Favorites of 2022 Pt. 2 (12.22.22)

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. NicFit – Human Inane – Fuse – Upset The Rhythm
  2. Guerilla Toss – Cannibal Capital – Famously Alive – Sub Pop
  3. Soso Tharpa – 10 to 1 – Into the Flood – Self Release
  4. BKO – Ngon – Djine Bora – Les Disques Bongo Joe
  5. Nnamdi – Anxious Eater – Please Have A Seat – Secretly Canadian
  6. Meridian Brothers – Hipnosis – Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento – Ansonia Records
  7. Chico Romano – Waterfall – Vol. 5 – Self Release
  8. Leonardo Marques – Do Chao ao Ceu – Flea Market Music – 180g
  9. Rich Ruth – Taken Back – I Survived, It’s Over – Third Man Records
  10. Two Shell – Pods – Icons – Mainframe Audio
  11. Aldous Harding – Lawn – Warm Chris – 4AD
  12. Kingsley Ibeneche – Asked For Light – Udo – Self Release
  13. Stone – Beacon – Earth FF – 3 X L
  14. Ben Varian – Reverie (feat. Marina Allen) – Riddle Rock – Self Release
  15. Assegai – Graensevaerdi – 53 – Part Time Records
  16. Bruno Berle – O Nome Do Meu Amor – No Reino Dos Afetos – Far Out Recordings
  17. OHMA – In Essence – Between All Things – Colorfield Records
  18. Skiftande Enheter – Lyckan i Din Hand – Oppna Landskap EP – Happiest Place Records
  19. Jeff Parker – 2019-05-19 – Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy – Eremite/Aguirre Records 
  20. Kate NV – Cashier – Bouquet – RVNG Intl.
  21. NUG – LITE – Napping Under God – 3 X L
  22. Mali Obomsawin – Lineage – Sweet Tooth – Out Of Your Head Records 
  23. J. Salvage – Motorcycle Revs – Rotator – Self Release
  24. Amal – Gleam – Gleam – Hochi Runs
  25. Euglossine – Temporal Logistics – Some Kind of Forever – Sound As Language
  26. Matthew J. Rolin – Fourth Street – Passing – American Dreams Records
  27. JEFF The Brotherhood – Blue Runner – Ye Olde… – Earthbound Sound Inc.
  28. Droopies – Camera Focus – Echoes Lightly – Self Release
  29. Shake Stew – Heat – Heat – Traumton Musikverlag
  30. Overtone Series – Shuffle Shack – Standing Waves EP – Auto Shop 
  31. Sofie Birch – Observatory (feat. Nana Pi) – Holotropica – Intercourse

Favorites of 2022 Pt. 1 (12.21.22)

