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Jefre Cantu – Ledesma<\/strong> (Root Strata \/ The Alps \/ Moholy-Nagy)
\nGetting married to Barbara
\nTaking The Wife to Texas – Marfa, Big Bend, Austin.
\nEveryone and everything @ On Land 2010: Week long slumber party with Ilyas & Liz. Cooking Indian food with Ilays for everyone. Heartbreaking instore @ AQ by Christina. The IA\/LH duo wasn’t so shabby either!
\nSeeing Morton Feldman’s ‘Rothko Chapel’ preformed live
\nHelga & Andrew’s wedding: performing with Tony \/ Dancing to Peaking Lights \/ Playing the gong in the ceremony.
\nRecords by Dadawah, Tashi Wada, Matthew Young, Messages, Arp \/ Arp & Anthony Moore & Barn Owl
\nCassettes by Pete Swanson, Earn, Driphouse, Rene Hell, Antiquity & No UFO’s
\nThe films of Nathaniel Dorsky
\nPlaying music with old friends and falling in love with music making all over again.
\nPerforming with Jonas & Paul Clipson @ the NYC Film Festival
\nSelling off most of what I own in preparation for the move to Berlin in the spring & coming to the realization that I don’t need or miss any of it.<\/p>\n

Maxwell August Croy <\/strong>(Root Strata \/ En)
\nRecordings that got me through the rough parts: Infinite Body – Carve Out The Face Of My God (Post Present Medium), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream (Type)
\nRecordings that made me shake a ass: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (4AD), El Guincho – Pop Negro (Young Turks)
\nLive sets: Byron Westbrook @ The Lab, Oneohtrix Point Never + Nate Boyce @ On Land, Dan Higgs @ Grace Cathedral, Fennesz @ Swedish American Hall
\nOn Land Festival (everyone\/everything, the warm family vibes were even more palpable this year)
\nGetting over my fear of singing.
\nMaking music with James, recording & releasing my\/our first album and performing at On Land.
\nGood-bye road trip (and Desert Vision Quest) with JZ, you are missed bro.
\nTherapy + pain killers
\nChani (and the trip to Portland, in style)
\nLetting go…<\/p>\n

Matt Carlson<\/strong> (Golden Retriever)
\nBrother Raven – VSS-30
\nNobuhiko Obayashi – Hausu (Janus 35mm restoration)
\nRene Hell – Porcelain Opera
\nGaspar Noe – Enter the Void
\nPulse Emitter – live at Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
\nOperative live at On Land, San Francisco
\nKyle Gann – No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”
\nSeth Nehil – Furl
\nJonathan Lethem – Chronic City
\nEthan Rose – Between Rooms and Voices, performance at Town Hall, Portland<\/p>\n

Jonas Asher<\/strong> (Grasslung)
\nFurther Reductions “Decidedly So” 7″ (Captured Tracks)
\nThe Films Of Paul Clipson
\nMark Lord – Live Prov, RI –\u00a0 “Zyclone B Zombie” by Throbbing Gristle Cover
\nEarn all & everything including Ekhein.
\nThe Films of Bradley Eros
\nDriphouse and the GEL Tapes Resurrection
\nPale Blue Sky “Shades Of Grey” LP (Arbor)
\nRoe Enney “Damnatio Memoraie” forthcoming Phaserprone Tape
\nPsychic TV – Live @ Europa – Brooklyn, NY 12.09.2010
\nBruce McClure “Fist 1 – Improper Frictions” @ Lincoln Center, NY 10.02.2010
\nMat Brinkman “Phantasmatgoria” The Hole Gallery NY 09.18.2010
\nOn Land Festival
\nThought Broadcast “Demo 1” Tape (Gel)<\/p>\n

Alexis Georgopoulos\u00a0<\/strong>(Arp \/ The Alps \/ Q&A)
\nDurutti Column – Stucki
\nCFCF – The River
\nOni Ayhun – Untitled (OAR003\u2013B)
\nJames Blake – Klavierwerke EP
\nSun Araw – Off Duty + Boat Trip
\nCharanjit Singh – Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
\nTensnake – Coma Cat
\nTame Impala – Innerspeaker
\nArch M – Land Huxt
\nWashed Out – Life of Leisure
\nFactory Floor – Lying
\nJohn Roberts – Glass Eights
\nChris Carter – The Space Between<\/p>\n

