peteryoung: Symbol created by the late guitarist Michael Hedges (Music)
1974   Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973  ( UK )
1975   Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, 1975  ( UK )
1976   Rainbow, Rising, 1976  ( UK )
1977   AC/DC, Let There Be Rock, 1977  ( AUSTRALIA )
1978   Joe Walsh, "But Seriously, Folks…", 1978  ( USA )
1979   Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, 1979  ( USA )
1980   Jeff Beck, There and Back, 1980  ( UK )
1981   Level 42, Level 42, 1981  ( UK )
1982   ABC, The Lexicon of Love, 1982  ( UK )
1983   The Blue Nile, A Walk Across the Rooftops, 1983  ( UK )
1984   Joni Mitchell, Hejira, 1976  ( CANADA )
1985   Donald Fagen, The Nightfly, 1982  ( USA )
1986   David Sylvian, Gone to Earth, 1984  ( UK )
1987   Zakir Hussain, Making Music, 1987  ( INDIA )
1988   Giles Reaves, Nothing Is Lost, 1988  ( USA )
1989   —
1990   Paul Simon, The Rhythm of the Saints, 1990  ( USA )
1991   Van Morrison, Poetic Champions Compose, 1987  ( UK )
1992   Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Magico, 1980  ( USA / NORWAY / BRAZIL )
1993   —
1994   Capercaillie, Capercaillie, 1994  ( UK )
1995   David Darling, Dark Wood, 1995  ( USA )
1996   —
1997   Nils Petter Molvaer, Khmer, 1997  ( NORWAY )
1998   —
1999   —
2000   —
2001   —
2002   Creed, Weathered, 2001  ( USA )
2003   Bruce Cockburn, You've Never Seen Everything, 2003  ( CANADA )
2004   Alter Bridge, One Day Remains, 2004  ( USA )
2005   Falling You, Touch, 2005  ( USA )
2006   Akataka, Akataka, 2004  ( USA )
2007   BT, This Binary Universe, 2006  ( USA )
2008   —
2009   Kenji Williams, Wordspirit Soundtrack, 2004  ( USA )
2010   —
2011   —
2012   —
2013   Liquid Stranger, Cryogenic Encounters, 2012  ( SWEDEN )
2014   Viktor Krauss, Far from Enough, 2004  ( USA )
2015   Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Live, 2012  ( SWITZERLAND )
2016   Michael Brook, Cobalt Blue, 1992  ( CANADA )
2017   Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hng Quang, Hà Nội Duo, 2017  ( FRANCE / VIETNAM )
2018   Arve Henriksen, Cartography, 2008  ( NORWAY )
2019   The Re-Stoned, Stories of the Astral Lizard, 2018  ( RUSSIA )
2020   Michael Arthur Holloway, Guilt Noir, 2016  ( USA )
2021   —
2022   BIG LABEL: Avishai Cohen, Naked Truth, 2022  ( ISRAEL / USA )
           INDEPENDENT: Brambles, Charcoal, 2012  ( AUSTRALIA )
2023   BIG LABEL: Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Lost Ships, 2020  ( ALBANIA / UK )
           INDEPENDENT: Ozric Tentacles, Space for the Earth, 2020  ( UK )
2024   BIG LABEL:
           INDEPENDENT:
peteryoung: Symbol created by the late guitarist Michael Hedges (Music)
[ 1950–1979 ]   [ 1980–1989 ]   [ 1990–1999 ]   [ 2000–2009 ]   [ 2010–2019 ]

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.

2020
Best of 2020

Mulatu Astatke, Black Jesus Experience, To Know Without Knowing  ( ETHIOPIA / AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kostik Chipauak, Moots Cimatl Roots  ( MEXICO )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Avishai Cohen, Big Vicious  ( ISRAEL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Craigie, Asterisk the Universe  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Lost Ships  ( ALBANIA / UK )  [ SPOTIFYFAVOURITE BIG LABEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2023
Dynastor, Tales of a Story  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nils Frahm, Empty  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Khruangbin, Mordechai  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jean-Louis Matinier, Kevin Seddiki, Rivages  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade, Angular Blues  ( AUSTRIA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Numün, Voyage au soleil  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Offthesky, Psalm of Solum  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Offthesky, the humble bee, We Were the Hum of Dreams  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Offthesky, Zoetropic EP  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ozric Tentacles, Space for the Earth, 2020  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFYFAVOURITE INDIE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2023
Tata-Wati, Numa EP  ( ITALY / MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stefan Torto, Orion's Rebirth  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Yahgan, N:L:E, The Forgotten Civilization  ( ARGENTINA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Honourable mentions
Another Sky, I Slept on the Floor  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Apocryphos, Against Civilization  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Bebopovsky and the Orkestry Podyezdov, Bipolar Disorder  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michel Benita, Looking at Sounds  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
BeS, See  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Christopher Bissonnette, The Wine Dark Sea  ( CANADA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow, Life Goes On  ( USA / UK )
Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Patchouli Blue  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moses Boyd, Dark Matter  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thom Brennan, Departures  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Whettman Chelmets, I Don't Want to Let Go, But I Need to Let Go  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Coam, Patterns Of Echos In Motion  ( ISRAEL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tino Contreras, La Noche de Los Dioses  ( MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Deepness Dawn, Bordersun  ( RUSSIA )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Dinosaur, To the Earth  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Mats Eilertsen Trio, Memorabilia  ( NORWAY / NETHERLANDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brian Eno, Film Music 1976–2020  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Filter Bear, Slowly Dip Your Dreams Into the Sea  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Frisell, Valentine  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Serena Gabriel, Steve Roach, Inanna's Dream  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Mathias Grassow, Too Much Distance  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Mathias Grassow, Eyes Cast Down, In the Eyes of Infinite Light  ( GERMANY / USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Halftribe and Spinnet, Patterns of Sync  ( UK / GREECE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Hammock, Into the Blank / Madi  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
John Hassell, Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hvalfugl, Øjeblikke Vi Husker  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Isostatic, Glacial Epoch  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nicolas Jaar, Cenizas  ( CHILE / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Yair Elazar Glotman, Last and First Men  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Kollar, Arve Henriksen, Unexpected Isolation  ( SLOVAKIA / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Let Spin, Steal the Light  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Lina, Raül Refree, Lina_ Raül Refree  ( PORTUGAL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Christian Löffler, Lys  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jo David Meyer Lysne, Mats Eilertsen, Kroksjø  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Maluns, Artifacts of Time  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frisell, Americana  ( FRANCE / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Memorio, We Walk Amongst Them  ( UNKNOWN )  [ BEATPORT ]
Moonkin & Dense, Wave Soaring  ( GERMANY / SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mount Hush, Mount Hush  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Benjamin Moussay, Promontoire  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kazuya Nagaya, Dream Interpretation  ( JAPAN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Nimh, Rapoon, Nimh & Rapoon  ( ITALY / UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
N:L:E, Kophi, Random Touch  ( ARGENTINA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Alva Noto, Xerrox 4  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Andrew Odd, Random Thoughts  ( FINLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Of Wood  ( VISIONARY SHAMANICS )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Paul Motian, The Copenhagen Concert  ( ITALY / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Psydraft, Tata  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Roach, Timeroom Livestream 8-22-2020  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Robert Rich, Offering to the Morning Fog  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chris Russell, Elliptical  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dino Saluzzi, Albores  ( ARGENTINA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ebi Soda, Ugh  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Soulstatejazz, Annwn  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Stefan Torto, The Dawn  ( GREECE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Oded Tzúr, Here Be Dragons  ( ISRAEL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Valotihkuu, Winter Lullabies  ( UKRAINE )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Dominik Wania, Lonely Shadows  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wolf Tech, Cry for Roots  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Urucum, Danza Savanna  ( AUSTRIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jamie Webster, We Get By  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nao Yoshioka, Undeniable  ( JAPAN / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Zorn, Virtue  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, Snow Catches Her Eyelashes  ( NORWAY )
Amritone, The Finger Pointing to the Moon  ( RUSSIA )
Amritone, Mental Underground  ( RUSSIA )
Archean Nights, Dying Quasar  ( FRANCE )
Bailjack, Spring  ( USA )
Jon Balke, Discourses  ( NORWAY )
Dave Bessell, Reality Engine  ( UK )
Blessed Are the Hearts That Bend, The Limitless Sweet Love of Precious Suffering  ( UK )
Mike Bullock, Ultrasonisphere  ( USA )
Ben Burr, Fresh Cheese  ( USA )
Cerceaux, Erase Una Vez EP  ( MEXICO )
Gilbert Cohen, Ariel Kalma, Head Voices  ( FRANCE )
Cosmyte, Pyramite: Awake Side EP  ( UNKNOWN )
Cubering, Mirage  ( RUSSIA )
Dwarrowdelf, Evenstar  ( UK )
Earmake, Beyond Reality  ( UKRAINE )
Echo Season, Solarmetric  ( USA )
Roger Eno, Brian Eno, Mixing Colours  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Elohi, Enochiana  ( POLAND )
Essence Project, Here and Now EP  ( ISRAEL )
Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra, Inside the Throat of a Giant Insect  ( PORTUGAL )
The Flying Mars, Cosmochemistry  ( SWITZERLAND )
Giöbia, Plasmatic Idol  ( ITALY )
Gypsybyrd, Eye of the Sun  ( USA )
Aadm Our Hatley, Sang It All Night  ( USA )
Daniel Herskedal, Call for Winter  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Patrick Holland, Reality Picture  ( CANADA )
How to Disappear Completely, Ancora  ( POLAND )
Jedidiah, Pineal Portal  ( MEXICO )
Ray Larsen, Songs to Fill the Air  ( USA )
Anja Lechner, François Couturier, Lontano  ( GERMANY / FRANCE )
Lesmus, Liberation EP  ( UNKNOWN )
Lokijar, Macronaut EP  ( RUSSIA )
K. Markov, Visitors  ( CROATIA )
Nuell Martin, Ice EP  ( SPAIN )
Martins Garden, Avalon  ( SWITZERLAND )
Maywa, Essência  ( UNKNOWN )
Midnight Odyssey, Ruins of a Celestial Fire  ( AUSTRALIA )
Natural Life Essence, In-organic Adventures Continue  ( ARGENTINA )
Bill Netherlands, Sirens of Ganymede  ( USA )
Odiolab, Medieval  ( GREECE )
Planet Battagon, Trans-Neptunia  ( UK )
Sevenism, Finding Light  ( UK )
Starfucker, Ambient 1  ( USA )
Steve Roach, Rob Thomas, Santa Fe Live 2019  ( USA )
John Scofield, Swallow Tales  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Martin Stürtzer, Far Beyond the Stars  ( GERMANY )
Tactyl, Clear  ( UNKNOWN )
Takkra, Universal Medicine  ( HUNGARY )
Thundercat, It Is What It Is  ( USA )
Jaan-Eik Tulve, Vox Clamantis, Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel  ( ESTONIA )
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Lost Prayers  ( ESTONIA )
Vanilla, Into the Dream  ( UK )
John Zorn, Calculus  ( USA )

2021
Best of 2021

Eivind Aarset, Phantasmagoria, or a Different Kind of Journey  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
F. S. Blumm, Nils Frahm, 2X1=4  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jacob Bro, Arve Henriksen, Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo  ( DENMARK / NORWAY / SPAIN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
ApXY, Cb  ( IRELAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Michael Arthur Holloway, Strange Cargo  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Honourable mentions
Nik Bärtsch, Entendre  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Peter Capaldi, St. Christopher  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mathias Eick, When We Leave  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Los Deltonos, Craft Rock  ( SPAIN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Marc Riordan, Life Systems  ( USA )
Olivia Rodrigo, SOUR  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nala Sinephro, Space 1.8  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Ferenc Snétberger, Keller Quartett, Hallgató  ( HUNGARY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Søjus1, ORWO  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tarotplane, Horizontology  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Trigg & Gusset, Black Ocean  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Joe Walsh, Back Against the Wall (Live California ’83)  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom  ( USA )
Christopher Chaplin, Patriarchs  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hermann Kristoffersen, Gone Gold  ( DENMARK / GERMANY )
Jorge Rossy, Robert Landfermann, Jeff Ballard, Puerta  ( SPAIN / GERMANY / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]

2022
Best of 2022

Alexia Avina, A Little Older  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Avishai Cohen, Naked Truth  ( ISRAEL / USA )  [ SPOTIFYFAVOURITE BIG LABEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2022
Nils Frahm, Music for Animals  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Vega Trails, Tremors in the Static  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Aril Andersen Group, Affirmation  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jon Balke, Siwan, Hafla  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp, 18  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
F. S. Blumm, Kiss Dance Kiss  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wolfert Brederode, Ruins and Remains  ( HOLLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mick Chillage, Beauty of the Desert  ( IRELAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
DoomCannon, Renaissance  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Brian Eno, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Giger, ars moriendi  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tord Gustavsen Trio, Opening  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Yosef Gutman Levitt, Ashreinu  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gylden, Island Friend  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jules Hay, Where Next?  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Julia Hülsmann Quartet, The Next Door  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Jansen, Maiya Hershey, Neither Present Nor Absent  ( UK / PORTUGAL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Benjamin Lackner, Last Decade  ( GERMANY / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Level 42, B-Sides  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jasmin Myra, Horizons  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Arvo Pärt, Gunter Herbig, Wherever I Go...  ( ESTONIA / GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Phi-Psonics, The Cradle  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bobby Sparks II, Paranoia  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tarotplane, Aeonium  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tarotplane, Light Self All Others  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robin Trower, No More Worlds to Conquer  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Oded Tzúr, Isabela  ( ISRAEL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eddie Vedder, Earthling  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Void Stasis, Ruins  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Youthie & Macca Dread, The Roots Explorers  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Baddoar, Wandering Knight  ( FRANCE )
Nicolas Bernier, Science Fiction  ( CANADA )
Blue Heron, Ephemeral  ( USA )
Jakob Bro, Joe Lovano, Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian  ( DENMARK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
bvdub, Decades on Divided Stars  ( UNKNOWN )
Tanika Charles, Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly  ( CANADA )
Cobra & Vulture, Vesuvius at Home  ( CANADA )
Madeleine Cocolas, Spectral  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Cousin Silas & Kevin Buckland, Open Space  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jeremy Cunningham, A Better Ghost  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dreamstate Logic, Distant Points of Light  ( USA )
Extra Soul Perception, New Tangents In Kampala, London and Nairobi  ( UK )
God Is an Astronaut, The Beginning of the End  ( IRELAND )
Heiner Goebbels, A House of Call: My Imaginary Notebook  ( GERMANY )
Joaquine, Oh Angel  ( UNKNOWN )
King Garbage, Heavy Metal Greasy Love  ( USA )
KMRU, Temporary Stored  ( KENYA )
Bob Lanzetti, Nosferatu  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Lovely Moon, Sunlight on Still Water  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Marine Eyes, Chamomile  ( USA )
Mathoms, The Woe Trumpets  ( UK )
Jolanda Moletta, Nine Spells  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jason A. Mullinax, Lullabies for the Synthetic Sleep  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Murkage Dave, The City Needs a Hero  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mystic AM, Cardamom & Laudanum  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Tomotsugu Nakamura, Nothing Left Behind  ( JAPAN )
The Natural Yoghurt Band, Dance the Devil Away  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
NEONNOONE, Noir & Jazz & Dark & Slow...  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
oRSo, Last Recession Stew  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Raphaël, Stop, Look, Listen  ( BELGIUM )
John Scofield, John Scofield  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ana Silvera, The Fabulist  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Martin Stürtzer, Epsilon Eridani  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Symrun, What Do You Do?  ( UK )

2023
Best of 2023

Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro, Marilyn Mazur, Strands  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bobo Stenson Trio, Sphere  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Nils Berg, Coming and Going  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Berg Cinemascope, Basilicata Dreaming  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Zsófia Boros, El último aliento  ( HUNGARY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brian Eno, Top Boy (Score from the Original Series)  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Scott Fisher, Kingdom of Ego  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
grandson, I Love You, I'm Trying  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mette Henriette, Drifting  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hvalfugl, Strømmer  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark, Pasado en claro  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Loving Caliber, From the Vaults: Solo Works  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny, Dream Box  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Milk Factory, Vandrare  ( BELGIUM )
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dance of the Elders  ( AUSTRIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Maciej Obara Quartet, Frozen Silence  ( POLAND / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robert Rich, Ambient Exploration  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes, A Short Diary  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Olivia Rodrigo, GUTS  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Vox Clamantis, Music by Henrik Ødegaard  ( ESTONIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jacob Young Trio, Eventually  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Sinikka Langeland, Wind And Sun  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Meemo Comma, Loverboy  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stephan Micus, Thunder  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stereo Hypnosis, Roedelius, VÍK  ( ICELAND / GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sufjan Stevens, Javelin  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wattu, Serendipia  ( MEXICO )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Young Fathers, Heavy Heavy  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]

2024
Best of 2024

Arooj Aftab, Night Reign  ( PAKISTAN / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Groundation, Dub Rock  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tyla, Tyla+  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Thomas Brett, Three Tones  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Da-Phazz, presents De-Drums  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brian Eno, Soft Edges EP  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hvalfugl, Drømme  ( DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny, Moondial  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tineidae, Sole Massif, Remnants of War  ( UKRAINE / POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Youthie & Macca Dread, Gecko Tones  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Córas Trio, Córas Trio  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Diggs Duke, Play It Like You Mean It  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]

2025
Best of 2025

The Album Leaf, Rotations  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thomas Brett, Tuned  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sam Fender, People Watching  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Tony Gerber, Snow Drone  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Held By Trees, Hinterland  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lesoir, Babel  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Apathy Unit, MEMORY///WIPE  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
F. S. Blumm, Symbiosis  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mikey O'Neil, Past Tinted Curtains  ( USA )
Savina Yannatou, Watersong  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]

2026
Best of 2026

Honourable mentions
All albums

2027
Best of 2027

Honourable mentions
All albums

2028
Best of 2028

Honourable mentions
All albums

2029
Best of 2029

Honourable mentions
All albums
peteryoung: Symbol created by the late guitarist Michael Hedges (Music)
[ 1950–1979 ]   [ 1980–1989 ]   [ 1990–1999 ]   [ 2000–2009 ]   [ 2020–2029 ]

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 ]
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,  ( 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 )
peteryoung: Symbol created by the late guitarist Michael Hedges (Music)
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1990
Best of 1990

Angelo Badalamenti, Soundtrack from Twin Peaks  ( USA )
Everything But the Girl, The Language of Life  ( UK )
Jan Garbarek, I Took Up the Runes  ( NORWAY )
Bruce Hornsby & The Range, A Night on the Town  ( USA )
INXS, X  ( AUSTRALIA )
Paul Simon, The Rhythm of the Saints  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1990
Honourable mentions
3 Mustaphas 3, Soup of the Century  ( UK )
John Abercrombie, Animato  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Monty Alexander, The River  ( JAMAICA )
Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Dig?  ( UK )
Richard Burmer, Mosaic  ( USA )
Candy Dulfer, Saxuality  ( HOLLAND )
En Vogue, Born to Sing  ( USA )
Steve Erquiaga, Erkiology  ( USA )
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones  ( USA )
Michael Hedges, Taproot  ( USA )
Mark Isham, Mark Isham  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bob James, Grand Piano Canyon  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Paris Concert  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett Trio, Tribute  ( USA )
Al Gromer Khan, Mahogany Nights  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Michael Brook, Mustt Mustt  ( PAKISTAN / CANADA )
The La's, The La's  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Lightning Seeds, Cloudcuckooland  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charles Lloyd Quartet, Fish Out of Water  ( USA )
Hongjun Lyu, The Legend of the Dragon  ( CHINA )
Michael McDonald, Take It to Heart  ( USA )
Van Morrison, Enlightenment  ( UK )
Geoffrey Oryema, Exile  ( UGANDA / FRANCE )
Robert Plant, Manic Nirvana  ( UK )
Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Strata  ( USA )
Shankar, Pancha Nadai Pallavi  ( INDIA / USA )
Toto, Past to Present 1977–1990  ( USA )
Ralph Towner, City of Eyes  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tuck & Patti, Love Warriors  ( USA )
The Vaughan Brothers, Family Style  ( USA )
Michael White, Michel Lambert, David Torn, Mick Karn, Lonely Universe  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Winwood, Refugees of the Heart  ( USA )
All albums
Anita Baker, Compositions  ( USA )
Balafón Marimba Ensemble, Balafón Marimba Ensemble  ( USA )
Kevin Braheny, Secret Rooms  ( USA )
Sheila Chandra, Roots and Wings  ( INDIA / UK )
The Clean, Vehicle  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jack DeJohnette, Parallel Realities  ( USA )
Celine Dion, Unison  ( CANADA )
Sidsel Endresen, So I Write  ( NORWAY )
Enigma, MCMXC a.D.  ( GERMANY )
Brian Eno, John Cale, Wrong Way Up  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hassan Erraji & Arabesque, Ia Dounia  ( MOROCCO )
Gloria Estefan, Exitos de Gloria Estefan  ( CUBA / USA )
Extreme, Pornograffiti  ( USA )
Evelyn Glennie, Rhythm Song  ( UK )
Jon Hassell, City: Works of Fiction  ( USA )
The Colin Hay Band, Wayfaring Sons  ( AUSTRALIA )
Mark Isham, Mark Isham  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Julio Jaramillo, 18 Boleros  ( ECUADOR )
The Klezmatics, Rhythm and Jews  ( USA )
Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited, Shumba: Vital Hits of Zimbabwe  ( ZIMBABWE )
Roberto Perera, Erotica  ( USA )
Marie Boine Persen, Gula Gula  ( LAPLAND )
Prefab Sprout, Jordan: The Comeback  ( UK )
Prince, Graffiti Bridge  ( USA )
Terje Rypdal, Undisonus / Ineo  ( NORWAY )
Spyro Gyra, Fast Forward  ( USA )
John Surman, Road to Saint Ives  ( UK )
Don Thompson Quartet, Winter Mist  ( CANADA )
Steve Vai, Passion and Warfare  ( USA )
Kenny Wheeler Quintet, The Widow in the Window  ( CANADA )