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. Koma Saxo & Sofia Jernberg – Saxo Chop – Koma West – We Jazz Records
  2. Tobacco – Giff Breed – Skids and Angels – Rad Cult
  3. Sexual Jeremy – Bowls of Fruit – The Real Sexual Jeremy – Decoherence Records
  4. Huerco S. – Plonk II – Plonk – Incienso
  5. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – I – Ghosted – Drag City Records
  6. Daniel Villarreal – Parque En Seis – Panama 77 – International Anthem Recording Co
  7. Macula Dog – Smart Man Do – Orange 2 – Wharf Cat Records
  8. Ulla – Foam Angel – Foam – 3 X L
  9. Horse Lords – Zero Degree Machine – Comradely Objects – RVNG Intl.
  10. Machine Girl – WTF – Neon White OST 2: The Burn That Cures – Self Release
  11. Loraine James –  Maybe If I (Stay On It) – Building Something Beautiful For Me – Phantom Limb
  12. Flanafi – on 0 – Follow It Back – Boiled Records
  13. Sylvan Esso – How Did You Know – No Rules Sandy – Loma Vista
  14. Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Jakarta – Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Leaving Records
  15. Lucrecia Dalt – La Desmesura – Ay! – RVNG Intl.
  16. Andy Loebs – In Praise of Unlearning – Flexuous Vertex – Orange Milk Records
  17. Kassie Krut – Copycat – Copycat (Single) – Self Release
  18. DJ Travella – London Jomon Beat – Mr Mixondo – Nyege Nyege Tapes
  19. Makaya McCraven – Seventh String – In These Times – International Anthem Recording Co
  20. Jake Tobin – The Snow – The South – Truly Bald
  21. Immanuel Wilkins – Witness – The 7th Hand – Blue Note
  22. Ohbliv – Strength and Fortification – Anima Mundi – Self Release
  23. Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords – Flaming Swords – La Loi
  24. Kikagaku Moyo – Yayoi, Iyayoi – Kumoyo Island – Guruguru Brain
  25. Grace Ives – Isn’t It Lovely – Janky Star – True Panther Sounds
  26. Spook – Fire – Spook – W.E.R.F. Records
  27. Palm – On the Sly – Nicks and Grazes – Saddle Creek
  28. Bill Orcutt – Two Things Close Together – Music for Four Guitars – Palilalia Records
  29. Ketseleh – Heat Of – Swallowed the Light – Self Release
  30. Elkhorn – Wilderness – Distances – Feeding Tube Records
  31. Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden – Close – I get along without you very well – Thrill Jockey
  32. Ann Annie – By Morning – By Morning – Self Release
  33. Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley – All Flowers In Time – Oceans of Time – Sacred Bones Records
  34. Cheeky – Nightwalk – The Star – Boiled Records
  35. Exek – Unseasonable Warmth – Advertise Here – Castle Face
  36. Miracle Roy – Actor’s Talk – Moving Target – Self Release
  37. Cabo Boing – Industry Standard – Real Gems for Little Jewels – Haord Records
  38. Eiko Ishibashi – “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights” (different ways) – Drive My Car Original Soundtrack – Newhere Music & Space Shower Music (Technically a 2021 release, alas I discovered it via the 2022 vinyl release.)

12.01.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. LA Jungle – I Eat Faces and I love It – Saint Bon-Singes – Hyperjungle Recordings
  1. Flanafi – C2PYSA (follow it back) – Follow It Back – Boiled Records
  2. Bourbonese Qualk- Pipe Dreams – Bourbonese Qualk – New International Recordings
  3. Admas – Bahta’s Highlife – Sons of Ethiopia – African Heritage Records
  4. Twin Cosmos – LosAngeles City – Double Action – Left Ear Records
  5. Kristine Leschper – Carina – The Opening, or Closing of A Door – Anti- 
  1. Jeff Parker – 2019-05-19 – Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy – Aguirre & Eremite Records
  1. Bill Orcutt – In the Rain – Music for Four Guitars – Palilalia Records
  2. Youbet – Glass Hill – Compare & Despair – Bada Bing
  3. Idris Muhammad – Piece of Mind – Power of Soul – Kudu
  4. Fievel Is Glauque – 4000 Rooms – Flaming Swords – La Loi
  5. Ernest Hood – Sunny Banks – Back to the Woodlands – Freedom to Spend
  1. Okzaki Zhetaro – Square of Light – Rondo – Self Release
  2. 4Vesta – Sunsets – Sunsets EP – Self Release
  3. Six Organs of Admittance – Khidr and the Fountain – Dark Noontide – Holy Mountain
  1. Nobuo Uematsu/Mizuta Naoshi – Heavens Tower – FF XI OST
  2. Topdown Dialectic – A4 – S/T 2013 – Peak Oil 
  3. XS217FDNSBA0192 – Nrar0509pi – unto 4 – Ukiuki Atama
  4. Mita y su Monte Adentro – Mango Mangue – Arecibo – Vampi Soul
  1. Battle Trance – Green of Winter II – Green of Winter – New Amsterdam Records 
  2. Cecil McBee – Tulsa Black – Mutima – Strata-East
  1. Miracle Roy – Actor’s Talk – Moving Target – Self Release
  2. Ted Lucas – Love and Peace Raga – Ted Lucas – OM
  3. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Check Your Translation (Hrishikesh Hirway Remix) – Let’s Turn It Into Sound Remixes – Ghostly International

