peter young’s listopia

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The magnificent, the excellent, the great, the good, the average, the meh, the poor, the awful, the crap, the dreck, and the stuff I can't figure out. All here. I don't do Christmas albums.

2010
Best of 2010
Eivind Aarset & The Sonic Codex Orchestra, Live Extracts  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Balmorhea, Constellations  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lowercase Noises, Ambient Songs  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Trygve Seim, Andreas Utnem, Purcor  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabaté, Ali and Toumani  ( MALI )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Jeff Beck, Emotion and Commotion  ( UK )
Lucette Bourdin, Rumours from Cypress Town  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Harold Budd, Clive Wright, Little Windows  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Alain Caron, Sep7entrion  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Llyrìa  ( SWITZERLAND )
The Dreamers, Ipos: The Book of Angels Volume 14  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kyle Bobby Dunn, A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mats Eilertsen Trio, Elegy  ( NORWAY / NETHERLANDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Electrypnose, Sweet Sadness  ( SWITZERLAND )
Bill Evans Trio, Live at Lulu White  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Eyot, Horizon  ( SERBIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nils Frahm, The Bells  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble, Officium Novum  ( NORWAY / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gotan Project, Tango 3.0  ( ARGENTINA / FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Gru, Cosmogenesis  ( POLAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hammock, Chasing After Shadows... Living with the Ghosts  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kalpataru Tree, All Things Passing  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Kalpataru Tree, Preverberations from the Infinite Future  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Giya Kancheli, Themes from the Songbook  ( GEORGIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Koan, When the Silence Is Speaking  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jessica Lee Morgan, I Am Not  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charley Musselwhite, The Well  ( USA )
The Orb featuring David Gilmour, Metallic Spheres  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Los Pericos, Pericos & Friends  ( ARGENTINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Erik Scott, Other Planets  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Solar Fields, Origin #0.1  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stellardrone, Invent the Universe  ( LITHUANIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Max Tannone, Mos Dub  ( USA )  [ LAST FM ]
Thievery Corporation, It Takes a Thief  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Tibbetts, Natural Causes  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lenny White, Anomaly  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cal Williams Jr., All That I Learned from the Sea  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Zorn, The Goddess: Music for the Ancient of Days  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Petar Alargic, Ambitronika L1  ( SERBIA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
The Best Pessimist, To Whom It May Concern  ( UKRAINE )  [ LAST FM ]
Between Interval, The Edge of a Fairytale  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Blue Wave Theory, Blue Wave Theory  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
F. S. Blumm, Nils Frahm, Music for Lovers, Music Versus Time  ( GERMANY )
Bodyslam, Kraam  ( THAILAND )
Joe Bonamassa, Black Rock  ( USA )
Bonobo, Black Sands  ( UK )
Bruno E-M, Blue Planet's Butterfly  ( FRANCE )
BT, Movement in Still Life  ( USA )
The Butterfly Tattoo: Motion Picture Soundtrack  ( KUNAKI )
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Bloodstream Sermon  ( USA )
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Interloper  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Giovanni Ceccarelli, Daydreamin'  ( ITALY )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
The Chills, Sweet Bites  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chronos & Taff, When the Day Turns to Night EP  ( RUSSIA )
Mark Cook, The Promise Highway  ( USA )
Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones, Parole de Navarre  ( FRANCE )
Emmalee Crane, Crux  ( CANADA / USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Diometrix, Newfoundland  ( SIBERIA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Dr. Sounds, Aquasphere  ( SWEDEN )
Emancipator, Safe in the Steep Cliffs  ( USA )
Brian Eno, Small Craft on a Milk Sea  ( UK )
Gopal, Depth of my Heart  ( INDIA )
Magdalen Graal, Magdalen Graal  ( FRANCE )
Hands Upon Black Earth, The True Harvest, 2010  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Hotaru Bay, For the Stranded  ( GERMANY )
Volcan Hursever, Hediye  ( TURKEY )
Imhotep Is Invisible, Vain  ( UK )
Introspekt, 8 Bit Orbit  ( USA )
The Inventors of Aircraft, As It Is  ( UK )
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Jasmine  ( USA )
Jazzpospolita, Live Studio Recording  ( POLAND )
JonQPublik, Compass  ( USA )
Michael Kastrup, Slow Tunes  ( DENMARK )
D.P. Kaufman, As the Ruin Falls  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Kene Busma, Higher & Stoner  ( FRANCE )
Konntinent, Opal Island  ( UK )
Liquid Stranger, Steel Trap EP  ( SWEDEN )
Last Harbour, Volo  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brad Mehldau, Highway Rider  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, Orchestrion  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, Bold As Light  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keb' Mo', Slow Down  ( USA )
Loscil, Endless Falls  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mild, Ma Show  ( THAILAND )
MonkeyTrial, Un  ( UK )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Paul Motian, Lost in a Dream  ( USA )
Mystified, Detective Tension  ( USA )
Nightfall Project, Underworld  ( USA )
Noise HiFi, Red Distortion  ( SWEDEN )
Pakistan Folk and Pop Instrumentals, 1966–1976  ( PAKISTAN )  [ ROCKISTANI ]
Pancake, ขอจงสุขสวัสดิ์  ( THAILAND )
Hannah Peel, The Broken Wave  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rakoon, Pris de son  ( FRANCE )
Red Sky Lullaby, Echolalia  ( USA )
Rildrim, Across the Night  ( SPAIN )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Robert Rich, Ylang  ( USA )
Röyksopp, Senior  ( NORWAY )
Terje Rypdal, Crime Scene  ( NORWAY )
Saito Koji, Tokyo Morning Loop  ( JAPAN )  [ RESTING BELL ]
Dino Saluzzi, El Encuentro  ( ARGENTINA )
Saros, Aqua Delphinidae  ( USA )
Satori, Journey Into Subconscious  ( UKRAINE )
Joe Satriani, Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards  ( USA )
Seal, Commitment  ( UK )
Jonn Serrie, Planetary Chronicles vol. 1  ( USA )
Sly Fox, Chase the Wind  ( USA )
Solar Fields, Altered – Second Movements  ( SWEDEN )
Soleil Vert, Du Deluge Au Desert  ( CANADA )
Soleil Vert, Genetiquement Modifie  ( CANADA )
Mark Southeron, Mark Southeron  ( AUSTRALIA )
Stellardrone, Sublime  ( LITHUANIA )
Sterling, Brave New World  ( USA )
StrangeZero, Newborn Butterflies  ( GREECE )
Tokee, Plus  ( ISRAEL )
Tokee, Quintuplet  ( ISRAEL )
Tokimonsta, Midnight Menu  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tunguska Electronic Music Society, Ellipsis: Tunguska.Ambient.Dreams  ( RUSSIA )
Tunguska Electronic Music Society, Ellipsis: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana  ( RUSSIA )
Tunguska Electronic Music Society, Ellipsis II: Tundra.Ambient.Dreams vol. 2  ( RUSSIA )
Tunguska Electronic Music Society, Ellipsis II: Tunguska.Shaman.Vimana vol. 2  ( RUSSIA )
Ustoz, Soundtrack Without Movie  ( UZBEKISTAN )
Timothy Vajda, Bootstrap Physics  ( USA )
We All Inherit the Moon, We All Inherit the Moon EP  ( JAPAN )
David Wahler, A Star Danced  ( USA )
Philipp Weigl, Land and Water  ( GERMANY )
Farrell Wooten, Finality  ( USA )
Harlan Williams, The Glass Desert  ( USA )
Sean Wright, Enchanted  ( UK )
Yoga  ( PUTUMAYO )
Hindi Zahra, Hand Made  ( MOROCCO )

2011
Best of 2011
Amina Alaoui, Arco Iris  ( MOROCCO )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie, Winter Garden  ( ITALY / USA / UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Wolfert Brederode Quartet, Post Scriptum  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Caretaker, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones, Metamanoir  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
François Couturier, Tarkovsky Quartet  ( FRANCE )
Marilyn Mazur, Celestial Circle  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Oöphoi, Paul Vnuk Jr., Dreamfields  ( ITALY / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ozric Tentacles, Paper Monkeys  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Somewhere Off Jazz Street, A Quiet Light  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, A Winged Victory for the Sullen  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Altus, Sleep Theory vol. 1  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Asche & Spencer, Machine Gun Preacher (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bohren & der Club of Gore, Beileid  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brave New Surf  ( DOUBLE CROWN RECORDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Harold Budd, In the Mist  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Cambodian Space Project, 2011: A Space Odyssey  ( CAMBODIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Carbon Based Lifeforms, VLA  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Twentythree  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cyminology, Saburi  ( GERMANY / IRAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brian Eno, Bang on a Can, Music for Airports: Live  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Frahm, Felt  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nils Frahm, Anne Müller 7Fingers  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Bill Frisell, All We Are Saying...  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tommy Guerrero, Lifeboats and Follies  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd, Bordeaux  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hinkstep, Sunrise from the Treetops  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sven Kacirek, The Kenya Sessions  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Sven Kacirek, The Kenya Reworks  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, From the Stairwell  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Leyland Kirby, Eager to Tear Apart the Stars  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sinikka Langeland, The Land That Is Not  ( FINLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Last Harbour, Lights  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Low Roar, Low Roar  ( USA / ICELAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Akua Naru, The Journey Aflame  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Summvs  ( GERMANY / JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Neat Beats, Cosmic Surgery  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Maciej Obara Quartet, Equilibrium  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Økland, Lysøen - Hommage À Ole Bull  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Our Ceasing Voice, When the Headline Hit Home  ( AUSTRIA )  [ LAST FM ]
