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Credit @ HIDEKI in Equal10 (End date : 5th July)

"CREATION GACHA"

HIDEKI - SKYBOX RARE

HIDEKI - NEON DARTS SET

HIDEKI - ARTISTIC PIANO

HIDKEI -PIANO CHAIR

HIDEKI - ELECTRIC GUITAR

HIDEKI - MUSIC EQUIPMENT

HIDEKI - POSTERS

HIDKEI - ACOUSTIC PAITED GUITAR

HIDEKI- WORKING SCENE RARE

HIDEKI - WORKING SCENE FRAMES

HIDEKI - AMP

HIDEKI - ELECTRIC GUITAR

HIDEKI - WHITE CHAIR

HIDEKI - PLANT AND BIRD 2

HIDEKI - PAINTED TABLE

HIDEKI - ALIEN HEAD

HIDEKI - ORC HEAD

HIDEKI - ARTISTIC EASEL

HIDEKI - PLANT AND BIRD 1

HIDEKI - DOG

HIDEKI - PUPPY

HIDEKI - ELECTROACOUSTIC GUITAR

HIDEKI - OLC CAMERA

HIDEKI - CELLO CORNER ART

HIDEKI - OLD BED

HIDEKI - STAIR

The centre of the ‘Mirror Field’ audio-visual installation is the symbol of the Tree of Life, which is found in most religions and mythologies of the world. The Babyn Yar tragedy shows how easily this tree can be destroyed, and its branches broken.

The structure is made of stainless steel, the podium is in the form of a mirror disk with a diameter of about 40 meters, with 10 columns of 6 meters high installed on it. The columns and the disk were shot through by bullets of the same caliber that the Nazis used during execution in Babyn Yar.

  

During the day, the sky is reflected in it. At night, the light and the sound of memory pass through the bullet holes, and rays fall from the tops of the columns into the sky.An electroacoustic pipe organ of 24 pipes is built into the podium. An algorithm for translating the names of the victims into sound was developed especially for this pipe organ. Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet has its own number. According to the gematria principle, the names of the victims have been translated into numbers, which, in turn, set the pitch of the sound. The combination of audio waves of the name numbers creates a common sound composition.The main background is overlaid with archival recordings of pre-war Kyiv, unique Yiddish songs of the 1920s and 1930s from the collections of the National Library named after V. Vernadsky restored by the Institute for Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Choral and Memorial Christian music, Ukrainian and Roma Memorial songs, works by contemporary Ukrainian composers are performed.

The centre of the ‘Mirror Field’ audio-visual installation is the symbol of the Tree of Life, which is found in most religions and mythologies of the world. The Babyn Yar tragedy shows how easily this tree can be destroyed, and its branches broken.

The structure is made of stainless steel, the podium is in the form of a mirror disk with a diameter of about 40 meters, with 10 columns of 6 meters high installed on it. The columns and the disk were shot through by bullets of the same caliber that the Nazis used during execution in Babyn Yar.

  

During the day, the sky is reflected in it. At night, the light and the sound of memory pass through the bullet holes, and rays fall from the tops of the columns into the sky. An electroacoustic pipe organ of 24 pipes is built into the podium. An algorithm for translating the names of the victims into sound was developed especially for this pipe organ. Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet has its own number. According to the gematria principle, the names of the victims have been translated into numbers, which, in turn, set the pitch of the sound. The combination of audio waves of the name numbers creates a common sound composition.The main background is overlaid with archival recordings of pre-war Kyiv, unique Yiddish songs of the 1920s and 1930s from the collections of the National Library named after V. Vernadsky restored by the Institute for Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Choral and Memorial Christian music, Ukrainian and Roma Memorial songs, works by contemporary Ukrainian composers are performed.

Kyiv. ‘Babyn Yar’. The ‘Mirror Field’ audio-visual installation.

 

The centre of the ‘Mirror Field’ audio-visual installation is the symbol of the Tree of Life, which is found in most religions and mythologies of the world. The Babyn Yar tragedy shows how easily this tree can be destroyed, and its branches broken.

The structure is made of stainless steel, the podium is in the form of a mirror disk with a diameter of about 40 meters, with 10 columns of 6 meters high installed on it. The columns and the disk were shot through by bullets of the same caliber that the Nazis used during execution in Babyn Yar.

  

During the day, the sky is reflected in it. At night, the light and the sound of memory pass through the bullet holes, and rays fall from the tops of the columns into the sky. An electroacoustic pipe organ of 24 pipes is built into the podium. An algorithm for translating the names of the victims into sound was developed especially for this pipe organ. Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet has its own number. According to the gematria principle, the names of the victims have been translated into numbers, which, in turn, set the pitch of the sound. The combination of audio waves of the name numbers creates a common sound composition.The main background is overlaid with archival recordings of pre-war Kyiv, unique Yiddish songs of the 1920s and 1930s from the collections of the National Library named after V. Vernadsky restored by the Institute for Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Choral and Memorial Christian music, Ukrainian and Roma Memorial songs, works by contemporary Ukrainian composers are performed.

Renowned electroacoustic music artist Tia Rungray and ambient maestro Yorihisa Taura have collaborated to unveil an enchanting remix of Teppei Kitano's mesmerizing track "Campagne."

 

Prepare to be captivated by their latest creation: "Bread (Yorihisa Taura . Tia Rungray Remix)."

Learn more: www.virtuality.blog/tia-rungray-and-yorihisa-taura-releas...

📍 Tokyo, Japan sets the stage for this groundbreaking musical endeavor. 🇯🇵

 

[ an apocalyptic poem ]

  

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# music: miles davis [w/ john coltrane]

Today has just been one of those days when I want to turn the music up high and just go about my life. But when I try to do that.. welp, Chaos! I hope you are all having a great Monday.. I will keep trying.

 

In my post you will see SOME of the gacha from HIDEKI and you can still play this gacha @ Equal 10

 

HIDEKI - ARTISTIC PIANO LI:3

HIDEKI - CELLO CORNER ART LI:14

HIDEKI - DOG LI:7

HIDEKI - DRAWER LI:16

HIDEKI - ELECTRIC GUITAR LI:6

HIDEKI - ELECTROACOUSTIC GUITAR LI:4

HIDEKI - LAMP LI:4

HIDEKI - MUSIC EQUIPMENT LI:10

HIDEKI - NEON DARTS SET LI:8

HIDEKI - OLD BED LI:15

HIDEKI - PAINTED TABLE LI:1

HIDEKI - PLANT AND BIRD 2 LI:8

HIDEKI - POSTERS LI:2

HIDEKI - PUPPY LI:7

HIDEKI - SKYBOX RARE LI:13

HIDEKI - WHITE CHAIR LI:4

HIDEKI - WHITE SOFA LI:14

HIDEKI - WORKING SCENE FRAMES LI:4

HIDKEI - ACOUSTIC PAITED GUITAR LI:3

HIDKEI -PIANO CHAIR LI:2

 

I have a few items from THOR's Early Summer Gacha from the June round of Kustom 9

 

.::THOR::.. Enamel Mug White LI:1

..::THOR::.. Nectarines LI:1

..::THOR::.. Summer Goodies - RARE LI:3

 

And a couple of items from my NEW Sponsor Serenity Style

 

Serenity Style- Sady Records Box PLAID PATTERN LI:1

Serenity Style- Sady Vintage Record Player YELLOW LI:2

 

Other items making up my Chaotic Monday!

 

Atelier Burgundy . Old Books LI:1

Kalopsia - Poppy's Music Sheets LI:2

KraftWork Round Rugs . Crochet Mix 2 LI:4

Nutmeg. Disarray Old Jar Plant LI:4

Nutmeg. Not too shabby flats, Black LI:1

Nutmeg. Pencil Sketches LI:3

Nutmeg. Tidy Pastels Clock Rust LI:1

Pitaya - Flowing curtains 01 SHEER LI:8

Pitaya - Flowing curtains 02 SHEER LI:6

Pitaya - Flowing curtains 03 SHEER LI:2

The Dodekalitten("Dode" = 12, "Kalit = stone) is a work of art under construction at Glentehøj (Kragenæs) on Lolland in southern Denmark. It's located so you have a great view of the Småland Sea about 300 m from the coast. The work consists of a circle of 12 planned stone pillars. Each stone is 7-9 meters high, with the upper 2 meters carved as heads. Randomly generated electroacoustic music sounds from the circle's seat stones during the daylight hours.

 

The basic idea behind the work of art was created by composer Gunner Møller Pedersen and sculptor Thomas Kadziola. Gunnar Møller Pedersen came up with the legend of the Lollers, a fictional people that links the work of art to a notion of the people who immigrated to Lolland about 7,500 years ago.

 

Currently 11 out of the total 12 figures are raised, and the work is planned to be completed in 2026.

  

B/W Conversion using Silver Efex Pro.

You'll have to forgive me. In the process of taking today's photo, I trod on and broke my glasses. So I can't even be sure if this is in focus or not... :-(

 

Lighting: 580EXII (full power) to camera left. 430EX (1/2 power) to camera right (illuminating guitar). Fired with eBay radio triggers.

Night is Paper is a cinepoetic collaboration with novelist Dr Thom Conroy. The artistic process began with a series of images generated in Midjourney. The images prompted a sequence of text-based fragments which combine to evoke a sense of eves-dropping into a shadowy, indistinct world where nothing can be fully understood. A mix of found sounds and electroacoustic music from the Free Music Archive build upon this mood of unexplained mystery.

 

Join us on June 10 at 12 pm SLT for a truly mesmerizing experience! Tia Rungray, an exceptional electroacoustic music artist, will be performing live at Thonis in The Akipelago, Second Life. Immerse yourself in a world where ancient ruins and futuristic sounds collide, creating a captivating symphony like no other.

Don't miss out on this innovative and engaging event!

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Complete event information: www.virtuality.blog/event/concert-or-performance-enchanti...

 

The Dodekalitten("Dode" = 12, "Kalit = stone) is a work of art under construction at Glentehøj (Kragenæs) on Lolland in southern Denmark. It's located so you have a great view of the Småland Sea about 300 m from the coast. The work consists of a circle of 12 planned stone pillars. Each stone is 7-9 meters high, with the upper 2 meters carved as heads. Randomly generated electroacoustic music sounds from the circle's seat stones during the daylight hours.

 

The basic idea behind the work of art was created by composer Gunner Møller Pedersen and sculptor Thomas Kadziola. Gunnar Møller Pedersen came up with the legend of the Lollers, a fictional people that links the work of art to a notion of the people who immigrated to Lolland about 7,500 years ago.

 

Currently 11 out of the total 12 figures are raised, and the work is planned to be completed in 2026.

 

B/W Conversion using Silver Efex Pro.

May 13th at 11 am SLT

 

Join us for an unforgettable musical experience at The Color Alchemists'

 

Grand Opening on May 13th at 11 am SLT! Tia Rungray, an electroacoustic music project self-produced by Noami Takayuki, will grace the event with his original compositions of 'noise classical' music.

 

Don't miss out on this unique blend of various genres!

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Color%20Alchemists/96/138/...

 

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Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The population of Aix-en-Provence is approximately 145,000. Its inhabitants are called Aixois or, less commonly, Aquisextains.

 

History

 

Aix (Aquae Sextiae) was founded in 123 BC by the Roman consul Sextius Calvinus, who gave his name to its springs, following the destruction of the nearby Gallic oppidum at Entremont. In 102 BC its vicinity was the scene of the Battle of Aquae Sextiae, where the Romans under Gaius Marius defeated the Ambrones and Teutones, with mass suicides among the captured women, which passed into Roman legends of Germanic heroism.

 

In the 4th century AD it became the metropolis of Narbonensis Secunda. It was occupied by the Visigoths in 477. In the succeeding century, the town was repeatedly plundered by the Franks and Lombards, and was occupied by the Saracens in 731 and by Charles Martel in 737. Aix, which during the Middle Ages was the capital of Provence, did not reach its zenith until after the 12th century, when, under the houses of Barcelona/Aragon and Anjou, it became an artistic centre and seat of learning.

 

Aix passed to the crown of France with the rest of Provence in 1487, and in 1501 Louis XII established there the parliament of Provence, which existed until 1789. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the town was the seat of the Intendance of Provence. Current archeological excavations in the Ville des Tours, a medieval suburb of Aix, have unearthed the remains of a Roman amphitheatre. A deposit of fossil bones from the Upper Continental Miocene gave rise to a Christian dragon legend.

 

Geography and climate

 

Aix-en-Provence is situated in the south of France, in a plain overlooking the Arc river, about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) from the right bank of the river. The city slopes gently from north to south and the Montagne Sainte-Victoire can easily be seen to the east. Aix's position in the south of France gives it a warm climate, though more extreme than Marseille due to the inland location. It has an average January temperature of 6 °C (43 °F) and a July average of 24 °C (75 °F). It has an average of 300 days of sunshine and only 58 days of rain. While it is partially protected from the Mistral, Aix still occasionally experiences the cooler and gusty conditions it brings.

 

Like most of the south of France, Aix-en-Provence has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa).

 

Sights

 

The Cours Mirabeau is a wide thoroughfare, planted with double rows of plane trees, bordered by fine houses and decorated by fountains. It follows the line of the old city wall, and divides the town into two sections. The new town extends to the south and west; the old town, with its narrow, irregular streets, and its old mansions dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, lies to the north. Situated on this avenue, which is lined on one side with banks and on the other with cafés, is the Deux Garçons, the most famous brasserie in Aix. Built in 1792, it was frequented by the likes of Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola and Ernest Hemingway. On 3 November 2019, Les Deux Garçons was devastated by a fire that engulfed the entire building, leaving the much loved establishment just a shell.

 

The Cathedral of the Holy Saviour (Aix Cathedral) is situated to the north in the medieval part of Aix. Built on the site of a former Roman forum and an adjacent basilica, it contains a mixture of all styles from the 5th to the 17th century, including a richly decorated portal in the Gothic style with doors elaborately carved in walnut. The interior contains 16th-century tapestries, a 15th-century triptych depicting King René and his wife on the side panels, as well as a Merovingian baptistery, its Renaissance dome supported by original Roman columns. The archbishop's palace (Palais de l'Archêveché) and a Romanesque cloister adjoin the cathedral on its south side. The Archbishopric of Aix is now shared with Arles.

 

Among its other public institutions, Aix also has the second most important Appeal Court (Palais de Justice) outside of Paris, located near the site of the former Palace of the Counts (Palais des Comtes) of Provence.

 

The Hôtel de Ville (town hall), a building in the classical style of the middle of the 17th century, looks onto a picturesque square (Place de l'Hôtel de Ville). It contains some fine woodwork and tapestries. At its side rises a handsome clock-tower, erected in 1510.[16] Also on the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville is the former Corn Exchange (1759–1761) (Halle de Grains). This ornately decorated 18th-century building was designed by the Vallon brothers. Nearby are the remarkable thermal springs, containing lime and carbonic acid, that first drew the Romans to Aix and gave it the name Aquae Sextiae. A spa was built in 1705 near the remains of the ancient Roman baths of Sextius.

