - Composition for Voice Performer (1997 and 2007)

[jcg]

Discs I heard and liked in 2008:

Zbigniew Karkowski & Tetsuo Furudate - World As Will III (Sub Rosa)
Lionel Marchetti & Seijiro Murayama - Hatali Atsalei, L’Echange des Yeux (Intransitive)
John Eckhardt - Xylobiont (Psi)
Brendan Murray - Commonwealth (23Five)
Pauline Oliveros - Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 (Sub Rosa)
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh - New York/Atlanta (Helicopter)
Jean-Luc Guionnet & Toshimaru Nakamura - Map (Potlatch)
Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes (Tzadik)
@c & Vitor Joaquim - De-Tour (Feld)
RLW – TITO - Mahlzeit (Hinterzimmer)
Maryanne Amacher – Sound Characters Vol.2 (Tzadik)
Howard Stelzer – Bond Inlets (Intransitive)

+ 3 important reissues:

Bernard Parmegiani - L’œuvre Musicale (12xCD, INA/GRM)
16-17 - Gyatso (Savage Land)
Evan Parker - Conic Sections (Psi)

Discs I haven’t heard in 2008, which is too bad:

Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm – The Brain Of The Dog In Section (Atavistic)
John Butcher - Resonant Spaces (Confront)
Choi Joonyong / Hong Chulki / Sachiko M / Otomo Yoshihide - Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (Balloon & Needle)
Keiji Haino - Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto (PSF)
Greg Kelley – Self-Hate Index (Semata)
Toshimaru Nakamura & English – One Day (Erstwhile)
Otomo Yoshihide - Core Anode (Meena)
Stéphane Rives - Much Remains To Be Heard (Al Maslakh)

[skrobek]

pfiou... in no particular order =

Masayoshi Urabe - flag of midsummer (psf)
anthony braxton - trio at victoriaville (victo)
alan courtis - Unstringed guitar & cymbals (blossoming noise)
Michel Henritzi - Nothing (Dyin' Ghost)
Éric Cordier - Osorezan (Herbal)
Noel Akchote - so lucky (winter & winter)
Radu Malfatti -Düsseldorf vielfaches (b-boim)
Jürg Frey - L'âme est sans retenue III (b-boim)
Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Everydays (Family Vineyard)
Lucio Capece / Sergio Merce - Casa (Organized Music From Thessaloniki)
Miguel Prado - Dios aborrece una singularidad desnuda (Free Software Series)
Marc Namblard – Chants Of Frozen Lakes (Kalerne)
Hijokaidan - Polar Nights Live (Pica)
Gen 26 - Ni Me Tu (Desetxea)
Toshimaru Nakamura & Annette Krebs - siyu (sos editions)
Merzbow - Live destruction (no fun)
Jez Riley French - pocklington canal (engraved glass)
Junko-Aya Onishi-Rinji Fukuoka-Michel Henritzi- Live at Penguin House (Anna)

entre autres...

reissues :

A handful of dust - now gods, stand up for the bastards (no fun)
Masayuki Takayanagi -everything by Jinya Discs...

[visa tapani]

Actually, I think now would be a good time to do a best of 2007 -thread...

[Stephen]

Actually, I think now would be a good time to do a best of 2007 -thread...

go on then.

[jon abbey]

you can add onto this one:

http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic. ... &sk=t&sd=a

[Miguel Prado]

Jean-Luc Guionnet & Toshimaru Nakamura - Map (Potlatch)
Toshimaru Nakamura & Annette Krebs - siyu (sos editions)
Masahiko Okura / Taku Sugimoto / Taku Unami - Chamber Music Concerts vol.1 (hibarislubloadfactor)
Josetxo Grieta "Sonrisas vendo, Donde nos llevan" (Taumaturgia) --(sorry for the auto advertising)
Julien Skrobek - La Salle Des Ordinateurs (Desetxea)
Radu Malfatti - Kid Ailack 5 (b-boim)
Junko & Mattin (Tochnit Aleph)
Loren Connors - The Moon Last Night (family Vineyard)

(Re-issue)
Braimbombs - Obey (Armageddon)

[mono tony]

department of eagles in ear park

[franz bieberkopf]

the breadwinner has yet to be mentioned.

while i mostly sat this one out on the experimental tip, i have a hard time envisioning much else holding my attention like that did (and will continue to).

Lambkin's recent works remain a breath of (stale) fresh air, and an ongoing source of inspiration for myself.

so i am mentioning it.

the plus side for those out there who find the whole list before the end of the year thing to be premature: it's always useful to have other people sticking their necks out from whose lists one can cherrypick.

edit: erryes, errsorry, Jesse.

[jon abbey]

Jesse mentioned The Breadwinner up top.

there are some awful records on this thread so far.

[meadowphantasm]

in no order:

religious knives "resin" & "in brooklyn after dark"
rusted shut "hot sex"
oneohtrix point never "a pact between strangers"
hospitals "hairdryer peace"
jason crumer "ottoman black"
skaters - "Physicalities Of The Sensibilities Of Ingrediential Strairways"
martial canterel "cruelty reigns through the ages"
steve hauschildt "rapt for liquid minister"
sic alps "u.s. e.z."
kemialliset ystavat "harmaa lagunni"
woods family creeps
eat skull "sick to death"
mark mcguire "guitar meditations"
emeralds "live"
sam goldberg cassettes
kevin drumm "imperial distortion"
eric copeland "alien in a garbage dump"
endless boogie "focus level"
naturnal snow buildings - lots of tapes and cdrs
grouper "dragging a dead deer up a hill"
cluster "live in detroit" bootleg 2xcs
psychedelic horseshit "magic flowers dubbed"
marble sky "low god" + "Lady"
northampton wools "s/t" 2xcs
urfaust "Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos"
slomo "the bog"
klangmutationen "Schwarshagel"
dead reptile shrine "burning black infinity"

reissues
frank lowe "black beings" complete
tommy jay "tall tales of trauma"
byard lancaster "at macalister college"
mike osborne "all night long"
tunnel canary "jihad" 2xlp
suicide "live" 6xcd box
charalambides "branches"
menstruation sisters "MA" lp
yoshi wada reissues
harvey milk "my love is higher" finally on vinyl!

[skrobek]

there are some awful records on this thread so far.

and there are pretty useless statements like this one.

We are not all looking for the same things in music, so that's the point of saying what we like best.

The point is to tell us what you liked best, it's even fine to point out specific disagreements so we can discuss. Or even shut up, why not ?

I would add Loren Chasse - The footpath (naturestrip) to my list. I hope it's not an "awful record"...