Papir, Stundum  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Augusto Pirodda, No Comment  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Popol Vuh, Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robert Rich, Medicine Box  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dino Saluzzi, Anja Lechner, Felix Saluzzi, Navidad de Los Andes  ( ARGENTINA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
SEN, Sensory Emotive Network  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sky Flying By, Do They Still Make Lighthouses?  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Still Corners, Creatures of an Hour  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Submotion Orchestra, Finest Hour  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Von Thord, Woodbeat  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pete Thorn, Guitar Nerd  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Faithful  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Willamette, Echo Park  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Zorn, At the Gates of Paradise  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
1982, Pintura  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Aeroc, R+B=?  ( USA / SPAIN )
Angelight, Tantrabeats 2 – the Space of the Soul  ( RUSSIA )
Sigbjørn Apeland, Glossolalia  ( NORWAY )
Jon Balke, Batagraf, Say and Play  ( NORWAY )
Ketil Bjørnstad, Svante Henryson, Night Song  ( NORWAY / SWEDEN)
Michael Brook, Music Library, Vol. 1  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Brook, Music Library, Vol. 2  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Brook, Music Library, Vol. 3  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jasmine Brunch, Lucid Dreams  ( USA )
Jasmine Brunch, The Story of What Happened  ( USA )
Jens Buchert, Aeon in Motion  ( GERMANY )
Albert Collins, Deluxe Edition  ( USA )
Chick Corea, Stefano Bollani, Orvieto  ( USA / ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Emmalee Crane, Formantine  ( CANADA / USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Diometrix, Eurynome  ( SIBERIA )
Dr. John, City Lights  ( USA )
Werner Durand, Vibrating Air Columns  ( GERMANY )
Brian Eno, Drums Between the Bells  ( UK )
Brian Eno, Rick Holland, Panic of Looking  ( UK )
Falling You, Adore  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joey Fehrenbach, Don't Wake Me  ( USA )
Joey Fehrenbach, Mellowdrama  ( USA )
Delia Fischer, Saudações Egberto  ( BRAZIL )
Grauraum, Shades  ( GERMANY )
Colin Hay, Gathering Mercury  ( AUSTRALIA )
HTRK, Work (work, work)  ( AUSTRALIA )
I Am Waiting for You Last Summer, Come Full Circle  ( RUSSIA )
Imhotep Is Invisible, Ooroo  ( UK )
Indidginus, Circa Diem  ( UK / SOUTH AFRICA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Individual Choice, Make Your Choice  ( ITALY )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Ishq, Lotus  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ishq, Skyspaces  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kene Busma, Ashes of Dub  ( FRANCE )
Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Live at Birdland  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kuro Loud Dub, Korzéame  ( FRANCE )
Hugh Laurie, Let Them Talk  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Loscil, Coast/ Range/ Arc  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pat Metheny, What's It All About  ( USA )
The Rare Plants Garden, The Rare Plants Garden  ( RUSSIA )
Steve Roach, Immersion Five: Circadian Rhythms  ( USA )
Morten Schantz Trio, Conveyance  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jonn Serrie, Sunday Morning Peace  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jane Siberry, Meshach Dreams Back  ( CANADA )
Sigur Rós, Inní  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
SMM: Context  ( GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL )
Sound of Seventy Three, The Way We Feel  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
David Sylvian, Died in the Wool – Manafon Variations  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tapage, Seven  ( GERMANY )
Tokyo507, Tokyo507 Instrumental  ( AUSTRALIA )
Tycho, Dive  ( USA )
Eddie Vedder, Ukelele Songs  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ricardo Villalobos, Max Loderbauer, Re: ECM  ( GERMANY )
Philipp Weigl, Monsters  ( GERMANY )
Farrell Wooten, Race  ( USA )
Robag Wruhme, Thora Vukk  ( GERMANY )
Chris Zabriskie, Divider  ( USA )

2012
Best of 2012
Eivind Aarset, Dream Logic  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Stare EP  ( ICELAND / GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brambles, Charcoal  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE INDIE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2022
Kalpataru Tree, Luminosophy  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Liquid Stranger, Cryogenic Encounters  ( SWEDEN )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2013
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Live  ( SWITZERLAND )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2015
Honourable mentions
Allah-Las, Allah-Las  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
BT, If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Cambodian Space Project, Not Easy Rock & Roll  ( CAMBODIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Connect.Ohm, 9980  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lars Danielsson, Liberetto  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dead Can Dance, Anastasis  ( AUSTRALIA / UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, Lux  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Exosphere, Where Nobody Goes  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Charlie Haden, Magico: Carta de Amor  ( NORWAY / BRAZIL / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Melody Gardot, The Absence  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mathias Grassow, John Haughm, Mosaic  ( GERMANY / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hammock, Departure Songs  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sol Ho'opi'i, Hawaiian Steel Guitar Favourites (1927–1936)  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Heavy Horses, Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ishq, Flowering Mountain Earth  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Benedikt Jahnel Trio, Equilibrium  ( GERMANY / SPAIN / CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Swept Away  ( USA / BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manu Katché, Manu Katché  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keane, Strangeland  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Kiwanuka, Home Again  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mark Knopfler, Privateering  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Joey Baron, Wisteria  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Last Harbour, Your heart, it carries the sound  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
José Luis Montón, Solo Guitarra  ( SPAIN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Julien H. Mulder, Fragments  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Mike Nock, Laurence Pike, Kindred  ( NEW ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Public Service Broadcasting, The War Room  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joe Satriani, Satchurated: Live in Montreal  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Saint Etienne, Words and Music by Saint Etienne  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sigur Rós, Valtari  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sleep Research Facility, Stealth  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Solar Fields, Random Friday  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stellardrone, Echoes  ( LITHUANIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bobo Stenson Trio, Indicum  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Surman, Saltash Bells  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Esbjörn Svensson Trio, 301  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Swami Lateplate, Doom Jazz  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
David Sylvian, A Victim of Stars 1982–2012  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tara Putra, In Dubland  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tribal Tech, X  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Erik Truffaz Quartet, El Tiempo De La Revolución  ( SWITZERLAND / FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tor, Drum Therapy  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joe Walsh, Analog Man  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eberhard Weber, Résumé  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Y'Akoto, Babyblues  ( GERMANY / GHANA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Zorn, The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendors  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Richard Ackrill, The Lightness of Being  ( UK )
Aes Dana, Pollen  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Air, Le Voyage Dans La Lune  ( FRANCE )
Arild Andersen, Celebration  ( NORWAY )
