20 faves (Archival & Reissues)
- The Clouds – The Clouds
- Kristen Nogues – Marc’h Gouez
- Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Jerusalem
- Alan Hovhaness – Orbits, Mountains, Moons & Flowers
- Hako Yamasaki – Tobimasu
- Yanti Bersaudara – Yanti Bersaudara
- v/a – Prends le temps d’ecouter: Tape music, sound experiments…
- v/a – Searchlight Moonbeam
- Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up to Us
- Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – ሸገኔዎች (Beauties)
- X-Cetra – Stardust
- Jeanne Loriod – Music for Ondes Martenot
- v/a – A moi la liberté: Early electronic raï
- Pharoah – Pharoah Sanders
- Les Abranis – Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983
- Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee
- Miles Davis – Turnaround (On the Corner Sessions)
- Masumi Hara – Imagination Exchange
- v/a – The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972
- Arthur Russell – Picture of Bunny Rabbit
25 faves (LA artists / producers)
So much of what I hear generates from the city I live in, and much lands in the theater of which I’m the caretaker. It’s a world city at what feels like peak creativity, and a great many of the artists here were both in our speakers and on our stages in the past year.
- André 3000 – New Blue Sun
- Art Feynman – Be Good the Crazy Boys
- billy woods, Kenny Segal – Maps
- Carlos Niño & Friends – (I’m just) Chillin’ on Fire
- Celia Hollander – 2nd Draft
- Clear Thing – Everywhere I Go
- Decisive Pink – Ticket to Fame
- Eddie Chacón – Sundown
- Fabiano do Nascimento – Lendas
- Gabriel do Rosa – É o que a casa oferece
- Genevieve Artadi – Forever Forever
- Jeremiah Chiu – In Electric Time
- Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang – Azure
- John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life
- Lionmilk + Club Diego – In Float
- Lisel – Patterns for Auto-tuned Voices and Delay
- Louis Cole – Some Unused Songs
- Mega Bog – End of Everything
- Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Les Jardins Mystiques vol 1
- Monde UFO – Vandalized Statue to be Replaced by Shrine
- Salami Rose Joe Louis – Akousmatikous
- Shana Cleveland – Manzanita
- Slauson Malone I – EXCELSIOR
- Thandi Ntuli / Carlos Niño – Rainbow Revisited
- Wild Up – Julius Eastman Vol. 3: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
Faves from elsewhere
Thirty or so from outside Los Angeles, including a couple who came through 2220 Arts. The rest a global wishlist for a festival in some Elysium.
- Alasdair Roberts – Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall
- Angel Bat Dawid – Requiem for Jazz
- Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
- The Bug Club – Rare Birds: Hour of Song
- Cassandra Miller – Traveller Song / Thanksong
- Dudu Tassa, Johnny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak
- Fuensanta – Principio del Fuego
- Henry Threadgill – The Other One
- Insólito UniVerso – Ese puerto existe
- Jantra – Synthesized Sudan
- John Roseboro – Johnny / Four Cantos
- L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog
- Mayssa Jallad – Marjaa: the Battle of the Hotels
- Namian Sidibé – Namian Sidibé
- Noname – Sundial
- Nourished by Time – Erotic Probiotic 2
- Ora Cogan – Formless
- Piotr Kurek – Smartwoods
- PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
- Raja Kirik – Phantasmagoria of Jathilan
- Seaming To – Dust Gatherers
- Sourdurent – L’Herbe de Détourne
- Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection – s/t 2
- Svitlana Nianio + Tom James Scott – Eye of the Sea
- Titanic, I la Catolica, Mabe Fratti – Vidria
- Titi Bakorda – Molende
- V/Z, Valentina Magaletti, Zongamin – Suono Assente
- Y La Bamba – Lucha
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