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NEWSLETTER - January 19th, 2016
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Select Top 10 Lists of 2015 by a Dozen Musicians & Music Journalists
On New Year's Day, I asked some dozen musicians and journalists to contribute a Top 10 Recommended Disc List of 2015. I said that categorizes and format were unimportant and that your choice could also be a reissue or historic recording. I also mentioned that they could give three honorable mentions which could also include books or films or anything someone wanted to recommend. As you can see, each list is very different and informative in different ways. The contributors are listed in alphabetical order by last name, except that I put myself last, since my list is a little longer. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Please take your time in reading these, it will be well worth it since everyone here is a serious listener. - BLG
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PAUL ACQUARO 2015 List:
- Mette Rasmussen / Chris Corsano Duo - All The Ghosts At Once (Relative Pitch Records)
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil - You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
- Pulverize the Sound - Pulverize the Sound (Relative Pitch)
- Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed - Artifacts (482 Music)
- Marcelo dos Reis & Angelica V. Salvi - Concentric Rinds (Cipsela)
- Ken Vandermark & Nate Wooley - East by Northwest (Audiographic)
- Joe McPhee and Paal Nilssen-Love - Candy (PnL)
- Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor - Tales of the Unforeseen (TUM)
- Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House - Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt)
- Mary Halvorson - Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
Honorable mentions:
- Mat Maneri and Daniel Levin - The Transcendent Function (Clean Feed)
- Simon Nabatov - Projections (Clean Feed)
- Scott DuBois - Winter Light (ACT)
Paul Acquaro is a newer friend who I've been going to gigs with and talking at length about music. Mr. Acquaro writes reviews and does some editing for the ever-informative FreeJazzBlog. Paul has also been helping us rescue our database, Thanks bubbie
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CHUCK BETTIS 2015 List:
This one goes to 11!!!
BONANZAS [HINO KOSHIRO/AKIHIKO ANDO/TESUSHI NISHIKAWA/YASUSHI YOSHIDA] -
Bonanzas (Meatbox 21; Japan)
DON'T DJ "Magical Power Manko" (Birdfriend; USA) cassette/download
EARTHEATER "RIP Chrysalis" (Hausu Mountain 38; USA) cd/lp/usb necklace/download
GOAT [HINO KOSHIRO/AKIHIKO ANDO/TESUSHI NISHIKAWA/ATSUMI TAGAMI] - Rhythm & Sound (Unknownmix 35/Headz 202; Japan)
GROUP A "70 + a" (self release; Japan) cdr/cassette/download
KYOZIN YUENI DEKAI [YOSHIHITO MIZUUCHI/SHINJI WADA] - Kyozin Yueni Dekai (self release; Japan)
MAKI ASAKAWA "s/t" (Honest Jon's 111; UK) cd
M.C. SCHMIDT "batu malublab" (Megaphone 3 / Knock'em Dead 31; USA ) cd/lp
NONOKO YOSHIDA "Lotus" (Nonoya; Japan) cd
SEIJAKU [HAINO KEIJI/NASUNO MITSURU/ICHIRAKU YOSHIMITSU] - Last Live (Doubt 156/157; Japan)
SEIJAKU [HAINO KEIJI/NASUNO MITSURU/ICHIRAKU YOSHIMITSU] - After Seijaku (Doubt 158/159; Japan)
Chuck Bettis worked at DMG for many years until recently, helping us stay afloat, writing an occasional review and keeping us focused. Chuck is also one of Downtown's best musicians, doing electronics/laptop and vocal manipulations. Check out any of his solo or other collaborations. His recent solo set at The Stone was astonishing.
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DAVID FRICKE - 2015 Recommended List:
Maria Schneider Orchestra - The Thompson Fields (artistShare AS0137)
Bjork - Vulnicura (One Little Indian TPLP1231)
Circle Around the Sun: Interludes for the Dead (Rhino R2 552376) Note: This was the intermission music for the Fare Thee Well shows in Chicago - original pieces/jams composed and improvised by a quartet led by guitarist Neal Casal and keyboard player Adam MacDougal of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood.
Jack DeJohnette - Made in Chicago (ECM 2392)
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol.12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 (Columbia/Legacy 88875124412) Note: This is the 6 CD edition.
