martes 22 de diciembre de 2009

Lo mejor de 2009: Fact Magazine.


Albums

1.- The XX: XX.
2.- Telephate: Dance Mother.
3.- Omar-S: Fabric 45.
4.- Cold Cave: Love Comes Close.
5.- Discovery: LP.
6.- Circlesquare: Songs About Dancing And Drugs.
7.- Zomby: One Foot Ahead Of The Other.
8.- Bat For Lashes: Two Suns.
9.- Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor.
10.- Micachu: Jewellery.
11.- Leyland Kirby: Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was.
12.- Martyn: Great Lengths.
13.- Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion.
14.- Desire: //.
15.- Blank Dogs: Under and Under.
16.- Shackelton: Three EPs.
17.- DJ Sprinkles: Midtown 120 Blues.
18.- Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca.
19.- 10-20: 10-20.
20.- Ducktails: Ducktails.

Más, hasta cuarenta, aquí.

viernes 18 de diciembre de 2009

Lo mejor de 2009: Pitchfork.


Albums

1.- Animal Collective : Merriweather Post Pavillion.
2.- Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca.
3.- The XX: XX
4.- The Flaming Lips: Embryonic.
5.- Raekwon: Only Built For Cuban Linx..Pt. II.
6.- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest.
7.- Bat For Lashes: Two Suns.
8.- Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
9.- Fever Ray: Fever Ray.
10.- Girls: Album.
11.- Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport.
12.- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz.
13.- St. Vincent: Actor.
14.- Neon Indian: Psuychic Chasms.
15.- Japandroids: Post-Nothing.
16.- Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light.
17.- The Very Best: Warm Heart Of Africa.
18.- Atlas Sound: Logos.
19.- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.
20.- Real Estate: Real Estate.

Más, aquí.

jueves 17 de diciembre de 2009

Lo mejor de 2009: The Wire.


Albums

1.- Broadcast & The Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age.
2.- Oneohtrix Point Never: Rifts.
3.- Bill Orcutt: A New Wy To Pay Old Debts.
4.- Alasdair Roberts: Spoils.
5.- Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions.
6.- David Sylvian: Manafon.
7.- Group Doueh: Treeg Salaam.
8.- Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor.
9.- Ben Frost: By The Throat.
10.- King Midas Sound: Waiting for You.
11.- Harappian Night Recordings: The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele.
12.- Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca.
13.- Shackleton: 3 EPs.
14.- Sa-Ra Creative Partness: Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love.
15.- Atom TM: Liedgut.
16.- Mordant Music: SyMptoMs.
17.- Masayuki Takayanagi: Archive 1.
18.- Matias Aguayo: Ay Ay Ay.
19.- Hecker: Acid In The Style Of David Tudor.
20.- William Basinski: 92982.

...el resto, hasta cincuenta, aquí.


miércoles 16 de diciembre de 2009

Lo mejor de 2009: Ángel Gómez Aparicio.






Un honor: la lista de Ángel Gómez Aparicio. Extensa, jugosa y repleta de joyas a (re)descubrir.

NOVEDADES

. MARIO PAVONE: Ancestors (Playscape)
. CRIMETIME ORCHESTRA: Atomic Symphony (Jazzaway)
. MICHIEL BORSTLAP, ERNST GLERUM, HAN BENNINK (BBG) Monk Vol. One
. ALEX CLINE: Continuation (Cryptogramophone)
. ENRICO RAVA: New York Days (ECM)
. LUKY SEVEN’S: Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)
. JOHN HOLLENBECK: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
. DARCY JAMES ARGUE SECRET SOCIETY Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
. VANDERMARK 5: Annular Gift (Not Two) Vs. KEN VANDERMARK, BARRY GUY & MARK SANDERS Firefox (Maya)
. JASON RIGBY: The Sage ( Fresh Sound)
. MIGUEL ZENÓN Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
. HENRY THREADGILL: This Brings us to, Vol 1. (PI)
. DARREN JOHNSTON: The Edge of the forest (Clean Feed)

REEDICIONES ( sin orden preciso)

. GEORGE RUSSELL: In KC ( Jazz Collectors)
. STEVE KUHN: Life Backward Glances (ECM)
. MANFRED SCHOOF: Resonance (ECM)
. GERRY HEMINGWAY Demon Chaser (Hat Art)
. ANTHONY BRAXTON CREATIVE ORCHESTRA Koln 1978 (Hat Art)
. TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI/ LEW TABACKIN BIG BAND : Mosaic select 33