10.16.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. Ben Varian – Reverie (feat. Marina Allen) – Riddle Rock – Self Release
  2. Pharoah Sanders – Morning Prayer – Thembi – Impulse!
  3. The Brigade – Circles of Life – Last Laugh – Band ‘N Vocal Mobile Recording Service
  4. Elkhorn – Wilderness – Distances – Feeding Tube Records
  5. NNAMDI – ANXIOUS EATER – Please Have A Seat – Secretly Canadian
  6. Andy Loebs – In Praise of Unlearning – Flexuous Vertex – Orange Milk Records
  7. Carlos Nino & Friends – Excerpt 2 – Maia and Najite join… – Friday, September 23, 2022 – Self Release
  8. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard – Coal Miner’s Blues – Who’s That Knocking? – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  9. Clap – Sweet Smell of Success – Have You Reached Yet? – Nova Sol Records
  10. Sun Ra Arkestra – Somebody Else’s Idea – Living Sky – Omni Sound
  11. Foodman – Shikaku4 – Shikaku – Takuroku
  12. Deerhoof – My Lovely Cat! – (Single) – Joyful Noise Recordings
  13. Brian Auger and The Trinity – Pavane – Befour – RCA Victor
  14. Rotten Apple – Full Tape – Mosquito: The Originol Soundtrack – Self Release 
  15. Bill Orcutt – Only at Dusk – Music for Four Guitars – Palilalia Records
  16. Bob Ohiri & his Uhuru Sounds – I Like to Be Free – Uhuru Aiye – Ashiko Records
  17. Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck – Kraftwerk – Philips
  18. Horse Lords – May Brigade – Comradely Objects – RVNG Intl
  19. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Close Your Eyes – Live at Ronnie Scott’s, 1963 – Gearbox Records
  20. Kath – Goodbye Sunshine – One – Self Released
  21. The Caretaker – I Still Feel As Though I Am Me – Everywhere at the End of Time – Stage 2 – History Always Favours The Winners
  22. Matthew J. Rolin – Fourth Street – Passing – American Dreams
  23. Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Dr. T – Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Leaving Records
  24. This Heat – Paper Hats – Deceit – Rough Trade – 1981
  25. Mindy Meng Wang – Hidden Qi (Tzekin Remix) – Nervous Energy (Remixes) – Music In Exile
  26. Palm – On The Sly – Nicks and Grazes – Saddle Creek
  27. Tom Skinner – Bishara- Voices of Bishara – International Anthem
  28. Cal fish – Softest Breath (w/Lily Konnigsberg) – Less Than Three – Self Release
  29. Vegyn – The Computer Crash – Like A Good Old Friend – PLZ Make It Ruins

8.20.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

Yunzero – Acrylic Germ – Butterfly DNA – West Mineral Ltd.

Dina Ogon – Nirvana – Dina Ogon – Sing A Song Fighter

Sylvan Esso – How Did You Know – No Rules Sandy – Loma Vista Recordings

Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National – Ima Echi – Ejim Nk’onye – Philips

 Deux Filles – Double Happiness -Double Happiness – Papier Mache

Amon Duul – Snow Your Thirst and Sun Your Open Mouth – Paradieswarts Duul – Ohr

Corky McClerkin – Off C – Searchin For the Soul – WinCor

The Soft Boys – The Pigworker – A Can of Bees – Two Crabs Universal

Yuri Vikharev / Juris Akis / Einars Raibais – Milestones – The Lost Latvian TV Studio Sessions 1967 – Jersika Records

Sonic Youth – Out & In – In/Out/In – Three Lobed Recordings

PANSTARRS – mkhy7mar – Batee2 – Nashazphone

Huseyin Ertunc Trio – The Creator Spaces – Musiki – Intex Sound

Suzi Analogue – NrgNrg – Infinite Zonez – Disciples

Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden – Close – I get along without you very well – Thrill Jockey