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (KScope 315)
Glenn Phillips - Lost at Sea: 40t Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Shagrat ENT017/Feeding Tube FTR173/Snow Star SS15)
Mercury Rev - The Light in You (Bella Union 504)
Brad Mehldau - 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch 7559-79507)
Rhiannon Giddens - Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch 7559-795428)
Honorable Mention - Books
Dream Baby Dream: Suicide, a New York Story, by Kris Needs (Omnibus Press)
Los Lobos: Dream in Blue, by Chris Morris (University of Texas Press)
David Fricke is the Senior Writer, Rolling Stone; Contributing Writer, MOJO; Host of The Writer's Block, SiriusXM Radio. Mr. Fricke is also one of the finest liner note writers/historians for a myriad of sixties/seventies box-sets and reissues.
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KURT GOTTSCHALK TOP 10 of 2015
Ted Hearne - The Source (New Amsterdam)
Heinz Holliger - Machaut-Transkriptionen (ECM)
ICE - In the Light of Air: ICE Performs Anna Thorsvaldsdottir (Sono Luminus)
Derek Charke - Tundra Songs (CMC)
Igor Levit - Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski (Sony Classical)
Prince - HITnRUN Phase One (NPG Records)
Eve Risser - des pas sur la neige (Clean Feed)
Henry Threadgill Zooid - In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi Recordings)
Julia Wolfe - Anthracite Fields (Cantaloupe)
Z-Country Paradise - Z-Country Paradise (Z-Paradise Records)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Funkadelic - First Ya' Gotta Shake the Gate (CKunspyruhz) Three discs of the best stuff to come out of the P-Funk camp in ages
Tristan Perich - Compositions series (Physical Editions) Special award for making it too hard to pick just one
The Velvet Underground - The Matrix Tapes (Universal) About time. Now where's the proper issue of the End of Cole Ave. tapes?
Kurt Gottschalk writes for many magazines, on-line & otherwise: the Wire, the Voice, Time Out, All About Jazz, I Care If You Listen and Classicalite. He has a fine radio show on WFMU called Miniature Minotaurs. His music journalism has evolved from doing jazz/rock/improv reviews to more modern classical/composer in recent years. In the Summer of 2012, Mr. Gottschalk organized a performance two John Cage pieces (for Cage's 100th birthday) in which hundreds of records were broken all around our store. We are still finding pieces of records in assorted nooks & crannies three years later!?!
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MARY HALVORSON 2015 Recommended List:
Susan Alcorn- Soledad (Relative Pitch Records)
Nels Cline & Julian Lage- Room (Mack Avenue)
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth- Epicenter (Cleanfeed Records)
Liberty Ellman- Radiate (Pi Records)
Ingrid Laubrock- Ubatuba (Firehouse 12 Records)
Kris Davis Infrasound- Save Your Breath (Cleanfeed Records)
Jon Irabagon- Inaction is an Action (Irabbagast Records)
Ben Goldberg- Orphic Machine (BAG Productions)
Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed- Artifacts (482 Music)
Tim Berne's Snakeoil- You've Been Watching Me (ECM Records)
Mary Halvorson is one of the distinctive and talked about guitarists to emerge in the past decade. Her work with Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jessica Pavone & Tom Rainey is consistently engaging. Each of her own discs as a leader just keep getting better. Check out her current solo guitar effort "Meltframe" to hear what serious listeners & guitar freaks are all talking about. - BLG
****** STEVE HOLTJE 2015 List:
1. WILLIAM PARKER: For Those Who Are, Still (AUM Fidelity/Centering AUM092/93/94) 3CD
2. ALLEN LOWE: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Where a Cigarette is Smoked by Ten Men (Constant Sorrow 555) CD
3. ALLEN LOWE: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: We Will Gather When We Gather (Constant Sorrow 666) CD
4. ALLEN LOWE: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Ballad for Albert (Constant Sorrow 777) CD
5. ALLEN LOWE: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Man with Guitar: Where's Robert Johnson? (Constant Sorrow 888) CD
6. DAVID S. WARE/APOGEE: Birth of a Being (AUM Fidelity AUM96/97) [reissue] 2CD
7. FRANK GRATKOWSKI/ACHIM KAUFMANN/WILBERT DE JOODE/OKKYUNG LEE/RICHARD BARRETT/TONY BUCK: Skein (Leo LR708) CD
8. MATTHEW SHIPP TRIO: The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear Blue Series 57211) CD
9. BLUE BUDDHA: Blue Buddha (Tzadik TZ4010) CD
10. WIRE: Wire (Pink Flag PF22) CD
Honorable Mentions:
THE UPPERCUT: MATTHEW SHIPP - MAT WALERIAN DUO: Live at Okuden (ESP-Disk' ESP5007) CD [listed here because of conflict of interest]
WHOTE: Moons (VII Sounds VII1401) CD, LP
STEVE HOLTJE is jack of all trades at ESP-Disk', a lapsed music journalist, and a composer whose soundtrack album A Man Full of Days was released in 2015 on MechaBenzaiten.