 

South of the Cours Mirabeau is the Quartier Mazarin. This residential district was constructed for the gentry of Aix by Archbishop Michele Mazzarino brother of Cardinal Jules Mazarin in the last half of the 17th century and contains several notable hôtels particuliers. The 13th-century church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte contains valuable pictures and a recently restored organ. Next to it is the Musée Granet, devoted to European painting and sculpture.

 

Aix is often referred to as the city of a thousand fountains. Among the most notable are the 17th-century Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins (Fountain of the Four Dolphins) in the Quartier Mazarin, designed by Jean-Claude Rambot, and three of the fountains down the central Cours Mirabeau: at the top, a 19th-century fountain depicts the "good king" René holding the Muscat grapes that he introduced to Provence in the 15th century; halfway down is a natural hot water fountain (34 °C), covered in moss, dating back to the Romans; and at the bottom, at la Rotonde, the hub of modern Aix, stands a monumental fountain from 1860 beneath three giant statues representing art, justice and agriculture. In the older part of Aix, there are also fountains of note in the Place d'Albertas and the Place des Trois-Ormeaux.

 

Aix is the birthplace of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. A walking trail links sites including his childhood home, Jas de Bouffan, and his former studio, Atelier Cézanne. The white limestone mountain Sainte-Victoire overlooks the city and was a frequent subject of Cézanne's works.

 

Education

 

Aix has long been a university town: Louis II of Anjou granted a royal charter for a university in 1409. Today Aix-en-Provence remains an important educational centre, with many teaching and research institutes:

 

Arts et Métiers ParisTech, an engineering graduate school that settled a campus in the city in 1843. This teaching and research center (CER) let the students attend courses focused on industrial and mechanical engineering.

 

Aix-Marseille University, consisting of the faculty and former campuses of:

 

University of Provence Aix-Marseille I, specialising in the humanities.

Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II, specialising in economics.

Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III, specialising principally in law, economics, political science and administration.

 

Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence (IEP) is part of France's network of political studies universities, often referred to as "Sciences Po".

 

Institut de l'Aménagement Régional, an institute in the Université Paul Cézanne for town and country planning.

 

The American College of the Mediterranean (ACM), an American-style degree-granting institution with programs in art, art history, business, communication, French language and culture, international relations, psychology and many others. ACM also includes a study abroad institute for undergraduates, IAU College.

 

Aix also has several training collèges, lycées, and a college of art and design. It has also become a centre for many international study programmes. Several lycées offer CPGE.

 

Culture

 

Music

 

Aix holds two significant musical events each year. These are:

 

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

 

An important opera festival, the Festival international d'Art Lyrique, founded in 1948, now ranks with those in Bayreuth, Salzburg and Glyndebourne. The director until 2018 was Bernard Foccroulle, organist and director of la Monnaie in Brussels. The festival takes place in late June and July each year. The main venues in Aix itself are the outdoor Théâtre de l'Archévêché in the former garden of the archbishop's palace, the recently restored 18th-century Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, and the newly built Grand Théâtre de Provence; operas are also staged in the outdoor Théâtre du Grand Saint-Jean outside Aix. Linked to the festival is the Académie européenne de musique, a summer school for young musicians with master classes by celebrated artists. Over the four-year period from 2006 until 2009, Sir Simon Rattle's version of Wagner's Ring Cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic was performed at the Aix festival. The current director of the festival is Pierre Audi.

 

Musique dans la Rue

 

This takes place each year in June to coincide with the national 'Fête de la Musique.' There is a week of classical, jazz, and popular concerts held in different street venues and courtyards in the city. Some of these events are held in the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, named in honour of the French composer, a native of Aix.

 

Dance

 

The dance company Ballet Preljocaj of the French dancer and choreographer Angelin Preljocaj has been located in Aix since 1996. In 2007 it took up residence in the Pavillon Noir, a centre for dance performance, designed in 1999 by the architect Rudy Ricciotti. The centre is one of nineteen of its kind in France, designated Centre chorégraphique national.

 

European Capital of Culture

 

Aix-en-Provence was part of Marseille-Provence 2013, the year-long cultural festival when the region served as the European Capital of Culture. Aix hosted several major cultural events including one half of the Grand Atelier du Midi gala exhibition and an episode of the Révélations pyrotechnical performance. The city also unveiled major new cultural infrastructure to coincide with Marseille-Provence 2013, including the Darius Milhaud Conservatory designed by Kengo Kuma.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The local Aix dialect, rarely used and spoken by a rapidly decreasing number of people, is part of the provencal dialect of the Occitan language. The provencal for "Aix-en-Provence" is "Ais de Prouvènço" [ˈaj de pʀuˈvɛ̃sɔ]. Most of the older streets in Aix have names in both Provençal and French.

 

Aix hosted the ninth International Congress of Modern Architecture in 1953.

 

Aix is the home town of the rugby union team Provence Rugby. It played host to the All Blacks during the early stages of the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

 

Ysabel, the tenth novel of the best-selling Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, was set and written in Aix.

 

Italian electroacoustic artist Giuseppe Ielasi's album Aix[49] was produced in Aix-en-Provence, hence the title.

 

This is also the site of an alleged sighting and landing of a UFO in 1981 that is taken seriously by GEIPAN, the department within the French Space Agency responsible for investigating aerospace phenomena.

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Aix-en-Provence [ˌɛksɑ̃pʀɔˈvɑ̃s] (okzitanisch Ais oder Ais de Provença) ist eine französische Universitätsstadt im Département Bouches-du-Rhône in der Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur und historische Hauptstadt der Provence. Die Stadt umfasst eine Fläche von 18.608 Hektar. Rund 40.000 der 147.933 Einwohner (Stand 1. Januar 2022), die man Aixois nennt, sind Studenten. Als Unterpräfektur des Départements ist Aix, wie die Stadt kurz genannt wird, Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Arrondissements.

 

Aix ist Sitz eines katholischen Erzbischofs. Bischofskirche ist die Kathedrale Saint-Sauveur (Heiliger Erlöser) (siehe unten). Siehe auch Erzbistum Aix und Liste der Erzbischöfe von Aix.

 

Geografie

 

Aix liegt etwa 15 Kilometer westlich des Bergs Sainte-Victoire in einer Senke, die durch die Flüsse Arc und Torse geformt wurde.

 

Mit einem Stadtgebiet von 18.608 Hektar ist Aix flächenmäßig die elftgrößte Kommune des französischen Mutterlands. Das Gemeindegebiet umfasst allerdings eine Vielzahl an Dörfern in der näheren Umgebung wie Les Milles, Luynes, Puyricard, Célony, Couteron, Les Granettes sowie die neueste Ansiedlung La Duranne. 6219 ha der Fläche gelten als bewaldet.

 

Klima

 

Das Klima ist mediterran mit heißen, trockenen Sommern und milden, sonnigen Wintern. Die im Norden gelegenen Hügelketten (Luberon und Trévaresse) bieten einen gewissen Schutz vor dem gefürchteten Mistral. Die mittlere Temperatur schwankt zwischen 6,5 °C im Januar und 24 °C im Juli. Gelegentlich fällt die Temperatur unter den Gefrierpunkt im Winter und steigt über 40 °C im Sommer. Hier ist die geografische Lage in einer Senke von Nachteil, da die Kaltluft gefangen bleibt. Im Herbst sind heftige Gewitter möglich. Größere Mengen an Schneefall im Winter sind selten, aber nicht ausgeschlossen.

 

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

 

Der stetige Bevölkerungszuwachs seit dem 19. Jahrhundert ist im Wesentlichen auf die Zuwanderung von Teilen der Landbevölkerung (Landflucht) infolge der Reblauskrise im Weinbau und der zunehmenden Mechanisierung der Landwirtschaft zurückzuführen.

 

Geschichte

 

Antike

 

Im vierten Jahrhundert vor Christus wurde die südliche Westprovence von keltisch-ligurischen Volksstämmen beherrscht. Auf dem Gebiet von Aix lebte der Stamm der Salluvier, der das nah gelegene Oppidum Entremont zu seiner Hauptstadt erklärte. Die in Massalia angesiedelten Griechen lebten lange Zeit friedlich mit den Einheimischen und brachten diesen Teile ihrer hochentwickelten Kultur bei. Im 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. fühlten sie sich von dem benachbarten Stammesbündnis jedoch zunehmend bedroht und riefen die verbündeten Römer zu Hilfe. Der Prokonsul Gaius Sextius Calvinus besetzte 123 v. Chr. die Provence und ließ Entremont zerstören. Der Feldzug diente gleichzeitig zur Sicherung des Landwegs in die spanische Provinz. Zur Konsolidierung der römischen Herrschaft auf dem eroberten Gebiet errichtete Calvinus ein Jahr später um eine bekannte Thermalquelle herum einen Festungswall und gründete damit die erste römische Stadt auf gallischem Boden, Colonia Aquae Sextiae Salluviorum. Aus dieser Namensgebung hat sich die heutige Bezeichnung Aix entwickelt.

 

Um die Stadt herum entstand die Provinz Gallia Narbonensis, deren Hauptstadt ab 118 v. Chr. jedoch die Colonia Narbo Martius wurde. Am Fuße des Mont St. Victoire in der Umgebung der Stadt kam es im Jahr 102 v. Chr. zur berühmten Schlacht von Aquae Sextiae, bei der das römische Heer unter Befehl von Feldherr Marius die Teutonen und Ambronen vernichtend besiegte. Der Sieg hatte großen Anklang bei der einheimischen Bevölkerung, was Marius beim provenzalischen Volk für lange Zeit den Titel „Sohn des Landes“ bescherte. Aufgrund ihrer verkehrsgünstigen Lage an der Via Aurelia wuchs die Stadt sehr schnell und wurde dank ihrer heilenden Thermalquellen zu einem beliebten Kurort. Unter Kaiser Augustus entwickelte sich Aquae Sextiae zur römischen Kolonie, 15. v. Chr. bekamen die Einwohner das römische Bürgerrecht.

 

In Aquae Sextiae wurde eine Weiheinschrift für einen ansonsten unbekannten Gott Accorus aufgefunden.

 

Residenz der Grafen und des „guten Königs René“

 

Dank der Reichsreform von Kaiser Diokletian stieg Aquae Sextiae im 3. Jahrhundert zur Hauptstadt der Provinz Narbonensis Secunda auf und machte damit der mächtigen Nachbarstadt Arles Konkurrenz. Erst recht spät, gegen Ende des 4. Jahrhunderts, entwickelte sich die Stadt zu einem Bischofssitz. Nach dem Aufstieg zum Erzbistum in karolingischer Zeit unterstanden ihr die Suffragane Sisteron, Apt, Riez und Fréjus. In der Folgezeit war sie immer wiederkehrenden Germanen- und Sarazenenangriffen ausgesetzt, die zu schweren Zerstörungen führten. Zu Beginn des zwölften Jahrhunderts war die Stadt Hauptort der Provence. Die Grafen der Provence regierten in Aix ab 1182 als Vasallen des römisch-deutschen Kaisers und gründeten einen erlesenen Kunst- und Literaturhof. Im Bereich des heutigen Rathauses und Justizpalastes entstand die Ville Comtale, die „gräfliche Stadt“. Dem aufstrebenden Bürgertum wurde von den Grafen das Recht zur Selbstverwaltung eingeräumt. In den darauf folgenden zweihundert Jahren erlitt Aix einige schwere Rückschläge durch plündernde Raubritter und die schwarze Pest von 1348. Nach der Nichtanerkennung Ludwigs von Anjou als legitimem Nachfolger von Königin Johanna belagerte dieser die Stadt und ließ nach der Einnahme einen großen Teil des Stadtgebietes zerstören.

 

Bereits unter Raimund Berengar V. und zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Häusern der Anjou erlebte die Stadt einen Aufschwung. Es kam zu einer Verdopplung der Stadtfläche.[2] Ludwig II. belohnte Aix 1409 mit der Gründung der Universität Aix, da die Stadt endlich das jüngere Haus Anjou anerkannte. Ihre Blütezeit erreichte sie jedoch erst Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts unter Herrschaft des „guten Königs René“, der Aix 1471 zu seiner Altersresidenz wählte. Unter René entwickelte sich die Stadt zu einem bedeutenden Wirtschaft- und Kulturzentrum. Er galt als Mäzen zahlreicher Künstler, wie etwa Nicolas Froment, die durch ihr Wirken zur Verschönerung der Stadt beitrugen. Den Hofstaat und das Volk unterhielt er mit Festen, Spielen und Ritterturnieren. Mit seinem Tod 1480 ging die glanzvolle Epoche von Aix zu Ende. Graf Karl von Maine vermachte die bis dahin unabhängige Grafschaft der französischen Krone.

 

Goldenes Zeitalter und Wiedererweckung

 

Trotz der Degradierung zur Provinzhauptstadt blieb die Stadt relativ autonom und genoss als Sitz des königlichen Gouverneurs viele Privilegien. 1501 schuf Ludwig XII. in Aix das Parlement der Provence, ein oberster Gerichtshof, von dem aus die Provinzregierung geführt wurde.[1] Das Parlement war bei der Bevölkerung nicht sehr beliebt und galt zusammen mit der Rhone und dem Mistral als eine Geißel der Provence. 1546 wurde die Stadt von einer fürchterlichen Pest heimgesucht, die so schlimm gewesen sein soll, dass sie den Namen Charbon provençal („provenzalische Kohle“) erhielt, da die Betroffenen nach wenigen Tagen so schwarz wie Kohle wurden. Im siebzehnten und achtzehnten Jahrhundert durchlebte Aix ein goldenes Zeitalter und galt in diesem Zeitraum als eine Stadt der Feste und Ausschweifungen. Es wurden große Prunkalleen wie der Cours Mirabeau angelegt und prachtvolle Stadtpalais errichtet. 1646 entstand das Quartier Mazarin mit edlen barocken Wohnsitzen der Amtsadligen und Parlamentarier, die heute noch das Stadtbild prägen. Am 27. September 1790 trat das Parlement vor seiner Auflösung zum letzten Mal zusammen. Einige Jahre später wurde Aix zu einer Unterpräfektur herabgestuft.