1991
Best of 1991

2nu, Ponderous  ( USA )
Animal Logic, Animal Logic II  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Arild Andersen, Sagn  ( NORWAY )
Harold Budd, By the Dawn's Early Light  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek, Miroslav Vitouš, Peter Erskine, StAR  ( NORWAY / CZECHOSLOVAKIA / USA )
Paul Giger, Alpstein  ( SWITZERLAND )
Buddy Guy, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues  ( USA )
John Mellencamp, Whenever We Wanted  ( USA )
Nirvana, Nevermind  ( USA )
Ozric Tentacles, Strangeitude  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rain Tree Crow, Rain Tree Crow  ( UK )
David Sanborn, Another Hand  ( USA )
Seal, Seal  ( UK )
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Sky Is Crying  ( USA )
Andreas Vollenweider, Book of Roses  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
3 Mustaphas 3, Shopping  ( UK )
Bryan Adams, Waking Up the Neighbours  ( CANADA )
Paul Brady, Trick or Treat  ( IRELAND )
Anouar Brahem Trio, Deutsches Jazzfestival 1991  ( TUNISIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Bruford's Earthworks, All Heaven Broke Loose  ( UK )
Tom Cochrane, Mad Mad World  ( CANADA )
Bruce Cockburn, Nothing But a Burning Light  ( CANADA )
Chick Corea Electrik Band, Beneath the Mask  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dire Straits, On Every Street  ( UK )
Enya, Shepherd Moons  ( IRELAND )
Kudsi Erguner, Mahmoud Tabrizi Zadeh, Bruno Caillat, Oriental Dreams  ( TURKEY / IRAN )
Gloria Estefan, Into the Light  ( CUBA / USA )
Trilok Gurtu, Living Magic  ( INDIA )
Mickey Hart, Planet Drum  ( USA )
John Lee Hooker, Mr. Lucky  ( USA )
Shirley Horn, You Won't Forget Me  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett Trio, The Cure  ( USA )
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Shabaaz  ( PAKISTAN )
Ustad Sultan Khan, Zakir Hussain, Ustad Sultan Khan/Zakir Hussain  ( INDIA )
Leo Kottke, Peculiaroso  ( USA )
Love and Money, Dogs in the Traffic  ( UK )
Richard Marx, Rush Street  ( USA )
Joni Mitchell, Night Ride Home  ( CANADA )
Hiroki Okano, 19871990  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Orchestra Virunga, Feet on Fire  ( UGANDA / KENYA )
Arvo Pärt, Miserere  ( ESTONIA )
Paco Peña, Fabulous Flamenco!  ( SPAIN )
Talk Talk, Laughing Stock  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tuck & Patti, Dream  ( USA )
Karyn White, Ritual of Love  ( USA )
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Rising Above Bedlam  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Army of Lovers, Massive Luxury Overdose  ( SWEDEN )
Banderas, Ripe  ( UK )
Blur, Leisure  ( UK )
Anouar Brahem, Barzakh  ( TUNISIA )
Hariprasad Chaurasia, Maestro's Choice: Series One  ( INDIA )
Miles Davis, Mellow Miles  ( USA )
Celine Dion, Dion Chante Plamondon  ( CANADA )
Dread Zeppelin, 5,000,000*  ( USA )
EMF, Schubert Dip  ( UK )
Fourplay, Fourplay  ( USA )
Genesis, We Can't Dance  ( UK )
Guns N' Roses, Use Your Illusion II  ( USA )
The Hilliard Ensemble, Gesualdo: Tenebrae  ( UK )
George Howard, Love and Understanding  ( USA )
INXS, Live Baby Live  ( AUSTRALIA )
Michael Jackson, Dangerous  ( USA )
Level 42, Guaranteed  ( UK )
John Martyn, Cooltide  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Masqualero, Re-Enter  ( NORWAY )
Sarah McLachlan, Solace  ( CANADA )
Alanis Morissette, Alanis  ( CANADA )
Nightmares on Wax, A Word of Science: The 1st & Final Chapter  ( UK )
Heinz Reber, Mnaomai, Mnomai  ( GERMANY )
R.E.M., Out of Time  ( USA )
Rossy, Island of Ghosts  ( MADAGASCAR )
Sax Appeal, Flat Out  ( UK )
Shiv Kumar Sharma, Maestro's Choice: Series One  ( INDIA )
Tommy Smith, Standards  ( UK )
Bob Telson, An Ant Alone – Songs from the Warrior Ant  ( USA )
Joe Walsh, Ordinary Average Guy  ( USA )
Zap Mama, Zap Mama  ( BELGIUM )

1992
Best of 1992

Michael Brook, Cobalt Blue  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2016
Brian Eno, The Shutov Assembly  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Jeff Healey Band, Feel This  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Vienna Concert  ( USA )
k.d. lang, Ingenue  ( CANADA )
Lyle Lovett, Joshua Judges Ruth  ( USA )
Palle Mikkelborg, Anything But Grey  ( DENMARK )
The Orb, U.F.Orb  ( UK )
Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Giles Reaves, Sea of Glass  ( USA )
David Sanborn, Upfront  ( USA )
Joe Satriani, The Extremist  ( USA )
Toto, Kingdom of Desire  ( USA )
Boubacar Traoré, Kar Kar  ( MALI )
David Zinman / London Sinfonietta, Dawn Upshaw, Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3  ( POLAND )
Honourable mentions
Bustan Abraham, Bustan Abraham  ( ISRAEL / PALESTINE )
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, Together: The Complete Studio Recordings  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Christians, Happy in Hell  ( UK )
David Darling, Cello  ( USA )
Gino D'Auri, Flamenco Mystico  ( ITALY )
Del Amitri, Change Everything  ( UK )
Thomas Dolby, Astronauts & Heretics  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
EMF, Stigma  ( UK )
Brian Eno, Nerve Net  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
En Vogue, Funky Divas  ( USA )
Bill Evans, The Solo Sessions Vol. 2  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, The 1960 Birdland Sessions  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Flamenco: Grand Figures  ( LE CHANT DU MONDE )
Jan Garbarek, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan & Musicians from Pakistan, Ragas and Sagas  ( NORWAY / PAKISTAN )
Colin Hay, Peaks and Valleys  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Lee Hooker, Boom Boom  ( USA )
Al Jarreau, Heaven and Earth  ( USA )
Eleni Karaindrou, The Suspended Step of the Stork  ( GREECE )
Audun Kleive, Jon Eberson, Music for Men and Machines  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Lightning Seeds, Sense  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charles Lloyd, Notes from Big Sur   ( USA )
Maestros de la Guitarra Flamenca, Vol. 5  ( PLANET )
Karl Münchinger / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Corelli / Pergolesi  ( GERMANY )
Music at Matt Malloy's  ( REALWORLD )
Andy Narell, Down the Road  ( USA )
The Oyster Band, Deserters  ( UK )
Courtney Pine, To the Eyes of Creation  ( UK )
Popol Vuh, The Best of Popol Vuh from the Films of Werner Herzog  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Prefab Sprout, A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout  ( UK )
R.E.M., Automatic for the People  ( USA )
Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Soma  ( USA )
G.S. Sachdev, Zakir Hussain, Flights of Improvisation  ( INDIA )
Sade, Love Deluxe  ( UK )
Music from the Motion Picture 'Sarafina!'  ( QWEST )
Dino Saluzzi Group, Mojotoro  ( ARGENTINA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Surman, Adventure Playground  ( UK )
Veljo Tormis, Forgotten Peoples  ( ESTONIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Miroslav Vitouš, Jan Garbarek, Atmos  ( CZECHOSLOVAKIA / NORWAY )
Joe Walsh, Songs for a Dying Planet  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Weller, Paul Weller  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Neil Young, Harvest Moon  ( USA )
All albums
Anouar Brahem, Conte de l'incroyable amour  ( TUNISIA )
Capercaillie, Get Out  ( UK )
Tracy Chapman, Matters of the Heart  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Doo-Bop  ( USA )
Deep Forest, Deep Forest  ( FRANCE )
Celine Dion, Celine Dion  ( CANADA )
The Drummers of Burundi, The Drummers of Burundi  ( BURUNDI )
Gloria Estefan, Greatest Hits  ( CUBA / USA )
Peter Gabriel, Us  ( UK )
Egberto Gismonti, Trem Caipira  ( BRAZIL )
George Howard, Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?  ( USA )
Os Ingênuos, Os Ingênuos Play Choros from Brazil  ( BRAZIL )
INXS, Welcome to Wherever You Are  ( AUSTRALIA )
Frank Jakobsen, Carl Morten Iversen, Rob Waring Secret Red Thread  ( NORWAY )
Manu Katché, It's About Time  ( FRANCE )
Manic Street Preachers, Generation Terrorists  ( UK )
Alanis Morissette, Now Is the Time  ( CANADA )
Bill Nelson, Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars  ( UK )
Ocean Colour Scene, Ocean Colour Scene  ( UK )
Barre Phillips, Aquarian Rain  ( USA )
Spyro Gyra, Three Wishes  ( USA )
Karlheinz Stockhausen, MICHAELs REISE Solisten-Version  ( GERMANY )
System X, Beat the System  ( UK )
Tamia, Pierre Favre, Solitudes  ( CANADA / SWITZERLAND )
Tribal Tech, Illicit  ( USA )
United Future Organisation, Jazzin'  ( JAPAN )
Universe 2  ( HEARTS OF SPACE )
Papa Wemba, Le Voyageur  ( CONGO )
Kenny Wheeler, Kayak  ( CANADA )

1993
Best of 1993

Thom Brennan, Mountains  ( USA )
Donald Fagen, Kamakiriad  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek Group, Twelve Moons  ( NORWAY )
Kamal, Into Silence  ( GERMANY )
Marcus Miller, The Sun Don't Lie  ( USA )
Robert Plant, Fate of Nations  ( UK )
Eberhard Weber, Pendulum  ( GERMANY )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Peter Erskine, John Surman, November  ( USA / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Arild Anderson, Ralph Towner, Naná Vasconcelos, If You Look Far Enough  ( NORWAY / USA / BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marc Anderson, Timefish  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Aparis, Despite the Fire-Fighters' Efforts...  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Baka Beyond, Spirit of the Forest  ( UK / CAMEROON )
Capercaillie, Secret People  ( UK )
Sheryl Crow, Tuesday Night Music Club  ( USA )
David Darling, Eight String Religion  ( USA )
Dead Can Dance, Into the Labyrinth  ( AUSTRALIA / UK )
Chano Dominguez, Chano  ( SPAIN )
Candy Dulfer, Sax-a-Go-Go  ( HOLLAND )
Brigitte Engerer, Chopin: Nocturnes  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, Neroli  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Peter Erskine, You Never Know  ( USA )
Gloria Estefan, Mi Tierra  ( CUBA / USA )
Fishbelly Black, Fishbelly Black  ( USA )
Antonio Forcione, Acoustic Revenge  ( ITALY )
Egberto Gismonti, Nó Caipira  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Buddy Guy, Feels Like Rain  ( USA )
Bendik Hofseth, Amuse Yourself  ( NORWAY )
Bruce Hornsby, Harbor Lights  ( USA )
Mark Isham, Fire in the Sky: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keith Jarrett Trio, Bye Bye Blackbird  ( USA )
Mick Karn, Bestial Cluster  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lament  ( REALWORLD )
The Dave Matthews Band, Remember Two Things  ( USA )
Lyle Mays, Fictionary  ( USA )
Maze, Back to Basics  ( USA )
John Mellencamp, Human Wheels  ( USA )
Pat Metheny Group, The Road to You  ( USA )
Van Morrison, Too Long in Exile  ( UK )
Ayub Ogada, En Mana Kuoyo  ( KENYA )
Orchestra Baobab, Bamba  ( SENEGAL )
Steve Roach, The Lost Pieces  ( USA )
Oumou Sangare, Ko Sira  ( MALI )
Joe Satriani, Time Machine  ( USA )
Shihad, Churn  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nina Simone, Jazz Masters 17  ( USA )
Snowboy & The Latin Section, Something's Coming  ( UK )
Michael Stearns, Sacred Site  ( USA )
Suspended Memories, Forgotten Gods  ( USA / MEXICO )
Tribal Tech, Face First  ( USA )
Bob Telson, Calling You  ( USA )
Paul Weller, Wild Wood  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ’Til Dawn  ( USA )
All albums
The Absolute Sound  ( HEARTS OF SPACE )
Tomoyuki Asakawa, Endless Tide  ( JAPAN )
Balafón Marimba Ensemble, Harare to Kisingani  ( USA )
Bhundu Boys, Friends on the Road  ( ZIMBABWE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Bowie, Black Tie, White Noise  ( UK )
Mariah Carey, Music Box  ( USA )
Cocteau Twins, Four-Calendar Café  ( UK )  [ VIMEO ]
Phil Collins, Both Sides  ( UK )
The Cure, Show  ( UK )
Nikolai Demidenko, Frédéric Chopin: Ballades / 3rd Sonata  ( RUSSIA )
Celine Dion, The Colour of My Love  ( CANADA )
Hassan Erraji & Arabesque, Marhaba  ( MOROCCO )
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Three Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest  ( USA )
Fourplay, Between the Sheets  ( USA )
Christopher Franke, The London Concert  ( GERMANY )
Egberto Gismonti, Amazônia  ( BRAZIL )
Evelyn Glennie, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel  ( UK )
Trilok Gurtu, Crazy Saints  ( INDIA )
Steve Hackett, Guitar Noir  ( UK )
Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar, Trance  ( MOROCCO )
George Howard, When Summer Comes  ( USA )
Kamal, Quiet Earth  ( GERMANY )
Takashi Kokubo, The Day I Saw a Rainbow  ( JAPAN )
Takashi Kokubo, Jamaica – Waves and Light and Earth  ( JAPAN )
Labradford, Prazision LP  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Daniel Lanois, For the Beauty of Wynona  ( CANADA )
Charles Lloyd, The Call  ( USA )
Manic Street Preachers, Gold Against the Soul  ( UK )
Jesse Manno, Sea Spirits  ( USA )
Michael Mantler, Folly Seeing All This  ( USA )
Juan Martín, Luna Negra  ( SPAIN )
Richard Marx, Paid Vacation  ( USA )
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Wake Up Call  ( UK )  [ LAST FM ]
Geoffrey Oryema, Beat the Border  ( UGANDA / FRANCE )
Arvo Pärt, Te Deum  ( ESTONIA )
Music from the Motion Picture 'Philadelphia'  ( EPIC )
Steve Roach, The Lost Pieces  ( USA )
Terje Rypdal, Q.E.D.  ( NORWAY )
Sepultura, Chaos A.D.  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jane Siberry, When I Was a Boy  ( CANADA )
Spyro Gyra, Dreams Beyond Control  ( USA )
David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, The First Day  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tears for Fears, Elemental  ( UK )
Uakti, I Ching  ( BRAZIL )
Smokey Wilson, Smoke n' Fire  ( USA )
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Wet Land  ( JAPAN )

1994
Best of 1994

Jann Arden, Living Under June  ( CANADA )
Capercaillie, Capercaillie  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1994
Peter Erskine, Time Being  ( USA )
Jazz Jamaica, Skaravan  ( UK )
Gary Peacock, Ralph Towner, Oracle  ( USA )
Pink Floyd, The Division Bell  ( UK )
Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu  ( MALI / USA )
Vangelis, Blade Runner (Music from the Original Soundtrack)  ( GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Various Artists, Arcane  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hector Zazou, Songs from the Cold Seas  ( FRANCE )
Honourable mentions
Absolute Soul  ( WEA )
Tori Amos, Under the Pink  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Volume II  ( UK )
Steve Argüelles, Busy Listening  ( UK )
Anita Baker, Rhythm of Love  ( USA )
Banco de Gaia, Maya  ( UK )
Walter Becker, 11 Tracks of Whack  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bohren & der Club of Gore, Gore Motel  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Buckshot LeFonque, Buckshot LeFonque  ( USA )
Bruce Cockburn, Dart to the Heart  ( CANADA )
Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble Officium  ( NORWAY / UK )
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Ustad Shaukat Hussain, Madar   ( NORWAY / TUNISIA / INDIA )
Michael Hedges, The Road to Return  ( USA )
James, Wah Wah  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Angelique Kidjo, Ayé  ( BENIN )
Mornington Lockett, Mornington Lockett  ( UK )
Kanté Manfila n'na niwalé (merci les mères)  ( MALI )
Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible  ( UK )
Manitas de Plata, Feria Gitane  ( SPAIN )
Manitas de Plata, Olé!  ( SPAIN )
The Dave Matthews Band, Under the Table and Dreaming  ( USA )
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstacy  ( CANADA )
The Mermen, Food for Other Fish   ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stephan Micus, Athos  ( GERMANY )
Joni Mitchell, Turbulent Indigo  ( CANADA )
Youssou N'Dour, The Guide (Wommat)  ( SENEGAL )
Dawn Penn, No, No, No  ( JAMAICA )
Robert Palmer, Honey  ( UK )
Portishead, Dummy  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Sanborn, Hearsay  ( USA )
Seal, Seal II  ( UK )
John Surman Quartet, Stranger Than Fiction  ( UK )
Suspended Memories, Earth Island  ( USA / MEXICO )
Steve Swallow, Real Book  ( USA )
John Tropea, Live at Mikell's New York  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
United Future Organisation, United Future Organisation  ( JAPAN )
Karyn White, Make Him Do Right  ( USA )
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Take Me to God  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
John Abercrombie Trio, Speak of the Devil  ( USA )
Anand Ajad, Reiki Music (Vol. 1)  ( UNKNOWN )
'A Low Down Dirty Shame' Soundtrack  ( JIVE )
Sidsel Endresen, Exile  ( NORWAY )
Mwenda wa Bayeke, African Guitar Legend  ( ZAIRE )
Beautiful World, In Existence  ( UK )
David Bedford, Great Equatorial  ( UK )
Bob Berg, Riddles  ( USA )
Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Stamping Ground  ( UK )
Don Cherry, Lennart Åberg, Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Anders Kjellberg, Okay Temiz, Dona Nostra  ( SWEDEN / TURKEY / USA )
Stella Chiweshe, Kumusha  ( ZIMBABWE )
Steve Coleman, Robin Eubanks, Greg Osby, Cassandra Wilson, Flashback on M-base  ( USA )
Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Roy Haynes, Gary Peacock, Live in Montreux  ( USA )
Dead Can Dance, Toward the Within  ( AUSTRALIA / UK )
Manu Dibango, Wakafrica  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Gloria Estefan, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me  ( CUBA / USA )
Trilok Gurtu, Believe  ( INDIA )
Colin Hay, Topanga  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hiroshima, L.A.  ( USA )
Hootie and the Blowfish, Cracked Rear View  ( USA )
George Howard, A Home Far Away  ( USA )
Bob James, Restless  ( USA )
Jewel, Pieces of You  ( USA )
Julian Joseph, In Concert at Wigmore Hall  ( UK )
Level 42, Forever Now  ( UK )
Charles Lloyd, All My Relations  ( USA )
John Mellencamp, Dance Naked  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, Zero Tolerance for Silence  ( USA )
Mike Oldfield, The Songs of Distant Earth  ( UK )
Music from the Motion Picture 'Pulp Fiction'  ( MCA )
Sade, The Best of Sade  ( UK )
Sax Appeal, Let's Go!  ( UK )
Louis Sclavis, Dominique Pifarély, Acoustic Quartet  ( FRANCE )
John Scofield, Pat Metheny, I Can See Your House from Here  ( USA )
Shu-De, Voices from the Distant Steppe  ( TUVA )
Spin Doctors, Turn It Upside Down  ( USA )
Still Got the Blues, Volumes 1–4  ( USA )
Martin Taylor, Spirit of Django  ( UK )
Steve Tibbetts, The Fall of Us All  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio, Polytown  ( USA / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Vision, The Music of Hildegard von Bingen  ( UK )
Lena Willemark, Ale Möller, Nordan  ( SWEDEN )
Susumu Yokota, Acid Mt. Fuji  ( JAPAN )

1995
Best of 1995

Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, The Sea  ( NORWAY / USA )
David Darling, Dark Wood  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Gateway, Homecoming  ( USA / UK )
Mark Isham, Blue Sun  ( USA )
Ketama, Toumani Diabaté, José Soto, Danny Thompson, Songhai 2  ( SPAIN / MALI / UK )
Leo Kottke, Live  ( USA )
Amanda Marshall, Amanda Marshall  ( CANADA )
Robert Rich, B. Lustmord, Stalker  ( USA / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cassandra Wilson, New Moon Daughter  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Banco de Gaia, Last Train to Lhasa  ( UK )
David Bowie, Outside  ( UK )
Harold Budd, Hector Zazou, Glyph  ( USA / FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Capercaillie, To the Moon  ( UK )
Tom Cochrane, Ragged Ass Road  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Toumani Diabaté, Djelika  ( MALI )
Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack 'Get Shorty'  ( VERVE )
John Lee Hooker, Chill Out  ( USA )
Bruce Hornsby, Hot House  ( USA )
Boney James, Seduction  ( USA )
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Déjà Vu  ( USA )
Steven Kowalczyk, Moods and Grooves  ( USA )
Medeski, Martin and Wood, Friday Afternoon in the Universe  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pat Metheny Group, We Live Here  ( USA )
Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill  ( CANADA )
Andy Narell, The Long Time Band  ( USA )
Nightmares on Wax, Smoker's Delight  ( UK )
Robert Palmer, The Very Best of Robert Palmer  ( UK )
Pink Floyd, Pulse  ( UK )
Neal Schon, Beyond the Thunder  ( USA )
Simple Minds, Good News from the Next World  ( UK )
Stars of the Lid, Music for Nitrous Oxide  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Surman, Karin Krog, Terje Rypdal, Vigleik Storaas Nordic Quartet  ( UK / NORWAY )
Toto, Tambu  ( USA )
Paul Weller, Stanley Road  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Papa Wemba, Emotion  ( CONGO )
All albums
Abdelli, New Moon  ( ALGERIA )
AC/DC, Ballbreaker  ( AUSTRALIA )
Susan Aglukark, This Child  ( CANADA )
Arild Andersen, Kristin Lavransdatter  ( NORWAY )
Patti Austin, The Ultimate Collection  ( USA )
Roy Ayers, Live at Ronnie Scott's  ( USA )
Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips, Time Will Tell  ( USA )
Bowery Electric, Bowery Electric  ( USA )
Anouar Brahem, Khomsa  ( TUNISIA )
Kevin Braheny, Tim Clark Rain  ( USA )
Ali Campbell, Big Love  ( UK )
Tracy Chapman, New Beginning  ( USA )
Curandero, Curandero  ( USA )
Deep Forest, Boheme  ( FRANCE )
Patrick Demenga, Thomas Demenga, 12 Hommages à Paul Sacher pour Violoncelle  ( SWITZERLAND )
Desperado: The Soundtrack  ( EPIC )
The Doky Brothers, Doky Brothers  ( DENMARK )
EMF, Cha Cha Cha  ( UK )
Brian Eno, Jah Wobble, Spinner  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Enya, The Memory of Trees  ( IRELAND )
Gloria Estefan, Abriendo Puertas  ( CUBA / USA )
Eternal, Power of a Woman  ( UK )
Extreme, Waiting for the Punchline  ( USA )
Fishbelly Black, Movin'  ( USA )
Alain Gibert, Chariot d'or (L'auvergne imaginée)  ( FRANCE )
Zakir Hussain, Space  ( INDIA )
Herbert Henck, Federico Mompou: Música Callada  ( GERMANY )
Keith Jarrett, La Scala  ( USA )
Ed Jones, Piper's Tales  ( UK )
Giya Kancheli, Caris Mere  ( GEORGIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mick Karn, The Tooth Mother  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Leftfield, Leftism  ( UK )
Charles Lloyd, All My Relations  ( USA )
The Mermen, A Glorious Lethal Euphoria  ( USA )
Marcus Miller, Tales  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bheki Mseleku, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Star Seeding  ( SOUTH AFRICA / USA )
Aaron Neville, The Tattooed Heart  ( USA )
Nightmares on Wax, Smoker's Delight  ( UK )
Nine Below Zero, Live in London  ( UK )
Courtney Pine, Modern Day Jazz Stories  ( UK )
Terje Rypdal, If Mountains Could Sing  ( NORWAY )
Joe Satriani, Joe Satriani  ( USA )
Mike Scott, Bring 'Em All In  ( UK )
Tom Scott, Night Creatures  ( USA )
Jane Siberry, Maria  ( CANADA )
Andy Summers, Synaesthesia  ( UK )
John Surman, A Biography of the Rev. Absalom Dawe  ( UK )
Teenage Fanclub, Grand Prix  ( UK )
Therapy?, Infernal Love  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tribal Tech, Reality Check  ( USA )
Tuck & Patti, Learning How to Fly  ( USA )
Justin Valli Trio, The Truth (Ny Marina)  ( MADAGASCAR )
Naná Vasconcelos, Storytelling  ( BRAZIL )
John Zorn, Filmworks III: 1990–1995  ( USA )