Evan Caminiti <\/strong>(Barn Owl, Higuma)
\nSaffron Grill- I\u2019m having withdrawals without eating Saffron for going on two months.\u00a0 True food for the soul.
\nPopol Vuh- Everything.
\nLoren Connors- Hell\u2019s Kitchen Park LP reissue
\nRichard Youngs- Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits LP
\nHarmony of the Spheres compilation on vinyl- My Amoeba score of the year.
\nLisbon, Portugal- beautiful city.
\nThe Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudolph Wurlitzer
\nOn Land Festival- fun
\nTelecaster 72\u2019 Custom- glorious new axe.
\nNeil Young live at the Fox Theater, Oakland- Neil-electric-solo: dream come true<\/p>\n

Date Palms <\/strong>(Gregg Kowalsky & Marielle Jakobsons)
\nMiles Davis – Bitches Brew (Legacy + Collectors Editions)
\nSun Araw – On Patrol (Not Not Fun)
\nSpiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space (Reissue)
\nStarving Weirdos – On Land Performance
\nKeith Fullerton Whitman – Generator (Root Strata)
\nWashed Out – Life of Leisure (Mexican Summer)
\nFaust – Faust IV (Vinyl Reissue)
\nEarth – A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extractions (Reissue, Southern Lord)
\nBeach House – Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
\nPrince Jammy – Prince Jammy Presents: Strictly Dub (Reissue, Pressure Sounds)<\/p>\n

Greg Davis<\/strong>
\n10 tapes for 2010
\nrobin fox – a handful of automation (editions mego)
\nmist – glowing net (pizza wagon)
\nbee mask – from a will-less gigolo of a divinity to the gore-spattered lion on his own hearth, odysseus becomes \u201codysseus\u201d (deception island)
\nflower man – house of cards (flanger magazine)
\n1958-2009 I-III (ekhein)
\nrene hell – lucifer pt. II (arbor)
\njohn clyde evans – go gracious kiki change (autumn records)
\nchris weisman – fresh sip (autumn records)
\nkeith fullerton whitman – generator (root strata)
\nceler – rags of contentment (digitalis)<\/p>\n

Pete Swanson<\/strong>
\nGate – A Republic of Sadness
\nCall Back The Giants
\nOperative – Pulse\/Ramp
\nZola Jesus – Stridulum
\nKeith Fullerton Whitman – Generators series of cassettes
\nJefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love is a Stream
\nAaron Dilloway – A Foxhole Point of View
\nEarl Sweatshirt – EARL
\nEnsemble Economique – Standing Still, Facing Forward
\nDangerous Boys Club – VRIL<\/p>\n

Koen Holtkamp<\/strong> (mountains)
\nGunn – Truscinski Duo – Sand City (Three Lobed)
\nGrasslung – Sincere Void (Root Strata)
\nWilliam Tyler – Behold The Spirit (Tompkins Square)
\nAlvin Curran – Under The Fig Tree (Die Schachtel)
\nTed Lucas – Om (Sebastien Speaks)
\nCatherine Christer Hennix – The Electric Harpsichord (Die Schachtel)
\nKris Kristofferson – Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The
\nPublishing Demos 1968-72 (Light In The Attic)
\nCorridors – s\/t (Sedimental)
\nDate Palms – Of Psalms (Root Strata)
\nJim Sullivan – UFO (Light In The Attic)<\/p>\n

Live Highlights :
\nGetting to see and hear the entire cycle of Eliane Radigue’s
\n‘Naldjorlak’ performed by Charles Curtis, Bruno Martinez and Carol
\nRobinson. James Blackshaw and Tape multiple times as we were lucky
\nenough to tour with them.\u00a0 Jon Mueller’s impressively focused set in
\nRaleigh, NC.\u00a0 Some other memorable performances off the top of my head
\n– Minamo in Tokyo, Bert Jansch adding some much needed warmth to a
\nvery chilly evening in Philadelphia, Endless Boogie’s locked in groove
\npretty much levitating the entire audience, Che Chen & Robbie Lee
\ncoaxing otherworldly incantations out of there vast array of
\ninstruments, Chris Forsyth and Steve Gunn getting me psyched to hear
\nsome solo acoustic guitar performances again.<\/p>\n