 

Mit dem Aufstieg von Marseille zum regionalen Zentrum und zur Hauptstadt des neu geschaffenen Départements Bouches-du-Rhône verlor Aix seinen politischen Einfluss und seine Bedeutung als Universitätsstadt. Die von Ludwig II. gegründete Universität verlor einige ihrer Fakultäten. Das Parlement wurde zu einem Gerichtsgebäude umfunktioniert. Die Stadt zog aber weiterhin Künstler, Dichter und Schriftsteller an. Aix blieb vom Zweiten Weltkrieg weitgehend verschont. In den 1950er und 1960er begann die Wiedererweckung der Stadt, die sich seit dem 19. Jahrhundert in einer Art Dornröschenschlaf befunden hatte. Nach dem Algerienkrieg und der Unabhängigkeit des Landes siedelten sich in Aix wie in anderen Städten des Südens viele nach Frankreich zurückgekehrte Algerienfranzosen (Pieds Noirs) an, denen muslimische Einwanderer aus den Maghrebstaaten folgten. Die Bevölkerung wuchs daher rasant und es entstanden Großwohnsiedlungen am Stadtrand. Die Stadt wurde zum Anziehungspunkt von Studenten. Ab 1970 entwickelten sich Hightech-Ansiedlungen an der Universität. Zudem führte die Stadt eine dem Tourismus zuträgliche Altstadtsanierung durch.

 

Seit 1948 findet alljährlich im Sommer das Festival d’Aix-en-Provence statt.

 

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

 

Altstadt

 

Die Altstadt gliedert sich in einen römischen und einen mittelalterlichen Stadtkern. Zentrale Anlaufstellen sind die Cathédrale St-Sauveur und der Place de l’Hôtel de Ville. Über die Rue Espariat gelangt man zunächst zum 1675 entstandenen Hôtel Boyer d’Éguilles, in dem das Musée d’Histoire Naturelle mit seinen versteinerten Dinosauriereiern untergebracht ist. Schräg gegenüber dem Eingang befindet sich der Place d’Albertas, der als einer der schönsten Plätze von Aix gilt[5] und der 1745 von einer Parlamentarierfamilie als private Terrasse erbaut wurde. Die Fassaden dienen im Sommer als Hintergrundkulisse für Konzerte (Aix en Musique). Über die Rue Aude und Rue Maréchal Foch gelangt man zum Place Richelme, wo jeden Morgen ein Gemüsemarkt stattfindet. Auf dem Place de l’Hôtel de Ville weiter nördlich findet man hingegen einen Blumenmarkt. Der Giebel der ehemaligen Kornhalle aus dem 18. Jahrhundert wird von personifizierten Darstellungen der männlichen Rhône und der weiblichen Durance geschmückt. Die Kornhalle wird heute von der Post und der Bibliothek genutzt. An der Westseite des Rathausplatzes befindet sich das zwischen 1655 und 1671 erbaute Hôtel de Ville mit Barockfassade. Den gepflasterten Innenhof erreicht man durch ein schönes kunstgeschmiedetes Tor. Der angrenzende Tour de l’Horloge diente als Stadttor und wurde auf römischen Fundamenten errichtet. In dem Uhrturm aus dem Jahr 1510 schlägt eine astronomische Uhr. Der Rathausplatz und der daneben befindliche Place des Cardeurs mit seinem ansehnlichen Keramikbrunnen wird von vielen Cafés gesäumt, die als beliebte Studententreffpunkte dienen.

 

Über die Rue Gaston de Saporta gelangt man zum römischen Stadtteil, wo im Hôtel d’Estiennes de St-Jean das Heimatmuseum untergebracht ist. Etwas weiter nördlich steht der ehemalige Erzbischofspalast aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Sein Innenhof dient alljährlich im Sommer als Schauplatz des internationalen Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. An den Palast schließen sich die Kathedrale Saint-Sauveur mit Kreuzgang und frühchristlichem Baptisterium sowie die ehemalige juristische Fakultät an. Am westlichen Ende der Altstadt befinden sich in einem 1990 komplett umgestalteten Badekomplex die schon bei den Römern bekannten Thermalquellen Les Thermes Sextius.

 

Im östlichen Teil der Altstadt liegt der imposante Palais de Justice, der Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts das Schloss der Provencegrafen ersetzte. Unweit des nach Plänen von Claude-Nicolas Ledoux entworfenen Justizpalastes befindet sich die Église de la Madeleine. Die Kirche ist ein barocker Bau und enthält das berühmte Triptychon der Verkündung. Bei dem unbekannten Meister des Werkes handelt es sich wahrscheinlich um den flämischen Maler Barthélemy d’Eyck.

 

Cours Mirabeau und Quartier Mazarin

 

Die Prachtmeile Cours Mirabeau südlich der Altstadt ist nach dem Schriftsteller und Politiker Graf Gabriel-Honoré de Mirabeau benannt, der 1789 von den Bürgern der Stadt zum Abgeordneten des Dritten Standes in den Generalständen gewählt wurde.[6] Die Platanenallee war 1649 anstelle der alten Stadtmauer als Flanierboulevard für Karossen angelegt worden und stellt die Verbindung zwischen dem „Mazarin-Viertel“ im Süden und der Altstadt im Norden dar. Das Mazarin-Viertel wurde im 17. Jahrhundert von Bischof Michel Mazarin als schachbrettartig angelegtes Wohnviertel für den Aixer Adel entworfen. Sehenswert sind unter anderem das Hôtel de Caumont, welches das Darius-Milhaud-Konservatorium beherbergt, der Place des Quatre Dauphins mit dem 1667 entstandenen Delfin-Brunnen und das Musée Paul Arbaud mit seiner Sammlung provençalischer Fayencen.

 

Als Hauptachse der Stadt wird der Cours Mirabeau durch die beiden Brunnen Fontaine du Roi René im Osten und der Fontaine de la Rotonde im Westen begrenzt. Der Rotonde-Brunnen wurde 1860 errichtet und wird von drei Statuen gekrönt, die die Justiz (entlang des Cours Mirabreau blickend), die Landwirtschaft (nach Marseille blickend) und die Schönen Künste (nach Avignon gerichtet) darstellen. Die Südseite des Cours Mirabeau wird von eleganten Adelshäusern und alten Hotels aus dem 17. und 18. Jahrhundert mit reich dekorierten Eingangsportalen und schmiedeeisernen Balkonen gesäumt. Auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite reihen sich vornehme Geschäfte, Buchläden und Cafés aneinander. Das berühmteste Café ist das der Deux Garçons, das als Treffpunkt vieler berühmter Literaten und Künstler wie etwa Émile Zola, Paul Cézanne, Jean Giraudoux, Blaise Cendrars oder Jean Cocteau galt. Am Ende des Cours Mirabeau befindet sich auch die Kirche der Mission und Kloster der Oblatenmissionare. Das ehemalige Karmeliterinnenkloster ist der Gründungsort der Kongregation der Oblaten. Der heilige Eugen von Mazenod, dessen Geburtshaus sich ebenfalls am Cours Mirabeau befindet, gründete die Gemeinschaft 1816.

 

Aix zählt für die Franzosen zu den Städten mit der höchsten Lebensqualität. Insbesondere der Schwerpunkt für Kunst und Kultur sowie das studentische Angebot an Bars und Diskotheken machen den Reiz der Stadt aus. Berühmt sind auch die Calissons.

 

(Wikipedia)

Arrived last Saturday, first three chords (almost) mastered, so time for some photos.

Faith Venus HiGloss, FVHG

"POOLSATION

SC Pool / Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka

Poolsation going on at the skate pool! we've started the new residency - an exploratory sound performance of a body in movement. with creative team: skater, visual artist and musician, Sergej Vutuc; engineer of electroacoustics, musician and music producer, Miodrag Gladović Jomi Ajjomi ; composer and musician Nenad Sinkauz , and skaters: Michel Kubaček and Mario Kunštek. Apart from the fact that skate driving has its own sound, the amplified bodies of the skaters, amplified skate pool and manipulation of the resulting audio signals turn the drive into a music composition.

performances on 5th and 6th of May, within the program of Izlog suvremenog zvuka / Showroom of Contemporary Sound -

www.izlogfestival.com";

it's not just a crack, this piece broke completely in two. But I just liked this angle and the 'strange machinery' look, almost an abstract...

APX 500 Electroacoustic

This is my Taylor 522e. I've been putting off changing the strings for months. It has a slotted headstock, which makes fitting the strings a fiddly job. But now, there's no excuse.

 

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The task is to explore the house, inside and out, finding new ways of looking at the familiar things that surround me every day, and literally shedding new light on them - hopefully producing a worthwhile photograph.

 

Might not be one every day, but we'll see.

Stills from audioresponsive app in Processing for a live "flute with electroacoustic voice" performance. The composition, "Cimmerian Isolation", composed by Nathaniel Haering, will be performed by flautist Jaume Darbra Fa in Europe early in 2019.

 

The Standing Men by AADN (FR)

 

Behind the interactive art installation of 16 human-sized figurines, The Standing Men call out to those strolling by to initiate a dialogue with them. Flashes go off in an echo, colors change… the statues come to life in an unpredictable way, transforming the entire installation into a ballet of light. The installation presented at the Singapore Night Festival features voices and emotions of inhabitants in Bras Basah.Bugis, who were recorded in August 2017.

 

About the artists

 

Pierre Amoudruz

Amoudruz is a video artist and scenographer who uses the mediums of sound and image in his artistic research. As artistic director of Arts et Cultures Numériques (AADN) in Lyon since 2005, he feels strongly about defending projects that are engaging and questions the uses and impact of technology in everyday life.

 

Amoudruz also heads the artistic direction of multidisciplinary and in situ creations as well as the scenographic design of immersive spaces.

 

Victor Roux

Victor Roux is a multi-instrumentalist musician and a visual artist specializing in composition and sound creation. He is a professional composer and arranger, and is educated in electroacoustic and amplified music composition.

 

Valentin Durif

Musician, sound technician, and computer programmer, Valentin Durif particularly appreciates the field of digital string instruments. He designs, makes, and uses his own instruments or develops mechanical and computer systems that are capable of playing his compositions. His creations are presented in the form of concerts-performances (Émincé d’oreilles) or installations (Cliquetis). His music is similar to electronica, noise rock or indus and a more experimental style of sound creation.

 

Valentin Durif appears under the stage name Gzzzt for some of his work, and he collaborates regularly with Arts et Cultures Numériques (AADN) by offering his expertise for various installations and developing interactive systems such as his work, Duty Free, news from the festival Vision’R in Lyon, Théat’réalités at the CCO in Villeurbanne, ça coule, Nuits Sonores.

 

Image courtesy of AADN – Arts et Cultures Numériques.

  

From Singapore Night Festival

Full Album in free download here archive.org/compress/YOSHIWAKU_World_Of_Tears_Free_Downlo...

Watch the film here: youtu.be/C2U98Slb4XY?si=LBVZmAAFfuDaGkva

 

The Dance of Light, UHD Video, 10 mins 10 secs, 2024

 

This experimental film explores the primal and transcendent nature of dance, set in a series of disparate yet interconnected land and cityscapes. It is structured as a kaleidoscope of moments; each a self-contained vignette exploring another style of performative ritual or dance.

 

The journey begins on a conventional theatrical stage, where dancers perform before animated neon backdrops. As the film progresses, it sheds the constraints of the known, moving into the twilight of a dense forest where the boundaries between performer and environment blur. The trees, swirling fog and shards of sunlight each take part in the evolving transformations. The setting then shifts to an abandoned silo, a relic of industrial decay, where surreal ritual reverberates against cold, lifeless walls.

 

The city of Prague offers a further stark contrast, becoming the stage for playful expressions of contemporary rhythmic dance. Here, ritual adopts another form, as cyborg like creatures perform within the city’s labyrinthine architecture.

 

The film culminates in a foggy marshland, a liminal space where robed figures gather in silent reverence around holy egg-shaped relics. This location is a place out of time, where the sacred and the surreal coexist, and the act of worship becomes the dance, ancient and ineffable.

 

The imagery throughout the film was generated using Midjourney AI. These images were extended into motion using Runway and Kling AI. Finally, the footage was upscaled to UHD using VideoProc Converter AI. The soundtrack remixes a series of electroacoustic soundscapes by La Faena, El Wud and D.R. published on The Free Music Archive.

  

Photographed at White Night Melbourne 2015.

 

A beautiful and atmospheric evocation of life and nature, ‘fade’ was an immersive sound experience suspending a single performer in a luxurious fade.

 

A sensual, music-light-performance experience, combining eerie illumination and a lush score, ‘fade’ set a lone musician in a flickering room.

 

In a poetic realm of exquisitely etched shadows and high fidelity sound, audiences were invited into the heart of a magical space with dream-like spectres all around. In the midst of this revolving world, one musician performed live, her solo voice set against an extraordinary electroacoustic backdrop. Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey collaborated with a stellar team of sound artists, designers bluebottle and sound designer Jim Atkins to create and present ‘fade’. This is my artistic interpretation of ‘fade'.

Tears is the newest offering by my electroacoustic project Drowning the Virgin Silence. This release is mostly inspired by the works of surrealists Man Ray and Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta. It creates a sound world akin to the romantic and ethereal aspects of surrealism, married with the organic and sometimes violent nature of Mendieta's work. Constructed from tape loops, manipulated guitar, and field recordings, Tears carries a heavy drone which oscillates wildly in shape, timbre, and mood while still emphasizing some heavy silences. Drowning the Virgin Silence is the musical project of visual artist Richard Vergez, this is his 8th release.

 

Listen here: soundcloud.com/drowningthevirginsilence/tears-tape-sampler

Available now at:

acidcasualtyproductions.bigcartel.com/

best_of_2021: The Wire, Uncut, Resident Advisor, The Quietus, Rough Trade UK, Gorilla vs Bear, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Louder Than War, Stereogum, Billboard, AllMusic, Consequence of Sound, Pitchfork, NME, Slant, NPR, PopMatters, Gigwise, The Guardian & deepskyobject.

