au revoir 2009

everyone else is doing it, so, best of 2009, vaguely by genre:

John Davis There’s Always Tomorrow (Students of Decay)
Dropp Ensemble Safety (either/OAR)
Jim Denley & Kim Myhr Systems Realignment (either/OAR)
Marble Sky The Sad Return (Students of Decay)
Celer Brittle (Low Point)
Ryonkt Small Conversations (Experimedia)
Solo Andata Solo Andata (12k)
Molly Berg + Stephen Vitiello The Gorilla Variations (12k)
Jasper Leyland Sediments (mOAR download)
Aquarelle Slow Circles (Rest + Noise)
Mark Templeton Inland & Acre Loss (Anticipate)
Group Bombino Guitars from Agadez vol 2 (Sublime Frequencies)
Seymour Wright & Sebastian Lexer Blasen (Another Timbre)
Barry Chabala an unrhymed chord (for 25 acoustic guitars) (composed by Michael Pisaro) (Confront)
Junior Boys Begone Dull Care (Domino)
Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea (Matador – technically from 2008)
Richard Youngs Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster Records)
Thee Oh Sees Help (In the Red)
Jacek Sienkiewicz Modern Dance (Cocoon)
Matias Aguayo Ay Ay Ay (Kompakt)
Shackleton Three EPs (Perlon)
Tetuzi Akiyama & Toshimaru Nakamura Semi-Impressionism (Spekk)
David Rafn Sustentacula (Rasbliutto)

special “erstwhile ruled my 2009” category:
Burkhard Stangl & Kai Fagaschinski Musik – Ein Porträt in Sehnsucht
Christof Kurzmann & Burkhard Stangl Neuschnee
Keith Rowe & Sachiko M Contact
Radu Malfatti & Klaus Filip Imaoto

Hope Sandoval live in Dallas
Evan Parker solo @ The Stone, trio w/Nate Wooley & Chris Corsano

Thanks to Dale Lloyd, Jeremy Bible and Justin Hardison.
Thanks to Anne, Richard and the incredible musicians we met, played, and crashed with in August.