best of 2005.

[p_ano]

01) Keith Rowe + Sachiko M + Toshimaru Nakamura + Otomo Yoshihide - ErstLive 005 (3xCD) [Erstwhile]
02) Ryan Gregory + Christine Jeanine - 1123 Morley Ave. (CD-R) [Autumn Records]
03) Sean Meehan - Sectors (for Constant) (2xCD) [SoSeditions]
04) Thuja - Pine Cone Temples (2xCD) [Strange Attractors]
05) Rameses III - Parsimònia (CD-R) [Foxglove]
06) Alog - Miniatures [Rune Grammofon]
07) Günter Müller + Steinbrüchel - Perspectives

• 08) Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees [Temporary Residence]
  09) Jason Kahn - Timelines [Cut]
  10) Jonathan Coleclough + Lethe - Long Heat (2xCD) [ICR]
  11) Mike Shiflet - Elaborate Palms (Cassette) (2xCassette) [Heavy Tapes]
  12) Philip Samartzis + Günter Müller + Voice Crack - Wireless Within [For4Ears]
  13) Scenic Railroads - Our Art, Your Nap (CD-R) [Gameboy]
  14) Will Guthrie - Spear (CD-R) [Antboy]
  15) Compilation - The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box (6xCD) [Last Visible Dog]
  
  ... but to be truthful, nothing has given me as much pleasure in 2005 as the music that my friends and i have made.

[MRS]

'05:

Kapotte Muziek -- Praag/Rotterdam (PacRec)

Ståhls Blå -- Schlachtplatte (Moserobie)

Jason Kahn -- Timelines (Cut)

Gérard Grisey -- Les Espaces Acoustiques (Kairos)

Kevin Drumm -- Horror of Birth (Chondritic)

Julien Ottavi/Dion Workman -- misenlian (Erstwhile)

Sicbay -- Suspicious Icons (54 '40 or Fight!)

Taku Sugimoto -- Music for Cymbal (Cut)

Peter Cusack -- Baikal Ice (Spring 2003) (Recommended)

Joe Colley/Jason Lecalleet -- 2 (cdr)

Tham Kar Mun/Yandsen/Yeoh Yin Pin -- Shang (Xing Wu)

4g -- Cloud (Erstwhile)

Philip Samartzis/Günter Müller/Voice Crack -- wireless_within (for4ears)

Los Glissandinos –- Stand Clear (Creative Sources)

Coil –- And the Ambulance Died in His Arms (Threshold House)

v/a -- Untitled Songs: 49 Years from Gesang der Jünglinge (2005-1956) (Sirr)

The Sealed Knot –- Unwanted Object (Confront)

Kevin Drumm/2673 -- s/t (Kitty Play)

Ryan Gregory/Christine Jeanine -- 1123 Morley Ave. (Autumn)

Toshiya Tsunoda – Ridge of Undulation (Häpna)


Reissues:

Douglas Lilburn -- Complete Electro-Acoustic Works (Atoll)

Bobby Hutcherson -- Oblique (Blue Note)

Iannis Xenakis –- La Legende D’Eer (Mode)

Paul Rutherford -- Neuph (Emanem)

Peter Brötzmann/Han Bennink -- Schwarzwaldfahrt (FMP)

Buddy DeFranco and His Orchestra -- 1949-'52 Studio Performances (Hep)


Live:

Gerry Hemingway/Thomas Lehn -- Christmann Studios (STL)

Pengo -- Spooky Action Palace (STL)

Denman Maroney/Leroy Jenkins -- Graham Chapel (STL)

Stephan Mathieu -- Lampo (CHI)

Roxanne Jean Polise -- Spooky Action Palace (STL)

Jesse Kudler -- Lemp Arts (STL)

John Butcher/Gino Robair -- The Focal Point (STL)

ErstQuake 2 -- Unconscious (NYC)

Jon Mueller/Carol Genetti/Jack Wright -- Lemp Arts (STL)

Sinbad -- Ameristar Casino (STL)

Hamiet Bluiett/Billy Bang/Kahil El'Zabar -- Mad Art (STL)

Davenport -- Spooky Action Palace (STL)

Mike Shiflet -- Lemp Arts (STL)

Jerry Butler -- The Ambassador (STL)

[user_961]

excited to see i'm in someone's live list! what's your name dude? i met quite a few rad people at that show, not sure if i chatted with you or not??

[MRS]

Unfortunately I don't believe so. I'm Michael. Really strong gig though, thanks for coming through town. That Rhizomatic dude does a good thing. The scene here as far as noise-ish stuff is super young (which is a healthy thing--Shiflet can expand on this maybe) and I'm perenially the older (28) sheepish mook in the back of the room. Next time you come through I'd love to have a Pabst though.

[user_599]

Okay - Low Road/High Road

woah... totally forgot about this. if ever a pop record deserved more attention this might be the one. ever hear howard hello?