Asher, Untitled Landscapes 1  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lisandro Aristimuño, Mundo Anfibio  ( ARGENTINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Canto Arquipélago, Dolphins Into the Future  ( BELGIUM )
The Caretaker, Patience (After Sebald)  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Max Corbacho, The Ocean Inside  ( SPAIN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cycler, Polymath  ( ROMANIA )
D2B, Forever  ( THAILAND )
Carsten Dahl, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Space Is the Place  ( NORWAY )
Dans Les Arbres, Canopée  ( NORWAY )
Pete Escovedo, Live from Stern Grove Festival  ( MEXICO / USA )
Donald Fagen, Sunken Condos  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Heiner Goebbels, Stifter's Dinge  ( GERMANY )
Hiroshima, Departure  ( USA )
Hypnobooster, Hypnobooster  ( ESTONIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Garth Knox, Salterello  ( IRELAND )
Piotr Kurek, Edena  ( POLAND )
Nicolas Masson, Departures  ( SWITZERLAND )
My Sleeping Karma, Soma  ( GERMANY )
Terry Oldfield, Journey Into Space  ( UK )
Pallbearer, Sorrow and Extinction  ( USA )
Pandora's Black Book, Divergent  ( GERMANY )
Povarovo, Tchernovik  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Radioactive Sandwich, Mirage  ( USA )  [ EKTOPLASM ]
Enrico Rava, Rava on the Dance Floor  ( ITALY )
Reform-1, My Computer  ( ROMANIA )
Robert Rich, Nest  ( USA )
Edgar Rothermich, Blade Runner: Music from the Motion Picture: A 30th Anniversary Celebration  ( USA )
Adrian Sherwood, Survival and Resistance  ( UK )
Jan Stulen, The Metropole Orkest, Fripp/Keeling/Singleton: The Wine of Silence (Live)  ( NETHERLANDS )
Rajendra Teredesai, Divine Dimension  ( INDIA )
Tineidae, Lights  ( UKRAINE )
val(Liam), Dissolving Archetypes  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Vėjopatis, Taškas  ( LITHUANIA )
Philipp Weigl, Silently Moving  ( GERMANY )
Bugge Wesseltoft, Songs  ( GERMANY )
Windy and Carl, We Will Always Be  ( USA )
Samuel Yirga, Guzo  ( ETHIOPIA )
Tor.Ma, Inside Universe  ( MEXICO )
John Zorn, A Vision in Blakelight  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]

2013
Best of 2013
Zsófia Boros, En otra parte  ( HUNGARY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Harold Budd, Avalon Sutra  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ty Burhoe, Horizon  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Caretaker, Persistent Repetition of Phrases  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Frank Deruytter Quartet, Frank Deruytter Quartet  ( BELGIUM / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Giovanni Guidi Trio, City of Broken Dreams  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hammock, Oblivion Hymns  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Greg Hurley, Paul Vnuk Jr., Brian Good, The Moss Garden Sessions  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
King Tubby, Hometown Hi-Fi Dubplate Specials 1975–1979  ( JAMAICA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dhafer Youssef, Birds Requiem  ( TUNISIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Julianna Barwick, Nepenthe  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
James Blackshaw, Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stefano Bollani, Hamilton de Holanda, O Que Será  (ITALY / BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Harold Budd, Jane 1-11  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Vinicius Cantuária, Bill Frisell, El Camino  ( BRAZIL / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Capercaillie, At the Heart of It All  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Refuge  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Alain Caron, Multiple Faces  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chick Corea, The Vigil  ( USA )
Dark Ambient, Dark Ambient vol. 1  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Deep Swamp Blues: Sounds of the Bayou  ( SELECTRACKS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Echo Grid, Memento  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Echo Grid, Transmissions  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra, Illusion Orchestra at the Gloomy Club  ( PORTUGAL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Fat Freddy's Drop, Blackbird  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ferocious Dog, Ferocious Dog  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Frisell, Big Sur  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Makiko Hirabayashi, Klavs Hovman, Marilyn Mazur, Surely  ( JAPAN / DENMARK )
Julia Hülsmann Quartet In Full View  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eleni Karaindrou, Concert in Athens  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jan Kåre Hystad, Listen Alone  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marsen Jules Trio, Présence Acousmatique  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lauge & Baba Gnohm, Daybreak Revival  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mara and David, Call It Freedom  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Maurice and the Beejays, His Martian Flying Cobra  ( UK )  [ MAURICE AND THE BEEJAYS ]
Pat Metheny, Tap: Book of Angels Volume 20  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stephan Micus, Panagia  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Oöphoi, I Hear the Woods Whispering  (ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Public Service Broadcasting, Inform – Educate – Entertain  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jonn Serrie, Thousand Star  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Shigeto, No Better Time Than Now  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Yeahwon Shin, Lua ya  ( SOUTH KOREA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nick Stiner, The Wilds of Your Heart  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Third Reel, Third Reel  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan, Travel Guide  ( USA / AUSTRIA / AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Yellow Fang, The Greatest  ( THAILAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nao Yoshioka, The Light  ( JAPAN / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Ah Cama-Sotz, Obsession Diabolique  ( BELGIUM )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Alucidnation, Aural Architecture  ( UK )
Ayten, Mother Earth  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
[basementgrrr], Arrival / Departure  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Shadow Man  ( USA )
Iva Bittová, Fragments  ( CZECH REPUBLIC )
F. S. Blumm, Nils Frahm, Music for Wobbling, Music Versus Gravity  ( GERMANY )
Boards of Canada, Tomorrow's Harvest  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joe Bonamassa, An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House  ( USA )
Harold Budd, Perhaps  ( USA )
Cashew Chemists, Cashew Chemists  ( SINGAPORE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Dowland Project, John Potter, Night Sessions  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Forest Swords, Engravings  ( UK )
Arun Ghosh, A South Asian Suite  ( INDIA / UK )
The Haxan Cloak, Excavation  ( UK )
E. L. Heath, Tŷ  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hiromi, Alive  ( JAPAN )
Mike Howe, Heading West  ( UK )
Tristen Ivemy, Xcelerator  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Takumi Kaneko, Unwind  ( JAPAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mark King, Marky Mark King's Trash  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hugh Laurie, Didn't It Rain  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Manet, Dolomiten  ( NORWAY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Joe Satriani, Unstoppable Momentum  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Liquid Stranger, Elemental EP  ( SWEDEN )
Joel Mellin, Good Person of Szechuan  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Odesza, My Friends Never Die  ( USA )
OMD, English Electric  ( UK )
Raflum, Melodies of Forest and Springs  ( CHINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Terje Rypdal, Melodic Warrior  ( NORWAY )
Marc Sinan, Hasretin  ( GERMANY )
Sound of Contact, Dimensionaut  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Spyro Gyra, The Rhinebeck Sessions  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
State Azure, So Long, Eternity  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stellardrone, Light Years  ( LITHUANIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Andy Summers, Fernanda Takai, Fundamental  ( UK / BRAZIL )
Tengri, Icaros  ( MACEDONIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ultranaut, The Chasm City EP  ( CANADA )
Christian Wallumrød Trio, Outstairs  ( NORWAY )
Weathertunes, Natura Vol. 1,  ( LEMONGRASS MUSIC )
Michael Winograd, Storm Game  ( USA )
Ben Wolfe, From Here I See  ( USA )
ZerO One, sOnar  ( USA )
John Zorn, Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite  ( USA )

2014
Best of 2014
Ajja & Cosmosis, The Alien Jams: Live at the HR Giger Museum  ( SWITZERLAND / UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ambienteer, Ghosts  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Stefano Bollani, Joy in Spite of Everything  ( ITALY )
Anouar Brahem, Souvenance  ( TUNISIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Harold Budd, Jane 12-21  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Deru, 1979  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Frank Deruytter Quartet, Moon of Ensor  ( BELGIUM / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brian Eno, Neroli [Expanded Edition]  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
James Hood, Ceremony  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eleni Karaindrou, Medea  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manu Katché, Touchstone for Manu  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mississippi River, Delta Blues  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Logic Moon, Quiet City  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Larry Grenadier, Brian Blade, Driftwood  ( AUSTRIA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Roberto Rodriguez, Aguares: Book of Angels Vol 23  ( CUBA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Trigger Hippy, Trigger Hippy  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Atomos  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jacob Young, Forever Young  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Altus, Excursion Three  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Arild Andersen, Mira  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ascendant, Outlets of the Sky  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ascendant, Source Transmission  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Astralia, Atlas  ( SPAIN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
