Listas dos melhores 2008
· 09 Dez 2008 · 01:34 ·
Top 2008 · Top Portugueses 2008 · Momentos 2008 · Tops Ilustres
Os geeks da música - condição que orgulhosamente assumimos no Bodyspace - querem saber tudo: o que vestem as estrelas, quem anda a mordiscar quem (e em que sítios), o que dizem nos seus blogues, que religião nova têm, que músicos odeiam e por quem são odiados. No Bodyspace queremos mais (porque sabemos que vocês também o desejam): queremos saber o que alguns dos músicos que mais valorizamos durante este e outros anos andaram a ouvir. Que discos os fizeram renovar a fé na música ou que discos antigos agora descobertos se revelaram epifanias tardias. E surpreendermo-nos com algumas escolhas, como David Grubbs e Adam Forkner (White Rainbow) a adorarem Tha Carter III de Lil Wayne (um senhor que parece omnipresente), e Andy Cabic, dos contidos-e-acústicos Vetiver, entusiasmado com a libido dançante de Sexuality de Sebastien Tellier. Pedro Rios Adam Forkner · Afonso Simões · André Matos · Andrei Jafarau · Andy Cabic · Bruno Miguel · Buck Curran · Cristian Gualpa · Daniel Finfer · David Grubbs · David Santos · David Velez · Dub Gabriel · Filipe Silva · Gonçalo Frota · Guilherme Darisbo · Guilherme Gonçalves · Hernâni Faustino · Ian (D) Hawgood · Jason Haye · Jimy SeiTang · João Mascaranhas · João Pedro Viegas · João Ricardo · John Fell Ryan · John Hebert · John Moloney · Jorge Mantas· Jorge "Travassos" Trindade · Juan José Calarco · Ludo Maas · Luís Antero · Luís Fernandes · Margie Wienk · Miguel Ferreira · Miguel Meruje · Miguel Onofri · Mike Weis · Nadine Khouri · Naomi Elizabeth · Nuno Moita · Peter Shuy · Peter Stenberg · Rasmus Stolberg · Rico Puestel · Rodrigo Amado · Sara Serpa · Sebastian Alvarez · Tiago Sousa Adam Forkner | White Rainbow  Lil Wayne Tha Carter 3 70's Thai Orchestra comp of Thai bar room gamelan boogie funk on Exiled Records / Mississippi Records Valet Naked Acid AOK (Adrian Orange) Tour Only Zone Out: Tha Prequel Lucky Dragons Dream Island Laughing Language Rob Walmart Live Near KBOO CDR/ Tire Iron 123 Retrospective MP3CD White Fang Pure Evil The-Dream Love/Hate Jib Kidder All On Y'all Jonhas Reinhardt s/t (Kranky) Tha Get Wid It Umbrella (E40, Turf Talk, Nump etc) The Machine The Complete Second Season Stag Hair Black Medicine Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Ngozi Family Oh Yeh Yeh (late 07 re-issue) Afonso Simões | Gala Drop / Curia / Phoebus Discos do ano : Aquaparque Coclea (CDr que está para sair) Emeralds "Solar Bridge" Malhas do ano : Dj Marfox e Kotalume "Funaná é rapicado"0 Ariel Pink "She's gone" Descobertas : Bo Diddley T-rex "Ride a white swan" TRAXX Records Orquestre Poly rythmo Mecanica Popular Moolah "Woe ye Demons Possessed" The Feelies "Crazy rhythms" Concertos : Charlemagne Palestine ao vivo na Sé de Lisboa Mik Quantius André Matos 
Russ Lossing / John Herbert Line Up Rudresh Mahanthapa Kinsmen Akiko Pavolka Trust Aqua Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sara Serpa Praia Jim Hall / Bill Frisell Hemispheres Fieldwork -Door Coldplay Viva La Vida George Garzone The Music of George Garzone & The Triadic Chromatic Concept (DVD) Angelica Sanchez Life Between Bill Stewart Incandescence Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy Andrei Jafarau | Umbrellas in the Rain Top10 Albums 2008 01. Fredrik Na Na Ni 02. Polite Sleeper Seens 03. Murder By Death Red Of Tooth And Claw 04. Meneguar The In Hour 05. Detektivbyrån Wermland 06. Ass My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went 07. Gregor Samsa Rest 08. Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Frontpage Of The Newspaper. There´S A War Going On And I´M Marching In Heavy Boots 09. September Malevolence After This Darkness, There's A Next 10. Lakes Of Russia Stars Decorate The Fire Andy Cabic | Vetiver  Sebastien Tellier Sexuality (Record Makers) Richard Swift Ground Trouble Jaw (Secretly Canadian) Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It (Columbia) Stereolab Chemical Chords (4AD) Kelley Stoltz Circular Sounds (Sub Pop) Belong Colorloss Record (St. Ives Records) Vivian Girls I Can't Stay 7" (In The Red Recordings) Justus Köhncke Safe And Sound (Kompakt) David Thomas Brougthon at St. Pancras Parish Church, London, June 5 The Festival In The Forest & Bonnie Billy in Big Sur, Sept. 26-27 Cold Cave The Trees Grew Emotions And Died (Dais Records) Bruno Miguel | :papercutz Sem ordem de preferência: Paavoharju Laulu Laakson Kukista Das melhores bandas "desconhecidas" do momento. Leila Blood Looms and Blooms Uma voz que vale a pena descobrir. Selo garantia Warp. Emanuele Errante Humus O Emanuele além de colega de editora, é um artista extremamente humilde e que aos poucos começa a deixar a sua marca na música Ambient. Willits + Sakamoto Ocean Fire Um encontro de génios... Max richter 24 Postcards In Full Colour Excelente compositor de clássica minimal e electrónica. Álbum que precisa de tempo para ser ouvido... Sylvian Chauveau The Black Book Of Capitalism Música cinemática no seu melhor. Olafur Arnalds Variations of Static Belo compositor clássico minimal que descobri este ano. A editora, Erased Tapes, foi uma bela surpresa também... Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna Se em anos passados o rock vinha das pistas de dança, este ano ele é tribal. School Of Seven Bells Alpinisms Álbum pop fantasia do ano. Murcof The Versailles Sessions Grande! Álbum de música electrónica inspirado em música barroca. The Sight Below Glider Fantástico primeiro álbum, perfeito para os dias de Inverno por um dos artistas que remisturou o single de :papercutz e que tive o prazer de conhecer este ano. Fennesz Black Sea Primeiro estranha-se, depois entranha-se. Peixe : Avião 40.02 Melhor álbum nacional 2008. Buraka Som Sistema Black Diamond Álbum nacional com o maior potencialidade de internacionalização. Deolinda Canção ao Lado Uma prova que a música tradicional portuguesa pode ser jovem e moderna. Buck Curran | Arborea Here is My list for 2008: 1. Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh (Drag City) 2. Fern Knight Fern Knight (VHF) 3. Nick Schillace Landscape and People (Burly Time Records) 4. Josephine Foster This Coming Gladness (Bo Weevil Records) 5. Vetiver Covers (Gnomonsong) 6. James Blackshaw, Helena Espvall, Jozef Van Wissem, Mori Chieko The Garden of Forking Paths (Important Records) 7. Silver Summit Silver Summit (Language of Stone/Drag City) 8. Cian Nugent Childhood Christian Lies and Slaughter (Incunabulum/audioMER) Cristian Gualpa 01. Convextion Convextion 02. Crystal Castles 03. Diminutos Períodos EP 04. Daniel Carew We Go Very Well Together (YkYk013) 05. Lulu Rouge Bless You Daniel Finfer | Post Human Era Best Albums of the Year 01. Radiohead In Rainbows 02. Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV 03. Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling 04. Kanye West 808's and Heartbreak 05. Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs David Grubbs | Gastr Del Sol / Red Krayola / Wingdale Community Singers / Squirrel Bait / Bastro  Top Ten for 2008, in alphabetical order: Maryanne Amacher Sound Characters, Vol. 2 (Tzadik) Balla et ses Balladins The Syliphone Years (Sterns Music) Andrea Belfi Knots (Die Schactel) Bonnie "Prince" Billy Lie Down In the Light (Drag City) DJ/Rupture Uproot (The Agriculture) Kevin Drumm Imperial Distortion (Hospital Productions) Mary Halvorson Trio Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12) Russell Haswell Second Live Salvage (Editions Mego) Brendan Murray Commonwealth (23Five) Lil Wayne Tha Carter III (Universal) David Santos | Noiserv  Top 5 Discos: 1. TV on the Radio Dear Science 2. The Walkmen You & Me 3. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 4. Beach House Devotion 5. The dodos Visiter David Velez | Lezrod Asher Intervals Juan Jose Calarco, Adrian Juarez Termosistor Richard Garet L'avenir Christopher Mcfall This Heat Holds Snow Brendan Murray Commonwealth Matt Shoemaker Mutable Depths Milton Cross Light in the West Scott Tuma Not for Nobody Dub Gabriel  Dub Gabriel Anarchy & Alchemy (Destroy All concepts) The Bug London Zoo (Ninja Tune) Brain Damage Short Cuts (Jarring Effects) Liquid Liquid Reedição (Domino Records) Maga Bo Archipelagues (Zoot) Beat Pharmacy Wicked Times (Deep Space) Other Weapons Basis To Break This - (Destroy All Concepts (OUT JAN. 2009) Meat Beat Manifesto Autoimmune (Planet Mu) Deadbeat Roots & Wires (Scape) Balkan Beat Box Nu Made (Remixes)(Crammed) Filipe Silva | Soopa / F.R.I.C.S. / Mental Liberation Ensemble Fontes de felicidade durante 2008: Música (gravada) De várias épocas e locais: Asa-Chang & Junray - "Junray Song Chang", José Cid - "10 000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte", Omar Souleyman - "Highway To Hassake", Can - "Future Days", Keiji Haino - "Tenshi No Gijinka", Robert Wyatt - "Rock Bottom", Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - "The Final Studio Recordings", Tran Kich & Orchestra - "Tam Luan Cuu Chuyen", Buffy Sainte-Marie - "My Country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying", Irmandades Qadiri Sufi da Tchechénia - cânticos de hadras, Magma - "Live/Hhai". Música (em palco) Como membro da organização - Secret Chiefs 3, Plano B, Porto. Como membro do público - Total System Failure (Vinnie Paternostro & Jonathan HHY Scumclash), Qbico U-Nite nos Maus Hábitos, Porto. Como músico - F.R.I.C.S. na Associação Espontânea, Vila Real, e Mental Liberation Ensemble com Alfred 23 Harth na Fábrica da Alegria, Porto. Vinhos Espadal da casa, Snack-bar Guedes, Porto. Espadal Vinha dos Ingleses 2007. Palhete da casa, Restaurante Calvário, Vila Real. Realização pessoal A conclusão, como previsto, da Capitais de Distrito por Ordem Alfabética Tour da F.R.I.C.S.. Nadar uma vez por semana. F.R.I.C.S. ao vivo com José Cid no Passos Manuel, Porto: a fusão alquímica de uma infinidade de ingredientes sonoros, mentais, históricos, estéticos, geracionais e psíquicos numa entidade psicadélica e orgânica. A crescente convicção de que, como escreveu Jorge Luis Borges, "there are more things". Ser convidado para participar nos Tops Ilustres da Bodyspace. Gonçalo Frota | Houdini Blues Portugueses Buraka Som Sistema Black Diamond Camané Sempre de Mim Dead Combo Lusitânia Cowboys Deolinda Canção ao Lado Foge Foge Bandido O Amor Dá-me