1996
Best of 1996

The Blue Nile, Peace At Last  ( UK )
Down to the Bone, From Manhattan to Staten  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Peter Erskine, As It Is  ( USA )
Pierre Favre, Window Steps  ( SWITZERLAND )
Jan Garbarek, Visible World  ( NORWAY )
Egberto Gismonti, Zigzag  ( BRAZIL )
Trilok Gurtu, Bad Habits Die Hard  ( INDIA )
The Dave Matthews Band, Crash  ( USA )
Maxwell, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite  ( USA )
Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Afro Celt Sound System, Volume 1: Sound Magic  ( IRELAND / WEST AFRICA )
Monty Alexander, Yard Movement  ( JAMAICA )
Carmen Amaya, Grandes Cantaores du Flamenco, Volume 6  ( SPAIN )
Julian Argüelles, Scapes  ( UK )
Michael Brecker, Tales from the Hudson  ( USA )
Harold Budd, Luxa  ( USA )
Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs  ( USA )
Dead Can Dance, Spiritchaser  ( AUSTRALIA / UK )
'Dead Man Walking': The Score  ( COLUMBIA )
Jack DeJohnette, Dancing with Nature Spirits  ( USA )
Brian Eno, Generative Music 1  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Stan Getz, But Beautiful  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Live Art  ( USA )
Antonio Forcione, Dedicato  ( ITALY )
Michael Hedges, Oracle  ( USA )
Higher Intelligence Agency, Biosphere, Polar Sequences  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dave Holland Quartet, Dream of the Elders  ( UK )
Bob James Trio, Straight Up  ( USA )
Bob James, Kirk Whalum, Joined at the Hip  ( USA )
Cheb Khaled, Sahra  ( ALGERIA )
Steve Kuhn, Remembering Tomorrow  ( USA )
Alex Lifeson, Victor  ( CANADA )
John Mellencamp, Mr. Happy Go Lucky  ( USA )
Pat Metheny Group, Quartet  ( USA )
Marcus Roberts Trio, Time and Circumstance  ( USA )
Sabicas, Grandes Figures du Flamenco, Volume 14  ( SPAIN )
Bobo Stenson Trio, Reflections  ( SWEDEN )
Gianmaría Testa, Extra-Muros  ( ITALY )  [ VIMEO ]
Ralph Towner, Lost and Found  ( USA )
Gary Willis, No Sweat  ( USA )
Windy & Carl, Drawing of Sound  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Alafia, World Citizen  ( UK / IVORY COAST )
Tori Amos, Boys for Pele  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
B12, Time Tourist  ( UK )
Banco de Gaia, Live at Glastonbury  ( UK )
Guy Barker, Timeswing  ( UK )
The Beautiful South, Blue is the Colour  ( UK )
Beautiful World, Forever  ( UK )
Jason Becker, Perspective  ( USA )
Bowery Electric, Beat  ( USA )
Dana Bryant, Wishing from the Top  ( USA )
Antonio Ciacca Quartet, Driemoty  ( USA )
Phil Collins, Dance Into the Light  ( UK )
Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Crow  ( USA )
The Crystal Method, Keep Hope Alive  ( USA )
Bo Diddley, A Man Among Men  ( USA )
Celine Dion, Falling Into You  ( CANADA )
Gloria Estefan, Destiny  ( CUBA / USA )
Chico Freeman, The Emissary  ( USA )
Anja Garbarek, Balloon Mood  ( NORWAY )
Gateway, In the Moment  ( USA / UK )
Ed Hamilton, Planet Jazz  ( USA )
Hiroshima, Urban World Music  ( USA )
George Howard, Attitude Adjustment  ( USA )
The Keller Quartett, György Kurtág: Musik für Streichinstrumente  ( HUNGARY )
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Michael Brook, Night Song  ( PAKISTAN / CANADA )
Leo Kottke, Hear the Wind Howl (1971-1975)  ( USA )
Don Laka, Destiny  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Loop Guru, Catalogue of Desires, vol. 3: The Clear White Variation  ( UK )  [ LAST FM ]
Manic Street Preachers, Everything Must Go  ( UK )
Tania Maria, Bluesilian  ( BRAZIL )
Robert Miles, Dreamland  ( ITALY )
Mike Nock, Not We But One  ( NEW ZEALAND )
Geoffrey Oryema, Night to Night  ( UGANDA / FRANCE )
Arvo Pärt, Litany  ( ESTONIA )
Bob Pegg, The Last Wolf  ( UK )
Rough Guide to Scottish Music  ( ROUGH GUIDES )
Philippe Saisse, Next Voyage  ( FRANCE )
Andy Sheppard, Steve Lodder, Moving Image  ( UK )
Jane Siberry, Teenager  ( CANADA )
Horace Silver, Hardbop Grandpop  ( USA )
Tenores di Bitti, S'amore 'e mama  ( SARDINIA )
United Future Organisation, 3rd Perspective  ( JAPAN )
Frank Vignola and Unit Four, Look Right, Jog Left  ( USA )
Hildegard Westerkamp, Transformations  ( CANADA )
Annie Whitehead, Naked  ( UK )
Yungchen Lhamo, Tibet, Tibet  ( TIBET )
Jah Wobble, The Inspiration of William Blake  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hukwe Zawose, Chibite  ( TANZANIA )

1997
Best of 1997

Arild Andersen, Hyperborean  ( NORWAY )
Biosphere, Substrata  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club  ( CUBA )
Trilok Gurtu, The Glimpse  ( INDIA )
Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Beyond the Missouri Sky  ( USA )
Nils Petter Molvær, Khmer  ( NORWAY )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1997
Steve Roach, On This Planet  ( USA )
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Trouble Is...  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sigur Rós, Von  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland, Bill Frisell, Angel Song  ( CANADA / UK / USA )
Honourable mentions
Claudio Arrau, Chopin: The Nocturnes  ( CHILE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joseph Arthur, Big City Secrets  ( USA )
Erykah Badu, Baduizm  ( USA )
Erykah Badu, Live  ( USA )
Banco de Gaia, Big Men Cry  ( UK )
Bayete and Jabu Khanyile, Africa Unite  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Dan Bern, Dan Bern  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bohren & der Club of Gore, Midnight Radio  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Bowie, Earthling  ( UK )
Brand X, {missing period}  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Brook, Albino Alligator  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner, Eddie Gomez If Summer Had Its Ghosts  ( UK / USA )
Buckshot LeFonque, Music Evolution  ( USA )
Bustan Abraham, Pictures Through a Painted Window  ( ISRAEL / PALESTINE )
Capercaillie, Beautiful Wasteland  ( UK )
Choying Drolma, Steve Tibbetts, Chö  ( TIBET / USA )
Tom Cochrane, Songs of a Circling Spirit  ( CANADA )
Gino D'Auri, Flamenco: Passion & Soul  ( ITALY )
Jack DeJohnette, Oneness  ( USA )
The Gathering  ( REALWORLD )
Rubén González, Introducing… Rubén González  ( CUBA )
Paul Hanmer, Trains to Taung  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
GusGus, Polydistortion  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Scott Henderson, Tore Down House  ( USA )
Pa Bo Jobarteh & Kaira Trio, Kaira Naata  ( GAMBIA )
Diana Krall, Love Scenes  ( CANADA )
Charles Lloyd, Canto  ( USA )
Steve Lukather, Luke  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny Group, Imaginary Day  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, The Garden of Mirrors  ( GERMANY )
Negativland, Dispepsi  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Seven Steps To Mercy  ( IRELAND )
Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Upsetters, The Original Super Ape  ( JAMAICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Courtney Pine, Underground  ( UK )
The Rolling Stones, Bridges to Babylon  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dino Saluzzi, Cité de la Musique  ( ARGENTINA )
Neal Schon, Electric World  ( USA )
John Scofield, A Go Go  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tomasz Stanko, Leosia  ( POLAND )
Tomasz Stanko Septet, Litania: Music of Krzysztof Komeda  ( POLAND )
Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Winter in Venice  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ralph Towner, ANA  ( USA )
Jah Wobble, The Celtic Poets  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jah Wobble, The Light Programme  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jah Wobble, Elevator Music, Volume 1A  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
John Abercrombie, Dan Wall, Adam Nussbaum, Tactics  ( USA )
Acoustic Mania, Talking Hands  ( ITALY / UK )
Misha Alperin, North Story  ( UKRAINE )
Amampondo, Drums for Tomorrow  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Joseph Arthur, Big City Secrets  ( USA )
Atom Bomb Yoga, In Past Times  ( UK )
Eric Bibb, Me to You  ( SWEDEN )
BT, ESCM  ( UK )
Mariah Carey, Butterfly  ( USA )
Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Native Sense – The New Duets  ( USA )
Creed, My Own Prison  ( USA )
The Crystal Method, Vegas  ( USA )
Curandero, Aras  ( USA )
Jimmy Dludlu, Echoes from the Past  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
The Doky Brothers, Doky Brothers 2  ( DENMARK )
Brian Eno, The Drop  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brian Eno, Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno & Harmonia '76, Tracks and Traces  ( UK / GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
En Vogue, Ev3  ( USA )
Bill Evans, Starfish & the Moon  ( USA )
Fennesz, Hotel Paral.lel  ( AUSTRIA )
Kenny Garrett, Songbook  ( USA )
Gas, Zauberberg  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tommy Guerrero, Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Billy Hart, Oceans of Time  ( USA )
Shirley Horn, Loving You  ( USA )
Innuendo, Innuendo  ( MALAYSIA )
Jhelisa, Language Electric  ( UK )
Ed Jones, Out Here  ( UK )
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Michael Brook, Star Rise  ( PAKISTAN / CANADA )
Lammas, Sourcebook  ( UK )
Adrian Legg, Waiting for a Dancer  ( UK )
Mad Professor & Lee "Scratch" Perry, Dub Take the Voodoo out of Reggae  ( UK / JAMAICA )  [ LAST FM ]
Michelle Makarski, Caoine  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Blues for the Lost Days  ( UK )  [ LAST FM ]
Marilyn Mazur's Future Song, Small Labyrinths  ( DENMARK )
Mercy Machine, Mercy Machine  ( USA )
Mono, Formica Blues  ( UK )
Van Morrison, The Healing Game  ( UK )
Oasis, Be Here Now  ( UK )
Patrick O'Hearn, A Windham Hill Retrospective  ( USA )
Prefab Sprout, Andromeda Heights  ( UK )
Selected Signs, Vol. 1: An Anthology  ( ECM )
Jane Siberry, A Day in the Life  ( CANADA )
Spyro Gyra, 20/20  ( USA )
Trial of the Bow, Rite of Passage  ( AUSTRALIA )
Waaberi, New Dawn  ( SOMALIA )
Jah Wobble and the Chinese Dub Orchestra, Chinese Dub  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jah Wobble, Requiem  ( UK )

1998
Best of 1998

Terry Callier, Timepeace  ( USA )
Olu Dara, In The World: From Natchez to New York  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek, Rites  ( NORWAY )
Deva Premal, The Essence  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Underworld, dubnobasswithmyheadman  ( UK )
Christian Wallumrød Trio, No Birch  ( NORWAY )
Honourable mentions
Tori Amos, From the Choir Girl Hotel  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Badi Assad, Chameleon  ( BRAZIL )
Brian Eno, Bang on a Can, Music for Airports  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bliss  ( REALWORLD )
Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen, The Sea II  ( NORWAY / USA )
Anouar Brahem, Thimar  ( TUNISIA )
Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny Like Minds  ( USA )
Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, Tokyo 1998  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manu Chao, Clandestino  ( SPAIN / FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Colin Hay, Transcendental Highway  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dr. John, Anutha Zone  ( USA )
Kyle Eastwood, From There to Here  ( USA )
Antonio Forcione, Sabina Sciubba, Meet Me in London  ( ITALY / UK )
Antonio Forcione, Ghetto Paradise  ( ITALY )
Bill Frisell, Gone, Just Like a Train  ( USA )
David Gray, White Ladder  ( UK )
Trilok Gurtu, Kathak  ( INDIA )
Charlie Haden, Kenny Barron, Night and the City  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Yoshihiro Hanno, Mick Karn, Liquid Glass  ( JAPAN / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dave Holland Quintet, Points of View  ( UK )
Hootie and the Blowfish, Musical Chairs  ( USA )
Bruce Hornsby, Spirit Trail  ( USA )
Boney James, Sweet Thing  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Tokyo ’96  ( USA )
Marc Johnson, The Sound of Summer Running  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marc Johnson, Eric Longsworth, If Trees Could Fly  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thomas Lang, Scallywag Jaz and More – The Best of...  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manic Street Preachers, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours  ( UK )
Massive Attack, Mezzanine  ( UK )
The Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets  ( USA )
Shawn Mullins, Soul's Core  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Maryam Mursal, The Journey  ( SOMALIA )
New Radicals, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Notch / Carbon Based Lifeforms, The Path  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ernest Ranglin, In Search of the Lost Riddim  ( JAMAICA )
Joe Satriani, Crystal Planet  ( USA )
Seal, Human Being  ( UK )
Spyro Gyra, Road Scholars  ( USA )
Bobo Stenson Trio, War Orphans  ( SWEDEN )
Ralph Towner, Gary Peacock A Closer View  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Papa Wemba, Molokai  ( CONGO )
Kirk Whalum, For You  ( USA )
Gary Willis, Bent  ( USA )
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate, World Tour  ( USA )
All albums
Itamar Assumpção, Pretobrás  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Wissam Boustany, Sounds from Within  ( LEBANON )
Wissam Boustany, Wandering Winds  ( LEBANON )
Cameo, The Hits Collection  ( USA )
Chef Aid: The South Park Album  ( AMERICAN / COLUMBIA )
Chick Corea and Origin, Origin  ( USA )
Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Painted from Memory  ( UK / USA )
Des'ree, Supernatural  ( UK )
Gloria Estefan, gloria!  ( CUBA / USA )
DJ Mark Farina, Mushroom Jazz Vol. 2  ( USA )
Rodney Franklin, The Best of Rodney Franklin  ( USA )
Jonathan Gee Trio, Your Shining Heart  ( UK )
Ghostland, Ghostland  ( UK )
Colin Hay, Transcendental Highway  ( UK / AUSTRALIA )
Fred Hersch, Bill Frisell, Songs We Know  ( USA )
Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill  ( USA )
George Howard, Midnight Mood  ( USA )
George Howard, There's a Riot Goin' On  ( USA )
Abdullah Ibrahim, The Mountain  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Abdullah Ibrahim, Voice of Africa  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Mark Isham, A Wyndham Hill Retrospective  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, The Melody at Night, with You  ( USA )
Jestofunk, Love in a Gold Dimension  ( ITALY )
Jestofunk, Universal Mother  ( ITALY )
Jewel, Spirit  ( USA )
Don Laka, Supernova  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Men at Work, Brazil  ( AUSTRALIA )
Stephan Micus, Behind Eleven Deserts  ( GERMANY )
Joni Mitchell, Taming the Tiger  ( CANADA )
Morcheeba, Big Calm  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mike Nock, Ozboppin'  ( NEW ZEALAND )
Pauline Oliveros, The Roots of the Moment  ( USA )
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Walking Into Clarkesdale  ( UK )
Arvo Pärt, Kanon Pokajanen  ( ESTONIA )
Jaco Pastorius, Honestly  ( USA )
Dino Saluzzi, The Rosamunde Quartett, Kultrum  ( ARGENTINA / GERMANY )
Michael "Patches" Stewart, Penetration  ( USA )
Colin Towns Mask Quintet with Maria Pia De Vito, Still Life  ( UK )
Tuck & Patti, Paradise Found  ( USA )
Vital Information, Where We Come From  ( USA )
Jah Wobble, Umbra Sumus  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Yungchen Lhamo, Coming Home  ( TIBET )

1999
Best of 1999

Brian Eno, I Dormienti  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, Homecoming  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jon Hassell, Fascinoma  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rapoon, What Do You Suppose?  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Sanborn, Inside  ( USA )
Sigur Rós, Ágætis byrjun  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Sylvian, Dead Bees on a Cake  ( UK )
Gianmaría Testa, Lampo  ( ITALY )  [ VIMEO ]
Cassandra Wilson, Traveling Miles  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Afro Celt Sound System, Volume 2: Release  ( IRELAND / WEST AFRICA )
Tori Amos, To Venus and Back  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tom Cochrane, Xray Sierra  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Toumani Diabaté, Ballake Sissoko, New Ancient Strings  ( MALI )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Peter Erskine, Juni  ( USA )
Ibrahim Ferrer, Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer  ( CUBA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Delia Fischer, Antonio  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Frisell, Good Dog, Happy Man  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble, Mnemosyne  ( NORWAY / UK )
Michael Hedges, Torched  ( USA )
David Helpling, Sleeping on the Edge of the World  ( USA )
Amit Heri, Amit Heri Group  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dave Holland Quintet, Prime Directive  ( UK )
Mark Isham, Miles Remembered: The Silent Way Project  ( USA )
Charles Lloyd, Voice in the Night  ( USA )
Love and Money, Cheap Pearls and Whiskey Dreams: The Best Of  ( UK )
Van Morrison, Back on Top  ( UK )
Arvo Pärt, Alina  ( ESTONIA )
Brendan Perry, Eye of the Hunter  ( UK )
Sandy Prager, Seattle Joe's  ( USA )
Compay Segundo, Calle Salud  ( CUBA )
Ernesto Snajer, Palle Windfeldt, Guitarreros  ( ARGENTINA / DENMARK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tomasz Stanko, From the Green Hill  ( POLAND )
Esbjörn Svensson Trio, From Gagarin's Point of View  ( SWEDEN )
David Sylvian, Approaching Silence  ( UK )
Taj Mahal, Toumani Diabaté, Kulanjan  ( USA / MALI )
Tribal Tech, Thick  ( USA )
The Whitlams, Love This City  ( AUSTRALIA )
Alex Wilson, Anglo Cubano  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Susumu Yokota, Sakura  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
The Album Leaf, An Orchestrated Rise to Fall  ( USA )
Misha Alperin, First Impression  ( UKRAINE )
Banco de Gaia, The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia  ( UK )
Jason Becker, The Raspberry Jams  ( USA )
Blink-182, Enema of the State  ( USA )
David Bowie, '…hours'  ( UK )
Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Apart, and Yet a Part  ( UK )
Colour Club, Sexuality  ( USA )
Chris Cornell, Euphoria Morning  ( USA )  [ LAST FM ]
Creed, Human Clay  ( USA )
Fennesz, Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56'37" Minus Sixteen Degrees 51'08"  ( AUSTRIA )
Mathias Grassow, Himalaya  ( GERMANY )
Macy Gray, On How Life Is  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tommy Guerrero, A Little Bit of Somethin'  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hiroshima, Hiroshima  ( SPAIN )
Jennie Holland, The Faerie Tree  ( UK )
Dennis Russell Davies / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Keith Jarrett, Mozart: Piano Concertos K.271, 453, 466 / Adagio & Fugue K.546  ( USA / GERMANY )
Mark King, One Man  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri, Barre Philips, Tales of Rohnlief  ( USA )
Amanda Marshall, Tuesday's Child  ( CANADA )
The Neville Brothers, Valence Street  ( USA )
Nightmares on Wax, Carboot Soul  ( UK )
Carlos Santana, Supernatural  ( MEXICO )
Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto, El Baile Alemán  ( CHILE / USA )
Jane Siberry, New York Trilogy I: Tree (Music for Films and Forests)  ( CANADA )
Jane Siberry, New York Trilogy II: Lips (Music for Saying It)  ( CANADA )
Jane Siberry, New York Trilogy III: Child (Music for the Christmas Season)  ( CANADA )
Supergrass, Supergrass  ( UK )
Midori Takada, Tree of Life  ( JAPAN )
Toquinho, Paulinho Nogueira, Toquinho Paulinho Nogueira  ( BRAZIL )
Toto, Mindfields  ( USA )
Philipp Waschmann, Paul Lytton, Some Other Season  ( UK )
Joseph Zitt, Jonathan Matis, Even the Widest Aardvark Outdreams the Gnu  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
John Zorn, Taboo and Exile  ( USA )
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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.

