Saturday, December 30, 2006

2006 - My Personal Music Year In Review - Part One

Well, It's that time again, time to recap my personal music year in review! In this first part, all I'm going to do is list all 247 items (new releases, new reissues, and archival used recordings I scored from any number of sources) that I purchased and passed judgement on in 2006, as it is from this group of releases that I'll make my selections for the best in music for 2006.

ADDS - 168/247 = 68%

AKRON/FAMILY: Meek Warrior CD (Young God)

ALLERSEELEN: Heimliche Welt DLP (Ahnstern)

ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND: S/T LP (Sunburst Sound)

BADAWI: Safe CD (Asphodel)

BAIN WOLFKIND: Music For Lovers & Gangsters CD (Hau Ruuk)

BLACK ANGELS: Passover DLP (Light In The Attic)

BLACK MOUNTAIN: S/T LP (Jagjaguwar)

BLIND ALLEY: The Ruby Kennel Club CD (Freek)

BLIND BLAKE: Ragtime Guitar’s Foremost Fingerpicker DLP (Yazoo)

BODUF SONGS: Lion Devours The Sun CD (Kranky)

BORIS: Pink DLP (Diwphalanx)

BORIS: The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Vol. 2 LP (Conspiracy)

BORIS: Vein LP (Important)

BRAINBOMBS: I Need Speed/End Up Dead 7” (Big Brothel)

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Spacegirl And Other Favorites LP (Candy Floss)

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Strung Out In Heaven LP (TVT)

BRIDGE 61: Journal CD (Atavistic)

BUNALIM: Bunalim LP (Shadoks)

CARR, MILLER: S/T LP (Isota)

CASTRO, NICK AND THE POISON TREE: Further From Grace LP (Eclipse)

CAT POWER: The Greatest LP (Matador)

CHATHAM, RHYS: Die Donnergotter (The Thundergods) DLP (Table Of The Elements)

CHATHAM, RHYS: An Angel Moves Too Fast to See LP (Table Of The Elements)

CHILDISH, BILLY: Poems Of Laughter and Violence LP (Hangman)

CHRISTIE, SUSAN: Paint A Lady LP (Finders Keepers)

CLINE, NELS: New Monastery: A View Into The Music Of Andrew Hill CD (Cryptogramophone)

CLUSTER: II LP (Brain)

COHRAN, PHILIP (AND THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE): The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute in Music) CD (Katalyst Entertainment)

COMETS ON FIRE: Avatar LP (Sub Pop)

CONNERS, LOREN: Night Through - Singles And Collected Works 1976 - 2004 (Family Vineyard)

CORSANO, CHRIS - Ben Chasney / Paul Metzger: S/T Split LP (Roaratorio)

CROOK WITH THE RENDERERS, MARYROSE: Ghosts of Our Vegas Lives CD (3 Beads Of Sweat)

CYANN AND BEN: Sweet Beliefs CD (Ever)

D’SILVA, AMANCIO: Konkan Dance LP (Qbico)

DALTON, KAREN: In My Own Time CD (Light In The Attic)

DANIELL, DAVID: Coastal CD (Xeric)

DER BLUTHARSCH: When Did Wonderland End? LP (NKW)

DICKEY, WHIT: In A Heartbeat CD (Clean Feed)

DICKEY, WHIT: Sacred Ground CD (Clean Feed)

DOG FACED HERMANS: Hum Of Life LP (Konkurrel)

DOG FACED HERMANS: Those Deep Buds LP (Alternative Tentacles)

DRAKE, HAMID & ASSIF TSAHAR: Live at Glenn Miller Café Soul Bodies Vol 2 CD (Ayler)

DRAKE, HAMID & BINDU: Bindu CD (Rogue Art)

EDDIE MARCON: Shining On Graveposts CD (Preservation)

ELECTRIC MASADA: At the Mountains of Madness DCD (Tzadik)

ELLMAN, LIBERTY With STEVE LEHMAN/GERALD CLEAVER - Ophiucus Butterfly CD (Pi)

ERSEN: Dünden Bugüne CD (Underground Masters)

ESPERS: II LP (Drag City)

EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND: Change of Scene CD (Community Library)

EXTRA GOLDEN: Ok-Oyot System LP (Thrill Jockey)

FAKE, NATHAN: Drowning In a Sea of Love CD (Border Community)

FEATHERS: CD-EP (Self Released)

FORSETI: Erde CD (Prophecy)

FROST, EDITH: It’s A Game LP (Drag City)

FUNCTION: The Secret Miracle Fountain CD (Locust)

GAYLE, CHARLES: Shout CD (Clean Feed)