BadBadNotGood, III  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bohren & der Club of Gore, Piano Nights  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stefano Bollani, Sheik Yer Zappa  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lucette Bourdin, Brushstrokes Echo  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Cambodian Space Project, Whiskey Cambodia  ( CAMBODIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
China Crisis, Wishful Thinking: The Very Best of China Crisis  ( UK )
Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Toumani and Sidiki  ( MALI )
Kyle Bobby Dunn, Kyle Bobby Dunn & The Infinite Sadness  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Echelon Effect, Pacific  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Andy Emler, Claude Tchamitchian, Eric Echampard, Sad and Beautiful  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Epicuros, Interstellar  ( UNKNOWN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Scott Fisher, Ballads, Minuets and Waltzes  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age!  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gaussian Curve, Clouds  ( ITALY / UK / NETHERLANDS )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ole Amund Gjersvik, All Together Now  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Grigoryan Brothers, This Time  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tommy Guerrero, No Man's Land  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tord Gustavsen Quartet, Extended Circle  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steven Halpern, Michael Diamond, Ambient Alchemy  ( USA )
Hammock, The Sleepover Series, vol. 2  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Herbie Hancock, The Warner Bros. Years, 1969-1972  ( USA )
Terje Isungset, Arve Henriksen, World of Glass  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Hamburg ’72  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nguyên Lê, Celebrating The Dark Side of the Moon  ( FRANCE / VIETNAM )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Janelle Monae, Electric Lady  ( USA )
Mystic Crock, Nomad  ( GERMANY )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band, Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band  ( THAILAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ursula Oppens, Bruce Brubaker, Meredith Monk: Piano Songs  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nicholas Payton, Numbers  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pink Floyd, The Endless River  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robert Rich, Perpetual  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Romano, When the Dust Clears  ( LITHUANIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Morten Schantz, Unicorn  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Erik Scott, And the Earth Bleeds  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Erik Scott, Spirits  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Slowly Rolling Camera, Slowly Rolling Camera  ( UK )  [ EDITION RECORDS ]
Smooth, Colors of Dub  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sohn, Tremors  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Sound of Siam, vol. 2  ( SOUNDWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thievery Corporation, Saudade  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mark Turner Quartet, Lathe of Heaven  ( USA )
Colin Vallon Trio, Le Vent  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio w/ Joakim Milder, Spark of Life  ( USA )
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Goin' Home  ( USA )
John Zorn, Transmigration of the Magus  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
1982, A/B  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cyrille Aimée, It's a Good Day  ( FRANCE )
Alfa Mist, Emmavie, Epoch  ( UK )
Arythma, Across the Line  ( USA )
Astronaut Ape, Flight 420  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Shinichi Atobe, Butterfly Effect  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Biosphere, Patashnik 2  ( NORWAY )
Paul Bley, Play Blue  ( CANADA )
Jens Buchert, Cosmic Port  ( GERMANY )
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Songs of Forgiveness  ( USA )
Cosmic Replicant, Soul of the Universe  ( RUSSIA )
Warren Cuccurullo, Ustad Sultan Khan, The Master  ( USA / PAKISTAN )
Dead When I Found Her, Fingerprints  ( USA )
Andrew Dimitroff, Aiyana  ( USA )
Echo Delta, Digital Lifeforms  ( LITHUANIA )
Mark Elf, Returns 2014  ( USA )
Erothyme, Circadia  ( USA )
Eupana, So Many Suns  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fennesz, Endless Summer  ( AUSTRIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Glass Animals, Zaba  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Johanna Glaza, Letter to New York  ( UK )
Billy Hart Quartet, One Is the Other  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Michael Arthur Holloway, Skullduggery! The Original Soundtrack  ( USA )
Indigo Mist, That the Days Go by and Never Come Again  ( USA )
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Saman  ( ICELAND )
Al Gromer Khan, Tibet Shakti  ( GERMANY )
Kiasmos, Kiasmos  ( ICELAND )
Letzte Ausfahrt Leben, Mirrage (The Remixes)  ( GERMANY )
Liquid Stranger, The Renegade Crusade EP  ( SWEDEN )
Lumen Drones, Lumen Drones  ( NORWAY )
Michael Mantler, The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update  ( USA )
Pat Metheny Unity Group, Kin  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
musicformessier, Saturnitical Mercurism  ( HUNGARY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
My Brother the Wind, Once There Was a Time When Time and Space Were One  ( SWEDEN )
Nightmares on Wax, Now Is the Time  ( UK )
Lorenda Ramou, Ensemble Coriolis, Konstantia Gourzi: Music for piano and string quartet  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Raflum, Guī Zhào  ( CHINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Sanborn, Enjoy the View  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sinepearl, Cycles Within Cycles Within  ( SWEDEN )
Skinshape, Skinshape  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Slow World, Spheres  ( GERMANY )
Tangerine Dream, Sorcerer  ( GERMANY )
Tor.Ma, Secret Message  ( MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tycho, Awake  ( USA )
U2, Songs of Innocence  ( IRELAND )
Unusual Cosmic Process, Aquatic  ( UKRAINE )
Suzanne Vega, Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles  ( USA )
Vilde&Inga, Makrofauna  ( NORWAY )
Norma Winstone, Dance Without Answer  ( UK )

2015
Best of 2015
Eivind Aarset, IE  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
William Basinski, Cascade  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jakob Bro, Gefion   ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Cross, Robert Fripp, Starless Starlight  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Floating Points, Elaenia  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Fragile Fate, Lilliam Ocean  ( USA / UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Giovanni Guidi Trio, This Is the Day  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Terje Isungset, Meditations  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sinikka Langeland, The Half-Finished Heaven  ( FINLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Offthesky, The Serpent Phase  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ott, Fairchildren  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet, Eight Winds  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thomas Strønen, Time Is a Blind Guide  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Altus, Komorebi  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Aidan Baker, Ecliptic Plane  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Marco Barotti, Rising  ( GERMANY )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Blur, The Magic Whip  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Clann, Kin Fables  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Coldplay, A Head Full of Dreams  ( UK )
Cyminology, Phoenix  ( GERMANY / IRAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dubtrak, Tranceinducer  ( POLAND / CANADA )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Elina Duni Quartet, Dallëndyshe  ( SWITZERLAND / ALBANIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mathias Eick, Midwest  ( NORWAY )
Ludovico Einaudi, Elements  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Evergreen Refuge, Earthborn  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nils Frahm, Screws Reworked  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Gramatik, Coffee Shop Selection  ( SLOVENIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tommy Guerrero, Perpetual  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tigran Hamasyan, Mockroot  ( ARMENIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Gilad Hekselman, Homes  ( ISRAEL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mette Henriette, Mette Henriette  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hinkstep, My Forest Queen  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hinkstep, The First Steps  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
In the Branches, Expanse Sessions  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Terje Isungset, Isslottet  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sven Kacirek, Songs from Okinawa  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
D.P. Kaufman, Fear and Curiosity  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Let Spin, Let Go  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Colin Linden, Rich in Love  ( CANADA )