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HENRY KAISER 2015 LIST
(in no particular order)
Evan Parker & Motoharu Yoshizawa - Two Chaps Solo & Duo (Chap Chap/Universal)
Julian Lage - Worlds Fair (Modern Lore)
Richard Thompson - Still (Fantasy)
Sonar - Black Light (Cuneiform)
Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio [With Evan Parker/Paul Lovens] - Features (Intakt)
Irene Schweizer/Han Bennink - Welcome Back (Intakt)
Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg - Celestial Weather (TUM)
Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Enough Still Not To Know (SOFA)
Eddie Prevost / John Edwards / Alexander v. Schlippenbach / Evan Parker / Christof Thewes - 3 Nights At Cafe Oto (Matchless)
Grateful Dead - 30 Trips Around the Sun Box (deaddotnet)
honorable mentions
Europe at Midnight Dave Hutchinson Rebellion (novel)
Fargo season two various directors FX (television show)
A Borrowed Man Gene Wolfe Tor (novel)
Mr. Kaiser has remained one of the most dynamic, diverse, influential and creative guitarists anywhere for more than forty years. Henry also has big ears, checking out loads of great of music from around the planet and often makes tasty recommendations for me & DMG. Mr. Kaiser had some ten releases in 2015, each one very different and well-worth checking out. All should be currently in stock at DMG
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GLENN KENNY 2015 Recommended List:
It probably is not a coincidence that a few of the artists you have also asked have been responsible for some of my favorite music this year. So I would be remis were I not to cite, separately from the poll, four amazing examples of their music, which happened to drop in 2015.
The Artaud Beats (Geoff Leigh, Yumi Hara Chris Cutler John Greaves), "Logos," Bonobo's Ark CD
Fred Frith and Barry Guy, "Backscatter Bright Blue," Intakt CD
Mary Halvorson, "Meltframe," Firehouse 12 CD
John Zorn, "The True Discoveries of Witches And Demons," Tzadik CD
Here are my poll-picks-proper:
TEN DISCS THAT NEED MORE EARS
1) Mette Henriette, self-titled, ECM
2) Jack De Johnette, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Larry Grey, "Made In Chicago," ECM CD
3) Sunn 0))), "Kannon," Southern Lord CD and LP
4) Matthew Shipp Trio, "To Duke," RogueArt CD
5) Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, "Space/Time*Redemption," Tum CD
6) Mbongawa Star, "From Kinsasha," World Circuit CD
7) Henry Threadgill/Zooid, "In For A Penny In For A Pound," Pi CD
8) The Kandinsky Effect, "Somnambulist," Cuneiform CD
9) Glenn Mercer "Incidental Hum," Bar None CD
10) Joe McPhee, Jamie Saft, Joe Morris, Charles Downs, "Ticonderoga," Clean Feed CD
THREE HONORABLE MENTIONS
Schnellertollermeier, "X," Cuneiform CD
Will Mason Ensemble, "Beams of the Huge Night," New Amsterdam CD
Film: "Hard To Be A God," directed by Alexei German
Glenn Kenny is a longtime movie critic (currently for the NY Times), incisive music journalist, progressive & rock music historian. His weekly visited to DMG
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MIKE PANICO 2015 List:
FOOD - This Is Not A Miracle ECK
JOHN AMBERCROMBIE - First Quartet - ECM
DOUBLE BASSE - This Is Not Art - Clean Feed
SATAN IN PLAIN CLOTHES - All Included - Clean Feed
BJORK - Vulnicura - One Little Indian
KARL BURGER/KIRK KNUFFKE - Moon - No Business
WEATHER REPORT - The Legendary Tapes 1978 & 1981 - Legacy
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - Fillmore East October 4th & 5th 1968 - Legacy
TIM BOWNESS - Stupid Things Mean The World - Esoteric
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - BBC 1968 - 1977 - Virgin
Honorable Mentions:
ORUAN ORTIZ & LEO SMITH - Vision Festival 2015
FAUST 11/19/15 - Utrecht, Netherlands
KING CRIMSON - September 2015, Utrecht, Netherlands
Mike Panico co-runs the great Relative Pitch label and works for Sony Legacy in their archive department. Mike is also one of my best friends and who keeps the members of our breakfast club informed on practically every creative music festival around the world. Hence, we try to attend these festivals when time & finance allow.
