this was my “best of 2011 show”…….all of the music, including what was used in the background, was from this year. for those of you into top 10 lists, here’s mine from the year, in no particular order:
a winged victory for the sullen – s/t – ( erased tapes/kranky )
black eagle child – lobelia ( preservation ) from right here in milwaukee, the artist anyway…..label is out of australia
moon duo – mazes – ( sacred bones )
peaking lights – 936 – ( not not fun )
hauschka & hildur gudnadottir – pan tone – ( sonic pieces )
cave – neverendless – ( drag city )
tim hecker – dropped pianos – ( kranky )
caretaker – an empty bliss beyond this world – ( history always favors the winners )
bill callahan – apocalypse – ( drag city )
group doueh – zayna jumma – ( sublime frequencies )
i don’t really feel like waxing on about the years releases, or anything else for that matter……..just saw a real bummer of a movie, and don’t want to think too much about anything right now…..so here’s the playlist from the show. hope everyone had a good holiday.
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artist – song – album – label
nils frahm – old thought – felt – erased tapes
a winged victory for the sullen – we played some open chords & rejoiced, for the earth had circled the sun yet another year – s/t – kranky/erased tapes
nick jonah davis – nocturne – of time & tides – tompkins square
bon iver – michicant – s/t – jagjaguwar
barn owl – devotion II – lost in the glare – thrill jockey
bill callahan – baby’s breath – apocalypse – drag city
danny paul grody – orbits – in search of light – students of decay
tim hecker – sketch I – dropped pianos – kranky
six organs of admittance – above a desert i’ve never seen – asleep on the floodplain – drag city
mogwai – get to france – earth division ep – sub pop
black eagle child – the quarry slide – lobelia – preservation
motion sickness of time travel – day glow – luminaries & synastries – digitalis
timber timbre – black water – creep on creepin’ on – arts & crafts
tom waits – new years eve – bad as me – anti
beirut – the peacock – the riptide – pompeii
hauschka & hidur gudnadottir – black 6 – pan tone – sonic pieces
reverend roger l. worthy & his sister bonnie – get back satan – v/a: last time around – mississippi
john fahey – bottleneck blues – your past comes back to haunt you – dust to digital
tinariwen – asuf d alwa – tassili + 10 – anti
steve gunn – the lurker extended (excerpt) – v/a: not the spaces you know, but between them – three lobed recordings
d. charles speer – markos’s cave – arghiledes – thrill jockey
group doueh – zayna jumma – zayna jumma – sublime frequencies
olafur arnalds – fyrsta – living room songs – erased tapes
wooden shjips – black smoke rise – west – thrill jockey
peaking lights – birds of paradise dub version – 936 – not not fun
el rego – hessa – s/t – daptone
the spyrals – black clouds – clouds – self released (not sure, perhaps only available from their bandcamp page)
cave – adam roberts – neverendless – drag city
amanar – alghafiat – v/a: music from saharan cellphones – sahel sounds/mississippi
moon duo – run around – mazes – sacred bones
the spyrals – sunflower microphone – 7″ single – frosted crack records
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there you have it, my best of 2011 show. somehow i forgot to play anything by the caretaker even though it ended up on my top 10 list. other things i didn’t get to on the show include:
erkin koray – mechul : singles & rarities – sublime frequencies
collections of colonies of bees – giving – hometapes
mountains – air museum – thrill jockey
eternal tapestry – beyond the 4th door – thrill jockey
emuul – the drawing of the line – digitalis
jurgen muller – science of the sea – digitalis
mind over mirrors – the voice rolling – digitalis
deaf center – owl splinters – type
……and both the grouper lp’s from this year, self released simultaneously, title is A / A alien observer & dream loss
just not enough time in one show to highlight the best releases from this year………and i suppose that’s a good thing.
keep listening.
shopkeeper ken