Christina Carter<\/strong>
\nBooked Up Bookstore in Archer City, Texas
\nSan Francisco in September
\nShooting Pool
\nDrinking Wine
\nSidereal Astrology
\nOld Family Photographs
\nWille Nelson
\nR.G. Vliet Archives at Texas State University
\nFinding Scorpions and Helping Them To Escape
\nReading Poets on the Bus<\/p>\n

Ilyas Ahmed<\/strong>
\nthings i got and loved this year:
\nfursaxa –\u00a0 mycorrhizae realm
\nsun city girls – funeral mariachi
\ntamio shiriashi – sax solo performance at subway in ny
\nleonard cohen – live at the isle of wight 1970
\ncold sun – dark shadows
\npete swanson – ghost o clock
\nchromatics – night drive(deluxe edition)
\nbulent – benimle oynar misin
\nthe doors – live at the matrix
\nsteve gunn – boerum palace
\nendless boogie – full house head<\/p>\n

Scott Hewicker <\/strong>(The Alps)
\nCharanjit Singh – Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
\nCatherine Christer Hennix – The Electric Harpsichord
\nDemdike Stare – 12″ Trilogy: Forest of Evil, Liberation Through Hearing, Voices of Dust
\nDum Dum Girls – I Will Be
\nRoyal Baths – Litanies
\nDate Palms – Of Psalms
\nGonjasufi – A Sufi and A Killer
\nDadawah – Peace & Love
\nMount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
\nGrasslung – Sincere Void
\nArp – The Soft Wave<\/p>\n

Jeff Witscher<\/strong> (Rene Hell)
\nrichard youngs “beyond the valley of ultra hits” lp
\ndaily life “necessary & pathetic” lp
\nbrian mcbride “the effective disconnet” lp
\nted lucas “s\/t” reissue lp
\nflower man “house of cards” cs
\nheadboggle “banjo signal generator as advertised” cs
\njoanna newsom “have one on me” 3xlp
\ncharanjit singh “synthesizing: ten ragas to a disco beat” reissue lp
\nfielded “terrageist” lp
\nkeith fullerton whitman “generators” 2xcs<\/p>\n

Jon Porras<\/strong> (Barn Owl)
\nThe Drop Edge Of Yonder By Rudolph Wurlitzer
\nNeil Young – Live Solo at Fox Theatre
\nPopol Vuh\u00a0 – Letzte Tage, Letzte N\u00e4chte
\nStan Brakhage – Wedlock house
\nCaretaker – A Persistent Repetition of Phrases
\nFuqugi – Gransofa + Nightingale
\nGeneral Store on Judah
\nSlowdive – Outside Your Room EP
\nLoren Connors – Hymn of the North Star
\nNeil Young – Le Noise
\nClair Cassis – s\/t
\nPopol Vuh – Nosferatu Soundtrack
\nTrouble Coffee<\/p>\n

Richard Youngs<\/strong>
\nNew Zealand
\nJapan
\nNew home
\nReel to reel recording
\nTinned grapefruit
\nCampervanning
\nBBC iPlayer
\nMemory foam pillows
\nRediscovering Hong Kong Phooey
\nCoffee<\/p>\n

Adam Forkner<\/strong> (White Rainbow)
\npizza
\ncoffee
\nhashbrowns
\ntri-fire volume one 12″ 45 on peoples potential unlimited
\n( http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/claymovie\/ppu2\/catalog2\/tri-fire-volume-one.html)
\nmegazord
\nlil b
\nwhiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com
\n“i heard you just do hyphy and comedy sets now”
\nipad in general
\n“mugician” ipad app that’s like a microtonal synth that’s set up as an 11 string fretless guitar<\/p>\n

