Well, it’s that time of the calendar again when editors start wrestling and scrabbling for writers’ year-end tallies. Here at Bags, past years participation in end-of-annum popularity contests has been periodic, due in equal parts to sloth and a general perception that tabulating lists before January 1st results in a needlessly stunted sample. For example, I’m just sitting down with the new two-part Schlippenbach solo set from Intakt, a body of music that upon first audition sits very highly in my esteem, but one that I’m not yet familiar enough with to vaunt above other more conversant fare. I understand the driving force behind such expeditious efforts, but here at Bagatellen we don’t really operate under those incentives. Other than the Record of the Week slot, there’s no set schedule for anything. For better & worse, things go up when they go up & readers are able to comment at will (at least when the circuitry’s working properly).
Publications limiting their scope of lists to those of “published” writers is another persistent and pernicious problem; the assumption being that this cadre of “professionals” somehow has a better grasp of the bijous and baubles in the music market than readers. It’s a fallacy disproven practically every day here at Bagatellen and at chat boards across the net. Each of us is only privy to a relatively small piece of the pie with personal tastes as our primary guides.
In the interest of addressing these issues, I’d like to invite everyone/anyone to send me their year-end lists for inclusion on this site. No stipulations on number or content (new releases & reissues are all fair game). If you’d like to annotate your picks, please do. The only caveat that I ask is that you wait until after 12/31/06 to finalize your selections. The resulting collated post probably won’t be pretty, but I’ll put ducats down that it will contain information useful to us all. Thanks in advance for folks participation & in the meantime, let’s use this post as a placeholder for discussion of possibles.
Posted by derek on November 22, 2006 3:55 PMHey what happened to the previous picture? "Los Hermanos Carrión" or what was it? A Mexican acid trip from the 70's in any case.
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at December 6, 2006 10:53 PMA presto change-up to hopefully incite some activity here (apparently nobody feels like sharing)… in the meantime, the Rincon boys have gone to tend their cannabis crop & Niño Robot is out watering lilies.
Posted by: derek at December 7, 2006 6:52 AMWell, you'd asked for people to wait till after Dec 31st so I imagine that's why there's been little activity.
Posted by: N.D. at December 7, 2006 7:43 AMDiscussion of possibles, my friend, discussion of possibles... but I imagine you're right. The 12/31 date is for *finalized* lists to be published as a separate feature shortly thereafter.
Posted by: derek at December 7, 2006 7:50 AMWell, I don't know what kind of list I'll send you, Derek, but the lists I've submitted to various other critics' polls thus far have all been collated here.
Posted by: pdf at December 7, 2006 8:54 AMDiscussion of possibles, Derek? I rather fear that may mean, "Who's willing to be the first to put his head in the lion's mouth?". So, biting the bullet, here are my few scraps for this year's lions, in no special sequence:
John Coltrane - "One Up, One Down" 1965. A long-lost master in full flight, live.
Barry Guy / LJCO - "Study II - Stringer" 1991 & 1980 - Large scale improvisation at its finest.
Derek Bailey - "Carpal Tunnel" - 2005. An improvised wrenching reminder of the proximity of death to all of us.
Ornette Coleman - "Sound Grammar" - 2005. A not-lost master in full flight, live.
Olivier Messiaen / Peter Serkin - "Vingt Regards" - 1973. Having waited 33 years, we are at last liberated from the appalling vinyl of RCA Red Seal, and can now fully take pleasure in this most majestic of performances.
Hey Phil, what's the best/cheapest way to get the software necessary to open up .RAR files?
Also, I was wondering about your "world" music picks given your day gig, so it's good to be privy to those.
Posted by: derek at December 7, 2006 9:31 AMThanks for the annotated picks, Graham. I especially like how you've dispensed with any limiting qualifier of '06 releases.
I’m a bit ashamed to admit that I still haven’t heard Sound Grammar in full or picked a copy yet, but it’s on my Xmas list. Kevin Whitehead does an audio feature on it for NPR this month, accessible here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6502432
Haven’t heard the Messiaen either, but I’m intrigued.
No arguments on the Trane and Guy releases. I’m curious to learn your opinion of the new Iskra 1903 set on Emanem. I’ve managed to make it through each of the three discs once, but have yet to carve out sufficient time for a second trip.
