Dear friends,
2011 has been a great year for music lovers. Amongst several other beauties I have listened to, this is a personal selection of 27 records released these last twelve months which I played regularly on my turntable or through my headphones. These records blew me away, they made me sad, they kept me happy, they were beside me as I traveled, made love, walked, cooked or slept. They helped me to stay alive in more ways than one and I wanted to send my warm thanks to all the artists below.
I hope you'll enjoy these albums as much as I did.
Loads of love for 2012,
Be well, be crazy,
F. xx
2011 has been a great year for music lovers. Amongst several other beauties I have listened to, this is a personal selection of 27 records released these last twelve months which I played regularly on my turntable or through my headphones. These records blew me away, they made me sad, they kept me happy, they were beside me as I traveled, made love, walked, cooked or slept. They helped me to stay alive in more ways than one and I wanted to send my warm thanks to all the artists below.
I hope you'll enjoy these albums as much as I did.
Loads of love for 2012,
Be well, be crazy,
F. xx
In alphabetical order :
ARBOREA : 'Red Planet' CD - Strange Attractors Audio House
BARN OWL : 'Shadowland' EP & 'Lost In The Glare' LP - Thrill Jockey
BEN FROST & DANIEL BJARNASON : 'Solaris' CD - Bedroom Community
COLIN JOHNCO : 'Neo Love' Free Download - SuRRism Phonoetics
COLIN STETSON : 'New History Warfare Vol. 2 : Judges' LP - Constellation
DEAF CENTER : 'Owl Splinters' LP - Type
DUSTIN O'HALLORAN : 'Lumiere' LP - Fat Cat
EARTH : 'Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light I' 2xLP - Southern Lord
ESMERINE : 'La Lechuza' LP - Constellation
FAREWELL POETRY : 'Hoping For The Invisible To Ignite' LP+DVD - Gizeh Records
JOHANN JOHANNSSON : 'Miners Hymns' 2xLP - Fat Cat
JULIANNA BARWICK : 'The Magic Place' LP - Asthmatic Kitty
KOUYATE-NEERMAN : 'Skyscrapers And Deities' CD - No Format
LEONARDO ROSADO & BIRDS OF PASSAGE : 'Dear And Unfamiliar' LP - Denovali Records
MARISSA NADLER : 'Marissa Nadler' LP - Box Of Cedar Records
MATANA ROBERTS : 'COIN COIN Chapter One : Gens De Couleur Libres' LP - Constellation
PEDRO SOLER & GASPAR CLAUS : 'Barlande' CD - Infine
PETER BRODERICK : 'Music For Confluence' CD - Erased Tapes
RICHARD KNOX & FREDERIC D. OBERLAND : 'The Rustle Of The Stars' LP - Gizeh
SLEEPING DOG : 'With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields' LP - Gizeh
TIM HECKER : 'Ravedeath 1972' 2xLP - Kranky
TINDERSTICKS : 'Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009' 5xLP - Constellation
VARIOUS ARTISTS : 'Kanshin' 2xCD - Hibernate Recordings / Fluid Audio / Facture
VARIOUS ARTISTS : 'Un Diable Sur Le Tympan - Live at Saint-Merry Church' Free DL - Facture
WINTER FAMILY : 'Red Sugar' 2xLP - Sub Rosa / Alt.vinyl
XELA : 'Exorcism' Free DL - Type
Photography by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.
'Music-room with broken piano' from the book 'The Ruins of Detroit'.
'Music-room with broken piano' from the book 'The Ruins of Detroit'.