Windisch Quartet – Dichte – Meander – Fun in the church

Dominique Lawalree – Traces – Traces – Editions Walrus

Salvator Dragatto – Return To Normal – Mind On Madrid – Cosa Records 

Sarathy Korwar – City of Words (More Arriving) – More Arriving – The Leaf Label

Ernie Graham – Belfast – Ernie Graham – Liberty

Simansky Niesner – Ztracena – Vsechno Dobre – Stoned To Death

Nucleus – Torrid Zone – Elastic Rock – Vertigo

Neon Pearl – Forever – Neon Pearl – Guerssen Records

Ulla Anona – Moon – bblisss – bblisss

William Onyeabor – When The Going Is Smooth & Good – Anything You Sow – Wilfilms Records

Jogging House – Propeller – Fiber – Seil Records

7.30.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. Keith Cross & Peter Ross – The Last Ocean Rider – Bored Civilians – Decca
  2. Mirror Dice – Saving Grace – Mirror Dice – Barely There Records
  3. Dredd Foole & the Din – So Tough – Songs in Heat – Religious Records
  4. Pheeroan Aklaff – Freedom – House Of Spirit: Mirth – Passin’ Thru Records
  5. Ken Boothe -Drums of Freedom – Freedom Street – Trojan Records
  6. Caravan – Love Song With Flute – Caravan – Verve Forecast
  7. Raymilland – Talk [Rehearsal Version] – Recordings ‘79-’81 – BDR Records
  8. Sun Ra Arkestra – Somebody Else’s Idea – Living Sky – Omni Sound
  9. Salvator Dragatto – Return To Normal – Mind On Madrid – Self Release
  10. Patrick Pulsinger – Construction Tool – Dogmatic Sequences Vol. II – R&S Records and Disko B
  11. J.D. Emmanuel  – Memories of Atlantis – Rain Forest Music – North Star Productions
  12. OHMA – In Essence – Between All Things – Colorfield Records
  13. I Leoni – L’Incendio – La Foresta – Ricordi
  14. Palm – Feathers – Nicks and Grazes – Saddle Creek
  15. DJ Nigga Fox – WAABA-JAH – Cranio – Warp
  16. Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley – All Flowers In Time – Oceans of Time – Sacred Bones 
  17. Brinsley Schwarz – Hymn To Me – Brinsley Schwarz – Capitol
  18. David Bowie – All the Madmen – The Man Who Sold the World – Mercury
  19. The Pyramids – Part 2. Birth / Speed / Merging – Birth / Speed / Merging – Pyramid Records
  20. Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho – Trilha de Sume – Paebiru – Solar
  21. Matthew Rolin – One Day I Will Be Free -Matthew J. Rolin – Feeding Tube Records
  22. Leoni Leoni – Schoni Frau – Leoni Leoni – Les Disques Bongo Joe
  23. Sambrasa Trio – Arrastao – Em Som Maior – Som Maior
  24. Intense Molecular Activity – Beat Street – I.M.A. – Dark Entries
  25. DJ Shadow – Changeling / Transmission 1 – Endtroducing… – Mowax
  26. Ferkat al-Ard – Lahn Lamfrati Wabiladi – Oghneya – Habibi Funk
  27. Dominique Droin – Wave On – Wave On – Le Kiosque d’Orphee
  28. The Association – Changes – And Then… Along Comes The Association – Valiant Records
  29. Charles Stepney – Look B4U Leap – Step on Step – International Anthem
  30. Shinichi Atobe – Love Of Plastic 1 – Love of Plastic – DDS