 

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The 50 Best Albums of 2021 by deepskyobject

 

1. Crystal Canyon - Yours With Affection and Sorrow [shoegaze]

2. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend [alternative]

3. Черноплодь/Чернохор - И З Г О Р А [drone, russian avantgarde metal]

4. Nation of Language - A Way Forward [new wave]

5. Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me [punk]

6. Trigg & Gusset - Black Ocean [dark jazz]

7. TRPP - TRPP [dream pop]

8. Biosphere - Angel's Flight [ambient]

9. Alessandro Cortini - Scuro Chiaro [drone, electronic]

10. Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit [doom]

11. Flyying Colours - Fantasy Country [shoegaze, dream pop]

12. Stereolab - Electrically Possessed [Switched On vol. 4] [lo-fi]

13. НОМ - МАЛГИЛ [Посвящается ОБЭРИУ] [russian avantgarde]

14. Kraków Loves Adana - Follow The Voice [darkwave]

15. Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum [icelandic post-punk]

16. Soft Blade - Softic [minimal wave, russian electronic]

17. Drug Store Romeos - The World Within Our Bedrooms [indie pop]

18. Vollam - Mirror EP [shoegaze, dream pop]

19. Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion [atmospheric black]

20. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour [pop]

21. Goat Girl - On All Fours [indie pop]

22. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny Haha [indie pop]

23. The Splashers - Homesick EP [dream pop]

24. Françoiz Breut - Flux Flou de la Foule [french pop]

25. Jarvis Cocker - Chansons D'Ennui Tip-Top [pop]

26. Tape Waves - Bright [dream pop]

27. 김민하 [BrokenTeeth] - 편지​(​The Letters) [shoegaze, dream pop]

28. Blankenberge - Everything [shoegaze]

29. Midwife - Luminol [ambient pop, shoegaze, slowcore]

30. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg [indie rock]

31. Minuit Machine - Sainte Rave [darkwave]

32. Leila Abdul-Rauf - Phantasiai [dark ambient]

33. Alice Phoebe Lou - Glow [pop]

34. Wednesday - Twin Plagues [dream pop]

35. Lucid Express - Lucid Express [shoegaze, dream pop]

36. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning [black, death]

37. Vessel of Iniquity - The Doorway [death, industrial]

38. Space Afrika - Honest Labour [ambient]

39. Still Corners - The Last Exit [dream pop]

40. Seefeel - St / Fr / Sp [unreleased][electronic]

41. Pia Fraus - Now You Know It Still Feels the Same [shoegaze, dream pop]

42. BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory [jazz fusion]

43. White Flowers - Day By Day [dream pop]

44. Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment [noise pop, kraut]

45. Mogwai - As The Love Continues [post-rock]

46. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders [nu-jazz]

47. Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2 [avant-prog]

48. Ora Clementi - Sylva Sylvarum [electroacoustic]

49. BRUIT ≤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again [post-rock, drone]

50. Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991, vol. 1,2 (2020-2021) [musique concrète]

 

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The Wire's Releases of the Year 2021

 

1. L'Rain - Fatigue

2. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air

3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

4. Low - Hey What

5. Daniel Bachman - Axacan

6. Apartment House - Number Pieces

7. Hamid Drake, Elaine Mitchener, William Parker, Orphy Robinson & Pat Thomas - Some Good News

8. Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment

9. Circuit Des Yeux - -io

10. Phew - New Decade

11. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

12. Angel Bat Dawid - Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology

13. James Brandon Lewis - Jesup Wagon

14. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound

15. Les Filles de Illighadad - At Pioneer Works

16. Tomaga - Intimate Immensity

17. Anthony Braxton - 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017

18. The Bug - Fire

19. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

20. Maggie Nicols - Creative Contradiction: Poetry, Story, Song & Sound

21. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Minds in Flux

22. Muqata'a - Kamil manqus

23. Alpha Maid - CHUCKLE

24. William Parker - Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Volumes 1–10)

25. Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt - Lucy & Aaron

26. Space Afrika - Honest Labour

27. Clarissa Connelly - The Voyager

28. Perila - How much time it is between you and me?

29. Grouper - Shade

30. Sourdure - De mòrt viva

31. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

32. Moor Mother & Billy Woods - BRASS

33. Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit

34. RP Boo - Established!

35. Eliane Radigue - Occam Ocean 3

36. Karkhana - Al Azraqayn

37. Pauline Anna Strom - Angel Tears in Sunlight

38. Pamela Z - A Secret Code

39. Patricia Brennan - Maquishti

40. Rambutan - parallel systems

41. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

42. Azita - Glen Echo

43. Raed Yassin - Archeophony

44. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - Now

45. William Parker - Mayan Space Station

46. Meemo Comma - Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²

47. Patrick Shiroishi - Hidemi

48. Ahmed [حمد] - Nights on Saturn (Communication)

49. Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us

50. IZ Band - IZ: 路过旧天堂书店 Drop by Old Heaven Books

 

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Uncut's 75 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. The Weather Station - Ignorance

2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

3. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

4. Low - Hey What

5. SAULT - Nine

6. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

7. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

8. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

9. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

10. Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki

11. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club

12. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

13. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

14. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You

15. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

16. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

17. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

18. Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It

19. John Grant - Boy from Michigan

20. Modern Nature - Island Of Noise

21. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

22. The Coral - Coral Island

23. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

24. Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers

25. Jane Weaver - Flock

26. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)

27. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

28. Ryley Walker - Course In Fable

29. Steve Gunn - Other You

30. Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade

31. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof

32. The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy

33. Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove

34. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

35. John Murry - The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes

36. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

37. Dean Wareham - I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L A

38. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

39. Squid - Bright Green Field

40. Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita

41. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

42. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha

43. My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket

44. Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home

45. Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes

46. Israel Nash - Topaz

47. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders

48. David Crosby - For Free

49. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Pick A Day To Die

50. Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham

51. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

52. Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - Now

53. The Black Keys - Delta Kream

54. Daniel Bachman - Axacan

55. LoneLady - Former Things

56. Damon & Naomi - A Sky Record

57. Haiku Salut - The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

58. Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

59. Strand of Oaks - In Heaven

60. Grouper - Shade

61. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

62. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind

63. Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor - Time No Changes

64. Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments

65. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air

66. Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals

67. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

68. Cathal Coughlan - Song of Co-Aklan

69. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together

70. black midi - Cavalcade

71. Buffalo Nichols - Buffalo Nichols

72. Marianne Faithfull With Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty

73. Sleater-Kinney - Path of Wellness

74. Rosali - No Medium

75. Rose City Band - Earth Trip

 

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Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Space Afrika - Honest Labour

2. AceMoMa - A Future

3. Eris Drew - Quivering in Time

4. Emeka Ogboh - Beyond the Yellow Haze

5. Erika De Casier - Sensational

6. George Riley - interest rates, a tape

7. Hoavi - Invariant

8. Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

9. Various Artists - The Sound Of Limo

10. Skee Mask - Pool

11. Yu Su - Yellow River Blue

12. Perila - How much time it is between you and me?

13. Andy Stott - Never the Right Time

14. Wanton Witch - Wanton Witch

15. Dawn Richard - Second Line

16. L'Rain - Fatigue

17. Various Artists - Amapiano Now

18. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

19. DJ Manny - Signals in My Head

20. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2

21. Tirzah - Colourgrade

22. aya - im hole

23. HTRK - Rhinestones

24. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1

25. Mr. Mitch - Lazy

26. Loraine James - Reflection

27. Arushi Jain - Under the Lilac Sky

28. Conclave - Conclave

29. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

 

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The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2021

 

1. The Bug – Fire

2. aya – im hole

3. Dean Blunt – Black Metal 2

4. The Weather Station – Ignorance

5. William Doyle – Great Spans Of Muddy Time

6. Loraine James – Reflection

7. Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki

8. Scotch Rolex – Tewari

9. Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs

10. Gazelle Twin & NYX – Deep England

11. Tanz Mein Herz – Quattro

12. Liars – The Apple Drop

13. Divide And Dissolve – Gas Lit

14. The Armed – ULTRAPOP

15. L'Rain – Fatigue

16. Tomaga – Intimate Immensity

17. Tirzah – Colourgrade

18. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark

19. Rắn Cạp Đuôi – Ngủ Ngày Ngay Ngày Tận Thế

20. black midi – Cavalcade

21. Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – Whose Woods These Are

22. Eris Drew – Quivering In Time

23. audiobooks – Astro Tough

24. Ben LaMar Gay – Open Arms To Open Us

25. MICROCORPS – XMIT

26. Joy Orbison – still slipping vol. 1

27. Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

28. The Transcendence Orchestra – All Skies Have Sounded

29. HARD FEELINGS – HARD FEELINGS

30. Part Chimp – Drool

31. Rochelle Jordan – Play With The Changes

32. ioulus – oddkin

33. Kìzis – Tidibàbide / Turn

34. Black Country, New Road – For The First Time

35. Space Afrika – Honest Labour

36. Shirley Collins – Crowlink

37. Skee Mask – Pool

38. Shackleton – Departing Like Rivers

39. Grouper – Shade

40. Ed Dowie – The Obvious I

41. Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg

42. ---__--___ ‎– The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid

43. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d's Pee At STATE'S END!

44. Erika de Casier – Sensational

45. Hawthonn – Earth Mirror

46. Rufus Isabel Elliot – A/am/ams (come ashore, turn over)

47. Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee

48. Ruth Goller – Skylla

49. Succumb – XXI

50. Melvins – Working With God

51. Frog Of Earth – Frog Of Earth

52. Oliver Leith – 'Me Hollywood'

53. Andy Stott – Never The Right Time

54. Goodbye World – At Death's Door

55. Slikback – MELT

56. Max Syedtollan / Plus-Minus Ensemble – Four Assignments

57. Time Binding Ensemble – Nothing New Under The Sun

58. William Parker – Mayan Space Station

59. NONEXISTENT – NONEXISTENT

60. Årabrot – Norwegian Gothic

61. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Searching For The Disappeared Hour

62. Manic Street Preachers – The Ultra Vivid Lament

63. Claire Rousay – a softer focus

64. Helm – Axis

65. Clairo – Sling

66. Aging ~ Land Trance – Embassy Nocturnes

67. Rien Virgule – La Consolation Des Violettes

68. Jane Weaver – Flock

69. Jeff Parker – Forfolks

70. Vapour Theories – Celestial Scuzz

71. At The Gates – The Nightmare Of Being

72. GNOD – La Mort Du Sens

73. Ursula Sereghy – OK Box

74. Bloody Head – The Temple Pillars Dissolve Into The Clouds

75. Jorja Chalmers – Midnight Train

76. Leather Rats – No Live 'Til Leather '98

77. Koreless – Agor

78. Snapped Ankles – Forest Of Your Problems

79. Hedvig Mollestad – Tempest Revisited

80. Richard Youngs – CXXI

81. Squid – Bright Green Field

82. Mirage – Mirage

83. Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis – May Sounds

84. My Bloody Sex Party – Vol. 2

85. Taqbir – Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause

86. The Altered Hours – Convertible

87. Perkins & Federwisch – One Dazzling Moment

88. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon. I

89. Fluisteraars – Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking

90. Angharad Davies – gwneud a gwneud eto / Do And Do Again

91. Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou

92. Antonina Nowacka – Vocal Sketches From Oaxaca

93. Turnstile – GLOW ON

94. Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime

95. Senyawa – Alkisah

96. Ruth Mascelli – A Night At The Baths

97. LoneLady – Former Things

98. Low – HEY WHAT

99. Marco Shuttle – Cobalt Desert Oasis

100. Celestial – I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

 

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Rough Trade UK's Albums of the Year 2021

 

1. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

2. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

4. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

5. Idles - CRAWLER

6. Squid - Bright Green Field

7. Jane Weaver - Flock

8. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

9. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

10. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

11. The Weather Station - Ignorance

12. black midi - Cavalcade

13. For Those I Love - For Those I Love

14. Bicep - Isles

15. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

16. St Vincent - Daddy's Home

17. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

18. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

19. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

20. 박 혜진 [Park Hye Jin] - Before I Die

21. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever

22. L'Rain - Fatigue

23. Koreless - Agor

24. Alfa Mist - Bring Backs

25. Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou

26. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

27. Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems

28. Pip Blom - Welcome Break

29. Jungle - Loving In Stereo

30. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

31. shame - Drunk Tank Pink

32. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

33. Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul

34. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me

35. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

36. Altın Gün - Yol

37. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

38. Marina Allen - Candlepower

39. Clairo - Sling

40. Tindersticks - Distractions

41. Tirzah - Colourgrade

42. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You

43. LUMP - Animal

44. Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space

45. Joy Orbison - still slipping vol

46. Sunroof - Electronic Music Improvisations Vol

47. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind

48. Desire Marea - Desire

49. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

50. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

51. SAULT - Nine

52. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic

53. Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn

54. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

55. Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet

56. Low - Hey What

57. FUR - When You Walk Away

58. Nao - And Then Life Was Beautiful

59. Goat Girl - On All Fours

60. Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms

61. Jordan Rakei - What We Call Life

62. Portico Quartet - Terrain

63. Sedibus - The Heavens

64. Elder Island - Swimming Static

65. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

66. dodie - Build a Problem

67. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)

68. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE

69. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

70. The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue

71. Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes

72. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life

73. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

74. John Grant - Boy from Michigan

75. TORRES - Thirstier

76. Django Django - Glowing in the Dark

77. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha

78. The Goon Sax - Mirror II

79. Tot Taylor - Frisbee

80. Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader

81. Yann Tiersen - Kerber

82. Squirrel Flower - Planet (i)

83. Spencer Cullum - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection

84. Hannah Peel - Fir Wave

85. Berwyn - DEMOTAPE/VEGA

86. Skee Mask - Pool

87. slowthai - TYRON

88. Kojaque - Town’s Dead

89. Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror

90. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy

91.Steve Earle - J.T.

92. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses

93. Geese - Projector

94. Nation of Language - A Way Forward

95. Rostam - Changephobia

96. Villagers - Fever Dreams

97. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

98. Sleater-Kinney - Path of Wellness

99. Chubby and The Gang - The Mutt's Nuts

100. serpentwithfeet - DEACON

 

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Gorilla vs Bear’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

 

1. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World

2. Tirzah - Colourgrade

3. HTRK - Rhinestones

4. Grouper - Shade

5. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti

6. Dean Blunt - Dean Blunt

7. Space Afrika - Honest Labour

8. Wet - Letter Blue

9. Dorothea Paas - Anything Can't Happen

10. Karima Walker - Waking the Dreaming Body

11. Enumclaw - Jimbo Demo

12. Doss - 4 New Hit Songs

13. Jessy Lanza - DJ-Kicks

14. Mr Twin Sister - Al Mundo Azul

15. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram

16. Erika de Casier - Sensational

17. Men I Trust - Untourable Album

18. Wednesday - Twin Plagues

19. Loraine James - Reflection

20. Small Black - Cheap Dreams

21. Hildegard - Hildegard

22. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden

23. Sun June - Somewhere

24. Nana Yamato - Before Sunrise

25. Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy - Son

26. DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - The Makin' Magick II Album

27. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

28. Buzzy Lee - Spoiled Love

29. Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

30. Sangre Nueva - Goteo

31. Indigo Sparke - echo

32. harvey_dug - Nu Grip

33. Snail Mail - Valentine

34. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature

35. Nite Jewel - No Sun

36. Skee Mask - Pool

37. Renée Reed - Renée Reed / J’ai rêvé

38. Cleo Sol - Mother

39. Low - Hey What

40. JPEGMAFIA - LP! (OFFLINE)

41. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

42. Hand Habits - Fun House

43. Holy Other - Lieve

44. Sloppy Jane - Madison

45. VA - I can't complain but sometimes I still do

46. Navy Blue - Navy’s Reprise

47. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

48. Equiknoxx - Basic Tools

49. You’ll Never Get to Heaven - Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train

50. Wau Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom

 

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Mojo's 75 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

2. St Vincent - Daddy's Home

3. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club

4. Low - Hey What

5. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

6. Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)

7. The Coral - Coral Island

8. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

9. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof

10. Villagers - Fever Dreams

11. John Grant - Boy from Michigan

12. The Weather Station - Ignorance

13. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

14. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

15. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

16. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

17. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

18. Idles - CRAWLER

19. David Crosby - For Free

20. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

21. The Bug - Fire

22. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me

23. Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade

24. SAULT - Nine

25. The Black Keys - Delta Kream

26. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

27. Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham

28. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

29. Field Music - Flat White Moon

30. Yola - Stand for Myself

31. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - L.W.