1950
Best of 1950

Honourable mentions
All albums

1951
Best of 1951

Honourable mentions
All albums
Miles Davis featuring Sonny Rollins, Dig  ( USA )

1952
Best of 1952

Amália Rodrigues, Abbey Road 1952  ( PORTUGAL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Charlie Parker, Jam Session  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums

1953
Best of 1953

Billie Holiday, An Evening with Billie Holiday  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stan Getz, Stan Getz Plays  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
All albums

1954
Best of 1954

Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine  ( USA )  [ VIMEO ]
Honourable mentions
Thelonius Monk Trio, Thelonius Monk Trio  ( USA )
Thelonius Monk, Blue Monk, Vol. 2  ( USA )
All albums

1955
Best of 1955

Miles Davis, Blue Moods  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Billie Holiday, Music for Torching  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Chet Baker Quintet, Jazz at Ann Arbor  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums

1956
Best of 1956

Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Marian McPartland Trio, Marian McPartland Trio  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Miles Davis, ’Round About Midnight  ( USA )
All albums

1957
Best of 1957

Thelonius Monk, Brilliant Corners  ( USA )
Thelonius Monk Septet, Monk's Music  ( USA )
Ben Webster Quintet, Soulville  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Luiz Bonfá, Sambolero: Guitarra do Brasil  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Curtis Counce, You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce!  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis, Bags Groove  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis, The Birth of the Cool  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis Quintet, Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis All Stars, Walkin'  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Red Garland Quintet, All Mornin' Long  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tony Scott, Bill Evans, A Day in New York  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
John Coltrane, Coltrane  ( USA )
Charles Mingus, The Clown  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lee Morgan, City Lights  ( USA )  [ VIMEO ]

1958
Best of 1958

John Coltrane, Blue Train  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Paul Gonsalves, Wynton Kelly, J. C. Heard, Wendell Marshall, Sittin' In  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Coleman Hawkins, Soul  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Billie Holiday, All or Nothing at All  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nina Simone, Little Girl Blue / Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Luiz Bonfá, Luiz Bonfá's Brazilian Guitar  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis Quintet, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Coleman Hawkins All Stars, Coleman Hawkins All Stars  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra, Lady in Satin  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lester Young, Harry Edison, Going for Myself...  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess  ( USA )

1959
Best of 1959

Chet Baker, Chet  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thr Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out  ( USA )
Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain  ( USA )
Bill Evans, Everybody Digs Bill Evans  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Babatunde Olatunji, Drums of Passion  ( NIGERIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Side Up  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums

1960
Best of 1960

Bill Evans, Portrait in Jazz  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Coleman Hawkins, At Ease with Coleman Hawkins  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Coleman Hawkins, Night Hawk  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Wright Trio, South Side Soul  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Stan Getz, At Large  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Woody Guthrie, Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges  ( USA )
Cecil Taylor, The World of Cecil Taylor  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Larry Young Trio, Testifying  ( USA )

1961
Best of 1961

John Coltrane, My Favorite Things  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Explorations  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Eric Dolphy, Here and There  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Bags and Trane  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Lacey, Don Cherry, Evidence  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums

1962
Best of 1962

Herbie Hancock, Takin' Off  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Bill Evans, Interplay  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, Loose Blues  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Undercurrent  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, How My Heart Sings!  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Moon Beams  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Wes Montgomery, Full House  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Miles Davis, Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]

1963
Best of 1963

The Beatles, Please Please Me  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Beatles, With The Beatles  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba  ( USA )
Thelonius Monk Quartet, Monk's Dream  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Bill Evans, Interplay  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stan Getz, Luiz Bonfá, Jazz Samba Encore  ( USA )
Thelonius Monk, Criss-Cross  ( USA )
Gerry Mulligan, Night Lights  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]

1964
Best of 1964

The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Beatles, Beatles for Sale  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto  ( USA / BRAZIL )
Honourable mentions
George Benson, The New Boss Guitar of George Benson  ( USA )
Aretha Franklin, Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington  ( USA )
Dexter Gordon, One Flight Up  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch!  ( USA )
Grant Green, Idle Moments  ( USA )
Thelonius Monk Quartet, It's Monk's Time  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tony Scott, Music for Zen Meditation / Ask the Wind  ( USA )

1965
Best of 1965

The Beatles, Help!  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Beatles, Rubber Soul  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
All albums
John Coltrane, Meditations  ( USA )
Miles Davis, E.S.P.  ( USA )
Ronnie Scott, When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It to You  ( UK )

1966
Best of 1966

The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Beatles, Revolver  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Ruben López Furst, Jazz en la Universidad  ( ARGENTINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Yusef Lateef, Psychicemotus  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brother Jack McDuff, Hot Barbeque  ( USA )
All albums
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tamás Vásáry, Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes  ( HUNGARY )

1967
Best of 1967

Thelonius Monk, Straight, No Chaser  ( USA )
Van Morrison, Blowin' Your Mind!  ( UK )
Honourable mentions
The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hariprasad Chaurasia, Brij Bhushan Kabra, Shivkumar Sharma, Call of the Valley  ( INDIA )
Ruben López Furst, Jazz Argentino  ( ARGENTINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
David Bowie, David Bowie  ( UK )
Tim Buckley, Goodbye and Hello  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Safe As Milk  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Sorcerer  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Doors, The Doors  ( USA )
Grant Green, Street of Dreams  ( USA )
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Wave  ( BRAZIL )
John Martyn, London Conversation  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn  ( UK )
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Absolutely Free  ( USA )

1968
Best of 1968

The Beatles, The Beatles  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Terry Reid, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid  ( UK )
Gábor Szabó, Dreams  ( HUNGARY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Dorothy Ashby, Afro-Harping  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Beatles, The Beatles  ( UK )
Jeff Beck, Truth  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Miles in the Sky  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Nefertiti  ( USA )
The Doors, Waiting for the Sun  ( USA )
John Martyn, The Tumbler  ( UK )
Joni Mitchell, Song to a Seagull  ( CANADA )
The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord  ( UK )
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks  ( UK )
Pink Floyd, A Saucerful of Secrets  ( UK )
Soft Machine, The Soft Machine  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]

1969
Best of 1969

Roberta Flack, First Take  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
The Beatles, Abbey Road  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jeff Beck, Beck-Ola  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tim Buckley, Happy Sad  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Evans Trio, Quiet Now  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pink Floyd, Ummagumma  ( UK )
Terry Reid, Terry Reid  ( UK )
Mal Waldron Trio, Free at Last  ( USA )
Ben Webster, For the Guv'nor  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Kevin Ayers, Joy of a Toy  ( UK )
The Beatles, Yellow Submarine  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Bowie, Space Oddity  ( UK )
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica  ( USA )
Credence Clearwater Revival, Green River  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Autumn Leaves  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby: The Complete 1969 Pescara Festival  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jan Garbarek, Esoteric Circle  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, From Genesis to Revelation  ( UK )
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin  ( UK )
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II  ( UK )
Herbie Mann, Memphis Underground  ( USA )
John McLaughlin, Extrapolation  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joni Mitchell, Clouds  ( CANADA )
Moondog, Moondog  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pink Floyd, Soundtrack from the film 'More'  ( UK )
Harry Partch, The World of Harry Partch  ( USA )
Santana, Santana  ( MEXICO )
Soft Machine, Volume Two  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Surman, How Many Clouds Can You See?  ( UK )

1970
Best of 1970

Funkadelic, Funkadelic  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dizzy Gillespie, Portrait of Jenny  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
The Beatles, Let It Be  ( UK )
Paul Bley Trio, Paul Bley with Gary Peacock  ( CANADA / USA )
Donald Byrd, Fancy Free  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stone Flower  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III  ( UK )
John Martyn, Stormbringer!  ( UK )
Van Morrison, Moondance  ( UK )
Van Morrison, His Band and the Street Choir  ( UK )
Santana, Abraxas  ( MEXICO )
Keith Tippett Group, You Are Here... I Am There  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Dorothy Ashby, The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kevin Ayers, Shoot at the Moon  ( UK )
Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath  ( UK )
Black Sabbath, Paranoid  ( UK )
David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World  ( UK )
Marion Brown, Afternoon of a Georgia Faun  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE 1 & 2 ]
Bruce Cockburn, Bruce Cockburn  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chick Corea, The Song of Singing  ( USA )
Wolfgang Dauner Trio, Output  ( GERMANY )
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek, Afric Pepperbird  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, Trespass  ( UK )
Just Music, Just Music  ( GERMANY )
Robin Kenyatta, Girl from Martinique  ( USA )
Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon  ( CANADA )
Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother  ( UK )
Soft Machine, Third  ( UK )
Sun Ra, Nothing Is...  ( USA )
Sweet Smoke, Just a Poke  ( USA / GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Peter Warren, Bass Is  ( USA )
Wishbone Ash, Wishbone Ash  ( UK )

1971
Best of 1971

Marvin Gaye, What's Going On  ( USA )
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV  ( UK )
Honourable mentions
America, America  ( USA )
Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Doors, L.A. Woman  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Funkadelic, Maggot Brain  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Akira Ishikawa, African Rock  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Keith Jarrett, Facing You  ( USA )
Volker Kriegel, Spectrum  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fela Kuti, Open & Close  ( NIGERIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fela Kuti, Why Black Man Dey Suffer  ( NIGERIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey  ( UK )
Pink Floyd, Meddle  ( UK )
Santana, Santana 3  ( MEXICO )
Bobo Stenson Trio, Underwear  ( SWEDEN / NORWAY )
All albums
Pete Atkin, Driving Through Mythical America  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jeff Beck Group, Rough and Ready  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Bley, Ballads  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Bowie, Hunky Dory  ( UK )
Brainticket, Cottonwoodhill  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink  ( UK )
Bruce Cockburn, High Winds, White Sky  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nick Drake, Bryter Layter  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jan Garbarek, Sart  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, Nursery Cryme  ( UK )
Hawkwind, In Search of Space  ( UK )
Rupert Hine, Pick Up a Bone  ( UK )
David Holland, Derek Bailey, Improvisations for Cello and Guitar  ( UK )
David Holland, Barre Phillips, Music from Two Basses  ( UK / USA )
John Martyn, Bless the Weather  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Paul, McCartney, Linda McCartney, Ram  ( UK )
Joni Mitchell, Blue  ( CANADA )
Out of Focus, Out of Focus  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pink Floyd, Relics  ( UK )
Terje Rypdal, Terje Rypdal  ( NORWAY )
Soft Machine, Fourth  ( UK )
Uriah Heep, Uriah Heep  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mal Waldron, The Call  ( USA )
Weather Report, Weather Report  ( USA )
Wishbone Ash, Pilgrimage  ( UK )
Wigwam, Fairyport  ( FINLAND )
Wishful Thinking, Hiroshima  ( UK )
Yes, Fragile  ( UK )

1972
Best of 1972

Chick Corea, Return to Forever  ( USA )
Malo, Malo  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Neville Marriner / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Vaughan Williams: Fantasias / The Lark Ascending / Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'  ( UK )
Santana, Caravanserai  ( MEXICO )
Honourable mentions
Kevin Ayers, Whatevershebringswesing  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars  ( UK )
Donald Byrd, Ethiopian Knights  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
CAN, Ege Bamyası  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bruce Cockburn, Sunwheel Dance  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manu Dibango, Soul Makossa  ( CAMEROON )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, Live in Paris vols. I–III  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Oregon, Music of Another Present Era  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Many Moods of The Upsetters  ( JAMAICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Clint Eastwood  ( JAMAICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Agitation Free, Malesch  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jeff Beck Group, Jeff Beck Group  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brainticket, Psychonaut  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ornette Coleman, Science Fiction  ( USA )
Miles Davis, On the Corner  ( USA )
Manu Dibango, African Voodoo  ( CAMEROON )
Nick Drake, Pink Moon  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Genesis, Foxtrot  ( UK )
Joni Mitchell, For the Roses  ( CANADA )
Pink Floyd, Obscured by Clouds  ( UK )
Lou Reed, Lou Reed  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lou Reed, Transformer  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Roxy Music, Roxy Music  ( UK )
Santana, Caravanserai  ( MEXICO )
Klaus Schulze, Irrlicht  ( GERMANY )
Simon & Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits  ( USA )
Steely Dan, Can't Buy a Thrill  ( USA )
Tangerine Dream, Zeit  ( GERMANY )
Wishbone Ash, Argus  ( UK )
Yes, Close to the Edge  ( UK )

1973
Best of 1973

John Martyn, Solid Air  ( UK )
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1974
Santana, Welcome  ( MEXICO )
Honourable mentions
Blue Mitchell, Graffiti Blues  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bruce Cockburn, Night Vision  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Abdullah Ibrahim, African Piano  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Fela Kuti, Gentleman  ( NIGERIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Martyn, Inside Out  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Oregon, Music of Another Present Era  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Terry Reid, River  ( UK )
Smoke, Everything  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tom Waits, Closing Time  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Kevin Ayers, Bananamour  ( UK )
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane  ( UK )
David Bowie, Pin Ups  ( UK )
Marc Cohen, John Abercrombie, Friends  ( USA )
Stanley Cowell Trio, Illusion Suite  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets  ( UK )
Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, No Pussyfooting  ( UK )
Jan Garbarek, Triptykon  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, Selling England By the Pound  ( UK )
Genesis, Genesis Live  ( UK )
Egberto Gismonti, Arvore  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gong, Flying Teapot  ( UK / FRANCE )
Greenslade, Greenslade  ( UK )
Keith Jarrett, Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne  ( USA )
Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy  ( UK )
Paul McCartney & Wings, Band on the Run  ( UK / USA )
Van Morrison, T.B. Sheets  ( UK )
Van Morrison, Hard Nose the Highway  ( UK )
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells  ( UK )
Lou Reed, Berlin  ( USA )
Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstasy  ( USA )
Sun Ra, Concert for the Comet Kohoutek  ( USA )
Joe Walsh, The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get  ( USA )
Eberhard Weber, The Colours of Chloë  ( GERMANY )
Wishbone Ash, Wishbone Four  ( UK )
Yes, Tales from Topographic Oceans  ( UK )

1974
Best of 1974

Bad Company, Bad Company  ( UK )
Queen, Sheer Heart Attack  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Winter in America  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Kevin Ayers, The Confessions of Doctor Dream and Other Stories  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gary Burton Quintet with Eberhard Weber, Ring  ( USA / GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bruce Cockburn, Salt, Sun and Time  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Since We Met  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jan Garbarek, Witchi-Tai-To  ( NORWAY )
Egberto Gismonti, Academia de Danças  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY, DATED 1974 ]
Keith Jarrett, Belonging  ( USA )
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina, Elis & Tom  ( BRAZIL )
Elton John, Greatest Hits  ( UK )
Duke Jordan, Flight to Denmark  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Kuhn, Trance  ( USA )
Lou Reed, Sally Can't Dance  ( USA )
Robin Trower, Bridge of Sighs  ( UK )
Nana Vasconcelos, Nelson Angelo, Novélli, Nana Nelson Angelo Novélli  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Be Bop Deluxe, Axe Victim  ( UK )
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs  ( UK )
Don Cherry, Eternity Now  ( USA )
Brian Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)  ( UK )
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway  ( UK )
Bob James, One  ( USA )
Kirk Lightsey and Rudolph Johnson with the All Stars, Habiba  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Keith Jarrett, Luminessence  ( USA )
Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark  ( CANADA )
Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto, Love, Love  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lou Reed, Rock n' Roll Animal  ( USA )
Rush, Rush  ( CANADA )
Tomasz Stanko, Twet  ( POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic  ( USA )
Sun Ra, The Antique Blacks  ( USA )
Supertramp, Crime of the Century  ( UK )
UFO, Phenomenon  ( UK )
Weather Report, Mysterious Traveler  ( USA )
Wigwam, Being  ( FINLAND )
Witch, Introduction  ( ZAMBIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Yes, Relayer  ( UK )

1975
Best of 1975

Bruce Cockburn, Joy Will Find a Way  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Connors, Theme to the Gaurdian  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Fela Kuti & Africa 70, He Miss Road  ( NIGERIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti  ( UK )
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Live!  ( JAMAICA )
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1975
Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Midnight Band: The First Minute of a New Day  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Timeless  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Gateway  ( USA / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Arild Andersen, Clouds in My Head  ( NORWAY )
Bad Company, Straight Shooter  ( UK )
Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Richard Beirach, Eon  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dr. Feelgood, Down by the Jetty  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Herb Ellis, Freddie Green, Rhythm Willie  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, Discreet Music  ( UK )
Bill Evans, Live in Switzerland  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Evening Star  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Edgar Froese, Epsilon in Malaysian Pale  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Herbie Hancock, Flood  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Keith Jarrett, The Köln Concert  ( USA )
Dave Liebman, Drum Ode  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Martyn, Sunday's Child  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns  ( CANADA )
Enrico Rava, The Pilgrim and the Stars   [ SPOTIFY ]
Lou Reed, Lou Reed Live  ( USA )
David Sancious, Forest of Feelings  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Grover Washington Jr., Mister Magic  ( USA )
Grover Washington Jr., Feels So Good  ( USA )
All albums
Kevin Ayers, Sweet Deceiver  ( UK )
Be Bop Deluxe, Futurama  ( UK )
Paul Bley, Bill Connors, Jimmy Guiffre, Quiet Song  ( CANADA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Bowie, Young Americans  ( UK )
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks  ( USA )
Earth, Wind & Fire, That's the Way of the World  ( USA )
Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Jake Hanna, Plas Johnson, George Duke, After You've Gone...  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, Another Green World  ( UK )
Bob James, Two  ( USA )
Al Jarreau, We Got By  ( USA )
Napoli Centrale, Napoli Centrale  ( ITALY )
Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow  ( UK )
Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music  ( USA )
Roxy Music, Siren  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Todd Rundgren, Initiation  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rush, Fly By Night  ( CANADA )
Rush, Caress of Steel  ( CANADA )
David Sancious, Forest of Feelings  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Klaus Schulze, Timewind  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steely Dan, Katy Lied  ( USA )
Tangerine Dream, Ricochet  ( GERMANY )
Henri Texier, Amir  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
UFO, Force It  ( UK )
Joe Walsh, So What  ( USA )
Wigwam, Nuclear Nightclub  ( FINLAND )

1976
Best of 1976

Joni Mitchell, Hejira  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1984
Rainbow, Rising  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1976
Grover Washington Jr., A Secret Place  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, Sargasso Sea  ( USA )
Jon Anderson, Olias of Sunhillow  ( UK )
Neil Ardley, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Beach Boys, 20 Golden Greats  ( USA )
Brand X, Unorthodox Behaviour  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bruce Cockburn, In the Falling Dark  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Don Cherry, Om Shanti Om  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cluster, Sowiesoso  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner  ( USA )
Randy Crawford, Everything Must Change  ( USA )
Eagles, Hotel California  ( USA )
Eagles, Their Greatest Hits, 1971–1975  ( USA )
Fania All Stars, Tribute to Tito Rodríguez  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Funkees, Now I'm a Man  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Egberto Gismonti, Corações Futuristas  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joe Henderson, Black Miracle  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Al Jarreau, Glow  ( USA )
Jo Jones, The Main Man  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fela Kuti & Africa 70, Zombie  ( NIGERIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Art Lande, Rubisa Patrol  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same  ( UK )
Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life  ( USA )
Jaco Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius  ( USA )
Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Upsetters, Super Ape  ( JAMAICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, It's Your World  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Shakti, John McLaughlin, Shakti with John McLaughlin  ( INDIA / UK )
Colin Walcott, Cloud Dance  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Eberhard Weber, Yellow Fields  ( GERMANY )
Soft Machine, Softs  ( UK )
Steely Dan, The Royal Scam  ( USA )
Eberhard Weber, The Following Morning  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tapper Zukie, In Dub  ( JAMAICA / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Kevin Ayers, Yes We Have No Mañanas  ( UK )
Be Bop Deluxe, Sunburst Finish  ( UK )
Be Bop Deluxe, Modern Music  ( UK )
Gary Burton Quintet, Dreams So Real: Music of Carla Bley  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
J. J. Cale, Troubador  ( USA )
Bootsy Collins, Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Alice Coltrane, Eternity  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bad Company, Run with the Pack  ( UK )
David Bowie, Station to Station  ( UK )
Bob Dylan, Desire  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek, Dansere  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, A Trick of the Tail  ( UK )
Genesis, Wind and Wuthering  ( UK )
Iliad, Distances  ( USA )
Bob James, Three  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Hymns/Spheres  ( USA )
Elton John, Here and There  ( UK )
Larry Karush, Glen Moore, May 24, 1976  ( USA )
Klaatu, 3:47 EST  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Led Zeppelin, Presence  ( UK )
Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination  ( UK )
Pere Ubu, Dub Housing  ( USA )
Lou Reed, The Boston Strangler  ( USA )
David Sancious & Tone, Transformation (The Speed of Love)  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Boz Scaggs, Silk Degrees  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Klaus Schulze, Moondawn  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Status Quo, Blue for You  ( UK )
Tangerine Dream, Stratosfear  ( GERMANY )
Van Der Graaf Generator, Still Life  ( UK )
Edward Vesala, Nan Madol  ( FINLAND )
Joe Walsh, You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind  ( USA )
Weather Report, Black Market  ( USA )
Wings, At the Speed of Sound  ( UK / USA )

