Sunday, January 3, 2021

confusion over velocity indicating darkmatter : best music in the year of our lord twenty twenty


John Spell's rotation of music in 2020

LPS/EPS/SINGLES

Thomas Köner Motus [Mille Plateaux]
Delphine Dora L’Inattingible [three:four/meakusma]
Mirror Some Days It Rains All Night [La Scie Dorée]
The House In The Woods Walk One/Walk Two/Walk Three/Walk Four [self-released]
Autechre PLUS [Warp]
Siavash Amini & Saåad All Lanes Of Lilac Evening [Opal Tapes]
Vladislav Delay Rakka [Cosmo Rhythmatic]
SHXCXCHCXSH VOOO [Mord]
Shinichi Atobe Yes [DDS]
Kareem Ali Soul Flex [Fort Evil Fruit]
Autechre SIGN [Warp]
Saskia Eeuwig Op Reis [Stroom]
Elodie Le Nid d’Ivoire [La Scie Dorée]
Robert Haigh Black Sarabande [Unseen Worlds]
Lucy Johnson Soundtracks 2013-2019 Vol. 1 [Opal Tapes]
Ai Aso The Faintest Hint [Ideologic Organ]
Midori Hirano Invisible Island [Sonic Pieces]
Imperial Valley Imperial Valley [Other Forms Of Consecrated Life]
Ann Margaret Hogan Honeysuckle Burials [Downwards]



REISSUES/REMASTERS/EXPANDED EDITIONS/BOX SETS

Pye Corner Audio The Black Mill Tapes (10th Anniversary Box) [Lapsus]
Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy [Skire/Night School]
Global Communication Transmissions [Evolution]
Leila Like Weather [Modern Love/Thank U Records]
Pole 1 2 3 [Mute]
Jóhann Jóhannsson Retrospective II [Deutsche Grammophon]
SND Tplay/Newtables/Travelog (Special Extended Editions) [SND]



ON STAPLE ROTATION FOR 2020

Victoria Spivey Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol. 1-4 [Document Records]
Dexter Gordon One Flight Up [Blue Note]
Virginia Astley From Gardens Where We Feel Secure [Rough Trade/Happy Valley Records]
Rapoon Fallen Gods (Cidar) [Staalplaat]
Maurizio 12”s [M-Series]
Bullwackies All Stars Dub Unlimited [Wackie’s]
Herman Chin-Loy Aquarius Dub [Aquarius]
Saint Etienne Boxette [Foreign Office]
Harold Budd The Pavillion Of Dreams [Obscure]



BOOKS

Thought Forms: A Record Of Clairvoyant Investigation Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater [Sacred Bones Books]
Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics [Getty Research Institute]
John Cage: A Mycological Foray [Atelier Éditions]
The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics In The Japanese ‘68 [Verso]
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest & Possibility Marc Lamont Hill [Haymarket Books]


CHERISHED GIFTS IN 2020

Isle: Changes In The Times And The Seasons (Paintings By Andrew Chalk) Andrew Chalk [Faraway Press]
Into The Mylar Chamber Ira Cohen [Fulgur Press]
Lake Lahontan / Lake Bonneville Michael Light [Radius Books]

 

(Part 6 in a series of contemporary artist's best of lists for 2020) 

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