And as harrowing as it can be listening to Carpal Tunnel w/ hindsight, I still think there’s some good music on there.
Posted by: derek at December 7, 2006 9:41 AMCarpal Tunnel? Can't listen to it. If you want a near death experience I'd recommend a late Shostakovich string quartet or the 14th Symphony.. no, if I want to be reminded of Derek I prefer Drop Me Off At 96th (old story, old thread). But the Samadhi Sound solo disc isn't bad.
Posted by: Dan Warburton at December 7, 2006 9:44 AM>Hey Phil, what's the best/cheapest way to get the software necessary to open up .RAR files?
I'm not sure what you mean. Those .rar links at the blogs I linked (which really oughta be in the Bags blogroll, if they're not already) just take you to rapidshare or megaupload; when you click on the link the music downloads as a .zip file, which Stuffit Expander opens into a desktop folder fulla yummy MP3s. Any computer oughta be able to handle that right out of the box.
Posted by: pdf at December 7, 2006 10:13 AMI hear you. It's not one I've gone back to all that much. My fave solo DB is still Lace.
Posted by: derek at December 7, 2006 10:13 AMDerek:
I'll get back to you about the Iskra 1903. Too much superbly demanding music to digest rapidly.
I couldn't check actual release dates (which anyway vary from country to country), so I just looked through what came in my own door in 2006.
Posted by: Graham L. Rogers at December 7, 2006 10:21 AMDerek, for .rar files a very easy program is WinRAR (free to download).
Phil, I left you a comment in your blog about Amon Amarth (asking if you've heard one of their early ones, that has flames against a black background in the cover, if I remember correctly).
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at December 7, 2006 1:02 PMYeah, I have every Amon Amarth album (and the 3DVD live set). I don't love the early records; I think they started to get really good around their third album, and their fourth, Versus The World, is their absolute peak. The two after it (Fate Of Norns and the new one) are sort of sequels to VTW, not diminishing its greatness in any way but not totally equaling it either. I'm going to see them on the 17th in NYC, with French metal band Gojira, who are building quite a rep for themselves (they're on the cover of the new issue of Terrorizer).
Posted by: pdf at December 7, 2006 1:18 PMNice, I'll look for VTW then. What do Gojira sound like?
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at December 7, 2006 5:43 PMGojira are somewhat spacy stoner/doom metal; very heavy, relatively slow. They have two albums, but I've only heard the most recent one, From Mars To Sirius. I know where I can download the debut though; maybe I'll do that today.
Posted by: pdf at December 8, 2006 7:29 AMThat sounds more like my alley. Can you share where can one download it? Send me an email to my address below if you prefer.
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at December 8, 2006 9:05 AMDerek: You asked about the Iskra 1903 "Chapter Two" set. Here's a few annotations made during 4/5 listenings to all 222 minutes of it.
Rigorous music, draws you into a tight world of empathy between these three players. Instantaneous musical re-activity. Subtle, concentrated and intensely-focused. Musical interchange which allows not a split-second for a thought-process to get in the way. Exciting musical imaginations at work; harmonies, melodies and counterpoint flying off at wildly-varying tangents. Recording quality favours the trombone, the violin and the bass in that order, a little undemocratically. (There should be a special place in digital heaven for all the lost notes played by double-bassists). I'm certain to be heads-down into "Chapter Two" 10-20 years from now, just as I'm still heads-down into "Chapter One" six years after its CD release, and 33 since I first bought the vinyl.
Time to listen again …
Thanks for that appraisal, Graham. I've made it through the set about 1.5x and echo a lot of what you wrote. This set is going to take a long time & lots of concentrated listens to even develop partial familiarity. Such an endeavor hardly seems like a task though when the music is this good.
Posted by: derek at December 13, 2006 7:17 PMWhat's the story with that "Mantra 1" mp3 link? Definitely some the scariest stuff I've heard this year. Thanks for giving me renewed nightmares of the rapture.
Posted by: Jim Grotto at December 20, 2006 9:17 PMTo join Graham and Phil Freeman, here's my general 2007 top ten (same one I posted in JC). I'm preparing a proper feature about it (with small reviews of each) but, alas, it will be in Spanish.
