- Ivan the Tolerable – Dew Damp – Black Water/Brown Earth – Up In Her Room
- Dollar Brand – Tintinyana – African Piano – Japo Records
- Water Feature – Double Blessing I – In the World Generally – Tasty Morsels
- Rudolph Johnson – The Highest Pleasure – The Second Coming – Black Jazz Records
- Inner Dialogue – Little Children – Inner Dialogue – Ranwood
- Gabor Szabo – Michael from Mountains – Gabor Szabo 1969 – Skye Records
- Antena – Achilles – Camino Del Sol – Les Disques Du Crepuscule
- J.D. Emmanuel – Moving Backwards in Time – Electronic Minimal Music (1979 – 1983) – Black Sweat Records
- Chad Mitchell – Genuine Imitation Life – Chad – Bell Records
- Eddie Henderson – Galaxy – Sunburst – Blue Note
- You Can Can – Papyri & Papaver – You Can Can – Seance Centre
- Best Available Technology – Alkahest – Brute & Blind – Working Nights
- Louie Bellson – Quiet Riots – The Louis Bellson Explosion – Pablo Records
- Glass Harp – Save Me – Where Did My World Come From? – Peppermint Records
- Altin Gun – Rakiya Su Katamam – Ask – ATO Records
- TOBACCO – Spiritualities – Skids and Angels – Rad Cult
- Lithics – Nature Observation Poem – Nature Observation Poem – Self Release
- Pedrinho Sampaio – Manaus – Um Grito De Guerra – Remada
- youbet – Little – Compare & Despair – Badabing! Records
- Leoncio & Leonel – Saying Goodbye – River of Revenge: Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 2 – Death Is Not the End
- Ritual Gestures – The Realm of the Arcane – The Realm of the Arcane – Mance Records
1.26.23
- Hero Dog – boy.auto – mt.hood – Cherub Dream Records
- Deerhoof – Dead Beast Queen – Holdypaws – Kill Rock Stars
- Jards Macale – Farinha Do Desprezo – Jards Macale – Philips
- Henry Franklin – The Magic Boy – The Skipper at Home – Black Jazz Records
- Yaeji – For Granted – With A Hammer – XL Recordings
- Ohbliv – Mentally Empowered – Anima Mundi – Self Release
- Brahja – Accessibility of Soul – Watermelancholia – Cortizona
- Awakening – Gotta Do Somethin / Might As Well Cultivate – Awakening – Wondrous Sound Music
- Van Dyke Parks – Window’s Walk – Song Cycle – Warner Bros
- I Am – Confessions of the Heart – Beyond – Division 81 Records
- Crosby, Stills and Nash – Helplessly Hoping – Crosby, Stills and Nash – Atlantic
- The Shapiros – Paris Kiss – Gone By Fall: The Collected Works of The Shapiros – World of Echo
- Fish Hunt & People I Love – Mystery – Fish People – 9733 Inc.
- Crimeboys – Trippin’ – Very Dark Past – 3 X L
- Yellow Magic Orchestra – Day Tripper – Solid State Survivor – Alfa
- Genevieve Artadi – Visionary – Forever Forever – Brainfeeder
- The Hallelujahs – Kisetsu Hazure No Christmas – Niko Wo Kuraite Chikai Wo Tateyo – Org Records
- John Coltrane – My Favorite Things – My Favorite Things – Atlantic
- Blithe Field – Secret Soda Machine – Face Always Toward the Sun – Orchid Tapes
- Jogging House – Lessons – Face – Dauw
Favorites of 2022 Pt. 2 (12.22.22)
Artist – Song – Album – Label
- NicFit – Human Inane – Fuse – Upset The Rhythm
- Guerilla Toss – Cannibal Capital – Famously Alive – Sub Pop
- Soso Tharpa – 10 to 1 – Into the Flood – Self Release
- BKO – Ngon – Djine Bora – Les Disques Bongo Joe
- Nnamdi – Anxious Eater – Please Have A Seat – Secretly Canadian
- Meridian Brothers – Hipnosis – Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento – Ansonia Records
- Chico Romano – Waterfall – Vol. 5 – Self Release
- Leonardo Marques – Do Chao ao Ceu – Flea Market Music – 180g
- Rich Ruth – Taken Back – I Survived, It’s Over – Third Man Records
- Two Shell – Pods – Icons – Mainframe Audio
- Aldous Harding – Lawn – Warm Chris – 4AD
- Kingsley Ibeneche – Asked For Light – Udo – Self Release
- Stone – Beacon – Earth FF – 3 X L
- Ben Varian – Reverie (feat. Marina Allen) – Riddle Rock – Self Release
- Assegai – Graensevaerdi – 53 – Part Time Records
- Bruno Berle – O Nome Do Meu Amor – No Reino Dos Afetos – Far Out Recordings
- OHMA – In Essence – Between All Things – Colorfield Records
- Skiftande Enheter – Lyckan i Din Hand – Oppna Landskap EP – Happiest Place Records
- Jeff Parker – 2019-05-19 – Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy – Eremite/Aguirre Records
- Kate NV – Cashier – Bouquet – RVNG Intl.