Tesão, Não Fui Eu que o Estraguei Mão Morta Maldoror Aldina Duarte Mulheres ao Espelho Peixe: Avião 40.02 Rita Redshoes Golden Era Rui Reininho Companhia das Índias Estrangeiros Atomic Retrograde Camille Music Hole Cat Power Jukebox The Dø A Mouthful Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Rabih Abou-Khalil Em Português TV on the Radio Dear Science Vincent Delerm Quinze Chansons Guilherme Darisbo Discos: Camerata Brasileira Noves Fora [Tratore] Luciano Mello Universo Barato [Gravações Eletrodomésticas] (dell.tree) In Somnus [Antena] (dell.tree) + Lucas Pires Correntes Parasitas de Pensamento Desorganizado I [Fronha Records] Adrián Juárez + Nathanael Archer Aloisa [Frigida Records] Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables Spirit Elevating Brains [Test Tube] Timbres Não Mentem Jamais Marcelo Birck [GreNal Records] Shows: Ryuta Kawabata, Palavraria, Porto Alegre Frithlang, Palavraria, Porto Alegre Camerata Brasileira, Ocidente, Porto Alegre Marcelo Birck, Teatro do SESC, Porto Alegre Oil for Food, una.casa, Buenos Aires Livros: Relançamento de Antologia Pessoal, O Informe de Brodie, O Fazedor, Discussão e O Aleph, de Jorge Luis Borges, pela Companhia das Letras Guilherme Gonçalves | Coclea / Gala Drop Embora a maior parte não seja de 2008, foram os discos que mais ouvi durante este ano: Moolah Woe ye demon possessed Can Flow motion Cluster Zuckerzeit Heldon Electronique Guerilla Henry Flynt You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power Harmonia Musik von harmonia Flower-Corsano duo The radiant mirror Amon duul Psychedelic underground Manuel Gottsching E2E4 Michael Hoenig Departure From The Northern Wasteland Mr. Fingers Amnesia Spacemen 3 Recurring Spectrum indian giver Spectrum Highs, Lows, and Heavenly Blow White Mice White mice Boredoms vision creation newsun Endless Boogie Vol. 2 (White) Les rallizes denudes Heavier than a death in the family Gila Gila Hernâni Faustino | RED Trio / Variable Geometry Orchestra  Anthony Braxton Trio (Victoriaville) 2007 [Victo] Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/ Hakon Kornstad Elise [Compunctio] Nils Henrik Asheim/ Paal Nilssen-Love Late Play [PNL] Shelley Burgon/Trevor Dunn Baltimore [Skirl Records] The Thing Now and Forever [Smalltown SuperJazz] John Zorn The Dreamers [Tzadik] Ken Vandermark Improvised Bass and Reed Duos [Okka Disk] Tyshawn Sorey That/Not [Firehouse 12] John Edwards Volume [Psi] Spring Heel Jack Songs and Themes [Thirsty Ear] Reedições: Anthony Braxton Complete Arista Recordings [Mosaic] Mike Osborne All Night Long [Ogun] Gracham Moncur III Evolution [Blue Note] Sam Rivers Dimensions and Extensions [Blue Note] John Stevens/Evan Parker Corner To Corner / Longest Night [Ogun] Ian (D) Hawgood | Koen Park / Oh No Nuno! / Apocomeno This year has been a wonderful year for releases. I have decided to compile a list of my top ten releases this year, so if you have time to download and/or buy any of these - do so without hesitation today, they are all superb. 01. He Can Jog Middlemarch (Audiobulb) Erik Schoster has made one of the finest albums in recent years with this release. Its not just the sheer range, its the ebb and flow and the amazing way he keeps things together, at once making an album which covers hip-hop, electronica, ambient, noise, pop so on and so forth, without it ever sounding strained or overly detailed. Quite simply, a new pop masterpiece. Let me say that again...MASTERPIECE! 02. Starfucker Starfucker (Badman) Pop brilliance from Portland's finest. I got free tickets to a show in Tokyo and were told they were the 'next big thing' from friends from Portland. The show wasn't great but something in the melodies caught my attention and so I bought the CD, took it home and slowly increased the volume. Six hours later, at eight in the morning, I left my apartment and my landlord complained as I had it on all night on loop - I hadn't slept, but was going to work happy and safe in the knowledge I had listened to one of the most melodic pop records since the 80's faded away. 03. Library Tapes A Summer Beneath the Trees (Make Mine Music) Another one of those free Tokyo gigs just this year. A friend organised a few shows for him in Tokyo and recommended I came along. Glad I did as live the quietude and sheer simple beauty of his work left me with shivers running down my back. I went out and bought a bunch of his work - and was left remembering my post-university travels listening to Brian Eno and Harold Budd's 'The Pearl' / 'Plateaux of Mirror'. Its not the same kind of record as such, but the spirit and purity is in the same deply moving, almost otherwordly, vein and I adore it. Very much an album and artist for long winters indeed. 