Manet, I Sense Owls in the Moss  ( NORWAY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Man of No Ego, Web of Life  ( BULGARIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Donny McCaslin, Fast Future  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Muse, Drones  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Daniel Herskedal, Slow Eastbound Train  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Misha Mishenko, Metanoia  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Leszek Możdżer & Friends, Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic III  ( POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mike Nock, Laurence Pike, Beginning and End of Knowing  ( NEW ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nils Økland Band, Kjølvatn  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gary Peacock Trio, Now This  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gabriele Pollina, Handpan Improvisation  ( ITALY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Max Richter, From Sleep  ( GERMANY / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Alive in the Vortex  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Illuha, Taylor Deupree, Perpetual  ( JAPAN / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Sanborn, Time and the River  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joe Satriani, Shockwave Supernova  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Claudia Schwab, Amber Sands  ( AUSTRIA / IRELAND )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Scuba, Claustrophobia  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jonas H. Sjøvaag, Arild Andersen, Ancient Land, New Territory  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Skinshape, Oracolo  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
SkyDive Trio, Sun Moee  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Søjus1, Søjus1  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Pops Staples, Don't Lose This  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stick Figure, Set in Stone  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sumac Dub, Le Jardin de Lucy  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Third Reel, Many More Days  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ulvesang, Ulvesang  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Eberhard Weber, Encore  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nao Yoshioka, Rising  ( JAPAN / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Ah Cama-Sotz, State of Mind  ( BELGIUM )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ambient Epicuros, Terra Nova 2  ( UNKNOWN )
Anenon, Camembert EP  ( USA )
Aphex Twin, Selected Soundcloud Works 2015  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ascendant, Aethereal Code  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pete Atkin, The Colours of the Night  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Richard Bone, Involution, Vol. 1  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
BT, Electronic Opus  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bzaurie, The Fabric of Sleep  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Chills, Silver Bullets  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dimmat, Karma  ( GREECE )
Giriou Dvasios, Ratu  ( LITHUANIA )
Fairport Convention, Myths and Heroes  ( UK )
Nils Frahm, Music for the Motion Picture 'Victoria'  ( GERMANY )
Free Nelson Mandoomjazz, Awakening of a Capital  ( UK )
Bill Frisell, Richter 858  ( USA )
Garbanotas Bosistas, Above Us  ( LITHUANIA )
Gateway 721, Arrival  ( GERMANY )
Julia Hülsmann Quartet, Theo Bleckmann, A Clear Midnight: Kurt Weill and America  ( GERMANY )
Vijay Iyer Trio, Break Stuff  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keith Jarrett, Barber/Bartok  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Keith Jarrett, Creation  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Giya Kancheli, Chiaroscuro  ( GEORGIA )
Man of No Ego, Blinkers Removed  ( BULGARIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Maribou State, Portraits  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Men I Trust, Headroom  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Julien H. Mulder, The Void  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Natraxas, Natraxas  ( GREECE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
n-Topia, Edge Cases  ( USA )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Offthesky, The Soft Parallel  ( USA )
One Direction, Made in the A.M.  ( UK )
Chris Potter Underground Orchestra, Imaginary Cities ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Potter, Amores Pasados  ( UK )
Dino Saluzzi, Imágenes: Music for Piano  ( ARGENTINA )
Travis Scott, Rodeo  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
This Silent Sea  ( RAUMKLANG )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Frank Steiner, Jr., Momentum  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie and Lowell  ( USA )
Rajendra Teredesai, Crosswinds: World Flute Conversations  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Torn, Only Sky  ( USA )
Toto, XIV  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Unusual Cosmic Process, Utopia  ( UKRAINE )
Jonny Velón, Goodness Flows  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Zorn, Pellucidar (A Dreamer's Fantabula)  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]

2016
Best of 2016
Mulatu Astatke, Black Jesus Experience, Cradle of Humanity  ( ETHIOPIA / AUSTRALIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Zsófia Boros, Local Objects  ( HUNGARY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Arthur Holloway, Guilt Noir  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2020
Terje Isungset, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Oase  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moby, Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep.  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ben Monder, Amorphae  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
James Murray, Eyes to the Height  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Runrig, The Story  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber, Alba  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tor.Ma, Sac Be at Night EP  ( MEXICO )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Honourable mentions
Ralph Alessi, Quiver  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joey Alexander, Countdown  ( INDONESIA )
Altus, Innerspace  ( CANADA )  [ ALTUS ]
Anenon, Petrol  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Søren Bebe Trio, Home  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, Memento Mori  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, The Pink Bird Mental Institute  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jeff Beck, Loud Hailer  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Geisterfaust  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
BT, —  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jakob Bro, Streams  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cairo, Say  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Carbon Based Lifeforms, ALT:01  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Caretaker, Everywhere at the End of Time  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Caretaker, Everywhere at the End of Time – Stage 2  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Comet Is Coming, Channel the Spirits  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Echo Delta, Blu Neon  ( LITHUANIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Electric Octopus, This Is Our Culture  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Anat Fort, Gianluigi Trovesi, Birdwatching  ( ISRAEL / ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Frahm, Solo – Remains  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Gateway 721, Secret Lifeforms  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Hackett, Blues with a Feeling  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, Atmosphères  ( ARMENIA / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hammock, Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hinkstep, A Generation Lost in Space  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Jansen, Tender Extinction  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tõnu Kõrvits, Mirror  ( ESTONIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manet, Dark Side of the Valley  ( NORWAY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Martin Nonstatic, Nebulae Live at the Planetarium  ( NETHERLANDS / GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Offthesky, pillow garden, Fable of Silence and Selah  ( USA )  [ NOISE ]
Offthesky, Silent Went the Sea  ( USA )  [ NOISE ]
Offthesky, pleq, Still Your Bones  ( USA )  [ NOISE ]
Organic Patterns, Biome  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lee Perry, Skanking with the Upsetter: Rare Dubs 1971-1974  ( JAMAICA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rapoon, Song from the End of the World  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rasmee, Isan Soul  ( THAILAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robert Rich, Vestiges  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rukirek, Butterfy Tales for Trees  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Scann-Tec, Unyt  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
J. Peter Schwalm, The Beauty of Disaster  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Erik Scott, In the Company of Clouds  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joanna Shaw Taylor, Wild  ( UK )
Shinjibomb, Shinjibomb  ( UK )  [ EKTOPLASM ]
Smooth, Forgotten Futures  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ulf Söderberg, Inland  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sowulo, SOL  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Space Echo  ( ANALOG AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Starseed  ( SYNPHAERA RECORDS )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Suduaya, Venus  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
SYML, Hurt for Me EP  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Three Trapped Tigers, Silent Earthling  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards, Wreck His Days  ( UNKNOWN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tor, Blue Book  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tor.Ma, Sac Be at Night EP  ( MEXICO )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Unusual Cosmic Process, Between Continents  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Glauco Venier, Miniatures  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Iris  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nao Yoshioka, The Truth  ( JAPAN / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Yoyu, Devotion  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Trance Frendz – An Evening with Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm  ( ICELAND / GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ascendant, Meridian  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Astrobal, Australasie  ( FRANCE )
