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2012 5 Dez

Michaels Lieblingsalben 2012

von: Michael Engelbrecht Filed under: Blog | TB | 2 Comments

 
 

 
 

  1. Scott Walker: Bish Bosh – record of the year (4AD)
  2. Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
  3. Jan Bang & Erik Honore: Uncommon Deities (samadhisound)
  4. Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus: Didymoi Dreams (Rune Grammofon)
  5. Jan Garbarek – Charlie Haden – Egberto Gismonti: Carta de Amor (ECM)
  6. Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic (ECM)
  7. Swans: The Seer (Young Gods)
  8. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
  9. Burnt Friedman: Bokoboko (nonplace)
  10. Chris Dooks & Machinefabriek: The Eskdalemuir Harmonium (Komino)
  11. Astrid: High Blues (Rune Grammofon)
  12. Lambchop: Mr. M (City Slang)

 
Other outstanding records were made / released by Eberhard Weber, Food, Arvo Pärt, Paul Buchanan, Leonard Cohen, James Yorkston, Stian Westerhus (solo), Frank Ocean, Keith Jarrett, Brian Eno, Dan Michaelson, Tindersticks, Tim Berne, Heiner Goebbels, Ivar Grydeland, Gerry Diver, Wilco, Diagrams, John Surman, Holly Herndon, Wadada Leo Smith & Louis Moholo-Moholo, Neil Young and Can (The Lost Tapes). And, last, but not least, Masabumi Kikuchi Trio with Paul Motian.

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  1. Michael Engelbrecht:

    Mittwoch, 5. Dezember 2012 um 22:09

    FIONA APPLE
    THE IDLER WHEEL IS WISER THAN THE DRIVER OF THE SCREW AND WHIPPING CORDS WILL SERVE YOU MORE THAN ROPES WILL EVER DO

    „And then we can do anything we want,“ Fiona Apple clamors seductively on her first studio album in seven years, a never-less-than-startling show of painful revelation. She’s talking seduction, but the boast also describes this music. A pan-rattling pas de deux with percussionist Charley Drayton, The Idler Wheel gives constantly mutating shape to ugly and glorious truths about shaky romance and irresistible sex, deep loneliness and the need for solitude, nervous narcissism and ego-fragmenting insecurity. Apple’s voice, pushing forward in garrulous lyrics and that unmistakable groan, gains maturity in dialogue with Drayton’s fearless, searching rhythms. This is what being human sounds like. —Ann Powers

  2. Michael Engelbrecht:

    Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2012 um 13:28

    „This year’s only necessary work of art.“ – Tiny Mix Tapes (5/5)
    „An album of startling invention.“ – MOJO (Album of the Month)
    „Nobody can touch Walker as an engrossing and madcap visionary.“ – Time Out (Album of the Week)
    „Bish Bosch is an anti-cult album, one that seeks to jar, disorient and remain inscrutable.“ – The Arts Desk (4/5)
    „A catalog of basic human cruelty – a subject no footnote could ever make any easier to understand.“ – Pitchfork (8.0)
    „The real skill lies in the fact that the results frequently affect the listener’s gut before the brain.“ – The Guardian (Album of the Week)
    „Walker is almost unique in his generation in continuing to provide mind-food instead of cosy nostalgia.“ – The Independent on Sunday (CD of the Week)

    Buy Bish Bosch: 4AD Shop (US) / iTunes / Amazon / Rough Trade / HMV

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