- NUG – LITE – Napping Under God – 3 X L
- Mali Obomsawin – Lineage – Sweet Tooth – Out Of Your Head Records
- J. Salvage – Motorcycle Revs – Rotator – Self Release
- Amal – Gleam – Gleam – Hochi Runs
- Euglossine – Temporal Logistics – Some Kind of Forever – Sound As Language
- Matthew J. Rolin – Fourth Street – Passing – American Dreams Records
- JEFF The Brotherhood – Blue Runner – Ye Olde… – Earthbound Sound Inc.
- Droopies – Camera Focus – Echoes Lightly – Self Release
- Shake Stew – Heat – Heat – Traumton Musikverlag
- Overtone Series – Shuffle Shack – Standing Waves EP – Auto Shop
- Sofie Birch – Observatory (feat. Nana Pi) – Holotropica – Intercourse
Favorites of 2022 Pt. 1 (12.21.22)
Artist – Song – Album – Label
- Koma Saxo & Sofia Jernberg – Saxo Chop – Koma West – We Jazz Records
- Tobacco – Giff Breed – Skids and Angels – Rad Cult
- Sexual Jeremy – Bowls of Fruit – The Real Sexual Jeremy – Decoherence Records
- Huerco S. – Plonk II – Plonk – Incienso
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – I – Ghosted – Drag City Records
- Daniel Villarreal – Parque En Seis – Panama 77 – International Anthem Recording Co
- Macula Dog – Smart Man Do – Orange 2 – Wharf Cat Records
- Ulla – Foam Angel – Foam – 3 X L
- Horse Lords – Zero Degree Machine – Comradely Objects – RVNG Intl.
- Machine Girl – WTF – Neon White OST 2: The Burn That Cures – Self Release
- Loraine James – Maybe If I (Stay On It) – Building Something Beautiful For Me – Phantom Limb
- Flanafi – on 0 – Follow It Back – Boiled Records
- Sylvan Esso – How Did You Know – No Rules Sandy – Loma Vista
- Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Jakarta – Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Leaving Records
- Lucrecia Dalt – La Desmesura – Ay! – RVNG Intl.