1977
Best of 1977

AC/DC, Let There Be Rock  ( AUSTRALIA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1977
Brand X, Morrocan Roll  ( UK )
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Exodus  ( JAMAICA )
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours  ( USA / UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Meatloaf, Bat Out of Hell  ( USA )
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Black Ark in Dub  ( JAMAICA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pink Floyd, Animals  ( UK )
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols  ( UK )
Status Quo, Live!  ( UK )
Honourable mentions
Arild Andersen, Shimri  ( NORWAY )
Bruce Cockburn, Circles in the Stream  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bad Company, Burnin' Sky  ( UK )
George Benson, Jack McDuff, George Benson/Jack McDuff  ( USA )
Cheap Trick, In Color  ( USA )
Cluster, Brian Eno, Cluster & Eno  ( GERMANY / UK )
Ian Dury, New Boots and Panties!!  ( UK )
Earth, Wind & Fire, All 'n All  ( USA )
Bill Evans, Quintessence  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, I Will Say Goodbye  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fania All Stars, Rhythm Machine  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jan Garbarek, Dis  ( NORWAY )
Egberto Gismonti, Dança das Cabeças  ( BRAZIL )
Sol Ho'opi'i, Master of the Hawaiian Guitar, Vol. 1  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Maze, Maze  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, Watercolors  ( USA )
Joni Mitchell, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter  ( CANADA )
The Motors, 1  ( UK )
Alan Parsons Project, I Robot  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gary Peacock, Tales of Another  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pharaoh Sanders, Pharaoh  ( USA )
Santana, Moonflower  ( MEXICO )
The Original Movie Sound Track 'Saturday Night Fever'  ( RSO )
Shakti, A Handful of Beauty ( UK / INDIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Spyro Gyra, Spyro Gyra  ( USA )
Michael Stearns, Ancient Leaves  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sun Ra, Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Tibbetts, Steve Tibbetts  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Collin Walcott, Grazing Dreams  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wishbone Ash, Front Page News  ( UK )
Yes, Going for the One  ( UK )
All albums
Be Bop Deluxe, Live! In the Air Age  ( UK )
David Bowie, Low  ( UK )
David Bowie, Heroes  ( UK )
Cluster, Sowiesoso  ( GERMANY )
Randy Crawford, Miss Randy Crawford  ( USA )
Eloy, Ocean  ( GERMANY )
Genesis, Seconds Out  ( UK )
Jon Gibson, Two Solo Pieces  ( USA )
Ian Gillan Band, Clear Air Turbulence  ( UK )
Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group, Live  ( UK / USA )
Bob James, BJ4  ( USA )
Bob James, Heads  ( USA )
Earl Klugh, Finger Paintings  ( USA )
Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Bill Connors, Pyramid  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Motörhead, Motörhead  ( UK )
The Mysterious Flying Orchestra, The Mysterious Flying Orchestra  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Enrico Rava, The Plot  ( ITALY )
Rush, A Farewell to Kings  ( CANADA )
Status Quo, Rockin' All Over the World  ( UK )
Steely Dan, Aja  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, Implosions  ( GERMANY )
The Stranglers, Rattus Norvegicus  ( UK )
The Stranglers, No More Heroes  ( UK )
Television, Marquee Moon  ( USA )
Tropea, Short Trip to Space  ( USA )
Weather Report, Heavy Weather  ( USA )

1978
Best of 1978

The Cars, The Cars  ( USA )
Brian Eno, Music for Airports  ( UK )
David Gilmour, David Gilmour  ( UK )
Steve Hillage, Green  ( UK )
Keith Jarrett, My Song  ( USA )
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Kaya  ( JAMAICA )
Joe Walsh, "But Seriously, Folks…"  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1978
Grover Washington Jr., Reed Seed  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Arild Andersen Quartet, Green Shading Into Blue  ( NORWAY / FINLAND / SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams  ( USA )
Gary Burton, Times Square  ( USA )
Bruce Cockburn, Further Adventures Of  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Connors, Of Mist and Melting  ( USA )
Contact Trio, New Marks  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dr. Feelgood, Private Practice  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Genesis, …And Then There Were Three…  ( UK )
Ahmad Jamal, One  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol, Desert Marauders  ( USA )
Leo's Sunshipp, We Need Each Other  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pat Metheny Group, Pat Metheny Group  ( USA )
Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits 1974–78  ( USA )
Oregon, Out of the Woods  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rainbow, Long Live Rock n' Roll  ( UK )
Rush, Hemispheres  ( CANADA )
Sun Ra, Lanquidity  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Terje Rypdal, Waves  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Sancious & Tone, True Stories  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ralph Towner, Batik  ( USA )
U.K., U.K.  ( UK )
All albums
Kevin Ayers, Rainbow Takeaway  ( UK )
Kate Bush, The Kick Inside  ( UK )
Chic, C'est Chic  ( USA )
Stanley Clarke, Modern Man  ( USA )
Herb Ellis, Remo Palmier, Windflower  ( USA )
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius After the Heat  ( GERMANY / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jan Garbarek, Places  ( NORWAY )
Egberto Gismonti, Sol Do Meio Dia  ( BRAZIL )
Dominique Guiot, L'Univers de la mer  ( FRANCE )
Jon Hassell, Earthquake Island  ( USA )
Hawklords, 25 Years On  ( UK )
Bob James, Touchdown  ( USA )
Japan, Adolescent Sex  ( UK )
Japan, Obscure Alternatives  ( UK )
Al Jarreau, All Fly Home  ( USA )
John Klemmer, Solo Saxophone – Cry  ( USA )
Earl Klugh, Magic in Your Eyes  ( USA )
Maze, Golden Time of Day  ( USA )
Midnight Oil, Midnight Oil  ( AUSTRALIA )
Charles Mingus, Cumbia and Jazz Fusion  ( USA )
The Motors, Approved By The Motors  ( UK )
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, You're Gonna Get It!  ( USA )
Eliane Radigue, Triptych  ( FRANCE )
Nina Simone, Baltimore  ( USA )
Spyro Gyra, Morning Dance  ( USA )
Squeeze, Squeeze  ( UK )
Status Quo, If You Can't Stand the Heat  ( UK )
Sun Ra, Walt Dickerson, Visions  ( USA )
Toto, Toto  ( USA )
Nik Turner, Xitintoday  ( UK )
UFO, Obsession  ( UK )
Tom van der Geld, Children at Play, Patience  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Weather Report, Mr. Gone  ( USA )
Eberhard Weber, Silent Feet  ( GERMANY )
Kenny Wheeler, Deer Wan  ( CANADA )
Lenny White, Streamline  ( USA )
Yes, Tormato  ( UK )

1979
Best of 1979

Bruce Cockburn, Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Codona, Codona  ( USA / BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Earth, Wind & Fire, I Am  ( USA )
Steve Hillage, Rainbow Dome Musick  ( UK )
Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1979
Light of the World, Light of the World  ( UK )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie Quartet, Arcade  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
George Adams, Sound Suggestions  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bee Gees, Spirits Having Flown  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Richard Beirach, Elm  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Embryo, Embryo's Reise  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, We Will Meet Again  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Live at Balboa Jazz Club Vol. 1  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans Trio, Live in Buenos Aires  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mick Goodrick, In Pas(s)ing  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Hillage, Open  ( UK )
Japan, Quiet Life  ( UK )
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp!  ( UK )
Michael Jackson, Off the Wall  ( USA )
Maze, Inspiration  ( USA )
John McLaughlin with the One Truth Band, Electric Dreams  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Old and New Dreams, Old and New Dreams  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, New Chautauqua  ( USA )
Money, First Investment  ( UK )
Motörhead, Overkill  ( UK )
Motörhead, Bomber  ( UK )
Pink Floyd, The Wall  ( UK )
David Sancious, Just As I Thought  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Leo Smith, Divine Love  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
UFO, Strangers in the Night  ( UK )
Tom Van Der Geld, Path  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Rust Never Sleeps  ( CANADA / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Mustapha Tettey Addy, Come and Drum  ( GHANA )
Bad Company, Desolation Angels  ( UK )
David Bowie, Lodger  ( UK )
The Cars, Candy-O  ( USA )
John Cougar, John Cougar  ( USA )
Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross  ( USA )
The Cure, Three Imaginary Boys  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dan Fogelberg, Phoenix  ( USA )
Robert Fripp, Exposure  ( UK )
Edgar Froese, Stuntman  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Galen, Xom  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek Group, Photo with Blue Sky, White Cloud, Wires, Windows and a Red Roof  ( NORWAY )
Steve Hackett, Spectral Mornings  ( USA )
Peter Hammill, pH7  ( UK )
The Heavy Metal Album  ( SOUNDS )
Bob James, Lucky Seven  ( USA )
Bob James, Earl Klugh, One on One  ( USA )
Ryo Kawasaki, Mirror of My Mind  ( JAPAN )
Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door  ( UK )
Pat Metheny Group, American Garage  ( USA )
Joni Mitchell, Mingus  ( CANADA )
Mythos, Dreamlab  ( GERMANY )
Oregon, Moon and Mind  ( USA )
Sun Ra, God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be  ( USA )
Sun Ra and his Arkestra, The Other Side of the Sun  ( USA )
Rainbow, Down to Earth  ( UK )
Bonnie Raitt, The Glow  ( USA )
Chris Rea, Deltics  ( UK )
Cliff Richard, Rock n' Roll Juvenile  ( UK )
Sonny Rollins, Don't Ask  ( USA )
Sonny Rollins, Masters of Jazz, Vol. 14  ( USA )
Roxy Music, Manifesto  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Santana, Marathon  ( MEXICO )
Simple Minds, Life in a Day  ( UK )
Simple Minds, Real to Real Cacaphony  ( UK )
Sky, Sky  ( UK )
Spyro Gyra, Catching the Sun  ( USA )
Squeeze, Cool for Cats  ( UK )
Tomasz Stańko, Almost Green  ( POLAND )
Status Quo, Whatever You Want  ( UK )
Sun Ra, God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be  ( USA )
John Surman, Upon Reflection  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Toto, Hydra  ( USA )
Judie Tzuke, Welcome to the Cruise  ( UK )
Weather Report, 8.30  ( USA )
XTC, Drums and Wires  ( UK )
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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.

1980
Best of 1980

Jeff Beck, There and Back  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1980
George Benson, Give Me the Night  ( USA )
Harold Budd, Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror  ( USA / UK )
Bruce Cockburn, Humans  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Magico  ( USA / NORWAY / BRAZIL )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1992
Laraaji, Day of Radiance  ( USA )
Maze, Joy and Pain  ( USA )
Seiji Ozawa / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Holst: The Planets  ( JAPAN / USA )
Ultravox, Vienna  ( UK )
Grover Washington Jr., Winelight  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Chet Baker Quartet, No Problem  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Between, Silence Beyond Time  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
France Clidat, Eric Satie  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Connors, Swimming with a Hole in My Body  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robert Cray, Who's Been Talkin'  ( USA )
Dire Straits, Making Movies  ( UK )
Dr. Feelgood, A Case of the Shakes  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
George Duke, A Brazilian Love Affair  ( USA )
Bill Evans, His Last Concert in Germany  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fania All Stars, Commitment  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Egberto Gismonti, Circense  ( BRAZIL )
Al Jarreau, This Time  ( USA )
Fuse One, Fuse One  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Earl Klugh, Late Night Guitar  ( USA )
Light of the World, Round Trip  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Local Heroes SW9, Drip Dry Zone  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny Group, 80/81  ( USA )
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation  ( UK )
Pretenders, Pretenders  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Roxy Music, Flesh and Blood  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rush, Permanent Waves  ( CANADA )
Sky, Sky 2  ( UK )
Michael Stearns, Morning Jewel  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steely Dan, Gaucho  ( USA )
The Teardrop Explodes, Kilimanjaro  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Tibbetts, Yr  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ralph Towner, Solo Concert  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Anode, Kinetic Experiments  ( USA )
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Urban Bushmen  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kevin Ayers, That's What You Get Babe  ( UK )
Blue Öyster Cult, Cultösaurus Erectus  ( USA )
David Bowie, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)  ( UK )
Kenny Burrell, Moon and Sand  ( USA )
Kate Bush, Never for Ever  ( UK )
Chick Corea, Gary Burton, In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979  ( USA )
John Cougar, Nothing Matters and What If It Did  ( USA )
Robert Cray, Who's Been Talking  ( USA )
The Cure, Seventeen Seconds  ( UK )
David Darling, Journal October  ( USA )
Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel ('Melt')  ( UK )
Jan Garbarek, Kjell Johnsen, Aftenland  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, Duke  ( UK )
Gillan, Glory Road  ( UK )
Peter Michael Hamel, Colours of Time  ( GERMANY )
INXS, INXS  ( AUSTRALIA )
Bob James, H  ( USA )
Japan, Gentlemen Take Polaroids  ( UK )
Earl Klugh, Dream Come True  ( USA )
Peter Lawson, Erik Satie: Piano Music  ( UK )
Ramsey Lewis, Routes  ( USA )
New Musik, From A to B  ( UK )
Gary Peacock, Art Lande, Eliot Zigmund, Shift in the Wind  ( USA )
Barre Phillips, Journal Violone II  ( USA )
Jimmy Raney, Here's that Raney Day  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sam Rivers, Contrasts  ( USA )
The Michael Schenker Group, The Michael Schenker Group  ( GERMANY )
Simple Minds, Empires and Dance  ( UK )
Laurie Spiegel, The Expanding Universe  ( USA )
Spyro Gyra, Carnaval  ( USA )
Steve Swallow, Home  ( USA )
Twelfth Night, The First Tape Album  ( UK )
Judie Tzuke, Sportscar  ( UK )
U2, Boy  ( IRELAND )
Tom van der Geld, Children at Play, Out Patients  ( USA )
Miroslav Vitous, First Meeting  ( CZECHOSLOVAKIA )
Jah Wobble, The Legend Lives On... Jah Wobble in "Betrayal"  ( UK )

1981
Best of 1981

Rainer Brüninghaus, Freigeweht  ( GERMANY )
John Clark, Faces  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Randy Crawford, Secret Combination  ( USA )
Steve Eliovson, Dawn Dance  ( SOUTH AFRICA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bob James, Sign of the Times  ( USA )
Japan, Tin Drum  ( UK )
Al Jarreau, Breakin' Away  ( USA )
Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Level 42, Level 42  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1981
Maze, Live in New Orleans  ( USA )
Men at Work, Business As Usual  ( AUSTRALIA )
Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls  ( USA )
Michael Stearns, Planetary Unfolding  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Vangelis, Chariots of Fire  ( GREECE / UK )
Honourable mentions
Joanna Brouk, Healing Music  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joanna Brouk, Sounds of the Sea  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joanna Brouk, The Space Between  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Clarke/Duke Project, The Clarke/Duke Project  ( USA )
Miles Davis, The Man with the Horn  ( USA )
Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, Tin Can Alley  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Duran Duran, Duran Duran  ( UK )
Fania All Stars, Latin Connection  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Fania All Stars, Social Change  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Roberta Flack, The Best of Roberta Flack  ( USA )
Fuse One, Silk  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Egberto Gismonti & Academia de Danças, Sanfona  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Folk Songs  ( USA / NORWAY / BRAZIL )
Quincy Jones, The Dude  ( USA )
Earl Klugh, Crazy for You  ( USA )
Art Lande, David Samuels, Paul McCandless, Skylight  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Linx, Intuition  ( UK )
Linx, Go Ahead  ( UK )
Meredith Monk, Dolmen Music  ( USA )
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Megaton Dub 1  ( JAMAICA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pretenders, Pretenders II  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rush, Moving Pictures  ( CANADA )
Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette, To Be Continued  ( NORWAY / CZECHOSLOVAKIA / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Shankar, Who's to Know  ( INDIA / USA )
Spyro Gyra, Freetime  ( USA )
Andreas Vollenweider, Behind the Gardens – Behind the Wall – Under the Tree…  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Grover Washington Jr., Come Morning  ( USA )
All albums
Bryan Adams, You Want It, You Got It  ( CANADA )
The Associates, Fourth Drawer Down  ( UK )
Richard Beirach, George Mraz, Rendezvous  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Gary Burton Quartet, Easy As Pie  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Phil Collins, Face Value  ( UK )
David Darling, Cycles  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Directions: Unreleased Recordings 1960–1970  ( USA )
Thomas Demenga, Heinz Reber, Cellorganics  ( SWITZERLAND )
Brian Eno, David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts  ( UK / USA )
Jan Garbarek, Eventyr  ( NORWAY )
Genesis, Abacab  ( UK )
Egberto Gismonti, Em Família  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sven Grünberg, Hingus  ( ESTONIA )
Steven Halpern, Rings of Saturn  ( USA )
Jon Hassell, Dream Theory in Malaya (Fourth World Volume 2)  ( USA )
Imagination, Body Talk  ( UK )
INXS, Underneath the Colours  ( AUSTRALIA )
Bob James, All Around the Town  ( USA )
Bob James, Earl Klugh, Two of a Kind  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Invocations/The Moth and the Flame  ( USA )
Katrina Krimsky, Trevor Watts, Stella Maru  ( UK / USA )
New Musik, Anywhere  ( UK )
Jaco Pastorius, Word of Mouth  ( USA )
Barre Phillips, Music by...  ( USA )
Rainbow, Difficult to Cure  ( UK )
Rush, Exit… Stage Left  ( CANADA )
David Sanborn, Voyeur  ( USA )
Simple Minds, Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call  ( UK )
Sky, Sky 3  ( UK )
John Surman, The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon  ( UK )
Yukihiro Takahashi, Neuromantic  ( JAPAN )
The Teardrop Explodes, Wilder  ( UK )
Toto, Turn Back  ( USA )
Twelfth Night, Live at the Target  ( UK )
U2, October  ( IRELAND )
James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joe Walsh, There Goes the Neighbourhood  ( USA )

1982
Best of 1982

ABC, The Lexicon of Love  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1982
Brian Eno, On Land  ( UK )
Donald Fagen, The Nightfly  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1985
Haircut One Hundred, Pelican West  ( UK )
Pat Metheny Group, Offramp  ( USA )
Joni Mitchell, Wild Things Run Fast  ( CANADA )
Roxy Music, Avalon  ( UK )
Adelhard Roidinger, Schattseite  ( AUSTRIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Tibbetts, Northern Song  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hajo Weber, Ulrich Ingenbold, Winterreise  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Phil Collins, Hello, I Must Be Going!  ( UK )
Bill Evans, Eloquence  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Marvin Gaye, Midnight Love  ( USA )
Michael Jackson, Thriller  ( USA )
Level 42, The Early Tapes: July/August 1980  ( UK )
Level 42, The Pursuit of Accidents  ( UK )
Mezzoforte, Surprise Surprise  ( ICELAND )
Stefan Micus, Wings Over Water  ( GERMANY )
Mike Nock, Ondas  ( NEW ZEALAND )
Simple Minds, New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Spyro Gyra, Incognito  ( USA )
Steely Dan, Gold  ( USA )
Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie, Five Years Later  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Grover Washington Jr., The Best Is Yet to Come  ( USA )
Klaus Wiese, Sabiha Sabiya  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Satoshi Ashikawa, Wave Notation 2: Still Way  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Arrow, Hot Hot Hot  ( MONTSERRAT )
Asia, Asia  ( UK )
The Associates, Sulk  ( UK )
Bengt Berger, Bitter Funeral Beer  ( SWEDEN )
Lester Bowie, The Great Pretender  ( USA )
Brand X, Is There Anything About?  ( UK )
Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, El Corazón  ( USA )
China Crisis, Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms  ( UK )
Ornette Coleman, The Complete Science Fiction Sessions  ( USA )
John Cougar, American Fool  ( USA )
Culture Club, Kissing to Be Clever  ( UK )
Dire Straits, Love Over Gold  ( UK )
Duran Duran, Rio  ( UK )
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls  ( UK )
Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel ('Security')  ( UK )
Jan Garbarek, Paths, Prints  ( NORWAY )
Don Henley, I Can't Stand Still  ( USA )
Imagination, In the Heat of the Night  ( UK )
INXS, Shaboo Shoobah  ( AUSTRALIA )
Bob James, Hands Down  ( USA )
Mick Karn, Titles  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Lask, Lask  ( GERMANY )
Led Zeppelin, Coda  ( UK )
Men at Work, Cargo  ( AUSTRALIA )
New Musik, Warp  ( UK )
Mike Oldfield, Five Miles Out  ( UK )
The Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robert Plant, Pictures at Eleven  ( UK )
Positive Noise, Change of Heart  ( UK )
Rainbow, Straight Between the Eyes  ( UK )
Terry Riley, Descending Moonshine Dervishes  ( USA )
Rush, Signals  ( CANADA )
David Sanborn, As We Speak  ( USA )
Shakatak, Night Birds  ( USA )
Shalamar, Friends  ( USA )
Andy Summers, Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked  ( UK )
Talk Talk, The Party's Over  ( UK )
Toto, Toto IV  ( USA )
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Wave Notation 1: Music for Nine Postcards  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]

1983
Best of 1983

George Benson, In Your Eyes  ( USA )
The Blue Nile, A Walk Across the Rooftops  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1983
Brian Eno, Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks  ( UK )
Bill Frisell, In Line  ( USA )
Edgar Froese, Pinnacles  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Maze, We Are One  ( USA )
Pat Metheny Group, Travels  ( USA )
Oregon, Oregon  ( USA )
Prince Charles and the City Beat Band, Stone Killers  ( USA )
Simple Minds, Sparkle in the Rain  ( UK )
Mitsuko Uchida, Mozart: 2 Sonatas  ( JAPAN )
Honourable mentions
Brass Construction, Conversations  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bryan Adams, Cuts Like a Knife  ( CANADA )
Big Country, The Crossing  ( UK )
David Bowie, Let's Dance  ( UK )
Joanna Brouk, Golden Swan  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Clannad, Magical Ring  ( IRELAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Codona, Codona 3  ( USA / BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Cougar Mellencamp, Uh-Huh  ( USA )
Robert Cray, Bad Influence  ( USA )
Bill Evans Trio, Time Remembered  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
James Ingram, It's Your Night  ( USA )
Al Jarreau, Jarreau  ( USA )
Men at Work, Cargo  ( AUSTRALIA )
Stephan Micus, Listen to the Rain  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Van Morrison, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart  ( UK )
Werner Pirchner, Harry Pepl, Jack DeJohnette, Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Jack DeJohnette  ( AUSTRIA / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nile Rodgers, Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove  ( USA )
David Sanborn, Backstreet  ( USA )
John Surman, Karin Krog, Pierre Favre, Such Winters of Memory  ( UK / NORWAY / FRANCE )
Midori Takada, Through the Looking Glass  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
U2, War  ( IRELAND )
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Texas Flood  ( USA )
Andreas Vollenweider, Caverna Magica  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
ZZ Top, Eliminator  ( USA )
All albums
ABC, Beauty Stab  ( UK )
Asia, Alpha  ( UK )
Anita Baker, The Songstress  ( USA )
Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Lyric Suite for Sextet  ( USA )
China Crisis, Working with Fire and Steel  ( UK )
Miles Davis, Star People  ( USA )
Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Wireless  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Duran Duran, Seven and the Ragged Tiger  ( UK )
Brian Eno, More Music for Films  ( UK )
Michael Galasso, Scenes  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jan Garbarek Group, Wayfarer  ( NORWAY )
Charlie Haden, The Ballad of the Fallen  ( USA )
Hiroshima, Third Generation  ( USA )
Mark Isham, Vapor Drawings  ( USA )
Bob James, Foxie  ( USA )
Bob James, Taxi – The Genie  ( USA )
Rickie Lee Jones, Girl at Her Volcano  ( USA )
Earl Klugh, Low Ride  ( USA )
Level 42, Standing in the Light  ( UK )
Michael Mantler, Something There  ( AUSTRIA )
David Matthews, Grand Cross  ( USA )
Mental As Anything, Creatures of Leisure  ( AUSTRALIA )
Marcus Miller, Suddenly  ( USA )
Bob Moses, When Elephants Dream of Music  ( USA )
David Naegele, Dreamscapes  ( USA )
The Alan Parsons Project, Ammonia Avenue  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Pink Floyd, The Final Cut  ( UK )
Robert Plant, The Principle of Moments  ( UK )
Rainbow, Bent Out of Shape  ( UK )
R.E.M., Murmur  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pharaoh Sanders, Heart Is a Melody  ( USA )
Slayer, Show No Mercy  ( USA )
Spyro Gyra, City Kids  ( USA )
Pauline Anna Strom, Plot Zero  ( USA )
Midori Takada, Through The Looking Glass  ( JAPAN )
Tears for Fears, The Hurting  ( UK )
Vangelis, Antarctica  ( GREECE )
Joe Walsh, You Bought It – You Name It  ( USA )
Will Powers, Dancing for Mental Health  ( USA )
Jah Wobble, The Edge, Holger Czukay Snake Charmer  ( UK / IRELAND / GERMANY )
Denny Zeitlin, Charlie Haden, Time Remembers One Time Once  ( USA )