1) nmperign / Jason Lescalleet – “Love Me Two Times” [Intransitive]
2) Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura – “between”
[Erstwhile]
3) Simon H. Fell – “Composition No. 62: Compilation IV” [Bruce’s Fingers]
4) Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet feat. Mats Gustafsson – “ONJQ Live in Lisbon” [Clean Feed]
5) Exploding Customer – “Live at Tampere Jazz Happening” [Ayler]
6) Axel Dörner / Mattin – “Berlin” [Absurd/1000+1 Tilt]
7) Evan Parker – “Time Lapse” [Tzadik]
8) Ornette Coleman – “Sound Grammar” [Sound Grammar]
9) Atomic – “Happy New Ears!” [Jazzland]
10) Joanna Newsom – “Ys” [Drag City]
Honorable mention) Los Dorados – “Turbulencia”
[Los Dorados, http://www.losdorados.info]
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And this is the list I sent to Audition upon Richard's request:
1. nmperign / Jason Lescalleet - Love Me Two Times
2. Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura - between
3. Axel Dörner / Mattin - Berlin
4. Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura - Aluk
5. Jason Lescalleet - The Pikgrim
6. Keith Rowe / Mark Wastell - Live Concert From the I-and-E Festival, Dublin
7. Jason Lescalleet / Joe Colley - Annihilate This Week
8. Joe Foster - Knock Nevis (for Wilson Zorn and J.P. Jenkins)
9. Serge Baghdassarians / Boris Baltschun - 13.46-11.04-25.09
10. Greg Davis / Jeph Jerman - Live @ Pere Tucker Regional Gallery, Australia 07-14-2006
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at December 21, 2006 4:01 PMMy general 2006 list, as posted in the JC thread. I'm writing small reviews for each in a feature in my blog (link below), but it's all in Spanish.
1) nmperign / Jason Lescalleet – “Love Me Two Times” [Intransitive]
2) Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura – “between” [Erstwhile]
3) Simon H. Fell – “Composition No. 62: Compilation IV” [Bruce’s Fingers]
4) Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet feat. Mats Gustafsson – “ONJQ Live in Lisbon” [Clean Feed]
5) Exploding Customer – “Live at Tampere Jazz Happening” [Ayler]
6) Axel Dörner / Mattin – “Berlin” [Absurd/1000+1 Tilt]
7) Evan Parker – “Time Lapse” [Tzadik]
8) Ornette Coleman – “Sound Grammar” [Sound Grammar]
9) Atomic – “Happy New Ears!” [Jazzland]
10) Joanna Newsom – “Ys” [Drag City]
Honorable mention: Los Dorados – “Turbulencia”
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And this is the list I sent for Audition upon Richard's request:
1. Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet - Love Me Two Times
2. Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura - Between
3. Axel Dörner / Mattin - Berlin
4. Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura - Aluk
5. Jason Lescalleet - The Pikgrim
6. Keith Rowe / Mark Wastell - Live Concert From the I-and-E Festival, Dublin
7. Jason Lescalleet / Joe Colley - Annihilate This Week
8. Joe Foster - Knock Nevis (for Wilson Zorn and J.P. Jenkins)
9. Serge Baghdassarians / Boris Baltschun - 13.46-11.04-25.09
10. Greg Davis / Jeph Jerman - Live @ Pere Tucker Regional Gallery, Australia 07-14-2006
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at December 22, 2006 11:10 AMI am sure I am forgetting some stuff but here goes:
Stand out cds of 2006:
Birgit Ulher "Scatter"
Roscoe Mitchell "No Side Effects"
Kidd Jordan " Palm of Soul"
Mitchell/Lewis/Abrams "Streaming"
Joëlle Léandre "Concerto Grosso"
Michael Maierhof "collection_1"
Paker/Guy/Lytton "Zafiro"
What We Live "Sound Catcher"
Polwechsel "Archives of the north"
Schilippenbach "12 tone tales"
Fuchs/Van Hove "Facetten"
Mersault
Rowe/Nakamura "Between"
Peter K Frey/Urs Voerkel/Christoph Gallio TIEGEL
Peter K Frey/Daniel Studer: Kontrabass duo Zweierlei
Mujician "Theres's No Going Back Now"
Mark Dresser/Roswell Rudd "Air Walkers"
Other stuff:
* Ubu.com
* Seeing a double exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin: Rebecca Horn Downstairs/Herman Nitsch Upstairs
* Seeing a ton of live gigs By Joëlle Léandre and her kicking ass on every one of them.