7.8.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. Deerhoof – Rrrrrrright – The Runners Four – Kill Rock Stars
  2. Jake Tobin – The Open Casket – The South – Truly Bald
  3. KATE NV – cashier – bouquet – RVNG Intl.
  4. Carmen Maki & Blues Creation – And You – Carmen Maki Blues Creation – Denon
  5. James Blood Ulmer – Time Out – Are You Glad To Be In America? – Rough Trade
  6. Birthday Ass – Broccoli Face – Head of the Household – Ramp Local
  7. Jimi Tenor – Baby Free Spirit – Multiversum – Bureau B
  8. Chrisma – C Rock – Chinese Restaurant -Philips
  9. Hiro Yanagida – Rockomotion – Hirocosmos – CBS/Sony
  10. Moor Mother – Ode To Mary (feat. Orion Sun & Jason Moran) – Jazz Codes – Anti- Records
  11. Makaya McCraven – Seventh String – In These Times – International Anthem
  12. Glenn Branca – Light Field (In Consonance) – The Ascension – 99 Records
  13. Eduardo Mateo – Por Que? – Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame – Discos De La Planta
  14. Ghost Woman – Behind Your Eyes – Ghost Woman – Full Time Hobby
  15. Omar Khorshid – Sidi Mansour – Live In Australia 1981 – Sublime Frequencies
  16. Ornette Coleman – Jayne – Something Else!!!! – Contemporary Records
  17. Flanafi – On O – On O/Fast, Fast, FFFFast – Boiled Records
  18. Shin Sasakubo – Chichibu feat. Frederico Heliodoro – Chichibu – mulemusiq
  19. Blod – Karlek och Forstaelse – Pilgrimssanger – Discreet Music
  20. Ndikho Xaba & The Natives – Freedom – Ndikho Xaba & The Natives – Matsuli Music
  21. Horace Tapscott Quintet – Your Child – The Quintet – Mr. Bongo
  22. Mimi & Richard Farina – Another Country – Celebration for A Gray Day – Vanguard
  23. Automatic – Teen Beat – Excess – Stones Throw
  24. Yukihiro Takahashi – Poisson D’Avril – Poisson D’Avril – Yen Records
  25. 2 Boasters – The Accelerator’s Stuck (And I Can’t Slow Down) – The Accelerator’s Stuck 12”- Daddy Armshouse Records
  26. Archie Shepp – Fiesta – The Way Ahead – Impulse!/ABC Records
  27. Gas – Pop 4 – Pop – Mille Plateaux
  28. Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho – Trilha de Sume – Paebiru – Solar
  29. MGMT – Pieces of What – Oracular Spectacular – Columbia
  30. Sam Gendel – Sustain_02 – SUPERSTORE – Leaving Records

6.7.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Morning Prayer – Book of Sound – Honest Jon’s Records
  2. Alessandro Alessandroni & Massimo Catlano – Aliante Giallo – Open Air Parade – SR Records
  3. Silver Apples – Misty Mountain – Silver Apples – Kapp Records
  4. Fet.Nat – Patio Monday – Le Mal – Boiled Records
  5. Charles Tolliver – The Ringer – The Ringer – Polydor
  6. Jim Sullivan – Rosey – U.F.O. – Monnie Records
  7. Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges – Os Povos – Clube Da Esquina – Odeon
  8. Foodman, Ethan. P Flynn, Otta – Too Much Light – S/T – Highball Records
  9. Jackie McLean & Michael Carvin – De I Comahlee Ah (Extended) – Melodies Record Club #001: Four Tet Selects – Melodies International
  10. Julia Reidy – Holding Onto – World in World – Black Truffle
  11. Flanafi – You Don’t Have To Get To the Bottom of It All – Passing Over – Self Released
  12. Joao Donato – Chorou, Chorou – Quem E Quem – Odeon
  13. Simon Finn – Patrice – Pass the Distance – Mushroom
  14. Grachan Moncur III – Right on 3 – Echoes of Prayer – JCOA REcords
  15. Pontiac Streator – Petabyte – Select Works Vol III – Self Released
  16. Maria de Fatima – Candombe Brasileiro-Montevideano – Bahia Com H – Alter Cat
  17. Ornette Coleman – Focus On Sanity – The Shape of Jazz To Come – Atlantic
  18. Harvey Allison Experience – This Is Our Love Story – Ultra High Frequencies (The Chicago Party) – Numero Group
  19. Meshuggah – Rational Gaze – Nothing – Nuclear Blast
  20. This Heat – Cenotaph – Deceit – Rough Trade      
  21. Marv – Prayer for the Little Ones – Keyboard Suite I – Enmossed
  22. Krill – Brain Problem – A Distant Fist Unclenching – Exploding In Sound
  23. The Millennium – There Is Nothing More To Say – Begin – Columbia
  24. Blithe Field – Stem Growth – Hymn For Anyone – Self Released

