some music that made 2013

I compile this list throughout the year.  Releases I return to for multiple listens throughout the year stay on the list.

Jürg Frey “unhörbare zeit” perf. Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim, Chris Nappi, others @ Willow Place, Brooklyn

antoine beuger 24 preludes for guitar (edition wandelweiser)

beuger/frey dedalaus (potlatch)

girls names the new life (Slumberland)

eva maria houben lost in dreams – piano works (Edition Wandelweiser) & works for piano perf R Andrew Lee (irritable Hedgehog)

sean nicholas savage other life (Arbutus)

keith rowe/graham lambkin making a (Erstwhile)

Primitive Motion worlds floating by (Bedroom Suck)

rmillis relief (Helen Scarsdale Agency)

Stephen Cornford, Samuel Rodgers boring embroidery (Cathnor)

Danny Paul Grody Between Two Worlds (Three Lobed Recordings)

Raum The Event of Your Leaving (Glass, House)

Eliane Radigue Naldjorlak I II III (Shiin)

Stefano Scodanibbio Reinventions (ECM)

special nepotism category:

anne guthrie/richard kamerman sinter (Erstwhile)

what, I’m not supposed to list this hallucinatory album by my wife and our best friend and frequent collaborator.  come on.

CFYR – another year of extreme and wild output from richard’s Copy For Your Records label.  There’s good chance this kind of thing “isn’t yr kind of thing” but if you think it is you ought to be paying attention.

SOD – most of what Alex Cobb’s Students of Decay has pressed this year would be on the above list, John Davis’ Ask The Dust in particular is the kind of album that I listen to for years.  In a format such as this, I’d be remiss to note that Alex & I are quite good friends, he’s commissioned video works from me, and is releasing Anne’s next solo LP.  That said, this year’s releases by Aquarelle, Ekin Fil, and Secret Pyramid are all really exceptional albums in the realm of “music I listen to.”