* Touring Israel again with Ariel Shibolet
* Getting a lot of releases out of the can
* Playing a ton of gigs with a really wide range with Weasel Walter
* Meeting and playing with Joe Morris
* Hanging out with Fuchs in Berlin and Birgit Ulher in Hamburg
A Top 20 then, selected from 350 or so acquisitions in 2006 and obviously excluding any Cathnor releases...
1. Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura – between (Erstwhile)
2. Taku Sugimoto / Taku Unami – Tengu et Kitsune (Slub)
3. Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura – Aluk (IMJ)
4. [N:Q] – November Quebec (Esquilo)
5. Mark Wastell – Amoungst English Men (Absinth)
6. Jakob Ullmann – A Catalogue of Sounds (Edition RZ)
7. Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet – Love me two times (Intransitive)
8. Mattin / Radu Malfatti – Going Fragile (Formed)
9. David Lacey / Paul Vogel / Mark Wastell – Live Dublin (Confront)
10. Manfred Werder – 20061 (Skiti)
11. Keith Rowe, Tomas Korber, Gunter Müller – Fibre (For 4 Ears)
12. Will Guthrie / Ferran Fages – Cinabri (Absurd)
13. Anthony Burr, Charles Curtis – Alvin Lucier (Antiopic/Sigma)
14. Burkhard Stangl / Taku Unami – i was (Hibari)
15. Arek Gulbenkoglu – Untitled (Document)
16. Tim Parkinson – Cello Piece (Wandelweiser)
17. Jason Lescalleet – The Pilgrim (Glistening Examples)
18. Kai Fagaschinski / Christof Kurzmann – First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Quincunx)
19. Christof Kurzmann / Ami Yoshida – a s o (Erstwhile)
20. Taku Sugimoto – Live in Kansai (Slub)
Ok, I forgot the Iskra Chapter two, what a great one.
Posted by: damon Smith at January 2, 2007 5:31 PMOk, trying again: thanks Gerardo! Glad you liked "Knock Nevis." Supposedly I should have a duo up here on Bags (with Choi Joonyong) sometime...soon maybe? Not sure.
Posted by: jpmf at January 3, 2007 2:20 AMI haven't been able to keep up with recent developments nearly as well as a lot of you guys, but here's what I cobbled together of standout things that came out (more-or-less) in '06, give or take a few months here and there:
-Masayuki Takayanagi - reissues of several rarities that popped up in '06, especially Action Direct, Mass Hysterism In Another Situation, and Eclipse.
-Evan Parker (with Derek Bailey and Han Bennink) - The Topography of the Lungs (reissue, Psi)
-Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (Matador)
-Mats Gustafsson & David Stackenas: Mountain Blues from Sweden (Atavistic)
-Various - Fonotone Records box set (Dust-to-Digital)
-Harry Miller's Isipingo - Which Way Now (Cuneiform)
-Flaming Lips - live performance at Voodoo Fest and At War with the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
-Tetuzi Akiyama - live performance at The Big Top and several CD's, especially Terrifying Street Trees, Route 13 To The Gates of Hell, and Vinegar & Rum.
-Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (DGC/Geffen)
-Nels Cline - New Monastery (Cryptogramophone) and Cline/Shoup/Corsano - Immolation/Immersion (Strange Attractors Audio House).
Other Faves :
-Carla Bozulich - Evangelista (Constellation) and powerful live performance of same at The Big Top
-Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Brotherman in the Fatherland (Hyena)
-Frank Wright Quartet - Unity (ESP-Disk)
-Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
-Peter Brotzmann Group - ALARM (reissue, Atavistic)
-William Parker - Long Hidden, Olmec Series (Aum Fidelity)
-Nash Kontroll - Your Left Hand Just Exploded (Ideal)
-Sun Ra Space Arkestra - What Planet Is This? (Leo)
Other stuff:
-The amazing tenacity and growth of the scene for adventurous/improvised music in New Orleans in the face of overwhelming odds that would kill most towns. Somehow the first year post-Katrina was perhaps the most energized one for the scene in years. Elders Kidd Jordan and Alvin Fielder are still a strong presence, and now there's a growing crop of younger players.
