confusion over vampirebats ingesting darkstars : best film and music in the year of our lord twenty twenty

Bea Kwan Lim

:: music ::

Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie Another Flower (Darla Records) CD ❀forever torn apart by this loss..❀
J.A. Seazer A Journal of the Plague Year (FUJI) CD
J.A. Seazer Song of the Lily 1980 (FUJI) CD
C.C.C.C. Amplified Crystal II (New Forces) CD
Charles Curtis Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 (Saltern Imprint) CD
Incapacitants Onomatopée Suicida (Total Black) Digital
zeroh BLQLYTE (Leaving Records) Digital
Jon Hassell Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (ndeya Records) Digital
Mary Lattimore Silver Ladders (Ghostly International) Digital
Tashi Dorji Stateless (Drag City) Digital
His Name Is Alive Ghost Tape EXP (Disciples) Digital

:: film ::

Steve McQueen Small Axe

:: books ::

Jean Ray The Great Nocturnal (Wakefield Press)
Jean Ray Circles of Dread (Wakefield Press)
Kashina East of Borneo (Antifurniture)
Unica Zürn The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts (Atlas Press)
Akiko Miyakoshi I Dream of a Journey (Kids Can Press)
Marcel Brion Waystations of the Deep Night (Wakefield Press)
Varlam Shamalov Sketches of the Criminal World (New York Review of Books)
Eliot Weinberger Angels & Saints (New Directions)
Léon Spilliaert From the Depths of the Soul (Ludion)

:: beautiful forever-paw gifts ::

Robert Rauschenberg The Early 1950s (Menil Foundation)
Käthe Kollwitz Prints, Process, Politics (Getty Research Institute)
Yuri Norstein Hedgehog in the Fog print
Josef von Sternberg Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930 - 1934 Limited Edition Indicator UK
Peter Watkins Edvard Munch (Eureka/MoC UK)
Buster Keaton The Navigator / Seven Chances / Battling Butler (Eureka UK)
Randall McClellan The Healing Music of Rana (Sun Ark Recordings)
Curtis Harrington Night Tide Limited Edition (Indicator UK)
David Sylvian & Russell Mills Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory (Virgin)
Steve Lake, Paul Griffiths Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM (Granta UK)
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King 3CD Box (Discipline Global Mobile)

:: frequent sighs from yore ::

Harold Budd & Clive Wright A Song for Lost Blossoms (Darla Records) CD
Harold Budd Agua (Sine Records) CD
Harold Budd & Brian Eno The Pavilion of Dreams (Editions EG) CD
The Chameleons Script of the Bridge (Statik) CD
Morita Doji Complete Recordings (Universal Music Japan) CD
This Mortal Coil Complete Recordings (4AD) CD
Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul (Enterprise) CD
Digable Planets Blowout Comb (Pendulum Records) CD
Misty Blue 4/4 Sentimental Painkiller (Pastel Music) CD
Geinoh Yamashirogumi Osorezan / Doh no Kenbai (Leemoon Records) CD

Marguerite Yourcenar Fires (University of Chicago Press)
Joseph Joubert The Journals of Joseph Joubert (New York Review of Books)
Philippe Jaccottet Seedtime: Notebooks 1954-79 (Seagull Books)
Maurice Scève Emblems of Desire (Archipelago Books)
Paul Willems The Cathedral of Mist (Wakefield Press)

(Part 7 in a series of contemporary artist's best of lists for 2020)