Yeah, Howard Hello is pretty damn good too. Marty Anderson can do no wrong. Have you heard his Jacques Kopstein album? Not as good as Okay, but still pretty good for a pop record. Also, I managed to download off of Soulseek 2 years ago some demo tracks that he recorded. I have no idea how I found it, and I've never seen it again. You can tell with the demo tracks his shift from the Kopstein to the Okay material.

[user_175]

finally got around to updating my database with everything ive bought since last November. figured i would throw out a best of 05 list just for shits and giggles. top 5 are in particular order, beyond that its just the rest of the stuff that i really really liked this past year in no particular order.

Top 5
1) Coil - Ape Of Naples, The
2) Enslaved - Isa
3) Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
4) Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV vol. 1 From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
5) Coffins - Mortuary In Darkness

6-25, no particular order
Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
Lurker Of Chalice - S/T
Decemberists, The - Picaresque
Low - Great Destroyer, The
Ward, M. - Transistor Radio
Reeks And The Wrecks - Knife Hits
Aborted - Archaic Abbatoir, The
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Between The Buried And Me - Alaska
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Fruit Bats - Spelled In Bones
Origin - Echoes Of Decimation
Om - Variations On A Theme
Thighpaulsandra - Double Vulgar II
Kill The Client - Escalation Of Hostility
Mountain Goats, The - Sunset Tree, The
Watchmaker - Erased From The Memory Of Man
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

[user_1067]

My first post, but here goes (in no particular order):

Congotronics 1 and 2
Boris - Dronevil
Slomo - The Creep
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
The Grey Daturas - Dead in the Woods
The Elemental Chrysalis - The Calocybe Collection
Ion Dissonance - Solace
James Blackshaw - Sunrise
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Growing - His Return
Lady Sovereign - Vertically Challenged

off the top of my head these are the records I listened to the most. actually Boris' Flood is without a doubt the album I've listened to the most this year, but alas, it's been out for a while.

[user_714]

Finally got round to making myself a list.

01. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses In The Sky
02. Detwiije - Would You Rather Be Followed By Forty Ducks For The Rest Of Your Life
03. Hrsta - Stem Stem In Electro
04. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Flags Of The Sacred Harp
05. Low - The Great Destroyer
06. Marissa Nadler - The Saga Of Mayflower May
07. The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
08. Fursaxa - Lepidoptera
09. Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Nostalgia/Pain (EP)
10. Hangedup - Clatter For Control
11. Mogwai - Government Commissions
12. Bardo Pond - Selections: Volumes I-IV
13. Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires
14. Boduf Songs - Boduf Songs
15. Brian McBride - When The Detail Lost Its Freedom

Close, but no cigar:

Acid King - III
Arab Strap - The Last Romance
Explosions In The Sky - The Rescue (EP)
Josephine Foster - Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
King Creosote - KC Rules OK
Matt Elliott - Drinking Songs
Part Chimp - I Am Come
Paul Metzger - Three Improvisations On Modified Banjo
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Bekon The Thaw
Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Richard Youngs And Alex Neilson - Partick Rain Dance
The Drift - Noumena

(This is my first post btw.)

[jkudler]

'05:

Live:



Jesse Kudler -- Lemp Arts (STL)

shit, just noticed this! thanks a lot, michael! definitely flattered to be in such company. hopefully, i will make it back to STL sometime soon. no plans in the works right now, but maybe in the summer. also, sarich was talking about trying to hook me up with that music circle thing, but who knows.

shit, i just looked, and they've got a rad season lined up there. we only get jazz jazz jazz for our equivalent of this kind of thing. .

-j.

[user_928]

2 double aught 5:

Lightning Bolt-Hypermagic Mountain
Wooden Wand-Harem of the Sundrum & The Witness Figg
Deerhoof-The Runner's Four
Quasimoto-The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Charalambides-Our Bed is Green (Kranky 2x cd)
Ed Askew-Ask the Unicorn (ESP-disk)
Sunburned Hand of the Man-Anatomy Vol. 1
Smegma-Rumblings (Hanson)
Drag City!- August Born, Six Organs, Gary Higgins, Smog, Silver Jews, etc.
Afrirampo-Kore Ga Mayaku Da
Fursaxa-Lepidoptera
Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
NNCK-Qvaris, The Collective Imaginings, etc.
Hair Police-Drawn Dead, Constantly Terrified
WWVV-Buck Dharma
Jackie-O Motherfucker-Live Radio (u-sound vol. 20)
John Fahey-The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
Mouthus-Slow Globes
Jack Rose-Kensington Blues

Missed out on lots and lots, despite the long list. Stuck with stuff I knew I was gonna dig, due to budgetary constraints. No real duds.

Just fixed the turntable, so I'll finally be able to catch up with some vinyl-only releases I missed out on (Uncle Jim, Dredd Foole, Sunburned, Double Leopards, etc.)

