a-Musik Top 50 2021

Neuveröffentlichungen / New releases
 
Marja Ahti, Still Liver LP (Students of Decay)
Altar of Flies, Bortom Reven LP (iDEAL Recordings)
Caterina Barbieri, Fantas Variations 2LP (Editions Mego)
Anton Bruhin, Speech Poems/Fruity Music LP (Black Truffle)
Gerald Cleaver, Griots LP (Meakusma)
Aymeric de Tapol, Lost in the Shell LP (Knotwilg)
Giovanni di Domenico, Musica Per Insieme LP (Black Sweat Records)
Limpe Fuchs, Solaia LP (Streamline/Spam)
Ignatz & De Stervende Honden, Saturday's Den LP (Ultra Eczema)
Lennert Jacobs, Enthusiasm LP (Les Albums Claus) Klein, Harmattan LP (Pentatone)         Ben Lamar Gay, Open Arms to Open Us LP/CD (International Anthem Recording Company)
Mimsy, Ormeology LP (Karaoke Kalk)
mmm with Emerson Kitamura, Chasing Giants LP (Bubblingnotes)
Anthony Moore, Tobias Grewenig & Dirk Specht, The April Sessions LP (Sub Rosa)
Mouse on Mars, AAI 2LP/CD (Thrill Jockey)
[multer], Basisrealität/Armutsgewöhnungszuschlag/Wolkenkukucksheim 3LP (Auf Abwegen)
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker, Descension (Out Of Our Constrictions) 2LP/CD (Aguirre)
The Notwist, Vertigo Days 2LP/CD (Morr Music)
Lucy Railton, 5 S-Bahn LP (Boomkat Editions)
Sunn Trio/Sam Shalabi, Trippin' On Coleman LP (Unrock)
TITANOBOA, Porphyr LP (a-Musik)
Toi Toi Toi, Vaganten LP/CD (Ghost Box)
V.A., Antologia de Musica Atipica Portuguesa Vol.3. Canto Devocinario LP (Discrepant)
Norman Westberg & Jacek Mazurkiewicz, First Man in the Moon LP (Hallow Ground)

Archiv- und Wiederveröffentlichungen / Archival releaeses and reissues

Alternative TV, Action Time Vision LP (Staubgold)
Die Atlantikschwimmer, S/t MLP (Static Age)
Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble, Music for Angela Davis LP (Holidays Records)
Manuel Calvo, El Artilugio LP (Alga Marghen)
CAN, Live in Brighton 1975 3LP/2CD (Spoon)
Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings 2LP/CD (Impulse!)
Come, Rampton LP (Susan Lawly)
The Fall, The Infotainment Scan LP (Demon Records)
Faust, 7LP & 2x7"/8CD (Bureau B)
Luc Ferrari/Laborinthus, ...et après LP (Planam)
Marcus Fischer, Monocoastal LP (12k)
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle/Teilnehmende Beobachtung LP (a-Musik)
Limpe Fuchs, Via LP (Streamline/Spam)
Pierre Henry, Galaxie 13CD (Decca)
Keith Hudson, Flesh of my Skin Blood of my Blood LP/CD (17 North Parade)
Sven-Ake Johansson, Night Music (First Recordings) LP & 2CD (Edition Telemark)
Monika Werkstatt/Mania D./Malaria!/Matador, M_Sessions 2LP (Monika Enterprise)
Musica Elettronica Viva, Spacecraft LP (Our Swimmer)
New Age Steppers, Love Forever LP (On-U Sound)
Michel Redolfi, Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987 LP/CD (Sub Rosa)
Marina Rosenfeld, Teenage Lontano LP (Room40)
Seefeel, Rupt + Flex 94–96 4CD (Warp)
V.A., Vanity Records Volume 1 5LP (Vinyl-On-Demand)
Leslie Winer, When I Hit You – You'll Feel It 2LP/CD (Light in the Attic)
The Wirtschaftswunder, Salmobray LP/CD (Tapete Records)

 

 