5.31.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

Jake Tobin – The Snow – The South – Truly Bald

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Best Batch Yet – Doc At the Radar Station – Virgin

Johnny Hallyday – On Me Recherche – On Me Recherche / Jesus Christ – Phillips

Dividers – Spun Out – Crime of Passion – Primordial Void 

Frank/ie Consent – Holy – Gut Health – Self Release 

Eola – Big Chestined Nights – Dang – Leaving Records

Carlos Nino & Friends – WaterWavesArrival (with Jesse Peterson) – Extra Presence – International Anthem

Cedar Walton – Off Minor – Mobius – RCA

Totsuzen Danball – What the Attendant Wants – Can I? – Pass Records

Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness – Tenor Madness – Prestige

Turbo World – Cards – My Challenger – Ramp Local

Bob Lind – Since There Were Circles – Since There Were Circles – Superior Viaduct

Quincicasm – Winds of Change – Quincicasm – Saydisc

Jordan Romero – The Onlooker – Wig of Wild Hair – Weather Patterns

The London Experimental Jazz Quartet – Destroy the Nihilists Picnic – Invisible Roots – Scratch Records

Goon – Angelnumber 1210 – Hour of Green Evening – Self Release

Anthony Braxton – Composition 23 D – New York, Fall 1974 – Arista

Deflector – Pull – Backward El.egy (V.A.) – Embalming Lately 

Tom Waits – Time – Rain Dogs – Island Records

Kris Keogh – Golden – Processed Harp Works, Volume 3 – Muzan Editions

5.24.22

Artist – Song – Album – Label

  1. Ponderosa Twin Plus One – Bound – 2+2+1 = Ponderosa Twins Plus One – Numero Group
  2. Laddio Bolocko – Goat Lips – ‘97-’99 – Castle Face
  3. James Mason – Rhythm of Life – Rhythm of Life – Chiaroscuro Records
  4. Homer – Survivor – Grown in U.S.A. – Universal Recording Artists
  5. Dave Grusin – Inez – Kaleidoscope – Columbia
  6. Kikagaku Moyo – Meu Mar – Kumoyo Island – Guruguru Brain
  7. Orquesta Reve – Estoy loco por ti – De Habana a Lima con la orquesta reve – Mag
  8. Ohbliv – Existence is Parasitic – Calea Z. II – Self Released
  9. Guerilla Toss – Smack the Brick – Smack the Brick – Feeding Tube Records
  10. Whatever, dad – Nessa’s Theme – 100% Take Home!/Good Morning – Self Release
  11. Monik – Maybe I Know – Maybe I Know EP – Mag
  12. Dawuna – Foreshadowing – Glass Lit Dream – O___o?
  13. Guilherme Coutinho e Grupo Stalo – As Feras – Guilherme Coutinho e Grupo Stalo – Mad About Records
  14. Jeff Cowell – Bring Me Back – Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold – Self Release 
  15. Shin Sasakubo – Cielo People feat. Sam Gendel – Chichibu – Chichibu Label
  16. Kiloff & Debtors – Mokry Sen – Mokry Sen – Syf Records
  17. Andrew Bernstein – Distant Cousins of a Common Ancestor – A Presentation – Hausu Mountain
  18. Jasmine Myra – Horizons – Horizons – Gondwana Records
  19. Phluph – Love Eyes – Phluph – Verve
  20. The Smile – Skirting on the Surface – A Light for Attracting Attention – XL Recordings
  21. Fields We Found – Woods – Distance – Seil Records