Piątek 24 Paź 2008, 19:44
This is the final instalment in my effort to retrospectively post my annual album picks, originally prepared for Birdman Sound's website – 2008’s list will be posted to both sites concurrently…
Some of the great new music coming to my attention in 2007:
- Acid Mothers Temple – Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Tour [Important]
- Alasehir – The Philosophy Of Living Fire [Siltbreeze]
- Boris with Michio Kurihara – Rainbow [Inoxia]
- Loren Connors – The Hymn Of The North Star [Family Vinyard]
- Julian Cope – Yougottaproblemwithme [Invada]
- Do Make Say Think – You, You're A History In Rust [Constellation]
- Earthless – Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky [Tee Pee]
- Giant Brain – Plume [Small Stone]
- Growing – Vision Swim [Troubleman]
- The Heads – Dead In The Water [Invada]
- Daniel Higgs – Metempsychotic Melodies [Holy Mountain]
- Hrsta - Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes [Constellation]
- Jackie-O Motherfucker – Freaker Pipe [Usound]
- Kinski – Down Below Its Chaos [Sub Pop]
- Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger [Drag City]
- Mammatus – The Coast Explodes [Holy Mountain]
- Harris Newman – Decorated [Strange Attractors]
- Oakley Hall – I'll Follow You [Merge]
- Pharoah Overlord – Live In Suomi Finland [Vivo]
- Radiohead – In Rainbows [Radiohead]
- Terry Riley – Reed Streams [Organ Of Corti]
- Shining Path – Shining Path [Holy Mountain]
- Six Organs of Admittance – Shelter From The Ash [Drag City]
- Space Ritual – Otherworld [Esoteric]
- Spacious Mind – Gentle Path Highway [Goddamn I'm A Countryman]
- Valet – Blood Is Clean [Kranky]
- Rick White - Memoreaper [Blue Fog]
- Wooden Shjips – Wooden Shjips [Holy Mountain]
- Wooden Wand – James & The Quiet [Ecstatic Peace]
- Robert Wyatt – Comicopera [Domino]
Some of the great pre-2007 music first coming to my attention this year (missed until now, for whatever reason):
- Kevin Ayers – Whatevershebringswesing [EMI/Harvest]
- Donald Byrd – Free Form [Blue Note]
- Charalambides – Our Bed Is Green [Timelag]
- Circle – Andexelt [Tumult]
- John Coltrane – Ascension [Impulse]
- Roky Erickson & The Explosives – Casting The Runes [5 Hours Back]
- Espers – The Weed Tree [Locust]
- Josephine Foster – All The Leaves Are Gone [Galactic Zoo Disc/Eclipse]
- Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures [Factory]
- Koenji Hyakkei – Viva Koenji!! [God Mountain/Skin Graft]
- György Ligeti – Requiem, Streichquartetts, Continuum etc. (Boxed Set) [Wergo]
- Residual Echoes – Residual Echoes [Holy Mountain]
- Terry Riley – Persian Surgery Dervishes [Shanti]
- Pharoah Sanders – Jewels Of Thought [Impulse]
- Serpent Power – Serpent Power [Locust]
- Sleep – Jerusalem [Music Cartel]
- Julie Tippetts – Sunset Glow [Utopia]
- Tyrannosaurus Rex – T. Rex [Pye/Cube]
- Witchcraft – Witchcraft [Rise Above]
- Robert Wyatt – The End Of An Ear [CBS]
Best re-discoveries in 2007:
- Grateful Dead - American Beauty [Warner]
- Sam Rivers - Crystals [Impulse]
Album cover dude now inducted into the hall of fame for album cover dudes bearing a disturbingly uncanny resemblance to me:
- "Badui," from Carlito e Badui – Os Reis Do Batidão [Chantecler]