devoted to supreme simplification (or bent, by light)

(best of 2010)
music enjoyed by the staff at the memory offices
(red entries most-listened to)

- chris abrahams - play scar - room40
- alva noto - for 2 - line
- amm - sounding music - matchless recordings
- amm - uncovered correspondence - matchless recordings
- thomas ankersmit - hangar performance - touch radio, recorded by john grzinich
- antony and the johnsons - swanlights - secretly canadian
- antony and the johnsons - thank you for your love - rough trade
(with william basinski)

- j.s. bach / teodoro anzellotti - the goldberg variations - winter & winter
- jan bang - ...and poppies from kandahar - samadhisound
- barn owl - the conjurer - root strata
- barn owl - ancestral star - thrill jockey
- thomas bel - lumières, ombres, voix et visages
- keith berry - the cartesian plane - elevator bath (lp)
- black swan - in 8 movements - ethereal symphony/experimedia
- olivia block & kyle bruckmann - teem - and/oar
- peter brötzmann & paal nilssen-love - woodcuts - smalltown superjazzz
- micael t. bullock and andrew lafkas - ceremonies to breathe upon - winds measure recordings

- john cage / terry jennings / john tilbury / sebastian lexer - lost daylight - another timbre
- john cage - violin & piano (andreas seidel, steffen schleiermacher) - mdg
- jefre cantu-ledesma - love is a stream - type
- celer - dwell in possibility - blackest rainbow
- celer - pockets of wheat - soundscaping records
- celer - weavings of a rapid disenchantment - basses frequences
- andrew chalk - the cable house - faraway press (cd version)
- andrew chalk & daisuke suzuki - in faxfleet clouds uplifted autumn gave passage to kind nature - faraway press (cd)
- andrew chalk - ghost of nakhodka - siren records
- marsfield (andrew chalk) - three sunsets over marsfield (parts one and two) - faraway press (lp)
- andrew chalk (marsfield) - the towering sky - faraway press
- richard chartier - a field for mixing - room40
- richard chartier & asmus tietchens - fabrication 2 - auf abwegen
- joe colley - disasters of self - c.i.p.
- clare cooper/chris abrahams/christof kurzmann/tobias delius/clayton thomas/werner dafeldecker/tony buck - hammeriver - mikroton recordings
- françois couturier - un jour si blanc - ecm
- the cure - disintegration (deluxe edition) universal

- yannick dauby - overflows - sonoris
- deerhunter - halcyon digest - 4ad
- taylor deupree - snow (dusk, dawn) - 12k
- taylor deupree - shoals - 12k (cd + 7")
- dreams of tall buildings feat arve henriksen - drowning the heart sounds - museum

- max eastley - installation recordings - paradigm discs
- eleh - location momentum - touch
- eleh - repose - important
- lawrence english + minamo - a path less traveled - room40
- lawrence english - incongruous harmonies - touch (7")

- roberto fabbriciani / robin hayward - nella basilica - another timbre
- morton feldman - music for piano and strings by morton feldman: for john cage & piano and string quartet (the smith quartet with john tilbury) - matchless
- fennesz / daniell / buck - knoxville - thrill jockey
- food - quiet inlet - ecm
- ben frost - by the throat - bedroom community (lp version)
- the fun years - god was like, no - barge recordings

- jan garbarek / the halliard ensemble - officium ovum - ecm

- tim hecker - apondalifa - room40
- catherine christer hennix - the electric harpsichord - die schachtel
- koen holtkamp - gravity/bees - thrill jockey
- m. holterbach & julia eckhardt - do-undo (in g maze) - helen scarsdale agency

- rafael anton irisarri - the north bend - room40

- philip jeck - an ark for the listener - touch
- rolf julius - music for the ears: small music no. 1 - western vinyl

- thomas köner - nunatak/teimo/permafrost - type (lp reissues)
- lethe - catastrophe point #7 & #8 - invisible birds
- kiyoharu kuwayama & masayoshi urabe - from the abolition port - songs from under the floorboards

- francisco lópez - machines - elevator bath
- lovesliescrushing - crwth (chorus redux) - line

- machinefabriek - daas - cold spring
- aaron martin - worried about the fire - experimedia
- christopher mcfall - the body as i left it - sourdine
- olivier messiaen - visions de l'amen (sarah rothenberg & marilyn nonken) - bridge
- stephan micus - bold as light - ecm
- jon mueller - the whole - type