- Andy Loebs – In Praise of Unlearning – Flexuous Vertex – Orange Milk Records
- Kassie Krut – Copycat – Copycat (Single) – Self Release
- DJ Travella – London Jomon Beat – Mr Mixondo – Nyege Nyege Tapes
- Makaya McCraven – Seventh String – In These Times – International Anthem Recording Co
- Jake Tobin – The Snow – The South – Truly Bald
- Immanuel Wilkins – Witness – The 7th Hand – Blue Note
- Ohbliv – Strength and Fortification – Anima Mundi – Self Release
- Fievel Is Glauque – Flaming Swords – Flaming Swords – La Loi
- Kikagaku Moyo – Yayoi, Iyayoi – Kumoyo Island – Guruguru Brain
- Grace Ives – Isn’t It Lovely – Janky Star – True Panther Sounds
- Spook – Fire – Spook – W.E.R.F. Records
- Palm – On the Sly – Nicks and Grazes – Saddle Creek
- Bill Orcutt – Two Things Close Together – Music for Four Guitars – Palilalia Records
- Ketseleh – Heat Of – Swallowed the Light – Self Release
- Elkhorn – Wilderness – Distances – Feeding Tube Records
- Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden – Close – I get along without you very well – Thrill Jockey
- Ann Annie – By Morning – By Morning – Self Release
- Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley – All Flowers In Time – Oceans of Time – Sacred Bones Records
- Cheeky – Nightwalk – The Star – Boiled Records
- Exek – Unseasonable Warmth – Advertise Here – Castle Face
- Miracle Roy – Actor’s Talk – Moving Target – Self Release
- Cabo Boing – Industry Standard – Real Gems for Little Jewels – Haord Records
- 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
- LA Jungle – I Eat Faces and I love It – Saint Bon-Singes – Hyperjungle Recordings
- Flanafi – C2PYSA (follow it back) – Follow It Back – Boiled Records
- Bourbonese Qualk- Pipe Dreams – Bourbonese Qualk – New International Recordings
- Admas – Bahta’s Highlife – Sons of Ethiopia – African Heritage Records
- Twin Cosmos – LosAngeles City – Double Action – Left Ear Records
- Kristine Leschper – Carina – The Opening, or Closing of A Door – Anti-
- Jeff Parker – 2019-05-19 – Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy – Aguirre & Eremite Records
- Bill Orcutt – In the Rain – Music for Four Guitars – Palilalia Records
- Youbet – Glass Hill – Compare & Despair – Bada Bing
- Idris Muhammad – Piece of Mind – Power of Soul – Kudu
- Fievel Is Glauque – 4000 Rooms – Flaming Swords – La Loi
- Ernest Hood – Sunny Banks – Back to the Woodlands – Freedom to Spend
- Okzaki Zhetaro – Square of Light – Rondo – Self Release
- 4Vesta – Sunsets – Sunsets EP – Self Release
- Six Organs of Admittance – Khidr and the Fountain – Dark Noontide – Holy Mountain
- Nobuo Uematsu/Mizuta Naoshi – Heavens Tower – FF XI OST
- Topdown Dialectic – A4 – S/T 2013 – Peak Oil
- XS217FDNSBA0192 – Nrar0509pi – unto 4 – Ukiuki Atama
- Mita y su Monte Adentro – Mango Mangue – Arecibo – Vampi Soul
- Battle Trance – Green of Winter II – Green of Winter – New Amsterdam Records
- Cecil McBee – Tulsa Black – Mutima – Strata-East
- Miracle Roy – Actor’s Talk – Moving Target – Self Release
- Ted Lucas – Love and Peace Raga – Ted Lucas – OM
- 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
- Ben Varian – Reverie (feat. Marina Allen) – Riddle Rock – Self Release
- Pharoah Sanders – Morning Prayer – Thembi – Impulse!
- The Brigade – Circles of Life – Last Laugh – Band ‘N Vocal Mobile Recording Service
- Elkhorn – Wilderness – Distances – Feeding Tube Records
- NNAMDI – ANXIOUS EATER – Please Have A Seat – Secretly Canadian
- Andy Loebs – In Praise of Unlearning – Flexuous Vertex – Orange Milk Records
- Carlos Nino & Friends – Excerpt 2 – Maia and Najite join… – Friday, September 23, 2022 – Self Release
- Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard – Coal Miner’s Blues – Who’s That Knocking? – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Clap – Sweet Smell of Success – Have You Reached Yet? – Nova Sol Records
