Here’s my pick of the best music of the year that came my way that proved to have the most lasting impressions on me.
Happy Holidays
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1) Lisa Gerrard – The Twilight Kingdom (Gerrard Records)
2) Johannes Dimpflmeier – Untitled (and/OAR)
3) David Sylvian – There’s A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight (Samadhisound)
4) Ian Holloway – There Is Nowhere Here (Quiet World)
5) Alio Die & Sylvi Alli – Amidst The Circling Spires (Projekt)
6) Peter Hammill – All That Might Have Been… (Fie! Records)
7) Lino Capra Vaccina – Antico Adagio (Reissue) (Die Schachtel)
8) Lost Girls – Lost Girls (3 Loop Music)
9) Edvard Graham Lewis – All Over (Editions Mego)
10) Automat – Automat (Bureau B)
11) Hildur Guðnadóttir – Saman (Touch)
12) Beck – Morning Phase (Capitol Records)
13) Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde Records)
14) Tape – Casino (Häpna)
15) Jean-Louis Matinier / Marco Ambrosini – Inventio (ECM Records)
16) Superconnection – La Mer (M=minimal)
17) Black 47 – Last Call (self-released)
18) Elodie – Traces Ephémères (La Scie Dorée)
19) Max Richter / Daniel Hope – Berlin By Overnight (Deutsche Grammophon)
20) Peter Murphy – Lion (Nettwerk)
21) Psychic TV – Snakes (Angry Love Productions)
22) Kangding Ray – Solens Arc (Raster-Noton)
23) Pan Sonic – Oksastus (Kvitnu)