 

a-Musik staff picks Dezember 2021

Klein, Harmattan LP (Pentatone)
Grouper, Shade LP/CD (Kranky)
V.A., Antologia de Musica Atipica Portuguesa Vol.3. Canto Devocinario LP (Discrepant)
CAN, Live in Brighton 1975 3LP/2CD (Spoon)
Trii Group, Interest in Music LP (STROOM)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Moon in Earthlight CD (Fragile)
Stereo Total, Chanson Hysterique 7LP/7CD (Tapete)
Monika Werkstatt/Mania D./Malaria!/Matador, M_Sessions 2LP (Monika Enterprise)
Cosmic Jokers, S/t LP/CD (Kosmische Kuriere)
Jason Williamson, Artits Only 5"Postcard (Knotwilg)

a-Musik staff picks November 2021

Vanishing Twin, Ookii Gekku LP (Fire Records)
Lennert Jacobs, Enthusiasm LP (Les Albums Claus)
Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, Weisheit aus des Kindes Mund tut uns stets die Wahrkeit kund LP (A Colourful Storm)
Faust, 1971-1974 7LP & 2x7"/8CD (Bureau B)
ZK, Eddie's Salon LP/CD (Weser Label)
Manuel Calvo, El Artilugio LP (Alga Marghen)
Phew, New Decade LP/CD (Mute)
Aksak Maboul, Redrawn Figures 2 LP (Crammed Discs)
Leslie Winer, When I Hit You – You'll Feel It 2LP/CD (Light in the Attic)
Allen Ravenstine, Nautilus/Rue du Poisson Noir LP/2CD (Waveshaper Media)

 

a-Musik staff picks Oktober 2021

Keith Hudson, Flesh of my Skin Blood of my Blood LP/CD (17 North Parade)
Toi Toi Toi, Vaganten LP/CD (Ghost Box)
Marja Ahti, Still Lives LP (Students of Decay)
Limpe Fuchs, Via LP (Streamline/Spam)
Limpe Fuchs, Solaia LP (Streamline/Spam)
Ben Lamar Gay, Open Arms to Open Us LP/CD (International Anthem Recording Company)
Taylor Deupree, Mur LP (Dauw)
After Dinner, 1982-85 LP (Soave)
Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble, Music for Angela Davis LP (Holidays Records)
Methlife, Muzak for the Hachette Greywater Dynaspace Forum K7 (5Dollar)

 

a-Musik staff picks September 2021

Michel Redolfi, Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987 LP/CD (Sub Rosa)
Lawrence English, A Mirror Holds the Sky CD & Book (Room40)
Eliane Radigue, Occam Ocean 3 CD (Shiin)
Sao Paulo Underground & Tupperwear, Saturno Magico LP (Keroxen)
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker, Descension (Out Of Our Constriction) 2LP (Aguirre)
Jerome Noetinger & Lionel Fernandez, Outer Blanc LP (Sonoris)
Luc Ferrari, ...Et Après 2LP (Planam)
Grup Ses, Beats from the Vaults LP/CD (Souk Records)
Shackleton, Departing Like Rivers 2LP (Woe to the Septic Heart)
Sonae, Summer LP/CD (LAAPS)

 

a-Musik staff picks August 2021

Asmus Tietchens, Seuchengebiete CD (Auf Abwegen)
Space Afrika, Honest Labour LP/CD (Dais Records)
Rosaceae, DNA LP (Pudel Produkte)
Cole Pulice, Gloam LP (Pingipung)
mmm with Emerson Kitamura, Chasing Giants LP (Bubblingnotes)
Caterina Barbieri, Fantas Variations 2LP (Editions Mego)
Mosquitoes, Reverse Drift / Reverse Charge EP (Knotwilg)
Alternative TV, Action Time Vision LP (Staubgold)
Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings 2LP/CD (Impulse!)
Ameel Brecht, 8-Infinities LP (Discos Transgenero)

 

a-Musik staff picks Juni/Juli 2021

Lucy Railton, S-Bahn LP (Boomkat Editions)
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle/Teilnehmende Beobachtung LP (a-Musik)
Gerald Cleaver, Griots LP (Meakusma)
Anthony Moore + Dirk Specht + Tobias Grewenig, The April Sessions LP (Sub Rosa)
Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix, Prologue for Post Modern Music LP (Ship To Shore)
Sunn Trio / Sam Shalabi LP (Unrock)
Emma-Jean Thackray, Yellow 2LP/CD (Movementt)
Musica Elettronica Viva, Spacecraft LP (Our Swimmer)
Marcus Fischer, Monocoastal LP (12k)
Radiophonic Workshop, Possum 2LP (Room 13)

 

a-Musik staff picks Mai 2021

Roope Eronen, The Inflatable World LP (Pacific City Discs)
Ögon Batto, Browse LP (Ultra Eczema)
Altar of Flies, Bortom Reven LP (iDEAL Recordings)
Yann Gourdon, S/t LP (Three:Four Records)
Seefeel, Rupt & Flex (1994-96) 4CD (Warp)
David Grubbs & Nikos Veliotis, The Harmless Dust LP (Improved Sequence Records)
Anton Bruhin, Speech Poems / Fruity Music LP (Black Truffle)
Leven Signs, Hemp is Here LP (Futura Resistenza)
Intersystems, # IV LP (Waveshaper Media)
V.A., Vanity Demos 2LP (Vinyl-On-Demand)