32. Paul McCartney - McCartney III

33. Endless Boogie - Admonitions

34. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE

35. The Stranglers - Dark Matters

36. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

37. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions)

38. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You

39. Jane Weaver - Flock

40. Chrissie Hynde - Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Dylan

41. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

42. Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space

43. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

44. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

45. Jungle - Loving In Stereo

46. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha

47. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

48. Squid - Bright Green Field

49. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic

50. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolves

51. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2

52. Nathan Salsburg - Psalms

53. Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood - LIVE

54. Tony Joe White - Smoke from the Chimney

55. BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

56. Lorde - Solar Power

57. Reigning Sound - A Little More Time with Reigning Sound

58. Ryley Walker - Course In Fable

59. Billy F Gibbons - Hardware

60. Cedric Burnside - I Be Trying

61. Steve Gunn - Other You

62. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life

63. Howlin' Rain - The Dharma Wheel

64. Tony Allen - There Is No End

65. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

66. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

67. AC/DC - Power Up

68. Loretta Lynn - Still Woman Enough

69. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

70. black midi - Cavalcade

71. Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow

72. Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It

73. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy

74. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

75. BLK JKS - Abantu/Before Humans

 

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Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

2. Adele - 30

3. Rauw Alejandro - VICE VERSA

4. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

5. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

6. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

7. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

8. Turnstile - GLOW ON

9. C. Tangana - El Madrileño

10. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

11. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

12. He has never been more enigmatic

13. PinkPantheress - to hell with it

14. Morgan Wade - Reckless

15. Polo G - Hall Of Fame

16. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

17. Low - Hey What

18. Tems - If Orange Was A Place

19. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

20. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

21. Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound

22. Doja Cat - Planet Her

23. Dawn Richard - Second Line

24. Cimafunk - El Alimento

25. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

26. Carly Pearce - 29

27. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

28. This is how free rock & roll should sound

29. The Weather Station - Ignorance

30. Mabiland - Niñxs Rotxs

31. Young Thug - Punk

32. Mustafa - When Smoke Rises

33. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

34. Snail Mail - Valentine

35. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT

36. Adult Mom - Driver

37. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic

38. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

39. Pooh Shiesty - Shiesty Season

40. Yola - Stand for Myself

41. Topaz Jones - Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma

42. Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight

43. Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name

44. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More

45. Myke Towers - LYKE MIKE

46. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

47. Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson

48. TOMORROW X TOGETHER - The Chaos Chapter: FIGHT OR ESCAPE

49. Jhay Cortez - Timelezz

50. Drake - Certified Lover Boy

 

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Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2021

 

1. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me

2. JOHN - Nocturnal Manoeuvres

3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

4. The Courettes - Back in Mono

5. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

6. The Stranglers - Dark Matters

7. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

8. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

9. Cold Water Swimmers - Holiday At The Secret Lake

10. Squid - Bright Green Field

11. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

12. Gazelle Twin & NYX - Deep England

13. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - L.W.

14. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

15. Carol Hodge - The Crippling Space Between

16. Hello Cosmos - Golden Dirt

17. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

18. Idles - CRAWLER

19. CHIHUAHUA - Violent Architecture

20. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE

21. Rats On Rafts - Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths

22. The Mudd Club - Bottle Blonde

23. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

24.St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

25. black midi - Cavalcade

26. Matt Berry - The Blue Elephant

27. Mad Daddy - Mad Daddy

28. Private Function - Whose Line Is It Anyway?

29. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy

30. Pink Suits - Political Child

31. Blue Orchids - Speed The Day

32. Jane Weaver - Flock

33. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

34. ZoZo Ginzburg - Blue Mountains

35. Steve Conte - Bronx Cheer

36. James - All the Colours of You

37. 24/7 Diva Heaven - Stress

38. Deathretro - Deathretro

39. The William Loveday Intention - Will There Ever Be A Day That You’re Hung Like A Thief?

40. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

41. Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds

42. Lola In Slacks - Moon Moth

43. Neighborhood Brats - Confines of Life

44. The Catenary Wires - Birling Gap

45. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

46. Turner - Daydreams & Stars

47. LUMP - Animal

48. Reigning Sound - A Little More Time with Reigning Sound

49. Slow Down, Molasses - Minor Deaths

50. The Stan Laurels - There is No Light Without the Dark

51. Low - Hey What

52. La Luz - La Luz

53. Gojira - Fortitude

54. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

55. Kiwi Jr

56. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament

57. Dark Mark & Skeleton Joe - Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe

58. The Bug - Fire

59. The Shadracks - From Human Like Forms

60. Amigo the Devil - Born Against

61. shame - Drunk Tank Pink

62. LoneLady - Former Things

63. Night Beats - Outlaw R&B

64. Fightmilk - Contender

65. Johnny Mafia - Sentimental

66. Jim Bob - Who Do We Hate Today

67. The Coral - Coral Island

68. Field Music - Flat White Moon

69. Jim McCulloch - When I Mean What I Say

70. Alan Vega - Mutator

71. Kiss Me, Killer - 2020 Vision

72. John Grant - Boy from Michigan

73. Lou Barlow - Reason To Live

74. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life

75. Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems

76. Sonny Vincent - Snake Pit Therapy

77. The Chills - Scatterbrain

78. Sister John - I Am By Day

79. Du Blonde - Homecoming

80. Hooveriii - Water for the Frogs

81. Erica Nockalls - Dark Music From a Warm Place

82. Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers

83. Amy MacDonald - The Human Demands

84. Francis Lung - Miracle

85. Cult Figures - Deritend

86. ANTHRAX - Serfs Out

87. VEX - Average Minds Think Alike

88. Freya Beer - Beast

89. Digital Resistance - Alternative Facts

90. Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit

91. Mush - Lines Redacted

92. Filthydirty - The Rise And Fall Of Blasphemouth

93. Gary Numan - Intruder

94. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

95. Rutger Hoedemaekers - The Age of Oddities

96. The Bevis Frond - Little Eden

97. Blowers - Blowers

98. The Brothers Steve - Dose

99. Delilah Bon - Delilah Bon

100. Primitive Knot - A New Ontology of Evil

101. TV Priest - Uppers

 

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Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

2. Snail Mail - Valentine

3. Turnstile - GLOW ON

4. Low - Hey What

5. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

6. serpentwithfeet - DEACON

7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolves

8. The Weather Station - Ignorance

9. Polo G - Hall Of Fame

10. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

11. Wednesday - Twin Plagues

12. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

13. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

14. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

15. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

16. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

17. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

18. Tirzah - Colourgrade

19. Clairo - Sling

20. Fiddlehead - Between The Richness

21. Water From Your Eyes - Structure

22. KA - A Martyr's Reward

23. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

24. The Armed - Ultrapop

25. Nation of Language - A Way Forward

26. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

27. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH

28. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

29. Squid - Bright Green Field

30. 파란노을 [Parannoul] - To See the Next Part of the Dream

31. Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson

32. One Step Closer - This Place You Know

33. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa

34. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

35. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

36. Men I Trust - Untourable Album

37. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM

38. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT

39. Home Is Where - I Became Birds

40. Erika De Casier - Sensational

41. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden

42. Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone

43. Loraine James - Reflection

44. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound

45. Iceage - Seek Shelter

46. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

47. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti

48. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses

49. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days

50. Closer - Within One Stem

 

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Billboard's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

2. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

3. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

4. Adele - 30

5. Doja Cat - Planet Her

6. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

7. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic

8. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

9. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

10. C. Tangana - El Madrileño

11. Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue

12. Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)

13. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

14. PinkPantheress - to hell with it

15. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

16. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

17. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT

18. Drake - Certified Lover Boy

19. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

20. Snail Mail - Valentine

21. Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning

22. Giveon - When It's All Said And Done

23. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days

24. Karol G - KG0516

25. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

26. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet

27. Turnstile - GLOW ON

28. Lucky Daye - Table For Two

29. Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions

30. Porter Robinson - Nurture

31. Carín León - Inédito

32.J. Cole - The Off-Season

33. Mon Laferte - SEIS

34. Vince Staples - Vince Staples

35. Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone

36. Justin Bieber - Justice

37. Rauw Alejandro - VICE VERSA

38. Joy Oladokun - In Defense of My Own Happiness

39. Kanye West - Donda

40. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

41. Willow - lately i feel EVERYTHING

42. Tems - If Orange Was A Place

43. Don Toliver - Life of a DON

44. Fred Again

45. Myke Towers - LYKE MIKE

46. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

47. SG Lewis - times

48. Young Dolph & Key Glock - Dum and Dummer 2

49. Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes

50. Clairo - Sling

 

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AllMusic's Best of 2021 (alphabetic)

 

Adele - 30

Aimee Mann - Queens Of The Summer Hotel

Allison Russell - Outside Child

Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me

BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

Billy F Gibbons - Hardware

Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)

Bomba Estéreo - Deja

Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days

C. Tangana - El Madrileño

Cadence Weapon - Parallel World

Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

Chelsea Carmichael - The River Doesn’t Like Strangers

CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

Clark - Playground in a Lake

Cleo Sol - Mother

Cola Boyy - Prosthetic Boombox

Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing

Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers

Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

Ed Dowie - The Obvious I

Eivind Aarset - Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey

Eric Bibb - Dear America

Field Music - Flat White Moon

Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight

Geoffrey O'Connor - For As Long As I Can Remember

Grouper - Shade

Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

Helado Negro - Far In

Helsinki Chamber Choir / Nils Schweckendiek - Pärt: Passio

Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes

James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds

Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

Jazzmeia Horn And Her Noble Force - Dear Love

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9

Jerry Cantrell - Brighten

John Carroll Kirby - Septet

Jon Batiste - WE ARE

Jorge Elbrecht - Presentable Corpse 002

Karol G - KG0516

Kenneth Whalum - Broken Land 2

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

Klenke Quartett, Nicola Jürgensen & Stephan Katte - Mozart: Clarinet Quintet; Horn Quintet

L'Rain - Fatigue

Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

Lil Nas X - MONTERO

Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

Liz Phair - Soberish

LoneLady - Former Things

Los Lobos - Native Sons

Makthaverskan - För Allting

Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Marisa Monte - Portas

Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds

Mastodon - Hushed and Grim

Matthias Goerne / Seong-Jin Cho - Im Abendrot: Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss

Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

Mocky - Overtones for the Omniverse

Mogwai - As the Love Continues

Mouse on Mars - AAI

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

Olivier Latry - Liszt: Inspirations

PinkPantheress - to hell with it

Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

Polo & Pan - Cyclorama

René Jacobs - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Robert Finley - Sharecropper's Son

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof

Rochelle Jordan - Play with the Changes

Roxana Amed - Ontology

Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You

Smile Machine - Bye For Now

Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

Squid - Bright Green Field

Steve Gunn - Other You

TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi

Terrace Martin - DRONES

The Armed - Ultrapop

The Coral - Coral Island

The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy

The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather

 

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Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2021

 

1. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

3. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

4. Turnstile - GLOW ON

5. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

6. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

7. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

8. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

9. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM

10. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More

11. serpentwithfeet - DEACON

12. Snail Mail - Valentine

13. Doja Cat - Planet Her

14. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks Of God

15. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

16. Idles - CRAWLER

17. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

18. Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson

19. Geese - Projector

20. Adele - 30

21. Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader

22. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

23. McKinley Dixon - For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her

24. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

25. Hovvdy - True Love

26. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

27. SAULT - Nine

28. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take

29. Remi Wolf - Juno

30. Bo Burnham - Inside (The Songs)

31. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

32. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

33. Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning

34. Jon Batiste - WE ARE

35. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

36. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti

37. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

38. The Armed - Ultrapop

39. Amigo the Devil - Born Against

40. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

41. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix

42. The Weather Station - Ignorance

43. Squid - Bright Green Field

44. Haviah Mighty - Stock Exchange

45. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

46. BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE

47. Yola - Stand for Myself

48. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me

49. Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place

50. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

 

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Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

2. L'Rain - Fatigue

3. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

5. Low - Hey What

6. Turnstile - GLOW ON

7. The Weather Station - Ignorance

8. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

9. Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red

10. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

11. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha

12. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

13. Tirzah - Colourgrade

14. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

15. Snail Mail - Valentine

16. MIKE - Disco!

17. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

18. Grouper - Shade

19. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2

20. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti

21. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

22. Dawn Richard - Second Line

23. black midi - Cavalcade

24. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

25. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take

26. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM

27. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air

28. Spirit Of The Beehive - Entertainment, Death

29. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

30. Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus

31. Wiki - Half God

32. Adele - 30

33. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa

34. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

35. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More

36. Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet

37. RP Boo - Established!

38. Navy Blue - Navy's Reprise / Song of Sage: Post Panic!

39. Loraine James - Reflection

40. Erika De Casier - Sensational

41. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

42. Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy

43. Hand Habits - Fun House

44. Sofia Kourtesis - Fresia Magdalena

45. aya - im hole

46. Helado Negro - Far In

47. dltzk - Frailty

48. KA - A Martyr's Reward

49. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World

50. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

 

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NME's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

2. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

3. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

4. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

5. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

6. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

7. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

8. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

9. Turnstile - GLOW ON

10. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

11. For Those I Love - For Those I Love

12. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

13. Ghetts - Conflict Of Interest

14. Clairo - Sling

15. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

16. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

17. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

18. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together

19. Lorde - Solar Power

20. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

21. London Grammar - Californian Soil

22. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic

23. Bicep - Isles

24. Snail Mail - Valentine

25. Royal Blood - Typhoons

26. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

27. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT

28. Idles - CRAWLER

29. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth

30. The Killers - Pressure Machine

31. slowthai - TYRON

32. Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

33. AJ Tracey - Flu Game

34. Remi Wolf - Juno

35. Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?

