remnants from paradise

music - favourites of 2008

- asher & ubeboet - cell memory - wind measure recordings
- aidan baker - fragile movements in slow motion - universal tongue
- aidan baker - book of nods - beta-lactam ring records
- william basinski - the river - 2062
- william basinski & richard chartier - untitled 1 - 3 - line
- christopher bissonnette - in between words - kranky
- james blackshaw - litany of echoes - tompkins square
- the blithe sons - the great orthochromatic wheel - family vineyard records
- john cage - seven - quartets I-VIII - neos
- celer - nacreous clouds - and/oar
- celer - tropical - mystery sea
- loren chasse & michael northam - the otolith - helen scarsdale agency
- loren chasse - the footpath - naturestrip
- loren chasse (of) - the sun and earth together - ultra hard gel
- loren chasse (of) - rocks will open - digitalis recordings
- yannick dauby & christophe havard & hughes germain
(as °sone) - passerelle - and/oar
- taylor deupree & kenneth kirschner - may - room40
- toumani diabaté - the mandé variations - nonesuch
- the dowland project - romaria - ecm
- werner durand - remnants from paradise - absurd
- max eastly / graham halliwell / evan parker / mark wastell - a life saved by a spider and two doves - another timbre
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch
- morton feldman - the viola in my life - ecm
- morton feldman - the late piano works, triadic memories (steffen schleiermacher) - mdg
- fennesz - transition - touch
- fennesz - black sea - touch
- jgrzinich - ferric - taâlem
- vikki jackman - whispering pages - faraway press
- giya kancheli - little imber - ecm
- kenneth kirschner - filaments and voids - 12k
- alexander knaifel - blazhenstva - ecm
- k. leimer - lesser epitomes - palace of lights
- level - opale - spekk
- machinefabriek & matt davies - onkruid - a room forever
- stephan mathieu - radioland - die schachtel
- marc namblard - chants of frozen lakes - kalerne / atelier hui-kan
- dj olive - triage - room40
- adam pacione - with wakened eyes - bee eater recordings
- charlemagne palestine - from etudes to cataclysms for the doppio borgato - sub rosa
- steve peters - chamber music 4: filtered light - dragon's eye recordings
- rameses iii - basillica/origins - important records
- steve roden - vester fields - volume
- steve roden - sunrise - new plastic music
- mathieu ruhlmann & celer - mesoscaphe - spekk
- jordi savall - invocation a la nuit - alia vox
- trygve seim & frode haltli - yeraz - ecm
- colin andrew sheffield - signatures - invisible birds
- scott sherk - icelandic air - wandering ear
- matt shoemaker - mutable depths - ferns recordings
- v. sjöberg new jazz ensemble - do nothing 'til you hear from
me - ideal
- richard skelton - crow autumn - sustain-release
- richard skelton - marking time - preservation
- svarte greiner - til seters - a room forever
- tape - milieu plus - häpna
- tape - opera plus - häpna
- tape - luminarium - häpna
- scott tuma - not for nobody - digitalis
- chris watson - cima verde - fondazione edmund mach, lol productions
- various - a cleansing ascension - elevator bath
- various - fennesz / jeck / matthews - amoroso - touch
- various - solo andata / seaworthy / taylor deupree - live from melbourne - 12k
- various - spire live - fundamentalis - touch
- various - victrola favorites: artifacts from bygone days - dust-to-digital

also very good

- alio die & martina galvagni - eleusian lullaby - projekt
- asher - study for autumn - conv
- asher - intervals - the land of
- j.s. bach - sonata in a-minor, partita in d-minor + barry guy aglais (barry guy & maya homburger) - maya recordings
- celer - i love you so much i can't even title this (the light that never goes out went out) - celer
- celer - discourses of the withered - infraction
- celer - the everything and the nothing - infraction
- andrew chalk & brendan walls (isolde) - all things to fall like marching men - penny poppet
- taylor deupree - northern (remastered) - 12k
- kyle bobby dunn - fragments & compositions of kyle bobby dunn - sedimental
- jim haynes - eraldus / eravaldus - elevator bath
- arve henriksen - cartography - ecm
- koen holtkamp - make haste/free birds - a room forever
- jóhann jóhannsson - fordlandia - 4ad
- arsenije jovanović - galiola - works for radio, 1967 - 2000 - fo a rm projects, and/oar, alluvial recordings
- garth knox, agnes vesterman - d'amore - ecm
- jasper leyland - carbon series: volume 5 - 12x50
- annea lockwood - a sound map of the danube - lovely music, ltd.
- steve peters - the webster cycles - cold blue music
- benoit pioulard - temper - kranky
- max richter - 24 postcards in full colour - 130701
- sigur rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - xl recordings
- mirko uhlig - the nightmiller - mystery sea
- wolfgang voigt - gas - raster-noton
- various - graceful degradation: variations - sourdine

(compiled with young gossamer)