- toshimaru nakamura - egrets - samadhisound
- joanna newsom - have one on me - drag city
- phill niblock - sound delta - touch
- bj nilsen - the invisible city - touch
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - space finale - editions mego (lp)

- organum - sorow - siren records
- ben owen - frying pan light ship, hudson river, new york, ny - winds measure recordings

- charlemagne palestine - strumming music: for piano, harpsichord and string ensemble - sub rosa
- arvo pärt - symphony no. 4 - ecm
- benoît pioulard - lasted - kranky
- piiptsjilling - wurdskrieme - experimedia

- akira rabelais - caduceus - samadhisound
- marc ribot - silent movies - pi recordings
- max richter - infra - fat cat
- steve roden - une pierre, des arcs et des oreilles
- rv paintings - samoa highway - helen scarsdale agency (lp)

- conrad schnitzler - zug - m=minimal
- simon scott - nivalis - secret furry hole
- simon scott - traba - immune (lp)
- seaworthy + matt rösner - two lakes - 12k
- trygve seim / andreas utnem - purcor - ecm
- colin andrew sheffield - slowly - mystery sea
- matt shoemaker - isolated agent / stranding behavior - elevator bath (lp)
- matt shoemaker - soundtrack for dislocation - elevator bath
- richard skelton (clouwbeck) - from which the river rises - sustain-release
- solo andata - ritual - desire path recordings
- kim doo soo - evening river - p.s.f. records
- steinbrüchel - a\b\d\d - binemusic
- supersilent - supersilent 10 - rune grammofon
- supersilent - supersilent 11 - rune grammofon (lp)
- swans - my father will guide me up a rope to the sky - young gods (lp + 2 cd)

- tape & bill wells - fugue - immune
- scott tuma - dandelion - digitalis - 2010 (lp)

- various - shutter island (music from the motion picture) - rhino records
- violence and the sacred performing as viosac - dawning luminosity - vats

- chris watson - a journey south - touch
- stian westerhus - pitch black star spangled - rune grammofon (lp)
- simon whetham - beneath the swinging bridge - mystery sea
- jana winderen - energy field - touch
- mark peter wright - inanimate life (a catalogue) - 3leaves

- yellow swans - going places - type
- yellow swans - being there - type
- neil young - will to love/cortez the killer/dead man theme - reprise records (lp)
- richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits - jagjaguwar lp reissue

- hans zimmer - inception (music from the motion picture) - reprise records/watertower music

(films from 2010)

dvds

- chantal akerman - eclipse series 19: chantal akerman in the seventies - criterion
- michelangelo antonioni - red desert - criterion
- stan brakhage - by brakhage: an anthology, volume two - criterion
- john ford - stagecoach - criterion
- michael haneke - the white ribbon - sony
- julian jarrold, james marsh, anand tucker - the red riding trilogy - ifc
- sidney lumet - the fugitive kind - criterion
- terrence malick - the thin red line - criterion
- leo mccarey - make way for tomorrow - criterion
- steve mcqueen - hunger - criterion
- martin provost - séraphine - music box films
- nicholas ray - bigger than life - criterion
- carol reed - night train to munich - criterion
- götz spielmann - revanche - criterion
- jan troell - everlasting moments - criterion
- wim wenders - paris, texas - criterion
- william wyler/richard boleslawski - hell's heroes / three godfathers - mgm

(a couple more criterions i have to check out still)

films

- cohen brothers - true grit
- tarrl lightowler - i flood myself with light
- christopher nolan - inception
- martin scorsese - shutter island
- michael winterbottom - the killer inside me

books

- joseph beuys - parallel processes - schirmer/mosel
- oliver byrne - the first six books of the elements of euclid with coloured diagrams and symbols - 1847 - taschen
- susan derges - elemental - steidl
- bob dylan - bob dylan in america (sean wilentz) - doubleday
- antonio lópez garcía - antonio lópez garcía: drawings - dap (entry title comes from random sentences found within)
- richard cook & brian morton - the penguin jazz guide: the history of the music in the 1001 best albums - penguin press
- lars müller - windfall light: the visual language of ecm - lars müller publishers
- bram stoker - dracula - everyman's library
- david toop - sinister resonance: the mediumship of the listener - continuum
- robert walser - microscripts - new directions/christine burgin
- h.g. wells - the time machine, the invisible man, the war of the worlds - everyman's library

(will probably add some more stuff in the next week or two)