Astronaut Ape, Unknown Sector  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jon Balke, Warp  ( NORWAY )
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Continuum  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
R. Beny, Full Blossom of the Evening  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Eraldo Bernocchi, Prakash Sontakke, Invisible Strings  ( ITALY / INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo  ( USA / UK )
David Boato, Marcello Allulli, Glauco Venier, Salvatore Majore, Roberto Dani, Mufloni  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thomas Brett, Gong Music  ( UK )
Sheela Bringi, Shakti Sutra  ( INDIA / USA )
Maryen Cairns, Femina Australis  ( AUSTRALIA )
Will Calhoun, Celebrating Elvin Jones  ( USA )
Sarah Davachi, Dominions  ( CANADA )
Dead When I Found Her, Eyes on Backwards  ( USA )
Deaf Center, Pale Ravine  ( NORWAY )
Andrew Dimitroff, Aiyana III  ( UK )
Echo Delta, Blu Neon  ( LITHUANIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Emapia, Seeds, Roots & Fruits  ( POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, The Ship  ( UK )
Bill Frisell, When You Wish Upon a Star  ( USA )
Gallery Six, Underwater Paradise  ( JAPAN )  
Hammock, Everything and Nothing  ( USA )
Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Eg gjekk ned til denne fjorden  ( NORWAY )
Robin Hayward, Stop Time  ( UK )  
Heavenchord, Time in Space  ( LITHUANIA )
Sarathy Korwar, Day to Day  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Lost in Kiev, Nuit Noir  ( FRANCE )
Motion Drive, Chill Out Realms  ( SWITZERLAND )
Noraus, Type 1 Civilization  ( RUSSIA )
Passenger, Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea  ( UK )
Hannah Peel, Awake But Always Dreaming  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Barton Rage, Toshinori Kondo, Realm II: Parallax  ( POLAND / JAPAN )  
Barton Rage, Nelson Brunner, Raw  ( POLAND / GERMANY )
Max Richter, Sleep Remixes  ( GERMANY / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, This Place to Be  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Daniel Schmidt, In My Arms, Many Flowers  ( USA )  
SiebZehN, Starship Signals  ( GERMANY )
Somewhere Off Jazz Street, Random Bullets  ( USA )
State Azure, Phantoms  ( UK )
Miroslav Vitous, Music of Weather Report  ( CZECHOSLOVAKIA )  
Cuong Vu Trio, Pat Metheny, Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny  ( VIETNAM / USA )  
Thomas Zehetmair, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Robert Schumann  ( AUSTRIA / FRANCE )  
John Zorn, The Mockingbird  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]

2017
Best of 2017
Alfa Mist, Antiphon  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Matthew Bourne, Isotach  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Clann, Seelie  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cubering, Soma  ( RUSSIA )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Helpling, A Sea Without Memory  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Peter Kater, Dancing on Water  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bob Lanzetti, Whose Feet Are These That Are Walking  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Logic Moon, Oblivion  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nguyên Lê, Ngô Hng Quang, Hà Nội Duo  ( FRANCE / VIETNAM )  [ SPOTIFY ]   FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2017
Jonny Nash, Suzanne Kraft, Passive Aggressive  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Gabriele Poso, The Languages of Tambores  ( SARDINIA )
Smooth, Contemporary Past  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Somewhere Off Jazz Street, Becoming Invisible  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Skúli Sverrisson, Bill Frisell, Strata  ( ICELAND / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie Quartet, Up and Coming  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Altus, Below the Root  ( CANADA )  [ ALTUS ]
Ascendant, Particle Horizon  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jon Balke, Siwan, Nahnou Houm  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stefano Battaglia, Pelagos  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, Flamingo's Dreams  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Biosphere, Shenzhou [reissue]  ( NORWAY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Eraldo Bernocchi, Netherworld, Himuro  ( ITALY / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Debashish Bhattacharya, Hawaii To Calcutta: A Tribute To Tau Moe  ( INDIA )
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Derelicts  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Luca D'Alberto, Endless  ( ITALY )
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield, Hudson  ( USA )
Dessin Bizarre, Movement EP  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dine Doneff, Rousilvo  ( MACEDONIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Dub Trees, Celtic Vedic in Dub  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Elder, Reflections of a Floating World  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Scott Fisher, Jumpin' at Shadows  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
FOG, HTDC, Dusk Union  ( POLAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan, Small Town  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gaussian Curve, The Distance  ( ITALY / UK / NETHERLANDS )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hammock, Mysterium  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Helping, A Sea Without Memory  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Martyn Heyne, Electric Intervals  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
How to Disappear Completely, Mer de Revs  ( POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
How to Disappear Completely, Mer de Revs II  ( POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hvalfugl, By  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
IAH, IAH  ( SPAIN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rafael Anton Irissari, The Shameless Years  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Justin Johnson, Drivin' It Down  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sven Kacirek, The Nutchracker Sessions  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Sven Kacirek, Daniel Mburu Muhuri, Economic Partnership Agreement  ( GERMANY / KENYA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hugo Kant, Out of Time  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Manchester Orchestra, A Black Mile to the Surface  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jo David Meyer Lysne, Mats Eilertsen, Meander  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manet, Devour  ( NORWAY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Björn Meyer, Provenance  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stephan Micus, Inland Sea  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tim Mislock, Now Is the Last Best Time  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moonchild, Voyager  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Martin Nonstatic, Ligand  ( NETHERLANDS / GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Maciej Obara Quartet, Unloved  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Orchestra of Mirrored Reflection, Dead Beat  ( UKRAINE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Oregon, Lantern  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Purl, Hivetribe, Foreign Winds  ( SPAIN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Verneri Pohjola, Pekka  ( FINLAND )
John Potter, Josquin/Victoria: Secret History  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Queens of the Stone Age, Villains  ( USA )
Quicksand, Interiors  ( USA )
The Re-Stoned, Chronoclasm  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Roach, The Passing  ( USA )  ( SPAIN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, async  ( JAPAN )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Morten Schantz, Godspeed  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sleeping Pandora, Quiet Pass  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ferenc Snétberger, Titok  ( HUNGARY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Specimens, Sculptures  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tomasz Stanko, New York Quartet, December Avenue  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Step High, Celestial Colors  ( FRANCE )  [ EKTOPLASM ]
Markus Stockhausen, Far Into the Stars  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stoned Earth, Oblivion  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tinariwen, Elwan  ( MALI )
Tiny Leaves, A Certain Tide  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Trio Mediaeval, Arve Henriksen, Rímur  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ralph Towner, My Foolish Heart  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Oded Tzur, Translator's Note  ( ISRAEL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Colin Vallon Trio, Danse  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Valotihkuu, Time and Silence  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Yoyu, Ordinary Moon  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
1982, Chromola  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ashnaia Project, Escape from Reality  ( SWITZERLAND / SPAIN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Astropilot, Thirty-Three  ( RUSSIA )
Kevin Ayers, Lady June, Ollie Halsall, The Happening Combo  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Philippe Baden Powell, Notes Over Poetry  ( BRAZIL )
Bar 25: Zeitgeist, Vol. 1  ( BAR 25 MUSIC )
Theo Bleckmann, Elegy  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Richard Bone, Age of Falconry  ( USA )
Fábio Caramuru, Tom Jobim  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Caretaker, Take Care. It's a Desert Out There  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cloudwalk, Forgotten World  ( USA )
Da Captain Trips, Adventures in the Upside Down  ( ITALY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dans Les Arbres, Phosphoresence  ( NORWAY )
Dreaming Cooper, Parallels  ( RUSSIA )
ekaOlogik, Light Seeds  ( FRANCE )