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KEVIN REILLY 2015 Recommended Recordings:
I selected nothing on Relative Pitch which means several of my favorites are excluded.
10 cds, 5 LPs 2 books and 1 DVD. No repeats. Only one release by each leader. LPs are all "LP only releases"
CDs
Mary Halvorson - Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
Nonoko Yoshida - Lotus (Nonoyo)
Hermione Johnson - The Shape of a Mouth (iiii - 4 eyes records)
Mural - Tempo (Sofa)
Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House - Roulette Of The Cradle (Intakt Records)
Evan Parker, Joe Morris, Nate Wooley - Ninth Square (Clean Feed)
The New Monuments (Ben Hall, C. Spencer Yeh, Don Dietrich) - Long Pig (Bocian Records)
Henry Threadgill's Zooid - In For A Penny, In For A Pound (Pi Recordings)
Tom Rainey Trio With Ingrid Laubrock And Mary Halvorson - Hotel Grief (Intakt Records)
Susanna Gartmayer - AOUIE - Bass Clarinet Solos (God Records, Chmafu Nocords)
LPs
Knuckle Under - Jessica Pavone (Taiga)
Ava Mendoza - Unnatural Ways (New Atlantis)
Will Guthrie - Sacree Obsession (iDEAL Recordings)
Virginia Genta, Dag Stiberg, Jon Wesseltoft, David Vanzan - Det Kritiske Punkt (Feeding Tube Records)
Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace - Stolen Car (Golden Lab Records)
Books
Spare - Tim Berne & Steve Byram book and cd (Screwgun)
Site Specific - Ken Vandermark book and 2 solo cds (Audiographic Records)
DVD
Over the Pavement: Detroit's Festival of Art Music DVD (Tom Weber Films)
Kevin Reilly co-runs the Relative Pitch label and is a dedicated & longtime volunteer at The Stone. He is extremely helpful and supportive to many musicians around the world, often documenting gigs and encouraging young musicians known and unknown. Mr. Reilly sends a monthly recommended gig list called 'The Shortlist', which has 50+ subscribers It is free and useful if you are searching for challenging music in the NYC area. Kevin is driven to discover under-recognized musicians from around the world who are doing something different or unique and consistently informs me of any that I might've missed.
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PHIL ZAMPINO 2015 Rec List:
Nate Wooley - (Dance To) The Early Music (Clean Feed; CF 350CD)
Tatsuya Nakatani & Michel Doneda - Duo (Nakatani-Kobo; KOBO-6)
Schlippenbach / Parker / Edwards / Prevost - 3 Nights at Cafe Oto (Matchless; MRCD93.1.2.3 MRDVD93) 3 CDs, a DVD, and a solid 80-page book of images and text, capturing 3 nights
John Butcher & Andy Moor - Experiments With a Leaf (Unsounds; 48U)
Paolo Angeli - S'U (Recommended Records; ReRPA8)
Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane and Langsont Hughes (Bolt; BR POP13)
Fred Frith - Field Days (The Amanda Loops) (Fred Records/ ReR; RER FRA8)
Peter Evans / Tim Dahl / Mike Pride - Pulverize The Sound (Relative Pitch; RPR 1039)
Steve Coleman - Synovial Joints (Pi Recordings; PI 57)
Coclea - Coclea (Shhpuma; SHH015CD)
Phil Zampino runs the great Squidco Distribution & Record Store in North Carolina. We are old friends and spent many nights at the original Knitting Factory. Both of us are committed to promoting the important music that comes from ReR and Recommended Records, as well as underground/experimental and challenging music from around the world.
