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Cross-posted to A Stable Reference

You know the drill, just like the 70s, 80s, and 90s lists. Too much good stuff, so unfortunately knocked off were Christian Scott, Hiromi, Robert Glasper, Steve Lehman, Drew Gress, Brad Mehldau, Susie Ibarra, The Bad Plus, as well as a bunch of great big bands (Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra, Exploding Star Orchestra) and European groups (Polar Bear, Led Bib, Acoustic Ladyland, Portico Quartet, The Thing, Zu, Esbjörn Svensson Trio). Also unfortunately cut were albums by veterans leading young bands including Wayne Shorter's fantastic album Beyond The Sound Barrier with his new quartet featuring Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, and John Patitucci, as well as Charles Lloyd's Rabo de Nube with the quartet of Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland.

Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths - Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (2009 hatOLOGY)
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My favourite albums of 2011:

I didn't include live albums, compilations and classical music.

01. peter evans quintet - Ghosts
02. Matthew Halsall - On the Go
03. The Thing with Jim O'Rourke - Shinjuku Growl
04. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
05. Side A - A New Margin
06. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
07. Carsten Dahl Experience - Metamorphosis
08. Charalambides - Exile
09. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
10. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
11. David S. Ware - Planetary Unknown
12. Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Miners' Hymns
13. Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - Unreleased?
14. Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings
15. Swedish Azz - Azz Appeal
16. Darius Jones Trio - Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)
17. Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
18. Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Marble Son
19. Grails - Deep Politics
20. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
21. Six Organs Of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain
22. Masami Akita, Mats Gustafsson & Jim O'Rourke - One Bird Two Bird
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full report available here (incl. last.fm account for playing/user identifying)

this week at top...
The Residents +
Morton Feldman

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http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/images/8/86/Characteristic_experimental_artists_-_last.fm.png

also in list:
Sun Ra
John Zorn
Russian Circles
Coil
Moondog
Mogwai
John Cage
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

these groups were included so far:
Experimental
Experimental Music
Experimental Music Society
Experimentalists
60s experimental
Avant Garde Experimentalists
Experimental Norway
Experimental Southeast
Experimental UK Bands
Experimental Cafe
Experimental/Underground
República Experimental de Chile
after experimental music
Post/Progressive/Experimental
Progressive Thrash-Avantgarde-Experimental-Jazz-Fusion Metal
Post Rock and Experimental music from Russia and ex USSR
Experimental art
Experimental Audio Research
Hip-Hop, Noise, Experimental, and anything Crazy


tags:
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full report available here (incl. last.fm account for playing/user identifying)

this week at top...
The Residents +
Morton Feldman

(click image to see more)

http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/images/8/86/Characteristic_experimental_artists_-_last.fm.png

also in list:
Sun Ra
John Zorn
Russian Circles
Coil
Moondog
Mogwai
John Cage
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

these groups were included so far:
Experimental
Experimental Music
Experimental Music Society
Experimentalists
60s experimental
Avant Garde Experimentalists
Experimental Norway
Experimental Southeast
Experimental UK Bands
Experimental Cafe
Experimental/Underground
República Experimental de Chile
after experimental music
Post/Progressive/Experimental
Progressive Thrash-Avantgarde-Experimental-Jazz-Fusion Metal
Post Rock and Experimental music from Russia and ex USSR
Experimental art
Experimental Audio Research
Hip-Hop, Noise, Experimental, and anything Crazy


tags:
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This mix was made with the treats /tricks in the form of songs, sent to me by the wonderful folk from the Monthly Mixtape Group, for the character I picked to dress up as for Halloween.

It's all about Dustfinger, the fire-eater from Cornelia Funke's Inkheart Trilogy


http://depleti.com/pics/dfan/dustfinger.jpg
artwork by Sarah Schanze

Dustfinger, The Firedancer

01. The Books - Beautiful People (yodel)
02. Spoon - The Book I Write (wallabyted)
03. Tiny Letters - Busker Blues (candeecandee)
04. Vivian Stanshall - Ginger Geezer (muzikizum)
05. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns (Calaveth)
06. Clan Of Xymox - Evelyn (Artephiusfm)
07. John Zorn - Hellfire (vitreus)
08. Butthole Surfers - Dust Devil (noddyvantinking)
09. The Prodigy - Spitfire (sjp123abc)
10. Liars - Mr. Your On Fire Mr. (cthulubelle)
11. These New Puritans - Fire-Power (01010100)
12. Trampled By Turtles - Burn for Free (jonny_m)
13. Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie - Dust (blackadder_de)
14. The New Pornographers - Streets Of Fire (Marko_the_odd)
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Cross-posted to A Stable Reference

Same deal with my 70s and 80s list, not a definitive best of, just good stuff. Again, good stuff cut, so no albums by Myra Melford, Gerry Hemingway, Chris Cheek, Michael Brecker, Danilo Perez, Marty Ehrlich, Butch Morris, Don Byron, Jon Jang, David Binney, Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra, or The Vandermark 5. Also cut was the posthumous Charles Mingus Epitaph album, an over two hour work utilizing a 30-piece orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis, John Abercrombie, George Adams, Randy Brecker, John Handy, and Bobby Watson, as well as Trey Anastasio's unusual one off side project Surrender to the Air, an avant-garde jazz group featuring Sun Ra alums Marshall Allen and Michael Ray, John Medeski from Medeski, Martin & Wood, and guitarist Marc Ribot, which is, obviously, much different from his better known jam-/folk-rock work with Phish and his solo albums.

Ask The Ages - Sonny Sharrock (1991 Axiom)
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Rock-A-Rolla back issues are available to order now! Issue 30 features:

Earth, The Skull Defekts, OVO, Tim Hecker, Six Organs Of Admittance, Mugstar, Igorrr, Machinefabriek, Iroha, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Broughton’s Rules
Plus album reviews: Mogwai, Agalloch, Anal Cunt, Aethenor, The Austrasian Goat, Arbouretum, The BellRays, Faust, Caroline, Black Lung, COH, Conquering Animal Sound, Crowbar, Console, Julie Christmas, Disappears, Deerhoof, Germanotta Youth, FM Einheit, Mark Fell, Dukatalon, Foetus, Brian Eno, Gay for Johnny Depp, Goatvargr, Jono El Grande, k11, Killing The Dream, Lean Left, Free Fall, Bruce Lamont, Phil Manley, House of Low Culture, Lords of Falconry, MAMUTHONES, Lasse Marhaug, Matta, J Mascis, Monotonix, Mitochondrion, Modified Toy Orchestra, My Disco, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Papaye, Paris Suit Yourself, Royal Thunder, Parlour, Parts & Labor, Rabbits, Marcus Schmickler, Sun City Girls…

Tal como aconteceu no ano passado, esta não pretende ser a lista daqueles que, para mim, foram os melhores álbuns de 2011, mas antes uma ordenação qualitativa de tudo quanto ouvi este ano. Nesse sentido institui um sistema de qualificação em dois planos: um geral, constituído por cinco níveis (de A a F), e um outro, respeitante a cada um desses cinco, constituído por outros três (de A a C).
Desta forma penso tornar-se mais óbvio aquilo que penso em relação a cada título, procurando atenuar diferenças entre, por exemplo, o primeiro e o último álbum classificados com AA, e realçá-las entre, por exemplo, o último álbum com a classificação AA e o primeiro com AB.
Gostos à parte, procurei ouvir cada título as vezes suficientes para formar uma opinião e, nos últimos tempos, tornei a ouvi-los seguindo a ordenação que aqui apresento:

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001 John Adams, Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet (Nonesuch; Música contemporânea, Música de câmara);
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