1984
Best of 1984

Carioca, Carioca  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY, DATED 1984 ]
Don Henley, Building the Perfect Beast  ( USA )
Claudio Abbado / London Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Serkin, Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 27  ( ITALY / UK / BOHEMIA )
Ozric Tentacles, Erpsongs  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa  ( ESTONIA )
Prefab Sprout, Swoon  ( UK )
Steve Roach, Structures from Silence  ( USA )
Spyro Gyra, Access All Areas  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense  ( USA )
Vangelis, Soil Festivities  ( GREECE / UK )
Honourable mentions
Bryan Adams, Reckless  ( CANADA )
Roy Ayers, In the Dark  ( USA )
David Bowie, Tonight  ( UK )
Harold Budd, Brian Eno The Pearl  ( USA / UK )
Sheila Chandra, Quiet  ( INDIA / UK )
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rattlesnakes  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Fania All Stars, Lo Qué Pide la Gente  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Gilmour, About Face  ( UK )
Al Jarreau, High Crime  ( USA )
Chaka Khan, I Feel for You  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Rejoicing  ( USA )
Pat Metheny Group, First Circle  ( USA )
Pretenders, Learning to Crawl  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sade, Diamond Life  ( UK )
David Sanborn, Straight to the Heart  ( USA )
Shankar, Vision  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Talk Talk, It's My Life  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Tibbetts, Safe Journey  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Torn, Best Laid Plans  ( USA )
Tina Turner, Private Dancer  ( USA )
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Couldn't Stand the Weather  ( USA )
Andreas Vollenweider, White Winds (Seeker's Journey)  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Roger Waters, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kenny Wheeler, Double, Double You  ( CANADA )
All albums
23 Skidoo, Urban Gamelan  ( UK )
John Abercrombie, Night  ( USA )
Aleuda, Oferenda  ( BRAZIL )
Kevin Ayers, Deià Vu  ( UK )
Nando Carneiro, Violão  ( BRAZIL )
Sheila Chandra, Out on My Own  ( INDIA / UK )
Bruce Cockburn, Stealing Fire  ( CANADA )
Dead Can Dance, Dead Can Dance  ( AUSTRALIA )
Dalis Car, The Waking Hour  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, From Her to Eternity  ( AUSTRALIA )
Miles Davis, Decoy  ( USA )
Thomas Dolby, The Flat Earth  ( UK )
Everything But the Girl, Everything But the Girl  ( UK )
Richard Elliott, Initial Approach  ( UK / USA )
Pierre Favre Ensemble, Singing Drums  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dave Holland Quintet, Jumpin' In  ( UK )
George Howard, Stepping Out  ( USA )
INXS, The Swing  ( AUSTRALIA )
Bob James, 12  ( USA )
Bob James, The Swan  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Changes  ( USA )
Howard Jones, Human's Lib  ( UK )
Rickie Lee Jones, The Magazine  ( USA )
Mark King, Influences  ( UK )
Earl Klugh, Wishful Thinking  ( USA )
Level 42, True Colours  ( UK )
Ray Lynch, Deep Breakfast  ( USA )
Hugh Masekela, Techno-Bush  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Miami Sound Machine, Eyes of Innocence  ( CUBA / USA )
Marcus Miller, Marcus Miller  ( USA )
Penguin Café Orchestra, Broadcasting from Home  ( UK )
Barre Phillips, Call Me When You Get There  ( USA )
Jane Siberry, No Borders Here  ( CANADA )
Spandau Ballet, Parade  ( UK )
Michael Stearns, M'Ocean  ( USA )
Steps Ahead, Modern Times  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Yoshio Suzuki, Morning Picture  ( JAPAN )
David Sylvian, Brilliant Trees  ( UK )
Toto, 'Dune': Original Soundtrack Recording  ( USA )
Toto, Isolation  ( USA )
Grover Washington Jr., Inside Moves  ( USA )

1985
Best of 1985

George Benson, 20/20  ( USA )
Ry Cooder, Paris Texas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  ( USA )
Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms  ( UK )
Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon  ( UK )
Bryan Ferry, Boys and Girls  ( UK )
Michael Hedges, Watching My Life Go By  ( USA )
Oregon, Crossing  ( USA )
Chris Rea, Shamrock Diaries  ( UK )
Simply Red, Picture Book  ( UK )
Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair  ( UK )
Suzanne Vega, Suzanne Vega  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
a-ha, Hunting High and Low  ( NORWAY )
Chet Baker, Paul Bley, Diane  ( USA / CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Michael Brook, Hybrid  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Roy Buchanan, When a Guitar Plays the Blues  ( USA )
Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland, Showdown!  ( USA )
John Cougar Mellencamp, Scarecrow  ( USA )
Robert Cray, False Accusations  ( USA )
Bill Frisell, Rambler  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jan Garbarek Group, It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice  ( NORWAY )
INXS, Listen Like Thieves  ( AUSTRALIA )
Grace Jones, Island Life  ( JAMAICA )
Maze, Can't Stop the Love  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, East of the Night  ( GERMANY )
Joni Mitchell, Dog Eat Dog  ( CANADA )
Simple Minds, Once Upon a Time  ( UK )
Andy Narell, Slow Motion  ( USA )
Patrick O'Hearn, Ancient Dreams  ( USA )
Prefab Sprout, Steve McQueen  ( UK )
Sade, Promise  ( UK )
Scritti Politti, Cupid & Psyche  ( UK / USA )
Shankar, Song for Everyone  ( INDIA / USA )
Spyro Gyra, Alternating Currents  ( USA )
Steely Dan, A Decade of Steely Dan  ( USA )
Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Mitsuko Uchida, Mozart: 3 Piano Sonatas  ( JAPAN )
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Soul to Soul  ( USA )
All albums
Herb Alpert, Wild Romance  ( USA )
Asia, Astra  ( UK )
David Bedford, Ursula Le Guin, Rigel 9  ( UK / USA )
Kate Bush, Hounds of Love  ( UK )
David Byrne, The Knee Plays  ( USA )
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead  ( AUSTRALIA )
Sheila Chandra, The Struggle  ( INDIA / UK )
Sheila Chandra, Nada Brahma  ( INDIA / UK )
China Crisis, Flaunt the Imperfection  ( UK )
Clan of Xymox, Clan of Xymox  ( NETHERLANDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Phil Collins, No Jacket Required  ( UK )
Miles Davis, You're Under Arrest  ( USA )
Michael Fahres, piano. harfe  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Peter Gabriel, Birdy: Music from the Film  ( UK )
Brian Gascoigne, Junior Homrich, Music from 'The Emerald Forest'  ( UK )
Egberto Gismonti, Naná Vasconcelos, Duas Vozes  ( BRAZIL )
Hiroshima, Another Place  ( USA )
George Howard, Dancing in the Sun  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Spirits  ( USA )
Earl Klugh, Night Songs  ( USA )
Earl Klugh, Soda Fountain Shuffle  ( USA )
Level 42, World Machine  ( UK )
Miami Sound Machine, Primitive Love  ( CUBA / USA )
The Alan Parsons Project, Stereotomy  ( UK )
R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction  ( USA )
Robert Plant, Shaken 'n' Stirred  ( UK )
Nile Rodgers, B-Movie Matinee  ( USA )
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Esperanto  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jane Siberry, The Speckless Sky  ( CANADA )
Smith & Erickson, Blue Skies  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Sylvian, Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities  ( UK )
Narada Michael Walden, The Nature of Things  ( USA )
Eberhard Weber, Chorus  ( GERMANY )

1986
Best of 1986

Anita Baker, Rapture  ( USA )
Wolfgang Dauner, Charlie Mariano, Meditation on a Landscape – Tagore  ( GERMANY / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Miles Davis, Tutu  ( USA )
Peter Gabriel, So  ( UK )
George Howard, A Nice Place to Be  ( USA )
Bob James, David Sanborn, Double Vision  ( USA )
Journey, Raised on Radio  ( USA )
Loose Tubes, Delightful Precipice  ( UK )
Paul Simon, Graceland  ( USA )
David Sylvian, Gone to Earth  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1986
Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Andreas Vollenweider, Down to the Moon  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wang Chung, Mosaic  ( UK )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Current Events  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Abercrombie, Don Thompson, Witchcraft  ( USA / CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
a-ha, Scoundrel Days  ( NORWAY )
China Crisis, What Price Paradise  ( UK )
Bruce Cockburn, World of Wonders  ( CANADA )
Manu Dibango, Afrijazzy  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Double Image, In Lands I Never Saw  ( USA )
Richard Elliott, Trolltown  ( UK / USA )
Fania All Stars, Viva La Chanraga  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bob James, Obsession  ( USA )
Al Jarreau, L Is for Lover  ( USA )
Marc Johnson, Bass Desires  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stanley Jordan, Standards, Vol. 1  ( USA )
John Lee Hooker, Jealous  ( USA )
Bruce Hornsby & The Range, The Way It Is  ( USA )
Neville Marriner / Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Beethoven: 'Pastoral' Symphony / Symphony No. 8  ( UK )
Gigi Masin, Wind  ( ITALY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Lyle Mays, Lyle Mays  ( USA )
Maze, Live in Los Angeles  ( USA )
Michael McDonald, Sweet Freedom  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, Ocean  ( GERMANY )
Paz, Always There  ( UK )
Courtney Pine, Journey to the Urge Within  ( UK )
Pretenders, Get Close  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Quiet Music 1  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Quiet Music 2  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Quiet Music 3  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Green  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Soundscape 1: Surround  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Kevin Ayers, As Close As You Think  ( UK )
Chet Baker, Strollin'  ( USA )
Cañoneo, Desperately Seeking Fusion  ( USA )
Randy Crawford, Abstract Emotions  ( USA )
Robert Cray, Strong Persuader  ( USA )
The Cure, Standing on a Beach  ( UK )
Jon Eberson, Stash  ( NORWAY )
Brian Eno, Desert Island Selection  ( UK )
Fine Young Cannibals, Fine Young Cannibals  ( UK )
Kenny G, Duotones  ( USA )
Motohiko Hamase, Intaglio  ( JAPAN )
Peter Michael Hamel, Organum  ( GERMANY )
Jon Hassell, Power Spot  ( USA )
Lonnie Hill, You Got Me Running  ( UK )
George Howard, Love Will Follow  ( USA )
Akira Ito, Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy)  ( JAPAN )
Earl Klugh, Life Stories  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman, Song X  ( USA )
Bill Nelson, Getting the Holy Ghost Across  ( UK )
Bill Nelson, Living for the Spangled Moment  ( UK )
The Neville Brothers, Neville-ization  ( USA )
The Oyster Band, Step Outside  ( UK )
Giles Reaves, Wunjo  ( USA )
Red Box, The Circle & the Square  ( UK )
Restless Heart, Wheels  ( USA )
Joe Satriani, Not of This Earth  ( USA )
Shankar, Caroline, The Epidemics  ( INDIA / USA )
Spyro Gyra, Breakout  ( USA )
Steve Tibbetts, Exploded View  ( USA )
Toto, Fahrenheit  ( USA )
Tina Turner, Break Every Rule  ( USA )
Miroslav Vitous, Emergence  ( CZECHOSLOVAKIA )
Steve Weisberg, I Can't Stand Another Night Alone (In Bed with You)  ( USA )
Wishful Thinking, Think Again  ( USA )
Frank Zappa, Jazz from Hell  ( USA )
Joe Zawinul, Di•a•lects  ( USA )
Hector Zazou, Reivax Au Bongo  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Zorn, The Big Gundown  ( USA )

1987
Best of 1987

Black, Wonderful Life  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Earthworks  ( UK )
The Christians, The Christians  ( UK )
Bryan Ferry, Bête Noire  ( UK )
Egberto Gismonti, Alma  ( BRAZIL )
Colin James Hay, Looking for Jack  ( UK / AUSTRALIA )
Michael Hedges, Live on the Double Planet  ( USA )
Zakir Hussain, Making Music  ( INDIA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1987
INXS, Kick  ( AUSTRALIA )
Mory Kanté, Akwaba Beach  ( GUINEA )
Salif Keita, Soro  ( MALI )
Pat Metheny Group, Still Life (Talking)  ( USA )
Van Morrison, Poetic Champions Compose  ( UK )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1991
Andy Narell, The Hammer  ( USA )
Gary Peacock, Guamba  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robbie Robertson, Robbie Robertson  ( USA )
David Torn, Cloud About Mercury  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Suzanne Vega, Solitude Standing  ( USA )
Vital Information, Global Beat  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Bhundu Boys, True Jit  ( ZIMBABWE )
Hiram Bullock, Give It What U Got  ( USA )
Ry Cooder, Get Rhythm  ( USA )
Jerry Douglas, Changing Channels  ( USA )
Heavy D, Living Large  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Mellencamp, The Lonesome Jubilee  ( USA )
Gipsy Kings, Gipsy Kings  ( FRANCE )
Neeme Järvi / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt  ( SWEDEN )
Itchy Fingers, Quark  ( UK )
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Standards Live  ( USA )
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Shaka Zulu  ( SOUTH AFRICA )
Latin Quarter, Mick and Caroline  ( UK )
Level 42, Running in the Family  ( UK )
Keiko Matsui, A Drop of Water  ( JAPAN )
Pieter Nooten, Michael Brook, Sleeps with the Fishes  ( NETHERLANDS / CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Enrico Rava, Dino Saluzzi, Volver  ( ITALY / ARGENTINA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, Western Spaces  ( USA )
Terje Rypdal & The Chasers, Blue  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Sanborn, A Change of Heart  ( USA )
Andy Sheppard, Andy Sheppard  ( UK )
Spyro Gyra, Stories Without Words  ( USA )
Sting, …Nothing Like the Sun  ( UK )
David Sylvian, Secrets of the Beehive  ( UK )
All albums
Bryan Adams, Into the Fire  ( CANADA )
Jon Astley, Everyone Loves the Pilot (Except the Crew)  ( UK )
Richard Beirach, John Abercrombie, Emerald City  ( USA )
David Bowie, Never Let Me Down  ( UK )
Deacon Blue, Raintown  ( UK )
Terence Trent D'Arby, Introducing the Hardline According To…  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, Music from Siesta  ( USA )
Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Stephan Wittwer, Red Twist & Tuned Arrow  ( SWITZERLAND )
Drum Theatre, Everyman  ( UK )
Enya, The Celts  ( IRELAND )
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, Let It Loose  ( CUBA / USA )
Eurythmics, Savage  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jan Garbarek, All Those Born with Wings  ( NORWAY )
Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, Gavin Bryars, La Nouvelle Serenité  ( USA / UK )
Jon Hassell, The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things By the Power of Sound  ( USA )
Hiroshima, Go  ( USA )
Iasos, Jeweled Space  ( USA )
Mark Isham, Art Lande, We Begin  ( USA )
Michael Jackson, Bad  ( USA )
Jazz Warriors, Out of Many, One People  ( UK )
Mick Karn, Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Richard Marx, Richard Marx  ( USA )
Thomas Lang, Scallywag Jaz  ( UK )
Claude Nougaro, Nougayork  ( FRANCE )
The Alan Parsons Project, Gaudi  ( UK )
Arvo Pärt, Arbos  ( ESTONIA )
Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason  ( UK )
The Rolling Stones, Dirty Work  ( UK )
Joe Satriani, Surfing with the Alien  ( USA )
Jane Siberry, The Walking  ( CANADA )
David Torn, Cloud About Mercury  ( USA )
Billy Joe Walker, Jr., Treehouse  ( USA )
Grover Washington Jr., Strawberry Moon  ( USA )
Norma Winstone, Somewhere Called Home  ( UK )
Jah Wobble, Psalms  ( UK )

1988
Best of 1988

Toumani Diabaté, Kaira  ( MALI )
Thomas Dolby, Aliens Ate My Buick  ( UK )
Fairground Attraction, The First of a Million Kisses  ( UK )
Bill Frisell Band, Lookout for Hope  ( USA )
Jan Garbarek, Legend of the Seven Dreams  ( NORWAY )
Ketama, Toumani Diabaté, Danny Thompson, Songhai  ( SPAIN / MALI / UK )
Adrian Legg, Guitars and Other Cathedrals  ( UK )
Love and Money, Strange Kind of Love  ( UK )
Ozric Tentacles, Sliding Gliding Worlds  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robert Plant, Now and Zen  ( UK )
Giles Reaves, Nothing Is Lost  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 1988
David Sylvian, Holger Szukay, Plight & Premonition  ( UK / GERMANY )
Was (Not Was), What Up, Dog?  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Getting There  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rod Argent, Red House  ( UK )
Black, Comedy  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kevin Braheny, The Way Home  ( USA )
Harold Budd, The White Arcades  ( USA )
Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman  ( USA )
Chick Corea Elektric Band, Eye of the Beholder  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Enya, Watermark  ( IRELAND )
Gentlemen Without Weapons, Transmissions  ( UK / USA )
Fareed Haque, Voices Rising  ( USA )
The Jeff Healey Band, See the Light  ( USA )
Trilok Gurtu, Usfret  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bruce Hornsby & The Range, Scenes from the Southside  ( USA )
Bob James, Ivory Coast  ( USA )
Loose Tubes, Open Letter  ( UK )
Paul McCandless, Heresay  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joni Mitchell, Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm  ( CANADA )
Michel Petrucciani, Michel Plays Petrucciani  ( FRANCE )
John Rutter / The Cambridge Singers, Members of the City of London Sinfonia, Fauré: Requiem and Other Choral Music  ( UK )
Sade, Stronger Than Pride  ( UK )
David Sanborn, Close Up  ( USA )
Labi Siffre, So Strong  ( UK )
Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Eberhard Weber, Orchestra  ( GERMANY )
Ben Webster, Ben Webster Plays Ballads  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kirk Whalum, And You Know That!  ( USA )
Steve Winwood, Roll With It  ( USA )
All albums
Acoustic Alchemy, Natural Elements  ( UK )
Jon Astley, The Compleat Angler  ( UK )
Kevin Ayers, Falling Up  ( UK )
Anita Baker, Giving You the Best That I Got  ( USA )
Jason Becker, Perpetual Burn  ( USA )
John Rutter / Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Fauré: Requiem and other choral music  ( UK )
The Christians, Colour  ( UK )
Richard Elliott, Power of Suggestion  ( UK / USA )
Fine Young Cannibals, The Raw and the Cooked  ( UK )
Julia Fordham, Julia Fordham  ( UK )
Kenny G, Silhouette  ( USA )
Heiner Goebbels, Heiner Müller, Tha Man in the Elevator  ( GERMANY )
The Gospel at Colonus, The Gospel at Colonus  ( USA )
Jerry Harrison, Casual Gods  ( USA )
Jon Hassell, Flash of the Spirit  ( USA )
Dave Holland Trio, Triplicate  ( UK / USA )
George Howard, Reflections  ( USA )
Mark Isham, Charlélie Couture, The Moderns: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  ( USA )
Bob James, The Scarlatti Dialogues  ( USA )
Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, Marco Kappeli, Accélération  ( SWITZERLAND )
Tod Machover, VALIS  ( USA )
Lyle Mays, Street Dreams  ( USA )
Sarah McLachlan, Touch  ( CANADA )
Pauline Oliveros, The Roots of the Moment  ( USA )
Arvo Pärt, Passio  ( ESTONIA )
Prefab Sprout, From Langley Park to Memphis  ( UK )
Spyro Gyra, Rites of Summer  ( USA )
Michael Stearns, Encounter: A Journey In The Key of Space  ( USA )
Szacksi, Sa-chi  ( HUNGARY )
Talking Heads, Naked  ( USA )
Tamia, Pierre Favre, De La Nuit... Le Jour  ( CANADA / SWITZERLAND )
Toto, The Seventh One  ( USA )
Vital Information, Fiafiaga  ( USA )
Karyn White, Karyn White  ( USA )
The Tim Whitehead Band, Decision  ( UK )

1989
Best of 1989

The Blue Nile, Hats  ( UK )
Miles Davis, Amandla  ( USA )
Don Henley, The End of the Innocence  ( USA )
John Lee Hooker, The Healer  ( USA )
Mark Isham, Tibet  ( USA )
Rickie Lee Jones, Flying Cowboys  ( USA )
Leo Kottke, My Father's Face  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, The Music of Stones  ( GERMANY )
Babatunde Olatunji, Drums of Passion: The Beat  ( NIGERIA )
Ozric Tentacles, The Bits Between the Bits  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ozric Tentacles, Pungent Effulgent  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
From the BBC TV Series 'Under African Skies'  ( BBC )
Vangelis, Themes  ( GREECE / UK )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Peter Erskine, John Abercrombie / Marc Johnson / Peter Erskine  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Anaguma, Sebastiano, Exotic Dance  ( GERMANY )
Bhundu Boys, Pamberi!  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical  ( FLY )
Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Will Lee, Peter Erskine, Reunion  ( USA )
Cante Gitano: Gypsy Flamenco from Andalucia  ( NIMBUS )
Tracy Chapman, Crossroads  ( USA )
Del Amitri, Waking Hours  ( UK )
Brian Eno, Textures  ( UK )
Gloria Estefan, Cuts Both Ways  ( CUBA / USA )
Bill Evans Trio, In His Own Way / The Köln Concert  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, The Solo Sessions, vol. 1  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
First House, Cantilena  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Giger, Chartres  ( SWITZERLAND )
Gipsy Kings, Mosaïque  ( FRANCE )
Egberto Gismonti, Dança Dos Escravos  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sylvan Grey, Recurring Dream  ( USA )
Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation 1814  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Personal Mountains  ( USA )
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Standards in Norway  ( USA )
Quincy Jones, Back on the Block  ( USA )
Richard Marx, Repeat Offender  ( USA )
Maze, Silky Soul  ( USA )
John Mellencamp, Big Daddy  ( USA )
The Mermen, Krill Slippin'  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny Group, Letter from Home  ( USA )
Andy Narell, Little Secrets  ( USA )
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis, Deep Listening  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bonnie Raitt, Nick of Time  ( USA )
Joe Satriani, Flying in a Blue Dream  ( USA )
Manfred Schoof, Rainer Brüninghaus, Shadows & Smiles  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Shankar, Nobody Told Me  ( INDIA / USA )
Shankar, M.R.C.S.  ( INDIA / USA )
Simple Minds, Street Fighting Years  ( UK )
David Sylvian, Holger Szukay, Flux and Mutability  ( UK / GERMANY )
Tears for Fears, The Seeds of Love  ( UK )
Steve Tibbetts, Big Map Idea  ( USA )
West India Company, Music from 'New Demons'  ( UK / INDIA )
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, In Step  ( USA )
Andreas Vollenweider, Dancing With the Lion  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jah Wobble, Without Judgement  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
The Beautiful South, Welcome to The Beautiful South  ( UK )
Phil Collins, …But Seriously  ( UK )
The Cure, Disintegration  ( UK )
Terence Trent D'Arby, Neither Fish Nor Flesh  ( USA )
Miles Davis, Aura  ( USA )
Hassan Erraji & Arabesque, Nikriz  ( MOROCCO )
Dean Evenson, Ocean Dreams  ( USA )
Peter Gabriel, Passion: Music for 'The Last Temptation of Christ'  ( UK )
Egberto Gismonti, Kuarup  ( BRAZIL )
Mickey Hart, Music to Be Born By  ( USA )
Toshifumi Hinata, Rhapsody in the Twilight  ( USA / JAPAN )
Hiroshima, East  ( USA )
George Howard, Personal  ( USA )
Ralph McDonald, Surprize!  ( USA )
Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes, Question and Answer  ( USA )
Marion Montgomery, Sometimes in the Night  ( USA / UK )
Monty Python, Monty Python Sings  ( UK )
Musicians of the Nile, Luxor to Isna  ( EGYPT )
Remmy Ongala, Songs for the Poor Man  ( TANZANIA )
Orquesta Revé, La Explosion Del Momento  ( CUBA )
John Patitucci, On the Corner  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Andrew Pinches, Ark  ( UK )
Sandy Prager, Figures of Speech  ( USA )
Prefab Sprout, Protest Songs  ( UK )
Bonnie Raitt, Nick of Time  ( USA )
Giles Reaves, Jon Goin, Letting Go  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Ici et Maintenant – Live Archive vol. 1  ( USA )
Terje Rypdal, The Singles Collection  ( NORWAY )
Andy Sheppard, Introductions in the Dark  ( UK )
Andy Sheppard, Soft on the Inside  ( UK )
Jane Siberry, Bound by the Beauty  ( CANADA )
Spyro Gyra, Point of View  ( USA )
John Tesh, Garden City  ( USA )
Tuck & Patti, Tears of Joy  ( USA )
Tina Turner, Foreign Affair  ( USA )
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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.