04. Color Cassette Small Town Smoker (Mobeer) Craig from Moteer/Mobeer very kindly always sends me the lush Mobeer releases (as I am on Mobeer). Apart from the beautiful design of the cd's, the artists on both Moteer and Mobeer are superb and cover a lot of ground within the ambient-acoustic field I suppose. I distinctly remember putting on Color Cassette's 'Small Town Smoker' album and feeling like it was like nothing I had ever heard before. Its almost a pop record, only done very subtley with amazing bursts of energy and speckles and spots of sound. Its the kind of record you find something new each time you listen to it and the fact they call this a kind of 'b-sides' album for there soon to be released full debut is quite scary. And then I look at the credits, and there I see the name of probably my favourite artist around at the moment, namely Jason Corder. This guy creates so much beautiful, breathtaking work its hard to keep up on just his 'Offthesky' releases - that he writes the Color Cassette work is quite a humbling experience for me as an artist, but as a listener there is little else to say except 'damn, that's beautiful'. I don't know what Jason has for breakfast but I sure want some. 05. Celer Nacreous Clouds (and/OAR) If I could be bothered with LastFM - you would see in 08 I listened to Jason (Corder) and Celer's work the most. That they have each released so much to such a high quality is impressive by itself. But when you put an album like Nacreous Clouds on the superb and/OAR label, I find myself at peace with the world and deep...deep...deep...inside. The album has 37 songs, yes...that's 37, and as far as 'ambient' (such an abused term these days) records goes, this is right up there with my old favourites, if not jumping to the head of the line! The strange thing is Celer are the only artists I can think of who, over a collection of many albums, I can honestly say I never tire of. They just keep making wonderful music which is both dreamy and fascinating at the same time. 06. Chihei Hatakeyama Dedication (Magic Book Records) One thing about living in Japan (as I do) is that you come across so many amazing artists who have almost no recognition outside the country. The reason for this is a simple problem: language. One of the problems with the music and art scenes here in Japan is that, for some odd reason, they only really accept the very few artists who become established outside Japan first as its a kind of confirmation of their validity. Chihei is the exact opposite to the rule. I first heard about his work through his Kranky release, as well as his Spekk release under the duo Opitope. We first met each other two years ago playing at BEAF in the States and I was really taken aback at the simplicity and touching soulfulness of his music. Dedication, released on the super Japanese label Magic Book Records, is a delicate work of genuine art by one of my favourite artists. Recognised by a handful of peers outside Japan, Chihei continues to quietly release and play shows here in Japan without too much attention. Maybe he likes it that way, which is a shame as his work needs to be heard by far more people. Whatever the case may be, I have seen him six times now and let myself go as he creates a world all of his own, a world he allows us to enter in, rest a while and dream. Magical indeed. 07. Nicolas Bernier Les Arbres (No Type) I first came across Nicolas's work at the superb German label 12rec. What first caught my attention (as is often the case) was the unique and visually arresting artwork by Urban9 (who I then asked to do the artwork for my own 12rec release!). The album, entitled 'Objet Abandonne En Mar', was made with the guitarist Simon Trottier in 2007, and was the first net release I heard (as a relative newbie) that not only hit the expected high standard of releases I expect if I am to listen to over again and again, but surpassed it, becoming one of my favourite releases of 2007. The thing about Nicolas's work is how unique it is, it really is like nothing else out there. He keeps detailed and very delicate micro-elements in control, making it sound flawlessly simple when in fact it is anything but. He uses grainy elements and distortion better than anyone else I have heard before, timing the movement changes to absolute perfection. Les Arbres is a fantastically developed work, with amazing string sections coming in with lightly moving beats and micro-rhythms on a bed of beautiful noise. Its impossible to define the work (both solo and collaborative) he does, but this only adds to the excitement of future releases. I am left with little doubt that Nicolas is fast developing into one of the most important producers/artists around today. 08. Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry Shpwrck (Experimedia) This unbelievably productive duo continue to grow and amaze me with their work. I had never heard any of their (solo or collaborative) works until Jeremy and I got in contact nearly a year ago now. In this time, I have become firm friends with Jeremy, and apart from being an amazing photographer, Jeremy also co-runs the rather excellent Experimedia label with Jason. Experimedia, apart from being a netlabel, are now focusing on releasing some excellent artists in their uniquely packaged CD series. This might sound like I am trying to promote friends as well as the label I am on, but the truth is Jeremy and Jason are my favourite artists of the past year and I feel honoured to be friends with them and on their label. Musically, the first work I heard was Jeremy's debut