Belatedly following this fine haul, another really good list this week, involving as it does a couple of high-security things which I can’t discuss at the moment and plenty I can. Afrocubism is a kind of summit meeting between various bits of the Buena Vista Social Club and the Mali scene (Bass...
Belatedly following this fine haul, another really good list this week, involving as it does a couple of high-security things which I can’t discuss at the moment and plenty I can.
Afrocubism is a kind of summit meeting between various bits of the Buena Vista Social Club and the Mali scene (Bassekou Kouyate, Toumani Diabate etc) and is brilliant. And can I bang on again about the Hans Chew record, shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year?
1 Afrocubism – Afrocubism (World Circuit)
2 Sun Araw – Off Duty (Woodsist)
3 Various Artists – Imaginational Anthems Volume Four (Tompkins Square)
4 Barn Owl – Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
5 Big Mystery Album
6 Faun Fables – Light Of A Vaster Dark (Drag City)
7 EMAK – A Synthetic History Of EMAK 1982-88 (Universal Sound)
8 Stereolab – Not Music (Duophonic UHF)
9 Sibylle Baier – Clour Green (Orange Twin)
10 Second Mystery Album
11 Hans Chew – Tennessee And Other Stories (Divide By Zero/Three Lobed)
12 Jim Sullivan – UFO (Light In The Attic)
13 Sharon Van Etten – Epic (Ba Da Bing)
14 Comets On Fire & Growing – Jams (Silver Currant blogspot)
15 Supersilent – Supersilent 10 (Rune Grammofon)
16 Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty0
