Nelson Foltz & Tom Lynn - “Still Life”
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill - “Welcome here again”
Toumani Diabaté - “The Mandé Variations”
Jacaszek - “Treny”
Our Sleepless Forest - “Our Sleepless Forest”
Peter Broderick - “Float”
Ry Cooder - “I, Flathead”
Lawrence English - “Kiri No Oto”
Thomas Feiner & Anywhen - “The Opiates (revisited)”
Janek Schaefer - “Extended Play”
Rajery, Ballake Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi - “3MA”
Loudon Wainwright III - “Recovery”
Hauschka - “Ferndorf”
Max Richter - “24 Postcards in Full Colour”
Buena Vista Social Club - “Live at Carnegie Hall”
Johann Johannsson - “Fordlandia”
Arve Henriksen - “Cartography”
This is Your Captain Speaking - “Eternal Return”
Le Chat Blanc Orchestra - “Ste Claire Hotel”
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - “The Gugging Album”
Remember Remember - “Remember Remember”
A good year I'd say. (And very international - musicians from UK, USA, Germany, Poland, Norway, Iceland, Mali, Austria, Australia, Sweden, Canada, Cuba, Ireland, Morocco & Madagascar.)
Our Sleepless Forest were a young band from Putney who only made this one album of post-rock.
Remember Remember are a minimalist outfit from Glasgow - Steve Reich with a drum kit.
Toumani Diabate's album here is him playing solo. He is one of the finest musicians I've ever seen live.
Foltz & Lynn is part of a vast 4 CD set of drifting Jon Hassell inspired ambience.
The terribly named This is Your Captain Speaking are an Australian guitar band, with a fine album. (The recent third from them is however a major disappointment)
Since "Fordlandia", Johannsson has been mainly doing soundtrack work, some of it very good. This album marked the first I'd heard about Fordlandia, but I've since read a very good book about Henry Ford's city building exercise in the Amazon.
"Extended Play" was the first album I heard by sound artist Janek Schaefer, I was to discover lots of other good stuff & in the few brief emails I've exchanged with him seems a good man too.
The rogue album is Le Chat Blanc Orchestra, an ambient outfit from Canada as I recall, but an album I don't think I've played since - must dig it out.
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