- Sun Ra Arkestra – Somebody Else’s Idea – Living Sky – Omni Sound
- Foodman – Shikaku4 – Shikaku – Takuroku
- Deerhoof – My Lovely Cat! – (Single) – Joyful Noise Recordings
- Brian Auger and The Trinity – Pavane – Befour – RCA Victor
- Rotten Apple – Full Tape – Mosquito: The Originol Soundtrack – Self Release
- Bill Orcutt – Only at Dusk – Music for Four Guitars – Palilalia Records
- Bob Ohiri & his Uhuru Sounds – I Like to Be Free – Uhuru Aiye – Ashiko Records
- Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck – Kraftwerk – Philips
- Horse Lords – May Brigade – Comradely Objects – RVNG Intl
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Close Your Eyes – Live at Ronnie Scott’s, 1963 – Gearbox Records
- Kath – Goodbye Sunshine – One – Self Released
- The Caretaker – I Still Feel As Though I Am Me – Everywhere at the End of Time – Stage 2 – History Always Favours The Winners
- Matthew J. Rolin – Fourth Street – Passing – American Dreams
- Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Dr. T – Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Leaving Records
- This Heat – Paper Hats – Deceit – Rough Trade – 1981
- Mindy Meng Wang – Hidden Qi (Tzekin Remix) – Nervous Energy (Remixes) – Music In Exile
- Palm – On The Sly – Nicks and Grazes – Saddle Creek
- Tom Skinner – Bishara- Voices of Bishara – International Anthem
- Cal fish – Softest Breath (w/Lily Konnigsberg) – Less Than Three – Self Release
- 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
- Keith Cross & Peter Ross – The Last Ocean Rider – Bored Civilians – Decca
- Mirror Dice – Saving Grace – Mirror Dice – Barely There Records
- Dredd Foole & the Din – So Tough – Songs in Heat – Religious Records
- Pheeroan Aklaff – Freedom – House Of Spirit: Mirth – Passin’ Thru Records
- Ken Boothe -Drums of Freedom – Freedom Street – Trojan Records
- Caravan – Love Song With Flute – Caravan – Verve Forecast
- Raymilland – Talk [Rehearsal Version] – Recordings ‘79-’81 – BDR Records
- Sun Ra Arkestra – Somebody Else’s Idea – Living Sky – Omni Sound
- Salvator Dragatto – Return To Normal – Mind On Madrid – Self Release
- Patrick Pulsinger – Construction Tool – Dogmatic Sequences Vol. II – R&S Records and Disko B
- J.D. Emmanuel – Memories of Atlantis – Rain Forest Music – North Star Productions
- OHMA – In Essence – Between All Things – Colorfield Records
- I Leoni – L’Incendio – La Foresta – Ricordi
- Palm – Feathers – Nicks and Grazes – Saddle Creek
- DJ Nigga Fox – WAABA-JAH – Cranio – Warp
- Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley – All Flowers In Time – Oceans of Time – Sacred Bones
- Brinsley Schwarz – Hymn To Me – Brinsley Schwarz – Capitol
- David Bowie – All the Madmen – The Man Who Sold the World – Mercury
- The Pyramids – Part 2. Birth / Speed / Merging – Birth / Speed / Merging – Pyramid Records
- Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho – Trilha de Sume – Paebiru – Solar
- Matthew Rolin – One Day I Will Be Free -Matthew J. Rolin – Feeding Tube Records
- Leoni Leoni – Schoni Frau – Leoni Leoni – Les Disques Bongo Joe
- Sambrasa Trio – Arrastao – Em Som Maior – Som Maior
- Intense Molecular Activity – Beat Street – I.M.A. – Dark Entries
- DJ Shadow – Changeling / Transmission 1 – Endtroducing… – Mowax
- Ferkat al-Ard – Lahn Lamfrati Wabiladi – Oghneya – Habibi Funk
- Dominique Droin – Wave On – Wave On – Le Kiosque d’Orphee
- The Association – Changes – And Then… Along Comes The Association – Valiant Records
- Charles Stepney – Look B4U Leap – Step on Step – International Anthem
- Shinichi Atobe – Love Of Plastic 1 – Love of Plastic – DDS
7.8.22
Artist – Song – Album – Label
- Deerhoof – Rrrrrrright – The Runners Four – Kill Rock Stars
- Jake Tobin – The Open Casket – The South – Truly Bald
- KATE NV – cashier – bouquet – RVNG Intl.