36. girl in red - if i could make it go quiet

37. Ray BLK - Access Denied

38. TOMORROW X TOGETHER - The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE

39. Easy Life - Life's a Beach

40. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

41. Joy Crookes - Skin

42. Vince Staples - Vince Staples

43. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

44. Bleachers - Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night

45. Young Thug - Punk

46. Nao - And Then Life Was Beautiful

47. SAULT - Nine

48. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

49. Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This

50. Doja Cat - Planet Her

 

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Slant Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

2. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

3. Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

4. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club

5. Low - Hey What

6. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

7. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

8. serpentwithfeet - DEACON

9. PinkPantheress - to hell with it

10. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

11. Suzanne Santo - Yard Sale

12. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

13. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

14. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

15. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

16. Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet

17. TORRES - Thirstier

18. Erika De Casier - Sensational

19. Spellling - The Turning Wheel

20. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

21. Loraine James - Reflection

22. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

23. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

24. Snail Mail - Valentine

25. The Killers - Pressure Machine

26. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind

27. James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds

28. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant

29. Doja Cat - Planet Her

30. Porter Robinson - Nurture

31. Kanye West - Donda

32. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

33. DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors

34. Helado Negro - Far In

35. Tinashe - 333

36. LSDXOXO - Dedicated 2 Disrespect

37. For Those I Love - For Those I Love

38. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

39. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

40. Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers

41. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

42. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

43. Squid - Bright Green Field

44. Young Stoner Life, Young Thug & Gunna - Slime Language 2 (Deluxe)

45. Vince Staples - Vince Staples

46. Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky

47. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - HARAM

48. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

49. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

50. MARINA - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land

 

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NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

2. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

3. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

4. Allison Russell - Outside Child

5. C. Tangana - El Madrileño

6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

7. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

8. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

9. Vince Staples - Vince Staples

10. Wild Up & Christopher Rountree - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine

11. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

12. Helado Negro - Far In

13. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

14. Adele - 30

15. Tems - If Orange Was A Place

16. Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue

17. Willow - lately i feel EVERYTHING

18. Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti

19. illuminati hotties - Let Me Do One More

20. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix

21. Low - Hey What

22. PinkPantheress - to hell with it

23. Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name

24. Turnstile - GLOW ON

25. Eris Drew - Quivering in Time

26. Cleo Sol - Mother

27. Toumani Diabaté & The London Symphony Orchestra - Kôrôlén

28. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT

29. Lukah - When The Black Hand Touches You

30. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

31. Doja Cat - Planet Her

32. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant

33. James Brandon Lewis - Jesup Wagon

34. Emily D'Angelo - enargeia

35. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air

36. Spellling - The Turning Wheel

37. Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange

38. Mon Laferte - SEIS

39. MIKE - Disco!

40. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

41. Susana Baca - Palabras Urgentes

42. Kenny Garrett - Sounds from the Ancestors

43. Yebba - Dawn

44. Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic

45. Rodrigo Amarante - Drama

46. Vadim Repin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Andris Nelsons - Sofia Gubaidulina: Dialog: Ich und Du; The Wrath of God; The Light of the End

47. Artifacts - ...and then there's this

48. Pink Siifu - GUMBO'!

49. Circuit Des Yeux - -io

50. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic

 

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PopMatters' 75 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

3. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

4. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

5. Dawn Richard - Second Line

6. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

7. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

8. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together

9. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

10. Rochelle Jordan - Play with the Changes

11. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix

12. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

13. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

14. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

15. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

16. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

17.Pepe Deluxé - Phantom Cabinet, Vol. 1

18. Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days

19. The Bug - Fire

20. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World

21. Loraine James - Reflection

22. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

23. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

24. Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

25. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic

26. Snail Mail - Valentine

27. Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers

28. The Weather Station - Ignorance

29. Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth

30. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

31. Elbow - Flying Dream 1

32. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air

33. Headie One - Too Loyal for My Own Good

34. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club

35. Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

36. Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Home

37. Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange

38. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions

39. Helado Negro - Far In

40. Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming

41. Backxwash - I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses

42. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

43. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

44. Yola - Stand for Myself

45. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

46. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

47. Maisie Peters - You Signed Up For This

48. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

49. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

50. CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

51. Goat Girl - On All Fours

52. Hayes Carll - You Get It All

53. Vince Staples - Vince Staples

54. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant

55. Jungle - Loving In Stereo

56. Turnstile - GLOW ON

57. Jane Weaver - Flock

58. Between the Buried and Me - Colors II

59. John Grant - Boy from Michigan

60. Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time

61. Anz - All Hours

62. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim

63. Alessia Cara - In The Meantime

64. Bremer/McCoy - Natten

65. King Woman - Celestial Blues

66. John Hiatt With The Jerry Douglas Band - Leftover Feelings

67. Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy

68. Low Cut Connie - Tough Cookies: Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts

69. Aaron Lee Tasjan - Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!

70. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

71. Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

72. Portico Quartet - Terrain

73. black midi - Cavalcade

74. Altın Gün - Yol

75. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

 

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Gigwise's 51 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

2. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

3. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me

4. Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

5. PinkPantheress - to hell with it

6. McKinley Dixon - For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her

7. For Those I Love - For Those I Love

8. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

9. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

10. Du Blonde - Homecoming

11. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

12. Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow

13. Charli Adams - Bullseye

14. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

15. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

16. Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic

17. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

18. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

19. Idles - CRAWLER

20. Surfbort - Keep On Truckin'

21. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

22. Drug Store Romeos - The world within our bedrooms

23. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

24. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

25. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

26. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

27. Tommy Genesis - goldilocks x

28. The Vaccines - Back In Love City

29. Summer Walker - STILL OVER IT

30. Indigo De Souza - Any Shape You Take

31. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

32. Clairo - Sling

33. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

34. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

35. JPEGMAFIA - LP!

36. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

37. Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

38. Bicep - Isles

39. CHAI - WINK

40. Paris Texas - BOY ANONYMOUS

41. Low Hummer - Modern Tricks For Living

42. Nation of Language - A Way Forward

43. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life

44. James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart

45. Doja Cat - Planet Her

46. Joe & The Shitboys - The Reson for Hardcore Vibes Again

47. Iceage - Seek Shelter

48. Royal Blood - Typhoons

49. Bull - Discover Effortless Living

50. Ashnikko - DEMIDEVIL

51. Remi Wolf - Juno

 

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The Guardian's 50 Best Albums of 2021

 

1. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

2. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

4. The Weather Station - Ignorance

5. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST

6. SAULT - Nine

7. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

8. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

9. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

10. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

11. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

12. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales

13. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

14. Lil Nas X - MONTERO

15. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE

16. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

17. Tirzah - Colourgrade

18. Turnstile - GLOW ON

19. Dave - We're All Alone In This Together

20. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

21. The Coral - Coral Island

22. Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

23. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

24. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

25. Madlib - Sound Ancestors

26. Mogwai - As the Love Continues

27. St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

28. Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

29. Clairo - Sling

30. Greentea Peng - MAN MADE

31. Low - Hey What

32. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature

33. PinkPantheress - to hell with it

34. The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

35. Aly & AJ - a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet...

36. aya - im hole

37. Erika De Casier - Sensational

38. Goat Girl - On All Fours

39. Hayley Williams - FLOWERS for VASES / descansos

40. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club

41. Eris Drew - Quivering in Time

42. Gojira - Fortitude

43. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound

44. Black Country, New Road - For the first time

45. For Those I Love - For Those I Love

46. Stephen Fretwell - Busy Guy

47. CHAI - WINK

48. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

49. Møl - Diorama

50. Agnes - Magic Still Exists

 

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The third in the series of one minute videos. It investigates how the eye reads static images as they become ever more fleeting. The soundtrack is an electroacoustic piece by Jaap Blonk.

Musée de la Musique, Paris

Experience Tia Rungray's avant-garde music journey!

This October 14th, immerse yourself in a fusion of noise and classical at Fujiyama in The Akipelago.

 

Join us for a musical revolution in the metaverse!

 

YouTube LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO3vp7NPC2M

 

Venue: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Akimori/83/99/2241

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please view on black

 

liège - belgium 03/2011

listening to Dj sprinkles presents K-S.H.E. - double secret (Dub)

 

TODAY WITH ADDED VALUE - Heute mit Mehrwert. :-)

 

Terre Thaemlitz (also known as Miss Take or DJ Sprinkles) is a musician, public speaker, and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. His work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production. This diversity of themes is matched by Thaemlitz' wide range of production styles, which include electroacoustic computer music, club-oriented deep house, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos. Graphic design, photography, illustration, text and video also play a part in Thaemlitz' projects.

 

As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist transgenderism and pansexual Queer sexuality, Thaemlitz has participated in panel discussions throughout Europe and Japan, as well as held numerous cross-cultural sensitivity workshops at Tokyo's Uplink Factory, near his current residence in Kawasaki, Japan.

 

Terre Thaemlitz's Soil and Tranquilizer releases in the early and mid-1990s served to introduce a "political" form of ambient music, continued in later releases such as Couture Cosmetique and Means from an End, which aim to recast the usually passive artist-listener-environment equation. Thaemlitz' colleagues in the political ambient music front include the sound activist group Ultra-red. Following their remixes of Thaemlitz' Still Life with Numerical Analysis in 1998, Ultra-red joined Thaemlitz on the German label Mille Plateaux for their first two albums; Second Nature: An Electroacoustic Pastoral (1999) and Structural Adjustments (2000).

 

Source: wikipedia

The setup I use when playing with my "unplugged" band Tiez..

video: Francesca Centonze

 

Longevity of light bulbs (and how to make them last longer)

Electroacoustic interactive performance

Stefano D'Alessio

Vienna 2016

  

Longevity of light bulbs fuses natural and processed sound with physical movement and dynamic light.

 

The performance proposes a DIY way of music making, focusing on low budget items hacking, creative use of new technologies designing alternative interfaces for sound creation.

 

Resembling of a solo concert piece, L.O.L.B. has as its core an amplified ikea desk lamp, explored in all its sonorities by one performer playing it with bare hands.

 

An important characteristic of the lamp is that it can be easily moved, this mobility amplifies the physical performance and modifies the original sound, thanks to a custom made interface and digital audio processing.

 

The interface between the lamp movement and the sound manipulation, is ideated hypothesising how a “natural” sound would behave, taking advantage of the possibilities of digital audio but bringing them out of the computer, interfacing them with something more physical and “primitive” than a controller fader or a mouse.

 

The focus is to magnify how the sound processing is controlled, transforming unperceivable digits unseeable to human eyes, into visible performative actions.

 

The spatial position of the light source is tracked by a camera and translated into parameters usable by the audio engine, naturally connecting the lamp movement to the behaviour of its sound transformations.

 

The final audio, even when processed, has tones which are close to the natural ones, as the audio processes basically consist in different applications audio delay, meaning that there is no synthesised sound or recorded sample added to the final output.

 

The only light source present in the performance is the lamp’s light bulb itself. Meaning that the moving lamp is, beside changing its own sound, acting as a dynamic lighting device. It points and looks in different direction, behaving like a curious creature, illuminating different part of the environment, scanning through the audience and sometimes blinding the people.

 

The result is a performance and electroacoustic piece, where natural and artificial tones fuse seamlessly, symbiotically combined with light, developing in time with movements of the performer and its instrument.

DLC 2009 flier design by shotahirama.

 

11th July. 2009

OPEN17:00 CLOSE22:30

TICKET 1000YEN + 500YEN for 1drink

 

at Loopline Tokyo.

 

christophe charles (Mille Plateaux)

Tetsuo Furudate (Subrosa)

Chihei Hatakeyama (Spekk)

ENG / electronoise group with Cal Lyall, Taishin Inoue, Kelly Churko, Blackphone666, Daisuke Kitabayashi

Darren McClure

enormous O'clock

Moze

Yuji Kondo

a snore.

 

Canceled

shiho kano+Yurihito Watanabe

   

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Deep Listening Chair 2009, the 3rd edition of Tokyo's festival for Experimental Digital Music and related Visual Arts will take place under the theme Surrealistic Minimalism. Sound and other media from July 10 till July 11, 2009 at various venues in Tokyo.

Edition NIkO will address both theoretical and practical aspects of today’s independent and experimental music production at the intersections of digital music and sound & media arts. Artists, experts and theorists will present their work as a means to pool knowledge and sketch out the sector’s future prospects. Visitors can hone their personal skills in workshops designed to encourage and support DIY experimentation. Selected projects and initiatives will demonstrate what they do in a hybrid formats fusing exhibitions and work-in-progress sessions that engage visitors’ participation. Actions and installations will illustrate further examples of creative output wiring music, art and digital culture.

For the DLC.09 on July 11, legendary mille plateaux artist and one of the most respected reputations in avant-garde laptop music, and rightfully so, as he has established a highly notable presence in the multimedia experimentation of the late 20th and early 21st century. "Christophe Charles" will perform his live using his computer programs, insisting on the autonomy of each sound and the absence of hierarchical structure.

On a same day, most revered name in noise-electronic music today, Tetsuo Furudate will perform his noise-opera composition. Contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers, and apart from his numerous solo works as Furudate Tetsuo, Tetsuo has collaborated with Achim Wollscheid (selektion), Merzbow (mego), Zbigniew Karkowski (sub rosa), Kasper T. Toeplitz (NIkO) and more other noise musicians.

Perhaps one of the most prolific and ceaselessly inventive personalities to come out of the electronic music community since the 1990s, Yurihito Watanabe, the man behind yxetm+, has accumulated literally dozens of musical directions over the course of his illustrious career. Working with David Toop, Alva noto, CM von Hausswolff, Yurihito is increasingly attracted to pushing the barriers of his art form in new directions.

An ambient showcase featuring ENG/electronoise group (feat. Cal Lyall, Taishin Inoue, Kelly Churko, Blackphone666, Daisuke Kitabayashi) by Edition NIkO curator shotahirama, presenting projects that technologically alter the shape and sound of our relationship with industrial. And more artists coming up... Between Darren McClure, enormous O'clock, Moze (ex-Provoke), yuji kondo, a snore, and few more international acts, we’ve endeavored to represent every corner of the electronic arts in motion today.