[MRS]

'05:

Live:



Jesse Kudler -- Lemp Arts (STL)

shit, just noticed this! thanks a lot, michael! definitely flattered to be in such company. hopefully, i will make it back to STL sometime soon. no plans in the works right now, but maybe in the summer. also, sarich was talking about trying to hook me up with that music circle thing, but who knows.

shit, i just looked, and they've got a rad season lined up there. we only get jazz jazz jazz for our equivalent of this kind of thing. .

-j.

Yeah--your show before Shiflet was amazing. You definitely should hook up with New Music Circle. Christman Studio is the place to play in town, you'd dig it.

[p_ano]

and a few that were so fucking good i had to bump this thread :



english

i've been sleeping on joe's work for sometime and, good lord jesus up above in the heavens, was it worth the wait! it's 7:30 am and i'm obliterated and this shit is blasting in my headphones and rewiring my fucking skull. fucking mad props.

[halfway through the last track just scared the shit out of me! hahahahahahhaha]



4g - cloud

of course i knew this was going to be stellar. so stellar that hipster chick and i were saving it for an upcoming lsd trip. however, when hipster chick's computer broke while we were on ecstacy a few nights ago, the only disc in the house (except for shit that would be totally inappropriate on drugs) was 4g. we listened to it twice through at full volume while painting. totally sublime.



god - anti-sex, anti-wiretapping

i'm a convert. amen.



david kirby - maximalism

i guess it's a conflict of interest to list one of my works in a best-of thread, but since it was released at the beginning of 2005 (and is an mp3 release), i think it's been overlooked. so for those of you who haven't heard me yap about this before, maximalism is a sound collage consisting of approx 25,000 1-2 second clips culled from my entire music collection (http://www.homophoni.com/sources.html), arranged in a semi-coherent fashion. it took almost a year to complete--spending as much as 8 hours a day cutting and pasting. but in reality, the actual piece isn't as important to me as the ideas that have developed because of it. i admit it's a bit goofy and childish, but i'd like to hear all of the sounds of the universe compiled into one ever-changing and continually morphing collage. not a one-time "release", but a real-time sound object in web space--like a giant universal rubber-band ball of sound. anyone could log in and upload whatever they wanted: field recordings, albums, original music, spoken word, noise, answering machine messages, sex, animal sounds, whatever... software would then take the input and plaster it on to the collage using an elegant algorithm, with the piece getting longer as denser and time passes (but not so dense that it becomes noise). people could then login and hear the collage real-time as it's being added to.

so go ahead and listen to the piece (http://www.homophoni.com/homo004.html), and if you're inspired and would like to help make this idea a reality then contact me! i need a good programmer more than anything else right now....

most honor,
david kirby

[jon abbey]

remarkably enough, since I really don't like the vast majority of new releases, I can second every one of david's four choices above. 4g is obvious, but the GOD and English discs are both superb (and based solely on the strength of those, I invited both to the next ErstQuake) and would be on my own list if I still made them (which I don't).

I was a bit hesitant to check out David's Maximalism piece, but it also is very strong, and deserves mention on a 2005 list, as I told him a few months back. check it out yourself (link in his message)!

[faster]

Thanks a lot you guys! I guess I should hear 4G & Maximalism.

Looking forward to playing the east coast in Sept.

[user_1119]

[user_1119]

[apfEID]

david kirby - maximalism

i guess it's a conflict of interest to list one of my works in a best-of thread, but since it was released at the beginning of 2005 (and is an mp3 release), i think it's been overlooked. so for those of you who haven't heard me yap about this before, maximalism is a sound collage consisting of approx 25,000 1-2 second clips culled from my entire music collection (http://www.homophoni.com/sources.html" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;), arranged in a semi-coherent fashion. it took almost a year to complete--spending as much as 8 hours a day cutting and pasting. but in reality, the actual piece isn't as important to me as the ideas that have developed because of it. i admit it's a bit goofy and childish, but i'd like to hear all of the sounds of the universe compiled into one ever-changing and continually morphing collage. not a one-time "release", but a real-time sound object in web space--like a giant universal rubber-band ball of sound. anyone could log in and upload whatever they wanted: field recordings, albums, original music, spoken word, noise, answering machine messages, sex, animal sounds, whatever... software would then take the input and plaster it on to the collage using an elegant algorithm, with the piece getting longer as denser and time passes (but not so dense that it becomes noise). people could then login and hear the collage real-time as it's being added to.

so go ahead and listen to the piece (http://www.homophoni.com/homo004.html" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;), and if you're inspired and would like to help make this idea a reality then contact me! i need a good programmer more than anything else right now....

this is excellent.

[sound plague]

I have to agree, that Maximalism piece is excellent.
Not that my opinion holds anything resembling weight, I'd recommend those who haven't heard it do so.

[Hubajube]

...and it really doesn't sound like anything I expected it to sound like from the description. Very interesting.