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BLG Section:
When I work on my year end list, I go through all 52 weekly newsletters and compile some dozen smaller lists (main list, reissues & historic discs, obscure, vocal, etc.). I also try to relisten to certain records and search for discs that I had forgotten about. This is a long process that I am still working on and never really ends. The original/main list has more than 500 items on it so boiling it down to 25 isn't that simple. But here goes:
BRUCE LEE GALLANTER's 25 Favorite/Recommended Discs of 2015 in alphabetical order:
TIM BERNE With OSCAR NORIEGA/RYAN FERREIRA/MATT MITCHELL/CHES SMITH - You've Been Watching Me (ECM 2443; Germany)
MICHAEL BISIO With KIRK KNUFFKE/ART BAILEY/MICHAEL WIMBERLY - Accortet (Relative Pitch 1040)
BLUE BUDDHA [LOUIE BELOGENIS/DAVE DOUGLAS/BILL LASWELL/TYSHAWN SOREY] Blue Buddha (Tzadik 4010)
KRIS DAVIS INFRASOUND [With BEN GOLDBERG/OSCAR NOREIGA/JOACHIM BADENHORST/ANDREW BISHOP/NATE RADLEY/GARY VERSACE/JIM BLACK] - Save Your Breath (Clean Feed 322; Portugal)
JACK DeJOHNETTE With MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS/ROSCOE MITCHELL/HENRY THREADGILL /LARRY GRAY - Made in Chicago (ECM 2392; USA)
SCOTT DUBOIS With GEBHARD ULLMANN/THOMAS MORGAN/KRESTEN OSGOOD - Winter Light (ACT 9810; Germany)
FRED FRITH With LOTTE ANKER/KARLA KILHLSTEDT/WILLIE WYANT/KIKU DAY/ARTE SAX QUARTET/ARDITTI STRING QUARTET/ et al - Field Days (ReR/FRA 8; UK)
BEN GOLDBERG With CARLA KIHLSTEDT/MYRA MELFORD/NELS CLINE/GREG COHEN/KENNY WOLLESEN/CHES SMITH - Orphic Machine (Bag 07; Royal Potato Family USA)
WAYNE HORVITZ With RON MILES/TIM YOUNG/PEGGY LEE/SARA SCHOENBECK/KEITH LOWE/ERIC EAGLE - Some Places are Forever Afternoon [11 Places for Richard Hugo] (Songlines 1612; Canada
HENRY KAISER & RAY RUSSELL [With STEVE ADAMS/PHILLIP GREENLIEF/ARAM SHELTON/JOSHUA ALLEN/ MICHAEL MANRING/DAMON SMITH/WEASEL WALTER /WILLIAM WINANT] - The Celestial Squid (Cuneiform 403; USA)
HENRY KAISER/ROBERT MUSSO With NICK DIDKOVSKY/JESSE KRAKOW/WEASEL WALTER - Echoes for Sonny [LTD Edition](MuWorks 88; USA)
INGRID LAUBROCK ANTI-HOUSE [MARY HALVORSON/KRIS DAVIS/JOHN HEBERT/TOM RAINEY + OSCAR NOREIGA] - Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt 252; Switzerland)
MATT MITCHELL With CHRIS SPEED / CHRIS TORDINI / DAN WEISS - Vista Accumulation (Pi Recordings 62; USA) - 2 CD Set
NICOLE MITCHELL/TOMEKA REID/MIKE REED - Artifacts (482 Music 1093; USA)
MURAL [With JIM DENLEY/KIM MYHR/INGAR ZACH] - Tempo [3 CD Set] (Sofa 547; Norway)
EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC SEPTET [With GEORGE LEWIS/NED ROTHENBERG /IKUE MORI/OKKYUNG LEE/PETER EVANS/SAM PLUTA] - Seven (Victo 127; Canada)
EVAN PARKER/JOHN EDWARDS/EDDIE PREVOST/ALEX VON SCHLIPPENBACH/CHRISTOF THEWES - 3 Nights at Cafe Oto [3 CD+1 DVD Set] (Matchless 93.1.2.3; UK)
TOM RAINEY TRIO With INGRID LAUBROCK/MARY HALVORSON - Hotel Grief (Intakt 256; Switzerland)
THE RESONANCE ENSEMBLE [KEN VANDERMARK/DAVE REMPIS/MIKOLAJ TRZASKA/WACLAW ZIMPEL/MAGNUS BROO/PER-AKE HOLMLANDER/STEVE SWELL/CHRISTOF KURZMANN/MARK TOKAR/TIM DAISY/MICHAEL ZERANG] - Double Arc (Not Two 936; Poland)