- Carmen Maki & Blues Creation – And You – Carmen Maki Blues Creation – Denon
- James Blood Ulmer – Time Out – Are You Glad To Be In America? – Rough Trade
- Birthday Ass – Broccoli Face – Head of the Household – Ramp Local
- Jimi Tenor – Baby Free Spirit – Multiversum – Bureau B
- Chrisma – C Rock – Chinese Restaurant -Philips
- Hiro Yanagida – Rockomotion – Hirocosmos – CBS/Sony
- Moor Mother – Ode To Mary (feat. Orion Sun & Jason Moran) – Jazz Codes – Anti- Records
- Makaya McCraven – Seventh String – In These Times – International Anthem
- Glenn Branca – Light Field (In Consonance) – The Ascension – 99 Records
- Eduardo Mateo – Por Que? – Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame – Discos De La Planta
- Ghost Woman – Behind Your Eyes – Ghost Woman – Full Time Hobby
- Omar Khorshid – Sidi Mansour – Live In Australia 1981 – Sublime Frequencies
- Ornette Coleman – Jayne – Something Else!!!! – Contemporary Records
- Flanafi – On O – On O/Fast, Fast, FFFFast – Boiled Records
- Shin Sasakubo – Chichibu feat. Frederico Heliodoro – Chichibu – mulemusiq
- Blod – Karlek och Forstaelse – Pilgrimssanger – Discreet Music
- Ndikho Xaba & The Natives – Freedom – Ndikho Xaba & The Natives – Matsuli Music
- Horace Tapscott Quintet – Your Child – The Quintet – Mr. Bongo
- Mimi & Richard Farina – Another Country – Celebration for A Gray Day – Vanguard
- Automatic – Teen Beat – Excess – Stones Throw
- Yukihiro Takahashi – Poisson D’Avril – Poisson D’Avril – Yen Records
- 2 Boasters – The Accelerator’s Stuck (And I Can’t Slow Down) – The Accelerator’s Stuck 12”- Daddy Armshouse Records
- Archie Shepp – Fiesta – The Way Ahead – Impulse!/ABC Records
- Gas – Pop 4 – Pop – Mille Plateaux
- Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho – Trilha de Sume – Paebiru – Solar
- MGMT – Pieces of What – Oracular Spectacular – Columbia
- Sam Gendel – Sustain_02 – SUPERSTORE – Leaving Records
6.7.22
Artist – Song – Album – Label
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Morning Prayer – Book of Sound – Honest Jon’s Records
- Alessandro Alessandroni & Massimo Catlano – Aliante Giallo – Open Air Parade – SR Records
- Silver Apples – Misty Mountain – Silver Apples – Kapp Records
- Fet.Nat – Patio Monday – Le Mal – Boiled Records
- Charles Tolliver – The Ringer – The Ringer – Polydor
- Jim Sullivan – Rosey – U.F.O. – Monnie Records
- Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges – Os Povos – Clube Da Esquina – Odeon
- Foodman, Ethan. P Flynn, Otta – Too Much Light – S/T – Highball Records
- Jackie McLean & Michael Carvin – De I Comahlee Ah (Extended) – Melodies Record Club #001: Four Tet Selects – Melodies International
- Julia Reidy – Holding Onto – World in World – Black Truffle
- Flanafi – You Don’t Have To Get To the Bottom of It All – Passing Over – Self Released
- Joao Donato – Chorou, Chorou – Quem E Quem – Odeon
- Simon Finn – Patrice – Pass the Distance – Mushroom
- Grachan Moncur III – Right on 3 – Echoes of Prayer – JCOA REcords
- Pontiac Streator – Petabyte – Select Works Vol III – Self Released
- Maria de Fatima – Candombe Brasileiro-Montevideano – Bahia Com H – Alter Cat
- Ornette Coleman – Focus On Sanity – The Shape of Jazz To Come – Atlantic
- Harvey Allison Experience – This Is Our Love Story – Ultra High Frequencies (The Chicago Party) – Numero Group
- Meshuggah – Rational Gaze – Nothing – Nuclear Blast
- This Heat – Cenotaph – Deceit – Rough Trade
- Marv – Prayer for the Little Ones – Keyboard Suite I – Enmossed
- Krill – Brain Problem – A Distant Fist Unclenching – Exploding In Sound
- The Millennium – There Is Nothing More To Say – Begin – Columbia
- Blithe Field – Stem Growth – Hymn For Anyone – Self Released