Brad Rose<\/strong> (Foxy Digitalis \/ Alter Eagle)
\nTop 10 Albums I First Heard in 2010 That Did Not Come Out in 2010
\nThis list is going to be hip-hop heavy since 2010 was the year I really got into hip-hop.\u00a0 I’m also not including stuff reissued this year that I wasn’t familiar with until said reissues come out (like Drexciya, which would be near the top otherwise) because that seems too easy.
\nKanye West “808s & Heartbreak”
\nTook me long enough, but this is probably now in my top 5 or 10 albums of all-time at this point.\u00a0 Incredible.
\nLil Wayne “Tha Carter III”
\nLook, I’m a bit slow sometimes.
\nSkinny Puppy “Back & Forth Series Two”
\nI’ve always associated Skinny Puppy with a bunch of douchey goth kids I knew in middle school, so I never really cared.\u00a0 Then there was love for this being thrown around by Mike Weis of Zelienople, so I paid attention and fuck.
\nGZA “Liquid Swords”
\nSo, so good.\u00a0 Now if RZA could just make a solo album worth a damn.
\nBeat Konducta “Vol. 3-4: Beat Konducta in India”
\nI’m an absolute Madlib fanboy at this point.\u00a0 100%
\nZanov “Green Ray”
\nI’ve got another Zanov album but hadn’t ever heard this one and damn am I glad I did.\u00a0 I wish shit like this was being reissued rather than every shitty, third-rate psych band from South America’s long-lost live album.
\nSurgeon “Force+Form”
\nShit, I guess I just broke one rule since a new vinyl version of this came out this year, but whatever – fuck it.\u00a0 This is hardcore.
\nMother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. s\/t LP
\nGreat synth compositions under one weird-ass moniker.\u00a0 See: Zanov re: Reissues.
\nDesire “II”
\nSomehow never heard this one last year, but it definitely hit the spot early this past summer.
\nJoker “Digidesign \/ You Don’t Know What Love Is”
\nBest.Bass.Sound.In.The.World. No.Contest.<\/p>\n

Roger Tellier-Craig<\/strong> (Le r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur)
\nJosh Burke – Prana (Aguirre)
\nRadio People – Radio People (Digitalis)
\nReuben Son – Cortical Migrations (Digitalis)
\nDate Palms – Of Psalms (Root Strata)
\nNEU! – Neu! ’86 (Gronland)
\nJ. Hanson – Boolean Blues (Digitalis)
\nEmeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Mego)
\nPulse Emitter – Over Clouds (Root Strata)
\nArp – The Soft Wave (Smalltown Supersound)
\nDriphouse – Airlocks and Pallet Jacks
\nLuc Ferrari – Eph\u00e9m\u00e8re I & II<\/p>\n

Mike Weis <\/strong>(Zelienople)
\nMy first year as a parent. Little Jee has already inherited his dad’s habit (good? bad?) of using ambient music as a means to fall asleep. Grasslung was a favorite
\nTen years and four children later, Zelienople rolls on
\nburning the American folk songbook with Scott Tuma. Highlight performances were opening for two Bonnie “Prince” Billy shows; one at a dive, the other at a posh theatre. Another one at The Hideout with an ad hoc band of Tuma, myself, Ben Boyd, Emmett Kelly and Jim White.
\nchanneling the spirit of Florian Fricke and Holger Trulzsch with Xela in Chicago and at On Land
\nchanneling Lucifer for the North Sea recordings
\nOn Land was the superior (extended) weekend of the year. Great performances and excellent vibes all around, such a beautiful community of musicians and fans.
\nDiscovering Korean Shaman music
\nFree summer concerts under the Frank Gehry pavilion – Tortoise, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Tinariwen, Pavement
\ntook advantage of nap hours to finally record a solo album
\nR.I.P. Fred Anderson, Bill Dixon, Sigmar Polke, Adam Mills, Lorrie Otto<\/p>\n

John Twells<\/strong> (Xela \/ Type Records)
\nTop 10 Live\/DJ events 2010
\nSlayer & Megadeth @ Tsongas Center Lowell, MA
\nKeith Fullerton Whitman & Felix Kubin @ The Goethe Institut, Boston, MA
\nIron Maiden @ The Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada
\nGrouper & Ilyas Ahmed @ aQuarius Records, San Francisco, CA
\nReuben Son @ Whitehaus, Jamaica Plain, MA
\nThe Great IQ @ Zebulon, Brooklyn, NY
\nPete Swanson @ Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco, CA
\nBlack To Comm @ Paragon, Providence, RI
\nSwans @ The Middle East, Cambridge, MA
\nActress @ Middlesex, Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n

Alex Cobb <\/strong>(Taiga Remains \/ Students Of Decay)
\nCurren$y: “Pilot Talk”
\nBarn Owl: “Ancestral Star”
\nEn: “The Absent Coast”
\nSmoke DZA: “George Kush Da Button”
\nJefre Cantu-Ledesma: “Love is a Stream”
\nTamaryn: “The Waves”
\nFederico Durand: “La Siesta del Cipres”
\nChubby Wolf: “Ornitheology”
\nDemdike Stare: “Forest of Evil”
\nStarlito: “Renaissance Gangster”<\/p>\n