Brian Eno, Reflection  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Four Tet, New Energy  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fourth Dimension, The Perfect Form  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
François and the Atlas Mountains, Solide Mirage  ( UK / FRANCE )
Camilla George Quartet, Isang  ( UK )
Geotic, Abysma  ( USA )
Germind, Flows  ( RUSSIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Kjartan Hatløy, Arve Henriksen, Noko driv på  ( NORWAY )
James Heather, Stories from Far Away on Piano  ( UK )
Amit Heri, I Love India  ( INDIA )
Terje Isungset, Arve Henriksen, The Art of Irrigation  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Leyland Kirby, We, So Tired of All the Darkness in Our Lives  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Audun Kleive, Jan Bang, The Periphery of a Building  ( NORWAY )
Garth Knox, The Salterello Trio, Leonard: Book Of Angels Volume 30  ( IRELAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Michael Mantler, Comment c'est  ( USA )
Van Morrison, Versatile  ( UK )
Gary Peacock Trio, Tangents  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Barton Rage, Wintry  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tom Rogerson, Brian Eno, Finding Shore  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Async  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Plankton  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Silver Lake Chorus, The Silver Lake Chorus  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Somewhere Off Jazz Street, Black Cloud, Lost Days  ( USA )
Sonic Black Holes, Disclosure  ( GERMANY )
Pauline Anna Strom, Trans-Millenia Music  ( USA )
Jenno Struck, Jenno Struck  ( DENMARK )
Symbolico, Connectika  ( ISRAEL )
Unusual Cosmic Process, Spacetime  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Walk Through Fire, Performing the Music of Arvo Pärt  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Roger Waters, Is This the Life We Really Want?  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Zorn, Midsummer Moons  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]

2018
Best of 2018
Anenon, Tongue  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ludvig Cimbrelius, Illuviation (dreamsketches)  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Wow and Flutter  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Frahm, All Melody  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Shinya Fukumori Trio, For 2 Akis  ( JAPAN / GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tommy Guerrero, Road to Knowhere  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, After the Fall  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kalpataru Tree, Rhythmic Fractals of Earth's Imagination  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ahmoudou Madassane, Zerzuza: Original Soundtrack Recording  ( NIGER )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Shai Maestro, The Dream Thief  ( ISRAEL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli, Travelers  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moby, Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Laurence Pike, Distant Early Warning  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kristjan Randalu, Absence  ( ESTONIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Re-Stoned, Stories of the Astral Lizard  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2019
Trygve Seim, Helsinki Songs  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Solar Fields, Ourdom  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Stone Rebel, Dreams & Illusions  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stone Rebel, Magic Ball  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stone Rebel, Psycho Wisdom  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stone Rebel, Soul Shelter  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sungjae Son, Near East Quartet  ( SOUTH KOREA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Tibbetts, Life Of  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Live  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino  ( UK )
Arild Andersen, In-House Science  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Atmoswaves, Distant Horizons  ( RUSSIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Alexia Avina, Betting on an Island  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bansara, Bansara  ( GREECE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Awase  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nat Birchall, Cosmic Language  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jakob Bro, Bay of Rainbows   ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cruel Diagonals, Disambiguation   ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Cubering, Noraus, 22:22   ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Luca D'Alberto, Exile  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Deltanaut, Part 1  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Justice Der, Covers 1  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 2  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 3  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 4  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 5  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 6  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 7  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Dream Twice, Enta  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Echo Season, Periphery  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Brian Eno, Music for Installations  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
E.S.T., Live in London  ( SWEDEN )
Bill Frisell, Music IS  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gayalaxy, Ashes of Time  ( PORTUGAL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tord Gustavsen Trio, The Other Side  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hammock, Universalis  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, The Height of the Reeds  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eleni Karaindrou, Tous des oiseaux  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Kollar, Arve Henriksen, Illusion of a Separate World  ( SLOVAKIA / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Khruangbin, Con Todo El Mondo  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Libella, The Apostle of Beauty  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Logical Elelments, Unexplored Elements  ( ROMANIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Loneward, Protection  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Loscil, Bannockburn  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lowercase Noises, The Ironic Distance  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Maribou State, Kingdoms  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wolfgang Muthspiel Where the River Goes  ( AUSTRIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nibana, Earth from Above  ( FRANCE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nightports w/Matthew Bourne, Nightports w/Matthew Bourne  ( UK )
Nim Quartet, Nim Quartet  ( ISRAEL / UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thandi Ntuli, Exiled  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hatis Noit, Illogical Dance EP  ( JAPAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Offthesky, Coma Communion  ( USA )  [ NOISE ]
Offthesky, Enfolding  ( USA )  [ NOISE ]
Organic Patterns, The Search  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cristiano Parato, Attitude  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sadhu Sensi, Mystic Sun  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Erik Scott, A Trick of the Wind  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Baptiste Sejourne, Kama Lila Sol, Kura Kura  ( FRANCE / INDONESIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Skinshape, Filoxiny  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sleeping Pandora, From Above  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Sly & Robbie, Nils Petter Molvær, Nordub  ( JAMAICA / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sons of the Stone, Stone Tales  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bobo Stenson Trio, Contra la Indecisión  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Still Corners, Slow Air  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thomas Strønen, Time Is a Blind Guide, Lucus  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
SYML, In My Body EP  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sync24, Omnious  ( SWEDEN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tetarise, Sliced Reflections EP  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tranquillitas  ( NUMA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Unusual Cosmic Process, Frames of Silence  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Valotihkuu, Fragile Melodies  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Valotihkuu, Paths  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Norman Westberg, After Vacation  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thom Yorke, Suspiria (Music from the Luca Guadagnino Film)  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Aphex Twin, Collapse EP  ( UK )
Bar 25: Zeitgeist, Vol. 2  ( BAR 25 MUSIC )
Bar 25: Zeitgeist, Vol. 3  ( BAR 25 MUSIC )
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, Dark Stories  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, We Wander Among You  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jason Becker, Triumphant Hearts  ( USA )
Reinhardt Buhr, Seed  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Celer, Shima  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Circada, Awaken EP  ( AUSTRALIA )
Whettman Chelmets, Annihilate Your Masters  ( USA )
Ry Cooder, The Prodigal Son  ( USA )
Andrew Cyrille, Lebroba  ( USA )
Deadbeat, Wax Poetic for This Our Great Resolve  ( CANADA / GERMANY )
Deep Learning, Soft Confidence  ( AUSTRALIA / UK )
Andrew Dimitroff, Aiyana IV  ( UK )
Kit Downes, Obsidian  ( UK )
ekaOlogik, Perseida  ( FRANCE )
Emanative, Earth  ( UK )
Entheogenic, Kykeon  ( FRANCE )
Ryan Farish, Wilderness  ( USA )
Geotic, Traversa  ( USA )
Ghost in the Chill, Ghost in the Chill  ( FRANCE )
Graintable, Herons  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Haive Music, As the Storm Slowly Passes  ( UNKNOWN )
Mary Halvorson, Bill Frisell, The Maid with the Flaxen Hair  ( USA )
Kalya Scintilla, Gaian Code  ( AUSTRALIA )
Lycoriscoris, Flight  ( JAPAN )