release, excellently titled 'I Am Very Uncomfortable Most Of The Time'. Its just another one of those releases which causes me to scratch my head and wonder how one person can imagine something so detailed and broad, crossing and breaking boundaries as if they never existed in the first place. However, the past year, as a unit, they have released some of the most jaw-dropping 'ambient' (that word again) work I have ever come across. The music they make is never small it seems, but always big and brave. I have chosen Shpwrck as my favourite of their albums for the simple reason that it goes to so many places and works on so many levels. At times very dark, moments of beautiful light simmer through, and the way they use multiple levels of frequency creates a broad and complete listening experience. Each track differs significantly in tone and feel, yet it moves with such a fluidity, by the time the album ends you feel exhausted on the journey they have taken you on. A very fine album and body of work indeed. 09. Miko Parade (Plop) OK, to be honest I met Rie (Miko) just yesterday at one of my shows after inviting her along. I heard her music a while ago through a Plop connection and was thoroughly enchanted by what I had heard. She very kindly gave me a copy of her debut album (just released) and its been on non-stop since. This might seems a bit hasty as this is a whole year's review and I have listened to the other releases a lot more. However, its just like listening to a Japanese female version of His Name Is Alive or The Beach Boys and you can't go wrong with that. Whilst it is not breaking ground as this style is very popular now (Panda Bear, Buffalo Daughter, Caribou, The Animal Collective etc.), it is head and shoulders above other (more famous) artists in that Miko's melodies seem more original, her instrumentation more pure and her musical spirit more soulful. There is a directness and invention I really admire, and it feels fresh and more fun than any record I have heard this year. Delightful. 10. Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry Ound (Abgurd) OK, so when I started out this list I said I wouldn't double up. But the simple truth is, I find JB & JH's work too compelling to ignore it from my list of 2008, so I am listing another. Ound is really very different from Shpwrck. There is less variation, less tonal changes and less instrumentation. In its place there is a more focused approach to the feel of the pieces for me, its less of a journey than Shpwrck but no worse for that at all. If anything, this is Jeremy and Jason making music at its most beautiful and I have to confess that Undta moved me to tears. Perhaps I can say nothing more as to how highly I rate this album as a stripped down to its core, pure and very moving experience. Jason Haye | Project 5am Albums of 2008 Cut copy In Ghost Colours TV on the radio Dear Science Inara George An Invitation Daedelus Love To Make Music To The Matthew Herbert Big Band There is me, There is you Urichipangoon Urichipangoon Deerhoof Offend Maggie Shina Ringo Heisei Fuuzoku Classic albums of 2008 Talk Talk Spirit of Eden Mayo Thompson Corky's Debt to His Father Hugo Largo Drum/Mettle Deerhoof Milkman Amnesty Free your mind, The 700 west sessions New Thing! Deep Jazz in the USA Soul Jazz records Sound and visual moments of 2008 Dedication Sakuran The diving bell and the butterfly Gigs of 2008 Fleet Foxes Saul Williams Tv On The Radio Matthew Herbert Inara George Van Dyke Parks Cornelius Urichipangoon Jimy SeiTang | Psychic Ills João Mascarenhas | Stealing Orchestra Secret Chiefs 3 Xaphan: The Book of Angels, Vol. 9 Guapo Elixirs Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes The Black Angels Directions to See a Ghost The Young Gods Knock on Wood James Yorkston When the Haar Rolls In Gojira The Way of the Flesh Earthless Live at Roadburn Black Mountain In the Future Mothlite The Flax of Reverie Matt Elliott Howling Songs The Hellacopters Head On Goldfrapp Seventh Tree Eyvind Kang The Yelm Sessions Bad Dudes Eat Drugs Spiritualized Songs In A & E Portishead 3 Karl Hector & The Malcouns Sahara Swing Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema Sebastien Tellier Sexuality Cursed - III Architects Of Troubled Sleep Toumani Diabaté The Mandé Variations Natacha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble Ana Hina Mostar Sevdah Reunion & Saban Bajramovic Saban Dead Combo Lusitania Playboys João Pedro Viegas | Woods / Potlatch / Variable Geometry Orchestra  Shot × Shot Let Nature Square (High Two) Rob Brown Ensemble Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM Fidelity) Anthony Braxton / William Parker / Milford Graves Beyond Quantum (Tzadik) Vandermark 5 Beat Reader (Atavistic) Atomic Retrograde (Jazzland) Spontaneous Music Ensemble Bare Essentials (1972/3) (Emanem) Chris McGregor Brotherwood of Breath Eclipse at Down (Cuneiform) Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur (Thrill Jockey) Lisle Ellis Sucker Punch Requiem: A Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Henceforth Records) Gyldene Trion Live at Glenn Miller Café (Ayler Records) João Ricardo | ocp - operador de