Mittwoch, 16. Jan 2008, 0:56

Maybe not the best things but the dearest ones to me :

1. Grouper, "Cover the Windows and the Walls" EVERY DAY (Thank yous + XOs to Peter P for making sure I got a hold of this one before the year ended)
2. Aaron Dilloway, "Sounds of Nepal" CD-R Re-Issue
3. Pink Reason, "Cleaning the Mirror"
4. Group Inerane, "Guitars from Agadez: Music of Niger" // Group Doueh, "Guitar Music from the Western Sahara" but if I have to pick one make it Inerane just solely because of more plays
5. The Cherry Blossoms, Self-Titled CD-R (w/ Josephine Foster)
6. Brainbombs, "Singles Collection Vol. 2"
7. Burning Star Core, "Operator Dead . . . Post Abandoned"
8. Theo Angell & the Tabernacle Hillside Singers, "Auraplinth"
9. Volcano the Bear, "Amidst the Noise and Twigs"
10. Pumice, "Pebbles"
11. V/A, "Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982 - 1985"
12. V/A, "The Art of Field Recording, Vol. 1: 50 Years of Traditional American Music" [Dust-to-Digital]
13. Jeff Rehnlund, "Our Thin Mercy of Error"
14. Dielectric Field Recording All-Stars, "Re: Record"
15. Blues Control, "Puff"
16. Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet, "Another Miserable Day"
17. Anahita (Tara Burke + Helena Espvall collabo), "Arcana En Cantos" CD-R
18. Valerio Cosi, "Freedom Meditation Music" Volume I CD-R I never made it to Vols II or III but partly because I enjoyed this one so much
19. Islaja, "Ulual Yyy"
20. Thierry Müller, "Rare and Unreleased, 1974 - 1984"
21. Gia Dinh Ba Pho, "Que Huong"
22. Bernard Parmegiani, "Chants Magnétiques" Re-Issue
23. No Age, "Weirdo Rippers"
24. V/A, "I Belong to This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings"
25. No Doctors, "Origin and Tectonics"
26. Michael Hurley, "Ancestral Swamp"
27. Axolotl, "Memory Theatre"
28. V/A, "Everything Is a Theory" [Cephia's Treat]
29. Toby Dammit, "The Legend of Apple Jack"
30. Wzt Hearts, "Thread Ropes Spell Breaking Your Bones"
31. David Watson, "Throats"
32. Hecker, "Recordings for Rephlex"

and numbering becomes B.S. several slots ago:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Underground"
V/A, "Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Music"
Cold Bleak Heat, "Simitu"
Mudboy, "Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors"
Sally Shapiro, "Disco Romance"
Starving Weirdos, "Shrine of the Post-Hypnotic" // RV Paintings, "Trinity Rivers"
V/A, "Disco Deutschland Disco"
Burning Star Core, "Blood Lightning 2007"
Mammal, "Lonesome Drifter"
Black Dice, "Load Blown" // Eric Copeland, "Hermaphrodite"
John Wiese, "Soft Punk"
Avey Tare + Kria Brekkan, "Pullhair Rubeye"
V/A, "Dirty Space Disco"
Fursaxa, "Alone in the Dark Wood"
Yellow Swans, "At All Ends"
Wooden Shjips, S/T
Acid Mothers Guru Guru, "Psychedelic Navigator"
V/A, "Box of Dub: Dubstep and Future Dub"
Datahata, "Itinerant Craft"
Magik Markers, "Boss"
Ju Suk Reet Meat, "Solo 78/79" Re-Issue
Ironing, "Pocket Almanac"
Poormen, S/T
Ilitch, "Lena's Life and Other Stories"
Panda Bear, "Person Pitch" although I probably never need to hear it again
Kemialliset Ystävät, (S/T? Untitled?)
Omar Souleyman, "Highway to Hassake"
White Rainbow, "Prism of Eternal Now"
Harmonia, "Harmonia Live 1974"
Growing, "Vision Swim"
Parts & Labor, "Escapers One" 12"
Charalambides, "Likeness" and CD-Rs from this year
Religious Knives, "Remains"
Dust-to-Digital as a whole, what a good year to be D2D
Sublime Frequencies always
Excepter's various slapdashery
Shackleton & Applebim, Villalobos
Lichens/Lexie Mountain split/Lexie Mountain Boys CDR
the other Blues Control and Grouper releases of 07
more things I'd probably like and never got around to which I could give a listen to right now but won't
and tons more things David + Cole rotated at WXYC last year, without which I would have had a much emptier plate, we are so lucky to have these two bringing awesome sometimes downright miraculous records to our rotation, lots of time spent for probably little $$$, throw these dudes a pizza party or something
Kombucha teas (Mango or Cranberry)
The move in women's fashion to an indeterminable haze where it is none of these things somewhere between shirts and dresses and maternity wear
Some movies and TV shows were probably good too

Favorite show - tie between Costes + Lisou Prout/Jason Crumer + Buddy Ship/Clang Quartet/Mr. Natural Feb 2007 at Nightlight and the Costes/Prout interview for XYC (audibly half into it, half afraid), Lexie Mountain Boys/Wzt Hearts/Ecstatic Sunshine/Boner Machine at NL Spring Break 07, also Irene Moon/Auk Theatre, Harrius @ No Future III, Ariel Pink, Fursaxa in Queens NY, In the Year of the Pig when I've seen em, same with USA Baby and Party Band, there were lots of good things seen and heard, more than I thought when I started this list