2000
Best of 2000

Bohren & der Club of Gore, Sunset Mission  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gotan Project, La Revancha del Tango  ( ARGENTINA / FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ronu Majumdar, Ry Cooder, Jon Hassell, Abhijit Banerjee, Hollow Bamboo  ( INDIA / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
A Silver Mt. Zion, He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tribal Tech, Rocket Science  ( USA )
Gianluigi Trovesi, Gianni Coscia, In cerca di cibo  ( ITALY )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Cat 'n' Mouse  ( USA )
Joseph Arthur, Come to Where I'm From  ( USA )
Anouar Brahem, Astrakan Café  ( TUNISIA )
Harold Budd, The Room  ( USA )
Brian Eno, Music for Civic Recovery Centre  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Antonio Forcione, Live!  ( ITALY )
Bill Frisell, Ghost Town  ( USA )
Paul Giger, Ignis  ( SWITZERLAND )
Trilok Gurtu, African Fantasy  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Healer, WonderGround  ( SWEDEN )
Don Henley, Inside Job  ( USA )
Jan Kåre Hystad, Café Hysen Noir  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Whisper Not  ( USA )
Mark King, Grupo Mark King Live on the Isle of Wight 2000  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Silencio  ( LATVIA / GERMANY )
Lyle Mays, Solo Improvisations for Expanded Piano  ( USA )
Iarla Ó Lionáird, I Could Read the Sky  ( IRELAND )
Nils Petter Molvær, Solid Ether  ( NORWAY )
Quaternaglia, Forrobodó  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ernest Ranglin, Modern Answers to Old Problems  ( JAMAICA )
Sade, Lovers Rock  ( UK )
Joe Satriani, Engines of Creation  ( USA )
Klaus Schulze, The Crime of Suspense (Contemporary Works I #2)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, Privée (Contemporary Works I #4)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, Ballett 2 (Contemporary Works I #7)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, Ballett 3 (Contemporary Works I #8)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, The Cello (Ultimate Edition #49)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Spiritual Beggars, Ad Astra  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ben Webster and His Quartet, Wayfaring Webster  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Joseph Arthur, Come to Where I'm From  ( USA )
Paul Bley, Evan Parker, Barre Phillips, Sankt Gerold  ( CANADA / USA )
Thom Brennan, Mist  ( USA )
Joey Calderazzo, Joey Calderazzo  ( USA )
Dubcall, Dubcall  ( ? )
En Vogue, Masterpiece Theatre  ( USA )
Peter Gabriel, OVO  ( UK )
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mathias Grassow, Cosmic Chasm  ( GERMANY )
Mathias Grassow, The Fragrance of Eternal Roses  ( GERMANY )
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Sigur Rós, Angels of the Universe  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jetone, Autumnmonia  ( USA )
Terje Rypdal, Double Concerto / Symphony No. 5  ( NORWAY )
Klaus Schulze, Vanity of Sounds (Contemporary Works I #1)  ( GERMANY )
Klaus Schulze, Trance 4 Motion (Contemporary Works I #3)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, Ballett 1 (Contemporary Works I #6)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jane Siberry, Hush  ( CANADA )
Solar Moon, Docking (Contemporary Works I #5)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal, Karta  ( GERMANY / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tarahumara, Mama Shungo  ( PERU )
Tosca, Suzuki  ( AUSTRIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Rodney Waterman, Doug de Vries, Água E Vinho  ( AUSTRALIA )
Susumu Yokota, Sakura  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]

2001
Best of 2001

Susanne Abbuehl, April  ( SWITZERLAND / NETHERLANDS )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Creed, Weathered  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2002
Colin Hay, Going Somewhere  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Asche & Spencer, Monster's Ball: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Sleep Research Facility, Nostromo  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ralph Towner, Anthem  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
Eivind Aarset, Light Extracts  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Purple Electric Violin Concerto 2  ( UK )
Afro Celt Sound System, Volume 3: Further in Time  ( IRELAND / WEST AFRICA )
Boozoo Bajou, Satta  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Marc Copland, John Abercrombie, Kenny Wheeler, That's for Sure  ( USA / CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Trilok Gurtu, The Beat of Love  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charlie Haden, Egberto Gismonti, In Montreal  ( USA / BRAZIL )
Dave Holland Quintet, Not for Nothin'  ( UK )
Jaya the Cat, Basement Style  ( USA / HOLLAND )  [ LAST FM ]
Jan Jelinek, Loop Finding Jazz Records  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Diana Krall, The Look of Love  ( CANADA )
Charles Lloyd, Hyperion with Higgins  ( USA )
The Dave Matthews Band, Everyday  ( USA )
Stephan Micus, Desert Poems  ( GERMANY )
Marcus Miller,  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Morelebaum², Ryuichi Sakamoto, Casa  ( BRAZIL / JAPAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Patrick O'Hearn, So Flows the Current  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Oöphoi, Mare Tranquillitatis  ( ITALY )  [ LAST FM ]
Peppercorn, Free Love  ( UK )
Claudio Puntin, Gerður Gunnarsdóttir, Ýlir  ( ICELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Giles Reaves, Sacred Space  ( USA )
Giles Reaves, Aashid Himons, The Deep End  ( USA )
Eberhard Weber, Endless Days  ( GERMANY )
Alex Wilson, Afro Saxon  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jah Wobble, Bill Laswell, Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Zero 7, Simple Things  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
The Album Leaf, One Day I'll Be on Time  ( USA )
Tori Amos, Strange Little Girls  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Misha Alperin, At Home  ( UKRAINE )
Blue Funk  ( BLUE NOTE )
F. S. Blumm, Mondkuchen  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bonobo, Animal Magic  ( UK )
Thom Brennan, The Secret Faiths of Salamanders  ( USA )
Thom Brennan, Vibrant Water  ( USA )
The Crystal Method, Tweekend  ( USA )
Jon Eberson, Carl Morten Iversen, Jazz for Men  ( NORWAY )
Fennesz, Endless Summer  ( AUSTRIA )
Bill Frisell, Dave Holland, Elvin Jones, Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones  ( USA / UK )
Bill Frisell, Blues Dream  ( USA )
Tim Hecker, Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again  ( CANADA )
Anders Jormin, Xieyi  ( SWEDEN )
Liquid Laughter Lounge Quartet, Liquid Laughter Lounge Quartet  ( GERMANY )
Jesse Manno, Opium  ( USA )
Monolake, Cinemascope  ( GERMANY )
Giles Reaves, Kaleida Visions  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Bestiary  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Somnium  ( USA )
Nitin Sawhney, Prophesy  ( INDIA / UK )
Skindive, Skindive  ( IRELAND )  [ LAST FM ]
Michael Stearns, The Storm  ( USA )
John Zorn, The Gift  ( USA )

2002
Best of 2002

Anouar Brahem, Le Pas du Chat Noir  ( TUNISIA )
Norah Jones, Come Away with Me  ( USA )
Cliff Martinez, Solaris  ( USA )
Klaus Schulze, Cocooning (Contemporary Works II #5)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Toto, Through the Looking Glass  ( USA )
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie, Cat 'n' Mouse  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tori Amos, Scarlet's Walk  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Joseph Arthur, Redemption's Son  ( USA )
Chet Baker, Sentimental Walk in Paris  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Biosphere, Shenzhou  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Bowie, Heathen  ( UK )
Thom Brennan, Satori  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Calling, Camino Palmero  ( USA )
The Caretaker, A Stairway to the Stars  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head  ( UK )
Charles Lloyd, Lift Every Voice  ( USA )
Marilyn Mazur, All the Birds: Reflecting + Adventurous  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Medeski, Martin and Wood, Uninvisible  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nils Petter Molvær, np3  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vrioon  ( GERMANY / JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Strata  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Steve Roach, Streams & Currents  ( USA )
Yves Robert, In Touch  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Klaus Schulze, Another Green Mile (Contemporary Works II #3)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tomasz Stanko, Soul of Things  ( POLAND )
David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Damage  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Underworld, A Hundred Days Off  ( UK )
Cassandra Wilson, Belly of the Sun  ( USA )
Susumu Yokota, The Boy and the Tree  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Zorn, Filmworks XII: 2002, Volume Two: Three Documentaries  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Altus, Winter Embrace  ( CANADA )  [ ALTUS ]
Nik Bärtsch, Hishiryo  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
William Basinski, The Disintegration Loops  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tim Berne, Science Friction  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Eraldo Bernocchi, Bill Laswell, Toshinoro Kondo, Charged Live  ( ITALY / USA / JAPAN )
Biffy Clyro, Blackened Sky  ( UK )
Boards of Canada, Geogaddi  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bonobo, Sweetness  ( UK )
Congo to Cuba  ( PUTAMAYO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ekkehard Ehlers, Plays  ( GERMANY )
Scott Fisher, Fleeing Towards Creation  ( USA )
Gasoline, A Journey Into Abstract Hip-Hop  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tim Hecker, Trade Winds, White Noise  ( CANADA )
Terje Isungset, Iceman Is  ( NORWAY )
Missa Johnouchi, Kurenai  ( JAPAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny Group, Speaking of Now  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moby, 18  ( USA )
Oöphoi, Athlit  ( ITALY )
Augustus Pablo, The Very Best of Augustus Pablo  ( JAMAICA )
Craig Padilla, Vostok  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Cowell Theater – Live Archive vol. 5  ( USA )
Rivulets, Thank You Reykjavik  ( USA )
Roswell: Original Television Soundtrack  ( NETTWERK )
Rough Guide to the Music of the Himalayas  ( ROUGH GUIDES )
Terje Rypdal, Lux Aeterna  ( NORWAY )
Terje Rypdal, Birgitte Stærnes, Sonata Op. 73 / Nimbus Op. 76  ( NORWAY )
Klaus Schulze, Virtual Outback (Contemporary Works II #1)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, Timbres of Ice (Contemporary Works II #2)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Schulze, Androgyn (Contemporary Works II #4)  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Surman, Apartment # 5C (Soundtrack)  ( UK )
John Surman, Jack DeJohnette, Invisible Nature  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Terra Ambient, The Darker Space  ( USA )
Steve Tibbetts, A Man About a Horse  ( USA )
Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto, Fugace  ( ITALY )
The White Birch, Star Is Just a Sun  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kenji Williams, EPIC  ( USA )

2003
Best of 2003

Bruce Cockburn, You've Never Seen Everything  ( CANADA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2003
Ghazal, The Rain  ( IRAN / INDIA )
Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Seven Days of Falling  ( SWEDEN )
Honourable mentions
Oleta Adams, Evolution  ( USA )
Ana Maria, Trago Fado Nos Sentidos  ( PORTUGAL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
William Basinski, Melancholia  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Thom Brennan, Signals in Moonlight  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dave Brubeck, The Essential Dave Brubeck  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Cambodian Rocks Vol. 1  ( KHMER ROCKS )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Capercaillie, Choice Language  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Hydroponic Garden  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
The Caretaker, We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
David Darling, Open Window  ( USA )
Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Side of the Moon  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Evans Trio, Live in London 1965  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
John Foxx, Harold Budd, Translucence + Drift Music  ( UK / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Frisell, The Intercontinentals  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tommy Guerrero, Soul Food Taquiera  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robin Guthrie, Imperial  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Colin Hay, Man @ Work  ( AUSTRALIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
InMe, Overgrown Eden  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keith Jarrett Trio, Up for It  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Barbara Leoni, Human Needs  ( USA )
Linkin Park, Meteora  ( USA )
Rivulets, Debridement  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Space and Time  ( USA )
Runrig, Proterra  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dino Saluzzi, Responsorium  ( ARGENTINA )
Seal, Seal IV  ( UK )
Steely Dan, Everything Must Go  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Taylor, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron Rosslyn  ( UK / USA )
Miroslav Vitous, Universal Syncopations  ( CZECHOSLOVAKIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Klaus Wiese, Jim Cole, Plejades  ( GERMANY / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Batagraf, Jon Balke, Statements  ( NORWAY )
William Basinski, Watermusic II  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jason Becker, The Blackberry Jams  ( USA )
Bonobo, Dial 'M' for Monkey  ( UK )
David Bowie, Reality  ( UK )
Harold Budd, La Bella Vista  ( USA )
Adam Certamen Bownik, Elmania Live 2003  ( POLAND )
Chimerical Child, Faceless Foreigner  ( GERMANY )  [ SOUNDCLOUD ]
Hans Christian, Surrender  ( USA )
Myles Cochran, Marginal Street  ( USA )  [ LAST FM ]
Cold Sun, 6am  ( UK )
Max Corbacho, Nocturnal Emanations  ( SPAIN )
The Darkness, Permission to Land  ( UK )
Jack DeJohnette, Music in the Key of Om  ( USA )
Jon Eberson, Carl Morten Iversen, Standards  ( NORWAY )
Electric Frankenstein, The Time Is Now  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Emma's Mini, Beat Generation Mad Trick  ( USA )
Péter Eötvös, Elliott Carter, Paul Griffiths: What Next?  ( HUNGARY )
Escape Philosophy, Brood XIV  ( USA )
Evanescence, Fallen  ( USA )
Falik, Streaks and Strokes  ( USA )
Paul Giger, Vindonissa  ( SWITZERLAND )
Tord Gustavsen Trio, Changing Places  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jay Kishor, Amber  ( INDIA / USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Jay Kishor, The Color of Night  ( INDIA / USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Mike Lindup, Conversations with Silence  ( UK )
Loop Guru, Bathtime with Loop Guru  ( UK )
Katie Melua, Call Off the Search  ( GEORGIA / UK )
Monoide, Zeitpunkt  ( SLOVAKIA )
Oöphoi, The Dreams of Shells  ( ITALY )
Tom Paul, There Is No Map  ( USA )
Plumbline, Circles  ( USA )
Tim Rayborn, Ashek  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Calling Down the Sky  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Temple of the Invisible  ( USA )
Louis Sclavis, Napoli's Walls  ( FRANCE )
Solace, Ahsas  ( USA )
Bobo Stenson, Lennart Åberg, Bobo Stenson/Lennart Åberg  ( SWEDEN )
Ehren Starks, The Depths of a Year  ( USA )
John Surman, Free and Equal  ( UK )
David Sylvian, Blemish  ( UK )
Verbose, Observe  ( UK )
Williamson, A Few Things To Hear Before We All Blow Up  ( USA )  [ JAMENDO ]
Zilla, Egg  ( USA )

2004
Best of 2004

Akataka, Akataka  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2006
Alter Bridge, One Day Remains  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2004
Electrocutango, Felino  ( NORWAY )
Keane, Hopes and Fears  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Viktor Krauss, Far from Enough  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2014
Anja Lechner, Vassilis Tsabropopoulos Gurdjieff / Tsabropopoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances  ( GERMANY / GREECE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Petter Molvær, Streamer  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Snow Patrol, Final Straw  ( UK )
Trio Mediaeval, Soir, dit-elle  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kenji Williams, Worldspirit Soundtrack  ( USA )  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2009
Honourable mentions
The Blue Nile, High  ( UK )
The Crystal Method, Legion of Boom  ( USA )
Deru, Trying to Remember  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jan Garbarek, In Praise of Dreams  ( NORWAY )
Lisa Gerrard, Patrick Cassidy Immortal Memory  ( AUSTRALIA / IRELAND )
Mathias Grassow, Dharma  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd, Mysterious Skin: Music from the Film  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Healer, HigherGrounds  ( SWEDEN )
Ivilion, III  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Enrico Rava, Easy Living  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Rivulets, You've Got Your Own  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jacob Young, Evening Falls  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Zero 7, When It Falls  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tapper Zukie, Cork & Tar  ( JAMAICA / UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
The Album Leaf, In a Safe Place  ( USA )
Amethystium, Evermind  ( NORWAY )
Arild Andersen, Vasilis Tsabropoulos, John Marshall The Triangle  ( NORWAY )
Anita Baker, My Everything  ( USA )
William Basinski, Silent Night  ( USA )
J. J. Cale, To Tulsa and Back  ( USA )
The Calling, II  ( USA )
Lanna Commins, Lanna Commins  ( THAILAND )
Dr. Kuch, Analog Disease  ( FRANCE )
Endorphine, Prig-Chili  ( THAILAND )
En Vogue, Soul Flower  ( USA )
Etherine, Gleam  ( USA )
Etherine, 24 Days  ( USA )
Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand  ( UK )
Hughes, Rive  ( USA )
Egberto Gismonti, Retratos  ( BRAZIL )
Jade Leary, The Lost Art of Human Kindness  ( CANADA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Jag, Pretty Girl Blues  ( USA )
Jamie Janover, All Strings Considered  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Jamie Janover, Now, Center of Time  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Norah Jones, Feels Like Home  ( USA )
Anders Jormin, In Winds, In Light  ( SWEDEN )
Loscil, First Narrows  ( CANADA )
Steve Kuhn, with Strings, Promises Kept  ( USA )
John McLaughlin, Guitar & Bass  ( UK )
Pan-American, Quiet City  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Psychetropic, China Radio Sunshine  ( USA )
The RajDhani Quartet, The Ghandi Memorial Concert  ( INDIA )
Leann Rimes, The Best of Leann Rimes  ( USA )
Joe Satriani, Is There Love in Space?  ( USA )
Joe Satriani, The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology  ( USA )
Sleep Research Facility, Dead Weather Machine  ( UK )
The Talking Dog, Hard Dubs for Troubled Times  ( UK )
Terra Ambient, The Gate  ( USA )
TouchingGrace, Happenstance  ( INDIA / USA )
TouchingGrace, Panacea  ( INDIA / USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
TouchingGrace, The Reformation Sessions  ( INDIA / USA )
TouchingGrace, Submission  ( INDIA / USA )
Version, Versions  ( USA )
The West Exit, Nocturne  ( USA )
World Fusion  ( MAGNATUNE )
ZerO One, Psy-Fi  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]

