Eighty LPs that tutored me throughout the year, including a healthy selection of Los Angeles metro catalyzers, global genii, and archival rediscoveries that push the horizons forward and back, revisioning all settlements in between.
20 faves
Specific to no place or point of origin, the ones that came down what-strange pipes and kept sounding me out.
- Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
- Caroline Shaw + So Percussion – Rectangles and Circumstance
- Chris Cohen – Paint a Room
- Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
- Earth Flower (Ruth Garbus, Sam Gendel) – Earth Flower
- Fievel Is Glauque – Rong Weicknes
- Ganavya – like the sky I have been too quiet
- Itasca – Imitation of War
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly – MESTIZX
- Josh Johnson – Unusual Object
- Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes
- Mari Kvien Brunvoll – Barefoot in Bryophyte
- Meril Wubslin – Faire ça
- Mk.gee – Two Star & the Dream Police
- Niningashi – Heavy Way (reisssue)
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – Ventre Unique
- Sharada Shashidhar – Soft Echoes
- SML – Small Medium Large
- Tashi Wada – What Is Not Strange?
- The Smile – Cutouts / Wall of Eyes
- V/A – Nippon Acid Folk (1970-1980)
20 from LA
A selection of local burners and new releases, roughly half of which we hosted record releases for at 2220 Arts, or which found themselves in high rotation in the bar and theater. A good sample of the vibrant LA community that sustains and inspires 2220 as a living room for venturesome sound artists and all-genre music.
- Anna Butterss – Mighty Vertebrate
- Barry Archie Johnson – Fortune’s Mirror
- Carlos Niño & Friends – Placenta
- Celia Hollander – Perfect Conditions
- Chris Cohen – Paint a Room
- claire rousay – Sentiment
- Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi – Speak, Moment
- Devin Daniels – LesGo!
- Itasca – Imitation of War
- Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
- Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
- Josh Johnson – Unusual Object
- Marina Allen – Eight Pointed Star
- Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements – Rain on the Road
- mk.Gee – Two Star & The Dream Police
- R.A.P Ferreira + Fumitake Tamura – the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap
- Salami Rose Joe Louis + Flanafi – Sarah
- Sharada Shashidhar – Soft Echoes
- SML – Small Medium Large
- Tashi Wada – What Is Not Strange?
Top 40 long-players from elsewhere
An expanded top 40 from outside Los Angeles, most frequently returned to over the course of the year.
- Abdullah Miniawy – NigmaEnigma أنيجم النَجم
- Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
- Caroline Shaw + So Percussion – Rectangles and Circumstance
- Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
- Dana Gavanski – LATE SLAP
- Dina Ögun – Orion
- Earth Flower (Ruth Garbus, Sam Gendel) – Earth Flower
- Eddie Marcon – Yahho no Potori
- Fievel Is Glauque – Rong Weicknes
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly – MESTIZX
- George + Dove – Air from Air
- Guazuncho – Odiseas del Litoral
- Jantar – Turnos
- Kruangbin – A LA SALA
- Laetitia Sadier – Rooting for Love
- Lao Ro – Cabana
- Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes
- Mari Kvien Brunvoll – Barefoot in Bryophyte
- Meridian Brothers – Mi Latinoamérica Sufre
- Meril Wubslin – Faire ça
- Michelle Moeller – Late Morning
- Mount Kimbie – The Sunset Violent
- Nadah El Shazly – Les Damnés ne pleurent pas (OST)
- Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land
- Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – Ventre Unique
- Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution
- Ruth Goller – SKYLLUMINA
- Sababa 5 + Yurika Hanashima – Kokoro
- Sahra Halgan – Hiddo dhawr
- Shovel Dance Collective – The Shovel Dance
- The Smile – Cutouts / Wall of Eyes
- Sternpost – Ulrika
- V/A – Red Hot & Kronos Quartet, Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Top 20 tributes & archival releases
As ever, the archive keeps revealing and extending itself.
- Niningashi – Heavy Way
- Hyu – Inaudible Works 1994-2008
- Maple Fyshh – You Are Leaving My Mind: The “Mariko” and “Dokitto Station!!” Era
- V/A – Ayo Ke Disco (Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88)
- V/A – European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987)
- V/A – Like Someone I Know, a Celebration of Margo Guryan
- V/A – Nippon Acid Folk (1970-1980)
- V/A – DJ soFa – Elsewhere CC
- V/A – Synthesizing the Silk Roads
- Charif Megarbane – Hamra / Red
- Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Souvenirs
- Penny Carson Nichols – Trinidad Seed
- Jorge López Ruiz – Coraje Buenos Aires
- Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Kingdom of Discipline
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