GHQ: Cosmology Of Eye LP (Time-Lag)

GORDONS: Vol. 2 LP (Flying Nun)

GRAILS: The Burden Of Hope LP (Robotic Empire)

GRAILS: Interpretations Of Three Pyschedelic Rock Songs From Around The World CD-EP (Latitudes)

GRAILS: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1,2, & 3 CD (Important)

HIGGS, DANIEL (A. I. U.), INTERDIMENSIONAL SONG-SEAMSTRESS: Ancestral Songs LP (Holy Mountain)

HJARNIDAUDI: Pain:noise:march CD (Paradigms)

HOWARD, NOAH (QUARTET): At Documenta IX CD (Boxholder)

HUNTSVILLE: For The Middle Class CD (Rune Grammofon)

ILK: Canticle CD (VHF)

ISIS: In The Absence Of Truth CD (Ipecac)

JAMAL, KHAN: Drumdance to the Motherland CD (Eremite)

JANSCH, BERT: The Black Swan LP (Drag City)

JESU: Silver CD-EP (Hydra Head)

JORDAN + HAMID DRAKE + WILLIAM PARKER, KIDD: Palm of Soul CD (Aum Fidelity)

KANE, JONATHAN: February CD (Table Of The Elements)

KANE, JONATHAN: I Looked At the Sun CD (Table Of The Elements)

KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE: Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble CD (Planet Mu)

KUEPPER, ED: Electrical Storm LP (Hot)

LAMP OF THE UNIVERSE: Earth, Spirit & Sky LP (September Girls)

LEDA SPYROS: Electrikos Aposperitis LP (Anazitisi)

LOUNGE LIZARDS: No Pain For Cakes LP (Island)

LUBELSKI, SAMARA: Spectacular of Passages LP (Destijl)

MV & EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD: Mother of Thousands DLP (Time-Lag)

MAMMATUS: Mammatus CD (Holy Mountain)

MAURICE AND WALTER: Moolah LP (No Label)

MAYPOLE: S/T LP (Colossus)

MC BAIN, JOHN; The In-Flight Feature LP (Duna)

MECCA NORMAL: The Observer CD (Kill Rock Stars)

MEDESKI, MARTIN, & WOOD: Note Bleu: Best Of The Blue Note Years 1998 - 2005 (Blue Note)

MIGHTY CAESARS: Don’t Give Any Dinner To Henry Chinaski... LP (Hangman)

MORI, IKUE: Painted Desert CD (Avant)

MUNDY, MARC: S/T CD (Companion Records)

NELSON, WILLIE: Songbird LP (Lost Highway)

NEWSOM, JOANNA: The Milk-Eyed Mender LP (Drag City)

NEWSOM, JOANNA: Ys DLP (Drag City)

NOTARO, MARCONI: No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios LP (Time-Lag)

OAKLEY HALL: Gypsum Strings LP (Brah)

OCTOPUS SYNG: Beyond the Karmadelic Coldness, There's the Lovadelic Warmth LP (Nasoni)

ODAWAS: Aether Eater LP (Birds And Rockets)

OM: Conference Of Birds CD (Holy Mountain)

ONEIDA: Happy New Year LP (Jagjaguwar)

OZKENT, MUSTAFA (AND ORCHESTRA): Genclik Ile Elele LP (Finders Keepers)

PAIK: Monster of the Absolute CD (Strange Attractors Audio House)

PARKER, WILLIAM: Long Hidden: The Olmec Series CD (Aum Fidelity)

PERERIN: Teithgan LP (Guerssen)

PHANTOM FAMILY HALO: The Legend Of Black Six LP (Rollerrinkrampagerecordings)

PSYCHIC ILLS: Mental Violence II 12” EP (The Social Registry)

PSYCHIC ILLS: Dins LP (The Social Registry)

PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural CD (No Quarter)

PINK MOUNTAINTOPS: Axis of Evol LP (Jagjaguwar)

RAGAB, SALAH (AND THE CAIRO JAZZ BAND): Ramadan In Space Time LP (Art Yard)

RASHANIM: Shalosh CD (Tzadik)

RED SPARROWES: Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun DLP (Robotic Empire)

RHYTHM AND SOUND: See Mi Ya LP (Burial Mix)

RIVULETS: You Are My Home CD (Important)

SAN UL LIM: 3 CD (World Psychedelia)

SANDOZ: Sandoz In Dub Chapter 2 - Live In The Earth CD (Soul Jazz)

SELDA: S/T LP (Finders Keepers)

SELDA: Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi CD (World Psychedelia)

