Tuesday, December 27, 2011

MMXI

most listened to music in 2011 :






- andrew chalk - violin by night - faraway press - lp

- taylor deupree & marcus fischer - in a place of such graceful shapes - 12k - cd + 7"

- lawrence english - the peregrine - experimedia - lp

- fennesz - seven stars - touch - 10"

- fire! with jim o'rourke - unreleased? - rune grammofon - lp

- tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 - kranky - lp

- ingenting kollektiva - fragments of night - oiseaux invisibles - lp

- stephan mathieu - a static place - 12k - cd

- nils petter molvaer - baboon moon - columbia - cd

- the necks - mindset - rer megacorp - cd

- mickey newbury - looks like rain - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - frisco mabel joy - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - heaven help the child - drag city - lp reissue
- mickey newbury - better days - drag city - lp

- ohayo (andreas söderström, johan berthling, per eklund) - "the state we are in" - häpna - cd

- nils økland & sigbjørn apeland - lysøen - hommage à ole bull - ecm - cd

- popul vuh - werner herzog soundtracks - spv - cd boxset reissue

- radiohead - the king of limbs - ticker tape ltd/xl recordings - lp

- john surman - flashpoint: ndr jazz workshop - april '69 - cuneiform records - cd + dvd

- david sylvian - died in the wool | manafon variations - samadhisound - cd

- talk talk - laughing stock - ba da bing - lp reissue
- mark hollis - mark hollis - ba da bing - lp reissue

- tindersticks - claire denis film scores 1996-2009 - constellation - 5 lps

- chris watson - el tren fantasma - touch cd + lp


books :



- morton feldman - vertical thoughts: morton feldman and the visual arts - irish museum of modern art

- richard serra - richard serra drawing: a retrospective - the menil collection

- rob young - electric eden: unearthing britain's visionary music - faber & faber

movies / dvd / bluray :


- tomas alfredson - tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

- terrence malick - the tree of life

- steve mcqueen - shame

- béla tarr & ágnes hranitzky - the turin horse

- krzysztof kieślowski - three colors - criterion

- sidney lumet - 12 angry men - criterion (esp. the supplement : john bailey discusses boris kaufman)

- roman polanski - cul-de-sac - criterion

- ken loach - kes - criterion

(a condensed list of the many albums we enjoyed this year. which are usually posted here)

noyé par des voix

(tarrl lightowler image for arthur de eriomém's on line release)

more music from 2011 (in addition to our smaller list)

- luigi turra - ki - and/oar
- kraig grady - our rainy weason / nuilagi - either/oar
- lethe - dry ice on steel tables - either/oar
- kiyoshi mizutani & kiyoharu kuwayama - interlude - either/oar
- tom waits - bad as me deluxe edition - anti-
- yannick dauby & wan-shuen tsai (shijingren) - treasure - atelier hui-kan

- scott tuma - peeper / love songs loud and lonely - bathetic records
- morton feldman - last composition: piano, violin, viola, cello (aki takahashi, mifune tsuji, matthijs bunschoten, tadashi tanaka) - bvhaast

- colin stetson - new history warfare vol. 2 = judges = - constellation
- colin stetson - those who didn't run - constellation
- ar - wolf notes - corbel stone press
- john luther adams - four thousand holes - cold blue music

- akron/family - s/t ii: the cosmic birth and journey of shinju tnt - dead oceans
- king creosote & jon hopkins - diamond mine - domino
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch/digitalis - lp reissue
- bill callahan - apocalypse - drag city
- six organs of admittance - asleep on the floodplain - drag city

- sinikka langeland w/ arve henriksen, trygve seim, anders jormin, markku ounaskari - the land that is not - ecm
- giovanna pessi & susanna wallumrød - if grief could wait - ecm
- george ivanovitch gurdjieff - music of georges i. gurdjieff - ecm
- maurizio bianchi - hibernum - ee tapes
- rick reed - the way things go - elevator bath
- black swan - the quiet divide - experimedia

- loren connors - red mars - family vineyard

- jim haynes - the decline effect - helen scarsdale agency
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - big shadow montana - helen scarsdale agency
- alio die - honeysuckle - hic sunt leones

- arthur de eriomém - drowned by voices (japanese traditional music for four shakuhachi discovered by riley kelly lee and ralph samuelson) - invisible birds
- jessika kenney & eyvind kang - aestuarium - ideologic organ / editions mego - lp reissue
- sandy denny - the north star grassman and the ravens - island records - 2cd reissue (second disc has some great tracks)
- scott tuma - not for nobody - digitalis/immune - lp reissue
- tape - revelationes - immune/häpna
- james blackshaw - holly ep - important records

- bon iver - bon iver - jagjaguwar
- bon iver - calgary - jagjaguwar
- fovea hex - here is where we used to sing - janet records (w/ michael begg, colin potter and william basinski remix)

- tim hecker - dropped pianos - kranky
- sigur rós - inni - krúnk

- elodie (andrew chalk, timo van luijk) – echos pastoraux - la scie dorée
- stephan mathieu - remain - line

- simon scott - bunny - miasmah

- björk - biophilia - one little indian
- john cage - 108, 109, 110 - ogreogress

- six organs of admittance - maria kapel - pavilion (love tracks 1 & 8)

- alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto - summvs - raster-noton
- steinbrüchel - narrow - room40

- low - c'mon- sub pop records
- the hafler trio & autechre - ah3eo & ha3oe (ae3o3) - simply superior/die stadt
- jim o'rourke & christoph heemann - plastic palace people vol. 1 - streamline
- bellows (giuseppe ielasi, nicola ratti) - handcut - senufo editions
- eliane radigue - geelriandre / arthesis - senufo editions
- kassel jaeger - algae - senufo editions
- miles davis - miles davis quintet: live in europe 1967 - the bootleg series vol. 1 - sony
- kammerflimmer kollektief - teufelskamin - staubgold

- radiohead - supercollider/the butcher - ticker tape ltd
- hildur gudnadottir - without sinking - touch - lp reissue
- yannick dauby - arches - touch radio
- chris watson & marcus davidson - cross pollination - touch
- deceh - fundamental structures - the tapeworm
- jazkamer - chestnut thornback tar - type

- adrian dziewanski - orbital decay - vacant tapes

- karlheinz stockhausen / zeitkratzer - old school: karlheinz stockhausen - zeitkratzer records

Sunday, December 11, 2011

ib004.5 (special preorder edition)

fragments of night ib004

sadly, we found most copies of our new record to have a manufacturing error.
the manufacturer is in the process of making new copies, and we should get them in 3-4 weeks.

as a thank you to customers that have already purchased the record, and customers that preorder it, we have made a special edition *, which is the standard record with a bonus dvdr of a film titled i can feel the see falling over my head *

the video is a transcendental harmonium playing, lit only by fireplace. the sound of the harmonium gently mingles with the crackling of wood.

a copy of this fine film, as well as a download coupon, will be included with all prepayments made from now until the ship date.

thanks for the patience.

oiseaux invisibles/the art of memory