 

Edition NIkOはSurrealistic Minimalismを掲げ、パリ、ベルリン、バルセロナ、ロンドン、ニューヨークそしてここ日本と、世界中の電子音響家を擁するネットレーベルである。コンピューターで生成されるマイクロスコピックな電子音を構成素とし、抽象的な音響空間を創出するため、個々のそのデジタルクリエーションの中に「常識を外れた奇妙で既存の状態を超越している状況」を提示するsurrealisticなartistが集まる。レーベルディレクターは、ダダやバウハウスなどの反社会主義性と合理主義的な思想をモデルに、スペインや ロンドンを中心にヨーロッパでのリリース／ライブ活動を続けるサウンドアーティスト、shotahirama (平間翔太)。ENG（electronoise group)、またJANDEATHの名義にてZbigniew KarkowskiやToshiji Mikawa (Incapacitants、非常階段)、Tetsuo Furudate、ASTRO (Hiroshi Hasegawa)、Pain Jerk、Justice Yehldamなど数多くのノイズアーティストとライブ活動を行う。そして２００７年に当レーベルを設立。

そのEdition NIkOのレーベルショーケースとなるDeep Listening Chairが今年も東京のLooplineにて7月11日に開催される。

 

ラインナップは以下の通りだ。今や東京を代表する美術家/音楽家であり、Mille Plateauxをはじめ数多くのレーベルから作品をリリースし、ICCや成田空港第一ターミナル中央アトリウムなどでのサウンドインスタレーション、また、OVAL (Mille Plateaux)、渋谷慶一郎 (ATAK)、半野善弘 (PROGRESSIVE FOrM)らとのコラボレーションも記憶に新しい、メディアアートを専門に活動を続けるフランス人電子音響家、christophe charlesがヘッドライナーとしてDeep Listening Chairに初登場。

 

またMerzbowと共に８０年代からノイズミュージシャンとして活動を続け、Sub rosaやStaalplaatなどEdition NIkOも強く影響を受けた名門レーベルから幾つもの作品をリリースし、近年はシェークスピア、エドガー・アラン・ポー、ゲオルグ・ピュヒナー等の作品をベースにしたノイズ音楽劇作品を手がける、今や世界を代表するジャパノイズアーティスト、Tetsuo Furudateも参加が決定。

 

さらにはレーベルオーナーであるshotahiramaが最も影響の受けた画家、菅野まり子や、David Toop (Samadhisound)、Carsten Nicolai (Raster-noton)、C M Von Hausswolff (Laton)など新進気鋭の音楽家達との共作、共演でも知られておりサウンドアートの世界で活躍するYurihito Watanabeも初登場。今回は世界15カ国以上の映画祭、美術館等で上映され世界でも高い評価を受けている映像作家の狩野 志歩とともに、Feinfügig… unüberholbar… 「しなやかに、追いこすこともかなわぬまま」を上演。

 

そしてもちろん、Edition NIkOのオリジナルアーティスト達もこの日の為に日本中から集結。２００７年のレーベル創設時からのメンバーであり、毎年このフェスティバルに出演をしている北アイルランド出身、現在は長野に在住のLaptopアーティスト、Darren McClure。更に、モダンエレクトロニックミュージックをジャズやテクノ、ヒップホップなど独自のリズムサイエンスで稀有なサウンドとアンビエンスを生み出すことに成功した名盤、INFORMATION WARFARE (AI Records)が記憶に新しい京都在住の電子音楽家、enormous O’clockも登場。また、２００８年にはヘッドライナーも務めた大阪在住の２人組ProvokeからはMoze、これまでに現音作曲新人賞など数々の受賞経歴を持ち、彼が最も影響を受けてきたであろう、クラシックや映画音楽などの断片をコラージュしていく手法で、映像的なエレクトロニカを提示する。同じ大阪からは、今や関西地区で最も影響力のある若手Laptopアーティストと称されるまでになったYuji KondoもEdition NIkOのオリジナルメンバーであり、去年、そして今年京都で行われたDeep Listening Kyotoに続き３度目の出演となる。さらには京都在住の５人組、a snoreは今年初登場となり、今後が最も期待される京都音響の新世代を代表する存在であろう。

最後にEdition NIkOそして今回のDeep Listening Chairのキューレーターであるshotahiramaは古くからの名義であるENG (electronoise group)で出演する。今回は、現代即興のシーンで最も今注目されるアーティストであり、六本木Super Deluxにて行われるイベントtest toneの主宰者でもあるCal Lyallが参加。これまでにTetuzi Akiyama, Chie Mukai, Samm Bennett, Yoshio Otani, Yoshio Machida, Damo Suzuki等と共演している。さらには、Sound Folliesを主宰しこれまでにGovernment Alpha, Astro, Zbigniew Karkowski, Bastard Noise等多くのノイジシャンと共演し、東京の即興シーンと並び今最も革新的な動きが続くジャパノイズシーンで知らない者はいないKelly Churkoも参加。また、東京の電子音響シーンを牽引するイベントとして多くの若手アーティストを輩出してきたORASPを主宰する、電子音響家Taishin Inoueもこの集団即興に参戦。最後に、古くから続く伝統を継承し新しい方向へと導いていく、ハードコアシーンの新潮流となり絶大な支持を得ている、黒電話ことBlackphone666も参加する。ハーシュやテクノイズ等のパワーエレクトロニクスなアーティストをオーガナイズするDPGレーベルを主宰しており、今回はこのENGにてどんな即興を披露してくれるのか。と、今回のENG/electronoise groupには即興、ノイズ、音響、そしてさらにはハードコアのシーンと。各メディアのオーガナイザーが集合し、全員での即興演奏を披露する。

 

Deep Listening Chair Festival 2009は以上の豪華メンバーによる、シュールレアリズムな電子音響イベントを披露する。

 

*Yurihito Watanabe+Shiho KanoはYurihito Watanabeさんの体調不良の為キャンセルになります。変わって、Chihei Hatakeyama (Spekk, Kranky)に急遽出演頂く事になりました。Chihei Hatakeyamaさん、ありがとうございます。

 

Artists info:

 

Christophe Charles

 

home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles/

 

Christophe Charles (born Marseille 1964), works with found sounds, and makes compositions using computer programs, insisting on the autonomy of each sound and the absence of hierarchical structure. Graduated from Tsukuba University (Phd., 1996) and Paris INALCO (Phd., 1997). Currently Associate Professor at Musashino Art University (Tokyo), has released music on the German label Mille Plateaux / Ritornell ("undirected" series), and on several compilations (Mille Plateaux, Ritornell, Subrosa, Code, Cirque, Cross, X-tract, CCI, ICC, etc).

Group exhibitions : ICC "Sound Art" (Tokyo, 2000), V&A "Radical Fashion" (London, 2001), etc. Permanent sound installations at Osaka Sumai Jouhou center (1999), Narita International Airport Central Atrium (2000). Collaborations with musicians (Henning Christiansen, Shiomi Mieko, Chino Shuichi, Markus Popp, Hanno Yoshihiro/hoon, Kako Yuzo, Shibuya Keiichiro, et al), visual artists (Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, Yamamoto Keigo, Visual Brains, Osaka Takuro, Kai Syng Tan et al), and performers (Ishii Mitsutaka, Kazakura Sho, Osanai Mari, Ishikawa Fukurow, Salvanilla, et al).

Christophe Charles（クリストフ・シャルル）、1964年フランス生まれ。1996年、筑波大学大学院芸術学研究科博士課程修 了。1997年、フランス国立東 洋文化東洋言語研究所大学院博士課程修了。2000年より武蔵野美 術大学映像学科准教授。環 境芸術学会理事。メディアアートを専門に、現代芸術における理論的・歴史的な研究を行いながら、内外空間を問わずインスタレーション及びコンサー トを行い、それぞれの要素のバランス、独立性及び相互浸透を追求している。

主な作品として、CD作品：「undirected」 シリーズ（Mille Plateaux, Subrosa, CCI, ICC, Code, Cirque, Cross, X-tractレーベル などでリリース）やパブリックアート作品：大阪市住まい情報センターモニュメント（山口勝弘監修）音響担当、東京成田国際空港第一ターミナル中央アトリウ ム常設サウンドインスタレーション。また、山 口勝弘、山本圭吾、風倉匠、Henning Christiansen、 逢坂卓郎、向井千恵、古館徹夫、 武井よしみち、oval、半野善弘、Numb、石川 ふくろう、JOU、久保田晃弘、渋谷慶一郎等とのコラボレーションを多数行っている。

   

Tetsuo Furudate

 

www.tetsuofurudate.info/

 

Born in Tokyo. Started his career in experimental firm and video art in 1981.From middle of 80's,he gradually turned into music through performing art,contributing to the development of the Japanese noise music in its early period with other pioneers such as Merzbow. He spreads his activities over Europe since 1998,with many concerts not only CD releases,corroborating with Zbigniew Karkowski,Kasper T. Toeplitz and Leif Elggren. He achieved the premier show of his newest experimental noise opera,"Othello",at Podwil in Berlin in 2001.He stayed in Berlin as a artist residence of Podewil in 2003. During them he had premieres of "Wozzeck" at Podewil in Berlin and "Auditory Sence of Mr.Roderick Usher" at Dresdner Zentrums für zeditgenössische Musik (DZzM) in Dresden. "Auditory Senced...."won the BLAUE BRÜCKE prize 2003. “Motome-Zuka” radio version won second prize of The Internationales Festivals für Hörkunst 2007 by Akademie der Hünste of Berlin. He has collaboration works with Achim Wollscheid, Lillevän, Dickson Dee, Akemi Takeya, Sigrid Schnückel and .....

古舘徹夫。80年代より活動を続けるノイズ・ミュージシャン。2003年ドレ スデン「ドレスデン国際音楽祭」でポーの「アッシャー家の崩壊」を ベースにした「ロデリック・アッシャー氏の聴覚」を上演、大賞受賞。 2006年、ラジオ作品「求塚」がベルリン国際ラジオ芸術祭入賞。その後 も欧州を中心にイスラエル、中国等でのコンサート活動を続ける。 2008年、委嘱作品「ゴヤ」がドイチェンランド・ラジオにより放送。 デュラス原作「ヒロシマ、わが恋人」をベルリン及び京都で上演

   

Chihei Hatakeyama

 

www.myspace.com/chiheihatakeyama

 

chihei Hatakeyama was born in 1978, and lives in the outskirts of Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006. Opitope actively organizes a continuous live performance event named Kuala Mute Geek in Tokyo (Kuala means "a crossing point of streams" in Malay). The event is powered by hand-made vacuum tube amplifiers and speakers in up to eight channel settings. Electroacoustic and improvisational artists such as Taylor Duepree, Christopher Willits, Toshimaru Nakamura, Christophe Charles, Hans Reichel, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Tamaru, Carl Stone, Keiichi Sugimoto, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Boris D Hegenbart, Yoshio Machida and many more have performed. Kuala Mute Geek creates possibilities for interaction and dialogue among the artists and listeners. Hatakeyama collaborated with Tomoyoshi Date on a track on the compilation Small Melodies from Spekk in 2005. He also organizes the improvisation band Copa del Papa with a rotating lineup. Hatakeyama and Date launched a label Kualauk Table to release compilations of their selected sessions with guest artists like Christophe Charles, Tamaru, Tagomago, Asuna, Askococo and others in late 2005.

   

Darren McClure

 

www.myspace.com/darrenmcclure

 

Results from a combination of digital sounds generated from software and field recordings. Often the field recordings are processed, but other times are left untreated. The sounds I look to create tend to be textural and warm, laying down drones and atmospheres on top of which fragmented melodies appear and disappear in the mix. Collaborated with various people including Allan Hughes (Belfast sound/video artist), Lezrod (Colombian sound artist), Takahiro Kawaguchi (sound/performance artist and field-recordist) and Hiroyuki Ura (sound artist and co-runner of Two-lines label in Tokyo). Released music on net/CD-R labels including Oblast, Test-tube, Factotum Arts, Cherry Music, 2063music, Standard-klik-music, zymogen, Rain Music and Peppermill.

北アイルランド出身。長野県松本市在住。彼が創る音楽はソフトウェアとフィールドレコーディングのサウンドのコンビネーションから成り立つ。フィールドレコーディングの多くはプロセスされているが、時にそのまま使われることもある。ミックスの中で見え隠れするメロディーの断片を単調音に載せ、テクスチュアルかつ温かい音を、彼は創り出している。

   

enormous O'clock

 

www.myspace.com/enormousoclock

 

Born in 1977 in Kyoto, Katsunori Sawa has held an interest in European music since childhood and while many producers often cite a wide variety of influences, it’s quicker to name the genres that EOC doesn’t feel have shaped him as his near endless list ranges from jazz and classical to electro and techno via noise, mambo and folk (to name but a few!)

WIRE、BBC RADIO 1等EUラジオ番組のオンエアーにより海外から注目を浴びる。2008年、モダンエレクトロニックミュージックをジャズやテクノ、ヒップホップなど独自のリズムサイエンスで稀有なサウンドとアンビエンスを生み出すことに成功した名盤、INFORMATION WARFARE (AI Records)が記憶に新しい京都在住の電子音楽家。今年は既にイギリスから３枚のバイナルリリースが決定している。

   

Moze (Provoke)

 

www.myspace.com/neomoze

 

PROVOKE is a multi-media group consisting of Moze and Ryota Mikami. Introduce a "political" "inaudible" "experimental" form of electronica music. Combines themes of gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race.... This diversity of themes is matched by PROVOKE' wide range of production styles, which include film music, Sine-wave, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos.

森崇博, 三上良太の２人から成るユニット。２００４年「赤い束縛（２００５年, ２００６年度劇場公開長編映画）」音楽、２００５年オーディオ・ビジュアル・ピース「aspectation」ドイツNippon Connection出品, live conｃert@bridge２００６年 「モスリン橋の、袂に潜む（２００６年上映＠HEPP HALL, 大阪）」音響・同作品ＣＯ２技術賞受賞,景山伸夫退官記念コンサート委嘱作品初演, MU楽団室内楽カフェ「音楽の作り方」委嘱作品初演, 舞台「タキオン」音楽, 「吉田喜重 反＝映画史 はじまりの映画、おわりの映画」に寄稿。

   

ENG (electronoise group)

 

www.shotahirama.com/

 

Radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG) founded in early 2006 by Japanese-American soundArtist, shotahirama. It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from "laptop" "noise" and "Art".

Using laptop, tape-operation, and tape-loop, generated guitar, the project ideal is to express the content of various psycho pathological conditions, especially depressive psychosis, and paranoia. And also making an art design, a photomontage with strong attention to Dada and Bauhaus.

shotahirama is a Japanese-American concrete sound artist and also known as a photomontage artist, inspired by Dada and Bauhaus. Most people also know him under the name ENG (electronoise group) or JANDEATH. He uses laptop and sinewave generator, some tape-operation and tape-loops, or some kind of machine, making concrete-noise-drone or a power electronics.

He has been documented on a number of projects, each revealing new facets of his wide-ranging and unique talents on both laptop and tape-operation. He has recorded and performed with Zbigniew Karkowski (mego/subrosa), Toshiji Mikawa (ex-incapacitants, Hijokaidan), ASTRO (Ant-Zen), Adachi Tomomi (Tzadik), Kelly Churko (Canada), Justice Yeldham (Australia) and more...

