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"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. 🇯🇵
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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Monument Joseph Sec
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)
Joseph Sec (1715, Cadenet, Vaucluse - 1794) was a bourgeois, a Jacobin and a grey penitent from Aix-en-Provence. He was a master carpenter and wood merchant.
Joseph-Sec Mausoleum
In 1792, a cenotaph was completed close to the Saint-Jacques hospital, and it was made a monument historique in 1969. Reminiscent of buildings from the French Revolution, it is crowned by the figure of Revolutionary Justice, which stands above the representation of Moses delivering the Law. Statuary within the garden represent Old Testament figures such as Noah (with both an ark and bunches of grapes), Aaron wearing the priestly breastplate, David with the head of Goliath, and Jael slaying Sisera. In the typical baroque style, these statuary figures feature detailed and ample robes and theatrical movements. Other reliefs thematically echo the New Testament, Freemasonry, and revolutionary ideals. These statues, commissioned by Joseph Sec before his death were probably executed by Barthélémy-François Chardigny, who may have also done some of the bas-reliefs. This monument is very rare for the periode of "vandalisme" during the French revolution, which featured the destruction of religious symbols and monuments. Joseph Sec assumed the role of removing the statuary figures from the nearby Sainte-Sauveur Cathedral to preserve them.
The facade of the Mausoleum features two prominent figures, Moses (with two horns and holding the ten commandments), and the allegory of justice (holding a balance). The facade presents the revolutionary ideal of the rights of man presiding over divine law. The two adjacent allegorical characters, the allegory of the freedom from slavery, and the allegory of Europe pull together the facade to reveal the three ideals of France today: liberty, fraternity, and equality.
The mausoleum can be found at 8, avenue Pasteur, in Aix-en-Provence.
(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.
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"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 -
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)
Handwritten set list from some early gig of young Robert Zimmerman, along with a rare Gibson (electro-)acoustic guitar presumably once played by him. Seen at the Prague Rock Cafe
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...
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.
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'.
treated myself to a new guitar, the first new guitar i have ever owned, sounds lovely. It's a lindo Neptune for those who care about such things.
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
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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.
50mm + YN468 flash.
-Burns London Steer Cutaway.
-OLP McSwain TinTop.
-Vintage Guitars Resonator.
-XP Electroacoustic.
Iannis Xenakis - Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances.
Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–54) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes, that were a summa of his interests and skills.
Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (French edition 1963, English translation 1971) is regarded as one of his most important publications. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the priory of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, on which the two collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58), which Xenakis designed by himself.
Cover was addressed to: Mrs. Shirley Burenheide / 113 West South Avenue / Emporia, Kansas 66801 / USA
It was sent by airmail in 1983 from Paris, France.
Shirley Burenheide was an American woman from Kansas who passed away in 2007 at the age of 78.
Life Details:
Birth: Born on June 8, 1929, in Hartford, Kansas.
Death: Died on October 22, 2007, in Linden, Texas.
Career: She worked as an administrator for a shopping mall.
Location: She was associated with Emporia, Kansas, and later Hughes Springs, Texas.
Family: She was survived by a son, two grandsons, five great-grandchildren, and two brothers.
Connection to Iannis Xenakis
It seems she was an autograph collector, as search results show she also received a signed letter from Richard C. Marcus of Neiman Marcus in 1984.
It is likely the autograph from Iannis Xenakis was obtained through correspondence as part of her collection.
LINK to article - La Légende de Xenakis: Meta Xenakis - books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0390/ch25.xhtml
LINK to video - Iannis Xenakis (1 of 2) Filmed Interview in English with German subtitles - www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4nj2nklbts
LINK to video - Iannis Xenakis filmed Interview (2 of 2) in English with German subtitles - www.youtube.com/watch?v=zukz4KcouNg
LINK to video - Great Composers: Iannis Xenakis - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suis4IfbAAE
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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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
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.
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.
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)
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A cantar no aprendí, pero igual sigo cantando..