Aunque no me pasaría sin:

. JOHN ABERCROMBIE. Wait till you see her (ECM)
. BRANFORD MARSALIS, Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
. JEFF “TAIN” WATTS: Watts (JW Music)
. CHARLES TOLLIVER Emperor’s March (High Note)
. TOM HARRELL. Prana Dance (High Note)
. STEFANO BOLLANI: Stone in the Water (ECM)
. ROB MAZUREK: Sound Is (Delmark)
. BORAH BERGMAN; Luminiscence (Tzadik)
. ERIC VLOEIMANS FUGI MUNDI: Live at Yoshi's (Challenge)
. FLY: Sky and Country (ECM)
. STEVEN BERNSTEIN TERRITORIAL MILLENIUM ORCHESTRA: We are the MTO!
. CHRIS POTTER UNDERGROUND: Ultrahang ( Artist Share)
. TONY MALABY: Paloma Recio ( New World)
. STEVE LEHMAN: Travail, Transformation and Flow (Pi)
. DEE ALEXANDER: Wild is the Wind


MEJOR DISCO INCLASIFICABLE

CHARLES EVANS: King of All Instruments. Multilayered solo baritone saxophone (Hot Cup)

MEJOR DISCO DE NO JAZZ

THE NECKS, Silverwater (Fish of Milk)

JAZZMAN DEL AÑO: Rudresh Mahanthappa


No he escuchado y me encantaría:

. Los editados en Firehouse 12 de Bill Dixon y Taylor Ho Byum,
. El dúo de Konitz con Dan Tepfer,
. John Hebert' Byzantine Monkey,
. Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, The Moment's Energy,
. Roswell Rudd, Trombone Tribe,
. Scott Lafaro, Pieces of Jade,
. Michel Edelin's + Steve Lehman Kuntu,.
. Chad Taylor Circle Down (482 Music),
. Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride I Don’t Hear Nothin’ but the Blues (Loyal Label)
. Linda Oh Trio Entry, Seabrook Power Plant (Loyal Label),
.Warren Smith Composer’s Workshop Ensemble Old News, Borrowed Blues (Engine Studios),
. Peter Bernstein Trio, Monk (Xanadu),
. Jason Adasiewicz’s Rolldown, Varmint (Cuneiform),
. Josh Berman, Old Idea (Delmark),
. Bobby Previte, Pan Atlantic (Auand),
. Jesse Stacken, That That (Fresh Sound New Talent),
. John Escreet, Consequences (Positone),
. The Fully Celebrated – Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity),
. The Respect Sextet – Sirius Respect (Mode),
. Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls – Seize The Time (Naim),
. Samuel Blaser Quartet Pieces of Old Sky (Clean Feed),
. Tyshawn Sorey – Koan (Pi),
. SFJazz Collective, Live 2009: The Works of McCoy Tyner (SFJazz),
. Marcus Strickland, Idiosyncrasies (Strick Muzik),
. Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, Renegades (Delmark),
. Ben Monder & Bill McHenry, Bloom (Blue Music Group),
. Jesse Stacken & Kirk Knuffke, Mockingbird (SteepleChase),
. Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra, El Viaje,
. Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra, Quake (Sunnyside),
. C.O.D.E. Ken Vandermark, Max Nagl u. a. “play the music of O. Coleman and E. Dolphy” (Handsemmel Rec. Crack),
. Denny Zeitlin, In Concert….


lunes 14 de diciembre de 2009

Los cofres del tesoro








Apabullante, por cantidad y calidad, el bloque de cajas con (re)ediciones y compilaciones de jazz que Universal pone en el mercado navideño: mucho donde elegir y poco donde equivocarse.

Lo mejor de 2009: Sasha Frere-Jones.


Ángel Gómez Aparicio me envía, entre otras, la lista del gurú Sasha Frere-Jones (The New Yorker, The Village Voice o Wire por citar algunos)

