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Best of 2011

31 XII 2011, 12:23

My favourite albums of 2011:

I didn't include live albums, compilations and classical music.

01. peter evans quintet - Ghosts
02. Matthew Halsall - On the Go
03. The Thing with Jim O'Rourke - Shinjuku Growl
04. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
05. Side A - A New Margin
06. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
07. Carsten Dahl Experience - Metamorphosis
08. Charalambides - Exile
09. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
10. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
11. David S. Ware - Planetary Unknown
12. Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Miners' Hymns
13. Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased?
14. Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings
15. Swedish Azz - Azz Appeal
16. Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
17. Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
18. Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Marble Son
19. Grails - Deep Politics
20. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
21. Six Organs Of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain
22. Masami Akita, Mats Gustafsson & Jim O'Rourke - One Bird Two Bird
23. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town
24. mombu - Mombu
25. John Zorn - Nova Express
26. Austin Peralta - Endless Planets
27. Banquet of the Spirits - Caym: The Book of Angels, Vol. 17
28. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't know
29. Lumerians - Transmalinnia
30. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What

Best of 2010

31 XII 2010, 10:49

My favourite albums of 2010:

I didn't include live albums, compilations and classical music.

01. Neil Young - Le Noise
02. John Zorn - The Goddess - Music for the Ancient of Days
03. Scout Niblett - The Calcination of Scout Niblett
04. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
05. Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega
06. Ben Goldberg Quartet - Baal: Book of Angels Vol. 15
07. Richard Thompson - Dream Attic
08. The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood
09. Perverted - Vote Reverend Greed
10. John Zorn - Ipsissimus
11. Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Forty Fort
12. James Blackshaw - All Is Falling
13. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
14. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
15. Loudon Wainwright III - 10 Songs for the New Depression
16. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
17. People Of The North - Deep Tissue
18. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water
19. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of the World
20. Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm

Best concerts:

In fact the only concerts that I attended...

1. Shostakovich 1, Tchaikovksy 4 (Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev) (Bozar, Brussels)
2. Mahler 2 (Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest / Yannick Nézet-Séguin) (Bozar, Brussels)
3. Mozart - Requiem (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / James Gaffigan) (Glyndebourne Opera House)
4. Einstürzende Neubauten (AB, Brussels)
5. Swans (AB, Brussels)