Ben Vida<\/strong> (Birdshow \/ Soft Circle)
\nDriving around listening to Hot 97.
\nRick Ross:\u00a0 Aston Martin Music
\nDrake: Up All Night
\nKanye: POWER
\nKanye: Monster
\nBig Boi: Back Up Plan
\nAlicia Keys: Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)
\nAlicia Keys: Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart
\nUsher: Hot Tottie
\nFabolous: Killin Em
\nRihanna: What’s my Name?
\nLil Wayne: Right Above It
\nBirdman: Money to Blow
\nThe Dream: Panties to the Side<\/p>\n

Danny Paul Grody<\/strong> (The Drift \/ Moholy-Nagy)
\nMoving in and nesting with my loved one.
\nUnexpectedly winning “best original music score” from Cinema Eye Honors (NYC) for the documentary film October Country.
\nReleasing my first solo record Fountain.
\nPlaying with old friends more than ever, all at once.
\nMy beloved La Pavoni espresso machine.
\nLive: Tinariwen, Neil Young, Debashish Bhattacharya, On Land Festival!
\nPerforming at Grace Cathedral – a 6 sec. natural reverb… wow!
\nBooks:\u00a0 The Other City (Michal Ajvaz), By Night In Chile (Roberto Bolano), Master & Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
\nCamping at Patricks Point with good friends.\u00a0 Gorgeous temperate rainforest meets the rugged Pacific Ocean.
\nCooking more.<\/p>\n

Rob Fisk <\/strong>(Common Eider, King Eider)
\nbill orcutt live
\nghent belgium drinking beer
\npete swanson live
\nberzum twister
\nsnow
\n6 duck hearts on a skewer
\nape do good printing
\ngregory falling asleep during wolf eyes
\ngrouper tattoo party
\namsterdam bike ride to cheese farm<\/p>\n

Scott Goodwin<\/strong> (Operative)
\nTop Everything Parties for Twenty and Ten
\n(No particular order)
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D3IHHARQu10&feature=related
\nGamelan Sadha Budaya
\nSmegma, Oregon Painting Society, Brother Raven, Kevin Shields, John Goff present “Warlock Jazz” @ Holocene
\nMiracles Club @ Holocene 7th Birthday party
\nGolden Retriever @ Holocene CMG benefit
\nUnifactor\/”Cop Donut Shop” @ Yes and No
\nEcstasy Blog Record Release Party Valentine’s Miracles Club Djs, E*Rock, DJ Spencer D, Operative DJs
\nOregon Painting Society (feat. Wolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner) Witchangel\/Hexenhaus @ Portland Biennial
\nWhitewater Rafting on the Deschutes River Deschutes, OR
\nYellow Swans – Going Places<\/p>\n

Andrew Scott <\/strong>(Metal Rouge)
\nWikileaks
\nModra @ Highwire Gallery
\nCity Peoples Farmers Music @ The Echo Curio (RIP!)
\nBarn Owl @ Synchronicity
\nHanging out with the Jooklo Duo in LA
\nInca Ore @ Synchronicity
\nTom Carter @ Echo Curio
\nAll the Peaking Lights sets I saw this year (9 of them!)
\nJosephine @ Eagle Rock Center for The Arts
\nOrnette Coleman @ Royce Hall (despite Flea’s guest appearance)<\/p>\n


\nDarren Ho<\/strong> (Driphouse)
\nTOP X NO ORDER:
\nRene Hell \/ Three Legged Race split on Arbor
\nMoire Index (2010) and Grid Index (2009) Book and CD-ROM + solo show @ Pace Gallery by Carsten Nicolai
\nGrasslung “Sincere Void”
\nEurorack Modular Synthesizers
\nPuredata & GEM
\nInfinite Body “Carve Out The Face Of My God”
\nOmar Souleyman @ Central Park Summerstage
\nAphex Twin 2010 DJ sets on Youtube
\nRoot canal operation at the endodontist, one block away from ground zero.
\nMorgan Egg and Mark Lord \u201clast chance in heaven b\/w discontinue stardust\u201d LP (2009)
\n
\nKonrad Jandavs<\/strong> (No Ufo’s)
\nFabulous Diamonds “II” (Siltbreeze)
\nARP “The Soft Wave” (Smalltown Supersound)
\nGeoff Mullen “Bongo Closet” (Type)
\nActress “Splazsh” (Honest Jon’s)
\nJefre Cantu-Ledesma “Love Is A Stream” (Type)
\nHorrid Red “Empty Lungs” (Holidays)
\nDate Palms “Of Psalms” (Root Strata)
\nDeerhunter “Halcyon Digest” (4AD)
\nKeith Fullerton Whitman “Disingenuity \/ Disingenuousness” (Pan)
\nAlastair Galbraith “Mass” (Siltbreeze)<\/p>\n

