Favourites of 2009
AI ASO: aida (PSF records) CD
ALAN COURTIS & AARON MOORE: Brokebox Juke (No-Fi) LP
ANDREW COLTRANE: In Dreams We Channel The Flight Of The Blind (905 tapes) CSx2
BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA: I speak Fula (Outhere) CD
BILL DIXON: Weight/counterweight (Broken Research) 2xLP
BLACK TO COMM: Alphabet 1968 (Type) CD
BORAH BERGMAN TRIO: Luminescence (Tzadik) CD
C. LEI LIANG: Brush Strokes (Mode) CD
C. PETER GARLAND: String quartets (Cold Blue) CD
CALIFONE: All my friends are funeral singers (Dead Oceans) CD
CHAS SMITH: Nakadai (Cold Blue) CD
CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS: Last cicada singing (Cold Blue) CD
CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS: Trio for deep voices (Cold Blue) CD
COURTIS, GENOVART, KURZMANN & RECHE: Palmar Zähler (Mikroton)
DUANE PITRE: ED09 for string/wind ensemble, live at Roulette (Quiet Design) CD
EMERALDS: What Happened (No Fun) CD
FRANCO & LE TP OK JAZZ: Francophonic Vol 2 (Sterns) CDx2
GREG KOWALSKY: Tape Chants (Kranky) CD
GROUP BOMBINO: Guitars from Agadez Vol. 2 (Sublime Frequencies) LP
GROUP DOUEH: Treeg Salaam (Sublime Frequencies) LP
HIVE MIND: Cities in Bronze (Chondritic Sound) CSx2
JASON KAHN: Vanishing Point (23five) CD
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: The place we began (Cold Blue) CD
KABEMIMI IV: Desired dog (No Label) CDRx2
KEVIN DRUMM: Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions) CD
KING TUBBY & THE CLANCY ECCLES ALL STARS: Sound system international dub (Pressure Sounds) CD
LEE PATTERSON: Seven vignettes (Shadazz) CD
LEYLAND KIRBY: Sadly, the future is no longer what it was (History Always Favours The Winners) CDx3
LOREN CONNORS & JIM O'ROURKE: Two Nice Catholic Boys (Family Vineyard) CD
MAMANE BARKA: Introducing… (World Music Network) CD
MARY HALVORSON, REUBEN RADDING & NATE WOOLEY: Crackleknob (Hathut) CD
MICHAEL TENZER: Let others name you (New World Records) CD
MULATU ASTATKE/THE HELIOCENTRICS: Inspiration information (Strut) CD
NAOAKI MIYAMOTO: Me no Tawamure (Hitorri) CD
NILS OKLAND: Monograph (ECM) CD
ORCHESTRE POLYRYTMO DE COTONOU: Echoes Hypnotiques (Analogue Africa) CD
RACHEL GRIMES: Book of Leaves (Karate Body Records) CD
RADIO KIJADA: Nuevo sondios Af’ro Peruanos (Wrasse) CD
RADU MALFATTI & KLAUS FILIP: Imaoto (Erstwhile) CD
RICHARD GARET & BRENDAN MURRAY: Of Distance (Unframed) CD
SOPHIE AGNEL: Capsizing Moments (Emanen) CD
SPIRACLE: Ananta (Helen Scarsdale Agency) CDx2
STAFF BENDA BILILI: Tres tres fort (Crammed) CD
STELIOS PETRAKIS: Orion (Buda Musique)
SUN ARAW: Heavy Deeds (Not Not Fun) CD
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU: Touching down lightly (Creative Sources) CD
TETUZI AKIYAMA & TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA: Semi-impressionism (Spekk) CD
THELONIUS MONK QUARTET: The Last Concerts (Rare Live Recordings) CDx2
TINARIWEN: Imidiwan (Independiente) CD
TOUKASEIBUNSHI: Meta-Inorganicmatter Meta-Newlon (PSF Records) CD
VA: An anthology of Chinese experimental music (Sub Rosa) CDx3
VA: Can you dig it? (Soul Jazz) CDx2
VA: Improvised Music from Japan 2009 (IMFJ) CDx3
VA: Legends of Benin (Analogue Africa) CD
VA: Panama! 2 (Soundway) CD
VA: Red (Lona Records) CDx3
VA: The Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapa (Ocora) CD
VA: Tumbélé – Biquine, afro and latin sounds from the French Carribean 1963-1974 (Soundway) CD
VANESSA ROSSETTO: Dogs in English porcelain (Music Appreciation) CDR
WHITE: S/T (Maybe Mars) CD
XIAO HE: The performance of identity (Maybe Mars) CDx2
YAN JUN: Wormhole Trip (Kwanyin) CD