ALBUMS

1.- Sleigh Bells.
2.- Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca.
3.- The Dream : Love vs. Money.
4.- Neko Case: Middle Cyclone.
5.- Mastodon: Crack The Skye.
6.- Annie : Don´t Stop.
7.- Micachu & The Shapes: Jewellery.
8.- Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You.
9.- Sunnn O))) : Monoliths & Dimensions.
10.- Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest.
11.- Little Dragon: Machine Dreams.
12.- Edan: Echo Party
13.-
DJ Sega: Live at The Bowery Ballroom
14.-
Mr. Chop: For Pete´s Sake.
15.-
Fever Ray
16.-
Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2?
17.-
Sonic Youth: The Eternal.
18.-
Lil Wayne: No Ceilings.
19.-
Harmonia & Eno ´76: Tracks & Traces.
20.-
Freddie Gibbs: midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik.
21.-
Prefuse 73: Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian.
22.- Lady Gaga: The Fame.
24.- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!.
25.-
Black To Comm: Alphabet 1968.
26.-
Eugene McGuinness.
27.-
Mokira: Persona.
28.-
M.O.P. : Foundation.
29.-
Brad Paisley: American Saturday Night.
30.-
U-God: Dopium.
31.-
Here We Go Magic.
32.-
N-Type: Rinse: 09.
33.-
Air : Love 2.
34.- Erin McCarley. Love, Save The Empty.
35.-
Vladislav Delay: Tummaa.
36.-
The Arch Cupcake: Box of Bees.
37.-
Dude 'N Nem: Tinted Incubators.
38.-
Thee Oh Sees: Help.
39.- The Phenomenal Handclap Band.


viernes 11 de diciembre de 2009

Hidrogenesse en Mirador Pop Cádiz.

jueves 10 de diciembre de 2009

Lo mejor de 2009: Mojo (Novedades y géneros)


1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
3. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours
5. Tinariwen – Imidiwan: Companions
6. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
7. Florence And The Machine – Lungs
8. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
9. Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
11. The Cribs – Ignore The Ignorant
12. The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
13. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
14. Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
15. Kasabian – The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
16. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
17. The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
18. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
19. Sunn O)) – Monoliths & Dimentions
20. Manic Street Preachers – Journol For Plague Lovers
21. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
22. The XX – XX
23. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
24. Vieux Farka Toure – Fondo
25. Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
26. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
27. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula
28. Vetiver – Tight Knit
29. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
30. Staff Benda Bilili – Tres Tres Fort
31. Naomi Shelton And The Gospel Queens – What Have You Done, My Brother?
32. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
33. Leonard Cohen – Live In London
34. Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
35. Portico Quartet – Isla
36. White Denim – Fits
37. Blk Jks – After Robots
38. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
39. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head And The Sky
40. Antony And The Johnsons – The Crying Light
41. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
42. Doug Paisley – Doug Paisley
43. Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones
44. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information
45. Cate La Bon – Me Oh My
46. The Black Crows – Before The Frost…
47. Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
48. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
49. Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx…Ptii
50. Max Richter – Waltz With Basher

Re Issue Of the Year - The Beatles Remastered

Track Of The Year - Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers


Genre Albums Of The Year

Americana

1. Phosphorescent – To Willie
2. Dave Alvin And The Guilty Woman - Dave Alvin And The Guilty Woman
3. Son Volt – American Central Volt
4. Charlie Louvin – Sings Murder Ballads And Disaster Songs
5. Drive-By Truckers – The Fine Print
6. J. Tillman – Year In The Kingdom
7. Rosanne Cash – The List
8. Dawn Landers – Sweet Heart Rodeo
9. Steve Earle – Townes
10. Niko Case – Middle Cyclone

Blues

1. Ian Seigal – Broadside
2. Larry Garner – Here Today Gone Tomorrow
3. Tommy Castro – Hard Believer
4. Matt Schofield – Heads, Tails & Aces
5. Various – The History Of Rhythm & Blues
6. Paul Rishell & Anne Raines – A Night In Woodstock
7. Cyril Neville – Brand New Blues
8. Simon Mcbride – Rich Man Falling
9. Eddie C. Campbell – Tear This World Up
10. Lightnin’ Hopkins Rockin’ At Herald

World

1. Staff Benda Bilili – Tres Tres Fort
2. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – I Speak Fula
3. Tinariwen – Imidiwan: Companions
4. Vinicio Capossela – Da Salo
5. Vieux Farka Toure – Fondo
6. Oumou Sangare – Seya
7. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information
8. Jah Wobble & The Chinese Dub Orchestra – Chinese Dub
9. Mamer – Eagle
10. Extra Golden – Thank You Very Quickly

Folk

1. The Unthanks – Here’s The Tender Coming
2. Jon Boden – Songs From The Floodplain
3. Martin Simpson – True Stories
4. Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
5. Jackie Oates – Hyperboreans
6. Mawkin: Causley – Hyperboreans
7. Spiro – Lightbox
8. Roy Bailey – Below The Radar
9. Trembling Bells – Carberth
10. Julie Fowlis – Uam