Carla Marciano Quartet, Psychosis: Homage to Bernard Herrmann  ( ITALY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Moewn, Ad Astra  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Abul Mogard, Above All Dreams  ( CROATIA )
Murkage Dave, Murkage Dave Changed My Life  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Neuroq, Catharsis  ( RUSSIA )
One Arc Degree, The Glow Beneath  ( GREECE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Óperentzia, Tribalkan  ( HUNGARY )
Panda on the Bamboo Tree, Slumber  ( NEPAL )
Philanthrope, Psalm//Trees, Birds of a Feather: Volume One  ( AUSTRIA / UK )
Barre Phillips, End To End  ( USA )
Phoniks, Down to Earth  ( USA )
John Prine, The Tree of Forgiveness  ( USA )
Mark Pritchard, The Four Worlds  ( UK / AUSTRALIA )
Robohands, Green  ( UK )
Aaron Schragge, Ben Monder, This World of Dew  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Silent Island, Stormvalley  ( HUNGARY )
Simple Minds, Walk Between Worlds  ( UK )
Marc Sinan, Oğuz Büyükberber White  ( GERMANY / TURKEY )
Somali Yacht Club, The Sea  ( UKRAINE )
Specimens, In the Dust of Idols  ( UK )
John Surman, Invisible Threads  ( UK )
Viagra Boys, Street Worms  ( SWEDEN )
Leon Vynehall, Nothing Is Still  ( UK )
Norma Winstone, Descansado: Songs for Film  ( UK )
Yarn, Undiscovered Places  ( HUNGARY )
John Zorn, In a Convex Mirror  ( USA )

2019
Best of 2019
Areni Agbabian, Bloom  ( ARMENIA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Alexia Avina, All That I Can't See  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Tracing Back the Radiance  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Caretaker, Everywhere, an Empty Bliss  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Caretaker, Everywhere at the End of Time – Stages 1–6  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Justice Der, Covers 1–8  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Elder, The Gold & Silver Sessions EP  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nils Frahm, Encores 3  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hammock, Silencia  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Offthesky, the humble bee, All other voices gone, only yours remains  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Offthesky, Bill Seaman, Layers of Memory in the Quiet Voice of Motion  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset, Lost River  ( ITALY / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet, Metamodal  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Atmosphere for Dreaming  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stone Rebel, Soul Shelter Part II  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Valotihkuu, By the River  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Honourable mentions
Alfa Mist, Structuralism  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Argus, The Invisible Sun  ( SERBIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Yonathan Avishai, Joys and Solitudes  ( ISRAEL / FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jeff Ballard, Fairgrounds  ( USA )
Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian, When Will the Blues Leave  ( CANADA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thom Brennan, Imaginary Conquests  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Reinhardt Buhr, The Final Movement  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai, Playing the Room  ( ISRAEL / FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Angel Bat Dawid, The Oracle  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Justice Der, Covers 8  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Kyle Bobby Dunn, From Here to Eternity  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
EDD-989, The Return  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mats Eilertsen, And Then Comes The Night  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Erot & Lauge, Wilderness EP  ( DENMARK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Fennesz, Agora  ( AUSTRIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan, Epistrophy  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tony Gerber, Giles Reaves, Elder Crossing  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Graintable, Universal Ash  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Chihei Hatakeyama, Forgotten Hill  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joe Henry, The Gospel According to Water  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain, Chris Potter, Good Hope  ( UK / INDIA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
How to Disappear Completely, Seraphim  ( POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hvalfugl, Som En Faldskærm  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Isostatic, Woodland Structure  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ethan Iverson Quartet, Tom Harrell, Common Practice  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Ritme Jaavdanegi  ( IRAN / GERMANY )
Lauge, Dawn  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Liquidroom, Mysterious Landing  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Christian Löffler, Graal (Prologue)  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Stephan Micus, Bold As Light  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moonchild, Little Ghost  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Natural Life Essence, Caravan of Healing Sounds  ( ARGENTINA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Natural Life Essence, Micro Ambient  ( ARGENTINA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nivhek, After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Offthesky, Fallow  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Offthesky, Illuminate  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Offthesky, To Break Is Something Sacred  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Osi and the Jupiter, Nordlige Rúnaskog  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Enrico Rava, Joe Lovano, Roma  ( ITALY / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Reblooming, Echo Earth  ( RUSSIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Remote Vision, The Outer Plateau  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Roach, Atmosphere for Dreaming  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Yves Robert, Bruno Chevillon, Cyril Atef, Captivate  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Juna Serita, The Princess of Funk EP  ( JAPAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Shamanizm Parallelii, Strange Food For Strange People From Fairy Tails Part V  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sleeping Pandora, Yellow Sphere  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Stereo Hypnosis, Christopher Chaplin, BJARMI  ( ICELAND / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stone Rebel, Eternal Starlight  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stone Rebel, Pandora's Box  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Strange Substance, Swamplands  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ulla Straus, Big Room  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Leo Svirsky, River Without Banks  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tonbruket, Masters of Fog  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Trigger Hippy, Full Circle and Then Some  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gianluigi Trovesi, Gianni Coscia, La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Valotihkuu, Memories  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Valotihkuu, Pastoral  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Villagers of Ioannina City, Age of Aquarius  ( GREECE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
YĪN YĪN, The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Youthie & Macca Dread, Nomad Skank  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thomas Zehetmair, J. S. Bach: Sei Solo: The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo  ( AUSTRIA )
John Zorn, Klezmerson, The Book Beri'ah, Vol. 6 Tiferet  ( USA / MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Zorn, Nove Cantici Per Francesco D’Assisi  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Astronaut Ape, Deep  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bar 25: Zeitgeist, Vol. 4  ( BAR 25 MUSIC )
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, World of Darkness  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Reinhardt Buhr, Live at the V&A Waterfront  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Reinhardt Buhr, Movement 2 Live  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Reinhardt Buhr, Movement 3 Berlin  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
J. J. Cale, Stay Around  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cold Womb Descent, Science Art Project  ( POLAND )
Com Truise, Persuasion System  ( USA )
Crows in the Rain, Sorrow for an Unfinished Dream  ( IRAN )
Randall Dunn, Beloved  ( USA )
Erothyme, Along the Arc  ( USA )
Frozen Planet... 1969, Meltdown On The Horizon  ( AUSTRALIA )
Haast-Hāwea, Haast-Hāwea  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Halftribe, Backwater Revisited  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Mystic Crock, Seduced Senses  ( GERMANY )
Fourth Dimension, Ubique  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Frisell, Harmony  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series)  ( ICELAND )
Larry Grenadier, The Gleaners  ( USA )
HTRK, Over the Rainbow  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn, The Transitory Poems  ( USA )
Kaminanda, Elemental Garden  ( CANADA )
Kassander, Radial Velocities  ( BELGIUM )
Liquid Memoirs, Oblivion  ( INDIA )
Magdalena Bay, mini mix vol. 1  ( USA )
Shai Maestro Trio, Untold Stories  ( ISRAEL )
Elijah Nang, Gaijin  ( USA / JAPAN )
Noraus, Noraus  ( RUSSIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rapoon, Dust of Souls  ( UK )
Rapoon, Old Castle  ( UK )
Secret Films, 35:53  ( UK )
Richard Stonefield, Sand in the Wind  ( RUSSIA )
Symbolico, Perceiving All  ( ISRAEL )
Yann Tiersen, All  ( FRANCE )
David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith, Sun of Goldfinger  ( USA )
Twin Temple, Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
William Tyler, Goes West  ( USA )
Grazie Wirtti, Matias Arriazu, Caçador De Infância  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robag Wruhme, Venq Tolep  ( GERMANY )