-Playing-wise, a great year of first meetings with inspiring collaborators: Roger Turner, Dave Dove, Suzanne Thorpe, Annette Krebs, and Tetuzi Akiyama. How fortunate am I? And more hits with longtimers Donald Miller, Endre Landsnes, and Bill Hunsinger. Yet another fine bout with Tatsuya Nakatani.
-Personal introduction to the very fab improvising community in Austin/Houston (largely via the NoIdea Festival), espec. Dave Dove, Chris Cogburn, Sandy Ewen, Nick Hennies, PG Moreno, and Mari Akita. Lovely folks, all. Good to have some regional neighbors.
-My town surviving in spite of fuck-all in the way of help from the government.
-Goodbyes to too many too soon: Raphe M., Dewey R., JB, Malchi R., Will Westbrook, Arthur Lee, Syd...i'm sure i'm forgetting several others.
-Stephen Colbert, Keith Olberman, and others for fighting the good fight.
I posted this list elsewhere earlier, and already I feel some things are lacking and the order isn't correct - it never is - plus it contains a lot of stuff diehard improv & avant people won't care for in the slightest, but fwiw:
1. Radu Malfatti & Mattin – Going fragile [Formed]
2. Scott Walker – The drift [4AD]
3. Current 93 – Black ships ate the sky [Durtro / Jnana]
4. Ami Yoshida & Christof Kurzmann – a s o [Erstwhile]
5. Joanna Newsom – Ys [Drag City]
6. Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet – Love me two times [2-CD] [Intransitive]
7. Keith Rowe & Toshimaru Nakamura – Between [Erstwhile]
8. Lionel Marchetti – Red dust [3x3”] [Crouton]
9. Drudkh – Blood in our wells [Supernal]
10. Destroyer – Destroyer’s rubies [Merge]
11. Klaus Filip & Toshimaru Nakamura – Aluk [IMJ]
12. Carla Bozulich – Evangelista [Constellation]
13. Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone – First time I ever saw your face [Quincunx]
14. Sanjah – Musen / is [PSF]
15. Dona Dumitru Siminică – Sounds from a bygone age vol. 3 [Asphalt Tango]
16. IST – Lodi [Confront]
17. Beirut – Gulag orkestar [Ba Da Bing!]
18. Olivia Block – Heave to [Sedimental]
19. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The letting go [Drag City]
20. Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad – Live at Instal, Glasgow, 14 October 2006 [arika.org.uk]
21. Om – Conference of the birds [Holy Mountain]
22. Axel Dörner & Mattin – Berlin [Absurd]
23. The Czars – Sorry I made you cry [Bella Union]
24. Toru Takemitsu – Corona - Tokyo realization (Jim O'Rourke) [Columbia Japan]
25. Manfred Werder – 20061 [Skiti]
26. The Knife – Silent shout [Rabid]
27. Josephine Foster – A wolf in sheep’s clothing [Locust]
28. Jason Lescalleet – The pilgrim [LP+CD] [Glistening Examples]
29. A Hawk And A Hacksaw – The way the wind blows [Leaf]
30. Polwechsel – Archives of the North [HatHut]
31. Johnny Cash – American V: A hundred highways [American / Lost Highway]
32. The Drones – Gala mill [ATP]
33. Oren Ambarchi & Keith Rowe – Squire [For4Ears]
34. Entrance – Prayer of death [Entrance]
35. Kyle Bruckmann / Werner Dafeldecker / Boris Hauf – Wane [Formed]
36. (N:Q) – November Quebec [Esquilo]
37. Wooden Wand – From the road vol. 4: Goat general and other delusions [WWVV]
38. EKG & Giuseppe Ielasi – Group [Formed]
39. Katsura Yamauchi & Michel Doneda – La drache [IMJ]
40. Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! – Animamima [2-CD] [Archive]
41. Sibylle Baier – Colour green [Orange Twin]
42. Greg Davis & Jeph Jerman – Ku [Room40]
43. Joe Foster – Ethics [Copula]
44. Tom Waits – Orphans [3-CD] [Anti]
45. Peter Evans – More is more [Psi]
46. Philip Samartzis – Unheard spaces [Microphonics]
47. Masahiko Okura / Günter Müller / Ami Yoshida – Tanker [For4Ears]
48. Will Guthrie – Body and limbs still look to light [Cathnor]
49. David Lacey / Paul Vogel / Mark Wastell – Live concert from the I-And-E Festival 1 April 2006 [Confront]
50. The Contest Of Pleasures – Albi days [Potlatch]
I was thinking of just copying/pasting my categorized lists from JC, but decided to take the time to create a grand unified list and also to make some corrections, additions, and re-evaluations while I was at it.