SEX MOB: Sexotica CD (Thirsty Ear)

SHEPP, ARCHIE: On This Night CD (Impulse)

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE: The Sun Awakens LP (Drag City)

SMITH, STEVEN R.: The Anchorite LP (Important)

SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT: S/T CD (Fat Cat)

SOTHEAR, SREI AND SIN SISAMOUTH: Cambodian Psych-Out LP (El Suprimo / Defective Records)

SOUND IN ACTION TRIO: Gate CD (Atavistic)

SPIRITUALIZED: Lazer Guided Melodies 2x12”+7” (Dedicated)

SUISHOU NO FUNE: Where The Spirits Are CD (Holy Mountain)

TALAT: The Growl CD (Tzadik)

TALL FIRS: S/T CD (Ecstatic Peace)

3/3: Sanbun No San LP (Shadoks)

THTX: The Lost City CD (Cosmo-Revolution Technologies)

TITAN: S/T CD (Paradigms)

TUCKER, ALEXANDER: Furrowed Brow LP (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

UFOMAMMUT : Lucifer Songs LP (Rocket)

VANDERMARK 5: Free Jazz Classics Vols. 3 & 4 2CD (Atavistic)

VANDERMARK 5: A Discontinuous Line CD (Atavistic)

WAITS, TOM: Bone Machine CD (Island)

WAITS, TOM: Real Gone DLP (Anti)

WAITS, TOM: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards 3CD (Anti)

WARE, DAVID S. QUARTET: BalladWare CD (Thiristy Ear)

WHITE MAGIC: Through The Sun Door 12” EP (Drag City)

WHITE MAGIC: Dat Rosa Mel Apibus DLP (Drag City)

WOMEN AND CHILDREN: Paralyzed Dance, Tonight CD (Narnack)

WOODEN SHJIPS: Dance, California (Radio Edit)/Clouds Over Earthquake 7” (Sick Thirst)

WOODEN SHJIPS: Shrinkung Moon For You 10” (Wooden Shjips)

WOODEN WAND: HAREM OF THE SUNDRUM & THE WITNESS FIGG
LP + 7” (Time-Lag)

WOODEN WAND AND THE SKY HIGH BAND: Second Attention CD (Kill Rock Stars)

WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE: Buck Dharma LP
(Time-Lag)

WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE: Gipsy Freedom DLP (5RC)

YEAR OF: Slow Days LP (Morr Music)

YO LA TENGO: I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass DLP (Matador)

YOUNG, NEIL: Living With War CD (Reprise)

YOUNG, ROLAND P.: Isophonic Boogie Woogie CD (Em)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks XIII CD (Tzadik)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks XIV CD (Tzadik)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks XV CD (Tzadik)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks XVII CD (Tzadik)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks XVIII: The Treatment CD (Tzadik)

V/A: Beyond Istanbul - Underground Grooves Of Turkey (Trikont)

V/A: Ethnic Minority Music of Northeast Cambodia CD (Sublime Frequencies)

V/A: Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word 2 CD (Delay 68)

V/A: Fonotone Records (1956-1969) 5CD BOX (Dust To Digital)

V/A: Ghana Soundz DLP (Soundway)

V/A: Ghana Soundz, Volume 2 DLP (Soundway)

V/A: In Demons In 10” (Rocket Recordings)

V/A: Looking For Europe 4CD BOX (Auerbach Tonträger)

V/A: Prae-Kraut Pandemonium, Vol. 15 (No Label)

V/A: Radio Algeria CD (Sublime Frequencies)

V/A: Strata-2-East DLP (Universal Sound)

V/A: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of 2CD (Yazoo)


NOT ADDED - 79/247 = 32%

ACKLEY, BRUCE (TRIO): The Hearing CD (Avant)

AGAMENON: Todos Rien de Mi LP (Guerssen)

ALUMBRADOS: A Generation Of Vipers CD (Important)

BAILIFF, JESSICA: Feels Like Home CD (Kranky)

BARON, JOEY (+ BARONDOWN): Crackshot CD (Avant)

BEANS: Only CD (Thirsty Ear)

BIG STAR: In Space LP (DBK Works)

BUCKLEY, TIM: Goodbye and Hello LP (4 Men With Beards)

CAUSA SUI: S/T DLP (Nasoni)

CITAY: Citay CD (Important)

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX: Shark & Storms / Blizzard Of Horned Cats / My Enemies I Fear Not, But Protect Me From My Friends 10” EP (Invada)

EARTHLING SOCIETY: Albion LP (Nasoni)

EHLERS, EKKEHARD: A Life Without Fear CD (Staubgold)