MATTHEW SHIPP CHAMBER ENSEMBLE With MICHAEL BISIO/MAT MANERI - The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael (Relative Pitch 1035; USA)
CHES SMITH and THESE ARCHES With TIM BERNE/TONY MALABY/MARY HALVORSON/ANDRE PARKINS - International Hoohah (ForTune 0033; Poland)
STEVE SWELL With PAUL FLAHERTY/C. SPENCER YEH/WEASEL WALTER/KEN VANDERMARK/MAGNUS BROO/MICHAEL VATCHER/NED ROTHERNBERG/GUILLERMO GREGORIO/FRED LONBERG-HOLM/DARIUS JONES/ et al [2 CD Set] (Not Two 929; Poland)
HENRY THREADGILL ZOOID With LIBERTY ELLMAN/CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN/JOSE DAVILA/ELIOT HUMBERTO KAVEE - In for a Penny, In for a Pound [2 CD Set] (Pi Recordings 58; USA)
NATE WOOLEY With INGRID LAUBROCK/MATT MORAN/SYLVIE COURVOISIER - Battle Pieces (Relative Pitch 1031)
JOHN ZORN//JAY CAMPBELL/MICHAEL NICOLAS/CHRIS OTTO/STEPHEN GOSLING + TYSHAWN SOREY - Hen to Pan (Tzadik 8329; USA)
JOHN ZORN//JOHN MEDESKI/MATT HOLLENBERG/KENNY GROHOWSKI + MARC RIBOT/TREVOR DUNN - The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons (Tzadik 8335; USA)
Up until the mid-nineties, it was not hard for me to come up with a 100 vocal/rock/roots discs that I dug every year. Things have obviously changed for me since I get few vocal promos and have to do my own research to find out about new bands/singers and new recordings. This year, I could barely put together my own Top 10 Vocal Records. I do read some magazines like Mojo, Shindig, the Big Takeover, Ugly Things and even the Wire to stay informed.
Bruce's Top 10+2 Vocal Discs in No Particular Order Except Robert Wyatt Remains First!
ROBERT WYATT With SOFT MACHINE/MATCHING MOLE/PHIL MANZANERA/BJORK/MICHAEL MANTLER/et al - Different Every Time [2 CD Set] (Domino 347; UK) - 2 CD Set - Retrospective & Raritie
RICHARD THOMPSON - Still (Fantasy 37274; USA)
JOANNA NEWSOM - Divers (Drag City; USA)
FRANK ZAPPA//ESA-PEKKA SALONEN/LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC - 200 Motels: The Suites [2 CD Set] (Zappa 19; USA)
RICKIE LEE JONES - The Other Side of Desire (Thirty Tigers; USA)
JACK DUPON - Tete de Chien (Musea fgbg 4797; France) - Amazing, eclectic & ultra-creative French prog/rock band that I caught at the Victo Fest in May - somewhere between Gong & Magma!
FUNKADELIC - First Ya' Gotta Shake the Gate (CKunspyruhz; USA) - 3 CD Set
JEN SHYU & JADE TONGUE [AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE/MAT MANERI/THOMAS MORGAN/DAN WEISS] - Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 61; USA)
MYCALE [SOFIA REI / AYELET ROSE GOTTLIEB / MALIKA ZARRA / SARA SERPA] - Gomory: The Book Of Angels Volume 25 (Tzadik 8332; USA)
JOHN HOLLENBECK + THE FRANKFURT RADIO BIGBAND With THEO BLECKMANN/KATE McGARRY/URI CAINE/GARY VERSACE - Songs We Like A Lot (Sunnyside 1412; USA)
THE ARTAUD BEATS [GEOFF LEIGH/JOHN GREAVES/CHRIS CUTLER/YUMI HARA] - Logos (ReR AB1; UK)
STEVEN WILSON - Hand.Cannot.Erase (KScope 316; UK)
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