The 10 best albums in 2009 for Sietse
1. Thomas Köner - La Barca (Fario)
2. Asher - Miniatures (Sourdine)
3. TU M' - Monochromes Vol.1 (Line)
4. Corey Fuller - Seas Between (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
5. Zelienople - Give It Up (Type Records)
6. The Puddle Parade - Origami (Morc Records)
7. David Sylvian - Manafon (Secret Samadhi)
8. Darwinsbitch - Ore (Digitalis Industries)
9. Phill Niblock - Touch Strings (Touch)
10. Greg Haines - Komarovo (Slaapwel Records)
Albums that were also loved a lot and made the decision very hard, but didn't make it to my list are:
Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn (12K)
Starving Weirdos - B/P/M Series 1 (Blackest Rainbow)
Mountains - Etching (Thrill Jockey)
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom (Blackest Rainbow)
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky (Fang Bomb)
SND - Atavism (Raster Noton)
EARLabs 3 - Helix (Entr'acte)
Elegi - Varde (Miasmah)
Nicholas Szczepanik - The Chiasmus (SRA)
Celer - Capri (Humming Conch)
Piotr Kurek - Lectures (Cronica)
Nackt Insecten - Quantum Odyssey (Blackest Rainbow)
Robert Henke - Indigo_Transform (Imbalance Computer Music)
Xela - Heirs Of The Fire (SMTG Limited)
Cam Deas - My Guitars Is Alive and It's Singing (Blackest Rainbow)
Es - Kesämaan Lapset (Fonal)
Daniel Menche - Kataract (Edition Mego)
The most impressive EP's and singles for the year:
Tomas Phillips - Six Notes (Koyuki)
Stephen Spera - 4 {H2O} ([Parvoart])
Taylor Deupree - Weather And Worn (12K)
Ryota Kanasaki - [phonetilosophy] (Koyuki)
Richard Youngs - High Sun Energy / States of Time (Dull Knife)
Jana Winderen - Heated: Live in Japan (Touch)
Mirko Uhlig & N - Sanddorn (Ex Ovo / Genesungswerk)
The well needed reissues of the year:
Troum - Sigqan (Transgredient Records)
Xela - The Illuminated (Dekorder)
Richard Skelton - Marking Time (Type Records)
Six Organs of Admittance - RTZ (Drag City)
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases (History Always Favours The Winners)
I decided not to write short blurps about the albums now. Some got reviewed already, some didn't and some are still coming up.
Everyone the best wishes for 2010. See you next year. |
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+ Four Simple Songs For Five Dead Bumblebees
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+ The Everything And The Nothing
+ I Hold A Wish For You
+ Duo Review: Above The Din & The Two Edges
+ Choral
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+ Absolute Grey
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+ Oaks
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+ In Bed We Trust
+ Meditation Space
+ Cursory Asperses
+ Memory
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+ The Ontology Of Noise
+ Atavism
+ Without Sinking
+ Figure
+ Entropy
+ Erotikon
+ The Drive
+ Let's make a solar system
+ (another) Stunt
+ Glisten
+ Meandering Pupa
+ Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
+ Breeze Of Roses
+ Touch Strings
+ Phases
+ So, I'll take your hand and...
+ fourteen worms for victor hugo
+ North Passage
+ Bionulor
+ will be back in a week.
+ Duo review for the albums Alam & Poèmes Saturniens
+ Breathletters
+ A Three Month Warm Up
+ Sycamore
+ 4 {H2O}
+ Plateaux (For Gilles Deleuze)
+ The Setting Sun
+ Complex Tone Test
+ Snow Roads
+ To
+ s6t8r
+ Aíneen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter)
+ Wild Tracks
+ +1
+ Ending Minutes, Sinking
+ [phonetilosophy]
+ The Chiasmus
+ Lectures
+ Dual Box
+ Music for Moles
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+ Blank Grey Canvas Sky
+ Mort Aux Vaches
+ Top 10 List For 2009
+ Seas Between
+ Glorious Days
+ Slovensko
+ Psalms
+ Kataract
+ Path
+ Navigare
+ Mort Aux Vaches
+ The Invisible City
+ Intermission 2000-2008
+ Insónia
+ Warm Weather/Le Vieux Favori 4
+ Plus Tard... la Meme Jour
+ Music For A Sleeping Sculpture Of Peter Broderick
+ Ural Umbo
+ Scytale
+ A Young Person's Guide To
+ Mycorrhizae Realm
+ Parcelles 1-10
+ Until The Point Of Hushed Support
+ Sunshine Noir
+ Location Momentum
+ Footpaths and Trade Routes
+ Sleppet
+ Strangeness
+ Physical, Absent, Tangible
+ As Amber Hollowed Night
+ Vorleben
+ Tent and Hills
+ Projector Gunship {Ø,{Ø}}
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+ Leftover_1
+ Dear Dad
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+ Lapses
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