Ear candy 2014

My undeniable favourites of 2014:

D'Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (RCA)
Family Underground: Dark Light Years
       (Into the Lunar Night - ok, it was out late Dec 2013)
Village of Spaces: Welcome In (Turned Word)

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Goodbye 2013!

Oh, Lord have mercy and let us FINALLY finish the new lp RIGHT NOW! Still some things to do even though I'm working on the piece all the time.

The year 2013 brought me loads of old & new ear candy that will never loose its sweet taste:

Luciano Cilio: Dell'universo Assente (lp, Die Schachtel)
Henry Flynt: Graduation (lp, Superior Viaduct)
Alastair Galbraith: Cry (lp, MIE)
Mike Gangloff: Poplar Hollow (lp, Blackest Rainbow)
Iasos: Inter-Dimensional Music (lp, Wild Sages Records)
Craig Leon: Nommos (lp, Superior Viaduct)
Miaux: Aeronaut (7", Ultra Eczema)
Nuslux: Cepalux (7", Vauva)
Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum (lp, Recollection GRM / Editions Mego)
Pelkkä Väliviiva: s/t (lp, Joteskii Groteskii)
Joakim Skogsberg: Jola Rota (lp, Subliminal Sounds)
Antti Tolvi: Pianoketo (lp, Fonal records)
Tsembla: Nouskaa henget (lp, New Images)
WOO: "Whichever way you are going, you are going the wrong way." (lp, Emotional Rescue Recordings)
Vox Populi: Half Dead Ganja Music (lp, Pacific City Sound Visions)

Why I "discuss" this publicly? I'm not a big spender nor the greatest specialist, but I really love the music that I love. Love it, can't help it. Thank you for the music!

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Favourite re-issues of 2012

The years run by... Four of my favourite 2012 re-issues are:

Roberto Cacciapaglia: Sei Note In Logica (Wah Wah Records)

Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe (Philo)

Gareth Williams & Mary Currie: Flaming Tunes (Blackest Ever Black)

Darius Dolat-Shashi: Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar (Dead-Cert)

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A glimpse at the present

End Of Year 2011

Happy new year!

To celebrate 2012, I went through some of my favourite music of 2011. There are so many releases I haven't heard yet - and so many I haven't even heard of - but here's how far I got up to this point.

2011

Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase - Seashard (lp, Senufo Edition)
Fourth World Magazine - The Spectacle of Light Abductions (lp, Pacific City Sound Vision)
Fricara Pacchu - Faces Faces Everywhere (cass, Ikuisuus)
Javelin - Canyon Candy (10", Luaka Bop)
Kraus - Journey Through the First Dimension with Kraus (7", Palto Flats)
Peaking Lights - 936 (lp, Not Not Fun)
Alasdair Roberts & Friends - s/t (7", Rif Mountain)
Tomutonttu - Elävänä planeetalla (12", New Images)
Tsembla - Fauna (lp, Ikuisuus)
Tv-resistori - s/t (lp, Fonal Records)
V/A - Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol.1 (cass, Sahel Sounds)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (lp, Matador)

Archival Releases

Albert Ayler - Stockholm, Berlin 1966 (cd, hatOLOGY)
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground (lp, Mississippi Records)
These Trails - s/t (lp, Drag City)
V/A - Street Musicians of Yogyakarta (lp, Mississippi Records)

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