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Listed [2006-02-16]Slightly delayed but no less inevitable it’s finally time to collect the assorted views of musique[machine] contributors, to file, arrange, sequence and sort a years worth of experience and re-experience into a little compact article for your digesting pleasure.
2005 has seen the usual deluge of desirable material that threatened to break the bank, and if lucky our hearts. The media decided to stay faithful and ignore the vast majority of great music released this year and instead worry about how downloading is going to put P-Diddy on the bread line. Fortunately here at musique[machine] our battle hardened group of intrepid reporters have braved the elements to bring you the cream of new music, stimulating the parts other webzines just do not reach.
Browse the MM archives for reviews of many of the records seen listed here and may 2006 be a most beneficial year for all without and within.Roger BattyOn the whole the year was somewhat disappointing for anticipated releases. Both Ulver's Blood Inside and Boards of Canada’s Campfire Headphase, seemed to me pale imitations of each artist high points, and Khanate's Capture & Release, rehashed ideas from their last full length. So old favourite’s have appeared in my list again.
Anticon: This is not purely because I'm a fan of the label, but I think they have produced some of their best work this year, and due to this have received interest from the more mainstream press.
Nurse With Wound: Sadly I feel most of the NWW material released this year seems uninspired and retreads the same water, the only release standing out was the limited concert only release, Little Dipper Minus 2
The Residents: I believe yet again they have refreshed and reinvented themselves. Making a gloomy and atmospheric album, that touches down in both the organic and electronic.Music
1. 13 & God - 13 & God
2. Why? - Elephant eyelash
3. Nurse with Wound – The Little Dipper Minus Two (Echo Poem Sequence 1)
4. Fog - 10th Avenue freak out
5. Animal Collective - Feels
6. Pedestrian - Volume One: unIndian songs
7. Meshuggah - Catch 33
8. Sunn 0)))) - Black One
9. Bohren & Der Club of Gore- Geisterfaust
10. Merzbow - Sphere
11.Sole - Live From Rome
12. Murcof - Remembranza
13. The Residents - Animal Lover
14. Colleen - The Golden Mourning Breaks
15. Brian Mcbride - When The Detail Lost its FreedomReissues
1. Naked city - Complete studio Recordings
2. The Residents - 3rd Reich ‘n’ Roll
3. The Residents - Mole Trilogy albums
4. Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust. OST Dvds
1. Peter Walker Collection
2. Phantasm sphere collection
3. Escape from New YorkMovies
1. The Devils Rejects
2. War of the Worlds
3. Sin City
4. The MachinistNew discoveries
1. Yes and King Crimson
2. Merzbow
3. John Coltrane
4. Revaluing John Zorn
5. The Films of Werner Herzog
6. Brian Eno
Martijn BusinkTurbulent year for me, my cat got ill and needed surgery, had some more surgery on myself and I got to move to a bigger house quite suddenly. The move seemed problematic for my internetprovider which left me internetless for 4 months now while trying to communicate with these people that I want to end the contract and get my money back. The company persists to e-mail a client who's without internet and tell him to check his personal site for actual information on his connection, to give an idea of the 'logic' of this company and their idea of 'customercare'. Hopefully these things will get sorted out soon and also I hope I don't have to see any surgeons (veterinary or on myself) again soon. Of course plenty of music again, the explorations never end.Top 30
1. Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
An amazing package of aggressive and exciting metal with intelligent concepts and visual arts in a 40 page booklet to match.
2. Deli Creeps - Dawn Of The Deli Creeps
Finally the Creeps got an official release, warm feelings of seeing old friends.
3. Supersilent - 7
The magic caught with pictures this time. Breathtaking.
4. Robert Fripp - Love Cannot Bear
Emotional, soothing and blissful.
5. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Like a friend said: makes you feel like standing on the cliffs and cry for the Irish.
6. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
7. Various Artists - Folk And Pop Sounds Of Sumatra vol. 2
8. Ulver - Blood Inside
9. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
10. Various Artists - Choubi Choubi! Pop And Folk Sounds Of Iraq
11. Asva - Futurist's Against The Ocean
12. Buckethead & Friends - Enter The Chicken
13. Khanate - Capture & Release
14. De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - Parels Voor De Zwijnen
15. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
16. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
17. Allen/Lande - The Battle
18. Sunn0))) - Black One
19. BaBa Zula & Mad Professor - Duble Oryantal
20. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
21. Beyond Twilight - Section X
22. John Zorn - Mysterium
23. Screaming Headless Torsos - 2005
24. Trifon Trifonov & Stanimaka - Bulgarian Wedding Music From The Last Century - Legends From The Northern Parts Of Tracia
25. Fantômas - Suspended Animation
26. Abscess - Damned And Mummified
27. Sean Paul - The Trinity
28. Fallen - A Tragedy's Bitter End
29. Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha - Re-Covers
30. George Clinton Presents The P-Funk Allstars - How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent?New, yet old, discoveries
Barış Manço - anything up to Yeni Bir Gün
Edip Akbayram & Dostlar - Nedir Ne Değildir?
Area - Revolution
Arvo Pärt - Kanon Pokajanen
Ananda Shankar - ...And His Music
Sublime FrequenciesBoxed sets
Rum - 1972-1978
Lee "Scratch" Perry - I Am The UpsetterDVD's
The Continuing Adventures of Taraf De Haïdouks
Enslaved - Return To Yggdrasill, Live In Bergen
Anathema - Were You There?