ダダイズムの既成の秩序や常識に対する、否定、攻撃、破壊といった思想や バウハウスに見られる合理主義的・機能主義的な芸術に強く興味を持ち、 電子機材を用いたノイズコンクレート、持続音響な作品制作、またその演出、表現への応用可能性、方法を探る電子音響グループ、ENG (electronoise group)を２００６年に結成した音響家、shotahirama（平間翔太。1984年アメリカ、ニューヨーク生まれ）。ス ペイン、バルセロナからのアルバムリリースを始めこれまでに２つのオリジナルアルバム（"Barcelona"、"Kollaps"）、４曲の楽曲提供と、そのリリース活動は頻繁である。また坂本龍一 のラジオ番組 J−WAVE「RADIO SAKAMOTO」にてルーマニア人の女性SSW、Monookaとのコラボ曲、"Fruhling"がO.A.された事により実現されたイギリス、ロンドンを中心に行われた"Dada Lives Tour"など、ヨーロッパでのリリースからライブ、サウンドインスタレーションまで精力的な活動を続ける。

２００８年にはshotahirama単独のソロ活動となるJANDEATHを始動。ポーランドのハーシュノイズアーティスト、zbigniew karkowski (mego)や、MERZBOWと共に日本のジャパノイズシーンを牽引するToshiji Mikawa (incapacitants)、ASTRO (Hiroshi Hasegawa)、Adachi Tomomi (Tzadik)、Pain Jerkなどの数々のノイジシャンとのライブを行う。産業主義を連想させる金属音や破壊音的電子音響に、２台のElektronを扱い現代音楽のシンボルであるリズムをクリックならぬポイントに置き換え、複雑なシーケンスに溶け込ませたPointilism Musicを提案する。また自身が開発したプログラムソフト、R systemにてそのリズムストラクチャーが持つミニマリズムをそのまま具象化、映像化するライブもJANDEATHではおなじみの光景である。同じ年、兼ねてから共演を熱望していた東京の最新デジタルクリエーションコレクティブ、SOUPのメインアクト、MICLO DIETとのデュエットとなるMICLODEATHも実現。

  

Cal Lyall

 

www.myspace.com/hermetictindrum

 

Currently active in Japan's free improvisation scene and member of drone-psych trio Tetragrammaton, ecstatic choral unit Jahiliyyah, electro-acoustic duo Missing Man Foundation and avant disco unit FDF (with Kumiko Okamura). Other projects include Golden Parabola, Palimpsest (with Kelly Churko), Auraboris (duo with TOMO from Tetragrammaton), Laptop Orchestra, Aktion Directe (with Akira Yamamichi and Masatsugu Hattori), Nikkasen (with Mitsuru Tabata, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto and Kelly Churko), zycOs (with Masatsugu Hattori, Keigo Iwami, and Kouzou Komori), Electroacoustic Jazz Quartet (with Peter Slade, Akira Yamamichi and Jimanica) while also performing as a solo artist with distinctive artists such as Tetuzi Akiyama, Chie Mukai, L?K?O, Samm Bennett, Coppe', Hideo Ikegami, Yasumune Morishige, Yoshio Otani, Yoshio Machida, Damo Suzuki and many more.

Irregularly manages the Subvalent record label and soundispatch imprint / collective and quite regularly mismanages the monthly event Test Tone at Super Deluxe in Nishi-Azabu (Tokyo).

  

Taishin Inoue

 

www.taishininoue.com

 

Is a Japanese sound artist, and he was born in Tokyo on September 21, 1981. He lived in the suburbs in Osaka from 3 years old to 19 years old. Now, he is making an electronic music, movie, drawing, magazine, living in the music studio in koenji Tokyo. And he also organize an electronic music event, "ORASP". It is a coined word which connects the initial of “Organic-Reaction Around Spiral-Process”. Orasp includes the image which organic energy circulates through the inner side and outside of the image space produced from the sequence distribution which whirls spirally. ORASP mainly focus on electronica, IDM, ambient, noise, drone, breakcore, minimal techno, abstract hiphop, sonic dub, contemporary music, an acoustic sound, improvised music, experimental jazz, original musical instrument, band, and DJ perform.

ORASP主宰。東京都在住。ORASPとは“Organic-Reaction Around Spiral-Process”の頭文字を取った造語。 ジャンルという区分を越えて紡がれるその一貫性は革新的フィルターとして空間を彩る。主宰である彼の音はまさに、螺旋状に展開するエネルギー体に他ならず、フロアによる有機反応へと回答を託す。大気の振動を手に取るように操られた音塊は詩的にエモーションを掻き立て、その圧倒的存在感から命の息吹すら香るだろう。好意を具現化したような彼の好奇心は広く深く、ただひたすらにピュアな存在として、電子音楽を中心に、ドローイング、映像など多岐に渡り活動を展開中。

  

Kelly Churko

 

www.myspace.com/kellychurko

 

Kelly Churko was born in Moose Jaw, Canada in 1977 and has been based in Japan since 2001. In addition to solo performances, he also plays in Hospital (w/ Ben Wilson, Masa Anzai, Chris Kelly), Ossuary (w/ Sotoyama Akira, Ito Keita), Almost Transparent Blue (w/ Masa Anzai, Skye Brooks), AKBK, Guilty Connector, Lethal Firetrap, Palimpsest (w/ Cal Lyall), Nikka-sen (w/ Tabata Mitsuru, Cal Lyall, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa), Toque (w/ Tim Olive), Fujii Satoko Orchestra, etc. He also has collaborated live or on recording with Government Alpha, Astro, Zbigniew Karkowski, Bastard Noise, Ilios, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jason Mears, Harris Eisenstadt, and plays regularly with Japanese improvisers including Tamura Natsuki, Kawai Shinobu, Iwami Keigo, Ikezawa Ryusaku, Kamimura Taiichi, Matsumoto Kenichi, Nakamura Kenji, Ando Akihiko, Saito "Shacho" Ryoichi and more.

  

Blackphone 666

 

www.geocities.jp/made_in_nakano/index.html

 

Using Japanese old school black phone and some other electronics, Blackphone666 makes a power electronics sound and most people known him as a real Japanese harsh noise artist. Since 2007, Blackphone666 established "Discord Proving Ground" with Direct Lightning Stroke (bug-noise artist using TV), mainly focus on actiosnim, electric wave and electricity performing art.

 

黒電話を配備した"HAZARD TELEPHONE SYSTEM"で多様なノイズエレクトロニクスを実戦する、極電式黒電話六百六十六型。'02年から不定期にライブ活動を開始。録音物は'07年までに数作存在するが、現在は沈黙中。 '07年より、十数台のTVを遣いバグノイズを発生させる"DLS"と共に、テクノ〜ノイズまで広範囲の電子音楽をテーマにした"Discord Proving Ground"というイベントを企画・運営している

 

Daisuke Kitabayashi

 

www.myspace.com/falteringperformanceband

 

Daisuke Kitabayashi is a founder of the japanese improvising emsemble Faltering Performance Band (FPB), established in 2008. Already in the late 1990´s Daisuke started experimenting with preparations on the guitar, influenced by the ideas of Keith Rowe. In the beginning of the 2007´s he has been a member of shotahirama's ENG/electronoise group. Since then Daisuke is exclusively playing the "table top guitar" - as a soloist, in FPB and in various other groups.

  

Yuji Kondo

 

yujikondo.wordpress.com/

 

Yuji Kondo is a sound artist and composer from Japan.In late 2005, he started his solo project, and currently based in the Kansai region. He makes compositions using computer programs, and restructure the sounds such as snow noise, sine wave, stylus tip noise, tape hiss, impulse click, field recording sources, acoustic percussion instruments, random tuning electric bass guitar tones, and voices in unconventional ways. Generated materials are fed back by the matrix-switch system on DAW software. The grand feedback soundscape woven by frequency operation is as beautiful as the fog, subtle and profound. His sound is a unique blend of electronic sounds and acoustic instruments, and the minimal and the complexities coexist there. the electronics function just as any other instruments.

主にフィールドレコーディングなどの素材を扱い、それらを和音化、または聴感におけるデジタル化したものを複数のチャンネルへ走らせ、壮大かつ幽玄なフィードバックサウンドスケープを生成、さらに時間化する。故障音響を「音楽」へと移行する。Jun Nishimura aka JadeGardenの楽曲リミックス、ENG (electronoise group)のオーディオヴィジュアル作品等に参加、shotahiramaらとのコラボレートも記憶に新しい。また、Edition NIkOへ楽曲提供もしており、関西を拠点にライヴを行うなど精力的にその独自のサウンドを展開している。

   

a snore

 

www.a-snore.info/

 

coming soon...

映像とノイズ。環境音を取り込みながらミニマルにサウンドを構築してゆく。音や映像による物語性の構築よりも、むしろ事故ったクルマのバンパーのように、剥き出しの美しさ、強度がある。それはコード進行のイリュージョンではなく、現実の連続の沸騰である。(永江大)

不思議な音楽であり素敵な音楽ですね、まるで知らない町に居るかのような錯覚にもなる。背景の映像もカッコイイし。私はa snore.を尊敬します。(グラフィックデザイナー・mamoco)

      

for more information about this festival, go to

 

Edition NIkO official website

www.chainreductionism.com

 

shotahirama official website

www.shotahirama.com

Necktar 2017 Volume 9 Coming Soon www.facebook.com/events/1126341370816690/

Remember when your great-grandma was a pioneer of electronic music/musique concrete? Daphne Oram's great-grandkids do.

The Hickok electrical instrument Co.

Cleveland, Ohio

Signal generator Model # 188x

serial # 1-6463

 

A signal generator, also known variously as function generator, pitch generator, arbitrary waveform generator, digital pattern generator or frequency generator is an electronic device that generates repeating or non-repeating electronic signals (in either the analog or digital domains). They are generally used in designing, testing, troubleshooting, and repairing electronic or electroacoustic devices; though they often have artistic uses as well.

There are many different types of signal generators, with different purposes and applications (and at varying levels of expense); in general, no device is suitable for all possible applications.

Traditionally, signal generators have been embedded hardware units, but since the age of multimedia-PCs, flexible, programmable software tone generators have also been available.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_generator

www.discogs.com/Michel-Banabila-Sound-Years/release/9418885

 

NORMAN RECORDS staff review:

These are troubling times, or maybe it’s just because it’s the middle of the week, but fret not for Michel Banabila is here to bring the balm. This lovely guy has a background in producing scores for film, documentaries, theatre and video art. Banabila finds uses for discarded objects and makes tapestries with these along with his electronics, field recordings and shortwave radio bites. The results are greater than the sum of these parts though, of course. The sounds he makes are spectacularly gorgeous and immaculately crafted, so let’s get into it now...

The record opens with the wondrously twilit ‘Close To The Moon’, acoustic oriental instrumentation gently plucked from some mystical faraway place and picking its way through some serene Fripp / Eno type sound bedding. Hints of guitar bubble up amongst the most luscious synth pads and subtle recordings of birdsong, low in the mix. This all segues seamlessly into some Frahm-ish piano and found sounds, Bjorkian vocals flitting in and out. The piano weaves a lovely melody gently around eastern instrumentation, gradually speeding up together with backwards vocals to create a slightly disorienting effect, before warm droning ambience washes back in. It’s as good as having the most relaxing bubble bath. Exotic birdcalls drift back in, soft lulling vocals and heavenly harp all combine to seduce this tired writer. Delicious. Is it time for bed yet? **** (Jamie)

 

AMBIENTBLOG:

Sound Years is a compilation of previously released tracks (with the exception of the previously unreleased opening track Close To The Moon). All are hand-picked by Michel Banabila himself and mixed into two continuous tracks – one for each side of the vinyl album. The selection is taken from various projects: some of them from theatre works, some of the more recent experimental electronic music, an occasional live recording, and a selection of his collaboration works with Oene van Geel and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). The oldest tracks are taken from 2005’s Hilarious Expedition, the newest are from 2016. They are selected to create a continuous uninterrupted flow. The sound is immediately recognisable as Banabila‘s – especially in his trademark use of ‘alien vocal’ samples (like in E.T. and Vuka Vuka!). The set is a perfect demonstration of Banabila‘s mastership of creating moods and atmospheres. A soft, warm, comfortable selection that is slightly unnerving and ‘outerworldish’ at the same time. Sound Years can perhaps be seen as Banabila‘s companion to KLF’s ‘Chill Out’ album: a slow walk through quiet (yet alien) landscapes. Unknown, full of surprises, yet always vaguely familiar. (Peter van Cooten)

 

CHAIN D.L.K.:

“Sound Years” is a Michel Banabila sampler, segueing selected tracks from ten previous albums along with one new work into two gentle, chilled-out continuous pieces. This has the diversity and variation of a various artists chillout compilation, but impressively, it’s all the work of one man (and a couple of guest appearances).

Smoothness is the order of the day here. Gentle piano melodies, occasional plaintive guitar strums, and found sounds including the classics such as falling rain ambiences and tropical birds, blend with the mellowest flavours of electronica chill-out such as the deftly twisted and re-pitched vocal samples in “Earth Visitor”. Other sections are more pared-down, simple warm drones, deep vocal sustains and cultured resonance.

The second side opens with a slightly more cinematic bent- a real orchestra warming up alongside a virtual one, broad sci-fi choral pads and robotic noises have us floating outside a spaceship. The ambience gradually gets more down-to-earth, with plaintive violin lines (from guest Oene Van Geel I think) and micro-cut vocal snippets glitching away in “Radio Spelonk”.

While some of the elements are cliché, they are used tastefully in a way that freshens them up. Even the cockerel crowing sound, used to great effect by The Orb, makes an appearance. In fact The Orb is a comparison worth making; if you like either of The Orb’s most recent two albums, then you should absolutely check “Sound Years” out.

To someone unfamiliar with Banabila’s work, this is a seriously impressive and accomplished retrospective. A wide orchestral palette and some absolutely top-notch production, with a beautiful sense of space and an ability to shift subtly between warm and cold atmospheres, makes this an aural joy in its own right. The transitions are seamless and this absolutely stands up as its own work, without any of the unsatisfying incompleteness you sometimes get in compilations.

It’s released on Banabila’s own Tapu Records. Several of the original albums from which these tracks are sourced are legitimately available to download for free online, and this compilation will definitely make you want to peruse things further. (Stuart Bruce)

   

Saber cuando parar (Las Pastillas del Abuelo)

COVER: vimeo.com/261739230

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A cantar no aprendí, pero igual sigo cantando..

Full album in free download here yoshiwaku.bandcamp.com/album/extraterrestrial-life-is-but...

banabila.bandcamp.com/album/whales-calling

Yesterday I got some photos of my friends Joe and Alice.

 

This is Joe. He's an amazing musician and a lovely person. He brought his guitar with him and we just sat on the beach and messed around. He and Alice then did a cover of 'Billionaire' whilst we were there and I got a video of it.

 

Joe also recorded an album a couple of years ago...

CLICK for the official music video for his song 'I Found You'.

I really do urge you to look at his video, because he's a brilliant musician.

 

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