cabine polivalente / Pygar / Boiar / F.R.I.C.S. Barry White Staying Power Count Ossie Tales of Mozambique D'Angelo Voodoo Konono nº1 Congotronics Microstoria Snd OlivierDaySoul Kilowatt Serge Gainsbourg Aux Armes Et Caetera Spacek Curvatia Stevie Wonder Innervisions Wendy Carlos Beauty In The Beast BJNilsen Concerto na CdM, Porto (festival Future Places) Olivier Messiaen concertos de órgão de tubos no Porto (centenário do nascimento do compositor) Herbie Hancock concerto no Palácio de Cristal, Porto Einsturzende Neubauten concerto na CdM, Porto (clubbing) Osso Exótico concerto (festival Trama, Porto) John Fell Ryan | Excepter  01. Hercules and Love Affair 02. Kasai All Stars 03. Basic Channel mp3s 04. Thirty-second Annual Report TG 05. Jaws Guilty 06. GAS Box 07. Schooly D Out Cold 08. Rod Modell Incense & Blacklight 09. Bob Dylan Bootleg 08 10. Suicide Live Box John Hebert | Andrew Hill Quintet / Russ Lossing / Michael Attias / Gebhard Ullmann / Uri Caine Ensemble
I was asked to compile a list of CD's that I thought were my favorites of 2008. When I really started to think about it, I felt that this sounded more like a critic's job, so I decided to just put together a list of CD's that I have been listening to most recently and over the course of this year. These are recordings that have offered me some inspiration and good times. Some of these are very recent, others from the past, but all of them I have enjoyed. Hope that you will too. John Moloney | Sunburned Hand of the Man
In no particular order: Jorge Mantas | The Beautiful Schizophonic Discos: Górecki Symphony No. 3 (Elektra Nonesuch) Felicia Atkinson with Sylvain Chauveau Roman Anglais (O Rosa records) Jacaszek Treny (Miasmah) Jasper TX Black Sleep (Miasmah) Eluvium Copia (Temporary Residence) Celer Discourses of the Withered (Infraction Records) Khale Sleepworks (Own Records) Jordi Savall Invocation à la Nuit: Musica Notturna (Alia Vox) Jordi Savall La Barcha D'amore 1563 - 1685 (Alia Vox) Grandelavoix / Bjorn Schmelzer Poissance d'amours: Mystiques, Moines et Ménestrels en Brabant au XIIIe Siècle Jozef van Wissem - A Rose by Any Other Name: Anonymous Lute Solos of the Golden Age (Bvhaast) Concerto: Charlemagne Palestine + Colleen @ Sé Catedral, Lisboa Jorge "Travassos" Trindade | kringlescat / FLU / Variable Geometry Orchestra  Melhores 2008: Paal Nilssen Love / Lasse Marhaug Stalk (PNL) The Thing Now and Forever (Smalltown Superjazz) Peter Evans / Tom Blancarte Sparks (Creative Sources) Elephant9 Dodovoodoo (Rune Grammofon) Maybe Monday Unsquare (Emanem) Atomic/School Days Distil (Okka) Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Hakon Kornstad Elise (Hemlandssånger-Compunctio) John Zorn The Dreamers (Tzadik) Memorize The Sky In Former Times (Clean Feed) Alfred 23 Harth / Hans Joachim Irmler / Gunter Muller Test Tribes (for4ears) Stephen Vitiello Box Music (Machinefabriek) Fennesz Black Sea (Touch) Reedições: Peter Brötzmann Die Like a Dog, The Complete FMP Recordings (Jazzwerktatt) Ornette Coleman Croydon Concert (Free Factory) Charles Gayle Touching on Trane (Jazzwerktatt) Mike Osborne Trio All Night Long (Ogun) Sam Rivers Extensions / Elevations (Blue Note) Juan José Calarco Christopher Mcfall City Of Almost (Sourdine) Matt Shoemaker - Mutable Depths (Ferns) Entia Non - Updrafts (Dataobscura) David Vélez - 20:51 (Test Tube) Francisco López - Live In Auckland (Monotype) Robert Curgenven - Silent Landscapes (Recorded Fields) Meshuggah - Obzen (Nuclear Blast) Benediction - Subconscious Terror / The Grand Leveller (Nuclear Blast) Re-Issue Loren Chasse - The Footpath (Naturestrip) Richard Garet - L'avenir (Wind Measure Recordings) Tô - U.N.A. (Cook An Egg) David Fungi - Aal_Sentieri (Test Tube) Jeph Jerman - Hindsight (Con-V) Jason Kahn & Asher - Vista (And/Oar) Asher - Intervals (The Land Of) Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness (Crucial Balst) Mathias Delplanque - L'inondation (Mystery Sea) Loren Chasse & Michael Northam - The Otolith (Helen Scarsdale Agency) Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer - Mesoscaphe (Spekk) Náhvalur - Aboideau (Mystery Sea) Behemoth - The Apostasy (Century Media) Stephen O'malley & Atilla Csihar - 6°F Skyquake (Emego) Toy Bizarre And Pierre Redon - Saisons (Aufabwegen) (in the ramdon order as they came to my head) Ludo Maas | Multi-Panel Best Books I Read 01. Dave Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity 02. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 03. Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union 04. Halldór Laxness Independent People 05. J.J. Voskuil (1926-2008) Bij Nader Inzien ('On Second Thought') Most Memorable Sports Moments 01. Nadal beats Federer in Wimbledon final 02. Robben scores 3-1 against France in Euro 2008 03. NAC Breda finishes 3rd in Dutch League 04. Van Bronckhorst scores 3-0 against Italy in Euro 2008 05. John-Lee Augustyn crashes into a ravine in Stage 16 of the Tour de France Luis Antero | Out Level Aqui fica a lista dos meus 10 discos de 2008 (a ordem é aleatória): The Dodos Visiter (Frenchkiss, Março 2008) Lykke Li Youth Novels (LL, Janeiro 2008) Dead Combo Lusitânia Playboys (Universal, Abril 2008) Silver Jews Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City, Junho 2008) Primal Scream Beautiful Future (WEA Int'l, Julho 2008) The Black Angels Directions To See A Ghost (Light In The Attic, Maio 2008) Alexander Tucker Portal (All Tomorrows Parties, Julho 2008) Tiago Sousa The Western Lands (Resting Bell, Abril 2008) High Places 03/07 - 09/07 (Thrill Jockey, Julho 2008) Girl Talk Feed The Animals (Illegal Art, Novembro 2008) The Black Mountain In The Future (Jagjaguwar, Janeiro 2008) No Age Nouns (Sub Pop, Maio 2008) Concerto: Leonard Cohen, Passeio Marítimo de Algés, 19 Julho 2008 Luís Fernandes | Astroboy / peixe : avião  Sem qualquer tipo de ordem, os discos que mais me agradaram em 2008 foram: Internacionais: Squarepusher Just a Souvenir Beach House Devotion The Alps III Deerhunter Microcastle/Weird era cont. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Flying Lotus Los Angeles Pete Broderick Float Deerhoof Offend Maggie Fennesz Black Sea Portishead Third High Places High Places Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Samiyam Return EP No Age -Nouns Beck Modern Guilt Leila Blood, Looms and Blooms Stereolab Chemical Chords Brightblack Morning Light Motion to Rejoin Hauschka Ferndorf Nacionais: Mikado Lab Baligo Mão Morta Maldoror Foge Foge Bandido O amor dá-me tesão/Não fui eu que estraguei :papercutz Lylac Dead Combo Lusitania Playboys Margie Wienk | Fern Knight  Top Ten Records 2008: Roy Harper Stormcock (1971, re-issued 2008 Science Friction/KOCH Entertainment) Arborea Arborea (Fire Museum) Rusalnaia Rusalnaia (Camera Obscura) Silver Summit Silver Summit (Language of Stone) Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh (Drag City) Graveyard Graveyard (Tee Pee) Death Vessel Nothing is Precious Enough For Us (SubPop) Ex Reverie The Door Into Summer (Language of Stone) Jex Thoth Jex Thoth (I Hate) Flower Travellin’ Band We Are Here (Pony Canyon) - Japan Miguel Ferreira | Clã / Jorge Palma & os Demitidos / Blind Zero  Aimee Mann @#%&*! Smilers Al Green Lay it Down Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the Light Brad Mehldau Trio Live Brightblack Morning Light Motion to Rejoin Calexico Carried to Dust Camané Sempre de Mim Clã + Jorge Palma Convite (Movimento UPA 08) Deolinda Canção ao Lado Dr. Dog Fate Eef Barzlay Loose Big Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes J.P. Simões + Rodrigo Leão Ele é que Não (Movimento UPA 08) Jakob Dylan Seeing Things Lambshop OH (Ohio) Little Joy Little Joy Marcelo Camelo Sou Neil Diamond Home Before Dark Paul Weller 22 Dreams Randy Newman Harps and Angels Rita Redshoes Golden Era She & Him Volume One Toumani Diabaté Mandé Variations TV On The Radio Dear Science Vetiver Thing of the Past Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Two Men with the Blues Miguel Meruje | Organic Anagram Concertos: Meshuggah Astoria 2 Benga Fabric Carcass LU Billy Club Sandwich Underworld TRC Purple Turtle RZA (Wu) O2 Hype Fabric Last Witness Barfly Satyricon ULU Dalek Fly Grind em 2008: Origin Rotten Sound Fuck The Facts Agoraphobic Nosebleed Cretin As únicas bandas de black metal que vale a pena continuar a ouvir: Burzum Darkthrone Mayhem Gorgoroth 1349 Satyricon Top de Piores Nomes que Descobri Hoje Clinging To The Trees of a Forest Fire I Wrestled a Bear Once 2 O' Clock Girlfriend A Night to Dismember A Different Breed of Killer Bodies in the Gears of Apparatus Begging For Incest Last House On The Left Massacre of the Umbilical Cord My America Is Watching Tigers Die Pitbulls In The Nursery School Girl Night Fight See You Next Tuesday We Speak Texan Wicked Pussy From The Wild West X Ray of a Graveyard Duck Duck Goose The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower I Set My Friends on Fire Miguel Onofri | Mezzo Alva Noto Unitxt + south american tour Mauricio Kagel 1931 Buenos Aires - 2008 Cologne Ryuta Kawabata south american tour Mike Weis | Zelienople / Good Stuff House 01. Scott Tuma Not For Nobody (CD on Digitalis) Finally, a new solo album. Wasn't so sure it would happen again and then he surprised everyone with this masterpiece of stretched-out, blurred American music. Very spiritual and heartbreakingly beautiful. Soundtrack for the stairway to Heaven. 02. Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (LP on Type) Perfect mix of clarity and obscurity. I spent many hours this year submersed in this album. Heavy Water gets my vote for song of the year. 03. Aethenor Betimes Black Cloudmass (LP on VHF) The addition of the two drummers is a godsend. Reminds me of that great Organum track that AMM's Eddie Prevost adds drums to on the Sphyx album. Looking forward to more of this. 04. Xela In Bocca Al Lupo (LP on Type) Bleak, sparse and creepin' around in the dank, dark catacombs of the cathedral. Kinda makes me feel icky, I love it. 05. Thuja s/t (LP on Important) The mysteries of the deep woods, very Lynchian from one of the most imaginative collectives of our time. 06. Fire Room Broken Music (CD on Atavistic) Free Jazz meets Free Noise and neither genre drowns out the other. Ken Vandermark on reeds, Paul Nilssen-Love on drums and Lasse Marhaug on electronics. Vandermark cuts himself loose from his Ornette safety net. 07. Common Eider, King Eider Figs, Wasps, and Monotremes (CD on Root Strata) Rob Fisk's (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit, ex-Deerhunter) new solo project. The sound of a frozen landscape; sometimes blissfully serene, sometimes a blustery ice storm. 