Ami Yoshida / Christoph Kurzmann - a s o
[N:Q] - November Quebec
Muhal Richard Abrams / George Lewis / Roscoe Mitchell - Streaming
Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura - between
nmperign / Jason Lescalleet - Love Me Two Times
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Azioni
Roscoe Mitchell Trio - No Side Effect
V/A - The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of
Filament et al - Dark Room Filled with Light
Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone - First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
Tom Ze - Estudando o Pagode
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
AVVA - Gdansk Queen
Tsahar / Cooper-Moore - Lost Brother
Dennis Gonzalez - Idle Wild
George Lewis - Sequel (For Lester Bowie)
Ellery Eskelin - Quiet Music
Will Guthrie - Body and Limbs Still Look To Light
TV Pow - presents
Lacey / Vogel / Wastell - Confront Performance Series 1
Ernest Dawkins New Horizon Ensemble - The Messenger: Live at the Velvet Lounge
Mattin / Malfatti - Going Fragile
Oren Ambarchi / Keith Rowe - Squire
Joelle Leandre - At the Le Mans Jazz Festival
EKG / Ielasi - Group
John Butcher / Christoph Kurzmann - The Big Misunderstanding Between Hertz and Megahertz
Frequency - s/t
The Electrics - Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe
Ben Goldberg - The Door the Hat the Chair the Fact
Yells at Eels - Geografia
Boghossian / Tilbury / Wastell - Archi.Texture Vol 1
Paul Flaherty / Chris Corsano - The Beloved Music
Kent Carter String Trio - Intersections
Polwechsel - Archives of the North
Ferran Fages / Will Guthrie - Cinabri
The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon
Nice list, Sergio! Need to hear several of those.
And Joe, you're welcome, dude! Would love to hear your music live.
Posted by: Gerardo Alejos at January 4, 2007 12:52 PMIs it cool with everyone who's listed here if I transfer these lists to a larger & more formally organized post this weekend?
Posted by: derek at January 4, 2007 4:05 PMSounds good. Thanks for your effort, Derek.
Posted by: damon Smith at January 4, 2007 4:15 PMI'll add my 2 cents, but I do think that the only people who post top ten lists that are limited to the actual year 2006 are all writers, musicians, or back-end label/music industry people: people who actually purchases all of their own music spend less than 20% of their budget on new releases.
And these lists are really just advertisements for oneself.
So here's the image I'd like to present of my consciousness during aught 6:
Kazutoki Umezu: Show the Frog
J-Zone: To Love a Hooker
Sten Hanson: Autobiography
Dead C: Perform Max Harris
Dead C: live in San Fran '95 bootleg CD
Kuchiroro: Fanfare
Kuchiroro: 20th Century Abstracts
Kuchiroro: Light of Morning/ Cinderella Beach
Kuchiroro: (three squares)
Poets of Rhythm: Practice What You Preach
Sun City Girls: Piano Bar box
Glands of External Secretion: (the LP with the bright painting of the nun and the squirrel on the cover)
I actually have no fucking clue what i was getting down on in March
Posted by: fun in the dark at January 5, 2007 2:23 PMpeople who actually purchases all of their own music spend less than 20% of their budget on new releases
“Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.” - Homer J. Simpson
Posted by: Robert at January 5, 2007 2:52 PMSounds good to me Derek. But do please bear in mind that when companies like Universal speak of a "world-wide release date" of xxx, it means that in most other countries, it will be xxx months later (or occasionally, before). So please don't base 2006 release dates on American criteria.
Posted by: Graham L. Rogers at January 5, 2007 2:56 PMAs noted above there are “no stipulations on number or content” for these lists. Ten or a factor of ten, annotated or bare bones “artist – title”, either works for me. If you spent part of the year avidly collecting everything released by Ken Vandermark in ’02 that’s cool too. I’m just curious about what music people dug during ’06 regardless of provenance or pressing date.
I also enjoy reading how folks preface and couch their lists (ie. “Lists are largely ridiculous exercises, but if I suddenly found myself on an desert island with only coconuts for company, here are the titles from ’06 I’d pine for most fervently.”, etc.).
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