Frank Zappa - Dubroom SpecialBest concerts
Ivo Papasov & His Bulgarian Weddingband - Amsterdam
Sunn0))) - Amsterdam
Asva - Brussels
Farmers Market - Tilburg
Supersilent - Amsterdam
Meshuggah - Amsterdam
Frankco Lamerikx1. Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
2. V/A - The Music Library (Book + CD of incredible library music released by FUEL Publishing)
3. Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
4. Alvarius B. - Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset
5. Broadcast - Tender Buttons
6. V/A - Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq
7. Glorior Belli - Ô Laudate Dominus
8. V/A - From the Entrails to the Dirt (Compilation on EAL featuring Malicious Secrets, Antaeus, Mutiilation, and Deathspell Omega)
9. Electrelane - Axes
François Monti2005… Difficult year for music listening and music reviewing. I spent most of it abroad and looking for a job, very little of it actually buying CD’s. And I haven’t had the time to properly sort out stuff that stood out over the past twelve months, so there you go, a list in alphabetical order of the records that I actually had the chance to familiarize myself with and think are worth noting.1. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
2. Asva - Futurists against the ocean
3. Boris - Mabuta No Ura
4. Boris - Pink
5. Circle - Tulikoira
6. Coil - And the ambulance died in his arms
7. Coil - The ape of Naples
8. Corrupted - El mundo frio
9.Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
10. Earth - Hex or printing in the infernal method
11. Electrelane - Axes
12. Gang Gang Dance - God’s money
13. Jesu - Jesu
14. Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Absencen
15. Kåre Joaõ - 2
16. Kate Bush - Aerial
17. Larsen - Play
18. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
19. Minamo - Shining
20. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
21. Piana - Ephemeral
22. RATN - J
23. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
24. Sunn - Black One
25. Tujiko Noriko - Blurred in my mirror
26. Ulver - Blood Inside
Special mentions should go to Ulver, Earth and Coil.Let 2006 rock in style. Please let my job be music friendly (I have my doubts).
John PusieskiRecords
1. Ulver - Blood Inside
2. Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will be a Monster
3. Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God
4. Jello Biafra and the Melvins - Sieg Howdy
5. Fantomas - Suspended Animation
6. Mugison - Mugimama, is this Monkey Music?
7. Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath
8. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
9. Meshuggah - Catch 33
10.Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust
11. Sigh - Gallows Gallery
12. Mark Knopfler - One Take Radio Sessions
13. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
14. Fionna Apple - Extraordinary Machine
15. Deerhoof - The Runners Four
16. Cathedral - Garden of Unearthly Delights
17. Soulfly - Dark Ages
18. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Duncan SimpsonFor myself 2005 has been an interesting year for music and all things in general, as one would always hope it would be. Discovering new delights in the form of Harold Budds wonderful minimalism, Japanese Improvisation and continual explorations into the catalogue of Tzadik records. Old favourites coming up trumps in the shape of Coil, Opeth, Pierre Henry, Khanate and Antony and the Johnson’s, and a few disappointments, Nurse With Wound and the continual delay of the new Current 93 album being the most prominent.
Outside of music life has pottered along much as is has done this past age. Political activities have been numerous but fruitless. Kavenism is still languishing in the final phase before lift off, and I am still finding myself staggeringly irritated by the general public and the price of Fruli.
2006 looks set to be a year of fulfilment. New albums by the likes of Katatonia, Current 93, SunnO))) and Whitehouse look set to brighten the changing horizon. Moves to new jobs and the launch finally of Kavenism into the realm of fully released musical endeavours. All bodes well for a year of interesting times, but then as the proverb goes, curse those who live in interesting times.Records
1. Pierre Henry - Voyage Initiatique
2. Sunn O)))) - Black one
3. Khanate - Capture / Release
4. Nurse With Wound - Little Dipper Minus 2 (Echo Poem Sequence 1)
5. Tod Dockstader - Bijou
6. Tod Dockstader - Aerial 2
7. The Lappetites - After the Libretto
8. John Zorn - Mysterium
9. Ikue Mori - Myrninerest
10. Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra - ONJO
11. Coil - The Ape of Naples
12. Harold Budd / Eraldo Bernocchi - Fragments from the Indide
13. Susumo Yokota - Symbol
14. Pierre Schaeffer - L’oeuvre Musicale
15. Andrew Liles - New York Doll
16. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
17. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
18. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
19. Esmerine - Aurora
20. Opeth - Ghost ReveriesBooks
1. The Auditory Culture Reader (BERG, Oxford,New York)
2. Haunted Weather - David Toop (Serpents Tail, London)
3. Audio Culture Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, New York London)
4. Stockhausen on Music - Compiled by Robin Maconie (Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, London)New Discoveries
1. Bohren And der Club of Gore
2. Japanese Free Jazz, especially Otomo Yoshihide
3. Harold Budd
4. Cristian Marclay
5. Jim O’Rourke
6. David Shea
7. Tod DockstaderSignificant events
1. Iannis Xenakis Weekend - London, October
2. Harold Budd Farewell concert - Brighton, May
3. Colin Potter and Aranos - Bristol, August
4. Numerous Trips to Paris and discovering the pleasures of Belgian beer
5. Writing off my car and so preventing any chance of buying new equipment to finally get some good qualtity recording done.
6. And Of course starting to write for musique[machine]Duncan Simpson
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