Sunday, January 3, 2021

confusion over vale implement destructionists : best music in the year of our lorder twenty twenty



Colin Andrew Sheffield's rotation of music in 2020

:: music ::

20. A.F. Jones A Jurist For Nothing (Gertrude Tapes) LP  
19. Sequences Woven Empty (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.) LP
18. Nightmares Sub-Sonic Language Transmission (self-released) Cassette
17. Bob Bellerue Amplified Discovery (Erratum) LP
16. Incapacitants Onomatopée Suicida (Total Black) LP
15. JT Whitfield Untitled (LIES Records) LP
14. Merzbow StereoAkuma (Room40) CD
13. Andy Bolus, Joseph Hammer, John Wiese Prelude To Hawaiian Radio (Helicopter/Troniks) CD
12. Emil Beaulieau Polio (Hospital Productions) Cassette
11. Jim Haynes Incomplete (No Rent) Cassette
10. Alex Keller & Sean O'Neill Ando (Loma Editions) CD
09. Organum Electronics Stilness (Siren Records) CD
08. Sparkle Division To Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence) LP
07. Skin Crime Stories And Studies Of Strange Things (Self Abuse) Cassette
06. Robert Turman Fulfilling The Absence Of Space Between The Opposite Meanings (self-released) Cassette
05. Tomoko Sauvage Fischgeist (Bohemian Drips) LP
04. Adam Pacione Mâché (self-released) digital
03. Aaron Dilloway / Robert Turman / John Wiese ‎Electronic Extension (Helicopter/Troniks) CD
02. William Basinski Lamentations (Temporary Residence) LP
01. Werner Dafeldecker Parallel Darks (Room40) LP

:: favorite reissues or archival releases (in alphabetical order) ::

Aube Spindrift (Robert & Leopold) LP
Walter Bishop Jr. Coral Keys (Real Gone Music/Black Jazz Records) CD
Black Unity Trio Al-Fatihah (Gotta Groove) LP
Art Blakey & The New Jazzmen Live In Paris ‘65 (Sam Records) LP
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Just Coolin' (Blue Note) LP
Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble Heliopolis (Holidays Records) LP
Bill Evans Live At Ronnie Scott's (Resonance Records) 2CD
Beatriz Ferreyra Echos + (Room40) LP
Flaming Tunes s/t (Superior Viaduct) LP
Giancarlo Gazzani Musica Per Commenti Sonori (Sonor Music Editions) LP
Heshoo Beshoo Group Armitage Road (We Are Busy Bodies) LP
Bobby Hutcherson The Kicker (Blue Note) LP
Incapacitants Operorue (Troniks/Helicopter) CD
Thelonious Monk Palo Alto (Impulse!) LP
Pale Saints The Comforts Of Madness 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (4AD) 2CD
Sonny Rollins Rollins In Holland (Resonance Records) 2CD
Saint Etienne Words And Music By Saint Etienne (Heavenly) 2CD
Robert Turman Chapter Eleven (Hanson/Helicopter) 4CD
Various Artists Black Fire (Now-Again Records) 5LP
Various Artists Bruton Brutoff (Trunk Records) LP

 
(Part 5 in a series of contemporary artist's best of lists for 2020)

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