Trevor Montgomery<\/strong> (Lazarus \/ The Drift \/ Moholy-Nagy)
\nGolden Retriever ( Root Strata )
\nJD Emmanuel – Wizards – Reissue ( Important )
\nBeach House – Teen Dream ( Sub Pop )
\nDate Palms –\u00a0 of Psalms ( Root Strata )
\nPaul Clipson \/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Within Mirrors ( Students of Decay )
\nDaniel Higgs – Say God ( Thrill Jockey )
\nEmeralds – Does it look like I’m here? ( editions Mego )
\nJefre Cantu-Ledesma –\u00a0 Love is a Stream (type)
\nBarn Owl –\u00a0 Ancestral Star ( Thrill Jockey)
\nGolden Retriever – 2 ( Bucket Factory )<\/p>\n

Tom Carter<\/strong>
\n10 New York shows that melted my face off in 2010, even if I can’t
\nremember the dates (or the months for that matter)<\/p>\n

John Duncan performance consisting of a dozen ringers planted in the
\ncrowd in a suddenly pitch-black auditorium stripping off their clothes
\nand clawing their way naked and screaming over the backs of fleeing
\naudience members (Airway was pretty good too); @ Performa Fest,
\nJanuary<\/p>\n

Sitarist Kushal Das at the Chandayan Center’s annual dusk to dawn
\nIndian concert. If a molten rod of white light shooting up the spine
\nfrom the sacrum and out your uppermost subtle orifice is ‘sick’ (as my
\nfriend Steve likes to say), then this was surely the ‘illingest’
\nperformance of the year; @ Chandayan Center, May<\/p>\n

Omar Souleyman rocking the brickwall reverb and the urban courtyard
\ncanyon vibe, edging out (slightly) his amazing set at Central Park the
\nday before with Tinariwen @ Issue Project Room, June<\/p>\n

Peter Stampfel and one of Martha Colburn’s interns (sorry, forgot who)
\nplaying an improvised banjo\/toy electric keytar soundtrack to Martha’s
\ncollection of 16mm animated porno films; @ my house, July<\/p>\n

What better way to cap\u00a0 Sir Richard Bishop’s July-long Monday night
\nresidency at Zebulon than with a SRB\/ Bill Orcutt\u00a0 duo set? None that
\nI can imagine; @ Zebulon, July<\/p>\n

Tectonic Loren Connors & Margarida Garcia (doublebass) duo
\nimprovisation, akin to watching brass orchids unfold. Please beat me
\nwith the yardstick if I attempt to measure out the ‘best’ Loren
\nConnors show I saw last year; @ Union Pool, September(?)<\/p>\n

Phill Niblock with David First, Al Margolis, Robert Poss, and Phill
\nNiblock turned every atom of the air into mercury at the Electric
\nTemple drone-athon (with visuals provided by Richard Garet, Phill
\nNiblock, and Katherine Liberovskaya) @ Issue Project Room, October<\/p>\n

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Mohan veena) weeping metal tears of joy down a
\nfretboard by candlelight; @ West Village Presbyterian Church, October<\/p>\n

Pandit Ramesh Mishra (sarangi) & NItin Mitta (tabla) stoking the prana
\nfurnace in a surprise duo set after an already-excellent performance
\naccompanying vocalist Paromita, while surrounded by the boisterous
\nBengali community of Queens; @ PS 131Q, December<\/p>\n

Chie Mukai’s first US performance (how is this possible?), stalking\/
\nowning the stage, trance-like, in a pair of oversized glitter heels,
\nradiating rosined strokes over wine-stained brains (and finishing with
\na transfixingly silent dance encore); @ Zebulon, December<\/p>\n

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