08. The Blithe Sons The Great Orthochromatic Wheel (LP on Family Vineyard) The Blithe Sons most structured album yet. The influence of Donaldson's Ivytree project spills over into one side of the LP with gorgeous, loose ambient pop songs. The other side is like a rustic Morton Feldman. 09. Svarte Greiner Penpals Forever (Cassette on Digitalis) An outstanding grasp of a personal aesthetic. Not sure if his music is improvised or not. If so, he's got an incredible control over the end result, rather than just the process which makes a lot of improvised music seem cold. 10. Windy & Carl Songs for the Broken Hearted (LP on Kranky) Now that the avant-garde are making shoegaze albums it's nice that this duo made a comeback to show 'em how it's really done. It's all about emotion, heart before head. 11. The North Sea Gated Community (CD on Root Strata) Brad Rose puts away his banjo, picks up the electronics and reveals his dark side. I imagine the apocalypse happening only in Gated Communities. Other Mentions: Ulaan Kohl - Volumes 1 and 2, Valet - Naked Acid, Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance, William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune, Sun Kil Moon - April, The Fun Years - Baby It's Cold Outside, Loren Chasse - The Footpath, Emeralds - Solar Bridge, Ilyas Ahmed - Vertigo of Dawn, John Davis - The Gold Hooped Nature, Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals. Notable Live Sets: Henry Grimes Trio, Why?, Metal Rouge, Dead C, Mats Gustafsson's The Thing, Vandermark 5, Fred Anderson Trio, Deaf Center, Svarte Greiner, Xela, Tara Jane O'Neil, Yellow Swans, Odawas, Mountains, Mike Tamburo, Josh Abrams/Jeff Parker, Bruce Lamont, Spiritualized, Spires in The Sunset That Rise, Peter Brotzmann, Phil Cohran, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra Nadine Khouri  On rotation in 2008 (though I have yet to listen to the new Nick Cave, Mogwai, and many more!) Elbow Seldom Seen Kid F. Lunaire Mondestrunken E.P Anni Rossi Afton E.P Dark Captain Light Captain Miracle Kicker Adrian Crowley Long Distance Swimmer Meanwhiles Slow-Motion Summer Dot Tape Dot Tomavistas Portishead Third Jeremy Warmsley How We Became Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Naomi Elizabeth Here are my favorite records from 2008, in no particular order: Yellow Tears The Pissmop LP (Hospital Productions) Nuno Moita | Grain of Sound / Ristretto / Gigantiq / Whit Peter Shuy | AbztraQt Sir Q Made in Mexico Guerillaton Bohren & Der Club of Gore Dolores AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Clinic Do it! Wild Beasts Limbo, panto Meredith Monk Impermanence Of Montreal Skaletal Lamping Cut Copy In Ghost Colours An Albatross The Family Album Juana Molina Un Dia Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Hot Chip Made In The Dark White Denim Workout Holiday Foals Antidotes Crystal Castles Crystal Castles Vivian Girls Vivian Girls Indian Jewelry Free Gold Tv on the Radio Dear Science Metronomy Nights Out Ponytail Ice Cream Spiritual Peter Stenberg Over to my list: Ten excellent albums from 2008, in alphabetical order: Angel Kalmukia Audrey The Fierce and the Longing Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers Human Bell Human Bell Jenny on the Planet For Markus Krunegård Markusevangeliet Ossler Ett brus Summons of Shining Ruins Summons of Shining Ruins Tape Luminarium Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons And as a bonus, I'll remember 2008 as the year when I discovered Morton Feldman. Rodrigo Amado
Novidades: Sara Serpa  Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen Bill Frisell History, Mistery Kurt Rosenwinkel The Remedy Brad Mehldau Trio Live Akiko Pavolka Trust Aqua André Matos Rosa-Shock Leo Genovese Unlocked Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Greg Osby 9 Levels Rasmus Stolberg | Efterklang Rico Puestel | Dinamoe Sebastian Alvarez | Spirit Elevating Brains / Wanderlust Tiago Sousa
Foi um ano essencialmente dedicado a descobrir música dos anos 60/70 ou a descobrir música do final do século 19 mas como para estas listas é esperado que façamos boa figura a afirmar o nosso alinhamento com a contemporaneadade, aqui vai uma pequena lista de discos deste ano que me chamaram a atenção. Discos: Brethren of the Free Spirit All things are from him, through him and in him James Blackshaw Litany of Echoes Paul Metzger Delieverance Balmorhea River Arms Goldmund The malady of elegance Sylvain Chauveau Nuage Concertos: Glenn Jones na ZDB Colleen, Charlmemagne Palestine e David Maranha na Sé de Lisboa No Snow na ZDB Vic Chesnutt no AMAC (Barreiro Outras Músicas) Norberto Lobo no AMAC (Barreiro Outras Músicas) Shannon Wright no Santiago Alquimista Paul Metzger na Casa de Los Jacintos (Madrid) Tony Conrad no Auditório do Louvre (Paris) Tara Jane O'Neil no Mercado Negro (Aveiro) |