Es: Sateenkaarisuudelma DBL LP (K-RAA-K)

ESPVALL, HELENA: Nimis & Ark CD (Fire Museum)

FAY GROUP, BILL: Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow LP (Drag City)

FLOATING DI MOREL: Real People Psych LP (Marshy Power)

FOSTER, JOSEPHINE: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing CD (Locust)

FREQUENCY: S/T CD (Thrill Jockey)

GHQ: Heavy Elements CD (Three Lobed)

GROWING: Color Wheel CD (Trouble Man Unlimited)

GYSIN, BRION: One Night @ the 1001 2CD (Sub Rosa)

HOWLIN RAIN: Howlin Rain CD (Birdman)

HU VIBRATIONAL: Universal Mother DLP (Soul Jazz)

HYLOZOISTS: La Fin Du Monde CD (Boompa)

IRONS & SWAAN MILLER, ASA: S/T LP (Records)

LADYHAWK: S/T LP (Jagjaguwar)

LANE, ADAM FULL THROTTLE ORCHESTRA: New Magical Kingdom (Clean Feed)

LARSEN: SeieS CD (Important)

LAS MALAS AMISTADES: Jardin Interior CD (Psych-O-Path Records)

LATERNA: S/T LP (Obuh)

LEAKH: Et Cetera CD (Prophecy Productions)

LIFE FORCE TRIO, THE: Living Room LP (Plug Research)

LIARS: Drum's Not Dead LP (Mute)

LOS JAIVAS: El Volantin LP (Shadoks)

LOVE TIMES NOWHERE: Into The Fire 12”- EP (Redgummy Records)

MASSACRE: Killing Time CD (Fred Records)

MCMILLEN, SHAWN DAVID : Catfish LP (Emperor Jones)

MONO: You Are There CD (Temporary Residence Records)

MONO: Memorie Dal Futuro 10” Single (Vinyl Films)

MUDDY WORLD: Finery of the Storm CD (Tzadik)

MULDROW, GEORGIA ANNE: Worthnothings CD (Stones Throw)

NO NECK BLUES BAND AND EMBRYO: EmbryoNNCK CD (Staubgold)

OF THE WAND AND THE MOON: Midnight Will CD-EP (Heidrunar Myrkrunar)

O.M.F.O. (Our Man From Odessa): We Are The Shepherds CD (Essay Recordings)

OSTARA: Kingdom Gone CD (Eis Und Licht)

Painting Petals on the Planet Ghost: S/T LP (Time-Lag)

PAJO: 1968 CD (Drag City)

PARKER, EVAN: Time Lapse (Tzadik)

PARLANE, ROSY: Jessamine CD (Touch)

PEARLS AND BRASS: The Indian Tower LP (Drag City)

PEDRO: Pedro DCD (Mush)

POREST: Tourrorists! CD (Abduction)

PTARMIGAN: Ptarmigan CD (Lion)

RED KRAYOLA, THE: Introduction LP (Drag City)

ROOMMATE: Songs the Animals Taught Us CD (Plug Research)

SAWYER, PHIL: Childhood's End LP (Guerssen)

7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE: Wind Machines LP (Free Porcupine Society)

SEX MOB: Dime Grind Palace (Ropeadope)

SHEARWATER: Palo Santo CD (Misra)

SUPER NUMERI: The Welcome Table DLP (Ninja Tune)

SWAGGER JACK: The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack CD (Last Visible Dog)

TOWN AND COUNTRY: Up Above CD (Thrill Jockey)

TUCKER, MARK: Batstew LP (Destijl)

VALLEY OF ASHES: Cavehill Hunters' Attrition 3LP (Black Velvet Fuckere)

VERLAINE, TOM: Around CD (Thrill Jockey)

VETIVER: To Find Me Gone 2xLP (Dicristina Stair Builders)

VON, RONNIE: A Misteriosa Luta do Reino de Parassempre Contra... LP (Renovacao Records)

WITCH: S/T CD (Tee Pee)

WIZARDZZ: Hidden City of Taurmond CD (Load)

WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE: The Flood CD (Troubleman)

ZAKARYA: 413 A CD (Tzadik)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks VIII CD (Tzadik)

ZORN, JOHN: Filmworks IX CD (Tzadik)

VA: And To The Disciples That Remain CD (Amish)

VA: Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom CD (Sublime Frequencies)

V/A: So Much Fire To Roast Human Flesh CD (Bastet)

VA: Tibetan and Bhutanese Instrumental and Folk Music CD (Sublime Frequencies)

VA: Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From the Canyon CD (Numero Group)

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