 

a-Musik staff picks April 2021

Don Cherry, Cherry Jam LP/CD (Gearbox)
Biosphere, Angel's Flight LP/CD (AD 93)
Giovanni di Domenico, Musica per Insieme LP (Black Sweat Records)
Hecker/Okkyung Lee, Statistique Synthetique/Teum (The Silvery Slit) LP (Portraits GRM)
Peter Brötzmann, Along The Way Book (Wolke Verlag)
Die Welttraumforscher, Die Rückkehr der echten Menschheit LP/CD (Bureau B)
New Age Steppers, Avant Gardening LP (On-U Sound)
Senyawa, Alkisah LP (Dekorder)
Pierre Henry, Galaxie 13CD (Decca)
Kink Gong, Zomia Vol.1 LP (Discrepant)

 

a-Musik staff picks März 2021

Paulina Anna Strom, Angel Tears in Sunlight 2LP/CD (Rvng Intl)
TITANOBOA, Porpyhr LP (a-musik)
Therapeutische Hörgruppe Köln, Enchanted Isle of Entanglement 7" Flexi (Not On Label)
Susan Alcorn, The Heart Sutra (arranged by Janel Leppin) LP (Ideologic Organ)
Eitetsu Hayashi, Kaze No Shisha LP (Studio Mule)
Stereolab, Electrically Possessed 3LP/2CD (Duophonic)
Joao Lobo, Simorgh LP/CD (Les Albums Claus)
William S. Burroughs / Brion Gysin, Soft Need 23  Book (Alga Marghen)
Pierre Barouh, Le Pollen LP & 7" (WRWTFWW)
David Shea, The Thousand Buddha Caves CD (Room40)

 

a-Musik staff picks Februar 2021

Mouse on Mars, AAI LP/CD (Thrill Jockey)
Heather Leigh, Glory Days LP (Boomkat Editions)
Sven-Ake Johansson, Night Music (First Recordings) 2LP + CD (Edition Telemark)
Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk, Skagafhördur LP (Faraway Press)
Norman Westberg & Jacek Mazurkiewicz, First Man In The Moon LP (Hallow Ground)
Michaela Meise, Cemalim 7" (Martin Hossbach)
V.A., mex 2020 LP/CD (Ana Ott)
Mats Erlandsson, 4-Track Guitar Music 2LP (Vagner)
Ariel Kalma, French Archives Vol.II  4LP (Black Sweat Records)
Begotten, Temidden Laaghangende Wolken LP (Aguirre)

a-Musik staff picks Januar 2021

William Basinski, Lamentations 2LP/CD (Temporary Residence)
Lustmord + Nicolas Horvath, The Fall 2LP/CD (Sub Rosa)
Michael Ranta, Taiwan Years CD (Metaphon)
Kuupuu, Plz Tell Me LP (Kraak)
The Notwist, Vertigo Days 2LP/CD (Morr Music)
My Cat Is An Alien, The World that IS and IS NOT LP (Opax Private Press)
Pascal Comelade & Richard Pinhas, Le Plan De Paris LP (Staubgold)
Sunn Trio, Live in Phoenix and Other Hungry Ghosts K7 (Unrock)
Mika Vainio, Last Live 2LP/CD (Editions Mego)
V.A., De Nor 2020 LP (Ultra Eczema)

 

