SONICBEET.COM2009 top 20
At first the idea was to select top 10 or even top 5. Then it grew into two lists: top N + honorable mention N. But who am I to decide who deserves to be in the first list and who couldn’t make it. It is bad enough I had to make a choice from over 150 albums from 2009 I had listened to. Hence it is top 20 in usual alphabetical order. Check these records out and Happy New Year!
- Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy “Some Other Place” (Maya)
- Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi “Friendly Pants” (Family Vineyard)
- Allen Toussaint “The Bright Mississippi” (Nonesuch)
- Andy Milne / Benoit Delbecq “Where Is Pannonica?” (Songlines)
- David Sylvian “Manafon” (Samadhisound)
- Fire! (Mats Gustafsson / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin) “You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago” (Rune Grammofon)
- Gordon Grdina’s East Van Strings “The Breathing of Statues” (Songlines)
- Iggy Pop “Preliminaries” (EMI)
- Joachim Kuhn & Michael Wollny “Live At Schloss Elmau” (ACT)
- Matthew Shipp “Nu Bop Live” (Rai Trade)
- Mike Patton “Crank High Voltage” (Lakeshore Records)
- Minamo (Carla Kihlstedt / Satoko Fujii) “Kuroi Kawa ~ Black River” (Tzadik)
- Offonoff “Slap And Tickle” (Smalltown Superjazz)
- Parched “Arc” (RareNoiseRecords)
- Sajjanu “Pechiku!!” (Tzadik)
- Sax Ruins “Yawiquo” (Ipecac Recordings)
- Seabrook Power Plant “Seabrook Power Plant” (Loyal Label)
- Sim + Otomo “Monte Alto Estate” (doubt music)
- The Thing “Bag It!” (Smalltown Superjazz)
- Zu “Carboniferous” (Ipecac)