2005
Best of 2005

Asche & Spencer, Stay (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Falling You, Touch  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2005
Silvia Iriondo, Tierra Que Anda  ( ARGENTINA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thelonious Monk Quartet, John Coltrane, At Carnegie Hall  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Możdżer Danielsson Fresco, The Time  ( POLAND / SWEDEN / ISRAEL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Patrick O'Hearn, Slow Time  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Enrico Rava, Tati  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, In the Heart of the Moon  ( MALI )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
The Album Leaf, The Seal Beach EP  ( USA )  [ LAST FM ]
Tori Amos, The Beekeeper  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Arild Andersen Group, Electra  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chamberlaineduartefidelis, Êxodo  ( BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cyminology, Per Se  ( GERMANY / IRAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Andrey Dergatchev, The Return  ( RUSSIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Fat Freddy's Drop, Based on a True Story  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, The Equatorial Stars  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Galasso, High Lines  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tord Gustavsen Trio, The Ground  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
InMe, White Butterfly  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marc Johnson, Shades of Jade  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bruce Kaphan, Slider – Ambient Excursions for Pedal Steel Guitar  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robert Miles, Trilok Gurtu, Miles Gurtu  ( ITALY / INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Moby, Hotel Ambient  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Motian, I Have the Room Above Her  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nine Horses, Snow Borne Sorrow  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Insen  ( GERMANY / JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dino Saluzzi, Senderos  ( ARGENTINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sigur Rós, Takk…  ( ICELAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ferenc Snétburger Trio, Nomad  ( HUNGARY / NORWAY / ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Scott Stapp, The Great Divide  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bobo Stenson, Goodbye  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz, Trio  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Amadou & Mariam, Dimanche à Bamako  ( MALI )
Anamar, Transfado  ( PORTUGAL )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Paul Avgerinos, Phos Hilaron  ( USA )
Bardoseneticcube, Deadhead  ( RUSSIA )
Between Interval, Secret Observatory  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thom Brennan, Silver  ( USA )
Cisfinitum, Bezdna  ( RUSSIA )
Tom Cochrane, Hang On to Your Resistance (The Early Years)  ( CANADA )
DJ Markitos, Unreachable Destiny  ( UK )
Domased, Selection  ( SLOVAKIA )
Eluvium, Talk Amongst the Trees  ( USA )
Enya, Amarantine  ( IRELAND )
Scott Fisher, Scott Fisher  ( USA )
Four Stones, La Vie Chill  ( USA )
Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better  ( UK )
Gravenhurst, Fires in Distant Buildings  ( UK )
Barry Guy, Folio  ( UK )
Hammock, Kenotic  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Iro Haarla, Northbound  ( FINLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hiroshima, Obon  ( USA )
KLUtCh, Bugs Eat My Dreams  ( RUSSIA )
Little Milton, Think of Me  ( USA )
Last Harbour, Hold Fast, Pioneer  ( UK )
Maps and Diagrams / Verbose, Split  ( UK )
John McLaughlin, My Goal's Beyond  ( UK )
Mijo, Fata Morgana  ( GERMANY )
Mr Haze Dub Project, Soul Roots  ( FRANCE )
Matti Paalanen, Warehouse of Distant Dreams  ( FINLAND )
John Petrucci, Suspended Animation  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Deva Premal, Dakshina  ( INDIA )
Robert Rich, Echo of Small Things  ( USA )
Satori, For Relaxation  ( UKRAINE )
Satori, Journey to Other Worlds  ( UKRAINE )
Nitin Sawhney, Beyond Skin  ( INDIA / UK )
David Schombert, Quiet Life, vol. 1  ( FRANCE )
Sebrider, Heaven and Sea  ( FRANCE )
Sek Loso, The Collection  ( THAILAND )
Solar Cycle, Sunlight  ( UK )
Suzanne Teng, Mystic Journey  ( USA )
TVset Under Repair, Cosmoportable  ( UKRAINE )
Naná Vasconcelos, Chegada  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bernard Wystraëte & Group, Strawa No Sertão  ( FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Soft Wave For Automatic Music Box  ( JAPAN )
John Zorn, Filmworks XV: Protocols of Zion  ( USA )

2006
Best of 2006

The Album Leaf, Into the Blue Again  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Music for 'Fragments from the Inside'  ( ITALY / USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
BT, This Binary Universe  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2007
Lars Danielsson, Mélange Bleu  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bill Evans, Complete Live at Ronnie Scott's 1980  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Viktor Krauss, Viktor Krauss II  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paolo Nutini, These Streets  ( UK )
Snow Patrol, Eyes Open  ( UK )
Honourable mentions
Håkon Austbø, Gymnopédies Gnossiennes Sarabandes  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Stoa  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Black Merda, The Psych Funk of Black Merda  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
James Blackshaw, Waking Into Sleep: Göteborg 27.05.06  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bonobo, Days to Come  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Anouar Brahem, Le Voyage de Sahar  ( TUNISIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Burning Babylon, Knives to the Treble  ( USA )
Carbon Based Lifeforms, World of Sleepers  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bruce Cockburn, Life Short Call Now  ( CANADA )
François Couturier, Nostalghia – Song for Tarkovsky  ( FRANCE )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Donald Fagen, Morph the Cat  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Falling You, Human  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
David Gilmour, On an Island  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hammock, Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hammock, The Sleepover Series, vol. 1  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mark Isham, Pure Mark Isham  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Kalpataru Tree, Slipped Through the Cracks  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Kene Busma, Dub  ( FRANCE )  [ INTERNET ARCHIVE ]
Level 42, Retroglide  ( UK )
Rolf Lislevand, Nuove Musiche  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Eric Harland, Sangam  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Manchester Orchestra, I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Everything's Gonna Be Alright  ( JAMAICA )
John McLaughlin, Industrial Zen  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dino Saluzzi Group, Juan Condori  ( ARGENTINA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Joe Satriani, Super Colossal  ( USA )
Giacinto Scelsi, Natura Renovatur  ( ITALY )
Justin Timberlake, Futuresex/Love Sounds  ( USA )
Trentemøller, The Last Resort  ( DENMARK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
The Abogix (J.K.), Signs  ( HOLLAND )
Air, Pocket Symphony  ( FRANCE )
Misha Alperin, Her First Dance  ( UKRAINE )
Altus, The Wanderer  ( CANADA )  [ ALTUS ]
Ambient Teknology, The All Seeing Eye Project  ( UK )
A Scanner Darkly, A Scanner Darkly  ( USA )
Bardoseneticcube, Bad Heaven  ( RUSSIA )
Between Interval, Autumn Continent  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Justin Bianco, Phoenix  ( USA )
Biosphere, Dropsonde  ( NORWAY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
J. J. Cale, Eric Clapton, The Road to Escondido  ( USA / UK )
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Floating Weeds  ( USA )
Caspian, The Silent Ballet: Volume 1  ( USA )
Cordel do Fogo Encantado, Transfiguração  ( BRAZIL )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Brian Eno, Beyond Even (1992-2006)  ( UK )
Five Star Fall, Automatic Ordinary  ( CANADA )
Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better  ( UK )
Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Beyond Even (1992–2006)  ( UK )
Gifts from Enola, Loyal Eyes Betray the Mind  ( USA )
The Headroom Project, Apa Ya  ( GERMANY )
E.L. Heath, Reflecting  ( UK )
Idol Tryouts Two,  ( GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL )
David Julyan, The Prestige  ( USA )
Shira Kammen, Mistral  ( USA )
King Dubby, 1st Dubs  ( FRANCE )  [ JAMENDO ]
Klimek, Music to Fall Asleep  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Kokoon, Berlin  ( GERMANY )
Brannan Lane, Answer the Sky  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Liquid Zen, Seventythree  ( USA )
Loop Guru, Elderberry Shiftglass  ( UK )
Loscil, Stases  ( CANADA )  [ INTERNET ARCHIVE ]
Loscil, Plume  ( CANADA )
Philippe Mangold, Voyage dans l'ether  ( FRANCE )
Nicolas Masson, Yellow (A Little Orange)  ( SWITZERLAND )  
Mogwai, Mr. Beast  ( UK )  [ LAST FM ]
Matti Paalanen, Hollow  ( FINLAND )
Javier Perianes, Frederic Mompou: Música Callada  ( SPAIN )
Project Divinity, Divinity  ( FINLAND )
Rasa, Shelter  ( USA )
Terje Rypdal, Vossabrygg  ( NORWAY )
Rasa, Shelter  ( USA )
Joe Satriani, Super Colossal  ( USA )
The Seldon Plan, Making Circles  ( USA )
SETI, Quagmires  ( USA )
South by Southwest  ( MAGNATUNE )
Space Weirdo, Cosmonaut  ( SPAIN )  [ INTERNET ARCHIVE ]
Strojovna 07, Switch On – Switch Off  ( SLOVAKIA )
Stephen Stubbs, Teatro Lirico  ( USA )
Tryad, Listen  ( USA )
V/Vm, The Death of Rave  ( UK )
Yongen, Moonrise  ( UK )
Thom Yorke, The Eraser  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thom Yorke, Spitting Feathers  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Flora 1987  ( JAPAN )
John Zorn, The Cracow Klezmer Band, Balan: Book of Angels Volume 5  ( USA / POLAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]

2007
Best of 2007

Eivind Aarset, Sonic Codex  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ty Burhoe, Invocation  ( USA )
Christian Fennesz, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cendre  ( AUSTRIA / JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sleep Research Facility, Deep Frieze  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Stars of the Lid, And Their Refinement of the Decline  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Stars of the Lid, Carte de Visite  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Honourable mentions
Alter Bridge, Blackbird  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Balmorhea, Rivers Arms  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Between Interval, Radio Silence  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Wolfert Brederode Quartet, Currents  ( NETHERLANDS / SWITZERLAND / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Michael Brook, BellCurve  ( CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Chronos, Steps to the Great Knowledge  ( RUSSIA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Antonio Sanchez, Dr. Joe  ( USA / MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dave Fulton, Giles Reaves, The Range  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tord Gustavsen Trio, Being There  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd, Before the Day Breaks  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd, After the Night Falls  ( UK / USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Laura Inserra, Hang  ( ITALY )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Gregory Alan Isakov, That Sea, the Gambler  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Sven Kacirek, The Palmin Sessions  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Kalpataru Tree, Scattered Fragments of the Eternal Dream  ( USA )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin, Asturiana: Songs from Spain and Argentina  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Toshinoro Kondo, Silent Melodies  ( JAPAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Macroform, Barren Tree  ( USA )
Macroform, Eclipsed  ( USA )
Macroform, Letting Yourself Go  ( USA )  [ LAST FM ]
Macroform, Your Heart Is a Transceiver  ( USA )  [ JAMENDO ]
Pablo Márquez, Luys de Narváez: Música del Delphin  ( ARGENTINA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Andy Middleton, Nomad's Notebook  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marcus Miller, Free  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Motian, Time and Time Again  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Murcof, Cosmos  ( MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nine Horses, Money for All  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Oregon, 1000 Kilometers  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, The Third Man  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Paul Rose, Promises  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Klaus Schulze, Kontinuum  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Eddie Vedder, Into the Wild  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, The Zoo Is Far  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
All albums
Apparat, Walls  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Kevin Ayers, Unfairground  ( UK )
Jon Balke, Book of Velocities  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bardoseneticcube, Naegleria Fowlery  ( RUSSIA )
Blue Stone, Worlds Apart  ( USA )
David Darling, Chungliang Al Huang, The Tao of Poetry  ( USA / CHINA )
DJ Bouly, 4:00  ( FRANCE )
DJ Bouly, The Revolution of Fluff  ( FRANCE )
DJ Zentao, The Village in the Valley  ( FRANCE )
Chris Cornell, Carry On  ( USA )
DAC Crowell, Within This Space  ( USA )
Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Djoss, B-Sound  ( FRANCE )
Doc, Nangilima  ( FINLAND )
Tinsley Ellis, Moment of Truth  ( USA )
Newton Faulkner, Hand Built By Robots  ( UK )
John Fogerty, Revival  ( USA )
Fortadelis, Fortadelis  ( CROATIA )
Gardens From Light, Birds of Joy and Sorrow, Vol. 1  ( UK )  [ RESTING BELL ]
Gardens From Light, Birds of Joy and Sorrow, Vol. 2  ( UK )  [ RESTING BELL ]
The Glimmer Room, Now We Are Six  ( UK )
Glissando, Loves Are Like Empires  ( UK )  [ LAST FM ]
Trilok Gurtu, Arkè String Quartet, Arkeology  ( INDIA / ITALY )
The Guv'nors, Live at Ealing Studios  ( UK )
John Holowach, Elements  ( USA )
Iasos, Javanese Dream Bells  ( USA )
Swivel Neck Jones, Deep Life  ( USA )
JT25, The Darkstep  ( FRANCE )
Just in Space, Galaxy  ( FRANCE )
Nawang Kechong, Tibetan Meditation Music  ( TIBET )
Konntinent, Analog Skyline  ( UK )
Konntinent, All Lines Lead In EP  ( UK )
Sinikka Langeland, Starflowers  ( NORWAY )
Macroform, Eclipsed  ( USA )
Mechanoflora, Hues of Sound  ( USA )
MGR, Nova Lux  ( UNKNOWN )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Music for the Minority, Ambient  ( ITALY )
Mystery, Darkness is Coming  ( FRANCE )
Pack 4, Pack 4  ( THAILAND )
pg.lost, Yes I Am EP  ( USA )
QLHead, Metamorphosis  ( POLAND )
Tim Rayborn, Rihla  ( USA )
Rejuvenessence, Dreamscapes  ( USA )
Robert Rich, Open Window  ( USA )
Riddimperialism, Before the Invasion  ( FRANCE )
Rildrim, The Lonely Wizard  ( SPAIN )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Steve Roach, Immersion: Three  ( USA )
C.J. Rogers, Neon Lights  ( LUXEMBOURG )
Roots of Rebellion, Surfacing  ( USA )
Ruined Machines, The Grasping Hands of Possibility  ( USA )
SaReGaMa, 4D Reality  ( ISRAEL )
SaReGaMa, Bodhi Tree  ( ISRAEL )
SaReGaMa, Spirits of Ancestors  ( ISRAEL )
Seal, System  ( UK )
Aleksandr Shubin, First  ( RUSSIA )
Aleksandr Shubin, Second  ( RUSSIA )
Sigur Ros, Hvarf/Heim  ( ICELAND )
Silly Fools, Silly Fools  ( THAILAND )
Stidiek, Feelms  ( SPAIN )
Strange Space, Road  ( POLAND )  [ JAMENDO ]
Sundowner, Sundowner  ( UK )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
David Sylvian, When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Uberlulu, Espace, Temps, Esotérisme & Compagnie  ( HAITI )
Verbose, Wonder  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Eberhard Weber, Stages of a Long Journey  ( GERMANY )
WhiteRoom, WhiteRoom  ( CANADA )  [ JAMENDO ]
Taya Wooden, Mone Zion  ( IVORY COAST )
Zentriert in Antlitz, Diametral  ( GERMANY )

2008
Best of 2008

Bar Kokhba Sextet, Lucifer: Book of Angels Vol 10  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Walter Becker, Circus Money  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Harold Budd, Clive Wright, A Song for Lost Blossoms  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Toumani Diabaté, The Mandé Variations  ( MALI )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Glissando, With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea  ( UK )
Arve Henriksen, Cartography  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]  FAVOURITE ALBUM OF THE YEAR, 2018
Marilyn Mazur, Jan Garbarek, Elixir  ( DENMARK / NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Marcin Wasilewski Trio, January  ( POLAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
Jeff Beck, Performing This Week… Live at Ronnie Scott's  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Holon  ( SWITZERLAND )
Bohren & der Club of Gore, Dolores  ( GERMANY )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Codona, The Codona Trilogy  ( USA / BRAZIL )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Avishai Cohen Trio, Gently Disturbed  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Dengue Fever, Venus on Earth  ( CAMBODIA / USA )
Escape Philosophy, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty  ( USA )
Escape Philosophy, Brood XIV  ( USA )
Falling You, Faith  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Bill Frisell, History, Mystery  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Hammock, Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Benedikt Jahnel Trio, Modular Concepts  ( GERMANY / SPAIN / CANADA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Keane, Perfect Symmetry  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Garth Knox, Agnès Vesterman D'Amore  ( IRELAND / FRANCE )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Jason Lindner, Now Vs. Now  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mara and David, Sixteen Secrets  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John McLaughlin, Floating Point  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
The Sound Defects, The Iron Horse  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bobo Stenson Trio, Cantando  ( SWEDEN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Thievery Corporation, Radio Retaliation  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Tor.Ma, Big Blue Story  ( MEXICO )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Twilight Archive, Ritual Fiction  ( USA )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
Jacob Young, Sideways  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hector Zazou, Swara, In the House of Mirrors  ( FRANCE / INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
John Zorn, The Dreamers  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
All albums
Adebisi Shank, This Is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank  ( IRELAND )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Abyssal Plains, Pictures in Sound  ( UK )
Astral Light, Quintessence  ( CROATIA )
Avanea, Solaris  ( FRANCE )
Jason Becker, Collection  ( USA )
Justin Bianco, Nocturnum  ( USA )
Ketil Bjørnstad, Terje Rypdal, Life in Leipzig  ( NORWAY )
Thom Brennan, Stories from the Forest  ( USA )
J.T. Bruce, Universica  ( USA )
Hans Christian, Sancta Camisia  ( USA )
Rob Costlow, Reconstruction  ( USA )
Ray Carl Daye, Spectral Navigator  ( CANADA )
Doctor Sativa, Spondooley  ( UK )
doss-house, Dreamland  ( FRANCE )
Jerry Douglas, Glide  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Dreamerion, The Pain Without Name  ( POLAND )
Dubamix, Mix a Dub  ( FRANCE )
Dub Colossus, In a Town Called Addis  ( ETHIOPIA )
El Heath, Winter Soundtrack  ( UK )
Ensemble Al Asdeka, Oasis  ( USA )
Fauna, Have You Ever Talked to Angels  ( RUSSIA )
Joel Faustino & Illusion Orchestra, Meet Me in the Bottom  ( PORTUGAL )
Fernwood, Almeria  ( USA )
Glowworm, The Coachlight Woods  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Greendjohn, Nights and Days  ( ROMANIA )
Kirsty Hawkshaw, The Ice Castle  ( UK )
Kavi Jezzie Hockaday, Dancing Buddhas  ( UK )
Jive Ass Sleepers, Gettin' Down to Business  ( USA )
Kalabi, Dandelion  ( UK )
Kene Busma, Hypnagôgia  ( FRANCE )  [ INTERNET ARCHIVE ]
The Kiss That Took a Trip, Dating Aphrodite  ( SPAIN )
Konntinent, Miscellany  ( UK )
Kuro Loud Dub, White  ( FRANCE )
Brannan Lane, Sleepwalk  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Last Harbour, Dead Fires and the Lonely Spark  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Maeror Tri, The Beauty of Sadness  ( GERMANY )
Metallica, Death Magnetic  ( USA )
Mud&Dust, Mud&Dust  ( ISRAEL )
Novalima, Coba Coba  ( PERU )
Off Land, Encounter Point  ( USA )  [ RESTING BELL ]
Oöphoi, An Aerial View  ( ITALY )
Paperadio, Novella  ( UK )
The Persephone, Blue and Other Colours  ( UK )  [ JAMENDO ]
Plaistow, Do You Feel Lucky?  ( SWITZERLAND )
Antony Raijekov, Jazz U  ( BULGARIA )
Ruben van Rompaey, Eastern Expressions 3 – Asahi  ( HOLLAND )  [ MAGNATUNE ]
SaReGaMa, The Four Elements  ( ISRAEL )  [ JAMENDO ]
Joe Satriani, Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock  ( USA )
Seal, Soul  ( UK )
Jane Siberry, Dragon Dreams  ( CANADA )
Sleepmakeswaves, In Today Already Walks Tomorrow  ( AUSTRALIA )
Solar Cycle, Flare  ( UK )
So Much Achieved. So Much Left to Do.  ( 12REC )
John Surman, Howard Moody, Rain on the Window  ( UK )
Tokyo507, Tokyo507  ( AUSTRALIA )
Transient, Hexual Ceiling  ( USA )
Greg Williams, A Circle of Hidden Intentions  ( USA )
Williamson, The Trashcan Electric  ( USA )  [ JAMENDO ]
Norma Winstone, Distances  ( UK )
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Gurrumul  ( AUSTRALIA )
John Zorn, Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse  ( USA )

2009
Best of 2009

Ambienteer, It Has Its Function  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Mulatu Astatke, New York – Addis – London  ( ETHIOPIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Jon Balke, Siwan  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Cyminology, As Ney  ( GERMANY / IRAN )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble, Restored, Returned  ( NORWAY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Tigran Hamasyan, Red Hail: Aratta Rebirth  ( ARMENIA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ozric Tentacles, The Yumyum Tree  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ralph Towner, Paolo Fresu, Chiaroscuro  ( USA / ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Honourable mentions
John Abercrombie Quartet, Wait Till You See Her  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Altus, Coma Cluster  ( CANADA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Balmorhea, All Is Wild, All Is Silent  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
J.J. Cale, Roll On  ( USA )
Chris Cornell, Scream  ( USA )  [ LAST FM ]
Eyes Flutter Beneath, Inside the Dream Laboratory  ( UK )  [ LAST FM ]
Fat Freddy's Drop, Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW  ( NEW ZEALAND )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Fly, Sky and Country  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Nils Frahm, Wintermusik  ( GERMANY )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Trilok Gurtu, Massical  ( INDIA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Robin Guthrie, Carousel  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Ian Hawgood, Before I Let the Sunshine Rot  ( UK )  [ BANDCAMP ]
Jon Hassell, Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Hemispheres, Crossroads  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
H.U.V.A. Network, Ephemeris  ( FRANCE / SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Bruce Kaphan, Hybrid  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ibrahim Maalouf, Diachronism  ( LEBANON )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Mara and David, Once We Were Gods  ( GERMANY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Master Margherita, Hippies with Gadgets  ( SWITZERLAND )  [ BANDCAMP ]
The Memphis Sounds, Ike's Moods  ( USA )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Message to Bears, Departures  ( UK )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Nils Økland, Monograph  ( NORWAY )
Our Ceasing Voice, Steadied Stars in the Morphium Sky  ( AUSTRIA )  [ LAST FM ]
Enrico Rava, New York Days  ( ITALY )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Steve Roach, Dynamic Stillness  ( USA )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Out of Noise  ( JAPAN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
Solar Fields, Movements  ( SWEDEN )  [ YOUTUBE ]
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Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Any World  ( USA )
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James Blackshaw, The Glass Bead Game  ( UK )  [ SPOTIFY ]
Ti Coca & Wanga-Neges, Haiti Colibri  ( HAITI )
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Max Corbacho, The Resonant Memory of Earth  ( SPAIN )
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Crepusculum, Sing on in Silhouettes  ( UK )
Mario Chaos Descheneaux, Alerte Bleue  ( CANADA )
David Darling, Chungliang Al Huang, The Zen of Poetry  ( USA / CHINA )
Deuter, Eternity  ( GERMANY )
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Lawrence English, A Colour for Autumn  ( AUSTRALIA )
Escape Philosophy, Chapel Perilous  ( USA )
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Felixdroid, The Longing  ( UK )
Fernwood, Sangita  ( USA )
Robben Ford, Soul on Ten  ( USA )
Franz Ferdinand, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand  ( UK )
Galdson, Musical Landscapes II  ( SPAIN )
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Leyland Kirby, Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was  ( UK )
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Konntinent, If I Could Buy a Map of Hope – Volume 2  ( UK )
Konntinent, Lonely in the Shallows  ( UK )
Sinikka Langeland, Maria's Song  ( FINLAND )
Liberez, Way Through Vulnerability  ( UK )
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Softspace, The Darkness  ( UK )
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