a-Musik Top 50 2020

Neuveröffentlichungen / New releases
 
Aksak Maboul, Figures 2LP/2CD (Crammed Discs)
Kai Althoff, Aber mich macht's traurig 2LP (Sonig)
Ben Bertrand, Manes LP/CD (Les Albums Claus / STROOM)
Marta De Pascalis, Sonus Ruinae LP (Morphine Records)
Vladislav Delay / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare, 500-Push-Up LP/CD (Sub Rosa)
Good Sad Happy Bad, Shades LP/CD (Textile Records)
Marla Hansen, Dust LP/CD (Karaoke Kalk)
Hematic Sunsets, Aroma Club Adieu 5 2LP (Auf Abwegen)
Minamo & Moskitoo, Superstition LP (12k)
Berke Can Öczan, Mountains are Mountains LP (Bohemian Drips)
Loup Uberto, Racconto Artigiano LP (Three:Four Records)
Shunsuke Oshio, Waterfall LP (Not On Label)
Charlemagne Palestine, theeOorgannnissstheeGgreattestttSsynthesizerrrEverrrrrrrr LP (Meakusma)
Orphan Fairytale, Titania Moon LP (Ultra Eczema)
Planet Battagon, Trans-Neptunia LP (On The Corner Records)
Sam Prekop, Comma LP/CD (Thrill Jockey)
Razen Robot Brujo 2LP (Hands In The Dark)
Julia Reidy, Vanish LP (Editions Mego)
Rhein, Spiel LP (Hauch)
Schlammpeitziger, Ein Weltleck in der Echokammer LP/CD (Bureau B)
Marcus Schmickler, Richter Patterns 2CD (Tochnit Aleph)
Star Searchers, Avatar Blue LP (Discrepant)
Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling 2LP/CD (Strut / Art Yard)
Jan St. Werner, Molocular Meditation LP (Editions Mego)
V.A., Minna Miteru. A Compilation of Japanese Indie Music 2LP/2CD (Morr Music)
 
Archiv- und Wiederveröffentlichungen / Archival releases and reissues
 
Beton Combo, Perfektion ist Sache der Götter LP (Static Age)
Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble, Heliopolis LP (Holidays Records)
Don Cherry, Om Shanti Om LP/CD (Black Sweat Records)
Jocy De Oliveira, A Musica Seculo XX De Jocy LP (Litoral Records)
Drissi El-Abbassi, Rai Sidi Bel Abbes LP (Nashazphone)
Beatriz Ferreyra, Echos+ LP (Room40)
Fluence, S/t LP (Etats-Units)
Ron Geesin, Pot-Boilers. Ron Geesin Soundtracks to Stephen Dwoskin Films 1966-1970 LP (Trunk Records)
Jon Hassel, Vernal Equinox LP/CD (Ndeya)
Sven-Ake Johansson, Seewetter LP (Edition Telemark)
Basil Kirchin, Everyday Madness LP (Trunk)
Mesias Maiguashca, Oelsdorf 8 LP/CD (Karlrecords)
Anthony Moore, OUT LP (Drag City)
Mutter, Du bist nicht mein Bruder LP (Die Eigene Gesellschaft)
Jack Nitzsche, S/t LP (Hanky Panky Records / Mapache Records)
Augustus Pablo, One Step Dub LP (Greensleeves Records / VP Records)
Bernard Parmegiani, Violostries LP (Recollection GRM)
The Severed Heads, Clean 2LP (Dark Entries)
Soft Cell, Mutant Moments 10" (A Big Frock Rekord)
Spotch Forcey, 1979-1983 LP (Mauerstadtmusik)
Viola Renea, Syguiria Lady LP/CD (Strangelove)
Dominik von Senger, Brüsseler Platz LP (Inversions)
:zoviet-france:, Châsse 2ᵉ 17LP (Vinyl-On-Demand)
V.A., Savoy Gospel 3CD/3x2LP (Honest Jon's)
V.A., Vanity Box I 6CD (Kyou Records)

a-Musik staff picks Dezember 2020

Beton Combo, Perfektion ist Sache der Götter LP (Static Age)
Hematic Sunsets, Aroma Club Adieu 2LP (Auf Abwegen)
Don Cherry, Om Shanti Om LP/CD (Black Sweat Records)
Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin, The Burrow LP (Sonic Pieces)
Y Bül Bül, Fever LP (Pingipung)
Mesias Maiguashca, Oelsdorf 8 LP/CD (Karlrecords)
V.A., Savoy Gospel 3CD/3x2LP (Honest Jon's)
Drissi El-Abbassi, Rai Sidi Bel Abbes LP (Nashazphone)
Christoph de Babalon, Recurring Horrors LP/CD (A Colourful Storm)
Fiora Yin-Wong, Holy Palm 2LP (Modern Love)

 

a-Musik staff picks November 2020

Black Burst Sound Generator, S/t LP (Moozak)
Tomoko Sauvage, Fischgeist LP (Bohemian Drips)
Good Sad Happy Bad, Shades LP/CD (Textile Records)
V.A., Gritty, Odd & Good LP (Discrepant)
Nick Klein, Actor-Network Theory LP (iDEAL Recordings)
Mats Erlandsson, Minnesmärke LP (Hallow Ground)
Christopher Bissonnette, Wayfinding LP (12k)
Andersens, There is a Sound 2LP/CD (Morr Music)
Viola Renea, Syguiria Lady LP/CD (Strangelove)
Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples, Anthology of American Pop Music LP (Faitiche)